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With a sen
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general offices.
ties and the behavior of the great tor
airplane here Thursday afternoon.
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Contributions are heing received at metric
Generous
aid from Paula Valley and surround-
AS ENVOY TO CHINA
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under consideration for thia post, in*
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CITY FAILS TO PROVIDE THEM WITH PARKS
FOR WOMAN’S INJURY
Mayor Cargill. who first suggested
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the city of McAlester left
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into a community center for Ok- passed by the house of representa-
At lives of the Oklahoma legislature by
it is a low, marshy bit of a 55-47 vote Friday. The vote was on
ground, mst of it under water, ot at . recons deration of the vote which de
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Stricken By Tornado
MS PRICE CRT
ONE CENT TGDAY
• hiding that of John Van A. Murray,
assistant secretary of state, who was
UNSETTLED WEATHER
EXPECTED SATURDAY
Dorothy Young. 2 years old, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Young, died
here Thursday evening of burns suf-
campaign which is being launched by
Masons in Oklahoma City announced
Friday that $183,541 has been raised
officials of the Red Cross in Wash-
ington characterised the storm as the
; the chamber of commerce office here
and will be forwarded to the St. Louis
and extreme downturns of 5 1 during
the initial transactions proved to be
! directors and of livers for the ensuing
year, plans were made for going ahead
with the premilinary work in connec
tion with the building of the railroad.
Bond Forfeited
In Appeals Court
For First Time
ARDMORE FLIERS HOP
OFF ON TULSA TRIP
STATE RAILWAY TO
PUSH CONSTRUCTION
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meter hox uncovered and the plaint-
id in passing stepped into ’he open-
ing and was injured and unable to
leave her home for six week.. Plaint-
iff asks $5,000 damages for mental
and physical suftering and $132 for
time lost from her work.
city of McAlester.
It la alleged la te petiuon that
FRENCH DEPUTIES BREAK
UP SESSION IN FIGHTS
county attorney. Friday.
It is believed that as an outgrowth
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OFFICIALS WILL
PROBE COUNTY
GRAFT CHARGES
mini's policy in religious matters, had
said:
"We accept and welcome Christian-
ffl SERIOUSLY
HURT IS GALE
HITS BUILDING
GARVIN COUNTY TO
AID STORM VICTIMS
PROTEST MADE
UN VOTE CALL
MASONIC CAMPAIGN
HAS 2,606 PLEDGES
MAXIMILIAN'S WIDOW
GRAVELY ILL OF GRIPPE
All of the city lodges are taking
part in iho campaign.
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WHEAT PRICES
■ BFF FIVE CENTS
PITTSBURG COUNTY
SUED FOR $30,000
BURNS FATAL TO
CHILD AT EDMOND
MISSION WORKERS
ELECT TREASURER
Two Others Bruised When
Wind Wrecks Brick
Warehouse.
Sensational Liverpool Slump1
Gives Market Wild
Start.
if.
PRISON LABEL BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
filed against a number of township
officials.
PLANE KILLS
EDMOND CHILD
At Bartlesville Claimed
Illegal.
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FlKST in the
EVENING FIELD
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All Hastily Deny That They
Ever Had Hand In Fid-
City and suburban. 45a mo.; Si yr. in Ad.
vance. Outside 50c mo.: $6 yr. in advance.
Areas Virtually Are Cleaned Conduct of All Township Of-
UP; Burials 01 Victims Be- ficers To Be Investigated,
Wright Says.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Exclusive Service
City times
(Evening Edition of The Daily Okialoman
EATTIES} ILE. Martti 20,--(Spe-
cial.)—A petition of protest, signed by
fourteen citizens, has been presented
to the city commissioners, charging
that the election called for April 7 to
vote on the managerial form of gov-
ernmient will be iegal.
There is Douglas school ground, just i t ho ma City’s negro population,
a barren plot of ground. and across present
tion said they never had been con-
jaulted nbout the WU. had not even
Srend it, and were not interested in its
pany. Red Hen l company, Phillipy-
Waite company and Texas company
cents above the lowest prices at the
50 opening. The market elosed strong
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WITNESS TELLS
OF WARNING IN
COLLIER TRIAL
March 20.- Mrs. Cora M. announced that they had received no
PARIS. March 20.—(P-Free for all
fist fights, such as probably had never
before been seen in the chamber of
deputies, broke up this afternoon’s
session.
The disturbance arose after Premier
more thav
NIGHT
Wright to start
few of the defense witnessea have tea
t fied.
negro section of Oklahoma City?                    • • • •
Small buckyards usually are full of TN time to coine it may be developed
washing. No place to play here.
seriously on the back, shoulders, arms
and neck, and received painful bruises
about the shoulders, F’ L. Langford
1   1 Flo • -1 rm • aa m-
Reports at noon today showed 815
The prison label repeal* bill was
not the great cyclone in the air.
Sporadic reports of the storm's
course after its five-hour dip to earth
from castern Missouri tn western In ,
dinna came yesterday and last night ;
from Great inkes ports. Some dam- j
age to shipping and property was re
ported near Buffalo, N. Y. The torna- ’
lmpress Marie Charlotte, widow of
the Emperor Maximillian of Mexico,
is gravely ill of the grippe, and little
hope is held for recovery in view of
her advanced age. She is 85.
low pressure areas, starting
Harley Street Steps Into
Whirling Propellor As
Ship "Tunes Up.''
of the Ion id of missions for
e (get ion.
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4 p. m.
sational break in prices at Liverpool (
reported. and with advices that a big
grain firm in Antwerp was in finan-
elal difficulties, the wheat market
I here had a wild start today at an im-
mediate setback of more than 5c a
bushel. May wheat opened at $1,581
to $1.60 as agains $1.6312 to $1.64,
; yesterday’s elosing figures.
Fluctuations after the opening in
county commissioners in employing
inexperienced men and failing tu fur.
nish suitable louis to perform the
labor in which they were engaged.
„QLT the negro lad— have you ever
D taken a trip down through the
MANILA, Mareh 0.— Following
the knocking down of an Amer-
ican we man teacher by a Bacalod
Philippine highschool boy when
the latter was cauglt cheating in
an examinatiun, a student mob
stoned the home ot women teach*
ers of the seloui, according to re-
ports today from Bacalod. (iov.
ernor <i< neral Leonard Wood or-
dered the sehool elose e until the
stone tlurowers are prodiced.
ity in its pure forms. hut not the
Christianity of bankers."
the limit for at least the time being.
So eager was the selling at the start,
that many brokers beat the opening j
tell by half a minute.
Severe upsets in the price of grain
other than wheat were also witnessed
' Rye values were smashed down 7
has several names
from it Riverside park. There
are a few trees, but for the most part
in to previous estimates. One hun- of the prole criminal ch rgesmuvi
drcd and seventy-five are known ira. _____«.... . ______.     .        ..
dead.                                       • I
Official conduct of every
township officer in Oklahoma
county will be investigated at
once, according to a decision
reached by county commis-
sioners and J. K. Wright.
negro section there are sev enteen '
acres purchased ha the city two years i
ago for a negro park.
(•raft Charges Possible
J. Flem Smith. deputy state exam
Boys
The Cklahoma City Times
wants to know how you kept
your marbles during the win
ter.
Did you just throw them in
the trunk or box of toys or
have you some special way in
which you care for them?
STEELVILLE, Mo., March 20.
—Two robhers, were killed, two
wounded and raptured and a fifth
escaped this ufternoon when a eiti-
sens’ posse engaged in a battle
with the bandits who attempted to
rob l hr Farmers’ bank of Steel-
till*. One citizen was wounded.
was insnired h, fhe
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among those placed before him by
Secretary Kellogg.
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Officials of the "suve the temple"
i Herriot, in defending the govern-
Table for Double Sum
In case the Investigation proves
these facts as charged hepotisn ।
charges will be filed, Wright declared.
Under the statute on a charge of
this kind, th defendant is liable for
double the amount he has paid him
self or any immediate members of his
family and a prison sentence.
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41 l p. m..
। Mrs. Elmer Leonard
! bruised, and Frank <
! etor of the cafe also
Girrett, propri-
i was bruised.
support of city officials, the bill in na 9 A । perr ng Agrn
ereasing the authority of the Okla- N ALE3 I Ell  3 mUEU
homa City municipal court is doomed '
to failure.
Tex Rickard's new indoor arena in
New York City will seat 22,000. It
will be used for athleties, conventions.
tinted to be treasurer fo the woman’s
missionary council of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, tody, to
succeed Mrs. H. F. E. Ross of Nash .
\ Ille, Tenn., treasurer of the council
since its organization in 1910.
The council telegraphed to Mrs.
Board to come to th0 confert nce in
Tulsa if possible. Mrs. Board's name !
will be submitted to the next meeting
| ville.
The number of frightful mutilations
and crushed limbs and the fact that
in many cases wounds ground full
of dirt could not be attended for
। hours brought the aecter of tetanus
-talking on the el Airplanes bear.
• lead. Injuries to about 3,000. Asso.
» iated Press casualty list totaled 577
Identified dead. Kentucky and Ten.
neesee strieken areas virtually are
clenned up. Burials being made both
' states.
A few hamlets in Missouri are yet
unreported.
Dead at Murphysboro, 111., are climb
received serious cuts
one-third of the nearly 120 dead at
Desoto, III., were children under :
years old.
Generally fair weather tonight hr.
coming somewhat unsettled and cold
• r Saturday was the forecast for Okla
itoma City made by John Slaughter,
ihe weather man.
The forecast for the state was for
increasing cloudiness with warmer
weather in the eastern portion.
Saturday is expected to bring colder
weather with unsettled conditions.
The maximum temperature in Okla-
homa City Thursday was 69 degrees.
The minimum temperature Friday
morning was 48 degrees.
VOL. XXXV. NO. 270.
fered when she fell into a tub of
scalding water at her home Wednes-
day. Func-al services were to be held
at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Precipital ion, to date 1925
24 hours, etinu ' a. in.
r measure that would permit the                z--
municipal court to asst as long jail M A LESTER. March 20. — (Svecin 1.)
sentences and fines as high as $500—Suit for $5,132 damages was filed in
instead of the present maximum otjthe district court of Pittsburg county
$20, said Friday that he has no fur- Friday by Agnes Fornell against the
ther interest in the bill.
• Two months ago I told Senator W.
C Fidler, who introduced it in the as-
pembly. that I did not care to give it
my support. I made an effort to ob-
tain the enaetmen of such a bill at
Boare of Roanoke, Va., was nonai-
g,,gam —m,gug pointment of William S. Cuihe rtson.
Pi ।     ■in nn||n j  vice chairman or the tarirt oommis.
I || I IM I   sion, ns minister to China, was rec-
ill  I  \ I IL M  I | | I I j | | |  ommended to President  Coolidge
W--lEU• UUUII I  today by S nators Curtis and Capper, ' do then moved noriheastward t hrough
The government air se:vica is
watching the progress of the venture.
KTodtestrdimiterwsin too°hoovoteyi and 2,606 pledges hnve been made,
property was laid waste.
I notice of a price reduction from their ; Additional light on the < haracteris
nado was provided by Professor Hen
ry J. Cox. government forecaster at
Chicago, who called it a typical mid- 1
die west spring time storm. It orig 1
inated over the gulf of lower Califor-
nia. he said, passed harmlessly ovex •
Colorado, dipped to Arkansas, and ’
i hen took a path of least resistance
along the Ohio valley. There its »
force was spent and it rushed off on
high wind in the direction of Iceland.
Started From Air Vacuum
Professor Cox explained that bare
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It la a rocky ravine, one half of which ron headed toward Tulsa, ihe flers
is a dump ground, and the odor is wijj-be guests of the rulsa Fiying
anything but pleasant. There are a
BRUSSELS. March 20. — Former office of the Red Cross.
and bruises
was painully
ing cities is promised, Goodpasture air strike colder waves from the
said,                                     north. He added that the storm was
CULBERTSON URGED
PAI LS VALLEY. March 20. -(Spe-
cial.)—Garvin county will extend ahl
to the storm-stricken cities of Illinois.
Indian ami Missouri, A. V. Goodpas-
lure, chairman of the Garvin coun-
ty chapter of the Red Cross, said Fri-
day.
West Frankfort, 111., deaths in
writ o
TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES— OKLAHOMA CITY, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925.
Unless it goes over without the
EDMOND. March 30,—(Special.!
OKEMAH. March 20.—
(Special)—Two persons were
seriously injured and two oth-
ers were cut and bruised,
when the west wall of a new
brick warehouse building, be-
ing constructed by J. L. Pow.
an, toppled over in a high
। wind, demolishing the Quick
Lunch cafe.
the last special session of the as-
sembly. That effort failed. Now I
have no Interest in the proposition,"
the mayor declared.
Other members of the city commis-
10 p. m. ..
11 p. r . ...
U mlanight
1 a. m: ...
Legislators Hold Sack In
Craig Habeas Corpus
Hearing.
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Stricken Area Making
Check Of Its Damage
CHICAGO, March 20.—(P— Stil!
prostrated, but with the hurried er
forts at temporary relief supple ;
mented by ihe arrival of trained
workers supplies and medicines, the
storm strieken area of the Ohio val
ley today continued to count the ter-
rific loss of life and property at its
greatest tornndo catastrophe.
sm 14 cent to 434 cents higher than yes.
f terday, with today’s finish $1,674 to
Lx           for Mas.
is the scout reservation, too. with its
beautiful trees. Its caves, fishing
creek. And there is the Y. M. C. A.
camp. too.
The poorest white boy in Oklahoma
City has all sorts of opportunities to
indulge his adventure and play in-
stincts in a wholesome delightful typi-
cally "boy" way.
The Times will give a good
bag of marbles with the best
law that can be found in town
for ihe best letter on "How I
Take are of My Marbles."
Write it just like you would
tell it to a friend.
Th* Times will print the pic-
ture of the winning -hoy with
his letter.
Address your letter to the
Marble Editor of—
from a vacuum in the air due to the !
warmth of spring sunshine develop 1
into tornadoes only in the spring.
when the warm whirling currents of
< reared to 110. Deaths in other Illi-
1 nois cities unchanged in numbers. 1,
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I Ai bodies are recovertd at Prince -jcommissioners and
| ton. Ind., and most of them at Owens an investigation or thetinancialex
penditures and accounts of the town
The accident occurred at a lot in ;
the rear of the Marland filling station
here. The boy, with several compan-
ions, was sitting in a parked auto- i
mobile watching Floyd Ralston, avi- .
a tor, tune up his plane. While ths
motor was running, the boy suddenly)
leaped from the automobile and ran
dose to the ship. He was caught in ,
the swiftly-moving propellor and ‘
hurled for some distance. Death oc
«lined at 6 o’clock Thursday eve-
ning. Funeral services had not been
arranged Friday morning.
| M AlESTER, March 20,-(Special.)
—A damage suit ior $30,000 was fikd
In the district court of Pittsburg
county Friday by W. N. Kirby
against the county commiseioners of
Pittsburg county.
It is alleged in the petition mat
Kirby, while in the employ of the
। county commissioners, was struck in
eye by a rock which resulted in the
total loss of the eye; that the iv juny
was causd by the negligence of th.
us writ na MVTE.
nn application for
habeas corpus.
WASHINGTON. March 20.—A p
a water
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ship officials at once. Twenty town
ships will be affected by this probe.
The two county bodies have Infor
mation tending to show that In n
number of cases township officials in
Oklahoma county have employed
themselves and members of their im
mediate family, using ns compensa-
lion township funds. This is particu.
iarly believed in have been the case
in regard to the road maintenance
fund.
It is RIso churged that township
hoards have authorized the payment*
of bonding companies who bonded the
township treasurers with township
money.
EDMOND, Mareh 20.—(Special.)--,
Harley Street, 10 years old, son of
W. L. Street, Edmond harber, suf-
fered Injuries from which he died
two hours later, when he stepped
into the whirling propellor of an
KANSAS CITY, March 20-
Two men were injured when a
miniature eyelone hit Goodman,
Kan., eight miles southwest of
here this afterncon. Trees were
eprooted ami roofs from houses
blown off. D. W . Hook of Mer-
riam. Kun., was taken to a hos-
pital suffering a broken aim. An-
other unidentified man was badly
junjure tl.
BARTLESVILLE. Much 20-
Stockholders nml directors of the
Vinita, Bartlesville and Western rail-
way company met Thursday afternoon
in th* office of C. E. Burlingame in
this city for the annual meeting of
i he company. A (lei the election of
] cents x bushel, and corn nearly 5 cents
. , a. , a
C)N 4/—- In the last if hou of trading
/np iTcuiflCr the extreme early weakness «.r
LOCALc Generalls fnir weather tonizht. . impressiv e display of strength May
saturdny "omewhat "naettled .ml colder, delivery of wheat rose almost 10
iom"Alechenningchqnaronhotsha City Manager Election Called
more, consisting of four fighte ot
three ships each, flyirtg in triang’e
formation, hopped ofr at 1 o’clock Fri-
day afternoon en route to Tiisn. This
। ie sald to be the first time in aerial
history that a civilian squadron in tri-
angle formation has attempted such
a flight.
Four Companies Announce
Drop: Others Make-
No Change.
Gasoline dropped from 2.1 cents a
gallon to 22 cents a gallon at the
Marland. Sloane-Forsberg, Magnolia
and Sampson filling stations, Friday.
The Marland and Sloane-Fosbeg
companies announced a price reduc-
tion Friday morning and the Sampson
and Magnolia stations followed the
sme action Friday afternoon.
Offices of the Oitie Service om-
■ The petitioners allege that fully halt
.. while in thnt        An Sunday of the signers to the petition asking
they will circle over TuUa in exhibl- an election are not qualified electors,
ton and return to Ardmor t Monday. I despite the fact that the commission-
era have already taken official action
and called the election.
F. X. Buck, mayor, vigorously dis-
putes that the signers are not quail-
tied voters, and a hot fight is loom-
ing. as two of the city commissioner,
opposed originally the submisslon to
the voters of manager charter, and
the American Legion civic betterment
committee which has sponsored the
movement on a non-polltical basin,
< barges that the petition of protest
Women Told Him Not To
Testify Against Slain
Youth's Mother.
WICHITA FALLS, March
20—Declaration that he had
been warned by two women
whom he did not know, not to
testify that he knew Mrs. Jen-
nie Robertson, mother of El-
zie Robertson, who was shot
1o death by former Mayor
Frank Collier here February
11, was made on the witness
stand early this afternoon by
T, A. Tadlock, a defense wit-
ness. in Collier’s trial here.
Warned Against Te stifying
Tadlock sald the woman told him
Mrs. llobertson would swear she did
not know him ami thnt it would “not
be good for him’’ tu testifs that he
knew her and had participated in
"parties" at her home.
Tadlock, Joe Chapin and Jeus Box.
oil field workers, all told of meeting
women at the Robertson home, but
denied on cross-exnmination that Mis. I
Ttobertson had been guilty ot miscon.
duct.
Home Reputation Rad
George Lawler, a neighbor of th<
few broken down bitt of play appar.
atus, and room for a bull diamond,
where Douglas highschool boys play.
That it all.
Farther out, on East Fourth and
High, easily accessible to the entire .
timie several days more.
ing all vailable t« Lanus antitoxin
were rushed out ot Indin na polis.
Rlhf workers report better prog-
ress in caring for injured and desti-
tutes. Contributions are flowing into
the districts providing money and
comforts. Ae they became better or.
zanized. attention was given also to
rural communities.
। All business in Murphy shorn was
suspended and banks urged to keep
By DOROTHY DAYTON JONES points out that the negro reform
{XYHEN fate determines that a child school is crowded, and that there is
W must be born black instead of an unduly large proportion of negroes
white, in Oklahoma City, he has just in the state penitentiary,
about 50 percent less chance to grow                • • • •
up to be a law-abiding citizen than rHE negro child, although he now
his more fortunate white brother hun l is being given a (air chance at
Thia estimate comes from O. P education in Oklahoma City, probably
Estes, municipal judge, and from a the fairest in the entire stale, has no
careful study of penitentiary and re 1 place to play except on the streets,
form school records.                     He has none of those opportunities
Judge Estes says that, In proportion for wholesome recreation that the
to the negro population, there are at white boy has, even the underprivi-
least twice an many negro, as white, leged white boy. For the white boy has
youths arrested on various minor Rotary park, with its swimming pool,
charges of delinquency.                hall diamond, and play apparatus. He
Judge C. C. Christ iron has not been I has his Y. M C. A. privileges. He
on the juvenile bench long enough to has his m. out meet. He as his hikes,
I make an estmate, ne suys, sut ne and his fun in other city pagks. There
- By Paciti & A linn tie.
"Fhe ezar of insealt, Juige K. M. Landis, telling fairy Mort to Lew Hargreaves, Dai comnerfora jr.Doroth,
banse and Dirk Cox Jr. (left in right), atl of whose fathers are ball players.
} Rol ertsons and a close friend of Col
f Her, testified that the reputation ot
■ the home was bad. He was at the
3 scene of the trasedy ami declared the
$ former mayor was calm.
Il«* notified Collier’s friends of th
shooting and got bondemen together,
he snid.
It was expected the trial would eon-
Forfeiture of a bond was f. ken
for the first time in the history of
the criminal court of appeals Fri-
di $ when Walter Craig, wanted
on three charges in New Mexico,
failed to appear for a habeas
corpus he aring.
C. R. Hlint. representative in the
lower house of the legislature,
from Dewey county, was one of
Craig’s hondsmen and A. E. Dar-
nell, state senator from Clinton,
was one of Craig's attorneys.
The forfeiture for Craiz’s $2,000
bond is the first taken in the his-
lory of the criminal court of ap-
peals. Judge Thomas H. Doyle,
associate justice of the court, said
Friday. Craig was wanted in San
Miguel, N. M.. on charges of cattie
ntealing and jail breaking. He was
liberated on bond after he filed
Kentucky And Tennessee:
the wheal market were at a rapid
rate, hut rallies soon became the rule,!
Leonard was rushed to the hospital.
There were several other persons in
( the cafe, at the time of the accident,
; w ho escaped uninjured.
The building was to he leased as a
warehouse by the Jones Produce
company.
Garrett had sold th* cafe three
weeks ago, and had bought it laek
?Hln two days ago. It was a total
Joss, ns he carrieci no insurance.