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The conference was called by Mayor Cargill after a
gate.
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children of John J. Hoey
Still Blast
and 7
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might
word
was
tar in Wisconsn and possi.
• meaning a beast of burden.
a
jury.
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with Nichlos to take his
Oklahoman -Times
violently about
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with apiurent misunder standing.
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SEEK ANSWER 114
LITTLE ENTENTE SESSION
IS PLANNED IN JANUARY
constructed and the abandonment of
the Rock Island tracks through the
tontract
$500,000
TODAY!
manager of the Oklahoma (
। his supply will be adequat
dren.
1 father.
Elec
pop
trie
con-
action on l
that he
if the su
Guthrey, secretary of the state high-
way commission.
met
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good
chib
as sufficient.
The statement
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Street Adresn ....
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city assured for less money.
According to Bert Hart, city engi-
neer, the cost to the city under the
will e.
The
public to the importance of the air
service and I think he has awakened
Washington, too.
man of the entertainment committee.
Graham will have charge of the meet-
ing Friday night.
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Four children burn to death in home
in Holden, Mass.
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going to leave
on Christmas
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but did not thing the bond of $500,000
(’olone
will rem
were
st ill
su. h a
Then
trie • on
contrne
LONG DEBATE
ONCOURTSEEN
IN U. 5, SENATE
taken from Hunt when he was put in
jail.
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« MITCHELL MAY RUN FOR SENATE IN AIR ROW
NEGRO GETS REPRIEVE
AS NOOSE IS PREPARED
and Elec-
to.make a
FOUR CHILDHEN
DIE IN FEMES
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heduled to meet in conference Friday in an nttempt to bring 1 ’ < ent gas to the
et. Nichlos is
) surety bond to
oklahoma City ♦
rest. the
v hle the
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FAIR AND WARMER
AGAIN IS FORECAST
SAVE
18 to 34%!
DEMOCRATS TO
MEET IN RALLY
ni h a $50
the people
will not r
period of
THREE ARRESTED
ON LIQUOR CHARGE
laims he has a
st 25 years.
At each of the meetings there will
be orchestrn music and widely known
ommand
five yea
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were burned
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Eight Other Persons Make
Their Escape From
Burning Home.
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adhere to the court protocol.
I These reservations would be, in ad
i iition to the five suggested by Pres.
t a.
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a a
Receiver Claims Company
That Leased Pant Defraud-
ed Stockholders.
supply o
which he
First Of Series Of Pre-Cam-
paign Meetings To Be Held
In Capitol Hill,
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reputation
The histrs
which si arte
year shows
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President Coolidge is final Judge in • <
Mitchell case.
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• That New York man who killed his
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help him solve a crossword puzzle
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• Long dlebate on world court
« perted in senate.
i-ter for christmu-.
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Omulgee Is REFINERY SUES
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Sity and suburb., 4 c mo., lb yr. In advanee.
outside «ul urban. 500 mu.; $6 yr. tn advance.
from
in the
finical
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known as the big
Nichlos. Chickasha
is offering gas to
MBargain
gyOffer
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z1|weeds in Mulligan flats with a re- campalsn in November next year, ac
; volver In hie hand nnd made Thornton cordline to Eobert C. Graham, chair-
’h
ex] loded when the pressure on
system was ton heavy.
verdict. Then Mitchell, in nil prohn
bility. w in resign.
proposition
« been met
paNNe8 inally I h Senator wanson, democrat
ginin, which is before the senate.
ny offers to. pay the premium on
uch a bond at the end of five years,
r which they hold to be necessary to J
Following
his attorne
make a
riously but not dangerously burned. cep
1 The father, three of the seven chil. Nit
. idem Harding and Coolidge in their
" ' messages urging ratification and in-
town in which
dren.
Harry Leonard, juige
• Shenandoah investiga.
would be asked to tes-
vhen the court recon.
er at that meeting is to he E. Be*
" tn him, to engage in politics, or te
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• ture tour.
Mitchell’s will he circumspect un
blazing safety line but it w a
extinguished.
THE WAY TO MAKE—
—A radical conservative is to put
him into power.
—An honest official crooked is in
desert him when he is doing
his duty.
—A house a home is to fill it with
the spirit nf reverence for the
rights nf nt hers.
Nichlos, Chickashn gas field owner, who says
more than the plan outlined by the
citizens' committee, which proposes
a union station, it was made known
Friday.
The data prepared by these engi-
neers will be presented to the cor-
poration commission at the hearing
set for January 4.
Engineers for the railroads esti-
mate the cost of elevating the tracks
guarantee the life of the field.
The controversy has been carried I
on through the newspapers and at {
no time has Nichlos ever talked to
officials of the Oklahoma
conference with Ed Overholser, president-manuger
obtain a majority of the senate for
the chief reservation they will put
forward.
With the opening gun in the battle ’
fired only yesterds be Senator Swan-
son, none of the leaders woule ven
. makine himseir alloined in the controversy, leaders in
free agent, to accept any of the many he lht nseinst ratification of the
• ' * ’ protocol are hopeful that they can |
tify Mondi
venes Th
refused to
ture an opinion
the final vote.
With the league of nations issue
e supply over day
The gas com-
. . . He charges that during the time of 8 tement that
"" ' the lease, the Illinois company bought nish i bond of
’ tF Mitchell goes on tom at $1,000 net
- n night. 1 will be very much dis
appointed. If he becomes one of the
• principal executives in the widenng
NOTICE OKLAHOMAN-
TIMES SUBSCRIBERS:
The Oklahoman-Times carriers
are furnished with numbered
printed receipts on the Christ-
mas Bargain rates. Insist that
vour carrier furnish vou with
one of these authorised receipts
at the time payment is made.
IMPORTANT!
Make your check payable to the
Oklahoma Publishing Co.
marked tim
decision pns
nels to the
to death early today in a fire which
destroyed the Hoey home, a two story
letter.
the klahoma Gas
pny blade an offer
supply of gas.
Never Approached Company
i bring him tn town.
। Thornton parked his car with Hunt
• in it in the 300 block on West Cali-
fornia avenue and went in search of
an officer. Joe Nay, patrolman, ar*
the people that the
will not be changed
■f th* contract but re-
interval he
niriprolect
will be making a splendid business distant.
provied Ni hlos fufills his
champion three-letter
cheaper gas.
The group now
four are John B.
gas producer, w ho
oklahoma City at
Roger Kahn, who is a jazz artist,
agreement reached with the railroads. Gerald M Warburg is for the classics
which includes the cost nf changing He played the cello at a concert in his
the street grades, relaying sewer and parents' home and he has written
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ' songs for a debutante's charity show.
rested Hunt on a charge of being
- drunk. The police report shows a po- is to be heid in January.
.00 lice commission and a revolver were
company has offered to sign a
tract with Nichlos to take all the
$500,000 bond to insure
Precipitatlon tn date 1925...
Hast . I hourK, ending 7 »n
speakers. The largest of the rallies
udministration of
se. and "disgrace-
of aeronautics."’
Weather Clyde Hunt, city restaurant opera. 1. azue of YounK Democrats. The Fri
* kxu- > wmeT . tor. played bandit Thursday after- day nisht meet InE is under the us
wrather iunignt ,111,1 saruraily: minimum noon and was arrested by police on V ' • uni o
‘ tr"rerrture.trnisht 3 eE — ' harge of being drunk. ",e enue
, ri-i Iss"rlul."n nturlm’ fair with A ordinz to the written statement The Oklahoma City unit has planned
srreIS IOKK NST: Alt frezine of E ft. Thornton. 717 West Fourth ' meetinz once a month from now un
y te"perature "or’ "ernper ion nf Oklalemwa street, rear. Hum stepped out of tin til the • lose of the zeneral election
6 o'clock this mern-
sufety line on a re.
VOL. XXXVI. NO. 189.
merous reservations or amendments
Times Christmas Ba-
bies, Five Of Them,
All Boys. Want a
Sister: Send a Plea
To Santa Claus
hern martyr. He has a fine war
to Owens, and the day
he offered to make the
dwelling. The eldest '
years old; the others bo
ord. He has awakened the American
action chamber nt the Walte Phillips
refinery, south nf here, blew up.
No one was injured, although the
still crew of three men was thrown
to the ground and all window lights at
the plant blown nut by the force of
the concussion.
Houses in the south part of the
city, a mile and a half distant also
FDR 547,000
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, • notanimpossibilits. Mitchell Ik Three persons were arrested Thurs
. n democrat, but he has never taken da) ulght by police on chargee of
, his polltics seriously. The LaFollette illegal possession of whisky ami one ..... ............
‛ machine rules Wisconsin. The LiK'd woman wns charged with Illegal pos. the ' 11 mber Commerce: .1. F owens, vice
’ lette crowd hates Senator Lenroot session of narcoties. company, and John B
and might ensily get behind Mln hell. Those .barged with illegnl posses. IVe -e18- als" *"1 attend the conrerence
* Given the natural antipathy to < on sion of whisky were: W. H. Aaron.
• servatism that is Wisconsin's heri- Norman: Ballard Henrs 302 North
as soon as possible. Of course boyH
aren't barred but we do want a girl!
2e army court's
tisht offer his
pension is up.
11 should be ac-
l
r a ntering poli-
of the gas controversy
1 about August of this
PREDICT that vry move
. ally t he preside m w ill . . nfk m
Mitt hell guilty of
ninety-sixth article
asoline from the refinery at less st ability of price but Would in no way i
Mrs. Hoy and her baby. Mary, were held. If i
shaken. The contents of the
system caught fire from the
the Christmas babies in preceding colonel
needed for the demand in Oklahoma
City it a gate rate of 15 cents per
company should make the bond
hot him He said that he made
as to the time of
Th* more optimistic ,
was several weeks
others ♦ bought it
cents pel thousand cubic feet J. F.
Owens, vice president and general
manager of the Oklahoma Gas and
Electric company, a distributing com- j
pany which has offered to make n,
contraet with Nichlos under certain
on lit ions; Ed Overholser, president »,
and manager of the Chamber nf Com
mer e, and Mayor O. A. Cargill.
Two Plans Outlined
Here are the two propositions that
but also for the presentation of nu-
and Ek
--Censorship effective is to stay
a way from the bad and poor
pict ures.
—- Prohibition succeed is to put pub-
lic good above personal liberty.
—Politics clean is for good men
to take as deep an interest as
the laid ones do.
years, will be hoping that it's a baby
sister that he has in his pack.
last year the four boys made the
same request and nearly miutiniegi
when another boy arrived. But after
they got a glimpse of pretty Nathan
Picow’s big black eyes and his little
olive face, they decided that they’d
keep him. I s just about a sweet
as a baby ’ -an be.
The Christmas baby is the first
bahy born after midnight. Christmas
eve. The bnby receives a shower of
gifts from the state, city and county
officials- the parents receive printed
announcements from the Times and
i gift from the Times staff; Walt
Mills, "Don’t Worry writes a verse
for the baby. Then each year after
that the baby receives n biz box of
Christmas presents from the Times
• move, but I should like to see him go
. hack to his home state, Wisconsin,
where he maintains a residence today.
• to become a < andidate for the Unite i
‘Stat
• root.
Nichlos. through
B Stuart, issued a
Nichlos would fur-
00.000 to insure the
It is thought he tried to pass an-
• other car and that the ‛ights blinded
him so that he rove nto a ditch ti . . .
• . I. . 2 The survey by engineers for the cit.
• of nnnomshody " s t • • the home izens committee in the railroad ele.
ofhis il hi a Hennepin. He is vation and union station controversy
.aunhed by hle wife ard four chil- ! is being made to show the proposal
Funeral service have not been made hy the railroad, would "cost
uLIf
—(A—With advocates of the
world court holding the front
line for the moment, oppon-j
' Editorial ents in the senate were mar-
, RILY MITCHELL sot off easy. shalling their forces today for
• Five years in mufti" for kie king a long seige.
every army rezulation in the face is ....
a mild puniehment They were preparins not only for
The judzes on rite court martial prolonzed discussion of an issue held
bench realized that Mitchell stripped 1,1 abeyance for nearly three years.
I* sore siid get the exact
' Seeking Judgment nf $47,600, J. W.
Woodford, receiver for the Continental
Refining company, filed suit in the
distrit t court Friday against the 11.
linois oil company, asking an ac-
| counting.
Woodford alleges his company’s re-
finery at Bristow' was lensed to the
Illinois company for three years, be-
l ginning Feb. 4. 1920, with the provi-
sion owners of the Continental would
get one half the profits from the re.
. fining company.
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the court vlewed
of the accused
asa mitigating
the sentence as
Gas and
to n n y
Nie hl<»s offers
bond to assure
gate rate price
durng the life o
almost treasonable”
Three Workers Escape Injury
In Explosion Of
Safety Line.
C K M ULG EE. I lec. 1 s.— (, —The
southern part of the city was shaken
Employes said that the release was
blown from the safety line. They
explained that the release and sufety
line was a precautionary device whit h
Before Slenandoah Inquiry.
With the same non* balance that
ha« marked him during the long con-
r.r'T'.ub',^pX".; “neckedinssoomtttance to rully cover one
........Dally and Sunday Oklahoman and Daily Times, 15 -o.
........Dally and Sunday Oklahoman, $7 26,
........Times and Sunday Oklahoman. 17 51.
Mite s friends believe he
n silent unt 1 the president
gusa, ugo Slavia, January 15.18. It i _ . ---—
is understood th. monarchial agita. Juee Fred '■ Eransun, vice chief
tions in Hungary and the relations 1 /ustice "f the ttate supreme court,
is ex. between soviet Russia „nd th. Balkan is to the prineipn! speker at a
states will be discussed democratic rally to be held at 7 o’clock
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said he would tes
he will be as)
charges that til
Ise the gate rate during a ।
ive years. This bond also
*mpa ny reiitive
el, who once before
r before the court.
iy. It is likely that
ed concerning his
e Shenandoah was
• Inge, given theuniversal acquaintance Durland street; John Kindlers 1114
• of Billy Mitchell nnd the backing of West California.
, young Bob LaFollette and "Senator" Nattie starnes was arrested on „
, Mitchell might be the individual o. .......... ilegn possess........ nar.
roh the republican# of a working m- (coties
* jority in the senate in 1927. _________
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
guarantee the adequacy of
• the life of the gas field
THIS COUPON, FORMAIL SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
NOT GOOD BY CARRIER DELIVERY IN OKI A
HOMA CITY AND SUBURBAN TERRITORY NOT
GOOD TO OUT-OF-STATE SUBSCRIBERS '
rear!‛:0e"CipcmdeW‛en rendseroczmtttance to runty cover on
........Dany and Sunday Oklahoman, |<.M; saving :a.0s.
........Dally only Oklahoman. 14 05; saving s .h,
........Sunday only Oklahoman, s: II; taring C.e.
........Times only, $4.05: saving |i os.
Town ..........
h t than three
th* court found
violation of the
of war "tn the
review and approval.
Deliberate Three Hours
THIRTY-TWO PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1925.
and duty
by Various parties nnd in ench In
slance he has backed down when con 1
fronted with his own proposa.
He stated that he would make a
$500,000 surety horrl to insure the
adequncy • f supply from his field and 1
when Mayor Cargill stated that he
thought Nichlos should make such a
bond he came back with the statement
that the Oklahoma Gas and Electrb
Queen Mother is improving
BORDIGHERA, Italy. Dec. is —dT
* —A medical bulletin issued today con-
• cerning the condition of Queen Mother
• Margerita says the patient passed a
. tnirly restful night with no change in
the pleuro-pneumonia in the right
• lung.
BELGRADE, ugo Sin via. Doc. IS,
— (P—The f<»rt he oming conference of
the little entente will be held at Ra
"e"qpgeeh l
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20.cA6L,
• gir! 17 tkesfnal
about 11. 9 verdict an
resignntian
still under
Walsh Will Speak In Favor'
Of U. S. Adherence
On Floor Today.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.1
John Murphy. Mrs. Hoey’s tjes ne
and A farm hand escaped jn- bly try
• propositin In । letter to Mayor Cu
gill. Carzill says he never receiv
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NEW YORK Dec. 18.- (P)- An-
other New York banker's son has
taken up music for a career. Unlike
nnd Electric
r al clast
the nntionai
ful administr
• business ... p. . tunities th ,r w in . ome
st trip.
Mitchell R mains Silent
PRESIDENT IS
FINAL JUDGE III
AIRCRAFT CASE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.
—</P)—Vigorous methods
pursued by Col. William
Mitchell in ten years of criti-
cism of national defense poli-
cies have resulted in an army
court-martial verdict, finding
him guilty of insubordination
and suspending him from the
service for five years.
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or St No.
baby this year both the Times and
the five small boys who have been
owns. Hr
prejudice nf good order and military
discipline ' Eight specifications in
the charges were based on the colo-
nei's published statements of Septem.
ber 5 and • in which he accused the
war and navy departments of "in-
competency, criminal negligence and
is to assure an adlequa
a period of five years.
Overholser, Nichlos, Owens
And Cargill To Meet In
Conference Today.
The big four in the gas
controversy in Oklahoma
City was scheduled to get to-
gether Friday in an effort to
Nemiers of the citizens committee GOTHAM BANKER'S SON
believe that a union station can be TAKES UP MUSIC CAREER
than the average market price, there
being a ttal difference in the prices
of $3,707.44. At the same time, the
Illinois and Knwfield Gil compnies,
the latter n subsidiary, sold er de oil
to the refinery in excess of the mar-
ket price, chrging during the three
years $89,705.96 more than should
have been paid by the refinery. Both
sets of transactions were fraudulent
and earried out to reduce the profits
of his -fiver oak leaves, reduced tn
private life forever, would become n
an agreement for
The first Times Chris'
born in 1920.
So if Santa Claus is
a baby at your huse
nel Mitchell received the verdict with
smile, his wife standing beside him.
While the court was deliberating
Mitchell had munched chocolates
with Mrs. Mitchell anr her father and
mother.
_____ I Friday night at the Capitol Hill Chris-
M m-nu ■tian church. South Robinson avenue
BOLD BANDIT/ HID, Avenue ■»
g-pAI OU A mimp This meeting is to be the first of a
3 | EAL3F A nlUE series of rallies to be held throughout
'he state under the auspices of the
ntract If Nichlos would make the
During the
find by Maj.
advocate of th
tion court, he
CHICAGO. Dec. 18.-— Ninety
minutes before he was to die on the ■
I gallows for murder today. Campbell ,
McCarthy. 19 year-old negro, was I
granted a stay of execution on defense
attorneys' contentions that the youth
has become insane.
The attorneys raced by automobile
to the county jail, arriving as deputies
were preparing McCarthy for noose.
The state pardon board in Springfield
yestefday had denied him a reprieve. ,
—— of the refining company $93,41 3.40
The near approach of St. Nicholas Woodford charges
: of ACGIDENT Uninn station Boosters
• ' *• • I ‛e1 ■ 19.— (Spt 4 ial) - Andrew , __ ____ state, according to T l . Slnuchter. , ,
Lannom or UndMy. ■ farmer, was CooL. ‛T. D,.,, the weatherman Maimy weather, holders are entiti
« killed when the car he wns di kjCClV I O lYOVC J. TCCK with risiny temperatui pcdi t
on n road four miles north of here for Friday and suturday. The mer.
• werturned Thursdny nlnt Elevation Costs Mo re so "o oe than
The nnsimum tempernture ic corded
here ":mrrday afternt was 44 de-
a. proposed in the narcemert with grees, wits „ minimum „f .... deerees
the city commissioners and the plan- Friday iorning.
ning commission will cost about $4. ----- --------
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That is where the matter stands
as the • onference is called.
The whole proposition seems to rest I
upon the question of "adequate '
supply."
Engineers have made surveys of j
the field and some of the reports
have been made public, and have In-
dicated there is a sufficient supply
of gas in the holding of Nichlos to
supply Oklahoma City for a period of
five yea is at least.
There are several matters that are ,
beins taken into consideration in dis. i
4 osing of tbe Nichlos offer.
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