Daily Free-Lance (Henryetta, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 18, 1920 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME V
HENRY ETTA OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18 192
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ALLIES APPEAL TO UiliTEO STATES SENATE AGAINST PRESIDENT VILSON
By Associated Prea
ROME Tuesday) Feb 17 —
“America is going through a crisis
f( over-prod urtion and ahe need
European market as much aa Furo-
pe needs her goads" is the eporiea
of the Populo Romano whirh today
eo m merit on President Wilson's note
relative to the Adriatic ’ "sfttlenint
Urging United States' grsafon
Lodge Sherman and Knox to "shew
she strength of the - majority of the
senate in preventing Mr Wilson's b
terference in European affaira” Os
newspaper adds:
“Secretary Lansing resigned too
late He was a straight-forward
conscientious and loyal toon ut3 he
went to Paris when he heeanM &
blind instrument of President Wilooi
and lost tha esteem of friendo and
adversaries ' alike ’' Mr
Henry White and Ccnertl BZia
in fact mere marionettes who moved
at the pleasure of the stage manager
cf the theatre at Versailles At the
same time Colonel House sras in-
trusted to the negotiation of for-
eign affairs not for America but for
President Wilson
“Mr Lansing assisted by a very
competent staff repaired many presi
dentral blunder He spponed thi
league of nations and favored the
settlement of an international tribw-
hal sufficiently strong to paaa valid
verdicts”
0
Cleaning House
ALLIES’ REPLY TO WIL-
SCTS NOTE IS RECEIVED
WILLIAM l:CAC:0 IIjTA
FrEsicENTiALCAi:::m
By Associated Preen
NEW YORK Feb IK— William
C ITcAdoj announced today that be
Would not permit bis name to be
Weed on presidential primary ballots
a various etatev and that he advo-
cated the sending of oninstrneted
delegates to the Democratic nathmel
convention
The former secretary of treasury
said he believed that eigheat eon-
structive leadership can be obtained
tf the national interest “in nut sub
merged in a eonteat of individoJ
candidacies ”
"Personally" Mr McAdoo
tinued “1 would be delighted if the
next national convention might act-
Pally he a great Democratic confer-
ence where the great freedom of ac-
tion should prevail and where the
tnotive of high service alono should
control"
I am not seeking tha nomination’
tbs' letter read “and I am reluctant
to do anything that would create the
appearance of a candidacy"
Mr McAdoo’s views were express-
ed in a letter to Miller 8 Bell Mayor
-f Milled gevine Georgia in re
to a telegram baying Che citixena of
ku boyhood borne had placed his
name on the presidential preferentia’
ticket
QUARREL OVER PLOW RESULT
IN TWO DEATHS IN MISSOURI
Hr Aeoeinted Press
FORSYTHE Mo Feb 18— Chva
Cardwell fifty years old and Benji
nun Cardwell bis son twenty-si
years old both well to do fanners
are dead and Henry Hunt thirty-
Iwc years old is being held in Taney
county jail here without bond aa the
remit of a quarrel over a damaged
plow veterday between two Card-
wells and Hunt
Ly Associated Press
LONDON Feb 18— The reply of
the supreme' allied eouncil to Presi-
dent Wilson’s note relative to the
Adriatic settlement has been coded
and forwarded to Washington by the
American embassy here Announce-
ment has been made that the qan
ton of making public the text of tbo
reply-will rest with Mr -Wilson
It is understood the commnnica-
t ion 'sent to the American capital ob-
jects to a reopening of the Adriatic
question
WASHINGTON Feb 18— Tha rw-
ply of ‘the allied supreme council at
London’ to President Wilson's note ’
n the Adriatic question was r -reived
today at the state department
from Ambassador Davis and was de-
coded as it came in
It was announced officially that
tl a reply would not be made publir
immediately Publication of the
leply has been left by the council to
President Wilson according to Lon-
don dispatches but the council ei-
peetd to give the prera a nummary 1
While awaiting for the note to be ‘
decoded officials noted from ’ the ’
London dispatches that the reply wmi !
said to have been a modification of
the original one prepared last Sat-’
urday
ALL KSS FOR GERMAN PAS-
SENGER saiPS ARE REJECTED
Ry Auunitid Pres
WAOTINffTON Fell 18- Be-
riiena of sJ bid reeeivud for tfw
thirty former German passenger
ships offered for sale by the ship-
ping beard uss recoaunmdod to the
into cem aerial committee today
by Chairman Payna of the board
1 add authority to renew nego-
t rations for tbo sale of the venae!
far opmlinw nnder the American
flag
HUTEATi::5 IVCLVES
o to CDLirm
EEFIIlLICAII D1ST CCN-
VEincaLBa FRIDAY
PROHIBITION PUTS POLICE
JUSTICE TO WORK LN L I
By Associated Free
OKLAHOMA CITY Feb 18— The
naming of Oklahoma Republican dele-
date to the national convention in
Chicago will be brought to a close
thi week with three district conven-
tion two of them scheduled for to
day
Delegates from the third Okla-
homa district will be named st a
convention at McAlaster today while
the first district delegate will be
chosen at a convention at Claremore
The Republican delegation from
Oklahoma will be complete with the
selection of delegates at the five
district conventions to be held in Ok-
Fahe 18 For a lahoma City Friday
nightly bread-1 - —
M INFO A Long Island Feb 18—
Police Justice A 0 LitUy today an-
nounced that he had resigned be-
cause prohibition prevented him
irom “making a living" Since the
ban went into effort last March his
revenue from the office dwindled
more than fifty per tent the justice
stated while there had not been a
single ease of intoxication and only
a few minor cases of assault to be
tried
WAD VAGE SCALE IN
EFFECT UNTIL SEPT I
By A
Duurm
itsTSS misus'd SICES HO
of people aoeroad in kill mg
ere vsudng lafh r and tapping
a 'third of As pack af twelve
Tw polite men eqaipyed with snow
rboea and rt3e patented the district
of dtoh Avraae and fci stoat for
rarf a week and aWiawgb they naw
Iks padk drift p and down nearby
mwti faded ta get a dat at the
(date fq cc::s:ess
1TVE ENIISTFIJ MEN DROWNED
ry Assoiinted Press
WASHINGTON Feb 18— Five
enlisted men were drowned in the
suking of a naval barge yesterday
off the 'uhlan coa-t the navy de-
partmert wan advised today and twe
cth'rs lest their lives in the tap-
sirine ef n motor dory from the U
S S llovey la-1 Sunday at llsrwielv
England
By Associated Pres
CHICAGO Feb 18— Mrs Rose
Pastor Stokes of New York million-
aire Communist and former Social-
bt one of the 167 persons indicted
by a special grand jury here Jana-
jary 23rd for advocating the over-
THANKS IT- 8 BEN ATE ACTION H" of the government today an-
jnounred she would be a candidate
By Associated Press fur congress from the fourteenth
TSINAN China Feb- 18-Wang w York district
Itang L riew speaker of tha provin-l Mrs Stokes is at large on bond
rial awrmbty and representing it pending appeal frem a sentence of
the beard of education Chamber of in a federal prison for ob-
Commnre tha board of agriculture ‘nicting the draft
nd tW Rodent? onion htdd i '
fomnittef of five (hat wlW fftrnt- PIV fill PH 0I1CCCD0
!y wpon tha American Consul N F UI UIL tu OUflLUd
Annum afTWiaBy to thank him for
action frkm by the United States’
senate ia dealing with the Shantung
Tvservabons of the peace treaty The
Consol wtu asked to forward to the
senate a cablegram expressing the
gratitude of the entire province
WOMEN MAY LAUNCH
OWN POLITICAL PARTY
By Associated Press
CHICAGO Feb J8— Alignment
of women workers with existing po-
litical parties and abandonment of
efforts to inaugurate n political or-
ganization of their own waa advo-
cated today in the leaders of the
league of women voters successor to
the national women’s suffrage as-
sociation Republican and Demr
cratic members of the league urged
the women to' affiliate with their re-
spective parties and expressed their
opposition to the formation of wom-
en parties
GREAT EIRE LOSS
By Associated Press
FORT SMITH Ark Eeb 13 —
Fire of undetermined origin early
jthis morning destroyed the Fort
'Smith warehouse of the Gay 0 1 Co
ALCRO WANTS CLOTHES
AFTER BEING DEAD 3 HOURS
If ynu want results try a 'me-
Ience Want Ad — they’ll do H
VIENNA HAS CABIN
OF INFLUENZA IS RETORT The damage is estimated by company
I o'firials at between seventy-five
VIENNA VVh 18 — Forty thou- thousand dul'nr end one hundred
sand rase of influenza are reported theussnd
in thw city and the death rate i- ' ' The same company suffered a
very Vi'-b Among the recent vie- ri-ty five thousand dollar loss by
tons of the disease was Dr Esmets Ere in Little Rock a few days ago
Wertheim a wmdj tomona f p-cil-1
is: and sargewn I Tell them yen saw it in Free-Lanes
i
By Associited Press
DALLAS Tex Feb 18— It was
shortly after midnight The body of
a negro stretched out on a slab
preparatory to embalming slowly
faired to sitting position Then “it”
spoke:
“Man I'se cold Give me mah
clothes”
One minute biter the city emerg
t ncy hospital got this call from the
indortakirg establishment:
“Rush the ambulance over here
Thera’s a dead man come to life
and if you don’t get here quick a'l
my help will be gone"
The ambulance surgeon found tha
I an Clay 8 years old pronounced
dead of influenza and taken to the
undertaking establishment for burial
preparations had “come to life’
after reclining on a nmride slab for
I vc hours
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON Feb B8— Wages
established by the railroad adminis-
tration during the war would con-
tinue m effect until September fire
under the railroad reorganization
bill the conference reported whick
was made public today just before it
was presented to the house and sen-
ate The bill a reported today ala
seeks to stabilize rates for the tame
period of time providing that prior
to September first no rate may be
reduced unless approval of the in-
terstate eommerrt commissidn is cb-
tained ’
The restrictions on wage increase
were looked upon with special inter-
est by member of congress railroad
cfficinli and union leaders in view of
the recent demands of more than two
million railroad workers for an ad-
vance In pay
In the belief that a wage eommW-’
ion would be empowered to take up
their demands the fourteen railroad
union heads hat called n conference
tc he held here beginning Monday feu
discuss the policy to be adopted in
dealing with such n commission
Chairman Esch of the house man-
agers announced today that the con-
ference report would be taken np in
the hou Saturday and Chairman
Cummin cf the senate manager
expected to call it up in the senate
at a later date
QUICK METHOD oV SALVAGING
MUSTARD G 8 SHELLS IS (UVEN
By Associated Press
j LONDON Feb 18 — A method of
disposing of mustard gas shells made
for ns has been discovered by an
! English ehemivt The contents of
the shell are removed by a siphon
and anv liquid remaining is neutra-
lized and removed by a solution
The mustard gas is passed into
drums which are heavier than water
and can be dump-d into the sea The
steed shell is then broken up and Te-
rmite L
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