Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma State Register
OLDEST PAPER Pl'HMSIIEH ((INTIM 01 SLY I> OKLAHOMA
THIRTIETH YEAR,
PACKERS THREATEN SHUT-
DOWN BECAUSE OF STRIKE
GUTHRIE. OKLA., DEC., 29, 1921.
Two Great Battleships in the Balboa Docks
1
Oklahoma City, Dec. 29.—The local
packing plants threaten to shut down
permanently anil abandon the plants
if strikers persist in violent interfer-
ence with the men and women now at
work. The plants were not working
full time before the strike and aband-
onment of plants would be cheaper,
as Kansas City and Chicago can take
care of business and smaller plants
could be started eleswhere with open
labor where unions do not exist.
Strike of union men, former em-
ployes of the Morris & Company and
Wilson k Company packing plants
here, will last forever if they "stick"
as they were told to do the night be-
fore the strike was put into effect,
according to officials of both plants.
Armored and screened motor cars
were used to take employes to the
packing plants Wednesday, this pre-
caution being acknowledged by union
men on strike to be necessary. "It's
dangerous business without it," said
a picket Wednesday afternoon.
Of the more than 500 men who
worked at Morris & Company Wed-
nesday, a large pecentsge stayed in
the plant Wednesday night, preferring
to do this than "risk our lives in at-
tempts to return home," they said.
"We haven't any quarrel with the
packing plant men, union or non-un-
ion," said McKillip late Wednesday.
"All we do insist on is that every
man have the right to work where
he pleases and when he pleases. These
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1M.ACKS SERVICE tlftOYt PARTI POI.ITI/08, KRIEM> OF SCHOOL I AND LESSER.
$1.50 Per Year
| PARKINSON LAYS RAILROAD
VALUATION ON GOVERNOR
side was hurling stones against the
house and through the windows
would convince any man of the neces"
sity of shielding the community of
such criminals.
Mrs. 1. L. Hayes, 2421, South Ag-
new avenue, and Mrs. M. E. Sutton,
mother of Mrs. (Hayes, made public a
signed statement late Wednesday in
which they accused union men of
nearly wrecking their home. Mrs.
Hayes has two chillren, one 2 years
old and the other 5 years old.
Women's Signed Statement.
The statement: "On December 26,
about 10:30 o'cliok at night myself
and 5-year-old baby weie in the bed.
Some one tried to break in our house.
The screen was cut add the north
window next the head of my bed was
broken. The broken glass fell all over
myself and baby, scratching the back
of my neck and arm. One big rock
came through the -window and a hard
piece of clay hit me in the back of
the head. They kept on throwing
stones at the house for about twenty j The community carolers made
minutes. They were after my bus- j rhristma8 even seem real in their pro_
i.i i in.11 ron. i u\ siiow
KM. \> I III
Other Idhiin
In l.ogan Count)
Exhibit*.
The mighty battleships New Mexico (left), flagship of r.he Pacific fleet, and Mississippi at tin- Balboa tloci -
mediately after their arrival, awaiting the Atlantic licet. Doth fleeit* united at Balboa iiimI mailed for a cruise to 1
and < ! lie
Guthrie polti N show hegan its ex-
hibits Thursday in the natutorluiu of
the municipal Hath House and will
last until Saturday night. There is a
i lint <-xhibit of all varic;.es and will
, pay anyone to visit it. The officers
i of tin Vssociation are t . C. Ward, of
j .Marshall, president; R. A. Ha
ire president;
COMMU NITY ( AHOLERS BIBS TO SI LK KELE\SES
M ADE ( II HIS I' M AS }\EUi{\ \ j 0K PRISON M ATES
>early a Hundred Children Sing and
Dance \round Christmas Tree.
Socialist Leader S«j>
to \hdicate •'Hi-
He Is Nut Going
Manhood."
DRY* I OMJKI ss >| \ \
MORE Til \ > 45 l
Ol WINE IN
Yoted Dry, Hut
lias
•liar.
II \ D
• ALLONS
IIIS I I I.L VIC
Liquor in His
Jessie
, secretary: Dr. L. H. Ritz-
• utili i *, treasurer; E. O. Edson
A Smith, ol the A. and M.
, Stillwater, judges.
mot o ol the association is:
tarm in Ixigan
band. A union man came to our
house and told us that if we didn't
take a warning they would blow us (>ne hundred
to atoms. If Mr. Hayes thinks any-
thing of his life he had better come
out of the plant and put on a union
button," the man said.
Washington, Dec. 2G. -Eugene V.
gram around the Christmas tree on j Debs in the first statement issued
the federal building front. Over since his release from Atlanta pent
hool children, costum-
ELECTRIC RATI ( IT Is I'PIIELD
threats of intimidation are not righ: ; Ordered To Pu>
Recognition of til.. Strike situation COMumeW Nearly VM,000 As Be- I xll0 Cotteral carolers inarched to I pend "entirely on how long 1 will be Key by keg and case by cue the
in an inspection tour by members ot 1 h"u'K- , the M. K. Hospital, down Noble to the i ut." I men brought the liquor out of the
the open shop division of the Cham- i 1 West Side M. E. church. | l)t
ber of Commerce, was made Wednes-| Electric light patrons of the Oklu- i Tlle Banner carolers, first group, [everything in his world had become j the house. When the last case was
day afternoon, following the second ; !,oma Gas & Electric company are to [Crossed on Eleventh to Noble, there chaotic and undergone changes which . put in place ready lo be put into the
parade of striken. There will be no < receive a rebate of approximately 10 j Joined the Cotteral singers and would make it necessary fur him to , waiting machine, the police closed in
parade Thursday, according to union! ; percent on their light bills from ! marched to Fifth. readjust himself to the conditions of, on (hem.
officials. Julie 1 to December 21, and hence-j Second group went east on Warner, ihe present before he could foresee
Soup and llpuns ior Pickets. forth will set the benefit of a reduc- south on Fifth to the bridge. , exactly what hts^ future
Hundreds of men were being fed j tion of that amount in their monthly ! Central, Mrst group went east on | would be.
soup and beans at Butcher Workmen bills. ; Noble to Mapble and returned. Sec- j
ed in the regular Chris Kringle style,
of snow white, raiment, sang beauti-
ful chants and danced around a mag-
nificent Christmas tree. The program I
was in charge of the city schools. Be-
fore coining to the square the car- I
olers sang in various parts of the >nd Attorney General Daugherty.
! future activities, Debs said, would de
tentiary at 110011 Sunday announced
Monday that he would dedicate his
newly acquired freedom to "the free-
dom of political prisoners and the
cause of all prisoners."
The statement was made after Debs ! 'phey captured oJseph Zipper and
had conferred with President Harding i uichard Voris after letting them pile
i the liquor outside the house near their
automobile.
Guthrie
Pollock
i haupt,
I and \\
College
The
"100 hens on
i county."
Two hundr
shown at Oris
day week ago.
n an anonv- j ' redeem had a big show last week.
Police Head- ] Local poultry shows create great
!e last night I interest in standard bred poultry,
surrounded the residence of Con- ! * ount\ and Home Demonstration
gressman Clifford Ireland and pre-1 Agents sec ure cooperation of Corn-
vested ti"' carrying away of forty-1 niunity organisations in promoting
five gallons of domestic wines and j
five ruses of French imported wines. I
and sixteen birds
. Friday and Satur-
Peoria, ill
inous tip receive
quarters, detect!v
Acting
was received hy the corporation com-
Union headquarters Wednesday, food
being allowed only those who were
doing picket* duty. Picket lines were
increased, as many as seventy-five
men being on duty at tlie "river beat''
— means of agress to the packing
plants, Wednesday according to the
captain of the squad.
"Number of pickets kept on duty j .mission late Friday in
varies with the day, and with the
situation," said union officials at un«
ion headquarters Wednesday after-
noon.
That union men were boarding
street cars on which non-union men
were riding to their work at the
packing plants, and were "inducing
them to refrain from working was the
statement of pickets at the main gate
Wednesday.
"They'll never get by me, not walk-
ing," said one picket, a negro. "'But
then, they'll never get this far. The
men will stop them farther down the
line," he added.
Eight city policemen and several
The men admitted, according to
activties detectives, that they had forced en-
went east on j would be. """ j trance to Congressman Ireland's
Noble to Mapble and returned. Sec- j Arriving in Washington at 9 o'clock . home last Sunday night, preparatory
The rebates ordered by the corpora- J on(l group from Board east on War- j Debs went firse to a hotel where he j to the more concerted robbery.
tion commission total approximately i ner to Elm and return. Third group, breakfasted and then called upon At- Congressman Ireland is in Wash-
$50,000 and are to be distributed to from Broad east on -Mansur to Elm j torney General Daughtery and later j ington and the members of his family
patrons in Oklahoma City, Norman i return. Fourth group from 1 President Harding, spending about a were visiting in Washburn, 111.
and Oklahoma City system, including' Broad east on Logan to Oak and re-i half an hour with each. j Congressman Ireland voted dry on
Britton Bethany and Putman City. j turn. Fifth group from Board east! Mr. Daughtery in a statement is- j the eighteenth amendment.
An order from the supreme court (,n Washington to Ash and return, sued after his conference with Debs
Sixth group from Broad west on declared the socialist's visit was up-
which the I Noble to Division, south to Cleveland i on his own volition that, he had asked
ourt sustained the action of the cor- | and return to Broad. All these j for no advice and that none had been
poration commission of May 25 when groups were reassmeble at the , given. No statement was made at
it issued an order reducing light rates 1 church. the white hous after Debs call.
from 12 to 10 cents a kilowat hour. | Capital Hill, frist group west on - -
The commission immediately ordered °ne side of Vilas and return on other I ill RT MAKES KANSAS
the company to make a rebate for the
difference between the 10-rent rate
and the 12 cents which has been col-
lected sinCe the order was to have
been effective on June 1.
The money is to paid to the cor-
poration commission by the Oklahoma
Gas & Electric company and checks
will be mailed to the light patrons
covering the rebate due them, less the
10 percent collection fee which the
law provides shall accrue to the
deputy sheriffs were on duty at the commission. The electric company
main gate, where the larger crowd of \ was given until January 1 to indicate
strikers is gathered, Wednesday. No
city officers were found between 4
o'clock and 6 o'clock, in the immedi-
ate vicnity of the "river beat" where
union officials stated they had more
side, west on Springer to Broad. ,
Second group, west to Harrison and I
back to down on Oklahoma to Broad. Former Citizenship
Third group, west on Cleveland to
Broad, also covering the cross streets.
Tht west side groups marched from
the bride and east side from Broad,
all assembling at the tree.
OKI N ER SPENCER CLEARED
OK MIRDKR CHARGE
a time when it will be able to give the
commission a list ot all its patrons 1 (l)re ludge A H Boles, Th(, case was
and the anionpt of money collected |,rought by p b. Hurnet, a brother,
from each sinc e June I. Should the ! lt was fuUy proven that the slioot-
time indu -ted by the company appear ,ng wag donP self deCence in Offi-
too long the commission will set a \ ,,p,3 Spencer and Williams arresting
City Policeman Herbert Spencer
was cleared of the charge of murder,
. .... .. n i i> ti ! producer, husband of the late Mine,
in the killing of Butler Burnet, be- 1 • _ ........... m:.„.
commission will set a
date when the information shall be
furnished it, members said.
local poultry shows as a means of im
proving poultry and methods of rais-
ing it on Ixigan county farms.
Orlando held the largest poultry
show week before last that has been
held in recent years in Ixigan county.
The Commercial Club, dug up tlie
prize money, and coops, and paid all
During his confinement Debs said jyellar and deposited it in the rear of j expenses, and the tarmers brought in
1 two hundred and sixteen birds of ex-
ceptionally fine quality.
Mrs. Jessie S. Pollock, Home Dem-
onstration agent, and sn-retary of the
Ixigan County Poultry Association,
went up Friday morning and assisted
by making the entries. This was a
great help to the Orlando Club, and
the service was greatly appreciated.
The Logan County Poultry Associa-
tion loaned twenty of their fine, new,
wire coops, free of charge, to help
things along, and it made the show
look fine and dressed up.
These coops are a gift to the Ixigan
County Poultry Association from its
members and merchants of Guthrie,
and were secured through the active
work of Dr. Ritzhaupt, treasurer, and
R. A. Hallenback, vice president of the
Ixtgan County Poultry Association.
The Orlando ( ommereial Club is
composed of real community boosters,
and they made this Free Poultry Show
an occasion of real Goodfellowship in ,
their community.
Prizes were paid upon all standard
breeds of poultry entered, and also
upon Brown and White eggs.
Mr. Charlie Ward, president of the
l gan County Poultry Association,
judged the show. He was surrounded
by interested exhibitors from 10 a. m.
Friday until 3 p. m. Saturday, and
did great service by answering ques-
tions, an dmaking valuable sugges-
tions. Verily, a good judge is the
life of a show.
, < rescent began her Community
1 Poultry Show, Thursday, December 22,
and clot? d Saturday, December 24th.
(.11(1. GIHM V> HAIHINESS
of S-Vear- Old
Ham:'liter of Baron DcMuiiiili He-
stored.
Seneca. Kansas, December 26.—
Petite Mary de Mumm, 8 years old,
through a recent decision of a New
Jersey court, lost her American citi-
zenship and became a German baron-
non tow n wiped oi
Jreat Loss Is Suffered b> Oil Town
of IHIIard.
The court decreed that Baron Wal-
r de Mumm, millionaire champagne
Burnet. Burnet had been shooting up
the neighborhood. He has been fear-
ed for years as dangerous.
sKYlVIEIN GERMAN
ENVOYS REACH IT. S.
iu
than fifty men as pickens.
"Picket duty is keeping up, and
tilings are lovely," said a striker at
union headquarters. "That s official j
dope. The'*strike will be won soon, H. E.DUNCAN IN COUNTY JAIL
It's won already." z i
"I'd like to catch Hill out tonkin." | |?0rB10P Specialist i'nder irreet For
another. "Bet he wouldn't go Selliat Xortgaged Property. I
back to work in the morning J 1 They Come to Open Tree Office
Union headquarters was filled with ^ ^ E j)uncant specialist o. ; America.
men and women, nearly as many wo- chronIc diseases and former lessee of i
men, some with children, being there ,, j ,i uath House, hns been in i New York, December 24.—Diploma-
as men. j the county jail here since December I tic offices of the German government
John Aralone. union official from j- charged with selling mortgaged j will be opened at Washington, New
Fort Worth was s heduled to siie -t property. There are also several i York and New Orleans January 1, it
again here Thursday morning • case* against him on the charge of was announced here Saturday on the
o'clock at the union hall, 22-" hx- ' [asujng bogus checks. i arrival from Germany of a party of
change avenue. i q^e sheriffs force caught Dr. Dun- seventeen officials on the steamship
"It is a pitful state of affairs when i Jn New Mexlco and })rought him (America.
such dastardly attacks are allowed tc j b&ck Ir default of bail be hag had
j to remain in jail.
I Those who know the doctor deplore
I liis loose financial methods, as he is
considered rather a good surgeon in
certain rectial cases. His case is be-
in j: pushed mostly by parties at Cres-
cent where he borrowed money on
property and afterwards sold it, so it
charged. His trial will come up
in the next term of court.
fiances Ue iMumm. formerly Miss
Frances Scoville of~"this town should
have the custody of the daughter, who
has been living with her maternal
grandparents. She must be returned
to her father by March 1 the court
ordered.
. i , inte oi 1 romance of Baron
Walter de Mumm and Frances Sco-
ville attracted widespread attention
in 1913. They met while Miss
Scoville was traveling in Switzerland
and were married in London the same
Ardmore, Ok la., Dec., 20.—Fire
early this morning completely wiped
ou the entire business section of the
town of Dillard, locating in the heart
of the Hewitt oil field, causing the
damage to the amount of $100,000 with
the loss made more appalling due to
the fact that none of the structures
which were consumed by the flames
t
were covered by insurance.
The fire started about 2:30 o'clock
and according to reports originated in
j Coyle's restaurant due to an explos-
j ion which is believed to have resulted
{ when the gas pipe burst and caught
! from the range which had been left
i burning by the cook after he had
gone for the night. The buildings
destroyed included six two-story
structures and a score or more of
one-story abides of two and three
ro«>ms each used as residences by the
occur in a civilized community,
is difficult to conceive how a group
of men can become so unprincipal
as to attack a poor, sickly unprotect-
ed woman and her defenseless chil-
dren.
"The story as told by this little wo-
man and how, moved by her mother
instinct, her first thought was to
protect her babe while the mob out-
The daughter was born in Frank-
fort, Germany, in 1914. The mother's
sympathy for the allied cause and the
baron's love tor his fatherland caused
an estrangement shortly after the ,
daughter's birth.
Mmo. de Mumm later came to ;
America and by a special act of Con- j
Kress her American citizenship was
Dr. Erick Kra£dce, who headed the restored. Mine, de Mumm returned ;
party, will act as German charge to France to fight for her share of I
d'affaires at Washington until the ar- her husband's property, which the !
rival of Karl liange, who will as- French had seized when the world
field workers. More than a 100 are J Chas. M. Smith, extension poultry-
i homeless as a result of the blaze. I man judged the contests.
j Business establishments destroyed I *Ther< is a branch of the county
include hotel, garages, tailor shops I association at Crescent, composed of
i rocery stores and practically every- I about thirty enthusiastic chicken
j thing of a commercial nature. cranks, which hold their show. They
______ I jjave very ably assisted and en-
,STATE HOI I L .MEN 1 cour;: ed b. their Commercial Club.
GUESTS OK THE IONE , w. ij. Smith, J. it. Homan, and Jas. i
The convention of the state hotel Herron have been the active proinot-
men was in session all day Thursday ers of this work in the Crescent coin-
in the lone ball room. In the evening niunity, and to them belong- the credit
a sumptuous banquet was served and for much of the interest in standard
a program of addresses. j bred poultry in that part of Logan
The hotel men were the guests of j county. They have bought 10 fine,
James Scurden, proprietor of the new wire coopB and borrowed 30 more
lone and he saw to it that they didn't of the Ixig in < oui.iy Poultry Associa-
kOklahoma City, December 20.—De-
ing that he never has been sat-
with the distribution of the
of railroads of the state to
gUtiotis taxing subdivisions, Fred
?i, state examiner and in-
^ E^dnesday issued a statement
Vthe expose contained in
ihr £ lsuo °' 1'airly Okla-
honian iig low valuations for
railroad^^^erty in Oklahoma coun-
ty.
"As a member of the board of equai-
zation, am quite well satisfied with
the unit value of the railroads of the
state, however, said Pariknson. "I
am advised they are assessed higher
iu Oklahoma than any state east of
the Rocky mountains. There senns to
have been legal questions involved iu
the apportionment of the valuation to
the various taxing subdivisions of the
state, and not being a lawyer, 1 am
not capable of giving an explanation
on that score."
I do l \lt however, if the governor
hail approved House Bill .Hti of the
eighth legislature, the state board of
equalization of which the governor
is a member, would probably look at
the "hole card" before ii made a bet.
State Audlitor Carter and myself
did all we could do in enoeavoring
to give the taxing authorities of Ok-
lahoma county iu opportunity to be
heard betore our board.
"House bill 34G was passed at the
regular session of the eighth legisla-
ture, same being an act relating to
appeals from the state board of
equalization to the supreme court and
declaring an emergency."
The bill referred to by Parkinson
would have provided, if it had be-
come a law, that, iu addition to pre-
vious provisions for appeals, any per-
son appearing before the state board
of equalization might appeal 10 the
supreme court on any order made by
the board. The bill would have pro-
vided that after appeal had been com-
pleted by the filing of a certified copy
>f petitions, motions and other papers
in the case the supreme court should
give the case precedence and advance
it to prompt hearing and final de-
cision.
"Pearsonally 1 used all the influ-
ence I had with members of the leg-
islature for the passage of this very
mertorious measure. After the same
passed by both branches of the legis-
lature and sent to Governor Robert-
son for his action in the premises un-
der date of April 4. 1921, I wrote him
as follows:
"As a member of the state board of
equalization, I respectfully request
that you approve house bill No. 346,
same being an act relating to appeals
from the state board of equalization
to the supreme court, and declaring
an emergency.
"Not being a mind reader nor the
seventh son of a seventh son, 1 can
no more state why Governor Robert-
son did not allow this very meritor-
ious bill to become a law than 1 can
give his reasons for vetoing an appro-
priation of $1,500 for clerical help
in my department while he was ap-
proving those for $133,050 for the
state army in time of peace and $4,-
700 for pardons and paroles. I will
let the governor do that."
want for anything.
SCOTTISH Hi l l RS TO
HOLD Hit. HI I MOV
Wives, mothers, sisters and daugh-
ters will be the guests of Scottish
tion.
A feature of these Community Poul-
try shows is the fine pens of birds
sume that office pending the appoint- war broke puV A legal separation ^ Rite Masons at their anniversary re-
had been agreed to in "*918. Mme. ) union to be held at Guthrie, Monday
de Mumm died in Paris, May • 1919. | fG Thursday, January 10 to 19.
When diplomatic relations between | Preparations are being made to
make the reunion the biggest Scot-
tish Rite affair ever held in Oklaho-
ma.
ment of an ambassador. Later Mr.
Lange will come to New York as-
counsel-general fo rthe United
States.
Baron Hans von Ungelter will take
over the consalute at New Orleans.
Germany and the United States were
resumed, the father took up the fight
for ,the custody of his child.
shown by members of the co.mt; asso-
ciation but not competing for prizes.
At Orlando, Mr. Herron and Mr. Ho-
man had fine pens of WhLe Lahoma,
and Ilarred Rocks, respectively, and | Purpose ot acquiring at a mortgage
Mr. Diehl and O. M. Sneckelmler, of | foreclosure sale all ot the property,
Mulhall had Reds and Barred Rocks
PORT SMITH ROAD
CAN ISSUE HONRS
Transfer lis Authorized By Commerce
Hoard.
Washington. "Dec. -4.—Authority
was granted by the interstate com-
merce commission Saturday to the
Fort Smith & Western Railway com-
pany to issue, in exchange for cer-
tain bonds, 62,400 shares of common
stock without par value, $1,50!),00,
principal amount, of first mortgage
bonds and $3,744,000 principal amount
of second mortgage bonds, the bonds
acquired through such exchange to be
used for the purchase of certain pro-
perty.
The loan wi'.s requested for the
Chas. C. Ward, of Marshall also show-
ed some fine Reds just to make the
show look good.
assests and franchises of the old com-
pany, subject to certaoin specified
obligations. No objection to the
granting of the application was made.
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