The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

A 7 i be A'v iJ'jJ 1 1 lJu? frg TROOPS CALLED OUT IN ILLINOIS RIOTS 1 1 Ll i rtri 'x rf I 9 vuviuiai Vl UC Jlldtllf dlitl tlvin cOail Imer 19 years old son of John flreif al eAeeM Another' shot in' ths' fl I Sr hit WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM may Cause large fire loss IN CITY RATING EXPERT SAYS ktNGALtjJT After thc den JOtj er ts id ml GOVERNOR GRANTS PAROLES TO SEVEN TOLEDO Aug orfeiture of all corporate rights and and dissolution of the Page dairy com pany largest concern of its kind in northwestern Ohio was sought in qtfq Warranto proceeding in the Lucas county appelate court here today by County Prosecutor Allen Seney The prosecutor's petition alleged pro fiteering and violation he Valen tine anti trust act 7 EXTENSION STATE ACTION END LONG GIVEN HOUSE WW NOW IN SIGHT Attorney General Notifies US Attorney to Help all State Oficers? of im Dealers Exceeding Margin of Profit Are to Be Prosecuted? Reseryati onists Say They Have Enough Votes to? Beat Pact? Thorough Probe Into All Merchandise Lines IJrg ed by Dealers VOL' 30? NO 318 r'' MW for tM purpoae al vatntWKM watv mta cxMalM sewer cxteneioaMtaN4MmMta in the first depart ent lit la understood money for bond election purposes is rirtuaNy ex Attorney General? to' Pre sent Matter 0 Corpora tioh Commission Ten of the biggest retail grocers in Oklahoma City conferred yester day with A Whitehurst president of the state board of agriculture at the state cspitol and agreed that they be willing to do anything that might be suggested by the state coun cil of defense that would result in thq Reduction 'of prices to consumers Thorough Probe Urged? VThe meeting followed the morning vi 1 1 i ci i vC in ii nirfniirCr lliih waaI £ltf ftn fl trtKRsawa mP wkAl elt vyisswsi gsav pi UC of sugar wat reduced to the old war ngure ot iuui a Hundred pounds from $1050 and $11 a hundred pounds While the retail grocers expressed their willingness to do their share reorganising their methods of do ing business to eliminate some of the overhead costs of necessities they urged that the state pursue its in vestigation among landlords shoe jobbers and retailers 1 and the dry goods business in fact they urged a complete study of every line of mer chandising and felt that only' he agreement of every line to cooperate ith the state in reducing living costs would result in the reductions sought Willing to Cut Profits? The merchant attending the meet ing even said they would be willing to run their business without any profit temporarily if by such drastic measures they could succeed in re covering public confidence and in a measure return to the business routine of a few year ago hile Mr Whitehurst announced no drastic program for the retail grn cers he pleaded hwits them to keep prices down to the lowest figure com mensurate with good business sense and declared such a program is nec essary in Oklahoma immediately to prevent serious develonments 1000 Negroes in Convention ST LOUIS Aug More than 1000 delegates attended the opening session of the annual convention of the National Negro Business league here today Method of suppressing mob rule and Ivnrhino wererlic cussed by the delegates Tlie possibility of another city bond issue election no distant date loom ed large yetetday when Ingalls 'uperintendent of fire insursnee in spectiou and rating here and a rep Jentative of the national board ol fire underwriters insisted upon a bet ter water distributioHi system the fm mediate appointment o( a i technical engineer as a sapermtenaant ot w(er department and a better fire department ST' 's blocks' elty are in rawed a TntVftr nnJ of poMte svn Ai LONDON Ang The coal miners of Yorkshire where more than 200000 men hare been on strike since July 21 decided today tp yeatnnr work? This action was talted at a "EASON OR VANCE BURNS SAYS New Legislation by State? Prosecutor Declares Attorney General IV Ijreeling will present to the corporation commission for action the increase in the price of ice in Oklahoma City he declared last night Robert Burns1 county at torney yesterday addressed a letter to the attorney general saying that many i complaints are being made because of the increased price which Burns says appears to have been made without reason and requesting that the attor ney general present the matter to the corporation commissidn tv Many Complaints? A copy of the letter follows: reeling Attorney General i State of Oklahoma State Capitol Ok lahoma City Okla: DearSir: 1 My telephone has ringing al most constantly todayiby people com plaining of the recent and exhorbitant increase in the price of I A few days ago we could buy ice at the dpeks at the rate of fifty pounds for twenty cents on yesterday it was twenty five cents for fifty pounds and I am informed today that the ice com panies are charging eighty cents a pundred pounds fori ice from thewa gonst Tflij i 's an increase of 33 1 3 percent within i the last ten days without any apparent reason therefor NoLimit on Sales The ice companies claim it due to a shortage of ice but I understand that they will sell anyone as much as they need and their plants are fork ing at full capacity andI believe they have a great deal of ice stored away and I understand all the plants in the city are working to their full capacity If the corporation commission can be induced to take any action by in vestigating these excess charaes for ice there will be no difficulty in es tablishing the grounds of complaint and I hope you wiill be able to preseift the matter to the corporation commis sion and see if that body will not take action at once i ROBERT BURNS County "Attorney Oklahoma County Burns said yesterday that he is do ing his utmost to gather evidence but that is all he can do He still insists that there should be some means of I a 1 i4 (Continued on Pnge 2 Column'1) MB i 1 i Mangum Has Club 1 To Boost erris i I 3 MANGUM? Okl Aug l'3 (Spe Mangum democrats tformed a for Senator" club at a meet ing held here last night and plans for boosting his campaign were made I ii Announcement that erris had de cided to make the race was received here with great enthusiasm" He has a large number of friends here and in this vicinity ol the "club elected last night are Elmer Jf Jesse president LA Guthrie vice president James I Duffy treasurer and Maloy i secretary i i break that the were i kS LOOKED OR IN A EW DAYS Administration orces in Receptive Mood to Uey Proposals cause of the water dkttihrtioa ys tem here now" the undtneeiler repre sentstjve told the cammiasiatiers i here is no chance qf a redaction in firt imurartce rateaJbe fatimated iu4jit laie inis arternoon in an auto mobile with other officials of the i company Another person was shot thf i back by snipers shortly before I Intermittent firing continues It is said local authorities liave'nei power to interfere a It is reported that a Bartonville' I doctor was stoned by the mob Outbreaks During Day A handful of deputy sheriffs who have been guarding the plant where I a strike of 800 workers had been in i progress for several fought ofi'l the rioters returning volley for vol ley and late tonight it was believed: the worst of the storm had passed a Sopradic 'outbreaks 1 1 continued throughout the day and resulted in tho shooting and slightly wounding of two 4 strikers who had fired on the deputies 1 Woman is Shot The first outbreak came whin" truck load of strikebreakers were air 1 Tied to the plant under deputy sheriffs The rioters charged and it was only after a sharpclgih I that they were driven off The principal outbreak tonight fol ll lowed the shooting of a woman by sniper near thoiplant She was only slightly injured Women sided with I the rioters and hurled missiles At tte I strikebreaker and deputies 1 The crowd finally dispersed I but formed again when'time cSmeJw 25000000 Bushel Increase Expected PORTLAND Ore Aug 13 The Pacific Northwest will harvest more than 80000tXX) bushels of wheat this year according to carefully compiled estimates given out today This is an increase of 25000000 bushels over last year and the greatest cropOre gon' Idaho and Washington have ever collectively grown and gathered The nearest these states have ever come to such a heavy yield was four years ago when the vield reached ap proximately 78000000 bushels The estimated yield for each state Is given as follows: Oregon 24160000 I Washington 41365000' Idaho 14900000 Oats and barley wilt hold up to the general yearly average with an esti mated crop of 35000000 bushels Owners of Guns Not Reported To Be Arrested Now All owners of firearm who have failed to make a complete report to the police as required by a recently en acted ordinance will he arrested if brought to the attention of the police according to cntei jerry smith police department has granted several days of grace for such re norts to be made the chief said vet terdayand beginning tomorrow we ct win iisiu avsivc campaign 10 en force the The chief sain he believetf negroes constituted the majority of the delin quents The penalty for failure 'to comply with tbe requirements of the ordi nance ranges from a minimum fine of $5 and costs to a maximum of $17 and truck in Actors sTRiKK Jl 1 1 kl JUH I a Both Sides la Chicago Halt HostlMtiaa CHICAGO Aug 14 A truce was declared In the actors strike in Chi cago today which last night closed the Cort theater and Cohen's urand Opera house and threatened to spread to other plajrhouses 3 ollowing the Application to the courts for an injunction by Woods proprietor of Woods' theater seeking to restrain' th company play ing "up in Mabel'a Room" from go ing on strike both aides entered Into a agreement to halthostilitie pend ing hearing of the injunction procend I 4' Bj' The Associated Press) i a i WASHINGTON Aug 13 The trend toward agreement on reserva tions in the peace treaty reached'the stage today where the group of repub lican senators advocating reservations received assurances which they ac cepted as guaranteeing democratic as sent to their program It was said that as sooiuas the group could pledge a score of republi can votes for reservations to the league of nations co enant along the line recently agreed on by seven re publican senators' the administration forces in the senate would be willing to line up on that basis for ratifica tion Reservationists also intimated that their ranks eventually would include Senator Lodge chairman of the for eign relations committee and repub lican leader of the senate Twenty republicans it was declar ed would be enough with the admin istration democrats to make up the two third necessary for ratification The program on which it is? sought to unite these elements contemplates reservations to further protect the Monroe doctrine to insure domestic control over domestic questions to amplify the right of withdrawal and to fortify the power of congress to de (Continued on Pigs Column!) NORTHWEST WHEAT YIELD MAKING GAINS Heflin1 WASHINGTON August 13 Charges that German money is at work to defeat of if nations program were made in a the house today by Represent tive Heflin of Alabama? agents "are crying in unison for the defeat of the Representative Wefl in a i "Munition makers have bought disloyal newspapers to poison the public mind" i KEEPiMG UP WITH THE L' IMUtBS M' Eyeiy State Takes Part In Advance Ton r' nr Palmer 'Asks Tfiaf' Cloth ing Men be Amendment to vv GOVERNORS ASK OR CUTTING RED TAPE 6408(1 I r'L I IGG NAMES TEN AS MEMBERS BOARD I Producers? Merchants La I bor Housewives 5 and I Public Represented? I I 1 exceeding a fair margin of profit upon bya I state executive committee appointed I yesterday to fight the high cost of liv I ing will be prosecuted by the depart I merit of justice Howard igg state I administrator in the drive said last I mght i I A state executive committee corn I ic posed of representatives of every line o' business labor the public at large I housewives was appointed as fol I lows Howard igg Russell I i representing the jobbers: Hal I 'tselL representing wholesale grocers I Il Halliburton representing re I "5 tail merchants sM Johnson repre I seating retail grocers Mont Pow I Tell representing labor Henry Sny der 'A Richardson and Dr I Cimp representing the public at large I s' and Mrs Daugherty represent I iag the housewives I Producer will also have a repre I tentative on the committee iggs I said he was unable yesterday to get I i Jn touch with the man who will be i im itecl to The names for the committee were chosen during a con ference between igg and Russell yes ferday wfternoon AM of the men chosen for the committee expressedtheir willingness to serve immediately upon being notified they had been ap pointed and igg said he has no doubt (Continue on PaX Column 3) I 'SHIDfHERA IS NEW ENVOY ROM JAPAN i' ji Tokio Sends Cabinet Mem ber to Succeed Ishii SN" RANCISCO? Aug 13 Shidehcra vice minister of foreign affairs in the Japanese cabinet hasLi en appointed Japanese ambassador trt Washington to 'succeed Viscount ihii according to cable advices re ceived today from Tokio by the Jap anese American a local Japanese lan grage newspaper "js i BABLEY KEEPS OH CLIMBING pf Talk Doea" Not Bother Market in Chicago CHICAGO Aug Agitation over the high cost of living has not de pressed the barley market4 On the the price of barley advanced tents to 4 cents a bushel today and sales were made qt $1 52 the highest price yet this season Matters have been the active buyers and the impression prevails that there have been extensive sales of malt to "Europe 1 'Rj Rye jumped with barley and closed at 3'4 cents to 3 cents advance nrTflll iiuiniL usi'Liiu 1 HTLHCHT IS OE Il 1 1 EH DI CL RS Diamandy Commanderat Budapest SaysHe not Obey Orders PARIS Apg 13M2onstantinej Di amandy Rumanian high commission er at Budapest according to mes sage received today from the 'inter allied military commission In the Hungarian capital informed the members of the commission that he would nop consider its instructions as orders The allied generals thereupon telegraphedto Paris ask ing if they were right in considering instructions from the peace confer ence as military orders Diamandy the message adds said he was authorized to carry on negotiations with" the inter all icd commission but would not obey Jts orders 'v The orders which if Diamandy re fused to accent it is learned were based on 'instructions from the peace conference to the inter allied mission ordering it to carry out the disarma ment of the Hungarians in accord ance with the terms of the armistice of November 1918 BRITISH TRADE BODY? iTO IX OOD PRICES 1 Wholesale L' and Affected? 1 ilLONDON 'Aug The'house of commons this evening after heated debate adopted an amendment to the profiteering bill empowering the board of trade after an investiga tion to fix and retail prices vote was 132 to 95 Oscge Robber Must Re ifllTT a PAnUfini why A VIMM VVAAVAvlX )f Before turning over the executive office to Lieutenant Governor Ed Trapp and leaving fop the conference of governors at Salt Lake City last nightGoverror Robertson revoked one parole 4 and issued paroles? to seven convicts James Par" er of Osage county was sent up for fifteen years for robbery He was paroled in January 1918 and on account ol conduct which in cluded lewdness and drunkenness his parole was revoked Burglar in Liat 1 The paroles granted were i ts fol lows Elmer Howeth 23' years old sent ro tne penitentiary trom btephens county two year term for burglary 1 i red Hanes 49 years of manslaughter in Atoka county and sentenced to ten year term in '915John Brady of Okmulgee county convicted of stealing a pair of tugs off of a set of harness and sentenced to serve a He had served three months Oklahoma County Man Released Robert Parks convicted in Okla homa county of impersonating an of ficer wag sentenced ninety days in jail and to pay a fine of $502 He had served 105 days and was penniless Cecil Roper sent up from Craig county on a burglary charge May 15 1919 to serve five years Will George convicted on a man slaughter charge in Comanche coun ty in 1916 and sentenced to twelve years Claud lonrney of Tulsa convicted of assault "with ijitent to kill in 1916 and sentenced to a ten year term 1 Parents Alienate His Love Woman Says in Suit annie McNall filed petition for divorce from McNall in district court yesterday charging him with abandonment At the same time a petition was filed by Mrs McNall against Aubrey PearsoA and Mrs Mary Pearson charging them with alienation of affections and askinf $10000 damages Mrs' McNall alleges in" the fatter petition that June 23 her husband who is 40 years old was seen in Mrs Pearson's home and that on May 24 the two were alone in the Security building On' August 5 she alleges McNall took Mrs Pearson to the city auditorium to dance and that they had been there on various other oc casions 4She claims that her husband now says that hates and that in July abandoned her and their minor child' In the divorce petition sheaska for equity' their home $50 a month alimony $25 fees and $10 court costs' The McNalls were mar ried March 23 1897 at Eureka Kan RAIL WORKERS GET RAISEf Rapid Traaait Company of New York lacreaMt ol Employed I NEW YORK 'Aug 13 The terborough Rapid Transit company which operates th subway and ele vated lines in the borough of Mah hattaik hat been granted a general wage increase (pf ten percent to its employes 'it was" announced today The advance in pay was given at the request of the Brotherhood of Inter borough Employes and is expected01 Wrttair any 'possibility of a strike similar to that which paralyzed the transportation in Brooklyn last 0 SJOBACK fRULINGSMADE ON AIR PRICES TWO OTHERS HURTfX DOCTOR 13 STONE Governor on Way to Officials Are ny The AMoelated Preu) SPRINGIELD Ill Aug uAl Gov rank Lowden tonight dered the Tenth Illinoia infantry Peoria for riot duty The Second regiment aevtun a battalion Illinoia reserve militia stationed here has been ordered to the scene of the riots if m'V announced late tonight PEORIA 111 Aug i3z executives of the Keystone Steel and Wire company were shot hs face with a shotgun tonight as they left the grounds in' com? pany with Representaive Charles sW Laporte assistant to the pres ident of the company Armed strikers are firing at lr regular intervals State1 troopap been asked for according t'i' information here The injured are said to be in a critical e2 dition Governor Lowden la ex 'pjpccted to arrjvp PEORIA HL Aug 13 Two mem' bers of the 4 eys tone Wire and Steel' company Reuben Sommers 19 yeavt old son of Sommers assistant chemist ofithenlant and Alvin Swn men assistant general zuperinteidenfis were shot as they were leaving1 the plant lafe flu's in an Albert Packs His Grip i i' BRUSSELS Belgium Aug 13 Albert king of the and Queen Elirabeth are busy in their plans for their forthcoming visit to America They go about the' task much in the manner of a couple of newly weds planning their honeymoon Albert was born on April 8 1875 1 ianti id thrtkfnrs AA il at VIU HU 44 IHC SUH ux uit late I rince Philip of Saxe Coburg and Gotha and the late Princess Mane of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen 'He stiqpeeded his unde the late Leopold II' asking being crowned on April 17 1909 He was thefl 34 years old Queen Elizabeth' wife of King Albert "was a Bavarian princess They were married ou October 2 1900 Three children were born to Prince Leopold who is 18 years oldjPrince Charles 16 andPrincess Marie Jose 13 years old The king 'visited the United States when young' nd uorked as a journalist for a newspaper in San I rarciscu tllc war with Germany he and QueenUzaeth distinguished themselves by their braveryt took RriKKl Linn io lane up tus resi dence at Havre cut replied that his place was with his men and lived instead at La I anne on the last strip of Belgium soil left free from the German insiders 1 rical survtf is in students teachers jy fKik' and 4roo baa occasion to nocraohicai in AnX Will Milt fm to may readerf The DaUk Oklahoman who a letter co? tailing a 2 cent kiamp for return postage to the OELAIOMO WrOBlU WMuur' KAUIir? Bids on straggling acreages of oil lands in Pawnee Caddo Payne Pot tawatomie and Lincoln counties wercopened by the school land com missioners and the following awards announced yesterday: Bona Producing Co tract 1 $553 91 tract 2 $55437 tract 7 $20160 Akin Oil Co tract 3' $148930 tract 4 Young $455 tract 8 $176 tract 34 $205 tract 46 $205 Paul Gilbert tract 9 $17760 tract 10 $2510 tract 11 $4040 tract 13 $240 Shaffer Oil and Refining Co tract 14 $556 69 tract 16 $49950 Tom Coats tract 15 $127625: tract 17 $90750 Savoy Oil and Gas Co tract $160 tract 19 $160 tract 20 $160 tract 43 $320 tn oil tract 44 $320 in oil tract 45 $320 in oil tract 51 $20596 tract 52 $400 in oil James A Harris tract 53" $315 tract 54 $21350 tract 55 $65150 tract '56 $21950 tract 57 $30150 A protest was by the Orion Mountain Oil Company' which had made a higher bid on die abard of tract 51 to the Savoy company The commissioners gave the rights to the Savoy in this instance be cause the company agreed to drill a well on the property within nine ty days President Tinoco Quits Porio Rico WASHINGTON Aug Presi dent Tinoco has left Costa Rica This report reached? the state department today but details have not yet been received y' vv MORk STRIKERS WORK AGAIN t' Sihutioa ClirifUd wttM Exception! Of BOHM AM CBtCAgO CHICAGO Aug? 11 Riihrt: ficiili reported today contmuei provement in the railway i strike situation in practtci section of the country wii fentfon of Roitrwt and where a large majority of jSt ref use to return to work SNOTS IRED BY STRIKERS ST WIRE Mill 'v' a Two Sons of Officials of Peoria irm Are Shot? Down? BOWOTOERPEOPLE Ta the title of a booklet issued by the treasury department anf 5 lent to every person in Okla vjhomaCity who wishes to spend 2 cent stamp to get thia pub 's and the only accurate 'up to date map of Europe ever 'J Thia map prepared by expert 7 'cartographers ot the United state vkll bun and 27500 pounda of sugat seized here today in a raid on'ivhole sale 'food warehouse and coRL atari? age plant by federal CHICAGO Aug Jt''waa? learned today that' tie Gattod" State district has under coniidaraUoa to seize all th footaatft rtwM in th city which undr the fed era! food control act mky WtMA zified a aad after it for aal to cookumera Th IMt'3? State bar of market ha rwCS ported that tber are thotatadd ZQ of tom of better egga fih pe? try aad meat ia Chicago tabtj atorage warthou which wa'114 'com udt thia i'1 'WASHINGTON' 'Aug meet reduction recently made plus foodstuff vu mat tao" today by the war department si oeei wa reouceo from refused to confirm the appointment of jNkbstedLa water superintend ent made by Patterson? The mayor said yeaterday Patterson 'should have presented other name following the voting down of tbe Nab tedt appoint ment Patteraon 'said he ha been searching high and low for a technical engineer of the right caliber but haiO far been unable to find any one Ingallr and 'th underwriter repre sentative aid man from thia citv atouM be appointed if powblt JajUJWMIKW WWoiLjtf Kesler Mid he jvoted with th mayor becaiue he believed Natatedt wa not th man for the place Qllie Wilwn the other member of the "triumvirate" did not have anything hM O1C I vb It Intimated aftim city hMaow i WASHINGTON Aug Th department of commerce asked for410000 to need fa an endeavor to gather full weight and meaatn on all foodstuff ic coal and other commodities and In stand i'ardizlag staple grade of eommod idea by eliminating the lea ue ful one thus eUmlnnting waete The department of labor asked for 1475000 fort he emptoymesrt of nineteen' experts 0 apecfal agents and a aumborof cterbs? jAOCSoHlLLTXAug 1 Mor than a million tgfii hundred (By The Associated Press 'Washington Aug impor tant new developments in tbe govern fight to reduce the high cost of living came today 4 One of the 'most' interesting was th announcement by i Attorney Gen eral Palmer that the federal convic tion for profiteering had been ob tained District Attorney Lucey tele graphed that a retail grocer had been fined $500 for selling sugar at 15 cents a pound No detail were given and the law under which the case was brought wa not known here few good case of profiteering in' each state will settle that Mr Palmer remarked In order to book persons gqilty of raising prices exorbitantly or hoarding stood io advance price Mr Palmer submitted to the agriculture committee of congressathe draft of an amendment to the food control act extending itsprovisions4o clothing andcontainers of food and feeds and providing a penalty of $5000 fine or two year imprisonment or both for violation of the Jaw Chairman Haugen of the house agriculture com mittee announced that the amendment would be considered immediately by 7 (Continued on Pje Column 1) BIDS ONOIL LANDS OPENED BY STATE School Land Commission ers Announce Awards til 'z T' PRICE! a Copy VW? 8 i Entered at thebklaboma Oklahoma postotf Ice a second elaa man ndr thoActof March is: Thfkday partly cloud 77 77 777 7 1 1 (S Maximum yesterday fa minimum? SIXTEEN OKLAHOMA CITY THURSD AY A T'CTiqT 1 3 1010 4 Heflin Says Huns 'Try to Beat Pact thi?" ito blow araH 7 5 z'" Ml 5' frl'bkfT a £4 I KxU f'js 7T 1' i I 1J I I 4 need Mtmie ig.