Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 1

prxujaa Duck Guide Oklahoma: Tonight fair temperature In north )o to In vonih in 12 tomorrow warmer LnulnUna Much colder freestng front to coast Arkansas: CoMw luit Tcxm: Colder frost to cuaat Kansas: Cokl tonight warmer tomorrow HOME EDITION DEMOCRAT Voluiiie No 271 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 12 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS IS STARTED ON I ---1- mm nJnjlVXrnj-LUT1rruT-r IJW NO COAL HERE AS WINTER HITS Schools Dismissed Gas Shortage Reported General Over State Prohibition Commissioner Is Appointed to Enforce Dry Laws Throughout US 17 ARE JAILED AS CITIZENS AND OFFICERS JOIN FORCES State Troops Patrolling Streets of Centralia After Armistice Day Outrage Northwest Is Aroused by Affair and Flans for Deporting Reds Are Made 10 -DEGREE DROP IS DUE TONIGHT Heavy Demand for Clothing for Poor and in Some Cases Charities Unable to Furnish All Needed Downtown District and East Side of Suffer Most Most of Wrd LOCAL TROOPS IN COAL HELD SENT HOME BY GEN BARRETT Muskogee Soldiers Probably Will Be Here Late Today Troops at McAlester to Stay a Few Days City Uncle Sam Prepared to Make Thirst Permanent by New Enforcement Machinery Nation to Be Divided into Nine Districts Also Promised Each State Washington Nov John Kramer an attorney of Mansfield Ohio had been appointed federal pro- hlbitlon commissioner in direct charge of the enforcement of war time and constitutional prohibition The commiaHtoner wiii work under the bureau of Internal revenue and will have -Charge of the firld force will be ued in cnfon-ing botb the temporary and constitutional dry laws CLOTURE MAY BE USED TO SPEED VOTE ON HUN PACT Movement to Limit Debate in Treaty Fight Started by Democratic Leaders Foes Plan Filibuster Is Charge Made on Floor Reed Making Long Speech Washington Nov A movement to limit senate debate on the peace treaty by invoking the cloture rule was inaugurated today by democratic leader A petition for cloture requiring but sixteen signatures for the submission! tug circulated by the administration leaders and soon had more than double the necoMMiry number Some republican leader aald they would support the democratic cloture proposal which hnd been circulated after consultation between 'leaders of both parties Effort to Obstruct The petition said that in the opinion of the signers there was an effort to obstruct the treaty by undue debate and asked that the cloture rule limiting each speaker's time to one hour be Invoked When the petition would be pre- Empty coal bins and a badly failing gas pressure greeted the first cold wave of the winter Wednesday morning and Muskogee faces another drop of at least 10 degrees tonight and consequent suffering From all over the city came reports of failing gas pressure Most of the ward schools were dismissed before noon because of Minora fairr felehratinn aa the gas failure and Superintendent Tighe was making a Miners Mage celebration the schools in th aftemoon to find out what conditions Word of strike 8 End Is were Central High school is equipped to burn coal and was not Received Production In-dismissed Office buildings were cold Creasing Rapidly I Wednesday morning and some of them notably the federal Okla Nov turned to coal (Special) Adjutant General Not a pound of coal was avail-Charles Barrett commanding able in any retail yard of the the Oklahoma guardsmen on city and only a limited quantity duty in the coal mining regions of wood Prospects for more today ordered the Third regi- coal were not rosy in spite of ment which is policing the Hen- the fact that the coal strike is ryetta district to break camp called off and leave for home immediately I Complaint to Go Company ti i- It wus gtated at the office of the MusKOgBG 8 tWO companies Of Muskogee tkr and Electric company fruardsmen are units of complaint had come from vor- Third regiment The headquar- ters company is stationed at 1 tH-phone mc-wage from orriclala of I the Oklahoma Saturn! Oaa rompany Ilenryetta and Company A has whlch bupi-s the i-i company a been on duty at Coalton Both Bl1 other muar compunie- in I Other dtioa of the atata staled that Cf these companies will leave for the hurtMe universal all over home at once upon General Bar- Um The OUahoin Natural la -11 'lying In" the Walter ns field at rett Order Thoy propftbly Will this kiM amt hopes to have an ad- each Muskogee this evening I UiUoral eupply from Ihere by the General Barrett announced rcony When he issued the order clear- nd It was aald that the pull on the imr the Ilenrvetta distrirt of: ln W-lm-Jay aa heavy aa uia nvnryetut uiptnck OI usually occurs on the coldest winter guardsmen that the Second regi-! days while the temperature w-nt ment which is corvintr in thndon to onlv Wwlnelay mens wmen IS scnrng vne mornln i was the first Preth ot McAlester mining regl0113 will 'Winter and a as felt more acutely tor TWENTY DEGREES BELOW IN WYO IS WEATHERREPORT Western State Is Coldest Place in Louisiana Cane Crop Is Menaced Washington Nov Lander Wyw with A temperature of 20 degrees below sero was the coldest place in the United States today accoiding to reports to the weather bureau A cold wave cover the country from tVe Rocky Mountain region eastward to i i the Mississippi valley with the line of freeing tempmture extending into! Northwest Tixas East of th Mississippi riref ever temperatures were well above the seasonal average as a rule and were Music day In Muskogee observed generally in the city yesterday in connection with the celebration of Armistice du will b( an annual think the wonderful response of all tho people shows the plan was should bu Mra Jtte'lf'N ol ii pfepg- i Adoption of cloture requires a two- ration for Music day vas chiefly re- thirds vote While all of the signers sponsible for thr city-wide observance of the cIotur how-1 generally higher than on Tuesday Cold wave warnings were ordered to dnv for Tennessee the interior of the gulf titles and tho Mississippi valley south of Minnesota It will be much colder tonight and Thursday In Ten- ap-sented aas not determined by the ad- preciated and I feel sate in pedlct-ministration leaders who saidlt was ing that Music day will be an annual In conformance with tho recent dem- feature for said Mrs ocratic conference action authorising Claude 1 Steele prominent in many Senator Hitchcock administration of the city's clubs who was lender no make such a move if it the moving splnt of the ocrapion bu ipthn thirds vote While all of the petition were demo- i ia nong and the brilliant success of th crate Senator Underwood democrat Fn' The idea of observing Arinis-AlnJhnma who circulated the t'tion av was Mrs tft onn said it was assured of considerable re-i it in big league pubMn supiort Btyr with the assistance of the Tinn s- It was explained that the cloture pro- i Ttnocmt the music houses and volun-posul If presented today could not come to a vote before Friday being 1 complimentary meg-reqnired under the rules to Ue over for w''re-tiowered upon Mrs Steele two days Charges Filibuster The cloture move followed charges that a filibuster had been organized TAHLEQUAHrO according to an announcement made today by Barnett Gold- stein acting attorney Guards Patrol Centralia Centralia Wash Nov 12 jurixiiiction over nme territorial unit National guardsmen are patroll- th count Tbidt id- ing Centralia today where yes- Lniicr the direction of the uir- terday four members of the i-ing agents will be a mobile force of 1 Amprirun IiPcrinn mpt Hpath Hill-federal agents ahich will be sent from Legion mtl Qtdin QUI one K)mt to another as conditions ingf an armistice day celebration when men said to be members of the Industrial Workers of the World fired on the paraders Seventeen alleged Industrial Workers are in jail The secretary of the Industrial Union Britt Smith was hanged by unidentified men and his body riddled with bullets last night Smiths ioA which hargL from brldg after tao nndertiJrer refused to handle It had disappeared this morning and it was said the ropo had been cut allowing the body to drop Into the river Hand hills were posted by Centralia authorities in all parts of the citv asking to report any knowledge of the shooting or of any 1 they mey have seen A drive hns been launched to clear the 1 VV W- from Centralia It said and former service men who came here during the night from neighboring towns are be used In the work Woman Among Prisoners One woman 1 among the prisoner in the jail She conducted a hotel In which the I VV hall was located According to one version she with her hushand when the paraders started to ransack the place ran out carrying email American flag and demanding prelection The men it was said took the fin from them rvntntlln ha been combatting a radical element for several ear and vcBterdayV shooting wan the climax of a series of conflicts Two rentrs ago when the first Red Cross hazuar was held there it reported before the bazaar opened that 1 VN intend to dvnamite the hel in which the at-fuir wns conducted At that lime citizens burned the fixtures in the I VV hall and drove the accretaiy from twp Recently thrt protecthe league orgnt2d fiveiv I VV was to be l8tfl it was planned and ordered to leave a a dirct answer to the declaration of war came the attack yesterday accoiding to the belief of official I Was Expelled cripple was escorted to a point just outside of Centralia two or three months for iiT-iuMng I VV literature and pushing the sale of a radical the governor said recall no serious trouble with tho COTTON BREAKS IN 1 thut reasitn Weather bureau reports Wednesday forecast a temperature of 10 to 10 degrees tonight which la at least 10 degrees colder than Wednesday morning Many Charity Calla Tbs United Charities had a heavy demand for clothing Wednesday and same Instances was unable to supply the needs of the poorer people AU kind of cotingf particuarly ilAtklrLp tinilamraur nH mi i i 1 1 clothing underwear and supplies for Plans to Make Music Day Here An Annual Event -Hi- 1 MRS CLAUDE STEELE MADE CHIEF OF CHEROKEE TRIBE Andrew Cunningham Appointed rr to Wind Up Nation's Af-- fairs Succeeds Rogers Washington Nov 12 Andrew Cunningham of Tahkquah has boon nppointed principal chief of tho nation to sign up several hundred deeds to tribnl land Sirne tho death of Chief Rogris there has been no executive head of the nation and appointment is made nocessirv hv the need for someone to conclude the unfinished business of the nation Dorn and raised near Vlnlta the new Anrtrew en a ivo i rfnin chnkoe circles fr many years An executive secretary I both to Chief Rogers and Chief I flngton Mr Cunningham spent eight eurs In Intimate touch with tiibil uffahs Kormerlv the new chief hd hern a dwtiict offHMi) at Tahliuih tirri-trml ilivs is vcus ir u'c onc-eighth blo(l t'bcnkic ind Is married rpon resigning a a executive sccro-tu to ih chuf four vtrw io Mi Cunningham wt appointed pohtmist i at Tahlequah li position a vtar hfilti! hfiltti I'm sfm months he ha hten at Hot Springs ami otlu resmt attmpt nriiu hi nrml it Since chief Rogers diet ti 1 year ago the Cherokee nitwm Ims hml no official head ntv a tw tnial matter remain to le dispose! AVsiUt 1 15 deeds nlbitfed in! mi-allotted lands tefnain to hi signed before the Cherokee nations afftira aro Wound ii Moat of the other nations have trnl million dollars worth of property stll be disposfd JACK OWENSllEItE FOR Jack Owen nf Oklahoma ClA or-m manager of the Muskogee Gas ft Llectric rompam Is in Muskogre to attend the annual meeting tonight of the executive board of the Anti-Tu-icreuilosis aooietx ot which he ih atate prestMnt Tams TUxb president of fil loonl Kocietv called tonight meeting at which reports of the work done In the last year will submitted Great progress ha been made here In th'' last vear In prnXidlng proner sGeptton f- tubreuiosix sufferers To- dv lurt pafients are being carrd for in different psits of the citv the wm-k being in charge ot Miss Oliv Salmon Salmon has two asnstanta now from that I it a Use if bmt I MEETING the sick room are badly needed Charities workers will call for any article anywhere in the city if notified by telephone Mrs Winifred Brown superintendent Toxss sroonlin to th weather of the Charities sold the Child Wei- hureau forecast There will be frost weather in the Interior and frost to the coast predicted for tonight damage to the sugar cane crop in Lower lmlsiana Is feared Tho cold wave also will be felt in the men arrested last night in a ralfl uv tk rlj-p nf rala lne VV headquarters here will lie taken 7 I there I believe the cripple returned and was escorted to the city line a second tinic and told not to return I VV wrote a lot of stuff rotes! of the nlhged deportation Th reports wero accompanied bv tffilavits will thev refemsl to the a tormj general The attorney general Mid nothing nnld be done a nothing hid come from the prneecut- iCouimued on pag eight) extending aid to those countries in Euroie ftoin whh our foreign bom populations spring Any needed reforens in Staten he asserted would carried out by those whose parents hftvn grown up Amid our Institutions and those who lutxe become in sentiment and spirit a port of our people" "It i fortunate that the Polish pop- ulntion of the States have been hut Util Influenced bv these forms ot he continued "If a polo exists who has associated himself with the orgunlrntions that devote themselves to the destruction of our institutions that is not only disloyal to the United States but he Is endeavoring to parafize the arm that In Mippoiting the lnd pendeme of hla own mother country Those who dissatisfied slwavs can choose the alternative of retiring to the cMiatry from far committee will make over any garments unfit for use in their present state and the will be g-fid aocept an thing that can be made into a serviceable article The visiting nurse was rushed with calls AVodnesday morning and needs bed olothing and gowns badly Pressure About Three Ounces Gas pressure vrh around three ounces at most of the si ittona in the city early Wedmnduy it was stated at the gus company office The normal pressure is four ounces In LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL" lUrrC' th Umiavllle Nov 12-Federal Jurtye miu much lesH tlun that particularly Wjllter Evttn ln op conrt dec)ared far to the coast tonight with freestng in the sugar and trucking region be kept bn the job for a few more days at any rate' Nioht Shift is Working Operation of the coal mine under lovenior Itobortson's orders continues bore with a night shift of convicts started at Ihe Hiawatha mine at the jjonltentJary farm i Workmen at the Hiawatha mine were bmrr for several hours yesterday cleaning up the derbrs resulting from a cave-m which occurred during the i i i strike bat In which no one was hurt Productlug has increosed In all mines boing operated hare now mors than louo tons being put yesterday No Volunteer at McCjrtain rompany of the Second Oklahoma guard raiment returned to MoAlcster this morning from where it was scut to prottt-t volunteera operating the Jordan strip mint's It developed that no force could te as-s'mMcd to vork the mines despite promise which had btn made to ieneraj Kurctt that if he would supply protoctiou inimrs would be avail-nMu Ip sufficient nuinle-rs to operate hero has be no Work at nil at Me- i i urliiin Miners at Krebs the principal mining community tiila country had and staged njKtnturu oun cele bration last night whn it was learn-d the strike vai called off Men Wild With Joy The celebration at Krebs showed how Joyfully the union miners received the word that President Lewis had agreed to call off the strike The men went into ecstocies An impromptu band was rigged np and though the music wasn't anything to boast of so far ns harmony was it gave the men a chance to show their feelings The hand hewd-cd a monster parade that wound time a ltd ogtin through the little mining city paying Hpungled Ran-iier and other patriotic music Henryctta' Okla Nov 12 (Special) Units ot the Third fikluhoma National Continued oo pag sight) Not a Pound of Shortage Worse Scarcity Even War was never like this! Murikogee awoke Wednesday morning with not a pound granulated Hugtu in a reUiil or wholesale store ind a more do sen pound of powdered lugur available ut grocery only one wholesale houwe would hold out any hpo of relief The Griffin Grocery company reported one car on the road and due to arrive any minute from Twin Kell Idaho When it get here It will hut a drop tho bucket fr ar of sugar in a little lofiM than a pound capita for the population of thia sugar-hungry oity All the down-down cafe are rcrambllmf for sinrv urd one populef frtHlfliwhtll(s(lt Mervid coff-sj Wedncsjnr It i uscie to awk any one why of the whole sit'ujrnm Vndi the caption "rtugrtr Sugar (ot the the Literary figost recently I $750 A BALE New York Nov 1J The cotton market was weik and excited fodaj with prices )reikirg it $750 hale owing to he kv huunlit mn as a result ot nerv uiisncs over the money situation end dchnes foreign exchange Liouidntion of accounts a break of alsuit a rent A pound in the market for cfVee futures nrssee find irf the east gulf states and tho Atlautic Honda states except southern Fear for 8ugar Cane New Orleans Nov 12 With freezing here today he Is of the opinion war-time prohibition is unconstitutional and indicated disposition to enjoin El wood Hamilton collector of Internal revenue for Kentucky from interfering with the sale of about lOOOOoO gallons of tax paid whiskey known as 300 PUPILS SUSPENDED Wmo Texas Nov 12 Three hundred Waco High school students and girls were suspended Indefinitely today for qutting school yesterday and staying out all duy because thev were not allowed an day" holiday BODIES RECOVERED Harrisburg Nov 12 Hodies of none of the seven members of tho Hunting party from this district who were drowned when their Kiunch was capslred in the Mlosixsippl liter below Memphis Tenn today had been recovered Searching pirties found tho boat ye'dercliy but the cabin win gone VVmr members of the party who were rescued have returned to their homca here The mayor of Harrisburg today offered a reward efic-h body recovered I PLAN CAMPAIGN Kpokand Waxh Nov Industrial Workers of the World are preparing to launch from their headquarter here a propaganda campaign throughout the northwest and perhup through the entire west ln the near future was the declaration here today of officials of the department of justice So far they said no orders to proceed ngutnst them have been received FIND SOFT-NOSED BULLETS Charleston VKJ Va Nov 12 Care-fbl examination of the Ammunition retaed with nine mllhsrv rifle at THwes by deputy sheriffs to-dav disclosed the presence of some 00 soft-nosed dum-dum bullets among the regular cartridges it was announced at Governor Cornwell's office by the Irreconclllable foes seeking to prevent final action at this' session Senator Reed democrat Missouri resumed his nttack on the treaty when the senute convened Ho proceeded i slowly making long pauses at times' to sort over the stack of papers on his desk Additional tune was taken up' by a quorum call on the motion of Senator Gora democrat Oklahoma another opponent the treaty in Us! present form It was understood that Senator Ln-follette republican Wiscomrin ex-pretd to follow Senator Heed MORRISON SAYS DID NOT INSULT UNIFORM OF US Told lUnro-nn Tip Was loia iviorsran ne was uisgrace to Employment Explanation Morrison manager of the Glob Emplovmcnt agency told his side of the story that brought charge of derogatory remark against a army uni form In ht preliminary hearing before CommisHloner Mount-ciiHtie Wednesday afternoon Morrison said George Morgan ex-Holdier who made the charge against him came into tho Globe Kmploj ment office wearing a uniform and smoking a cigarette Aim Momaon objected to the cigarette tuid asned Morgan to quit smoking in the office Morrison said Morgan refused and Momson told him according to his story that he was "a dirty and a to the Morgan had said that Morrison told him a nmn In uniform was haver thn a dog Hill ia charge of the Marine recruiting office here testified that there had been several complaints among service men of had treatment at office Mis VVrennie lirisooll who went there to get a Job saJd Morrison told her he had no use for a nmn in uu'iorm The hearing has not bren completed SENATOR MARTIN DIES IN OLD AGE Charlottesville Vu Nov Sena- tor Thomas Alaruu the deims ratic leader in the senate died here today after aa lltnesw of several month He 1 i I US Is Growing Tired of Red Agitators From Europe Says Hoover at Meeting of Poles on the side and In some sections of the iHislnees district The gas regulator station which the gus ooiiifany bos planned for the business dlwtrtot has not yet been Installed because a Imhs bee jkr yet been soured from the Katv on a tract near Chtrokce and Hroadway a here the ouniany plan to put the station As soon us It Is put in gas company officials hope the pressure in the bus-lne: district wD' be better and outlying district will be relieved of the puM of the Imsinees district on their distribution stems The city S-mrh line connevtlmr the two sides of the belt line around the citv is really of little benefit in this cold snap because tho regulator station is not yet in Sugar to Be Had Than War-Time Cafes Run Out tboritic and thereby give some idea of what happened to the sugar supply Rut out of the maze of opinion only this fact out clearly there in an aeure Nunr shortite and MuHkogve is the middle of it today Hugar prod notion of refineries in the east i said to be limited now to points east of Pitteburg and the middle went and the rest of the oountry mrtst depend for It supply on Le sug ir to dute tills supply lui not uiatermPzed In any hirge quantities it 1 said to be a little early yet for the bulk of webrn beet sugar to move in largo quantities but w'hntewOer wP! not pro nine that conditions will materially Imporve I expect we will have a shor Mil stud one wdiolr sale grocer Wednesday "Sometime have a little sugar tnd thc-n ngeln we won't All we con cV Is bur Rtiffaln Nov 12 Amcri-an people are growing impatient with foreign tiglUUors and unles the atti- tude changes the door that has always been open to Kurope may be shut Herbert Hoover declared here today in an addre at the convention of Amcii-cans of Polish ancestry "Many foolish ideas are being circulated among the foreign-born population nflrche rnitrd State Mr Hoover said iny of those foreign born are intarosting themselves in the destruction of our primary Institutions and defiance of our law The American people are -fast losing patience with this attitude It may develop out of this th "open door" toward Europe will be In a large measure doe Put worse than this there may develop out of it a prejudice against every speaker of a foreign Innguage Ip the A I r'i 1 fr nr I' Hi "'re tG o-uu.