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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-08-22

The Chinese break saucer In
court as part Of their oath symbolism.
The meaning is hat II they do no,
tell the truth their souls will be
cracked like the saucer.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
DAYLIGHT SAVING
PLAN ENDS OCT. 26

Plans for the resumption Of business
generally under tho old or sun time
schedule are being made in Memphis
az only four weeks remain before the
clocks will be turned back one hour
and the. daylight saving plan viii have
passed into oblivion.
Railroad schedules and all other
schedules that are affected by the re-
turn to the old time have been mapped
out and on Oct. 26 tho date when the
nation will revert 10 the old time, very
little difference will be noticeable with
the exception that business on the 9th
OF October will begin Just one hour
later than at present by the sun, all
though the clocks will note the same
hour.
All that Is necessary to get back TO
normal Is to turn back the family clock
one hour upon retiring and forget It.,
with that act those persons opposed to
the daylight saving plan hope that II
win Danish forever.
On Aug. 20 congress passed tho bill
repeating the law that made tho day i.
light saving plan effective. 1t was
passed after President Wilson had We
toed the agricultural bill with a section
repeating the law.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
SEPTEMBER BREAKS
ALL FREIGHT RECORDS

September reports will show the heav-
lest movement OF freight to and from
Memphis ever handled for that month,
local railway officials believe,
The receipt OF logs from points on the
Mariana cutoff via the Missouri Pa
cifio railroad will be from 40 to so pcr
bent greater than last year, Last Sep
tember the Missouri Pacific handled 705
carloads Of logs. With two more days
yet TO go this road has already record
OF 9S3 cars for this month with every
assurance that the total for the month
will exceed 1900 cars.
Some OF the local sawmills are work
ing crews night and day unloading logs,
so that the cars may be released as
soon as possible, The movement OF
hardwood from Arkansas points to
Memphis lumber yards is also very
heavy this month.
Merchandise shipments west out of
Memphis will be over 100000 pounds
greater than last September for the
Missouri Pacific alone, and other lines
report equally great increases These
shipments are destined TO points In Ar
kancas, Texas, Oklahoma and as far
west as California.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
OMAHA MAYOR, VICFE' OF MOB, EXPECTED TO LIVE
SaiSs - % England
y lied OWing
\ RGiItUay Strike

WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.-All sallings
to ports in Great Britain have been can
eeled by the shipping board because Of
the strike Of railway workers there.
The following instructions have been
sent by the division Of operations to
officers at all ports;
To avoid congestion and bunRering
difficulties as a result Of the impend-
ing British railway strike and in line
with action likely to be taken by Brit
ish owners, all sailings of shipping
board vessels for United Kingdom ports
hereby are suspended and vessels or
dered held In port. Discontinue at once
further bookings. loadings, and clear
ances for United Kingdom ports"
W. F. Taylor. assistant director of
the division of operations said ships
held In port under the order would be
sllocated to other trade as rapidly as
loaded Will be dispatched as soon as
they are ready to countries other than
England.
AS Great Britain supplies most of
the world supply of bunker coal, the
closing OF British ports to shipping
board vessels renders the bunker prob .
lem a serious one. The shipping board,
however, is making arrangements with
other countries and also with private
concerns to obtain coal,
Officials of the board said tho situa =
tlon In the United Kingdom ports had
been reported as bad for some time.
At Liverpool particularly the ware
houses and portNfacilities are badly con-
gested, while throughout the isles there
has been shortage Of railway cars
and equipment. Difficulties also have
been increased on account Of the labor
problem.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
HEARINGS ON POSTAL
SALARIES POSTPONED

Official notification Of the indefinite
postponement of hearings by the joint
congressional postal salaries committee
was received Monday morning at the
Memphis postoffice.
In letter to G. w Metcalf, Jr post
master, Cecil A. Beasley, secretary OF
the committee, stated that owing to the
peace treaty ratification fight now on
in the senate, II would be impossible for
any OF the senators who are members
of the postal salaries committee to be
present at the hearings and as a con-
sequence the hearings for Memphis At
lanta and Kansas City would be post
poned until after the peace treaty has
been disposed Of.
Mr.. Metcalf was requested TO notify
postal employees throughout this terri
tory OF the postponement and to give
the matter as much publicity as pos
sible In order that delegates would not
make the trip to Memphis unnecessarily.
Mr. Metcalf stated that although none
of the delegates had arrived as yet he
felt sure that some of them in the more
remote offices had not been advised OF
the postponement OF the hearings and
would come TO Memphis. The letter re-
ceived from Mr.. Beasley Indicated that
expenses OF the delegates who came to
Memphis under the impression that
hearings we're to be held would be paid
by the government.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
Jury IN CASE Of
PATTON-ROGERS
NEARS COMPLETION
Nearly 100 of Special Venire
Qualify in Second Criminal
Court--Trial Of Lorenzo
Younq Postponed.

The Jury in the case against Walter
Patton, alias Paddy Mack" and
SLEEPY John Rogers, charged with at
tempting 70 assault 14-year. old Hazel
Bray on Aag, 3, probably win be COM
pleted Monday
w b. Quenichet, OF Neshoba, the first
yenireman. examined, qualified, but just
backed up on his previous statement
and said that he knew Sleepy John
Rogers and was afraid he would be
prejudlcod In his consideration Of the
case. N..
The only Juror added to the jury be-
fore the noon adjournment was M. N.
Hardin, il05 College street, n telegraph
operator at the Phoenix Cotton OIL
company,
Following the examination OF MIR.
Quenichet nine talesmen In Ia row stated
that they had opinions which evidence
would not overcome and they were ex-
cused by Judge Harsh,
Nearly 100 OF the special list OF 900
qualified as venlremen In the prelimi-
nary examination held by Judge Harsh
before the regular examination was be-
gun Monday. Judge Harsh addressed
these venlremen, warning them not TO
discuss the case with each other or with
anyone en- penalty of being severely
punished
Among the men who were disquali-
fled were II. +, Kelsey, W, r. Hooker,
e. Dinkelspiel, w, III. McCalla and w.
c. Duttlinger
The trial Of Lorenzo Young, negro,
charged with the murder OF Sergt.
Brnkley, which was set for Monday In
the second division Of the criminal
court was postponed. A date for this
trial will be fixed later.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
WOMEN ADVISORS
FOR ELECTION TO
ACT IN THE CITY
R. S. Bryan, Chairman, Calls
Meeting Friday Morning for
Election Of Women Men,
bers From Each City Ward.

Memphis women are to have places
as advisory members OF the Shelby
county executive committee, They will
be elected at special meeting which
has been called for Friday morning at
the courthouse,
Several members OF the committee
requested that this action he taken in
line with the action Of the national
Democratic committee, which has ap-
pointed an advisory board of women,
one from each state.
Il. $, Bryan, chairman, Monday d.
reoted NJ S. Lehman the secretary, to
call u meeting for Friday morning,
For tho present, Mr., Bryan said, he
will recommend that only women from
the city wards be named. but later
probably one woman from each civil
district viii he named on the advisory
board as the women In Tennessee can
vote for presidential electors next year,
Who the ladies' will be has not yet
been decided, and probably the selec-
tions in each OF the 81 wards will he
recommended by the committeeman
from tho wards.
The addition of women to the COM
mttee win show that the party gov
erning authority in Shelby county Is In
line with tho suffrage movement.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
WILSON SPENDS
/. RESTLESS NIGHT
Physician Says President Is
Asleep During Morning
Hours, However.

WASHINGTON, Sept. President
Wilson spent a restless night last
night, but was sleeping this morning,
Rear Admiral Grayson, his personal
physician, announced today.
The president will not recelve KfAs
Albert and puean Elizabeth. OF Bel.
giunt. at the White House until they
return from a tour OF the United
States, II was learned definitely today
ut the White House.
Secretary Tumulty said the president
would remain in seclusion AZ the White
House for the present, The industrial
conference called for Oct 9, win be
held despite tho presidents illness, but
whether the president will attend will
depend on the progress he makes to-
ward recovery. The presidents con-
dltion now. Secretary Tumuty said,
would not justify his attendance.
The president will not he able to re-
ceive Immediately Vlscount Grey, the
British ambassador, who arrived here
Saturday, but when his health permits
him to 800 visitors. Visccunt Grey prob
ably will bo among the first to be
received.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
ROTARIANS WILL HEAR
HON. WILLIAM C. Fits

Memphis Rotarians are planning a
big welcome for William C. Fits, mem
Der of the New York bar, who will be
their guest at luncheon Tuesday at the
Chisca. Mr.. Fits win reach Memphis
Tuesday morning, coming here to de-
liver an address before the Tennessee
Bar association In convention Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Mr.. Fits is one Of the most promi-
nent attorneys in the East A native
of Alabama, he practiced law in Mobile
and Birmingham for many years, and
In 1914. was made a special assistant
to the attorney general of the United
States. On April, 1917, he was named
as an assistant attorney general and
held that position until recently when
he resigned to practice law in New
York city.
Mr., Fits is one Of the best known
lawyers in the state Of Alabama and
served that state as attorney general
for two terms. His address before the
convention of the Tennessee State Bar
association is the feature of Tuesdays
program.
His address to the members of the
Rotary club at their weekly luncheon
Tuesday is being looked forward to
with a. great deal of interest by the
club members and an unusually large
attendance is expected at this meeting
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
BOTH SIDES MAKE EFFORT
TO SECURE ADVANTAGE

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29--The open
ing of the second week of the steel
workers strike in the Pittsburgh dis
trict was marked today by efforts OF
employers to operate plants full handed
and an intensive campaign by a large
force of union organizers to extend the
7walkout to include those men who have
remained at work.
While early reports did not indicate
to what degree of success either side
met, it Is known many workers voted
. last week toA return to the mills today
and resume their duties and the en-
ployers viewed the situation with op-,
tmiSm
From strike headquarters came the
statement that with the additional or
sanizers brought into the field during
the past few days there would be very
few desertions and large number of
additions to the strikers ranks
One man was shot and slightly wound
ed and three others arrested when a
crowd of young men are alleged to have
attacked deputy sheriff in the Law
renceville mill district yesterday after
room. None of the men concerned in
the affair we're strikers, the police say.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
BRITISH R. R. STRIKE
SITUATION IMPROVED

LONDON, Sept. 2s,--Improvement In
the. situation created by the general
strike on the British railways was an
nounced In official quarters this morn
ing. The distribution of food was be-
ing carried out without friction and
volunteer help was being freely offer
ed, II was stated.
The official communique from Down
ing street reads:
"The general strike situation Is i'm
proving. The government measures are
working satisfactorily. Food distribu-
tion Is proceeding smoothly and offers
OF voluntary assistance are stlll pour
ing in"
Premier Lloyd George, Sir Auckland
Geddes, the minister Of national serv-
ice and reconstruction, and Sir Robert
Stevenson Horne, the minister of labor,
were in conference throughout the fore
noon today, whiie the strike committees
also were in constant session.
James Henry Thomas, secretary Of
the National Union Of Railwaymen, de-
clared Mt noon there were no new fea-
lures in the situation.
One hundred thousand miners are
idle in the South Wales coal fields as
a result Of the railroad strike. Many
collierles are closed down and the
Swansea harbor trade is at u stand
sui. ~ ~ 81 2 y
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
EMERGENCY MEN
TOBE CALLED IN
M'NAMARA CASE.
Three Thousand Names Have
Been Drawn From Jury Box
Mainly for Two Cases and
Box Is Empty.

The emergency clause in the statute
when sprescribes how veniramen may be
selected probably will be invoked by
JudBe ~, I'd, Richards, Of the First di-
vision, criminal court before he obtains
jury TO try Allen ]. Mcnamara on a
criminal assault charge
And the emergency clause provides
that the sheriff and his deputies may
go onto the highways and byways Of the
city and county, and summon each and
every man they meet for jury service.
This Is not n possibility II is more
IN the nature OF a probability For the
last. name was drawn from the jury box
Friday in the Second division OF the
criminal court when 20 minutes after
Judge Richards ordered a third special
venire OF 500 men, Judge Tom Harsh
put In bid with the jury commission
ers for 800 for tho Bray case in his
court There were left at that time
only 1bO names, and that was the ex-
tent OF Judge Harsh's special venire
a. q, Booth secretary of the shelby
county Jury commission, was preparing
Monday. morning to add more names TO
tho jury box, But Judge Richards in
dicated at noon that should the some-
thing over one hundred men who re-
ported aH yeniremen Monday be eX-
hausted he would resort to the crner-
gency clause and pick 'cm up on the
street
The exact number of men who re-
ported Monday morning was not ascer-
tained, because the press of work in
the sheriff's office, owing to the serv-
ing of jury notices, precluded the pos
sibility of noting opposite each name
whether or not the various ones had
been served. This work was not COM
pleted at noen, although examination
Of venirenlen was started at 1880
o'clock, N@
Three thousand names have been
drawn from the jury box this term Of
court. This Includes the special venires
and the regular panel The demand for
veniremen Is unprecedented, according
to MIR, Booth y
or the number who reported for duty
as venirenen Monday morning, 20 were
disqualified before they got to the ex-
animation stage. Eleven of them were
over 65 years Of age--the exemption
mark for jury service Fifteen were
not houAeholders or freeholders. One
was, a physician, DIR. ]. G. Parr. An-
other WAS not Tennessee citizen.
Those venlrernen who were examined
and who disqualified UP 70 noon were;
Marcus samfield, J, y. Hearn, q: w.
Vasssr GeeFRf II Hardwtck, u, n. Pat
yiqk. yernIe and, Z "A, HaYks, Lon
Rushing, q. II, pudneH y. W. MONT
gonnery and Gus Vogel. all for previous-
ly formed opinions regarding the case,
and the following who were opposed to
the death penalty: James l.. Moody, j.
Fortas, II, Ia Moore and l.. M, Borg.
Court adjourned for lunch while Lon
Dulaney was' being examined.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
ARKANSAS HIGH COURT
HANDS DOWN OPINIONS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Sept. 20. (Spl.)
The following opinions were delivered
In the supreme court this morning:
McCulloch. G. j.:
Oliver Rider VS.. State, from Inde-
pendence circuit; affirmed
Hobart Snow VS.. State, from Johnson
circuit; affirmed.
J, f, Lewis, VS., Road Improvement
District No. / of Polk county, from Polk
circuit; affirmed.
Wood, j.:
Jack Camp. Leonard Howell and will
lard Wood VS.. State, from Monroe cir
cult; affirmed.
Dosh Jones VS.. State. from Lee cir
cult: affirmed.
Hart, J..
jeff D. Hines VS.. State, from Miller
circuit; affirmed.
Arnold Wyie and Thos. Hamilton VS..
State, from Monroe circuit; affirmed.
Mary e. Dickinson VS.. A. J. Mcneil,
from st. Francis chancery; affirmed.
Smith, j.;
w. H. Hicks VS.. State. from Sebastian
circuit: affirmed.
Humphreys, j.:
John George Chronister vs.. State,
from johnson circuit, reversed and re-
manded with directions.
W. II. Hicks VS.. State, from Sebastian
circuit affirmed.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
HOUSES ARE CLOSED
HOW ABOUT WOMEN
Police Crusade to Enforce
Plain Law Raises Old I'm
solved Problem.

The police department will exert every
effort to rid the city of houses of iii
repute, but conditions almost as odious
VIII arise, J. B. Burney chief of police,
said Monday morning. The police began
last week to clean the city Of disorderly
houses, and in two days made upward
of 100 arrests.
Chief Burney said it was violation
OF the law to permit such houses to
exist and that as police executive he
would wage an unending campaign
against themI
'{'Some provision, however, should be
made to take care of women in these
houses" he said. ut is within our
power to arrest and fine them, but we
cannot make them leave the city. We
can clean up the houses and place them
on a legitimate basis, but that will not
solve the problem of disposing of the
women habitues.
Already 1 have received complaints
that these women are moving to resi-
dental districts. AS long as they de-
port themselves as they should we can
do nothing. 1t must be shown that they
are engaged in immoral pursuits before
we can take action. The majority OF
this class of women are uneducated
and. In addition to the handicap of their
past life, arc fitted for but few lines
of work"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29

Latest reports of the rioting esti-
mated the number of injured all tho
way from ~ to 60. Only two persons
We're killed, however. These were
from the county jail and lynched, and a,
white man believed to be Clarence
Clancy, aged %. of Omaha.
After a night OF mob rule during
which a negro was lynched. an attempt
made TO hang the mayor Of Omaha, the
Omaha was quiet today under patrol OF
federal troops from Fort Cook and Fort
Omaha
The mayor Is at hospital as q re-
suit OF the attempt made by the mob to
hang him To n trolley pole because he
advised against the lynchlng OF William
Brown, a negro, who was In the county
jail charged with attacking a white girl
on tho outskirts of the city early last
week
Early this morning report from
police headquarters stated tho mayor
wasI dead, but 1t proved erroneous
Mayor Smith was seized by tho mob
on Seventeenth street, near the court
house about 10 o'clock, and was threat
ened with lynching. He was hustled
TO Harvey street and stopped at the
foot OF trolley pole on the cross arm
of which was Il coll OF rope
Give us the key to the jail" III we
can't get the negro, well lynch you" "
Hes no better than the nIgger" He's
negro lover" were shouts heard
among tho mob.
Get that rope." someone shouted
II was pulled down by loose end, but
was not long enough TO reach. A man
climbed the pole and With u knife cut
the rope. II was brought down and
placed around the neck Of the mayor,
Throw II up oyar. the pole and string
| the mayor up" yelled dozen voices.
| The mayor waa the center OF n crush
80 great that II almost overturned an
automobile standing near.
The ropa was placed around the may
or'a neck Appalled, atA the possibility
Of numbering the clty's chief executive.
protests began to be heard. We wont
stand for hanging the mayor" that
won't get us tho nlgger" ''let II .goi"
tell i'm TO get out OF here" Then
two officers cut the rope, carried the
mayor to an automobile and rushed
him 10 n hospital.
The mayors law firm Is at present
Continued on Page H. Column b)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
ANGRY MEN HANG !.
NEGRO, SET FIRE
TO COURTHOUSE
Another Man Shot and Killed During Riot
and Many InjMed-Federdl Troops
PatrOLLing City'S Streets.

OMAHA. Neb, Sept. 2o.-The condition of Mayor E. P.
Smith, whom members Of the mob attempted hang when he
refused last night to deliver to them William Brown negro
who accused of Nassautng white girl reported by
his physicians be slightly improved today The mayor who
suffered from and fractured bone recovered consciousness
at noon. He will probably recover it said
This morning after the soldiers had begun restoring order
in the city, many police officers stripped themselves of their
insignia authority and resigned forthwith Most Of the police
who quit who had the service during
the present administration.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
BETHLEHEM PLANT SHOWS
Z LITTLE STRIKE EFFECTS

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Sept. 29.-The
bethlehem plant Of the Bethlehem Steel
corporation was very little affected this
morning by the strike which had been
called from Pittsburgh and there was
no semblance Of disorder at the en-
frances to the various plants when the
shifts changed at 6 a. m. and again at
1880 O'Clock. t
Virtually the same number Of em-
ployes appeared in the various depart
ments as worked last week, save that
number Of machinists left With their
tools The INTER- MNSe said by, the
company officials to be mostly OF the
floating order who had been employed
during the war. IT could not be learned
how many men came out at the 1880
shift The test is expected to come this
afternoon and this evening with the
change of shifts.
The police took into custody William
u. Bohning, secretary of local union,
for prevailing upon employees of the steel
company not to go to work.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29

reported conditions in the other
great steel centers indicated the bal
ance was being held fairly equitably
between the two sides. There was
nothing to- support the prediction Of
the steel company officials that the
Day would see Wholesale desertions in
the ranks of the strikers, and on the
other hand, there was a definite in
crease In mill operation
At Farrell, in the Pittsburgh dis
trict, one OF the most hotly contested
sectors on the striking front, the Carr
negie Steel company, resumed opera
tion of two blast furnaces. At Youngs-
town, where the strikers have so far
been successful in completely stopping
operations, groups Of workers entered
Carnegie company plant. but the SUI
perintendent stated operation would
not be resumed for the present.
To offset these relatively minor gains.
the strikers at Cleveland were sue
cessful in tying up the docks of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, and
the Otis Steel company through
sympathetic walkout of ore and coal
handlers, AS usual at headquarters OF
both sides the utmost confidence in
the final issue of the struggle was ex-
pressed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-29
VETERANS OF TH|RT|ETH
OPEN FIRST BIC REUNION

GgEENv1LLE, s. c., Sept. 29.--Com-
memoratig the first anniversary OF
the beginning of the drive against
the famous Hindenburg. line, the
both (old Hickory division Of the Unit
ed States army, which, brigaded with
the 9th New York; division, was the
first to pierce the vaunted German bull
wark, began a .two-day annual reunion
here today with many OF the divisions
veterans present.
The men are from practically all parts
OF the country, but the majority are
from Tennessee, North and South Caro-
lima, while New York, Alabama and
Kentucky are well represented, as al
most 10000 men from those states were
members Of the division. 1t Is practi-
cally the first reunion Of world war vet
Grams Of any extent, and promises 10
be an annual event through years 10
come,
The city is Eaily decorated for the
occasion, and provision has been made
for every member of the division. Peo-