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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18
Frank D. Adams of McGn University

Frank d. Adams of McGill University,
Toronto.
Discussing the value of railroads
of Baron De Geer's past Investigations
Axel Granholm, president of the Swed-
ish Railways said that 1.-THE investi-
cation of stratified clays is most i'm.
portant if railways would know whe'
their dangers and difficulties of many
kinds are to be avoided" American
railroads which it is understood will
profit most from such Investigations
here are the New York Central and
the Northern Pacific.
The De Geer expedition Is being
conducted under the auspices Of the
American Scandinavian Foundation,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18
ARDMORE BOY LIKES ARMY
LIFE Ar CAMP PIKE. ARK.

That the new army appeals TO
young men is evident according to
letter received at the local army re-
cruiting station from James A. Friz-
zell of this city who enlisted in the
medical department few weeks ago.
The letter follows.
Camp Pike, Ark.
Aug. 4,l920.
Sergeant Leslie Stafford,
Army Recruiting officer,
Ardmore, Okla,
Dear Sir:
Just a few lines to let you know
where / am. l suppose you have
forgotten me, but If you will look
over your records you will find
that l applied for enlistment June
10, but was rejected on account OF
being six poundc underweight.
| left Ardmore and while away gain
ed the necessary six pounds and
was accepted for enlistment at
| another recruiting station / en-
listed in the medical department
and am now stationed at Camp
Pike, Ark.
I think the army life Is far
ahead of civilian life, and any
young man without a trade should
enlist in the military service where
he can learn almost any trade
thought of. i am in a pharmacy
school and am learning something
that will benefit me in the future.
l thank you for the Kindness
and assistance you gave me While
at your station and assure you
that your description of the army
and the benefits offered therein
were correct in every respect.
Wishing you much success,
remain
Very respectfully,
Sgt. james A. F'rizzell.
The local recruiting station has ac
cepted "a men so far this month.
appears that the slogan adopted b,
the Ardmore recruiters of 80 me-
for August" will be realized.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18
TESTIMONY TAKEN IN TILL
TRIAL OF P0TEAU MAN
CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER

Poteau. Okla, Aug. S-Introduction
of evidence by the state in the trial
Of Ed Warning, charged with MURDER
in connection with the death of his
wife from the affects of poison, was
to be col unued when district court
resumed consideration of the case to-
day. The jury. was impanelled and
sworn in late yesterday.
The state had just begun introduc-
ton of evidence yesFerdly when ccurl
was adjourned until today bW Judge
f. S. Lester, before whom the case is
| being tried.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18

was leaving on five days furlough
to Paris and from there would attend
the Olympic games at Antwerp. Bel
GUM. The latter plans were evidently
abandoned as the Pittsburg with a
destroyer according to announcement
of the navy department, will proceed
at once for Russian waters.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18

London.-Alexander NJ. Carlisle a
prominent Irishman and privy coun
clllor. barred from privileges of the
house Of lords for an alleged affront
to the house in connection with the
recent passage of the Irish coercion
bill.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18
SUGAR SPECIAL

100 LBS. GRANULATED CANE
SUGAR DELIVERED ANYWHERE
IN ARDMORE, $3.50 THIS WEEK
ONLY. WILLIAMS-POE co. 125 n.
WASHINGTON. PHONES 632-21l9.
ADV. 172
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-18

London-The house of commons vot-
ed unanimously to adjourn until Oct
ober 19, but empowered the speaker
TO summon parliament earlier if the
occasion required.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
z ARE INDICTED FOR
REFUSAL TO TESTIFY
Extraordinary Grand Jury
Acts Quickly in Cases of
Philbrick and Penny.
BACKER DEFENDS SELF
Says He Paid Bribe to Matt
Brindell While His Brother
Waited Near By.

Sensational developments marked the
progress yesterday of the several GRIM
nnal proceedings which have arisen from
the Lockwood legislative eommittee's S
probe OF conspiracy and corruption in
connection with the building trades situ-
alton here.
The new Extraordinary Grand Jury
inlpanelled on Monday returned indict-
ments against John a. Philbrick and
Joseph Penny officers OF the Builders
Supply Bureau. as result of their re-
f,lsal to answer questions Put to them
before the Lockwood committee concern
ing their organization.
1t was reported that three OF the per-
sons indicted Thursday by the November
additional Grand Jury for illegalities in
connection with the building trades sltu-
alton had disappeared from the jurisdic-
tion of the court and that court officers
had been unable to serve the bench war
rants issued for their arrest
While testifying in his own defence
before Judge Otto A. Rosalsky in Gem
eral Sessions. George Backer, builder,
who is accused of perjury before the
Lockwood committee, swore that one OF
the two men to whom he paid S25,O00
ia bribe money was Matthew Brindell,
brother of Robert Z. Brindell indicted
president of the Building Trades Coun-
ell, and that on one occasion when he
paid an instalment of $4,000 to Matt
Brindell and his unknown companion he
saw the two men walk to q place two
blocks distant, where Bob" Brindell
was waiting in his automobile, and saw
them drive away with him.
The indictments presented by the Ex-
traordinary Grand Jury occasioned some
surprise because that body had scarcely
begun its investigation. Within an hour
after they were filed Philbrick, who is
a dealer in masons' materials. with q
place of business at the foot OF East
Ninety-seventh street, and Penny, who
is engaged in similar business at the
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

ton of the Evander Childs High School
building. The. delegates, he said, Were
known to him as Mccloskey, who go
$500 Skinner and O'Brien, who got S5V
each with promises of more, and a man
named Snyder. who. he said was not the
School Building superintendent. They
represented. he said, the furring ano
lathers. stone settlers derrick mems ano
ornamental iron unions.
Corners. in fact, furnished most OF the
excitement for a session so unexciting
that at it's close the only member Of the
board present in person was Henry
Bruckner, President of the Borough OF
The Bronx. who sent for the Mayor to
adjourn the meeting.
William Fl. Haywood of the Putnam
Construction Company, and formerly
with 7. A. Clarke & Co.. contractors
testified that before he submitted for
Clarke the sole bid on Public School 81
he was informed over the telephone by
Conners that there would be no other
bids submitted. He said that he had
never met Conners, but assumed that II
was the man who had preceded him on
the witness stard. The man who tele-
phoned he said, stated that he and the
other contractors were not bidding be-
cause they did not like the form of the
contract, but did not ask the Clarke con-
Germ not to bid. Haywood said that, an
ticipatng that the contract would not be
awarded on his single bid and in order
to conceal his real figures, he submitted
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
|BRINDELL ACCUSED
BY SCHOOL BUILDER
Dennis Conners Tells Board of
Estimate Labor King De-
manded Money.
PAID TO END STRIKES
Examination of Contractors
Brings Declaration of Col
lusion Of Limestone Men.

Robert p. Brindell, head Of the labor
ring which extracted large sums of
money from New York builders. tried to
compel Dennis Il. Corners, a city school
contractor, to pay sum of money to
get relief from labor troubles. accord
ling to Conners's testimony yesterday at
the Board Of Estimate inquiry into
school contracts. When he declined to
make the payment, he said, delegates of
the unions made it SO hot for him with
high talk Of the great, influence they
said they had with the Police Depart
ment and with G. b. j. SNYDER, Super
ntendent of School Buildings, that he
finally appealed to Snyder to intercede
TO Snyder because he was told by Brin-
dells secretary that Snyder knew their
organization was 100 per cent"
William B. Carswell assistant Cor
poration Counsel conducting the inquiry,
wound up his examination on that point
with the following statement to the wit
ness:
"Of course, you knew, as matter OF
fact. that Snyder had nothing to do with
that at ALL"
II was told that" Conners replied.
Conners said his trouble with the
unions started when he refused to pay
s31S or SO day for every day he had
allowed his son instead of a union man
to operate a pump on one of his building
Jobs. He said that in 1917 he paid money
TO labor delegates for the purpose of and
succeeded in ending strikes on construc
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

paid this $4,000 to these strangers az
the Chatham Hotel Henry ii. GIBSON
a real estate man of So Clark street.
Brooklyn, was having luncheon with MN
and saw him give these men the en-
elope containing the $4,000. althougif
he knew nothing of the nature OF the
transaction. j.
on July IA, Backer testified, ne paid
the second and final instaiment or slo'-
900 to the same men. "They came 10
me In the shanty at Thirtieth street ana
Seventh avenue" he testified tnat -
the work shanty by Levy's building. ]
gave them the money in there.
Fright afterward / walked over TO
Fifth avenue and Thirtieth street, where
my own building was going up. ! saw
these two men walking the same way
When l got to Fifth avenue saw Rod
ert r. Brindell waiting in his car.
These men who had taken the money got
into the car with him and drove away
Mr.. Mooney questioned Backer re-
garding the day of his alleged perjury
before the Lockwood committee, ana
brought from him the positive declara-
stion that at that time he was sun quite
ignorant of the identity of the TWO men
who had taken the bribe- money. ana
that it was quite impossible for him TO
would lead to the disclosure of their
identity. He testified that after his ex-
animation, realizing for the first time
the seriousness of the situation, he re-
solved to exert every possible effort TO
discover the identity of these two men.
Baeiser's story Corrobornted.
''rhe next Sunday" he testified, II was
walking up Fifth avenue to another one
of my buildings when I met George At
we'll. who said Take ride out to my
place in Long Island City with me-
asked why. and he said: We'll. you may
meet Brindell out there | went with
him and Sure enough Brindell was there,
and with him was a man whom ! recog7
nized right away as one of the men VINO
got that s25 600. We came back to the
city in Bob Brindell's car, and later when
/ was alone with Atwell again / asked
him: who was that fellow with Brln-
dell? He said Why, that's Bob Brin-
dell's brother Matt
This incident occurred, according to
Backer, a few days before he was IN
dicted for perjury. The general details
of the meeting and the trip to Long ISL
and City were related by Atwell. who is
well known in the housewrecking busl-
ness when he testified before the Lock
wood committee a few days later. but At
we'll apparently was not aware of the sig
nificance that the meeting had to Backer.
Mr.. Gibson, called for few minutes
as a witness verified Backer's story of
the luncheon at the Chatham and of his
having seen him give an envelope to two
strangers on that occasion. Joseph Fen
nimere and John w, Noble, superintend-
ents for Backer. testified that they re-
called visits to Backer by two strangers
who were ''well dressed" and did not ap-
pear to be workingmen."
Shown photograph Of Robert 2.
Brindell he stated that to the best OF
his recollection he was the man whom
he saw standing beside the automobile.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

foot of East Twenty-sixth street. pre-
scented themselves before Supreme Court
Justice John " MeAvoy.
They were accompanied by George W
Medahe and Martin Conboy, attorneys
who asked that they be given until Tues
day morning to plead and until Friday
TO make motions for dismissal Of the
indictments. Samuel A. Berger, Special
Deputy Attorney General. who Is pre-
senting the evidence to the Extraordi-
nary Grand Jury. did not oppose these
suggestions. Tho defendants We're re-
leas sed in 81, 900 bail each.
1t was explained that the charge
against them was based upon Section
1880 Of the Penal Law. which relates to
the refusal of witnesses to testify be-
fore regularly constituted investigating
bodies, and that the offence charged is
n misdemeanor. The indictments allege
that both men on November 80. 1920,
refused TO answer questions about the
Organization, objects. purposes and
methods. the personnel, acts, proceed
ings, books papers, correspondence,
minutes and records of the Builders
Supply Bureau.
Backer's testimony involving Brin-
dells brother Matt as handler OF
brihe money came at the conclusion of
a court day devoted by his attorney,
Edmund l.. Mooney. to efforts to show
the jury that he lid not perjure him
self wifully when he first told the
Lockwood committee that he had lost
the bribe money at the race track, and
later told the same committee that ne
had given il to two men whose names
and identity were unknown to him.
Early story Joke" Says hacker.
His explanation Of the race track
story was that it was merely Intended
as joke as he was not used to testi-
flying before important bodies and had
no idea as to the proprieties Of the situa-
ton. His later story that the money
was given to strangers. he insisted, was
true
He told of his first meeting with these
two men early this spring when all of
the work on a $2,000.000 building, which
was being erected by Ephraim B. Levy
at Seventh avenue and Thirtieth street
had been held up for weeks by strike
called by Brindell They came to him
on the job and asked If he was Backer.
Then they told him that they could get
the strike called off for 100000.
AS Backer was to receive commits
sion of S35, 900 from Levy on the conf
pletion of the building. and as he re-
garQed Levy as ms lrlenu. ne teSuHeu'
he went to him and told him about the
offer. Levy did not want to pay SO
much Backer testified that these two
strangers called several times and
finally agreed to accept $4,000. AZ
"But how am to know that you can
do this 2" he asked them before turning
over the money They then told him
that they would have the strike called
off first as evidence of their influence in
the matter. and that he could give them
the money afterward. The strike ended
just as they had promised and Backer
obtained $4,000 from Levy for the pur-
pose of paying the first instalment of
the bribe. On May II, he testified. he
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
CONVICTED OF LARCENY.

Special Despatch to THE New yoEK HERALD.
SYRACUSE, Dec. s.--After deIiberating
FIVE hours jury in County Court before
Judge J. j. Barrett returned tonight a
verdict of guilty against Robert Morris.
descendant of the financier of the Ameri-
can Revolution. and who has been on
trial here on charges of larceny In
volving the loss of $33,50e intrusted to
him for investment by aged Miss Jennie
Nixon of Syracuse.
Norris admitted receiving the money.
but said he was empowered to invest it
as he saw fit. He specuiated in oil and
olayed the market on margin, losing not
only all of Miss Nixon's money. but all
of his own.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

bid $1,000 or $4,000 higher than he
had originally intended.
Corners was recalled to the stand and
denied that he had ever heard OF Hay
wood. or that he had ever held such q
conversation as Haywood described.
Examination of all general contractors
holding school building contracts was
completed. Nearly every contractor tes-
titled he had had reason to. believe for
years that thege was collusion among
the limestone men, and one or two said
they had joined the Mason Builders AS
sociation in an effort to get rid OF labor
troubles.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04
Corn Syrup Becomes
Export Trade Factor

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.--Corn
Z" syrup, distinctively an Am
erican prodlct, bounded forward
as a sugar substitute during the
sugar famine of the last year or
two and broke all export records
last year with 255,617,700
pounds sent out. These figures,
according to the Bureau Of For
eign and Domestic Commerce,
showed an increase of SAG per
cent. in size, and 339 per cent.
in value over 1918 exports.
The output of this by-prcduct
the coming year probably VIII
exceed all previous years owing
to the record corn crop, the
statement said, and corn syrup
vail become a factor in the coun-
try's export trade.
The New York herald., 1920-12-04

George Bernard Shaw tells IN special ca
hle dirpatch 20 to-morrow's New YORK Amer
lean why he thinks Great Britain's present
Irirh Policy leads logically to war between
ENGLAND and the United States. Sec to-mor-
rows Sunday New York American.-Adv
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
IN THE NAME OF GOOD ROADS

Good roads! What crimes are not committed in thy name The patient, plodding people vote for good roads, vote bonds for good roads, hope for good roads, pray for good roads and pay for good roads, yet find ourselves year after year in about the same od place we started from. Loud and firm advocates of permanent roads run for office and are elected. The money is spent with a lavish hand to blow up, mix up, turn edgewise pile up dirt and mangle the scenery. If county would build one mile, yes, or half mile of per manent road each year, even if it cost $100,000, they would at least have that much good road, but as it is the full appropriation is spent each year on dirt and make-shifts and it all has to be done over again the next year. There is no ex- cuse for this condition of affairs. Eastern states are building macadam roads covered with oil as the next best thing to concrete roads, and they are standing up under heavy travel This coun- try has all kinds of good material for permanent roads, yet hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent getting nowhere and using the same old ruts and bumps. It is not ex- pected that permanent roads can be built in one year. but at least a portion of the present wasted money could be set aside for small piece of road that can be added to from year to year Argu- ments and pleading seem to be of no avail until one wonders why our roads are not paved with solid ivory. This same condition seems to apply to the whole state.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
WANT A CHANGE BADLY

One of the peculiar things one notices in trav- cling through the east is the complacent way peo- pie are taking their politics this year. It is sell dom you hear an argument of the old-time vari- ety with much heat injected Many old time democrats are heard to casually remark: 70, guess Cox is pretty good man or he would not have been nominated; Harding is all right, too; ; but I think change would be about the best thing for this country this time." The long rec- ord of criminal wastefulness and watchful wait ing has brought about that feeling pretty gener- ally and it is only when you happen to run across one of the favored ones who is holding fat job or who has helped himself to fat contracts while the helping was good, that you find a warm ad- vocate of the present administration. General Apathy seems to be in command of the demo- cratic army. A few leaders are waiting and hop ing against hope that the republicans will make some grevious mistake or blunder during the It is their only hope of success.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
THIRD PARTY FAILURES

The third party advocates are a most prolific bunch. It looks now as though they would make it thirty before they finally wound up. It was always thus. A bunch of disgruntled men who can't agree with anyone but themselves are not calculated to agee in getting together with other similarly inclined. The real reason for party is to consolidate the views of the many into com- posite form, not to exploit the views of one ind- vidual. The disputes, disagrements and fusses of the gathering of malcontents at Chicago is amusing. The very idea of bunch of "antis" getting together and being "for" any thing that any one else is for is absurd
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
ONE OF THE 39

Senator Harding was one of the original 39 senators, who attached their signatures to the round robin of March 4, 1919, decreeing that the league of nations in the form proposed by the president should not be adopted by the United States. He held to that declaration throughout the treaty fight, and by speech and vote assisted in the emphatic repudiation of the covenant by the senate republicans. Mr. Hardings endorse ment of the second declaration of independence, and his steadfast adherence to its principles, is sufficient announcement to the people of the brand of Americanism that will dominate our for eign relations once he has entered the white house.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
THE MAIL SERVICE

A prominent business man recently exhibited envelopes in which he had addressed mail to Port land Ore. They were finally returned to him with the notification stamped: "No such post office in state named" Portland is the fourth largest city on the coast. One of the banks of Philadelphia calls attention to the fact that the postal service between New York and Philadel- phia is so uncertain that some of the business houses send over their checks from the latter city to New York by messenger rather than take chances on the slow and cumbersome postoffice. Philadelphia and New York are ninety minutes apart and the important business mail between the two towns is probably the heaviest handled in the world. Yet the government service is so cumbersome and slow as to make it necessary for private enterprise to carry it's own mail.
 It seems to be the same all over the country. In Rockford it took four days for letter contain ing an important inclosure to the river. The republican party is committed to the duty of giv- ing service in the mails-Rockford Register-Ga- Zette
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23

It would seem that the oil business pays good at Holbrook. The Holbrook Tribune has install ed new model IA linotype which little machine constitutes almost whole print shop and costs something like $5,0O0 It is always winner when it is fed the proper kind of food.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
COX PANDERINGS

The long series of pro-German and pacfist editorials that appeared in Gov. Coxs paper, the Dayton News, following the sinking of the Lus- tania, reveals another and decidedly unlovely side of the Cox personality. For the sake of cur rying the favor of the German vote in Ohio, Cox did not hesitate to print editorial matter in his paper which was the very antithesis of red blooded Americanism.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23

If, in the course of human events, c. M Kob- erts. who is seeking the democratic nomination for governor, should be elected there is strong hint in his interview in this issue that there will be cut for new deal in the state land depart ment. With the present entanglement of the land office with Sims and Winsor, with Roberts on the outside of the deal, there are reasons to believe he will make good his promise to clean things up some.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23

Gov Cox will have considerable difficulty in squaring himself with the ex-soldier and many other pro-Americans, for his stand in approving the German submarine warfare and the sinking of the Lusitania. Probably no one doubts his Americanism, but many will disapprove of the way he showed it during the pre-war days.
The Coconino sun., 1920-07-23
Recalling that the democratic platform of

Recalling that the democratic platform of 1912 promised economy lower taxes reduction of number of officeholders and of the high cost of living, single presidential term amendment to the constitution and free tolls for American coast wise shipping through the Panama canal, and that the platform of 1916 promised principally that he would keep us out of war, the fellow who read the platform of 1920 pointing with pride to the fulfillment of democratic platform pledges is entitled to great deal of credit for keeping his face straight while he acclaimed it.