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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
HAMON DIES;
SH0T BY G|R[
OKLAHOMA'S NATIONAL
COMMITTEEMAN VICTIM
Woman In the Case Charged
With Statutory Ofense
With Hamon

Ardmore. Okla. Nov. 26.-Jake L.
Hamon.! Republican National commit
tecman from Oklahoma. end reputed to
have become a millionaire In .tRe oil
business. died in a hospital here tt
Sis o'clock this morning. His death,
according to statements by Frank IL
Ketch, his business manager. resulted
from THE accidental discharge OF q
revolver which Mr.. Hamon was eIean-
ing last Sunday night.
Russell Brown. county attorney of
Carter county, filed nm information
against Miss Clara Smith OF Ringing.
okla. Monday night. charging her with
assault with intent to kill in n
ton with the wounding Of Hamon. An.
! other information filed by the county
! attorney charged Miss Smith and Ha-
mon with a statutory ofense.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27

Upon reading The l~ntcllig"ncer dis
patch from Philadelphia naming Harry
kcndriCk, formerly OF Wheeling. As the
man Al Smith" accused by Peter d.
Treadway OF tnr murder Of Henry T.
PIERCE al Philadelphia. saturday night,
Detective Dave Clrary and Detective Al
Richards. who were on duty IT Central
police headquarters, stated that they
could not recall any man named Ken
drick who had ever lived in Wheeling:
However. plain-Cloth0S men immcdi-
atcly took up I search throughout all of
the places in the city where kendrlck, II
such a man ever was located here, might
he known. in hope OF securing intorma-
ton that would help establish the man
Hendricks identity.
The remark. alleged to have been
made to Peter T~rradway, VIII" was ar
rested here Wednesday with Marie
Phillips. alias Marie Williams. by an
other man who is alleged To have SAID
III We can get to Wheeling. West Eir...
ginia. safely. we will be all right"
proves interesting in the light of the
fact that Peter Trcadway proably did
not know the road from Philadelphia. II
Is not regarded as probable that II mai
with no more knowledge Of the highway
than Treadway had could drive over that
long road without making numerous in
quiries along the route and attracting
moro attention than did the drivers or
the big murder car"
1t is said that numerous other details,
apparently u~nimportant in themselves,
have begun to wine themselves into q
chain of evidence that binds Wheeling
more closely with the Philadelphia muir
der than the mere discovery of the muir
dercd mans car and teh, accidental pres
ence Of the accused paid, Treadway and
Marie Phillips in Wheeling.
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
WOMAN SECURES DAMAGE
VERDICT AQAINST PHXS1C1A6

White Plains. n. Y. Nov. 2e.-Dam-
ages Of s24.4S6 were awarded Mrs. Sarah
Antowill, of Yonkers. by a jury in the
supreme court here today in her suit
against DR.. Joseph Friedman. under
whose treatment she charged she was
severely burned bv an X-ray.
DR.. Friedman admitted the burns were
due to the X-ray. but maintained Mrs
Antowill was unusuall" sensitive to the
rays. and that this condition caused her
suffering. The court decided the physic-
ian had been guilty. Of malpractice.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
THE WEATHER

west virginta-Cloudy SATURDAY 1ol-
lowed by rain Saturday night ana sun-
lay; moderate temperature,
Ohio-Cloudy In east, probably ram
In west portion; somewhat warmer Bat
urday; Sunday rain.
Western Pennsylvania-Cloudy satur-
day: SUNDAY rain, moderate temperature.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27

slain here last Saturday night. are now
convinced that two men. in addition to
the prisoners in custody arc involved in
the case. and 4 far-reaching search has
been Instituted for them, The prisoners.
Marie Phillips. Is years old. former
chorus girl. and Peter Z. Treadway, told
the police that al Smith and 4 mar
known to them only as TJack" struck
compelled them 70 flee IN Petrce's motor
car. After reaching Wheeling, w. Va,
the prisoners said Smith" n Jack
disappeared
Both prisoners. who were brought
here last night from the West Virginia
city were today subjected to I gruellinC
examination which lasted throughout
the day: Both admitted they were with
PIERCE when he was killed but maintain
ed they were innocent Of any connec'
ton with the actual Staying.
The police state that while they be-
llrve. that two other men were involved
they do not eNonerate T~readway and MS
female companion. Th2y st.ll hold &c
the theory that Peirce was killed when
he. lin a defiant. intoxicated condition.
refused to submit to the working of the
-old badger game in which the girl was
used as a lure"
Detectives sent to Wheeling today to
return with the Peirce car have been
instructed to work back slowly. investi-
eating as they come. in the hope that
they may pick up some thread along the
route which will aid in the Identification
or offer q clue to the whereabouts OF
the mysterious fugltives.
The funeral of PcirCc was held today
from his home at Fort Washington.
Not 1t steubsnvtllo.
Steubenville. O.. Nov. 26.--Chiet OF
Police Blaine Carter who assisted Phila-
delphia detectives In a search OF this
city for trace OF Al Smith and Clifton
Haley. alleged by Peter D. Treadway and
Marie Phillips, as the "hold-uD men"
who killed Henry T. Pierce, Philadel-
phia business man. declared today that
he does not believe the two men stopped
in S~teubenville. He and tho detectives
visited hotels and every rooming house
in the city with descriptions Of the two
men. and no clue was found as to their
visiting here
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
Clue ut Cincinnati.

Special Dispatch 10 the Intelligencer.
Cincinnati. O.. Nov. 26.-The police OF
this city are to-day running down clues
which the have received from the
wheeling police. indicating that two
men believed TO BE- implicated in the
murder of Henry T. reirce. a wealthy
Philadelphian. and who are thought to
nave come to this city from wheeling IN
their efforts to escape.
The police here say that until arrests
are mad" that theT cannot diHulge the
Instructions they have received from
th. Wheeling police. or they have reason
10 believe the clues OF no avail.
Mrn answering the wheeling dsScrip-
lions. IL is said. have been seen in GER
tain river resorts here since the crime,
and are said to have figured In an at
tempted sale OF an automobile 10 Race
street second hand dealers. The clues
reported here came from both Philadel-
ph:a and Wheeling.
The prisoners Grillsd.
Philadelphia. Nov. 26.-Detectives
working on the mystery surrounding the
killing or Henry T. Peirce. h wa
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
VERDICT or ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.

Los Angeles. Cal. Nov. 26.-C"rtit.
Gates Of accidental death were issued
from the ~coroner's office here today in
the cases of CASTOR Chevrolet and Eddie
O'Donnell. automobile race drivers, and
Lyall Jclls. mechaniclan. killed in yes
terday's 250-mile championship race on
the Los Angeles speedway.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
CUTS|NSTEELPR|CES WILDE
FOLLOWED BY WAGE REDUCTIONS

not asked prices above those liked oy the
Industrial board. 1t Is believed here
now that the immediate result viii % 10
stabilize the steel market. and that the
move today is the beginning OF the re-
adjustment in the steel trade. Inc
sentiment here seemed to be that the
bottom level OF prices has been reacneo.
and that as soon as wa~"s ana DINER
costs are lowered. the industry VIII
move forward into a new period OF ptUe
perity b sed on the requirements OF tne
building trade. the rehabilitation or the
railroads and export business to Euro
pean countries and the Orient.
A feature Of the situation fs the Con.
tinued steady demand for steel pipe ana
ali tubular goods. steel officials sato
for which there is heavy buying in
oil industry and also. in the bundfnG
trades. A firm demand for these. II WAs
said, and for certain wire pfodust1
notably nails has resulted in the price,
on these commodities not being
to the industrial boards prices
To Meet 1sducHoA-
Youngstown. O.. Nov. 2e.-lndNPen-
dent steel companies Of the 1ouAee
town district. employing about 30,Noe
workers. announced today that they Ntil
meet the reduction Of prices announeed
today by the Jones and Laughlin con-
pary Of Pittsburgh. the cut to b e.
fectivc Mt once.
Heads Jof the three largest indep1o-t
dent corporations here declared . reA4c
justment in the cost Of both coal a.
labor will have to follow. They 0A
thai wherever labor costs with the N.
dependents are higher than the United
States Steel corporation, the wares
will have to be reduced.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27
Police Dragnst Out.

The Wheeling police department yes
states adjacent to West Virginia in hope
Of gathering in the two men alleged to
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-11-27

Has the Largest Circulation c
Any Morning Newspaper in tt
State of West Virginia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14
THE LEAGUE AT WORK

1T WAS obvious from the outset that
! without practical machinery the cove
Inant of the League of Nations was
merely proclamation of amiable princi-
pies. Fortunately, however, there are
some energetic reconstructors who are
we'll aware of the danger of such criti.
cism and are prompt to forestall it.
= Article XIV has begun to live. This
clause provides that "the council shall
submit to the members of the league for
adoption plans for the establishment of
q Court of International Justice" This
tribunal shall be competent to hear dis
putes between the nations and may give
an advisory opinion to the council or as
sembly of the league. According to Mr..
Balfour, Elihu Root has been honored
with an invitation to contribute his learn
ing and ability to those of distinguished
group of British, French, Italian, Bel
gian, Norwegian, Serbian, Japanese,
Spanish and Brazilian statesmen and
savants commissioned to devise the or
ganization of the court. The preliminary
conference will open in The Hague on
Monday.
This is the sort of hustling which
should immensely strengthen the cause
of the league in America. Facts are now
supporting faith. That we are privi-
legged beyond other nations to profit by
the transmutation of dreams into reali-
ties is surely an ironical reward for our
delinquency.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

T1HE good that man does lives after
4 him. When-and if-Mr. Hepburn
leaves his job in the Bureau of Street
Cleaning to assume larger responsible
ties with the State Highway Department
he will leave with the people of this city
"a lot of astonishing information that
ought to be of inestimable value to Phila-
delpha.
The challenge flung at ne street.
cleaning contractors cannot be ignored
by ranking politicians now or in the
future. Mr.. Hepburn talks in figures
Figures are easily remembered. The
exposure of eXorbitant profits in the
STRENGTHENING business leaves big task
for Mr.. Winston and Mr.. Moore. The
people have heard the beginning of the
story. They will want to hear the end
of it.
"A Mr.. Hepburn's manner and his method
show how necessary it is to have neu-
trals in office. Gentlemen's agreements,
friendship, political affiliations or social
relationships, such as often hinder even
well ll-intentioned officials, didn't serve to
divert him after his sense of order and
decency had been affronted by what he
found in the records of the Department
of Public Works. He may not be able to
finish what he started. But somebody
else will have to finish it. 1t isn't too
much to say, therefore, that in his short
term of office Mr.. Hepburn has earned
years salary or more
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14
LAST SUFFRAGE CONVENTION

THE National American Woman Suf-
4 frage Association halls death with
glee. Not since the extinction of the
American Anti-Slavery Society in 1865
has any reform organization in this
country anticipated it's imminent pass
ing so cheerfully.
The "cause" is dying because it is vir-
tually won. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
predicts that New Mexico and Oklahoma
will ratify the suffrage amendment be-
fore the convention closes. The assent of
but three states will then be necessary
to complete the necessary three-quarters
of the Union. Hopes are reasonably
pinned on Delaware, West Virginia and
Connecticut When they fall in line the
half century of national conventions on
behalf of equal political rights for women
will be ended
The future holds problems utterly differ
ent in nature from those which such un-
daunted champions of political justice as
Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, Doctor Shaw and
Mrs. Gait had to face
The merger of the historic National
Association with the National League of
Women Voters, which is to open its first
convention today, is suggested The
prospect of harmony in the sessions is
dubious. Party feeling, legitimate and
inevitable consequence of the balm of
franchise, has become piquantly asser-
tive.
The situation recalls the youth of the
nation. The first President was amazed
at the difficulty of presiding over a cabi-
net of variegated political complexities
rrhe constitution makers airily imagined
that the government could be peacefully
headed by a President and Vice President
of contrasting political shading. The re-
vision both of public opinion and of our
fundamental national charter was swift
There is no reason to believe that the
women will differ in political conduct
from their male ancestors. 1t is healthier
for the nation for the League of Women
Voters to be a bit tempestuous than
blandly colorless.
But the auguries of normal, lively
strife does not detract a whit from the
splendor of the almost accomplished
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

week on the farms. IT,
If you do, the farmer soon won't have
any hired man.
TNHE short hour day is one of the lures of
l. the city.
1t is all very well, says the farmer, to say
that man can do as much work in the fac
tories in six hours as in eight
He cant on the farms.
Better let him work eight hours in fac
tories even if in the last two he accompishes
nothing. for if you make it a six hour day
there will be no one to work the farms and
you will all starvc.
A MOTHER lure of the city is high wages.
L \ The farmer wants to see every man gain
what he can.
But you cant consider wages in the city
apart from wages on the farm
Make wages higher in the factories, and
either the farm stops or you pay more and
more for your dinner.
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THUS the farmers confront Mr.. Gompers
l. at every turn. There is composition be-
tween the country and the city and the two
symbolic that competition.
The cities bid, and bid effectively, for the
young men of the farms,
If Mr.. Gompers should have his way and
cut the working week for union labor to
forty hours, that would be a new n formi-
dable bid. which the farmers will fight just
as they fought the competition under the
daylight saving of the long. idle evening in
the city against the long. laborious morning
on the farm, and just as they resisted ex-
posure of the farm boy to the citys lure
under military training.
q q q
THE farmer cannot permit tc happen to
him what happened to the city house
holder.
The city householder has Been voting for
years to legislate into the factory his do
mcstic servant She is there now and be is
servantless.
An accidental upset in the labor supply
FASTENED the result. which was bound to
come anyway.
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TNHE whole world cries "Produce, Pro.
l. duce Production is our only salvation 7"
Yet no one knows how to begin.
And the farmer says, IF yov are NOT
careful you will even cut off production at it's
source"
Labor, which has been lesscning its pro
ductivity for years, on the theory that it has
been fooled all along by capital and given
of the sweat of its brow too freely, is in n
mood for politics, not for production.
Was this crisis in the worlds production
brought on by the war or was it merely 70
vealcd by the war?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14
What DO You Know?

QUIZ
l, Who is the new secretary of the in.
terror?
2. What is the southernmost state that has
approved the suffrage amendment?
3. What is the largest island in the
Philippines?
4, Who is governor of the Virgin islands
of the United States?
3, What was the original constitutional
system of electing presidents which
prevailed up to 1904?
6 What is a pavane?
Z. Who was the famous rich man of an
tiquity?
s. Who wrote the music of ''tbe Suanes
RiverT'
o. What is meant by a "Carthaginisu
peace?"
10. Where was Joan of Arc born:
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Robert Underwood johnson has been
appointed ambassador to Italy.
2. Thomas A. Edison is seventy three years
old.
8. Cerebral thrombosis is blood cIot Cd
the brain.
4 The Roman empire attained its grea'ii
est extent under Traian, who rue'
from 9S to III A ID,
8 Trebizond is seaport on the southern
shore of the Black sea.
g. The honor of inventing the telescope - -
ascribed to Johannes Lippershe!' ',oS
Middeburg, Netherlands. lie app"''
for a patent for his device in loos' II.
T. Heliacal is the word descriptive Oh VI
rising or setting Of star when ,.d
first emergcs from the suns rays ,ast I
becomes visible before sunrise OF 10 ,ast ,a
visible after sunset before being ''''
in the suns rays. ,,hIe
s. Texas was an independent repO'
from 1896 to 1S45. s0d
0. The real name of Gaby Desiys wa' she.
to have been Hedy Neyratl ,slle
however, claimed that it was "a0''
des Lys. ,,Jicst,s
10. Seven bells ons shipboard lna''Sd and
half past three, half-p seven p
half past eleven.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14
"Ona Girls View of Another.!'
VOU sit beside me in the car

VOU sit beside me in the car
l. And gaze into my book.
try to guess at what you are
With one brief searching look.
The perfume that you use is strong;
Like cinnamon it smells.
] wonder-are your morals wrong?
Poor taste your make up spells
The hours late-it's nearly twelve.
But you seem quite at ease,
Though shorthand books, like on shelf,
Lie closed upon your knees.
1t looks as though from school you come,
But isn't it too late?
I'm sure you should e'er now be home
Unless you had a date,
Your features are not one bit coarse
But, oh. you've spoiled your face,
Some day you'll suffer with remorse
For running at your pace.
Your disposition may be sweet,
But how can one know that!
Your whole appearance isn't neat
From low shoes to large hat.
You size me up with scornfulness
You think that I'm a freak
feel your gaze first on my dress,
And then on my pale cheek.
You have your thoughts about me, too;
You think that am "dead";
But in return l pity you
You have an empty head.
LILLIAN BERDOW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

emancipation. The chapter of liberty
which the women Of America have writ
ten will soon be accepted among the COM
monplaces of established civilized free
dom. We are apt at times to forget
ideals which have been attained-the
abolition of Imprisonment for debt, of
the slave trade, of slavery.
What the women have wrought is akin
in spirit to these reforms. That is why
this fifty-first convention of suffragists
is eXtinguished in glory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

gent and broad-minded self-interest
should 1mpel the wealth of the country
to keep pure the sources of the springs
at which the youth get their inspiration.
But it is not necessary to ask any one
for money just now. 1t will be enough
for beginning to make an attempt to
interest the ablest men of the common
wealth in the future of its greatest edu-
cational institution and to trust to their
patriotism for the rest.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

The charge made by Senator Ware that
the kaiser was responsible for the ms
takes of the Smith administration should he
given earnest and prayerful consideration
The chances are that it will be found. after
close investigation, that the hermit of Amer
ongen is the guy responsible for the failure
of the contractors to keep the streets clean
during the last few weeks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

A coal wagon driver has just been sent
to prison for ten days for blocking trolley
traffic. Beautiful Snow, however, is still
at large
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

Railroad men are bound to discover that
the public is vitality interested in the main =
tenance of ways and the necessity for keep
ing them open,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

That Hagerstown (AGd,) policeman who
chases auto drivers on a sled has found n
good excuse for enjoying the pleasures of
boyhood 1t beats taking children to the
circus.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14


play and no work in the cities, soon the only
eating that will be done will be done In the
country. ,,
I'm be dinged," says the farmer, IF l
will work fourteen hours a day to feed peo-
pie who work only six y
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THERE is country -asainst-city issue III
l. these United States, md it is sharp
one.
II showed itself when the faYmer smote
tbe daylight saving law last fall; smote it
50 hard that even the Presidents veto was
overridden.
The lure of long evening to play III was
one lure too many for the cities, thought the
farmer.
.'If men in town may quit work at what
is really 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Where
will our hired man go, especially II by stay
ing with us he has to begin work at what
is really 3 o'clock in the morning with TINS
setback cock?'
So the farmer Topped off the city man
long evening for play. And the cities now
are likely to have one time in summer while
thc country has another, showing the issue
between the two
MILITARY training IS another issue be-
A'A tween city and country.
II is not a question of East against West
or North against South, but of farmer
| against urban dweller. And it is not that
| the farmer is pacifst and the urban dweller
| mild miitarist.
The farmer is not thinking of principles
, He is thinking of his hired man and his boy
We say, 'The war was great education
! for the boys who survived it.
'"They saw the world.
| ''Ihey had their minds opened
| The farmer is not So much against war as
war as he is against the kind Of education
that opens his boys mind to how much more
| fun there is in the city than in the country.
| War makes the hired man problem ten
| times more difficult than it is.
| So, thinks the farmer, will military train
| ing.
| And SO in Congress he crushed President
Wilson again just as he did on daylight
| saving.
| vOU may tell the city dweer that mill
l. tary training would do a lot for the boys
| physically.
1t may be to him an open question just
| how much real difference four months of
| physical training will make in mans life.
But it is not an open question to the
| farmer.
The opportunities for physical training are
| right at home on farm, with the hoe, with
the AK, with the pitchfOrk.
You may say tot the city dweller that four
months physical training would be just a
nice vacation for his boy at the expense of
the government
But the farmer hasn't the vacation habit.
The argument does not apTaal to him cs
pecally as the vacation might take the boy
! where he would fall victim to the lure OF
the city and not come back to work the farm
q q q
! ORGANIZLD labor in the person of Mr.
" Gompers has just announced that it will
vote for its friends in Congress.
Organized labor is the city.
The country. in the person of the organ
lied farmers meeting in Washington few
days earlier, said that the nation had gonC
as far as it could in concessions 10 labor
! 1t isn't that the farmer is a hard hearted
| old reaetionary.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-14

Isn't life the durnedcst thing? Just as
soon as we get through with grip the rail
roads begin to itch.