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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Strike Summary.

The spread Of the outlaw strike OF
railroad workers has apparently been
checked, Independent conferences
are being held in many palces in an
attempt to reach a settlement.
The majority of the strikers in
Syracuse, NJ Y, have returned to
work. The strikers are also reported
to be returning at Chicago and other
western railroad centers.
A federal investigation of condi-
tions is under way by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer. The appointment of
railroad labor board is expected by
the president today
Industries are beginning to feel the
effect Of the strike seriously. The
shortage of coal and raw material
are forcing hundreds OF factories TO
shut down and others to curtlil OPP
erations. The food situatoin Is re-
ported to be- serious and in some
cities the mail is delayed. In the
east passenger service is badly Grip
pied on some Of the railroads.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
ALLEN OUT FOR
SUPERINTENDENT

Inviting investigation of his school
record and submitting his case to
The court of public opinion II. +.
Allen, superintendent of Rush Springs
City schools, today announced his
candidlcy for county superintendent
of schols in Grady county, subject
to the action fthe democratic pri-
mary.
Mr. Allen has record of achiev-
ment in the development of the Rush
Springs school Anyone conversant
with school affairs knows to what
high standard this school has been
led through his able supervision 50
much do they think of him as
successful school man that they have
asked him to return for next year
with a substantial increase in sala-
ry. Mr. Allen is a progressive,
not "a "standpatter" when it comes
to school affairs. and he believes in
the development and upbullding Of
the rural schools as well as those
of the town.
Mr.. Allen was last week appointed
by the county commissioners to fill
the unexpired term of Moman II.
Shepard who resigned to take up
other. work This fifteen months
service, before the next term begins,
will especially fit him for the duties.
which he will have well in hand by
that time-in other words, he will
have just fifteen months of actual
knowledge and experience ahead Of
any other candidate who may an
nounce.
Mr. Allen said, 81 feel my several
years successful experience as a sup
erintendent permits me to offer my
self for your consideration. / moved
from Bates county, Missouri, to Ok
/ lahoma in 1900 and have lived here
the past twenty years. attended
the rural schools of Dewey county
for several years. tae Weltherford
public schools. the Southwestern
Normal / graduated from the Col
legiate Institute of FIT. Scott, Kansas
in 1914 and received my A. B. Degree
from Phillips University 1918.
Il have had nine years teaching
experience in the rural and city
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Voting in Illinois.

BY United Press
Chicago, April 13-Illinois is indi
eating its preference for the presi-
Dental nomination today.
The choice, it is shown, is between
"thc favorite SON" Governor Lowden,
ana Major General Leonard Wood
The interest in the "battle Of bll-
lots was confined to the republicans
where Wood and Lowden were the
only regularly named candidates.
In the democratic party there were
no presidential candidates and the
interest therefore is centering on the
election of ward and precinct commit
teemen and the naming of SO dele
gates to the national convention.
The presidential vote is not binding.
Many candidates for delegates jobs
at the national convention are pledg-
ed to Gov. Lowden and none to Gen
eral Wood.
The city of Chicago is also voting
on an improvement bond of $S4,5O0,-
600.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
DUTCH HILL TO
DESERT 0. j. IN
FAVOR OF 'AGGS''

Harry Hill former Chickasha high
school football star and later one o.
mainstays on Bennie Owens o. U.
eleven, will enroll in the Oklahoma
A. and NJ. college at the beginning
of the next fall term, he announced
this week
Dutch" as he is known here, re-
Gently withdrew from the state uni
versity after earning two football
"O's." Since Withdrawing from the
university, he has been assisting his
father, Dave Hill, in the management
of the Ranch Lucille near this city.
Whether or not Hill will be eligible
to play football at the state aggie
school is unknown here
Irwin Coryell, center, and Pa
White, end, both members OF the
1919 C. H. S football team. will ais
enter the state A. and NJ. college
next fall.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
BOOK DONATIONS
EXCEED HOPE Of
CHIX ROTAR|ANS

Under the direction Of Jonas Cook,
president of the local Carnegie libra
ry board, more than a ton of looks
and magazines are being boxed for
shipment to Granite penitentiary for
the use of the prisoners, as a result
of the drive of the Rotarians of
Chickasha which eliminated in the
collection Of the books Sunday
1t was the aim of the Rotarians to
collect a ton of books but so liberal
were the donations of Chickasha peo-
pie that the quota was exceeded by
a considerable margin, according to
estimates. The magazines and books
were practically all high class, those
in charge state There we're stand
ard magazines of all kinds, technical
magazines, fiction. Several expen-
sive sets of books were donated. one
being a Morocco bound edition of
some dozen volumes on locomotive
engineering,
The Rotary club members covered
practically every street in the city
in the collection of the books. the do
donations being collected and as
sembled at the city hall for packing
and shipment
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Body Created by Cummins Bill; Is
Final Authority In Railway Wage
Disputes; To Probe Switch
mems Strike.
SPREAD OUTLAW STRIKE
CHECKED SAY OFFICERS
Some of Men Reported Returning In
Chicago and at Eastern Points;
Food Situation Reported To
Be Serious.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, April 13.-President
Wilson today appointed the railroad
labor board which the Esch Cummins
bill created as the first authority in
the railway wage disputes
The public representatives are G.
WV Hangar of Washington; Henry
Hunt eX4mayor of Cincinnati; r. b.
Barton of Tennessee. The labor rep
,resentatives are Albert Phillips, A.
o. Warlton, James J Forester The
representatives of the managers are
Horace Baker, ]. H. Elliott and WI
liam Park
1t is expected that the board will
investigate the strike of the switch
men as soon as it is organized.
President Wilson has also called a
cabinet meeting for tomorrow at
which the strike will be discussed.
Attorney General Palmer has wired
the presidents of the Pennsylvania
and New York Central lines asking
for complete list of the strikers
names.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
TRIO PLACED IN
JAIL IN DEFAULT
Of BONDS NAMED
Holmes, Crisp, johnson Remanded to
Jail by Justice Moore; Charges
Are Burglary and Possession
Narcotics.
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Bound over TO the district court on
charge of having had in their pos
session narcotics and also charged
with burgllrizing the Guthrie drug
store in Verden several days ago, Bill
Holmes, Charlie Crisp and Bill John
son, were remanded to Jail in default
of bond yesterday following their pre-
liminary hearing in Justice Moores
court.
Mage Moore, charged with being an
accomplice in the two violations, was
discharged.
Narcotics valued at approximately
$50 we're taken when the Guthrie
drug store was burglarized two weeks
ago. On the same morning OF the
robbery, Officers Luther Cox and Lee
Tuck arrested Moore, Crisp, Holmes
and Johnson in a rooming house on
Second street
The proprietor of the burglarized
store later identified the narcotics as
being the drugs stolen from his store.
The minimum punishment for the
crime Of unlawful possession of mar
cotics, according to William Stacey
county attorney, is one year impris-
onment and five hundred dollars fine.
The maximum punishment is seven
years imprisonment and seven thous-
and dollars fine.
Minimum punishment for burglary,
Prosecutor Stacey says, is two years
imprisonment, with a maximum OF
seven years.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
AGENTS DESTROY
KREUTz WINE IN
CHARGE SHERIFF
Federal Men Here to Investigate
Case; Search kreutz Place;
Find Nothing; Say viii File
Federal Charge

approximately three barrels Of
about IL per cent grape wine sloshed
out and soaked into the ground ad.
jacent to the county Jail this morn.
ing as two federal men welded will
ing bludgeons in the job of wrecking
the containers.
The officers were A. d. lumbar.
gar federal prohibition agent in
charge, and Kirby Frans, assistant,
Attracted here by the liquor case
against Fred Kreutz, Grady county
farmer, which action was dismissed
in Grady county court by T. j.
ONeill, judge, the federal officers
came here for an investigation.
The wine in question had been seiz-
ed some months ago by the sheriff's
force and was in the charge of the
officers here when the federal m n
appeared upon the scene. They con
fiscated tho goods, rolled the barrels
into the yard and Wrecekd them,
spilling the wine.
The prohibition agents visited the
Kreutz place east of the city this
morning and searched the premises
but found no wine
Wherever | find that the county
officials are honestly trying to EN-
force the laws, where punishment is
being meted out to the guilty, it is
not my policy to interfere, but the
people of Grady county may know
right now that the prohibltory laws
are going to be enforced" said Mr.
Humbarger.
81 am leaving this afternoon fol
Ardmore where | win file liquor
charges against Kreutz in the United
States commissioner court, 1t Is
probable that | will file two charges
against him."
The case has been turned over tic
the federal men by the county attor
neys and sheriff's offices.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Asks Court Order
To Place Fund In
County Strong Box

A petition praying for a court order
to place $11075 in the court fund
of the county was filed yesterday in
county court by William Stacey, coun-
ty attorney
The $110.75 was seized by Matt
Sankey. sheriff, yosterdly, when he
broke up a crap game in the Frisco
addition Five were arrested TGoy
paid fines and costs amounting to
$66.90 each.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
CASH BONUS FOR
SOLDIERS Asked
IN HOUSE PLANS
Dollar for Each Days Service for
coldiers, Sailors and Marines is
Plan Approved by House
Sub-C Committee.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, April ia cash bo-
nus for each days service would be
given approximately 100000 Of the
100000 men in the army, navy and
marines during the war under the
plans which have been approved by
the subcommittee of the house ways
and means committee, it WIS learned
today.
The program will be submitted in
full 10 the committee this week 1t
calls for the expenditure of slightly
less than $1,OoO,OO0,0O0 waich amount
is to be raised by a tax of one-half
of one per cent on all sales.
1t is considered to be likely that
the plan will be submitted to the
house in the near future.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Decision Reached at Meeting This
Afternoon of Local Union; Ex-
pect Action to Affect Other
Points.
FREIGHT SHIPMENTS IN
CITY BADLY AFFECTED
Embargo On All PershabIes by Rock
Island; All Freight Accepted Sub
ject to Delay; Passenger Ser
vice Goes On.

Declaring that the salary they re-
ceived was not sufficient to support
them and their families, all local
switchmen, through a committee ap-
pointed in conference today, notified
| N. Wilson, Rock Island yardmaster
here, that they had quit their jobs,
No swtchmen were on duty here at
2:3o o'clock this afternoon.
"The action of local switchmen
was not strike" declared A. P. HoI-
man, president Of the local switch
mems union this afternoon. 1--WE just
simply quit because we were not re-
ceiving enough salary
No freight of any kind will be ac-
cepted here by the Rock Island,
Agent Nuaent said this afternoon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
Neuter Gender Is
Represented Here
In Court Actions

Defendants in a case filed today in
Justice Moore's court were neither
feminine nor masculine gender They
were neuter-very much so.
The case in question is State Of
Oklahoma VS.. One Slot Machine and
1870. The state seeks a court order
to destroy the slot machine and to
place tie 1910 in the county's court
fund.
Said defendants were seized sever
al weeks ago in Ninnekah by Sheriff
Matt Sankey. Owner of the machine
was fined $40.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13

A decision ON the question of wheth
er or not local switchmen would join
in the fast spreading strike which
started in Chicago several days ago
and which is threatening a generl
freight tie-up, was expected early this
afternoon.
A meeting of Local No. 217, Switch
mems Union Of North America, was
called late this morning by A. p Hol-
man. president Of the local AT
o'clock this afternoon the conference
OF the switchmen had not ended, al
though a decision was expected by
2;30 o'clock.
Switchmen at Waurika are mem
bers of the local union and if the
men go out here, Waurika switchmen
will walk out, it was learned this
morning.
According to word received at the
shops here, El Reno switchmen quit
work last night at II O'Clock and
everything is Quiet in the FL Reno
yards today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
IN POLICE COURT

VIII Brown and Msry Smith were
arrested yesterday by Policeman Lee
Tuck on charges of immoral conduct.
This morning in police court, Mayor
Durbin forfeited their bonds of 500
each, the defendants naving failed to
appear in court,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
M. P. LIFE NO ClNCH

London-That the life of an NJ. P.
was not all honey in the war zone
was proved by General Norwood,
when he stated at a provost marshals
dinner that in 1917 during the Brit
ish attack at Paschendaele, no fewer
than 23 NJ. P.s we're killed regulat-
ing traffic at one crossroads.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-13
FREE-pIpN'r KNOW 1T.

London-Sued FOR arrears due to
his wife under a maintenance order
a Tottenham man produced evidence
that he divorced her in December.
The wife pleaded that this was the
first she had heard of it. as court Of
ficials had told her that the divorce
suit cold not be heard before the end
of 1920.