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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-04-22
tALESTER WINS
THE TRACK MEET
~, Forty Point Winning
is, 'ao,, W. successive Year. Third
t' '.'',,ry And They Keep
The Cup

.,or High School was an
'A,e ',e,or in the Twelfth Annual
:. '.. ",se, held at the Fair Grounds
ek ,as, .' saturday, piling up total
Ia. Ia. noin,s. with Hugo. second
,o'F ',, making only twenty. other
'li a,. scored points as follows:
,o.s ., a. Evansville. IA: Durant
'.'', nn,sou, II; Ardmore, 4; Atoka.
.,os,er brought the same team
mnn la,, years meet. Should
,.;n the meet next year. the hand
ann is theirs to keep forever.
rer. of McAlester was easily the
81 the meet piling up fifteen
ne bv his own excellent work.
rwo new records of the meet were
Poor. of McAlester high
oa : feet II inches: Fine, OF
pusyile, put the shot As feet Z
r.o track records were necessari-
,ow on account Of the cold wind
w.s blowing and the crowd was
In for the same reason, there be-
,.ss than twO-thOusand specta-
at the meet.
Fbe meet. by events, the winners
the time. were as follows:
Hirh jump--First. Poor, McAles-
second Gibson. Durant; third
Ison. Antlers. Mark-5 feet IL
hes.
90. Yard dash First. Cobb. Nc
ks,er; second. Clements, McAles-
third. Ferguson, Hugo. Time
As seconds.
1alf.mile run First, Turman.
heau; second. Davis. McAlester;
|rd. Sailors, Antlers. Time-2
butes. l6 seconds.
shot Put First. Fine. Mannsville;
(ond. Nelson. Antlers; third, Sheets
|nnsyille. Distance-45 feet Z
|hes.
R2O.Yard dash-First and second
b. Cobb. McAlester; and Ferguson.
|go; third. Turnman, Poteau. Time
24 As seconds.
Pole Vault Tied all. Gibson,
|rant; Welsh. Antlers; and Shell
} Hugo. Height-10 feet.
Mile Run-First. Pierce, Hugo;
tond Davis, McAlester; third,
bit, Ardmore. Tines minutes
seconds.
Hurdle Race First, Tarver, Nc
ester; second, Welsh, Antlers;
|rd. Maxey, Durant. Time-29 Sec
ds.
Broad Jump-First. Tarver, Nc
ester; second, Welsh, Antlers;
Ird, Sheets, Mannsville. Distance
Is feet s inches.
440-Yard Run-First. Turnman,
'teau; second, Clements, McAles-
!; third, Folsom, Atoka. Time
seconds.
Discus ThrOw-First. Fine. Manns.
lie; second, Nelson. Antlers; third.
eets, Mannsville. Distance-1O6
Il 5 inches.
Javelin Throw-First, Witt, Du-
Mt; second, Dudley. Hugo: third,
ne, Mannsville. Distance-119
Il.
Relay Race-First, McAlester, sec
d. Ardmore; third, Atoka.
l2o High hurdles First, Tarver,
'Alester; second. Shelton, Hugo;
lld, Griffith, Hugo-Time, II Sec
d.
thursday night at the Normal Au-
'oflum was held the Orchestra.
ys' Quartette and Girls Glee Club
NESTS, Durant won the Boys
'artette contest; Hugo won the
'is Glee Club Contest; While Ard
're won the Orchestra contest.
ihe tennis games were played
'oay with the following results.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-04-22

CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT JULY 2
Tex Rickard, promoter of the
Dempsey-C Carpenter fight for the
heavyweight championship Of the
world, announces that the battle will
be held in Jersey City. N Y. July 2.
Dempsey has already commenced
training for the fight.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
Child Is Snatched
From Under House
AS It Burns Down

MACON, Ga, June 21.-Frantically
peering into their home, which was
SO enveloped in flames until they
could not enter it. in the belief that
their six-year-o child was being
burned alive, Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Smith, residing near Irwinton, were
awarded in their search when the
child was found hidden under the
house by the family dogs.
Mr.. Smith was attracted by the
barking of the dogs and crawling
under the building he rescued the
child just a minute before the house
collapsed.
Mrs. Smith. returning from a
spring, found her house on fire as the
result of the explosion OF several
gun Shells She had left her three
children, the Oldest six years, in the
house alone. She ran to her home.
screaming for her husband, who was
in a nearby field blowing. Being IN
able to enter the building. she and
her husband searched the building
from the outside. Dogs began barking
at a hidden object under the house,
where the child had gone, frightened
by the exploding cartridges.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
Premiers of British
Empire Consult on
Policies of Dominions

LONDON, June 21.-Premiers of
the British empire today began con-
sultation on policies affecting the
welfare Of all their dominions.
While Premier Lloyd George was
believed to have struck the keynote
in his address yesterday, the pre-
miers awaited further reports from
British officials touching on colonial
affairs. Lord Curzon was to SUBJ
nit a statement on colonial matters,
possibly today.
The visiting officials showed great
interest in Lloyd Georges state
ments, especially those touching on
the Japanese alliance, and the prom
Use to consider any disarmament
proposal made by the United States.
London newspapers today approved
the premier's statements. They PAID
particular attention to his offer to
discuss Limitation Of ornaments.
eve shall gladly keep the pre-
mier's pledge" the Times said, land
consider with America any plan she
may produce which should promise
to mitigate the strain of naval RI
valry."
Lloyd Georges plain invitation to
the United States is excellent" &C
cording to the Daily News. The
Telegraph asserted that 1--WE can be
friends with Japan without sacri-
ficing an iota Of the friendship which
links US to the United States"
1.-THE japanese alliance has stood
the test Of time" said the Daily
Mirror, "but we cannot afford to
do anything to jeopardize our ex-
pected collaboration with the United
States"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
Pullman Company Loses
Open Shop Fight Before
u. S. Rail Labor Board

CHICAGO, June 21.-The Pullman
| company lost its open shop fight be-
fore the United States railroad labor
board today when the board upheld
the contention of union leaders that
the company had not obeyed 1.-The let
ter and spirit" Of the transportation
act when it conferred with its en-
ployes in mass meetings.
The board threw out the company's
petition for a cut in the wages OF
its shop employees and instructed 1t to
go back and meet the duly elected
| representatives" Of the employees. The
| shop crafts and clerks in the Pull
man works are involved in the case.
| The boards decision will delay any
for several weeks.
Under the transportation act the
company must meet the union lead
ers, and in the event they fail to
reach a decision file a petition be-
fore the board and ask a new hear
| ing.
The controversy between the Pull
man company aid the unions is a
continuation Of labor difficulties dat
| ing back several years, over the open
shop. The company has declined to
deal with union officers in matters
! affecting all employees, taking the po-
sition that employees not members of
| Tic ull4OuS are IlOL represented ny
the labor organizations.
When the company proposed a
wage reduction recently, mass meet
! ings were held and all employees
were invited. Representatives of the
company told the labor board in the
hearing to establish whether the
company should be admitted to the
general wage reduction hearing, that
a large percentage of the employees
attended the meetings.
Union representatives who charg-
ed discrimination against their
members, declared that the COM
pany's stand was merely another at
tempt to break down the labor or
CARNATIONS and demanded that before
the company should be allowed to
come before the board asking wage
cuts. it should hold proper con-
| ferences." These conferences, the
employees commended, should have ooen
held with duly elected representa-
tives of the employees and not with
the employees en- maSSe
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
RAFFLES WASA ROUGHNECK
BESIDE MODERN YEGGMAN

night Waterman a free ticket to an
all-night ball, craftily inclosing an
extra ducat for the night watchman's
lady friend. That means the coast
thing that might wake up the neigh
bors. On the night Of the crime,
Chauncey drops a lead nickel in
pay station to discover that Central
is asleep at the switchboard. So
far. so good. Now for the dirty
work.
Wearing golosh on one foot and
a snowshoe on the other. to mix up
resultant footmarks, Chauncey
strolls to the DePuyste- kennels and
losses the watchdog a bone with a
chloroform fuse. Then, rushing past
alarm a dose of short circuit and
arrives at the mansion front door.
Showing Harvard indifference to
the Yale lock, our hero strides into
the reception hall. He uses an X
ray flas}hlight to detect foreign sub
Of the master, criminal! Being a
student of higher physics. ,Chauncey
reacher the cellar by the law Of
gravitatlon. A trifle noisily, per-
haps, but, what is a mere noise
picks out the rarest vintages by re-
ferring carefully to any volume by
George Jean Nathan, selected at ran
dom.
Having inhaled the hooch till the
cellar exit becomes revolving door,
until he has forged the buffers
fingerprints on the empty bottles.
Oh. the artful craft of the super
mind! Escaping from the house by
drunkard's luck, our master-dome
walks with a staggard tread to battle
the skilled detectives: He locates his
lodgings by consulting a directory,
mixes the drinks to destroy the evil
dence and eats a hearty breakfast
next morning for an alibi.
Clever? You said it, Sherlock.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
By MARGUERITE DEAN.

ICOpyIlSII, lJAI.)
NEW YORK.-Odd corners of the
world age searched for gifts. to
gladden. the heart of the American
bride, yet sales slips saved for sew
enty-five years by New York's most
widely advertised gift shop show
that the cocktail shaker tops the list
of offerings shoWered on those VINO
keep step to Mendelssohn. Men gift
givers furnish the explanation.
Ask James Macintosh, head sales
man and gift collector at the we'd
ding present shop in the heart Of
the Murray Hill mart, what tokens
make the strongest appeal to the
man buyer and he will tell you that
it's the so-called sensible things
man invariably selects. Nine cases
out of ten, he says, the gift will be
a reminder of the pre-Volstead Pc
riod-even in this June of 1921.
Cups, beakers and flagons may
have become merely a memory to
many" said Mr.. Macintosh, but the
romance that yearns for the utterly
unattainable fingers in the minds of
masculinity, as evidenced by their
persistensy in purchases that flaunt
at prohibition.
"F'izzy things with ice winking at
the brim-that's what mans imagi-
nation coniures up when he enters
a shop to buy a wedding present,
prohibition has been in effect
long time, yet we flnd just as many
demands for wine glasses. liquor sets
and silver julep cups as in the old
days.
1T sounds odd and unreasonable,
and it is undoubtedly the result of Il
habit formed years ago when there
was a, reason for the popularity of
such things.
Men invariably select practical
gifts and naturally the things that
appeal to them as useful are such
things as glasses, goblets, decanters
and ce1larettes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
BY NEAL O'KARA.
(CnI0Iyri o-bf 1901

The busy little yeggman improves
each darkened hour. Yesterday he
slinked on rubber soles; today he
spurts on pneumatic tires. Science
When every expelled police captain
starts a detective works of his own,
when yokels learn Sherlock Holmes
antics by mail, when traffic is clog
ged with flat-footed plainclothes
guys, the down trodden -yegg gets
only a $3.50 break. And that isn't
much to get on break.
Wherefore, the snappy porch
climber has naught to do but improve
ways is substituting a cast-iron sash
weight for the lead pipe, an auto
matte gun for a six-shooter and an
acetylene torch for g1ycerine and
soap.
The nifty swag snatchers today
make Raffles look rougher than a
steVedore at a SQUAD banquet. The
old recipe Of .swatting the butler on
the toupee and choking his accent
practically de trop. No fastidious
yegg would waste a gag in a buffers
mouth when Broadway comedians
are paying royalties for same.
Nay, nay! The polished porch as
Gender plans with finesse. When the
loot is located on De Puyster's estate
the job is pulled off with the neat
ness of Swiss clockwork. Nobody
killed. Nobody injured. Nobody in
convenienced but the police force,
We will disclose the methods of the
modern crook if children under six
teen will please go to bed. They can
find all about it in next weeks NOV
les. Here's the scenario Of the
cr-r-rime:
Chauncey Darlington, the master
mind, first sends the De Puyster
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23

There's only one chance in 1000
that the earth will be destroyed by
collision with the Pons-Winnecke
comet.
Fine! But who says so? Answer:
DR.. A. c. D. Crommelin, noted as
tronomer at Greenwich Observatory,
England
But Mr.. -Winnecke is more
dangerous than most. With mos
comets, odds against hitting the
earth are $4,000 to l.
After racing two weeks to over
take the earth. it's due to swipe US
with it's two-forked tail about June
26th. Then Atlanta may see a great
shower of notwithstanding stars.
But you won't see P. w. unless you
have a powerful telescope.
Most comets have a tail made Of
star dust and luminous gases. But
Pons-Winnecke is loaded for bear.
It's tail is a stream of meteors 500
miles long. Like a load of buckshot;;
When closest to the earth these'll
trsX e q mile miles If sec Poas-winnecke
knocking off your chimney. This
year it comes closer to the earth than
ever before-but thatn still be 1,OOO,-
900 miles away.
Again, it may fool you entirely, for
It's the joker of the comets.
It's due near the earth every five
and a half years. But 1t didn't snow
up in 1880 or 1904.
Pons, an astronomer, discovered
ut July IS, 1919. Winnecke, another
astronomer, saw it neXt-ln 1853. lie
kidded himself that he'd found a new
comet. After figuring on paper a
year, he discovered that it was the
old-timer, Pons, practical joker.
"Ha! hal" said the comet, sailing
off in space.
Astronomers saw Pons-WinneCke
thereafter you'll carry my name"
So it's known as Pons-Winnecke.
Astronomers says Pons-Winnecke
this year may duplicate the great
fire-rainstorm of 1888, when it was
estimated that comet dropped 240,-
900 meteors.
Meteors come into view 90 miles
above ground. Generally burn out
SO miles overhead. Only one in
100000 ever reaches ground, says
Prof. Forest r. Moulton, University
Of Chicago.
Largest known meteor was found
in Greenland in 1894 by Explorer
Peary. 1t weighs 38 tons. Meas
ures II by by feet.
But most meteorS weigh only a
few ounces. They're made mostly
Of nickel-iron, with a fused black
crust like varnish. often contain
gold, platinum and diamond specks.
Comet" gets it's name from Greek
word, "kometes.' That means hay
ing long hair" Ancients, you see,
thought the comets tail was a}beard.
Over 400 comets, rowing around the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
Wage Reduction Order
Affecting More Roads
Expected This Week

CHICAGO. June 21.-Annource-
ment of a wage reduction order af-
fecting practically all railroads in
volved in the six hundred dollars
wage awards Of July, 1920, not named
In the reduction order Of June /, is
expected this week, it was learned
today at the United States railroad
labor board.
A brief hearing covering about
thirty, roads asking wage cuts was
held today. The boards decision on
this case and on the hearing Of June
s, when more than $50 roads pre-
scented petitions will be rendered
simultaneously. The decision, it was
learned officially today, will be drawn
as an addendum to the wage reduc-
ton order of June 1 and the reduc-
tions virtually will be identical with
the average IL per cent cut granted
by that order.
1.-THE addendum probably will be
completed by the end of this week."
a member Of the board said today.
1T is the boards intention to publish
1t as far in advance of July 1 as pos
sible. The addendum order will be
effective on that date when the origi-
nal reduction decision also goes into
effect"
The Southern Railway and its sub
salaries was the only trunk line to
appear today which had not already
sought reductions for some classes
of employees at previous hearing. The
Southern asked that the boards IL
per cent reduction order be applied
to all employees on that road.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
CALOMEL LOSING
OUT IN SOUTH
Mr.. Dodson, the oliver
Tone" Man, Responsible
for Change for the Better

Every druggist in town has noticed
great falling off in the sale of cal-
omel. They all give the same reason.
Dodson's Liver Tone is taking it's
place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it." Dodson's Liver Tone is
personally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. A large bottle
doesn't cost very much but if it fails
to give easy relief in every case Of
liver sluggishness and constipation,
Just ask for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is pleasant-
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowel. 1t doesn't grippe or
cause inconvenience all the next day
like violent calomeI. Take a dose of
calomel today and tomorrow you will
feel weak. sick and nauseated. Don't
lose a day.-(Advt.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
COCKTAIL SHAKER is STILL
MOSTPOPULAR WEDDING GIFT

"Humidors, silver cigar and ciga-
rette boxes, TASKS and smoking sets
are also popular gifts with men, but
they are seldom chosen for wedding
presents.
Silver plate is often a mans
choice when he comes to shop ac-
companied by his wife. In this line
his fancy usually runs to Sheffield
trays and platters, seldom to tea
sets. casseroles or bonbon dishes.
Women are heavy buyers Of crys-
tai, china and 1ustre ware, while men
go in for leather. bronLes and wood.
I've never seen a man buy a really
useless )or foolish gift, unless, Of
course, one considers a cocktail shak-
er as an extraordinary purchase these
days."
Mr.. Macintosh has personally aid
ed in the selection of more than 50,-
coo wedding presents. All the White
House brides of recent years have
profited by his wisdom and good
taste. Many of the, gifts chosen for
Alice Roosevelt, Jessie and Eleanor
Wilson, and the present wife of sx-
President Wilson were selected by
him.
Gifts sent from New York to the
royal brides ofNEurope, presents for
bridals and birthdays in South
America. the Orient and far away
Australia have been selected from
and sold again by Mr.. Macintosh.
The search for good gifts goes on
continually. 1t leads over the seven
seas, through the seventy newly
stenciled borders of old countries,
into cities of difficult name and into
quaint little fairy tale villages, but
sparkling glass from Nancy, odd bits
of br!cza-brac from Haida i'll Bohe
mia, china and lustre ware from
Staffordshire, bronzes from Vienna
and Paris, fooled leather and wood
from Florence, pottery from Houen
and Bassano-al lare put to shame
by the huble cocktail shaker!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
Watson to Oppose
New Highway Bill

WASHINGTON. Juno 21.-IrtelIi-
gent development of highways will
reduce living costs, strengthen de-
lenses and create "a new spirit Of
nationalism." the senate post roads
committee declared in it's majority
report urging passage Of the federal
highway commission act. Unless final
authority in selection of routes is
placed with such a federal commits
sion, it said. estate roads of primary
Importance may fail to connect at
state lines and thus disjoint an in
terstate system and obstruct traffic
from one state to another"
Three Democratic members Of the
committee. Senators Watson. Geor-
gia; Mcclellan, Tennessee, and Heflin,
Alabama, will file a minority report
The majority report said 50 pcr
cent of funds now handled by the
department of agriculture consisted
of road appropria lions and this
threatened ''to overshadow the pur-
pose for which the department of
agriculture was created greatly to
the detrimenI of the agricultural
interests"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23

earth, have been observed and their
routes figured out so accurately THAI
their return can be predicted almost
to a, day. Some have tails 100000
900 miles long.
Ancients thought comets fore
Swallowed dire troubles:
In the year S37 comet scared
King Louis 1 Of France. To appease
it's wrath, he ordered many churches
built.
The Normans might not have in
vaded England if King William had
not, thought a comet heralded his
divine right.
But in 1921 few are afraid of a
10 Gomez treR Ih AZ II gTI GroP
in the cellar.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
VALUE OF SINGLE AND
MARRIED MEN DISCUSSED

they like. A married man cannot
play this game Of chance.
employers who want a man who
~ts willing to play the game Of chance
take a larger shot, travel long dis
tances and live for several years out
west or IN oil fields prefer to have
a single man.
But usually employers of office
workers and the men who have a rou-
tine work prefer the married man.
They know he will stand correction,
take suggestions and even rebuffs.
Sometimes it is a good thing for
young man to have his wanderlust
spirit subdued," continued Mr.. Hibby.
"Not long ago a very bright young
man who was working in an indus
trial plant in New England came to
me and insisted he wanted to go out
west. He had a wife and child and
he was not the adventuresome wan
derlust type who makes good; there
for he finally took my advice, stayed.
and today is the manager of the con-
Germ. If he had not been married
wild horses could not have held him.
some students from the New York
University a fellow asked what was
the matter with him. I haven't any
Of this wanderlust spirit he said. I
would be satisfied to settle down at
some little position in New York and
stay here all my life. Am I a nut?'
There are many men like this"
concluded Mr.. Kibby. "They are the
normal, square-toed everyday fellows
They make good employees and good
husbands. But, on the other hand,
all the pioneers in business adven-
lures, the old men, the bankers, the
Wall street brokers. the fellows who
want to see the country and change
from one position to another until
they land the thing they like. seem
pile. The companies who want that
type of men prefer to have them sim
gle, and they make better husbands
after they have established them
selves"
SO it all depends upon the man and
the job.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-23
IMr. ]. L. Exunn Dead

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ca, June q.
Mr.. J. Lawrence Exum, aged 49,,
died at the State sanitarium at Mil
ledgeville early Sunday morning.
He is survived by his widow, who
was formerly Miss Lille Ambrose, of
Lawrenceville, and his mother, Mrs.
Bessie EXum; also two cousins,
James and Quinlan Cumfort, all of
LawrencevilIe. He was q widely
known citizen and a devout member
of the Methodist church and a great
Sunday school worker. His body
was brought to Lawrenceville for
funeral and interment.