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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

place Dempsey on edge for the de-
fense Of his title. He declared how
ever, that the champion would require
the services of some high class spar.
ring partners to reach the top of his
form
II consider that Dempsey reached
his top form as far as physical CON
dition is concerned when he stepped
into the ring at Toledo on July I, 10
meet Jess Willard" said Sullivan. 1T
Is Impossible for any athlete TO reach
that top form more than once in his
career. But Jack should be able to APP
proach near that top pinnacle, July
=, for he has everything in his favor
| He is young and has not lost vigor
from his youthful body. He has taken
excellent care of himself and has not
hidden fat about his kidneys that was
so costly in the case of Jess Willard
| and Jim Jeffries.
"All he needs for the next two weeks
is hard training to put him in the
shape he should be as Dempsey likes
| his work. There is no question in my
mind that he will be on the job fol
training with him is pleasure ant
not hardship and there is nothing
like being interested in what you do
no matter what the game is
| "My chief fault in the workout
have seen him in, is the absence o.
good sparring partners. Dempsey needs
some good men 10 box during the day!
between now and the battle to pu
him on edge. The men he now ha:
with him, are not even second rater!
and do not give the champion tn,
workouts that he should have"
Battling Ghee. the 1875 FOUNDER, whC
waited for eight days for an opportun
ity to take few punches at Dempsey
probably is sadder but wiser today
Ghee faced the champion for the firs
time yesterday and was on the floo
three times during their two rounds
After the workout the Memphis boxe
hurried to a dentist to find out wha
could be done to save two teeth whicl
Dempsey knocked loose. AS the resul
of the punching Ghee received h
probably will be given an opportanit.
TO rest up for a few days Dempse
boxed six rounds yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

Manhasset, \. Y. June 1S.-Memor-
Pies Of a boxing bout with an American
iloughboy in France were recalled to
the mind of Georges Carpenter and
long standing puzzle was solved
when a colonel of infantry called upon
the challenger to extend his best
wishes.
Remember" said the officer, when
Your organization was relieved from
the trenches and you were asked TO
come to an American camp under my
command to box an exhibition"
You found yourself pitted against
tg American doughboy who could hit.
He forgot 1t was just an exhibition and
began punching your head. You eau
| toned him to ease up but he Just
kept on. Then you did the inevitable
let him have a right on the Jaw for
Knockout.
Remember. don't you7"
Yes, remember" answered Georges
but why. may ! ask. was he so per.
sistent after had cautioned hlm?"
why. we gave him 500 ana told
him 10 knock you out"
The challenger laughed long and
happily. and in perfect American style
said:
We'll, I'll be bowed
The story that Georges Carpenter
lost his fortune during the war and
consented to fight Dempsey as "a means
Of repenishng his bank alcount, has
been branded as idle talk" One of
| the challenger's intimate friends said
today that Carpenter has been much
annoyed over the report and wants
the American public to know that he
is fighting Dempsey for glory,
while his share ~ the purse will
be large In the gross 1t will dwindle IN
the payment of taxes and division with
manager, trainers ana other members
Of the party and will be comparatively
small" his friend said.
Lew persons in America know that
Carpenter has money enough 10 per
nit his retirement from the ring right
row and keep him and his family In
luxury for life,
Georges Carpentier wants to be
heavyweight champion OF the world,
he is not in America with any greedy
desires"
Carpenter was much refreshed toda2
after his enforced idleness in which
he was forced 10 cut the training pro-
gram short because Of rain,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19
DEMPSEY'S TRAINERS DEVOTE THEIR
EFFORTS TO DEVELOPING CHAMPS SPEED

Atlantic City, n. j., June lS.-With
Jack Dempsey back in his training
sr'nG today, development of the cham
pioAs speed 10 match that OF the Graf
y Georges Carpenter, is the chief
aim of mis- handlers.
Dempsey will be called upen 10 do
more boxing with smaller and lighter
sparrins partners as he advances into
the final two weeks. of training and
mauing with the heavyweghts in
camp will be gradually cut down.
Jack Kearns, manager Of the chani-
rion, plans to bring some of the fast
est ,1iddleweshts and lightweights in
the country into the camp.
Harry Greb, the Pittsburgh 170-poun-
der who assisted Dempsey in training
for the match with Billy Alske in Ben
ton fafbor Mich, last labor day, prob
ably will join the title holders forces
here next week
Mike Gibbons, the st. Paul middle
weight. and Jamaica Kid also are
Slated as early requirements on the
staff OF sparring partners.
Dempsey started in on the program
TO increase his speed yesterday when
he resumed boxing for the first time
since his left eye was ripped open
ten days ago. Instead of working with
the heavyweights in camp, he boxed
two rounds each with Babe Herman
shfty. hard,hitting featherweight
and Irish Patsy Cline. a lightweight
Both made Dempsey box with the
speed Of lightweight. The champion
who heretofore has boxed with no head
protection whatever wore a mead gear
yesterday. This was to protect the
healing wound over his eye. He also
wore thick padding over the wound
Although Dempsey plans TO enter
the ring at "Boyes Thirty Acres,
July 2, weighing about 100 pounds. hS
may be lighter than this, Manager
kearns said. il the weather becomes
rot in the days preceding the match
The title holder scaled 1874 pounds yes
terday, according to kearns.
The champion has eliminated rop,
skipping from his training program
Experts contend that there is no mov'
in rope skipping that is employed il
fighting and that shadow boxing is tn,
best exercise because ii brings lei
motions as well as arms into play.
Dempsey, it became known today
was host to two hungry and footsor'
strangers at his camp yesterday
Dempsey found them hanging aroun'
the entrance at noon. They had walket
from Philadelphia and neither ha
sufficient funds for a meal.
What's the rub, fellows?" Dempse.
asked
Were hungry and busted" was tn
reply, whereupon Dempsey threw hi
arms around their shoulders and the,
disappeared through the gates an
into piping hot meal al the cham
pion's table.
i've been in the same fix man
times, busted and hungry" Dempse
said.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19
Big Jim Jeffries-Referee

Atlantic City. n. j.. June lS.-Rob-
ort Edgren. stake holder and final
hrbite,' of all disputes between Jack
Dempsey and Georges Carpenter and
Tex Rickard, promoter OF their match
at Jersey City on July 2. favors the
selection Of James Jeffrles, former
worlds champion as referee Of the
championship contest.
Edgren made this announcement af-
ter another conference with Jack
kearns, manager OF Dempsey on the
referee situation over which there is
q controversy because the desire Of the
New Jersey boxing commission to ap-
roint New Jersey referee as the
third man in the ring. Edgren probab-
ly will continue his conference with
Kearns today in an effort to adjust the
dispute. Kearns Is opposed 10 the
selection of Harry Ertle. city marshal
of Jersey city. who is Unofficially
said TO he the choice OF the commits
sion.
After the referee finally is left
In me for selection shall recommend
The choice of Jeffries." Edgren said
He has an unimpeachable reputation
Tor honesty. knows the game and has
world wide reputation us u former
champion"
There will be another meeting OF
the New Jersey commission next Mon
day at which time the referee question
probably will be settled,
William "Pooch" sullivan, the vet.
oran trainer of Harvard athletic teams
expressed the opinion today that hard
womb fhr the nnxI IWn Menks MnlIld
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

Twin Falls, Idaho. June 1S-Mrs.
LYDIA Southard charged with the
murder of Edward f. Meyer, her
fourth husband, was bound over for
trial in the district court. W. +.
Guthrie. chief council for the defense,
stated that he would apply for admis-
sion of Mrs. Southard to bail and
that failing in this, he would ask for
Immediate trial
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19
Husband Shoots Wife

Christopher H., June 1S-John Bur
ketta. 3d. and his divorced wife, Jen'
ME. 80, were wounded, probably ia
tally, n Il shooting today. Mr..
Burketta yesterday obtained her di-
vorce and this morning Burketta
visited her home and is said to have
shot her twice. Constable Harry
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

Owens was called and Bruketta was
shot in the head in an exchange Of
shots with the officer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

Profits of Wholesalers and JObbers Averaged Cent
Investment in 1918 and 81 in l919-Furher Decline
Held to Be Justified.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19
BY the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, June 11.-High prices of footwear
winch obtained during 1918 and increased in 1919
suited from abnormal conditions supply and demand both
economical and psychological arising from the war; the
Federal Trade Commission today reported to the House of
Representatives. The report submitted response to
resolution.
Incident to these conditions" the report added "were
large margins of profit taken by tanners shoe
were declared to be Out Of all proportion to the
their cost per unit"
The advance in the price of shoes finally terminated
by the socaed buyers strike in the spring of 1920 accord
ing to the report,
Based Actual Cost.
Failure Of leather and shoe prices decline extensive.
y did hide prices after the buyers strike was attributed
by the commission to tendency base selling prices on
actual rather than replacement cos and the fact that
I'm any event." the report concluded "the present price
OF hides and skins and the condition existing in these phases
of industry justify expectation of still further declines
the quoted prices of leather and Shoes"
The report claims large profits part of the tanners
shoe manufacturers and wholesalers retailers in 1918 and
1919 Earnings of 361 reporting shoe repre-
senng 62 cent Of the 1919 production averaged per
cent on their total investment according to the commissions
figures
Selling Prices Increased Rapidly &t'''''- "~'
These large earnings of tanners and shoe manufacture
ers the report were due primarily the fact that their
selling prices increased out Of all proportion
in their costs Of production.
Earnings Of 80 typical shoe wholesalers and jobes ay
eraged about 22 cent the investment in 1918
81 cent in 1919 Earnings of 46 typical shoe retailers
1919 These earnings like those the tanners and manu-
shoe sold"
There was an important decrease in the suppy Of inn
ported hides in 1918 and 1919 the commission said but il
could not subscribe that the why prices of shoes
scared even after hide stocks available quantity
quotations lower
The commission notes change in the retail demand to
higher quality Of shoes in spite of the greater prices exacted
This was in addition according to the report TO marked
man dior shoes in 1919 but slackenng followed in 1920
when the buyers strike" took nation wide SCOPE
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-19

William "Pooch" sullivan the vet
oran trainer of Harvard athletic teams
expressed the opinion today that hard
work for the next two weeks would
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04
DEED FOR JOHNSON
NONE is RECEIVED

The office Of Gov Taylor is in re-
ceipt Of the deed. abstract and blue
print Of the land involved in the pur-
chase of the Andrew Johnson home
property in Greenyille. The old
tailor shop and lot upon which it
stands were authorized by the
recent legislature to be purchased BY
the state for historic purposes and
the transaction in question CONS
pletes the deal authorized with the
exception Of the fact that the $1,000
provided for by the legislature for
this purpose has not been paid out.
The sum of $4,000 was named in
the bill authorizing the state to ac-
quire the property, but the smaller
sum was agreed upon by the owner
as acceptable following negotiations
with the governor and other mem
bers Of the special committee named
to attend to the details of purchase.
The plans for the purchase of the
home of the former president also
involve its improvement with a view
to permanent maintenance as a Ten
nessee historical SPOT like the Herm-
itage.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

and fertile and several times as large.
The soil was gilt-edged security for
loan of $4,000, which completed
the purchase fund.
Here was a man situated ideally.
Like George Washington, Garibaldi,
Cincinnatus and other heroes of his
tory--like Aguinaldo and Villa, whose
standing is not so good-a man
mighty in battle sought the consoIa-
tions of "the mild concerns of or
binary life upon the farm. Some
where near Wolf river plantation
there is the equivalent of PohieE
church. George Washington was
vestryman at Pohick. Alvin York is
an elder of the Church of Christ in
this neighborhood.
Mr.. York is no town farmer. He
Flowed in barefoot in boyhood, where
the mules went shOd with iron to
protect their hoofs from the obsti-
nate clods. He knows farming from
alpha to omega, from daylight to
dusk, from planting to harvest. But,
runs the report. the hay and grain
crops are so injured by drouth that
he can not find a profit in a years
farming, although he has done as
much hard work as a dozen ordi-
nary men,"
Every farmer who pays interest
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04
HARDER THAN FIGHTING

Alvin York, of Tennessee ! ~
lacking in energy. He was and ~ =
rated as the greatest hero Of tbe
' woIid war IN point of single-handed
performance. Whether the Germ y
soldiers he killed or canturad ' nan
gay numbered 1913 or 1923 does nof
the punch. ""' he mad
1t is depressing to hear Of NJ
f iITk beng in a hole, whipped bv
zen circumstances, but not . few g
american farmers will saw thai aftar
an lie on the firing line il eli
peer and skillets, or at the worst oil
blood and glory, compared with li a,s
in the furrow. WIN me
The late Franklin KNIGHT rono
secretary Of the interior, planned
Tor and dreamed of a small farm arms es
nome for every returned soldier
whose life in the open had made bir,
unwilling to return to the slavery "a Of
business. The secretary of agr;cnI
lure broke in upon the dreams of
the secretary of the interior ii seu
gr1uiI1ly: First make farming nav
Mr.. York returned to Tennessee
married his pre-war sweetheart de-
clined to become a competitor Of
Douglas Fairbanks, DESPITE dazzling
offers, accepted gracefully an offer
OF the Rotary Club Of Nashville of
$4,000 as the first payment upon
a $4,000 farm lying in the three
forks of Wolf river, a farm as fair
and as fertile as the fairest and most
fertile one Of which the secretary
or the interior had dreamed; as fair
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

II am in good health for the first
ime in thirty years and give Tan
lac the entire credit" said Professor
G. j. Budlong, we'll known and high
" respected citizen Of Manchester,
N. H., living at AZ School street.
"From the time | was a boy /
couldn't sit down and eat a meal
without being in misery afterwards
from Indigestion. During all these
years ! was afflicted with rheuma-
tism, too. 1t was all over my body,
but especially bad in my feet and
legs and at times ] couldn't get from
my bed to my chair without help. /
was almost a nervous wreck from
all these years Of suffering and
could not half do my work. hoped
for nothing more than temporary
benefit from Tanlac, as / believed it
impossible for any medicine to give
me entire relief, but this is exactly
what Tanlac has done.
"For the first time since / can re-
member | eat anything | want and
digest it without trouble. / haven't
an ache or pain and have put on
eighteen pounds in weight. I just
feel good all over and enjoy life as
/ never did before. Having put Tan
lac to the test, l do not hesitate to
say that it is the greaest medicine
of the age for stomach trouble and
rheumatism"
Tanlac is sold in Covington by
Alexander Drug Co., and by leading
druggists everywhere,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04
SOLDIER SCANDAL IN
JOHNSON CITY HOSPITAL

The Johnson City (Tenn.) Old Sol
diers Home was characterized as a
"madhouse' and the Fort McHenry
MD Hospital was described as be-
ing fit only for sewerage disposal
plant By Col. Charles r. Forbes,
war risk insurance director, before a
senate committee in Washington, in a
plea for broader powers to meet the
hospital needs Of world war veterans.
Conditions at the Johnson City
home, Col. Forbes asserted. were de-
plorable in countless aspects.
He said that liquor and narcotics
were sold among the 900 former
service men CHARTERED there and that
the war risk was pOwerless to correct
the situation because Of a lack of
jurisdiction.
Gun "toting,' he said, was COM
non, and "when patients take at
PENDANTS and throw them out. some
thing is radically wrong"
He said there was an entire lack
of discipline at the home and urged
that legislation be enacted which
would place all institutions in which
former service men are confined
under the direct control of the fed
eral government.
AS for Fort McHenry Hospital,
Col. Forbes said he had set his foot
down on further expenditures there
and declared if it were to be ex-
banded it should be converted into
fertilizer plant. He did not COM
plain about the management or treat
ment there, combining his criticism
to physical conditions.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04
ADMINIsTRATRIx's NOTICE

/ have on this date, IN the County
Court Of Upton County, Tennessee,
been appointed and qualified as adj
ministratrix Of the estate Of L0nnie
Roy Slower, deceased, and all per-
sons holding claims against said es-
tape are hereby directed and requir-
ed to file The same with the Clerk
of said Court, as now provided by
law, verified by affidavit, as pro-
vided by law. All persons owing
said estate are hereby requested to
settle with me at once.
This the 18th day of July, 1921.
LUCY SLOWER,
14aug4w) Administrators.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

on lien notes knows how to sympa-
thize with a young man who owes
$4,000 on a 5000 farm and a
hard hit by drouth.
Farmer York, who still might re-
coup his losses in the movies, or lee
ture knowingly for one of the nat
ional organizations Of farmers upon
farming as a gamble and grind,
will, no doubt, stick to farming and
hope for better luck next year. Men
of his stamina-but not often men
who were invited to become screen
stars or platform celebrities-have
done the like before him. Not one
in 100 Of them has been in a posi-
ton, like Washington or Garibaldi,
to consider the results of bad year
in an armchair in the library, or
with his feet upon the veranda rail-
ing, and with a large balance in
charlottesville Courier-Journal
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

In the recent war the explosion Of
shells and the noise Of the big guns
in France and Belgium was heard in
the eastern part of England at a dis
lance up to $50 miles.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

666 has more limitations than any
other fever tonic on the market; but
no one wants limitations. oct1
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

666 quickly relieves constipation,
biliousness. loss Of appetite and
headaches, due to torpid liver. oct1
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-04

The ancient Egyptians cultivated
beans for their own use.
The New York herald., 1921-04-01
NINE. GUILBERTS FAREWELL.
Gives Last Recital Sunday, but
VIII Return In Autumn.

Nine Yvette Guilbert is to return soon
to France. For f1ve years she has been
one Of the distinguished artistic refugees
In this city She will leave for Paris
this month. but will return in the au-
tumn. Like others. she has not only
learned to know this country during her
stay here, but to love 1t. So she will
come back to resume the artistic activ-
tiles which have occupied her time since
her arrival.
Yesterday afternoon she gave at the
Thirty-ninth Street Theatre the first OF
two farewell recitals. Nine. Guilbert
was at her best in the opening numbers.
Belle Isabeau" was no more entertain
ing than the preliminary explanation OF
the singer, which was irresistibly comic
SO was the "Douce Dame" of Adam de
la Halle. which she had never sung be-
FORE The thirteenth century descrip-
ton of the terror stricken lover set the
audience in roars of laughter. But Nine.
Guilbert Is the spirit of ironic gaiety.
She Is unique. Whether she was render
ing songs OF the Middle Ages or the more
recent centuries. she held her hearers in
the happiest thraldom.
The close OF the programme was de-
voted to serious numbers, the poems OF
Baudelaire set to the music OF Rollinat
The less said about that part OF the per-
formance, the better for the fame OF
Nine. Guilbert She will give her last
recital on Sunday.
The New York herald., 1921-04-01
PAGEANT AT MUSEUM.
League 20 Present
Novel Spectacle Tonight.

The Assyrian pageant to be given by
the Architectural League at the cerc-
monies coincident with the opening OF
the annual exhibition In the new south
wing OF the Metropolitan Museum OF Art
tonight will include a series OF inter-
esting dances and tsbleaux reminiscent
OF remote period OF antiquity. There
will be n scene depicting Daniel in
the Lions Den," in the cast OF which
win be volodia vestoff OF the Pavlowa
company, and Miss Anna Arnowitz, In
the parts Of DdHiol and Tshtdr the
kings daughter. respectively. King
Darius will be portrayed by Mr. Robert
Aitken. sculptor. and tho High Priest
will be Elliot G. Brown.
The high priestess group viii be com
posed Of Mrs. Duncan Smith, Miss Mary
Ellen Ackerman. Mrs. Talbot Mrs
withers, Miss Violet Terwilliger and
Mrs Alexander Marcuse. The group OF
the children Of captivity. led by Mrs.
Charles N. Higgins. will include the
Misses Anstiss de veau. Genevieve Glen
denim, Madelaine Liebert, Margaret
SHAW. Wandcrn Mathews, Jean Potter,
Olivia Erdmann, Rosalle Bloodgood
Genevieve Mangam. Margaret Starr and
Marion Tiffany.
The New York herald., 1921-04-01
DINNERS FOR ENGAGED GIRLS.
Theatre Parties Also for Miss Har-
ding and Miss Morris.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Temple Bowdoir
OF 104 East Thirty-seventh street gave a
dinner and theatre party last night for
Miss Catharine Harding and Mr. Loril-
lard Suffern Taller. who are to be mar
ried next Wednesday In st. Bartholo-
news Church. The other guests were
Mr.. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr.
Misses Mabel Satterlce, Katharine Hop
pin Post, Helena Ogden and Alice w.
Goddard, Messrs. j. Nelson Borland I'd,
Robert Livingston Duane and Perry Ken.
nard. After dinner Mr.. and Mrs. Bow
doin took their guests TO see Nice Peo-
ple' at the Klaw Theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gould gave a
dinner last night az 936 Fifth avenue
for Miss Louise Morris and Mr.. Dudley
II Mills, whose engagement was an
nounced recently. Miss Morris Is n
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Hennen
Norris and an undergraduate at Vassar.
After dinner Mr. and Mrs. Gould took
their guests to see The Champion" Al
the Longacre Theatre.
a small dance was given last night
by Mr. Clarence H. Mackay at his house
East Seventy-fifth street. for his sec
ond daughter. Miss Ellin Mackay. who IL
at home for the holidays. The guests
100 in number, Included some OF Miss
Mackays school friends and young men
no are home for the holidays. After
supper Irving Fisher Of the "Sally"
company sang