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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
Criminal Prosecution
OF Oil Promoters on
Fraud Charges Soon
Investigation in Taxes Cen
ters Around TT. Worth,
Dallas and Houston; 9th
ers are Involved.

FORT WORTH. Texas--Threefold in
vestigation of the flooding of many
states with worthless oil stocks is un.
der way in Texas.
Criminal prosecution OF many oil
promoters for fraudulent use of the
mails, barring of their present bust
ness methods by the Federal Trade
Commission, and exposure of these
methods by the national vigilance com
mittee of the Associated Advertising
Clubs OF America are among the re-
suits expected.
The Investigations in Texas center in
Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston. Sim
liar inquiries are under way or have
been completed in Arkansas. another
hotbed of bogus stock selling, and in
Kansas City.
Evidence already has been uncovered
showing the swindling OF thousands of
persons throughout the United States.
Heavier even than at the time oil
"wild-catting" was in its flower in Tex
as is the harvest of illicit gain which
the promoters have reaped.
Make Big Clean.Up
Publicity, either in newspapers spe-
cializing in oil promotion or in direct
by-mail canvassing of Sucker lists"
has enabled the stock-selling promoters
TO make amazing "clean-ups' at the ex-
pense OF the credulous
Declarations of trust" which the
promoters hold are legal under the COM
mon law, are used by the oil men to en-
able them 10 evade prosecution in the
state courts or suits IN the civil.
Claiming the right under these dec
larations TO exclusive and complete
control OF the affairs Of the syndicates
they organize. the promoters often
pocket 80 per cent or more OF the pro.
ceeds from their stock selling cam
paigns as Organization fees" pay
themselves handsOmes alaries and meet
big expense accounts from the remain.
der. and spend little or nothing in ac.
tual oil operations
Mergers" Questioned
From syndicates which have been
MIXED dry by the original promoters.
numerous oil mergers" now flourish
Ing in Fort Worth and elsewhere buy
lists OF stockholders and canvass these
for more profits. The mergers write
alluring letters offering to exchange
their own stock for the stock of defunct
companies, provided the holders buy e5
per cent additional merger" stock
for cash.
Legitimacy Of the merger" promo.
tons is being especially inquired into
by the Federal Trade Commission.
Small dividends which the mergers"
pay from time to time come from the
proceeds OF stock sales. federal au-
thorites here believe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
FOUND GUILTY BLUE
SKY LAW VIOLATION

SAN FRANCISCo.-Dr. John G..
Eckcs dentist and alleged former Klea.
gle OF the Ku Klux Klan was found
guilty OF violating the state blue sky
law by jury in superior court here
today. DR.. Eckes was charged with
selling stock in II Texas company with.
out first having obtained u permit from
the state corporation commission.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
"a CENTS EXPENSE
BILL FOR RUSSELL,

MlSE0GEE. OKLA. I'm he cam.
paisn "Np,usr list t,l.J today by the
republican county organization appears
this notation campbell Russell. s.a.."
Russell made q speech hcrr ,Yainst
Jack Walton, deuocDUt nominee Tor
governor Tho county organization list.
ed its expenditures W Si,OsOl5. The
democratic organization filed an expense
account OF se.356ig.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
China Situation
Slightly Better
But Not Settled

AMOY. Chlna.-The local situation ls
improved slightly. though still unset.
tied and uncertain Tho BinS Of Chi.
ma, and other large Chinese banks have
moved from the city 10 the foreign set.
tlement at Kulangsu Tor protection.
American. British and Japanese gun.
boats remain guarding foreign interests
Chang Tsc'Peug, who sometime ago
set up rival provincial government.
continues to hold Annoy.
Ill IIao.Chl, the governor ~ Fukien.
who was driven from Foochow. the cap.
itul, by msurgcnt forces has gone to
Swatow through the aid Of the Japa-
ncse consulate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21

Asking that the week " DE.
ccmber II to ie be designated as
Bol weevil Destruction Week In
Oklahoma. the chamber OF com.
merce is petitionins GOV. ]. H. A.
Robertson to issue proclamation
urging the farmers to action 80
that the next cotton crop may be
saved.
Monday Ed l.. Spears. assistant
secretary of the state board Of
agriculture, met with the Ard.
more Farm Congress and the idea
was conceived following his remarks
IN the need ~ ritan.uD ram
paien.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
LABOR CONDITIONS
IN EAST IMPROVED

Labor conditions In the cast are be.
ing improved steadily and In the steel
industry an Increase In wage IL expect
ed In order to attract workmen to that
section Of the country. according TO
City Manager Kirk Dyer who returned
Saturday from Kansas City where he
attended a meeting of city managers
from 3s states.
On the other hand. there is still a
surplus OF workmen west OF the Missls.
sippl. majority OF which are farmers
and unskilled laborers. These deductions
were made from reports on general con.
ditions presented at the meeting.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
Big FREE DANCE BY
GROTTO AFTER SHOW

l'o.-eC .ately after thc second n IS. T.
tdti1h 81 The DiS'r Revre Of 1922"
toalar; there vii lbe big dance at
Correction Hall TO- members of the
cast cnd all those who held tickets on
the fist and second nights. Horns Or
ohesiru viii furnish the music.
This tree dance is given as a means
o. showing the appreciation OF officials
OF Anhmes Grotto for the support that
ras been given their first undertaking
- this Kind.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
CHINESE BANDITS BURNING
CITIES IN THEIR PATH

SCtIANGHAI.-Th bandit army of
Honun Province. 10000 strong. which
has kidnapped a number Of foreign mis-
sionaries recently Is laying waste
path six miles wide across the province
irirning every city, town and farm
house In its line OF march ana leaving
It's trail strewn with dead bodies, &c.
cordnig to letter received here from
u. T.. Ledgard, an English missionary
who escaped
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
ANDERSON TO REPORT
ON DISPLAY TUESDAY

NJ. 4. Anderson. who put on the Made
In Ardmore exhibit last week In the
windows OF the Ardmore Pharmacy will
report on the exhibition Tuesday after.
noon at a meeting OF the Manufactur
ers' association at the chamber OF com.
merce.
John Harris, Ada brick manufactur.
ct, will attend the meeting and prob
ably will report his findings In this
county after inspection NJ halfdozrn
shale deposits
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
JUDGE EDWARDS TO PRESIDE
AT ROBERTsON'S TRIAL

okMULGEE, Okla.-Judge Thomas
A. Edwards of Cordell. has been as.
signed by Chief Justice John Il. liar.
rison to go to Ada to preside at the
trial OF Gov. J. Il. A. Robertson and
the order is on the way to Ada. sc.
cordlng 20 a telephone message from
Oklahoma City to the counsel for the
governor here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
JUDGE EDWARDS
SUSTAINS WRIT
VENUE Change
Attorneys Prepare for Trial
and Necessary Papers
VIII Be Filed Within
the Next Few Days.
SPEEDY EXECUTION
WANTED IN COURTS
application for Pardon for Ar.
thur Burch to Be Asked at
Capital Soon.

OKLAHOMA CITY, wri. of probi.
o.tion restraining Judge j. ~. Rolin
ot me district court OF Pontotoe oount,.
from participation in the bribery case
against Governor Robertson WAS issuad
oy me state supreme court today ON
appHcotlol OF James Hepburn. OK.
mulgee county attorney.
ohMCLGEE, Okla-Gov. ]. p A.
hoDertson's motion challenging Tho
lurther jurisdiction of the Oknulgo.
ulstrlct court to hear matters I'm his
case on the ground that the case ba.
peen transferred and is now bending 4,
the district court Of Pontotoc county
was sustained at 10 o'clock this morn.
ing by Judge Thomas A. Edwards
rms means that Governor Robertson
VIII 20 on trial at Ada at the earliest
possible date. according TO ATTORNEYS
for The governor.
Judge Edwards based his decision on
the record, citing the fact thar :,
change OF venue was granted on No.
Vember 16. transcript of which ,,as
iiied Win the court clerk Of pontotoc
county on November II. no exceptions
to the action OF Judge Wright were
Offered by County Attorney Hepburn.
the attorney decision states.
The opinion of Judge Edwards GOV.
eilns sixty written pages. goes eytens.
Neiy INTO the record of the chang. OF
Vehue hearing on November lG and
says;
Wants Case Set
ihe next move IN the case again,t
Governor Robertson. wherein he il
charged with acceptance of u bribe 10
permit operation OF a bank said 10 have
been in an insolvent condition will ba
request Of the presiding Judge in the
Pontotoc county district to set the case
down for trial. Thomas T. McPherren
ot Durant, associate counsel, announc-
ed Following the decision of Judge Ed.
wards sustaining the motion challene-
ing Jurisdiction Of the Okmulgee county
district court.
we desire to have Governor Rob.
ertson's trial take place immediately.
said Attorney McPherrcn.
Nacaie Wright's Order
NOTICE that at . o'clock Wednesday
morning he would file In the district
court of Pontotoc county motion 10
vacate the order Of Judge l.. Il. Wright
OF Creek county, granting a change of
venue I'm the case OF the state against
Gov. j. b. A. Robertson was given this
morning by County Attorney James
Hepburn after Judge Edwards handed
down his opinion sustaining the motion
OF counsel for Governor Robertson.
challenging the jurisdiction OF the Ok.
mulgee district court, the effect Of
which is to sustain Judge Wrights or
der granting change of venue.
Mr.. Hepburn. however stated that
the motion would be Z led providing the
rlprcme court designates Judge to
preside at hearing and rules on It.
Written notice viii also be served on
counsel foi Governor Robertson. Mr.
/ Hepburn said
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
Pardon for Burch

MUSKOGEE. Okla Application for
n full pardon for Arthur Burch. a cen.
tral figure In the controversy between
County Attorney James Hepburn OF
okmulgce county and Gov. ]. b. A.
Robertson, will be filed at once. Love
Grant OF Ft. Smith. Ark, counsel for
Burch, announced today. Attorney
Grant at Okmulgee said he would leave
tonight Tor oklahoma city and there
apply for the pardon. application Tor
which he said hal been advertised as
required by Law.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21

Motion docket in district rourt. divIs
ion number two. has been set for be
cember 2, Judge Lossdon presiding.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21

Morris Sass who has been spending
some time In the oil district about
Chickasha returned to Arimore yes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
Week of Pest Destruction

Chamber of Commerce Asks That Governor Proclaim
Period to Fight Boil Weevis During Hibenation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
TURKEY BLAMED
FOR NEAR-EAST
WARS Of PAST
Lausanne Delegates Discuss
Conditions When Greater
Powers Test Ties That
Bind Them Now.
AMERICAN A LEADERS
CALL ON POINCARE
lsmet Pasha Feels Less Conf
dent of Outcome of Confer
ence, Reports Indicate.

LAtCANNE.-Delegates to the Ian.
Same conference. with the preliminary
ora'ory concerning the close relations
ol Great Britain. France and ItaIv ba-
hInd them, faced this morning the real
Test Of the strength of ties which the
spoFesmen for the three powers have
insisted existed among them
The conference meets in private seq.
Sion today for organization and TO
start the work of making peace with
the Turks For centuries Turkey has
oeeh able to protect herself by getting
European nations to quarrel among
'nenlss es over near eastern oues.
l"nS. The rivalry of Tnnce. Italy and
iitot Britain for supremacy in the Le.
want Eos teen the protection OF weak
sul'..u~ az the past and It remains 10 be
ae'li whether II will also I've 81 service
t. Mnslapha kcma! Pasha and his An.
CORA associates.
lsmet Pasha and his associates an
pear less confident than when they ar.
rived ana ln~ feeling Is growing that
They VIII reduce their nrogram mater.
lally In the hope uf restoring peace and
suuf viii. Il Is becoming evident that
they are beginning To realize that Il
was Greece and not the great powers 81
Europe which they defeated In their
recent successful campaign about SYM.
ria,
Confer with Poincare
Richard Washburn Child. American
ambassador to Italy. and Joseph G.
Grow. American minister to Switzer-
land who are acting as observers at
the near east conference, conferred
with Premier Poncare Of France AT
the Palace hotel this morning.
/ The American representatives. Il il
learned, have not confined their prclim.
mary conferences 10 France. but in a
desire to learn the view points OF the
other leading nations. and proceed in
u general spirit Of understanding they
conferred also with Lord Curzon. the
British foreign secretary and Premier
Mussolni of Italy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-11-21
WEATHER

Tonight and Wednesday,
mostly cloudy; unsettled.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05

million dollars. What's the next
step?'
"Then the ne7t step, of course. is
to write the play. That sounds eva
sive? Not at all Remember. you've
put the idea on a theater, not on a
drama, basis. That is to say, on a busi-
ness basis. And I'm assuming that
you are interested in the theater and
have natural bent for writing plavs.
You know the things you and your
friends laugh at-the jokes, Che types,
the situations. You know the kind of
stories IN the papers that give them
a thrill. You know the kind of plass
they rave about. Well, mix it all up
and rewrite the whole business. Then
write another one. Don't worry about
It, That will come when you try to
sell it. And before you know it the
first play is finished ana you have ideas
for nine more.
"Of course, your troubles wont be
over. There are managers and actors
and critics. After a time you'll pet
ambitious and want to chuck the thea
ter for the drama. That's another line
altogether. But these are little things
You should worry with my money
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
"Foolish Wives" Has
Arrived i'm Bermuda

Foolish Wives" is going to be made
INTO play. Eugene Walter suggested
If to Carl Laemmle after he saw the
picture and Mr.. Laemmle asked Mr..
Walter TO go ahead with it and he
would produce it the moment it was
finished. Universal has booked the
von Stroheim picture for Bermuda
this week. 1t will be shown at the
Victory Theater, which is on Queen
Street, right across from the big Hotel
Hamilton. 1t is the only picture pal
ace in Bermuda and it is always
crowded. Many of the big films are
shown there before they are released
mere and people who see them there
like to go again when they get to New
York to compare the presentations.
.,omohow they seem to like the Ber-
muda versions better. Perhaps there
arc no censors there.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
'TheCat andCanary'
Is Produced at the
Geological Moment

klbourn Gordon is going around
looking like the cat which has lust
eaten the canary, and no wonder, for
he has produced his first success, and
it is only his second play. The first
was SPOT Luck" The second is "The
Cat and the Canary
One critic said that during the eve-
ming he had clutched in terror the arm
of the person sitting next him and that
1t was long time since he had done
that. SO Henry Hull, who plays the
hero of the piece. rises TO remark that
all Of the thrills are not experienced
by the people sitting out in the plush
chairs.
ut is ali can do said MIR. Hull, "to
keep from turning around when know
that the wall behind me is opening.
l hear the people in the thcater gasp,
and sometimes some one will call out.
Look out there and every night feel
myself getting frightened All of the
people in the play say that they feel
the same way about it--apprehcnsive
from the moment the curtain goes up"
Mr. Willard has decided to give the
people only few real climaxes. There
are not more than couple Of CHASTITY
happenings in each act. but he keeps
you on the qui vive every second by
. describing all sorts of weird things
which may happen. And how is body
to know whether they will happen all
at once or not until the last act?
Henry Hull is a sort OF comic hero
in this play, and it is doubtful if he
ever will care to play just straight
heroes again. Hull hadn't intended
being an actor at all when he first
started out to face the world on his
own. Some of the things which he
tried and didn't care for were cleo
trical engineering, mining and law,
"Of course, it w-s inevitable" said
Mr.. Hull, "our family always went that
way. There were Shelley and Howard
and YOU know father, Bill Hull. gave
up being newspaper man to become
a theatrical manager My first engage
mcnt was with Leo Ditrichstsin, in
vaudeville, and after that | wouldn't
have returned to any other employment
for the world"
And he didn't have to, for Margaret
Anglin is his sister-in-law and he de-
cided that ne could play with her when
ever he was out of an engagement, or
what's tho use of having star in
the family, only Miss Anglin seldom
got chance at him because he was
generally busy with Guy Bates Post
And then came "The Man Who Came
Back For Mr.. Hull it was "The Man
Who Made Good" and he has bad few
vacations since that time.
Some one said that there was bad
luck in geological names and pointed
to "The Mad Dog" and "Tarzan OF the
Apes and even to that charming play
"The Silver Fox to prove their point
But in refutation there are "The Bat"
Bulldog Drummond," and to these may
be added "The Cat and the Canary"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Shipman Tells How
To Make a Million
BY Writing Plays

why not?" asks Sam Shiprnan, who
was represented last season bv East
Is West" and this by Lawful larceny"
''lf man can make million or more
selling shirts or canned soup, Why not
out of commodity that's purchased
eats canned soup?
The whole thing-if your objective
is a million dollars-is matter OF get
ting business point Of view. Get bust
ness line on your public and then
sci, them what they want. If it's pink
shirts, give them pink shirts. If it's
nlelodramas, write melodramas. If
they want outlaws, sell them the goods.
Ii they want to think--which they do
periodically-give them something to
think about. You don't have to make
Il subtle or deep. Make it obvious.
loud. assured, bromide and simple.
Roosevelt, for instance, would have
made the most popular dramatist in the
world
N'4 AOiSSt, Wulle you IG at 1t,
that the drama is one thing and the
theater another. Drama is an art
that grew from a spectacle that ex-
pressed emotion. The Greeks believed
in Dionysus; they made parades in
his honor; the parades became plays;
the plays begot Sophocles, Euripides,
Eschylus, Aristophanes, who, in turn,
begot drama. 1t sounds like one of the
genealogies of the Bible. The drama
went on and begot Shakespeare, Mar
lowe, Goethe, Rostand, Moliere, Racine.
Barrie, Synge and SO forth.
$50 far we're dealing with direct lines.
2Se drama also bcgot collateral de-
scendant. Its name is the theatcr.
Iii America we call it the show busj
ness. It's a cousin of the drama who
went into trade. 1t is related to the
drsI1a as American theatrical managers
are related 10 Sophocles, Shakespeare
and Moliere. Figure that relation out for
yourself. The point is, we're discuss
ing a million dollars.
Nov, you say, We'll, I've got the diff
ference now between drama and the
theater and ! am not unreceptive to
New-York tribune., 1922-03-05
Popularity of Jazz
Due 10 Economic
Cause, SAYS Leader

Two sound considerations may ac-
count for the continued popularity Of
jazz music according TO Leo T. Reis-
man, director OF the dance orchestra
appearing in "Good Morning, Dcarie," !"
at the Globe Theatcr
LEADERS of the large commercial
dance places will fight for jazz as long
as it is possible" says Mr. Rcsman.
"The motive is purely one Of receipts
Jazz dancing is possible under condi-
tions of crowding which would stop the
old style dancing, and if a dance hall
proprietor is able to come upon style
Of dance which will permit him to put
100 couples on a floor which accommo-
dated about fifty dancers in the old
days, he is going to be Jazz enthu-
siast
"The second cause Of the popularity
of jazz is that physical types to whom
the old style dancing was impossible
are now dancing. The old dances were
based upon a gliding motion, and our
best dancers were the so-caled athletic
types-tall, 1.-the and graceful. But
jazz has made possible the dance to
the unathletic types and the individual
who has thick hips, short legs, short
arms and is fat all over is bounding
u1 and down III jiggle of jazz as ex-
pertly in his new field as were the old
graceful dancers in theirs
"The difference between the old style
music and the jazz after all is but
difference of rhythm, but the meaning
Of the term jazz has changed con-
siderably. Originally Jazz meant
nglomeration of sounds, musical or
otherwise, in which all sorts of instru-
ments and all sorts of unmusical in
pans were freely used. That style is
on the wane and the thing called jazz
now is merely music written in COM
mon time and with the beats equally
accented. whereas the old dance music
was accented only on the first and third
beats of the measure.
"Another reason for the bad dancing.
even to the primitive time in which
jazz is played, lies in this constant
aocenting of the beats. The ear after
a time fails to attend to the constant
repetition of the accent. The old
rhythm of accented and unaccented beat
alternating called the attention of the
dancer to his time by the sheer con-
trast, twice in each measure"