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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
TOWN WRECKED
BY EXPLOSION;
OVER 100 KILLED.
Lightning Strikes Powder magazine
and italian Underground Fort
Is Blown Up; Victims Mostly
Sailors and Soldiers.
DEATH LIST MOUNTS
AS RUINS SEARCHED
Hundreds Rushed TO Hospitals;
Houses crumpIe Down on ocou-
pants; Disaster Takes Place
During Thunderstorm.
(ny The United rres.l

Sparta. Italy, Sept. 2S.-- More than
100 persons were killed today when
the Falconara fort near here blew
up when lightning hit the powder
magazine.
The force OF the blast wrecked the
town OF San Terenzio.
Indescribable confusion followed
the terrific explosion and there was
some delay In estimating the mum.
ber OF dead and injured.
First reports were that forty lives
had been lost but as gendarmes pen
etrated the ruined areas the death
list quickly mounted.
Hundreds Of injured were rushed
to the Sparta hospital.
The bodies of those who were
killed were horribly mangled. most
of them dying instantly.
Houses in the town were shat.
tered and crumpled down on the
occupants.
It was believed that most of those
killed in the fort we're soldiers and
sailors.
The blast was heard for miles
around and relief was rushed from
nearby towns.
Fifteen hundred tons Of INT, cor
dite and other explosives we're un-
loosed by the lightning bolt.
The following official report of
the disaster was telegraphed by
Admiral Biscaretti to the naval min
lister at Rome:
About o'clock this morning.
owing to the strike OF bolt Of
lightning. the Falconara fort exploded.
Four soldiers and a marshal and
about thirty civilians living In the
buildings in Pitelli and San Terenzia
we're killed. Relief was ordered from
San Terenzia and Petrusola."
The explosion occurreds during n
terrific thunder storm. The fort was
located underground and was garri-
soned by the navy.
Spetia or Spezia. as 1t appears on
some maps, is on the Gulf of Genoa
and is an important naval base and
ship building center. Its population
is seventy thousand.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
Ga. Negro Lynched
Assault On Woman
(By The United Press. J

Sandersville, Ca, Sept. 2S.-Jim
Johnson, colored, charged with as
sault, was today lynched between
here and Wrightsville where he was
being taken for trial.
Johnson was charged with assault
on a white woman.
The automobile in which the Off
GERS were taking the prisoner to the
county seat, was stopped by a mob
o. fifty. The officers were disarmed.
The negro was then taken to .
bridge and hanged.
1t was reported that he confessed
the crime before he died. -.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
BUSY PLANNING
FOR ROLL GALL

Determined to perfect a real or
ganiation to carry out the plans
of the undertaking T. T. Montgom
cry, director Of tho sixth annual
Red Cross Roll Call in Grady coun-
ty, and officials of the county chap
ter have begun organization work.
The Roll Call director and chapter
officials today are completing a
tour of the towns in the county,
making preliminary arrangements
for the drive They are visiting
Verden today, completing tho tour.
Rush Springs and Ninnekah were
visited yesterday; Poccaset and
Minco, Tuesday and Amber and
Tuttle, Wednesday.
Miss Edith Miller, representative
OF the southwestern division, with
headquarters in st. Louis, is here
assisting in the making of the pre-.
liminary arrangements. Miss Miller
accompanied the director and the
chapter officials on their tour OF
the county.
Active chairmen will be anponte ed
in each of the several towns IN the
county, Mr.. Montgomery he's an
nounced. A list of these appoint
ments will be made wit In the
next few days, he said.
The Red Cross Roll Call opens
November 11--Armistice Day = and
closes November 30 = Thanksgiving
Day. During this period, an earnest
endeavor to secure the renewal ol
all membership of the chapter and
secure large number of new oaes
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28

Yesterday from ZOO o'clock a
m. until 1000 o'clock p. m. wac
open house" at the local offices of
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
company. Eight hundred and TWEEN
ty-six persons, most of them pa
irons of the company, accepted the
invitation and were shown through
the plant here.
Many interesting features con-
nected with the operating of mod
ern telephone system were explain
ed by company employees who assist
ed in the entertainment of the
guests.
At the top Of the stairs leading to
the plant and the companys oper-
ating room here, the guests were
received by Mrs. l.. Russell, cashier
in the managers office, who con-
Quoted the visitors through the
places Of interest.
The first branch to which the
guests were escorted was the plant
room where the batteries, cables
and testing apparatus are main
tanned. The art of operating and
the functions of the equipment in
this room were explained by L. Rus
sell, wire chief of the local office:
A. W. Howard, district plant chief
with headquarters in Lawton; and
Guy Smith, central office repair
man.
To most of the spectators, the
phantom circuit on which three con-
versations may be carried on over
two wires was the principal attrac-
tion in the plant room. BY use Q!
the phantom coils, the hosts in tll2
plant room explained, five messages,
three telephone and two telegraph,
could be conveyed over the phan-
tom circuit at the same time. How
the company's lines are tested ond
the immense wire system were 9TH
er outstanding attractions in the
plant room.
From the plant department, the
guests were taken into the operat'
ing room, in charge OF n. .. NC
Even, of Lawton, district traffic
chief: Mrs. B. Nipps, chief operator;
Misses Lola Benton and Fleta
Roach, supervisors, Miss Ida White,
toll supervisor. and Mrs. Mildred
Eighmy, evening chief operator
Here the duties of the hello girl
were revealed and the actions re-
sulting from the removal OF the re-
ceiver from the hook Of the tele
phone explained in detail
"What must the operator do tc
enable iler to listen in on the con
versation?' was the question fire.
ouently asked those in charge Of
the operating room. They were
shown small key located just IN
front of the operator, and told that
the operator must hold this key In
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
More Than Eight Hundred Patrons
and Friends Accept Invitations
to Visit Local Exchange and
See Plant.
PHANTOM CIRCUIT IS
CENTER OF INTEREST
Three Conversations Carried on Two
Wires; Visitors Learn How
Operators Work: Hard for
Central 10 Listen In"
THE TELEPHONE GIRL.

; II the telephone girl would
) tell half she hears OF gossip
on the wires each day. II
; would stir up muss that
; would end In a fuss, and the
) devil would be TO pay. SO
; she Sits in her seat and will
never repeat the message
the wires convey-for she
knows II she blows any thing
but her nose. SOHO people
will say. "Shc's too gay"
She knows many men who
talk sweet now and then,
but their wives are not on
the line-for II they we're
there. these men would swear
and says things that wouldn't
sound fine. She listens all
day to what people say and
seldom receives any thanks;
but when the line does not
work. she's brought up with
a jerk, and they snort and
cut up some pranks.
1t seems ever thus those
who serve us are frequently
treated unfair, yet it pays to
be Just and not kick till we
must, but try to be patient
and squarc.-By Jonas Cook.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
GIANT BOMBER, BUILT FOR UNCLE
sam, WORLDS LARGEST PLANE,
READY FOR FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 30

be capable of wiping out entire
cities with its ten ton bomb or aerial
torpedo. Several batteries Of ma
chine guns, giving protection from
all sides, and two 75's of the type
used in the battle of the Marne,
will make the plane the most for
Midable ever constructed.
The six Liberty motors, capable
of developing 200 horse power, will
burn 1870 gallons of gasoline an
hour. No less than four men can
handle the ship in the air.
The plane, which will be capable
of flying from New York to San
Francisco with one stop at Omaha,
is being built for the United States
government,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
POSTPONE PRELIMINARY.

Saltwater. Okla, Sept 2S.-Prelim-
mary hearing for w. R. Holmes,
Bert W. Salmon and John Foster,
charged with flogging Walter
Mathews, Gushing attorney, slated
for Wednesday in Justice Johns court
was postponed until October 4, by
agreement of c. G. Suman, attorney
for the defense, and John Vaughan,
county attorney.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
BANK 9agBF Ry
IN CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, O., Sept. 2s.-Five
bandits raided the Hamilton County
bank here today, knocked out the
cashier with the butt of revolver,
herded seven employees and a custo-
mer in rear room and robbed the
safe and cages of all the money in
sight.
The exact loss to the bank will
not be known until check up is
made of funds and securities on
hand at the time Of the robbery
The loot was estimated at $4,000.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
SITUATION MORE ACUTE WITH CHANGE IN GREEK GOVT.


Philadelphia. Sept. 2s.--A fairly
lucrative business has sprung up
here. prohibition officials say. Pic.
lures Of dry officers are being sold
ut 81 copy 10 bartendcrs 40 they
will know who not 10 sell a drink
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28
oIRIoIsLE IN ARCADIA.

Pasadena. Calf. Sept. 2s.-The dir.
Igible C.2 arrived safely at Ross
Field. Arcadia. Calf. today. The
flight from San Francisco was with.
out incident. The landing was per.
feet.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28

Spetia or Spezia. as 1t appears on
some maps, is on the Gulf of Genoa
and is an important naval base and
ship building center. Its population
is seventy thousand.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28

Continued on page six,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-28

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Wire from the United Press Aseo
citation.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Chauffeur Ropes Steer
Running Wild in Street

Rudolph Miller, twenty-threc wears
old, who rorcd and tied runaway
steer in approved Wyoming style yes
terday afternoon, at Fifty-sixth Street
and Third Avenue, after the animal
had run wild in downtown streets for
an hour, was arrested on charge of
cruelty to animals by Garret w. How
ara an agent of the Humane Society.
Magistrate McQuade, in YorkviIie
Court. promptly discharged Miller.
Miller is chauffeur employed by
Stern & Son, packers. He, with sew
oral other employees Of the firm, pur-
sued five steers which escaped from
their drivers while being led to
slaughter from a dock at Eleventh
Avenue and Fortcth Street. Four of
the animals were rccaptured within a
few blocks. but the fifth ran through
Fortieth Street to First Avenue. and
thence to Fiftieth Street, where it was
roped by Miller, but again escaped
and ran to Fiftysixth Street and Third
the runaway and threw it, Observed
by crowd Of several hundred men
and women, Miller hobbled the animal
and was about to drive it away when
arrested
During it's brief period Of freedom
the steer ambled up and down side
walks and scattered pedestrians in it's
path. Howard charged that Miller
used unnecessary force in subduinp
the steer.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

matinee on Thursday. with Mr.. Chalia
pin, Mines. Gordon. Dalossy, Dclaunois,
Howard and Mattfeld and Mcssrs. Per-
tile, Mardones and Bada, Mr.. Papi con-
ducting "Die Walkucre' in the even
ing, with Mines Jertza and Matte
nauer and Messrs. Scmbach, Whtehill
and Gustafson, Mr.. Bodanzky conduct
ing.
ale Roi d'Ys" will be given on Fri
day evening, with Mines. Aida and Pom
selle AMI Messrs. Gigli, Danise, Rothier
and Picco.
"Ernani" will be next weeks Saturday
matinee opera. with Nine. Ponsclle and
Mcssrs. Martinclli, Ruffo and Mar
doncs. Mr.. Papi will conduct.
"Dic Tote Stadt' will be next week s
Saturday night popular price opera,
with Mines. Jeritza, Tclva and Delau-
nois and Messrs Harold, laurent and
Meader. Paul Kochansky, violinist, will
play at next Sunday nights Opera
Concert" Mines. Easton. Roselc and
Sparkes and Mr.. Crimi will sing. Mr..
Eisler will conduct the orchestra
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

cynthia Perot and Elliot Taylor. dan
GERS. hay" been added to tho program for
the Actors Fund benefit performance to
be given at the Century Thcater Friday
afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Snow Maiden Premiere
At Metropolitan Monday

Rimsky korsakoff's "Snow Maiden"-
"Sneg gourotchka" will have it's Amori-
can premiere at the metropolitan Opera
House next Monday evening. The cast
will include Mines. Bori (in the title
role). Dclaunois, Howard and D'Arle
and Messrs. Harold, laurent, Rothier
Bada and Mcadcr. Mr.. Bodanzky will
conduct. The opera will be sung in the
French adaptation from the Russian OF
Ostrovsky by Pierre Lalo from Nine.
HAPPENINGS translation.
"Madama Butterfly" will be given
next Monday as n special matinee
with Mines. Farrar, Fornia and Egener
and Messrs. Crimi. Scott, Patrineri,
Audisio. Picco and Ananian MIR. Moran
zoni conducting.
Other OPENS at the Metropolitan
next week will be "Carmcn," ION
Wednesday evening. with Mines. Far
var. Bori and Tiffany and Messrs Mar
tinell. De Luca, Martino and Meader.
Mr.. Hasselmans will conduct.
"Boris Godunotf" will be special
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

the modern pianoforte exists. Detach
the pedal damper and play it Re- =
music. even with the exquisite v.4...
suavity and reposeful symmetry with
which Miss Hess played the Prelude
and Fugue from the first book Of
Bach's We'll Tempered Clarichord," ,"
and it's beauty would vanish. In
Chopin's A fat Polmonaise we heard
the pianist of the familiar virtuoso
type who can thrill and amaze. but in
Schumann's "Panillons' we heard the
poet-musician singing with exquisite
voice and comforting symmetry of
phrase perfect beauty of thought
paired with perfect beauty of cx-
preston.
ST. Olaf Choir at Metropolitan
The concert of the st. Olaf Choir in
the evening filled the Metropolitan
Opera House with an audience drawn
from our Lutheran churches and our
citizenry of Scandinavian extraction
The choir, which numbers between
sixty and seventy mixed voices, is a
marvel in the quality of its tone, its
precision, its purity Of intonation, its
command of nuances. it's responsive
ness to the wishes of it's conductor. Mr..
F. Melius Christensen. We wish that
we could bestow as much admiration on
his taste and judgment in selection
and inter lpretatlon- as we gladly do to
his skill as trainer and his sense of
tonal beauty. But we cannot like some
Of the denominations of the stout old
Lutheran choralcs which he substitutes
for those Of the old masters who intro
duced them into the Protestant service,
nor the undignifed catch penny effects
to which he is willing to resort
Such singers as his, whose tonal ut
terance has the beauty and cquability
of perfect organ. with a hundred
times the potential expires ssivcncss of
the instrument ought to make a reve-
lation of the music Of the church from
Orlando di Lasso down to to day They
were tremendously uplifting in three
psalm anthems by Georg Schumann and
the motet by Gustav Schreck and in
the sustained portions Of. Bach's motct
for double chorus, The Spirit help
eth US; but all the allegros were
robbed of dignity and breadth and
made finicky, by an obvious desire for
crisp incisiveness, and the splendid
music suffered in consequence But
when the musical ear was so success
fully wooed everywhere else by tho
equable flow Of the beautiful voices
and truly seraphic serenity, it seems
churiish even to wish that anything
had been different than it was We
shall enjoy no such choral treat till
the cnolr comes to us again.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
City Law to Regulate
Taxi Speed Is Proposed

The proposed speed regulation ordi-
lance limiting trucks and taxicabs to
fifteen miles an hour, which died with
the old Board OF Aldermen. was rein
troduced with few trimmings at yes
terday's meeting of the new board by
Alderman Peter J. McGuinness, of the
Greenpoint section.
The ordinance provides that a timing
device shal be carried by each truck
and taxicab This device is to be in
spected and sealed by the Police De
partment. Tampering with it shall be
punishable with thirty-day Jail sem
tence. A preliminary inspection and
sealing fee of 81 is to be charged with
an annual e-sealing fee of 81. which
fees are to 90 into the Police Pension
Fund after expenses have been de-
Quoted.
Alderman Martin J. Healy. of the
18th Aldermanic District, raised a
laugh with a resolution calling on Con-
gress to amend the Nolstead act to per-
init the manufacture and sale of beer
and light wines. The resolution was
referred TO the Committee on Rules.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
Maude Adan1s's
Color Process
To Purify Film

Of her time here when she was in the
city. up until the last two or three
years. when her varied interests have
taken her to other points"
or the actresses woik at Schenectady
the nun said:
Miss Adams became keenly inter
cstcd in uplift work for children. The
process for color photography has so
attracted her that she has been work
ing daily in laboratory of the plant
of the General Electric Company to
perfect her invention. 1t is her amhi-
ton to have her discovery applied to
motion pictures for children. to coun-
teract the terrible things the young
ones are frequently forced to see in
some photoplays to-day.
Has Other Philanthropies
"But this is just one Of the MANY
phllanthropic projects to which | know
Miss Adams has for some time been
giving thought. You know she is quite
an architect, and she has some definite
ideas IN that direction. of which we
may hear in the future.
Last spring we intimatcd to Miss
Adams that our quarters were begin
ming TO become cramped for the ex-
tended work which we were called upon
to do at our convent here. as we'll as
our other houses at Chicago, Boston
and Newport. She at once offered us
her place at Lake Ronkonkoma, l.. L..
called Sandy Girth. We, Of course, had
to receive the permission of the Bishop
of Brooklyn, in whose diocese it is.
We received this approval last Satur-
day, and the property was then decided
over TO the sistcrhood"
In reply to questions, the nun said
she was sure Miss Adams was not mar
ried. She added that Miss Adams occa-
sionally stopped at the Colony Club.
but that she was at present busy at
the laboratory in Schenectady.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

the Hudson Theater on Monday evening.
January 40 in the Robert Kitchens play.
The Voice From the Minaret."
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18
The Stage Door

Arthur Hopkins will present THE
Deluge." adapted by Frank Allen from
Hennins Bcrger's "Syndahoden," at tho
Plymouth Theater next Tuesday night.
The cast will include Robert McWade
Lester f.onergnn Margot Williams, Robert
f. o'Connor. Edward q. Robinson VIII
jam Dick. lanes Spottswood. Arthur
hurley. Charles Ellis and John Ravold
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Frank Fay's Fables" have been placed
ir rehearsal under htc direction OF Harry
Cort. The piece will open in Broadway
house in about two weeks
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

George NJ Cohan's first production since
MS return To the producing field here Will
be a comedy from his own pen. in which
his daughter. Genrgette. Will appear. Re
hearsals are scheduled to begin within ten
days He plans also TO revive THE Tav-
ern' and "Thc Mcanest Man IN the World"
on tour. and TO send out two companies in
The OBrien Girl" which is now at the
Liberty
Turn to the Right" the picture version
Of the play. opens next Monday night AT
the lyric Theater
William Harris jr is preparing o pre-
sent an adaptation OF Eugene Brioux q
Les fiannetons.' Arthur Iornbow ir
made the adaptation. and rehearsals begin
on Monday under the direction Of Robert
Milton.
Leo Ditrchstein will appear In The
Great Lover on Monday. January 80. in
Detroit, where he begins Il transcontinen-
tai tour. He viii use this plav as the
chief vehicle IN a repertory of several Of
his successes
An extra matinee Of The Intimate
strangers Will be given by billie Burke
at the Henry Miller Theater on Fridav
The play closes Saturday
Marie Lohr. the English actress will
make her first American appearance at
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Acting as host to Yalc's athletic trana
the Yale club has bought the entire seat :
nG inG capacity Of the Cohan Thcater for
Iho Fcrlcct Fool' Friday night.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Turn TO the Right" the picture version
or the play, opens next Monday night at
the lyric rheater
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Tallulah Rankhead has bcen engaged by
Carrie Carlton to play the role OF the mod =
crnist vito oppcsit" Fl u. Warner in
.osmn iami''on's drama. Danger" at
the Thirty ninth Street Theeter. This is
tho role created by Marie Con.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Mary Shaw and Everett Ruuerncld will
give lbsen's "Ghosts" In a series Of matt
nees at the Broadhurst Theater beginning
Friday. January 27. The cant includes
Arthur Shaw, Edward Poland and Marion
Allen.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Doris Keen" made her debut under the
al Ford's Opera House. Raltimora In
'Czarina' play in three acts by Mel.
chior Lcngyel and Laios Riro. the Hun
Earian playwrights In the title role Mics
keenc impersonnted Katherine IL Of Rus
sa She IS shortly to appear hero at the
Empire. " ~
New-York tribune., 1922-01-18

Two orphans are the guests OF the man.
aEement at every showing OF D. w Crit
hths "OrphRns Of the Storm" now show
Ing at the Apollo Theatcr
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1922-07-14
PROMISING OUTLOOK.

Mr.. H. NJ. Childs, chief engineer for
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
and Concentrating Co. of Kellogg, J.
IDAHO, passed through Leavenworth
recently on his return from Blewett,
where he had been making a detailed
examination for several days Of the
gold properties Of the Amalgamated
Gold Mines Company.
We have it from a reliable source
that if present plans work out salts
factorily, modern plant Of not less
than 500 tons daily capacity is t. be
installed on the Amalgamated prop
critics is the near future.
Mr.. F. NJ. Kurie, superintendent Of
the Amalgamated Company, has been
very successful in uncovering large
vein of low grade ore that promises
long life to the mine operations on a
large scale.