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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05

T've'S pR0RFS
Uf 0. c. MURDER
Military Commission Takes
Part in Investigation Of
Aviator'S Death at Jean
Days Home.
PROHIBITION AGENT
LOOKS FOR LIQUOR
Friends Say Alleged Slayer
and Wife Will Refuse to
Testify at Inquiry.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Preparations
We're made today to launch three sep
arate inquiries into the events sur.
rounding the death of Lieut.. Col.
Paul Ward Beck, pioneer army aviator
and assistant commandant of Post
Field, Fort Sill, Okla, who was killed
by Jean p. Day, wealthy oil operator
and prominent Oklahoma attorney, in
the latter's home here early Tuesday
morning, when, according to Day,
Beck was found attacking Mrs. Day.
A civil investigation by county au
thorities will determine the charges
to be filed against Day in connection
with the killing,
A military commission of three army
officers, headed by Major Thomas b.
Lanthier, will come here, according to
an announcement at Post Field, and
investigate the killing. The commits.
sion is expected to arrive Friday or
Saturday. A third inquiry got under
way when NJ. +. Meadows. medical
physician for prohibition director for
Oklahoma, began to check up to as.
certain whether liquor might have
had a part IN the party which preceded
the killing OF Lieut.. Col. Beck.
Officers Hunt Clues.
County officials today were running
down various angles of the tragedy
but until the cOroners inquest Is held
Saturday afternoon. County Attorney
Forrest. Hughes announced he would
not decide the question Of filing
charges against Day.
| "Inasmuch as | cannot say at this
time what turn the coroners inquest
may take. it is possible that either
manslaughter or a murder charge may
be filed against Mr.. Day following
the inquest" said the county attorney
81 do not know whether or not Mr.
Day or his wife. the only witnesses &c
the killing. will take the stand al
that time. The state could not force
either to testify If they did not Sc
desire"
Murder Charge Possible.
In the event that Day and his wife
decline to take the stand at the in
quest, County Attorney Hughes point
ed out. he could then file a charge
of murder.
Friends of Day declared that neither
he nor his wife would testify ut the
inquiry. Day, in an interview de
clared he aad no thought Of killing
Beck when he returned to his HON,
and as he alleges, found the army OF
ficcr attempting to assault Mrs Day
His only intent. Day said was I,
drive Beck from his home. He feared
Beck might be armed, he said anS
| for this reason. nbtained n revolver.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05

EvANsvilLE, Ind. - Benjamin
Bossc. mayor Of Evansville. and demo
cratic state chairman, died Tuesday
morning. Pneumonia which develop
I'd after complication Of diseases
caused his death, physicians said.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
Basketball Tournament starts.

ClIICAuO.-f'lrst round games in the
fourth national interscholastic basket.
ball tournament will start today at the
University NJ Chicago. Twenty.six Of
the. crack high school auintets Of the
country are entered Ia the meet
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
BOMBS EXPLODED NEAR ~
HOMES or TWO MIMI

BEcKLEv. W. va.--Bombs ~
EMPLOYED In front Of the houses I
Binny Chickenfeller, and Games 8pg'
the little mining village of kelse[
Tuesday night. Troops of the 2
police with bloodhounds werfNt
TO the scene and arrested III
and Andy Honisez. who =
edge Of the crime.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
Sallee Gets Promotion.

IND1ANAPoLfs.--A. c. sallee OF In.
dianapolis. vice chairman Of the Demo.
cratic state committee. will succeed Hen.
jnnin Bosse. mayor of Evansville. who
died Tuesday, as chairman cf the state
committee.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05

NN - -
pital here describe
Mrs. Anita Har-
baugh.
Mrs. Harbaugh ia
slowly dying in the
charity ward. She
has been a hope.
less cripple for 20
years.
In that time she's $
never taken a
drug to alleviate
pain. She's forgot
ten her own pain
by cheering others.
Twenty years ago
Mrs. Harbaugh was
the pretty. grace
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05

Mrs. Harbaugh iuI, bespangIed ner-
ial queen of one Of the worlds great
est circuses.
One day on a trapeze she lost her
hold and crashed TO the ground. She
has been paralyzed ever since.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
Arseu,,ne Minister Quits.

BUENos AIRES. Arg.ntini The
resignation of Thomas A. lie Breton,
Argentine minister to the United
States, was announced "Wednesday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
Hearing Continues.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. up the
overture it has made toward settle
'ment of the btuminous coal strike.
the house committee on labor contin.
ued its hearings on the subject Wed.
nesday by considering briefly Attor-
ney General Daugherty's statement
OF Tuesday light outlining for the ad.
mlnistration hands OFF, policy for
the present.
Representative Bland. republican, In.
diana, whose resolution to direct the
ppresident to appoint coal inquiry
commission occasioned the labor com.
mittee's interest, read Mr.. Daugherty s
statement irto its record and upon
learning that President Lewis of the
United Mine Workers had left the
city called to the witness stand John
Moore. executive representative Of
the union ia Washington.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
Miners unions
wage FIGHT IN
NON.UNION AREA
Daugherty's Hands Off" Pol
icy Report is Taken Into
Discussion at Hearing
in Washington.

PITTSBURG. Pa.-Union organizers
pushing their campaign in non-union
mining regions Of Fayette county
Wednesday succeeded in closing two
mines and hampering others. The
non-union miners on the Ashington
county side Of the Monongahela river
which We're closed Tuesday, one by
the cutting Of West Penn Power Elec.
tric Company lines and the other be-
cause the men did not report FOL
wor~, are IN operation again.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
SIMPKINS MAKES
REPLYTOCHARGE
OF STOCK RAISERS
FORGETS PAIN BY
CHEERING OTHERS

MEMPHIS. most cheerful pa.
tient we've ever hadr'
That's how physicians and nurses
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
TOLD TO
GET READY FOR
similar ACTION
Washington Officials Have N
Direct Reports; Deferred
Interest Is Due on
April Is, 1t is Said
BRITAIN WON'T AID
FRANCE BY RENEWAl
English Note Advises Allie
That All Obligations Must
Be Met in Due Time
(By The Associated Press,

LONDON The British goyernmer
has addressed a note to the allies a
claring that. owing TO the fact thd
Great Britain has TO pay the interest d
ker debt to the United States, she
serves to herself the right TO call upoI
the allies in turn to pay the interest q
their war debts to Great Britain.
In this connection it Is pointed oll
that Great Britain is now fully prepared
TO pay the interest due the Unite
States.
PARIS.-The French reply to tn
British note concerning payment Of IL
terest on war loans by England is ikel
to be that the question is bound UP wit
that of the inter-allied debts, whic
must be dealt with as a whole, says tn
Echo de Paris quoting a well-informe,
source. Piecemeal payments will onll
hamper the settlement, the reply vii
say.
The British communication notifie|
France that the three years conventio|
expiring at an early date would not y
renewed.
WASHINGTON.-Be press RI
ports of Great Britain's preparation
begin the payment of interest upon nd
81, 900 900 900 war debt to this country
the treasury is as yet without informi
! ton on the subject.
Great Britain, officials said. has bee|
reported as laying aside $4,000, ,00
pounds in her budget for this year
meet interest payments to this country
on April Is the deferred interest du
from Great Britain, officials said, wi
amount to approximately $615,O0o ,00l
but this sum, it has been understood
would be the subject Of funding neg
tiations along with the principal Of tn
debt when the new debt commission b
gins working out a general liquidatio
scheme.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-04-05
WEATHER

Tonight and Thursday
partly cloudy; cooler in
west portion Thursday.
, 1922-02-15
MEXICAN REBEL BAND
ROUTED BY TROOPS

Ell Paso, Texas.-A band Of rebels,
under the leadership of Nicholas Rod
riguez, have been scattered by federal
soldiers from the Jnurez garrison md
were being pursued between SamaIny-
uca, 80 miles below Jaurez. and the
border settlements Of Guadaloupe, and
Zaragosea, southwest OF Juarez, ac-
cording to Gen. ]. ]. Mandez, com
mander of the garrison. The rebels
blew up two bridges on the Mexican
Central railroad and orders went out
to outposts under General Mendez's
command to run them down.
A troop train was made up at Juarez
and held ready to be dispatched to any
point where additional men might be
needed.
Juarez officials. military n civil
Ian. were r%eticcnt, were admitted the
Rodriguez bandits were more than or
binary bandits and lappnrently hadmade
arrangements with revolutionary agi-
Tutors in the United States to start
trouble in Chichuahua.
, 1922-02-15
MURDER CHARGE is FILED
AGAINST FORMER ATHLETE
Throws Soldier of Medical Corps Over
Three Story Bannister Follow
Ing Alteration

Spokane.-Maurice P. Codd, a medi-
cal student in Northwestern university
of Chicago and holder of the Barrett
medal for athletic prowess at Gonzaga
university of this city. was charged
with first degree murder Saturday fol-
lowing the death at the post hospital
at Fort George Wright. near here, of
Frank p. Brinton of New York city.
a soldier of the medical corps OF the
Fifty-eighth infantry.
Brinton died as the result Of injuries
sustained, 1t is charged, when Codd
threw him over the third floor banister
of n local business building on Febru-
airy 1, following an alteration. He
sustained a fractured skull when he
struck on his head on the ground floor.
Codd was arrested on a charge of
first decree assault and later released
on $4,000 bonds. He has been in a
private s%anitarium here suffering, II
was announced, from a nervous break
down. He came here recently from
Chicago when 1t was reported that his
aged mother, Mrs. william Codd, q
widow. was near death.
Mrs. Codd, who has been an invalid
for many years, was not informed OF
her sons arrest.
, 1922-02-15
chines rona War Opens

San Francisco.-Chines tongmen
throughout the west are reported UNI
der cover or ON their guard as the re-
suit Of an apparent outbreak Of a tong
war, when two Chinese were killed
and a third wounded In Seattle, one
slain in Butte, Mont, and one shot
probably fatally at San Jose. Cal.
In every instance the shootings were
carried out in Characteristic tong war
fashion. In Butte and Seattle the Chi
nese, said to have belonged to tonEs.
were shot down on the street with
deadly accuracy.
, 1922-02-15
DENLY URGES LARGE CUT
IN NAVY APPROPRIATION
Recommends Reduction in Enlisted
Personnel From 100000 to 10000
For Next Year

MISUNDERSTANDING DENLY ap-
peared before the house naval commit
tee to recommend that the navy per-
sonnet for the next fiscal ear be fixed
at 10000 men and 6.000 apprentices,
as compared with 100000 men and
5000 apprentices now authorized.
Mr.. DENLY recommended that there
be no reduction in the existing strength
first class at Annapolis be graduated
and commissioned, but that appoint
ments to the academy hereafter be re-
duced to three for each member of
congress, instead of five.
The naval secretary recommended
that 100 destroyers be placed out of
commission. He estimated thai the
program he outlined would effect a
saving of $TO,OOO,OOO in next years
budget.
out that since 1919 the wartime naval
establishment had been reduced from
1,362 vessels in commission to 300. the
commissioned personnel from 80, 7O8 to
6,163, and the enlisted force from $780,
723 to 1OO.999.
Mr.. DENLY said estimated withdraw
ais from the treasury for the navy for
the fiscal year We're $47s. 100000. With
the economies he planned. he added,
he felt confident the 1923 ficsal year
estimates could be reduced to $3.50, 000,-
900.
Indications of considerable opposi-
tion to the recommendation for a $780,
100000 appropriation, about $4,000
600 of which would go for building. de-
veloped during the informal discussion
of the naval program between Mr..
DENLY and members of the committee.
Representative McClintick, Democrat,
Oklahoma, told the secretary reports
were current that congress was pre-
pairing to cut the appropriations TO
$50, 100000 or 5000, 100000.
, 1922-02-15
LAMPITT SENTENCED FOR
LIFE BY WYOMING COURT
Must Pay Fine Of 5000 and Cost Of
Trial; lie Broke and Unable
to Appeal Case

: Basin, Wyo.-Albert Lampitt, con-
victed Saturday of the murder Of Har-
ry Foight, killed on May z, last, In an
explosion in the Grass Creek oil field,
was sentenced to life Imprisonment in
the state penitentiary at Rawlins. and
to pay a fine of 5000 and the costs of
prosecution. Imposition of the fine in
this case marks the first time that
such action has been taken in a murder
case here. 1t is understood that Lam
pitt exhausted his in his de-
tense and that no appeal will be taken
from the verdict of the jury.
When Lampitt stood up for sentence
he replied in response to inquiry from
the court that he had nothing to say.
Judge Metz. In passing sentence. said
that the evidence in the case indicates
that Lempitt is guilty of one of the
most dastardly crimes in the history
of the state and hat 1t warranted the
verdict of the jury.
, 1922-02-15
FLOODED STREAMS TIE
UP WEST RAIL TRAFFIC
Dynamite Used to Dislodge Ice Packs
From 6ridges-Trains Are
Held At Terminals

P~endleton, Ore.-Large areas In
northeastern Oregon and southeastern
Washington nre washed out and train
service Is held up In many places as
a result Of heavy rains that have been
falling.
Dynamite was used to disIodge Ice
foes pressing against the center pier
Of the Northern Pacific bridge at Pas
coe, Wash, northwest of here. Anx-
lefty for that and other bridges mem
aced by the Ice foes has been relieved
somewhat however, with the coming
OF a warm rain.
Tracks on the Waila Walia and PEN
dleton branches Of the Northern Pa
cific are out and all trains are being
held at the terminals.
The Oregon-washington Railroad
aid Navigation company tracks at
Prescott and Bergman. Wash, are
under water, holding up trains from
Spokane and the Northern Pacific
bridge at bergman is so weakened
by nigh water that the trnin from
Pascoe Is being held up.
Flood damage over Umatilln county.
Oregon, wns reported on the increase.
Wild Horse creek is out Of Its banks
flooding crops. Numerous wnshouts
are reported on the highways west OF
here. Due to frozen ground, the re.
cent rain arid snow is not soaking in.
The Snake river branch of the Ore
gon-Wnshington Railroad and Naviga-
ton company is tied up by washouts
and landslides,
, 1922-02-15
Ireland orants EnemIeo Amnesty

London.-The colonial office an
nounced Saturday that. pursuant to
authority granted by the British cabi-
net. steps were being taken to release
the prisoners who were taken into Gus
tody for o~ffenses committed In Eng
land from Irish political motives prior
to the Irish truce.
The cases OF post-truce offenders, as
well MS all In which the offend
ers were members Of the British forces,
Will be subject to further and individ-
nal confederation, says the announce
ment-
, 1922-02-15
RAIL WORKERS WILL
CONFER WITH MINERS
Majority Of Organizations Of
Transportation Systems
Accept Invitation

Indianapolis.-1he first joint meet
ing Of the representatives of the rail
road mems organizations n the
United Mine Workers Of America will
be held in Chicago February 21, nc
cording to an nnouncemen made Sat
urday by John l.. Lewis, president OF
the mine workers, who called the meet
ing.
The purpose of the meeting, as an
nounced by Mr.. Lewis invitation to
the rail union chiefs for the confer
ence, is to consider an alliance of the
1000, 900 members of the rail and mine
union organizations ''in resistance to
proposed attacks on wage scales"
The miners, meeting in special con
v%ention here, win adopt their policy
In seeking new wage agreements, eff
fective April 1.
President Lewis said the acceptance
by the railroad organizations of the
miners invitation TO enter a Joint
meeting was practically unanimous
and especially gratifying"
at indicates that the organized rail-
road workers and mine workers." said
a statement issued by Mr.. Lewis, "have
a profound appreciation of the neces-
sity for closer cooperation and reflects
a determination to utilize every proper
means of protecting the interests of
the men employed in these basic in
dustries.
Mr.. Lewis concluded his statement
- -.
, 1922-02-15

Windsor, Ont.-Exporting beer from
border cities to the United States is
legal so far as Canada is concerned.
This was the opinion Of Magistrate
Gundy Friday in Diminishing a com
plant by license department officers
that the walkervIlle Brewing company
had made unlawful sales" IA taking
telephone orders from the United
States for beer and accepting payment
after the consignment had been put
aboard a boat. Use our held the
transaction within the meaning Of thu
Ontario temperance act.
, 1922-02-15
CONFERENCE TREATIES
PRESENTED TO SENATE
President Harding Appearing in Per-
son Requests Ratification Of
Seven Agreements


Notwithstanding treaties negotiat-
ed during the Washington conference
were laid before the senate by Presi-
dent Harding Friday, with n request
that they be ratified as guarantees of
peace.
Appearing In person before the SEN
ate the president declared that new
agreements would serve to put an n
to contradictions. 10 remove amhigul-
lies ana establish clear understand
9
several treaties were submitted by
the president. The first was the five
power naval armament treaty, the sec
ond the submarine n poison gas
treaty the third the horsepower "a
CHIC treaty the fourth and fiffh were
supplemented to the treaties to the
horsepower pact and the other related
respectively TO the general Tar eastern
ana the chinese tariff
Ihese engagements. the president
said. were interviewer In a general
scheme OF peace, n confeined moth
ing which commits the United States
or any other power to any kind OF an
Alliance, enlargement, or involve
men
, 1922-02-15
L.esa Monex n N Circulation

washington.-Ervery person in he
country was So poorer Mt the end Of
January than at the beginning Of the
month, according to q circulation state
ment issued Friday by the treasury
On January / the per capita c%Ircria-
tion OF money in the country was
s5s.Os. based on a total circulation OF
lsb. 775.4O0.315 and din estimated popu-
lation OF 109,917,0O0. as compared with
4 per capIte circulation on February ]
OF s4e.08, based on n total circulation
OF s5.447, $685. 33 and an estimated pop
~ulation Of lo9.o55.0oo.
, 1922-02-15
Plus xI IS CROWNED
HEAD OF CATHOLICS
Ceremony Takes Place Amidst
Cheers of Vast Assem-
blage at Rome

Rome.-Pius NJ was crowned pope
in the basilica Of st. Peters amid
scenes Of pomp and enthusiasm and in
the presence of princes and dignitaries
of the church, the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of foreign countries, mem
bers of the Roman a~ristocracy and a
vast assemblage filling the great struc-
ture to the very doors.
The ancient customs were carried
out with Impressive ceremonies and
the newly elected pontiff now occu-
pies the throne of the first pope re
ported crownsa,Leo III, who reigned
from 795 to SIC.
Plus XI again blessed the crowds
from the outer balcony of st. Peters,
this time nearly 100000 people cheer
ing long live the pope" and waving
ha~ndkerchiefs. 1t had been officially
announced that lowing to the cold
weather." the pope would not bless
the crowds from the outer balcony but
such was the insistence and warmth of
the cheers that the pontiff finally de
cided he must answer the call of his
children.
Sixty thousand persons gathered
within the edifice, rising spontaneous
ly, had cheered the holy father as Car
dinal Lega placed upon the pope's
head the tiara, emblem of supreme
sovereignty. Old Romans, who had
witnessed the coronation of several
popes, say that the enthusiastic recep-
tion accorded the present pope has
never been equalled in their memory.
Good will, sincerity and hope were
the dominant emotions prevailing in
Rome as the new spiritual leader was
receiving the triple crown with the
magnificent ceremony of the Roman
Catholic church, but with a tinge of
the matter of fact and business-like
manner, obtaining In the world today.
Silver bugles of the Sixteenth century
announced the coronation, and the red
robes of the aged cardinals, mingling
| with the uniform Of the Swiss guard,
recalled the middle ages, but the crush
of spectators 1T the heavy bronze
gates of a formerly forbidding vatican,
revealed hat something was changed
In Rome.
, 1922-02-15
Landru Moves for New Trial

Paris.-Counsel for Henri Landru,
the "Bluebeard OF Gambai," now under
sentence OF death on the g%uiliotIne for
the murder of 10 women and a boy,
Saturday filed a demand with the
court of cessation for a review Of his
case.
The demand for retrial was asked on
the ground that new evidence had been
discovered. An inhabitant OF Gambai
is said to have declared he saw a de
mented person of that neighborhood
take some bones from a nearby ossary
and carry them to Landru's villa.
, 1922-02-15
BOY SPECULATOR ADMITS
SHORTAGE OF MILLIONS
lilies Declared Lost In
Operations

Chicago.-Raymond j. Bischoff, tax
en- into custody after Involuntary pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy had been In
stituted against him by creditors, has
admitted that he owes about $4.5OO,0O0
representing the savings of 5000 Chi
cagoans, mostly foreigners. Less than
5 1,000,00O worth of oil and gas stock
Of doubtful value is available to meet
the obligations.
The Central Trust company was APP
pointed receiver for Bischoff. Felix
Streyckmans. attorney for the credit
ors, said he believed Bischoff's liabili-
ties would run near 81. 100000.
Bischoff told federal officials that
he had beer in trouble since last No
vember and lost much of his money
in several oil deals In which he said he
was double-crossed.
Bischoff, by paying large returns on
money borrowed in n Few particular in
stances, gained a reputation as a finan.
cial wizard among the people with
whom he dealt. Profits of 40 per zen
on short term loans were said to be
common and Bischoff Is said to have
paid as high as 100 per mi interest.
Blschoff's attorney maintains that
the 25~-year-old wizard Of hubby creek
has violated no law In his dealings,
despite the shortage Of millions. Bis
choff gave promissory notes for the
money invested with him, the attorney
said, adding "a man can't be imprison-
- II - - ----.l----
, 1922-02-15
4uncIe Joe" Cannon to R4aire

washington.-"Uncle Joe" Cannon,
oldest member of the house, announced
he would lot be a candidate for re-
election as representative from the
Eighteenth Illinois district.
The former speaker announced his
intention to retire from politics in an
11-word statement, which read:
II am not n candidate for election to
the Sixty-eighth congress.
The Illinois representative. one of
the most picturesque and widely known
figures in congress, will be SO years
old next May 7. He is serving his
twenty-third term.
, 1922-02-15
Baby Sees Parents Killed

Waco, Texas.-A dragnet by county
and city officers around Concord, a VII
lage near here, where w. ii. Barker,
merchant. and his wife were slain and
Homer Turk, 1~3-year-old son of q
~neighbor, dangerously wounded, has re-
suited in the arrest of pine negroes.
Two Of them correspond to descrip-
lions given by Barker's 4~-year-old
daughter, an y witness to the trag-
edy.