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TULSA DAILY WORLD, SATURDAY, DICCEMBLR 1G, 1922 DENYING GUILT, 'Coue Christmas' Planned 'FIGURES REVEAL BOY IS HANGED For San Quentin Convicts , BETTER BUSINESS By Woman Social Worker Myron Corbridge Pay Penalty for Murder of Reformatory (Itmrd READ POEM, THEN DIED Youth Displayed Granite-Like Stoicism Kncing Dentil. Scaffold Borrowed Little "Cue String, Willi Two Knots," Formula Attached, to Be Giv:n Ench of 3,500 Who, hy Use of "Better and Better" System, May Finally Gel Out, Is Belief. Field Exchange Trust Co Meet Here i-oVTlAC. Ml.. Dec. 14. Myron Oorbridge wa hanged at :07 o clock ilil morning in a diwry auctioneer tent in tho Jill yard. The SS-year-old boy Pld the pen nnr of the law for the murder of sol" .f onH. a guard over him at tne llllnola state reformatory nr. which wvuried exactly Mx month Iti'uds "IN-Hlli lNx-ni." on the siuffold borrowed from Conk county. Cotbildge read a poem nnd died denying hl guilt. lie what follow of thy hang man profession on 1 1 'good hang hie tall, well-built and he dropped to the end of tho ropa wllh oot. any nllp In the arrangement". Ifo whs pronounced dead a fw min ute later. ly Or. O V llainllton and . K f. Bawden. This hlld or the Jail who ha eoent halt the. year ot hi lire n penal Institution and who would have had hi twenty-second birthday tomorrow, if he had lived, displayed a granlle atolclsm at the approach of dentil. He stopped out without fal tering n ho accompanied this prleat, lather J. 11. Cannon, Sharif f li. M. ttttugurl and the deputies on the dfnth inaicli. I,nit Wish diluted. Corlirldge'a last wish thnt he e hfo hrothor before he died, canto true. Fred Corblldga of Jacksonville, ar iWihI early today at at ti:IS o'clock tgo condemned boy vm awakened to se him and to prepare for th hang ing. Ho had olept eoiindly for almost four hour, having retired at 3 n. m. lSnrly In the evening he had played card with the guards nnd at mid night ho uto a hearty supper ot ham burger, rolls, coffee, Ice cream and ginger nlo. Jt wa the first banging In Unvlng- ton rounty In 10 yean. A deter mined young sheriff. l,ee M. Jthugnrt, vljio took office only 11 days ago, aliperviaed the arrangement. C'orbrldgo waa convicted of maul ing tho life out of HulU vnn Jones, un ifllnolfl sluto reformatory guard, with three feet of bum pipe. Hut to tho last lie denied hlo guilt. AGENTS PROPOSE BORDER PATROL Guard Along Rio Grande Urged to Suppress Narcotic Trade As'AHl I INO.TON, Deo. IS. Creation j t a border patrol along the Hlo Orando rlvor to upprss thu smug Kline of aliena und the importation of narcotic und to nld In prohibition onforcemont, was recommended to day by Hoerelnrv of Uibor Davie by Sffleclnl Agents ChnrlrH T. O'Connoll njld 11. Wirton, who hnvo Just eom liloted an extensive survey ot eon ditlona along the Mexican bordor. In urging creation of tho patrol, O'Connell and lluitoli declared tho many alien Mexican Uborera Illegal ly. In the United Hiatus rnenaco Amer lun labor and cominutilUoa and civil Hfflclals. because of tho largo num bUf of undesirables. ".Mexico i a vast reservoir." ,ild t1e report, "filled with n Kreat army ot tinskllled, Impoverished labor with three principal outlet to the United Htute on tho Mejclcnn border, from liloli polntrt imiiiy laterals lend to the north, east and west. yTho principal ports of entry listed hi' the repot t were Kl I'aso. Kasle UnB, Ijiredo, nnd Brownsville, Tex its; DoubUu. N,co and Nognles, Arlr.. nnd Calexico. Cal. - -"Unreetrleted admlttanca of Mex ican unskilled labor would eventual ly reatilt In supplantlnK American la liUr," tlvo reported warned, "JUst as fltbm uonernl observation, opinion njid comment, unrestricted Imml- BriiUoii or t:nineo ana japanwe un jkllled labor would eventually hup- j plant both," NTot only would the border patrol ! "ftoncern Itself with preventing ABiugRlliig of aliens." accordlm; to tllo leport, "but It would also serve to suppress Importations of llquorn aSld narcotics Into the United states. It would he veted with authority to enforce all laws on the border now enforced by various government branches. HIR0HIT0 IS BETTER -N KH A N 'IWO, Ver. If.. The I .H() men and women shut up be hind the grav walls of Nun (Jueotln mid Kola, no slate peiilletillui les iniiny for life -are to hae n Cone ( 'hi Isttnn. Through the effort of Paulim. .tarohsnn ell-Hnown writer and social worker, the two CalKouila prisons sr tn he converted Into great human laboratorlew to test Ihe efficacy of the formula Of the noted I'arislan doctor. Ml Jaenbson, with the sjwlstsnce of other social and welfare work er, I now bually engaged In pre paring for the prisoner' Coue I'hrtetma. hiach prisoner will re ceive Christ maa morning a Couo string tied Into two knots with an appropriate printed explanation of Its purpose and the method to he followed Pot tor Coue mlvlses th ,se who would heal themselves t put one of these string under tlielr pillow each morning and each knot while the Coue formu- menlng finger (lie ll4i repeat 1 1 I'av hy day. In every way, I rn trettltig better and better." The knotted cords, Ml Jacob Son ixplalned today will be of gay roloi "We want to provldfi a bit of aunlittht for the eye as well n th oul," he said. "Hehlnd the pris on walls there Is no magic tn tlt the blood. Kur little Chrlntma gift will carry a message of new hope. It will open the way for the prisoners to find pnealbllltles with in themnelve. The Coue string will hoW the Way to freedom. Just think of the posslbllltleH of ,fi)0 prisoner twlee daly ok Ing the word of the Coue formu la. It will mean a modern mir acle" Next year Ml .Tacobson plans to extend th-- four Christmas pkin to every prison and penitentiary in the country RIVER TREATY ON FILE SVy Tuliut letter , , , , ,i Than California Clinic lluglict Hi'cchcM t Opj tif Xgri'timoul . I'roui ('ommcrci' Secrclitr Hoover, i WASIIlNtlTON. Dec. 15. Secre- Cillfnriiin Is wonderful, but Tulsa lary of Htato llughea today received ! Is li x t l ns.v h rd f'.r farmr to got 'id)' at 'l.p hiirinti and as a ronse .i i, n oil mffered, but , indltlons t, w am 1,,-tter than 'hey have been sttii e tlio rin'in. 1 li I depression, cleorge c i, - field ri pi esentntlve from that part of tho state said. Terrl- I tory covered by Wiley Is made up of , ,. .'.Marshall. Johnson Ilryan, Choctaw Representatives Ol and Mccurtain counties. .MniiiclH coon. fienernllv paklriB. conditions In flttrvln, McClnln ami Murray coun ties are 75 pr ient better than they were last year. It. W. 8ugg. eald. I'arnesrs have been able to pay their Interest, there Is plenty of feed to run the crop o i, It Is oaler to get money, and as a oneiiicnre the prospeiti are good arid the farmers more optimistic than they tiflvn been In u long time. There has been more cotton In this part of the state, too, than growers had anticipated and they got a good price for it. Much the same condition hold good In Giadv. Canadian, Caddo, Oklahoma and Cleveland' counties, A. K. Suggs, field man from that teril tory, said. (' "millions are better In (Irady than perhaps any of the other countlea. with marked Improvement over last year In all of thetn. IJko the man who ha been drowning and suddenly finds him self In shallow water out ntrabl to trust himself to solid round, the farmers In the territory eurroumlliic Muskogee oie but gradually realis ing; just how Immensely improved Money Is easier, credit is better, the crop outlook I more promising and condition generally over III state are better than thfey have been In years, according lu Information gathered yeaterday from field repro. setitailvcs of the mortgage loan de partment of the Kxchruige TruV company. The field men were here for the annual session nf the mort gage loan department held last night In the director' room of the Kx ohange National hank. The northwestern part of the state ha an outlook that I tho beat In yea re, both financial and agricul tural. J. T. Neebltt from Knld stated. Financially the farmers are In good condition, their winter wheat is two or three Inches tip and doing floe and the farms generally In splendid shape. Ilommlni- I ,-i. In Okfuskee, Hughe. Seminole and Okmulgee counties the farmers are borrowing less money than they LIIBII liiey ,,,, r . t, - u... have had to do heretofore, and their K'""""""Z,'' r;,L T.V' 1 ...J nnaldernhlr. money Is easy and there eredlt in better. It. K. Curpentet. representative from that purt or the state said The farmers haVo baen able tn pay off their debts, Kenernlly speaking, and have a little money with crop outlook for tho year good lenerally, things are In polbly 100 per cent better condition thnn they were Inst year, and tho farmers are In frrtriil unlrltu frhnr l u is.wmI tier, luiording to Mis Annabel (, . llf U,.tr tOWlng being ilone nnd deposited In the slate depart- homo city ment's archives the original copy of the Colorado river committee pact between representative of the fed eral government and the state ot Arlxona, California, Colorado, Ne vada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyom ing. The slate department will be qus todlan of the historic "document, signed at Santa Fo November 21 ami which mnrks a new era In fle. velopment of the Colorado basin. find Million ItiiMslitit Children. WASHINGTON. Dec. 111. The American Hellef association I now feeding a million und a halt IltisHlnn children. Hei retnry Hoover, bend of the orgHlilxatlon aald todn . Mr Hoover expressed tho opinion, how ever, that them would he a law Increase In the number for Willi ll the association will have to proWdo fond before next June. He believes the number mny reach ",nao 000 from Hecretatv of Commerce Hoovei i l.nllmi-r who returned to her own I and everything Is up In good shape. f i i no coimn crop in uin sounieu;ii- ern part or tim state, nittier to the surpuse or tnc inrmcrs. wns n as in fiO per i etit "inp and after two yeais of little or no crop, It means a tre mendous boost for that teiltor Is plenty of money to loan on good security. Crops generally nre good, arid the outlook splendid. Acting Governor, I frapp, Pardons ; One Man Paroled Ily the Annoclaitd Press Btste Wirt, OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 1 -, Two iiardons and one parole were Issued today by Acting Gov. M IS. Trapp to men 'convicted of manslaughter in Creek, Stephen.; und Okmulgee counties. Albert Taborn, convicted In the superior court ot Creek count v Kebrunry 6. 1921, and sentenced to serve eight year In the pent tontlary, was imroled on the re, -ommendatlons of the trial judge, the sheriff, the state penltentlrttj physician and 100 Creek coutit cltheons. 15. it. RhackMord, convicted In the district court of Stephens county, January Si. 102:. In con nection with the killing of J. C Huff nnd sentenced to servo 10 years, was granted a pardon on the recommendation of the mayor .of Duncan, the trial Judge. 10 of the Jurors who tried him. the state senator from that dletrlct, the sheriff ami editor ot the Duncan Hanncr. Isom Roams, sen'.encod to serve four years when convicted In the district court of Okmulgee county May 7. 1921, wa pardoned on the rer otnmendutlon of the trial Judge the inuntv attorney and Victor M. Lock", superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes. Ho was piroled Ann- 20. 1922 Friday morning after IB-months' tay In tho flolden Mate Mir Ijitlmer fiald thla compliment In a firm voice, though accustomed to n balmy breee; she wa shivering at Tulsa' wintry welcome. Miss Ijatlmer I well-known here as u newspaper woman and a singer. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mr. S. M. IJltlmei . To enable mush Inn to bold vio lins comfortably and without fa tigue an Arlr.ona man has Invented a pnititcd rest that extends from tho collar bone to the shoulder. nH r.MiiNi:s ;C 111' M.'Kwcll ir. III ristii A l.'orton b IIP A!nx ,i A I , n. ltd. in. Mskfl offer V. i VilUllH. lift I'flHRe 10117 1'ntll six or eight months ago it was 1 decNion Stiiudaril Abandons Slovakia. I'AHIS, Dec. 13 The Herald uy j today that the Standard Oil company has abandoned its plan for devel oping the oil rcKiiurcei ot Czecho SloMiki.u Difficulties in reaching an , ui cement with ihe Prague govern ment over the nomlnntlon of dlr"c tois of the company which it was, pioposed to form there, arc given by the neuHpnpir as t!ie reason for the- INTER-STATE DOCTORS Chronic Stuhborr IiiM-ntcs of p Men and Women Sec testimonial In other column 21S-2I0 Sltt'MUTY lll.DC Corner Second nnd Main B VsS C?!. tr 'The Great Christmas Gift Shop for Men and Boys' Special Gift Offerings Holme Prices Arc Always Less Itim-curlng Kuilcincnln Is-ucd Fnun luiHrlal IMliu-o foiiccriilng Hcgcnt. TOKIO. Dec. 15. Ueassurlng stutementH came from the Imperial household todaj . concerning the con dition of Hlrohito. the prince regent. It wa announced that the report current In Toklo that the young ruler wa a vicilm of typhus were un founded and that the physicians In attendance had confirmed the dlag nosH as a bad case of measles. His temperature and pulse were repoited leceding today. Vlthouah .u cording to the an tioum incut. lm w.is not conldered danger Hie nation :n deeply 1011 , erued over lus conditio". vapory mm a SILK SHIRTS $V95 Complete Assortment of Gift Articles for Men SUITS AND c. i iti.iciiru. m. i. (iKOHtii; II. Mll.l.l It. M. I). at. ii. iiiir.viNi:. m. i. Announco the removal of their iiHIco ! 211 AtliiH Uldg. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Tool Chests $1.50 to $17.50 s Every ninn wnnts to bo outfitted for the holiday season with a new suit and overcoat. At this store you will find an unusually fine assortment to choose from. Warm, comfortable Overcoats and handsomely tailored Suits priced at $25 $30 s35 Fine fabrics and careful tailoring make those truly great values at these prices. Don't watt until the last day, come in now nnd make your selection. Our ftiruLsliliig goods department ofter a ootnploto army of tilings for mini ill eorroepondlngly low prior. S1JI3 t)Ult WINDOW DlSl'UW Holmes Clothes Shop 221.223 SOUTH MAIN ST. An excellent quality of Broadcloth, Japanese and Eagle Crepe in a substantial weight. A complete as sortment of colored satin stripes on white grounds as well as white with self stripes. Same grades priced in other stores $8.50. SILK TIES at $1.95 Four-in-hands carefully made from the finest silks supplied by the looms at home and abroad. You cannot help but like their ex clusive patterns and smart color effects. SILK TIES at $1.65 Four-in-hands of heavy silks and satins of for eign and domestic make. In this group there are ties of exclusive design in practically every color. And Hundreds oi Other Ideal Gifts for Men 1 -::.rtt??rT5 Knox Hats Tulsa .icq? Oklahoma City Fvt a- Muskogcc Clapp Shoes Bartlesville in otops of quali'v Exclusive But Not Expensive 319-321 South Main GI. Ml bV J iK2Pc Jirt Store Open Evenings Until Christmas TS For Every Man If vou come here for your gift buying for men and boys you're going to declare this the most gratifying experience in holiday shopping you've had in many years. You'll find finer goods, greater varieties, more nov elties and best of all, lower prices. Shop around and you'll find this to be true. Illustrations and items suggest a few of the gift ideas here. UUUINUlINLs KUUU of the finest silks $27.50 and Up BLANKET BATHROBES $4.95 to $14.75 CORDUROY ROBES with contrasting trimmings $12.50 HOUSE COATS of silk or wool $7.50 to $45 HOUSE SLIPPERS $3.50 to $6.50 SILK HOSE nnd garters' to match in box $1.25 INITIAL' HANDKERCHIEFS 3 in box 75c to $3.75 BELT AND BUCKLE SETS $1.50 KNIT JACKETS in heather shades - $6 to $8.50 SILK PAJAMAS all colors 7.50 to $15 SHIRTS ' of imported white broadcloth $4.95 SILK NECKWEAR in new club check and pencil stripes $1 CUFF LINKS a great assortment 50c to $5 MUFFLERS silk or wool $4 to $12.50 GLOVES for dress and drnrlns plain or fur linod $2.65 to $15 MANHATTAN SHIRTS $2.50 to $7.50 SWEATERS Jumbo and Shaker knit coat or pull-over style all colors $8.50 to $12.50 FANCY BELT BUCKLES plated or sterling $1 to $6 POKER SETS in handsome cases $2.50 to $18 SHAVING STANDS $9 and $9.50 TRAVELING SETS in leather cases $6 to $25 ' MILITARY BRUSH SETS in leather case $2.50 Up If you arc still in doubt give him a GIFT CERTIFICATE and let him choose his own gift. mi 1 510 .South Mnlu liiiuiiiiiiiiM bJr lr Ir-I rJrJ rrr--rdr r-jpdrdr-Jra tarn