Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

52ND YEAR NO 31 MIAMI OKLA THURSDAY AUGUST 5 1954 DAILY 5 SUNDAY 10 CENTS DRAT CHARGES AGAINST COUNTY CLERK Ja I Natt Cited Notes from 6 SENATORS IN case or Altering 19 Warrants 1 By TOM STONE RANKURT Germany Aug lections jreiu ho are sym sec Weather' La Another German Deserts to Reds all re al bols for patriotism integrity and judicial Johnson added: of them have had eminent (Continued on Page Six) the second to'fbe the audit began in week Red Chinese Refuse To Touch Protest MURRAY TO WYOMING OKLAHOMA CITY Aug GB Gov Johnston Murray will be represented' at review of the Oklahoma Air National Guard at Casper Wyo by Maj Gen Roy Kenny Oklahoma adjutant general In announcing that he will miss the review Murray said he will at tend the executive committee meet ings of the Interstate Oil Compact commission in ort Worth LONDON Aug G) Red China has refused even to accept a second American protest against the shooting down of a British air liner off Hainan last month diplo matic officials said today Three Americans were among 10 persons killed in the attack The State department dis closed July 29 that the Peiping regime had contemptuously turned down American protests on both that incident and a subsequent fighter attack on two American rescue planes in which the attack ers were shot down The protests were relayed by British Charge Hum phrey Trevelyn The Chinese would not accept them from his hand Informants here said Trevelyn had sought anew to deliver Wash protest' but the Commu nists refused for the second time even to consider it PEKIN Ill Aug 5 CP) ire fighters today drew back from a flaming American Distilling Co whisky rackhouse in fear that a new store of alcohol might ignite and knock over more storage build ings One person has been killed more than 30 injured seven piissing and feared dead in two and DROUTH AREAS TOLD TO ILE NEW REPORTS BERLIN Aug The Com munist East German radio today claimed a second high ranking member of the West German in telligence system has deserted to the Reds and has asked He was "identified as Gerhard Rather member of one of West top intelligence offices PART STATE MAY GET RAIN Slightly Cooler Weather Is Predicted for Northern Border Counties DOENGES PLANS IGHT TO STAY Republican and Democratic Members Will Consider Censure Request Even irst 26 Counties Desig nated in State Must Sub mit resh Claims Published Every Evening (Eieept Saturday) ad Sunday Moi'ning by Mixmi Ntwapapen Ine One Person Killed over 30 Hurt Seven eared Dead At Pekin'1 III Hunt Spreads for Third Bank Robber OKLAHOMA CITY Aug CP) West coast officers and ederal Bureau of Investigation agents to day continued their search for a 24 year old Texan charged in con nection with the $22000 robbery of the armers National bank of Er ick a week ago Bobby Joe Rine Royston Tex is being sought in California' Two other men charged in the robbery Janies Darrell Holland 25 Erick and James Earl Spangler 23 Tul sa were captured by 'BI agents in California Tuesday night Holland was captured in Modes to and Spangler was arrested in Los Gatos They are being held in lieu of $50000 bonds following ar raignment before commis sioners More than $6000 of the loot was recovered when the two men were arrested WASHINGTON Aug Vice Presidenr Nixon today ap pointed a six member Senate com mittee to make an investigation of the conduct ol Senator McCar thy (R Wis) and consider pro posals that he be censured The members: Sen Arthur Watkins (R Utah) Sgn rank Carlson (R Kas) Sen rancis Case (R SD) Sen Edwin Johnson (D Colo Sen John Stennis (D Miss) Sen Sam Ervin (D NC) Quickly after the appointment of the committee McCarthy arose and asked who would be the chairman Nix on replied that committee will select its own McCarthy asked for a meeting this afternoon with the committee McCarthy said he wished among other things to get an understand ing with the1 group would avoid any conflict between its pos sible requirements on his time and his own plans for conducting hear ings before his senate investiga tions subcommittee hile Nixon announced the ap pointees the actual selections were made by party leaders The Senate Democratic policy committee had an early morning meeting to decide finally on the Democratic members At its conclusion Sen Lyndon Johnson of Texas Democratic floor leader said without disclos ing the names that his se and north central turning cooler east and south late tonight cooler east a and south Thursday low tonight: 6b northwest to 75 southeast high i riday in the 70 's northwest to 90 southeast REE VERTICAL TAKEO EYED Demo Boss Sees Easy Party Win In Autumn Vote OKLAHOMA CITY Aug 5 (TP) Democratic state Chairman Smith Hester today predicted Ok lahoma Republicans will not come within 50000 votes of winning either the governorship' or Senate office in the Nov 2 gen eral election In a weekly news column Hes ter also predicted that Ben Crow ley Tulsa Democratic nominee for Congress in the irstdistrict will defeat Rep Page Belcher Enid hope of Republicans is that well filled campaign chests and a fierce advertising campaign can confuse voters into believeing black is he said we Democrats are confident issues are more im portant than money and the is sues are all on our side with their first taste of power in 20 years Republicans can afford to be big spenders The return they want from their in vestment is give away of public power and other natural resourc es higher interest rates more government subsidies for big bus iness but less subsidies for farm ers and fewer guarantees for la bor and our needy citizens you get away from the country club not many Oklaho mans are buying that brand of hokum this he said hour automobile ride and parked in Metropolitan Park' She admit ted being the more aggressive of the two Dr Sheppard previously had been questioned about the woman police said and denied their rela tionship was' anything more than strictly The osteopath lay on his cot county jail today listened to a portable radio and read mag azines about cars Detectives yesterday halted their questioning saying the prisoner would not talk and they were merely wasting time Attorneys for the physician filed two complaints with the Cuyahoga (Continued on Page 'Six) INALLY RESCUED LONG BEACH Calif Aug: UR A workman was impaled for 30 minutes on an iron rod yes terday after he fell from a girder on a' bridge construction project ellow workers and an ambu lance crew worked for 30 minutes to free rancis Shorak held by a one inch rod which penetrated his thigh and hip for four inches Some 110000 barrels of aging whisky the equivalent of 17 325 fifths of a gallon bottles have been destroyed This loss plus the plant and equipment destruction sent the cost of the fire high into the millions of dollars The section of the plant burn ing this Rackhouse is only 70 feet from a building where 600000 gallons of alcohol are stored I The danger area was roped off iremen were pulled back from the front firelines for fear that the al ci'hol might explode and demolish the entire area The continuing fire capped by a dazzling nighttime atomic like explosion seen 75 miles away destroyed much of the sprawling plant facil ities in this central Illinois city Damage already is well into the 'millions of dollars The explosion last night lifted the roof and walls of one rackhouse a six story brick building high into the air The debris rained down on firemen and plant workt ers ighting to halt the fierce whisky fed blaze touched off 17 hours earlier during a severe elec trical storm Bricks buried two fire trucks and a fire car iremen who Were drawing their water from the Illinois Riyer and reportedly handicapped by a lack of sufficient pressure were or dered to retreat a quarter of a mile because of the threat of new explosions The fire yesterday morning con sumed two 8 story rackhouses where whisky is stored in barrels for aging and a 4 story brick cus toms storage house Some '42000 barrels of whisky went up in this fire A Jj: Proposal Beaten by Miners PICKER Aug (Special) A unionization proposal was re jected 120 to 31 by employes of the American Zinc Lead and Smelting company at an here Wednesday Balloting was held at the Nellie di vision property The United Stone Allied Prod ucts Workers Union of 'America (CIO) had sought to unionize the employes The election was conducted by a representative of the National bor Relations board Navy History's irst Such eat Another Plane Innovation Cited of Dr Sheppard The only woman identified so far is Miss Susan Hayes 24 year old hospital technician who returned here voluntarily from Los Angeles to tel of intimacies with the defendant In the latest case the officer who refused to be identified by name said the husband of the woman signed a statement saying he slapped his wife because she took a walk in the woods With Dr Sheppard The woman said she had three or four with the handsome osteopath and they and kissed nothing On one occasion the woman said in her statement they took a two if Trying to pull out of a parking place without enough clearance can be a costly affair a young woman from Commerce learned here Wednesday evening Miss Joyce Neoma 1948 Chevrolet sedan wras dam aged $45 when she rammed the 1950 Oldsmobile sedan parked in front of her in the 100 block on (Continued on Page Six) Army Officer inds Women Hate' Orders (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Scattered thundershowers are expected to drop temperatures slightly along the northern border of Oklahoma today and tonight with more hot weather in store for the remainder of the state Enid reported a trace of rain this morning being the only point receiving moisture in the past 24 hours Ponca City Enid and Hobart were the hottest points in the state yesterday with 104 de grees Altus reported 103 Gage Sill and McAlester 102 each Tulsa and Guymon 101 Okla homa Cjty 140 and Ardmore had 98 degrees Guymon was the coolest point in the state last night with a read ing of 76 degrees Ardmore re ported 77 Hobart and McAlester had 78 Sill and Oklahoma City 79 Gage 80 and Ponca City Tulsa and Enid 82 Slightly cooler temperatures are predicted for the northwest and northeast' areas with maximums of 100 degrees forecast for most sections of the state the prosecutor said Reynolds claimed he has suffi cient evidence to prove that Mc Natt forged 19 of 51 fraudulent warrants allegedly uncovered from an audit at his office to date rep resenting a loss to the county of $2249349 McNatt who had been in of fice continuously since Jan 1 1947 did not comment about the report that he was being charged The 40 year old Demo crat is unopposed for another two year term starting next Jan 1 Robert Travis a questioned documents examiner (handwrit ing expert) from the state Crime Bureau has been working the past two days with Quakenbush examiner of questioned documents from Lawrence Kas in analyzing indorsements and other signatures on the fraudulent checks Meanwhile William (Bill) Bryant state Crime Bureau op erative has been questioning persons suspected of being in volved directly or indirectly in the case Bryant is being assist ed by Trooper Bert George of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Reynolds said McNatt probably will be arraigned before Judge George Russell in county court later today McNatt is charged since his office last Mrs Evelyn Gaines 35 a dep uty in office was charged with second degree forg ery Saturday John Pan tier an auditor from the state examiner and inspec office today said he has not yet uncovered evidence sup porting misappropriation of ad ditional county funds Meanwhile Asst County Attor ney Bob Lollar was preparing civil actions against persons and banks in an effort to recover the $2249349 for the county' Death of Tulsan Boosts Road Toll To 311 for Year (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The' death of a Tulsa truck driv er Thursday raised 1954 highway accident death toll to 311 compared witjj 288 at the same time last year Ollie Gene Gilliam 24 Tulsa was killed when his truck struck a concrete bridge abutment and went out of control on State High way 88 seven miles south of Claremore Highway Patrolman Owen Strain said Gilliam a truck driv er for the Rainbow Bread Co apparently fell asleep at the wheel The right rear wheel of the truck struck the abutment and the tire blew out throwing the vehicle out of control Jhe truck overturned in a ditch throwing Gilliam out and landing on top of him Gilliam died instantly of a brok en neck crushed skull and other injuries BURBANK Calif Aug 5 UP) Navy said' today that one of its two radically new fighters has made first free vertical takeoff and the other has proven able to hover motionless in free flight The first XY1 Del ta wing job rose unassisted 20 feet from the ground at Moffett Naval air station last Sunday On subse quent flights Monday and Tuesday it rose 150 feet then backed down to a landing on its tail The other XV1 has taken off horizontally then hov ered nearly motionless in the sky in a nearly vertical position for sev on Page Six) Centenarian Will Sail from Oslo Would Meet Ike OSLO Norway Aug CP) Johannes Selliaas 101 year old farmer sails for New York tomor row to fulfill his remaining ambi tions: see America before I die and shake hands with President Eisenhower even if it costs me my Selliaas a straight backed eagle faced man from Snaasa in Central Norway will sail on the liner Stavangerfjord going to do all I can to see this fellow Sel liaas said lucky enough to meet him tell him to get in there like a man to save the peace You think he'll dis approve do only concern in regard to his hoped for White House visit was posisble presidential reaction to his beard shaved since I was a bridegroom 75 years Selliaas said then been trimming it with a pair of scissors Maybe hae to shave when go to the White House say I like it but not letting my beard come between me and Eisenhower have to Negro 'To Receive ph at College STILL'WATER Okla Aug Degrees will be awarded to 459 graduates of Oklahoma at commencement exercises Sat urday including the first Negro ever to receive a doctor of philos ophy degree at the college He is Huey Jefferson Battle 35 year old former agriculture in structor at Wewoka Battle com pleted examinations for the Ph degree in farm economics last month and has been working on a dissertation on flour milling since then Battle received his de gree in Wisconsin mnd his bach degree from Dangston uni versity where he will teach Tag Agency Boosts ray Survey Here The Ottawa county tag agency is the first group in Miami to proudly display its 100 percent certificate from the Ottawa county Tuberculosis association show'ing that employer and all employes have i had their chest rays To date 1451 persons have been rayed in the two days the big mobile unit has been stationed in front of the Crown drug store a Mrs Ruby Denton secretary of the county Tuberculosis associa tion urges the co operation of ev ery employer in the county in get ting all employes to the ray irst degree forgery charges in connection with the alleged misappropriation of $802196 from his office were prepared against Ottawa County Clerk (Bill) McNatt here today County Attorney Bob Reynolds at noon told the News Record he may file as many as four separate forgery charges against McNatt later today The complaints against McNatt were supported by findings of twro handwriting experts who' uncovered the alleged forgeries and other corroborated evidence brought to light by investigating officers OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy and humid tonight chance of A scattered thunderstorms east ri day partly cloudy scattered thun derstorms east and north turning cqoler north riday low tonight i 75 northwest to east and south high riday in the north to 100 105 south MISSOURI Thunderstorms spreading into southern portion'of state tonight and riday consid erable cloudiness north riday 1 rning cooler north tonight and cooler over the state riday low tonight the 60 north to 6o 75 south high riday in north to lower extreme south Considerable cloudi ness northwest partly cloudy eastand south tonight scattered show ers or thundershowers likely todays and ness PROMOTIONS LISTED TULSA Aug UP) Promo tion of five district managers to district vice presidencies was an nounced yesterday by the Okla homa "Natural Gas Co' The men and heir districts are A Holmes Enid McAnich Ardmore ranklin McGinis Those with changed addresses include: Oliver Smith formerly of Picher and now living in Bartles ville Dillon Patterson from airland Route 2 to Grove Route 2 Leo Bunce Northeastern college graduate residing in Tah lequah and Ronald Lee Dry for merly of airland and now living in Waterproof La i Mrs Hazel Rombacfi local Selec tive Service board clerk 'also an nounced that pre induction quota for September at 20 men The youths will leave for physical ex aminations in Oklahoma City on Sept 18 Six Ottawa countians who previously passed physical ex aminations will enter the arm6d Oklahoma City on Sept 20 GP) A battle scarred Army colonel ducked behind his combat ribbons today as the wrath of a thousand American women poured down on him ML Jkwpuld cqpse such a fuss smiled Col John Dilley commander of the rank furt detachment who issued an or der advising Army wives and daughters here to spfuce up and tone down their dress His directive said attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good 'and warned that if they do something about it positive would be taken Outlawed were: Bare back halter type sunsuits worn without a jacket or wrap Bare mid riff costumes Strapless low cut dresses except in clubs or at social functions Shorts on teen agers or women Blue jeans on Pin curlers unless neatly covered The colonel a West Point grad uate who distinguished himself in the African campaign in World war II said some women were going to and from the post exchange looking awful One of the women who likes her levis said: used to 'wear blue' jeans to the commissary to buy groceries Now I I have two kids and keep house I change clothes every time I want to go out of the Another said stoutly: freedom is beinsr threat National Committeeman Like ly Will Be Replaced How Atringloti Cited WHISKY PLANT BLASTS IRES CREATE HAVOC Dates Sept 7 11 (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) William Doenges Democratic national committeeman apparent ly decided to stand his ground to day and fight to retain his top party job However Sen Raymond Gary the nominee for governor who is backing Rep James Arrington Stillwater for the post indicated he expects the change to be made shortly support of Arrington was disclosed earlier this week rom his home at Bartlesville Doenges said there is no vacancy in the job met with Senator Gary at El Reno last Tuesday he said had hoped he would issue a statement as to my stat us as Democratic national com mitteeman is no vacancv The term that I was elected to by the Dem ocrats of Oklahoma expires in 1956 At this time Senator and my interests are to unite the Democratic party for victory in The national committee job is normal patronage of the governor However in recent years fights for the office have been avoided by resignations Gary referred to the resig nation submitted by Doenges in May after he filed as candidate for governor The Democratic executive committee took no ac tion on the resignation and aft er Doenges was defeated asked him to withdraw it Gary said he' still considers Doenges re signed am confident he will do what' he thinks best for the Democratic (Continued onPage Six) ive Other Women' Now Linked with Ohio Doctor CLEVELAND Aug 5 (AP) Police reported today they have a signed statement from a married woman ad mitting she had recent and dates with Dr Samuel Sheppard: The woman was described as a former patient of the 30 year oldi osteoptK who is charged with first degree murder in the slaying of his wife Marilyn 31 The information was disclosed Hv ficial He also said investigators nnw hnvo 'five amorous escapades in the life STILLWATER Okla Aug GT') Department of Agriculture officials started all over today to determine which counties in the state should be approved for fed eral drouth assistance 1 orest Beall "Nash chairman of both the' state Agricultural Stabili zation committee and the state Drouth committee said new re quirements and regulations have been established for classification of counties as drouth disaster areas Even the 26 counties previous ly classified as disaster areas will have to comply Beall said Beall said the state Drouth com mittee had previously sent Secre tary of Agriculture Benson a sur vey of all 77 counties in the state prior to approval of the 26 but had made no recommendations He said he does not know how the selec tions were made but assumes Ben son used the survey and other 1 Drouth committees which will include the county agent a banker a cattleman chairman of the Coun ty SC and chairman of the county arm Home administration are be ing established The committees will make requests for their coun ties and supply supporting evi dence The requests will go to i state Drouth committee and then to Washington for final approv al fq Processing has started at ASC headquarters here on applications for individual aid from farmers in the 26 counties already approved If the farmers are qualified they I may obtain hay and other feeds at reduced costs armers Ranchers ind Little Cheer (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) armers and ranchers are glum and dispirited in the vast drouth country where corn and cotton I droop and cattle graze on brown pastures we assist in every pos sible says Agriculture Com missioner John White of Texas of our rural people will have to abandon the White speaks for only one state But drouth still rules the great plains in spite of cent rains and federal aid ready granted to six states Good rains in sun burned tions of the South and East have been more but not enough to save most crops Here is what men who live on the seared land throughout the dis aster areas say: Only a lot more rain and then still more can finally beat the drouth and save them and when that happy day will arrive is an impossible guess Meanwhile they need federal help to hang on and they grumble they get ting enough think expect ing a White said the sake of our economic future we have to help the little farm er and rancher stay on the farm' We help them if they are forced to drift into the cities to seek The number of states eligible for fedei al aid reached six this week when Oklahoma and Missouri were added to Colorado Wyoming New Mexico and Texas Six more states Alabama Ark ansas Kansas Kentucky Gergia and Tennessee have asked to be included UNCONCERNED ABOUT THREAT Attorney Joseph Welch who gained national recognition when he appeared as Army during the 'Army McCarthy hearings appears unconcerned as he raises an umbrella at the home of friends in Wellfleet Mass des pite an alert from Washington that a man armed with a pistol was headed for New England with the intention of shooting him Welch is under heavy police guard as a result of report 'I (NEA TELEDHOTO) Rich Shawnee Root unit It is the hope of the asso Muskogee and Sterling Ok 1 ciation that every business on lahoma City I Main street signs up 100 percent QlXTEEN Ottawa county youths today left Miami for Oklahoma City to take pre induction exam inations for service in the armed forces The prospective inductees includ: Miami Neil Williams 220 street southeast loyd A Speer 817 street northwest Jackie A Smith 19 street northast Don White Route 1 Marvin Rodgers 122 A street Commerce Glen and William Osborn Quapaw Wayne Duncan and Clarence A Daw'son vv XJX11U AJ A JiUipUbLj JCM1 VVA uuau 111 CApiUDlUllb Charles Canada Route I and fires since Wednesday morning Released on Bail Long After Crime NEW YORK Aug 5 Gl) Paul A Pfeffer is free on bail af ter more than 11 months dn jail for a murder which another man has confessed Pfeffer was arrested Aug 23 a year ago for the bludgeon slaying of Navy Seaman Edward Bates whose battered body was found in a lonely section of Rockaway Beach in Queens Pfeffer now 22 had insisted that police forced him to con fess the crime At his trial his girl friend Helen Anderson 16 testified Pfeffer was with her until 4:30 am the night Bates died Last January Pfeffer was con victed of second degree murder and sent to prison for 20 years to life He had been held without bail since his arrest Two months ago John rancis Roche arrested for the rape slay ing of a schoolgirl confessed to four murders in Manhattan and also admitted the Bates killing court appointed at torneys immediately went to work He successfully passed a lie de tector test conviction recently was set aside by a judge who granted him a new trial which may be held in the fall Bail of $10000 was allowed last Monday Pfeffer lacked the money to pay a bail bond fee and the law banned his attorneys from posting bail Yesterday an anonymous bene factor guaranteed the posting of the bail by a professional bonds man Pfeffer walked out of jail as soon as the bond was approved by county Judge John Scellipi tonight considerable cloudi riday with scattered showers rt and thundershowers mostly west south cooler northwest and 1 Oklahoma Society Oklatom City 5 Oklahoma Your Town I I it 11 I i MM 1 I.