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Lcllqa Elsie Janis Hurt1 3 INQUISITORS EYE PRINCIPALS IN MARRIAGE HOAX COMPROMISE NEARER AIR ORCE TO GROW SENATOR IS RETICENT DENIAL MADE BY HIM Delorei TEAR GAS USED I to TO ROUT GANG of is Metal Market earlier today sunken vessel Beer was made by the Egyptians 6000 years ago OKLAHOMA CITY July CP) Oklahoma Panhandle of all places has a beaver problem on its hands Despite drouth and dust storms in the area last spring it appears there are enough running streams to attract beavers in such numbers that they have become a menace to trees and other growing things along the creek banks Acting on the request of George Hitch and Tom Stratton Guymon farmers State Game Commissioner Rickey has dispatched A Gaines and Gray department game experts out to the Panhandle to trap beavers alive and to trans port them to the marshy sections the eastern part of the state Oklahoma beaver population increasing steadily Rickey said Boy Drowned Loss Heavy During lood the the Say Rogers and the Posts Hope Expressed for inal Passage Late Today of Banking Measure Takes Time to Work Certain Things Blind Solon Cork Brick Hurled In Strike Man Held Warning to District WPA Directors Linked to Talk With Gore for Crime Prevention Opened Beavers on Rampage In State Panhandle Cameraman Missing After Waves Swamp Craft Off Southern California on the the warship MOVIE BARGE IS SUNK MAN LOST BAYONETS ROUT STRIKE RIOTERS 500 Lumbermen Dispersed At Hoquiam Wash Af ter Stoning Soldiers Tear gas was used by deputy sheriffs last night to disperse a gang of approximately 35 men gathered at a pool hall in Hocker ville The men the officers said declared they would not leave and told the officers they could not be forced to do so A gas grenade was tossed by one of the deputies and landed in the group in front of the building The vicinity was miraculously cleared and no further trouble was experienced the officers said The pool hall has been a source of trouble for some time authorities said today and gangs of men have met there frequently Officers once raided the building and seized a number of shotguns rifles and pis tols The firearms are still held by Sheriff Eli Dry Sheriff Dry i said the hall was a regular meeting place and that the group found there dast night had been holding a meeting of some sort before the arrival of the officers The best way to keep down trouble Sheriff Dry said is to keep the1 men from congregating and 'listening to agitators The sheriff declared that the special deputies had orders to 1 break up groups such as the one at Hocker ville last night and would do so un til the labor trouble was settled ms 8z 80 78 90 93 95 1 comfortably MARLAND VOICES DEENSE NRA SOUNDED BY KEY TO WPA STAPES WAVERLY Nova Scotia July Three experts of the Ca nadian Industries Ltd were dead today after an explosion of nitro glycerin near a former manufactur ing plant which buried them under tons of debris' Ordered to protect the public against any danger of such an ex plosion a party of four went to the company property last night to test the ground an old plant where explosives had been manu factured before the war Their first test? explosion was followed by a great blast that crumbled nearby buildings and tore' a great hole in the ground The only man of the four to es cape death was Willis Leighton of Halifax who had been sent into the woods with surplus dynamite not required for the operation! The three killed were Joseph Cole of Rigaud Quebec a techni cal expert on explosives Harold Roscoe district sales manager of the explosive division in Halifax and William Pitcher works manager of the fertilizer plant in Halifax a Senators Hear More About Mysterious Box Gift OfPower Magnate HITCHHIKER MEBBE 1 4 JOPLIN Mo How it got there no one knows but a mule was found on a railroad trestle here its hind legs wegded between cross ties A switch engine was summoned the crew laid box car doors on1 the track to form an improvised sled the mule was lifted bodily through the doors and dragged to safety: Special Deputies Break Up Meeting at Pool Hall 'In Hockerville to Deport 151 Alien Criminals JAPANTO SPEND S2610000DOON NEW ARMAMENT BOND PURCHASE BYREPPATTON Test Blast atal To Three Experts WASHINGTON July 26 Hundreds of the are converging on the national cap ital freshmen in Uncle first college in prevention The school term is three months the the aircooled quarters of the Justice Bureau of Investigation The crime college represents the federal first attempt on a large scale to co ordinate the work of city county state and fed eral law enforcement agencies Especially and in terested is Edgar Hoover direc tor of the investigation bureau and of the college In one respect the college differs from many other institutions of learning It hag no tuition A faculty of 41 experts on crim inology will cover such subjects as psychiatry ballistics law abnormal psychology toxicology traffic con trol communications photography and finger printing HOAX COSTS MAN $55 COLUMBUS Ohio July UP! Robert Byers 42 a sales coun selor of Columbus who confessed his stjry of being kidnaped was a fake was finerf $50 and $5 costs in police court'here today for mak ing a false report to authorities Broad ive Year Plan of Military Expansion An nounced by Tokyo EVERYBODY HAPPY MINNEAPOLIS Herbert sSteihm of Minneapolis 28 and un employed kept his in him self and a Northfield Minn col lector had recovered his wallet con taining $48 Steihm found the wal let as he walked out of a local thea ter The $48 looked like a small fortune to him but he turned over the purse to a policeman who lo fe cated its owner Witt North Si field needed that money but if ife I kept what Dfound I would have 4 lost something more important faith in Steihm said WASHINGTON July UP) Plans to deport 151 alien criminals now: incarcerated in federal jails and penitentiaries were announced by the Justice department today i The deportation will include all alien criminals from non contigu ous countries who are eligible for deportation at the present tipie President Roosevelt today signed commutation warrants ending their sentences ederal wardens will be ordered to deliver the prisoners to immigration officials The aliens are serving sentences from one year and one day to life ifty are counterfeiters 64 nar cotic law violators and 37 held un der miscellaneous crimes including postal violations murder bank ruptcy white slavery automobile thefts and violations of the immi gration law Criminal aliens from adjacent countries will not be deported the justice department said because it has been found that (such persons soon into the United States ALBUQUERQUE July 26 Just threetourists the way Will Rogers and Mr and Mrs Wiley Post described them selves today after their trip here from Los Angeles in the hew plane Post plans to use in a flight to Moscow Both the cowboy humorist and the round the world aviator 'laugh ed off reports that the trip was the first leg of the proposed flight to Russia The hurried departure of the trio from Los Angeles last night was followed liy rumors they xwere bound for Seattle first stop of aerial trip Rogers said he planned to see the state from the air and loaf a few days before retumingito Los Ange les WASHINGTON July House administration leaders passed the word around today that the inflationary razier Lemke bill to refinance farm mortgages with $3000000000 in new money dead for this They based this preditcion on the fact that they had made new progress in their campaign to remove signa tures from a petition to force a House vote on the measure The total stood at only 203 signers' to day 13 short of the 216 signatures needed to force the bill out of the rules committee That was a loss of half a dozen signers this week alone and at one time there were 210 names on the petition 2 4 6 8 10 Noon OKLAHOMA CITY July CP) If Arthur Gooch first federal prisoner sentenced to death under the Lindbergh kidnaping law is hanged at McAlester penitentiary the government will have to stand the expense of constructing the scaffold at the prison Nich ols chairman of the board of af fairs said today Under' federal statutes Gooch must hang for the crime' He can not be put to death in the electric chair in use at the penitentiary execution originally set for September 13 has been automati cally stayed through the filing an appeal HOLLYWOOD Cal July 26r CP) Divers and salvage 'men were rushed today to San Miguel Island 50 miles southwest of Santa Barba ra to search for the body of Glenn Strong assistant cameraman who was lost when heavy seas late yes terday foundered an 80 foot barge fitted up? to represent the British warship Pandora Strong was one of a movie com pany of about 75 including cam eramen technical experts crew and studio attaches at work in the picture Mutiny Bounty" in which Pandora figures The coast guard had understood the was the Bounty itself After an all night search for Strong hope that he might have survived was abandoned Motion picture equipment valued at $50000 sank with the barge Artists in the picture including the three male stars Clark Gable Charles Laughton and ranchot Tone were not with the location outfit Welter Strohm production mana ger of the company sta tioned in Santa Barbara said the cameraman was the'only man missing The barge is owned by the Wrig ley interests and was chartered by the studio for the film 1 STILLWATER July 26 Marland New" Deal' governor today had voiced the opinion that an amendment to the federal interstate commerce section may be necessary to prevent another Speaking before a group of farm ers at a celebra tion at Oklahoma A college last night the governor a former congressman defended the NRA and declared may be necessary to amend the Constitution if the people of this nation are to have social The Republican party the gover nor charged itself up as guardian of the sacred Constitution and it is the same party that led the fight for an amendment before the Civil war when the Dred Scott decision went against day of government by priv ilege is Marland continued is a day of government by the union and of organiza tions such as the 4 He attacked the last Legislature which passed only part of his re covery measures and expressed the hope that day of the profes sional politician is you must send older men not those barely out of their without business and professional he said1 referring to the fact that many young men served in the last Legislature' Marland charged the experience of President with the public utility was duplicated in this last Legislature when representatives became the tool of the public utility lobby the oil lobby and the bank lobby until my program in the wisdom of the Legislature failed to WASHINGTON July '26 The Senate today overwhelmingly rejected the Nye proposal for a gov ernment owned central bank of fered as a substitute for the main section of the banking bill plac ing control of the credit in seven reserve board meipbers and' five representatives of the re gional reserve banks Proposed by Senator Nye (R D) after consultation with ather Charles Coughlin De troit priest the substitute would have set up a of the United States of with full pow ers over issuance of money and regulation of its value as an agency of Congress Its rejection represented the sec ond victory of supporters of the compromise bank bill which Demo cratic leaders hoped to put through before nightfall without major change after only two full days of debate Vote Is 59 to The vote against the central bank substitute was 59 to 10 Those voting for it were Caraway Holt Neeley Thomas (Okla) and Wheeler Democrats razier Nye Schall Republicans and Shipstead armer Labor The Nye proposal created such little interest that no one elected to speak against it The North Dakotan was the only speaker in its favor Louis Ward representative of ather National Union for Social Justice sat in the gal lery Acting Democratic Leader Bark ley of Kentucky expressed the hope the Senate would pass the bill to day making a Saturday session un necessary After the Central bank defeat Senator Borah (R Ida) expressed fears the bill did not contain suffi cient safeguards to avoid the sat umalia of speculation that we have experienced in the pastr NEW YORK July 6 Ad ditional gains were registered for retail trade during the week Dun Bradstreet reported today in a weekly trade review in spite of high temperatures which prevailed in nearly all parts of the country of being forced to offer resistance to the awaited mid sum mer recession most divisions of trade have been enabled to better their showing of a year ago without much it was stated buying at wholesale also made more headway as retailers advanced their earlier budget esti mates in view of the improved out look am am am am am Development of Civil Avia tion Also Included in Preparedness Program 2 4 6 8 10 Midnight 84 Slayer of 4 Gets Third Life Term 'x gate certain which they had heard 7 ederal Amendment May Be Necessary to Avert Strife Governor Says razier Lemke Bill Dead for Session? OKLAHOMA CITY July CT) Tossing a cork at women pickets at the Wilson Conmany packing plant here scene of a strike now in its seventh week to day resulted in the arrest of Buck Robinson 24 year old plant worker He was booked on a disorderly con duct complaint signed by Police man red Buckles who said the in cident no to the fright ened women pickets 270061 amilies Taken Off Relief Hopkins Reports I CHEAP CHEWING li ROCKWALL Tex Dentists like this story: A I county resident lost his teeth and ft found it difficult to handel a la diet but a whittling friend came to his rescue A set of molars the friend carved from wood were I sufficiently successful for the re cipient to abandon the idea of see ing his dentist don't look 1 so good but they do the he commented THAYER Mo July Delbert Young1 12 son of Noble Young was drownel and damage was heavy in Thayer and Mammoth Springs late yesterday as a result of a cloudburst Within 30 minutes the rainfall totaled 422 inches The boy was playing in a ditch near the risco railroad yards be tween the two towns and was swept into the culvert where the body became lodged' Several stores in Mammoth Springs were flooded and three bridges near here were washed away NEW YORK July 26 Lead steady spot New York 415420j East St Louis' 400 Zinc quiet East St Louis spot and future 440 i vS LONDON July 26 Lead spot and future £15 2a 6d Zinc spot and future £147s 6d 2 WASHINGTON July A decline of 66 percent in the number of families receiving re lief between May and June was1 reported today by Harry Hop kins relief administrator The report which did not include single persons showed 4100932 families were on relief in May and 3830871 in June Total expenditures including special programs declined 98 percent from $188323706 in May to $169840125 in June the report said Wl GOVERNOR IN HOSPITAL LEXINGTON Ky July CT) Gov Ruby Laffoon stricken with an attack of acute appendicitis was brought to a Lexington hospital to day for observation and a possible operation He was reported resting I comfortably RACERS ALL GRANTS PASS The com mittee in charge of a bicycle race here next Saturday found in addi tion to youthful speedsters the fol lowing entrants: One man past 80 years of age one with wodden legs and a blind man 1 Injunction Prohibits Collection of Taxes 1 WICHITA Kas July i6 A modified temporary order jre straining Baker collector of internal revenue for Kansas from collecting processing taxes on wheat and from 37 Kansas milling concerns until after Sept 30 was in the records of federal district court here today Judge Richard Hopkins signed the injunction late yesterday OKLAHOMA and Partly cloudy tonight and Satur day MISSOURI and Gen erally fair and continued warm to night and Saturday Temperatures in Miami from 2 yesterday afternoon until TOKYO July The war office proposed a broad five year plan today for modernization im provement and expansion of Jap anese land and air armaments The program requiring expendi tures of 900000000 yen (about $261000000) was drafted by the general staff of the war office for submission to the cabinet and inclu sion in the budget The money is in addition to regular military appro priations War office authorities disclosing the project pointed out that it was to modernize equipment and increase the air force which ney contended was inferior those of other major powers Consider Nation Vulnerable Although they considered Japan extremely vulnerable to an air at tack officials said the limitations on industrial capacity made it necessary that the program be concentrated on land equipments for the first two years Air force improvements would occupy the last three years It was the first time since the Manchoukuan campaign thai the army had disclosed its programfet long time expenditures Officers had asserted previously that the situation forced daily alteration of plans The army project coincided with plans of the communications minis try to request an appropriation of at least 13000000 yen about $3 770000) for development: of civilian aviation The communications program provided for expansion of domestic air lines establishment of air service to Singapore eubsidies for local air lines and creation of an aviation laboratory A Three Part Program The army program fell in three An appropriation of 500000600 yen wps designed chiefly for im pi'ovemeiit'and increase' in'milftary aviation in addition to the 200 000000 yen already authorized An appropriation of 200000000 yen was considered for Japan prop er and Korea for improvement of infantry anti tank and 1 anti air equipment an increase in automat ic firearms modernization of field guns improvements in heavy artil lery and an increase in motor transports' 1 The third appropriation of 200 000000 yen was proposed for im provements in Manchpukuo similar to those in Japan proper besides protection for the North Manchou kuan railway increased army mechanization and introduction of military conscription WASHINGTON July 26 Members of the Senate lobby com mittee expressed surprise today at testimony by Representative Pat ton (D Tex) that he had bought $3000 worth of bonds during a pe riod this spring when his salary was only $3100 This followed testimony by a surprise witness that he had seen Patton carry a small 1 box away from the hotel room of John Carpenter president of the Texas Power Light company the day before Patton voted against the provision in the utility bill for com pulsory abolition of holding companies The witness 1 Cellers an NRA employe: expressed doubt that the package cigars and quoted nephew who was with them as saying later: that There had been previous testi mony that he took a box of cigars from room have never been so shaken and chagrined in all my Patton: testified when recalled to the stand' bank account is open and the cancelled checks are there 7 5 told you the straight hon est to God truth about the Situa Simultaneously Senate an House conferees on the utility holding company bill became dead locked by a dispute over whether Benjamin Cohen administration adviser on the legislation should be permitted to attend the meet ings 1 apparently is a perma nent breach on this said Representative Huddleston (D Ala) He added that pres ence executive interfer Before Cellers took the stand Patton had voluntarily appeared to deny any wrongdoing The committee questioned him about his investments and rhe testi 1 fied he had bought four govem ment bonds of $1000 face value 1 each since he came to Washington in January Cellers a gray haired man tes tified in a low voice that the box carried out of the hotel by Patton did not seem to be a cigar box1: which the representative said it was but might have He told of conversations later with nephew who accompanied them to the hotel in which he said the nephew Norris Shook express ed doubt that the package was: a box of cigars i Nephew Doubted Cigars Cellers said the nephew asked him Tuesday if he thought cigars were in the box told him I Cel 7 lers said he replied said he ss think so and remarked! bought a bond today and it ts Black obtained statements sever al times from Cellers that he went with Patton to hotel a andthe representative jeft 30 or 40 minutes later light box as large as that one Cellers said pointing to box Patton had brought into committee room Congressman Shaken When Cellers was dismissed Pat a ton took the stand again obvious ly nervous and shaken never was so profoundly fooled in my life than I am at the 7 testimony you have just ha began slowly standing at the wit 7 ness table He added that he had met Cellers at his hotel and they had become intimate friends have never been so shaken and chagrined in all my he add ed bank account is open and the cancelled checks are have never heard tell of the little box Mr Cellers tells Bond Story Labeled alse He denounced testimony about the bond as false told you the straight hon est to God truth about 1 the situa Patton said never carried any other box away from there I can bring my little wife down here and Mrs Carpenter to substantiate He said he had known Cellers a long time and his testimony came of a clear sky" He termed him of the nicest gentleman I he said has got Pat ton' said just know what to say" More Retail Trade Gains Are Reported OKLAHOMA CITY July (A works progress direc tors over Oklahoma opened their mail today to find stem warning from Key state WPA ad ministrator that politics must not be allowed to play a part in the reconstruction work must be done in connec tion with this organization to favor or aid the political fortunes of any Key wrote the appearance of politics must be Political observers professed to see in announcement the re moval of the last obstacle that might stand in the way of his ap proval by Senator Gore Okla) The blind senator and the former prison warden conferred at length during recent visit in Wash ington and no disharmony between the two was reported a Key expressed hope' that 27000 men would be at work on WPA jobs before the end of next week and appeared confident Washing ton officials would allocate funds to Oklahoma this week Gore Still ReticentWASHINGTON July (2P) Senator Gore (D Okla) declined again today to discuss what pro gress he was making in investiga tions Tie said would be necessary before permitting Key Okla homa vorks progress administra tor to be conf irmed in the Senate hews is good he said takes a certain length of time to work certain things Gore said earlier in the' week he did not want his friends discrim inated against in the selection of Oklahoma works employers adding he and Key had decided to investi of Hiccough Victim Is Deluged With Offerings ORT SMITH Ark July 26 UP) As rank Oglesby Jenny Lind relief worker began his ninth day of continuous hiccough ing in a hospital here today relief headquarters and hospital attend ants were flooded with telegrams letters and telephone calls from all sections of the United States offer ing for the sufferer Mrs Catherine Wilson case re lief worker was kept1 busy answer ing telephone calls and receiving fire i The cures some coming from as far away as St Augustine la were nearly as varied as they were numerous Everything from a drink of the older the bet to the popular drops of water swallowed without breath were offered Meanwhile attending physicians said they had tried none of the rem edies and said they were consider ing operating So serious has tion become physicians have strapped his body with adhesive tape to prevent violent jerkings from injuring him internally Oglesby who has lost 40 pounds since he began hiccoughing suf fered the attack when he hiccoughed while straining under the weight of a large stone he was carrying on a relief project State Not to Build Scaffold for Gooch AERIAL INSTRUCTOR KILLED CHICAGO July 26 Duane Howard 30 a flying instructor was killed and Vivian Thomas 24 a student was seriously 'injured to day when open mono plane fell at the Curtiss Reynolds airport northwest of Chicago I Bandits Get $16 BOO In Holdup of Bank SCRANTON Pa July our men armed with sub machine guns entered the Old orge Dis count and Deposit bank near here today scooped up $16000 from counters and fled in an automobile manned by a fifth member of the gang No shots were fired ANGLETON Tex July Clyde Thompson 23 year old slay er of four men was given his third life prison sentence last night after a jury had convicted him of killing Everet Melvin a fellow convict at the reprieve prison farm The jury studied the case less than'six hours after state attorneys had closed their arguments in an appeal for the death sentence Thompson who was serving life terms for slaying Lucian and Leon Shook in Eastland county in 1928 and for the murder of Tommy Reis a convict in 1934 betrayed no emo tion when the verdict was read When the case opened the first of the week District Judge Munson ordered reporters not to print testimony in the trial ex plaining that two other convicts were charged in the slaying and publication of testimony would make it difficult to obtain juries' The testimony was published and Judge Munson said he would his own time in his own in dealing with the reporters HOQUIAM Wash July UP) Squads of steel helmeted national guardsmen patroled strategic cen ters on Grays Harbor today after a riot in strike 1 sympathizers stoned a company of soldiers The crowd was dispersed with fixed bayonets 1 The disturbance last night was I one of a series which has marked 7 the strike of mill workers on Grays Harbor since the arrival of national I guardsmen about a month ago It occurred only a sfew hours ('after 1 troops in Tacoma broke up a dfc I turbo nee of strike pickets company of guardsmen wa? ii being rushed in trucks to the aid of 10 other troopers whom the crowd )r had besieged when they ran into the barrage of rocks Maj Hand I immediately ordered the troops charge with fixed bayonets and the rioters scattered with the guards men in pursuit One guardsman was injured not seriously by a hurled rock The 10 beleaguered troopers had been stationed in a house from which shots were fired earlier in the1 week by non union men at a crowd of strike sympathizers ive persons were slightly wounded bythe Two men are held in Montesano as a result of the shooting 1 4' Mills in Tacoma and the Grays Harbor cities of Aberdeen Monte sano and Hoquiam were reopened feiinder the protection1 of national guardsmen about a mohth ago Other cities which have felt the ef feet of the protracted and paralyz lumber strike which ate one 4 time affected 35000 men' opened under union agreements or under i 1 police protection uopiH Probrs Surprised At testimony He Recent ly Invested $3000 yesterday noon tqday: pmi6 pm 98 pm 99 pm 92 pm 87 u1 qUedmB mot her lle boy Alice Delorei caret okla hoe c'erk was to Mar rf hl Gaena KaaAt left the In the RSht' Delores as The marriage wasnnulled (Associated Press Photos) SENATETURNS DOWN CENTRAL BANK SCHEME Coughlin Gets Setback as Nye Proposal Is Over whelmingly Rejected 4' ELSIE JANIS EAST VIEW July UP) Janis of the A and a stage star was rapidly recovering at Grasslands hospital today from injuries re ceived Wednesday night in an auto mobile accident Temperature pulse and respiration of the actress were nearly normal today Dr Munger director of the county hos pital reported She spent a night he said and at times was actually cheerful? 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