Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

Miami and Suburban a Nine Mile Radius Population 1930 Census Including Picher Cardin Quapaw Commerce Century North Miami 22742 VOL XXIX NO 23 MIAMI OKLA MONDAY JULY 27 1931 PRICE IVE CENTS GOVERNOR IRE SWEEPS PITTSBURGH HOME OR AGED THREE LIVES TAKEN YIELDS TO BY CROSSING CRASH US COURT AT BRIDGE Slain Co Ed HE IGNORES DECREE NEW POLICIES URGED line of Apache Six Hurt in ire On Launch Ottawa County ree air inS prisoners from confinement' Sept 8 9 10 11 1931 (Continued on Page Two) would WEATHER ORECAST tc Lounibury and a detail oty made any identification rates four POLICE CAPTURE MIAMI COUPLE IN TULSA CHASE indicating a continuation of heat EXECUTIVE RETURNS ROM BATTLERONT Kansas air and continued warm tonight ar Tuesday Removes Barriers to Toll Structure but Widens Martial Law Zone to Block New Injunction Wickersham Group it Present Conditions Ineffi cient and Methods Brutal IMPACT DISABLES RISCO LOCOMOTIVE PRESIDENT QUITS JOB IN CHILE AND LEES OR LIE More Education and ewer Bars Recommended in Report to Hoover Coupe Carrying Trio to Missouri Crushed and Ditched as Morning Train Strikes It They previously had escapedpoliceman at Red ork Public Clamor Had Led to Denial of Right to Leave Country Published Every Evening (Except Saturday) and Sunday Morning by Miami Newe Record Publishing Co (Inc TRAIN KILLS YOUTH TULSA July An dentified youth was killed a JAILER IS SHOT WIE'S AIM BAD urray Bread Price Inquiry Is Started Incendiary Blaze in Mineral Heights Third of Series Soon Put Out Bullet Hits Okemah Officer When She Tries to Shoot Unruly Prisoner Ibanez earing Death at Hands of Bitter oes Rushes Into Exile MINERS CALLED TO OIL BLAZE Okla homa Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday A a sas Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight and Tuesday probably scatter ed showers in east portion Tuesday The position given in the mes sage is a little less than 100 miles northwest of Blackport Luetke land Nova Zembla and something more than 250 miles south of Cape lora ranz Joseph land where the Russian icebreaker Maligin is waiting RIEDRICSHAEN Germany July 27 The Zeppelin works received a radio message from the Graf Zeppelin at 1 (7 a eastern standard time) today re porting the dirigible at 75 degrees 50 minutes north 48 degrees20 minutes east The message said all was well aboard BABY DROWNS IN POND TULSA July i 1 ulps 19 months old son of Mr and Mrs ulps Tulsa was drowned late yesterday when he fell into a on a farm near Broken Arrow where ths family spending the day This Associated Press telephoto shows a general view of the fire that swept the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters in Pittsburgh causing at least 30 deaths among its enfeebled inmates More than 100 others were injured Two Men Hurt 4 Post alls in Mine CHICAGO July Three assassins who laughed as they fled caused the death of Ely Orr secretary treasurer of the News paper Delivery Drivers Chauffeurs and Handlers union He was driv ing home from downtown Chicago machine out of control as he attempted to escape plunged through the window of a butcher shon A physician Dr Kerns said he found no bullets in the body but that his head had been crushed against the dcor jam of the car boy we sure got him that one of the slayers exclaimed as the trio sped awav in an auto mobile Jack Bariy an ox convict who was forced out of the union as sec retary treasurer last winter at an election held under the protection of assistant atterney Char Agitation Begun for Con gressional Inquiry Into Injuncture Power of ederal Judges left Sand usillade in Street Causes Him to Lose Control of Car Which Plunges Into Shop Crushing His Head No Bullets ound in Body All gun crews of the Navy are now equipped with gas masks The masks are expected to enable gunners to remain at their a stations in the face of a gas at tack police surrendered for questioning early today He denied any con nection with the slaying gave myself up because I knew the police were after me and I have nothing to Barry said heard you were looking for me and decided to surrender before some police squad plugs me while walking down the Anthony Kissane was sought for questioning by police who expressed the belief that Orr might have been slain by alleged racketeers ousted by the union Tom lannigan described by police as an associate of Barry was also being hunted Emil Wcznicki the only witness to the slaying told police of how the slayers laughed as they escap ed He was taken to the detective bureau where he viewed photo graphs in the gallery but the police did not say whether he OKLAHOMA CITY July 27 (A5) Governor attack on retail bread prices it was learned here today has taken form at the state prison McAlester where War den Sam Brown is compiling cost of penitentiary made bread 7 The prison was in the ice busi ness today cars lining fip at the in ice dock to get the pro duce at 30 cents per 100 pounds half the prevailing rate Plans also were being made to inaugurate a delivery system for prison made ice Governor Murray said his on high prices" might extend to other retail lines and that it will be pushed vigorously against tele phone gas electric and ice investigation of the latter utilities are under way i July 4 Murray said he give bakers 30 days to reduce nri ces Organized members of the in dustry replied that bakeriers are not making money at the present scale Today the governor said ba kers had admitted bread could be made more cheaply by hand labor and that more men could be em ployed Unless priees are reduced the governor said he will organize co operative bakeries over the state Picher Crew That Quelled Kilgore Well Sent to ight Tyler Tex ire OKLAHOMA CITY July I (A3) Advised that an effort may be made to halt free traffic across the Denison Durant free bridge over Red river Gover nor Murray today extended his military zone to put the entire itructure under martial law Only the approach to the parallel loll bridge previously had been 1 under military surveillance The new order extended the zone not only the length of the bridge but also the conefete abutments on the Texas side Whiteriver Ari Gloria latest picture scored a big hit at the Coleman theatre Cool summer suits from $2150 to $35 are featured at Peck Robin i a certain style and smartness about clothes you buy at Wear Tooth brush free with tube of I tooth paste at the Crown Drug Co 50c standard toothpastes 3 for BOc at the Coleman Hutts Drug Co Anthony Co continues their great $1 dress sale These national advertisers have rood news too Chesterfield Dr Pepper Resinol ord Motor Hills Oros PICHER IRES INVESTIGATED GREENPORT July 27 Six persons including three members of the Ziegfeld ollies and Mark Hollinger newspaper columnist were in a hospital today burned and injured in an explosion and fire aboard Harry launch yesterday The party was preparing to start on a fishing trip when the blast shook the 3fi foot cruiser The injured were Miss Helen Walsh Miss Virginia Biddle and Richman all of the ollies Kell inger Sam White a fishing captain of Greenport and Sam Levy Richman's chauffeur Miss condition is critical When Levy stepped on the starl et Kellinger said the boat burst into flames and Miss Walsh was pulled out of the inner cabin her dress aflame She was thrown into the water to extinguish the flames ive fire companies beat out the flames but the boat was wrecked Richman has appeared in musical comedy and talking pictures He was married in 1918 in California to Yvonne Stevenson iThey were divorced in 1922 Slayer of 2 Texas Officers Is Sought RAYMONDVILLE Tex July 27 (Ab Officers were searching throughout the Rio Grande valley today for the' slayer of two Ray mondville officers Constable Haygood 58 and his deputy ran cisco Cisneros 24 George Gusman county jailer wounded by the killer sail the man suspected of bootlegging ac tivity opened fire on the officers when they ordered him to bait bis car PICHER July 27 Police today were investigating the third of a series of mysterious fires in the vicinity of the Mineral Heights school building The latest blaze in the wave of apparently incendiary fires occur red last night at the home of Clar ence Blackburn a miner east of the school About 9 flames broke out under the front part of the house attracting the attention of neighbors who Ian to the scene Using a bucket from an ice cream freezer Paul Klinefelter 208 East Twelfth street extin guished the fire in short order Investigation revealed a bundle of rags soaked in coal oil and wranned in a newspaper had been placed under the house and ig nited 'Neighbors reported that a man was seen to park a car near the house a short time before the blaze broke out and walk toward the dwelling The Blackburn family was not at home having gone to California recently for a stay Two weeks ago an attempt was made to burn the Mineral Heights school but was frustrated when workmen at the New York mine saw the blaze and called the fire department Cotton waste soaked in coal oil was found under the school floor where the fire broke out A few weeks before the school fire the home of Mrs Eddie Sim mons next door to the school was destroyed by fire with a several hundred dollar loss Mrs was janitress at the school last term At the time of the Simmons blaze firemen suspected incendiar ism but had no evidence How ever since the two later blazes that theory has been strengthened Mrs Simmons was in California at the time KANSAS CITY July 27 A blazing sen today intensified its withering attack along a front ex tending from the Rocky Mountain states and the Dakotas southeast ward across the plains toward the gulf As weather observers jotted down temperature readings above the century mark recorded in widely separated places they in terpreted their weather signs as oven Sim Lnrl there to Jearn thn trihnl crets of the descendants nf a long Signs ail to Show Break in Heat Wave uni here early today by a risco freight train Officers expressed belief he fell from the train Charles A Neal of the Security Bank and Trust company received a telephone call Sunday morning from Hay Richmond of Tyler Tex asking him to send the crew which checked the fire in the: Bell Grady Daniels No 1 oil well recent ly to Overton Tex to put out a fire in the Paul Vitek well I he ek well caught fire two weeks ago Sunday Three men have been burned to death in the fire including Mr Vitek promoter and part owner of the oil company bearing his name The: Kidwell Chemical company of New: York had taken a contract to kill the fire by use of carbon dioxide gas but failed Several weeks ago the Bell Grady well caught fire To try to shoot out the fire and let the oil run wild would have endangered prop erty and been a serious accident hazard possibly costing the lives of several persons' Mr Neal conceived the plan of running a tunnel from the surface on an inclinepito tap the outer cas ing about 25 feet below the collar of the well and tapping it there with a small hole to ascertain if there was any leakage of oil or gas between the outer casing and the inner seven inch casing inding no leakage it was then the plan to pump cement between the outer and inner strings of casing letting the cement set and then cutting out a section of the outer casing put a saddle with nipple and valve on the inner casing and drill through the valve The same plan was follow ed higher up the casing making two taps into the inner casing Then mud was pumped into the inner casing between it and the 2'4 inch tubing and the fire smothered out The plan worked out without a hitch and the fire in the well was extinguished without an accident of any kind The method used seems to be something new in controlling oil well fires and has attracted the attention of oil men ail over the country: This is how it happened that Mr Neal was called upon for a crew to extinguish the fire in the Vitcx well He sent the following miners from icher to the Overton field: Sandy agan an old time ground foreman for the Eagle Picher company who will be in charge of the work Sam Wolfe Dud Jones and Benny Paden The Bell Grady No 1 Daniels well has a lot of stockholders in the Tri State district as follows: Charles A Neal Charles A Neal Jr Howard Denver Seals Cy Kinney loyd Myers Wesley Smith of Miami Clint Niday of Picher and Karl Koclker of Joplin Mo TULSA July Two men and two women arrested late yes terday after an exciting 12 mile chase during which police fired several shots faced police court charges of drunkenness and reck less driving Today The four were booked as Montgomery 35 years old and Pauline Vincent 25 both of Miami Okla and Mr and Mrs Thomas Page of ort Smith Ark They were arrested southeast of Tulsa after their car had overturn ed into a ditch None was injured They previously had escaped from SANTIAGO Chile July UP) Carlos Ibanez president of Chile since 1927 who resigned yesterday after a public uprising had been raging three days fled the presi dential palace today to get away from bitter opponents who" were calling for his head Gathering together a few be longings and some personal docu ments he said goodby Pedro Opazo who was chosen president to succeed him and left Moneda palace at 1:20 a in the auto mobile of General Supulveda chief of the garrison of Santiago' With him were a few army officers and other friends It was reported the Car sped to the port of San Antonio where the destroyer Lynch await ed and that the retiring president boarded the vessel and left for an undisclosed foreign destination However because many persons have been attempting to kill Iban ez before he had a chance to leave the country the greatest secrecy surrounded his departure and it was impossible to determine be yond question that he was safe aboard the launch The streets were deserted when the president left Santiago so the getaway was simple About the only persons abroad were troops on guard at the palace To insure the safety of the retir ing president was one of the first problems of the new regime The feeling of the public was plainly shown at last chamber of deputies meeting After the depu ties had accepted his resignation and had granted him safe conduct so great a clamor was raised by the galleries that the vote was re considered his request to leave Chile wab rejected and his prosecu tion was demanded Ibanez self styled of des who once said he enjoyed divine guidance in ruling wa4 un der guard at the presidential pal ace while this yas going on After the exciting chajnber of deputies meeting Santiago quieted down considerably The senate al ready had approved the resignation and the safe conduct and no furth er action was taken legislatively last night Today Chile has for the first time in four years a civilian gov ernment The of Ibanez was one of the first causes' of the wave of unpopularity 1 which swept him out of power Opazo who was president of the i senate will function as president 1 of the nation until elections are held A popular cabinet was form ed with Esteban Montero as pre mier and minister of interior and 1 Pedro Blanquier the idol because of the record he made re cently in his eight day premier ship as minister of finance I See By The Paper Today PRISON SYSTEM IS OUND OKEMAH Okla July GT) Attracted to the cellroom of the county jail last night by an uproar among 20 prisoneis Olin Derrick jailer was attacked 'by the leader of the commotion and shot through both legs by Mrs Derrick when she was called to aid her husband The shooting occurred when Der rick grappled with Wayne Dougers held for Colorado officers as a car theft suspect who hit the jailer over the head with a radiator valve when he entered the cell Derrick fell to the floor and Doug ers pounced upon him The offi cer called to his wife who rushed in with a pistol Detrick told her to shoot his attacker As she fired Dougers pushed the jailer into the line of fire The bullet grazed Douger's leg and passed through both of legs causing heavy loss of blood County and city officers rushed to the jail on the fourth floor of the couithouse and quelled the fra cas Dougers grabbed the (jailer's keys when the latter fell but failed to obtain the key to the outside bar ricade None of the other prison ers joined in the attack or tried to escape The jailer and his family live on the jail floor of the courthouse Dei rick was in a hospital today in a weakened condition but phy sicians said he was not critically wounded Associated Press Leaped Wire A eatures PICHER July 27 Two miners were sriously injured at 12:45 this afternoon when a post supporting the roof of a drift in the Oko mine in the south unrt of the city gave way striking one man and letting down a shower of rock and dirt upon both The injured men orest Good ell and Charles Secrest both of Picher were taken to the Picher hospital in a Todd ambulance left leg 'was broken by the falling timber and he received numerous bruises and cuts about the body Secrest suffered a bad ly sprained back and severe cuts The Oko mine which recently was purchased hy the Evans Wal ower company resumed operation Saturday after having been idle for a lor period By JOHN CHESTER WASHINGTON July The Wickersham Law Enforee i ment commission today condemned the prison system as anti quated inefficient failing toj re form the criminal or protect so ciety and as 'using brutal disciplin ary measures without justification Submitting its seventh report to President Hoover dealing with institutions probation and the commission advocated the creation of a new system in which iron bars woflld play but a small part and education would be I uppermost Cells Overcrowded Much of the report was a de nunciation of prison conditions characterized as "almost incredit under which men were im prisoned in overcrowded cells with out sufficient light or fresh air or benefit of modern plumbing It lashed out also at the system of prison discipline described aS antiquated unintelli gent and not infrequently cruel and Asserting these methods to the increase of crime by hardening the the commission urged they be blamed by law Men Shackled to Dcors Among the punishments revealed many of them visited upon prison ers for slight offenses where the shackling of men to doors for 12 hours a day whipping p'vcing tnem in straigntjackets lashing them down under streams of cold water confining them cages so small that movement was impos sible and keeping them in complete darkness for days at a time on a ration of four ounces of biead every 24 hours After asserting flatly that the American prison had failed as a and as an educational since men were released no better than when committed the commission added: prison has failed as a dis ciplinary institution The riots the files the use of cruel and brutal measures of The per sistent recurrence of murder within the prison the presence of nar cotics the frequent atmosphere of hatred and bitterness sufficient evidence Vicious is clear at present that the more punishment in prison the more discontent the more discon tent the more irritation the more imitation the more plotting the more plotting the more violation of rules and the greater need for more severe punishmnt The whole pro cedure is in the nature of a vipiniic I circle for which theie seems to be no Ideal Outhned Outlining what it considered the ideal" the commission asserted segregation of the diseased insane drug addicts and hardened crimin als was one of the first requisites It held fortress like prisons of the Auburn type were unnecessary save for the worst types millions of dollars now em ployed to construct elaborate mnv imum security it said ccuia wun mucn oetter advantage be used in the development and proper financing of adequate sys tems of probation and Under the proposed system all prisoners (would be paid wages their treatment would be more hu manized the choosing of prison of ficials would be removed from pol itics and guards would be trained specifically for their task Extend Parole System It was advocated that man should be sent to a penal institu tion until it is definitely determin ed that he is not a fit subject for Extension of the pa rolesystem also was urged as the means yet devised for releas NUNS JOIN IN 'E IREINQUIRY Death Toll of' Pittsburgh Disaster Reaches 40 With 100 Still in Hospitals 'PITTSBUGH July Little Sisters of the Poor still stunned by the fire which destroy ed their home and took the lives two score of their aged charges weary from long hours spent in searching for the missing and re assembling those who survived joined today in the inquiry into the disastrous blaze: The death toll had reached 40 to day theVe still were more than 100 injured in hospitals Ten un identified dead lay in the morgue and their identification officials believed probably would erase the list of 10 persons reported missing Many of those in hospitals will die physicians said as they battled to prevent pneumonia and to off death from shock Meanwhile many of the aged and infirm who were removed to tem porary quarters were being taken to another home maintained by the Little Sisters of the Poor The city county and state cen tered an inquiry on the twisted charred four story building which late riday night became an in ferno from a cause still undeterm ined Mother Provincial Augustine of Baltimore Md mother provincial of the Little Sisters of the Poor said a new fireproof home would be built on the site of the destroyed home A grade crossing crash at the risco tracks on South Main street at 1:45 o'clock this morning took three lives The dead: Jack Hailey 30 years old Sand Springs Okla Russell Hailey 10 year old son of Jack Hailey Garner 33 Lindsay Cal brother in law of the elder Hailey The small coupe in which the three were riding north on Main street en route from Sand Springs to Marshfield Mo was struck by the prow of the locomotive ap parently near the door of the auto mobile and carried approximately150 feet before it rolled down the 'slight embankment coming to rest in a depression on the south side of the tracks One Killed Instantly Garner who apparently had been driving the vehicle which he own ed and which bore a California license tag was killed: instantly The boy and his father were rush ed to Miami Baptist hospital in a Cooper ambulance which was sum moned to the scene immediately after the crash The child died soon after reaching the hospital and the father succumbed at 7:20 this morning both without regaining consciousness The boy was thrown clear of the wreckage both legs being broken and his forehead badly gashed He also was injured internally Gar neck was broken and his left leg fractured Hailey received se vere injuries about the head and also was injured internally The: automobile was twisted into a'crumpled mass by the impact and the motor torn entirely from the machine Locomotive Damaged The locomotive likewise was damaged the being broken from the engine and the steam drivers disabled Replacement by another locomotive brought from Afton was necessary before the train could proceed after a delay of two hours and seven minutes The train said by risco of ficials to have been traveling about 39 miles an hour and tire speed of the automobile was estimated at 40 to 45 miles an hour' The sound of the crash was heard by persons many blocks from the railroad tracks and residents living nearby rushed to the scene and as sisted the engine crew and ambul ance men in extricating the victims Some of these persons said the crossing bell had been ringing be fore the accident and that the locomotive siren had been blowing since the train crossed the Neosho river bridge Garner and Hailey were identic 7 Tied by means of papers found on them cards in the pos session showing he was a member of the American Legion post at Lindsay Hailey also was a legion naire it was learned later being a member of Post No 128 of Sand Springs Relatives said the three victims had planned to attend a birthday dinner at the home of mother in Marshfield today being mo nirtniiav i nev Springs at 6 o'clock yesterday aft ernoon it was said Hailey's widow at Sand who had remained at home with a daughter Betty Jane 5 said her husband and son had left Sand Springs last night with her brother to drive to Marshfield Garner had been visiting in the Hailey home Hailey a barber had lived at Sand Springs 10 years Zeppelin Reports Position in A retie Miami Youth Hurt When Aiito Upsets John McWatters Jr 15 years old 207 street southeast was se verely cut about the face and burn ed on the right arm by battery acid when a car in which he was riding with three other youths skidded in loose gravel and overturned two miles north of airland Saturday night The car owned and driven by one of the other youths ran off a culvert The other occupants were un'njured Young McWatters was brought to Miami Baptist hospital by pass ing motorists At the hospital this morning doctors reported he was seriously but not critically in jured and that the bums he re ceived would necessitate treatment at the hospital for several weeks The injured youth is a brother of Miss Eula May McWatters assist ant to the county superintendent of schools Three young Indian braves face investigation in the brutal slaying of Henrietta Schmerler 25 above brilliant Columbia University co ed whose battered body was found in a canyon in the wild country iieui gone Six Hurt in Auto Crash at Pittsburg PITTSBURG Kas July UP Six persons were in a hospital here today from injuries suffered last night in a motor car collision south of Pittsburg Rose Micheli a Capaldo Kas man was arrested on a charge of speeding and reckless driving after his car had collided with one driv en by Mrs rank Platter of Pitts burg in which eight persons were riding Mrs Platter her husband and Mrs A Smith Mrs Plat mother were the more sc vercly injured Metal Market NEW YORK July Lead steady spot New York4 40 East St Louis 422 Zine easy East St Louis spot and future 387 LONDON July Lead spot and future £12 10s Zine spot £11 I2x6d future £12 2s 6L Offict of Publication A Street and irst Avenue Laughing Assassins Cause Death Of Union Official Chicago OKLAHOMA CITY July (A?) his fight to keep the free bridge across Red river be tween Durant and Denison open virtually successful Gov Murray turned to other matters of state at his office here today The fiery chief executive ed to Oklahoma City late yesterday after he had technically complied with most of the provisions of the federal injunction issued at Musko gee Saturday leaving the martial law area at the bridgehead in com mand of Lieut Col John Mac Don ald of Durant Toll Bridge Re Opened The provision of the injunction obtained upon petition of the own ers of the Red river toll bridge company that traffic be allowed to move over the Red river toll bridge had been met by the governor? An order directed to A Losh state engineer read: accordance with the provis ions of a restraining order issued out of the federal court at Musko gee you are hereby coitlmanded to relieve and remove all employs and representatives of the highway de partment from the road or highway leading to the toll bridge hereto fore operated across Red river be tween Durant and Denison and all employes of your department are hereby command ed to obey the orders of the court and abstain from all acts complain ed of by the restraining order is sued by Judge Neblett federal judge at Muskogee on July This order was issued Saturday aftt Murray had relieved Adju tant General Charles' Barrett from command of the National guard unit patroling the bridge head and placed Lieutenant Col onel MacDonald in command Governor Took Command In a second order the governor took command of the 32 guards men and later Colonel MacDonald refused to accept service of an or der from the Muskogee federal court forbidding interference with traffic on the toll bridge approach After seeing that all traffic was moving across the free bridge Governor Murray ordered the mili tiamen to permit vehicles and ped estrians to pass over the toll bridge without interference Guards however will remain at the martial law zone until the bridge litigation is ended the gov ernor said Now that they are in position he believes danger of any conflict has passed Other Problems Up 'When the governor returned from his toll bridge war zone last night he found two major problems confronting him matters with which he proposed to deal within the next few deys State wide county meetings at the call were scheduled 1 to be held today to name delegates to attend a meeting in Oklahoma (Continued on Page Two) ON SOUTH MAIN ST 4 California War Veteran Killed Sand Springs Man and Son 10 Are atally Injured 7 tr 4 1 I 's'' Miami DAily News Record i i Associated Press Photo I I i I i I mW I.