Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

742 PRICE IVE CENTS CAPONE PRESIDENT DEDICATES HARDING MEMORIAL PLEADS ENTIRE CITY MOURNS ACHIEVEMENTS NOTED be MURRAY WINS 'SIX IGE IRMS MrRadio Robot POLICE RACAS Does Something YIELD TO Si (n I About Weather By alling Boulder or results use want ads! be the (Continued on Page Two I Late lashes DL Office of Publication A Street and irst Avenue Chicago Gang Czar Throws Self on Mercy of Judge in Tax Evasion' and Liquor Cases 5 J' Associated Press Leased Wire A eatures par war Pledge Price Cuts After Many Others Begin Rate Study Mechanical Wireless Operator in ree Balloon Takes Readings High in Atmosphere and Transmits Them at Once to Observers Below WARSHLP TOWS SUBMARINE IN STORMY SEAS BANDITS CAUGHT ATER SHOOTING A rifle club hu recently been organized among women studenti of the University of Oklahoma lorence Leach Apache waa choa en president COMMERCIAL IN ST ITU TIONS THAT ARE GUARANTEEING 1931 NORMAL PRICES AND VALUES Alert Citizens rustrate rontier StyleHoldup of Higginsport Bank MINIMUM ON ONE COUNT TWO YEARS 500 Miles Added to State Road System Delegation Visits Council to Suggest Use for Conven tion Hall und ederal Judge Wilkerson to Sentence Him June 30 Maximum for Dodging' Tax Is 32 Years 100 BODIES SEEN LOATING ABOVE SUNKEN VESSEL day i Japan Also Bares Military Strength Merchandising I Index LI Jo 91 S') suioqwpfp rench Tugs Take Divers to Recover Corpses of Boat Disaster Victims MOVER LABELS HARDING GREAT BUT Speaking at Dedication of Marion Memorial Presi dent Lauds ormer Chief Coolidge Also Joins in Paying Tribute to Post War Executive THINK SAETY Passing a Car on a Hill Or Curve Is Dangerous Jailbreaker Taken Back to Texas GUILTY i JAILED Nearly Every amily in Nantes Suffers Loss Toll Placed at 423 Metal Market NEW YORK June Lead steady spot New York 375 East St Louis 360 Zinc steady East St Louis spot and future 840 LONDON June Lead spot III Ss future Ill 12s 6d Zine Sjfot Ill future 11 Negro Is Al 'acted Lynching eared 2 KILLED IN RAIL WRECK COLUMBIA Pa June engineer and a fireman were killed and a conductor injured ear ly today when a 71 car Pennsyl vania railroad freight train ran in to a washout at Run about six miles east of here TOKYO June The Japanese war office today publish ed figures on the military strength which will be submitted to the League of Nations in con nection with the 1932 disarmament conference These figures showed that the army' numbered 231600 men in cluding officers in addition to 2210 men in the gendarmerie and about 20000 police in Korea or mosa and Manchuria The aviation branch totaled 623 airplanes and eight regiments but it was intimated that these figures would be increased bearing out press reports that the organization of two new air regiments was contemplated Alba Pitts 23 year old San An gelo Tex jailbreaker and one of the band of five desperadoes be lieved to have hidden here for sev eral weeks left this morning for Texas in the custody of a group of Texas officers He was lodged in the county jail yesterday Pitts was captured at junction City Kas Sunday after fleeing from Mimi before the search of the Texans Two of companions are be lieved responsible for the recent holdup near Afton in which two fishermen were bound with wire relieved of automobile keys and thrown in a mud puddle The car taken by the bandits was never found Pitts was in jail at San Angelo for alleged car theft OHIO MINE STRIKE WANES ST CLAIRSVILLE Ohio June 16 1T) Mine strike activities in Belmont county are rapidly wan ing in the belief of Sheriff Howard Duff and Maj John A Blount of the Ohio national guard This opinion wax expressed today when scores of men were reported to have returned to work at the Laf ferty Provident and airpoint mines Walker Lane Jack Cammack and a committee of men interested in 1 4 club work and the welfare of the county fair at tended the city commission meet ing Monday night and asked the city to build an exhibition building at the fairgrounds Augmented exhibits will make a new building almost essential the commissioners were told The slip position of the committee was that the commissioners might take the 320009 convention hall bond issue money a white elephant for eight years and build a metal or con crete exhibition: hall along modern lines No action was taken on the mat ter The commissioners also spent some time checking over the mu nicipal budget and discussing the advisability of buying altew lots that still existxunder private own ership in Riverview all the property is owned by the city it was pointed out an effec tive beautification plan may be undertaken without interference Ira Ragsdale 24 years old 12 street southeast received serious injuries to his head and right leg about 11 this morning when a boulder struck him while he was' at work in the Bird Dog mine The rock' fell from the roof of the drift which Ragsdale was working on the stope cutting a large three cornered gash in the left temple and injuring his right leg below the knee The Cooper ambulance brought Ragsdale to Miami Baptist hospital BASEBALL KILLS MAN HAILEYVILLE Okla June 16 Jack Cullet 27 years old i died here today of injuries receiv fl ed Sunday when he was hit on the head with a baseball 1 OKLAHOMA CITY June 16 Oklahomans the hot summer months learned today that at least six ice companies had pledged rate reductions and that the Oklahoma Corporation com missionbacked by Gov Murray planned a continuation July 1 of hearings designed to de termine if additional reductions are in order Chairman Paul Walker of the commission at the conclusion of a hearing yesterday said six com panies whose names he withheld had promised to cut their rates and that other companies proba bly would meet the cuts The hearing called by the com mission' involved' more than 100 manufacturers Many complained that they were given too little ad vance notice but officers of the Oklahoma Ice Manufacturers asso ciation said that all companies had agreed to study their records to determine if reductions might be made and still leave a fair margin of profit Governor Murray said that this was a continuation of his battle for lower rates on all utility ser vices and commodities started re cently in a successful attack on rates of the Oklahoma Natural Gas corporation and that the Telephone company is He indicated the Southwestern Beil Telephone company whose officers have indicated a desire for a com mission study of telephone rates and the Oklahoma Arkansas Tele phone company whose president I Nakdemen is a member of the staff would be re quired to appear before the corpor ation commission shortly OKLAHOMA CITY June (Pl state highway system was increased 500 miles to a total of 6900 miles by yester designations of the Oklahoma road board Much of the increase centered in the more sparsely settled western counties of the state One of the roads designated a part of the state system was the old Chisholm cattle tail along which hundreds of thousands of Texas and Oklahoma cattle were herded north and eastward to mar ket a generation or more ago Designations include: State Highway 48 from the Preston Ben Red river bridge gen erally northward to the Kansas line south of Sedan via Madill Tishomingo Stroud Drumright Hallett and Pawhuska State Highway 34 (Chisholm trail) from the Quanah Tex Red river bridge generally northward through Eldorado Mangum Elk City and Woodward to the state line to join Kansas Highway No 1 TULSA June 16 UP) After five days of testimony and argu ment Page unexpectedly dis missed his $9750000 suit against the estate and interests of his fos ter father the late Charles Page millionaire Sand Springs philan thropist in district court here to day KANSAS June The first carload of the 1931 wheat crop to be sold on the Kansas City market brought 75 1 2 cents at the Board of Trade today" LITTLE ROCK Ark June Petitions for a referendum on the Arkansas 90 day divorce law were held by State Attorney Gen eral Hal Norwood today to he in sufficient He so advised Secre tary of State Ed McDonald who said he would disregard the peti tions filed with him last week GEORGETOWN Ohio June 16 (2P) Three men who the nearby village of Higginsport and looted the bank in frontier day style were held in the county jail today because citizens as quick with guns as the robbers A posse of 200 men chased the trio into the hills of the Ohio riv er and eaught them attempting to row across to the Kentucky side The robbers arnfed with rifles revolvers and machine guns drove into Higginsport late yesterday and opened fire on thetelephone build ing Entering the Citizens bank they forced the cashier and a girl clerk into the cage and scooped up $26000 They made the cashier walk in front of them as they emerged but two citizens Robert Cahill and Ross Seddon managed to open fire Another citizen was hit in the leg and one of the robbers who said he was Lyle Cornell 22 of Texas was 'wounded The gunmen dropped $20000 during the excitement and the rest of the money was recovered when they were captured Sheriff John Neu said he be lieved two of the men who gave their names as Howard 26 and Neil Bowman 22 brothers were members of the notorious Bowman gang which has operated in this section for several years American Woman orsakes Son 14 to Be Buddhist un rSAN RANCISCO June' (A1) To the chant of Japanese monks in an atmosphere scent bed with incense and rose petals Mrs Margaret Ledson 32 year old divorcee has forsaken her 14 year old son her country and all possessions to become a Buddhist nun Today vshe is the only Cali fornia woman perhaps the only American woman to ordained as such C': In a ritual performed in Zen temple of Buddhism here last night she renounced the world took the four vows subscribed to the 10 precepts and exchang ed ner name for that of Unkan which means in the Val 1 Soon she will leave for Japan where she will have shaved don the coarse clothes 'of a novice and entera nunnery After two years she plans to re turn to America to aid in the spreading of Buddhism 72 70 70 72 78 83 HUNTSVILLE Ala June Thomas Jasper a Negro farm hand convicted in court yes terday of annoying a white girl in her home was taken from the city jail early today by two unidenti fied white men who disappeared with him Police said they feared Vie Negro had been lynched Jasper was fined $100on charges of disturbing the girl In lieu of payment of the fine he was re turned to his ceil after trial Of ficers raid the Negro had been accused on similar charges pre viously 81 2 83 4 a 84 8 a 80 8 a 7610 a 71 Noon In these Jays of speed got to be'awake to what do ing whether you arc a pedestrian or a motorist When you are pi loting a ton of steel and glass through a crowded thoroughfare there's no time for day dreaming no time for window shopping You must keep your mind on the all important job of driving safely every single minute alart if you want to atay alive ON BOARD THE BAT TLESHIP ARKANSAS EN ROUTE TO COPENHAGEN Den mark June The battle ship Wyoming today was towing the disabled Arctic submarine Nautilus through a heavy rain storm and fog toward Queens town Ireland where the undersea craft will put in for repairs The Nautilus in Which Sir Hu bert hopes to reach the North Pole became disabled Sun day Messages intercepted between the craft and the Wyoming today said the engines were still disabl ed and that the battleship was en countering difficulty in towing the submarine its steaming speed be ing slowed by heavy weather Midshipmen from the naval aca demy at Annapolis on the annual training cruise braved a driving rainstorm to sight the submarine iromthe decks of the warships The most interested was Midship man Danehower son of Comman der Daneho er captain of the Nautilus Intercepted messages said the crew was all well and sealed in side the submarine due to heavy seas washing decks The crew uses the periscope to keep sight of the Wyoming The battleship keeps sarchlights on the subma rine throughout the nights OKLAHOMA CITY June Oklahoma City municipal au I thorities bowed to an executive or der of Gov Murray and to day 53 persons who had been serv ing out police court fines were free again The majority had been charged with vagrancy The release of the prisoners came at the end of a week of bickering between thp chief execu tive and city officials The Cana dian river bottoms where hun dreds of poor persops and a group of the alleged criminal ele inent have camped in improvised huts and tents recently were by police and va grancy charges filed brought a quick response from the governor Charging that the city was tak ing advantage of economic condi tions to prosecute the poor the governor yesterday issued an exec utive order to release 53 of those held in jail The order was com plied with last night Reeves special investiga tor for the governor today contin ues! his probqjntq pelice affairs The city council met today but expected to take nome action rel ative to the releases Chief of Police John Watt said that arrests were due to the gover action in turning a lot of suspects loose on the city instance we know of one man he pardoned who was arrest ed recently while carrying two Watts said has been a police character here for ine governor said those he doned were arrested without rants or held without proper plaint Did you know that a rYiinature wire less robot operating in a free balloon a so in the sky is one of the newest devices employed to give you weather information Dr William Humphreys tells about this robot and other weather developments in the following article one of a series on Going oh in the World To By WILLIAM HUMPHREYS (Meteorological Physicist United States Weather Bureau) (Copyright 1931 by the Associa ted Press) WASHINGTON June There are lots of new things about the weather Not very long ago the only means we had of studying the air above us was to climb a hill "or mountain with our weather Instru ments After that kites were equipped with registering instru ments Now the aviator takes the instruments up Sometimes though it prac ticable for the aviator to make his weather flight and so for this rea son and others besides two en tirely different devices' for get ting information about the state of the free upper air are now being develoned Rocket Is One Means One of these is the rosket which can be' used not only for exploring the lowet air or region of storms but also the upper air perhaps to the 50 mile or more level of the Kennelly Heaviside layer or ceil ing that reflects wireless waves and makes talking to the other side of the world possible The other device already con siderably develoned is the free Trio Held for Auto Tag Counterfeiting MUSKOGEE June 16 Salyer and his two sons Sylvester and Sephus were arrested here to day because officers said they were making 1930 motor car tags into the 1931 variety Authorities said Salyer had made and sold about 200 tags 4 Three persons Carl Powell Wil liam Graves and Denville Bryan admitted the officers said that they had purchased tags from Sal sj yer but no action was taken im mediately because county officers fl were uncertain what charge could be brought Salyer was arrested after Ar thur Maupin a constable said he had purchased one of the tags with two marked $1 bills 4 CLUBS ASL CITY TO ERECT EXHIBIT BLDG 6 8 10 Midnight COLEMAN THEATRE Closing Cents a GLORY THEATRE Closing tonight MARR BRIDGER Mid week grocery specials COLEMAN baby food for traveling mothers MIAMI BUILDING LOAN ASSN Systematic saving brings happiness MONTGOMERY WARD Trail blazer tires IRST NATIONAL A A checks for travel CROWN DRUG CO Spalding swim needs NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Cardui Conoco lit I Lucky Strike 666: Thornton Minor Chesterfield The Harding memorial in Marion Ohio erected through the contribution of more than Hon persons and costing with the park grounds $777183 66 Gravel Link Is Closed for Oiling The' gravel section of Highway 66 from a mile north of Commerce to the state line south of Baxter Springs Kas will be oiled by the State Highway tde partment dginning today employes blocked the road today and said it would be re opened Saturday afternoon if work progressed according to schedule i All traffic has been detoured by way of Oklahoma No 7 and the pavement to Picher and the inter section of 166 two miles north of Picher At the intersection of the pavnent and 166 traffic is routed east to Baxter Springs where 66 is' picked up again Oklahoma City Authorities ree 53 Persons Round ed Up for Vagrancy WEATHER ORECAST 1 ahoma a rt 1 cloudy tonight and Wed nesday A ansas Partly cloudy local thunder showers in south port ion tonight and Wednesday Kansas air tonis ht and Wed nesday warmer: tonight in west portion and in east and extreme south portions Wednesday MIAMI TEMPERATURE Temperatures in Mismi from 2 Monday until noon Tues Two Train Wrecking Attempts Reported Kas June 16 Two Union Pacific engineers today re ported unsuccessful attempts to wreck passenger trains near here The engineer of No 103 west bound said he had noticed fish plates piled in the track three miles east of Hays in time to stop his train before it struck them The engineer of Train No 21 iyestbound brought his engine to a stop a few feet from a barrier placed on the rails Miami a ity Nfws ininp I CHICAGO June 16 (A1) face Capone pleaded guilty to day to evasion oi income tax laws and conspiracy against the prohi bition law ederal Judge James Wilker son will sentence the gang leader June 30 On Mercy of Court Capone decided to throw himself on the mercy of the courts rather than tight the three indictments re turned against him by the federal A grand jury recently Two of the in A dictments charged him with evad ing income taxes on a 10 year in 'W' cpme of $103865484 The I other accused Capone of conspiring with 68 other and transport in the Chicago area from 1921 up' to the presemt tjme ive thousarid separate offenses were allege Under Hea Guard Capone personally said to each of the three indictments and three minutes ajter the' hear ing had started he left under heavy police guard The maximum possible sentence ugder the income indictments a is '32 years in prison but the high 1 est ever given by a federal judge on a plea of guilty was two jears 'Iwo of henchmen who fought the the case were sentenced to five and three years respective ly while two others who pleaded A guilty were given 18 months and 1 a year and a day The maximum under the prohi bition conspiracy case is two sentence and $10000 fine COMMUNITIES ARE GREAT BECAUSE MEN ENERGY Action and VISION HAVE MADE tf if THEM GREAT a more than 500 boys and girls members of Ottawa County 4 clubs appealing for more ade quate facilities at the fairgrounds in order that agricultural com modifies and products grown on Ottawa county soil may be prop erly exhibited how long will nar row mindness shorty sightedness i lack of vision of men and institu tionssmen and organizations who in the long run will profit most stand in the way The law of limitations: in sufficient resources shortage of 7 manpower necessity to crawl be 8 fore you walk before you can run prevents the smaller communities from making the same outstanding Strides possible for more thicklypopulated i metropolitan centers However comparative! speaking and in: proportion to possibilities it is possible for rural and urban centers to do constructive forward looking divelopplent work with I the means at hand I i A few days ago Kansas City voted a $40000000 teri year pro gram bond issue by an over whelming majority of votes of tig citizenship Immediately this mu 8 mcipaiity already great becamegreater Kansas City Tulsa Okla homa City and several other now well known 'metropolitan centers of the country are not' great thfough luck or the Gods of chance but great because they have been made great by the hands of men Men of vision men and 'women with determination build and make progressive' towns cities andcommunities While Miami quibbles over the question of preparing andproviding adequate accomodations for housing competitive displays work of five or six hundred pro gressive 4 Club boys and girls of Ottawa county the men and women of the farms of tomorrow the force on which this section of the Southwest must depend fo its very existence maintenance in future other more farseeing comriunities and mu nicipalities are voting great bond issues in order that these com munities may keep step with thetimes It is not a hard task and very little is required to determine the future of given communities Outstanding for ward looking growing centers of population are not quibbling over locating some minor structure on the east side' or west side This section of the Southwest has and always will be de pendant upon agriculture As days oecome weeKs ana weeks become years as years go on into cen turies no matter what the indus trial development may be agri culture and agricultural develop ment the work and labor of these 4 club boys and girls and the work of the boys and girls to fol low this is the force that will de termine future success here in the Southwest the great Mid west of America AWill petty politicians or a few narrow minded mercinary self centered individuals stand in the way of development of agriculture industry or high ways the three essentials for com munity expansion and growth? Whether the fairgrounds should have been located on the east side or the west side of the river is a minor issue In fact the west side looks just about the and is probably just as important as the east side vlf we have no ambition to grow and expect to confine our selves to the narrow circle em bodied within ten blocks then well and build the fence now and save what little nervous energy we have left We need action and a lot of it We need energy and action among a majority of citizens and not petty quibbling If we can locate indus try and agriculture and population on the west side of the old Neosho do it Maybe there is more ambition to be developed and found over there than we have yet shown among the civilized tribes on the East side old cl 1U1 UC VCIUJ 'CLI 1O lllv 1 It balloon carrying a meteorologies Miami Miner Hurt rquipniciii wjui a inimaiuxe vvjic less robot to take the readings and report them at once to the man who wants to know what they are and he obeys implicitly the speci fic orders given him before he starts Here's Sample Message A sample fnessage be: mile high: temperature of the air 20 degrees ahrenheit rel ative humidity 80 Be sides he will give you the like in formation from as many other el evations as you may desire You have only to make your wants known he does the rest Surely this would seem to be go ing the limit but it There is a gas with strange properties in the atmosphere miles beyond the utmost reach of the lightest balloon that is now being careful ly stud'ed We cannot get at it to measure it directly but we can its amount by its action on lights from the sun moon or stars Ozone Is All Powerful There is not much of it this pungent gas we call ozone but that little is of the utmost consequence But for its presence every eye would go blind with the conse quent' flood of ultra violet light that then would reach the earth Miami and Suburban a Nine Mile Radius Population 1930 Census Including Picher Cardiii Quapaw Commerce Century North Miami A MIAMI OKLA TUESDAY JUNE 16 1931 A MARION Ohio June The tomb of Warren Harding was dedicated with formal cere mony today as the two men who followed him into the presidency praised him as a leader and a man Addressing thousands' who gath ered at the imposing marble monu rneat at the edge i of home city President Hoover and Calvin Coolidge depicted him as a notable statesman who guided the United States through its post war troubles before he met a tragic President Hoover who as secre tary of commerce accompanied Harding on the fatal trip to Alas ka in 1923 saw Harding as a man who had dim realization that he had been betrayed by a few of the men he had after direct ing the nation through the turbu lent conditions following the war Coolidge Lauds Record Mr Coolidge who introduced the President and accepted the tomb on behalf of the Harding Memor ial association declared would be difficult to fjnd any peace time period of a little over two years in which so much that was beneficial was accomplished as during his Both speakers emphasized the accomplishments of the Harding administration particularly the Washington Arms Limitation con ference Neither referred to the scandals which struck the Harding cabinzt but the President describ ed his death as being hastened by disillusionment Coolidge Introduces Hoover office of President of theUnited States is the most exacting position in the Mr Cool idge said in introducing 'President Hoover it are involved the cares the duties and the difficulties of the whole nation and our relations with all other people The man who occupies that place is always eniitled ta the sympathy and sup port of all good citizens dis enurge or ms duties With that attitude the country will ever be prepared to meet every peril and rise above every disaster A these days we are fortunate to have at the head of the nation a mart of patience courage and ability His loyal and devoted co operation contributed much to the successful policies of President Harding The experienced judg ment and decisive action with which he has guided the country during his own term have been of inestimable value to' all the people They have known that whatever could be done for their benefit and relief President Hoover would do spite of all the heavy burd ens that he must bear be has come here in the name qf the nation to dedicate this memorial to a de parted president I have the privilege to announce the Presi dent of the United His Soul Was Seared Without direct mention of the scandals that led to changes in the Cabinet of which he was a member the President said com panions on that fateful trip came to know Mr Harding as man whose soul was being seared by a great saw him gradually weaken not only from physical exhaustion but from mental he con tinued Harding had a dim realization that he had been be trayed by a few of the men whom ne had trusted by men who he had believed were his devout friends "It was later proved in the courts of the land that these men had betrayed not alone the friend ship and the trust of the staunch and loyal friend but they had frayed their country Tragedy of His Life was the tragedy of life of Warren Recalling the post war difficul ties of 1:121 the President said Mr Harding brought with him to the presidency then long needed experience in public office The mission to compose conflicts at home and to lessen threats of new wars was fulfilled he added The Washington arms confer ence for limitation: of battleship construction was cited especially Other acts for which Mr Harding was given credit included reduction of the public debt and taxes and veterans relief organization President Hoover who was sec retary of commerce in the Hard ing cabinet denounced violations of public trust breaking down of the faith of a people in the honesty of their government and in the integrity of their institutions the lowering of respect for the standards of honor which prevail in high places are crimes for which punishment can nevei he said Of Sympathetic Heart Concluding he praised Mr Hard ing as "a man of a delicate'sense of honor of sympathetic heart of transcendent gentleness of soul reached out for friendship who gave it loyally and genorous ly In hi ery thought and (Continued on Pago Two) ST NAZAIRE rance June 16 About 100 bodies from the sinking of the excursion steamer St'APhilbert' were sighted this morning floating among wreck age near the mouth of the Loire river The pilot of a hydroplane no tified authorities and tugs put off at once with divers to recover them 't I Eight army trucks driven by young soldiers started for Nantes on a 36 mile ride with the bodies of 70 persons fished out of the Bay of Biscay i yestqrday They were placed in plain wooden boxes It was decided to open the coffins in Nantes this afternoon so that the bereaved could begin the diffi cult task of claiming their beloved ones 474 Adults on Board a Off icials "of the operating com pany determined that 474 includ ing the crew but excluding chil dren' under four years old were aboard the vessel when she left Nantes Sunday for a picnic at Noir Moutier Island orty three pas sengers declined to make the re turn trip on account of stormy weather and eight were rescued af ter the boat went down near the mouth of 'the Loire river Thus the number of the dead unofficial ly was placed at least at 423 It was estimated that youngsters who paid no fares were aboard and were lost Eight young men who were saved were resting comfortably in a hospital and were believed to be on the road to health The bodies of the dead 59 of them women and few of them identified lay in wind swept sheds along the shore amilies Wiped Out The city of Nantes alone lost 368 citizens from' the industrial class Ons family of mother fath er four daughters and two sons was completely wiped out Dozens of families of four five and six members perished together There hardly a resident who did not have a relative or friend aboard the vessel The entire city was in mouring Search for (he remaining bodies was conducted by tugs trawlers and smaller craft aided by two seaplanes circling above ir "1 ill 'A one mi 1 Ji SJ 1.