Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 3

NOVEMBER' 2i 194 USS INDIANA ENTERS WATER 35000 To Battleship Launched Six 'Months 'Ahead of Schedule NEWPORT NEWS Va 7 Nov 21 Ready for launching six months aAead of schedule the tow pering battleship Indiana awaited iJames River high' tide today for her christening at the i hands of Mrs Lewis Robbins of Wichita alls Tex daughter? of: the Jn diana governor Henry 'Schnck er The 35000 ton vessel of the same class as the South Dakota and mill Ml TODAY AND TOMORROW LYRIC COMMERCE 'THREE ACTION KINGS ON ANOTHER ADVENTURE Also Chapter 11 of gtSSWES II ROBERT LIVINGSTON 111 STEELE XWlKt IUHJUVU Uli hhh JliirmiHi Iron St 'vV'? the Massachusetts'which were launched ate other yards earlier this year represents 731 work at the Newport News Shipbuilding Dry Dock company Her keel was laid Nov 10 1939 Secretary of Navy rank Knox speaking at the launching of the battleship declared the great steel vessel was a symbol of the nation's will to Survive in a world at war know on which side of this fight our hopes and interests he" he said we have proclaimed our resolve that our side shall win this struggle which shakes the world i one can say when the actions of our avowed enemies may drag us into complete belligerency But should that day come the burden upon our navy will be the greatest in our history And in the strug gle which would follow this great slup here would be a tower of strength to our battle The last battleship to be launch ed in Virginia waters the 31800 ton West Virginia slid down the ways from the same yard 20 years ago Governor Schricker Gov James Ppce of Virginia a dozen con gressmen and high navy officials were among the assemblage invited to the launching Elmer Groff of Wenonah who served at the Battle of Santiago on the first of the three ships to bear the name Indiana was one of many who asked per mission to in full dress uni form of 1898 vintage The Indiana is 680 feet long with TODAY AND SATURDAY JOHNNY MACK fc I UL'dJ ICtl BROWN I'jniTllTB rl Hm JS ehhh OUR GANG in' JHearinAidhHard of4Iearinj 1 iy i I a I 1 i I TODAY AND SATURDAY I about town staffing Ak JOAN BLONOELL ROBERT BENCHLEY JOHN HOWARD 1 mm RlNNIP RARNS atey 1 Preview Saturday Night 11:15 ssgH W0M 1 MOUSE OKLA isnjt MM paid in bureau's monthly up ANDER Shoe Store 2 DOORS SOUTH GLORY j' yatff ill diyiart $5700 1 PLAZA CORRECTION! in IN ICHER 1 ings Love's sweet dream CREDIT EWELERP OPTICIAN! 20 A STREET PHONE 166 bulletin agncul state is The unniest Comedy of Their Career! arrangement committee was com posed of Oliver Bristow chairman Earl Hutchens Ralph Chambers Irving Propper Wilson Gilbert and Lee Payton The serving was in charge of the Band and Orchestra club A New Shipments of La Novelties arriv ing daily IREMEN TO THE RESCUE PHILADELPHIA Nov LT) Miss Bonnie Riley Crenshaw pretty Washington voice student accidentally locked herself out of her apartment Desperate after three hours she called the fire board and asked for a couple of men with a ladder She got them in the form of two fire com panies which turned out with bells clanging and sirens shrieking SHOT WOUNDS HUNTER PARIS Tex Nov Art Haullum of Oklahoma City was re ported in a serious condition in a Paris hospital today from an acci dental gunshot wound suffered while hunting near ort Towson Okla yesterday The shot from a gun struck him in the back and punctured a lung the hospital reported Other de tails of the accident were not learn ed immediately Open Saturday Evening 10 accurate and dp'u prndable Get a opy of Oui Big ree GIT CATALOG was 15 com 100 for rJewelers for Three Generation Beautiful 9 Diamond Bridal Pair Sparkling diamonds Get a Copy of Our Biu ree GIT CATALOG Burglary Suspect Arrested John Brannon 20 years old of North Vantage street was arrest ed by Constable Blondie McClana han yesterday afternoon in connec tion with the theft of copper wire from the Mining company about two months ago Brannon had just returned from a trip to California when the arrest was made Leonard Tillman and the Donley brothers were sentenced to terms in the prison at Mc Alester for the theft and authorities Lhave been on the lookout for Bran DEENSE ROADS PARLEY AT STATEHOUSE TODAY OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 21 CP) A Elliott ort Worth dis trict engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads was to confer today with State Highway department engineers on plans for access roads for defense projects in Oklahoma Van Moon state highway en gineer said some of the proposed oroject would be submitted to the Bureau of Public Roads in antici pation of Presidential approval of highway appropriations The Okla homa program would call for con struction of about $1000000 worth of such Toads including those to the Tulsa bomber plant and Will Rogers air base here Pink and Blue Mrs Howard Carey entertained with a pink and blue shower at her home Tuesday in honor of her sis ter Mrs Juanita Thompson Those winning prizes in games were Mrs Susie Pettit and Mrs Jess John ston who presented them the honoree Refreshments were serv to the following: iMother Tay lor Dorothy Bear Mesdames Jess Johnston George Carey Helen armer Jack Weaver Claude Car roll erd Tnmble Eva Anderson Dick Kelly Susie Pettit Imogene Tipton and Nadine eagan Those sending gifts were Mesdames Maude Hattabaugh Carl Bigley Wayne Cooper Walter Tnmble and Roy Wilson Increase in Cost of Living Is Measured SATURDAY Charle Surrett in THUNDER OVER THE PRAIRIE and School Oxfords $169 up luff Pure Vegetable SHORTENING a beam of 108 feet 2 inches and a draft of 34 feet She was designed for a speed of better than 27 knots Armament will include nine 10 inch guns mounted in three tur rets and the latest typb anti air craft and secondary broadside weapons Due to a typographical error the price on luffo Pure Vegetable Shortening was incorrectly quoted as 3 Lbs for 39c The item should have read: At the Hospitals Picher hospital Dave Ross Noel Mo and Mrs Irene Gordon and infant son Commerce were dismissed yesterday Kinder of Quapaw was admitted yester day A HITCH HIKE TO JAIL DES MOINES la Nov CP Three youths shoved their thumbs skyward as rank ford drove by hop in give you a he said He did to the police station where the trio was charged with hitch hiking in the street They know the obliging motorist was a sergeant in the police traffic department Sidney Toler Mary Beth "Hughe CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO Serial Cartoon Comedy EMPLOYMENT AT PEAK IN STATE Jobs and Wages Paid ably Exceed Those of University Reports 5 Diamond Solitaire $4250 SI50 Wtkl PICHER Nov A 1941 Chev rolet sedan owned by Mrs Gene vieve Stovall and driven by her brotherBenny Stovall was badly wrecked at Second and Picher streets at 8:30 this morning when a 1930 Chevrolet driven by Jack' Cooper a high school boy turned the comer and ran into it Cooper was arrested by Chief Al Maness on a charge of reckless driving and placed the city hold over His car Maness said was practically without brakes and he was making such speed that the machine could not make the turn on the right side of the street Johnny Cooper a brother of the accused man who was a passenger with him was arrested also bdt later released saif iilrt MIAMI DATtYNEWS RECOR Diamond Ensemble $2475 1 00 Week Christmas Gifts NOW! 10 Diamond Bridal Pair $200 Weekly The project partially complet ed and was suspended last March due to shortage of equipment to be 3 provided by the sponsoring county commissioners and also due to a shortage of WPA labor most of which was engaged by WPA 'in? building the new Cleora school The lake flooded all roads lead jv into Cleora except a road west ot town and that artery is well nigh impassable in wet weather Completion of the unit on which work started this eek will also pr oper) a road from 66 to the Grand river dam the number of em and total wages Diamond Solitaire $7495 50c Weekly 15 North Main Miami CHOICE or Man beau NORMAN Nov 21 The University of Oklahoma bureau of business research reports employ ment and payrolls in manufactur ing industries in Oklahoma higher than at any time during the pasts ten years and probably exceed ployed The for November added that tural cash income the near the level of the prosperous period from 1924 29 operations in the oil indus try were not so reduced employ ment and payrolls in all industry combined also be at a record high it was stated The upward trend in the economic chart continued uncheck ed through October the bulletin noted citing the following bright spots': production of the industries retail trade and other measures of the course of business indicate general improve The number of workers has in creased 195 percent the past year with wages boosted 303 percent Income from sale of crops in August was $17236000 highest since July 19o7 Livestock prices near highest point of recent years Sales of group of retail stores representing nine kinds of trade were up 117 percent October compared to October 1940 Construction contracts totaled $16139000 for September largest since March 1928 OOTWEAR Smart stvles jn Na tionally Advertised Brands DRESS SHOES Distinctive styles famous name shoes the president Lyndon Scott pre siding: Opening songs Schultz leader flag salute Lee Payton leader invocation rank Hills introduction of guests Mr Scott group singing all ac cordion trio Cecille Venne Melba Smith Ella Ruth Mcerron elec tric guitar numbers Donald Coble oration Rogers and the American Way of John Car rol saxophone solo Doris Turner group singing all introduction of guest speaker Dr Paul Gary Sand Springs Okla by Past President Ralph Chambers address of business session Bless group The LAUREL and HARDY New Controversy Rages in Draft Conviction AGE THREE't LOS ANGELES Nov The American Civil Liberties un ion and a score of Los Angeles county religious leaders took a hand in the controversy surround ing the two year sentence of Hen ry Welty Kuhns for draw law vio lation after he had been refused classification as a conscientious ob jector The Southern California branch of the Civil Liberties union made public a letter to Attorney General rancis Biddle urging an investi gation of a statement by Attorney William leet Palmer in connection with the case Palmer announced the I is investigating circumstances of a resolution adopted by the conscien tious objection committee of the Southern California Arizona con ference of the Methodist church charging there had been a miscar riage of justice and pledging re sources of the church to effect release Palmer said statements Iwould have a bad effect generally onr public We have a complete hne of rubber goods for men women and children Spe cially priced dps Using Germs in War Chinese Assert CHUNGKING Nov The authorized spokesman of the Chi nese army in a conference with for eign correspondents today accused the Japanese of starting germ warfare He said that on Nov 4 Japanese planes dropped food stuffs and clothing at Changteh northern Hunan province and that many persons who ate the food or used the clothes developed symp toms of bubonic plague and died The Chinese government the spokesman said is sending investi gators to make a full inquiry into the affair He called it the first use of bacteria as a weapon in the Japanese Chinese war Mrs Denny Shepard and her sis ter Mrs Ernest Charles of Still well Okla visited Mr Shepard and Mr and Mrs A Cresey 314 South rancis street this week returning home Saturday The Whitebird school A will meet at 1:30 riday afternoon The ladies of the Meth ndltf: nhll'rnll mill Uzlrl rnnirrto rrzi jwive uwh un uie iuuKouu xor Diiin i lunuuwgL non since the crime was committed I sae at Second and Main streets I Saturday The Rainbow Past Noble Grand club of the Rebekah lodge will meet tonight at the home of Miss Grace Cornog on South Picher street Mrs Jack Nichols left today for WALTER BRENNAN JOAN LESLIE TOBIA STANLEY WDCU Admission ptirei thin Mat S5c Eve 50c Pina tax NOTE: ork will not be shown elaewhere thia year at lower admiaeion pricea! WP A Is Resuming Work on Road Cut 4 By Lake at Cleora Another Delaware county com munity that became isolated from the rest of the world by the con struction of the massive Grand river dam lake will soon cease be ing a stranger District WPA Manager Stinson announces? A WPA crew will start work completing the road to the north and south of Cleora that was left high and drv on an island when the lake filled upz 3 Diamond Engagement Ring $3375 101) Weekly 5 Diamond Engagement Rins $7795200 Weekly PRE VUE Saturday Night JOHN PAYNE ALICE AYE END IN Doors Open 10:30 INE JEWELRY GITS ON EASY CREDIT TERMS Right now while prices are still at their low level we suggest you take advantage of the wonderful stock of gifts available at to select your presents for the holiday season Right now you can be sure to get just the gift you want while later on you may find it is not available due to priorities Do not hesitate another moment open an account at today 10 Piece Dresser Set $7495 50c Weekly Ronson $795 et SHOES OR THE ENTIRE AMILY COWBOY BOOTS thildren Sizes $249 $298 $349 Boots $189 WASHINGTON Nov The cost of living for wage earn ers and low salaried persons in large cities increased 12 percent from mid September to mid Octo 1 ber the Labor department reported today This makes the total rise of bl percent since Maich The index of the cost of goods purchased by this group shown to be 1094 on Oct pared with an average of 1931 39 Retail food prices the said increased somewhat between mid New BAXTER Baxter Springs Kanaaa 20c 7:30 then Balcony I LAST TIMES TODAY Battle oh Tuberculosis Spread In State Is Charted An all out fight against the spread of tuberculosis in Oklahoma next year will be one of the most strenuous campaigns of this na ture the state has ever seen Dr Carl Puckett managing director of the state office in Oklahoma City predicted 6 percent increase in tu beculosis deaths Oklahoma the past year has caused no httle alarm among association Dr PUckett said so difficult to keep down but to make marked gains toward its eradication is a terrific is hoped that $60090 can be raised through the sale of Christ mas seals in Oklahoma this the veteran health leader said this amount of money we will be able to gain back the ground we have lost and be on the road toward complete eradication of the dreadful disease which strikes the nch as well as the Many of the counties will have model citizenship organizations the 1942 fight against tuberculosis County organizations with a hst of officers and boards of directors are being either permanently or tentatively formed every day in Oklahoma this month Schools and civic clubs have been carrying the full load in the fight against tuberculosis in most coun ties and the time is now right to bring in the citizenship to complete a huge army for mopping up on one of mankinds worst enemies Dr Puckett explained 100 amilies Seek to Adopt Deserted Baby CAMDEN Nov More than 100 families want to adopt chubby two week old Bon nie baby girl abandoned by her mother last riday night and one would be parent already has given her a bank account many nice people want said Mrs Louise Walsh head of the Sheltering Arms home that she may be awarded by lot unless police can find her mother ment more moderately September and niid Octobcr than during other recent months with an advance of 08 percent Prices of meats and certain fresh vege 1 tables such as cabbage and spin 1 ach were seasonally lower Rents rose more rapidly on the 1 average than in preceding months the report showed while clothing i costs advanced 18 percent contin 1 uing the steady rise which began last ebruary Set Pricrt ej rom I Locket $795 SATURDAY NIGHT 11:15 and SUNDAY thru MONDAY Eye ravlshinr beaaty! Blood atir rin rhythm! Cole newest most torrid tanea All in one grand big musical of array camp life! red Astaire Rita Hayworth NEVER GET RICH Cartoon Novelty News WRECK BRINGS DRIVER ARREST Collision at Street Inter section Leads to Charge Of Recklessness PLAZA In Picher Lions Club Ladies Night More than 100 persons attended the night meeting of the Ihcher Lions club at the high school auditorium last night A turkey dinner was served and the Seattle Wash where she will join lujiuwiMK pivgiain gntn wtui air isichols who is employed tne shipyards nt Zg up $2 4 CREDIT EWELERJ OPTICIAN! 3m 2.