Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

MIAMI OKLA' WEDNESDAY EBRUARY 91 938 PRICE IVE CENTS Me A OO CAMERA CATCHES DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY ZERO HOUR IS NEAR MEASURE DENOUNCED So are G) SON 9 hearing The round native boat of the Tibetan aro caulked with butter a a ALL DOWN ORE CHUTE ATAL TO Potato growers of Ireland Scot land and Cornwall use seaweed as fertilizer on their crops The tu bers benefit markedly by this ap plication Rep Short (R Mo) Predicts Repeal Demand oresees Boomerang on Democrats There are 2035 miles of railways in the state of Wyoming Company riendly to Barricaded Strikers Mrs Irene Agnes Crosby 36 years old mother of the late Mrs Dorothy Cook who was shot and accidentally killed last Jan 26 when a gun in the hands of her husband Otho discharged died late Tuesday afternoon in Vinita hospital Mrs Crosby had been ill only a short lime It was reported here that the tragic death of her daugh ter seriously affected her health Mrs Crosby is survived by her husband A Crosby nine miles southeast of Miami two daughters Mrs Maudie Johnson of Emmett Ida and Margie Crosby and six sons Billy Jack Dale Richard Wayne and Raymond Crosby all of the home uneral services will be held at 2 Thursday at the Ottawa Bap tist church Elder Engberson will officiate Mrs Crosby will be buried beside the grave of her daughter in Ottawa cemetery The Cooper neral home is in charge of arrange ments BILL Eiaht Die in Crash of rench lying Boat MIAMI la eb Three bandits held up the Arena bar on Biscayne boulevard today rifled a bank of private safe deposit boxes and escaped with cash and jewelry unofficially estimated at $50000 to $100000 With crowbars the men pried open some 20 safe deposit boxes where the owners and a number of friends and customers kept their valuables Bandits Get $50000 Loot inResort Raid eb Striking who barricaded themselves in the American arm Machinery company factory and announced they had welded its steel door shut behind them were as sured today they would not be dis lodged Lloyd Mac Aloon the la bor relations representative said: see why the men barricaded the plant They are welcome to it No one is trying to get them William Mauseth I or ganizer said tiie striker sought a closed shop seniority rights and higher wage Acts After our Hours of Debate Prohibiting Changes WL WHEELER ACES DRIVINGCHARGES Widow Accused of Murder Seeks Bail STATE PREPARES ORNEW CHILLS PAIR SENTENCED OR BANK HOLDUP Arkansans Get 25 Year Terms for $13 000c Springfield Robbery DALEY ASPEN Colo eb (P) An accidental fall down a 220 foot ore chute in the Durant mine near here caused the death of Durant Rohlfing son of Rohlfing widely known Colorado mining en gineer The body was recovered late yesterday after miners worked two hours to remove a quantity of ore that covered it was elected secretary treasurer Board members besides Prater and Hagel include Joe Woolard Johnson and Al ternate members of the loan com mittee are Robert Groom and Nelis Sparlin Annual stockholders meeting of the association was held Tuesday morning in the district courtroom here At that time the executive board was elected by popular vote MARSEILLE rance Eight persons were killed and six injured early this morning in the crash of an Air rance flying boat against the Marseille break water at the moment of take off The trans Mediterranean air liner was starting her scheduled flight to Ajaccio Corsica on the Marseille Tunis run She hurtled againts the breakwater at 60 mile an hour speed and burst into flames Air rance announced the dead were five passengers and three of the crew our passengers and two of the crew were injured All the dead were rench including Chief Pilot Pierre Burello veteran flier who was at the controls The six injured were taken from the water by rescue craft after the plane sank Officials thought Burello prob ably? failed to see the breakwaterhrough morning fog and mist The four motored ship was the first lost by Air rance more than two years company officials said our passengers died in the last grave accident at Corsica in January 1936' OKLAHOMA Mostly cloudy and much colder tonight and Thursday with a cold wave and hard freeze tonight Livestock warnings ARKANSAS Cloudy colder in north and central portions to night Thursday cloudy probably rain in east portion cold wave in north portion tonight or Thurs day with hard freeze Thursday or Thursday night MISSOURI Local rain or snow tonight with mostly cloudy Thursday Much colder KANSAS Partly cloudy to night and Thursday much colder tonight and in southeast and ex treme east Thursday Hit Run Accident Leads To Double Accusation Bonds Set at $1500 Mother of Gunshot Victim Succumbs RTO ASK $200000DOOIN RELIE UNDS Offlc of Hblieaffca A 8tnt ud irtt Avan 1 Melvin Prater of Seneca Route re elected president of the Northeast Oklahoma arm Loan association for a period? of one at the organization meeting of the executive' board1 here late Tuesday' A Hagel was named vice president and Sam Campbell ipg Shat hi 34 ears His Man Six Pronged Drive Aimed At Kai Legions In Heart of Nation Minimums Will Be irst General Pay and Hours Regulation Since NRA I' 6 I 8 I 10 I Noon WPA Has Told Presiden It Needs More Money for Unemployed There MRS DELLA HUBBARD OKLAHOMA CITY Teb SGP) for Mrs Della Hub bard charged with murder in the slaying 'of her husband asked the criminal court of appeals today for a writ of habeas corpus to per mit her release on bail from the Maye county jail The state charged she and Roy Kinion a neighboring farmer liv ing 10 miles northeast of Pryor beat Ralph Hubbard into uncon aciouanew last Dec 4 then left him face downward a shallow stream to drown KANSAS CITY eb Archie James Halbrook 35 a farmer of near Springdale Ark 4 and ern Eugene Moore 30 pro prietor of a Rogers Ark coffee shop pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing the Citizens National bank of Springfield Mo of $13000 last Nov 29 They were given a total of 25 years in sen fences to run consecutively pre venting the possibility of a parole The consecutive sentences were a requested of ederal Judge Albert Reeves by Richard Phelps assistant United States district at' torney who said the robbery executed in a cruel cold blooded A well planned 'A Edgar Hoover head of the ederal Bureau of Investigation recently urged consecutive sentenc es for bank robbers protesting too many were being paroled William Vandeventer former United States district attorney who represented the men declared the congressional act which made such sentences possible was not intended to apply to persons with out a criminal record He asked leniency asserting the two sen were from highly respected fami lies in Arkansas Vandeventer submitted letters which he said were from Arkansas residents tes tifying to the character Vandeventer told Judge Reeves the men sat down Arkan sas and waited to be after newspaper and radio had put officers quickly on the trail Phelps countered that the men had no chance to escape because they were surrounded so speedily TUCKER PRISON ARM Ark eb Supt'AlReed of the Arkansas penitentiary revealed to day that' Lester Brockelhurst 23 condemned Galesburg Ill had been chained to the floor of his cell in the here Reed said the unusual precaution was taken after Brockelhurst sen tenced to be electrocuted March 4 for the hitch hike slaying of Victor A Gates of Little Rock' became desperate a week ago and boasted he never be superintendent said the con demned1 man tried to' commit sui cide several nights ago by tying one end of a bed sheet around his neck the other end to the top of the bars in his climbed up to the top of the cell and jumped down The sheet tied very good and come un Reed said inmates of the death house called guards and they calmed him Reed said leg iron had been placed around ankle and attached to a six foot steel ALTUS Okla' eb A bullet from a rifle which Jerry Bowers told officers had not been fiied in 34 years took the life of his son in law Orvike Hensley 30 shot down in a mi inight gun duel County Attorney Weldon erris raid today Hensley died last night of 3 bullet wound near the heart His father in law1" was held for questioning erris said two officers arrested Hensley Monday night: for being intoxicated and beating Bowers and Mrs Hensley He escaped fi om the officers returned to the Bowers home and fired a shot at Bowers through an open window" I erris said Bowers snatched up aj rifle which had been loafed but unused for 34 years and fired once I chain the other end of which was fastened to a staple sunk in the center of his cell floor chain is light enough and long enough for him to move around or retire in his bunk but not long enough for him to climb to the top of the cell or run out the Reed explained has been very despondent and upset since the date for his execution was fixed and threatened trouble We were afraid he might try to escape when the guards opened the door to the death house and we want him to get him self Brockelhurst was sentenced to death at Lonoke last June after he was convicted of slaying Gates near there on May 6 1937 His traveling companion Bernice elton 19 was acquitted of complicity in the slay ing Later last year she gave birth to a daughter ederal court at taches announced yesterday she would be arraigned at Little Rock this week op a Dyer act charge in connection with the theft of automobile and transportation of the machine acroM a state line Walter (George) Wheeler 30 year old Commerce man charged with being the truck driver who ran down Mrs Ed Coats of Miami Route 1 here last Saturday was under two more charges and bonds totaling $1500 today He failed to make bond Wheeler arraigned in county court on charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident without giving in formation entered pleas of not guilty to counts Bond on the first charge was fixed at $1000 and on the latter a misde meanor at $500 Preliminary hearing on the drunken driving charge will be held before County Judge John Venable Sheriff Walter Young Po lice Chief Witt Ellis state high way patrolmen and Commerce of ficers were unanimous in the be lief that Wheeler was the alleged and driver who struck and injured Mrs Coats who has been improving steadily at Miami Baptist hospital She suffered from one severe lacera tion of an artery and from head in juries Assistant County Attorney Hor ace Payne said the has no doubt but that Wheeler was the driver of the vehicle which struck Mrs 1 Mr Coats who was walking with Mrs Coats at the time of the mishap was also struck by a ve hicle but was not seriously hurt State Crime Bureau Chief Steps Down 6 8 10 Midnight i a 7274 MJ 696664 63 2 MODERN PIPER UNIONTOWN Pa eb Like a modern pied piper organ ist Gatty Sellars led his audience through the streets of this west ern Pennsylvanit city but not to music Sallars came here to give a recital last night in the Asbury Methodist Episcopal church But the organ there play so Sellars in the the audience marched to the Third Presbyterian church And that organ play so Sellars left for Clarks burg 'W Va for a recital there and promised to return next Mon day 1 HOUSE ADOPTS fl REVISED CROP Prater Re elected aTo arm Loan Post Retirement rom Crime In vestigation Post Linked To Rift With Drake OKLAHOMA CITY (Ab Charles Daley chief of the State Bureau of Criminal Investi gation said today he had submitted his resignation to Governor Mar land Daley said he would confer with Marland later in the day and af tex tile resignation was accepted would return to the insurance business in which he was engaged before his appointment in June' 1935 feol everything is in excellent shape Daley no 'pressure on this office I can go back into the business fond of 1 further comment I feel should come from the governor Whenta working for some body else in fairness to the boss he should be the one to make any Thus he cut off questioning about reports that he had broken with Howard Drake the campaign manager and close friend These reports had been connected with action of the Sixteenth Legis lature in cutting depart ment by 50 percent But Daley 'sur vived the storni trimming Mis force to a skeletoh staff to keep within the appropriation' STATUS QUO 7 SOUTH BEND Ind eb Mrs Edith Kaser 35 who was born Edith A Newcomer will be come Edith A Newcomer again She has obtained a license to marry loyd Newcomer 50 no relation New Maneuvering Reveals Major Objective' Is to Trap 400000 of oe SHANGHAI eb Jap anese armies were poised at six points on the ar East war map to day for a giant campaign to crush Chiang Kai legions and swallow the fertile heart of East ern China The magnitude of the campaign which has been in the making since the first shot was fired seven months ago became apparent through new military movements Japanese' military headquarters disclosed the zero hour was ap proaching in: a communique which said: j' troops with rearranged po sitions and with morale? growing stronger are impatient for further Edge Into Position The Japanese grand objective was to bottle up 400000 Chinese troops along the Lunghai railway and con quer the coridor which has kept them from piecing together the Japanese occupied areas in North China and the Yangtze river valley or weeks the Japanese have adged into position for the offensive in a series of victories attributed by the army to prestige and virtues of the emperor and the loyalty and valor of Japanese But Chines facing a six way at tack on the corridor some 300 miles long and 180 to 200 miles wide found cheer in these developments: Their troops at the south central fringe of the corridor 'have kept Japanese south of the Hwai river persistent guerilla attacks behind Japanese lines have hampered Nip movement of reinforcements and supplies air force has grown a steady stream of planes and war materials has reached Cen tral China from the south 10 Japs Courtmartialed Meanwhile Shinrokuro Hidaka ranking Japanes diplomat in China announced that than 10 Jan soldiers havd tialed and punished for breaches of military at Nanking Conditions at the conquered Chi nese capital had brought protests from the United States government The most recent protest came af ter John Allison in charge of the United States embassy at Nan king was slapped by a Japanese soldier Hidaka charge at Shanghai who returned today from an investigation at Nanking said he had conferred with Allison? and found pleasant relations prevailing between Japanese army officials and the American diplomat General conditions at Nanking where foreigners had complained that unruly Japanese soldiers had seized foreign property and shown disrespect to foreign nationals were described by Hidaka as improved Metal Markets NEW YORK eb Cop per (teady electrolytic spot and future 1000 export 980 Lead steady spot New York 4 754J6 East St Louis 460 tioe nniM Eust St Louis spot and futuro 'M 475 LONDON eb Lead spot £15 is future CU 8s Chained to loor of Prison Celt After Attempt to Cheat Electric Chair by taking Own Life 1 a i 'LessedWIro 1 Cold Wave rom North wes Driving Into Oklahoma To End Spring Weather (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A cold wave from the Northwest was scheduled to strike Oklahoma tonight the federal weather bureau predicted to end abruptly the siege of summer resort weather The bureau saw no sign of ac companying moisture but" there was a possibility the? cold wave would arrive with enough wind to stir up the dust in the western part of the state i Temperatures were? expected to drop from the highs which reached into the yesterday to 18 to 24 in the northern part of the state to night and 22 to 30 in the south the forecast warned 20 Below in North A high pressure area from Can ada moving down into the United States struck the northern states and the mercury dropped to 20 be low at Willistonn spring model weath er yesterday brought a rnaximum of 74 to Ponca City but 4 degrees below the maximum? re corded at Brownsville Tex Oklahoma 73 set a new maximum record for a eb 8 at that weather station Overnight readings ranged from 58 at Elk City 57 at Oklahoma City 58 at Ponca City and 59 at Ardmore SLAYER GETS 5 YEARS tMA RSHALLArk eb 9 (A1 rA Searcy county jury convicted Jewell West 27 ear old' farmer latelast night of manslaughter and fixed his punishment at five years In prison for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Jim Guilliam at the Welcome Home 'rural church near here May Guilliam who also was a rural preacher was kjlled in a gun battle at the church In which brother Eldno also was shot to Ths advertisement M1(Z good mw md thml Letter to Be Sent House Probably Thurs day Asking Addition AUTO CITIES CITED Temperatures' in Miami from 4 yesterday until 2 today: Dr Bennett to Enter Race It Is Reported STILLWATER eb' (A) resh reports that Dr Ben nett president of Oklahoma A college had decided to enter the race were met only with silence today': Calls to Dr office brought the reply that out on the Reporters said they had been trying to ask Dr Bennett for three days about the reports and hqfl found him inaccessible Dr Bennett had anything to say about it since last autumn when Governor Marland was cred ited by most observers with giving him boost into the campaign by declaring in a speech here that school men should back one of their own number for governor LOOK BACK! MEW YORK eb Men will think hat styles are right back where they were last generation for behold the hat pin is here again! Hat pins like those which adorned the American scene in the horse and buggy days appeared on some new spring bonnets shown last night to 1500 fashion experts The 1938 hat pin is a little fancier however than the old time ball headed ones Some of the new ones are topped with clustered rhinestones or made of carved glass i Other hat style notes from the show presented under auspices of the millinery stabilization commis sion: hats are back lowers are fashionabel veils So are chin straps WHILE HOME BURNED TOTOWA BOROUGH DALEY RESIGNS AS BUREAU HEAD Award Is Made to Ruth Seay Ruth Seay 224 street i west was given the Miami mer weekly awart today RESCUE BOAT WRECKED SAN RANCISCO GB A coast guard surf boat over turned in heavy waves while it tempting' a rescue at the beach here today and one man was re '5 ported missing Two others wdre hurt seriously a giant wav smashed against their craft other coast guardsmen escapei 62 61 61 62 65 66 JAPS POISE OR VAST OENSIVE TO CRUSH CHINA IN EIGHT INDUSTRIES Cities Divided Into 'Three Population Groups for' Application of Limits o'U? OKLAHOMA CITY eb first general' wage hour codes in the nation since the demise of the NRA will set 'up minimum standards for 300000 as well as women in Okla homa May 1 The Public Welfare commission in signing the codes for eight industries ended six 3 months of hearings occasionally marked by bickering and flareups The eight industries for which maximum hours and minimum 4 are laundries dry cleaning estab lishments' office? buildings hotels wages were completed yesterday restaurants retail stores whole sale houses and" the automobile business including 'filling stations garages 'parking 'lots and dealers Drug Store Hearing Jjxt A drug store hearing is next on schedule rSignificant features are a six day week in all industries a 48 hour week for? women except in small town mercantile businesses and a maximum work week of 48 to 59 hours I Under the law? the first state legislation in the nation to pre scribe a minimum on? which to set standards for men employesthe commission divided cities into three population about 40 000 including only Oklahoma City and lulsa between 10000 and 40 000 and all below i Minimum wages for both men and women decline and maximum hours for men lengthen as the cities grow smaller The lowest minimum wageset $8 was for women in the lowest population classification in the hotel business The highest $20 weekly rgoes 'to 'men em ployes in the restaurant business' Auto Industry Included a In the automobile industry mini mum wages range from $14 to $18 weekly for both men 'and' women but the maximum hours for men are four to 11 hours longer a weekThe law ismodeled after a Wash ington: state law for women and children upheld last spring by the United States supreme court It was rushed to passage in the last Legislature which at the last min ute amended it to? include men as well as women and children ji The commission appointed com mittees composed of two employer representatives two from employ ers and two public representatives Strife Marked Hearings Strife marked many of the hear ings? Two restaurant? operators stalked from one hearing threaten ingnot torsubmit to the provisions to be set up Business men' brought pressure to bear and labor unions' fought back with their own campaigns for speedy establishment of the codes After were completed the lawlay dormant until the at torney office at the re quest of Gov Marland Ex pressed the opinion it was consti tutional The commission met and ap proved the codes two weeks agobut did not affix signatures until minor changes and rules governing ft'c applications had been An amateuj cameraman took this graphic picture of a fatal highway accident' near Seiling Ukla immediately after the car overturned because of a blowout Victor Howard 42 of Seiling whose body is in the right foreground was killed His injured companion Homer Walker is being aided by passing motorists 6 STATE TO APPLY WAGE CODES TO 1 300000 MAY 1 A 4r Tw 5 ar III nJ I 'TOb Bacuaay) aim SMV A'1 Afanrias Sr Mimi NwvRwori PaHMiiiig Co (bn) WASHINGTON eb The House voted approval today of the revised crop control bill speed ing it along to final legislative ac tion in the Senate House action came at the end cf ie' four hours of debate under proce duce which many Republicans de scribed as a No mem 6er was permitted to change any ii section of the bill which a joint Senate House committee drafted? from separate measures the Senate and House passed at the end of the special session of Congress last December' The program would continue the soil conservation act and set up machinery by which Secretary Wai lace with the approval of farmers could apply marketing regulations to wheat corn cotton tobacco and rice Assailed By Short Rep Short (R Mo) declared to day that proponents would be de manding its repeal in two years bill is going to do morerto destroy the Democratic party and bring the Republicans back into power than anything said Short the only comforting thing in this whole sad Short was among a score of Re publicans and some who criticised the complicated legis lation before the final vote These opponents objected to specific sec a tions of the measure as well asto the basic principle of an granary through farmer approved marketing controls eb (A5) Surveying the ashes of her home today Mrs John Zajac told a story about three fire de partments and the hoses that leak ed At the first smell of smoke she telephoned the Wayne township firehouse and was told to send the alarm to the Totowa borough de partment Getting mixed up again in more frantic phoning she told her story to the Little alls fire men who also referred her to the local department She finally got the right number and three com panies arrived 1 Their hoses burst and leaked from improper drying the chief explained and the fire burned it self out in three hours TO SWING OSSINING eb In the death house at Sing Sing Charles Brown 30 a Negro of Ellenville wants to walk to the electric chair to the hot throb of swing music He may get his bizarre final request Warden Lewis Lawes said today al though ordinarily the bleak cor ridors of are si lent on the day of an execution ew ask for music on their last jazz accompaniment to his final day and request for a steps is without precedent at Sing Sing WASHINGTON eb GP) President Roosevelt it was learn ed today will ask Congress with in a day or two to appropriate be tween $200000000 and $300 000 000 for relief during the: next five months Informed sources said the President would send a letter to Speaker Bankhead probably to morrow asking additional funds primarily because of cxncrfpH lief demands during ebruary March and April The' Works Progress administra tion these sources said has told the President it needed a deficiency appropriation largely because of unemployment in certain auto mobile cities 'Earlier Senator Majority Lead er Barkley who conferred with Mr' Roosevelt and other congres sional leaders and administration officials said the message might cover not only the question of a deficiency appropriation for the rest of this fiscal year but also needs for the next fiscal year be ginning July 1 Others Called In Called to the White House today were Barkley (D Ky Chairman Glass (D Va) of the Senate ap propriations committee House Majority Leader Raybum (Tex) Chairman Taylor (D Colo) of the House appropriations committee Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Daniel Bell acting director of the budget and Aubrey Williams acting WPA director The Pres ident met yesterday with Morgen thau Bell and Williams The con ference today was said to have been arranged in order to get the opinions of congressional leaders on relief needs and appropriation estimates i $497000000 Remains The money if the President de cides to ask Congress for it will be used to supplement the $497p 000000 already available to the Works: Progress administration up to June 30 Williams was understood to have proposed $250000000 in discus sions with congressional leaders Midwest mayors who visited the White House yesterday urged the President to request $400000000 They told him that about a million persops should be added to the nearly 2000000 now on WPA rolls Liberals Urge More A group of House liberals told Mr Roosevelt Monday that the need for additional funds might run as high as $500000000 The President told reporters he was studying the relief subject from the point of view of relieving human needs rather than one of business pump priming He indi cated that he expected to have something definite to say in the next 'few days Some congressional leaders re called that until recently the ad Continued on Page Two 7 TheWeaffier iImk 1 1 1 I fl I I sal fl.