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Historical Society Oklahoma City 5, Okla. Comp MIAMI DAILY NEWS-RECORD VOL. XLVII, NO. 256 Published Every Morning by Evening Miami (Except Newspapers, Saturday) Inc. and Sanday MIAMI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1950 DAILY 5 CENTS SUNDAY 10 CENTS TAX John THREE BIDDING FOR PLACE ON COUNTY BOARD Lee Chenoweth, Incumbent, And Joe Ramsey, 25, of Miami, Latest To File A race for the Democratic Central district commissioner nomination is taking definite shape already in Ottawa county.

By noon today, three men were in the run for the party bid. Latest entrants are Lee Chenoweth, 48-year-old dairyman and current office holder, and Joe Ramsey, young Miami construction worker. Previously announced was the candidacy of George I. Lewis, Fairland Route 1 farmer. Chenoweth, of Miami Roue 3, was appointed to the commissioner job in December, following the resignation of Joe Booth.

He filed for the job Tuesday afternoon with H. J. Butcher, Election Board secretary. Ramsey, a World war II veteran, is only 25. The race will be his first for public office.

Others who had filed during the 24-hour period include: Arthur Horn, 80, of 223. street northeast, real estate dealer, Democrat for county assessor. J. R. Harlan, Fairland Route 1 farmer, Democrat for constable of Ottawa township.

Homer L. Rhodes, 41, of Zincville, a miner, Democrat for constable district No. 19 (Zincville). From Picher, Mike Laramore notified the News-Record that he had registered in Oklahoma City for the House of Representatives, post No. 2.

The 44-year-old Democrat is a former Picher police chief. He lives at 428 South Alta street. The Associated Press at Oklahoma City reported that Rep. Jess Fronterhouse of Miami attempted to file for the state Senate seat of the late Perry Porter but was turned down by the State Election board. The application of Mrs.

Grace Mitchelson, Commerce, was rejected earlier. The office will be filled at a special election which has not been ordered by Gov. Roy J. Turner. Ardmore Attorney Into Senate Chase OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26- (P) -State Senator Joe B.

Thompson, Ardmore, filed as a Democratic candidate for the United (Continued on page two) Oveta Culp Hobby Directs Punch at Federal Spending NEW YORK, April 26 (P) Oveta Culp Hobby, of the Houston Post, told American newspaper publishers today that the "home complexity of our government has resulted in an over-planned economy, an over-governed nation and an over-spent budget." The wartime WAC commander said that "chaos and overlapping functions and waste" in the government have grown "infinitely worse and are partly responsible for the fact that the richest country in the world is over-spending its income by five billion dollars a year." Speaking before a general meeting of the convention of the American Association of Newspaper Publishers, Mrs. Hobby, said that no reforms can be achieved "unless public interest is not only aroused but sustained." directors Mrs. of Hobby, the a Hoover member of commis- the sion on the reorganization of the executive branch, called for support of reforms recommended by this commission. She said that action on the reform bills has slowed down to an "unmistakable stop." THE WEATHER OKLAHOMA Fair tonight, warmer in east tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, cooler west and north.

Low tonight 45 to 55. MISSOURI- Generally fair and little warmer tonight. Thursday partly cloudy followed by scattered light showers north and east, warmer southeast. Low tonight 35 to .40 north to 45 to 50 south. KANSAS Increasing cloudiness tonight, warmer east.

Thursday partly cloudy, cooler west and north. Low tonight in 30's northwest to 40's southeast. IN Is JURY OUT ONLY SHORT TIME TO REACH VERDICT Ex- Pal of Vaughan Is Cleared On One Count, Stuck On Two WASHINGTON, April 26-(P) -John Maragon, who used to have friends at the White House, was convicted today of lying to Senate investigators. A federal district court jury took one hour and 36 minutes to convict him of charges that he lied in testifying last July that: 1. He had only one bank a accounty, in Washington, in 1945-46.

The evidence showed he had another then in Texas. 2. He had severed connections with Albert Verley and Chicago importing company, when he a temporary job with the State department overseas in 1945. But Maragon was cleared on one of the main counts the government brought against himthat he perjured himself in saying he negotiated no business with the government and received no money for negotiations from 1945 to until the middle of last year. On each of the two counts on which he was found guilty, Maragon could be sent to jail for as little as eight months to two years or for as long as 40 months "The years.

courts rarely impose the maximum sentence. Maragon heard the verdict with little show of emotion. Sentence was not pronounced immediately. Giffin Rites Set For 2 Thursday; Offices To Close Funeral services for John H. Giffin, former Miami mayor who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 2 p.

m. Thursday at the First Methodist church. The Rev. H. H.

Cody and the Rev. Harry W. Curtis will officiate. Mayor Roy Green announced today that all city offices will close from 1:30 to 3 p. m.

Thursday so that personnel may attend rites for Giffin. Pallbearers will be Melvin Hutts, Joe Thompson, John F. Robinson, Orrick Sparlin, Brownie Akers and Wallace Dunn. Burial will be in GAR cemetery. The body will lie in state at 1 the Cooper Funeral home until 1:30 p.

m. tomorrow. Seattle Building Is Wrecked by Blast SEATTLE, April 26-(P) -A mysterious explosion wrecked a four story apartment building just out of downtown Seattle today. There were no known fatalities. The number of occupants was not reported.

Twelve persons were hospitalized for injuries but only two were believed serious. The first two floors of the apartment dropped into the basement when the blast destroyed the supports. PINCH HITTER FAILS TULSA, April 26 (P) Out twice, in the same inning--a rare but doubtful honor- came to Tulsa pinch hitter Bob Carson in last night's Texas league baseball game with Oklahoma City. Carson, batting for pitcher Stan Clifford, struck out to lead off his team's half of the third inning then--nine Tulsa batters and seven runs later--popped out. HALF ON of Lying SALUTE TO RETIRING AIR SECRETARY- Retiring Secretary for Air, W.

Stuart Symington walks through an honor guard to the Pentagon courtyard to receive a 19-gun salute as he bowed out of office in Washington, D. C. Left to right are: of Defense Louis Johnson; Symington; and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Airforce Chief of Staff. (NEA TELEPHOTO) Candidate Balks At Approval for 'Yellow Dog' Act OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26- (P) Oklahoma's "yellow dog" clause, requiring candidates for office to pledge support to their party at the next general election, was challenged today by a candidate for lieutenant governor.

Irvin Hurst, Oklahoma Democrat, refused to sign the filing blank. He said the clause "is making liars by statute." He wrote into the blank: "I waive no rights as a voter. Although it is my custom to support Democratic nominees, the welfare of state and nation must first in my consideration. Therefore, I reserve the right of individual choice." In a separate statement he added: "Either the prospective officeholder must cross his heart and hope to die that he will take whatever political freak or misfit that may accidentally win a party nomination, or he places himself in the position of violating his faith. I prefer to look even gift horses in the mouth." Hurst, 45 year old insurance salesman, formerly covered the statehouse as a newspaper reporter.

Dynamite's Found In House; Woman Carries It Away LIBERTY, April 26-(P)- A 31-year-old woman jarred the sheriff's office here late yester-. day with the announcement she had found a dynamite stick in her parents' home and driven four miles over rough roads with it for help. Sheriff Curtis Hay and Deputy Ted Triggs nervously severed the cap from the stick, causing the charge to be less dangerous. Mrs. Dorothy Koonse explained she had found the explosive lying on the kitchen cabinet in the home of her parents four miles north of here.

"She gave us a scare," the sheriff said. "That stick was ready to shoot and very much jarring could have set it off." She signed a complaint charging her father, a 51-year-old mill worker, with attempting to destroy the house with dynamite. Sheriff Hay said she told him her father had threatened to blow up the house. Missing Witness in Owen Lattimore Case Turns Up WASHINGTON, April 26-(AP)-A mysteriously missing witness in the Owen Lattimore case turned up safe but nervous today 20 hours after he had vanished from a Washington hotel. John telephoned J.

his Huber, wife at described Mt. as Vernon, a N. one-time at FBI 7:30 informer, that he had "blacked out" yesterday shortly before he had been due to appear at the Senate inquiry into charges of Communism in the government. Although there had been hints' that he might have met with foul eign relations sub-committee, callplay, Mrs. Huber said he seemed ed off a meeting it had scheduled to be well.

She added that he for 10:30 a. m. (est). had sounded nervous, tired and Edward P. Morgan, committee upset in telling hem: counsel, said the members would had a blackout.

I am in get together later in the day to New York. I'll be home this discuss the case of Huber. evening. I can't talk He said that theoretically Huber The investigating group, a (Continued on page two) TICKETS 'NEWS TO CARROLL SAYS. OF SYNDICATE St.

Louis Betting Commissioner Says He Knows of No Gambling Ring WASHINGTON, April 26-(P) -Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll of St. Louis--the "Mr. Big" of the odds-making business -told senators today he knows of no organized nation-wide gambling syndicate. He testified under oath before a Senate commerce sub-committee that so-called "betting commissioners" and bookmakers operate as independent business with no feeling of any "moral wrong," and he insisted there is no connection between big-time gamblers and crime.

"I can state without any mental reservation," he said, "that I know of no such (gambling) syndicate, combination or organization. "To the contrary it is my firm belief that all of the accepting and laying off of bets is conducted on a purely competitive basis and there is no relationship between operators, commissioners or by whatever name such, businessmen are called Carroll was a witness at the committee's hearing on a bill to ban the movement of gambling information across state lines. Carroll is known to betting men throughout the country as the man who announces the "official" winter-book gambling odds on the Kentucky Derby and the major league baseball races. Hence his title of "commissioner." But Chairman McFarland (D- Ariz) told reporters as far as he knows Carroll has violated no federal laws. Federal agents were reported searching for Frank Erickson of New York to subpoena him as a witness also York police officials have described Erickson as a known "lay-off" better.

A subpoena has been at Hot Springs, Ark, on Joe Adonis of New York. But a physician advised McFarland that Adonis is too ill to testify within the next 10 days. New York police officials have told senators that Adonis is "presumed to be a racketeer." Carroll was the first witness identified with the gambling world to be called before the sub-committee. "All we want is to get information on the pattern of bookmaking and track information furnished to bookmakers," Mc-. Farland told reporters.

"Betting is not a federal offense and furnishing betting information to bookmakers violates no federal laws." McFarland said the sole reason for Erickson and calling, Carrolle: information. "We are not in a crime investigation," he added. Boy Scouts Plan Special Camp in Miami This Week Promoted by W. W. McGinnis, chairman of the activities committee, and Dan Hensley, chairman of the camping committee, the Ottawa district Boy Scout camp-o-ree will be held in Riverview park, April 28 and 29.

Scouts from troops in -Afton, Commerce, Fairland, Miami, Picher, Quapaw and Wyandotte are expected to attend. Senior scouts will assist in camp administration. Officials are as follows: Camp director, I. R. Estus; arrangements, W.

W. McGinnis; events administrator, Henry Gar wood; scorekeeper, John Coons; campfire director, Senior Scouts; registrar, Chas. Neal. camp-o-ree judge, George Ed Foster; advisor, G. R.

Scott. Registration will begin at 4 p. Friday, April 28, and the afternoon will be devoted to pitching tents and setting up camp. The general campfire, at which each patrol will give a campfire stunt, starts at 8 p. Saturday is "to be devoted scouting skill demonstrations and contests.

Skill events will be as follows: Judging height and distance, first" aid, map sketching, signaling, rope skills, tracking, compass, flap jack flipping, making knots work for scouts, fire building and water boiling, wood chopping and wild life and wild plantsents. Cub Scouts and the general public are invited to attend at any time. TO END LONG CAREER PONCA CITY, April 26- -Miss Lula Mae Butler, primary teacher at Jefferson school, is retiring this spring after 45 years as an instructor. Miss Butler believes that "if I had my life to live over, I'd still be a school teacher." Solons Also Favor Like Reductions in Sports A Admissions Notes from Your Town J. president JEFFRIES of was the elected Commerce Lions club at a meeting held Tuesday night at Basil's cafe.

Other new officers include C. A. Comer, secretary; Harry Walker, treasurer; Ace Moreland, first vice-president; Paul Caton, second vice-president; Lee Sults, third club George Mayfield, president, Dr. L. J.

Bamberl, tail twister; Basil Baker, lion tamer; Alfred Lee and Art Peck, directors for two years, and 1 Dr. M. E. Weeks and Bussie Corbus, directors for one year. A special committee was inseructed to erect swings, merrygo-rounds and other equipment at the city playgrounds.

Carl Patterson was a guest of the club and Dr. Bamberl served as Lion of the day at the meeting. Gerald Masters, former pastor of the Union church at Picher, and Mrs. Masters were injured last night in an automobile accident near Hiwasse, it was learned today. Details of the mishap were not known here immediately, but friends in Picher said it was not believed either Mr.

and Mrs. Masters was critically hurt. The couple moved to Hiwasse earlier this month to accept the pastorate of the Christian church there. They formerly had served church in Picher for two years. His parents, Mr.

and Mrs: C. M. Masters, live in Cardin. They left this morning for Hiwasse. NEW ADVANCE FOR LEAD ORE Price Rises $3.60 for Concentrates After Climb In New York The second increase in the price of Tri-State district lead in less than a week's time was disclosed here Following a one-fourth cent boost, to 11 cents, in New York, a local ore buyer quoted the new district price for 80 percent concentrates at $133.27 a ton, an increase of $3.60.

Last Thursday, the Tri-State price was raised from $126.07 per ton to $129.67 in the wake of eastern market improvement. Trade sources have been quoted as saying lead sales have been heavy since the prices of copper and zinc strengthened last week. Hits Indonesian Regime JAKARTA, U. S. April 26- (P) A new revolt against the central Indonesian government was reported today to have broken out in the state of East Indonesia.

Reliable neutral sources said separatists on the island of Ambon, traditional capital of the Moluccan islands, had proclaimed an independent state of the south Moluccas. The separatists included local authorities on the island and were supported by Indonesian soldiers of The Netherlands East Indies army awaiting transfer to the Indonesian federal army. The revolt was the fourth outbreak against the young central Indonesian government and the second on Ambon. Indonesian soldiers on the island mutinied in March but the Jakarta government later announced the revolt had been put down. 7 Holdup Suspects Nabbed at Capitol WASHINGTON, April 26-(P) Police arrested seven men in a roundup of holdup suspects today and found a uniform of the Brinks armored car service at a house where three were taken into The men are being questioned for possible implication in the million-dollar Brinks robbery in Boston last January.

Maj. Robert J. Barrett, superintendent of police, who called them the seven "little punks," said some of them had admitted participating in three major holdups in the Washington area. RESIGNS POSITION CHICKASHA, April 26- (P) -Milo Remund, Chickasha high school principal, has resigned effective 30. He has served here three years.

Remund has announced no future plans. and April 26-(AP)-The House ways WASHINGTON, means committee voted today to cut in half--from 20 percent to 10-the federal excise tax on tickets to movies and sports events. The committee took the action in $240,000,000 slash in the excise tax list. approving This brought another the This total is of far in tentatively excess approved cuts to $575,000,000. President Truman had proposed for that $190,000,000 part of the reduction list the which the committee has considered.

Mr. Truman has threatened a veto of tax-cutting legislation if his recom- FUND INCREASE FOR DEFENSES House Committee Indorses $350 Millions Boost To Bolster Military Forces WASHINGTON, April 26-(P)- The House appropriations committee today recommended the 1951 military budget be increased by $350,000,000 asked by Secretary of Defense Johnson to tighten the nation's bulwarks against Russia. Urging the additional funds, Johnson told Congress the Russian atomic explosion had come "somewhat in advance of the date we had anticipated." The secretary and members of the joint chiefs of staff appeared before both Senate and House appropriations committees to review events leading to the plea for more money. Johnson testified behind closed door but later handed out a statement covering the gist of his testimony. Johnson also mentioned in request for more funds: The fall of China, the serious situations in southeast Asia, the break in diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and deteriorating relations with other satellite countries, the Soviet assumption of control over Soviet the naval armed expansion, forces of Poland, creased Soviet pressures in Germany, the recent attack on a naval aircraft in the Baltic, and the recent Soviet demands relative to Trieste." The secretary, said the present record peacetime defense costs probably will grow larger after the next year.

Besides the $350,000,000 in. new money, the Defense department also asked the House group to restore $203,000,000 previously trimmed by the committee from the amount asked by President Truman in his budget. Home at Douthat Damaged by Fire DOUTHAT, April 26-(Special) -The Phillip Abernathy home here was badly damaged Tuesday afternoon by fire believed to have been caused by faulty wiring in the living room. Neither Mr. and Mrs.

Abernathy nor their two children was at home when neighbors discovered the blaze shortly before. 4 o'clock. The fire was extinguished by members of the Picher fire department. Fire Chief Jerry Williams said that damage was mostly confined to the interior of the fourroom frame structure. Most the loss was covered by insurance, he said.

Cop's Daughter, 3, Decides She'll Drive PENN YAN, N. April. 26 -(P) Patrolman Thomas Quenan was getting ready for work when his wife told him the motor of his automobile was running. They looked out, saw the car moving slowly across a field and chased after it. The driver was their three-year-old daughter, Sheila.

Sheila explained: "I'm going to work." mendations are ignored. The committee yet may approve other slashes of around 000 in transportation and communications excises to bring the total well over the total 000 excise cut limit Mr. Truman set. The committee's cuts on admission excises would total about $190,000,000. In addition to slashing the general admissions levy in half, the committee decided to exempt completely from any tax the tickets to non-profit, educational, and charitable shows.

to county fairs, symphonies and such. However, a 10 percent levy would be collected on the tickets to college sports events, as well as professional sports. Sports events of schools other than colleges would be exempt completely. Aside from acting on new parts of the excise list, the committee reconsidered some reductions already made and boosted them by new millions. However, Chairman Doughton (D-N.

insisted that all action thus far is tentative, and may be revised later. Included in other cuts voted day were: Leather goods A reduction from 20 percent to. 10 in the retail excise tax on such things as trunks, suitcases and brief: cases, and elimination of the luggage tax on bag and 'kits" used in carrying articles of wearing apparel. This added $14,000,000 to cuts already made in the leather goods sections. The committee previously had approved complete removal of the 20 percent levy on purses, wallets, billfolds, pocketboowg and car and key cases.

Business machines A reduclevy tion' at from the 10 percent manufacturers' to 5 in level the on business machines such as typewriters and adding machines. Matches A cut from two cents to one cent per 1,000 in the tax. Hobart Cavanaugh, Noted Film, Stage Actor, Dead at 63 HOLLYWOOD, April 26--(P)- Hobart Cavanaugh, 63, one of the movies' and stage's best known character actors, died early today after an operation at the Motion Picture country home hospital. Often appearing as a hen pecked husband or a harried bookkeeper, his face, if not his name, was known to millions of moviegoers. His latest screen role was in the unreleased "Stella." Among his other pictures since 1933 were "Captain Blood," "Rose of Washington Square," "Kismet," "Margie" and "Driftwood." His theatrical career spanned a half-century, having started in vaudeville.

He and Walter Catlett once were a vaudeville team and it was Catlett who phoned in Cavanaugh's death to the newspapers. Cavanaugh appeared the legitimate stage in "Irene," "So Long, Letty," "The Show Off," and "Braodway." His most recent Broadway appearance was in the musical comedy "As the 'Girls Go." A native of Virginia City, he was educated at the University of California. Survivors include his wife, Florence, and a daughter. Funeral arrangements are pending. No Trace Is Found Of Missing Soldiers FORT SILL, April 26- (P)-A search of the Fort Sill reservation today brought no trace of two soldiers who escaped from the stockade yesterday and fled in an Army truck.

The two were identified by post officials as Pvt. Thomas E. Floriz da, 26, Tulsa, and Pvt. Roy E. Robinson, 35, Henryetta.

The provost marshal said Robinson was a life termer at San Quentin prison in California when released in 1944 to enlist. After one month of service he went AWOL and was free six years until his capture a month ago, the marshal said. His dishonorable discharge was received at the post yesterday. PAWNEE EDITOR IN STATE RACE Joe Ferguson Will Run for Governor on GOP Ticket, He Announces TULSA, April Jo 0. Ferguson, 60, Pawnee farmer and editor, announced today he will seek the Republican nomination for governor.

He said he will file his candidacy with the State Election board tomorrow. Ferguson, a former state senator, was an unsuccessful Republican nominee for First district congressman in He is editor of the weekly Pawnee Chief and the Oklahoma Patriot and is a veteran of World war I. He promised a statewide campaign during which, he said, he will stress the need of revising the state constitution. "This question is up for a vote of the people at the November election," Ferguson said, "and in my judgment the call for the constitutional convention should carry. "I challenge all other candidates for this office to make their positions clear on this issue." Ferguson said one of the constitutional reforms he thought.

needed was a change in the of paying old age assistance. He suggested it should be paid from funds appropriated by the legislature, guaranteeing a definite sum to pension beneficiaries each month. Hearing Delayed at K. C. in Liquor Case The preliminary hearing of Charles (Monface) Carrollo and three others on charges of operating an illegal wholesale business was continued for a week today by L.

S. Commissioner Charles -H. Thompson, U. S. District Attorney Sam M.

Wear said the delay was to allow a federal grand jury to complete its investigation of the case. Carrollo, Anthony (Stringbean) Marcella, Sam Tortorice and Carrollo's son-in-law, Mike Arnone, were arrested by federal alcohol tax unit agents in raid April 14. The federal agents confiscated 1,053 cases of contraband liquor, some of which they said they had reason to believe was filtering into dry Oklahoma. Martin Edwards of Tulsa was questioned by the grand jury Monday on his connections with Carrollo and Oklahoma bootlegging. KANSAS CITY, April 26 -(9) WHEAT MEN TO MEET FREDERICK, April 26- (P)-Wheat growers from six counties in southwestern Oklahoma will meet here Friday for a clinic on legume rotation, fertilization, tillage, insects and storage.

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