Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

Miami Daily News fcor VOL XXXII NO 247 PRICE IVE CENTS YOUTH CONESSES MURDER HIS the Budget or I Marland Tells the Legislature ENDED 14 CHILDREN KILLED WHEN SCHOOL BUS AND TRAIN CRASH LOVE AAIR BLAMED SHOWDOWN SUPERCHARGER 1 to 2 Subscribe for the News Record a Leader plan on 2 4 6 5 10 116 Children Saved As Orphanage Burns Pneumonia atal to ormer County Clerk uneral To Be Held Tuesday (By The Associated Press) 'Residents of the southeastern dust bowl marked up another black duster today and wondered how long it would be before another one cajne along Already cheered by two days of clear skies and a respite from the 4743 39 414750 Only Child 18 Admits He Slew Couple eb 5 Then Set Home Afire Governor Threatens to Trim Institutional Bill as The Alternative Office of Publication A Street and irtt Avenue THREE INJURED IN WEEK END MISH A PS HERE Another Silt Storm Rages Across Southwest Turn ing Day Into Night 76 79 75 64 56 51 Russell Boley Wished to Wed Girl to Whom His Parents Objected Auodated Preu Leased Wire POST LANDS IN INDIANA SHORT GOAL AGAIN DUST ENMESHES SUNDAY TRAIC 2 PERCENT SALE TAX DEMANDED IN ULTIMATUM BY CONESSION AT WOODWARD Geneva Police Reveal Con spiracy Against Laval Benes and Titulescu light rom California to Purdue ield Made In Eight Hours Stratosphere lier Is Unde cided as to uture After Third ailure Publuhad Evtn Evulni (Eimh Moniin Miml NewKeord PubtUhlni Gk fine) OKLAHOMA air colder in southeast portion frost probably freezing in northeast portion to night Tuesday fair warmer ARKANSAS air colder frost in south and central' portions freezing in extreme southeast por DEATH CLAIMS A LAMPKIN PIONEER AT 61 2 4 6 8 10 Noon ST PAUL April Byron Bolton of Chicago charged as one of the kidnapers of Edward Bremer St Paul Banker plead ed guilty today as he and 11 oth ers were brought into federal court for trial When the 12 were marched be fore ederal Judge Joyce today the judge calling the long roll of prisoners said: Bolton you are not rep resented by counsel Bolton youthful looking arose and said in a clear voice desire to plead guilty Bolton and three others were charged in the indictment with seizing Bremer on a St Paul street LONDON April The Geneva correspondent of Ex change Telegraph company report ed today two Italian had been arrested at Marseilles frus trating attempts to assassinate Premier Mussolini of Italy at Stre sa and'Pierre Laval rench foreign minister at Geneva Jan 17 1933 As the three others in the actual abduction the gov ernment named Arthur (Doc) Bar ker of the Barker Karpis gang Harold Aiderton and Elmer armer the latter both of Bensen ville Ill where Bremer was held 23 days Judge Joyce said he would sen tence Bolton at the conclusion of the trial sudden action left 11 awaiting trial with the prospect that the government might put Bolton on the stand to tell the side of the sensational ab duction Bremer was released on payment of $200000 in ransom George Brooklet Is Re covering rom Strange Ailment Through Use Of New Serum Doctor Claims After Having Shrunk for a Year I ST LOUIS April 15 LT) ire that endangered lives of 116 chil dren destroyed? the Lutheran or home in St Louis county to iay The children were unharmed The fire which caused damage estimated at $150000 was discov ered just as the children finished inoming prayers in the dining room I The matron Mrs Rose Pieske Iwo teachers and four deaconesses marshaled the children and march ed them outside carrying a few 2 (nd 3 year olds I Part of their clothing and other Hangings were lost I The children were taken into therphanage school and St Jthcran church nearby I tion tonight Tuesday fair colder in extreme southeast 'portion warmer in extreme: northwest por tion MISSOURI air tonight slightly colder in southeast frost or freezing temperature tonight Tuesday fair in east increasing cloudiness in west rising tempera ture in afternoon KANSAS Mostly cloudy in west increasing cloudiness in east tonight and Tuesday rising tem perature Tuesday and in central and west portions tonight possibly light frost tonight in extreme east WEATHER CLEARING OKLAHOMA CITY April 15 (2P) Clearing weather with rising temperatures and a gen eral dissipation of dust cloud was the cheering pre diction of weather bureau here today winds will bring an other break said Harry Wahlgren federal fore caster There was some dust in the air throughout the state to day Last night and early today temperatures took a sharp drop over most sections of the state but no freezing weather ported The colder weather fol lowed unusual yesterday morning In Oklahoma City the temperature reached a maxi mum of 86 within one degree of the all time heat record for April 14 Elk City and Alva re ported highs of 91 Byron Bolton One of Trio Accused of Seizing the St Paul Banker May Tell of Abduction at 11 Left to Be Tried' TEMPERATURES Temperatures in Miami from 2 yesterday afternoon until noon today pm pm pm pm pm Midnight choking silt and sand they were enjoying what started out to be a balmy Sunday when the duster swept out of the north over west ern Kansas and eastern Colorado I rushed on over the Oklahoma Pan handle and into Texas Hundreds of Sunday motorists were caught when the dense black cloud bore down upon them at a rate of 60 miles an hour Some Ok lahomans rushed for their storm cellars as day was turned into night Static Disables Autos Many motorists who attempted to drive through the cloud of sting ing gravel and sand found that static electricity generated by the dust particles had disrupted the ignition system on their engines Residents of Perryton Tex' where there have been 50 dust storms in l04 days described the storm the worst in Old timers in Oklahoma and Kan sas agreed After the main cloud had passed the air still was full of dust The haze spread out far to the east and west At Trinidad Colo Santa rail road officials detoured trains over a southern route in an effort to i avoid the storm At Hutchinson Kas A Welty an airplane pilot was unable to outdistance the storm and his ship nosed over in a forced landing He suffered a frac tured nose and possible internal injuries $39000000 Appropriated "26000000 Provid cutive Asserts lier Killed in Crash A tIndependenceKas INDEPENDENCE Kas April Lawrence Miles 30 man ager of the Independence airport was killed in an airplane crash here late yesterday His death was the second air plane death in Independence in 24 hours Robert Weber 19 was killed late Saturday in a crash in which Earl ertig 19 was critical ly injured News Record Want Ads get results try them? Man Is Stretching Out Toward Normal OZARK RUIT UNHURT SPRINGIELD Mo April 15 ruit trees in this section were not damaged by last night's freezing weather weather bureau officials reported here today Low est temperature here was 32 de grees Weathermen predicted a heavy frost for tonight however with temperatures dropping as low as 30 degrees Indications are they said that fruit will suffer little damage tonight since the atmos phere is very dry ani am am am am Week end accidents claimed three victims in Miami although none was believed tot' have been injured seriously Mrs Clyde Pierce street northeast was struck by an auto mobile driven by Zeth Little5 of Miami late Saturday night She was crossing the street at irst avenue and South Main street when Little was reported to have swung around another car being unable to stop in time to avoid striking the woman She was taken to Mi ami Baptist hospital and released shortly afterward her injuries con sisting only of bruises and cuts Charles Brand of Commerce 31 years old steel worker employ ed at the 66 bridge site re ceived an injury to his back when he slipped under a section of steel on the partially completed struc ture Sunday afternoon Working past the center of the Neosho riv er he was fortunate in escanine a plunge into the water The steel held him Brand was removed to Miami baptist hospital where it was be lieved his condition was not ser ious However an ray of the spinal cord was to be made to de termine how serious he might be injured Another worker on the some pro ject George Lewis of Route 1 Mi ami was slightly injured Sunday ne was taken to the local hospital for treatment then released two hours later A construction man said he understood Lewis his ankle An automobile collision on South Main street yesterday afternoon resulted in damage to a car owned by Noel Dagnett of Miami Dag coach parked near his home was struckby car by Leon Smith son of Smith The rear end of the Dag nett vehicle was forced in and the rear glass shattered 1 Ottawa County Population 38737 Elmer Ridenour War Veteran Dies Elmer Ridenour 39 year old World war veteran died at 5:30 Sunday afternoon in Miami Baptist hospital He is survived by his wife Mrs Ethel Ridenour his mother Mrs Lizzie Ridenour and one brother Charles Ridenour of Miami uneral services will be conduct ed at 2:30 Tuesday after noon at the Presbyterian church The Rev Harry Curtis will offi ciate Burial will be in the A cemetery under the direction of the Cooper Undertaking company loyd Perry post American Legion will be in charge of the services at the cemetery PLOT THWARTED THREE EUROPEAN LEADERS SAVED 1 By ROBERT GEIGER (Associated Press Staff Writer) I GUYMON Okla April LP) I little words achingly fa I miliar on a western tongue I rule life today in the dust bowl I of the continent I If it I Ask any farmer any merchant I any banker what the outlook is I and you hear them if it rains I If it rains some farmers I If it rains fresh row crops I may flourish I If it rains pasture and I range for livestock may be restor I ed 1 I If it rains fields 'quickly I listed into wind resisting clods may I stop the dust If it rains it always has! I Next Three Weeks to Tell I The next three weeks will tell the I story I Black and saffron clouds of dust spectacular menacing intensely irritating to man and beast alike choking blowing out tender crops and lasting without mercy for days have darkened everything but nope ana a sense of humor in the dust sector of the Southwest The Southwest is big and the dust area is only a small chunk of it Roughly it takes in the western third of Kansas Southeastern Colo rado the Oklahoma Panhandle the northern two thirds of the Texas Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico It always has been a region of sparse rainfall The World war with its high wheat prices and ur gent demands sent the plow into the sod and turned this into wheat country Before then it was range land and the crop was natip buf falo grass which held the soil firm against insistent winds Three Years of Drouth The last three years have been year of drouth with this field eroding dust storms their stif ling climax But dust storms are nothing new in the Southwest orty years decades before the wheat farmers came with their combines a dust storm of such violence swept western Kansas that it stopped trains just as they were stopped last week is artoughrJiardy country its farmers say will come back over added youth is a tall GENEVA April Local police today revealed a plot' to as sassinate three noted European statesmen and disclosed despite de nials in Marseilles that two sus pected Italian men and a woman had been in Marseilles The statesmen plotted against said police here' were Pierre Laval I foreign minister of rance Dr Ed ouard Benes foreign minister of Czecho Slovakia and Nicholas Tit Metal Market NEW YORK April Lead firm spot New York 370 East St Louis 355 Zinc steady East St Louis spot and future 405 410 LONDON April Lead spot £12 7s 6d future £12 12s fid Zinc spot £12 17s 6d: future £11 2s Police described the terrorists as anarchists They said the alleged anarchist plat was directed against Benes and Titulescu on the ground theywere believed hostil to revi sions of peace treaties Authorities sent out a general alarm throughout Switzerland and to the German Austrian and rench frontiers to prevent the en trance of all suspected anarchists Geneva Police Alert Police protection for the states men gathering for the League of Nations council sessions was strengthened today because of the reports Geneva police received reports attempts would be made on the lives of certain unidentified states men either at Stresa or Geneva Three Little Words I IT RAINS If Echo in Dust Bowl Lead Price Raised To 370 Cents Today NEW YORK April 15 The American Smelting Refining company today advanced the price of lead 5 points to 370 cents a pound New York LOS ANGELES April LT) Rapid recovery from a disease which made George Booklet 45 look and feel like an was reported today by Dr rank Nolan' Hollywood physician and surgeon Dr Nolan attributed the im LAAYETTE Ind April ISA Wiley Post his third attempt to span the continent in record time by way of the stratosphere balked when his supercharger to day waited for refitting of his fa mous' monoplane uncertain of his future plans thought the third time would be a the chunky Oklaho man grunted yesterday as he climbed out of the oxygen suit which permits him to fly in rare fied atmosphere The globe girdling Winnie Mae its landing gear dropped to permit greater speed skidded to a stop on the Purdue university airport field here at 3:49 eight hours 12 1 2 minutes after Post lifted it into the air at Burbank Cal The aver age speed for the 1900 mile trip was 23148 miles an hour far slow er than the 27936 average he had on his second record attempt which ended at Cleveland Crowds Jam ields my hat were his first words to airport attendants as he sought to lift the visored aluminum helmet from his head Then for three hours while crowds jammed in on the field he supervised the berthing of the Winnie Mae in a hangar Then he secluded himself in a downtown hotel room where he said feel so good I have a cold and am extremely tired He added that he thinking about future plans By telephone he informed a New rorx representative of rank Phil lips Oklahoma oil man backing the flight: oxygen made me feel goofy It a good idea to breathe oxygen with a Post said he a tail from Burbank to 'the Grand can yon1 see the ground from Denver until he landed here and up over 36000 feet at one When the supercharger stripped a clutch he added flew blind for an hour and then dropped 23000 feet through clouds to about 7000 feet and cut the Hoped for New Record Trying to prove the feasibility of high speed air mail and express flights across the continent above local weather disturbances Post had hoped to complete the trans continental trip in seven or eight hours The coast to coast speed record is 10 hours 2 minutes set by Col Roscoe Turner in September 1934 first attempt to make the stratosphere a transcontinental air lane ended in the Mojave desert 125 miles from Burbank because of mo tor trouble he later attributed to sabotage Depletion of his oxygen supply forced him down at Cleve land on the second try i lynjjmn Jtyapog iropoqsjH muoqBpK) IWI 1 niiiLdU ourteen Williamsport Md hieh school stuHont 11 A i 4 1 wrecked bus which was struck by a Baltimore Ohio train as the hue wos rt usr MdAAbove is shown the sity of Maryland At left Miss Louise unk Williamsport the teacher who 'pC Urtnts eir visit to an exhibit at theUniver riv Percy Line (right) as competent wks hedl I OKLAHOMA CITY April 15 Gov Marland served an ultimatum on the Legislature that it must balance the budget Or I Will Declaring that Speaker Leon Phillips of the House this is showdown the governor as serted the Legislature has priated $39000900 and provided $26000000 for the next 1 am igaying to them' that if they balance their budget to day I Threatening to trim institutional appropriations he announced he had requested the Senate appropri ations committee to cut those ap propriations back to the unofficial budget recommenda tions He demanded passage of the 2 percent sales tax and its ear mark ing for the common schools of the stateOWEBBS He Says is their appropriation not said the governor' speaking slowly pay $39000000 out of 'the $260000000 If they pass the 2 percent sales tax they have a chance to pay the $16400000 appropriation for the common schools already passed by them have appropriated $31 486237 for common schools and in stitutions I cannot pay that out "I have suggested they earmark of $26000000 $1250000 of the sales tax revenue for the emergency school appropri ation already made that they ear mark $8200000 of the sales tax for support of the common schools each year of the new biennium The balance if any can go to gen eral revenue has been much taik of balancing the budget Out of this $39000000 appropriated only $100 000 is In ighting Mood Obviously in fighting mood the governonr reiterated the budget must be balanced ollowing a conference with the governor Senate loor Nance outlined the Senate the sales tax as follows: Raise the rate from percent 2 Take the first $1250000 from the revenue to be used to pay the (Continued on Page Two) Tulsa Police Looking or 'Doorstep TULSA April Tulsa police today were looking for a Chief of Police Charles Carr had received a letter signed by Mrs Clara Iler of Miami la saying that she loft her two months old child on the steps of the jail here while fleeing from police recently want my baby Please tell me I can have him If you are a daddy you will know how I the let ter to the chief appealed It was the second letter Carr has received in addition to a telegram He said he believed the Hers must have left their baby on some other police station steps believing they were in Tulsa as at ho rough search here failed to reveal any trace of an abandoned child Carr said that his records show that Iler was killed by Miami po lice six weeks ago when he resist ed arrest as an escape from Michigan prison I Dusters approach the prairie I country in two ways I Sometimes they start when a gi Igantic yellow and red cloud floatsacross the counrty high in the air Iblotting out the The wind is Igentle growing in velocity very slowly This type of storm carries la fine powdery silt that seems soft land until you start breath ing it I Some Start With Blast I The other type starts with ablast and a huge black cloud ap Iproaching across the plains at tre Imendous speed It strikes all at lonce along a well defined front It (carries sand and on hands and face Ifeels like the blast of a chaff from la threshing machine I When at its height bright lightsin towns are invisible across thestreet visibility is zero and withinbuildings lights must be turned on las at night Motorists continuously 'crawl along at 5 and 10 miles an 'hour unable to peer ahead for more than 10 or 15 feet Busses are stop ped sometimes trains The fine silt penetrates motor (blocks and if motorists are un rwary grinds out bearings I Sometimes Up to Eaves These are the storms which leave rairifts of dust along the highways land fences sometimes dust drifts Bup to the eaves of farm buildings It be kept out of a house land dishes have to be washed not three times but six times daily before and after every meal House I (Continued on Page Two) A (Lon) Lampkin 61 years old a pioneer of this section of Ok lahoma died at 6 Sunday afternoon at his home 223 irst avenue northeast Pneumonia was the cause of his death He is survived by his wife stepsons Homer and Clifford Hill of Norwitcji Town Conn and Wil lard Uilbf the home two daughters Mrs Opal Ywarsky of Norwitch Town and Miss Pearline Hill of the home three sisters Mrs A Rasure of Denverl Colo Lampkin of Miami I Mr Lampkin had lived in this county since before statehood and in Miami fot the last 27 years Some time agowhilc talking to a group of friends he laughingly mentioned that he had once herded cattle where the city of Miami now stands Lampkin was aclive in politics for two decades In 1910 he was elected registrar of deeds He serv ed in that capacity for three terms He was later a justice of thej peace for one term and then was elected and served 10 years as county clerk a position he held un til two years ago He was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge He also owned considerable property in Miami uneral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home The Rev James Mich ael will officiate Burial will be in the A cemetery under direc tion of the Lane uneral home The Knights of Pythias lodge will con duct brief rites at? the grave Pallbearers will be Butcher Bert Dresia Dan Gibson A Mil ler Dave Cotten and Roy McGhee WOODWARD Okla April 15 (A1) Murder charges accusing Rus sell Boley 18 an only child if shooting his parents in their farm home southeast of Woodward tha night of eb 5 and then firing the dwelling after pouring gasoline over the bodies were prepared here today by County Attorney James'" Young The boy admitted the slaving in a signed confession to Davis state crime bureau operative and Ben Swigart Woodward county un dershenff Young believe the boy killed his parents so he would be free to mar ry a girl to whom they had Young added 1 Bodies ound in Debris The bodies of the couple Mr and Mrs John Boley both 43 were found in the smoldering 'ruins of the home 20 miles southeast of Woddward after the flames had at tracted neighbors 1 Officers started an investigation which lasted until the arrest of the? youth Saturday In addition to Davis and county officers John Morris Woodward citizen employed by a brother of the slain man took part in the in vestigation The brother officers said lives in Kahoka Mo The boy first was suspected when it was learned he had quar reled with his parents about the girl whose name was withheld Davis said After checking his the night of the alleged slaying Davis declared the officers made the arrest Charred Gun Shown The hoy confronted with the charred rejnnants of the gun which his parents were slain broke down and confessed the crime bu reau operative The accused blonde bov he started going witlrrthe girl before his parents were County Attorney Young explained officers working on the case were informed he remarked shortly after the deaths of his father and mother that that this thing has died down I might as well get statement coupled with reports he had quarreled with his parents gave the officers their first real clue His arrest and con fession to Mr Davis and Mr Swig art Now He know why I did it I feel better Davis quoted the boy as saying The investigator said the son" previously had told of having been seeing a movie at the time his home caught fire The boy who did not leave here has been care of the since the death of the couple Da vis said I 4 Three Saw Out of Dallas County Jail DALLAS April1 1 Offic ers today sought tllree prisoners who yesterday sawed of their cells in the Dallas county jail and slid down six floors on rope of bed sheets tescape They were John Bratcher? al leged aide of condemned Raymond Hamilton: Tyler purported enemy held pending ap peal ona conviction and Tommy Bryant convicted of bur glary 1 CAt The escape was discovered by Card nightwatchman at the courthouse who saw the sheets dangling from the window MITTIE BELL OLDHAM (DIES Mittie Bell Oldham 72 years old oflive Mile died late yester day in a Nevada Mo hospital She is survived by two sisters Mrs entha Bostic and Mrs Sue Will hide and one brother Steve Brook shire uneral services will be held at 2:30 Wednesday in the chapel of the Lane funeral home Burial will be in the A ceme tery piovement in Booklets condition to ulescu foreign minister of Rou a intravenous injection ot a re mania mm wring serum which he labelled as for the sake of se crecy Booklet who was gradually shrinking in size has left the hos pital the composition or source of the se cret serum which he claims is re storing the man" to nor mal appearance reason for the Dr Nolan explained that doctors from all over the country have written to me asking for informa tion'! also have received more than a hundred letters from persons suf Continued on Page Two) One Defendant Pleads Guilty as Bremer Kidnaping Trial Opens ME 'I'M OBda HXX XVXAU IcJJ i.