Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

VOL XXXII NO 279 PHIL KENNAMER 4 IN PRISON 11 WEEKS RED RIVER GOES OUT ORDERS GO OUT SOON IN METHOD ILIBUSTER BY LEAD PRICE IS LONG CUT PUSHED UP $3 am the afternoon until Metal Market Mrs Willis McNaughton of Mi 60 60 61 70 72 75 ling of the ship by Lieutenant Com mander Wiley and con duct of every officer and The court declared it was the opinion that no offenses have been committed and no blame incurred" With the exception of a few life when he appeared in Cleve riday 2 a 4 a 6 a 8 a Associated Press Leased Wire NEW YORK May Lead firm spot New York 425 30 East St Louis 410 Zinc quiet East St Louis spot and future 425 LONDON May Lead spot and future £14 10s Zinc spot £14 17s 6d future £15 2s 6d The largest demonstration ever planned to boost the proposed Grand River dam project will form in Miami at 11:30 Thurs day morning MULTIPLE BIGAMIST HELD CHICAGO May Ralph Mark 40 who told the police he had been married nine times with out ever obtaining a divorce wTas seized in the attic of his home to day by a detective squad Sergt James Kelley who made the arrest said Mark told him that when he tired of his various marriages he simply and moved out" Reported Suffering rom Influenza He Expresses Wish to Be Illinois House Votes 3 Percent Sales Tax Belated lood Crest of North Canadian Moves Slowly Upon Capital More than half of the Eskimos in the world have never seen anow house COUNTY WHEAT GROWERS VOTE 500 Trippers Expected to Attend Rally at Start Of Grand River Tour More Than 500 Persons Driven rom Homes in Vicinity of Durant EXODUS TO TENT CITY STARTS IN 0 LOWLANDS Congress Warned of mate Reckoning in De struction of Airplanes Continue Hunt for Lost liers College Regents to Meet Here Thursday Referendum on' AAA to Continue Until 8 Next Saturday irst Gain Since October 1933 Recorded During Early Part of 1935 Warrant for Hopkins Withdrawn in Ohio Marland Reiterates He'll to PRESIDENT PUTS 0 ON BILLION WORK Roosevelt Hopes to Have Relief Program in ull Swing by Nov 1 Neosho River Rises Inch an Hour Here HURT VETERANS PRESIDENT SAYS Released Late Yesterday He Is Believed to Be on arm A rise that approximated about an inch an hour was noted today in the swelling Neosho river by a stream observer Driftwood was being swept in the swift current However the stream was freer of limbs and branches of trees than in the last few days Waters were extending to new banks on either side of the stream While the waters were high con struction work on the new bridge progressed Workers could see the stream passing rapidly underneath with no pile up of driftwood The new structure has only two abut ments one on each river bank SPRINGIELD Ill May Acting quickly to break the long relief crisis the Illinois House today passed with a 77 vote ma jority the administration bill to increase the sales tax from 2 to 3 percent to provide funds for the 1200000 on relief rolls The final vote was 89 to 55 twelve more than the constitutional ma jority required The tax increase ITT 1 1 1 wiu ue eiiecuve duly 1 The bill which had been reject ed five times previously as an emergency measure which would Jiave made it effective immediate was then sent to the Senate for concurrence in House amendments Governor Horner was expected to sign it within a few hours John Chandler Dies at Okmulgee Approves Recommendations Of Allotment Board for irst Project The fate of the wheat contract program is at stake for I farmers of Ottawa county this week as eligible voters complete balloting on the subject armers who have not voted ye mayi express their choice until 8 Saturday night at the office of Moyer county farm agent Signers of wheat contracts are en titled to a vote while any other wheat farmer operating a tract on which wheat was produced in ei ther 1930 1931 or 1932 may also register his viewpoint A series of six community meet ings which began last Thursday and which was completed at air land today has been offered for benefit of the electorate Ballots will not be counted until after the polls close Saturday Moyer said The only question asked oh the ballot is: you in favor of a wheat production adjustment program to follow the present one which ex pires with the 1935 crop Moyer said much interest has centered on the balloting He hopes that each of the present 100 sign ers in this county will give his ex pression by voting Some non signers have also attended meet ings and have voted he said Trips Over Sehl ate Rule After Starting All Night Harangue Mrs Lemma Smith (above) Turk ish princess and daughter of the late Turkish diplomat Abed Izzel Pasha was granted a divorce at Reno Nev from Carl leischmann Holmes her third husband (Asso ciated Press Photo) Patman Bill a Menace to All With ixed Income Message Points Out COUPLE TO PRISON ERIE Kas May Mrs Geneva Jones and Ben Eitel sur vivors of a gunfight in which Ar thur Henderson escaped Oklahoma convict was killed and two Par sons officers wounded were en route to Lansing today to start serving ten to 21 year sentences for robbery Temperatures in Miami from 2 yesterday noon today 2 4 6 8 10 midnight was born in this He served in the 68 69 70 651 6310 a 61noon Sharp Advance Is Sixth Since Climb Started More Than Week Ago TULSA May Phil Kennamer had himself just as he said he hoped 'he could do when left Mc Alester penitentiary yesterday af ternoon It was thought that the youth had gone to the farm of his father ederal Judge ranklin Ken namer near Chelsea The judge said that Phil was gone there to up" Whether Phil spent the night here and visited with his in valid mother and other members of the family could not be learned who had been in the McAlester penitentiary since March 4 serving a 25 year sentence for manslaughter was released when $25000 appeal bond was posted yesterday As he left the prison he said he wanted be and that he was going to the out of way farm to recover from an attack of influenza It was this illness his attorneys said that resulted in the decision to obtain his freedom Kennamer was convicted at Paw nee in ebruary of shooting John Gorrell student dentist to death 3 pm at gather to hear Newt Graham of Tulsa give them a short address in which he will announce special features of the tour Miamians will join the caravan here leaving with the others at 12:30 The project enthusiasts will re main in Miami f8r lunch The tour will reach three particular points Grove Bernice and Ketchum Wind ing up the afternoon's trip at Vi nita the boosters will hear Gover nor Marland in a special evening program Howard Langley of Pryor president of the Grand Rived Dam Hyrdo electric Development assocation will also speak The Vi nita meeting will begin at 5 The Miami Chamber of Com merce will not meet tomorrow so that members may make the tour of the basin COLUMBUS Ohio May GW Gov Martin Davey announced today hej has withdrawn a war rant charging ederal Relief Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins with criminal libel The governor gave the following reasons for with drawing the warrant which was filed March 18 at Newark Ohio the objectives which were sought have been accomplished and no good' purpose can be served by carrying on a guerrilla warfare As far as I am concerned there has been more than a complete vindica tion because it has put me in an unquestionable and incontentible position" He referred to the investigation being conducted of the administra tion of relief in Ohio by a special joint legislative committee With drawal of the warrant was an nounced two days before appearance in Cleveland to speak before the league Pros ecutor Kenneth Krieder of Licking county one of the attor neys in the libel action had said ths warrant would be served on Hop Kins land WASHINGTON May (Pl National bank loans recorded their first increase since October 1933 during the' period from Dec 31 1934 to March 4 1935 The increase was given as $1252000 This was disclosed today in an announce ment by comp troller of the currency Although the increase was com paratively small it contrasted with a decrease of $409375000 in loans and discounts between March 5 1934 the date of the spring call that year for statements of condi tion and March 4 1935 the date of the last call Despite a decrease of 16 in the number of active national banks it was announced total assets had in creased $329703000 by March 4 1935 as compared to Dec 31 1934 the date of the previous call The latest figures showed 5451 active national banks with assets of $25059283000 which was $3 018110000 in excess of the total reported by 5293 national banks on the comparable date of last year Total deposits of national banks on March 4 amounted to $22015 699000 an increase of $339396 0000 for the two month period and a gain of $3225212000 over last year Loans and discounts which amounted to $7489904000 on March 4 were equal to 3402 per cent of total deposits as compared with 4204 percent on the com parable date last year The board of regents of North eastern Oklahoma Junior college will meet here Thursday with Pres ident John Holcomb and State Supt John Vaughan it was learn ed today The board will select instructors for the next school term discuss changes in salaries and talk over the building program at the col lege President Holcomb said Reports on various matters dur ing the term just closed will be given The meeting will follow the four teenth annual commencement ex ercises at the college CARAVAN ORMS HERETHURSDAY OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy to night and Thursday becoming un settled in north portion slightly cooler Jn north portion Thursday ARKANSAS Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight and Thursday possibly showers in north portion Thursday MISSOURI Cloudy showers in east cooler in northwest and ex treme north portions tonight Thursday partly cloudy cooler in south rising temperature in ex treme north portion KANSAS Generally fair tonight and Thursday rising temperature in extreme north portion Thursday WASHINGTON May Recommendations of the allotment board for spending the first billion dollars under the $4000000000 works program were approved to day by President Roosevelt The actual Orders will be signed as quickly as the budget director drafts the desired form The President repeated today at his press conference that he hoped to have the program in full opera tion by about Nov 1 Meanwhile he has started a study of projects which may be un dertaken which do not come with in the mandatory class specified by Congress rom one fourth to one half of the $4000000000 has been ear marked by Congress including some projects of costly nature such as highways and elimination of grade crossings Conference Is Held Mr Roosevelt and his three prin cipal aides rank Walker Secre tary Ickes and Harry Hopkins conferred at length last night on the problem of finding somewhat cheaper local projects Particular attention was given to Indiana and Alabama whose state directors were here The President said both states presented very comprehen sive plans This was regarded as somewhat indicative of approval of their work programs Mr Roosevelt explained the $4 000000009 fund has been cut up into state segments and will be car ried through this idea Early announcement Jfthe allotments to states is in prospect' Jle has laid en still and bets were being made on how long he could last The Senate record is 18 hours continuous speaking Even during his filibuster Long did not lose his flare for show manship Most filibusters are tire some things with senators reading from books and documents to kill time But Huey talked extem poraneously almost all the time ex cept for brief references to the Constitution or the dictionary MUSKOGEE May Six army bombing planes left here to day to search a wide area in Le lore county investigating two un confirmed reports that Second Lieut Wendell Holladay and Private Ira Hicks aviators missing since Sunday had been sighted near Poteau and Wister Okla Maj Giffin commander of the bombing group said the lat est report came from a ranches 10 miles north of Poteau who said his family saw an army plane flying low over his meadow Sunday af ternoon The plane disappeared in the east over rugged country he told Major Giffin Charles Grave's Wister grocer reported earlier that he saw an airplane apparently in trouble disappear behind a ridge two miles southeast of Wister Sunday Giffin added' he no infor concerning a report a plane had been grounded near Wil burton Giffin who has established a base here said the fliers doubtedly are somewhere around Poteau and and planned to center his operations there A report a plane similar to the one for which the bombers are searching was sighted near Antlers could not be Verified Sheriff George Hester said DURANT Okla May GW Between 500 and 700 persons today had left their homes in the Red river bottoms south of here as a third rise in the river flooded an area of 70 square miles Van Thum Durant Red Cross official estimated The rise sent the Red river to the 25 foot level at the Denison Tex bridge Von Thurn said Two truckloads of food and medical supplies were sent to the homeless persons lor 'iving in schoolhouses barns and the homes of farmers on higher ground As a precaution against possible disease County Health Officer Euston ordered all drinking water boiled A fourth rise in the river was feared as a result of the breaking of a dam on a lake near Wichita alls Tex The Red Cross is prepared to care for all victims of the flood Von Thum said Investors Lose $20000000 as Bubble Bursts Macon Crash Left Unsolved in Report WASHINGTON May In an official report the navy de partment said today it was unable to determine whether a gust of wind or the giving way of the air ship structure had caused theiloss of the huge dirigible off the California coast Secretary Swanson announced ms approval of the court of in WASHINGTON May Senator Long (D La) provided the Senate with an uproarious prelude to its march to the House today for President veto of the Patman bqnus bill Gibing at President work relief wages kidding col leagues reading from a dictionary he threatened to break up the show by an all niglit filibuster against the resolution authorizing the joint session But finally he tripped over a quirk in Senate rules and the filibuster was wrecked just as other senators were returning from their dinner last night Before that the Senate had dug in for an all night session Mem bers had cancelled engagements to keep a quorum present and Re publicans had joined forces with the Democrats to show Long he could not dominate Congress Long protested that administra tion leaders had planned the un precedented joint session to provide a board for the Presi and announced he would block it Other friends of the Patman bill did not join in the effort They at tempted to dissuade Long arguing that he was hurting their cause He would not be diverted He had prepared himself by taking a nap in his office and was ready to make a night of it At 7 he had been talking nearly five hours mostly to an empty chamber Senator Couzens (R Mich) inquired how long he in tended to speak Hair tousled voice hoarse Long repnea: the senator comes back in about three hours he will be At the end of six hours Long left the floor under the impres sion a quorum call had started Actually it had not and when Long returned he found he hadlost out under a rule limiting the num ber of times a member can speak in a single day on the same sub ject The accident broke up an durance test Long seemed fresh after six hours talking BANK LOANS GO UP ATER LULL InrMarvars tlia a nuo quiry report which praised hand plet loss overwhelming majority by which the House over rode the veto is conclusive proof of our statement that 80 percent of the American people favor en actment of the Patmai: bill We now look with confidence to the Senate for another reflection of the nation's sentiment for justice to the World war Compromise Expected Later Should the Senate refuse the two thirds majority necessary to over ride early work on a compro mise partial bonus payment was expected The Roosevelt position today was construed by some as indicat ing he would not veto a plan where by veterans could cash in their cer WASHINGTON May launting President personal warning that the Patman $2200000000 bonus bill invited the House thundered the necessary two thirds to over ride his veto to day The vote was 322 to 98 The vote oy winch the Patman bill passed the House in March was 318 to 90 The issue thus was placed squarely up to the Senate There the administration was counting on a few votes margin to sustain the Roosevelt objections Just after the President had left the capitol and senators had de parted from the overcrowded cham ber the powerful bonus forces the House united for a last effort on behalf of their pet before possi ble opening fight for something less later this intoned Speaker Byrns a while the ayes are 322 and the nays are 98 Cheers and handclaps interrupted him? inally he concluded: and two thirds having voted in the af firmative the bill is passed the President's objections no i The House proceeded to other pending business Senate May Vote Thursday The Democratic leadership in the Senate planned an effort to fix a time for a vote when it received the bill an hour later Several speeches were in prospect with a possibility that a vote would go over until tomorrow James Van Zandt of the Vet erans of oreign Ware the 'first spokesman to comment said: OKLAHOMA CITY May GW Long suffering members of 300 Oklahoma City lowland families re sumed their trek to a city park tent village today as the leng deferred Hood tide of the North Canadian river reached the west portals of the city but still was many hours away from the lowlands City Water department gaugers reported the flood crest which boiled out of Woodward nearly five days ago was rolling past Yukon at 8 a still traveling slowly as it sprawled out of its channel over low fields Tom Banks city water super intendent said the rise will be no ticeable in the western part of the city about noon but the flood will not hit until midnight at the bot tomlands in Community camp Mulligan lats and Walnut Grove Crest Passes El Reno When the crest finally passed El Reno at 1 a today its maximum height was 118 feet more than four feet lower than when it start ed down on the heels of last rains The order to resume the evacua tion was issued by Benzel head of the city emergency coun cil iremen and national guards men leisurely returned to the lats with their trucks and started load ing up the belongings of the low land residents kept packed for two days Lake Overholser city water source lowered four feet to catch the brunt of the flood crest had risen four inches today low into the river had increased 1500 cubic feet per second Banks estimated "the lake' will stop one sixth of the flood crest The remaining five sixths will spread over the lowlands cov ering the community camp site to a depth of about a foot and a half he believed Like Picnic to Refugees With no more hard rains to swell the river the possibility ex isted today that its basin which has been unusually dry might soak enough of the tide to keep the flow within banks but alertness for an emergency remained the watchword as a slow rise continued last night affected residents families in a settlement of shanties passed the time bv uflk ing about in the brown water with long poles for hour to hour read ings on its depth It still was about three feet below the flood mark As the gun was jumped on flood alarms 30 families were hauled to the emergency high spot on the slopes of a grassy park northwest of the city There they found army tents in neat rows connections made with water and electricity hospital equipment and food Equally up to a crisis or a lark the hardy folk had a gay picnic trip including lunch and were re? turned to the river banks to wait for the flood With such preparations and firemen and policemen held on 24 hour call the wholesale removal can be made within a few hours officials said NEW YORK May The sixth advance in lead prices since the beginning of last week was an nounced today by leading produc ing interests It was an unusually sharp rise amounting to $3 a ton following a cumulative advance of $5 a ton since the market started its climb around May 12 St Joseph Lead company took the initiative in the price revision naming a quotation of 430 cents a pound New York American Smelting Refining company another leading produc er also raised its quotation $3 a ton by posting 425 cents a pound New York The rapid upturn in prices has been forced according to trade in terests by persistent and heavy buying A considerable part of the demand can be traced to consum ing quarters which need metal for immediate consumption Paint manufacturers and battery makers have been prominent in this group of buyers Opinion is divided as to the part Played by speculative buying under the motivating influence of infla tionary psychology but some mar ket observers said today they be lieved such buyers had contracted for the purchases of large amounts of the metal for distant delivery Another factor in the strong trend has been the improv ing statistical position reflected by the relatively small stocks on hand As of April 30 supplies in the Unit ed totaled 220043 short tons the smallest since ebruary 1934 lying Romeo Rests After Spanning Sea NATAL Brazil May 22 Juan Ignacio Pombo vouthfui Spanish aviator who admits he is in the because of a 9 year old senorita in Mexico City allowed himself a one day rest to day after his successful flight across the South Atlantic from Bathurst Gambia West Africa The 21 year old flier arrived here at 3:10 (1:10 eastern standard time) yesterday 16 hours and 55 minutes after he took off from across the ocean consider I made good time in view of my small ship with its single Pombo commented He said he would take off to morrow on the next stage of his flight to the Mexican capital where he plans to ask Senorita Elena Rivero his childhood sweetheart to become his bride Decision Put Squarely Up EECTS WOULD 1 denate as Dll flWlHBmoippK) Bonus Bill Over eto tificates at current instead of full value Although the President quoted an old speech by hirudin arguing that the Patman bill was unfair Senator Borah (R Ida) was' among those who disputed the ar gument that full payment was not now due in this the sen ator insisted not only be helpful to the soldier but to busi ness" The President had acknowledged that payment would help consumer business but Said the money would go right back into banks without helping the heavy industries where increased activity would be most beneficial A eto Message Strong Senatorial comment was almost unanimous that the veto message was strong but from the reaction 1 of Patman bill advocates there was 1 no outward evidence that any votes had been swung to the administra 1 tion I REED ON BOND IS IN SECLUSION a DPTCI7 I7TX7T7 rvrvKTrrn BONUS BILL VETOED HOUSTOVERRIDESTT Survey Shows Less Than $100000 Remaining of Two Securities As sets Representing Invest ments by Thousands in New England BOSTON! May 22 GW The bursting of a $21000000 securities bubble apparently left thousands who invested with less than $100 000 today Attorney General Paul A Dever said a rough survey of assets indi cated that scarcely $82000 new is available of $16000000 invested in Seaboard Utilities securities while only about $6000 of $5000000 in vested in Railroad Shares securi ties remained The securities were purchased by thousands of New Englanders through the bankrupt Parker Company Inc one of several firms now under investigation by the attorney office for al leged bucket shop practices Proportions of apparent collapse became known after Dever con ferred with Arthur Bickford and Thomas Mahoney receivers for Railroad Shares and Seaboard Utilities respectively The investigation of the Parker firm and its atl'iliates reached a cli max more than a month ago with the suicide of Bowen Tufts one of its officers Miami Daily News Record PnMIlhM a 1 Publlhtn Co Ine MIAMI OKLA WEDNESDAY AIRLAND May 22 (Special) John Chandler 45 years old of Okmulgee former airland resi dent died Tuesday uneral serv ices will be conducted at 9 Thursday at Okmulgee and the body will be returned here for short rites at home of Mrs Scott sister of Mr Chandler Mr Chandler community World war The James Wallen post No 139 American legion will conduct military rites here Elder rank Conner of Tulsa will officiate at services Surviving are Mr wife Katherine his mother Mrs annie Chandler of airland two sisters Mrs Scott and Mrs Walkinc stlclf of rilrmnlo Ao ami Route 1 today was given the three brothers Ben of Sapulpa Miami weekly A of Miami and of Wash award ington DURANT Okla May Gov determination to to the next fall with his housing an old' age pension program turned down by ths if teenth Legislature today had been repeated to the voters The governor told a banquet crowd assembled here last night to honor the inauguration of Mrs Kate Galt Saneis as president of Southeastern State Teachers col lege that in his opinion Legis lature failed utterly to fulfill its promises to the Awarded To Rural Resident At the Coleman theater an an down the rule that 'state programs ticipated crowd of 500 trippers will must provide for taking off the re lief 'rolls all of the employable un employed The individual projects approved by Mr Roosevplt today were an nounced recently when the allot ment board recommended them WASHINGTON May (A) President Roosevelt Con gress in vetoing the Patman bonus bill today that if enacted into law it would invite ultimate reck oning in uncontrollable prices and in the destruction of the value of Such a result he de clared in an unprecedented mes sage he read to the House and Sen ate strike most cruelly those like the veterans who seem to be temporarily benefited first person injured by sky rocketing prices is the man on a fixed he said dis abled veteran on pension or allow ance is on a fixed income This bill favors the able bodied veteran at the expense of the disabled veter country that has attempt ed the form of meeting its obliga tions which is here provided has suffered disastrous He said payment of the soldiers bonus in new currency under the Patman plan would mean paying $1600000000 more than the pres ent value of the adjusted compensation certificates is a new straight gratuity or bounty to the amount of $1690 he said destroys th insurance protection for the denen dents of the veterans provided in the original plan or the remain ilng period gf 10 years they will have lost' this insurance Principle Violated proposal I submit violates the entire principle of benefits so carefully formulated at the time of the war and also the entire principle of the adjusted cer tificate settlement of 1924" Replying to the argument of the supporters that it would con tribute to business recovery the President said it doubtless would result in some expansion of retail trade but that resort to the kind of financial practice provided in this bill would not improve the conditions necessary to expand those industries in which we have the greatest The President pointed out he al ready had sanctioned a deficit of $4000000000 in order to finance his huge work relief program Credit of Safe Now cannot in honesty assert to you that to increase that deficit this year by two billion two hun dred million dollars will in itself 'bankrupt the United he said the credit of the United States is safe But it can not ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each and all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration do so is to abandon the principle of government by and for (Continued on Page Two) it ill ming (Excnt Stturda?) ud.