Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

Miami Daily News Record PRICE IVE CENTS MIAMI OKLA RIDAY AUGUST 20 1937 VOL XXXV NO 44 LASHES TWO BILLS OUT WAY SHANGHAI Aug One in in the SHIP SHELLING andoni (Continued on Page our) on the (Continued on Page our) hold claim Aerial Kidnaper at 4 eather In Parts of 19 i Aug 20 CP) Bid (Continued on Page our) DIARY 41 DAY AST WAS HOAX MAN CONESSES Hopkins of geological part of a Published Every Evening (Except Saturday) end Sunday Morning by Miami News Record Publishing Co (Inc) PRESS) parts of parched Marland Asks Road Board to Debt Parley LOS ANGELES Aug Theodore Watts 27 a Negro was held under $1500 bail today for trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon Watts was identi fied as the man who threw an empty liquor bottle at the Olympic auditorium Aug 10 hitting the ring post and showering glass on AlJolson his wife Ruby Keeler and Chico Marx comedian Both Jolson and Marx testified at preliminary hearing yes terday Generosity of Legislature With Is Cited in Court Brief OKLAHOMA CITY Aug The State Department of Pub lic Safety issued a general pickup order today for a 24 year old man as a suspect in the daylight rob bery of the Exchange bank of Perry yesterday Jack Strickler investigator for the department declined to release the name and description of the suspect Russ Plane Reaches Alaska to Join Hunt Any Action Growing Out Of Incident Up to Offi cials There He Says Attorney General Asserts Governor Not Entitled To $8500 Return Men Take Trail of Perry Bank Robber at po the the Senate Gives Impetus to Movement but House Is Not So Optimistic $25000 in Loot Is Returned to Actress Tax Loophole and Sugar Control Measures Sent To White House New Attack Made on Wending Machines Office of Publication A Street and irst Avenue Extradition Waived By Burglary Suspect Associated Press Leased Wire a score of women and rigid inspec CONGRESS SEES CHANGE TO END GRIND TONIGHT TAX REUND TO MARLAND HELD TO BE 1937 LAW ATTACKED resi heat soar of term which ends in January 1939 The nominee will take over the seat at once by appointment Graves said without waiting for a special election on April 26 be cause Democratic candidates in Al abama usually have little opposi tion The governor announced he chose his wife not only because she is but because he did not' want to give any candidate for the nomination an advantage A hot: fight for the senatorship is expected Mrs Graves will be paid at the rate of $10000 a year almost twice as much as her $6000 salary In addition she will receive the franking privilege travel allowances and funds for office help She is the fourth wo man ever chosen for the Senate The only feminine member this year has been Miss Hattie Cara way of Arkansas JAP SUNK NANKING Aug CP) The Chinese government said today Chinese planes bombed and sank a Japanese off the coast of Chekiang province south of Shanghai The ship was not identi fied Three Japanese aviators who escaped death when their planes were shot down over Chekiang were brought to Nanking today to join four other captured Japanese fliers Philippine Metropolis Darkened by Tremors Which' Damage Large Buildings and Churches Causing Many Injuries but No Known Deaths ires Started By the Shocks Worst in 40 Years Add to Panic SUNK BARROW Alaska Aug CP) A Russian hydro plane carrying four men arrived here during the night from northern Siberia to aid in the search for the lost soviet trans polar fliers The plane flown by Pilot Zad koff Navigator Padalko and two companions' was refueled today and served to proceed eastward to Aklavik The four Russians spoke little English Bob Randall Canadian flier who came here from Aklavik earlier: in the week was still here The soviet icebreaker Krassin carrying four planes to be used in the search lay off Barrow today of death behind and were greeted by the lively tunes of a United States lights Negro Held as A Bottle Thrower (BY THE ASSOCIATED Heavy rains fell over southwestern croplands today and more thunder showers were forecast for tonight and tomorrow Beaver in the Oklahoma Pan handle got one of its hardest down pours in several years when rain totaling 266 inches fell More than two inches of rain fell there in less than an hour A soaking rain brought 176 inches of moisture at Woodward and a drizzle continued to fall Showers continued at Enid after 134 inches of rain fell over night Wynoka reported more than half an inch of rain and Blackwell had38 inch Skies were clearing at Blackwell Showers were reported at Ponca City and Elk City Overcast skies kept temperatures below the century mark in most sections of the state yesterday Alva reported the high 101 degrees Other Shells Hit Close Sholtly before the Augusta was struck 'three big shell! believed to have come from Chinese guns concealed on rooftops in the north ern Cha pei area plunged into the river dos eto the ciuiser The crew of 800 im mediately was ordered to take shelter below decks The crews on other 'American and foreign war ships on the Whangpoo took: simi lar action Shortly after the Augusta was hit another shell fell lesstthan 100 yards astern of her on the oo tling side of the river 216 mile oval at better than miles an hour but he would venture a guess as to how his turtle would go Anti Aircraft Shell Lands On Augusta As It Stands by During Evac uation of 1000 More American Refugees Bovish Jack Hamerly shown in jail at Houston Tex as he faced charges of kidnaping Bob Hunt airplane pilot 2000 feet in the air Hamerly told police he to fly somewhere to look for James Hutchison 23 heldAlbuquerque for Miami lice and county officers in theft of three typewriters from county welfare department head ters here last week end signed waivers on extradition papers yes terday Police Chief Wilt Ellis said he was informed by Police Chief O'Grady of Albuquerque that Hutchinson was arrested presum ably evening by New Mexico officers as he attempted to sell one of the alleged stolen type writers Albuquerque officers said Hutch ison confessed burglarizing the lo cal relief offices Sheriff Walter Young immedi ately notified by tele gram to hold Hutchison The sher iff plans to leave early Monday to return Hutchison Assistant County Attorney Hor ace Payne has filed a charge of burglary in the second degree against Hutchison electrolytic spot export 1400 spot New 650 St Louis 635 Zinc St Louis spot and fu OKLAHOM A Scattered thun dershowers tonight and Saturday Partly cloudy to night and Saturday probably scat tered thundershowers in west por tion Generally fair tonight and Saturday slightly cooler in northeast and southwest portions Mostly cloudy lo cal thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight in east and south por tions except tonight or early Sat urday in extreme southeast portion becoming generally fair elsewhere Saturday Slightly cooler in cen tral and north portions tonight and in east and extreme south por tions Saturday Temperatures in Miami from 4 yesterday afternoon until 2 today: By BETH CAMPBELL WASHINGTON Aug Affable Mrs Dixie Bibb Graves of Alabama is going to let her gover nor husband shift for himself while she sits in the United States Sen ate for five months she said "we have gone everywhere together done everything together he became governor I felt his job was more important I did everything possible to help him and limited my club activi ties which had been my prinicpal interest outside my Governor Graves appointed his wife last inght to the seat vacated by Hugo Black who resigned to take his oath as a supreme court justice The 55 year old Alabama woman will serve until a Democratic pri mary next eb 1 selects the candidate for the remainder Metal Market NEW YORK Aug 20 Copper steady and future 1400 1410 Lead steady 655 East steady East ture 725 LONDON lead spot £22 7s 6d future £22 10s Zinc spot £23 18s 9d future £24 Is 3d MOTORIST KILLED LITTLE ROCK Ark Aug C) A man identified through per sonal effects as Homer Shaw about 50 of Steele Mo was in stantly killed shortly before noon today when his car collided with a large transport truck on the Mem phis highway 10 miles out of Lit tle Rock The impact threw the victim from the machine and tore the clothing from his body OKLAHOMA CITY Aug CP) Attorney General Mac Williamson termed as a to day an $8500 income tax refund given Gov Marland last May by the Oklahoma Tax com mission The 1937 income tax re fund act was denounced as uncon stitutional in a brief prepared for submission to the supreme court Ray Weems assistant tax commissioner set the refund at $8500 after deducting coun ter claim for delinquent taxes which the governor paid from 1925 to 1927 while head of the Marland Oil company Randall Cobb assistant attor ney general who resisted the in come tax refund request of the governor before the commission declared however that the total rebate after deducting delinquenttaxes would exceed $20000 Basis of Court Test The refund claim was made the basis of a test of the act in appeal from rebate order all of the years1915 to 1930 both inclusive Mr Mar land paid to the state in income taxes Cobb said The brief challenged a 6 percent interest payment on the refund which the tax commission allowed declaring was no statute prior to the enactment of Senate 'Bill No 304 (the refund act) which allowed Mr Marland inter est on erroneous payments of come Marland based his claim on contention profits from sale of stock held for more than a year had been included in his earnings report for 1919 1920 and 1922 al though such profits later were ex empted from the act Protest Right orfeited The attorney general contended the payments were made volun tarily and the governor forfeited his right to protest when he failed to file claims under the original income tax law is interesting to the brief continued generosity of the Legislature with the money Under Senate Bill No 304 these refunds are to be paid with 6 percent interest State non payable warrants bear only 4 per cent interest State funding bonds bear still a lower rate of interest However where a taxpayer owes the state income taxes all penalties and interest are waived if paid be fore July 1 JAPS BOMB NANKING NANKING Aug The United States embassy was rocked by nearby bomb explosions and residences of Americans were struck by shrapnel today when 14 Japanese bombing planes made a twilight raid on the capital of China A checkup however showed that all Americans escaped injury and that the embassy prop erty was not damaged The Central Military academy of the Chinese army evidently was the objective of the raiders i More than 10 Chinese civilians were reported killed when the hos pital of the Central university of Nanking was set afire by bombs The university's library also was badly damaged A few Chinese soldiers were wounded by bombs falling inside a military barracks BUHL Ida Aug 20 CP) Southwestern can thwarted two determined gold prospectors today The ing ground wouldn stakes Ed Cary and Roy Buhl believing the quirk which dropped farm 250 feet in two weeks might have exposed gold ore inspected the area eight miles northwest of here then turned away disconsol ately looking that places over I see how we can do said Cary have to put out seven marked stakes in permanent lo cations in an area 600 by 1500 and it be done The bottom of that canyon is moving around so fast we hope to keep one stake in position let alone seven I am not so sure whether we want to go down in there or not at least until things kind of settle OH SHAW! EVANSVILLE Ind Aug CP) Wilbur Shaw winner of the 500 miIe automobile race at In dianapolis this year will have an entry a week from Sunday in of all a turtle derby Rules have not been announced Shaw raced to fame over the Indianap olis 113 not fast fl TRAITOR MACON Ga Aug Warden Homer bloodhound is the at the Houston county convict camp The hound OKLAHOMA CITY Aug CP) A 54 year oId jobless man who said he had not eaten in more than a month admitted to a nurse here today he ate two meals daily at' a relief kitchen during the time he scrawled out a diary of 41 hunger tortured days Physicians who declined to be quoted said they suspected the story of an enforced fast in a fruitless hunt for work when they fed him a full meal yesteray after he collopsed in a downtown build ing know that a man who has not" eaten for 40 days cannot re tain a full one physician said night as a test we gave him a full dinner He ate it as a matter of coures and re tained it Identity of the man' who gave the name of George Jones remain ed in doubt Attendants said he ap parently was suffering from am nesia Police and physicians termed the diary a of fictional The man had described his day by day sensations of hun ger 't Paul Jeter police homicide offi cer said he doubted if the diary had been written daily bcause daily entries appeared to have been written with the same pencil and with the same depth of impression' After the first entry in the diary 1 which was addressed to 1 the day by day account told of "growing can watch people eat today and it set me wrote on Aug 5 OKLAHOMA CITY Aug CT) Jess: Pullen assistant at torney general contended in a brief filed today with the criminal court of appeals that the law against slot machines included vending The brief was filed in a test case 'ui 'ght by Mcckay of Oklahoma Cuy convicted in Ok fuskee county court under the slot machine act and fined Mackay contended his ma candy and it was icei uf skill to try for: one of the prizes offered is a gambling Pul petition contended A de vice standing forth with the al lurement and deviltry to invite the freckled faced sore toed boys Ao spend their last nickel earned by doingthe chores and to take the newsboys' pennies without giving them a chance to win" Hciouslv hurt named to the post made va The shell struck the Augusta at VIH both banks of the Whangpoo and from BRE 1TH TAKING TDRAZIL' Ind Aug Cit A izens of William Williams Cor ner a little commcnity a mile south of here are tired of saying and writing the name of the place where they live too long It takes too much breath and too much they complain Sothey have prepared petitions asking that the name be changed to COSTLY CURE PORTLAND Ore Aug CP) A unique drunkenness treatment cost him S20 when he was fined in municipal court for alleg edly stealing his girl false teeth The man told the judge he hoped she would follow him to a restaurant where he could provide enough food to her ups a New Woman Senator to Let Her Governor Husband Take Care of Himself While in Capital Heavy Rains all State State Militia Has $200000 Pay Day OKLAHOMA CITY Aug Governor Marland today in vited members of the highway com mission to his Ponca City home to morrow presumably to discuss highway debts of more than $4 500000 Chairman Grisso said he presumed the governor wanted to discuss the unpaid claims He left for Ponca City shortly after noon John Coffey commissioner snd he would drive to Ponca City early tomorrow Arnold another commis sioner' said he would be unable to attend because of private business and A Commons member secretary was at the bedside of his sick father at Miami Marland has asked that 40 per cent of the gasoline tax: which formerly was diverted to retire a state debt be used to pay off un paid claims The commission took no action on the suggestion how ever at its last meeting Gov Bibb Graves is shown with his wife as they arrived Washington where the governor announced appointment of Mrs Graves to succeed Sen Hugo Black new Supreme Court justice WASHINGTON Aug President Roosevelt said today that whatever action was deemed advisable in connection with the shelling of the cruiser Augusta off Shanghai would be determined by officials on the ground there The President told a press conference he had received only fragmentary unofficial dispatches on the shell ing Asked what this would mean as far as any counter action was con cerned the President said such things were almost bound to hap pen in a situation such as that at Shanghai Asked what he was going to do about it 'he said the people on the spot could tell more about that than officials in Washington In response to other questions he said official Washington was talking about the advisability of invoking the neutrality iact every dav Informed: about a statement by the Council for Prevention of War favoring immediate procla mation of neutrality the President said that government officials had more information than it had ORT SILL Okla Aug CT: It was pay day today at the ort Sill encampment of the Ok lahoma national guard preparing to leave shortly after midnight for home and S20() 000 was distributed to 5500 officers and men A swift evacuation of the' camp was planned beginning at 12:01 a were to earn artillery men and tinins weie to take the infantry back to their homes after a two weeks summer camp Maj Gen "Charles Barrett commander left early this morn ing for Oklahoma City HOLLYWOOD Aug Twenty five thousand worth of jewels and furs reported stolen from Actress Ketti Gallian last Sunday were returned to her mysteriously early today in a suit case dumped on the front porch of her canyon home The rench beauty was enter taining a party of friends when her butler notified her of a suspicious noise outside Investigating they found the suitcase but called De tective Lieutenants Jack Stambler and Jack to open it 'Out tumbled ermine sab fox furs and jewelry Everything taken by "passkey was there except three bottles of per fume whole thing is fantart Miss Gallian exclaimed Neither she nor the butler could furnish a clue to the identity of the at The Country Club s' "amily will be observed at Miami Country club this eve ning by a watermelon feast for members and their families Melons will be served at the clubhouse at 7 pm the entertain ment committee announced Ottawa County Population 38737 Clouds Here Drop Temperature to 88 PERRY Okla Aug A nervous young gunman with a business like manner apparently had eluded federal state and county officers today and made off with S5000 in cash obtained from the Exchange bank in the first daylight bank raid in Okalhoma in two years Willett president of i the bank said a checkup definitely set the amount of the loot at little more than $5000" while an equal amount was found strewn down an alley where the gunman dropped it in his flight said Willett thought the bandit might have been an amateur he was so nervous but after thinking over the business like way he proceeded about rob bing the bank I am sure the gen tleman must have had previous ex The bank was a member of the ederal Deposit Insurance corpora tion Willett said and ederal Bu reau of Investigation agents en tered the case The loss was cov ered by insurance the person who returned valuables DR CALM TO Judgeship Quest INTERVEN I'lON SPURNED TOKYO Aug (UP) Premier Prince umimaro Konoye today barred foreign intervention in the undeclared Smo Japanese war and asserted any settlement must be made by China and Japan alone Such a settlement he indicated could not be made until Japan had chastised the Chinese army He said the government had been compelled to abandon its previous attitude of passive defense and as sume the offensive with the ulti mate aim of effecting amciable re lations between China and Japan He declined to comment further on the British proposal to establish a neutral zone in Shanghai except to say his attitude had already been presented to the British by the foreign office This attitude was that the Chinese must first withdraw their troops before Japan could consider the British proposal Storm clouds loomed overhead here this afternoon forced mer cury readings down to a cool 88 and indicated they would give up freshening before night maximum temperature 88 was recorded at 2 Yester high was 91 registereq One year ago today local dents sweltered in an August that saw the mercury abdve 100 on no less than 18 days On Aug 20 1934 the high tem perature was 100 on the same day in 1935 it was 97 and last year it mounted to 103' arm band and the blazing Of Mantla ADMIRAL GIVES BLUNT A Jarring Welcome RELY TO JAPANESE while they were still in the I Spurns Dictation in Evac uation Task Chinese Hold Japs in Shanghai Block Landing Party and Launch Drive in North WASHINGTON Aug A move started at the capitol to day to end this session of Congress sometime tonight It received first impetus on the Senate side where Majority Leader Barkley said there was a chance to wind up the seven session before tomorrow the time previously set House leaders were not so opti mistic but the House membership displayed a distinct desire to get the long grind over with as soon as possible In quick succession tives accepted a conference report on the revised sugar control bill and approved minor Senate amend ments to the tax loophole measure Both bills were dispatched by this final congres sional action to the White House Housing Bill Is Key Less easily cleared away was the Wagner low cost housing bill over which the Senate and House have differed sharply It possibly held the key to adjournment although another major factor was the fact that the House had a full calen dar for today and a private: bill ses sion dear to the hearts of mem set for this evening A conference of senators and representatives sought to settle the differences over the housing bill But they worked through the noon hour without making much head W5V Their discussion centered first on what limitation should be imposed on low rent housing units The Senate voted a $4000 limit the House fixed a $5000 limit for the average of all units and provid ed for variations according to com munities unds Bill Debated While the House moved down its crowded calendar as rapidly as possible the Senate debated the $138000000 third deficiency ap propriation bill The bill was mil I lions larger than when it passed Sharp Quakes Rock Manila CRUISER STRUCK Terrifying Refugees Arriving BY MISSILE rom Battle Torn Shanghai UNKNOWN ORIGIN ONE SAILOR KILLED 18 HURT WHEN SHELL HITS AMERICAN LAGSHIP NGHAI OURTH CITY ABLAZE IN GUN DUEL But customs house the: building: sway 1 ed and creaked and the welcoming lights blinked out Terror reigned The refugees had landed amid considerable confusion some of them carrying babes in arms and others nondescript baggage that they had hurriedly thrown together hpfnrp flAAintr frnni Xh an crlmi Mrs Theodote Roosevelt Jr and was Kineu ana her son Quentin had hurried' wounded tonight when an anti ashore under the escort' of I'm si allciaf shell ot undetermined or dent Alanuel Quezon's personal I igtn struck the after well deck of bodyguard and were whisked 3wnjjthe Augusta flagship of bv automobile U16 United States Asiatic fleet Coiiiposure was largely restored The Augusta flagship ol Ad when electric lightswere turned on jmiral Harry Varnellfleet com again The main power line had 1 mander has been lying in the blown out jWhnagpoo river a little down In the suburbs many large stream Hom the heart of the inter churches and buddings dam 1 national ettlement covering tne aged The quake shook Baguio i evacuation of American refugees summer capitol of the Philippines from stricken Shanghai 175 miles away 1 The shell plunged' from a high More Tremors orecast Jangle Both Japanese and Chinese Seismologists said the quake was jartilkry and anti airciaft battenes centered thiee and a half miles had been firing furiously through from Manila They were unable to) late afternoon and into the determine the direction of the epi center because the recording instru Augusta stood by earlier to ere krncked off their (niira 'tau aesuoy ers ana jjonar mers carrm iuou American refugees dow the river to board the 'liner President Hoover tor' Manila diitiral Repulses Japs Admiral Yarnell had told the llananese navv blunrlv that United WASHINGTON Aug 20 I Pt3tes navigate the President Roosei alt nominate! Jus whangpoo whonner and hwuver tin Miller of North Carolina today desired without rifeience to to he an associate just'ce of the anyOne This was in reply to a' United Statis court ol appeals pane se request that Ameiican the District pf Cqlnnibia Senators nava authorities give the Japanese Elmer Thomas anil Josh Leo of advance notice whenever they Oklahoma had uiged the nomina Mbhpd to liaxlgw th( Whangpoo tion of letcher Riley former Ok daik lahoma supreme court justice The hall(r kilIvd was Tleddie 'Miller a native of California) John algout of Raceland la now is a member of the United None of the IS wounded was seri cnates ooaid oi tax appeals i was i cant by the recent death of Jus jtLjn when Japanese tire Josiah A an OrsdeL oi ese cruns were roaring onnng Miller 49 had served as dean on warships on the river law at Duke unite: sit and trie! University of Southern California before becoming a member ot tax board MANILA Aug 20 CP) Two sharp earthquakes threw Manila into darkness tonight as terrified American refugees arrived from war torn Shanghai Manila residents fled from homes and hotels into the darkened streets on many of which light wires lay tangled Many fires started by the shocks the worst in 40 years added to the panic Several large buildings and a number of churches were damaged Other major structures swayed noticeably Many injuries but no deaths were reported during the confusion following the first shock The second tremor added new ter ror 20 minutes later The shockswere felt at least 200 miles away 376 Refugees Terrified Most terrified by the rumbling and shakingof the earth were the 376 refugees arriving aboard the President Jefferson' to a supposed haven after their terrifying exper iences in Shanghai One girl among screaming refugee children: undergoing tion in the customs house cried: this another The refugees had scarcely landed when the quake struck Delayed more than an hour and half at the breakwater the eyes of many uie wuhicii 'iriugrro' mumne tears of jov as the liner nulled 1 11lenG into its pier They had left a city! 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