Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

SEARCHERS HUNT BODIES IN AIR TRANSPORT WRECK IVE TO BE ON BOARD LEADER IS CAPTURED i by An Editorial in were each OIL transporta CO New one at all POP BOTTLE MAY YIELD CLUE TO HUGO MURDERER ormer Captain of Police Traced to House Where Explosives Are ound Governor Takes Lead in Kidnaping Inquiry Union Leaders Are Defiant New Commissioh to Place Readjustment Program Before Legislature Office of Publication 85 J7 A Street Northeast' LULL OCCURS IN ASIATIC STRIE IRELAND CALLS UN LEAGUE OR ANTI WAR STEP AGAINSTGERMAN REPUBLIC SEVERAL ACCUSE MRS PANTAGES GASTONIA MOB INVESTIGATED TO LEVEL TAX BURDENS SENATE ORDERS SHEARER QUIZ Twenty Nationalisl ed in Connection With Bomb Outrages Index to Commercial Activity in the Great Southwest Employers today scan the columns There they find a varied se lection of employees and the type of people who are able to meet their requirements Why not try this easy di rect method of securing job? Reported Dead ageire tie Believed irished in Haze at Cabin in Minnesota Woods Of hundreds who are turned down because the job has Not just today but every been filled day this very thing hap pens Not just a few are turned away but hundreds and just because that gen NEW YORK Sept (ffU our aerial beats soon will bepart of New police routine Commissioner Whalen said four amphibian planes would be pur chased and patrols established nt Coney Island the Rockaways Jamaica Bay and on Long Island Sound This action olio wed sev era! reernt airplane crashes in the city in which several persons were killed An appropriation of $100 000 is to be asked BERLIN Sept (ff) A dangerous conspiracy of terror against the German republic organized by Nationalist fanatics who are members of the notorious organizations founded by the ex naval Captain Ehr hardt it is believed has been un earthed by the police who have arrested 20 men implicated in re cent bomb outrages in various parts of Germa' jy including the attempt against the Reichstag buildings The leader of the alleged con spiracy is a former Stuttgart po lice captain named Nickel whom the police followed from the Lune bug provincial government of fices? A house Nickels was searched and a bomb sup posed to be intended for another outrage was found The tenant of the house was arrested and the police folowed Nickels to Crambe near Hamburg where he was taken into" custody BATTLE LAKE Minn Sept 11 (ff) Reports were received here today from Otter Tail lake north of here that Congressman Kvale had been burned to death in a fire which destroyed his cottage last night The cor oner is en route there to investi gate Mr Kvale neighbors said was alone in the cottage He was last seen at 10:30 last night His automobile neighbors said stood near the cottage this fore noon when ruins of the structure first were noticed Metal Market NEW YORK Sept 11 I ead steady spot New York 690 East St Louis 670675 Zinc steady Ensl St Louis pot and future 6S0 LONDON Sept Lead spot £21 17s The Job Has Been illed 'ree State Proposes Gen eral Disarmament Confer cnce of World Powers KEYNOTE CITED Criix of Problem Is Held to Lie in (Concessions Each Nation Will Make Member of "Audit Bureau of Circulations 3 OB SWINDLE IS 0 1 UCUT WEST QUAPAW CHILD HURT Bass Jr 3 year old son of Mr and Mrs Bass of Qua paw suffered a sev re cut bn his tongue Tuesday when he fell on a pair of scissors The child was taken to Miami Baptist hospital fir treatment best news Sept The League of Nations today wag call i ed upon by the Irish ree State to convene a general disarmament ns conference cf the powers Patrick jV McGilligpn foreign minister of the saorstat government made tne proposal He expressed regret that 11 years after the close of the World war so little had been done to remove the weapons of war The keynote cf the solation of 1 the problem of world disarma ment McGilligan said was struck by the representative of the Unit ed States at the meeting of the preparatory disarmament commis sion when he declared duty of each nation is to examine the Bwmfluestjcn to see what concessions can be Problem Is Political Ihe ree State foreign minister insisted the problem is a political one and for that reason his gov ernment had repeated its demand of last year that a conference be caiiea in order to see what con cessions can be made by all par ties It was also reported today that Lord Cecil on behalf of the Brit ish delegation would introduce a resolution urging the preparatory disarmament commission to hurry it work so that a general disarmament conference might be called at the earliest possible motnent AIR RAIL SERVICE OR SOUTHWEST International air rail service bringing New York Boston and similar Atlantic coast points within two business days of Mexico City Mexico effective at once through co operation of five transportation systems has been announced Thus another feat in quick transportation has been in augurated a service that opens the entire South west or those communities equipped with airports to fast air rail travel to and from the east coast such cities as Dallas ort Worth Waco Austin El Paso Houston Galveston San Antonio and Browns ville either on the direct international route or having direct connections with it According to air transportation officials Middle West also is joined to Mexico and the South west Cleveland Chicago Kansas City and Tulsa being on the main route with these cities already having direct air rail connections There should be much food for thought in the above statement for people living in this section of the Southwest in connection with the unnrenaredness of Northeast Oklahoma and the district to offer any inducement through proper landing fields mak ing it impossible regardless of our favorable geographic location for this section of the South west to receive any consideration in air transporta tion development 1927 $25 one from com CHARLOTTE Sept Investigation of the kidnap ing and flogging of communist union organizers was being con ducted by state authorities under direction of Gov Max Gardner today while labor leaders' planned to carry through their program in North textile centers despite purported threats against their lives Bill Dunne secretary of the Communist party in the United States said that international labor defense officials would con duct a previously announced mass meeting in South Gastonia Satur day regardless Bed Wells Communist leader from England and organizer for the National Textile Workers union who was kidnaped with two other organizers and flogged Mon day night by a mob of several hundred self styled said members of the mob told him that if they found him or? any other union organizer in the their bodies would be found riddled with bul lets Wells still ill from the flog ging and two other organizers said they would return to Gastonia despite the threat Governor Gardner and Attorney General Dennis Brummitt confer red by telephone with Solicitor John Carpenter of the superior court district in which Gastonia Bessemer City and Charlotte scenes of the mob activities are located The governor instructed the solicitor to leave no stone un turned to get at the bottom of the trouble and prosed to do anything he could to assist Solicitor Carpenter and City So lictor George Mason of the Gas tonia city court started individual investigation with a view to' gath ering material for grand jury ac tion Carpenter said that while he had found persons who claimed they could identify members of the mob they had refused to give him the names Police departments of the three cities reported they had no com plaint against any one Blotters still were clean insofar as the mob action which included raids on communists headquarters and de struction of literature were con cerned Wells with Bell and Saylor was kidnaped from a Gas tonia boarding house and carried to a point several miles north of concord wells was the only 1 flogged They were registered uvvy vuuajj UUL U1J said they intended to return to Gastonia The trio' swore to affidavits in which they named several persons who they said were in the proces sion of over 100 automobiles which preceded the mob activities and who were in The nartv that Vidnor ed them Dispatches Tell of HaltLate Monday mllussb Chinese ighting I Authorizes Cut in Grain Rates WASHINGTON Sept The Interstate Commerce com mission has a i the Atchison Topeka and Santa and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad to reduce freight rates on grain and grain products from Kansas City to the Gulf seven cents per 100 pounds The reductions went into effect yester day the commission said Permission was granted under the recent commission 'decision permitting southwestern 'roads to meet the reductions" put into effect i hy the Kansas City Southern Aug 15 our other roads have been authorized to meet the reductions but they have not filed revised tariffs When these are filed the reduced rates will go into effect on one notice Bristow Banker Gets 18 Months in Prison TULSA Sept Groom former vice president and director of the irst National bank of Bristow now defunct today was sentenced by ederal Judge rank lin Kehnamer to 18 months in the Leavenworth Kas federal prison on two indictments charg ing misapplication nd false en try involving $96000 REUNION RUSE LURES VICTIM INTO HOLDUP OKLAHOMA CITY Sept 11 ff) Mackey of Seminole was accosted at a railroad station here last night by a man who after engaging him in conversa tion told Mackey he knew his brother and that the latter was stopping at a local hotel Mackey went with the stranger to meet his brother When they entered aroom at the hotel the stranger pulled a gun and took $65 from Mackey Difficulty Arises in Making Rural School Relief Also Proposed OKLAHOMA CITY Sept Ihe unofficial tax commis sion which Governor Holloway will name soon will attempt to place before the Legislature sug gestions for equalizing taxes low ering assessments on property bearing more than its just share and nlacing levies on clases now escaping taxation the governor said today Due to the fact that no salaries will be paid the governor said he was having difficulty in obtaining members who are qualified leaders refused to serve on the board because they are too busy with their private the governor saidive men will be named on the commission two of them Republi cans Equalization Is Aim commission's the governor explained not be made with the idea of increasing taxes but' of equalizing them Either governmental functions must be cut down or revenue in creased from proper Attacking the board of equaliza methods cf assessment as the governor declared there should be a more intelligent asessment on all properties should be he said which the board of equalization can determine valua tions accurately Manv classes of property now are escaping tax ation especially the foreign cor porations "When the Legislature is in ses sion ft has no time for proper study of tax legislation A tax commission can make an intel ligent survey then make practical suggestions to the Seeks to Aid Schools Seeking to work out a system whereby taxation for rural school districts will be equalized and suf ficient revenue raised to care permanently for full terms in weak districts the governor announced today he wjl appoint what he Will term a Public School commission The commission he asserted will be'eomposed five' members and will consist of leading school and business men of the state The members will not receive salaries the governor sa'd carrv on an intensive study of needed legislation for public schools with particular attention on trying to find an adequate solu tion of the financial problems of the rural school districts Twelfth Legislature failed to find a satisfactory method of rural school In studying rural school tax ation the commission will work in conjunction with an unofficial tax eommision which the governor will appoint to study tax problems Governor Hclloway said the school commission can present helpful suggestions tc the Legislature and perman ent good can be Republicans as well as Demo crats will be named on the com mission Big Seaplane Sinks 13 Passengers Safe TRAVEMUENDE a ny Sept Iff) All 13 passengers and crew of the Rohrbach super hydroplane Romar escaped with their lives today when the great craft submerged after a forced landing The Romar rests in 60 feet of water Salvage vessels rushed to the spot but have not yet raised the plane POISON ATAL TO CLERK OKLAHOMA CITY Sept overdose of poison caused the death last night of Ross Kent 26 drug clerk Walter Benson justice of the peace acting as coroner said today Benson de clined to return a verdict of sui cide Kent was found dead in the drug store where he worked GIANTS BEAT PIRATES PITTSBURGH Sept Although the Pirates outhit the Giants by eight to six in the first game of a double header here to day Bill Walker was tighter in the pinches than Burleigh Grimps and New York won 2 to 1 It was sixth defeat of the season HUGO Okla Sept' A soda pop bottle has been sent to the State Bureau of Criminal In vestigation and Identification in an effort to obtain fingerprints to aid in the search for the slayer of John Jackson about 60 whose body was found Monday morning in his filling station two miles east of Hugo A (Dutch) Brewer county attorney said today The bottle from which part of the contents had been drunk was found on a counter in the station The supposition is Brewer said that assailant had pur chased the drink before ordering the filling station operator to put up his hands Officers are convinced robbery was the motive Approximately $100 in currency which Jackson is known to have had at the station was missing They believe Jack i resisted the holdup Jackson had been shot twice with a 32 automatic pistol one bullet passing through his heart and the other just below it Beside the body was found gun a 32 revolver The other gun was not found Evidence showed Jack son had fired once his shot appar ently being wild BreWer said efforts were being made to connect the crime with the theft of an automnhiU holnno ing to Wyrick of Tulsa The car was stolen Sunday night from a storage garage here PleaTor ruit ly unds Strikes Snag 'ff) Chairman Wood cf the House ap propriations committee said alter White House today that lorida citrus growers have to make a much belter show before he would be willing to support an additional $26000000 to carry on the campaign of era dication against the Mediterranean fruit fly This sum has been recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture as needed to carry on the war against the pest Wood said he had told President Hoover that on the basis of present representations this was more money than he believed necessary He said however he would be willing to support a sizable ap propriaticn but added that past experiences had shown the govern ment frequently appropriated far more money than was needed to carry on war against agricultural I pests Revelers ire Into i Train of Schoolgirls NEW ORLEANS Sept (ff) orty three Mexican schoolgirls reached New Orleans today to en ter Sacred Heart academy after riding through a fusillade cf re volver bullets fired at their train by drunken Mexican revelers be tween Monterey and Laredo None of the students or chap erons was injured although some 20 windows of the pkiuman cars ere i smashed and many of the girls had narrow escapes Southern Pacific officials said the men whooping and shouting raced the train in an automobile and suddenly drew their revolvers and began firing at the Pullman cars The chaperons called to their charges to lie quietly and af ter the shooting visited each berth to determine if any had been wounded Waggoner Accused ot $500000 New York raud Discovered in Wyoming WARRANT SENT Grand Jury Continues In quiry Into Use of ake' Code to Obtain Credit i You rebuild with ashes Economical i tion MORGAN ROOING roofs i CUNNINGHAM Circle products Arrow shirts $250 up lt" CROWN DRUG Why I your MILLNER RIBLEY Hoosier Cabinet sale PENNEY CO New all merchandise COLEMAN GLORY and the of COLEM AN HUTTS DRUG $125 stationery for 89c DIXON We ar sorrytwe have no school books yet MIAMI MOTOR Put your i i in our hands SCOTT LIVINGSTON Bargain counter specials NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Conoco Groves Milk of Mag ncsia: Pinkham Vinol Zinsep oro aioior co Two Murder Witnesses Tes tify She Was Drunk When Auto Killed Japanese LOS ANGELES Sept 1 1 (ff) prosecution planned to in troduce further testimony today in an attempt to prove that Mrs Pantages wife of the wealthy theatrical producer was intoxi cated when the car she was driv ing collided with one driven by Jurb Jlokumoto a Japane'se Mrs Pantages is on trial on a charge of second degree murder it being alleged that death re sulted from the accident Witnesses yesterday said Mrs Pantages apparently was under the influence of liquor at the time of thj collision (4 Harry Lederbiinlf a contract or told the jury of driving up be side Mrs car at an in tersection He said she failed to start at the traffic signal and that he stepped to the side of her car was very he said swore at Another witness" Cyril Holmes a machinist testified the defendant drove into his automo bile and he followed her to the scene of her collission with the Rokumoto car was rli'li'inne Uli 1 1 1 II 1 Zi 11 lit said going 25 to 35 miles an hour As we approached the next corner she swerved sharply to the left side of the street and hit a small sedan head on 1 saw Japanese children thrown through the top of the When asked to identify the wo man in the courtroom Holmes pointed cut Mrs Pantages who Was sitting near her husband Alexander Pantages The lat ter is facing trial Sept 23 on two statutory cnarges brought Eunice Pringle 1 7 year old dancer Other witnesses told of seeing Mrs Pantages making turns two and otherwise indicat ing poor control of her car Dr A Wagner county au topsy surgeon testified Rckumoto died from shock and injuries re ceived in the collision and not from the results of an anaesthetic given him just prior to his death Damage in Seminole Oil ire Is $200000 RBMTVATI? frrt VUU uma ocpi JI (ff) Damage of approximately $200060 was caused by fire which last night destroyed five gasoline kerosene and oil tanks and 300 barrels of oil belonging to the A Stuart Oil corporation and the Douglas Peaton Oil companv Six buildings on the catskirts of me bemmole business district consumed by the flames junvuiic vncii estimated to have contained 500 barrels of gasoline exploded scat tering gasoline over a wide area and threatening Magnolia petrole um tanks and the Seminole busi ness section A theater on the rcof of which some of the burning gasoline was blown was emptied quietly The building did not catch fire 11 Jurors Chosen or Rogers Trial NEW BRAUNELS Tex Sept 11 Two jurors bringing to 11 the total selected were chosen today in the Rebecca Bradley Rogers robbery with firearms case here SHOT ATAL BRISTOW Okla Sept 11 (ff) A Moulton 92 Civil war veteran wounded Saturday night in an exchange of shots with a prowler in his home at Depew died last night in a Depew hospit al County officers today had re leased one suspect but were hold ing two others in connection with the' shooting NEW YORK Sept (fful Charles Tuttle United States district attorney today wired police at Newcastle Wyo to hold Charles Waggoner president' of the Bank of Telluride Colo for fed eral authorities here A requisition for arrest under a federal warrant was telegraphed to the United States attorney at Cheyenne Wyo A warrant from this district calling for hisre moval to New York will be for warded by air mail 'v A federal grand jury continued today its investigation into the manipulations by which Waggoner obtained $500000 credit in six New York banks through fraudulefit coded messages from ass many Denver Colo financial institutions Tuttle said that data uncovered by investigators indicated that Wagoner had violated both the fed eral banking laws and postal regu lations and indicated that an indict ment would be returned sometime today tr The grand jury probe has been proceeding on the theory that Waggoner had confederates in ex ecuting his scheme but with his declaration in Newcastle that he carried out the plans alone the investigation may be simplified To Protect Depositors? NEWCASTLE Wyo Sept (ff) Waggoner president" of the Bank of Telluride Colo ar rested here in connection with the transaction by which he obtained $500000 credit New York banks on authorized telegraphic orders from six Denver banks said today he engineered the deal in the hope of protecting depositors of his bank in Telluride knew exactlv what I nd I said Waggcner no one to blame but myself I I was the one who sent the fake telegrams out cf Denver to the six New York correspondent banks and neither my wife my family nor any of the officials of the bank had any connection with the transaction I Dropped I bottom had dropped out of things in Telluride and a des I perate move was necessary "I one time the bank had I deposits of $1750000 Then con ditions the town went from bad I to worse I wanted to get some I money and put it in the Telluride I bank so that the banks of New I York possibly get it I Waggoner said that he was I thinking only of the creditors of I his bank when he planned the I transaction and that he knew he I had nothing to gain and every I thing to lose I would rathnr flirt rt I York banks lose money than the I people of Telluride most of whom I had worked all their lives fcr the I savings that were deposited in my I the banker said I sending the telegrams 1 I went to New York and presented I the drafts which transferred the I money from the Chase National I bank to the credit of the Bank of I Waggoner said 7 I Glad to Be Arrested is I had been doing business With I the New York banks for many I ears he said was known I there and belieied tbev weald ac I cept the drafts I This idea of evading something I all the time was beginning to get I on my I He said he had left Lincoln I Neb last riday the day I had been with his wife I Since then 1 haie been driving I through Nebraska Minnesota I North and South Dakota and I Wyoming I As a matter of fact I was really I glad when the officers accosted I me I suppose that I shall go" to I jail for the rest of mv life icThe I way I feel now I know I "hether I shall even hire a lawyer I when I get to I Halts Interception Mail I WASHINGTON Sept Jff) I Inspector Zimmerman I of the Postoffice department said I today no authority Lad been giv I en the Denver postoffice or anv I other postoffice to intercept mail I destined for the Teluride Colo I bank in connection with the finan I cial transactions of its president I Waggoner I (Continued on Page Two) I ew York to Have I our Air Policemen I TVTta att NT 2 jz A i JL Si VI A I I IX I 'XJV Pub ihMi 9 Morning by Miami NewRMtrd PubliahUv i WEA 1 HER ORECAST Okla homa Most ly cloudy probably local showers in west portion tonight and Thursday slightly warmer A a saa Partly cloudy to night and Thurs day somewhat warmer Thurs day Generally fair tonight and Thursday warmer tonight and in cast vortion Thursday in WeCkCd T' A' City San rancisco which crash artorm Adopts Borah Resolution I for Shipbuilding Inquiry Without Negative Vote WASHINGTONSept (ff) i The Senate today formally ordered an investigation of activities of American shipbuilding corporations at the unsuccessful 1927 Geneva naval limitations conference With out a dissenting vote it adopted the Borah resolution to authorize the inquiry There was but little debate on the proposal The naval committee will meet tomorow to begin the investiga tion Senator McKellar Democrat Tennessee suggested that the in vestigation include a study of on the other side of the naval but Senator Robinson of Arkansas Democratic leader insisted that the inquiry be directed at particular ques tion which is separate and dis tinct from propaganda and which involves interference in what is essentially the foreign relations of the United Shearer to Be Witness The naval committee will meet tomorrow to draw up plans for its investigation and expects to call as its key witness the cen tral figure in the controversy William Shearer whose alleg ations in a suit against three large shipbuilding corporations for com pensation for having acted as their agent at the Geneva conference brought vigorous and reiterated expressions of displeasure from President Hoover the direction of a Department of Justcie investi gation by the chief executive and the pending Senate inquiry The New York Shipbuilding company a subsidiary of the American Brown Boveri Eectric corporation one of the defendants in suit last night issued a statement asserting that neither it nor its parent corporation had ever or indirectly in dulged in propaganda to influence the naval policies of the govern ment at Geneva or The statement said that the com pany and others had employed Shearer to act as an at Geneva and that this connection was severed in the fall of Shearer it added was paid 000 his fee with third of this amount coming the New York Shipbuilding nanv The two other corporations nam in suit are the Bethlehem (Continued cn Page Two) MUKDEN Sept (ff) An official communique of the Man churian government today announ ced that fighting which broke out at the end of last week between Russian and Chinese soldiers nt frontier points in eastern and western Manchuria had ceased Monday evening The fighting at Manchuli west ern terminus of the Chinese East ern sopped late Monday The Chinese railway telegraph and customs staff of Pogranichnaya where severe fighting with the village itself in flames was earlier reported to have returned to their posts Communications Cut LONDON Sept 11 Communications between the city of Pogranichnaya eastern termi nus of the Chinese Eastern rail way and Harbin Manchurian rail way center have been disrupted leaving military happenings along the eastern Manchurian border much in doubt Last reports from the frontier city told of intermittent heavy fighting between Chinese troops and the soviet frontier amy since last Thursday with Pogranichnaya itself changing hands several times Sporadic fighting and "bombing from the air both at Pogranichnaya and at Mulin were said to continue It was clear from such meager reports as were obtainable that the Manchurian Russian frontier from Pogranichnaya north to the mouth of the Suijgari river and west to Manchuli western fron tier city remained much disturb ed by the hostilities although ob servers were still skeptical the two armies had met in a oral engagement lames Damam City One recent report unconfirm ed said the entire city of Pog ranichnaya wits in flames Press dispatches said it was much dam aged by flames shelling and bombing although Chinese still held their positions there The Russian air attack at Mulin was said to have been for the purpose of crippling the Chinese Eastern service by damaging the coal mines in that region The railway depends on these for fuel How far the attack succeed ed was not clear Tass oficial soviet news agenc'v after declaring entire mili tary situation remains gave its own version of recent fighting rom Vladivostok it had word that 200 Chinese invaded soviet territory near Grodekovo 15 miles northwest of Atamaovka killing sentinel and wounding others of the soviet border guard Red troop finally drove off the Chinese The "Chinese were said to have attacked a Red army detachment engaged in hay making west of Manchuli but in soviet territory Vigorous counter measures by (Continued on Page Two) PRICE IVE CENTS GOVERNOR HOPES TERRORIST PLOT Congressman BANKER SOUGHT' if Z' DamDy rerr Evening (ExmdI Saturriavl anri RnnU 1 i A ATAJLJXUJV JJ I Bi Birge.