The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 1

4 VOLUME XXXVI ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY EBRUARY 11 1937 Miras PIE REPORT SECRET CAUSE UNKNOWN' WAS CRIPPLED many levied who special was almost corn the scene of the over a higher tax would said Shawnee was re was the looks stop from of legalized race track as Resume riday rancisco its HENDERSON RESIGNS to 5 Haddock Makes Bond Gets Married A At convicted Haddock of manslaughter recom of "re or dis Slick three Kuehl minor state legislature by laymen and lawmakers Texas with gambling feet tall nose offi were Uncle Lit Barlt aays ego tlsm is a sort anaesthetictbat nature administers deaden th pain o' bein' a blame fool you've begin t' wont der too countered Newt Harp when 'Is wife wanted know why he mar ried 'er "Well you see got be at work by explain ed young feller when Bun Cobb asked whut he meant by daugh ter In at 6 a the mysterious airliner into San Boiler oils Wednesday orc es Dismissal of Classes New One Installed OICMIU? wnsMiffi ormer Automobile Dealer At Stratford Dies After Crash West of Holdenville Little seven year ol' lora Wheeler wuz tardy fer school yisterday on account not able locate 'er clgaret lighter he had fallen Classes a East Central college will be resumed riday when re pairs to one of the boilers will be completed Dr A Llnscheid president announced Wednesday night The boiler one of two In the college beating plant went out of commission Wednesday 'orclng classes to be dismissed A new boiler is being installed and' will be ready for Use Mon day morning he said Preliminary repairs were com pleted Wednesday night but since other repairs need be made class es will not be held today and the job will be completed according Dr Llnscheid Classes were dismissed Wednes day because the one remaining boiler was unable to fill the needs of the college OKLAHOMA CITY eb UP) Blinn Oklahoma county judge approved today final dis position of the estate of the late Tom Slick wealthy oil man who made a fortune in Oklahoma fields Administrators Urschel Mrs Berenice Slick Urschel and Arthur A Seeligson reported on the distribution of the last rem nants of the estate fl 651 000 in cash most of it accruing sale of Slick oil interests Mrs Urschel widow of received 6550333 Each of children Tom Slick jr Earl Slick and Betty Slick received $366888 155 pounds was single New Jersey and was a Post also said be was 11 inches tall but be about three inches Post was booked on an (By The Associated Press) Censored reports limping communication lines from described today a new the three ascist capital telephone lines cut by a BRIDGES ATAKEN TO PENITENTWRY District Judge Tai Crawford who presided at his trial here last week performed' the ceremony while many of the court officllls who witnessed his trial looked bn as spectators Haddock was tried for murder as a result of the death of I) Maner who died from Injuries he received when struck by a car on the highway west of Ada while he was repairing a flat tire on his More than 515000 fingerprints ire recorded In the fingerprint It' braryof Scotland Yards BLACKWELL eb Glen Henderson basketball coach and assistant 'football coach at Blackwell high school resigned today to becomo director of ath letics at riends university Wichita Kan Henderson former riends uni versity athlete said he would take over the directorship at Wichita March 1 School officials have not chosen Henderson's successor tf Moore John Leader Leon McGaha Taken To Granite Tuesday Blackwell Conch "Will Go riends Vnlversily LINDBERGHS DELAYED 'W Bond iMuea Approied OKLAHOMA CITY eb Approval as to form bad been given by the attorney gener al's office today to a $175000 bond issue for a municipal elec tric plant at Ponca City and a $4500 Issue for construction of a school at Chattanooga LAMES ATAL TOAGEDMAN POPLAR' BLU Mo eb 10 lP) Defense attorneys prepar ed today to file a motion for a new trial for Rev ain convicted yesterday of the mur der of Koren O'Dell a young farmer of isk Mo The jury recommended a life sentence In prison without parole Lawrence Ted rick and Matt Henson counsel for ain said they would seek a new trial Only one ballot was taken in the one hour and 12 minutes of deliberation Juryman red Den nis of Poplar Bluff said All were agreed on guilt he said and 11 favored the death penalty Residents were moving back into Cairo today confident that the menace of flood has Mayor August Bode last night revoked the edict forbidding the return of women children and aged persons evacuated when flood waters of the Ohio threat ened to inundate the city Sheriff Lloyd Oller recalled guards pa trolling highways may return at their 'own Mayor Bode said they are self Relief camp gees must await a proclama tion to be issued soon The announcement was the sig nal for hundreds of men to leave in automobiles to return their families from nearby towns Bus lines announced resumption regular schedules today 4 GBISSn OHUNCES a wirriCftL Bonos" MEXICO CITY eb 10 President Lazaro Cardenas wiped Mexican court dockets clear of cases today with an amnesty bill applying to all per sons accused or convicted belllon sedition uprising Issuing the law under powers from 'congress Cardenas cited era of organic which Mexico now enjoys and said the amnesty was intended to let all Mexicans themselves to work fpr the aggrandizement of the The law was not explicit regard ing Catholic prelates exiled as a result of the government anti churf policies most famous exile for President Plutarco Elias Cai now is at San Diego Calif no formal charges so far as be learned ever were filed MINIBTR OUND MTIBDEB Youngsters No Longer Store ellow Students "ine As Could Be" President Cardenas Signs Am nesty Bill in Keeping With Era of Peace NORMAN eb (Ab The youngsters mo longer stare at Dr Harber middle aged mil lionaire in the class rooms of the University of Oklahoma but he said today they gave him of yes I ilka it said the physician who received his degree more than 20 years ago pretty hard for me to get started Dr Harber enrolled in'a heavy course last week as an unclassified student after he resigned as may or of Seminole Okla a post he had held for 10 years He know how long he'll be heie "I may be gone he said spent quite a while looking after other bus iness so now I want a little en The millionaire whose' fortune estimated at $3000000 was made in the rich Seminole oil field said he works hard at his studies and has little 'time for campus activi ties He spends a great part of his afternoon and several hours at night he said preparing his les sons in Spanish history econo mics and English He Is carry ing a total of 16 hours work weekly the average load of young er students In a modest duplex four blocks from the campus his wife pre5 sides over his home while he is In college And Dr Harber said he depends on her for a little help with his studies I first started to he declared thought the others would stare and wonder why I was there But noLthat way at all guess they looked at me the first day but they bother His fellow students he said were "fine as could In his studies he finds Spanish the most difficult since he said his previous language studies were confined to Latin and that was many years ago Ex Convict Said to Bear Strong Resemblance To Kidnaper He deplored the of in the governments of oth er countries and emphasized the statement that Americans should deliberate calmly on their prob lems having no thoughts of revo lution or violence In government 'He was one of the original founders of the League of Young Democrats In Oklahoma ins 1912 while a law student at the Uni versity of Oklahoma a The organization was formed he said as a means of giving young men interested in affairs of government an opportunity to have some voice in the party func tions One of the early difficulties was the attempt of older party mem bers to dominate the league he said Since its beginning inOklaho ma the idea of organization of young voters has spread to every state in the union and now exerts a powerful Influence on party af fairs Truman Harrison chapter pres luem inuuuuceu an county cials a number of whom present s' Carlos Wadlington Ada was second high in the class which took the state bar examination in December was also introduced to the crowd Over 100 men and women at tended" A colored string nand fur nished music and coffee and doughnuts was served A romance which was not In least affected by conviction of the bridegroom on a charge of man slaughter in the first degree came to light here Tuesday might with the report of the marriage of James Haddock Vinita and Opal Pearson Ada Haddock wa released from the county jail on bond about 8 o'clock in the evening and a few moments later was married Carl Bridges convicted during the recent criminal term of dist rict court on a charge of grand larceny was taken to the state penitentiary at McAlester Wednes day Bridges will begin serving am of six months He was taken there by Clyde Kaiser sheriff 4 VICTIM TRAIN COLLISION DIES TUCUMCARI eb 10 UP) The collision of a Rock Isl and passenger' train and a side tracked freight train claimed its second life today as official of the road planned an Investigation Ron Hoifulund of Dalhart Tex engineer of the passenger train died at midnlghtThe fireman A Sutton 40 was killed instantly In the crash 25 miles east of here early yesterday PUNE ALLS INTO SAAI RANCISCO11 DM SAN RANCISCO eb (Ab Rescue crews labored today to recover Jbodle? of eleven per osns killed in crash of a big' rancisco Bay Reports from tragedy near Mills' ield muni cipal airport south of here said attempts were made to right the plane which overturned as It struck the water last night A derrick was brought to the wreck to lift the 12 ton craft which airport officials said weigh ed many more tons because it was filled with water William Reed noted diver pre pared to descend In about 15 feet of water to make a preliminary investigation and learn whether the bodies still were in the plane 4 5 The tragedy occurred so sud denly officials of the United Air Lines would nof hazard a guess as to its cause: With veteran Pilot Thompson at the controls the new plane several minutes ahead of schedule arrived over the airport shortly before 9:00 o'clock' last night from Los An geles He had clear weather and good flying conditions airport of flcfals said Eight Passengers Aboard Aboard were eight passengers Including a young bride td be and the crew of three The plane circled the airport witnesses said then apparently was about to land when It veered tar out over the water and crash ed A five hour searchof the bay by planes and boats followed be fore the wreckage was found A section of the rudder and the tail end of the fuselage protruded above the surface Both were stove in indicating the transport hit the shallow water right side up with such an impact it was turned completely over one at present has the slightest idea of what caused the crash" said aq airlines spokes man He and others connected with lhe airlines said the plane would be taken to the lines Oakland shops Among the watchers as the plane fell was Michael Gilmore of San rancisco brother of rank Gilmore one of the pas sengers He had gone to the air port to meet the plane Other passengers on the craft which carried a crew of three were: Mark ontana San manufacturer and yachtsman John A Grennan Sr Berkeley Calif real estate amn His daughter Miss Gertrude Grennan Remo Margaronl San rancis co cafe owner Lorge Los Angeles Meyer Ridgeowod reelander Los Angeles Chief pilot was A "Tommy" Thompson veteran of air mail and transport e'xeprlence Joseph De Cessaro Glendale was 'co pilot and Ruth Kimmel Alameda was stewardess Horse race betting tottered on Its legal pedestal today denounced oetore the clergymen as linking and crime oes of gambling claimed victory in the first round of a bitter controver sy over repeal of the part mutual wagering law of 1933 They pointed to the overwhelming vote by which the state affairs commit tee last night reported favorably on a repeal bill thereby heading the measure for quick floor con sideration by the house of repre sentatives The action was preceded by barrages of verbal artillery from opposing factions or hours the repeallsts de nounced the law as putting the state in league with gambling and crime while friends of racing de nied the charges and argued many benefits had resulted from stimulation under the state No one could forecast accurate ly the final result Should repeal be favored by the house of repre sentatives where It was believed to have the greatest strength it still would have to run the gamut of the senate 0 TULSA Okla eb 10 Bogardus 21 died in a hospital last night of spinal and Internal injuries received Sunday when his automobile went over a 35 foot embankment near Shidler Bogardus told hospital attendants he lost control of the machine which turned over several times pinning him beneath Three persons charged with possession of whisky were ar igned before County Judge John IIeei Tuesday i Jess Lee and Martin both entered pleas of not guilty at ar raignment and were released un der bonds of $2000 each RuU Yeargan also entered a plea of not guilty but had not made bond Tuesday evening 'They were arrested In a series of raids here during the past week by county and city officers moTOT MING ME Enter Pleas of Not Guilty Two Are Released on Bonds in Raids' Three men sentenced 'to serve terms in the state reformatory at Granite during the recent session of district court were taken there Tuesday by Clyde Kaiser sheriff They were Ott Moore: Lean Mc Gaha and John Leader Moore was given 15 years for manslaughter in the first degree He was charged with the fatal shooting of Gladys Huckelby: his former wife Leader was given a term of ten years for theft of an automo bile second offense McGaha was convicted of Injury to a public building the result of an attempt to break out of the county jail MlliS Ml Bill wEon imMir Owen' ormer County Weigher Dies When Home? Bums Monday Morning OKLAHOMA CITY eb? 10 (Ab Chairman JV 'E Gris'so of thp highway commission said to day many highways in Oklahoma surfaced carried a lighter traffic load than of our county His statement came after he had looked at preliminary reports of traffic loads of county roads being prepared by Maurer head of the Istate highway plan ning survey are hundreds of coun ty Grisso said "which are more important to a highway sys tem than some of the roads in cluded in our present highway system which hare been improved no question but that some sections of our highway sys tem were built for political and not for practical Grisso mentioned no specific Instances except to say that a paved road in northwestern Okla homa carried a traffic load of 407 cars compared with many county roads carrying from 500 to 600 cars each eight hours said flfst reports showed many county roads in Logan Lincoln and Nowata counties were more important traffic arteries than many state highways SAN RANCISCO eb (Ab The coast guard reported to day that only three bodies of the eleven victims of the Los Ange les San rancisco plane crash were found in the wreckage SAN RANCISCO eb (Ab Doolin manager of the municipal airport an avia tor reported to him the wreck age of the Los Angeles San ran cisco airliner was lifted from the water by a derrick today The plane with elevent persons aboard crashed into San ran cisco Bay last night Doolin said the aviator whose name he did not reveal circled over' the scene of the disaster near the airport south of here and reported salvage operations The flier stated the wrecked craft was pulled above the sur face of the water in an upside down position with the wings in tact but with the tall twisted The atmosphere was hazy and Doolin did not know whether the bodies of the eleven victims had been removed MEMPHIS Tenn eb (Ab Ponderous crests kept flood fear alive along the mld Mlsslsslppl to day by refusal to speed their al most Imperceptible southward crawl The river fell slowly hour after hour while the brown tide edged higher down stream to New Or leans forcing mor eevacuations The Memphis flood district of fice of the army engineers warned the top of the flood is and the river will stand near Its crest here for several days As long as this situation prevails the remorseless pressure on the overtaxed levees may force a major breach at any tie a IllI JONES IS RELIEVED ROM DUTY WASHINGTON eb 10 Lib The army relieved Major Law rence (Biff) Jones of duty as an ROTO Instructor at the Uni versity of Oklahoma today and ordered him home to await re tirement The celebrated football coach recently announced his intention to apply fpr retirement from ac tive service His announcement followed an offer to become ath letic director at the University of Nebraska RIVER RMI'NS STATIONARY Bun Cobb whose doctor told 'hn he ought t' live in a dry atmosphere has rent ed a nice little room In home a college professor "Oh don't be so ahoot it gft It ove snapped little flve year ol' Pearl Burr when th' photographer told 'er watch th' pretty birdie SEATTLE eb An ex convict questioned 5 for 10 hours tn the kidnap killing of 10 year old Charles Mattson will be confronted today "by William and Muriel Mattson the brother and sister who witnessed the abduction A high police official who de clined to be quoted said Miss Virginia Chatfield 16 Seattle the third witness also would seek to identify the ex convict The official said the man who gave his name as A Post 32 was a tor the Matt son kidnaper Post the official said was in Tacoma from December 21 to 26 but claimed he was in three differ ent places when ttie abduction oc cured December 27 The prisoner also known' as James McDonald denied any connection with the kidnaping He said he was 32 years old weighed born in seaman five feet appeared shorter open charge jt The prisoner a former' San Quentin convict i The Mattson nude and battered body was found near Everett Wash January ll Chief william Cole rot Washington state patrol said Mc Donald's movements before and after the kidnaping December 27 were suspicious may be just another false lead Cole said "but it hot to Police Detective A said McDonald admitted a robbery here December 20 and that thereafter he left Seattle for Tacoma and Portland Ore Kuehl said McDonald tol several dif fering and contradictory stories The federal bureau of investiga tion description of the 1 Mattson kidnaper is: years old five feet seven or eight Inches tall 156 to 165 pounds swarthy did not stand erect dimple in chin high cheek bones nose may be broken a little below center hairy hands slightly foreign accent speaks brokenly appears to be of south ern European extraction Cole described McDonald follows: one years old five 10 and one half Inches swarthy high cneek bones broken dJrk brown Classes Three Begin Serving Terms amous Aviators Held at Paler mo by High Winds PALERMO Slcllyj eb UP) Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh delayed their depart ure by plane today because of strong winds blowing off the Mediterranean They hidlcated they expect to take off tomorrow They may atop at Tripoli en route to a deatina tlon believed to be Cairo Egypt LONDON eb 10 (AV Lord Lurgan chairman of the fashion able Rita and Carlton hotels since 1928 died today He would have been 6 tomorrow Sid auglt former automobile dealer at Stratford was killed In stantly about two west of Holdenville Wednesday night when hls car crashed into the rear of one driven1 by Ray ranklin It was reported that auglt ap parently went to sleep while driv ing his car crashing into the rear of at an excessive rate of speed His neck was broken ranklin a HOLC worker out of Shawnee was en route to Ada at the time of the accident He was not injured auglt had the ord agency in Stratford about six years ago His home was in Wewoka at the present dime 1 Doc Harber Enjoys Self In Classroom automobile The jury first degree mending a itence of 20 years in the state penitentiary the second longest term given during the session of criminal court His case Is beitfg appealed to the Criminal Court of Appeals He made a supersedeas bond which will give him his freedom pending the appeal tonight Haddock's home Is in Ylult Insurgents Cripple Communi With Remainder Of Country Tell Committee Owners Of J' Stripper Wells Would Be 4 Driven HzHE ADA WEEKiy NE WS aunt Le Roy Suffer Critical Bums When Cloth ing Catches ire Sid auglt In atal Acciden crippled Madrid crisis in siege of With ascist assault on the vital road from Madrid to Valencia meagre reports from Madrid by cable in cluded: 1 ascist planes flew over Madrid this morning Whether they attempted bombard ment was not stated 3 ierce fighting 'south' east of Madrid for possession of the Valencia road which leads to the seaboard seat of temporary government with Socialist govern ment commanders insisting the ascists had not cut" the road up to last night 3 Declarations that the gov ernment will be able to hold Ma drid come what may of the present fighting were coupled with contradictory news paper declarations that is in danger!" and that all reserves must be mobilized anew to the ascists TEXASMAY BEPEAL RACE BETTING LAW lg No One Permitted to See indings on Patronage School Bill avored OKLAHOMA 'CITY' eb i(A)) The chain store bill passed 'by the house but held up by a no tlce of reconsideration was re leased and sent to the senate to day when the house tabled a mo nition' to reconsider the vote by which the bill passed last riday The n0lIR tl'en started a attach the: emergency clause to jfethe measure it failed by eight vote sue to aosence of members A call of the house was feas the battle over the emergency clause 'started again but many members again were absentbe cause of illness or absence from the state Search or Bodies Being Push ed But Work Proves Slow Crew and Passengers Carried Down None Escapes Disaster Judge Tai Crawford Tom McKeown Speak Large Crowd at Meeting A review of the organization and beginnings: of the League of Young Democrats by Judge Orel Busby state supreme court jus tice1 was the feature of a well attended meeting of the county chapter of the league here Tuesday night Judge Bushy termed the er of the explained the original purpose of the organiza tion and described some of its hardships during the early days of its existence Judge Tai Crawford" district judge and Tom McKeown ifor mer fourth district congressman were other speakers To Support Hunt The organization voted to sup port Woody Hunt Oklahoma City ana bkemah as a candidate for the position of national commit teeman The question of who this organ ization would support lor state president at the convention in Tulsa ebruary 22 was also dis cussed Judge Busby first launched into a discussion of governmental trends in other countries of the wr ld and gave as his text the statement that Americans now should settle their difficulties in a calm deliberate manner 1 sj A Mexico orgives Political Cases The dry spell of 1930 exceeded in duration and aridity any ever recorded In 95 years of Weather Bureau records? The Indian python colls about IU eggs until they hatch It takes no food during this period which covers several mouths 1 'I Three Arraigned or Possession mer but can against the once "strongNman of Among other exiles presumably within the scope were Gen Jose Gonzalo Escobar now in Can ada le der of the 1929 revolution against former President Emilio Portes Gil i Pablo Gonzalez also in Texas who fled after the slay ing in 1920 oT Emiliano Carranza in whose government he prominent judgMyeT 5 SLICK SETTLEMENT Judge Busby Tells History Of A League of Young Democrats lames did deadly" work Monday taking the lifef of one aged man and causing by burns that are so severe as to of a fer little chance for another aged man to survive Owen former 1 1 ls weigher died in a blaze that de j' stroked the house in which he and relatives resided and aunt Le Roy was terribly burned when night clothes caught fire from' a stove Owen who years ago had 1 if one leg was sleeping in' one room of a frame building at 130 East Third and a grandson VadsnU Noble and Mrs Noble in another room when fire was discovered shortly after daybreak Monday morning 4 4 The flames had gained such headway that the Nobles had lit Jf tie time to escape iremen who battled their way into the house V1 found he charred body of the eld eny man where across the room toward the door 1 irom tne bed The residence pletely destroyed lames sweeping the interior by the time the fire fighting equipment reach ed the scene an vweu nau resiaea in Pon totoc county for many years lived for a time in the Bebee area He was elected county weigher in 1924 serving one term uneral services will be an nounced: later by the 'Criswell uneral Home Mr aunt Le Roy who Is 79 4 years old and Uvea at 414 Eart Main has been in bad health for several years While no one waa In the room with him Monday morning he got out of bed and got too close to the fire The flames caught his gown burning his legs Jiips and back terribly be fore others entered the room and extinguished The aunt Le Hoys are among the best jenown people in town and the accident to the highly esteemed dged mdn is the cause of much saddened comment (rom Daily) Robert aunt Le Roy 78 for many years a resident of Ada died Wednesday morning at 9:20 from effects of burns rer ceived at his home 414 East Main Monday morning Clothing ignited at a stove burned the aged man so badly that no hope was held for his recovery uneral services will be con ducted Thursday afternoon at from the irst Christian church Rev Ivan Young offi 3 elating interment in' Rosedale cemetery with honors of the Ma sonic fraternity A Mr aunt Le Roy is survived i by his widow two sons Owen aunt Le Roy of Breckenridge Tex and red aunt Le Roy of Ada and six grandchildren Mar guerite Barbara Dean Herbert Burton Jack and Owen jr' Born in Gatesville Tex 78 year ago Mr aunt Le Roy was for many years employed as a railroad conductor Later ho established an optical office in Ada and for many years continued in that business until severe ill ness several years ago forced him to retire As long as he was able to be present he was faithful In at tendance at meetings of the sev eral Masonic bodies here of which he was a member and an officer much of the time He took much pride In having been the oldest man ever to re reice the degrees of Masonry in ii this part of the state 1 Coordinated lood Control Bill Is Put In Congress WASHINGTON eb 10 (UP) Senators Alben Barkley (D Ky) and Robert Bulkley (D Ohio) today introduced a bill to carry out President Roosevelt's suggestions for eight regional au thorities to coordinate flood con trol power reclamation and re habilitation work The meXure would establish seven new authorities similar to the Tennessee Valley authority The eight regions would blanket the nation In a coordinated drive to preserve and develop natural resources Barkley and Bulkley ufd they had drawn the measure in line with suggestions of tho president in hU message transmitting the report of the national resource committee which? recommended expenditure of $2750000000 In tho next six years The larva of the dragon fly Is a savage enemy to young fish It lies in wait until a victim cotnae Into reach and then snares It with a vicious pincher llke organ Rutter smeared over cheese will help keep the cheese from drying Zeke Burr says he never knew 'til his son went off i college that Scotch wuz such expensive course Mrs Lem Wheeler thought she heard somebody tappin' on door while they wuz supper last night but it wuz jest er busband's new teeth A Ji NUMBER 45 i I Some New York banks use black blotting paper to prevent erpoki from copying signatures from blotted Impress ions OKLAHOMA CITY eb A spokesman for Pottawat omfe county stripper well opera tors declared today passage of the Speck bill to increase the gross production tax on oil from 5 to 10 per cent would drive small ope 'rators out of business major companies were rep resented as hearings on the con troversial bill opened before the house oil and gas committee 4 "The average oil well in Potta watomie county produces 11 bar rels of oil a day and the cost of lifting "that oil to the surface is declared I Saunders Shawnee attorney who said he spoke for a group of small pro ducers include the cost of leases or drilling the i red Reilly Shawnee attorney told the committee that if the oil tax were increased "Shawneewould be ruined" He said close down wells and throw 2000 men out ot work in Pottawatomie county He cejving $500000' monthly fromJthe oil industry Reilly declared 55000' wells" in Oklahoma were producing an average ot 992 barrels each daily and if the tax were Increased about 50000 of them producing(an average of 3 barrels wouldshut down He added the tax would "take from farmers and land holders the oil lease money with which they have been paying their taxes Another warning against in creasing the tax came from George Bradfield Shawnee independent producer future of oil in the state lies in western he said "The big production will (Continued on Page 6 No 6) PESSIMIST I By Bob Blanks Jr.