The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 1

Qu a hi arzUav THE ADA WEEKLY NEWS VOLUME XXXVIII GERMANS IN NEW STEP TOHARASS JEWS Order Allows Police to Tell Jews When and If They Can Leave Homes BERLIN Nov 30 The government carried its sweeping anti Jewish campaign a step fur ther today with the publication af an order empowering the pol ice to tell German Jews when they may or may not leave their homes and where they may or may not go "The regulation appeared in the Reichs Gesetzblatt (official gaz ette) under the heading order regarding the appearance of Jews in It was explained the order pro vided a for yester decree forbidding Jews to appear on the streets during eight hours on the day of nation al solidarity Bee 3 The regulation declared' proper provincial police depart may forbid German Jews or Jews to without nationality io appear in definite districts or to leave their houses at definite times Violations will be punish able by fines up to 150 marks ($60) or imprisonment up 'o six weeks SLASHER IDEA SPREADS OYER MORE REGIONS Assaults Reported rom our Places Besides Halifax Where Started HALIAX Eng Nov The menace of razor slashings from phantom assailants slinking through dark streets in this Tof fee and carpet making town had spread to four other English towns today At Wigan 35 miles from Hali 1 fax pretty Winifred Walsh 18 reported she was attacked in her own backyard by a mart who cut a five inch wound in her left arm rom sooty Manchester came the report that 14 year old Mar jory Murphy was wounded four times on the arms yesterday by a man who jumped out of: a dark corner with a razor Another 1 4 year old Ivy Smitheman staggered" fainting into a candy shop at Brentford five miles from London and 200 miles south of Halifax with blood streaming from twelvecuts on her arms which she said were in flicted by a man who fled as soon as he had struck her There was a similar assault at Platt Bridge Lancashire 50 miles from Halifax Monday night Descriptions of the slasher each case were similar to that of the Halifax marauder who has cut 13 persons in the past eight days but police did not believe he' was responsible for incidents in the other towns School Principal Asserts Innocence DUNCAN Nov Ches ter 'Sutherland 41 year old form er Diamond school principal de nied from the witness stand the testimony of a 14 year old student that he had violated her on two occasions in the school chapel room His wife and dauhter also test ified in his defense in the school second trial on a charge of second degree rape His first trial icil in jury disagree ment The complaining witness testi fied yesterday that: Sutherland had violated her April 27 and againin July during the summer term Mrs Sutherland and her daugh ter Dorinda Sutherland 17 both: testified today Sutherland could not have ben in the school room at the time the girl said the acts occurred HOLLYWOOD Nov Claire Windsor blonde film ac tress over to the district office today records of an oil investment in which she feared she was defrauded of $25 000 I TH' PESSIMIST By Bote Blanks ft Nowadays a considerate guest is one who waits over pass out Pipe smokers can be as pleasant as anybody be around if they keep distance i Pjogram or Next Congress Given Study President Roosevelt Studies Task Ahead Of Leg islators NEW TAXES SEEN Record Breaking Defense Measures Expected To Be Taken WARM SPRINGS Novi CD President Roosevelt reverted to vacation routine today while he gave preliminary thought to the broad of his new con gressional program expected to be discussed here tomorrow with speaker Bankhead While congressional leaders have been reluctant to forecast specific recommendations in the message free congress discussion has made it apparent the congress will be asked by the administration to: Enact record rcaking peace time defense measures calling for increases in army and navy plan strengths and feet coast and field fighting arms 5 Pass new tax legislation restor ing in some degree the cuts made in undistributed corporation pro fits and capitol gains levies Re enacting some expiring nuis ance taxes and taxing the income of state employes and future is sues of bonds now in the tax ex empt class Continue the present AAA crop control act with some possible changes in financing Amend the social security act to increase some benefits and ex tend others to some "workers not now covered Possibly rc the neutrality act to give the president greater discretionary authority invoking embargoes Pass railroad rehabilitation leg islation Appropriate another large bud get for relief and allied activities Dairy Judging Will Be Held December 2 Plans for a dairy judging school and practical demonstra tion to be held in connection with the tglryschool here De cember 2 were announced Wed nesday afternoon at the office of the county The judging and demonstration will be held on the afternoon of December 2 on the farm of Dr Granger near" Lovel dy school The program will include the judging and practical demonstra tion in proper dairy feeding Wayne Cinnamon assistant ccunty agent "urged county 4 club members to attend the school The judging and demonstra tion will follow the dairy school which will be held on the morn ing of December: 2 at which time John Bochr extension dairy man will bring a feed "exhibit illustrated lecture and other in teresting features to dairymen of the area Woman Gels Life Term or Killing 1 BARTLESVILLE Nov CT' Essie Matthews 37 year old farm wife and her alleged paramour were sentenced to life imprisonment today for the drowning of her husband Matthews 52 Mrs Matthews and 37 year old" Leonard Overcast" had been working for Matthews pleaded guilty to murder charges then smiled a they heard District Judge Shipman pronounce sentence After their arrest last June 13 Mrs Matthews in a signed state ment said she "''3d plotted with Overcast to dwn her husband and had stood on the bank and shouted instructions to her lover as he struggled with Matthews in the water of a shallow slough on their farm death first was reported as accidental Posse Seeks Girl Thought Abducted OXON HILL Maryland Nov 30 (UP) A posse of armed farmers led by state and Prince cour police tonight searched nearby woods for an 18 year old student who allegedly was abducted by two men late this afternoon The girl Mary Brown was walking home with her sister Lucy 15 from a bus stop when two men in a light bodied deliv ery truck stopped and forced her into the car and then sped off ac' ording to Lucy who po lice she escaped fleeing across fields The girls Ind just returned from Notre Dame academy busi ness school in Washington They are i daughters of William Brown an employe of the federal bureau of printing and engrav ing ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY DECEMBER 1 1938 NUMBER 36 BECKO HAS TO BE DIPPED TO CROSS BORDER So Oklahoma City Owner Know What to Do With Gift Lion OKLAHOMA CITY Nov Becko Wayne Phillips "Af rican lion has a bad case of Chi nese canker mouth and Mexican ticks and is interned at the In ternational frontier at Laredo Texas because no veterinarian skilled in dousing lions in sheep dip is available know what" am go ing to do with that said Phillips industrial agent of the state board of affairs am not sure I would know how to dip Becko The beast was given to Phillips in Mexico City a few months ago About the time of the presenta tion" the lion was stened by a courageous but ill aoviscd Mex ican boy Becko took umbrage and a bite of the boy The boy recovered and Phillips accepted title to Becko He intended to give him to his cousin Terrell Jacobs a circus lion tamer Jut Jacobs sailed for England this week with his lion act Phillips revised his plans and prepared to exhibit Becko at Ok lahoma City municipal zoo Then Becko got sick TAVERN PATRON SHOOTS POLICE THEN IS SLAIN Wounds Officer Gunman ound to Be Escaped Convict CHICAGO Nov A surly tavern patron whose fin gerprints police said indicated lie was an escaped convict from the Jefferson City Mo penilentiaiy was slain today in a gunfight with officers after he critically wounded Detective Edward Lynn Shortly after the gunman died in the Bridewell hospital poire announced his fingerprints: indi cated he was Jacob Wood who escaped from Jefferson City July 31 1938 Records here did not show the offense for 'tich he was sentenced Thomas Williams' owner of the tavern on the near South Side summoned Detectives Lynn and Allen Mulvey after learning that Wood carried a pistol Williams said he detected the weapon while trying to arouse Wood from sleep Noting Wood's obvious prison pallor the officers approached to question him when without warn ing he whipped out his pistol and fired Lynn veteran of many gunfights with robbers was a split second slow in returning the fire He fired one shot before Wood dropped him with a bullet in his head Detective Mulvey fatally wounded Wood in chest and abdomen our other patrons in the tavern dropped to the floor and escaped injury Youth Held Under Esponage Charge LOS ANGELES Nov (UP) Karl A Drummond 21 was booked at county jail tonight by federal agents who arrested him on a secret federal grand jury indictment charging him with espionage The indictment accused the 'youth of taking photographs and blue prints of plans being manu factured for the navy at the Northrip plant of the Douglas Aircraft company and trying to sell them to the Japanese In addition it was charged that Drummond had stolen a confi dential pamphlet dealing "with construction plans of new navy bombers All's Not Quiet or Ireland Yet BELAST Nov 30 A bomb blasted an Ulster curoms house to bits today on the harder between Northern and Southern Ireland as police hunted repub lican extremists they blamed for five similar explosio is along tn frontier last night The latest customs house lu be blown up was in Clontiver mangah county A group of pac ing cyclists narrowly escaped in jury In two other customs house po' ice found suitcases contain ng time bombs: that had failed to go off" They had been set for mid night These and oiler bombs were in bags address to local residents who were sup used cah for them Authorities stopped traffic on roads whore voilence occurred Between Eire (Southern Ireland) and Ulster (northern Ireland Belfast seethed with anxious speculation' lest the blasts usher in a new campaign o' violence by the Irish republican army injjl ster agitating for the union of both parts of the i lsh island Authorities declared the out breaks were a reply to the Ul der government's ini ens ve dre against the republican army ascists In Rumania Gel Sudden Jolt Codrcanu Imprisoned Leader And 13 Others Reported Killed ATTEMPTEDESCAPE Showdown Due in Govern Effort to Quell ascist Party BUCHARESTNov Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 39 ycar old Russian fascist leader and 13 others serving prison terms for treason with him were killed to day as Rumanian: authorities struck at terrorism attributed to Codreanu's outlawed Iron Guard organization An official statement said the 14 men were killed while at tempting to escape from Rummk Sarat prison ten miles from Bu charest and added they were but iedin the prison cemetery this morning The deaths were expected to bring police and the government to a definite showdown in tbe encrgctc and long standing effort to suppress the fascist group Sentenced Last May 'Codreanu was sentenced last May 27 to ten imprison ment treason The drive against the Iron Guards was set in motion Monday when lory Stefanescu Gonangu rector of the Universrw of Cl'ii was shot and critically by students described as memoirs of the Iron Guard Police reports said Codreanu was walking with an escort near the prison when a group of armed men rushed from the woods be side the rjad A general exchange of shots in what appeared to be an effort to take the rightist lead er from the officers followed Early reports said his jailers had orders to shoot in case an eU fort to rescue dreanu was made riend I cses High Post During his fr al last May the government inlrcdft cc alettir said to have been written by dreanu to Gerir an nazi leaders asking help to: mare Rumania a nazi country ov 1 (39 Codreanu denied all knowledge of the let ter Chief among the defense wit nesses tir was General Ion Antoresia irrei minister of war who tviLLeo that Co dteanu real patriot Last night General ntcsecu was oust ed as worn manrler the third army corps by roval devee Wafer Department Info New Office The city water department will move into its" new offices in the basement of Convention Hall Pryor commissioner of public works announced Wednesday afternoon The water departmenthas been located temporarily for the past few weeks in the office occupied by Mayor Bill Crawford while the new office was being built The change being made in time for the first of the month water bills to be paid at the new location The dep: ment was formerly located in the old city hall but had to move to make room for the remodeling of the building into a modern fire station Train Bus Crash Kills 3 Children LUCK Wis Nov (UP) Three school children and a wo man bus driver were killed and fivt youths injured critically when a sp widing passenger tram smashed into a school bus at a grade crossing near here late to day Members of the train crew said the bus a made over truck drove directly in front: of the locomo tive: The crash "carried the' ma chine and victims one hundred yards along the right of way Boaies of the dead and injured were placed on the train which was backed down the track sev eral miles to rederick Wis where the injured were taken to the rederick hospital German Spy ound Guilty By Jury NEW YORK Nov German born Erich Glaser 28 a former army air corps pri vate was convicted today with a recommer ition for clemency of conspiracy to steal American mili tary secrets The same federal court jury convicteu two other German spies last midnight without recom men Those facing the possible max imum of 20 ycarin prison under the code concerning espion age are Johanna Hofmann 26 a hairdresser on the German liner Europa end Otto Hermann Voss 39 a former airplane mechanic Still Seek ive Bodies Of Disaster Added Grief in That Victims Left Cabin of Plane It Proved Safe TWO SURVIVED Unusual Circumstance In Pilot Getting Too Many Radio Stations SAN RANCISCO Nov 30 (Al the churning surf off Point Reyes the gloomy search was re sumed today for the bodies of four men and a young woman who met death yesterday through a strange new: hazard of avia tion Officials gravely studied the queer phenomenon of radio reception which so con fused the pilot of a Seattle San rancisco United Airlines plane he: became lost and had to bring the" transport down on the sea when it ranyiut of gasoline One said the phenomenon has occur red: just three times and never before had caused an accident Added to the grief of the five victoms! families was the knowl edge that had the plane occu pants remained in the cabin in stead of scrambling to the top of the fuselage they probably would have reached shore without injury The cabin of the wrecked and battered air liner was dry when it was fin ally washed ashore The pilot and one passenger survived The survivors: Capt Charles Stead 42 vet eran pilot ho gave a full and harrowing account of the trag edy Passenger Isadore Edelstein 51 paroled Washington state convict bound for Honolulu tp begin a new life Edelstein was hoisted up cliff at Point Reyes by stretcher" after he and Stead had somehow fought their way to shore and then collapsed into unconscious ness from exhaustion Dispatched to the scene by the Civil Aeronautics authority inWashington was a board of in quiry headed by Thomas Har din" member of the CAAsafety board Their task "as" a United Airlin es official expressed it will make formal findings about what everybody now already knows was the cause of the acci poor pilot just got so many short wave stations he sort them the offi cial said Oakland airport did send out instructions to clear the air until the plane got its correct bearings but it was toolate then for he was already far off his course with gasoline fast Rascob DuPont Musi Pay Unde Sam WASHINGTON' Nov The board of appeals decided today that John Rascob form er chairman of the democratic national committee owes the gov ernment S886833plus eight interest and that Pierre Du Pont industrialist owes $586369 pl' interest The board ratified an agree ment between accountants for the two men and: the government Disorders Break Out In rance After Strike Threat Broken SEEK AWARD TO HONOR BOY WHO RESCUED SISTER State Lad Got Dying Brother Sister rom Blazing Home riday REDERICK Okla Nov (P) A hero's award was being sought today for "lO vear old Jce ranklin Rogers: who rescued his dying brother and sister from the blazjng farm home of his tenant farmer father Last riday Mr and Mrs John Rogers came to rederick on business leaving Joe ranklin to care for his bro ther John Wesley four and his sister Caroline June 13 months Wessel rederick pub lished one of the sponsors propos ing a heroism award: gave version of the heroism: Joe ranklin was awakened when his little sister became rest less from "the smoke of the blaz ing home He carried her out of doors When his four year old brother did not follow he rushed back found him squirming on the ficor trapped by the Joe rank lin ran to a horse tans filled a bucket and fought his way back through the flames Meantime Caroline June excit ed had toddled back into the house Dragging Jonn Wesley and clutching his hand Joe ranklin brought both out side John Wesley died the fol lowing day in a Clinton hospital Racial Enmity Is Blamed In 'Mutiny' LOS ANGELEsTnov CD Two men" accused of: attempted mutiny aboard the ill starred schooner Metha Nelson in Mexi can waters told a story today of racial enmity "during the voyage and denied any threats against the master Capt Re Hoffman The pair Charles Segal Holly wood sportsman and Abraham Kapellner a steward were held under $1000 bond pending a hearing Doc 15 Both asserted Captain Hoffman discriminated against them because they are Jews Two other passengers Countess Dorothy Di rasso Hollywood social figure and Dr Benjamin Blank Angeles county jail physician told of observing no mutinous acts The countess re turned aboard the Italian liner as did Segal and Kapellner after it had taken the disabled and drifting schooner in tow last week Dr Blank earlier left the Metha Nelson at Panama Mrs Braly Leaves local Health Unit Mrs Claudia Braly has resign ed effective Thursday as coun vital statistics" registrar and secretary for the City County Health unit it vas announced Wednesday She will be succeeded by Phyllis Deffenbaugh who has had considerable experience in work of this type Dr GlennW McDonald director st itecL Mrs Braly served with the unit for 15 months COUNTY COURT TERM CONTINUES The second contamination suit tried during the present term of county court resulted in a verdict of not Tuesday Moore incorporated was defendant in the action Both cases tried this week have re sulted in acquittals A case involving a moral of fense was being tried Wednesday with several more contamination suits against oil companies oper ating in this area due to be tried next Many Injured In Labor Disorders ollowing Victory Of Government Over Nation Wide Threat 1 The first big break in the strik front came at 8 am (2 am CST) four hours after the strike began when the subway work union in Paris conceded de feat and revoked its strike or der After some early morning hesitation public service worn ers in Paris and other cities re sumed their posis and duties un der military guard Political leaders be lief unless the' strike movement gained belated headway later the Daladier government would have established itself firmly enough in the saddle to go ahead with its projected signature of a new ranco German accord Tiie government has been un der heavy fire i for its intention to conclude a war renunciation pact with Nazi Germany a se quel to the Munich agreement at which Daladier was one of the Big our that partitioned Czech oslovakia Italian deputies made a noisy demonstration1 against rance in the chamber of deputies Taking their cue from oreign Minister Count Cia i as he referred in an address tor interest the fascist shouted in chorus Tunisia rench protectorate on the northern African coast: long has been a sourc" of friction be tween nee and Italy and the fascist press recently has increas ed attacks upon rule of the territory (By The Pr) Labor disorder broke out in eight rench cities Wednesday night after Premier Daladier had smashed a nation wide general strike with the threat of armed force and by military law At Toulouse three police in spectors and the mayor were in jured in clashes between strikers and police Large gioups of workers araded the main streets smashing windows of stores and automobiles Mobile guards charg ed the crowd several times be fore restoring order At Clermont errand groups ot strikers smashed store windows and attempted to seize the gen eral commar mg troops guarding the city "He brandished his re volver and escaped in an automo bile'The disorders broke out as workers left their jobs atenforc ed working hours Daladier earlier had thanked the workers for disregarding the general strike order and ordered for rance a tlvic ycar state of Aggie Group Recommends Jim Lookabaugh or Grid Coach Murray Aggie Coach Is Still HI IMIIIDV Mentioned As Successor VLU IIiJUKT Ij To Cox STILLWATER Nov Jmi Lookabaugh football coach at" Oklahoma City Capitol 'Hill high school was recommended to night for the position of head coach at Oklahoma A and college by the athletic cabinet of the institution Hirlhg of a successor to Ted Cox who resigned Monday after his third and most disappointing season v'ill be done by the state board of agriculture In the past the board has followed the rec ommendation of the college ath letic cabinet which recommended Lookabaugh be given a three year contract effective before the next spring practice A report at the capitol yester day said a nr Jonty of the mem bers ofj Lie state agriculture board favored appointment of I Powell coach of the Murray Ag gies state champions of the jun ior college conference A NEEDS BUILS MORE THAN COACHES SAYS SCOTT OKLAHOMA CITY Nov SO You ought to be able to buy a dozen dandv bulls for what one coaching staff President Joe Scott of the state agriculture board observed today in declar ing football is over emphasized at Oklahoma A and I college believe more good would be done for the state as a whole if the money used in hiring football coaches were used to improve the Scott declared The college would be better off if football vere abolished in his opinion seriously doubt that football is a game suited to the type of student we attract at StillwaerT he said Dozen Escape As ire Is Battled Nov ire broke out in the Stock ton State hospital early today and as 360 inmates were led to safety about a dozen of those described as criminally insane broke from the ranks and fled All but five of the escaped in mates were quickly rounded up and police belief the: others would soon be apprehend ed as all were pressed only in nightgowns State police and deputies joined city po lice in patrolling the streets and1 highways for the fugitives ire Chief Ralph Thompson said the fire discovered af 4 am and extinguished an hour later caused damage estimated at $40? 000 He said the: blaze broke out in ward 6 on the third floor where 60 inmates mostdescribed as having suicidal tendencies were sleeping On the same floor is ward five where the crimin ally "insane: were quartered Chief Thompson said cause of fire had not been determined Judge (rawford To Rear Atoka Case District Judge Tai Crawford will go to Atoka Thursday to preside at a hearing which arose as the result of a general elec tion dispute There was a recount in one of the races for county commission er in Atoka county and the out come was unsatisfactory result ing in court action Judge Crawford declared he knew none of the particulars other than the case involves an election dispute Heavy 'famage Demand BARTLESVILLE7okla Nov CD Mr and Mrs Cecil Lister filed a $50199 damage suit in district court today against Rice Bartlesville for injuries allegedly received last September in an auto bile collision in which Mrs parents Mr and Mrs Stookey were killed ATAL TO YOUNG ROBERT LORTON Associate Publisher of Tulsa World Stricken Dies Wednesday TULSA Nov 30 Death cut'wshort today the career of Robert Eugene Lorton "24 asso ciate publisher of the Tulsa World Unconscious since he suffered a cerebrel hemorrhage yesterday young Lorton died a few minutes before 10 am in St hos pital where he had been kept alive by the use of an iron lung sudden illness was at tributed by physicians to an in jury received in 1934 while he was diving at Wooiaroc ranch near Bartlesville He was serious ly injured at that time and since then his health had not been ro bust The youthful publisher was stricken ill on the first birthday of" his son Robert Eugene Lor ton jr At his side when death came were widow the former Beverly Rogers of Atlanta Ga and his parents Eugene Lorton owner and publisher of the World and Mrs Eugene Lorton They learned of their ill ness when they returned late yesterday from a trip to Panama State Youth Gets Life or Murder PRYOR Nov The club slaying of beautiful Alma Mann ing last summer resulted today in a life sentence for the farm boy who confessed the crime Wirt Parr 17 who said he beat the girl with a club half burned her body on a pile of brush and then hid it changed his plea of innocent to guilty District Judge Johnson sentenced him to life imprison ment anil he was immediately taken McAlester penitentiary Twice as many men as women wear spectacles i find (Check or Money Order) mv subscription to the (l! 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