Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

'V VOL XXX NO 186 PRICE IVE CENTS MIAMI OKLA THURSDAY EBRUARY 2 1933 TEST PLANE OR POLAR LIGHT PATRONAGE IS CITED LAWMAKERS HEEDING been detouring (Continued on Page Two) Late lashes (Continued on Page Two) I See By The Paper WEATHER ORECAST i £13 12 6d future £13 Published Everey Evening (Except Saturday) and Sunday Morning by Miami News Record Publishing Co (Inc) Quapaw toward opened to traf Llncoln Ellsworth (left) explorer and Bernt Balchen noted pilot are shown at Hasbrouck Heights In the plane in which they hope to fly over the south pole next December In preparation for the pro posed adventure they will make test flights In Canada late in ebruary (Associated Press Photo) Hogging the Sunlight Today County Business Hindered by Suit Hear ing at 0 eb' 13 armer Wounded by Money Seekers Abolition Sought or eud Stricken ounty in Kentucky Executive Makes Charge Against Author of Probe Resolution in Special Mes sage as Sensational Testi mony Continues Girl Witnesses Placed Under Guard Senate Committee Begins Study of House Bill to Ban oreclosures Negligible Bids at Rural Auctions ocus Atten tion on Problem PENNY BECOMES WEAPON IN ARM MORTGAGE DRIVE SUBSTITUTE TAX BILLS DRATED Okla eb a gunfight with two men he said demanded allegedly paid two other men represented themselves as federal officers Andy Dement a farmer living at Haywood was in a hospi tai here today with a bullet wound in the stomach "7 Dement who told officers $100 was paid Monday night to two men for protection in the operation of a still identified the photographs two former convicts as his assail ants Authorities were looking for the pair at Holdenville and Wetum ka RED BONILS PUBLISHER DIES PAVING WILL BE OPENEB SUNDAY Several Amendments Voted Down as Murrayites Regain Confidence DIXON ACCUSED ATTEMPT TO BUY TESTIMONY 3 Ccht Rale on Cigarets Proposed General Sales Levy Shaping Workmen Removing Protec tive Covering rom Com merce Quapaw Slab came into the national 10 years ago when the of the Denver Post re uncovering the Teapot scandal The in Office of Publication A Street and irst Avenue ST LOUIS eb Alvah Duncan 61 retired Arkansas farm er and his son Alvah Duncan Jr 36 met in the city hospital here to day after 10 years of separation Neither knew the other was in St Louis until a social service worker noted the similarity of the names of the elder Duncan who is suffer ing from dropsy and the son who received a broken leg in an auto mobile accident The son left his home at Dolph Ark when a boy and had seen his father only once since about 10 years ago The futher moved to St Louis a year ago WARM SPRINGS Ga eb (dP) A gigantic experiment design ed to provide 200000 jobs and her ald the birth of a new America from which the curse of unemployment would be lifted was proposed today by President elect Roosevelt The rugged highlands and fertile industrial valley of the Tennessee watershed were chosen by the next President for this interesting experiment a government has ever Seated before the blazing fire place of the White he told newspaper men of his dream for a vast internal development en compassing reforestation reclama tion waterpower and agricultural rehabilitation The aim is to bal ance the national anewbetween cities and the country 200000 Jobs in Valley Mr Roosevelt expects this huge laboratory experiment to provide employment for 200000 men in the Tennessee valley alone More than this he hopes to carry the" scheme into other sections of the nation LIE THREATENED INORMANT DECLARES ATHER AND SON ARE REUNITED IN HOSPITAL Th Associated Press Leased Wire A eatures SPENCER Okla eb A 50 year old village blacksmith Jim Doyle shot and killed one of four burglars as they emerged early today from the Spencer State bank 'The others escaped as shotgun jammed Officers were trying to identify the slain man described as about 38 years old The burglars were able to obtain but' $20 which they took frim a cash drawer after knocking the combination from the safe and at tempting to remove the doer with blow torches which with other equipment they left in the bank Doyle who lives next door to the bank was awakened by' the men prying open the bank door Unable to give an alarm because he had no telephone he erected a boiler steel barricade at hisbeiroom win dow and waited for several hours before opening fire Spencer has something cf a reputation as a bank robbdr nem esis Over a year ago a robber was fatally shot 'by vigilantes af ter he had robbe'1 the town bank victim carried a new automatic pistol and wore brown trousers a gray coat and a rain coat Doyle did not know whether his three companions escaped on foot or in a motor car Less than an hour after the slay ing Doyle was handed a reward check for $500 by Secretary Eugene Gum of the Oklahoma association State Senate Passes Relief Colony Bill Bits of Evidence at Pleas anton Hearing Only Deepen Mystery BURNS PARSONS Kas eb Mrs Earl Moore 31 was burned to death last night when kerosene she was pouring on a fire in a kitchen stove exploded in her home three miles southeast of Edna The house burned to the ground With her clothing afire Mrs Moore ran into the yard screaming She is sur vived by four children the oldest eight years old Her husband died last falL INQUEST UTILE IN MARR DEATH GAS CASE REOPENED OKLAHOMA CITY eb Hearing on the application of 26 Oklahoma towns for reduced gas rates from the Lone Star was in terests was reopened before the State corporation commission to day GOBBLER'S KNOB Pa eb 2 The groundhog came out of his hole on Canoe Ridge today sawhis shadow at exactly 9:31 a and with a couple of sniffs predicted skating in March The old' fellow predic tions anxiously are awaited by a breathless world from one eb 2 to the next seemed a bit thin and emaciated but he denied that the depression has anything to do with his appearance After squaring himself around so as to cast a good clear shad ow the weather sage looked at Court Hoover and Sid Smith who were on hand to get the forecast hot off the griddle Phillip laxman Who Told Of $100000 Plot to Wreck Proration Asserts He Was Warned Not to Apr pear Before Senate Com mittee OKLAHOMA CITY eb UP) Establishment of colonies made up of families now in desti tute circumstances in the moun tain regions of southeastern Okla homa was authorized in a Senate measure approved today The bill also provides for a sur vey of all state lands determ ine if it is advisable to tenant the same with Senator Paul Stewart 'author of the resolution said he believed 1000 homes could be built from timber cut with convict labor for an average of $50 a house The resolution directed that a committee headed by Allen Nichols of Wewoka conduct hear ings to determine where such colonies might be started of families now on charity could become self sustain Senator Stewart said Stormy Career of Denver Post Head Ends at Age of 72 Years a A plan that is always good ex plained by the Security Bank 'Trust Co Robert Montgomery in closes tonight at the Cole tnan Jack Oakie in New closing tonight at the 'Glory 55 pound mattress $598 at Mont gomery'i Wards Special sale of shirts at Penney Co iMiss Simplicity a new Gossard garment featured at Scott Living Pint milk of magnesia 39c at the Crown Drug Co Sale of high grade shoes at the The national advertisers have good news too Baum Bengay Callotabs Chesterfield Creomul sion Kruschen Salts Mello Glo Remedy Santa 666 Unguentine Vicks Voratone Anti Mptic President Elect Plans to Test Idea on Watershed Comprising Seven States Anticipat ing Employment of 200000 Men in Initial Undertaking Comprising Reforestration Reclamation Waterpower and Agricultural Development inanced by Bonds End of Unemployment and Decentralization of Industry Are Objectives CHICAGO eb 2 CP) The lowly penny scorned in boom days today became the chief weapon of the farmer as he fought the farm mortgage Over the nation the rural house holder and his neighbors suddenly have become Land stock and property sales have been halted by meager bids as legisla tors national and state had the problem slapped in their face At Aurora Neb 10 cents was top: bid as farmers banded to pre vent competitive bidding for im plements put under the hammer on a chattel mortgage ollowing widespread procedure the purchas ers returned their newly acquired property to its original owner In Illinois the 'cry of was raised when like methods were adopted A Doss holder of a chattel mortgage said he sent the following telegram to Gov Henry Horner: bidders are successful in set tling debts in this manner we are face to face with anarchy It is simply a question of whose claim is the An officer sent by Doss to seize mortgaged property sold for $490 at the sale was met by irate neigh bors and his mission was unsuc cessful Echo in Oklahoma Nearly 1300 farmers showed a mortgage company repersentative the nearest way home as he at tempted to foreclose on a farrh near Cherokee Okla Meanwhile a Senate committee in Washington began study of a House bill to ban foreclosures An amendment was proposed by or ganized agriculture to provide "conciliation to ad just debts between farmers and mortgage holders The Texas House proposed a mortgage moratorium and the Iowa Senate adopted a mortgage arbi tration bill only to have disagree ment with the lower House which asked a stronger measure DENVER Colo eb rederick Bonfils publisher of the Denver Post died at his home here this morning Mr Bonfils had been ill for sev eral days and last Saturday un derwent a minor operation for an infected ear He was 72 years old rederick Bonfils and Tammen purchased the Denver Post in 1892 the Post then being the smallest paper in Denver They pursued an" aggressive policy of attacking corporate abuses and developed a policy of interpretative news 1 writing Tammen died July 19 1924 and since then Bonfils was the direct ing head of the Post Besides his activity as a paper publisher Bonfils was inter ested extensively for many years in various business enterprises in the Rocky Mountain region and built up a large fortune He is survived by his widow and two daughters Bonfils traced his relationship to the Bonaparte family and to Cor nelia Ramolini the mother of Na poleon Exposed Tcanot Dome nontils spotlight activities suited in Dome oil vestigators uncovered leads which led to congressional investigations and court "In December 1899 Tammen and Bonfils were shot and wounded seriously by Anderson an attorney who was tried three times but never convicted Tam men and Bonfils accused Anderson of taking advantage of Alfred Packer known then as the who had been arrested a year before when he "battled his way through snowdrifts from the snowbound mining camp of Lake City Colo and told of being forc ed to 'subsist on the flesh of his fellow prospectors Bought Kansas City Post Bonfils and Tammen extended their newspaper enterprise to Kan TWO ATALLY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT LONGVIEW Tex eb Cy McDaniels 29 of Carthage Tex and Winchester 28 of Elmore City Okla were' injured fatally today when their automo bile struck a culvert and overturn ed near Willow Springs four miles south of Longview 4 he will ask the various govern ment departments involved to make surveys with a view to putting the proposition up to Congress at an early date Confident that the whole project will be self sustaining he has no doubt of the of it and the availability of bonds for the undertaking it is successful and I am con fident it will he said think this development Will be the fore runner of similar projects in other sections particularly in the Ohio and Arkansas valleys and in the Columbia river basin of the North west Population Out of Balance have about 12000000 wage earners unemployed If we return imediately to the high level of 1929 I think we would still have 5000 000 out of work and on a dole Our population is out of balance If by government activity we can restore the balance we will have taken a great step forward (Continued on Page Two) see that cast bovs? made a clearer one in many years and it means you'll' have plenty of skating in March have had a lot of unsea sonable weather this winter I can tell'It has been'much warmer than normal but be a change soon and shorts will go into the moth balls will be snow mixed with rain and a lot of ice Blizzards are due and winter will not only linger in the lap of spring but it will chill knees The old fellow stroked his gray ing whiskers thoughtfully glanced again at his shadow and started for his hole Another paved link will bq add ed to the street of Highway 66 next Sunday when the five more miles of con crete west out of Commerce will be fic All traffic has this gap for several weeks while the project was under way The actual paving was completed ap proximately three weeks ago but mostly to weather conditions extra time was 'given the concrete to harden properly thereby delaying the opening of the strip Workmen are removing the dirt and straw covering from the slab this week protection that has remained on top of the finished work since it was finished Paving Other Segment Another paving' project: north out of Quapaw toward the Kansas state line for a distance 'of four miles is expected to be completed by eb 15 it was announced today by highway engineers It is believ that the entire paving segment from the Kansas state line through Quapaw and to the junction north east of Commerce will be in readi ness by March 10 A continuous paved highway from Miami to Joplin St Louis and Kansas City will be' available when this Oklahoma gap is closed Metal Market NEW YORK eb Lead quiet spot New York 300: East St Louis 287 Zinc barely steady East St Louis spot and fu ture 282 LONDON eb Lead spot £10 10s future £10 17s 6d Zinc spot 17s 6d VILLAGER KILLS BANK ROBBER Blacksmith Opens ire on Spencer Okla Raiders Only $20 Obtained OKLAHOMA CITY eb GP The House revenue and taxation comittee today began consideration of a committee substitute bill plac ing a tax of 3 cents on each pack age1 of 20 cigarets or $150 per 1000 The lengthy bill prepared by the tax commission is a substitute for Governor measure rejected by the committee which would have taxed cigarets 4 cents a package and placed a heavy levy on cigars cosmetics and drinks As preparation of a general sales tax measure began by Dr Mallopy pf Caddq couqty and oth ers Rep Ebey of Pontotoc an nounced that of 57 House members questioned by him all but five had favored sales tax except on cig arets Three favored the hill if bulk groceries and cheap clothing were exempt A public hearing will be held next Tuesday op the administration nwAsnrp sptf inr a minimum production tax of 3 cents a barro' I on oil Chairman A Leecrait nounced PLEASANTON Kas eb GP) ragmentary bits of evi dence presented before a jury today appeared only to deep en thq mysterv surrounding the slaying of Luther Marr Kansas City realtor killed by a bullet in the head fired by a un caused the death of the 67 year old man near here Monday night'vNp evidence was presented whici wqlild defini tely support the several theories advanced by Kan sas City police and local authori ties Summed up these were: That he was the victim of a he had expressed concern over be fore he left Kansas City for Mound City to attend a foreclosure sale that ho was the victim of a hitch hiker be had mentioned in a 'postal card to his wife that he was slain by suspected bank robbers report ed in that section of the state about the same time Mrs Marr who did' not attend the inquest told officers her hus band wrote 1 he had anticipated trouble from a hitchhiker he had forced from his motor car Two youths Willard Denchmine and Ira Wilson told the jury they were on their way here by motor car Mon day night when: they sayc a strange man standing by a car They said they later learned the machine be longed to the real estate man and testified the man was not Marr armers1 in the vicinity told of seeing a motor car cruising back and forth along the road that eve ning Ownership of an overcoat found on a mail box about a mile from the scene of the slaying was not definitely determined Paul Andres tenant on the farm sold at the foreclosure sale said he be lieved the coat belonced to Marr Ira Abbey a constable said the garment was not the one worn by a hitchhiker he saw late Monday night in Pleasanton It was sent to City where Mrs Marr will view Clark Linn county coro ner expressed the opinion the as sailants fired the fatal shot whilestanding: on (he running board of car Bandit Trail at Tulsa TULSA eb The zig zag trail of four hoodlums who rob bed a bank messenger in North Kansas City of $14000 Saturday and overpowered a posse in their flight was followed in Oklahoma today by Kansas City officers The officers who pursued the men into Iowa through Missouri and Kansas into Oklahoma thence to ort Smith Ark where they were suspected of the kidnaping of two policemen after a gun fight and back into Oklahoma expressed belief were close behind the fugitives The search led south from Tulsa this morning after the officers had made an unsuccessful dash to South Coffeyville Okla yesterday The officers said they learned one of the robbers had been wounded and was being cared for by relatives there They found he had continu ed his flight however Arr automobile which police said had been rented by the men here Tuesday 'wad found abandoned ort Smith RANKORT Ky eb A recommendation that the 1934 Kentucky Legislature abol ish Clay county which gtate In spector and Examiner Nat Sewell says has been for nearly half a be cause of factional violence is made in a report submitted to Gov Ruby Inf foon by the examiner Abolition of the Kentucky mountain county under the er plan would entail di visions of its territory and as signing the various sections to adjacent counties the governmental ma chinery of the county has failed to function effectively is most clearly evidenced by the history 7 of the county for the past 40 the examiner's report said Two women have been among those shot and killed in recent months in the remote Double Creek section of Clay county in shootings which authorities laid to factional enmities At Man chester the county seat two of ficials were fatally shot last year They were Police Judge Stivers and Common Attorney rank Baker WASHINGTON eb The uller amendment to the inde pendent offices: supply hill to kill the $500000 appropriation for the farm board for the first six months of the next fiscal year was defeated today in the Hou WASHINGTON eb Appropriations of an additional $150000000 for direct relief loans to states was' recommended to a Senate committee today by Charles A Miller president of the Recon struction corporation from the Alleghenies to the Pacific coast and through it to re establish American life on a basis that will mean the end of unemployment the decentralization of industry and a people protected by the watchful eye of a government The great Tennessee valley pro ject involving half a dozen states is to include: 1 Reforestation 2 Creation of flood control ba sins in the upper valleys first at Cove creek in the Clinch river 3 Waterpower development to be available for cities states and farm homes 4 Reclamation1 of the fertile bottom lands for agricultural use 5 Elimination of the unprofit able marginal lands from farm pur suits 6 Eventual flood control of the great Mississippi river 7 Eventual improvement of navigation To Make Surveys at Once Mr Roosevelt announced that as soon as he takes office next March SAW SEVERS OOT ENID Okla Clar ence Leighton 291 of Dover Okla lost a foot and was injured about the head yesterday when a circular sa used for cutting firewood went to pieces The blade of the saw severed Leighton's left foot just above the ankle and at the same time he was struck on the head by a flying pulley The St Louis San rancisco rail way tax protest suit scheduled to day for hearing: in the court of tax review at Oklahoma City has been postponed until eb County At torney Perry Porter announced to day The tax protests filed by Kurn and John Lonsdale receivers of the railway allege illegal and excessive tax levies for the fiscal year starting July 1 1932 and end ing June 30 1933 by the Ottawa County Excise board Representing the largest tax paying organization in the county the railway officials allege that the 888 mills levy is in excess by 15 mill County business is being held up and judicial 'procedure may be af fected unless a decision is rea'ched I soon COUNTER gJARGE OIL QUIZ BRIBERY RY GOVERNOR WITNESS GETS i TH THREA TS Roosevelt Outlines Huge Rehabilitation Program To Get Population Back in Balance With Tennessee Valley as Scene of irst 1 '''V 1 I 1 i 2 1V11 AMI AIL MWS HOUSE DRIVES ON TO PASSAGE WENTZ BILL TAX PROTEST CASE DELAYED OKLAHOMA CITY eb GP) Striking at sensational testimony in a state Senate oil proration in quiry Governor Murray charged today in a message to the Senate that a member of the investigating committee offered to an intended witness' An affidavit attached to the mes sage signed by Poor lieu? tenant in the state militia stated' Senator Woody Dixon of Mari etta had told Poor that co operate in position and will' use my influence in assisting you to get a state Senator Dixon one of the young cr members of the upper House and a member of the bitter anti admin istration bloc was the author of( the original resolution that paved i the way for the sweeping inquiry into the labyrinth of oil rumors i In Special Message The chargewas con in a special message to the1 Senate It was supplemented by an affidavit the original of which the governor exhibited to 1 newspaper men and it attacked the type xf: testimony and manner of question ing witnesses before the probe com mittee iSigned by the governor and Col Cicero I Murray the governor's cousin and generalissimo of the oil field military occupation the ex ecutive message demanded that the Senate grant authority to permit I the governor and Cicero Murray to 'name an attorney to represent them all times the sessions of the investigating committee Girl Witnesses Guarded Vera Sellers and Pearl Tibbs younjg girl stenographers who gave sensational testimony before the oil committee meanwhile were placed1 under the guard of Henry Clai borne Senate sergeant at arms Thursday noon on order of the Sen ate comittee following reports they were being harassed Death Threats Made Phillip laxman Sayre Okla i oil man who gave sensational testimony in state Senate proration inquiry declared today his life had been threatened after he agreed to appear before the committee i laxman who detailed a pur ported $100000 plot which never was consummated to break tion said the threats were deliv ered at Sayre last week end a source that makes me believe I can identify the origin of the threat I was told better not start to testify or you will never get there' said lax? man Search for Witnesses Meanwhile officers 'began a state wide search for witnesses (Continued qn Page Two) Opponents Decry Pressure on Senators Through Promises of avors OKLAHOMA CITY eb GP) down several amend inonfc tho rlotprminpfl adminiRfrat 1 tion bloc in the Oklahoma today pushed toward final passage A the administration measure design ed to oust Lew Wentz Republican toe oi Governor Murray rrom the highway commission 1 One amendment rejected by a close vote would have prevented reappointment of the present com missioners on the new four man board proposed by the measure which already has passed the Sen ate 'The two present Democratic commissioners Sam Hawks and McKeel are Murray appointees Proponents Satisfied Proponents of the measure ap parently were satisfied they had gained enough votes to put the measure into immediate effect' Only one section of the bill had been considered in a morning ses sion before the House recessed foruan hour jasi Opponents 'introduced a flood of amendments as Consideration be gan Rep Whitford of Nowata coun ty introduced an amendment to provide a one man commissioner who would be appointed by the gov ernor and removed by him at will The amendment was opposed by Rep Henderson of Haskell county original author of the bill He said there never Ijad been any differences between the ma jority members of the commission and the governor 1 Amendment Rejected it a fact your only pur Pose is to get rid of Wentz 1 aswed Rep Strickland of Pontotoc county my chief Hen derson replied a one man com mission law do it just as Strickland continued The Whitford amendment was Rejected A Rep Sutherland of Comanche 1 county proposed an amendment to prevent reappointment of the pres ent commission The amendment was rejected 53 to 15 Rep Boyer of Tulsa coun ty sought to reduc6 the number of commissioners to three as at pres ent Patronage Is Cited department is used for no Other purpose but to give patron age so as to line up the Legisla Boyer said the patronage that has a been held out to you Use your own His amendment lost An amendment was then offeredS by Rep Timmons of Tulsa county to give theHouse 'as well as the Senate power to confirm appoint ments of the governor He charg ed the executive had ith the by demand ing the House after the roads and highway committee adopted his amendment have no doubti you will re st ject the amendment now because (Continued from Page One) Okla homa air colder in extreme east por tion freezing to night riday fair A an sas riday a i somewhat colder freezing in north portion tonight Sunday fair air tonight and ri colder tdhight 'in south Kansas air tonight and ri day not much change in tempera ture in Miami from 2 A I 12 A Wednesday until noon today: 2 52! 2 a 40 4 52) 4 a 40 6 52) 6 a 38 8 471 8 a m39 10 46 10 a m43 'Midnight 45tNoon 49.