Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

MIAMI OKLA RIDAY MAY 31 1929 PRICE IVE CENTS too! offered and MAY OBTAIN MAJORITY a total of floods parts cf the stumbled re Metal Market 75 rood of Porter had been New from and dan appeared were nine was who their Office of Publication' 11185 87 A Street Northeast $38835 Suit iled as Result of atal ight Other Havoc rom Heavy Downpour Over Oklahoma Is Reported Nominal Cotton irm Unable To Meet Obligations Already Has Won 244 in Commons to 257 for Both Other Parties Chief Justice and Wife Testify in Impeachment Trial in State 200 Muskogee Poison Victims Recovering temperature of 93 degrees death from heat and five drowning The heat wave extended was the At the GraintPrices Reach New Bottom Levels Second Tulsa Shock Victim Dies Today Belated Returns to Decide If It Will Have ull Control of House various indicated swollen 3 MORESOUGHT INBANKHOLDUP Woman Stabbed to Death by Her Maid Railroad Men Refuse ood in Protest Against Court Decision WASHINGTON May The farm relief conference com mittee resumed its negotiations today hopeful of an early agree ment on the export debenture plan and all other differences in the two farm bills passed separately by the Senate and House Senator McNary of Oregon chairman of the conference said he expected the committee to con clude its work not later than to morrow while Representative Hau gen of Iowa ranking House mem ber of the committee declared he saw no reason to prolong discus sions Resumption of discussions was taken to mean that the Senate conferees would recede from the debenture section anti take the controversy to the Senate for de cision None of the conference members however would com ment on this 250 MEXICANS HUNGER STRIKE Conferees Resume arm Bill Parley Parachute Jumper Plunges to Death A change in the city police force whereby Mace oreman day patrolman will be replaced by Jesse Tartar was announced last night by Chief rank Parker The change became effective immedia tely Tartar has worked on the force here several times before Chief Parker said that he be lived Tartar better qualified for the job at this time He also said that oreman had not indicated a desire to stay on the force since the recent change in city adminis tration Says' He Was to Get $l00( 'for Shooting Boarder Zi Othbr Roomers Insured HOLIDAY TOLL IN EAST ABOVE 30 OKLAHOMA CITY May (A1) Lowlands in many sections of Oklahoma were under water today following Memorial day downpours Heavy damage was done to crops In many cases replanted after the last high water There was little otner damage However ger ot serious small Reports from the state today rivers and creeks were receding but at the same time came reports of additional rains Rain at Pauls Valley totaled 345 inches Rush creek was sent far out of its banks there bat the Washita river was not affected greatly A bridge on a detour off Highway No 77 between Pauls Valley and Davis was wash ed out and traffic halted Near Purcell McClain county replanted crops were damaged heavily by high waters cf Walnut creek Some Trains Delayed A few miles from Okemah the North Canadian river overflowed its banks several hundred yards on each side Trains on the ort "A IMPACT IGNITES Commerce Man Apparently Did Not See at Blue Goose Imprisoned in the blazing wreckage of his truck for five min utes after a collision with a Northeast Oklahoma railroad pas senger car north of Commerce at 8 this morning Levi: Giv ens 55 year old employe of the' Commerce Mining and Royalty company was fatally burned and died en route to Miami 't Baptist hospital Examinations revealed that Givens escaped serious injury in the crash but died from burns received when the gasoline tank of a the truck ignited Mr Givens is survived by hjs wife and two sons Cobban general manager of the railroad was riding on the' S' front vestibule of the electric car with Gorman of Miami the motorman "Mr" said that neither he nor Gorman saw the truck until it was pn the tracks and that Givens apparently did not see the car 1 Givens was going to the Blue Goose mine from the 1 warehouse at Cardin and had just turned off Highway 66 at the Blue Goose crossing The car was northbound to Columbus Kas and1 had left Miami at 7:40 Tom Crawford was conductor Electric Car Slowed Down The electric car was slowed slightly for the but caught the cab of the truck" a'v full blow crashing it beneath the front of the vestibule lames immediately enveloped truck and street car demolishing the vehicle and badly damaging the electric car None of the passengers was injured A work car of thcN 0 hap pened to be following car to the mining field and came to the scene of the wreck in time to pull the passenger car back ward off the truck and permit an attempt to rescue Givens hopeless ly entangled in the wreckage Workmen from the Blue Goose mine aided in putting out the fifa on the street with chemical ap paratus from the mine V) Givens was rushed to Miam Baptist hospital in an but was pronounced dead when reached there He was riot dfeld when extricated from the wreck age 'fi Mr Givens had worked for that1 Royalty company for 18 years of ficials of that concern said io A day He lived one mile north off Commerce tv Mr Givens is survived by his wife and two grown sons who live near him north of Commerce1 They are Clinton and (Bud) Givens uneral Saturday uneral services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at the North Miami Pentecostal church by the Rev John Lynn andp the Rev Mrs Rose Rickner Burial will be in A cemetery the direction of the Mitchel son Undertaking company TULSA May A Mem orial day accident here caused by the toppling of an advertising ban ner pole against a high voltage power line claimed its second vic tim today with the death cf Virgil Stice 24 in a Tulsa hospital John Milton Workman 28 was electrocuted instantly Stice and two other men Watson 49 of Dawson and Chris Mabel 19 Tulsa suffered burns from the same shock which killed Workman Conditions of Watson and Mabel were reported serious The accident cccured late yes terday as the five men were erect ing the pole atop a subdivision building of the Morris Plan bank The pole struck a 30000 volt high line of the Public Service company SCRANTON Pa May (Ab A holiday crowd at the Ackerly speedway auto races saw a para chute jumper fall 2700 feet to his death when his parachute failed to open in a leap from an airplane Edgar (Red) Enochs 22 climbed out to the left wing of the plane as it circled above the track and jumped off His parachute did not open and body landed in a paeture outside the track enclosure tearing up the ground where it struck His home was Mullica Associated Press Eeased Wire A eatures RAINS DAMAGE STATE CROPS Charging that the Evans Wai lower Mining company did not pre vide a safe place to work as require ed by law a $32835 damage suit' was filled in district ccart here this morning as compensation fort the death of Robert Barnes killed last ebruary when a fellow work er struck him with a section of railroad iron The plaintiff Mrs Lucille Barnes asked $10335 for the estate cf the deceased and $22 835 as her personal loss as wife a Ralph (Bud) Curry is in thV county jail new awaiting trial on a murder charge filled after Barn es death The state will allegej that Curry caused Barnes death by striking him the head withe the three foot section of iron dur ing a quarrel over empty cans in the Goldenrod No 5 mine a prop erty of Evans Wallower company'! MiamlI)ailyNews Record VOL XXVI: NOi 298 aud Sunday 7 7 Mornlns by Miami Nw Rort PubUhinI Co (Inc) he science how was a member of the glee clunr orchestra Hi the school newspaper staff the annual staff the Letter dub the student council and the science club Ned said today that he in tended to attend Oklahoma A and college to study mechanical en gineering if he did not achieve success in the Edison competition Mrs 'R Nyberg of Picher is the mother His father Nyberg was a well known ma chinist founder of the Nyberg welding works at Picher before his death two years ago Ned has worked at the Nyberg shops for the last five years and there ac quired much of his ambition to en ter mechanical engineering Ned said he had never perfected any inventions At Norman the Picher youth will compete with eight boys one from each congressional district of the state It I reported delayed Little river flooded areas in southern Seminole county and northern Pontotoc county The cats harvest was delayed near Walters but the rains were considered favorable' to the cot ton crop Roads were reported impassable in the vicinity cf Hugo and crops in that section were said to be showing effects of continued wet weather The rains were not so heavy in southwestern Oklahoma where they were needed most Only light falls were reported at Hollis and rederick Creek Overflows Anadarko reported an estimated rainfall of four inches in the last 24 hours Overflows from Dela ware creek washed out an embank ment of the Rock Island railroad tracks east of Anadarko necessi tating a detour of traffic High ways were reported in a bad con dition The rainfall in Oklahoma City measured 162 inches at 7 a today bringing the total for the year to 165 inches which exceeds the normal figure by more than four inches Bartlesville and Washington county reported torrential rains The Caney river was sent three feet above normal and creeks were up Kingfisher had an inch of rain and roads in that section were muddy Woodward farther north west had only light showers The wheat crop near Watonga was reported helped by rams Guymon in the panhandle ported a one inch rainfall i a bold flight holdup Charles Vowell above 21 year old messenger for the American irst National bank of Oklahoma City was robbed of $75000 arid shot in the arm Vowell was transferring the money from the ederal Hqserve bank to 1 the American irst for payrolls' The three bandits overlooked $10000 in the pocket They made a clean getaway CLEVELAND Ohio May (Ah Mrs Dbrcthy Snyder wife of Alonzo Snyder prominent Cleveland attorned was stabbed to death with a butcher knife at her home here today Police said the stabbing was done by Anna Sze nan'a maid who had become an gry in an argument over her sal ary JOHN DONALDSON DIES DOUTHAT May John Donaldson 46 years old died at this merning at his home here uneral services will be held at 2 Sunday after noon at his home here Burial will be in A cemetery under the direction of the Green Undertak ing cpijapany Tarter Replaces oreman on Police Oklahoma City Police Ex pect Leaders of Gang to Be Caught Today OKLAHOMAXciTY May Three additional arrests probably' at St Joseph and Kan sas City Mo in connection with last $75000 bank messen ger holdup were expected within a few hours by Charles Becker chief of police he said to day' Chief Becker said the arrests would be by'far the most im portant yet made and would mean the capture of the leaders of a gang which planned and staged the robbery Russell Gibson arrested in Kan sas City was expected to be brought here today or tomorrow Robert Hurt Oklahoma City detective in connection with the holdup A federal warrant charg ing him with a stolen car from Kansas to Oklahoma was is sued to expedite extradition Mrs Minnie Rayl wealthy Hutchinson Kas resident who was arrested when $19207 in cur rency identified as part of the robbery loot was found in her automobile i asserted today' of the holdup Charged with possession Of stolen property she is at liberty on $5000 bond know anything about this said never have thought for a minute that anything like this could hap pen I never have associated with people who would ever think of stealing people and those of my late husband were Kansas pioneers The Rayls came there in 1872 and we came in 1884 I am sure there is no one who knows me in my home states that believes I am connected with this Henry Stahl of St Joseph ar rested here for investigation when he came from St Joseph to claim his automobile which was used in the holdup still was being held to day Police said he would be detained for questioning when Gibson is returned Police say thev have linked Gibson with the theft of car in St Joseph than half of the trucks produced in thia country in March wen soldi in foreign countries MACON Ga May In sanity will be the defense of Mrs Powers 71 year old Mason rooming house proprietor who I Earl Manchester 21 confessed in duced him? to kill James Parks 2C year old boarder at the wo house Attorneys for the womanan nouncedthe insanity plans just as police learned she had been in en gaged in liquor transactions as well as insurance plots Solicitor General' Charles Gar rett said he had 'a against 1 the woman and Manches ter to present to a special session of the grand jury which has been called next Tuesday' "The' prosecutor also urged an extra? term of the Bibb countyuperior court early in June Lured Him With Ad sSln addition to complicity in the murder of Paiks whom police said she lured to her rooming house by a newspaper advertisement for young: man who desired a officers saidthey had unearthed other various instances where she had injured young men roomers in her home A Manchester confessed he shot Parks to death at the insistence of Mrs Powers' who he said prom ised him $1000 after she had col lected $14000 on a $7 COO double indemnity policy she held on life One Other Man Insured 'learned of at least one other man besides who had been insured" by 'the widow1 with herself named as beneficiary 'iHoltisiL Mullis was sent by the landlady to a physical examiner for an insurance company for a $12000 policy but he' was turned down 1 Martin a photo grapher's" assistant wo offered to pav the premiums onijiisf policy? but he became sus picious never replied Chosen tas Dis trie 'A IsJt Enuy for Edison Scholarship MEXICO CITY May 31 GPU Two hundred and fifty Mexican railroad men were on a hunger strike in the chambers of the na tional supreme court today in pro test at the having rendered a judgment adverse' to them The decision was re jected of an application to over rule an arbitration committee which took from them'their status as union employees after a strike in 1926 The arbitration commit tee ruled that the strike illegal and that the men struck could not return to jobs All seemed aghast when supreme court handed down the decision In the demonstration which followed decision was made to go on a hunger strike and not to leave the room until the judgment was reversed A committee drafted and sent to President 'Portes Gil a telegram urging him'to use his good offices to call the supreme court into a plenary session to seek a solution of the and inviting him to visit the building himself and read over the stenographic report I Smith and Western railway were Ot the tna nt tha rssa said if he did he would be con vinced of the prejudice and partial attitude of some of the magistra tes who voted against their peti tion Virtually all thos remaining in the room were affiliated with un ions of railroad workers including the boiler and organiza tions Ned Nyberg17 Places irst in Competition at Tahlequahto Enter State Contest for Right to Represent Okla homa in amous Elimination Program for Selection ofYoung Genius as Understudy PICHER May Representing the entireHKMS8 gressional district ofOfflMHm virtue of his victory? over contestants at Tahlequah this week Ned Nyberg 17 year old Picher high school graduate will compete in the state contest at Norman June 10 for an Edison scholarship The plan was spon sored by Thomas Edison to choose a successor for himself in the field of science The one youth chosen will be picked from the 48 state winners of the contests con ducted along specifications laid down by Edison himself Part of the requirements of the Edison contests are general or all around abilities while a preference is expressed for boys with special scientific or mechanical ability The Picher high school faculty chose Ned Nyberg on that basis He graduated from Picher school last week with a grade average pf about 91 He had taken every sci HEBRON Ind May 31 (A) The body of a young woman about 20 years old who had been slain was found lying in a swamp about four miles south of here yester day Her skull had been crushed and the body then laid in several inches of brackish water and part ly covered wnn reeds Coroner Miller county said the woman dead about two weeks Donald McLain 10 upon the gruesome discovery while on a wild flower expedition Mrs Margaret Biggs of Ham mond Ind who was camping near here inspected the cloth ing and declared it somewhat re sembled that worn by her sister Miss Alma Seifrig who disappear ed two weeks ago from Calumet City Ind where she was employ ed as a maid Because of the con dition of the body Mrs Biggs was not allowed to see it but she stated its measurements corre sponded in a general way to those of Miss Seifrig A pin fastened to the coat bore the word Porter county officials requested Chicago officials to check their list of missing young women in an ef fort to identify the body Texas River Covers Village People Safe HOUSTON Tex May Lynchburg wag submerged today the 200 residents of that town about 200 miles from Houston sit ting on a hillside about a quarter of a mile away and watching the water flow their homes and business houses Residents fled before the swollen San Jacinto river swept over the town rf Showers probably to night and Saturday not much change in temperature WEATHER AND ROADS City Weather Temp Roads McAlester cloudy 72 good Ardmore cloudy 60 rough Ponca City cloudy 70 muddy Okmulgee cloudy It 78 good Enid rfi cloudy 70 muddy Bartlesville cloudy 82 rough Ulua city cloudy OKLAHOMA CITY May Chief Justice Charles Mason of the state supreme court and his wife testified in Justice i impeachment trial today 1 that they only borrowed a motor car which the chief justice is ac cused of receiving as a bribe Both asserted that motor car agent Sautbine who was attempt ing to sellthem a motor car let i them use a car for a trip to Albu querque when he was un able to return Justice car The Sautbine agency they said had sent the Mason car Semin ole iri': an effort to sell it at a price sufficient to enable the jus tice to purchase a car from it Justice Nason they said returned the car soon after returning from New Mexico When Justice an opinion favorable to Willis Sautbine in the case in which Sajitbine and the Cities cor poration were opposed Justice Mason testified he knew neither Willis Gnor Sautbine The opinion reversing one which pre viously had been rendered he said whs handed down without dissent June 21 1927 and was included in the American law report with commendations Justice Mason is charged with accepting as a bribe a $4000 auto mobile from Willis and Charles Sautbine while they were in terested in a case before the su preme court In 1926 Mrs Mason said the automobile agency of which Charles Sautbine is head first approached her husband in an effort to sell him a car The agency renewed its efforts she said in 1927 leaving a tan colored car with her and her husband to drive while attempting to sell Jus tice car which he had owned about two months It was understood she testified that if a sufficiently large price could be obtained it would be applied to the purchase price of the Sautbine car car she said taken to Seminole for sale She Signed License Blank Later' shsaid' as she 'and Jus tice Mason were planning a trip to Albuquerque the agent sent to her home a iew green motor car He explained that he could not return the Mason car in time for the trip and that Justice Mason could use the green car She complained she said that she and her husband could not drive the car out of the state without a license and a man connected with the agency told her to go to the agency for another make of car and motor car license agent There she said she signed an application for the license and received a li cense plate and certificate of title without payment She and her husband drove the green car to Albuquerque she said where Justice Mason visited his brother who was ill While at Albuquerqae she testified she and her husband were stopped by a motorcycle policeman who ask ed to see his certificate of title Justice Mason told the policeman she said that he had no title ex plaining that the automobile be longed to an Oklahoma' City agency Used Two Cars Three Weeks Justice used the two cars approximately three weeks she said At the end of that time she said her husband turned in the new car and obtained his own In corroboration of the testi mony of Thomas 'Elliott of Tulsa yesterday she stated that she and Justice Mason were in Tulsa between Sept 29 and Oct 3 1927 Williams of Enid manager of the Crews oil interests has indicated 1 Oct 1 as the date on which he saw Justice Mason and Milbum of Oklahoma City conversing before an Oklahoma Citv hotel Williams asserted that after the purported conversation Milburn told him he had arranged in conformity with' an agreement by Williams said Milburn was to receive $150000 from the Crews interests for an early decision of the case before the supreme court in which the Crews estate and the Sinclair Oil company were oppos ed The impeachment charges against Chief Justice Mason alleg es that the Sautbine company in its effort to prejudice the court not only bribed Justice Mason but attempted to bribe Justices John Harrison and James I Phelps of the supreme court by offering them motor cars at greatly reduc ed prices Sent Car to Harrison Mrs John Harrison testified today that the Sautbine company attempted to sell her husband a car alter she had been seen admir ing one of the cars Over her protest she said the agency sent a car to th Harrisonhome She insisted after she and her hus band had ridden in it a short time she said on sending the car back to agency The Sautbine com pany she 'said made repeated ef forts to sell her husband an auto WEAft rf straw hats 'SANDERS Tomor row is last day of our great sale! 1 A ig bars 2 lbs for 33c JAMES TIRE ire stone Supreme MYSTIC THEATRE MORGAN ROOING CO JoplinShingle roofs a specialty MIAMI MOTOR Used carvalues OTTAWA Junes i brides MAfeVEL BAKING CQ ree'tickets MIAMI PACKING CO Serve foast veal PIGGLY WIGGLY Large size a grapefruit 4 for 25c ATLANTIC AND PACIIC TEA 8 coffee 3 pounds for BROADEY Diamond brand matches 13c: carton MARR BRIDGER GROCERY CO 1 rute Gel' five 10c packages ''for 29c CASH Eggs 26c dozen PALACE New' ship 'meat of washable crepe and nolkadot dresses $1675 Tropical suits $990 shoes 'resh fish lb 25c GROCERYSv 3 tall cans milk 28c MEAT DEPARTMENTS 5 lb box sliced' bacon $135 IRST NATIONAL BANK i Prosperity Hats $1 QUEEN ANNE New sleeveless dresses $1275 GROCERY Beefroastlb 20c 4 calves' wanted ROSE BUD Dress? L0WER Thanks COLEMAN Irish GLORY DYER BROS rying chickens KEENAN GROCERY airland 12 quart pail 35cJ PECK Suit sale 1 3off I i POLLiTAX COLLECTOR Poll tax notice 't NATIONAL ADVERTISERSBlack lag Ballards Grove's Hills Bros Baking Powder i Magnolia Pickwick Quaker State Oils Resinol: Rich Nut 666 Mara thon Oils Marquette Tydol IvTst NEW YORK May (A7 Mike Thomas of Thomas Company Dallas Tex a mem ber of the New York Cotton ex change notified the exchange to day that he was unable to liqui date his assets and meet his obli gations A telegram from Mr Thomas was read from the ros trum of the exchange DALLAS Tex May 31 Mike Thomas who notified the New York Cotton exchange today that his company here was unable to liquidate its assets and meet obligations said the holdings here would not be affect ed by the action which he said was taken following a new ruling made by the New York Cotton ex change He said the suspension would be only temporary He would not go into details as to his actions Helen Wills Into rench Semi inals humidity of 92 the discombort from the heat prostrated and drownines It was 96 in Boston In England five nersrms diorl the heat and four were drowned At Corinth near Glen alls the temperature was 110 de grees Three drownings occurred in upper New York state Three persons drewned in New Jersey and at Meadville Pa a Civil war veteram dropped dead af ter taking parkin a parade Pittsburgh Pa reported a high one from CHICAGO May Grain prices crumbled again today under broadsides of selling inspired by unfavorable news from abroad and month end settlements New bot toms were found for every grain traded in the futures pits wheat dropping 2 3 8 to 2 3 4 cents be low final quotations and rye contracts for May delivery collapsing sensationally nearly eight cents a buchel and closing at 73 34 or 6 14 cents lower than Wednesdav Tulsa KC Car Theft Arrests Made Today TULSA May Chasteen 35 Tulsa was held in the city jail here today for inves tigation in connection with the theft and sale of 40 Kansas City automobiles in the last 18 months Chasteen is a brother in law of Minich arrested recently at Kansas City who is reported to have confessed complicity in the senes of thefts Police said one of the cars was in the possession of the Tulsan when he was arrested Another was found they said at a city ga rage where had been sold by Minich on recommenda tion Serial numbers on both had changed The heat wave extended into Ontario Canada with a tempera ture qf 91 degrees at Toronto In the province there were two deaths from heat and two drown ings Boy inds Body of Slain Girl in Swamp INSANITY PLEA" INSURANCE Si MURDER CASE 71 Year Old Georgia Land I JadyRepudiates I sion ShePIotted Crinie YOUTH ADMITS DEED LABOR PARTY IS Picher VICTORIOUS AT BRITISH POLLS MUSKOGEE May O7 1A11 of the 200 victims of noisoning at a box supper at the State ire 7 convention here Wednesday? night were reported today either to have recovered or to be'icori 'i valescing Mrs George Higginbotham wife of the Muskogee fire chief condition was believed to be worst was still confined 'to her bed today but was not thought to be seriously ill No investigation was to determine the exact cause of the illnesses More than 12000 traffic law of fenders in New Orleans were rested or ordered to report' 'to headquarters during 1927 Many atalities Mark One of Hottest Memorial Days on Record NEW YORK May More than a scorei of deaths from heat and drownings marked one of the hottest Memorial days in the 'East Thousands flocked from the sweltering cities to seek relief at bathing beaches while highways were jammed with automobiles adding to the toll many deaths and injuries from collisions In New York City the tempera ture roe to 83 degrees while a percent added to our persons died tour others there were NEW YORK May' Lead steady spot New York 7X0 East St Louis 680 Zine steady East St Louis spot and future 6X7 665 i LONDON May Lead spot and future £21 10s Zinc spot' £26 15s uture £26 7s LONDON May With nearly three quarters of the seats in the House of Commons account ed for this afternoon the Labor party was running a neck and neck race with the other parties for a clear majority in the new commons Returns at 4 showed the Laborites with 244 seats secure out of 308 needed for a majority over all the other parties while the combined membership of the otner parties stooa at 257 The lineup was: Labor 244 Conservatives 214 Liberals 36 Others 7 The Labor showing largest in its historv time that it held power in 1923 supported by the Liberals it had 191 votes while the Liberals had 159 and the Conservatives 259 The Labor gains which came in at a rapid rate last night this morning had slowed up somewhat leaving the question as to whether Labor could secure a clear major ity a decided problem Every thing indicated that the exact line up could not be determined until almost complete returns were in It seemed however as if the task cut out for the Labor party was a difficult one to achieve as while it had a comfortable lead over the Conservatives it needed to take83 out of the remaining 161 seats to get a clear majority Lloyd George and Daughter Win David Lloyd George liberal leader and former coalition pre mier was re elected to the com mons from his home 'constituency of Carnarvon Wales Miss MeganJ Lloyd George daughter ofrthj leader was elected to the house over Con servative and Labor opponents She succeeded a Liberal incumbent Baldwin Re Elected Stanley Baldwin prime minister and leader of the Conservative party was re elected to the Com monS fxpm his constituency Bewd ley Worchestershire with a plural ity of 14018 Winston Churchill chancellor of the exchequer in the Baldwin cab inet and one of the chief figures in the Conservative party was re elected for the Eppino division of Essex today Mr Churchill got in handily with a total of 23972 votes against Sharp Liberal with 19005 votes It had been thought that the chancellor might have a difficult time in Eppino Macdonald Wins Easily DURHAM England May 31 (A1) Ramsay Macdonald Labor leader and former premier Was elected today in the Seaham divis ion here Mr MacDonald polled a crush ing vote over his' two opponents in the Seaham division It was a landslide for the Labor leader who totaled 35615 votes against 6821 for Mr irnly Whittingstall Con sei vative and 1431 for Pcllitt one of the leaders of the British Communist party who had made a particularly bitter campaign again st the Labor chief CAR TO OTHER JUDGE Mrs John Harrison Tells of Attempt to Sell Ono to Her Husband MAMNSASSERTraf THEY BORROWED SAUTBINE AUTO OVER WOMAN ST PAUL May SlZ Cff) Walter Raymond Miller polo player and army officer with the Third infantry stationed at ort Snelling was seriously pounded! last night in a pistol duel which police said was over a wo man Dr William Hirst a pny sician was arrested a Both men police were had called upon Miss Nan Elizabeth erguson 26 Dr Hirst who is 52 and married was seated with her in an automobile police said when Lieutenant Miller arrived There were words and the two men drew pistols walked to the middle of the street and opened fire Lieutenant Miller was shot in both legs Police declared one shot had been fired from the pistol but it went wild Dr Hirst and Miss erguson were held for further questioning Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations WEATHER ORECAST Oklahoma 2 Cloudy occasion I showers to night and Satur day A a nsas Partly cloudy to night and Satur day probably showers in north i west portion to night DRIVER ATALLY BURNEDINRAIL crossing crash: Levi Givens 55 Imprisoned In Truck by lames After Collision "PARIS May UPl Helen Wills forged into the semi finals of the rench tennis championship ahead of the field today defeat ing Mme Helen Lafaurie of rance with ease 6 4 6 1 The defending champion from America played rather listlessly and without exertion in the first set winning all five of her service games She contended herself with breaking through her delivery once Miss Wills applied slightly more pressure in the second set and soon led at 4 love Mme La faurie capturing the fifth game on her own service Helen added more speed and length to her drives and ran out the match after two deuce games exports took care of Sercent of the motor vehicle sales March A I it? 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