Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

ly VOL XXXII NO: 193 MIAMI OKLA MONDAY EBRUARY 11 1935 PRICE IVE CENTS TiTHinn TAm i Ymmir Mt HAm MANN tUUWdtL ARGUES 7a I'' a a I Defense Assails to Jurors as Kennamer trial Begins OllTCWMABIIS 'ks fBI OfVETO IN DAMAGEIT ifTALY SUMMONS Mary McElroy Vanishes at IREILLY ACCUSES IS REED TOD AY Reappears in Illinois PAY SCALE BIG ISSUE TERMED LADDER A (Continued on Page Two) MARY McELROY ap Continued on Page Two) Subscribe for the News Record irst Airplane (Continued on Page Two) 2 4 6 8 4 Pufaltihed Evtry Swcisg Except Saturday and Sunday Honing tp Miaenl NnwRaeord PublUhlo Co (Im) ENLIVENS WORK RELIE DISPUTE HONOLULU' eb At 2 a today (7:30 a eastern standard time) the naval radio sta tion here heard a message from the schooner Seth Parker saying the wind was abating but that every body aboard was packing belong ings in case it became necessary to abandon the ship A Southwestern Greyhound line bus attached in Miami Saturday night after a damage suit was filed by Clarence Morgan for mer bus agent against the corpo ration was released today by Pete Coons deputy sheriff': following the move of posting bond set at 900 Morgan who was employed by the bus corporation until last June asks damages totaling 8299999 breach of contract and con resulting he stated in the petition at the court office in him Mor gan charges that the company made an oral agreement with him to continue in his position for least five after June 14 last The bus en route from St Louis to EL Paso Tex was held Satur day night and delayed approxi mately 30 passengers who were traveling to Tulsa and other south western points Another bus was sent to Miami to accommodate the travelers Morgan stated further in his pe tition that the corporation convert ed his telephone service for ths use and also certain including the office furniture and him from tho place of 1 covered the heretofore city back in 1927 The scientists however kept on burrowing downward and their efforts were rewarded by the Tecent find The newest find was the elev enth town to be unearthed in the succeeding layers of excavation Delving in its ruins the arch eologists found walls of build ings household utensils recept acles for the beauty prepara tions of the women of that day and other remains of the peo domestic life Both the building construction and the pottery discovered equalled those of later cultures Bache re ported Miami from 2 afternoon until DAYTONA BEACH la eb 11 (AO Sir Malcolm Campbell automobile speed king set new American stock car records on the beach here today while forced to leave his record holding Blue bird in its garage because of in adequate beach conditions He boosted the flying start rec ords as follows: 7 One mile from 86295 to 88202 ive miles from 86237 to 88051 Campbell set the new records in a new 1935 sedan (Hudson) JURORS ACQUIT MAJORSHEPARD President i Intimates That He Wilt Not Approve a Widely Changed Bill ind Army Surgeon Not Guilty in Second Trial or Murder of Wife Attorney ehemently De dares Baby Was Not Taken Through Window act Butler Had Charge of Dog That Bark Is Used by Defense Call to Colors Sounded as Result of New Hostili ties With am am am am am Youth Undaunted by Court Ordeal Expects His Own Story to Clear Him SAN RANCISCO eb (TP) An SOS call from the American Seth Parker sent the gray British cruiser Australia through a gathering South Sea storm early today to the rescue of the battered old schooner It was the second time in 24 hours that the cruiser with royalty aboard had steered toward the Parker on a similar errand of mercy The United States navy also went into action The naval radio station at Honolulu said a navy tug had been ordered to leave the base at Samoa at 6:30 a Hono HOUSETAKESUP SCHOOL INANCE Some Units Already Have Sailed Attack on Bor der Post Disclosed EXCAVATORS IND UNDER ANCIENT SUCCESSOR IN TWELTH LAYER CIVILIZATION Youth Gets Year or Theft of Corn Illegal Traff icing In Liquor Probed in NY 225000 TROOPS TO GO TO ARICA TOPEKA 'Kas eb Maj Charles A Shepard A retired today acquitted by a jury of the charge that he mur dered his second wife Zenana 37 by poison at ort Riley Kas June 15 1929 Judge Colin Neblett did not reach the courtroom from his hotel until 9:20 during which interval both jury and spectators moved nervous ly in theiiseats verdict is right and Shepard said Shepard now 63 and married to a third wife was convicted once of poisoning Mrs Zenana Shepard but the supreme court of the United States set the verdict aside on a showing of prejudicial testimony nead the close Mrs Shepard was '37 when she died after a lingering and mysteri ous illness which puzzled all physi cians in the army post ort Riley Shepard in his defense set forth that she was a despondent drunkard who often threatened sui cide Government testimony sought to prove that Shepard who had gone to San Antonio Tex to take a flight course in the fall of 1928 there met and fell in love with Miss Grace Brandon then 23 and that he poisoned his wife in or der to be free to marry her They pledged their troth the government claimed around Thanksgiving of 1928 although Shepard contended that was not until nearly a year later Miss Brandon who surrendered letters and gifts to the prosecution was a witness against her ersewhile lover at both his trials Ollie of Publication A Stmt nd lrat Aenn an exhibition ship flew to Miami from Monett Mo to perform at a celebration here in 1912 They im mediately decided to duplicate the visiting craft This they did equip ping it with a four cylinder motor of their own design In accordance with the accepted practice in air plane construction in those days the machine had the propellor in the rear of the wings which "ac counted for its designation as a plane 4The pilot perched precariously on a network of struts in the front of the craft and maneuvered by means of a wheel BULLETIN WASHINGTON eb' The Senate appropria tions committee voted 14 to 9 to reconsider the McCarran prevailing wage amendment to the $4880000000 relief bill but deferred a vote on it until later in the day (Copyright 1935 By The Alsoeiated Press) ROME eb 11 Italy called one quarter million men to the col ors today and started thousands of soldiers off to Africa as fresh hos tilities were reported on the fron tier between Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia A spokesman said that the whole military class of 1911 had been called out and it is known that the class numbers more than 225000 men An official communique announced two divisions numbering 8000 men each had also been mobilized The call to service was issued said the government meas ures of a precautionary 'Text of Communique The text of the communique fol Idws: a measure of precautionary nature two divisions of the pelor itana and the cavinana have been mobilized between the Tenth and Eleventh infantry of recall of the con tingents of the class of 1911 have been conducted with the greatest Reports from Naples early this afternoon indicated several thou sand troops already have sailed from there The date of the mobilization or der indicates that it was issued shortly after word had been re ceived of the most recent Ethiopian attack on an Italian frontier post along the Ethiopia Italian Soma liland border in the 'vicinity of Asdub A government spokesman dis closed this morning that official quarters knew of the latest border hostilities 10 days ago although the communique making them public was issued only last night At the same time an air fleet of 50 planes Which has been under the command of Gen Italo Balbo the leader of the mass flight to OKLAHOMA CITY eb CP) Ben Laska colorful Den ver attorney today was unsuccess ful in his i attempt to 'obtain dis missal of an indictment charging him with receiving a portion of the Charles Urschel kidnaping ransom as a fee Appearing as his own attorney Laska attacked the indictment on the ground it is based on legal or competent After a brief hearing Judge Edgar Vaught denied the plea in abatement and instructed Laska to be ready for trial April 1 tentative trial date ollowing the hearing Laska was arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty Although he asked permission to file other motions in an attempt to have the indictment dismissed Laska intimated he would fils no new pleadings The Denver conten tion there have been evi dence on which to base the indict ment was met with rhe statement of Judge Vaught: Laska you have no way of knowing' what tes timony was presented to the grand jury that returned the Laska was scheduled to retqrn to Denver this afternoon Legislators Also Ponder Gross Production Tax And Planning Board Roosevelt Says Amendment Already Put in Would Wreck His Intentions PHILADELPHIA eb Scientists who uncovered acity of 3250 BC a couple of 'years ago thought thev had found the oldest com 's munity but learned re cently that town was on top of its by eightcenturies This new city was announced in a report from Charles Bache field director of the American School of Oriental University of Penn sylvania Museum Archeological expedition which began its work eight years ago Digging in the Tepe Gawra a pre historic mound in northern Mesopotamia the expedition dis Metal Market NEW YORK eb Lead steady spot New York $50 East St Louis 335 Zinc dull East St Louis spot and future 370 LONDON eb Lead spot £10 7s 6d uture £10 1O Zinc spot £12 future £12 2s 6d NORMAL Ill eb Mary McElroy daughter of City ManagerH McElroy of Kansas City was taken from a Chicago bus at 11 a today for question ing by police after her reported disappearance from Kansas City Miss McElroy was traveling alone The 26 year old brunette victim of a sensational kidnaping in May of 1933 readily admitted her identity It was nervousness over the pen alties meted out to three of the men convicted of her abduction which caused her to leave her fa home in Kansas City lost night she said One of the three Walter McGee is under sen tence of death for the $30000 kid naping A second George Mc Gee drew a life sentence Appearing tired and wornjlhe young woman told police who stopped the bus that she had not eaten since she left her home late last night Worried About Case was worrying so much about the case I must have lost my police here quoted Miss McElroy especially upset over the thought that my testi mony was to be instrumental in sending Walter McGee one of the men who kidnaped me to his death am not sorry that I testified as I did however It was the only thing I could do and those men de serve to be punished Miss McElroy was taken to the home of Grant Ridenour mayor Noel Abbott 22 years old plead ed guilty in district court here today to larceny charges in con nection with the theft of corn from a farmer living northeast of Mi ami He was sentenced by Judge Ad Coppedge to serve one year in the state prison at McAlester Three others Brown 29 years old charged wth forgery Elwood Corby 33 chirged burglary and Elwood Long 19 held on rob bery charges pleaded not guilty whm arraigned before Judge Cop pedge Long pleaded not guilty to two charges of robbery with fire arms EX CONGRESSMAN DIES CHANDLER Okla eb (TP) Joseph Pringey 70 years old ifth district congressman from 1921 to 1923 died at his home here early today a victim of heart dis ease Burial will be in Chandler at 3 prn Wednesday Apparently Suffering rom Nervous Disorder Result Of Kidnaping Experience Daughter of City Manager Is Detained by Police of Normal to await word from her father the city manager of Kansas City Telegraphs Her ather KANSAS CITY eb Miss Mary McElroy who mys eri ously disappeared last night to day telegraphed her father Irom Springfield Ill saying that she was safe The telegram was read to Judge McElroy over the telephone His daughter said she did not know how she reached the Illinois city Judge McElroy said an airplane would be sent to Springfield to re turn her here rightened She Said The message said: but I am too frightened to know what I am It was signed THisg McElroy recently has beet the recipient of abusive and threat ening letters and telephone calls concerning the 1933 kidnaping for vzhich the convicted leader Walter McGee is under sentence of death She has had several nervous break downs since her experience in the hands of the kidnap gang William McElroy the girl's un cle and Mathew Murray Jack son county director of public works the airport to make the trip to Springfield The tele gram did not reveal Miss McE1 whereabouts there Said She elt Nervous Miss McElroy disappeared shortly after the departure of friends who had spent the evening at the McElroy home 45 45 41 36 I 35 I 10 34 Noon 0 WHEATELEY Laska Tries in Vain To Callt Off Trial WASHINGTON eb A hint that President Roosevelt will veto the $4880900000 work relief bill if it is enacted with ma jor changes to which he objects was dropped today in the midst of ad ministration efforts to quell a Sen ate One sen ator said the President inti mated he would not approve a measure that will not permit him to carry out his Another legislator Chairman Glass (D Va) of the Senate ap propriations committee was re quested by the President to inform the revolters that insistence on a change they already have written into the bill will wreck his plan to end the dole This change the Mc Carran amendment which would increase wage rates to be paid 3 500000 relief workers was up for reconsideration today It was adonted last week 12 to 8 The Roosevelt forces expressed confidence of their ability to re verse the decision on this but some members of the com mittee said they were not so sureMcAdoo to Change Vote? One senator aligned with the President reported that Senator McAdoo i (D Cal) who at first voted for the amendment and then moved to re consider will vote now to uphold the $50 a month wage rates advo cated by Mr Roosevelt NEW YORK eb A drive against illegal traffic in liquor has been started in New York by 200 picked investigators': and probably will be extended td' cities all over the nation says the a New York Times The investigators include 100 picked plain clothes men from the police department and 100 relief workers most of whom are experi a enced accountants Alfter attending a special school for instruction in federal state and local liquor laws: they started out in pairs to make a block by block inspection of all places selling liquor Hundreds of bottles of spurious liquor have been found says the 7 Times Other violations were found a in operating without required Been ses illegal cutting and mixing of liquor and selling liquor on which no tax had been paid A number of violators had their zw licenses revoked by the treasury de' partment 3 32 33 38 44 Ed DeChenne 65 years old a resident of Miami for the last 25 years during which time he was engaged principally in the auto mobile business died at 8 Sunday morning at his home 427 A street southeast He was well known throughout the Tri State district Airplane Venture Recalled Twenty three years ago Mr De Chenne was the co builder with the late (Doc) of what is believed to have been the first airplane in Oklahoma Robinson and DeChenne were bitten by the when WheatteoomphciMnhe'kiS naping and murder of Baby Lind bergh Pleading to save Hauptmann from the electric chair as the per pietrator of the crime Edward Reilly of Brooklyn chief of the de fense staff declared Lindbergh was stabbed in the back by those who worked for In this contention he flung out the name of Betty Gow the and charged she was us the only person aside from the Lindberghs who knew the baby was to be in Hopewell on the night of the crime and of Wheatley the butler now dead who he said' had charge of the dog which failed to bark when the baby was taken Ladder a He Charges' The booming attorney charged the kidnap ladder was a and that the baby was not taken from its nursery through the win dow person that picked that child out of that he cried 'T give you my solemn word (he in ference I draw knew that Reilly claimed the child would have cried if a stranger had'picked it up unless it had been doped As to the contention the ladder was a he said is nothing in the mud indicate that Hauptmann or anyM body else fell in that mud and there is nothing in the mud that in dicates the baby fell in the Reilly several times brought in the name of Johnson the Norwegian sailor and friend of Betty Gow who talked to her on? the telephone early in the evening of the crime was the man who talked" to Betty Gow while Colonel Lind berghwaseatingdinier allowed Jo remain in the safety of Den he asked signal was said coast is And that child came down either oneof those two staircases wrapped in i the arms of some person the poor child had confidence in and why it cry why it scream and there was no more breaking of a ladder no falling in the mud because in the soft mud at the foot of this ladder there would be the imprint: of a body and possibly the imprint of a DEENDANT IS JOVIAL pDl pm pm pm pm Rig Crowd Attends Monthly Sales Day ebruary Sales day attracted one of the i largest crowds in months today as buyers took part in active buying at prices ad judged to be The market offerings featured a heavy turnover of horses which were placed on the block shortly after noon Hogs and cattle were not available in large num bers Associated Preet Leased Wire I PAWNEE Okla eb I Defense stormed at I a dirty by the I pjosecution today in tedious ques I tioning of prospective jurots in the murder trial of Phil Kennamer I federal 19 year old son for I the Thanksgiving night slaying of I Gorrell Jr I Jumping to his feet in indigna I tion A' lint Moss defense coun sei shouted his objections when Prentiss Rowe Pawnee prosecu I I tion assistant asked jurors if they I knew former member of the bar I at Tulsa Mr W7 I resent Moss cried state is just bringing this in be cause Mr Maben is a frieifd of mine This is just a nasty dirty unwarranted insinuation Mr Ma I i ben is right here in this courtroom I I and is a member of the Tulsa bar I and in as good standing as Mr I Rowe of Pawnee county I they want to get rough I put the sawdust on the floor 1 and go to li Prosecutor Appeals to Judge I is no occasion for interjected Holly Anderson Tulsa I county attorney appealing to Dis trict Judge Thurman I meant a member of the Tulsa I Rowe apologized As Moss continued in an under I tone1 Anderson again appealed to I the judge I your honor please' have I Mr Moss address the court andKquit talking across the "counsel I I Judge Hurst then ordered the at torneys to address the court and not I opposing counsel I The bitter squabble occurred af ter Rowe had questioned jurors as Jt io whether they knew Maben or had discussed the case with him I Another Unexplained Query Another unexplained phase I developed by questions con eeming a Kendall of Tul None of the prospective ju ors knew Kendall Rowe did not i identify Kendall further jThe twelve men in the jury box were turned to the defense for questioning after one man Leonard Kline Pawnee bank clerk had been 'excused for personal objections to voting the death penalty The tilt followed persistent questioning about being proached by strangers any of you know rank Kendall of Tulsa? Rowe had asked No one spoke OKLAHOMA CITY eb the Senate works on the newly introduced planning board which would co op erate with the federal government in planning new projects the House will take up the 5 percent gross production tax and school financing bills this afternoon This was decid ed by the joint steering committee in conference this morning with Governor Marland Two attempts last week to con sider the gross tax bill in commit tee of the whole failed as amend ments were introduced to increase the tax to 8 percent More than 30 members of the House are signed up to support the drastic increase The present rate is 3jercent Those sponsoring the 8 percent tax with a 5 cent per barrel minumum on oil Chicago two years ago took off teei tnat it sucn taxes are piacea sufficiently high there will be no increase of the sales taxes ''Jess Taylor (Woodward) is lead er of the bloc of western represen a 5 cent er barrel minimum on oil bers who are behind the move to hike the levy The school financing bill would set aside $16000000 of the general revenue fund annually for schools which would be placed on a county instead of a school district basis In addition a 10 mill adva lorem tax would be imposed in the counties 1 ight Over Relief igures Meantime a vigorous fight was under way to reduce the amount of relief appropriations asked by Gov ernor Marland for care of during the remainder of this fiscal year The Senate passed the bill carrying $1500000 the ex ecutive request Rep Carey (Pottawatomie) an nounced he would ask that the amount be cut from $1500000 to $500000 The House revenue committee resumed open hearings on the ad bill to increase in surance premium taxes from 2 to 3 percent vt I 'r' Modem brick makers can mold from 1000 to 1800 bricks daily T)eChenne Co Builder of irst Miami Airplane Dies at Age of 65 OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday warm er Tuesday ARKANSAS Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday MISSOURI Probably fair to night and Tuesday slowly rising temperature Tuesday and in cen tral and west tonight Temperatures in )( yesterday noon today: 2 3 6 8 10 Midnight Hoax in Plight Of Radio Ship But Cruiser Goes to? AidOf Adventure Schoon er Seth Parker for Se'c ond Time in Response To SOS Call After inding No Trouble 'There During irst Visit Mi ami Daily News Recor Ottawa Comity Popotatfai 38737 Inl Prosecution Queries as to Being Are Bw Cause of Tirade Slew TASK GETTING JURY Jailer Overpowered our Escape at Ada ADA Okla eb Hurl ing a two foot iron radiator pipe at Jailer Rains when he opened their cell door to permit one to sweep out debris four prisoners rushed Rains in the Pontotoc coun ty jail here this morning seized his keys locked him in a cell and then fled through the courthouse to safe ty A general alarm was'' sounded and officers of surrounding coun ties joined in a search for the four Onie Knight Whitey Jamison Al bert Dickerson and Kyser all facing trial on charges of robbery with firearms Rains was not' seriously hurt (Copyright 1935 By The Associated Preu) LEMINGTON eb Reverting to an original coii tention of an counsel for Bruno Hauptmann today acciis a ed Betty Gow and the late Ollie (Related Story on Page 2) from Cyrenaica for Eritrea Balbo himself is to come to Rome tomor row to attend a grand council meet ing which'has been 'called for Thursday Another squadron of airplanes will leave the Italian mainland soon to replace those Sent from Cyre nacia It is estimated that the Ital ian military forces already have 30 planes in Italian Somaliland and 30 more in Eritrea Diplomatic sources today said that Premier Mussolini undoubted ly had decided upon the present mobilization as a result of the clar ification of the European situation followings the conversations in Rome between himself and Pierre Laval rench foreign minister and in Londan between Laval Pre mier Pierre Etienne landin of rance and Prime Minister Ram say MacDonald and Sir John Si mon' foreign secretary of Great Britain These circles said it was scarcely probable that II Duce would embark on a military enter prise in Africa without being as sured that Europe would remain calm while he engaged in that task Malcolm Campbell Sets New Records ra A Ja gw 7 few A A Vf nATT i hSMANAC I 'a fe! r'A Ja 1 ft' ftp 1 iw.