Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

a 'VOL XXXI NO 180 MIAMI OKLA MONDAY JANUARY 29 1934 Offiw of Poblieatiea A 7T A stnd Irn Aena( rKlCh hlVE CENTS MORE ISHING RECAPTURED i Excavators Dig Under Los Angeles for Lost City of'LizardPeopl was denied cities the Pacific coast dug the lower portals HOOKED dwoa jXiaiooS louo)stH'BUioqeino THRUST TO BE WEAK? $14000 LOOT IS OUND WALKER QUAKES DRIVE NITRATE SALES 7 4 MEXICANS OUT EXCITE CAPITAL zsP cl was accomnamed by a destructive Hgf of Ships for wind that blew down small' rural AT CLAREMORE an GALES AN IRES in (Continued on Page i wo) (Continued on Paso Two) Associated Press Leased Wire the said Champ Clark was speaker of the House of Representatives for eight years the longest the office was held by any one man 3 near two eggs Tie Watchman Rob Bank of $5000 ed re te' 31 Rice should not be threshed un til it has been in the shock at least two weeks' Thousands Quit Homes as Tremor Shakes Cities In State of Guerrero DIVERS BRAVE ICY WATERS TO SEEK 5 BODIES Cargoes to ar East Disturb Officials atal Auto Crash Is Basis of $25600 Suit ir irst Cold Wave of 1934 Races rom Alaska to Atlantic Seaboard Auto Is Stolen rom Parking Place Here WINTERRALLIES TO REGAIN PART ITS PRESTIGE en Mrs Roosevelt Says Only Wines Preferably Ameri can Will Be Served PAIRSHOTAND PUT IN JAIL BY LORIDA POLICE OCEANAIRMAIL PLANE CRASHES NEAR ITS GOAL LIQUOR BANNED IN WHITE HOUSE ie 9 Three Persons Lose Lives Blazes Accompanying On slaught of Cold exan Is Arrested Here as Shoplifter ederal agents are making in quiry at Norfolk Va and other ports the Post said in an effort to learn who has chartered the ves sels and where they will make their deliveries It was pointed out that nitrate is produced in considerable quan tities at Hopewell Va and the pa per asserted thousands of tons had been transported from this point to Japan in the last two years is only one explanation given to the sudden chartering of so many vessels to load the Post said "and that is that both Japan and Russia are plan ning intensive manufacture of war Shinping circles in New York and Norfolk it was added are ex cited over the move It was said a cablegram had been received here from Norway in response to in anities about the port of dischare for the 12 vessels saying only "de tails the lower nnrl ale fereeJ I into the upper tunnels provid ing ventilation Large rooms in the domes of hills houser hundreds of fami lies who imperishable herbs as a food supply against the coming of another fire The lizard people who were reputed to be highly intellectual and to have developed a cement better than any now in use re garded the lizard as the symbol of long life They laid their city out in the shape of one its tail to the southwest legendary story must remain said Shu felt proved by excava tion But we are prepared to go down 1000 feet before we will abandon our US GETS READY TO USE BIG UND AS The theft of a 1931 Chevrolet coupe belonging to Dick Wills of Miami was reported to county au thorities this morning Wills told officers that the coupe was Taken late Saturday morning from a parking place near the Coleman theater The car was recently purchased in Arkansas by Wills and carried a 1933 license plate from that state The number of the plate is 5419 A 1934 Oklahoma license tag which he had justpurchased was lying in the seat of the machine The number of ths new tag is 439 365 nt ik er 1 xt iy 7 Note Dropped to Them by Air Liner Pilot Telling Of Help to Come Two Women and Another Man Held Texas May Vie or Custody of Trio TULSA Jan UP) A slab in a local morgue was the resting place today of Rufus Russell 23 who with two companions last night tried to steal a police scout car while holding Mrs Rich ardson of Tulsa a captive their own machine Russell killed by four shots frori the automatic pistol of Detective Earl Gardner died before he coulde taken to a hospital Major Morgan 19 received a scalp wound and with his brother Virlen 23 was being hedl without bond to await the filing of charges of robbery with irearms today Mrs Richardson was unhurt She A damage suit for 825600 was filed here Saturday against Mrs Anna Bear Hallam wealthy Indian woman The suit was filed by John Steen Miami youth who was rid ing with Tommy Bear 19 year old son of Mrs Hallam killed last June 5 near Commerce when his car turned over while rounding a curve Steen a 27 year old Indian was severely injured and was confined to the hospital here for some time He suffered numerous cuts and bruises about the head and body Bear owner and driver of the machine was thrown through the top and was found some distance from the spot where the car came to rest after turning over several times He died almost instantly Walker Wounded in Arm aces Amputation to' Safeguard His Life VeleWVemit)fr Troubles End MIDLOTHIAN Tex Jan The irst National: bank of Midlothian was robbed of $5000 early today by a gang of yeggmen who bound and gagged a night watchman and burned their way into the vault The yeggs seized Edwards night watchman and after disarm ing him forced him to accompany them as they forced their way into the bank They worked steadily on the vault for four hours finally succeeding in breaking into it at 5 a and escaping with cur rency estimated at $5000 by Cash ier Wilemon Edwards succeeded in freeing himself about one hour later and reported the robbery to authorities The yeggs cut down all means of communication before entering the bank Edwards said that although only two men entered the bank he be lieved others waited outside as lookout men Radio Set Stolen Boxer Arrested and needed money to support his invalid mother Mrs Lucitta Sumpter the ac cused mother is in a Gallup hospital recovering from a broken pelvis Attendants said she had expected her son to come for her Sunday Sumpter was? arrested last night in a chase that started as Patrol man James Hickey heard blows coming from a hidden space be tween the irst National bank of Winslow and an adjoining building During the three block chase the officer fired several shots before Man Who ought On Both Sides in Civil War Dies Leonard(Jack )Robertson 24 year old Miamian who was arrested late Saturday night by Patrolman Witt Ellis was formally charged with burglary today arrest followed a tip to city officers from Jack Cole wh i cold them that he had information connecting Robertson with the theft of a radio several days ago from the Cole filling station on ast Central avenue Robertson who earned recogni tion in the amateur heavyweight boxing ranks several years ago was to be arraigned this afternoon permission to penetrate further But Shufelt continued explora tions with his devfee which led him hither and yon over an area from the public library to the southwest museum Dug 5000 Years knew I was over a pattern of he declared today had mapped out their course the position of large rooms and the location of depos its of gold but I under stand the meaning of He was taken to Little Chief Greenleaf an educated Hopi In dian from Arizona who some times lectures under the English name of Macklin Shufelt said Macklin told him he apparently had located one of three lost ORGER TO PRISON OKLAHOMA CITY Jan Arthur Phillips who Deputy Sheriff John Adams said "is want ed from coast to coast and from Canada to the for alleged forgeries was given five years prison by District Judge Hill upon pleading guilty to two such charges here today a group ot men are digging in the heart of Los Angeles for a lost underground city of the The shaft now down 250 feet the 'explorers Wbliev'e will lead to the of the city of catacombs in which were stored the city records which legend says were written on tablets of gold Warren Shufelt geophysi cal mining engineer and design er of an which togeth er with Indian legend spurred the diggers on not long ago was in search for Spanish gold in this same area With other associates he dug 50 feet on OLATHE Kas Jan CP) Joseph Holmes 92 who served with both the Union and Confederate forces during the Civil war and received honor able discharges from both died Sunday near Stanley Kas After being honorably dis charged from the Confederate army in which he served with Company A of the irst regi mental cavalry he enlisted in the Third regiment of the Colo rado cavalry serving with the unit in several Indian cam paigns WASHINGTON Jan A statement that no distilled liquor will at any time be served in the White House but that will be no fixed rules as to the serving of was issued today by Mrs ranklin Roosevelt When wines are served Mrs Roosevelt said they will be simple wines being given to American Mrs complete state ment follows the 15th of ebruary it wif become legal in the District of Co lumbia to servie wine No distilled liquor will at any time be served in the White House There will be nJ fixed rule as to the Serving of wine but when: served there will be of course simple wines preference oe giVen to American buildings were damaged spent the night out of doors Numerous light shocks were felt several hours after the heavy quake Sunday at 1:10 Electric light lines in Acapulco anq nearby towns were destroyed and several rivers overflowed in undating fields and damaging To prevent possible casualties in case of a second quake the Aca pulco reservoir was drained for fear a break in the dam would re sult in flooding the city Doctors reported two premature bi at Tuluca as a result of a shock NORWALK Conn Jan (A') Dickin son Cummings son of At torney General Homer Cum i finings" was still unconscious today from a fractured skull he received Saturday night in an automobile crash which brought death to a woman passenger The woman was Mrs Etta PlankTaylor of Stamford The other per sons in the car Albert Mishley of 'r" Stamford the driver and Mrs Agatha Raphael of Stamford were unhurt Mishley was free under S2500 bond on a charge of man 'slaughter 1 rom Washington the attorney general kept in close touch 'with the Norwalk hospital but there Iwere no indications that he plan ned to leave the capital had been taken by the trio when they robbed her escort Homer My ers and stole his automobile earlier in the evening straight shooting won plaudits today Only a few days ago he shot down and captured Joel Cai son of Little Rock wanted on seven robbery charges after he id attemptea to escape in a command eered bus loaded with passengers The Morgans were reported to have been paroled recenty while serving terms in Arkansas for rob bing a bank at Hindsville Russell was from Russellville Ark and recently was arrested here as a robbery suspect but nev er was convicted Son of Cummings In Critical State CONGRESS STILL IN LEASH WASHINGTON Jan man in the White 'House had new evidence today as Con gress neared the end of its first month that he still maintains an almost unprecedented influ ence on Capitol hill The testimony rested in the money bill virtually ready for President signature in substantially the form he asked 'It? was pushed through in jig time with only three of the 373 Democrats in both houses opposing it The com bined vote of the House and Senate read 426 to 63 Against the background polit ical observers have come to the conclusion that the control over rdespite some earlier predictions to the contrary has not declined since the historic special session lastspring which saw his every wish gratified Including the monetary? bill five pieces of legislation have j)een enacted "during the first month of the season all in sub stantially the form desired by the I a a HOLBRUOK Ariz Jan (Ah of attempted bank rob bery Dillworth Sumpter who last October as a candidate for Con gress drew the largest Socialist vote in history is in jail Sumpter defeated in the election by Mrs Isabella Greenway Demo srat though he ran two to one ahead of a Republican opponent Wilkinson accused of bar tering at the foundation Of the bank in an effort to tunnel through it have bungled po lice quoted him as declaring after asserting he was work by by the about 5000 years ago after a great tongue of fire had out of the Southwest destroying all life in its They dug the labyrinths to es cape future fires and one of the cities lay within a chain of hills forming frog of a The description fits said Shufelt and he interested other persons in financing the shaft which is being dug on North Hill street within a few blocks of the city hall Tide Helped Ventilation The legend as told by Mack lin said the lost city was' dug with powerful chemicals The tunnels began at the ocean The tide passing daily in and out of Muskogee Man Blames Blown ront Tire for Tragic Accident HOLLYWOOD Jan' Injured marital relations which Lupe Vekz thought would take two weeks to heal were mended in less than 24 hours the Mexican movie actress and her husband Johnny Weissmuller have dis closed Miss Velez and Weismuller Sep areW last Wednesday the actress they were going to) try a for two weeks a on he WATERTOWN Jan 29 Two Ogdensburg divers han dicapped by a temperature of 12 degrees below zero descended into the icy water of the Power canal at Black river three times this morning an effort to find the automobile in which four nuns and a driver went to their deaths last night The divers George isher and Edward Boucher reported that the valves of their diving suits froze so fast it was impossible to stay in the water more than a minute or two at a time They found no sign of the? car in the first at tempts 'The car tore through a guard rail and rolled down an embank ment into 20 feet of water yester day The nuns and their names before entering the convent were: Sister Gabriel Mary Giblin of Carthage rincipaUof the acad emy Sister Alphonsls Margaret Kenney of Philadelphia Sister An gelo Emma Walsh of Lowville and Sister Christina Saide Hallgos of Scranton Pa The driver of the automobile was Martin' of Carthage CLAREMORE Okla Jan T) Blame for an accident here last night that claimed livesk and dangerously injured a third man was laid to a blown front fifo hv Work re kvxM xj iiuunvj du year old Muskogee insurance man in a lengthy report to county offi cials today House said that reports that he was drinking were "false and that there was no whisky: in his heavy automobile A previous report given by county officers was that they were investigating to deter mine if the driver of the: death machine was under the influence of whisky Those killed were Dr Nick els of Nowata president of 5 the Oklahoma veterinary society and A Wheatley Pryor Okla farmer "Joe Collins farmer who" lives near Claremore suffered a crushed leg and amputation was necessary Collins had gone to the scene of a minor accident involving the cars1 driven by Dr Nickels and Wheat ley and was? standing with them beside the road when ma chine rolled headlong: against the stalled machines was blinded by the lights of cars parked on the wrong side of the said House and just then saw two cars in the ditch' on the opposite side As I put on the brakes a front tire blew and the machine swerved striking the parked cars little boy cried out that his daddy was killed I supposed he referred to the pre vious accident I only found out my cars was to blame after the sheriff came to my hotel No charges were filed against House WASHINGTON Jan 29 (A) Several members of the Roosevelt cabinet were reported today by the Washington Post to be discussing the sudden chartering by unidenti fied persons of about a dozen ves sels to Joad nitrates in Chile for delivery to unnamed ports The nitrates were presumably bound the paper said for Russia and Ja pan The ships it added are all of British and Scandinavian registry and many of them have been lying Ottawa County Populatioo 38737 DPirT I7TVT? CI7XTTO a ail izi 1'1 CIMN1Q Possibility of Currency War With Britain Is Seen In Washington BILL TO BE LAW SOON Congress May Send Money Measure to President By Tomorrow I WEATHER ORECAST OKLAHOMA air not quite so cold in west portion tonight Tuesday fair rising temperature ARKANSAS air hard freez ing tonight Tuesday fair with ris ing temperature" MISSOURI Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday possibly lightsenow in east portion tonight not quite so cold tonight slowly ris ing temperature Tuesday KANSAS air tonight and Tuesday except unsettled in' east portion tonight slowly rising tem perature tonight and in east andcouth portions Tuesday Temperatures in Miami from yesterday afternoon until noon today: WASHINGTON Jan: 29 Administration officials today care fully outlined plans for throwing the $2000000000 stabilize: i tion fund into gear at the same ib' time seeing possibilities of a stern si currency war with Great Britain It is stated authoritatively that the Treasury has reached no under standing with London on the rel ative position of the pound and dol lar In other words this government Warmer Breezes on Way Weather Man Says Prob ably Arriving Tuesday (By The Associated Press) Winter had a corner on the weather market in vast stretches of the country today as spring like temperatures gave way to quotations near and below the zero mark Originating in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest the first cold wave of the new year struck the Middle West on the wings of a gale Sunday and by last night had been blown over much of the Atlantic seaboard But Mhe weather man predicted that relief was on the way and probably would arrive by tomor row 1 Even lorida eels It So effective and Widespread was the frigid blast that i even tie Sunny South prepared to feel its icy breath Cold waves were fore cast for today or tonight in north ern lorida North and South Caro lina Maryland Virginia Tennessee and Kentucky In Chicago where the wind aver aged close to 40 miles an hour Sunday the mercury dropped from 44 degrees above zero at dawn to zero by nightfall and a few hours later an unofficial 4 below was re ported at the municipal airport Storm Signals Up on Coast Along the Atlantic seaboard storm signals went up warning mariners of heavy seas all the wav from Eastport Me to Jacksonville la but strangely enough north ern Vermont escaped the brunt of tne bitter winds One of the real cold spots was St Paul Minn where the mer vury dipped to 10 below At Eau Claire Wis a minus 8 reading was accomnamed by a destructive W111U L1ML IHKW wn SrTIXII I buildings 13 Degrees at Bartlesville Despite overnight temperature drops of as much as 40 degrees forecasters predicted quick weath er relief for Oklahoma today A and forecast was issued for tonight and tomorrow Northeast Oklahoma bore the blunt of last cold snap the temperature dropping to 13 de grees at Bartlesville and 17 at Miami It was 54 at Bartlesville Sunday At Oklahoma City the mercury plunged from 57 to 18 There was a brief flurry of snow at Miami during the morning after the temperature had dropped 37 de grees in 24 hours At Tulsa the skies were overcast but there was no precipitation The niercui fell 40 degrees over night to a minimum of 18 degrees at 7 am Wreckage Sighted on Brazil Coast After Crossing of Atlantic rom Italy OUR ESCAPE DEATH TALLAHASSEE la Jan (Whitey) Walker and Ray A Johnson escaped Oklahoma life term convicts were captured here early today and a few hours later officers seized two women 1' who said they were the wives of the convicts i Walker was in the right arm with a police shotgun when ho reached for a pistol as officers closed in on him and Johnson af ter forcing their automobile to the curb He was in a hospital operat ing room at noon and doctors said 5 they probably would have to am putate" his arm Johnson was wounded slightly by the same charge Officers said Johnson admitted his identity and named his com panion as Walker Their finger prints also established their identi fication The men were as they sat in a parked automo bile across the street from a bank' The women and a man who gave his name as Homer Arthur were arrested in a raid on a house $10000 in Bonds ound The officers found about $10000 in Liberty and Treasury bonds and about $4000 in cash in suit cases in the house They also found four shotguns two rifles and two pistols together with a quantity of ammunition One of the women gave her name as Billie Walker and said she was Whitey wife' She named the man in the hospital as her husband The other woman said she was Mildred (Bunk) John a son and that she was the wife of 4 Ray Johnson In addition to their life terms i in Oklahoma Walker and John son are wanted for bank robbery i in Palestine and Marlin Tex Sheriff rank Stoutamire said he had received notice that officers'' from Oklahoma and Texas en route here to seek custody of the men know all about us so no use for us to offic 'M ers quotea Walker as saying no question about identification of the Campbell ingerprints Taken Irvin (Blackie) Thompson other who escaped with Walker and Johnson was captured in Miami a few dajs ago ingerprints of the men were made shortly after their arrest to day by Walter A Roberts identif! A cation officer for the State Prison: bureau The arrests were made by city7' mid county officers on information supplied by Miami Deposits which men believed to be Thompson and' Walker made in uinks J'L ie Jan 8 and Jan 9 were seized today by injunction proceed A mgs Sheriff rank Stoutamore served on the banks an injunction against paying out ny deposits ORTALEZA Brazil Jan our Italian fliers who crack ed up on the beach near here early today after spanning the South At lantic were brought to ortaleza by a rescue party shortly after neon Two of the men were injur ed slightly Mechanic Battaglia and Radio man Giulinii'required first aid treatment only for their injuries in the crash which ended an at tempt to blaze a new air mail trail to "South America Capt i ancia Lombardi com mander of the flight and Count ranco Mazotti second lot caped unscathed A Pan American airwavs resent party went to lhe aid of the fliers who crashed on the beach 12 miles from here The wreckage of the Italian air plane was sighted at about 7 a ni by Bert Saurs pilot of the Ameri can airliner He was unable to land the air liner filled with pas sengers and mail bound for the United States but circled low above the spot of the disaster He reported by radio that he saw three 1 men standing beside the smashed 1 trans Atlantic ship His message inaicatea tnere nad been no fire Drops Note to Them Quickly he wrote a note: He tied it to a weight and drop ped it beside the beached men They back Burnett Boyd manager of the local Pan American airways port immediately organized rescue par ties to start to the scene by motor launch and overland by foot The Italian plane which left Rome early Saturday had been due in Buenos Aires today It left Dakar Africa early yesterday and reached the "Brazilian coast 300 miles off its course about 10 yesterday Afterward it wandered aimlessly seeking its destination Natal until out of gas it crashed The Italian plane was manned in addition to Commander Lombardi 36 years old by Count ranco Mazzoti 29 second Marino Battaglia 36 mechanic and Da vid Giulini 34 the radio operator All Were Air Veterans All were seasoned veterans of the air and Giulini was a veteran of the flights of the Italian Com mander Italo Balbo from Rome to Rio Janeiro and from Rome to Chicago Their plane was discovered after a long search which began when the fliers failed to appear on sched ule at Natal about 300 miles southeast of here last night (Continued on Page Two) i will employ what Secretary Mor genthau terms its $2000000000 of independently of Eng tj use of her equally i large equalization fund When asked the direct question of whether a currency struggle with Great Britain was imminent fraqk reply was President Confident In other quarters however it was indicated that while a money conflict stands as a possibility it (Continued on Page Two) Miami Daily News Record rublishai Everj EvniE1 (Exeepl Sturd) ud Sunda Morn Ina by Miami Nrwa Rword PablhhinB Co (Inc) Congressional Candidate in Lat Election Held as Bank Robbery Plotter in Arizona Socialist Politician Captured as He Attempts to Tunnel Into Holbrook Bank Vault Get Money to Ill in Hospital (By The Associated Press) Cold gales fanned numerous fires today in widely separated places Three persons were burned to death' Many were injured Damage estimates ran to seven figures The extreme cold felt throughout the North hampered fire fighters At Tro the clubhouse of the Veterans of oreign Wars burned down killing two sleeping men seriously burning a third (Continued on Page Two) MEXICO CITY Jan CP) Thousands in parks gardens and even in the streets of Acapulco and nearby towns in the state of Guerrero today fearing further shocks following a heavy earthquake felt over a 1000 mile aera in south central Mexico The Red Cross and other relief organizations prepared to speed ala to the stricken regions as soon as a definite check could be made Many persons were reported in jured Most of the 20000 residents of idle for months in various parts Acapulco where 90 percent of all of the world Arkansan Slain in Attempt To Steal Tulsa Police Car Straight Shooting Detective Brings Down Second Hu man Target in ew Days Captures Pair of Accom plices and rees Abducted Woman Homer Sutherland of Denison Tex has apparently run what is' believed to have been an extensive shoplifting tour of Miami stores' into the ground: Sutherland was1 taken by Officer Johnson on" North Main street late Saturday night as the former boarded street car Officers here had been watcliirig a the suspect for more than a week They believe that he has been his articles here and then sell ing them at Picher or Galena Kas i When searched Saturday night" Sutherland had six neckties and "a pair of pants in his possession" ip identified as merchandise taken from a store on South Main street Patrolman: Johnson boarded the street car at the Main street and rrst avenue intersection Suther land got on at the curve of the tracks on North Main stepping into the arms of the waiting offi cer i Metal Market NEW YORK Jan (AP) Lead dull spot New York I East St Louis 390' Zinc firm East St Louis spot and future I 4 25 LONDON Jan Lead spot £11 10s future £11 12a 6d Zinc spot £14 15s future £14 17t i 6d I te 2 46 2 a m19 43 4 a m18 6 37 6 a 17 8 30 8 a 17 10 27jl0 a 18 Midnight 22Noon 20.