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MIAMI OKLA RIDAY MAY 25 1934 I Speaks in Miami TN SPEECH HERE MEDIATION IS TRIED WILLIAM MURRAY RITES ARE UNCERTAIN (Continued on Page Seven) (Coi tinned on Page 14 of Wjf There are more telephones in New York than in any other state A 4 BANKER ASKS NEW TRIAL OKLAHOMA CITY' May 25 Attorneys for Moore former capitol hill banker convict ed of embezzlement and sentenced to 10 imprisonment and fined $1000 today planned to ask a new Vial and it that is denied to appeal Police Details Necessary To Control Throngs at Barrow Parker Biers Stallion Is Held By or $250 Ransonl CROWDS JOSTLE TO VIEW BODIES OUTLAW PAIR BY 1000 STATE TROOPS IN OHIO Police Chief Accused Of Slaying Brother Huey Is Conducting Lonelyilibuster Against Tariff Bill Associated Press Leased Wire Ickes Sends Agent To War on OfflM oI Publication A StTMt and Pirn Arena Peace officers are shown pointing out the wooded Louisiana thicket in which four Texas officers led by rank Hamer colorful captain of Texas Rangers for many years lay in wait when they surprised and killed Clyde Barrow southwestern bad man and Bonnie Parker his gun woman companion (AP Photo) Cal riding mechanic were killed Charles Taft Undertakes Peace Role as Coroner Investigates Killings To date the largest vessel to bebroken up in a breaker's yard was one of 25128 tons SHOOTINGS LINKED? (Continued on Page Thirteen) LIERS REACH LONDON HESTON Airdrome London May Capt George Pond and Lieut Cesare Sabclli landed here at 12:30 in today after a short flight from Cardiff Wales After the fliers had climbed out from behind their smoking motor Sabelli said the hop today was as tougl as the last part of our trans Atlantic The Italian flier said they had a very bad and added: barely made Captain Pond indicated he was uncertain when they would be able to get away to wind up their flight to Rome Clyde Probably Will Be Bur ivu Late Touay Bonnie Probably Sunday Here is the bullet riddled automobile in which Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker Dallas desperado pair were shot and killed as they sped Over a Louisianaroad at 85 miles an hour Officers who waited in am bush for them pumped 167 bullets into the car (APPhoto) 'i ROBBER KILLED PAL WOUNDED IN RAID UPON BANK LOUISA' Ky May 25 17) The ransom racket has invaded' the Kentucky mountains' A registered stallion owned by Dr Moore veterinarian and former Lawrence county judge was his stall in the dead of night The horsenapers tacked a ran som note on the bam door It demanded $500 but a postscript added horse worth what we furst thot bring Dr Moore who values the four year old percheron at $500 no matter what the horsenapers think he is worth was instruct ed to to Town hill tonight at twelve Start walkin from Bill isher house to gate Go in cemetery when you hear whistle like Bob) White drop money on road and keep walk I Dr Moore turned tho note over to authorities and an nounced he would not meet thf ransom demand WASHINGTON May Secretary Ickes today sent Louis R1 Glavis chief of his investiga tion division to? the East Texas oil fields by airplane to war' on producers and shippers of illegally produced oil Before 1 leaving Washington Glavis sent word to his entire field force in Texas to meet him in Dal las tomorrow morning Ickes said the agents would have a mass of evidence of oil code violations Officials have estimaed illegal cil production at about 80000 bar rels daily in the area Th fifth circuit court of ap peals in New Orleans has upheld the oil constitutionality With reference to alleged viola tors Ickes said: is my intention that these men shall feel the lash of tjie law which tl'ev have so long and so brazenly Preparing for Memorial Day Race Pilot Was Driving At Terrific Speed DALLAS Tex May 25 GP) Ever increasing crowds gathered about the funeral homes where the bodies of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parkei lay today anxious to see the young desperado couple in the few hours Remaining before they would be buried i PlanS weremade to take body from the funerabhome where it has lain 'slightly more than 24 hours late today and bury it beside the grave'of his brother Marvin (Buck) Barrow at 5 Mrs Leha Plummer aunt said the family was considering delay ing the other funeral service until Sunday Directors of the funeral home had not heard' directly however from either Mrs Henry Barrow mother or Mrs Emma Par ker mother Some reports said that perhaps the families would try to remove the: bodies without attracting the attention of thousands of curious who milled last night and today Policemen on Duty Police details were on duty at each funeral home They kept the crowds iri line and announced Bon body could be viewed from 10 a to 3 Across the city guards at the doors of the building where body was finally pre pared for burial said no one would be permitted to enter Several dozen persons were on hand at daylight to see Bonnie By 9 there were 200 persons ready to pass through the home About half that number tried vain ly to get a glimpse of Clyde Traf fic was tied up for hours Some Climb Trees The more agile spectators who could not enter the room where Clyde lay last night climbed trees on one side of the building and looked down through a large win dow Today' however the curtains were drawn family attired hirn in a new expensive suit andstiff col lar A pearl stickpin was placed in a gray tie chesnut red 'hair' ap peared as it always had and was MURRAYLASHES RIVALS LOS ANGELES May William Albert Robinson wealthy explorer was reported as well as couIi be today following an appendicitis opera tion performed by United States navy surgeons who made a 1000 mile aerial dash to his bedside at Tagus Cove the lonely Galapagos Islands of the Pacific Robinson who was stricken Sun day aboard his tinv world girdling honeymoon craft the Svaap was operated upon last night after the arrival of the United States de stroyer Hale which had been dis patched from the Canal Zone Two navy seaplanes carrying medical officers and supplies had preceded i The operation climaxed a thrill ing trail of events in which the dash of the planes and the destroy er resulted from the frantic appeal for aid from bride the former lorence Crane Chicago heiress BARTHOU SCOS AT TALKOWAR WEATHER ORECAST OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy warmer in west and north portions tonight Saturday partjy cloudy warmer in east portion air' warmer in northwest portion tonight Satur day fair and warmer 7 MISSOURI Generally fair to night and Saturday not so cool to night rising temperature Satur day KANSAS Somewhat unsettled tonight and Saturday warmer Temperatures in Miami from 2 Officers Suspect Gang May Have Killed Two Indiana Policemen Yesterday I CHICAGO May i Ma chine gun fire from a bank guard killed one robber and felled anoth er with probably mortal wounds to day cutting short a raid on the South Holland Trust Savings bank A third robber was believed to have been wounded as vigilantes poured a leaden hail after the fu gitives Six participated in the bold foray 1 The little bank is situ'ated in a crossroads village just south of the Chicago city limits and close to the Indiana state line Officers suspected the robbers might have been the same band that'killed two East Chicago Ind policemen last night itna shooting to which there were no witnesses They said however none of the men bore any resemblance to mem bers of the Dillinger gang famil iar with this region Leaving a guard in their sedan which bore a Michigan license the quartet marched into the at the moment the time lock released the vault 1 Guard Ready in Cage De Young a watchman whose son had been killed last eb ruary in another abortive holdup 'was alert or his revenge Observ ing the robbers from his bullet proof cage in a balcony he turned his machine gun loose The burst of fire killed one of the invaders instantly A second robber fell wounded Others turning one blast of lead on 'Milton Waterman the cashier dropped their weapons and fled for the door Already vigilantes organized and trained for i such emergencies since two previous raids on their bank 'Were swarming toward the bank Leon Lagestee chief of po lice of South Holland had noticed the strange car parked at the bank and had spread the alarm A half dozen special deputies rushed to their caches of guns and ammuni tion in a neighboring garage and in the village postoffice just across the street Third Believed Wounded One ox the two fleeing orbbers was believed to have been wounded but with his companions he' reach ed Ihe automobile and the car lurched into high speed bullets siz zhng around it and drilling holes through its body PRICE IVE CENTS Sheriff Uses Gas Gun In Conducting Sale BLUE EARTH Minn May 25 Sheriff II Keigley using a tear gas gun to cow a crowd of protesting farmers today success fully carried through a mortgage foreclosure sale here Several men from a crowd of 100 grappled with Sheriff Keigley pulling him down the front steps of the airbault county courthouse The sheriff one arm free pull ed a tear gag gun and the assail ants fell back! Sheriff Keigley did not fire the gun' Returning to the top of the steps the sheriff warning the men to "stand then directed the foreclosing of two mortgages one for $8200 and the other for $4100 on the farm of Henry Cuckesn BULLETIN TOLEDO May Seven gas bombs were fired a crowd of 400 persons galh ered at Champlain and Elm streets today as Ohio national guardsmen sought to break upr'is another recalcitrant throng The crowd was pushed back by the successive clouds of gas A few members of the group had pelted the guardsmen with rl stones and bricks TOLEDO Ohio May A thousand Ohio national guardsmen behind fixed bayonets and machine gun nests held back a smoldering crowd at the strike torn Electric Auto Lite company plant today as federal and state authorities: sought1 to ease the tense situation with mediation Charles Taft Cincinnati at torney and son of the late Presi dent of the United States head ed a group of mediators trying to bring strikers and company offi cials to common ground The pro gress was slow and hampeied by the ill feeling of the rioters who haunted the area in discorganized groups Coroner rank Kreft of Lucas county today planned an inquest' into the death of two men shot by guardsmen during a frenzy of riot ing yesterday Kreft said the in quest will be held tomorrow and 2 that county officials and guard of a' ficers will be celled to testify Shotgun Wounds atal? The coroner announced that a preliminary examination of the body of rank Hubay tl one of the two victims led him to the be lief that the wounds were by shotgun slugs and not rifle bullets There were three gunshot: ounds in head one in his chest The other victim for whom an in 1' quest will be held was Steve Cy igon a 20 year old youth Several others' were wounded by gunfire 9 and approximately 150 have been: injured in the three days of riot ing at the plant Adjt Gen rank Henderson in Columbus announced today he is leaving immediately for Toledo? and would attempt immediately to bring the disputing forces togeth er in an effort to reach an agree meat 53 Rioters Ancstcd ifty three persons were arrest ed by the militia for civil authori 3 ties and charged with rioting gained their release on bonds if within a few hours Police report cd none of the 53 arrested was found aimed Quiet was restored shortly after midnight in the area of machine guns and' bayonets just tive biocKS northeast of the city hall Scores of injured including many women were included in the casualties In previous rioting dur ing a three day period approxi Guard With Machine Gun rustrates Attempt to Loot Chicago BULLET RIDDLED BARROW PARKER AUTOMOBTT AN I STRI KERS AGED SCENE DEADLY AMBUSH AT LOUISLUuod muo81510 Man Hurt by Auto Comes Out ot Coma ilrvin Watsop 63 of North Mi i ami regained consciousness for afew moments today but as yet has been 'unable to speak He received 'a skull fracture and scalp wound when struck Wednesday morning by an automobile about two milesjnorth of Miami JML Since his confinemSitTo Miami Baptist hospital shortly after the accident Watson has remained un conscious practically all the time It was reported he recognized his when the latter visited him to 'day but could noth reply to his greeting BOY WINS $10000 IN SUIT'OKLAHOMA CITY May 25 Cff) Wendell Breedlove 11 year Edmond boy today was awarded a judgement of $10000 against the Santa railway for the death of his father Wayne Breedlove killed when a train struck his automobile last Christmas day The suit al leged negligence on the part the railroad was to blame INDIANAPOLIS' May GSh Kreis of Knoxville Tenn driver and: Bob Hahn of Chico here today while practicing for the 600 mile automobile race to be run next Wednesday The car traveling at terrific speed went out of control just af ter it came out of the first turn It rar over the outside retaining wall and struck tree many feet below The car was cut in two by the im Pact ''A Slain By Texas Kidnapers? MEXIA Tex May The body of John Adams 50 year old dairyman believed by officers to have been slain by kidnapers who seized the was found in a tank a mile south of Groesbeck today4 Adams lived next sdoor to Joe Morris a wealthy man The day after his disappearance last Mon day his son Dwaine Adams re ceived a note saying: old man excuse us we got the wrong There was a bullet hole in Ad ams' temple a handkerchief about his mouth and a belt pulled tight around his neck' His pockets were turned out Explorer Is After Hasty Operation by liers COLON Panama May William Albert Robinson author and explorer stricken with appendi citis in the Galapagos Islands sailed aboard the destroyer Ha'e for the Panamq Canal Zone and American medical attention at 7:30 am today the destroyer re ported by wireless to headquarters here His condition was said to be hopeful and his bride with whom he was taking a honeymoon trip when he was stricken was with him on the warship The tv 0 United States navy planes 'which carried doctors to Robinson left Galapagos an hour and one half before the de stroyer They are expected to make the return flight to Balboa in about 10 hours It was owned Harry Hartz of Los Angeles and was one ofthe fastest enter ed in" the race Kreis was tuning it up preparatory to attempting to qualify this af teraoon Kreis 'was a construction gineer by profes sion and annually took his vacation at this Peter Kreis the year in nrdor ticipate in the speedway classic He had raced in earlier years throughout America and abroad xThe Kreis family is prominent in i Knoxville Kreis 34 years old Kreis and Hahn were' the twenty fourth and twenty if tli 'persons killed at the speedway since it was ysars ty'v a i n4 vxo UXX official records Large Crowd Hears Vivid Denunciations of King Walton and Others bWN'ACTS EXTOLLED Executive Wants SuccessorWho Will Carry Out Pol icies He Initiated VOL XXXI NO 280 Is CHETOPA ENJOYS MIAMI GOOD WILL VISIT ft GATE CITY Va May Clifford Davidson chief of police of Gate City was charged today with killing his brother whom he had sought to arrest The police chief said he had gone to arrest his brother Cecil David son for fighting with a Negro An argument followed and the po lice chief fired at the brother when he feared the latter had a gun Af te the shooting Chief Davidson surrendered to Sheriff Dar nall and was released on $1000 bail pending as? preliminary 1 hearing June 2 Prior to the shooting Chief of Police Davidson had been sum moned to a barber shop to quiet a disturbance involving the brother He said he called his brother out of the shop and took a gun away from him He told the sheriff he feared the brother had rearmed himself when the 'argument over the arrest occurred 1 MAN KIDNAPED ROBBED OKLAHOMA CITY May 25 Bailey Oklahoma City attorney reported to police today that he had been kidnaped and robbed of $177 last night by a small dark man But rench Premier Blunt i His Nation Will Not Disarm Now PARlSMay 25 Louis Bar 's thou rench: foreign minister to day bluntly 'proclaimed a rench policy of immediate disarma intent of rance no immediate re armament of The foreign minister sought to silence war talk in the Chamber of Deputies where he was under in terpellation by making an' em phatic rejection of the idea that a ft conflict was coming However he pledged a strong hand on the mat ter of German border clashes 'ft A whole galaxy of rench mili Xitary chieftains including War Min ister Petain Air Minister Denain and Naval Minister Pietri isex pected to accompany Barthou to Geneva next week to bqck up the rench demand for a showdown on the question of armaments Barthou openly declared his op position to the British Proposal of rearmament for Germany and the disarmament of rance He declared to the deputies: in the policy of say sing yes when you mean yesiand no when you mean no rance told England its proposal is not accept able is for disarmament with security but' security is only possi ble if we take into account semi military The minister denied however that he believed war was on the way and emphatically reject such a WASHINGTON May Almost every senator except Hue Long agreed today that the was conducting a one man filibuster against the tariff bill Both Republicans and Democrats said the Louisianan vigorously op posed to permitting the President to reach tariff reduction agree ments with foreign powers with out Senate approval was trying to delay a vote Long witji something like a winl disavowed any such inten tions even got to the merits of this thing he told report ers yesterday after making a half a dozen sneeches mostly in other time He offered as a substitute for the pending bill a reproduction of the old Harrison bill passed with the aid of Republican independents April 1 1932 but' vetoed by Presi dent Hoover It would make all presidential tariff changes and re ciprocal actions with other nations subject to congressional approval DOUTIIAT WOMAN DIES DOUTHAT Mav' (Special) Mrs Blanche Christy 37 years old died at 2 this morning at the home of her brother Carl Barkley a resident here un eral services will be held at 2 Sunday afternoon at the irst Christian church in Junction Mo The brother is the only sur viving relative The Lane uneral home at Miami is in charg Bayonets Hold Back Irate Crowd at Plant Where Two Men Were Slain SPILL ATAL TO AUTO RACE PAIR INSPEEDTESTS Driver Pete Kreis and Me chanic Bob HahnKilled On Indianapolis Track CAR OUT CONTROL College1 Band Gives Concert In Kansas Dinner Program Given iv 4 Playing under the spreading limbs of one of the largest elm trees in this section the Northeast ern Oklahoma Junior college band entertained a crowd of townspeo ple on the lawn of the Methodist church at Chetopa Kas last night with a 'series of popular selections The band was the feature of the program' presented to Chetopa res identsiby a delegation of the Miami Chamber of Commerce in making ittf third 'good trip this month A cool breeze swept over the lawn but the crowd listened attentive ly to the (musicians Some heard them? from the edge of the lawn while others sat in parked automo biles along the street The site was lighted by bulbs extended along the iowerTSfancliesofthe tree Dinner Served at Church The Miami trippers enjoyed a dinner served in the basement of the church shortly after they ar rived at Chetopa The dinner was planned and served by womenof the church A short program was given: be fore the dinner group adjourned to hear the musical entertainment rank Kyser chairriian of the mer division fthe MiamiChamber of Comiperce presided iftE Millner president of the Mi ami organization talked briefly expressing the wish that the Che topa chamber would visit Miami at some future date K'W Harley head 'of Che topa organization welcomed the delegation: to Chetopa and "com mended the musical ability of the band Cobban Miami mem ber told several yarns respond ing to applause with a final tale that had to do with VMrs gave a clever reading: the final number on the program in thee basement of the church' Prof'E Mason and his band featured Miss ern Jolley Miss Letha Sparlin Paul Enixand Saunders Jin popular selections Miss Jolley played a cornet solo Miss Sparlin a violin number Enix 'a trombone number Saunders sang a solo College Head Speaks John Holcomb president of Northeastern Oklahoma Junior col lege pointed out features of the institution and advantages stu dents would have in attending the college in Miami He distributed pamphlets containing information about the college and announced the principal highlights of the graduation week exercises a The Miami Chamber 'of' Com merce delegation got a taste of state police night as the members started their return trip to Miami Three of the state were stationed at the on the southeast edge of Chetopa" AU cars were stopped in going and out going vehicles to mine whether the lights were safe for night travel Organization of state police has been advocated by many prominent public for Oklahoma i ft ''t 1 Striking out in characteristic at rivals' of Tom Anglin his choice as successor in the gov ernorship and vehemently extoll ing his own acts as the chief executive Gov Murray de livered one of his vivid campaign addresses to a large crowd on the courthouse lawn here last night Ridiculing Marland Gom er Smith Berry Jack Wal ton and Robert Burns as unfit to administer the affairs the governor also included Lew Wentz William Skelly the metro politan newspapers the state su preme court several! lesser state officials in his sweeping de The oratorical flights were accentuated with epithets and biting anecdotes aimed at his ene mies past and present take Gomer Smith as an he said is smart but he have any sense Neither has Bob Praises Commons State senators who thwarted some of his legislative proposals also received a tongue lashing af ter he had praised Senator AL Commons i of this district as one who had "gone straight down the for Murray measures In in troducing the governor Senator Commons had referred to him as executive the state ever Budget igures Cited Governor Murray went intosfig ures dealing with his tax commis sion and appropriations from 1913 up to the present date He spoke" ofTThe high appropriations for state government in the past their around $34000000 and a of the $210000110 budget he submited in 1933 which through without a He also mentioned that the'state owned no bonds now and that want to buy any at any price subject of bonds and war rants warmed him to the thought of the banks allegedly trying to 'of warrants some time called up the Brothers bank and told ithem that unless they began? cashing warrants the nexfmorning I would withdraw the $4000000 of the state's money on deposit there and start a on their dammed he chuckled cashed the Candidates Dissected The speaker from the group of 15 with their hats in the guberna torial arena selected five upon whonuhe proceeded to expound The other 10 were tossed into the discard as inconsequential and ir relevant 'These 10 he said even be running for of fice if they had horse even carry a pre he declared Anglin will get more votes than the six of them (When he does that just watch them grab for the band wagon when it goes Smith Marland Walton and King were in the group reserved for dissecting a His sharp toned words were di rected first at Smith election this fall Go mer wilL have compiled the most magnificent career I have ever Murray said has run twice for county attorney once for Congress once for United States senator and now for governor Each time he has met defeat and his setback this election will round out his political career Supreme Court Ridiculed After Smith was properlytoast ed to the satisfaction he pounced on the supreme court of the state have a real supreme he said solemnly bunch can over rule the United States su (Continued on Page our) Alcohol Control Boards Established WASHINGTON May 2o LD Tho federal alcohol control admin ys) istration today announced the codesJ authority and regional boards of the alcoholic be crages wholesale industry approved by the admin istration for the some 10000 firms' engaged in beer and liquor whole 4 sale industry 1 he code authority is expected to meet soon to organize and adopt the regulations for the adminis tration and enforcement of the? 1 code The southern represents tives on the liquo: authority are Schneider of New Or leans and Hollenbach Louis ville Ky Beer regional board No! 15 em bracing Louisiana Texas Arkan 'Z sas and Oklahoma include Ward ort Smith Ark Carpenter Oklahoma City Wil Ham Hawk Tulsa Okla Wil liani Hill 'Ardmore Okla? Clarence Day Tulsa Okla 1 TRUCK MISHAP ATAL MEDORD Okla May A truck overturned five north of here last flight killing John Prochaska 28 and injuring his father rank Prochas ka and his brother Will The two' injured men were taken to an Enid hospital Metal Market NEW May 25 VPU Lead steady spot New York 400 East St Louis 385 Zinc quiet East St Louis spot and future 435 LONDON May Lead spot £10 17s 6d future £11 2b 6L Zinc spot £14 15s future 17 6L 1 1V11 AMI AIL IN KECOR I a yV 1 4 "a lit 1 i B1 lB 11 wl I Ji I LwJ JKS 5' ft Be 4C ftV aa dsgsBSKSKR 'fli laastt I Ari K7 JS ft ftWvWlSSSSKmcKKW v'X a ir 5 nf 'B 'B o'clock yesterday afternoon until noon today: 2 80 2 a 59 4 pm 80 4 a 56 78! 6 a 52 8 70! 8 a 62 10 63 10 a 66 mdinight Cljioon 70.

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