Okmulgee Daily Times from Okmulgee, Oklahoma • 1

I TWODISTRICTTOWNSFACEWATERDEARTH IF DROUTH KEEPS UP GOOD MORNING Okmulgee District Weather Forecast Today: Fair, Continued Warm PRESS TIME 2:30. HOURS AFTER ANY OTHER PAPER INTO OKMULGEE DISTRICT With Which Is Combined the Okmulgee Daily Democrat FPU. LEASED WIAe REPORT or ASSOCIATED PRESS SUPPLEMENTED KV UNRIVALED STATE Alto FEATURE SER ICESL TIMES VOLi EVIL Nk 140. DEMOCRAT VOL Mol 1NL Mmra and Sodatjr. Phone III! ik OKMULGEE, OKLAHOMA.

TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1938. AdvrrtWsg and Clreulatloa. Pheaa Slot PRICE FIVE CENTS City Taxpayers to fete Today on $130,000 Bond Issue OJrf. A s3 Ml UJ nr -THERMOMETERS HERE CLIMB TO 105 DEGREES HOT IDEAS FOR KEEPING COOL IN OKMULGEE FOR CITY BALLOT City Will Qive Farmers FREE WATER To Aid Fight on Drouth Free water will be given by the city to all drouth-suffering fanners who come after it. City Commissioner Walter Wheatley announced yesterday.

Tha water will be drawn from a MR IS Deaths Mount to 1,700 As 1 00-Degree Heat Continues Grip POUTiCS BATHE Money Provided To Finance $404,000 In Improvement Through WPA Here POLLS WILLIE OPEN FROM 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. Three Will Be Separate On Ballot; One Each For Club, Fairgrounds, FIRST COOL FRONT STOPPED BY HOT AIR Second Chilly Blast From Pacific Ocean Breaking Through Weather Bureau Observers Believe hydrant at the Central fire station, Fourth street and Central avenue, by city firemen.

Farmers must bring their own containers. No limitation Is placed on the quantity they may get. Hr. Wheatley said. Some farmers who have been getting water at the Harris city lake have been shut off from that source by the necessity of drastically restricting use of the water In order to Insure an adequate supply for the city, It was said yesterday.

Until now a small charge has been made for water In Okmulgee, but need for it has been so acute and so widespread that the city commissioners yesterday lifted all chargee. Commissioner Wheatley said. Okmulgee's water supply is practically Inezhaustible, Hr. Wheatley erted. Without a drop of rain and In the same sweltering heat of the past several days, Lake Okmulgee still would be one-third to one-half full.

Hz months from now, he said. 'O bis utile girl is amused at the older generation, which is always talking about tho weather, but is too dignified to do anything about it. For her, a hot time in the old town is just a barrel of fun. She Just buys her puppy and herself a cone, a water hose, hies to -a good old rain barrel, and lets tha sun do its worst 1 CHICAGO, July 13. (ff) Rainfall in the northwest sector of the drouth land started cooler weather on a new march across the sun-baked plain states tonight as renewed onslaughts of heat to the east continued to break records and piled up the death toll.

Good rains struck sector of the drouth parched Dakotas and Western Minnesota tonight, lowering temperatures ns they fell and signalizing un expected eastward movement of the cool front. Fatalities In the 11 days of oppressive heat exceeded 1,700. Michigan, tormented by the worst heat plague in its history, counted 191 dead, with no relief in sight fCostinucd ea ps 0. seisms 01 Hot enough for yon? Well, then, how about trying this in your own bailiwick? These girts recipe for hot weather, oomrnrt mils for bathing suit, yam and needles. Panting with the liear, might be tlie title of tills hot weather picture.

Vera and lees OIhIisiiots-- ky, garbed only In scanlies, find comfort in pool of water while eating their frosrn confection. Water Shortage Is Feared At Two Towns in District 1ST! At least two cities of the Okmulgee District are faciigs water shortages unless tlie droi'lli ia broken. It was roves led yesterday by a cheek with the water department officials of Okmulgee, Henrietta, Norris, Brggs, Wclectka, Okrmah and Wetumlu. Morris and Wclectka are the two cities tlist reported pomlMlltics of a water sliortage. The situation is worse in Morris than in Welrct-ka, reports reveal.

WEATHER romcish WEATHER HERE SUNDAY: Maximum. 101; minimum, 19; wind, south; cmr; no min Okmulgee taxpayers will go to the polls today to say by their ballots whether the city shall issue bonds for a $130, 000 portion of $404,000 worth of WPA public improvements, A light vote was predicted yesterday. Any registered voter who pays ad valorem tazea on real or personal property in the city of Okmulgee Is entitled to vote In today's election. Clerk May Ask Affidavit Precinct election officials, two Judges and two clerks, win their discretion In determining whether a voter la a taz payer. If there ia question.

tha voter may he required to sign an affidavit that he la a taz payer. Falsely signing such affidavits would constitute perjury, it was pointed out yesterday. While the total bond issue to be voted upon toflny ia $110,000, the ballot is divided into three sections. One is proponed $01,000 issue rs the city's -portion of a native atone municipal auditorium. $12,000 Hem for C3ab Another la a $15,000 lasue to buy the Okmulgee Country club and pay the city's small share of the $14,000 project planned by the WPA to convert It Into municipal playground.

Out of tha $15,000. if It is voted, alio will come $045 as tha city's Ohara of a $11,000 project to make lighted, up-to-date baseball park, with grandstand, at Raburn field. FTobably $1,000 of this issue. If authorised tyr the voters, wiU be used to buy ground for negro park, whlph the WPA will be asked to build at a coat of aeveral thousand dollars. Tha smallest of tho three proposed bond issues Is for flF.000 and Is for tho purpose of paying ths city's share of a $14,000 WPA project for completely rebuilding the fair grounds, replacing tha frame bulldinga urllh native stone structures, included In tha buildings would be public market Place.

TOzpayara may vote for (CsatiHMd ea yam II, salami T) or NEW TORE. July IS (SV-Re- publican chairman John D. M. Hamilton and Democratic chairman Jamea A. Farlry today fired their firet political broadeidea since opening of their campaign headquarters hern, Hamilton, stopping over before a swing through New England, accused the Democrats of Injecting racial and religious issues into the campaign.

Farley, at a press conference, charged that anti-Roosevelt newspapers were coloring their news to make it appear the president was losing popular support. Tha Republican leader asserted the Democrats were spreading propaganda in the east that Governor Alf.M. London and himself were antl-Jewish and were spreading reports in the west that Londons middle name, Mosspian, was1 Jewish. He said both he and London had had strong Jewish and Catholic support in Kansas and had vigorously fought for religious and racial tolerance when the Ku Kluz Klan was a political issue in Kansas. Farley commented on a statement by Paul Block, newspaper publisher, charging the Democrats with persuading Gov.

Herbert H-Lehman of New York to seek a third term to swing the Jewish vote to President Roosevelt. I'm really 'sorry that Paul Slock should attempt to indicate that the people of New York ought to vote against a great public ser-' Vant like Gov. Lehman, said. Hamilton later was asked If he thought the racial question would be Injected into the campaign. "It looks like the Democrats ready have injected It, Hamilton said.

Since they have made It an issue we may as well get the facts Into the open. He said he had fought In the legislature a a in legislation which would have recognised the Xian, had been elected to the speakership of the lower house on an anti-klan platform; and had participated in the anti-klan cam-v paign of William Allen White for governor in 1114 on an independent ticket. Gov. London refused to support the Republican candidate, who was indorsed by the klan, Hamilton aid, and supported White. TOPEKA, July' 11.

UP) George N. Peek, after three-hour conference with Gov. Alt- London on farm, trade and currency stabilisation policies today, told newsmen It was too early" to soy whether he would support the Republican presidential condldnte. 'Will you support President Roosevelt was the next question asked the former news dealer Just before he entrained for Washington. If you mean," 1eek replied, will I support our present farm and foreign trade policies.

1 say Morris citizens were asked to refrain from watering their lawn and garage operators were requested not to wash cars until ths supply in ths Morris luka Is replenished, in statement Issued yesterday by Mayor Jake Meigs, superintendent of the Morris water department, said that th Morris lake, several miles west of Morris, contains a supply that will lost tha city between 50 end SO days with careful consumption. As in all lakes, the loss by evaporation Is greater than the amount of water consumed. The Morris lake has capacity of a little less than a billion gallons when full and consumption has been st the rate of 01,000 gallons a day. With care it ia thought that the (Caotfaued os pass ratvmn 1) (OffWsn WEATHER HERE MONDAY: Mazl. mum.

1M: minimum. 73; wind, south, altar; so rain. FORECAST OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS i Fair, roatisusd warm Tuaadsr and Wedncs. Jar. KANSAS: Generally fair and continued warm in soulhauat ad extreme eaet, eattorod than-ferphoweru and some, what cooler in wnat and couth renlral no.

definitely; no. I sense COLORADO 8PIUNGS, July 11 (P) Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, lashed out tonight st "alarmists and propagandists who, ht charged, have tried for thtlr own purposes to scare the consumer about food scarcity" as a result of ths current drouth. Reciting steps the government contemplates to aid drouth harassed farmers, particularly In tha mld-dlewest, tha secretary, in a radio address said purchases of livestock for which no feed was nvsllabls will be handled so that neither consumer nor growers are penalised. 'Then is no likelihood now of anything approaching a food shortage," Wallace eald.

Wo are much better eupplied with food for livestock than era were In 1114. There la an ample supply of vegetables and other food. "Even If tha com crop In the (Csetlnssi on pest I. cohnss 1) Reford Bond, Will Talk Here Tonight Judge Reford Bond, high man in the race for the Democratic nomination for corporation commissioner In the July primary, will make a run-off campaign speech on the Council House square at I p. m.

today, R. H. runner-up, Is Judge Bond's opponent In the runoff primary. Judge Bond Is the first of tha run-off. candidates to msks campaign speech in Okmulgee.

aerthweit aeattenel thundciahowsm and Oder in aaat and math. 'Harry Wahlgren, federal weather observer, said Monday continuation of Oklahomas record-breaking drouth another two weeks would place the whole state in a critical situation. Sun-baked Oklahoma sweltered through another day of near-record heat Monday as the clouds which gathered over some sections during the weekend drifted away, tricing with them what little hope fanners had for moisture for their parched fields. Bartlesville apparently was the hottest spot in the state at 109.5. WASHINGTON, July II.

(ff Police searched the underworld of New York and Washington tonight hopeful of making two arrests In connection with the mutilation of Jean Bell, IS, who testified before New York grand Jury on vice charges against Charles (LtAsky) Luciano. i Detective Chief Bernard W. Thompson of the Washington police forecast tha two arrests. Aided by three new York detectives, he ordered a minute examination' of tha apartment where the girl was found early yesterday. When discovered she had some wrapping string around her ankles and the letters C-L cut on her thigh and the numbers 1-11' on her abdomen.

Gas Jets in the apartment had been turned on. Evidence in the form of fingerprints, bloodstains, or the Instrument with which the girl was cut were the object of the search. The girl remained in the women's bureau. Police said she was fully recovered and that no bandages were needed. The detective chief said he would question her, her brothers, Ray and Roy Bell, and Hilton' Richard Reeves, her escort at a night club Saturday.

Reeves is detained as a material witness but is not under arrest. In New York, Noses Polakoff, lawyer for Luciano, who was sen' fenced to Bing Bing from 10 to 10 years when found guilty of com' pulaory prostitution, said: I never heard of her (Hiss Bell). Luciano never heard of her. My guess Is she Is seeking publicity and wants to sell a story. Police said they were checking a report the girl had been negoti a ting with a New York paper for her life story.

Thompson said: the statement It appears to have been an assault with Intent to kllL, We are. looking Into'all aspects of the matter, however. I 1. In curtailing production and bringing In food." It wns the first meeting lietween Landnn and Peek, first administrator of tha AAA and later foreign adviser to President Roosevelt. Peek said he thought London had a good personality and showed a good understanding of national problems.

Peek withdrew from the Roosevelt administration after a dash with Her re I ary Hull over rrrl-proesl tariff policies. He opposed extending to sll nations with whleh the United States had nmst-favor-ed-nallon pacta the benefits granted a single country In a reciprocal treaty. Ills engagement with London, Peek oiilil, was arranged by ths Republiean national committee. Askeil whether ho had written a portion of the Republican platform, Peek said ha su limit led memoranda on agriculture, foreign trade and currency stabilization to both ths Democratic and Republican nutionn! conventions. Neither platform followed iny suggestion J00 percent, Peek "Tha.

Republican platform follows moet of my suggestions on farm and foreign trad policies." Temperatures for duly 13 for aix years aa recorded by ths Okie home Natural Gas company Muz. Mis. 133d 74 133 (official) It 73 133, 1333 a a a 133 33 1332 i.i,.,.lll 3 1331 ..............131 70 Tcmpcreturea for inly 13 for aiz years AS HIS FOE QUITS 105 MARK IN CITY LEAKING OILWELL Hi OKLAHOMA CITY, July 11 (TV A crew of $0 Oklahoma firemen and oil field workers fought tonight to keep a big oil well, block from the governor's man' ion, from running wild, A break in the easing of tho Hall Briscoe end A. K. Petroleum com' pony Narlon No.

1 well was permitting sand and oil to escape from an eVer-growIng opening. Should the pipe give way, a plume of send, oil end gas would shoot out, douse the neighborhood and endanger wide Tha situation Is full of danger, but so far we are holding our said G. HeAlpine, ei brat fire chief, who superintended 40 firemen with it pieces of OKLAHOMA CITY, July II. (Jt) Herbert Hyde, youthful Oklahoma City attorney who when U. 8.

Metric attorney her won 'national attention as chief prosecutor of tha Charles F. Urschel kidnapers, today becama tha Republican nominee for U. 8. Senator. Horace.

McK sever of Enid, nn attorney and former candidate fur governor, filed notice with th state election board that ho was withdrawing as Hyde's opponent In the run-off, giving Hyde tha nomination, McKeever and Hyde were th two high candidates in last Tuesday's first primary election, Hyde receiving the, highest number of votes. Gov. Marland mad plana to begin a speaking tour of the atata Friday. He will speak at least once (Cm timed ea pn H. eohmu I) BABY WITH HEART EXPOSED IS BORN EDMONTON, July II.

(T). Ths heart of a new-born baby boy thumped against his chin tonight, as surgeons nt a hospital wondered whether it would be possible to operate end enve hie Ufa. Part of tha cheat wall in missing. The heart a exposed, end protrudes from the body. Otherwise tha boy Is normal.

The 1-pound child was born to Mrs. Fred Sndonek' of Wswl, 11 miles northeast of Edmonton. Ths woman is the mother of six other Temperatures here went to 105 degrees yesterday, only two below tho record of tha year, ae the sun continued depletion of water from Okmulgee county farms. -The county hasn't received good rain since June II when some parts of tha county received three inches. Rain her was .41 of an Inch.

Weather over moat of the county yesterday wae in tha hundreds. A rending of 101 was reported at Okemah by Tom Hazelwood, Ok fuekes county weather observer. A number of grass fires, unusual for this time of the year, already have been reported by Okmulgee firemen ea proof city yards are badly In need of rain. Firemen began last night to keep grounds of tha Council green by sprinkling tha gram and hedges with use of large pipes. EYSTON SETS NEW TEMPERATURE CHART Burglars Take $13 From.

Home in City, Prowl Church, School Burglars' took $11 from the homo of P. M. Haubert, North Sherman avenue end a church and two publio buildings wars entered during the weekend, police eald yesterday. Nr. Hebert's house wee entered through the front door he said yesterday in reporting his loss to police.

A women's purse containing the cash wee takqn. The First Christian church, public library and tha high school building were entered probably by children. Police Captain Blane Hill aid, ae nothing was taken at either of the place. Nr. HlU.eoid It wae probable children were locked In tha high school and In tha basement of the library when they were doeed Sat-i wtasa 1) CLIMAX IN RELIEF PROBE DUE TODAY BUGLER July 11.

(P W. Hall, Haskell county attorney, said tonight grand Jury investigation of administration of state welfare funds In tha county will reach climax tomorrow when Wirt Patera, deputy state examiner and Inspector, Is called before the grand jury; The grand Jury met here today for the firet time since lie re July 1. Five witnesses testified to day, Hall eald. BONNEVILLE BALT FI-ATH, Utah. July II.

(ff) Capt. George Kyston, steel-nerved collector of land speed records, scratched a new mark in his ledger tonight and aped on toward the 41-hour goal of 10I.T mllrs per hour new held by four Frenchmen. When Kyalon passed th mirk tonight hla average speed was officially announced as 141.01, compared with th old record of 10MI, held by tho Frenchmen. Hs had driven slightly lees, than II bourse A new ahort serial. Just the thing to make you forget the hot weather.

You'll call this the best romance you ever read. Beginning FRIDAY in the TIMES NEW TRIAL IS ASKED BY MALLORY COUNSEL MIAMI. July 11. MV-Juhn Murrell, attorney for Lewie B. Mallory, III, of Bradford.

filed motion today for i new trial of the 1150.10$ alienation of affeo' Ilona suit brought by Jamea Edgar. Jr, of Detroit. Edgar won verdict last week. Every registered voter who pays ad valorem taxes on real or personal property in the city of Okmulgee ia entitled to cast his ballot in today's election on the three bond issues totaling $130,000. I.