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Morning Examiner from Bartlesville, Oklahoma • 7

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Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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THE MORNING EXAMINER PAGE SEVEN Thursday November 20 1930 Taking a Building for a Walk Where Red FlagsFly in Spain pwMsaaMswHaMmpMmia ovie8o ed to the police station where they parked their feet on desks peered out through the window and watched the steady beat of the rain outside But si fir is Chief Tuner knows the story of shooting will be added to the police department's growing list of unsolved mysteries HOOVER PLACES GREAT PROJECT BEFORE NATION (COMIXCED FROM FAGK OKX) THE DEAD OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 19 The death list in tornado at Bethany: Hoover Mrs I Murphy Dixon 69 Marguerite Zurline 14 Delbert Sharp 12 Clyde Sharp 9 Helen Sharp 9 Mrs Fleta Wright Roxie Wright 17 Richard Robinson one year Mrs Davis 81 Mrs Jim Stephens 85 Mrs A Manning William Dobbs 50 Marvin Murphy 22 Reynolds baby Mrs John Douglas Sirs Carl Robison ly' mm iisbOMh r1' CARTAGENA at a 0 7 CORDOVA 'OvC TT VALENCIA 4 I 4 Discontent of workers in various parts of Spain led to serious trouhlo when extensive strikes were followed by disorderly outbreaks and the raising of the red flag This map shows the location of the focal points of trouble Madrid Granada and Barcelona and other cities where outbreaks may occur if the disorders spread Tornado Produces Usual Oddities Solid and substantial as the 10-story general office building of the Indiana Bell Telephone company at Indianapolis is engineers hesitate to pick it up and move it bodily to a new site when the old location was wanted for a new building This photo shows the moving job in progress the building is being swung about in a "left face" with the left corner acting as the pivot while the right corner moves away from the camera The building travels at a speed of one and one-half feet daily DEWEY DEPARTMENT where the whole setting is new to the the president said have createa highly congested areas with a thousand changes resulting in ths swift transition from a rural and agrarian people to an urban industrial nation Perhaps the widest range of difficulties with which we are dealing in tha betterment of children grows out of their crowding into "Problems of sanitation and public neallh loom in every direction Delinquency increases with congestion Overcrowding produces disease and contagion Tha natural play place is taken from him His mind is stunted by the lack of imaginative surroundings and lack of contact with the fields streams trees and birds Home life becomes more difficult Cheerless homes produce morbid minds Our growth of town life unendingly imposes such problems as milk and food supplies for we have shifted these children from a diet of ten thousand years' standing "Nor is the problem one solely of the city child We have grave responsibilities to the rural child Adequate expert service should be as available to him from ma-ternity to maturity" I Removed My 10 Year Oklahoma Lady Tells flow in Letter Received Here Mm Harry Jlohn Sapiilpa Oklahoma Iihr sent a letter to Dittmaa Bro Bartlesville Phtmiiiey tolling how oav lly she removed her goitre and relieved the difficult breathings throbbing and mothering Mr Holm ha nothing to eil You ere welcome call and read her Interesting Wter-edr DR TURNER CHIROPRACTOR AND ELECTRO THERAPY 322 Lannom Bldg Phone 510 Rea 363-J Make Your Selections Now for Christmas Duffendack Hall Claremore where he has been for several weeks doing some experiment work for the Tidal Oil company Mr and Mrs Ace Berry and little daughter of the Blue Ribbon ranch east of Wann were Dewey visitors Tuesday Mrs Clay Bullie was the victim of a car accident Monday afternoon She suffered severe bruises and considerable damage to her car The accident occurred at the corner of Eighth street and Wyandotte avenue As Mrs Bullirk Richard Fields a resident of this community for more than 30 years and prominent here was seriously injured near his home across the Post Oak creek iridge when struck by a car as he attempted to cross the hign-way Neighbors had stopped for Mr Fields who waa coming in to attend the Masonic lodge meeting As he crossed to the car waiting for him on the west side of the highway the headlights of two approaching cars blinded him and he was aware of only one coming toward him As Mr Fields avoided one the other struck him This occurred about 7 Tuesday The injured man was brought to Dewey immediately for treatment but waa later returned to his home at his own request Wednesday Mr condition was reported very critical by attending physicians He had suffered severe scalp wounds and probable concussion The driver of the car which struck the aged man was Luther Wyatt according to information Amos Reeve has returned from Directed Pupils to Lie on Floor When Tornado Approached (Mary Froctor ii the 24-yesr-uid teacher at the Camel Creek schoolhouxc where four children were killed and the teacher and eight other injured in the Bethany Okla tornado Wednesday Her cool direction of the students may have prevented a much larger loss of life) By MARY TROCTOR (Aa told from her hospital bed to the Oklalioma City Timca and the Associated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 19 UF I see what else I could have done but it's terrible! 1 knew it was stormy it was so dark the children couldn't see to study and 1 had been reading to them The lightning was vivid and it seemed stuffy I had one of the boys open a window Then 1 heard the terrifie noise and knew what was coming I had the boy close the window and told all the children to lie flat on the floor It would have been useless to leave the building because there were no trees closer than the creek a hundred yards away Some of the children did not even have timo to get on the floor before I felt the building move realised the roof had been torn that the school was being hurled through the air! I saw children flying in every direction aa the school whirled apart The next thing I knew I was lying in the creek Several children were near me A boy was pinned under a piece of the school wall I lifted thp wall from him and took one of the little girls out of the creek I don't know who it was It long before help came FLOOD KILLS THIRTY HONOLULU Nov With ten bodies recovered and at least 20 reported missing the death list lengthened today as workers searched debris piled by the flood which swept northern Honolulu late yesterday Most of those drowned were Orientals Others were Hawaiians and Portuguese Among the dead and missing were many children Japanese mothers said the children were swept from their homes before they were able to remove them to safety Property damage by the sudden torrent from the mountains was estimated at $150000 by the Honolulu engineering department FAMILY ESCAPES OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 19 LT) A family of five living in Bethany probably owed their lives today to business here and in Norman The tornado which took more than a score of lives in the little suburban town levelled the home of Rawlings who was in Oklahoma City Hearing of the storm Rawlings left for home heavy traffic delayed him two hours He found his home demolished but his family having gone to Norman was safe Vital Statistics Marriages Adams of Coffeyville to Miss Laina Ralston of Cof-feyvillc Births Mr and Mrs A Holley Virginia avenue road girl born November 19 Divorce Granted Biven Armstrong from Bill Armstrong FUNERALS Martindale Body to Ohio The body of William Martindale who died Tuesday morning will be shipped tomorrow from the Neekamp funeral home where it now rests to Bowling Green Ohio Mrs Dora Martindale widow of the deceased will accompany the body to Ohio drove east a car approaching 'ly Milfo Miller struck the Buflick car broadside ripping off the fender smashing a wheel And nearly turning the car over Mrs Bul-lick and her little son Earl who was with her at the time were bruised and shaken The Missionary society of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs A Klewer Thursday afternoon at 2:30 Mrs Ira McCreary and little daughter Amy Grace left Wednesday for Kansas City where Gunplay in Rooming House Added to List of "There's been a shooting down said a voice over a telephone to tha desk sergeant at police headquarters at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon "Where?" barked the sergeant "At the Wasage Rooms on Second was the reply Chief of Police Turner and all the patrolmen he could recruit quickly hurried to the rooming house Part of them went around to the back scaled a ladder to the second floor while the rest of the "shooting investigating was gaining the top of the stairs at the front building With tear gas bombs snuggly tucked in their pockets the policemen advanced They asked questions of the landlady She shed no light on the subject other than that there had been three men involved in a quarrel and one of them had pulled a revolver and shot The officers went to the room where the trouble was said to hare been They looked in and found it empty the actors of the shooting affair apnarently having vanished quickly after the alarm was spread to police headquarters Unable to find anything about the shooting the officers retreat she will visit her brother and family for a week The Missionary union of the Baptist church will go to Copan this morning to attend an all day rally there Miss Jewel Gastineau is expected home Friday from a visit with relatives at Memphis Tenn Mrs Jones was confined to her home yesterday because of illness Mrs Joe Sauer of Bartlesville is a guest in the home of her father and mother Mr and Mrs Frank Lindsey Bryden Kester Jr who was critically injured in a car accident a week ago is steadily improving and on the road to recowry according to the latest advice AlUcmBtTTfA ft I IX IMA lillS IINI tnifwJkwn MwIhI baM afar fntappikaboa MUSterOLE Service OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 19 UP) Many transcontinental tourists will remember Bethany struck today by a disastrous tornado as the town where they could get no cigarets or other form of tobacco and if it was Sunday no gasoline The town Is governed by members of the Naxarene church which has a college there The tornado produced its animal aa well as its human heroes A small dog crouched protectingly over Mrs llarvcy Wallace after she had been injured "I wouldn't sell that dog for any amount of money Mrs Wallace said A six-year-old girl died in the arms of Allen Legg 16 football player of the Putnam consolidated school adjoining Bethany after he had removed htr from her ruined home 0 Hatcher superintendent of the school took his football team and other large boys into the area immediately after the storm was over Two of the boys re- Will Marry Her Football Hero People often wondered a few years ago if there more than just a will to win back of those long runs on the gridiron that Chris Flanagan used to make for Notre Dame There was a reason Miss Rita Catherine Hancock of El Campo Texas boyhood sweetheart who is shown above Chria will be through with his assistant job at Purdue November 22 and two days later he and Mis Hancock will go over to South Bend to be married in the Log Chapel of Notre Dame They're planning a honeymoon in Canada but Mr and Mrs Christopher Flanagan will return to Chicago in time to see the Notre Dame-Army football game moved eight bodies from ruins The storm had its whimsicalities Many chickens denuded of their feathers by the force of the wind were seen alive after the wind had died down Much other poultry and livestock were killed or injured and squads of men with guns went around shooting injured animals A baby in nightclothes was snatched from its bed carried 100 feet and deposited unharmed on a haystack Weisxbred Oklahoma Railway company employe stood on the front porch of Mrs Lanaford's home when the tornado struck the earth two miles south seen tornadoes before it wasn't any Weisxbred said Rushing across the street he hurried his wife and Mrs Imnsford into the basement of his home Then it struck You don't re' member things at a time like that There waa a roaring sound Our ears felt like they were full of water The sound was awful And like a flash the black sky appeared above us as the house was swept away We crawled out none of us hurt but I cant tell you the horrible empty sick feeling when we looked Only a small evergreen tree marked the site of the home of Lewis Bouda which stood two miles south of Bethany Bouda and his family escaped injury reaching the basement just as the storm struck their home demolishing it and scattering the wreckage over a quarter mile area Standing untouched in the midst of the path of destruction was the home of Bill Mitchell three blocks from the Bethany ice dock Houses on either side were demolished To little Charline Moore three years old with her limited vocabulary the tornado which destroyed her home the residence of Mr and Mrs Moore was a "mean old wind" broke our house" she told nurses at an Oklahoma City hospital where her injured mother waa taken Charline was unhurt Mrs Dixon 50 suffering a fractured hip regaled nurses at a hospital with a humorous account of how she lost her shoes all the clothing she had on in the tornado "I was leaving the bathroom to get my clothes when the house caved Mrs Dixon said "When I crawled out of the wreckage my shoes were gone" The driving rain that accompanied the tornado was credited by Morrison El Reno state senator-elect with saving his life today His ear stalled about a block from the path of the storm just a minute before the tornado struck He was on his way to Oklahoma City from El Reno He sat in his stalled car and watched the gigantic funnel-shaped twister roar through the town "It looked exactly flke pictures you have seen of them" he sai it I I I 4 Jl 4 i Thanksgiving Sale of Heaters and Ranges ARE HOMELESS Temporary Relief Given $30000 Is Needed By Red Cross OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 19 relief for 600 persons left homeless by the destructive tornado at Bethany today was effected tonight as Bed Cross officials and Governor Holloway issued a joint appeal for $30000 to accomplish rehabilitation of at least 110 storm victim families A relief organization perfected less than 24 hours before the tornado struck moved quickly to supply temporary food and clothing nd during the first steps of the rehabilitation program Governor Holloway made a statewide plea tonight by radio for help "It is by far the most serious need facing the state Emergency funds of at least $30000 must be provided at once to care for the disaster victims before cold the governor said Meanwhile a half dozen relief organizations had completed a program of temporary aid so every needy person affected by the storm was being cared for A canteen was established in a church by the Salvation Army to feed the survivors "Those whose homes escaped the fury of the blast opened them to the victims tonight and the Salvation Army supplied temporary clothing needs through community fund STORMS IMPAIR ATLANTIC SHIPS (CONTINrrD FROM PACK OXZ) ened next year There also were a number of Spanish emigrants to South America and 149 in the crew Salvage boats tried to pull her off the rocks but the task was abandoned until the weather cleared The Highland Hope was put into service only last January She was the second of the Nelson line ships to meet disaster in the past year Last September the Highland Priile jammed her nose into the rocks off Vigo and was wrecked All her passengers and crew waa saved By BATES RANEY Copyright 1910 By The Assorted Press America Nov 19 The unwritten code of the sea today caused 27 men and one woman already physically exhausted from hours of battling to save their sinking ahip to choose the hardest path of rescue after the Swedish Cargo Steamer Ovidia had foundered off the grand banks of Newfoundland Through most of last night the United States Liner America the British Cunard Vessel Mauretania and the United States shipping board vessel Endicott had raced to aid the stricken vessel before it sank Although all throe ships sighted the Ovidia witiiing approximately an hour of one another shortly before noon today the Mauretania waa the first to reach the scene The code demands that the first vessel to arrive shall save the lives and salvage the cargo if possible from any sinking ship All three stood close by for an hour before Captain Car Is son of the Ovidia decided to abandon the 198-ton freighter Then although the America was the closest and lay to the weather where it would have been easier to drift down with the Captain Carls son and his crow laboriously manned the oars of their two lifeboats pulling hslf a mile against wind and wave to the Mauretania ANTWERP Belgium Nov 19-(P Five seamen drowned tonight in a collision of the British steamers Continental Freighter and Hebble during a storm in Antwerp roads The Continental Freighter sank The victim! were members of the crew of the sunken ship from which five others including Captain Scott were saved KILLED BY EXPLOSION NEVADA Mo Nov 19 Reed 25 Tnron Kan was killed today when a gasoline tank exploded at an oil station Reed owned the station which opened two weeks ago George Morris of Los Angeles Calif is visiting Mr and Mrs Tom Edwards 500 Dewey avenue Morris formerly lived in Bartlesville FACIAUBLEMISHES DOWN Balance in Easy Monthly Amounts Largest Submarine Proves Successful in Trials We want you to have a great Thanksgiving this year so we are extending to you a most unusual any DETROLT JEWEL RANGE or PURITAN CIRCULATING HEATER in the house at only $5 DOWN your chance to surprise the family make the wife happy with a brand new bright range on which to prepare the Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts And give them assured heating comfort for the coldest of weather this winter with a PURITAN CIRCULATOR $5 DOWN PUTS A RANGE OR HEATER IN YOUR HOME FOR THANKSGIVING Humphrey Radiantfires $15 up A most complete assortment for all needs in all sizes and all finishes to match practically any color scheme Cities Bartlesville Gas and Electric Company Union Public Service Company Phones 17-18 326 Johnstone Companies Phone 56 Dewey Okla With full speed ahead as the waves break over its low trim decks the V-5 largest submarine In the navy here is strikingly pictured on Its last run of the exhaustive trials held off Provincetown Mass The 8 000-ton craft recently commissioned as the most powerful of American under-sea craft also is able to submerge to a record depth Lieut Comm Brown Jr has been assigned commander Don't be 'discounted! Thousands hm secured pleasing results with JtesinoL.

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