Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

VOL: XXXI NO 294 PRICE IVE CENTS Ward Hunted Anew After DOWNPOURS END LONG SEARCH AT END IVE SLAIN BY (Continued on Page Two) The younger Sazio attempted to fight off the maddened killer but mourn unme afternoon until World war ooldien often carried equipment weighing considerably LOOD ADDS TO DEATH TOLL IN LATIN AMERICA 'Associated Press Leased Wire 0 Packing Strike Ends Workers Back THREE DIE IN AIR CRASH AT ALTUS Plane alls in Yard of Courthouse State Has Other Violent Deaths Drouth Has Lifted Prices of Grain 27 Percent in Month DROUTH IN MOST PARTS STATE Two liers ound Dead on an Island Resolution Drafted As to Labor Used At Indiin School WEATHER ORECAST OKLAHOMA Mostly cloudy to night and Tuesday ARKANSAS Partly cloudy to cloudy thundershowers in south portion tonight Tuesday partly cloudy to cloudy MISSOURI Partly cloudy scat tered showers tonight and possibly in south and east central portions Tuesday morning cooler in north west portion tonight and in north Tuesday KANSAS Partly cloudy cooler in northeast thundershowers this afternoon or tonight in southeast portion Tuesday probably fair and slightly cooler has Mashunkashey 41 Dies at Tulsa probably strike the coast of north ern Tamulipas near the Texas bor der either late today or Tuesday It was not expected to strike Tam pico Gulf waters were choppy as a stiff off shore breeze blew in and coast guardsmen at Port Isabel and Port Aransas safd long ground swells had appeared there All vessels in the Gulf were warmed by weather bureau bulletins that the disturbance was accompan ied by winds of gale force and probably of hurricane force near its center PORT SPAIN Trinidad June 11 (A) The bodies of Michael Cipriani and Leslie Brad shaw who had been missing for a week after taking off from the Island of' Tobago on an airplane flight were found in their wrecked plane on Mount Tucuche a few miles from here today The accident was supposed to have been caused by a heavy fog which cut down visibility and pre vented the pilot from observing the country on which he was ap parently trying to make an emerg ency landing Man Who oin Strike Beaten THIE GETS $200 GOLD AT MIAMI DENTIST OICE Lone Airman on oot inds Debris on Isolated Mountainside in Tulsa received a severe cut on the arm from flying glass when a window was broken by the wind armers at Crucial Stage armers are at the crossroads in their weather needs A few more WRECK SIGHTED ON MOUNTAIN IN CATSKILLS TULSA June 11 GT) Charles Mashunkashey 41 an Osage died at a local hospital last night end ing a career that for years saw him like the late Jackson Barnett mil lionaire Creek in legal entangle ments money A complica tion of illnesses lasting more than a year caused death The owner of five and one half tribal headrights estate is estimated now at not more than $250000 yet it was the cause of a maze of litigation after his first wife Rosa obtained a divorce Mashunkashey declared she ob tained nearly $250000 from him through threats and intimidation while she replied she merely was thrifty and a good manager He filed suit for an accounting and a divorce from her A district court receivership for his property a transfer of the case to federal court a property division inter vention by the federal government and an appeal to the circuit court followed After more than three years the case still has not been settled finally Dr A Payne dentist with of fices on the second floor of the Tidwell building on East Central avenue went off the gold standard some time Sunday night when his office was broken open and ap proximately $200 worth of dental gold stolen The loot consisted of plate gold and scrap gold A $35 order of the plate gold was received Sunday by Dr Payne The burglar evidently hurrying after breaking the glass on the of fice door and releasing the night lock overlooked a quantity of gold filings and $2375 in a cash draw er which was not locked The only clues left by the cul prit were that he had small hands the hole in the glass being very small and fingerprints on several of the trays containing the gold Prints were taken from these to day The fact that the thief ransacked only the trays where the bulk of the gold supply was kept led Dr Payne and the authorities to be lieve that the crime was commit ted by someone familiar with Dr habit of keeping the sup ply in certain trays and drawers CHICAGO June ll UK The great American drouth stimulating trading in grain fu tures at the markets has been a contributing factor in a crop rise of better than 27 percent in little more than a month Despite heavier buying and selling of future contracts in anticipation of the agricultural status at the end of the 1934 growing season there has been no general' revival of public participation in the market traders assert On the contra ry a striking absence of broad buying power to sustain sudden price rises on bullish news in dicating a dearth of public speculation has characterized trading authorities said The price xof wheat has in creased 19 eents corn 7 cents oats 15 cents and rye 9 cents in approximate figures since April 80 Scores of Planes Used in Hunt for Craft Missing Since Late Saturday TUGWELL BARES LIE AND IDEAS IN SENATE QUIZ (By The Associated Press) A tropical storm of hurricane in tensity carrying with it a series of cloudbursts apparently has killed at least 2500 persons in Central America The storm reached its height last Thursday smashing communica tions It was not until today that the first picture of the extent of the tragedy was learned The republics' of El Salvador and Honduras apparently were the hardest hit Reputable sources in San Salva dor reported that at least 2000 persons died around that capital city A report from Octopeque Honduras said the storm wiped out that village killing" 500 inhabi tants The original property loss esti mate of $1500000 probably it was indicated will have to be revised upward A young Joplin Mo couple George Rausch 23 years old and Mill Mildred enton 19 years old recounted a nerve racking experi ence today after being kidnaped and held for more than 10 hours Sunday night by a lone bandit lat er identified by police photographs as George Ward sought by Ottawa county officers for the robbery of the Quapayv bank and several otlier holdups Rausch pointed to pic ture in the gallery of the Joplin detective agency as that of the man who kidnaped and re leased them shortly after 9 this morning in the south suburban district of Joplin taking car a 1933 Pontiac sedan Shortly after Rausch and Miss enton told their story to Joplin police authorities in southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklaho ma organized heavily armed posses in anticipation of a bank robbery which the man identified as Ward told the young couple he was going to Told Them to Go to Police i When'' the couple was released the bandit told them to go to the Joplin police department and they would find his picture there Electric in Italy Burns One on Trial in Va nHdose Murder CARTHAGE Mo June UP) Victor Powell Denver one of five men charged with murder in connection with the slaying March 3 of Van Hoose Carthage capitalist wentv on trial today Powell as the first of the group to be tried Ray Watson Jasper county prosecutor has announced he will seek the death penalty for all Harmon Carthage one of the defendants obtained a change of venue today to Barton county and will be tried atdhe September term of circuit court! ROME June famoUS'Iectric woman has flick ered out During two months un der strict observation at the Rome psychiatric clinic to which Gugliel mo Marconi as head of the na tional council of research had her brought from Trieste Anna Mo naro failed to produce the rays of light that amazed the doctors in Trieste The psychiatric clinic announced this morning that governmet agents took the woman back to Trieste yesterday The doctors here were disappointed at the fail ure of the to shine in Rome but they said other doc tors in Trieste would continue to look for illuminations Temperatures in Miami from 2 oclock yesterday noon today: 2 4 6 8 10 BOMB KILLS CUBAN HAVANA June 11 One man was killed and several others were wounded when a bomb ex ploded today in the shopping dis QUADRUPLETS BORN IN IOWA American Legion to Install Officers Here fell beneath a rain 'of knife slashes Then the killer turned upon Mrs Amistani and cut her down in flicting 15 knife wounds Metal Market NEW YORK June Lead steady spot New York 409 East St Louis 385 Zinc quiet East St Louis spot and future 425 LONDON June Lead spot £10 6d future £11 5s Zinc spot J14 17s 6d future £15 Mounted Troops in Rodeo at ort Smith ORT SMITH Ark June 11 Seventy members of the Mounted troops of America from four Oklahoma cities arrived here today for participation in rodeo and parade events of the allied highway convention The 70 Oklahoma members augmented a contingent of 30 who arrived last night from Baxter Springs Kas A special train brought the troopers from Tulsa Okmulgee Muskogee and Haskell to ort Smith at 9:30 thia morning Vem Vandiver of Tulsa national president of the organization which is composed of youths accompani ed the cowboy garbed Oklahomans OKLAHOMA CITY June GT A packing plant worker who did not join the strike of approxi mately 700 that was ended Sat urday night with a rc employment agreement was beaten severely by a group of men in Packingtown to day and his paycheck taken away from him He was Shadid a ilson Company worker Opposes Of Soviet Sort He Tells Critical Inquisitors HEARING DISORDERLY (By The Associated Press) 'Six deaths were reported in Oklahoma Sunday three persons dying in an air crash at Altus two others reported as suicides while one person was killed by a train When the plane in which they were flying crashed in the court yard at Altus Milton Gregory 25 filling station operator was killed instantly Ernest Simpson amateur pilot was fatally injured and died several hours laterwhile wife succumbed this morning to in juries The plane narrowly missed a de partment store as it fell in a tail spin from about 500 feet Investigators reported that Mrs Leland Essary found shot to death at the home of relatives in Custer City apparently committed suicide She lived at Clinton and had been separated from her husband recent ly Jail Breaker Kills Self The body of Bill' Stevens 38 year old farmer who escaped from the county jail at Sayre Thursday night after he knocked Jailer rench on the head with an iron pipe was found four and a half miles northwest of Sayre Officers said ne apparently had shot himself in the head as a pistol wrested from the jailer at the time of the escape: was found lying at the fu side He had been jailed for alleged intoxication The train victim was Lance Ma thews 17 year old boy who was struck by a northbound Santa freight at Thackerville Train Hits Auto Bus In Spain Killing 18 MADRID June The Asturian express train struck an auto bus near Pola de Gordon 21 miles from Leon today killing' 18 persons and injuring six criti cally and four slightly The train crew did not notice the impact and the express went on its way without stopping I Calloway Pan American Airways airport manager went along as an observer and made an unofficial report of his findings He said the government planes drop ped messages to all communities where life was still observed ask ing them to report in to the capi tal immediately as to the extent of casualties and loss in each village He saw evidence that whole towns had been destroyed by landslides started down by volcanoes as the tosult of the rains Coastal Villages Razed In the Lempa river he saw the' funnel of a rived boat sticking out of the watef and bodies floating around it The coast from La Libertal to La Union was worse hit and the vil lages there virtually destroyed The president of the republic has issued a decree that prices on food stuffs must remain the same as be fore the disaster ie abolished all import duties on wheat rice and other cereals for the next three' months in order that the people of El Salvador may be fed at as low a cost as possible Electric power was restored over the week end in San Salvador Drinking Water Rationed drinking water again although it is only issued two hours daily work of burying the dead is being carried on as fast as the army can get rescue workers into the stricken settlements Thus far only the locality around the capital can be reported upon with any exactness but the isolated villagers are handling their own work of covering1 un tiie ravages of the 25 inches in 24 hours rainfall of last Wednesday The flying fields can be used again and the government is de pending completely in airplanes to establish contact with the out lying districts Lakes Overflow Banks Lakes Guija and Coatepeque have risen far over their banks and swept away every vestige of civilization around their shores Airplane observers flying over the International railroad of Cen tral America which has been completely washed out foi' long secuons saw rue international train lying upside down several hundred feet from where the mountain track had been There was no way of telling from the air of course but it ap peared likely that every person on the train had been killed Practically all the agriculture in El Salvador has been wiped out The government is doing its ut most to relieve its citizens and the army is laboring faithfully to take care of the unfortunate The main fear at the present time is that the destruction of sanitary facilities and the pres ence of many unburied bodies may cause a pestilence Tn order to provide as much emergency transportation by truck and airplane as possible the gov ernment has confiscated all the gasoline in the capital LIVINGSTON MANOR June (ZP) (Ted) Hal lock th3 aviator who from the air the wrecked Newark Chicago air liner in the fore near here today I'e1 his way to the scene on foot and later rap or cd of the todies of the tven occupants witli one exception were burned beyond recognition A resolution recommending that Indian laborers be used during the construction of two new dormitor ies at the Sengca Indian school at Wyandotte was drawn up by councilmen of the Association of Indian tribes at a meeting held in I the district courtroom riday night The resolution was com pleted today and copies of it mail ed to Congressmen Disney Sena tor Gore John Collier commission er of Indian affairs and A Andrews Indian agent here The action of the council mem bers followed appointment of a white man to supervise the build ing of the new dormitories and the" tearing down of several other buildings at the Indian school The council contends that there are capable supervisors of Indian blood who should be given consid eration and that all Indiah labor should be used on the projects Muskogee and Tulsa ReportTwo Inches Accompanied By Severe Lightning (By The Associated Press) "Soaking rains in widely separat ed sections and high winds that tore down and caused other damage of a minor natpre spotted the Oklahoma weather man todav SUSANVILLE Cal June GP) Victims of a maddened knife i wielder three women and two men were attacked and stabbed todeath here during the night Sheriff James Leavitt said today The victims were Mr and Mrs Joe Sazio and their 20 year daughter Maria and Mrs Lena Amistani and son John Sheriff Leavitt gid a suspect who gave his name as Peter Dalosi 45 a lumber mill worker had been taken into custody and was being questioned about the mass slayings for which no motive was apparent Sazio his wife and daughter were attacked in their home last night by the slayer who stabbed them to death and the dismembered Sazio Leavitt said The three victims were in their home when the man invaded the place and brandished his knife The man and two women fought with the attacker whose knife slashed them to death making a shambles of their little home Leavitt said After ascertaining all three persons were dead the killer fled from the home and down a nearby road Encourtering sob John' and Mrs Amistani about three eights of a mile from' home Leavitt said the slayer ap proached the couple and began striking at them viciously with his keen edged weapon loyd Perry post' American Legion will install officers at a meeting in the hall Tuesday night Heading the group taking office will be Earl Perry succeeding Dr Cook as post commander Bruce Stubblefield of Oklahoma City state service officer will be installing officer Stubblefield formerly lived here Other out of town legionnaires to be here for the ceremonies will include Maj John Ressler of Claremore irst district commander Delegations from several nearby posts are expected to attend ol lowing the installation refresh ments will be served Son and Three Daughters Added to Poor amily Reported to Thriving SAC CITY la June A 30 year old mother who dolsriof believe in large families is caring today for a quartet of new babies ranging in weight from two and a half to four and a half pounds She is Mrs L' Wycoff of Sac City who gave birth to quadruplets boosting the family roster to nine Mrs Wycoff was but said she feels sorry" for her children because have the privileges they Lawrence Wycoff the father worksfor the State Highway com mission for $16 a week know what to think about it he said you bet your life life proud about The babies all have the same ini tials Their names and weights: Lester Dean 4 1 2 pounds the three girls Lavern Danene 4 pounds Lavonne Danene 3 1 2 pounds and Lorraine Delaine 2 1 2 pounds The quadruplets born Saturday were attended by a trained nurse and Dr Swearingen who de livered the babies They are being fed on a diet of corn syrup and milk administered to the two stur diest with medicine 1 droppers and to the other pair through tubes Dr Swearingen reported the ap petites of the youngsters normal Mrs Wycoff was reported in a sat isfactory condition Incubator methods will not be used in this case said Dr Swearin gen The wife declared he 1 not believe in incubator meth vMuiuuu wauuw map louay climaxing the hottest day of the and everywhere summer ollowing heat that drove the mercury to 106 some western sections the rain crashed down on both sides of the state At Musko gee on the east more than two inches of rain accompanied bja gale that uprooted big trees de layed the start of the state ama teur golf tournament Tsa had a similar experience and Oklahoma City cooled off this morning in a stiff northeast breeze 1 ulsa Streets looded At Hennessey in the west tral section of the state an elec trical storm brought about one meh' of rain last night Wheat shocks were' soaked but1 not materially damaged by the downpour Heavy winds arid rain accompan ied by an electrical display struck the Tulsa area shortly after mid night this morning Some buildings and trees were damaged while streets and highways in the vicini ty were flooded by more1 than an inch of rain During the Hennessey storm Dr Ed Milton drove his car into an electric wire burned down by light ning and narrowly escaped serious injury or possible death He suffer ed riainful burns ThoqiasBqclifM'd jfcXel njager heQapiroJjs receiving Hurricane Moving Toward Texas as Deaths Caused by Similar Storm in Central America Reach Thousands Coast Residents in Browns ville Area Watch Anxious ly as Disturbance Moves In rom Gulf Tampico Also Warnings Sent Out to' Mariners 2 4 6 8 1 10 1 Noun 84 trict OKLAHOMA CITY' June Oklahpma City packing plant worker! thronged the stockyards today but not to picket In a jovial mood many of the 700 erstwhile strikers applied for their former jobs under a re em ployment pact that ended the week old walkout Saturday night The two plants Wilson and Armour ex pert to ro emntov 850 workers this nfeek and as many mon 'next week mon than 100 pounds NEWARK June The American Airlines plane miss ing with seven occupants since Sat urday night was reported sighted this afternoon near Livingston Manor Planes sent out by the air to check reports made by a priv b' ate flier reported back here by ra dio Earl Ward general superin tendent of the line said pilots the ships had radioed that the plane partly burned was buried in: the underbrush in the side of a mountain near the New York vil lage I A large number of the gioup of 22 ships the line had out on the search Since early this morning were ordered to the Livingston 3 Manor area after a pi'ot named Hallock reported to Ward that he had seen the plane which had been 4 unreported since Saturday evening as it passed over Newburgh on its flight to Buffalo and Chi cago JV Carried our Passengers The plane when it left Saturday carried: Clyde Holbrook 38 of Chicago pilot John Barron Jr 33 of cago co pilot and Miss Margaret Huckeby 28 of Chicago steward ess comprising the crew and the following passengers: Harry Pinsley of New York Bader of Buffalo A Cass of Buffalo and Coppins of Buf A large fleet of planes had been engaged in the search yesterday and today circling a wide area over the Catskill mountain region of New York stdte checking many re ports that had been relayed to tha office here of the American Air a lines Pilot a War Ace With Holbrook a World war ace at the controls the plane left Newark at 4 eastern stan "dard time Saturday At 4:35 Saturday he ra diophoned the Newark airport 3' He gave his inn tic 9n milae nnvlUxtrael Newburgh Syracuse was to be the first stop At not nolprooK was supposed to make another ra dio report None came The Amer ican Airlines operator at Newark" and subsequently other stations ws tried in vain to contact the shiprv Tf Reemirurlv htirl hppn sun1lAu A4j4 up by tne rugged Catskill tains Search Organized A search waS" organized diately but little could be dorie' until daybreak yesterday Competing air lines joined in the search sending pilots and plr es to help Gov Herbert Lehman ordered the entire force of the State Con servation department to assist Aviators who know the pointed out a plane" could 'crash through timber on a mouritainsiad'iA and be hidden by foliage for weeksJ? Black Dome and other peaks inJ the vicinity form a sheer wall more than 3000 feet high Thetimber kf' linn 1 KAA m'S I Holbrook had 10000 hours in the air to his credit and was regarded A as one oi tne most resourcetul or pilots ew American aviators have seen as much service liers Survey Damage in Central American Repub lic as 'Relief Workers Count Dead American Airmen Tells of Sighting Whole Town Destroyed SAN SALVADOR i El Salvador June 11 i (Via Pan American Airways Wireless) Relief workers today estimated 2000 persons were dead in the vicinity of San Salva dor alone following last dis astrous hurricane and rainstorm 4 The Salvadorian air corps yester day sent up airplanes to survey the nation Theyeturned to report Geo taping of Joplin Couple anc dention AUNight Near Seneca Suspected of Quapaw Bank Robbery Identifier George Raush of Joplin as Bandit Who Abducted ui and Young Woman Companion Last Night anc eased Them Early Today Stealing Automobile mpposedly for Use in Another Depository Holdup T' 4 A 'p Pnbllahad Ever Eraini (Except Sxturdxjl nd Sundx mmnmM py newwcorq nibhahlng Unc) Soaking Rains Accompanied By Winds That Inflict Minor Damage THIRD INCH HERE pm '98 pm 101 pm 101 pun 78 pm 76 Midnight 74 Committeemen at Odds Over Spec tators Cheer Principals WASHINGTON June Rexford Guy Tugwell told the Sen ate agriculture committee over and over today that he opposed tional of the soviet sort 5 A speech by him in 1931 was the main theme of questioning by senators opposing his promotion to the $10000 a year post of un dersecretary of agriculture tf The type of planning he dis ctissed then he said is not the kind he favors such as represented by NRA and AAA' Secretary Wallace numerous szjj other officials and several hundred cijriousjcitizens were on hand ew is' could hear the softly spoken Tug well replies to Senators Smith Byrd and Bailey This trio of southern Democrats returned so aoften to the 1931 speech that Sena tors Wheeler (I) Mont) and Norris "(R Neb) protested that Tugwell had answered the ques tions repeatedly Believes in Constitution 1 has said he believes in the Constitution and is against the Russian Wheeler con tended the Russian system for the United Tugwell amended 5 The hearing was: featured by bickering in the committee leading sections of the audience to cheer now for Byrd now for Chairman Smith and now for Tug well Senators Wheeler and Murphy (D la) objected tolong speeches by Byrd and Smith the give and take prompting Senator Bankhead (D Ala) to call the proceeding a Tells of His Experience Tugwell detailed his life and ex perience and something of his philosophy Dispute was prompt ed by his upholding of the admin istration request for strengthen i 'i' ing of the agricultural adjustment law 1 Senator Byrd contended the committee (had been misled on the proposed amendments by Tugwell saying they were only One of the amendments the Vir ginian declared would let the de partment say how many chickens could be raised 'He asked if that ware not an in present AAA powers Tugwell said he looked up the word and it meant to clear and free from obscur is what the amendments are intended to he' asserted Wheeler Rebukes Byrd Remarks by Byrd i led Senator Wheeler (D Mont) to maintain that the investigation was being run as political racket" He characterized the criti cism of the AAA amendment bill as a and called for an orderly "Hurrah for had greeted Byrd as he concluded yelled another spec tator and Wheeler demanded such demonstrators be thrown out Order was restored by Chairman Smith J' Tugwell a member of the origi nal Roosevelt and a former Columbia university profes sor affirmed his belief in the Con stitution He addfid a conviction that it is "flexible enough to do what we believe necessary to meet exigencies of the past few His reply was when asked whether he believed in Roosevelt acts and "policies he said have eliminated any danger of a revolutionary movement He fa vored the sort of plan the President has spoken about he said but not' the kind he mentioned in a 1931 speech by him that dealt with Soviet Russia (Continued on Page Two) BROWNSVILLE Tex June 11 Alarmed residents along the Gulf of Mexico today watched the progress of a tropica! storm re ported by weather observers to be moving across the gulf at a point between Tampico and Brownsville iSchnurbusch Brownsville weather observer said the disturb ance had changed its course and had last been located 300 mileseast of Tampico atad 375 milessoutheast of Brownsville It along at an eight mile an hour sp'eed in a west northwesterly direction earful lest the disturbance should develop into hurricane pro portions Brownsville and lower Rio Grande valley residents boarded up buildings and made all preparations for a gale This vicinity was struck by a disastrous hurricane last Sep tember Schnurbusch said that if the dis turbance held its present course Brownsville could expect some ef fects from the wind late today or tomorrow Tampico residents were in a state of alarm as the weather bureau Suspect Held in Killing there predicted the storm would Ot California Quintet Motive Not Known am 72 am 72 am 70 a tn 70 am73 it will be too late' he said going to hold up a Rausch who recently returned to his home here after attending the University of New Mexico at Al buquerque had just taken Miss enton home from church when the man approached the car in front of Miss home and com manded Rausch to move over going with he said Rausch asked him to let the girl out of the car but the bandit re fused and then drove south on the Promenade road driving with one hand and keeping Rausch covered with a pistol Parked Car Near Seneca The outlaw drove to a point near Seneca Mo then and parked the machine near a small stream Rausch and 'his companion were forced 'into the back of the car where they remained until day light this morning ollowing their 'release near Joplin the ban dit turned and headed south again Rausch got in touch with the authorities quickly and was taken to headquarters where he identi fied pictures of Ward (Continued on Page Two) MIAMI OKLA MONDAY JUNE 11 1934 Office of Publication WB MIL VO vi' AIK LINER OUND WITH SEuii DEAD I i I.