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a OKLA. PAGE SEVEN OCTOBER 19, 1955 MIAMI DAILY NEWS-RECORD MIAMI, ilistorionl Society FORECAST GIVE ONCE FOR ALL 80. MIAMI Oklahoma NEW er tonight Miami, today 45-50; through vicinity-Fair high Thursday; Thureday and warm- near lows 53RD YEAR, NO. 95 Published Every Morning 'by Evening Miami (Except Newspapers, Saturday) Inc. and Sunday MIAMI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1955 DAILY 5 CENTS-SUNDAY 10 CENTS ASSAULT TRIAL OF KANSAN SET FOR THURSDAY Ernie Hopkins, 21, Charged With Attack on Orie Hockerville The assault trial of Ernie Hopkins, young Baxter Springs resident, will open Thursday morning in district court, launching a jury term scheduled to run through Oct.

31. Hopkins, 21, is accused of attacking a Hockerville man, Orie Morris, on the State Line road northeast of Picher last May 26. Morris is expected to testify that Hopkins hit him over the head with a 14-inch wrench during a quarrel. Eighty veniremen have been notified to be William M. Thomas' at 9 "chamber o'clock.

Eight other cases are on the alleriminal docket. Defendants and charges against them include: Bill Buck, first degree rape; Harold Morgan, obtaining money under false pretenses and conspiracy to defraud the county; James W. Elliott, knowingly allowing an unauthorized claim against the county, two counts; J. B. Baldridge, grand larceny; Eugene Richardson, second degree burglary, and Bob Welch, second degree burglary.

The Morgan and Elliott cases grew out of last December's grand jury investigation into a purported courthouse funds shortage. All four cases are docketed for next Monday. County ASC Will Hold Convention Here on Oct. 25 The Ottawa county AgriculAural, Stabilization and Conservation committee's annual convention will be held at 10 a.m. Oct.

25 at the ASC office in the postoffice building here. The committee will select its officers for next year. There are six delegates, one for each of the communities in the county. In event, the regular delegate cannot attend, the alternate may serve. Delegates and alternates for each community include: north of Miami, Claude Vanpool and Garl Groves; east of Spring river, Claude Hollingsworth and Ralph JonsC, southwest of Miami, Clinson; ton Boyd and Howard Helmick: Fairland, Glenn Butts and Theo Babst; Miami and an southeast of town, Leo area Glenn and Gerald Garoutte; Wyandotte, Ernest Thompson and Marvin Garman.

Dulles in Denver To Talk with Ike DENVER, Oct. 19-(P)-President Eisenhower, getting around a bit in a wheel chair now, meets with Secretary of State Dulles tofor discussion of what the chief day executive has termed "the acid test" of Soviet sincerity. Dulles flew in from Washington last night for another hospital conference with Eisenhower on United States preparations for the Big Four foreign ministers parley opening in Geneva Oct. 27. This is the secretary's second meeting with the recuperating President in the last nine days on that subject and other foreign policy matters.

Presses Roll with Union Printers Idle OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 19-(P) -The Oklahoma Publishing publisher of the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times, still is without the services of 140 striking union printers. The publishing firm announced late yesterday that none of the striking printers returned to their jobs within the 24-hour deadline. Meanwhile regular publication of the morning and afternoon newspapers continued as a crew of workers "filled in" for the printers. ATTENDS FUNERAL OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct.

19. (P)-Acting Gov. Cowboy Pink Williams left the Capitol today to attend the funeral of Bartholomew Lane, his brother-in-law, at Caddo. Lane, 79. a brother of Mrs.

Williams, died Monday. Williams is acting governor while Gov. Raymond Gary attends a Southern Governors conference in Point Clear, Ala. Weather -Fair tonight and Thursday, warmer Thursday and except in the Panhandle tonight; low tonight 45 Panhandle, 50-55 elsewhere; high Thursday east 90 west. MISSOURI-Generally fair tonight and Thursday; warmer over state tonight and east Thursday; low tonight generally in the 40's; high Thursday in the 70's.

Notes from Your Town Ottawa county men left FOUR Oklahoma City this morning for induction into the Army, Representing October's quota were Loyd Garland Crowder, Seneca Route 2, a farmer; Jackie Sason Phillips, Commerce, B. F. Goodrich worker; Jimmie Lee Moreland, Baxter, Springs, farmer, and Franklin Jones, 19 street northeast, electrician. State Rep. J.

R. Hall, local attorney, today was notified of his promotion from captain to major in the U. S. Airforce reserve. Hall will serve at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, when he is called for several weeks' duty, date of which has not yet been set.

Gerald Garoutte, dairy farmer residing south of Miami, has been named a member of the dairy study committee to conduct open hearings when the Oklahoma Farm 1 Bureau holds its annual convention at Oklahoma City. The convention will meet Nov. 14-18 at the Skirvin hotel. Boy Scouts in the Grand lake district collected 69,000 pounds of waste paper last Saturday, netting approximately $520 which will be applied to construction cost of a swimming. pool at their camp near Grove.

Dick Wright of Miami, district scouting activities chairman, disclosed. today Scouts in Ottawa county picked up 45,000 pounds of paper while those in Craig-Delaware counties collected 24,000. The latter includes Afton's contribution, which was taken to Vinita. District scouts Thursday night, Wright revealed; will be guests of Northeastern college at the football game at College field. The boys will enter the stadium from the west gate.

A section will be reserved fox them, Wright said. SOVIETS WON'T VISIT DETROIT Seven Russian Newsmen Denied Right To Inspect Industrial Area WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-(P)- The State department has refused to permit seven touring Soviet newsmen to visit Detroit. Officials reported today they rejected a request for permission to tour the Detroit area on the grounds the city is off-limits to Russians. The Russian journalists, now visiting New York where they arrived Monday, were reminded that the Soviet government has banned visits by Americans to Russian industrial centers.

The refusal was about a month ago. State department officials said the Soviet group accepted it without protest. A Soviet farm delegation which visited the United States from July 14 to Aug. 20, was permitted to visit some banned cities and areas. The Soviet newsmen are scheduled to visit Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Washington, D.

C. All of these are "open cities" under the off-limit decree. The Soviet group probably will be allowed to visit one banned city -Evanston, to allow them to tour Northwestern university's school of journalism. 2 More Lose Lives On State Highways (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The deaths of a Woodward child and an Oklahoma City man ed the state's 1955 traffic toll to 451 today, compared with 444 at this time a year ago. Dead are: Danny Mitchell, 3-year-old son of Mr.

Henry Waldon Mitchell, Woodward. Jim Dean Pledger, 21, Oklahoma City. The Mitchell boy died yesterday of injuries received Monday when he ran in front of a car on a downtown Woodward street. The Highway Patrol said the boy broke away from his sister and darted into the street. Pledger died yesterday in Veterans hospital in Oklahoma City from injuries suffered Oct.

a one-car smashup a mile north, of the city. Picher Grocery Is Scene of Burglary PICHER, Oct. 19-(Special)Thieves broke into the Jones grocery store here last night, taking merchandise which included fountain pens, shotgun and rifle shells and foodstuffs. The loss had not been determined fully at noon. Picher policeman Paul Nichols said entrance was gained by foreing open the front door.

The store, operated by Mrs. Harold Jones, is located at 637 South Cherokee street. WIDE HUNT IS LAUNCHED FOR SLAYERS OF 3 'Madman' or Youth Gang Suspected in Mutilation Murders at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 19-(P)-State, county and city police today pressed their widest investigation of its kind in a quarter century as they sought to solve the ghastly slaying of three young boys whose naked, mutilated bodies were found piled in a forest ditch. Authorities blamed the crime on either a madman or a gang of youths.

older, boys--Robert Peterson, 14, John Schuessler, 13, and his brother Anton, 11-were strangled and beaten, apparently Sunday night, a few hours after they set out from their homes for a downtown movie. Their bodies, with legs intermingled, were discovered yesterday in Robinson Woods, just outside Chicago's northwest limits. A hundred law officers scoured the woods today for clues. Other police were tracing movements of the youngsters from the they I left their middle-class neighborhood on the Northwest Side to see the Walt Disney movie "'The African Lion" in the Loop Sunday afternoon. An autopsy last night indicated' the boys had been dead 36 to 40 hours when their bodies were discovered but that they had not been molested sexually as first believed.

However, Dr. Harry R. Hoffman, an associate of the Cook County Behavior Clinic, said: "The person who could commit such an act as this one is one to whom the act itself is a gratification of the sex urge." Coroner Walter E. McCarron called it "the work of a madman" or a gang of older boys. He theorized from marks and (Continued on Page Three.) 2 Brothers Die Of Rat Poison In Waste Food NEW ORLEANS, Oct.

19 (P) -A coroner has ruled that two young brothers died of rat poison after neighbors said they picked food from garbage pails. Coroner Nicholas J. Chetta said yesterday that accidental phosphorous poison indigestion caused the deaths of William, 6, and Lawrence Baughman, 7. The parents have been charged with criminal neglect. The boys, two of seven Baughman children, died i in Charity hospital last Thursday.

How the children got the poison was not known for certain but Chetta said it was believed they ate pieces of potato which had been treated with the poison. Chetta said a jar of mustard found beneath the Baughman residence did not contain any rat poison. Four Hurt in Blast Off Critical List ARDMORE, Oct. 19-(P) -Four men injured in an oil well blast near Wilson, Saturday night were reported off the critical list today in an Ardmore hospital. Three men were killed when a nitroglycerin charge exploded as the workers prepared to shoot a well east of Wilson.

Kenneth Jackson, T. V. Rosenthal, W. J. McGraw and Jesse Fore, all critically hurt, were reported improved today.

They suffered shattered ear drums and multiple body lacerations. Two other men injured in the blast, Calvin Huffaker and E. F. Marshall, have been released from the hospital TOTAL LOSS--This Best Motor Lines transport trailer was described as a total loss after it was struck by a Frisco passenger train Tuesday at Third avenue and Street southeast. The trailer, which was driven by Fred Sherwood, 31, Seneca, was loaded with sacks of small block designs which were strewn along the tracks when the rear wheels of the trailer were torn off and the side of the trailer torn open.

The driver was uninjured. Faster Photo- -Engraving Service for News- Record The News-Record today is the proud parent of a Fair- child Scan-A-Graver, making coverage of local news. The first evidence of this in this edition. -Whereas the News Record LOEL JURY NOT YET SELECTED Veniremen Are Being Qualified for the Death Verdict at 0. C.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 19 (P)-The murder trial of a onetime police chief with a "psychopathic personality" today moves into its second day here with selection of a jury still to be completed. The defendant is slender, sullen Otto A. Loel, 44, whose background stretches from opium selling on the China coast to heading the police department of a small Oregon town. He is accused of fatally stabbing a 31-year-old Compton, woman, Mrs.

Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson, during 8 drunken brawl in a motel here Jan. 10, 1954. The pair was making a cross-country trip together. After being placed on the list of 10 most wanted criminals, Loel was arrested in Sanford, a year after the crime. He admitted the slaying and pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

However, specialists at EastOklahoma State hospital in ern Vinita described him as an "odd ball" but not crazy and a jury yesterday found him sane and competent to stand trial. The murder trial was launched only minutes after the verdict was reached in the sanity hearing. Thirty-six prospective jurors were called to the box but selection was slow as the state qualified each juror for the death penalty. Testimony is expected to begin by this afternoon. REJECTS INVITATION OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct.

19--(P) -Gov. Raymond Gary today was forced to turn down an invitation to speak in New York next month because of another engagement. He had been invited to address the Affiliated Young Democrats of New York Nov. 1. However, he will attend the Democrats annual, Jefferson-Jackson day dinner here the night before and could not make the trip in time.

Wide Range of Industries Contacted by Oklahomans (Editor's note: This is another in a series of articles on the Oklahoma Industrial Tour, now in the East, written by Wallace Kidd, editor of the Anadarko Daily News, for the United Press. The series also is being made available to the News-Record. Ivan Estus, president of the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad is representing Miami on the to medicinal packaging. From These are among the dustrialists have been told ably in Oklahoma. A study of reports from of this fifth Oklahoma industrial tour was being made in the Governor Clinton hotel headquarters here Tuesday.

Indications are that reception to visits from 103 Oklahoma businessmen has been good. Left on the desks of industry officials in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Camden, Newark, Boston and New York areas were attractive blue booklets. Across the front in gold letters was the message "Oklahoma in the Center of the Southwest, a Profitable Home for Industry." With the booklets, Oklaho- tour.) By WALLACE KIDD NEW YORK, Oct. 19-(Special)-From fountain pens. men's hats to canned soups.

hundreds of products eastern incan be manufactured profit- 278 calls during the first day mans told appealing facts about their state. It is the heart of the second fastest growing industrial area in the nation. It has a favorable tax structure for industry. The legislature is favorable to industry. Oklahoma people like to work and industrialists like Oklahoma manpower.

A letter from Oklahoma Governor Gary has oiled door hinges to most industry offices. A Long Island chemical firm which al(Continued on Page Three.) 5 Dead After Truck Plows Down Mount berland today, killing five persons when it overtook cal and smashed into another truck. State Police listed the victims as: Clifford Fearer, 38, assistant manager of the Francis X. Spearman, 50, clerk in the of. land Steel fice of the Baltimore Ohio at Cumberland: Miss Nellie 31, cashier and payroll clerk at the Thomas, and Miss Grace Evelyn Lloyd, 35, a clerk Lumber for the 0.

J. Brenneman, driver of one truck and building Samuel CUMBERLAND. Oct. 19-(AP) -A huge tractortrailer truck lost its brakes and plummeted cut of controi down Big Savage mountain into the west outskirts of Cum- contractor from Springs, Pa. Brenneman was eastbound on 40 with a bulldozer on his U.

S. and about to turn off when rig truck came down bethe runaway hind him at 85 to 90 miles an hour. It hit the Fearer car and then smashed into Brenneman's trailer. Brenneman was decapi- tated. The driver of the runaway truck, Paul Stewart Myers, 25, of Dover, had only a scratch over one eye.

Fearer and his passengers were bound to Cumberland when the truck overtook their sedan, smashed over it and dumped part of its load of aluminum sheeting upon the twisted wreckage said the sedan's Eyewitnesses gas tank apparently exploded at the impact. told police his brakes Myers failed. He disengaged his engine and gave it full throttle, trying to build up air pressure in the brake The truck careened system. Frostburg without hitthrough ting anything. For almost five miles it rocked the steep grades into the on down west outskirts of Cumberland.

At Allegany Grove, as it entered the Cumberland suburb of Lavale, tire blew out and it lurched into a one front yard and on through to the yard of John Kasckamp. At the edge of the Kasekamp it overtook the Fearer sedan. yard Fearer apparently had pulled to side of the road and had althe most stopped in an effort to get out of the truck's way. After crunching the car aside. the truck piled another 100 feet down the highway and smashed into Brenneman's rig.

Bandsmen Finish Second at Ponca Marching Event Weary Miami high school bandsmen arrived back home early today after competing in a regional marching contest at Ponca City. The band experienced one of its rare reversals in all afternoon street marching affair. losing by a fraction of a point to Blackwell in the BB division. Judges gave Blackwell a score of 98.78 and Miami 98.60 after both had been given I (superior) ratings in drills competition that morning. Commerce Man Dies At Talihina Hospital Ken Harper, 82, pioneer farmer and stockman of this area, died at 11 a.

m. Wednesday in 8. hospital at Talihina. Harper farmed for several rears seven miles northwest of until he retired in 1921 and moved to Commerce, He lived in Commerce until May of this year when he entered the hospital at Talihina. The body is being returned here and funeral services are pending with the Cooper Funeral Home.

City Boy in Critical Condition at Tulsa TULSA, Oct. --A 3-year-old Miami boy was said to be in critical condition at Hillerest Medical Center here of a skull fracture he suffered in an accident Tuesday. Hospital attendants said Johnny Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Richards, Miami, was conscious br that his condition was critical.

The child was reportedly injured when he knocked the prop fro under a trailer and gate while playing and the draw bar struck him on the head Heart Attack Fatal To John Hodiak, 41 TARZANA, Oct. 19-(P) -Movie actor John Hodiak collapsed at home today shortly after getting up to go to work and died of a heart attack. The handsome 41-year-old actor was in the midst of making the picture "Threshold of Space." He is divorced from actress Anne Baxter. One of his most recent films was "The Caine Mutiny." I INDIAN SERVICE HIRES TROOPER Andy Bidwell Named Investigator at Muskogee for Tribal Affairs GEORGIAN FLAYS COLORED ASSN. possible improved picture speedier service is contained previously used the servicesof engraving plants in other cities in readying photographs for reproduction, it now has its own engraving unit.

What once took a minimum of two days, via the mails, now takes only minutes after a picture arrives in the editorial or advertising office. End result of the previously-used process was a. metal halftone plate. The News-Record's Sean-A-Graver transfers a photoautomatically, to a sheet of plastic with the help of a photo-electric cell which "reads" the -light and dark areas of the picture. The "scan-a-gravings" are printed by the normal process with one exception: Because the halftones are flexible, they may be mounted directly on curved press plates.

This eliminates loss of quality from the conventional stereotype process. School District Reduction Urged By OU Professor OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 19 (P)-A new call for reorganizing Oklahoma's public school districts was sounded as the Oklahoma Conference on. Education moved into its second and final day. Dr.

Glenn Snider, professor of education at the University of Oklahoma, asked for reorganization and reduction in school districts late yesterday. "If we haven't the courage to face this, we will just be beating our gums," he told the 474 delegates to the two-day meeting. He said with efficient reorgan-1 ization of school districts the state can lay the "foundation on which we erect the kind of schools we want." Recommendations from the state conference will be relayed to a White House conference next month at Washington. In keynoting the meeting, Dave Johnson, publisher of the Nowata Daily Star, said the responsibility of good schools is shared by citizens, not just the teachers and a few parents. "This is not a 'gimme' meeting." he said.

"This is A 'gotta' meeting." Delegates from 74 of the state's 77 counties are attending the conference. CAP Search Ends; Plane Is Located Local Civil Air Patrol members who hunted. Tuesday for a plane believed lost were called off the search after it was learned the plane had been located i in Dallas. Capt. Bill Morelan, of the local CAP, said word had been received that the plane was in Dallas Monday evening and that it had developed engine trouble.

The plane left Ft. Smith, Sunday evening enroute to and had not been hattan, heard of since it left Ft. Smith. Stolen Vehicle Is Found Out of Gas A new station wagon stolen here Monday night was recovered--out of gas but otherwise in running order-yesterday evening in another part of town. The vehicle, property of Miami Products, was found doned in 111 block I street southeast.

It had been taken from a parking lot at First avenue and A street northeast. "Somebody went for a joy-ride," Police Chief: A. C. Masterson commented this morning. Attorney General Contends NCAAP 'Misnamed' Alleges 'Subversion' Involved ATLANTA, Oct.

19-(P)-Georgia Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook charged today that "subversion" is involved in the anti-segregation crusade of the National for the Advancement of Colored People. He implied that he would seek to have the organization outlawed in the state. In a presentation of what he called "the ugly truth about the NAACP," Cook declared that the organization is "mis-named" and that its real design is "to force upon the South the Communistinspired doctrine of racial integration and amalgamation." He said his statements were based on long investigation by his staff and the staffs of Rep.

Davis (D-Ga) and Sen. Eastland (D- Miss). He added that he would welcome a chance to prove them in a court of law. In a speech prepared for delivery before the Peace Officers Assn. of Georgia, he said he wanted to make clear that "the issue involved is one not of race but rather of subversion." He charged that activities of the NAACP "and its local fronts pose a serious threat to the peace, tranquility, government and way of life of our state." He proposes, he announced, to ask the Legislature in January to take "appropriate action" on "the subversive nature of these activities." Observers saw in this language the threat of an effort to have the NAACP banned in Georgia.

Alumni To Present Assembly on Friday A program based on the theme, "The $64,000 Question," has been planned by Jerry Hollis, high school science instructor, and his committee for an assembly scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Miami high school auditorium to begin homecoming activities. Frank Fergus will be master of ceremony. All former students, graduates and interested persons are invited. Miami high school alumni banquet tickets may be obtained by calling the high school or Barbara Bradley, No.

2-5477. Tickets for the Miami-Pawhuska football game at College field cost 75 cents but a combination dinner-game ticket costs $1.50. Bill Kyser is alumni president. Sooner Honored for Work in Thailand OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. (P) -Dr.

Alonzo Brand, superintendent of the Indian Health Service office here, said today he had been advised he will receive the highest decoration given by Thailand. A letter from Prince Valpakorn Voravarn, heir to the throne, said the award was being given for Brand's work in Thailand in the fields of public health and economics. He spent 26 months there on a special mission from the U. S. government.

The award is the "Most Honorable Order of the Crown of Thailand." Brand, who took up his duties here last month, is superintendent of all Indian health work in schools and hospitals in five states. FOOD COSTS PLUNGE NEW YORK, Oct. 19-(P)- Wholesale food costs as measured by Dun Bradstreet fell this week to their lowest level in more than five years. At $6.08, the Dun Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since the $6.04 recorded in the week of June 27, 1950, at the start of the Korean war. MUSKOGEE.

Oct. 19-(P) -Andy Bidwell, veteran Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer, will take tomorrow a position as general investigator for the Muskogee area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, area director Paul Feckinger disclosed today. The job, Feckinger said. is a new in which Bidwell will work one with law enforcement agencies on matters that have to any do with Indians and their property, such as trespass cases. "We feel very fortunate to get a man such as Mr.

Bidwell. said Feckinger. "He has the background and training for this position." The director explained that 01 Indian cases such aS those for which Bidwell is being hired. local officers have been helpful but that the position is being created in "an attempt to supplement their efforts." The local area office has jurisdiction in several states, 111- cluding that of the former Five Civilized Tribes agency, the former Miami agency for the Quapaws, the Choctaw agency at Philadelphia. Seminoles at Dania, and another at Charenton, Bidwell was reported to have an appointment with state Safety Commissioner Jim Lookabaugh in Oklahoma City this morning.

It was understood he will resign. Bidwell, a member of the patrol since it was organized in 1937, was in the middle of a shakeup and demotion of several veteran patrolmen. Officers Selected By Farm Bureau Ray Shewmake, Miami Route 1 farmer, has been elected president of the Ottawa county Farm Bureal. Other officers named at a meeting in Miami include George Vanpool. Miami Route 2.

vice-president. and Joe Hill, Fairland Route 1. secretary-treasurer. Board members also include Jess Beach. Miami Route A.

F. Groeneman, Miami Route Oscar Lave, Miami Route 1: Ruben Merit. Fairland Route Gerald Garoutte, Miami Route 3: Forest Olds. Miami Route Lewis Cheek, Afton Route 2, and Melvin Estes. Miami Route 1.

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