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Cklahoma ilistoricnl Society Oklahoma City 5. Oklahoma GIVE ONCE FOR ALL change in temperature Wednesday; MIAMI DAILY NEWS-RECORD low Miami, Wednesday, tonight vicinity mid-40's. warmer FORECAST Fair tonight; little YEAR, NO. 100 Published Every Morning by Evening Miami (Except Newspapers, Saturday) Inc. A and Sunday MIAMI, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1955 DAILY 5 CENTS- 10 CENTS CREWS BATTLE FLAMING WELL WITHIN TOWN Burning Gas Shoots 200 Feet Into Air -Community of 2,000 in Dither HAWKINS, Oct.

25-(P)- Daring oil field fire fighters swarmed to this little East Texas town today for a desperate effort at snuffing out a runaway well throwing a plume of burning gas 200 feet into the air The menacing torch threw a flickering glare over the entire community all night as the firefighters planned their campaign against the wild well. So far the well has spewed only burning gas into the air, causing tremendous excitement but little damage to the surrounding town of 2,000. However, a change in the underground pressure could force great streams of oil from the well and send waves of the burning fluid over nearby street lots. Three frame houses and one brick home are in the immediate danger area. Their residents were evacuated hours ago.

Now the fire-fighters may call in heavy equipment to tow the frame houses away. Primary danger to nearby buildings is not from the flames but from the tremendous blasts of nitroglycerine or other explosives that the firefighters expect to use in an effort to snuff out the torch. The fire-fighters arrived during the night but much of their equipment had to come by heavy trucks. The well is only two blocks from the business district and is dangerously near homes. Hawkins is in the midst of the huge East Texas oil field, and as a cafe owner, E.

T. Petty, said, "There's a well on every lot." The well blew out with a deafening roar early yesterday afternoon. It caught fire about 5 p. probably from a spark from stones striking together as they were blown from the hole under the tremendous pressure of the gas. (Continued on Page Three) Four More Lose Lives in Series Of Road Mishaps (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A sudden wave of traffic accidents in Oklahoma left four dead the past 24 hours.

The highway death toll for the year has risen to 464-10 more than at the same time last year. The dead: Watt Hamilton, 32, Clinton. Frank Edgar Sheddy, 76, Alva. Mrs. Maud Davis, 55, Sallisaw.

Elias Dumit, 70, Tulsa. Hamilton was killed last night when his car went out of control and overturned on State Highway 33 two miles south of Crawford in Roger Mills County. Highway Patrol Trooper Doyle Boyd said Hamilton apparently went to sleep at the wheel. Sheddy, a retired farmer, was killed when the car in which he was riding overturned on U. S.

Highway 281 near Alva. Mrs. Davis was injured fatally when she walked into the path of a dump truck in front of her home at Sallisaw. She died at a Fort Smith, hospital. Dumit, a pioneer Tulsa linen merchant, walked into the side of an automobile on Tulsa's west side, police said, and died a short time later.

ARMY RECRUITER HERE Miami's regular Army recruiter, Sgt. S. E. Davis, is away at school, and his will station be in the Postoffice building open only one a week, on Tuesdays, for a while. Davis for at least three weeks will be attending a recruiting school at Ft.

Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. In town today to open the office and talk to prospective recruits was Sgt. Bill Welch, Tulsa. He will be here each Tuesday until Davis' return. 3 Prospective Jurors Are Excused, Only 14 Examined By Morgan's Counsel Here Pork Surplus Setup Hailed By Senators WORTHINGTON, Oct.

25 -(P)-The touring Senate agriculture committee welcomed today a decision of the federal government to do something about skidding hog prices. Committeemen figured it ease pressure 011 them to "get something done in Washington." As some members had 1 insisted in telegrams and telephone calls PRICES IN CHICAGO LOWEST SINCE '42 Chicago, Oct. 25-4P-Hog prices around 50 cents to a new since 1942 in early traddropped, ing at the Union Stock Yards today. Top price paid early was 65. It was the top quotation since December, 1942.

Most early sales were in a $13.25 to $13.50 range. Hog arrivals totaled 20,000 head, the largest since Jan. 3. It was the largest Tuesday's receipts since Dec. 3., 1954.

to him, Secretary Benson announced the Agriculture department will buy surplus pork in an effort to stabilize prices of hogs, a major Midwestern product. Many farmer -witnesses had planned to demand such a buying program today at a hearing of the committee, which is seeking farmer views on declining farm income. Senator Humphrey (D-Minn.) de. clared Benson's action was "long overdue." He wondered, however, whether the secretary will buy enough to do any good in improving hog prices. Republican members, who feel farmer criticism of Eisenhower ad(Continued on Page Three) Farm Boy Testifies Against Pastor, 44 WATONGA, Oct.

25-(P -A 15-year-old Blaine county farm youth was to return to the witness stand in district court here today to complete his testimony in the trial of a Weatherford minister charged with indecent exposure. Lafayette Randle began his timony yesterday afternoon after impaneling of a jury to hear the trial of the Rev. William A. Lutker, 44. Randle told much the same story he related in an earlier trial in which the minister, was acquitted last April of the first of four charges filed against him.

The boy testified he was at a farm, Watonga pond seven Aug. 14, miles 1954, southwest when the minister stepped from his car and exposed himself. The charge on which Lutker was acquitted alleged a similar incident occurred 10 days earlier. Randle was the prosecution's chief witness in that trial. Two other charges of indecent exposure are pending against Lutker.

Temperature Rises Here, Reaches 68 Forecasts of fair and warmer weather were materializing in Miami today although a suggestion of chill lingered in the air. The temperature early this afternoon had warmed up to the 68-degree level after an overnight low of 39. Weatherman John Gray ported Monday's maximum reading was 64 degrees. I MI SNOW IN DENVER-Cpl. Robert Stinhauer, left, of Chicago, a patient at Fitzsimons Army hospital, Denver, watches as Cpl.

William 0. Sheppard of Modesto, tosses a snowball seemingly as high as the balcony in the background where President Eisenhower usually enjoys daily sunnings. The first snow of the season kept the Chief Executive indoors. (NEA TELEPHOTO) 'RED FEATHER' EFFORT LAGS City Campaign for $25,000 About Half Complete, Drive Leader Reports Ottawa county's 1955 Commiunity Chest goal of $25,000 has been about half reached, John F. Robinson, drive chairman, said today.

Robinson said collections at noon today, not including the industrial committee and B. F. Goodrich totals, have reached $12,300. "We are certain more than this amount has been collected by workers on the big gifts committee, advance gifts committee and general solicitation committee, but workers are failing to turn in their cards," Robinson said. He said the big gifts committee had collected advance $1,800 and general solicitation $800.

In pointing out that workers had not turned in their cards, (Continued on Page Three) Petitions Being Signed in County To Vote on Beer Mrs. A. R. Hays, president of the Miami chapter of the WCTU said today that some 1,000 petitions calling for a county beer option resolution to be placed on the next general election ballot have been distributed by members of her organization. Mrs.

Hays said most of the larger churches in the county had distributed petitions to the members of their congregations and that the petitions had been returned to the United Drys headquarters in Oklahoma City. Each of the petitions has space for 20 registered voters to sign. Deadline for returning the is Oct. 31. INTO FINAL WEEK Sooners Widen Industrial Hunt By WALLACE KIDD CLEVELAND, Oct.

25-Oklahoma's Fifth Eastern Industrial Tour moved into its second and final week today, after splitting into three teams in New York Sunday night. One section is making calls here for three days. Another has onenight stands in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. The third group is centering attention on the Chicago area, where all crews will join Thursday for a final two days. Some of the manpower which set a new record for 974 calls in behalf of Oklahoma's industrial expansion last week is gone.

Personal business and other assignments have ended the tour for at least a dozen of the 103 Sooners. Exall English, J. C. Kennedy and Milton Keating, all of Lawton, have CASE IN SECOND DAY; WITNESSES STILL WAITING Start of Trial Evidence Not Yet Sighted with Legal Questioning (News-Record Staff Photo) FLAG FOR SCHOOL--This gold-fringed, three-by-five foot flag, along with a dozen smaller room flags, were purchased jointly by the Veterans of Wars and the VFW Auxiliary and presented to the Will Rogers school at a recent P-TA meeting. Holding the flag are Mrs.

S. M. Wooldridge, auxiliary president; Elvin McCoy, VFW commander; D. W. Guinnee, principal of Will Rogers, and Mrs.

Frank Harris, Will Rogers P-TA president. JURY SELECTION OPENS IN PRYOR Veniremen Will Decide on Sanity of Man Accused Of 3 Murders PRYOR, Oct. 25-4P- Selection of a jury to determine the sanity of Earl Chapman, 46, accused of clubbing and shooting three men to death, was started today in District Judge Josh Evans' court. Chapman, a Langley odd-jobs man, is charged with the murders of his brother, Walter Allen Chapman, 54, Tulsa; and two Langley neighbors, Norris D. Rush, 47, and Conrad Rush, 48, brother's.

The bodies were found in a Langley cabin last Oct. 24 after what officers described as a night of drinking. "I tried and tried to get them to stop fighting, but they wouldn't do it, so I just killed them all," officers quoted Chapman as saying after he reported the killings at a neighborhood grocery. Chapman- was returned yesterday from Eastern Oklahoma hos(Continued on Page Three) Fresh Inquiry at Taft Seen After 'New' Violation TULSA Oct. 25-4P-An inquiry into the Taft State Training School for Negro Girls moved here today as investigators pried into reports hundreds dollars worth of groceries were taken from the school and brought to local stores.

Muskugee Coraley Attorney Louis Smith, heading the investigation, said a former inmate of the school has told of seeing the groceries loaded into automobiles at the investigation. TULSA, Oct. 25-(P)-Evidence of a "serious" law violation has arisen as the result of an investigation into alleged beatings at the Taft State Training School for Negro Girls, Muskogee County Attorney Louis Smith reported last night. Smith said an inquiry into the crime, the nature of which he would not disclose, would move here today. He described the matter only as something different from the whippings and other alleged mistreatment reported at the school.

The violation, he said, has occurred at both the school and in Tulsa. Smith called prospects for proseeution "doggoned good." The county Commissioner attorney is of working with state ties and Corrections Buck Cook and Harrill Rocket, an investigator for the Board of Affairs. Cook and Smith last Friday criticized the board for "prematurely" closing the investigation of the purported beatings reported by several girls who escaped from the school. The board reported the inquiry ended after authorities said lie detector tests given some of the girls indicated that while there had been some whippings, there probably had been no severe beatings such as was claimed. CAR DAMAGED HERE A Miamian, Woodrow V.

Odneal, escaped injury Monday afternoon when his automobile plowed into a barked truck on Ninth avenue northeast. Odneal, 48, of 119 street northeast told city officers the steering mechanism of the car failed as he approached the abandoned truck, property of a construction company. The 1949 model Studebaker coupe sustained damage estimated at nearly $400. Damage to the ruck was Notes from Your Town DIVE Ottawa county selectees have been slated for call into the Army on Nov. 3 represenving the county's November induction call.

The five are Bill Wayne Boyer, Rockdale addition; Joe Darrell Hawkins. Baxter Springs; William Adkins, Afton; John William Duff, Afton, and Harvey Watson Doolen, Quapaw. Ralph Bobbitt of Fairland will be richer by $15 within a few days. That's his bounty for six sets of adult coyote ears. A fellow Fairlander, Ranger Sam Hall, showed up in the office of County Clerk Bert Dresia this morning to sign Bobbitt's claim for bounty, set up by the State Game and Fish commission.

The claim is the only one to be filed here since July 1 when fresh state funds were made available to encourage the destruction of predatory beasts. An adult coyote or wolf scalp is worth $2.50 under the bounty system. The ears of coyote and wolf pups are worth $1 a set as is legal evidence of a bobcat kill. Hall and Dresia this morning also adhered to the law by official'y witnessing the burning of Bobbitt's latest presentation. Dr.

B. Wright Shelton of Miami (Continued on Page Three) County Treasurer Pays Bills for 26 To Halt Tax Sales ANTLERS, Oct. 25-(P)- Pushmataha county Treasurer Earl Sherrer dug into his own pocket to save 26 taxpayers the expense of having their property listed in the November tax sale. He paid amounts ranging from one cent to $1.04 to keep 26 pieces of property off the tax sale list. If the property had been listed, the owner would have had to pay the advertising fee plus a penalty.

Sherrer said paying the taxes also saved the county money because the county would not have receiyed enough from the sale to pay for the advertising cost. Sherrer is sending a tax receipt to each taxpayer, telling them he paid the taxes himself and mailing the letters at his own expense. He added: "No, I won't ask them to repay me, but most of them will." New Model Auto Damaged by Fire PICHER, Oct. 25-(Special)-The interior of a 1956 Ford Victoria was badly damaged Monday night when a garage at the home of Claude E. McMackin, 442 South Alta street, caught fire.

MacMackin said fire broke out in the garage and an attached building used for a store house about 10:45 p.m. while the family was in bed. Picher fire department officials said the frame and sheet metal garage and the adjoining building were badly burned. Rites Set Thursday For Lake Victim JOPLIN, Oct. 25-(Special)-Funeral services for James Orville Noland, 35-year-old truck driver who was drowned Sunday in Grand lake near Wyandotte, will be held at 2 p.

m. Thursday at the ThornhillDillon Chapel of Memories in Joplin. The Rev. Arthur DePew, pastor of Joplin's First Christian church will officiate. Burial will be in Fairview (tery at Joplin.

OPERATION STOP WATCH STARTED 70 Air National Guard Fight-Interceptor Squadrons In U. S. Drills OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 25-4P) -Just 80 minutes after a mock alert was sounded, 12 Air National Guard jet fighters of the Oklahoma City unit were in the air to protect the city. Two F-84 jets took off here 11 minutes after the Operation Stop Watch alert was flashed.

All were in the air within 80 minutes. OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 25-4P- The Airforce announced Operation Stop Watch, a test of Air National Guard readiness, began at 7:22 a.m. today. Air fighter interceptor squadrons of the guard were being called to emergency duty to see how fast they can augment the Air Defense command of the Airforce.

Focal point for the operation in the Kansas Oklahoma and Texas area is the command post of the 33rd Air Defense division with headquarters near Oklahoma City. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols is in command.

There are 70 Air National Guard fighter interceptor throughout the U. S. participating. Six are in the three-state area which is part of the 33rd. Operation Stop Watch is testing (Continued on Page Three) Safety Director To Speak Here Bob Eastman, manager of the Oklahoma Safety Council, will.

be the guest speaker at. a 7 o'clock meeting tonight of the Miami Safety Council in the Chamber of Commerce offices, according to Dr. Rex Graham, president. Dr. Graham said Eastman will give council members suggestions and ideas toward completing surveys the local council planning for Miami.

The council will make the survey on local traffic problems and then make recommendations to city commissioners. The meeting, Dr. Graham said, will be an informal discussion, with Eastman leading a question-answer period on safety council programs in other cities. Glenn Schmidt, 42, Claimed by Death Glenn C. Schmidt, 42, formerly of Miami, died of a heart attack Monday morning at Buffalo, N.Y.

Schmidt, who was employed by the Allen Tool of Springfield, Ohio, was a member of the Masonic lodge at Kansas City, Mo. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Viola Schmidt of the home at Chelsea; two daughters, Darla Dean Schmidt and Theresa, both of the home; his father, G. A. Schmidt, Miami; a brother, Ernest Schmidt of National City, and a sister, Mrs.

Pearl Midkiff, Miami. The body will be returned to Miami for funeral services and burial under direction of the Cooper Funeral home. Safety Conference Set Here Tomorrow A large crowd of representatives from all parts of the state is expected in Miami Wednesday for the Northeast regional Safety conference at Hotel Miami, Bob Eastman, manager of the Oklahoma Safety Council, which is sponsoring the event in conjunction with the Miami Safety Council, will arrive in town today. The one-day conference is designed to stress safety on the highway, in the home and industry. The Harold Morgan fraud case was one day nearer the trial stage in district court today but selection of a jury continued at a snail's pace.

Only three of 53 prospective jurors had been eliminated from consideration and only 14 had been examined by noon. Since the first venireman WaS introduced Monday morning, the monotony has been broken only by shifts of interrogation from one juror to another, occasional recesses and humorous injections by defense attorney A. L. Commons. The defense exercised its first five peremptory challenges this morning and excused Claud Kidwell of 424 street northwest.

Miami. Earlier, two persons were excused for cause. R. Longacre. 400 Park Circle, and Mrs.

Ruby Jackson, 220 street southeast, both of Miami. Defense quizzing of jurors followed the same pattern established yesterday. Each jury prospect was being asked if he is acquainted with some 175 other Ottawa (ouNtians on a list prepared by Contmons. The 173 signed prosecution affidavits contending Morgan can be tried fairly in this county. The affidavits were introduced last month during a futile defen-e (Continued on Page Three) Former Partner Of Truman Dies Of Heart Attack KANSAS CITY, Oct.

25-(P)- Eddie Jacobson, onetime business partner of Harry S. Truman and a close friend of the former ident died today in an ambulance enroute to a hospital. He was 64. Death was attributed a heart ailment. Jacobson was a World war I comrade of Truman's, and after their service he opened a haberdashery with the future chief executive.

The business, begun in 1919, closed three years in as Truman himself once phrased it. Subsequently Jacobson acquired a clothing store in Kansas City. The venture, like Jacobson's erst-1 while partner's political, career, prospered and is a flourishing business today. Truman said at his Kansas City office today that Jacobson's death was great shock to me." The former President added: "Eddie was one of the best friends I had in the world. He was absolutely trustworthy.

I don't know how I'm going to get along without him." (Continued on Page Three) Atlantic Alliance Ministers Agree To Big 3's Plans PARIS, Oct. 25-(P) Foreign ministers of the Atlantic Alliance gave their general agreement to the Western Big Three's proposals for easing world tensions. The ministers from other member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization heard a lengthy statement from U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay explaining the joint memorandum which the West will present to the Soviet Union Thursday in Geneva. At the end of a three-hour session, a NATO official said.

"there was general agreement on the basic proposals." Dulles spoke almost an hour on the first and key section of the memorandum covering Western proposals for Germany's reunification and a general European security pact. Man Held Here on Desertion Charge Eugene O. Palmer, 35, was returned to Miami from Kansas City, Monday evening by Deputy Sheriff Curtis Myers to face a charge of abandonment of minor children. Palmer, arrested by Kansas City authorities on a warrant issued here, is accused of failing to provide for two sons, aged 12 and 11, who are living with their grandparents in Miami. The suspect this morning asked a 24-hour delay of his county court arraignment.

He is being held in county jail. Salesman for Police Magazine Is Fined OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. Joseph Burke, advertising representative for the magazine published by the Fraternal Order of Police, was fined 8:20 res. terday on A charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.

Oklahoma City police said complaints had been reccived that Burke had advised tavern operators their places would not be raided if they purchased advertising in the magazine. Burke's wife was freed on a similar charge. In Muskogee Paul McQuillen, president of the FOP in Oklahoma and chief of detectives on the Muskogee force, said if solicitors in Oklahoma City "are misrepresenting the facts in soliciting advertising they will be dealt with accordingly." Weather OKLAHOMA-Fair in the southeast. tonight; low tonight. 35 northwest to near 42 elsewhere; high Wednesday 75 east to 85 west.

KANSAS Generally fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer over most of state tonight; turning cooler northwest Wednesday with increasingly northerly winds; low tonight generally in the 40's; high Wednesday around 70 northwest to 80 southeast. MISSOURI Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight; low tonight 40's southeast to 50's northwest; high Wednesday generally in the 70's. transferred their energy to ington in behalf of the Army's request for Wichita wildlife refuge acreage. The three want to be on hand this week to try persuading Interior Secretary McKay to reverse his opposition to the Army's land acquisition plan. Though the Sooner sales force barely dented New York's visitor list over the week-end, there have been spots of individual recognition of the Oklahomans' presence.

Dick Moore, Altus utility manager, was host for 12 Big Red footbail fans at West Point, where Army walked over Columbia. New York got earsful of comments on how easily. Oklahoma can down either of the fielded elevens. Cecil Neely, Sayre, unsucessfully scanned the Army stands for al nephew, Charles Neely, West Point plebe from Thomasville, Ga. Dick Livengood, Madill car dealer, chose a sailor's holiday and a boat excursion around Manhattan Island for his week-end pastime.

Livengood recently completed 22 years service in the Navy. John 1 (Happy) Camp, Waukomis banker and Republican state legislator, put his political future on the block when he sat before a vacant United Nations general assembly table. Camp's picture taken, with appropriate scowl and a sign reading USSR in the foreground, Snapping the photo was Cleeta John. Rogers, Oklahoma City attorney and state representative. The UN tour was arranged by Sam Stoner, Enid, with the guidance of Andrew W.

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