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Historical Society Oklayona City 5 Oklahoma CCiZP let Alias Santa Repair Your Toys Miami Daily News Record ORECAST Miami and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Tuesday chance of lige rain or snow low tonight mid MIAMI OKLA MONDAY NOVEMBER 29 1954 2ND YEAR NO 130 10 CENTS Grand Jury Convenes found in Judge Appoints Local Merchant as oreman to the ex of weight Ji at at a Cook eb 13 inserted He the the WELL STOCKED LARDER PONCA CITY Okla Nov OP) Six truck loads of slightly damaged but still edible foods were unloaded yesterday at the American Legion Home for The groceries primarily canned goods were damaged in a fire re cently at a Safeway store and do nated to the home Seven Volunteers Go for Induction 1 River Yields Body Of A Student Com game squad Mississippi Juco Gets ootball Bid the di for absence of reflex mean a Hexter said Defense Attorney William Corrigan in cross examination pounced fiercely on this statement He contended a blow on the back of the neck could have injured the central nervous system and he tried to force Hexter to agree that the absence of the abdominal re flex showed this injury Hexter replied that 11 percent inimum Level Would Be Unconstitutional State Counsel Agrees 17 at SUSPECT GAVE AUTOPSY OKAY Physician Says Tulsa Widow Readily Agreed Claimed Concern for Others Published Every Evening (Except Saturday) and Sunday Morning by Miami Newspapers Inc inal Member of amily Succumbs 'WASHINGTON Nov A Clintorf Md father whose fam ily was wiped out in the crash of a jet fighter "in their back yard in October died esterday after he seemed to have been on the road to recovery John Vaughn Jr 25 suf fered second and third degree burns from the exploding jet fuel and rockets that killed his wife and two small children Oct 12 PASADENA Calif Nov 29 CP) Hinds junior college of Ray mond Miss today was named the eastern team to play in the ninth annual Junior Rose Bowl football game here Dec 11 The Hinds Eagles will meet El Camino of Gardenia Calif whose selection was announced yesterday The Junior Chamber of merce which sponsors the said the undefeated Hinds had an 8 0 record this year win ning the title in the Mississippi Junior College conference El Camino undefeated and un tied in nine games was the winner of the Metropolitan conference title Main Street Will Be Lighted Tonight To Usher In Holiday Season SNOW POSSIBLE OR THIS AREA Secret Service Agents Say Case Of Missing AEC Bul Jion Is Solved But Weatherman Says Precip itation Will Be Light reeze Hits State Representative Group of Cit izens Impaneled Latti more Is Assisting (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) reezing weather chilled every section of Oklahoma early today and the forecast held out the pros pect of light snow or rain in the northeast within 24 hours But there was no indication of any considerable amount of pre cipitation in any form Overnight lows were 25 at Mc Alester 'and Ponca Cityj'fi Oklahoma City and Hobart 27 at Ardmore Gage arid Guymon 29 at Enid 31 at Altus and Sill and 32 at Tulsa the warmest spot in the state' At daybreak it was partly cloudy to cloudy along the northern bor der while clear skies prevailed in the central southern and south eastern sections A slow warmup was expected during the day A revised state forecast early this morning mentioned the possi bility of snow in the northwest to night but the Weather Bu reau in Oklahoma City i said later the snow was not expected materialize Seven Ottawa county men left this morning for Oklahoma City and their induction into the armed forces The youths all volunteers through local Selective Service headquarters are Danny Leroy Williams 221 A street north west Miami Clay Boyd Jr Miami Route 3 Ronald Dean Walker i rederick Gerhart 219 street northwest Miami Wilbur James Maxwell 708 Harned avenue Miami George Glen Mul vehill 424 A street southwest Mi ami and John Arnold Schoerhals 715 I street northwest Miami BARTLESVILLE' Okla Nov 29 (TP) iremen have recovered the body of a 23 year old Okla homa college student from Caney river in Osage State park The student a William Thomas had been missing since riday night after falling from a 35 foot embankment into the water was attending a steak fry park with college friends time 2 Runaways from Stringtown ound Dead Along Rails STRINGTOWN Okla Nov 29 (7P) Two teen age runaways from the State Training School for Boys 'were found dead today their bodies badly mangled along the Katy railroad tracks four miles north of here The victims were Bobby Joe Marrs 14 Bartlesville and Earl Tuttle 15 Copan Authorities said they had appar ently tried to hop a freight train but fell beneath the wheels and were crushed to death Section hands who found the bodies at 8:30 am said they had no idea how long the boys had been dead (Dub) Wheeler superin tendent of the training school said the youths ran away about 3:30 pm Saturday The Katy tracks pass near the school Wheeler described the pair as delinquents who have been in the institution for some time He said they had tried to escape several times before OKLAHOMA CITY Noy UP) Three Oklahoma City men wete charged today with illegal posses sion of 110 ounces of gold bullion reported stolen from the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Los Alamos two years ago William Osborn 29 formerly engaged in government atomic re search for the University of Cali fornia was 'accused of smuggling the bullion out of Los Alamos Charles A Kautzman 26 and Jerome Walton also 26 now serving 20 years in the state penitentiary for armed robbery in another case also were named in complaints filed by At torney Paul Cress Osborn and Kautzman were arrested by Secret Service agents here today The investigation was touched off when Kautzman was arrested on a minor law violation a year ago He had a smal quantity of gold in his possession and later surrendered some 50 ounces of the bulion which he said he found on the city dump The information alleges Osborn turned the contraband over to Kautzman whp hired Walton to dis pose of it The gold bars about 16 inches long and inch wide and half an inch thick would be worth up to $8250 at black market prices fed eral officers said They said that although the controlled government price was only $35 an ounce the gold eould bring as much as $75 an ounce on the black market All the bullion has been recov ered Osborn agent in charge of the Secret Service here said Osborn went to work in 1946 for the Los Alamos plant where the University of California was con ducting experiments in atomic en ergy "Osborn was eventually promot ed to a position where he had control ver precius metals in cluding gid and the agent said his con trol of these precious metals in cluding the unused gold and plati num Osborn was able to smuggle about HO ounces of the gold from (Continued on Page Two) McCarthy Advises Debate End and Vote Wednesday WASHINGTON Nov (l Senator McCarthy proposed today that the Senate end its censure debate at 2 pm (cst) Wednesday He said he was prepared fori what ever the senate might do the interest of the overall national welfare I suggest that no good can he achieved by con tinuing this McCarthy told his colleagues He said he had decided on the speech while he was in the Naval hospital at Bethesda Md for treatment of an injured elbow or 11 days the spe cial session had been in recess while McCarthy was in the hos pital Soon after the Senate recon vened today McCarthy his arm in a sling took the floor for his dra matic proposal that the whole matter be wound up quickly "I am prepared for whatever ac tion the Senate may take on this resolution of he said colleagues I hope realize the tremendous implications and recognize heir responsibility to the future Cor my part my ef forts to expose Communist in filtration in government will continue regardless of the out come of the censure proposal to start vot ing Wednesday won quick expres sions of approval Chatty Tulsa Widow Tells Her Reasons TULSA Nov Mrs Nannie Doss 49 year old grand mother who cheerfully confessed to poisoning four of her five husbands stood solemnly today when she was arraigned on a charge of murdering spouse No5 A legal fight started immedi ately as her court appointed at torney asked she be sent to East ern Oklahoma hospital at Vinita for five days of mental exami nation County Attorney Howard Edmondson objected and Mrs Doss took 24 hours to enter a plea Common Pleas Judge Lloyd McGuire ordered her jailed with out bond Main yuletide face will be lighted for the first time at 6:30 tonight This decorations as in the past were installed by the city utilities de partment under direction of Martin The annual pre Christmas parade will be held at :30 Saturday the Chamber of Commerce an nounced with schools churches and civic organizations of the area contributing units to the spectacle Ten bands among 50 units will be featured in the line of march The parade this year will form on Main street just north of NEO tracks Traffic will be rected east and west of Main the duration of the event Nichols general parade chairman and Jim ribley who directs these annual processions already are lining up prospec tive entries The Chamber of Commerce also announced today the resumption of another pre holiday feature This will be known as Merchants Gift slated all day Monday Dec 13 The Dec 12 edi tion of the News Record will dis play large numbers at the top of the front page these numbers corresponding with figures on cards in display windows Gifts will go to holders of lucky num bers Local stores will start staying open evenings on riday All establishments will close 5:30 Christmas Eve 12 MEN START PROBE: OCUS ON SHORTAGE Guilty Verdict in Drummond Killings DIGNE rance Nov 29 C'P) The shadow of the guillotine hung today over 77 year old Gaston Dominici sentenced to death for murdering three holidaying Brit ons who had camped near his farm in the Alpine foothills A seven man jury found the old farmer guilty yesterday of mur dering Sir Jack Drummond British wartime food expert his wife and their 11 year old daughter The sentence concluded: man condemned to death shall have his head cut The Drummons were killed Aug 5 1952 Two of sons accused their father and he finally admitted the crimes a he retractde the confession and insist ed on his innocence throughout his 11 day trial Stephen A Cook Retired Merchant Succumbs at 79 Stephen Arnold Cook former businessman at Picher and Car din died this morning in Miami at the home of a son Ray Cook 1202 North Main street after an illness of several months He was 71 years old A native of Shelby county Illi nois Cook spent much of his early life in Missouri having resided at Conway Carthage and Duenweg He oved from Duenweg to Picher in 1918 and operated a dry goods store there for several years rom Picher he moved to Miami but con tinued in the dry goods business operating a store at Cardin In 1944 Cook retired to a home on' Grand lake near Grove He was an active member of the Grove Christian church He belonged to the IOO lodge for 53 years Surviving are his wife Stella two other sons rank Cook Grove and Carl Cook Tulsa a daughter Mrs Masters Cardin 10 grandchildren and six great grand children inal rites will be held at 2 Wednesday at the Grove Christian church Burial will be in orest Park cemetery at Joplin UNUSUAL REQUEST SHREVEPORT La Nov The Shreveport re ceived this scrawled Santa Claus note yesterday: mommie has been married 12 years and 'has never had a roll ing pin My Daddy is getting out of hand Please bring my mother a rolling Veteran Carolina Physician Honored MIAMI la Nov Dr Garl Pace 66 Greenville today was named doctor of the by the American Medi cal Association (AMA) A practicing physician in Green ville for 40 years and active in many community activities Dr Pace was chosen from candidates nominated by each state medical society The award carries a gold medal TULSA Nov 29 (HI It was buxom talkative Mrs Nannie Doss herself who permitted the autopsy which started an investigation that led to her statements she poisoned to death four of her five husbands She signed an authorization for a post mortem examination on the body of her fifth spouse Samuel Doss after a physician reported he find the cause of the death Authorities reported she readily agreed to the autopsy telling a physician she wanted to find out wjiat killed Doss because might kill somebody County Investigator Ross Bil lingsley said the investigation be gan about two after Doss 58 year oId highway department employe (Jied in a Tulsa hospital Oct 6 He had returned to the hospital only two days after being treated there 23 days Billingsley said physician Dr Hidy called him and informed him he was unable to find the cause of death and would like to have an autopsy performed Mrs Doss the investigator re ported agreed to the examina tion A subsequent report by the Oklahoma Bureau of Investiga tion laboratory revealed Doss had consumed enough poison kill a Mrs Doss was questioned about her husband's death but said she knew nothing about any poison ing Investigators then learned she had been married at least twice previously and that her husbands had died under puzzling circum stances Ari all male grand jury was im paneled here today to make a thorough investigation of Ottawa county finances including the pur ported $4197205 shortage in the office of the county clerk and board of commissioners and to probe and return indictments for all crimes and public offenses committed or triable in the county After two hours of questioning District Judge William Thom as selected 12 of 24 prospective veniremen who" at 11:37 a ad journed to the grand jury room to confer with Count Attorney Bob Reynolds and his assistant Robert Lollar and Sam Lattimore as sistant state attorney general The three officials are to advise the grand jury while it is in ses sion The first official act after impaneling the grand jury was to appoint Hunt 50 year old Miami clothing store operator foreman Hunt lives at 915 street northwest Other grand jury members are: Brewster 35 Miami Route 3 Goodrich company plant worker Donald Spinks 21 721 I street northwest Miami Eagle Picher company employe Earnest Beaty 40 Miami Route 3 farmer and Miami Products Inc worker Jerry Lee 33 Commerce lum ber dealer Cecil Culyer 42 airland Route 2 farmer1 and American oods Inc employe in Miami Hutchens 47 Commerce Eagle Picher company shop fore man A A Bower 54 three miles northwest of Narcissa (Bluejacket rural route) farmer Gentes 50 607 street northwest Miami Goodrich plant worker Orville Moore 42 Picher inde pendent mine operator Atkins 50 Galena Kas Route 2 dairyman Herbert Myers 41 Miami Route 2 farmer Ordered to report as prospec tive jurors three Miami women with minor children were ex cused They are Mrs Ida Har ris 509 10th avenue northwest Mrs Gladys Gleidt 707 14 th avenue northwest and Mrs Peg gy Robinson 1101 street north west Excused for reasons of health were George Webb 127 street northeast and Greenwell (Continued on Page Two) No Casualties in Blast at Tulsa TULSA Nov 29 (TP) An plosion and fire caused damage es timated by the owner at between $25000 and $35000 today at the Royal Manufacturing Co The blast believed to have been caused by an overheated oil heat er which ignited firecrackers set off a fire that destroyed an office and warehouse There were no injuries among eight or nine employes at work in the buildings at the time The company is an oil field specialty concern which also makes some fireworks Assistant ire Chief Ralph Mc Call reported the fire was brought under control by 15 firemen about 45 minutes after it started It would violate and impairater rights of holders of priorater rights below the Pensacola am The resort owners 'have beenop osed by the Oklahoma arm Bu eau Leaders of rural electrifi ition and the Salina Lake associa ion Husband Slayer ijives Guilty Plea Trial Starts j' SALEM Mass Nov CP) iorraine Eaton Clark 29 pleaded uilty today to murder in the sec nd degree in the slaying of her usband Melvin Clark Jr The pretty plea came ne minute after court convened allowing a long morning recess 'his was the opening day of herial Mrs voice was unfalter ig as she entered her plea Only a minute earlier she merged from an ante room where ne had ben closeted with her law er rancis Leary for almostvo hours The state charges the shapely brunette mother of three chi) dren killed her husband with two pistol shots in the head and his body into the Mer rimack river last April 10 Palm Sunday Eve The crime coime to lightntil June 2 when a woman bird Catcher whose name has not been ('sclosed spotted the decomposed udy bobbing on a salt marsh Dist Atty Hugh A Cregg hadIrs Clark ooked on June 25 after re signed a 3 page statement 1 which he said she admitted tat she she killed husband Cregg never made public tfie contents of the statement say ting the details were horrible (and he wodM not release them until the trial I Shortly afterward reports oread about wife swapping arties reports emphatically de jed by both Cregg and Mrs attorney On Oct 14 Ar jur Jackson 25 a shoe clerk jas indicted on four counts fhiltery With Mrs Clark Ei'ii Ov Mrs ivannie Morton Lanning Doss 49 year old Tulsa widow who admits having had at least four husbands leaves courthouse with horiiicide Capt Harry Steger YULE PARADE ON SATURDAY TULSA Nov 29 Author ities shaped a murder charge to day against buxom cheerful Mrs Nannie Doss 49 year old grand mother who confessed to snuffing out the lives of four of her five husbands with liquid rat poison County Attorney Howard Ed mondson said the charge would be filed sometime today in the death Oct 6 of Samuel Doss 58 Tulsa the fifth spouse and the second police say she met through a club Meanwhile Edmondson said Mrs Doss will be questioned further see if she wants to add anything to what she al ready has told Prolonged grilling of the smil ing talkative widow by relays of officers over the week end pro duced signed statements from her admitting each death Calmly smoking a cigaret shq related in detail how she put the poison into the food and drink of her riiates each from a differ ent state Edmondson said the 'other poi soned husbands and the dates they died are: 4 rank Harrelson Jackson ville Ala 1945 Harley Lanning Lexington 1952 Richard Morton 64 Em poria Kas May 19 1953 The prosecutor with city offi cers and Kansas and Oklahoma agents has questioned the woman since her arrest riday night and said investigations into the deaths of four of her relatives probably will be undertaken He identified the relatives whom he said succumbed under strange circumstances as Mrs mother two sisters and a step grandson (Continued on Page Two) VINITA Nov 29 'The Oklahoma attorney general rHield today that neither the Grand Oliver Dam Authority nor the leg islature could legally establish a Bninimum Grand lake water level hat would restrict hydro electric lower production The opinion written by red Hansen first assistant attorney general concurred with one pre pared by Boydstun GRDA general counsel which main tained a would be unconstitutional The ruling came in the midst of agitation by a group of Grand ake resort owners for establish nent of a level below which the tate agency could not draw water turn its hydro electric turbines opinion approved as substantially by the at orney general set out five prin ipal reasons These were: Such would be a violation the legislative act creating the uthority and would be in violation the constitution of the state of iklahoma It would be in violation of he terms and conditions of the ederal power commission license It would violate the pledges and convenants of the authority in its cohtract with the bond holders as contained in the trust indentures securing the payment of the bonds and the interest thereon It would impair the obliga on of contracts between the au hority and its electric power con Murray Sets Dec 28 or Redistricting Vote OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 29 (AP) Gov Johnston Murray overrode objections of his successor today and set the controversial special election on congressional re districting for Dec 28 Governor Murray announced he would call an election on that date for the Republican sponsored petition or mal signing of the election proclamation vvas due later the day Earlier Gov elect Raymond Gary said he opposed a special election on grounds it was needless expense and the state Election Board is short of funds Murray said he knew of no ob jections by Gary although the gov ernor elect who will be inaugu rated Jan 10 said publicly the vote should have been held at the gen eral election Nov 2 to avoid extra expense said a word to me about Murray said saw a story in the papers while I was gone that he opposed it but I have talked to him several times since and he men tion Previously Gary said after a conference with Murray he was encouraged over prospects for de laying the vote until the next gen eral election Gary could not be reached im mediately for comment The proposal if approved would put two Democratic congressmen Rep Tom Steed of the ourth dis trict and Rep Carl Albert of the Third into' the same district The proposed new irst district in cluding Tulsa would have no in cumbent congressman After the Republicans circulated the petitions it was challenged as lacking sufficient valid signatures However it was approved by the state Supreme1 Court three months ago and ordered put to a vote Douglas McKeever Republican state chairman expressed sur (Continued on Page Two) ive Die as 25 i Crashes in Woods BALTIMORE Nov 29 (2P) ive persons were killed and a sixth critically in the crash of an Airforce 25 in a woods about three miles west of rientiship International Airport last night Rescue parties which reached the scene about 12 hours after the crash found fife bodies One man was flown to Bolling Airforce base near Washington in a heli copter lilton Youth 16 Polio Victim i 'TULSA Nov 29 Amos ee Work Jr 16 Oilton died of ilia in a hospital today' the 10th ctim of the disease here this ')ar j'A junior at Oilton high school were he played end on the foot ill team he was hospitalized here bpt 16 six days after becoming Moscow Protest Ignored by WASHINGTON Nov The United States today brushed aside a Russian protest filed nearly four months ago and said planes will continue to check all ships plying the waters around the Nationalist Chinese stronghold of ormosa The State department released the text of a brief note delivered to the Soviet oreign Ministry at Moscow today in rsponse to a Rus sian protest of last August 4 The Soviet note had objected to aircraft buzzing five Soviet ships one of them the tanker Tuapse which was seized by Nationalist Chinese June 23 Legal Clash in Cleveland Over Sheppard's Injuries 'CLEVELAND The defense and an expert state witness wrangled bitterly today over the ex tent of the injuries Dr Samuel Sheppard received on the day of his murder Dr Richard Hexter a physician who examined Shep pard was the witness Sheppard claims he was struck down 'and twice was knocked unconscious by a marauder who he says was the actual murderer Hexter examined the osteopath on the afternoon of July 4 only1 a few hours after the slaying of pregnant wife Marilyn 31 A heated argument began when Hexter testified about the signifi cance of the absence of abdominal reflexes He "found such absence on the right side of abdomen of normal men do not have normal he said abdominal reflexes He cited his But and of itself such an (Gontinued on Page Two) Weather A Considerable oudiness tonight and Tuesdayin snow east tonight snow st and north rain southeast uesday Cloudy tonight and uesday with snow west and rain isnow southeast no important fange in temperature' MISSOURI Increasing cloudi iiss tonight and Tuesday rain orow southwest spreading sov by Tuesday night i' i MS Nannie Doss Admits UN LAKt LAut gets support Poison Deaths of 4 Man Unconscious But Gains Weight CHICAGO Nov 29 A man who has been unconscious 912 months is gaining weight John Brookhouse 35year old cab driver has lain on his as if in a normal sleep County hospital bed since He is fed through a tube in his stomach Brookhouse has gained Attendants know just how much because they like to move him Two men were seen fleeing from cab just before his unconscious (body was found last ebruary Their loot apparently consisted of bout $18 WOMAN 5 106 DIES 'Vt Nov CP) Miril Evalyn Bums Tanner died yesterday at 106 leaving 3 sons 3 daughters 36 grandchild ren and' some 150 descendants in the fourth fifth and sixth genera tions 7 Daughter of State Newsman Is Killed JASPER Mo Nov The 28 year old daughter of the editor of the Okmulgee (Okla) Daily Times was killed near here yesterday in a orie car accident Mrs Ann Croom Stokes daugh ter of Joe Crooms died in a hos pital several hours after the car in which she was riding went out of control at a curve one mile south of Jasper Richard Eugene Taylor 31 also of Okmulgee was hospitalized with severe lacerations Mrs Stokes a widow was em ployed at the Okmulgee Osteopath ic hospital She is survived by her parents her 6 year old daugh ter Kathy and a brother Joe Jr 2 4 ixi? 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