Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 15

f' SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 30 1940 PAGE a REMEMBER THE OURTH JULY IS A DAY UN Its of Dodge This Hitchhiker CONTINUED ROM PAGE ONB I this has acci were public CONTINUED ROM PAGE ONI of trailing to be his 4 PVT SAETY IRST ON JULY OURTH burst out In gleeful laughter asked a thousand questions of loving parents concerning the what they would see and how Safety council states: when our minds are horrors of war it is are But RING TELEPHONE OILS LEAP was had of in ac the gaining of the make or the seen His un and you outside of the the in EXPECTED LIGHT VOTING PRESAGES STI BATTLES OR ALL CONTESTED JOBS All vehicles crossing from one side of the street to the other shall do by turning to the left so as to go the same direction as the traffic on AMOUS DIONNE QUINTS AID WAR UND Bobby Clarfy 1 4 Despite Connection With Movies Just Real Boy at Heart was weighing heavily in favor of the incumbent who also has managed to hold considerable support personally among the anti Phillips crowd John Davis third man was trailing well behind Norman 7 Will Rogers incumbent' for office No 3 is unopposed on the democratic ticket Coon Mus near SWEDEN CONVICTS OUR OR PLOT AGAINST PORT is ob and cost 'of all kinds of accidents last July was 8800 persons 800000 injured and $300000 was July the National council reports the devas ouslv Mr Clack Shetland ponv and accessories During CAT LANDER Ontario June (A) The Dionne quintuplets made new contribution to war effort today by playing for a movie that will be shown at the New York fair Three dimensional color pictures were made of the five sisters at play on the lawns of the Dafoe Other war effort contributions of the Dionne sisters have included the purchase of war bonds war saving stamps and certificates donations to the Red Cross and the exhibition of their royal presentation gowns DALLAS June 29 The woman balanced herself on the window ledge It seemed any minute she would hurtle to her death irom the 16th floor of a downtown hotel Then the telephone rang She hesitated wavered stepped back into the room to answer the phone As she picked up the receiverthe hotel detective raced into the room At the ether end of the line a hotel official His hunch worked behind Sf Gidney consolidating of 2 jBy jNOEL BALLARD St yOf tho Phoenix Staff Put safetv first Tnlv th a iniirth Each year America chooses theourth of July to stage a jamboree Kef carelessness according to the Na itlonal Safety council The ourth is a day of fun but the fifth is a day of reckoning Ironical' as it may seem thousands Are killed or injured in are maimed for life each year because America celebrates birth of independence But that day the nation gruesomely thrown into bondaae I suffering and tragedy on the high ways in the homes at bathing re sorts and picnic every where men women and children sre killed off by the score even ae they and 99 times out of 100 it is always because someone got careless and forgot to put safety about death dis battlefields of still precious in Bobby Clark young western movie star from Spiro who made a per sotial appearance in Muskogee last week is shown above with John A GiMHe Muskogee rancher left an old friend the incumbent Court Judge Cavender heavy odds favorite to de Campbell Coffey Gains Support The outstanding development of the week in the two democratic races for the state legislature was the upsurge by George Coffey of Webbers alls seeking reelection to office No 2 It was difficult to put finger ex actly on the source of his developing support but presumably the fact that he was the only candidate for the legislature who lives outside the Mus kogee city limits was working heavily In his favor Mountcastle his principal opponent seemed to be holding well his strength in the city where lines were being clearly drawn between Phillips and anti Phillips forces the Phillips crowd is ready to go down the line for Coffey who admittedly stood well with the governor in the last legislative session Rural voters however reportedly were concentrating on Coffey not only because of his wide acquaint ance over the county where he taught school many but also because they saw in him the one opportunity to have a for the coun months he hardly remembered his progress One day however when he saw him twirling ropes and roping steers he was convinced he had a future rodeo star The next year Boby was giving public exhibitions and appearing In rodeos in Oklahoma and Arkansas He has appeared with such western actors as Tom Mix and Hoot Gib son His name is well known cus circles where he has traveled with Hagenbeck Wallace and other nationally famous troupes i Also Rifle Shooting Artist Although a roping artist Bobby appears also in pistol and rifle shoot ing stunts" He has 12 ropes measur ing ini length from six to 86 feet Despite the brilliant screen career and his assured future suc cess he is just an ordinary boy at heart He is tutored by a private teacher three hours a day while oni location and lives much the same' as any other boy He is not conceited but has the self confidence that car ries himZ through difficult stunts that few adults have accomplishede can twirl fourropes as easily as he twirls one favorite girl in Holly wood is Jane Withers J4 His everyday attire consists of black hat black shirt white buttons jeans and cowboy boots graphical lines and to measure pos sible drill grounds landing fields rail sidings water supplies and to study the geology of possible bomb ing targets report will be made to General Brees who will send it on to the war said Krieger which the chamber of commerce will send the special' data assembled by inch to Con gressman Nichols and both Sena tor Thomas' and Senator Lee with a request to place our case before war department Colonel inch explained to the field party Krieger said that we expect nothing as defense plans are mot completed but that the just Branan continued to hold his lead but Ches ter Norman hisyoung opponent was netting no grass grow under his feet Many of his former school mates here and at the University of Okla homa were aiding in his campaign although the local was naturally beingsplit with Branafi himself a state university graduate The fact that Branan rated high up in the Phillips inner councils coupled with the further fact that the gov the state legislature Outside Chance for Thomas Thomas the third man in the race was given only an chance of overtaking either others or office No 1 Herbert hogan held in jail Marchey Hogan 'was held in the Muskogee1 county jail yesterday for investigation in connection with a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon after being arrested riday at Taft No complaint was made STOCKHOLM June Two Englishmen a German and a Swedish woman convicted on charges of plot ting for a foreign power to damage Oxelosund a Baltic port and outlet of central iron ore for Ger many were given prison sentences todav 4 Alfred rederick Rickman and Er nest John Biggs Englishmen were sentenced to eight and five years re spectively and Arne Erich Behrich a German printer and Elsa 1J0 hansson three and a half years each position freezing out chance's of John Ghlager who last week ap peared a serious threat for the judgeship although wise cracking campaign was still a dan ger to City was a feat Muskogee is wise getting facts before the proper officials in Officer Obviously Impressed The chamber of commerce ficial declared the officer obviously was 'impressed with the lake and the abundance of streams on the project saying several times is so important to an army in train Krieger declared the data as sembled by the chamber of com merce was complimented with the re mark that it was Americans killed in all the wars the This wholesale slauahter on our highways and streets is happening without rhyme or reason and should be stopped It be stopped if every one of us uses caution mixed with a little common sense The things that cause these tragedies are things we can control the safety council they are haste self ishness thoughtlessness and a desire to show off The council is calling on every citi zen of the United States to do his or her in this new independence death and disaster by being and considerate of others on the streets and highways being care ful while boating or swimming and by taking no chances with explosives or America is called upon to stop this mid summer massacre by signing a new Declaration of Independence in dependence from annual tribute of thousands of American lives needless ly sacrificed independence from the kind of celebration that leaves us the dead and the sightless and the suffering The department of public safety for the state of Oklahoma to say: denounce Hitler and tian nf the German armv bitterest terms many would gladly give their lives to end the needless assault that has been taking place Yet here in our peaceful state we are forgetting and overlooking the gory path of death suffering and destruction that is needlessly taking place on our highways Will we continue to camouflage this slaugh ter of citizens (saying that it happen to us) when last year 482 persons were killed and 5924 were injured causing suffering to more than 20000 families? In the next six months several of your closest friends relatives and members of your immediate family may be killed or receive painful injuries in an automobile accident Statistics prove that one out of every 20 drivers in your city and state will be involved in an automobile dent during the Last July 39 Oklahomans killed in highway smashups The state department of safety has launched concerted efforts to stop the death toll in highway ac cidents i which has cost the lives of more than 2200 Oklahomans in the last four years The safety campaign is to open in communities over all the state tomorrow morning Warnings will continually be sued persons will be urged to serve strictly all traffic rules regulations something else: If you going: to drive DRINK if you are bound to drink then above all things DRIVE! Drunken drivers each year always come In for their toll of lives lost But what is more appalling is that the death toll of drunken drivers is mounting each year A murder charge always results where there is a death caused by a drunkendriver Maximum penalty upon conviction of a drunken driving charge when even no damage is done is $1000 fine or dneyear in prison or both Here are 10 rules of the road that cannot be repeated too often 1 Vehicles in meeting each other Shall keep to the right of the center the road All vehicles overtaking others shall in nassing keen to the left center of the road and sHall not pull over to the right until entirely clear of the vehicle parsed 3 All vehicles 'turning to the right into another road shall turn the corner as near the curb as practicable All vehicles turning to the left into 'another road shall pass around the center of the intersecting road before turning pension organization of meet Monday night county courthouse Milford app May ace Murder Charge After Prison Release TOP RANKING ARMY OICER APPRAISES COOKSON HILL SPOT Milford Tapp 31 year old Indian likely will face a charge of murder when he is released Tuesday from the state penitentiary at McAlester He is serving a sentence from Osage county on a charge of grand larceny and is scheduled to be re leased Tuesday new chafge Is a result of his alleged drunken driving of an auto mobile last December 28 when he reportedly crashed into a wagon loaded with wood on high way 64 west of Perry dian of stantly in the wreckt A holdover warrant for Tapp was issued by Joe Acebo justice of the peace here before whom the murder charge was filed Saturday The murder complaint was signed by Highway Patrolman Harold Wat son who assisted in investigating the accident The complaint accuse Tapp of driving the car unde the influence of intoxicating liquor Tapp reportedly had been release from the state penitentiary to vlsi relatives during the Christmas holl days and presumably was returning to McAlester when the accident curreL Tapp is changed only with the murder ofBverqJthoiigh wife Mrs Anna StTJein Tapp Muskogee alio was killed in the crash Both Brewer and Mrs Tapp were dead when removed from the wreck age Two other persons one of them' Mrs Brewer suffered serious in juries Both recovered so In each side of the street' 6 All motor vehicles before passing other vehicles from the rear shall give notice of approach by a horn or other signal before passing provided that said vehicle shall be when signaled to turn to one side and give half the road 7 At Intersecting streets or roads vehicles approaching from the right shall have the right of way over those approaching from the left United States mail fire apparatus ambulances police patrols and ve hicles of physicians when plainly designated shall have right of way In any street or road through any pro cession 8 No person shall drive or operate a motor vehicle upon vor over any road or highway of this state with the Jcut out open or with exhaust pipe dis connected from muffler 9 No person shall drive or operate any motor vehicle upon or over any road or highway of the state which has attached thereto atty spotlight WBe lt further provided that when a motor vehicle Is brought to a stop on a hard surfaced highway the left side of the motor vehicle must be to the right of the center of said highway at least three feet 1 Minimum ine Is $5 The minimum fine upon conviction of violating any of these rules is $5 and costs and the maximum is $25 and costs 1 The safety council and highway pa trolmen point out that it Is not only ironic but cruel to celebrate the right to life liberty and the pursuit of hap piness by bringing ability and tragedy is cheap on Europe but it is Put safety first and live and let others to enjoy another ourth of July But the ifth Is Often the Day of less than two miles south Haskell 'V Brewer 25 Cherokee In Pawhuska as killed in Pension Meeting Set Special to the Phoenix EUAULA June 29 The Town send old age Eufaula will the McIntosh The meeting will open at 7 30 Arthur "Raifrkrrl nroci Aont annninAA office in the 1 county was thrown in the shadows by the spotlight which centered on the three men contesting for the qlerkship Carl Pate hard hand shaking county assessor was running into competition which frightened his supporters in Elwood' Looper of Webbers alls who reportedly has pulled the entire south end of the county into his camp and is making heavy inroads in Muskogee Looper 37 year old merchant al ready marked as the man who will close the courthouse door on Pate ap peared at the end of the week to be gaining strength steadily Han cock was third mam Dawson Has Uphill Grind Another incumbent who appeared to have an uphill grind to return to his courthouse office was County Super intendent Dawson Morgan 37 year old Council Hill man appeared to have pulled to the lead in a close race Both Morgan and elix Peters 29 year old Briar town teacher bringing up the rear in the three man race harped steadily on the theme that Dawson is asking for his sixth term in office This with a better Morgan machine than existed two years ago when Dawson defeated the Council Hill man ap peared doing ho little damage to a strong school teacher support which Dawson has handled effectively for a good many years Peters long shot in the race this week was reported to be strength in the southern part county Whether this would more inroads on the Dawson Morgan camp remained to be Garrett Loses Votes Beavers former assistant county attorney under A Camp Bonds appeared to have slipped votes away from County Attorney Douglas Gar rett particularly in rural sections al though the incumbent still was gen erallv considered to have a fairlv safe I lead A cleancut division of sentiment ernor has two more years to serve in Muskogee still was apparent with Garrett probably ahead It might be a hoss race and it might not observ ers said The three county commissioners now were given the edge over their opponents with Walter Smith in district No 1 taking the place of Carlisle Vowell in district No 2 as the man who Has some real fight ing to do to retain his office Eddie Briggs 26 year old Mus kogee merchant rapidly pulled up alongside 'Smith as campaigning for the eastside post went on and dope sters disagreed on choice between the two Chafjes erguson 46 year old railroad employe was picked for third place honors with loyd Bass Louie Garland Guinn of Braggs and Bill Wade jockeyed near the bottom Vowell Has Rough Time Carlile Vowell still had rough go ing in political feud with Reynolds his only opponent for the democratic nomination but during the week pulled his chances up to overshadow those of the man he defeated two years ago With both men residents of Porum the give and take was fast and furious Allen Moorer was high in the sad dle in the western district by virtue of a well split opposition and a well knit organization His plurality was not calculated as a large one but appeared Sufficient unless the anti vote was rapidly centered on one man Joe Huggins 57 vear old farm er sfeemed to be pulling Into the second notch with Elmer Muskogee Warren Payn kogee and Brown of Haskell County reported YEOLDE HOME TALENT RALLY MONDAY EVENING MIXTURE UN SONG lb CONTINUED ROM PAGE! ONH At 8 the band will go into the auditorium The program there will be as follows: Spangled Central' High School band Barbershop quartet Carl Richardson Poole Eddie Hubbard and James King George Rogers' bandy Piano solo Vir ginia Elva Sandlin Vocal solos of My One Hiawatha Duncan of Bacone college Piano and xylophone Camilla Duncan Dance recital Sallye Margaret Chad well Ellis pupils Vocal solo with guitar Coble Parker representing Muskogee Junior chamber of commerce Vocal solo You Sweetheart Norma Lee Rogers Hick dance Guy Sawyer accompanied by George hand Vocal Wanda Lee accompanied by her sister Peggy Lee Wrestling match Ace reeman vs Balk Estes one fall 30 minutes time limit Dancing until 12 to George Rogers' band Miss Gladys Garland will be accom panist for the pupils dance re cital The numbers will be as follows: and Kathryn Mnore of the Peggy Barger a Little Nancy Le Gate rances Evans Patty Lamb the Day Carol Ann Quisenberry Apple for the Patsy Pierce Rabbit Marv Sue Wells Betty Polk Eighteenth and Nineteenth on Chestnut Edwina Ryals Red Nedra Kay inklea Barbara Jean Polk American Anna Louise Baker Jackie Williams Be Surprised' Kathryn Moore Peggy Barger Another Benefit Planned On Tuesday night another benefit for the Red Cross fund will be given in the city hall auditorium when the airview home demonstration club will present a play Tumbling acts coached by Rainwater teacher of airview school and dance numbers by pupils of Ade laide Herrick Reece will augment the program In the cast of the play will be Mesdames Bonner Green Hobie Add ington Johnson Seigal A Warren Guy Bradley Gus Denos Gordon Smith Miss Margaret Weir and Miss Jean Denos Tickets will be 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children This event is arranged especially for Muskogee countians who live out side the cityxof Muskogee Blocks of tickets have been sent to all home demonstration clubs in the county Bobby Clark 14 gift to the picture world killed two birds with one stone here last week He made a personal appear ance at the Broadway theater which is purely commercial But he did something else which isn't com mercial at all He paid a visit to the man who gave him hise first in the juvenile cowboy busi ness John A Guthrie Bobby is shown at the right' above astride a fence near stables here chatting with his benefactor left It was Guthrie who gavo Bobby his first job displaying his riding and roping 'wares in a rodeo which Guthrie was staging at Danville Ark tn the summer c( 1937 And from there Bobby to He has appeared in such western pictures as land With Kit and He has just completed the first of a series of pictures to be shown under the title Sagebrush amily Trails Bobby whose family name is Clack but who changed it when the movie people said Clark had more or something rose to fame on his own initiative With Parents at Rodeo At the age of eight he his parents to the Oklahoma Arkan san rodeo at Jort Smith Ark father Arnold Clack noticed his usual interest in the trick riding roping stunts and asked: "Do think you could do The youth replied: me a horse saddle and rope and show i Without taking the youth seri boiight him a the necessary the ttext few Last year traffic accident Costs skyrocketed to 2740 during the month of July most of them on the ourth The during killed fiafety tating pace of 12 persons killed every hour July swept through the United States like a The following is true account of a traffic accident which occurred in a county of the state last ourth of July: Preparation for the picnic had been completed the night of July 3 and the family a father a mother and three children four six and nine years of age were happy with expectations of enjoying a holiday" with friends on the wooded shores of a'well known state lake ood bathing suits and other out ing equipment had been carefully stored in the trunk of the family au tomobile The children were anxious to help climbing about the car car rying small packages 7 Occasionally they they their trip long it would take them to get there That night the three children were put to bed two of them a 4 yeaf old daughter and a 6 year old son for the last time Before 10 the next morning theirs and their' bodies gory spectacles torn and man gled were removed from the crushed family car But as strange as It may sound at first the two children and the fa ther werereally the luckiest of the five They did not live to suffer 1' Today the mother not yet 40 1 years old is the victim of endless 1 days spent in a wheel chair her cnce physically fine body racked with pain her once beautiful face 1 distorted with ugly scars her right arm is off at the shoulder The daughter totters from the limp In her walk and an ugly scar runs from the upper left side of her scalp down across her left eye and extends through the upper lip below the nose Her left eyeball was knocked out Her mind is slowly becoming affected be cause of the sharp memories of what happened continually haunting her I And that is all the result of the fa ther forgetting to put safety first This particular family was sched uled to meet another family at a cer I tain point at a certain hour that fatal day and then both were to proceed on to the lake The family of the tragedy was late1 getting started and before they were out of town a tire went down because of a nait By the time a filling station attendant had put on the spare and repaired the other tire so the would not be caught out without apare it was within 30 minutes of the agreed time for the meeting There was 22 miles to go Exact cause the wreck wil? never be explained All the mother can remember is that her husband was hurrying to keep the other peo ple from having to wait and per haps thinking they had changed their minds about He drove a 60 to 65 miles an hour: she said Suddenly they came up behind a large truck and her husband pulled over to go around They were almost by the truck when suddenly the tries screeched and her husband streamed God!" Bk The next thing she remembers is Bthe cold white room of the hospital llwhere she was taken the white robed attendants trying to revive her after almost 20 unconsciousness She was in the hospital where she was forced to remain almost six months afterward The two words he? husband screamed were the: last she was ever to hear him utter The husband and father bet lithe' Grim Reaper three lives against iJ10 minutes The Grim Reaper WON! Bk Highway patrolmen think a front IStire blew out but anyway the carwas rolled into a mass of torn IT metal because of its overturning I I four times and coming to rest against a highline pole If safety had been put first that 0 family might this year be making plans nowr for a ourth of July outing Highway patrolmen county officers Hand local police are jittery from the iBthoughts of what may occur next I Jnonth starting tomorrow and espe Hfcially on the ourth A blitzkrieg of death injury and Iftestruction on our highways is about to begin According Kp statistics the zero hour is mid Mtfght tonight Nationaln these days Hlled with the Kell to remember that the traffic Hkeath toll for the last two yearsreatly exceeds the American dead the World war and that traffic EEeaths 1n the last seven years have Mbta greater than the total number if You Want to Live andDrive Again orego HasteSelfishness Thoughtlessness and Desire to Shotv Off MSES oj 4 i 1 i I lr 1 k) I I JG Jr I Jr to 1 int UK 1 Wl II i I yA.