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Shamnee Evening NRA SAYS BUY NOW! DAILY SHAWNEE OIL AREA CLOSING MARKET QUOTATIONS Vol No 177 Official City Paper SHAWNEE OKLAHOMA TUESDAY JANUARY 2 1934 Eight Pages Price GISLATIVE PLAN IS DRAi LWESIIS STAROLOGY i MANY MISSING HARRAH HOLDUP SHORTSESSIDN HOMES LOODED IGOODS RETURNED CONERENCES HELD MUCUS TSUIS BIT HILL IST SET OS DOCKET IS EXTINGUISHED CM EXPENSES Of 351111ft Wllbu? Underhill doggedly uuggeaiy A lon of four cents la advanced I fought a grim battle against death 2 i Un set for trial on must be exercised before be required to submit with and A HOLIDAY CUIMS DULY 42 LIVES as the pur In been made the ptnae the county expected to bear used during conventions Weather tattle la in proapack cash on the MOO cost of president National The kota lower Devil's In the Under one of Harr 1h inally he was taken to the infirmary but died before mcdlca) sMlstanoe waa given Name Committee reduction committee for menu of Oklahoma City and many other cltlea submitting projects and found that while many of the projects colled for the full expense to be paid from federal funds the ata tern nW clearly reflected the ability to pay a share be In at of of tn Roosevelt tn ron I Inrreneed I Plans Dlsciixsed Majority Leader Robinson other members of the sen committee discussed policy word republlcaalzm" This would brier into the fold it (CONTINUED ON PACK J) of Improvement and several of skilled workmen were en in the task Large Group Working city of Shawnee had a large of men at work on the oma tlre board the CWA the funds the state Republicans Organize or Elections Control Tightened must be obtained All facts needed In the contracts In Dixie Memphis reported two oesuis Xu BlTSuQbam aot OJjlo ru quiet xerpt In Tttleda wheru fHt wounded by cation Robinson said that conferring of this right upon the president would not be a surrender of the treaty making prerogative since the senft Lu would define anv limitation which It felt should be imposed upon ssuch a concession to the executive branch of the government The budget nlso wna discu ised by the committee but with no con elusions Able To1 Part Up to 2 30 Tuesday afternoon when The Star was being prepared for pub lication no claimant had yet arrived in the city for the title of New Year's baby The stork vlalted the home of Mr and Mr Bowden of route five about three ml lee north cf Shawned at 1 40 Tuesday moraaig but rulss of tbs contest which provides generous prizes from local marehan tequine that the gifts go to the first child bom within the city limits thus eliminating the seven and' cos half pound Bowden boy WASHINGTON Jan 3 dlcatlons that President would address congress few arrests for drunkenness wen made Program Is Progressing Rapidly With 2100 Men Working Redtartlcn of governmental costa In Pottawatomie county during the 1S32 33 fiscal period took heavier tolls school budgets than in aU ether county town township units combined according to an operating cost analysis recently complied by lbs state chamber of commerce Reduction in the school budgets was 837433 or 134 per cent accord ing to the anlyste Reduction In the county budget eras 824715 while the budgets for towns were increased OiS and township budgets increated tn Cloudy probably rain toolcbt somewhat warmer in saei portion Wednesday rain or snow JOBLESS PROTEST Jan s' Dta aatlsfacuoa among Pittsburg coun ty unemployed was manifest here again today A large crowd was gathering at the courthouse far an afternoon meeting Leaders of the movement are displeased with hand ling of the civil works and direct re lief programs Two meetings hare LEASED WIRE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED press nea McCLURE AND MfiNAUGHT SYNDICATE EATURES able to share that Giles said Many Shirk OKLAHOMA CITY Jan 3 iremen and oil field workers shut In the flaming rank Russell Pe troleum company's No 1 Reno well In the Oklahoma City oil field today after It had roared and burned four hours after an explosion Several storage tanks continued to blaze and send billowing clouds of black smoke far into the sky how ever and danger still Impended for other wells unless the wind remained from the south Stephens Injured Stephens a Russell tank gauger was In a hospital with severe burna He was thrown from atop a tank where he was gauging oil when the explosion came Stephens was atll alive at 3 He was the only person injured The well fire was brought under control when fire fighters used a long pole to shut In a secondary flow valve and then approached In asbestos suite to close master gate of the gusher The well located just outside the ennt cuy iiraiia in a Closely drilled area roared and flamed for a full day In late October after a mysterious explosion set It ablaze Several hours after the fire began today the well still was aflame mak ing a great noise as ft consumed huge quantltlee of gas roaring from the hole which had been opened for a nitroglycerin "shot" Early reports that persons other than Stephens had been Injured ap peared to be without foundation He was thrown from a tank and seri ously burned all over his body by the explosion your others escaped Russell a militant foe of prorax tlon and an advocate of extended drilling areas within the cityY was In California on a holiday trip Origin Disputed Conflicting stories were told about the origin of today's explosion and fire because of confusion as men ren ter their lives and workers nearby were not certain Just what had hap pened Skinner a Phillipa Petroleum county employe heard the explosion as he was working on an adjoining lease There was a terrific blast" he said "The ground shook and I turned Just In time to see sheets of fire lashing Into the air "Men were running I counted four or fire running from the der rick floor It looked to me like a man who was on a tank dropped I don't know whether be fell into the tank" nw Ul uvobi UUUUll I In Los Angeles 827 Inches of rain fell In the foothills the average was more than 10 Inches Glendora east ol Pasadena at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains recorded 1540 In ches Glendale had 1345 and Pasadena had 1286 In Utile over 24 hours the average annual rainfall was equalled In Pasadena the traditional New Year's Tournament of Rosea parade was held as scheduled and Columbia and Stanford battled in a see of mud for the east west fcotball champion ship while apectatore huddled under umbrellas and raincoats Civilian Conservation Corps (CONTINUED 03 PAGE t) BEVERLY HILLS Calif Jan 2 i Everybody comes to California They see a lot of great wide rocky sandy creek and river beds with not a hot water bottle full of water In and they are a big Juke They wonder what they are for Well yesterday they showed what they were there for Us settlers (that have been here five or ten years) never saw anything like It We are so tickled to see rain but here that we put on a big parade In' honor of it 1 UUl UUuUL 111U1 Mclinias gome out Hnmcbcdy It was a his irst snow In Ulis section of state this winter is likely for Wednes day according to prediction of the federal weather bureau as a misty rain for Tuesday nl lii will be frozen Cold Wave Due To Arrive This Section Of State Wednesday Cities And Counties Pay Must urnish Of unds School Budgets Take Heaviest Reduction Chamber Of Commerce Directors Will Meet Underhill Still ighting Grim Battle With Death Today WASHINGTON Jan 2 The mccratto majority bristled with corHUence and optimism today as its leaders predicted a short and har monious session for the congress which cqnvenes tomorrow Republicans organized for the 1934 election with a campaign plan de signed to bring aU sections ot the party together lor a unified effort lu return to power Control lightened Two lengthy conltrcnces yesterday served to tighten more firmly than ever before President Roosevelt's con trol of congress The first was that ot the senatesteering committee "The second cam last night when Mr Roosevelt con lerred for three hours with demo cratic lenders ot both houses settled eierythlng to our sat said Speaker of the Houm Itulney as he stoed tor a moment un der drljipmg white house eaves at conclusion of the conference after they had been Dec 12 If Douglas Is cases ol violation of Ing laws and charged jointly with him in four ot the cases All charges In this county resulted from the closing of the Maud State bank and the Canadian Valley bank at Asher which cloned with the Douglas chain ot banks In November 1932 Boh men with other banking of ficials nl'o are facing charges In the state court of Seminole county and in the federal court No trials In any of the charges have yet been held and the state banklngfdepart meni Is expected to mnke out Its caffs against fhetlwo former bankers In the trials at Chandler Scott erris Jr attorney for the state banking department will assist Tankersley Pottawatomie county at torney in prosecution of the cases Pn the change of venue all Pot tawatomla county court officers will go to Chandler to conduct the trial but the jury will lie selected from a Lincoln county venire Worker Severely Burned By Explosion In Oklahoma City ield New Day Celebration Is Safest And Sanest 1 In Many Years Vwk city with Its 7000000 several city projects he said besides population reported but four deaths three returned to the state board of Hospitals treated but few persons a affair He did not have a list result or in celebration Chicago Noisy Chicago was ndey The loop was a bedlam the old year peaaed out and the new came in A happy good natured crowd jammed dubs and hotels only four deaths as compared with 11 a year ago were reported Buffalo reported Um quietest new year tn 0 years In Kansas City Use new year entered without a fetal ity for Use first time tn five years Liquor was sold openly In the legally dry state of MLssocrl In Kansas legally dry one woman we shot to death by drunken rois terer Oklahoma City reported one death from burn Twelve penona asere injured in WASHINGTON 'Jan 3 A legislative program stressing early action on liquor taxes and reciprocal tariff treaties to stimulate foreign trade was decided upon by senate democratic leaders today In prepara tion for the opening of congress to morrow Activity speeded up after the holi day lull on both sides of the jcapltol The beginning of the first regular OCOCUMU V4 U1C WVfllly VUl: Wins civen ndded with Indications that Roosevelt tomorrow person charged In the ttnto bank Newton Dnuglw Is Property Loss In Los Angeles Estimated At $5000000 Trials of Douzla of the defunct Shawnee bank and his brother Newton Doug las president of the closed irst Na tolnal bank at McLoud have been set on the docket for Jan 15 at the opening ot a criminal term of the district court of Lincoln county at I rYlv fi rtrilwr I will be necessary after the contract has been signed The educatloiisl program explain ing all drtMWjot JJlt cotton control p'an for 1334 will be started the lat ter part of this week Lawrence said os all work on signing' the contracts Is expected to be completed in Janu ary mad because Murray Butler didn't here with his team ought to have told him republican convention principal relaxation Yours be conducted at 12 county will be made the county are urged of the 1934 cotton ac lrst 1934 meeting of the board of directors of the Chamber of Com merce will ba held at' 7 o'clock Wednesday night In the directors' rocm at the A'drldge hotel to make plans lor the new rear The board will con liter a petition uiB feWLiu 3(huu rurMa ucmE Ux a tu NvtLpnr iw uisitijes prtirsi It has filed against existence of a county areata department in thl county Report will be made oa highway 18 development Cbsmterj of Commerce membership and the nnW iljtl congress and color Indications that President would come to the capltol to deliver message in by the cold wave that Is due to ar i regular message and budget mesaage rive here Wednetday I was expected the message on the Thia section of th? state will be on jatato of the union would be com the southern edge of a cold wave that I Pletrd in time to have it for dtetn Trials Of Bankers Slated or Opening Of Term Court Jan 15 UND RLt l'STH OKLAHOMA CITY Jan 2 which will go to congress? later in the week along with the annual re port of the secretary of the treasury was read to the conferees and dis cussed length Particular Impor tance was attached to Ibis because of predictions winch have concerning the size ot the deficit Which the mesage win report May I 1 the objective lor adjourn ment uf congress Monetary ollrle The con jrcsional delegation aid monetary policies had not been dis cussed al the white EJure The in tricate questions of gold and sllter were tinted over at the senate gath ering in the afternoon however Th dlepoaitioa was to support the presi nt in whatever" program chocwes to follow Slgnlcleance was read into the re publican plans because of the pre pcndTancti of westerner on the senatorial campaign committee an nounced by Minor ty Leader McNary and becaure of the declaration for a unified republicanism Senator Hastings republican Dels ware is chairmen of the committee He win be counted upon to carry the election drive tb roach the cut Vie Chatem Dlckinron republican tntcr ircm iowa ana keynoter at (the 19J2 republican convention will conduct the campaign in the west An overture to men who bolted the Hoover campaign last rear waa con tJnrd in MtNary" word: There will be no dltcrtmlmrttea formxttea cf a hastens club to rcPect 13 he defnlUcn of the i liM RrNswSt Iraacsiwlsa LOG ANGHLES Jan 2 (UP) Counting its dead at two score with half as many missing and possibly drowned and an estimated property More than 500 farmers of the county have option cotton which must be disposed of at this time and Indications Tuesday were that most i of the farmers transfer to the I government Ioan and keep the option i In force until July 31 ALEXANDER DIES CXLAHOMA CTTT Jam Charles Alexander former Ute banking drpartmant attache died In a hospital today after a Ill ness He waa years old Ha left the state department two month ago to work with the federal jtcposltin WlLL jl (inn PMIMC HZiA I luuu ULniiyid rr No New Babies Reported Roosevelt May Deliver Message iney IS acing 'Amount Held In County Vxv Valued At About Ju Year Sentence $100000 I wvvws re SJV4C Ull VZbiVil UJ county farmers is valued at approxi mately 8100000 and will bring at chief of the inney 4rasl farmer of the count' agreed upon recom this month If only the four cents WASHINGTON Jan 2 (UP) Th government' domestic gold buying prtca wu maintained at 3400 per ounce today on the evd of the open I anility or inaoiuty to bear a share of th expense Involved Applies To State Tills rule will also to state In project which are not pending Giles announced He said many state projects had been Bent bock to the state board of affairs be cause It waa felt the state should' are the expense through hrd aubmmltted plans for to put up 100 per cent ot Involved In carrying out program announced his change In regulation had come after con ference with Washington officials The perfect pessimist Is the walt alio frowned all 1 ty Monday because she sahl she didn't to start the New Year with ni'tlilng she couldn't keep going Kenneth Abernathy Colum bian Is Shawnee's happiest man in addition to being Into this department for one linck The only thing II nppoint lug about yesterday's football game was the crowd Personal greeting to it t' Porter Hie voice of the Iridian territory who went to New York to walk In the snow Among other things WilburUlulei hill did was make a serious reduction In the CWA publicity lly commissioners and school hotiril members meet tonight to pay thi lr bills We never coulil understand how a bank teller can look so borril trlille count ing a stack xif bills or why a certain type of Individual never closes doors In any weather or where our money goes Wednesday night reezing Temperatures retting temperature were re ported from all section ot the state Monday night with the low here reg tatered at 27 and the' high Monday afternoon at 39 Wintry bold wives covered two area of the United States today southern CaHforria tolled to re habilitate a Beetle stricken by one of the worst rainstorm of it history The northern half of the easternseaboard shivered as frigid winds from the north brought near aero temperatures to New York state and New England Upstate New York had temperature ranging from rero to 10 above Temperature Reported mercury throughout the Da and Montana dropped even It wax 14 below zero at take The cold belt exlgudeddawn frcm Dswaon Aliska where It was 64 below tero Other section ta th country re ported milder wether Tempera ture were la lb high 2ff In Iowa Chicago had 2d IndranapoIIa 44 PAID CD NTY'S CiMBKffi in the municipal hospital here Ok lahoma county authorities prepared charges against his wounded pal Ralph Rowe naming him as a par ticipant In the bungled burglary of tho Harrah bank which was led by Underhill Rpwe and iMrs Underhill wore taken to the Oklahoma county Jail by federal authorities early Tuesday morning while physicians here re iterated their assertion thdt Under hill could not survive his wounds re ceived as he fled from hideout at 606 West Dewey street early Saturday morning Underhill passed the crisis at dawn Tuesday morning and showed alight signs of Improvement Early In the afternoon however his con dition became worse Rowe Accused Stanley Rogers sheriff of Okla homa county said Rowe would be formally aociised In the Harrah In cident Underhill has admitted par ticipation ive men tried to take the bank safe away In a truck with a winch The burglary failed when tho safe crashed through tfie wood i floor of the bank Officers learned at Ada grat1 Un derhill purchased the truRc there under the name ot Ed Patton It was repossessed near Ada last week and Identified The salesman and a mechanic who worked on the truck after It was sold Identified Un uerniu Monday night chaser Rogers Bald Underhill paid 375 truck and 8180 ot the Installing the winch Probe Continual Colvin federal agent who led the raiding squad on Underhill's i (CONTINUED ON AGS 6) IRST SWIS $71600 A ID OUT That the Civil Works Administra tion's program has accomplished In Pottawatomie county Its two fod purpose of providing employment and permanent public Improvements since Its Inauguration here November 28 was evidenced Tuesday In a check up ot Its achievements After starting behind the majority of counties the iPotia 4 pvare waa ire ioe zraerax emergency relief admin nd PJM1 3urtc celebration canted out with Ux CWA in renonue litretlon for 81290 to be used tn rejwrveu aeyen ietiu exul He i or town re abflire to te ar ewaeJnT or th stite re TTOtf uggnbtk nuf bd tn break rtrht reaultlnx nfwH frflmLwRM ir lOkMocu City lahooRnn and "a cire cunng eeptem Oereland 4 Dallas 44 Jarksorrllte but laboottnp and utcmcbt accident jrefiiara to accept th reqxxxalbtillg Iber October and November 1W fO Salt Lake City 2 wad Denver 84 (go where in the country Comparatively showing what proportion of the ex 1 Hla companion kept him breathing loaning in the northern states but button shortly before congress "meete pense county cxpeciea vo oear uuvugn arviuciar respiration While Th asm ha also been done with 'efforts were made to find a doctor I arlTen below th 20 degrees mark be delivered Th'ir dty Bl lIETIN OKIAHOVLt CITY Jan" 2 (I f) Oklahoma county nitlhorllle charged Mllbur Underhill and four others today with attempted rob bery of the irst Natlhhnl bank of Harrah on Dec 11 Ralph Rowe 211 wounded Shawnee gun buttle where hill was shot 13 times was those neiiised Smith watchman fulled to Ideiilifv Rowe i as one of the bandits today but did 1 Identify ns his own a pMil found In the hhaw nee house here Rowe nnd tnderhlll were staying Olliers charged were Jack Lloyd reported under arrest at Tuscon Arlz Houston Nash held at Mus kogee on a charge of harboring nderhlll and an iinarrested person designated at Hlehard Roe I In fori III 'll fl III III Hr I II rl I 1 1 i thc transfer option I Ul 1 1 1 1 1 1 cn and they will receive the ad uhiuum stx cents wnen ine cotton ja sold Selling ot It is handled by department of agriculture and It mllt Hj enlrl at a re vv flwvx xxliAn 1 xzv ovu uu Viiiru UVkkUU piltxD advances to 15 cents per pound Thc iniiner is nssurco ot receiving ten cents for the cotton All supplies for making the trans fer or selling the cotton on the pres ent market are at the office of the county agent Each farmer has been mailed notlce an la asked to bring the notice to the office Op tions that ar teransferred to the 10 cent Jan TOPEKA Kan Jan 2N i ii i Atrh rfirtrin cnHAiva aaaIiJ jPonald inney central figure in the I 500000 Kansas municipal bondr4 orgeryandalrwas expected to 'Ton? lve a sentence of 30 years aAd six Of Cr9 tban 900 bale of op ronaw here this afternoon I tion fotton In county This was the minimum sentence ere lnf0i7 Tuesday morning that under a recent stata sunreme court an government loan ruling which he could receive on cent" on tlqe cotton or £C11 damage of $5000000 metrdroiltan Los of 8uny t0 30 counts of forgery i 7 in jl ume' Angeles today tXi to dear uttering 830000 In Hutch 1e debris 'of the worst storm In local nton Kan bonds history County Attorney Lester Goodell and A deluge of rain swept the foothills 7 1 nnunxrl han i Tee tor a sentence cf 15 years Is taken and th option watercourses that carried tons of ude reck from the hills tn hati yesterday he pomes in the valleys 3000 Homes lloodt Streets flowed as rivers yellow with earth In them hundreds of automo KOrex ar i ic) nuii uirttuviiru women and 1 children fled for their lives as more i ment' lhan Sooopiomes were flooded Land slides burled highways Rati traffic was disrupted Borne on the winds of a storm from uie north thc rain cascaded steadily on Los Angeles and surrounding cities for 30 hours When the new year dawned sullen and wet the whole area was a panerma of destruction 1 1 aurone eornoirotkMi on erinA i uwreunei 44 Wiiaa 44 JvVorrll but bad to enter a hospital month much colder: rreeMng temperature win north and vwwtireM watomle county administration worked from beneath the i handicap Work Is now progressing In virtually every township In the county with the maximum quota ot 2100 men at work $71000 Paid Out Dependent upon these workmen who labor at every type ot task from road graveling to painting Interiors ot rural schoolhouses arc approx imately 18000 persons which means tnat Uncle Sam's monev dally Is ap plied In this county forrthe necessl ties cf life' alleviating a situation which would otherwise become Into! erable within a short time igures compiled Tuesday by Brill county disbursing agent showedthat a total of 871600 has been paid out to CWA employes and to A applicants slhce December 8 Start Ing with the original disbursement on that date Brill and his staff of office aides have since made disbursements to some portion of the army of fed eral employes almost dally Of the 871600 842400 has gone through the CWA channels and 829200 for direct relief through ERA Registration booths were set up dur ing the first week of organization work in Maud Asher TecumsehMacomb and McLoud In addition to the central office In Shawnee Moe than 21000 men and women regis tered for work the records showed but a comparatively small number of them were vitally In need ot employ ment Projects Completed irst of the CWA project to completed was a graveling Job Dale Soon afterwards workmen the Johnson school northwest Shawnee completed renovation that building About 30 projects are now under way throughout the coun ty with some of the projects provid ing employment for several hundreds of men Of thia type Is the county road graveling task which links to gether more than 25 miles of high ways running through the three dis tricts of the county Shawnee public school system re mained at a standstill Tuesday and will continue Inactive throughout the remainder of the week in order that CWA workers may have free access to the various buildings of the system Painting plumbing reoalr and plastering constitute the chief items scores gaged The group mental wall of the city oemetery and other busy Tuesday laying sewer Vlpa In the new storm sewer lines being Installed on North Broadway to care for the overflow usually prev alent along portions of that street Other men were occupied taking the uir coverings rrom the new concrete walk In Woodland park but no ad ditional concrete was poured Tues day because of the threatening weather Two new tennis court tn Woodland park are the next Improve ment on the list when the weatherpermits pouring of the concrete No additional rural school project had been approved Tuesday but work waa going forward on the eight which had been granted final ap prorel at the state office Moat ofth eight were limited to 8280 A much higher standard of effi ciency 1b being demanded tn CWA Work than th "made work" re quired Lazy laborer axe discharged with the physically dl abled permitted to transfer to th 'direct relief roll A new first aid setup will be completed thl week throughout the county with Individ ual ou each job responsible for th safety of conditions under which the men are working Up to date noth ing more ttrious than strained back or mashed finger here been reported as directly due to CWA work ac cording to Tom Steed adjuster At tho present rat of procedure the 2as000 officially allocated to rottawatomie county will have bean expended by the eb 13 deadHne authorities at the CWA office here agreed Tuesday By that time con gress is expected to have approved an additional grant tn order that feedral support will not be abruptly with drawn tn mid winter I IV II II 'T I II I I riJ I 1 mesaage 1 I I I I torfaV U'hpn mmn Wu pnniirirtsd LAI LU I LU 1 1 1 1 I on the terrace outside the capltol The ramp ran from the terrace of la aide door of the house wing and wouiu permit ine jirexmcnt enter easily Speaker of the house Rainey who last wark saldthe president would hot dellvxr hla messag? in person' ad mltted today there was a possibility tf Mr Roosevelt appearing before congress Mr Roosevelt denied himself to all but a few callers today in order to have ample time to complete both his OKLAHOMA CITY Jan ree rides on the CWA (civil works administration) are definitely over for Oklahoma cities and counties submit ting projects Col Carl Giles state administrator announced today Hereafter Giles said municipalities submitting civil Works project will be TequCred to submit with them financial etatementa shewing their ftlillltv nr inhflfv a if I I of ell Senate I and nine ate policy and legislation at At lengthy morning conference The group alter canvassing the leglalxthe outlook decided to shape congressional affairs tn such a way that they could alm lor adjournment by May I Speaker of the House Rainey agreed with Robinson that the liquor revenue bill would be the llrst business The Importance which the admin I lstratloil Is nlarintr on nf Chandler i foreign trnde was indicated by Rob irst two days of the court terml InsOn's Indication that thc senate was were given over to the two cases I ready to give the president power' which were transferred from Potta with certain limitations to conclude watonilecoiinlyon achungeofvenuelthcse trestles without senate railfl ftrethavlirlH Vssszsrs esi8 aS i Duty "Bom municipaiitioa which eouid Oyer exertion Blamed have helped fa this program at the! PIaaSL nt V(l tint shirked their duly There was ao or Death Of I OU th much confusion end rush at the first that had no time to consider a city NORMAN Jan 2 Joseph i or county ability to bear expense Thurlngcr 13 yer old aon of a Uni 1 rom now on this will be of primary vcrelty ot Oklahoma medical school Importance" professor was dead here today after! Olles announced projects had been 'apparent over cxertlon tn a basketball sent back to about 10 counties with same The youth who had been suf i Instruction that county official re Bering from asthma collapsed and fell viz ths project returning them with to the floor In the university field financial statement and revision late yesterday after a came A number ot other project hare been raferrrd to John Rlghtmore CWA engineer tor reconsideration and investigation of th ability to bear a share of the expense eourae where the municipality la abeciutely destitute" Giles sold will make no difference tn our supplying fund Ws shall go ahead there perhaps mn stronger than in other eountle or ctUea but not until our investigation hi dcerly ahcra th Inability of th municipality to share tn th expense cf this work Cities and eountle which are ai to furnish part ot th fund mater late and labor for CWA work he said wiU be tn danger of kwlng all bene fits which might be derived from the CWA program pointed out that th relief ad mlntetrwtOT a Wellington had with draw it asatotane from Texas and Missouri and said fedsal official hod Cor Murray applied today to Informed him thia pokey was to the federal emergency relief admln CHICAGO Jon a (tJPl On kun deed and twenty five million Xmerl iTh had obuln financial state 'manta and vwaMVT cans reiurnea to work task today after the sanest and safest New day celebrations in many year A United Press survey revealed only 42 deaths resulting from the holiday celebration Thia compared with 150 a year ago and 300 two year ago Car Accident ew or the first time tn 14 years poison liquor played an inconsequen tial part in New Year's day fatalities Death resulting from shooting led by wide margin Automobile acci dent resulting from drunken driv ing were lar fewer than usual The first post prohibition celebra tion was noisy but mostly harmless More than half the population had liquor available legally Moat of the remainder of the country bad legal Mquor sold more or less openly Hotels night clubs and taverns were crowded In most places all reservation were taken day In ad vance The merry maker spent free ly Proprietor of places where they gathered reported receipts increased 50 to 200 per cent over any year since 1929 Prohibition agent were absent tor th first time since 1919 Liquor came out from under th table and flowed freely rrom table top 'Not a prohibition raid was reported any loana 15 To cotton was to Be named at a meeting i former with Tnw rericc Monday afternoon Three 'members will be named and attend a conference TUcsdav afternoon at Oklahoma City wtth federal cotton control officials The Pottawatomie County Cotton Production Control association will be formed at the meeting Monday after noon and plana for an educational campaign to points in the armers of to get a copy reage teductlon contract and study It so they Will be in a position to co operate In the plan when the com mittee is ready for signing contracts A report on the size of the farm the ecreege planted to cotton each year for the peat five years 1928 through' 1932 and the total amount of cot ton harvested each vear Consent of He pointed out that many Okla the landlord to the contract also home City and county projects aswell as proposed work from other areas were being partially financed should be obtained so no changes ny tne proponent out sain that too large percentage ot projects" sub mitted threw the burden of expense wholly on the federal government "ederal officials feel that the county and city has as much respon aiblllty they have where they are able to share that responsibility" Heinz however said i f0 a government loan believed he was re I Tlediii'llon Program ii In the meantime nine I vjuii vu uuuoi me oupitniv VMtii pretatlon to sentence inney on each 'lnS mndc for an extensive cotton re 1 of the counts to which he nleadedt duct on program under the cash i guilty There was talk of efforts to i rental plan under the direction of withdraw the plea alter this state James Lawrence county aggnt Wy.

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