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I a The Daily JournabCapital 1 1 i fe I 11 'i PRICE 5c VOLUME XXVI No 9 77 1 'V 1 1 PAWHUSKA OKLAHOMA MONDAY JANUARY 12 1931 JWBATBBB a air tonight and Tuesday Little change in temp' 4 1 1 MURRAY IS INAUGURATED au i EU I NEGRO MED IS BURNIDIODAIII JYNIISSOURIM0B Maryville Men Wrest Pri soner from Sheriff and Burn Him at Scene of Crime CHAINED TO ROO Building Where Murder Oc curred Month Ago Is Sat urated with Gasoline and Burned MARYVILLE Mo A mob burned Raymond Gunn negro to his death near here today The rural school house where he assaulted and murdered Miss Velma Colter young white school teacher became his funeral pyre The negro was chained to the roof of the school house a one room frame structure The roof ws saturated with gasoline from automobile tanks A torch was applied and flames enveloped the negro as a crowd of several hundred stood in silence watching as he died Gunn was seized by the mob as he was being taken into court here to day to plead guilty to the murder of Miss Colter He was half led half dragged from Maryville to the schoolhouse a dis tance of four miles Handcuffs were left on him during the trip The mob was noisy as it marched from Maryville to the school house until it neared its goVThen silence settle 1 for' the execution were given by leaders of the mob in voices that were almost subdued Gunn was marched past the gulley in which he lay in wait for Miss Col ter until her classes were dismissed j' on the afternoon of December 19 Led to Schoolhouse Then he was led to the schoolhouse in which he had sneaked that noon to seize the young woman at tack her and kill her Shingles were hastily ripped from the section of the roof and the bare rafters formed an improvised stair way on which Gunn Was led to the top of the roof A heavy chain was brought It was securely looped about the body made fast to the rafters Gunn had steeled himself to the ordeal he knew awaited him at the end of his death march He said not a word and offered no resistance as he reached the schoolhouse and pre parations were made to burn him alive He lay down on the roof at the orders of the mob leaders and waited to be chained He made just one movement to adjust his coat un der him so that he would' be more comfortable The negro lay there in silence while gasoline was brought and pour ed about him on the roof Several' automobile tanks were drained to furnish the supply of fuel Torch is Applied Then those who had prepared for the execution stepped down from the schoolhouse roof The torch was ap plied and almost instantly the en tire roof was enveloped in flames The crowd watched in silence as the fire ate rapidly through the light frame structure Suddenly there came a cryof ag ony from the negro Then all was still again In a few moments the roof of the A Couple 91 Years Old 1 Married At Edmond EDMOND Okla Aaron retz 91 and Bertha Eckert 91 both of Edmond were married here yes terday The new Mrs retz is step mother of three children all over 50 years old retz who claims to be the father of Mona Desmond one time toast of Broadway said is no bar to WEAKNESS HITS STOCK MARKET Substantial Declines orced But Trading Pace Light and Drop Is Viewed as In significant NEW YORK Substantial declines were forced on' the stock ex change in the initial session of the week today Many of the leading railroad shares had developed weak ness With issues 'like New York Cen tral Pennsylvania and Baltimore Ohio suffering losses of one to near ly 4 points professional selling op erations developed in'other sections Westinghouse Electric broke nearly 4 points to a new low on the current movement and special shares such as Texas Corporation and A Byers displayed a heavy tone Recessions in the main stocks however were generally small and of little significance in view of the comparatively light trading pace Selling of railroad shares was a natural development following their substantial advance since the start of the new year Weaknesses in these issues however had a damp ening effect on market sentimentollpwin are closing prices on a list of New York stocks: Am Inter 19 3 4 Am Rolling Mills 31 Am Steel 27 7 8 Am Sugar 49 1851 4 Anaconda 31 3 4 Armour 2 3 8 Atlantic Re finery 211 2 Auburn Auto 1081 2 Bald Loc (175) 21 5 8 Barnsdall A 121 2 Beth Steel 51 3 8 Ches Ohio 40 3 4 Chrysler 17 Eastman Kokak 154 3 4 isk 3 4 ox ilm 27 3 8 Gen Elect (160) 44 3:8 Gen Elec 51 4 Gen Motors 36 3 8 Cont Oil Del 10 5 8 Grigsby Grunow 3 3 4 Gulf States Stl 26 Houston Oil 8 3 4 Hudson Motor 231 4 Int Tel Tel 23 Mid Continent 16 Mont Ward 18 Nash 31 Packard 9 1 4 Phillips Pet 14 1 2 Prairie 15 3 4 Proctor and 64 Pure Oil 11 1 8 Radio 13 7 8 Reynolds Tob 42 Royal Dutch 39 7 8 Shell Un Oil 9 7 8 Sinclair 12 1 4 Skelly 10 1 4 Simmons 16 SONJ 481 4 SONY 24 5 8 Studebaker 23 1 2 Texas Corp 311 2 Tex Pact Tr 13 Rubber 12 1 4 Steel 142 Steel pfd 1461 2 Wool worth 57 Curbs Am Com Pwr A 12 3 4 Ark Nat Gas A 5 1 8 Asso Al 21 Blue Ridge Corp 4 Ccn PSA 171 4 Cities Service 17 1 8 De troit Air Corp 2 Durant Mot 11 2 ord Can A 23 Gulf Oil Pa 71 ITIO 15 1 4 Midw Util New 201 2 Niag aga Pwr 10 1 2 Ind 371 2 SEEK BANDITS IN ROBBERY HERE Two Men Hold Up illing Station Attendant and Take $6000 and Wrist Watch body of school building fell in on the desks below carrying with it body The fire was left to burn itself out and the body of the negro killer was cremated as it lay in the cen ter of the burning room A crowd of more than 4000 per sons saw him die A group of 50 or 60 national guardsmen had been mobilized at the Maryville armory for use in case an effort was made to lynch Gunn today The guardsmen did not leave the armory It was explained that no request for their use had been made by the sheriff and that without such a request they were powerless to act The Schoolhouse was unoccupied today when the mob reached the scene of the crime to execute its vengeance on Gunn A successor to Miss Colter had not yet been select ed and the pupils had not been called back to their classes There were many in the that went to the scene of the lynching it was reported here Gunn previously had served a sen tence in the Missouri State prisonforjansattackjuponta white wpman Police here today continued their search for two bandits who held up the Phillips filling station at Main and Prudom streets here Saturday night and took $60 and a wrist watch from the attendant Police were given good descriptions of the men One of them was about 25 years old and the other was about 40 Both were fairly well dressed while one of the men kept the attendant covered with a blue steel automatic the other looted the cash register They were believed tot have made their escape in a ord sedan which had been parked near the scene of the robbery Lj State Peace Officers Meet at Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA CITY The 35th semi annual convention of the Oklahoma Peace Officers association opened here today About 150 delegates from every portion of the state were here as the session opened" More were expected to arrive during the day hv Hunger Victims in Arkansas A i '2 1 Ip mRw IJ' Jr Hi Hu I I This picture shows' one of the many families that are suffering from lack of food in the farming neighborhood around England Ark where one third of the nearby population marched on the town recent ly to demand food It is the family of A Russell farmer The drought last summer ruined cotton crop and he has been unable to get work having earned only $25 last summer The three children are constantly and a new baby is expected His plight is typical Enid Jobless ind Work Selling Boxes of Coal Okla (UPpCoal took its' place today with the apple as an aid to the unemployed John Gofney Enid coal deal er started issuing boxes of coal to jobless for sale The salesmen will be given a generous com mission on all sales Gofney said apple a day may keep rhe doctor away but a box of coal will serve better to keep out 1 Man Gofney said SITE ANNOUNCED OR MILLING CO Owner of Plant Destroyed in Elevator ire Will Re open in Another Building Doughty whose mill and grinding plant was destroyed when old Harris grain elevator burned here recently announced today he would reopen his business in the building formerly occupied by Stan ley Soderstrom Doughty had been operating here only about a month when his plant was destroyed During that month he he well impressed and encouraged by business prospects here that he decided to reopen as soon as possible He has ordered new equipment in cluding a sheller a cleaner and two grinding mills and expects to be ready for business again in the near futurd Along with his milling business ho plans to maintain a cream and poul try buying station 194 KILLED BY SLIDE IN ECUADOR Tons of Rumble Down on Gang of 200 Railroad Workers GUAYAQUIL Ecuador A landslide on the Guoyoquil Quito railroad Saturday killed 194 of a group of 200 workers officials of the railroad said today A checkup made with the company payrolls revealed that only six men escaped The men were at work on line endeavoring to clear the track of debris from a previous land slide Tons of rock and earth thundered down" a mountain side trapping the men beneath A detachment of 100 soldiers aided rescue workers in re covering the bodies and clearing up the railway line 1 DEC HOLDS MEEIINB 'TODAY Grainola 4 Club Girl Telis of Trip to Chicago Ball Club Manager Confers on Training Camp Sarah our IIU club girl of Grainola who won the recent trip to Chicago in 4 club competition and whose trip was financed by the Paw huska Chamber of Commerce was the guest of the Chamber She told of her trip and expressed thanks for their cooperation that made the ad Venture possible Miss Miller brought with her Den zyle darter Mary lanner and Gladys Harrington all of the Grainola High School who sang a number of Grain ola high school songs The girls were presented and chap eroned by Mrs Sarah Atwood county demonstrator George Labadie introduced Lee Kayser owner of the Des Moines Demons members of the Western baseball league who is visiting Paw huska and other Oklahoma cities in search of a suitable city that will be selected as winter training quarters for the Des Moines club Kayser said that he visited several local sites this morning" and that he was well impressed with the possibilities of Pawhuska The Chamber of Com merce committee met with Kayser this afternoon to go over details Walter Jonhson chairman of the committee selected to solicit $10000 to be given as a reward to the cap ture of Earl Quinn wanted for the murder of Zexia and Jessie Griffith in Kay county reported that the money had been raised and would be placed on deposit in some local bank to be held until he is captured Harry Hart secretary reported that he "had made an effort to secure a date for" Pawhuska with Will Ro gers during his swing through the state but said that it was impossible to make the necessary arrangements Walter Johnson said that Tulsa would be closest appearance and that inasmuch as his appearanc es are for the relief of unemployment all tickets sold in Pawhuska for the Tulsa entertainment would be cred ited to Pawhuska account and that a portion of the money would be re turned to Pawhuska for relief pur poses in this city President Cromwell announced that for 1931 Robert Stuart would head the agricultural committee and that other standing committees would be headed as follows: Education Clar ence Lohman Conventions Walter Johnson Manufacturing Charlie Prentice County Highways Walter Soderstrom State Highways Judge Henry Wood" ederal Highways Garland Hale Merchants Committee Lee McDonald Ot Aged Smoke atal ROANOKE Va Mrs Har riet A out an aged woman died from bums sustained when she was lighting her pipe SENATE CONIRMS OUR TARI GROUP NOMINEES Bitter ight Is Expected on Two Others Nominated on Commission By Presi dent RELIE ROW QUIET Approval of Spe cial Red Gross Appeal Quells Clamor for ood unds In swift succession and without record votes the Senate today confirmed four of six nominations of members of the "new federal tariff commis sion A stiff and perhaps prolonged fight was anticipated against Edgar Brossard of Utah After relatively perfunctory de bate Henry letcher of Pennsyl vania was confirmed as chairman The opposition to him was voiced chiefly by Senator Borah republican of Idaho who said letcher was fully of tariff matters Within 20 minutes of the action on letcher the Senate confirmed Thom as Page of Virginia John Coulter of North Dakota and Alfred Dennis of Maryland There re mained the nominations of Brossard and Lincoln Dixon of Indiana Re gardless of action on these two the commission will be able to go ahead since a majority of its members have been confirmed The commission has actually been functioning for several months under recess appointments" by President Hoover Democrats through Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi had served notice that they would concentrate their fire on Brossard who is oppos cd because of his attitude on sugar tariffs approval of the Red Cross appeal for an additional $10000000 to provide for distress caused by drought an1 unemployment ex pected today to quiet somewhat the clamor in Congress for more exten ded relief appropriations Some who have agitated most vigorously for ad ditional funds said however this would not be sufficient Nevertheless the request for fur ther Red Cross relief probably will be of immediate assistance to the admin istration in its attempts to head off direct appropriations for food loans as provided in the drought relief bill which finally has emerged from its five day house deadlock Republican House leaders prepared today to force action on this measure in the next day or two under proced ure which they hope will result in eliminating the $15000000 for food loans to farmers added by the Sen ate to the original $45000000 bill for crop production loans to farmers in the drought area The Rules committee was called to gether to formulate an ironclad rule for sending the measure to confer ence with the Senate AU last week a Democratic Insur gent Republican coalition bombarded three of power commission ers and by inferenvee Hoover with sharp criticism By the expedient of a night session administration lead ers were able to interrupt the oratory but not to prevent an adverse vote against the three commissioners This week promises a similar experience except the tariff instead of will motivate the discussion That the contest over the power commission is the prelude of the 1932 presidential campaign now is gener ally accepted by political leaders They point out the president himself accepted it as such in his message to the Senate accusing the coalition ma jority of attempting to align him on the side of the power interests Suspect Under Arrest In Poruiri Bank Robbery MUSKOGEE Okla Ray Langford alleged to have been one of the bandits who robbed the Ameri can State Bank of Porum was re ported en route here today in cus tody of Sheriff Cannon and the County Attorney Langford waived extradition after being arrested at Little Rock Arrest of the other two men expected today 0 INTERURBAN KILLS GIRL TULSA Okla Kathryn Moore 9 was probably fatally injur ed today when she was run down by an interurban car near her home while on her way to school SIDELIGHTS INAUGURATION By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY Jan 12 (UP) Gov William Murray received callers until 1:30 a today The last caller was Carnegie Vinita member of the constitutional convention 1 Murray arose at a today dressed then went to the Bristol Coffee Shop He drank a cup of cof fee half of which was hot water ate one piece of dry toast then went to a barber shop for a haircut and shave Then he returned to his room Virtually all the living members of the constitutional convention and members of the first legisla ture were here for the ceremonies Mrs Murray spent Sunday and Sunday night at the homo of a cou sin Mrs Juanita Johnston Smith The party picked her up at this address on way to the inaug ural Murray sent five pounds of tur nips a gift from Craig county and a box of oranges gift from Dr A Riddle Sulphur now in Tampa la to the mansion where they will be served when the Murrays take up their residence there Turnips will be served with hog jowls Murray said Sixteen Kiowa and Comanche In dians conferred with Murray last night through an interpreter Murray and close friends news paper men and others went to the capitol in four cars There was no military or police escort by order of Murray children Massena Mur ray the eldest of Healdton Burbank Murray a student at Murray Agri cultural school Johnston Murray Deck Creek and Miss Jean Murray were here for the inaugural Wil liam Jr the only child not present lives in South America Murray wore a new dark suit and a new brown hat He carried a new overcoat on his arm EDERAL" 0 I IN SESSION HERE Motions and Demurrers Be ing Heard in 88 Civil Cases Grand Jury Ses sion Next Week The United States court for the northern Oklahoma district conven ed here today to hear motions and demurrers in 88 civil suits The session was scheduled to con tinue through tomorrow A week from today the court will open a grand jury session which 5 expected to continue until ebruary A special session will lie held for a docket assignment from ebruary 7 to 27 Ordinarily these sessions are held at Tulsa but due to construction work on the federal building there Judge ranklin Kennamer transfer red the court here Besides Judge Kennamer court of ficials who arrived here today in cluded: John Goldenberry United States attorney A Williams as sistant United States attorney II Warfield clerk Dan Murdock and Warden deputy clerks and George Lessley reporter Among out of town attorney here for the session were: owler Tulsa Roberts Vinita Riggs Tulsa Redmond Cole Tulsa Harper Tulsa II Johnson Tulsa II Worley Tulsa Shell Bassett Tulsa Bridges Tulsa Warren Specse Bartlesville A Williams Tulsa A Moss Tulsa Judge II Sear cy Tulsa Judge McNeill Hamlin of' Springfield Mo Judge Buckner of Enid Blankenberg of Tulsa Thoma son Tulsa Gibbens of Ok lahoma City Is ormed At Duncan Okla DUNCAN Okla About 500 unemployed men gathered here Sun day and formed a dedicated to the task of pre ventingifood riots equitable distribution of was demanded by the army socialistic in character Willis Bonner Duncan carpenter was elected army chairman are organizing for the purpose of furnishing work and a market for the products of our toil and for an equitable distribution of the wealth IS SWORN IN AS NINTH GOVERNOR Oath of Office Is Adminis tered By His 91 Year Old ather Before Large Throng deliverfVp Touches on Many Phases of Program and Attacks Critics of Plans OKLAHOMA CITY Okla William Henry Murray soldier of political fortune became the ninth governor today The oath of office was adminis tered at 12:05 ra by Uriah Dow Thomas Murray the 1 91 year old father as both stood bare headed on the Capitol steps The of the aged father was heard by thousands who crowded the Capitol lawn to see at tain the pinnacle he twice had sought unsuccessfully Murray spoke extemporaneously for almost an hour He touched upon many phases of iiis program for the state but did not go into details He likened himself unto Moses of the Biblical story of Moses and Ma lek He referred his listeners to chapter 17 verses 8 16 of the Book of Exodus Reading from his Bible of childhood Mays Murray related the story of Joshua in his meeting with Hur and Aaron just before their battle with Amalek House and the Senate are Hur and Aaron If they hold up my hands we shall run the Amaleks our enemies out of the state Lord has decreed that Isreal should fight with Amalek every year The same conditions hold in Okla homa now I realize I have the greatest opportunity any governor ever had and also the greatest op position any governor has ever Murray said Premises Tax Cut 'A 50 per cent reduction in taxes on every piece of real estate in Ok lahoma by July 1 was promised reduction will come if the Legislature will pass the tax com mission bill now in the Senate and adopt four or five other bills which I will the new governor said A further reduction of 35 or 40 per cent would be possible within be said Murray attacked the abuse of par don and parole powers by some gov ernors do not nut them in jail on general principles or popular senti ment and they ought not get out on popular sentiment have talked little about pardons and paroles I do not believe much in 4 Murray told of a rich man con victed in his county who had been pardoned recently he had been some poor sucker who needed the money he might haves been excused but there is no excuse for pardoning him Parole Policy man who has paid a large at fee to secure a pardon should get one I shall require lawyers to make a statement and swear to the amount of fee they are to receive I am not going to give the public a chance to think I am splitting 50 50 have no right to say a man shall not be executed It's not my power or duty to nullify the Murray bitterly denounced recent' newspaper criticism He took a specific slap at Carl Magee editor of the Oklahoma News referring to an editorial statement that there were crooks supporting Murray may have crooks supporting me' but there is one crook who is Murray said An attorney who "said Murray's tax commission bill was unconstitu tional was referred to as a two by four lawyer who know what he was talking Murray said he and Mrs' Murray would be at home in the governor's mansion to former friends and wives and laboring friends and certainly will not invite any body who comes with another wife or with the wiveSof" everyOhe" he said Advice to Job Hunters The executive devoted considerable of his speech to office seekers He advised them go that! about my door de any me a letter I get any petitions not necessary Your' (Continued on Page 3) I 'I I.