Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

JI NTER SETTING BILL OR LEGAL vC IYDE IRKS SENATORS ISSUE IS DEAD BULLETIN tabic Late lashes AN EECT IN (Continued on Page Seven) i until 10 8 'A them lock 10 10 8 pot III 2a 6d future £11 Zinc spot £15 7s future Mo Cor pm pm pm pm Pm Miami Boxer Loses inger in Accident ailure to See Prominent Trio Adds to Resentment Sales Tax for State Proposed by Weems ie of Stetson and Gage 'hats the Mabon Shop that last come from Bun Jewelry store eman Hutts Drug company money saving specials on needs and gifts' national advertisers have news too: Aspirin rolet Baking Powder Bear Coffee Union Bus Sta Vaporub TydoL our Groups? Support 14 Point Program of Tulsa Conferees OKLAHOMA CITY LP) The Oklahoma criminal court of appeals today affirmed one Ottawa county district court conviction and reversed another John Karr of Miami convicted of conjoint robbery in connection with one of the many robberies perpe trated at the Pete McCullough fill ing station south of Miami receiv ed a sentence of eight years which was affirmed by the appellate court John Vince Goodwin whose home is in Colorado also received a con viction in Ottawa county getting a two year sentence for asserted burglary of the Model laundry there His case was reversed and Goodwin ordered set free Proponents May Attempt tj Add It to Beer Bill as Amendment Karr Loses Appeal Goodwin Set ree Christmas Customs OREIGN LANDS Vote Against Measure by Rep Lea of California Is 14 to 9 SOUTHWEST CITY Dec 16 (Special) The nerstone bank of Southwest City was robbed of between 8500 and $600 shortly after o'clock this afternoon by three men in a DeSoto sedan who left town on the road to Grove 15 miles west Roscoe Smith cashier and Miss Ruth Stevenson assist ant cashier were locked in the vault and not liberated until 30 minutes later when a cus tomer came in and freed by working the vault from the outside One of the men wore glasses and the other two unmasked armed All eastern Oklahoma offi cers were immediately notified but the fact that the bandits had a 30 start led local authorities to believe a cap ture would' not likely be immediately Building cement is sifted through such fine screens that it is possible to hold water in them STATE ECONOMY GIVEN IMPETUS RICHER Okla Dec 16 George Windham of Miami suffered a crushed finger on his right hand Thursday afternoon while working at the Goodwin mine property of the Eagl PicherTY Mining and Smelting company He was taken to Richer hospital' where the finger of his right hand was' am putated i Windham is a former'student at Northeastern Oklahoma Junior col lege at Miami and a promising middleweight boxer of vithe Tri State district The injured hand may cause a complete cancellation of id! fu ture ring appearances? lames Destroy 5 Room Residence OKLAHOMA CITY Dec A general sales tax for Okla homa in lieu of the real estate tax to lift much of the property own financial burden was pro posed today by State 'Treasurer Ray Weems Weems has made considerable study of such a proposal particu larly looking into the Mississippi sales tax plan 1'4 I I 10 8 Noon The limit of penetration of light into the ocean is from 3600 to 5400 feet elimination of state institutions where possible Adoption of uniform salaries for county officers and limitation of the number of deputies Placing all fees and other 'in come into the public fund as posed to payment to individual county officers and feeding of county prisoners at cost Increase in authority of the county excise board to eliminate budget waste WASHINGTON Dec 16 Spokesmen for the flour milling in dustry told the House agriculture committee today the domestic allot ment farm relief plan would impose an exorbitant sales tax that would double the price of flour to the consumer red Lingham of Lockport chairman of legislative committee of the MillersNation al federation said the demand for bread under the present low prices wasso reduced that many bakers have been forced out of business? you double the price through this sales tax 1 know what they would do he said regard a sales tax on on any such basis as this as fun damentally wT'ohg He it would be so obnoxious it would be Detectives frustrated what was apparently a plot to kidnap Bernice Dearen 19 daughter of Robert Dearen Philadelphia publisher A man was arrested as a suspect when he appeared to pick up dummy package demanded In a threatening letter (Associated Press Photo) Millers Rap ann Allotment Plan In Austria: huge bonfires visible for miles are built on the tops on Christmas Eve Old and young gather to sing carols and make merry before go ing to the churches for midnight worship SHOPPING DHS UNTIL CHRISTMAS WINTER XTRIKS AGAIN IN EAST AND MIDWEST CHAOS BROUGHT TO OIL CENTERS BY PRICE CUTS TAX BILL SHRINKS am am am am am dark were All were heavily By WILLIAM VOIGT JR (Associated Press Staff Writer) TULSA "Dec 16 LT) Trou bled oils looked vainly for a sooth ing influence today as crashing crude prices brought turmoil rival ing the confusion of martial' Slaw days of 1931 Not since the governors of Okla homa and 1 exas sought to hrin The national capitol stands before a wintry sky Its famous dome added ouch of whiteness by the first snowfall of the winter in Washington (Associated Press Photo) shop early at the Crown Drug npany for exceptional Christmas ues lemodeling sale at Mont nery Ward Company Satur Prices drastically reduced Vallace Beery in ying at the Coleman theater tex Bell in Broadway to now) playing at the ry theater i pecial food values for riday Saturday at Piggly Wiggly eery live her a Simmons Beauty Rest for Christmas Millner Jey he True Economy Shoe store tinues their bankrupt sale of It is estimated that between ten and twenty million meteorites strike the' 'surface every day DISCORD WIDENS AMONG 0P IN WASHINGTON Etift Between Hoover and Congressional Group' More Pronounced i a Metal Market NEW YORK Dee Lead steady ot New York 300 East St Louis 287 Zinc dull East St Louis spot and future 312 LONDON Dec (A Lead 1C £15 SNOW IS AN ALLY LONGVIEW Tex Dec 16 GP) Davidson head of state militia stationed at Kil gore said today that the heavy snow over the East! Texas oil fields seemed to have come to the rescue of forces in charge ofefiforcement of the proration laws in this section looks like the snow has done something the authorities Colonel Davidson said there will be mighty few to venture out in this weather violate proration or v1" WEATHER ORECAST a 1 light snow 1 i IM Saturday mostly cloudy not quite so cold in central ivv' portion tonight and in south and east portions Sat Ar ansa Cloudv snow to night and probably in east portion Saturdayj not quite so cold Satur day Missouri Snow probable tonight and Saturday slowly rising tem perature Kansas Generally' fair in north west unsettled in east and south probablyisnow in southeast and ex treme east tonight and Saturday rising temperature in cast portion tonight and in extreme east Satur day colder in west portion Satur day TEMPERATURES Temperatures in Miami from clock yesterday afternoon nocn today 4 6 8 10 Midnight Brotherhoods Amend Rail Wage Proposal CHICAGO Dec 16 P) An amendment to the railway proposal that the present tempor ary wage cut of 10 percent be ex tended for year from Jan 31 1933 was made by the brother hoods today in their joint wage con ference with railroad executives In their new offer they suggest ed that after 1 1933 either executives or employes might be free to propose a new extension of the temporary deduction Labor still was fighting shy of any termination of the temporary agreements in a submission of the wage problem to the railway medi ation mechanism ulk Lard 8 pounds for 37c at Miami Market Saturday ive groceries for Christmas Bros grocery ure Cane Sugar 21 pounds for 0 at Grocery Market irday aking Powder' bulk 10c pound i Karbe Grocery Market irday complete assortment of dolls at xquisite gifts for her at the Bud Shoppe ood Market 13 15 Central offers many savings ie thrifty housewives in the dis iwdered Sugar two 1 lb pack for 15c Saturday at Yourself grocery ly shoe inthe house $2 The erie Day'at "Scott many outstanding values ip by Rail Northeast Okla i Railroad 1 ft suggestions 5 moderately in Anthony rtisement heel caps 15c Hice's Shop Mining Exchange build PARIS Dec1 Jacques Bonhomme has protested' but Jacques Bonhomme will pay such seemed to be the position of rance this afternoon on the prob lem of the American debt Jacques Bonhortme since the Middle Ages has been a name for the rench peasant and the "average Camille Chautemps fashionably dressed '47 year old potential pre mier told the Associated Press he believed rance will pay America and that payment merely has been delayed 1 thautemps said he hoped to have Edouard Herriot the retiring premier in his cabinet but he warned that accep tance would entirely depend upon whether the Chamber of Deputies would rise to the situation and settle the crisis by a formula permitting payment Herriot Enlisted Chautemps got down to brass tacks on the problem: with Premier Herriot arid outstanding financial figures today and left the confer ence with the conviction that his next program was to win over the chamber leaders to a fomula of conciliation which simultaneously 1 will satisfy opinion and prove acceptable to America? 1 His success or failure apparent ly depended upon that point for Herriot assured anew Xhat he I would not enter a new cabinet un 1 less the American problems was clarified and brought Ho the I stage of negotiations along lines advocated by the Herriot ministry Await Hoover Message "rench leaders expressed ab sorbing interest in the probabletener tof President 1 sage to Congress believing that much depended what he said about rance and saying that if the message reveals the American attitude is entirely unchanged they fear the reaction' iri rance uugm imoiong rne government cri sis 'M Chautemps said his task was to find a compromise formula be tween the governmental project which the chamber rejected and the overwhelming decis ion that payment should be post poned pending examination of the debt problem by America He is convinced that compromise is pos sible The growing opinion seems to be now that the rench people through their representatives in the chamber having protested against payment as unjustified an view of what has gone before are now calmed down and ready to pay up' Chautemps announced he would continue his conversations this afternoon and probably will see President Lebrun this evening JEERSON CITY Dec OP) The public subscription plan of wagering on races was declared illegal by the supreme court today The opinion said the plan is ously a sham for the transaction of business expressly forbidden by PRICE IVE CENTS PHI LIPPINVfi nrr TO READ 14 YEARS 1 WASHINGTON Dec' The Senate today approved an amendment to the Hawes Cutting bdl granting independence to the Philippines in 14 years i i i The decision came after an' amenment approved and calling independence in eight years had been reconsidered and defeated 45 to 31 On that vote 24 Republicans voted with '21 Democrats to defeat the proposal while 16 Republicans 14 Democrats and one armer Labor vote were on the other side The disposal of the amendment for independence in 14 years paved the way for ultimate passage of the legislation as it settled a con troversy over the heart of the bill Patton Dies At Age of 83 Years sJ Patten 83 years old died at 11:30 Thursday night at the home of his son Albert Pat ton six miles cast of Miami? neral rerviejs will be at 2 Saturday and burial in Ottawa cemetery He is survived by his wife Mrs Emma Patton four sons John and George Patton of Wyandotte Albert Patton and William Pat ton of Seminole and three daugh ters Mrsi Rhoda Weddington of Purdy Mo Mrs lora Davis of Seminole and Mrs Ethel Stoner of Miami The Cooper Undertaker WINE REJECTED i BY COMMITTEE kv6 A S' A AMocBated Press Leaaed Wirot A eature Second lierHurt In Crack up Dies AMARILLO' Tex' Dec UP) Montee transport pilot for Transcontinental Western Air died in an Amarillo hqspital today from injuries received Wednesday night when his tri motored plane crash ed near English field during a snowstorm His co pilot who was with Montee when the plane cracked up' died (Bj Associated Press) The icy grip of winter's advance attack held firmly In a large sec tion of the nation today with the East and the great plain states of the Middle West bearing the brunt of the suffering it entailed? Temperatures ranging all the way irom just above zero to 15 be low were common throughout the In Chicago where were reported dead other homeless were emergency: welfare spurred on to great bring relief to the OKLAHOMA CITY Dec CT) The state movement for gov ernmental economy gained impetus today with reoresentatl tax economy organizations and the Oklahoma Grange supporting the 14 point program formulated at a state wide meeting of civic and industrial leaders at Tulsa last week The joint committee Jif Economy league the Non Partisan association and the State Chamber of Commerce which met here yesterday') ap proved the 14 point program and Hio worK OI tne unofficial budget committee in seeking to slash $13000000 from the next biennial budget Tom Graf es of Sentinel was named chairman of the Joint com mittee and Lee Robison of Bartles ville secretary Other members in clude Thomas Wren Okemah'S Granger Gracemont ranklin Tulsa Hyde Alva Robert Ballentine Blackwell Hutson Chickasha Gibson Oklahoma City and Graham Tulsa Concluding its four day meeting at Stillwater the Oklahoma Grange went on record" in favor of tax limitation against diversion of gasoline tax money from highway uses and indorsed the fnllowint planks of the Tulsa program: Consolidation of state boards and iminnfirvn Zvf WINNIPEG Dec Still on the downward slide after four days of tobogganing wheat prices on the local grain exchange today had dropped to historically lowalues With the December future at 38 cents shortly before noon statisticians burrowed back into dusty files but with no hone of finding the like anywhere in the recorded past Middle West four persons squatters and hard hit and workers were er efforts to jobless Temperatures Dip in A gieat mantle of snow in some places a foot deep lay over Oklaho ma fiom thegPanhandle's tabic lands to the Red river cotton patches Tempeiatuies had receded again dipping even in central and south eastern Oklahoma to the low and metcoiologists said there was little chance for better than freez ing weather before tomorrow our towns Hobart Weather ford Sayre and Elk in the southwest had 12 inches of suow It still vias snowing this morning in several sections Sleet followed by the heaviest snovz inats recorded "WASHINGTON? Deci LV) Discord is cropping out in the Re mblican relations at the capital vidence of an under surface battle or control of the party organiza ion The outspoken feeling of three lepublican senators whom Secreta Hyde failed to see yesterday is een as one ot the mani estations of the apparently grow ng gulf between the Hoover ad ministration and some Republi ans of Congress although the Ag iculture department head had a eady explanation Senators Smoot of'utah Carey Wyoming and Steiwer of Ore on waited to see Mr Hyde almost hour before departing Senator larey said they had made an ap ointment with the secretary the irevious day adding they 'were Isked to wait and did so until they ad to leuve for the opening of the enate at noon Hyde Has Explanation Mr Hyde explained last night mat he was date in getting to the iiico and others ahead of the tors on his list took over the time pecified for them He' was sur rised at any feeling in the matter cd emphasized have neVcr re iscd to see a member of Con Several reports of bad feeling be veen Capitol hill Republicans and ie? administration are current he source of this trouble is attrib ed to appointments and the cool titude displayed by congressional epublicans toward the (Continued on Page Seven) ONDEBT LATER IT IS INDICATED Premier Designate Hints at New Negotiations to Permit Payment COMPROMISE SOUGHT 1 a to Conciliate rench Public and Sat te isfy Is Aim" Regents to Probe logging at OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 'T A special meeting of the University? of Oklahoma board of regents to consider an investigation of the camps hooded order blamed for flogging an 18 ycar old sophomore Dec 7 will be held at Norman Saturday Dr Bizzell president in announcing the meet ing said he will lay before the board all the facts he has learned" in the investigation of the orderj under way since the whipping with a doubled rope of Bill Stephens student reporter of an Oklahoma 3 City paper about by shutting in the Oklahoma City and East Texas fields through military force a year and a half ago have the various oil centers of the Midcontinent area witnessed such a speeding of con flicting rumorsand reports Prices Cut Deeply Major companies slashed prices deeply throughoutisthe area the cuts ranging from 4 cents to 35 cents a barrel for various grades from the several pools and at leastwo large buyers were posting ef fective today peak prices of 77 cents for the best grade produced This is the lowest price paid since November 1931 and is the first tube the price has been below a top since last April With the reduction in crude prices came a quick reaction in the refined markets and a cut of a full eighth of a cent was quoted for motor standard gasoline making the low price 3 1 4 cents and the high 3 7 8 cents There was much straight run distress gasoline avail able at virtually any price a buyer wished to Disturbances in Texas ts Simultaneously disturbances in East Texas caused a furor in that prolific producing area Col Davidson of the military (Continued On Page Thirteen) AAA 14b 1 Evenin (Exmp SatunUy) nd Sunday Morning by Wwnl NewRMord Publlrtiln Co tine See By he Paper Today I fishing tug Corman sunk "in 4 ka harbor at Erie Pa last night af Turmoil Confusion of Troop Mobilization Days Year Ago EAST TEXAS'lN UROR Hundreds of Wells Open in Defiance of Edict Colonel Reports Senatorial Debate Over War Debts Calk Off Latest Ad viees rom Paris Admin islration Looks to uture WASHINGTON' Dec 16 The American government faced the future ot war debts today seeking and testing new approaches to this riddle which has thrown a vast economic? question mark across the international horizon' With five nations in default on December payments and two others paying only to gain recon sideration every sign pointed to early resumption of efforts by the (Continued on Page Seven) wojthnr his toyy caused heavy stock damage and demoralized highway traffic at Idabel usually sheltered from such storms by the Kiamichi mountains 1 ires Add to ires added to the discomfortsof the elements In Chicago 15 un paid firemen were overcome by smoke last night infighting a fire in a Storehouse in the stock yards district while at Milwaukee 14dnmates of a home for the aged were driven by fire into the I streets where the thermometer reading was 5 below 'Ice blocks in the Great Lakes i made navigation hazardous The Are in charge 4 I ter an ice breaking trip made to clear the way for the return to safety of ice bound fishermen The crew escaped without injuries iisThe oil Mas cot had to put hack to port at San dusky Ohio after making a fu tile attempt to plow through the iaxe trie ice with 10 passengers bound for Put in Bay Island with a Christmas cargo The passengers weie aiscnargea on two other is lands Three Coasters Killed Slight moderation in tempera tures was promised for some sec tions of the Midwest but in Chi cago and Kansas City they were sagging as they were throughout the East Pennsylvania reported unofficial figures of 2 to 20 above with three killed in coasting acci dents New York had 20 above but the movement was downward Ken tucky had its i coldcst weather tn four years with four above at Lou isville while Indiana reported that records of standing had been broken ood and Market Basket Pages Each Week n'W''! 1 ii MIAMI OKLA RIDAY iDECEMBER 16 1922 a i pj' irst Awnuc RANCE TO MU KSS'XL "WINTER STRIKES S5asTNo Welfare Workers Spurred by New Drop to Zero and Below DEATH RISES if Snow Deepens to One oot in Parts of 6 Dfe grees Above Here With Total at $579989 Saving Is $147193Assessor Reports Ottawa county taxpayers st have been assessed $14719313 less tax cs than last year a compilation by Young county in dicates The tax rolls were com pleted Dec 15 Young said where as it was eb 19 1932 when the but f)f1 ink wna finickaJ The actual saving to ad valorem tax payers is clear cut in Youno I summary Although previous fig ures have shown comparative rates of taxation and comparative assessment values this analysis gives the difference in actual cash to bepaid after figuringthenew rates on the new assessment Tax levies last year totaled $727 18307 compared with $57998984 i this year I Dividing those totals into four groups state taxes last year were I $6506306 and this year $5039938 County taxes last year were $155 22182 and this year $13379567 City town and township taxes last year were $20582199 and this year $12265668 School district taxes last year were 830107620 and this year $27313821 Tlie serious fiie cold weather set in destroyed the Walter Eagle home at 427 Gstreet northeast St 9 this mom 1 ing The loss was about $1500 to the house covered by insurance 1 Contents also an almost" total loss were uninsured ire Chief A Seay said he be lieved an over heated stove respon sible for the blaze which also threatened adjoining houses Only composition roofs saved dwellings north and south of Eagle's place he said The five room frame Eagle home blazed up quickly after Mrs Eagle who was working in another of the house discovered the blaze near a heating stove it was report ed Mr Eagle works fcr the'Eagle Picher Mining company KANSAS BANK ROBBED OTTAWA Kas Dec Three roughly dressed men robbed the Peoples National bank at Rich mond of approximately $1000 this morning They escaped with two companions who waited in an auto mobile The car was identified es one ttolen in Paola last night WASHINGTON Dec UP) The House ways and means com it mittee today disapproved the Leu bill to legalize wine The xote as announced by Rep resentative Rainey of Illinois was 14 to 9 against a motion to report the bill to the House for action as had "been done yesterday with the Collier bill to allow 32 Percent beer 3 The committee agreed yester day tosconsider the wine measure which was sponsored by Represen i tative Lea (D Cal) The committee action not prevent wine proponents from seeking to amend the beer bill in the House to legalize light along with the brew The Lea bill proposed tho legal! zation" of naturally fermented wines and a 20 cent a gallon tax Party Lines Broken Party lines divided on the wine tote in committee Notified of the ac tion Representative Lea (D Cal) head of the wine bloc said: urally we are disappointed We asked for modification of the Vol stead law only to the: extent per missible under the Eighteenth amendjnent and in harmony with the Democratc platform in favor of modification not onlv nc tn Unn as t(J OrhPr Iinimrc Twmicei ble under the Eighteenth amend He planned to confer with mem bers of the California delegation before determining upon the next move As to offering an amendment to the beer bill when it reaches the floor of the House next week hc'vi said there are parliamentary tech nicalities that could prevent tueli action are fail to get action on wine in the House there still is a chance of getting it inserted by the Lea said the eient we fail to get it legalized this ses sion we will renew our efforts in tlje new Meanwhile Ren Rainev virrrlict edthe beer measure would be sent? to the Senate before the holidays Beer Vote Next Week? A vote on the beer bill before Christmas was definitely in pros pect today as Democratic leaders termed their lines to insure its passage The cbmmittee approved modification of the Volstead act yesterday to permit the manufac ture and sale of beer of 32 per cent alcoholic content by weighty and Chairman Collier planned introduce his revised measure to day for a vote Tuesday Surprising both advocates and? opponents by its quick action the committee revised the original Col lier bill which had called for 275 beer to provide for the 32 brew? and fixed the tax at $5 per barrel Beer License Collier estimated that if the brew is legalized $175000000 Jn revenue would be realized annual ly No restrictions were imposed on the sale except such state laws as exist licenses were in creased from $100 to $1000 and $50 annual fee imposed on whole sales and $20 on retailers Representative Rainey said the" measure would be taken up in the House next Tuesday but opposi S' tion appeared in a notice by Rep resentative Hawley of Oregon ranking Republican on the commit tee that he would file a minority report because he believed the bill' A unconstitutional i (Continued on Page Seven) vtMwa vounty ropUilUOB A mm I'ffV' Il I 1 nW 7 I.