Ada Weekly News, The (Newspaper) - December 18, 1929, Ada, Oklahoma THE ADA WEEKLY NEWS VOLUME XXIX ADA OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18 1929 More Than Sixty Men in Old Mine When Blast Came Full Extent of Disaster Yet to Be Ascertained by Rescuers As First Hoover Congress Went to Work OKLAHOMA CITY Dec on approximately 59 miles of grading and drainage on state highways and for the con- struction of bridges were re- today by the state way commission Awards on the work will be announced by the commission tomorrow State aid Pontotoc county miles of grading and drainage on state highway 48 north of Montgomery and Shoemaker Ardmore were the apparent low bidders 963.57 State aid bridge on state highway 48 north of Ada Deo Southwestern Bridge and Culvert 1 nn tii Oklahoma City Bodies ot miners who met death today in an explosion that ped 62 employes of the Old Coal company's mine in North j McAlester were being assembled this afternoon ac the of the sloping shaft leading the surface About 10 bodies had bean recovered at p m Rescue workers were on an effort to determine whether any of the miners vived and if so to effect their rescue H was said the mine was not badly damaged by the blast uid hope survived that not all of the unfortunate workers had The recovered bodies were not brought to the surface ably because of the large crowd of relatives and spectators ed about the mine property It was planned to take the bodies more than halt a mile from his to a before home The exact cause of the shooting is not known although neighbors say Goodwin had been MCALESTER Fate of 66 men trapped by an I failures explosion today in the Old Town The oldest son Charles Goodwin Farmer Believed Victim Of Own Gun scenes at the opening of the first regular session ot Congress in tlie Hoover administration are ed above Members of the House of Representatives are shown at the left with bowed heads while James Shorn Montgomery opens the session with prayer Nicholas Longworth speaker Hous is presiding The other picture shows John Q Tilson left of Connecticut Republican leader of and John N Garner of Texas Democratic leader shaking Vrom Monday's Goodwin for two years a resident of com- munity for years before that a Center Is re- ported to have shot himself ly last night in a small house despondent over illness and crop boy of about Coal company's mine at North M 7 asked a neighbor this McAlester remained in doubt as rushed efforts to help him find his father Former Head of Cotton ers Says Reports of Charges By Him Untrue McAlester remane n ou na o ep m n tilat rescue crews rushed efforts to stating that he was afraid 1 representative on the farm reach the slope where most of win had taken his life responsible for what the men wore known to have tracks of the father were plainly failure of been working f visible as the searchers i followed alld Fear was expressed that few of the entombed men would be found alive because of poisonous gases which were believed to have spread through the mine following the blast The body of Frank Parker of Krebs a mining engineer who was not with the other men was brought from the mine shortly after the explosion His is the only body so far recovered First word of the disaster was brought out when two miners Charles and Joe fin signaled Fred Benson ing engineer mino WASHINGTON C L Stealey former general ager of the Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association told a ate agriculture sub-committee Iday that Carl Williams cotton's board Stealey Daily James Binton McCauley bank died this morning -t the of his j son and daughter Mr and Mrs j J I McCauley Francis I after an illness of two Funeral services were conducted at the home this morning at 10 o'clock Rev A N Averyt Gathering of Thursday Evening One of Unusual And Importance It was a jolly bunch of Boy and their dads who dt elating minister Thursday evening the deceased for interment at Steady occurred the mo hers of the scouts the board on sixty-sixth birthday was a tribute to skill l w e i n n M n i n i i tut on the cotton and other D McCauley Vanoss and love slumped against searchers left the boy neighbor to watch the spot until office could be fed proper steps taken for nied in a telegram removal of the body Goodwin leaves a widow and Association's board of di- five children the youngest o engineer and rodo from on the trip The two who n ft A A Ml J J said they were out by is three weeks been ill for a few days ills homo 10 i inu was al ins nomu u JUUL win were down the c reference to our own state of out believed to have we know that the losses his mind and the i smoko from the explosion they said occurred feet j down the slope where most of to k to i Goodwin has the miners were working Sixty-nine mon were known to by trucks to the scone from the j bureau if mines station hero and I rescue workers recruited ly from throughout the coal ing section Wreckage in the mine and the danger of poisonous cases slowed the work of rescue crews as they attempted to reach the which imprisoned the workmen Many hours would bo re the barrier A crowd of several persons many of them frantic wives and children oi the en- tombed men had gathered at the mine entrance Screams of women pierced the air as HANKOW Doc IB S W K of the a wesleyan captured by bandits who are re- ported to be him ior a large ransom Word of Sandy's beins taken prisoner reaching here today rescue work went forward Xot Known The cause of the explosion had j not been determined The miners iu worked with Electric lamps The mine formerly known n thn capture had been ried out in the sanne place and by band of alleged com- the Little Bolan is one of the oldest coal properties in homa been opened bo- as the result of lood Tt li what uprisings arrived here November 11 Kreutzen later was released on payment of a small ransom Several missionaries who left the interior as the result of ing from the entrance for a dis- tance of 3.500 feet At that point there is a level chamber of ISP feet which graduates into an- other slope of feet Officials of the Old Town com- pany refused to discuss the ex- plosion Relief work was being zed by Tied Cross workers Miller D Hay state mine in- spector was reported en his way to Capture of the missionary was carried out in an orderly There was no looting and no firing but all houses were searched by the bandits Tayeh is a communist here from Oklahoma automobile City Gangster Jumps Big Bail After Arrest for Job Ky Doc Fred R Burke age of 70 next January S J George Wright deut of the Osage tribe will con- R Burke Umie to fhat position two killer sought at ht Joseph ears it was Tlie He came from Olivet Kan to tv came ironi LU Vanoss in he statements were v he F bank led in a telegram filed with thei A 1.1 I lie conducted until his death uis sub-committee today by He was a of the closing exercises were led Gene Harris Miss Linthicum was at the piano Scout Dennis Williams welcomed the fathers Mexican Consular Office at Loredo Closed Tourist Not Allowed District Attorney Sought Arrest On Old Charge of Murder Conspiracy LAREDO Tex Dec The Mexican consulate here was closed today orders from Mexico City issued shortly after General Elias Calles former president of Mexico had arrived in Nuevo Laredo ico across the Rio Grande from the Texas county whose tor had threatened his arrest on a conspiracy charge in con- with the deaths of two Mexican officers in Laredo in 1922 Running nearly ahead of schedule the special train bearing Calles and his party sped through Laredo last night out stopping It was transferred to the Mexican lines at Nuevo Laredo and after a brief stop continued to Mexico City After the special had left behind a reception committee of officials and citizens of Laredo which had learned of the intended earlier arrival of the train atr the way station here a telegram celling authority of the Laredo chamber of to Issue tourist cards for entrance into Mexico was received from the Mexican commissioner of gration by Charles Mumm tary of the chamber i The Mexican official in the telegram blamed the attitude of Accused of Looting Bank of Allen Last Year WASHINGTON Dec 13 Date for the trial of Edward L Doheny oil magnate on a charge of was set for March 10 today by the Dis- of Columbia supreme court attorney Frank had asked that the trial begin on March 17 and ment attorneys requested ary 13 as the date The Indictment against the wealthy oil Is one of the series growing out of oil leases made during the Harding and the charge is that Doheny gave Albert B Fall former secretary of the interior a bribe of In itlM tion with the lease to for robbery In company of the Elk Hills naval j ilon the looting of the First Delay by to Locate Two Witnesses for Defense Trial of W J oil reserve in California Fall was recently convicted on the charge of receiving the 000 from Doheny and was fined and given a suspended sentence of a year In jail i OFFICER Open Fire on Federal Agents Sent to Search Their Barber Shop GUSHING County officials were prepared to act swiftly today against John Young negro and his accused pi slaying Otto Butler federal prohibition agent of Enid and wounding George Danhour another federal agent during a liquor raid in the negro section here last night National bank of Allen on ust 10 1928 got under way this morning without incident only to meet with a short delay when defense attorneys asked for mere time in which to locate two witnesses whom they declared to be vital to the case Court ad- until 1 o'clock noon A large crowd most entirely of men was ered in the district courtroom long before court opened and followed the proceedings with close interest as with each other and with the court The defendant Walker sat calmly while the attorneys de- bated chatting gaily witli the armed deputy seated near him following the course of the a ments with apparently casual terest Quite at earie Walker showed no trace of nervousness or of the long weeks of ment following his York months ago and his return District Attorney John A singing and opening and for the more The towards Calles for more The chamber was given permission by Mexican government to issue permits in- June 1928 During his brief stop at Nuevo c fathers Laredo appealed on the Immediately after the dinner Of his car and thanked Rice Cub Haney and thog'e tnat gathered for the Stanley McSwain held aloft large demonstration He ex- photographs of the late Sam a desire to his Shaw and William J Coffman city home as soon as and Judge Orel Busby These were presented to the Boy Scout The conspiracy charge against e filed ainst both to Oklahoma Seated in the audience were his aged father and two sisters mi from their home In Yale to see him determined effort on and testate to link ST courts speedily rectors We do have the exact story with reference to any of the other states Stealey said But with were very heavy and that this gambling was carried on after the cotton belonging to the members had passed out so association or members Carl Williams cotton's representative on the federal farm board had persuaded cotton cooperatives of the south fo gamble on the cotton exchange was made in a telegram the Oklahoma Growers association today to a senate agriculture investigating the cotton situation Stealey a former council to be hung in the scout Calles was filed several years i j Wila j odist church and was by Dr A In I ago by yans after the prosecutor tondent of the school at Vanoss Ulf tUJ tV 11 in v-i j of years He leaves many friends i was by Dr A In ago by after the prosecutor union Sunday j language and with a I made an tor a number feeling for the two mei tion into the slaying of General gret his passing tender feeling for the two into the slaying of General have passed away as well Lucio Blanco and Colonel Aurelio or the distinguished whose bodies were year ago Further interest coming testimony arose out of Butler and Danhour report that Black had by Dave Humphrey brought from the state uty sheriff went to Young's I at to testify in home last night Humphrey tne trial Ing he might be recognized left j number of Allen citizens the house a short after present trial drawn his departure Danhour said the j their Interest fa what federal purchase a interest in the a pint of whiskey history of their community and When the negro produced the because the which is liquor Danhour continued be I relied upon by the state for con- was served with a warrant will be given by the friAndS With WnOm j both in Vanoss and Ada to for tno distinguished j whose bodies who is still in the midst of his handcuffed together in the Danhour and his arrest Young he said snatched at the bottle in an fort to destroy it and during labors Mr Linscheid told of the good they had accomplished Rio Grande tney nuu Calles who passed through Contrasting the kind of man several months ago enroute Sinclair Lewis has pictured as i L0 Europe was not questioned business man on a Main j way by Webb county street with the real Mr Shaw yalls at that time being and Mr Cuffman he said the district He said that any latter are the salt of earth j move on the charge would have 1 c I He pointed out that not one be made by the district Attorneys seek Sanity Kreat or good in Ada can ney Test Before Passing of Sentence great or good thing in Ada can be pointed to without recalling j while Calles was in Europe that these two men had a part j Vails took over his old duties as district attorney and threatened i in it manager the Cotton Growers W D Little president of the to arrest the general should he Dec l told ot the pians for j pass through Laredo He gave up Tom having pleaded r include the Life this plan only after he was told to -a charge of train schools in the rural j the United States ing the maximum peria ty u Hi h boys week protect its diplomatic wluch is death under tor with armed force If necessary law will be subjected today to Ql Loaders train A detachment of American the first of a series of tests ther and son marines two officers and eight general experts assigned to determine negro Butler walked into another room where he found Mrs Young He heard a shot Danhour said and a moment ter Butler fell to the floor near the doorway where he died most instantly Young also fired Danhour said Gushing police officers ing the firing arrested the gro and his wife rushed hour to a where it was said that although his condition was serious he probably would association also quoted in recently a story published in an homa paper as saying that liams had sold the idea that he could predict future markets charge is absolutely without the tele- statement attributed to Stealey that the cent loan basis fixed for cotton by the farm board might have been in- spired more by a desire to pre- vent farmer owners of this ton from tor a settlement than a belief that U is either a fair price based on cost duction or based upon statistics of world production and con- sumption The telegram said this was j assisted by two equally untrue and without j one of a series confessions and quoted vaguely described two sages exchanged with men he said assisted him in which the association said shows his desire to increase the loan rate to 17 cents per mental condition to De- cember 17 the date for tha n ing mer the purchase of a camp ground and a trip to reported for the finance commit 10 tee promised the bo s tl at accompanied the camp next from New York left rte train at Nuevo Laredo Tlie action of the Mexican in closing the consulate and withdrawing permission to issue tourist passes might be ex- to seriously affect imports pleas the money would be Washington trip of C H Baltzell special r ised for Pacific passenger train Canyon near here Nc Yesterday he entered to train charge and to one count of C H Baltzell special pound This the message added that in his ment the price of cotton at this time was much too low Stealey who has been as a comn charge ana to one count 01 v bing a passenger on the To of the general manager indictments charging of the made one of bery of passengers he pleaded not his characteristic talks He was with the boys last summer on District Attorney Buron they all in San night speak him as Lncle Charlie he believed Vernon sane and He promised to come again and that his office had not abandoned help arrange the Washington the theory that the wrecker He made a special trip from other men In St Louis to be present last night v Prof Oscar Parker made the men sam mm m i report for the committee on the loosening rails off which the j Court of Honor The camping re- train ran into a ditch j port was R D Weldy The grand jury returned an and the on leadership indictment against Yemen listing training was made by Prof five previous Harvey W Faust All three oC in an effort to bring him under 1 these men give a great amount the California habitual criminal time and effort to the Scout act which bars parole for cause Rev Hunter re- sons thrice convicted The ported for the committee on civic ealey who has been nad been i service Rev Hunter has been a to appear before the convicted of grand in booster for many years was at tne Ventura and Los before coming to Ada PAWHUSKA Dec today He said he would counties California and in Penn- Harry executive Although he win reach the re- the telegram ater and j and stealing i down rules for the 1 rra T r 1 r OF OI I in Ohio New F a s h i o n j League a new organization I trip The scouts gave a rousing yell the mothers at the close of the exercises and for two hours enjoyed the and some ourselves iia to J we added Mitchell a If boy cries for a norn for The long skirt episode this maybe you'd better is just one Indian service In 1883 he be- home Search continued iust one ive him one what women have i for the rest of the money i ot T at the Rosebud a vice j Cleveland Plain Classified Ads Classified Ads and tourist travel through do Prospects for early completion of the Bebee road project are bright as the second week of work on the undertaking starts according to J C Hynds tary the local chamber of commerce Mr Hynds has been spending much time on the scene of the work and reports that with good weather less than two weeks see the project ished The bridge just this side of Springbrook would have been finished Saturday if rain had not Interfered One day's work will have it ready ifor traffic Other bridges are under construction along the route The county is putting in the bridges and is doing the grading work The township Is filling In abutments to the bridges north and Bebee Maxwell ple are cooperating in every way to boost the undertaking ing to Mr Hynds Once com- the road will be kept up by the county HUGE FOR FEDERAL BUILDINGS WASHINGTON Dec To enable expansion of the eral government's huge public program the house public buildings today approved the Elliott bill to vide in addition to sum already authorized for construction of post offices and other federal buildings recover neighbors and friends with whom they have been associated daily At times between attorneys threatened to submerse momentarily rhe interest in the case proper John Crawford and J W Bolen are representing the defendant J W Dean county at- torney H Mathis asr are being assisted in the prosecution by W W Bill Pryor of Followers of court affairs are anticipating lively exchanges as the ced legal lights proceed with the case Orel Busby district Tii who sentenced Curtis 99 years imprisonment on the same charge now facing Walker is again presiding Defense attorneys filed two motions this morning One quash the jury panel on the grounds that the names boxes were not taken the others were put in THe ond require Pryor close by whom he is Daily j special assistant to the the Ada tion Inability of officers to locate TO SOIL mm From Wei Members of tion to the district soil ence at Durant yesterday have returned enthusiastic over the plans for arousing active efforts toward conservation and over the hospitable reception accorded them during the meeting The local group Included J B Hill John George Collins Ches Roberts 0 E Parker L A Braly Renzo Cooper and Mr There were more than a dred men from six counties in A L and L M Hudson was responsible for delay ing Defense attorneys asserted that the two were necessary In- their conduct of the case Miers investigator for the state department of criminal tion and Identification testified that the woman house at which the two supposed to be residing in homa City knew of no such sens and that one L O Hudson lived there the conference They heard ex- pert discussion of the annual loss through erosion of soil with gleaned from several years of close study of its effect on 12 men farm production Jury Selection Begun Promptly at 1 o'clock The returned delegates high In their praises of are the courtesy extended them by the host city the having taken the entire conference to a dinner at one of the churches defense and prosecution agree for jury service Challenges were frequent and as the early afternoon wore on prospects for getting to the hearing of mony J W Bolen for the defense and J W Dean county attorney questioned each prospective Juror closely on his court decisions In familiarity with the case Involved iere and with legal dealings Walker again sai through the questioning of the panel His father and two sisters were at his the Wewoka Man Gets Four Year Term For Manslaughter WEWOKA Dec Charles steen today faced a year sentence In connection with the shooting to death of Leonard Larrimore last April 15 A Jury In district court here late day convicted him of ter and recommended a sentence of four years In returning its verdict the jury modified the charge He was a murder charge Steen claimed self defense Glaring he shot Larrimore Andre the latter had threatened his has calmed -an life The shooting occurred In with these shoot the Steen home between Semi- tne He Is the nole and Maud best he can That can That Is used to say In least spectacular portion trial was under way room was crowded with tors who filled the seating and lined the following with eager maneuvering the case opposing counsel Greatest Results for the amount Classified Ads towns
