Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - July 6, 1930, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Iress Leased Wire Features MIAMI DAILY Ottawa County Population Miami and a 9MileRadius 1930 Including North XXVII 317 Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing JULY Office of Publication 1537 A Street Northeast PRICE FIVE CENTS m 37 CANDIDATES IN PRIMARY FOR Twenty Democrats and Sev enteen Republicans Seek Nominations TEN ARE UNOPPOSED Commissionership of South ern District Most With Six Aspirants candidates for nominations to county offices will be listed on the ballots when Ot tawa go to the polls July 29 for the first vote tinder the off primary Seventeen of the 37 candidates will be Republicans and 20 Survivors of the regular primary July 29 will battle it out with votes in the run off primary 12 and the Re and Democratic nominees settle the issue at the general election Registration for the regular pri mary open July 9 and end July The office of county commis for the Southern listed as District now held by John Fuser of is the most popular judging from the number of candidates who filed with Lloyd secretary of the County Election Six three Republicans and three iare seeking that including the Men unopposed on hence not subject to the voters until include Joe Republican and Ship candidates for coun ty Re publican candidate for county it torney Democratic candidate for county who is unopposed on either ticket Horace Democratic and Republi candidates for county treas Perry Democrat can for county attorney Harry Republican incumbent for court clerk Lon Democratic I Speaks in Miami MIAMIS FOURTH SETS NEW MARK FOR CIVIC FETES New Swimming Pool At tracts Patrons on Day of Opening to Public WITNESS Mounted Troops First Roundup Unqualified Suc Announced BENTON ADMITS QUAPAW CRIMES IN CONFESSION TRAPP TRAPP OUTLINES PLATFORM HERE Discusses Road and School Issues Before Large Crowd Continued on Page Ten Chamber to Begin Drive Monday c Five teams of workers will launch a Junior Chamber of Com merce membership drive Monday president of the announced Satur The drives are staged every six months as a regular feature of the Roberts placed the goal of organization at 250 members and declared the aim of the chamber was at least 100 regular weekly luncheon Campaigning solely on his rec ord while acting governor for 38 Trapp of Oklahoma City brought his campaign for the Democratic nomination for gover nor to Ottawa county and Miami Speaking at Picher and Quapaw during the Trapp climaxed his Ottawa drive with an address to a crowd of listeners on the courthouse lawn Saturday The former governors remarks were preceded by a concert by the Miami high school directed by Frederick and followed by a performance of the trick dog making the campaign of the state with Trapp and heralded as the greatest of his Vote for College Recalled Introducing Senator Commons pointed out that Trapp cast the deciding vote in favor of the Northeastern Oklahoma Junior college at one session several years ago when a to eliminate the school was on the The speaker was accompanied to Miami by Cyrus pioneer Oklahoma highway enthusiast and chairman of the highway commis sion under Trapps Following his address Trapp left for southwest Okla where he will campaign this High points in his Miami speech were Prediction that the present state highway system can be paved without any additional revenue raising measures during the next four years if he is elected gov S best news Index to Commercial Activity in the Great Southwest OTTAWA COUNTY CREDIT BU bills by the 10th or Has Taxation Plank as MAX PATTEN JACK JILL in fashions for tiny STAUFFER CAMMACK GRAIN feed prices are drop us before you for a HOFFMAN MUSIC allowance for your old radio or JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COM PENNEY and ties of especially selected MODEL us do your OTTAWA MOTOR Ford engine is designed for speed and JAMES TIRE SERVICE Fire stone prices are lower than COLEMAN HUTTS Special brick ice COLEMAN THEATER Such Men Are MONTGOMERY WARD Swim suits for all the Proof paint and Latite CUNNINGHAM OIL out with Red Hat FIRST NATIONAL Qua GLORY B Big s SMITHS Boulevard wash PERRY at WILSON lican for district MYSTIC Picher The Pace That REID CLOTHING sale of Removal sale now in ELLIOTT MOTOR have just the used car you CROWN DRUG with a Spalding cleaned and Dot ted crepe dresses tomorrow af SQUARE DEAL TIRE SERVICE States NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Frontier Advocacy of methods of financ ing the state government from sources other than a property Rigid economy in conduct of governmental Eventual state financing of schools instead of district He advocated leaving con trol of the schools in the hands of people of the local and county communities although state fin I am making no promises to Trapp relative to the highway I am just just telling you what I Signed Present Road Law The present highway with the exception of the a gallon gasoline was written during my administration and The Fourth of July was a gala day in with the initiation of Miamis new municipal swimming first annual roundup of the from a drug i Boys Mounted Troop of America clothing and swimming and diving contests f as the high of the days pro a grocery verified Walter city clerk in checking charge bathing pool Saturday estimated the total paid admissions at the new swimming pool Friday at Sat the huge tank was again thronged with but no official count was Weather Was Ideal Every element of weather ap trying its best to give the Mounted Troop a good sendoff for its first and Friday afternoon saw a sky and persons in the fair grounds grandstand and With the Miami high school band playing intermittently throughout the the multitudes were novelly entertained by the tricks and contests staged by the juvenile bronco busters of Gale na and Baxter ana When the initial drill of the pony riders was put on before the there were 183 young horsemen in They formed a mounted grand march to open the Thrills Plentiful Thrills were plentiful throughout the two hours of the some of them coming when wild steers the racetrack and dash into the crowds or jump a some of them coming when one of the riders would take a spill and not a few from the sheer beauty of performance by some of tue mounts and their The prom ise shown by the Mounted Troop on parade through Miami earlier in the clay was borne out by the per Several boys had trick and Arabian George high school won the admiration of the thousands with his fancy gaits and other stunts performed to the ca dence of music by the From 6 and 7yearold riders to boys 16 and 17 years member of the Mounted Troop that went into the show arena or con tests was zealous at his While the older boys failed to do a good job of a pair of clowns proved to be bona fide cowboys from way back and did creditable jobs of tossing the One of the small tried bulldog Mdre than a score of robberies in Oklahoma and Chicago were admitted in a signed confession by Benton that was in the possession of Sheriff Dee Watters including six burglaries at Qua paw which occurred in February and Benton was arrested here sev eral weeks ago by police and coun ty officers after the Haas Whole Sale Grocery company robbery at Neosho and is now in Muskogee pending prosecution for burglary and possibly murder He is also wanted in this county for al robbery of Griffin Wholesale grocery The Quapaw burglaries were listed by Benton as from the Betts Hardware from a drug from a BROTHERS SLEEP 10 HOURS AFTER LANDING PLANE from pool from a cafe and from a grocery Sheriff Watters the thefts them against the con In the Benton also admitted using three Lary OKeefe and Leonard Sheriff Watters would not divulge where he obtain ed the Continued Page Five Killed in Parachute Jump July body of Peaches 20yearold chute was found embedded in a marsh south of here tonight after she had fallen more than feet when her parachute fail ed 10 open during an exhibition to Physicians said every bone in her body was but with a suckling calf that had been previously roped to the boys Shetland The little fet low drew the most applause of the as wrestled the spotted and bawling calf to the ground and waved his som brero in sign of Contest Winners Winners for the roundup tests were Trick Howard second pony express Dou first Warren second fancy roping White steer Douthit Howard Douthit second relay Douthit War ren Wilbur second Roman SIX BALLOONS DOWN IN RACE Nine Others Reported Still in Air Late One Over Oklahoma Town LITTLE July of the 15 balloons which left yesterday in the national elimination balloon race tonight had been accounted Six were definitely down and the other nine had been reported at various Arkansas and still in the air late to 1 Four of the balloons were down near a fifth at 95 miles west of Little and the sixth north of Dan ville in Johnson 8 Sighted at Mount Ida From Mount 100 miles west by south from eight of the balloons were reported sighted to while the ninth was believed still in the air north of Broken where it was last re ported late this The Digest of New York and the navy 10 landed within a half mile of each other late today about 75 miles north of at the Detroit Aircraft entry landed on the Adams 25 miles northeast of The Texarkana of Detroit landed at 25 miles north of where the Detroit Aircraft entry The army 3 pilots descended at 95 miles west of and the piloted by and army was reported down in Johnson north of Farmers were searching the foot hills eight or ten miles north of Daisy tonight for the navy bal loon which the other aero feared had landed in the tim It was flying very low when they last sighted they Mount and Olga are located in the Ouachita conj south of the Arkansas river in The territory for the most part is of an isolated Then Awaken to Find Themselves in Midst of Contention Over Feat 553 HOURS NET Unexpected Landing Friday Starts Hunters on Round of Testimonial Events July aerial labors ended after 553 hours 41 12 minutes of continuous fly ing to a worlds the Hunter brothers pried sticky eyelids apart today to face the trial of Contentious managers six of and the insistent solicitation of profession al exploiters combined to make their return to earth as harrowing as the three weeks they in the air over Sky Harbor The two John and Ken who piloted the City of Chi cago to a new worlds record by a margin of 133 hours over the Louis arose at oclock after 10 hours of breakfasted with the other Hunter Walter and AH switched managers for the fifth Begin Theater Engagement All four were then rushed to a Loop theater with their to begin vaudeville appear Their plans following the next week in the theater were in They said they would be unable to attend a celebration planned for them Monday in their Tired enough to sleep last night were forced to sit through a series of dinner Niagara Claims Lite of Chef Who Defied k in Oak Barrel Thousands of Persons See Buffalo Mans Bid for Fame and Fortune in Ride Over but None Is Able to Find Trace of Cask or Body Afterward NIAGARA July UP thundering horseshoe cataract ended another dream of fame and fortune today as it took the life of George 46yearold Buffalo chef who attempted to ride through tho maelstrom in a barrel of his own Thousands saw the barrel of wood and steel plunge over the cat But not a vestige of the barrel or a trace of the mans body was found William Red veteran riv er mant engaged by Stathakis to haul him out after the gave up hope tonight of finding the body and left the river Hill probably more horrid to their tired ears than the drone of the endurance But even tually they were let go to bed at They had been back to a longer flight than was ever made by anything except the but to make them feel more at the were lodged in a bungalow apartment 300 feet above the street atop a a suite occupied by President How They Slept how they slept They had been able to catch short naps in the sometimes fairly long but there a ten frequently sudden awaken ing by the brother to help with even to crawl out on the nose of the ship close be hind the throbbing engine to adjust some Kenneth once had crawled to the end of the fuselage to detach paper and string that had clogged the rud der and So todav was different as they loft the of endurance fliers to struggle with contending aspiring ad and even to arrange to had predicted the trip would end in He even had an under taker on Rides Strong Current The huge cask rode well as the strong current carried it toward the It bounded then was submerged by the heavy As it neared the falls brink it just missed an old submarine a wreck marooned on the The barrel is believed to have been crushed against the jagged rock at the foot of the Probably Caught in Cavern said that held in the was probably caught in some rocky cavern be hind the tumbling sheet of and that it might be days before his body would He in his barrel only a oxy gen Hill waited for half an hour foi the barrel to appear and then de clared that Stathakis had met the same fate as Charles George of Eng who was lost when he at tempted to negotiate the in an oak barrel of his own design July Steamer Finds No Trace The little Maid of tin made two trips up to the foot of the The boat crew reported that they could see n trace of the barrel or any pieces o Stathakis entered the barrel on Navy A steel casting wa clamped down over the opening a the top and the barrel was towe out into the Canadian channel anc then down stream to about one half mile of the beginning of the rapids above the The barrel was made of four inch oak staves bound by steel hoops and steel casings at either It was to weigh at least a ton and it was ten feet The interior was padded and equipped with a spring mat Three Have Succeeded Three persons have successfully negotiated the Canadian or Horse hoe falls in specially constructed Annie Edson Taylor went over the Horseshoe in a wooden barrel in 1901 and Bob ie Leach performed the feat in a steel barrel in Lus sier went over the falls in a rub ber balloon July In Stephens attempted to go over the alls in a barrel made of Russian The barrel was smashed when it hit rocks below the Only a few splinters of the barrel were days later took a mans arm from the lower It was identified as Stephens arm by tatoo His body was never Niagara who has aided in many rescues on the upper lower and who went through the lower rapids and whirlpool in a steel barrel May 30 of this examined Stathakis barrel today and said that if Stathakis made the trip as he was con he would be said that it was 10 minutes from the barrel was cut loose from the tug until it made the The barrel rode the rough waters of the up per rapids well because of its great As the cask carrying Stathakis reached the crest of the it shot out and up as if it had struck a rock and then fell into the mist FOUR KILLED IN RACIAL CLASHES AT Mob Searching Swamp for Two Participants in Fatal Affray Friday ONE BLACK LYNCHED Two White Men Are Among Starts in Quarrel Over Debt and tumbling Planned to Write Book Stathakis said he was the author of The Mysterious Veil of Humanity Through the he said he war d to know the sen sations as he made the perilous trip to record in a book much as he did the chance to reap the monetary harvest he believed awaited a successful conclusion of the Continued on Page Four SIX DIG OUT OF JAIL July 5 UP Six federal all escaped from the Polk coun ty jail here today by removing the bricks from around a No trace had been found of the men after an all day Those who escaped are Roy Ar thur and Thomas Daniel Dennis McClafferty and Henry BULL DIVES OFF FERRY TO DO MARATHON SWIM AFTER DODGING FOUR POLICE BOATS 9 NEW July Ten thousand dollars worth of blue ribbon bull went swimming in New York harbor today out police which gave him up for and fin ally swam ashore in where he was captured by swimmers and tied up to a post as by that as in ordinary nM milk Answering to the name of or maybe he doesnt the bull was en route to Brook lyn from Staten Island on the first lap of an ocean trip to when ho decided to go The mate on the ferry aboard which ho was making the trip tried to argue it out with but after couple of laps around tho with the bull on the straightaway and the mate picking up head way file Alphonse fell clown and went Four Police Tugs Arrive Came first one police then then then and a couple of Puzzled policemen scratched their tried maneuvering Alphone toward tried to lasso tried everything they could think Alphone became really settled down to swimming and they lost sight of Surprised swimmers in Bay an hour or so later found Alphone panting in their They got a rope from a beached lassoed tied him to a post and call ed the to which Al gave meek He was taken aboard a truck of the Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to brought to Manhattan held for his Lester Satter thwaite of The only damage appeared to be a split probably acquired on the the best Holstein bull in is to be shipped to Germany for exhibi tion at fairs lacking rapid means of Army Bag Fought Storm July an army entrant in the national balloon landed near at today wife told the Associated Press He telephoned wife after Ralph Holmes was Captain Captain Axtater told his wife he was forced to land after he had used up all of his ballast in an effort to get out of a He stated he was in the storm all Axtater Captain Axtater formerly was stationed at Wright but recently has been assign ed to Scott field in near Dodges Thunderstorms July he balloon City of piloted by Otto was over Broken at said a message received here lit and had been dodging The City of Houston reported sighting other Continued Page Five Bankers Bound Over On Another Charge Ruling Saturday on one portion of the preliminary hearing of three Bank of Picher held here June Justice Coleman ordered the trio bound over for tri al in district court He ruled on the other portion of the charges against the bankers last also ordering them bound The two sets of charges the who are charged with violating the state banking dealt with excessive loans to indi and alleged acceptance of deposits in an insolvent The three men are and The Picher failed last CHINESE KILL FIREWORKS ARE THREE Bandits Bullet Strikes i Three Others Injured in Sailor Before Mates Silence Attackers DROWNS IN RESCUE EFFORT July In an attempt to save little Mari on Olson from drowning in Lake Mona William a railway crossing was drowned An unidentified spectator on shore died of heart The girl was She slipped from an inflated inner tube on which she was unable to stepped into deep water and sank July Difficulties with already climaxed by a State department were augment ed today by a radio report to the Navy department that an Amer ican bluejacket had been killed in a battle with The seaman was Samuel of attached to the United States gunboat He was struck by a ball during a short encounter at Yoc when brigands turned from looting the city to fire upon the A news report from Shanghai said three British gunboats had jeen fired upon at the same and two sailors wounded before the British and American seamen silenced the bandit A report of the encounter sent o Secretary Adams by Rear Ad miral Charles command of the Asiatic said Ship Guam reports she was heavily fired upon by com at about 1 July while convoying the past Fire was silenced by 20 rounds and rounds Blow Kills Imitate of Soldiers Home July 5 32 years a World war was found dead in his bunk at the Sol diers home here today and William also a World war vet eranand an inmate of the tonight was held in the Leaven county jail for investigation in connection with the Todds skull was Comrades in the home told authorities Todd and Lamson had quarreled over money matters and Lamson struck who fell against his iron They did not consider Todds injuries seri ous and did not call a QUAKE SHAKES SEVILLE July An earthquake of four seconds du ration shook Seville It was intense enough to move furniture and cause pictures to fall off WEATHER FORECAST O k 1 Generally continued warm Sunday and Mon A r k a nsas Partly cloudy Sunday and Mon ly fair Sunday and con MIAMI Temperatures in Miami from 2 oclock Friday afternoon until mid night Saturday 2 machine Seaman First Class Samuel Elkins was killed by rifle No signs of foreigners in Yo The next of kin of Elkins was listed by the navy as Rose his Coney Two days the State depart ment instructed the American legation at Peiping that urgent protests were to be made against the mistreatment of American citizens in This action fol lowed a report from Frank consul general at Han that he had received reliable advices that American mission aries at had been driven through the street with State department officials said today no reply had been received from this and they prob ably would not for at least a Lockharts report to the depart ment said the Thomas Lee of Minneapolis and Deaconess Sandland had been paraded through the streets of and roughly handled by a local political organ New Jersey Factory Ex Missing July Three persons were two of them another child is and three adults were seriously injured in the explosion of factory on the out skirts of the city late Three each other in quick the owned and managed by Frank and his story and a half which stood on the The dead Consiglio father of Frank Cimino Millie daughter of Frank Dolores The seriously injured Mary wife of Frank Nancy mother of Dolores Alfred Del an f Eye Witness Depicts Tragedy a Perth was sitting in liis automobile a few feet from the Cimino home with Codding also of Perth when the blast Gould said the elder Cimino was sitting on an upper porch of the factory her daugh and Millie Cimino were standing in the Then the afternoon quiet was shattered by a blast which was quickly followed by two and almost immediately the house and which stood side by were enveloped in July band of armed men estimated to number from 25 to 50 tonight searched a swamp near the Missis sippi line for two Tom Robertson and his par in an argument with a white man Friday night that caus ed four two white and two Two other white men were hurt and two unidentified Negroes were believed hiding in the wounded by The dead Grover white Charlie white John brother of Tom Robertson son of Tom Robertson Jim white was suffering from cheek wounds received in a battle with the Negroes last night and Clarence nephew of was injured severely about the head with a bottle held by a One Killed Storming House Grover Boyd shot down from behind by one of the Ne groes and Charlie Marrs was kill ed while possemen and citizens stormed John Robertsons house last where the Negroes had taken John Robertson was killed as he fled the house and Esau Robertson was hanged to a tree by the First reports of the trouble were the death list being given as high as Sheriff who took charge of the search last night and attempted to control the un mob of 200 to 300 today checked the casualties and found four dead and two Reports that two Negroes had been burned to death also were proved unfounded by a search of the ruins of John Robertsons Demanded Payment The trouble started late yester day when Clarence Boyd met Esau Robertson and demanded payment for a storage battery he had sold The Negro said he did not liave the and Boyd seized the Later the Negro called Boyd outside the store in which they Avere standing and the Negros and his father The were said to have jumped on Boyd and beat Grover uncle of and Carl went to Clarences assistance and one of the negroes fired four bullets into Grover Boyds killing Scales and others seized but the other two Negroes Sheriff Started Search Esau Wets held by the crowd which formed and last night was taken to the woods and In the Scales and his deputies arrived and searched for the other two Ne groes was When the posse called at the home of John brother of he met them with gunfire and in turn was it was discover ed that Marrs had been shot and Ayers the mob fired the While the flames roared in John Robertsons possemen form d and began a search of the sec for the other two but they had not been The mob that numbered between 200 and 300 during last nigh dwindled today to between 25 and Continued on Page Five 4 6 8 10 Midnight 2 4 0 7 77 8 10 Noon 2 i 8 Id Midnight SHIPS IN COLLISION SAN July coast guard received a radio message today from the cutto Shawnee saying the steam ship Perkins collided in a heavy fog 400 miles south with the Norwegian motor vessel Vil which left here Thursday for South Hens Pay for Radio In Poultry House With More Eggs July concerts in the hen houses at 3 oclock in the morn ing are just something more that the hens on the poultry farm of and Joseph at Gunning have grown to And they show their apprecia the Thorntons by laying more The neighbors all thought we were crazy at Thornton said but after wed kept track awhile and found out that the hens really did lay more they changed their 1 noticed that they seemed more cheerful and alive if I went into the place So we put a loud speaker in the hen The Thorntons had to make a j special arrangement with a broadcasting to get mu I sic at 3 Reckless Driving Act Court Rules OKLAHOMA July argument i favor of new rules and regulations govern ing traffic on state which the highway commission ex to recommend to the next was seen tonight in an opinion of the criminal court of ap holding the provision of the statutes against reckless driving has been The court today sustained the ruling of the court of common in which held that the last amendment to the law made the reckless driving provisions The ruling was given in the states appeal in the case of Roy Homer of Homers demur rer charge of reckless driving was sustained by the Tulsa Tho opinion held the law passed by the last Legislature to the speed limit on state highways from 35 to miles an hour failed to make provisions to retain the rulings against reckless Lew chairman of the I highway suid vored a police force to regulate and that the commission would recommend that lite next Legislature make ade quate traffic AW SOUGHT FOR INDIANS July or Reedor of Miami sent an to Washington today asking Bryan Owen Seminole Indians who aie suffering in the Florida Everglades because of high water ami lack of food and medical
