Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - August 7, 1930, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Press Leased Wire Features MIAMI DAILY Ottawa County Population 3 Miami and a 9MileRadius 193C Including North XXVIII 28 Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by AUGUST Office of Publication 8637 A Street PRICE FIVE CENTS PAYNE REVEALS IN DETAIL HOW HE SLEW WIFE Tells of Putting Dynamite in Car With Phosphorus to Explode It TRIED ONCE BEFORE Shotgun Device Rigged Up in Amarillo Home Went but Failed to Kill Amarillo today signed a statement in the presence of Potter and Hulchinson county officers detailing how he planned the death of his who was killed in an explosion that de the family automobile on June According to Mayor Ernest Thompson of who was present with the officers part of Manuel Henick Arrested In Maryland for Operating Still Former Oklahoma Congressman Found Making Moon Government Agents Report After Raid Manuel former represen from was arrest ed early yesterday by prohibition agents in Marys Mary on a charge of operating a who made the raid in the early said Herrick was operating the still at the time of his He was taken to Bal timore and placed in jail pending a a farmer and cattle raiser from the Cherokee strip in was elected to Con gress from the Eighth Oklahoma district during the Harding land in He was defeated for renomination in but in his two years here his eccentricities kept him prominently before the After his defeat he came back to Washington and recently has been living near the time Payne was dictating the about 80 miles from Payne he had car ried three sticks of dynamite in a sack of chicken feed in his auto mobile for three weeks before he found a chance to use He ac knowledged also according to May or that he had attempt ed to manipulate a shotgun so it would kill his wife and appear ac three months before he actually decided the dynamite blast as the surest He said the shotgun was placed in a closet so it would discharge when his wife opened the door and that it did act but the charge merely grazed Fiendish Device Perfected Payne said he planted the dyna mite in an open container with wa ter and phosphorus under the drivers seat of the family auto mobile and that when the water evaporated and splashed out air got to the phosphorus and set off the The confession was ac cording to Mayor be fore officers would allow Paynes Payne of who came here to talk to the ac They said they want ed his complete admission before the brother saw Mayor Thompspn said the state ment was very lengthy and requir ed several minutes to He said the accused had gone into the smallest details touching on his in for Verona Thomp his former whose statement involving her associa tion was responsible lor his arrest and the filing of murder charges against Chief of Police McDow ell of Amarillo said today that held in jail admitted in a statement that he placed the explosives in the automobile that killed his wife and permanently maimed his 9yearold who had been named for his I must be the meanest man in the McDowell quoted Payne as commenting after he had acknowledged his part in the trag edy that mystified officers for He Praises Informer The accused man at the same time had praise for the woman once his private divulged to newspapermen her af fair with the attorney and caus ed the strong arm of the law to reach out and restrain Verona the former sec had been described by Payne to Kansas Continued on Page Six Officers who took the former representative into custody said he was living alone in a shack near the still and had beer working as a boiler tender anci utility man at a nearby mill for a Herrick is now 54 years Two Taken With Him Two men were arrested with Herrick and a third the agents CHAMBER VOTES FOR SHORT ROAD TO GROVE BUTTRAM AND MURRAY HURL HOT CHARGES After coming to Washington In Herrick attracted attention by unorthodox actions and state but he attained something approximating notoriety after he was threatened with suits by en trants in a beauty He was sued by his Miss Ethelyn Chrane of She charged he made statements which reflected on her In Herrick sued her for alleged breach of The litigation went against him and he chartered an airplane and hurried back to Oklahoma to cam for He an as the subject of his open ing address Two Years in Con or Through Hell and Back The speech was Lut the voters were not Herrick was a poor receiv ing only 168 Lost in July 29 Primary OKLAHOMA versatile Manuel accused today as a moonshiner by a stern government that found him entertaining as an Oklahoma con was defeated only last week in an attempt to regain the post he won in the Harding land slide of Herrick ran a poor third in last weeks primary election for the Republican congressional nomina tion in the Eighth Continued on 1aee Two todays best news Index to Commercial Activity in the Great Southwest Market Basket Pages Market Basket pages of A every Fridays News Record are devoted to display advertising offering many grocery He sure and read them every time and save money on your groceries JAMES TIRE join with HENRY CRAIG Democrat for MONTGOMERY WARD Jubilee week at HEALEY SHOE STORE Shoe sale 0 13 K MENS suits for Many From Ottawa County to Attend Political Talk fest Next Saturday Two thousand Ottawa county men and women are expected to mingle with or others from and Wagoner counties in the mammoth Grove political and potboiling jamboree according to members of the Grove Chamber of Commerce in charge of the af Headline attractions for the all day gathering will be Frank But Democratic runoff candi date for md How candidate for the same who will speak in the interest of Alfalfa opponent in the runoff Buttram and Howard both have drawn immense crowds as speak ers iii this part of the state and the intensity of the runoff cam is expected to bring hun dreds of new Not far behind the guberna speaking in interest will be the Democratic oratorical shots between Henry Craig of Picher and Wesley Dis ney of candidates for the congressional An came from the Craig club this morning that at least 50 automobile loads of Craig boosters would attend the Grove rally and Disney will also be on the grounds to With Craig and Charles incumbent Re publican congressman and candi date for all on the speaking interest in that phase of the meeting has gained The Craig boosters will take with them a band and oldtime orchestra and will provide free transportation to anyone wishing to make the Persons wish ing transportation should tale phone Other speakers who are expected to draw large crowds of follow ers are Mabel incumbent commissioner of charities and cor who is seeking Charles Mason and Howard supreme court candidates and scores of all whom will be given an opportunity to address the Trio Hold Up Depository Pair Raid Institution BULLETIN 7 houis after the robbery of the Security National bank of Coweta by three one sus was captured by Tulsa money recover ed following a running gun buttle which ended 10 miles northeast of Shortly after capture of the one who was found to be suffering from three bullet wounds was receiv by Tulsa police that his two who escaped fol lowing the had been surrounded neat Owasso by a detail of police was rushed to the Two Counties in Agreement on Graveling of Route Distance ONE THIRD SHORTER Proposed Road by Way of Fairland 25 Miles Present One Is 37 After 13 years of indecision be tween Ottawa and Delaware county residents and county as to the location of a short highway cutting 12 miles from the driving distance between Grove and an agreement has been made which is expected to see completion of a graveled short cut by way of Fairland in the The Miami Chamber ol Commerce today voted to give to a fund for building ith road and Delaware county business men have agreed to raise for the The highway dis tance to Grove from Miami wil be 25 miles instead of 37 miles when the new road is Project Explained The project was laid before the Miami Chamber of Commerce to day by George chairman of the roads after a con ference with a delegation of Grove business men and Delaware county officials Ottawa county commissioners have agreed to build and gravel the road from Fairland south to the county line and the will be used to build and gravel project from the county line south to the intersection with State Highway It was explain ed that Delaware has no available road money and could not build the segment except by the sub scription In making his Stein pointed out that the present all weather routes to Grove are either by way of Af ton or by way of State either of which is far off the direct Business to Benefit Stein based his tion that the chamber help with the project on tire belief that Miami merchants and business men of all classes will benefit ry added trade brought here by a more direct con tact with Delaware increasing Miamis trade territory Fe explained that now loses much of that business to Vinita since shoppers who go by way of Afton are much nearer Vinita than when they reach Stein mentioned the long controversy over the routing of the MISS UNIVERSE Three men obtained approximate ly today in the robbery o the Security National bank of Wagoner after locking five men in the Two of the robbers entered the bank with drawn guns and the third remained outside in a small in which they drove northeast after leaving the Charlie chief of po at the county and im mediately started in pursuit of the men after they had been noti fied of the robbery by Wil one of the men locked in the All emerged soon after the robbers Bank The State bank at 19 miles southwest of was robbed today by two men who es caped with approximately in a small black sedan bearing a Texas One dress ed in overals and held up the cashier while his companion waited in their motor They fled south toward Oklahoma with a sheriffs posse and vigilantes of Harper county in Patrol to Columbus At Saturday The time oi departure for the patrol of the Boys Mounted Troop of which will go to the reunion Sat has been changed from Saturday morning to Satur Jini patrol said The troop is haying drill meetings tonight and Friday in preparation for the Columbus which is free for the All patrol members have been asked to be at the loading short cut and credited Tho mas of Miami with an attempt to have the road built a year Thi argument has been whether the short cut would be built over the west road or the east road two parallel section line thorough fares one mile apart and skirting Fairland on the west and re according to the report accord between Ottawa and Delaware county officials anc residents has now been and the highway will be built over the east road straight south from a point near Fairland to the intersection with State 25 in Delaware leads directly into Grove and if in The Grove committee here Wed headed by Leslie Allen president of the Chamber of Com merce stressed the need for haste in order that state highway may be used for the pro v State highway machinery i now being used on 25 west o Grove and may be borrowed for thr short cut if work can be immediately it is expected to do so on the strength of the loca chambers donation Speaking at Du Attacks War Record of Alfalfa HOOVER AS EXAMPLE Murray Compares Business Man Candidate to Presi dent as Political Failure By the Associated Press Growing daily more the primary gubernatorial campaign was carried westward in Oklahoma while southern sections of the state rang with de fenses and Frank Oklahoma City oil who aspires to be a Democratic traveled to ward a Custer county gathering at Dripping where he will speak while the go who opposes him at the polls next was to address an audience at In South Oklahoma last night the speeches of both t Buttram at with stinging attacks on the present and future of their War Record Brought in While Buttram that Mur during the World wrote n a German newspaper that Amer ca would be benefited were Ger many the former an colonist defended his war re declaring he worked for pre in 1916 by urging or of an American mer marine to carry the nations in its own referring to his oppo lent as the great at claim as a suc business declaring hat President Hoover a success ul business is the worst as President the country IDS ever He defended his Bo ivian said Buttram was tacked by corporate interests and juried broadsides at Oklahoma newspaper publishers he said lad characterized him as an ignor nt Three Editors The Tishomingo man offered to pit himself in examinations on any course of study against Carl Magce editor of the Oklahoma News or Walter managing of the Daily He said Hubert Demo cratic whom ho called Hu bert was the man be lind the throne endeavoring to de the voters of the state in every Murray outlined his proposal for WRIGHTSMAN ON RADIO OKLAHOMA candidate for the United States will go on the air in a five station radio hookup tomorrow night at oclock for his first address since he was selected in the primary elec tion last week as the opponent of Gore in the runoff election for The consist ing of Oklahoma City Chickasha and was said at headquarters to be the largest yet effected in Okla homa for a local Doctors Help Boy Magician Recover Vanished Dollar monn Hurt in Auto Wreck United States Senator Thoma Heflin bruises of and Alabama cuts and a spraine SECURITY BANK TRUST i platform on North Main street at greeting awaits you i oclock Saturday morning so FIRST NATIONAL gold rush of ELLIOTT MOTOR in and try service fall CROWN DRUG paste for the entire COLEMAN THEATRE The Locked DRUG Hawkeye New GLORY B now NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Aspirin Buick Castoria Dares Frisco Goodyear Horlicks Kruschen Salts Luck Tiger Mothers Friend Radox Rexall Orderlies SSS that the cars can leave for Colum bus on In Columbus the uniformed pa trol will take part in a parade and McALESTER FOR BERRY OKLAHOMA of runoff candidate with Robert Burns of Seminole for the Lieutenant governors nomi received a telegram today j from McAloster a defeated candidate offering congratulations and adding I am for Chicago people contributed last year to Chicago edu doctors had to help Lloyd complete his amateur magician The lad made a silver dollar j disappear yesterday his The physicians used an a tiny electric elon gated pincers and a hollow tube to make it Brought to a hospital here from his home at Lloyd was in no pain and could breathe Thom as and two assistants to make the removal before the coin did further dam Last night young Schmidt went not much the worse for his Thomas suid it was the only case of swallowing a doi lar that he knows NOGALES SWEPT BY FLOOD SCORE BELIEVED DEAD Miss New Doroth Dell 17yearold New Or leans high school wa named Miss United an Miss Universe at the Pageant of Sho five feet six inches weigh 123 pounds and boasts golde curls and blue DROUTH RELIEF PLAN OUTLINED FOR FARMERS arl Williams Proposes Seed Distribution by Grain Corporation WILL HELP President Is Assured Lines Will Cooperate to Pre vent Cattle Crisis Carl farm board member representing outlined today a plan by which the board may be able to extend aid to en farmers through the Grain Sta If existing seed distribution agencies or other business men and farmers in any stricken community or he will form under the laws of their own state a responsible corporation which will guarantee the payment of notes to be given by individual a plan probably can be quickly developed whereby tht Grain Stabilization corporation can sell seed grains of any kind in car lots at market prices on easy pay ments of one or two The local organizations would Cloudburst Send Wall oi Water Down Valley Into Twin Cities of Arizona and Old Mexico FOUR BODIES FOUND 40 PERSONS MISSING Continued on Cage Two OKLAHOMANS GO ALOFT TO SEEK DURATION MARK wrist and three members of hi were cut and bruised toda as their automobile crashed into telephone pole to avoid striking log truck that drov onto a from a side roar Senator Heflin and his part were brought to Decatur in a pass bus and three of them wcr taken to a The went to a where attended Others injured are Thomas the sen ators who has n deep cut o the forehead and minor cuts aril bruises Walter Brown of Wash a member of the staff of the Fellowship cut on the temple and cheek Perry driver of the car snd nephew of Senator cut and None of the party was believed seriously The senator was thrown from the machine and badly shaken He was en route from Decatur to where he had a speak ing engagement this has beep accompanying OKLAHOMA plane piloted by Roy French and Elmo local took off from the municipal air port here at today for an attempt on the refueling en durance record now held by the Hunter brothers of The start of the original ly set for last was delayed when a small clambering over the fell on the causing damage that consumed the night in Timing of the takeoff was the only ceremony connected with the Five Oklahoma City men acted as official The plane will be refueled by a ground crew composed of Bleakley and Tipton also local Up 410 Hours Jackson and Forest today were near their former worlds record for refueling fly ing of 420 21 es last and were ready to point their monoplane Greater Louis toward the present rec ord of 554 hours held by the Hun ter At Jackson and O Brine had been up 410 hours and gave no indication that either they or their piano were A fireworks display is planned at Louis field tonight when the fliers old record is pass Republican Chairman Says He Was Object of Un just Attacks Claudius Huston of Tennessee today as chairman of the Republican national committee and in a formal statement assert ed no man in political life has ever been subject to more unjust and unwarranted Huston presented his resigna tion to a meeting of the partys executive committee and mane public his statement before the arrange for local distribution of the seed thus supplied and see to collection of the farmers notes when It would make no profit on its own services and would make proper arrangements for the pay ment of Have Plenty of Grain Williams said the grain stabiliz ation corporation board agency has plenty of grain and can buy more to replace that sold for The plan is believed to be prac tical and Williams If communities will do their no substantial farmer peed lack for feed for his no ent Under the market Adobe Buildings Baby Cribs Swept of Con Three Hours torrent of water that swept through Mexican and Nogales early today left known 40 missing and a scene of confusion which led po lice to believe at least 25 persons had lost their u The bodies of three women were found on the Mexican side of the line and the body of a rnan was discovered near the Banks Bridge on the American None was Many houses have been swept Mexican police report and 40 persons are Homes Swept Away One hotel and 1C Mexican homes on the Sonora side were reported the police there to have been swept They did not how many persons were in the ho chief of po said his officers reported having seen several bodies float ing down the Don American forced his way to the American side with a report of having seen several small children swept away when an adobe building Originating from a heavy rain in the Santa Rita the flood water accumulated into a liquid wall that rushed down the valley and inundated the lower portions of the international particularly the Mexican five to eight The screams of women arose roar of the flood as the water quickly surrounded the homes of sleeping Eye witnesses said infants in their cribs were swept the Adobe at Mexican and Indian crumbled as the flood meeting was over and his succes sor He said his with would give the organiza tion an opportunity of selecting a leader free from the fac tional and will permit me without embarrassing to pursue a course that will insure in the minds of the Republicans of the country my right to their con esteem and Fess Fakes Charge Direction of the fall campaign was turned over to Senator Fess of Ohio and Robert Lucas of Ken a staunch administra tion was appointed pro visional chairman of the national It had been announced Fess would be made provisional pending a fall meeting of the committee to select perma ment James Francis general how it had been found the exe cutive committee had full powers and Fess selection would not have to be ratified present commissioner of internal was named exe cutive He will carry the burden of directing the party forces in the approaching campaign and will resign his treasury post soon to devote his entire time to the new Both Fess and Lucas were pres ont at the meeting and made brief The new alignment of the republi can organization leadership went ing Williams the farm board cannot give anything to any but it has considerable dis cretion in the matter of terms on Hyde to See Hoover Secretary Hyde returned to for a with President Hoover the bureau reports said scattered r ins had in a lew localities only and that general rains were not in Assurance reached the President from the railroads of the drouth areas that they would cooperate in any measures determined upon by the administration to get feed and cattle Reduction of freight rates on hay and feed into the cattle growing areas and pos sibly free transportation of live stock to unaffected grazing lands are under contemplation but a de cision will await the detailed re port on conditions which the agri ture department has promised to give Hoover on American Stabbed to Death in Allen an Amer ican was reported to day to have been stabbed to death at province capi recently sacked b Cameron represented the Broad cast Tract Press of and came to China from in Church Missionary society of Lon don today authorized its local rep to pay the ransom demanded for release of the Misses Edith Harrison an Continued on Page Two DATE Continued on Page Six Late Flashes traders scooped their profits from the pits today and wiped out ftn early leaving prices ol both wheat and corn below tht high closing marks of yesterday Waves of buying orders had swell td wheat prices 4c a bushel an corn 2 14 cents early in the daj hut at the close wheat was 14 to 114 cents under Wednesdays last Corn ended the day with losses of 1 14 to 2 18 Manuel former Oklahoma charged by prohibi tion agents who arrested him Washington with operating a still was held to the federal grand today under Th agents failed to press a charge that Herrick had impersonated an WEATHER FORECAST Oklahoma and Arkansas Fair Senator Heflin on his of the j Edith have been state in his campaign as an held captive more than a month in northern Provincial authorities at Tuesday received a note containing a finger chopped rum the ban oi ne of the women missionaries and Craig Indorsed by Chamber at Picher Picht tonight and Fri Chamber of Commerce rallied tc Kansas Fair and c o n t i n the support of Henry Pich or resident and Democratic candi date for the congressional nomina by indorsing him for th warm tonight and Democratic nomination at is Wesle for reelection to the seat I he hold in the Senator Heflin was from the Dem executive committee barred as candidates all perons who failed to sunport the Demo cratic ticket in i His opponent Disney of Torn president of Hi 1 club anm unco d Flood water stood six feet deep the International the of picturesque shops divides the two The vaters followed a stream us ally which runs between the Through International treet the dry bed is covered with forming a tunnel ble of carrying flood Breaks Through Tunnel Forcing itself through the tun lel the water spouted many large The flood ripped through adobe stripping them clean f everything The water wall bore down upon the sleeping cities ahead of the When the storm struck fell in At 7 it was still pouring The deluge held the cities in ts grip for more than three At 7 oclock International street and many side streets still were filled from curb to and deb was piled high against the Flee in Night Clothes Hundreds of Mexicans ventured to the higher side streets clad only in night all their pos sessions swept from their shatter ed adobe Shelter was giv en them in that escaped the More than 50 left in the wore buried in Several had been rolled and tumbled several Water Deep in Homes Dozens of persons on the Ameri can side of the line reported this morning water still three feet deep in their Scores said they had been up all night wad ing in water to the trying to save their homos and Streets were so clogged with wa mud and debris they had dif making their way out to organized to check up on the dead and locate the publisher of the No gales reported at 7 his offices were a foot deep in mud and All communication with Phoenix down since midnight and only one telephone wire to that city re mained in Confusion was so widespread at the climax of thr flood that re ports of missing persons could not The screams of caught in buildings of the f Continued on CAR RECLAIMED Frank Miami police today returned to Wright of a car stol en in Joplin Tuesday night and re covered here Ottawa County Free C demanding for re The note threatened fur turlure fur the random MIAMI TEMPERATURE Temperatures in Miami from 1 that the club had opened clock Wednesday until nooi in the old First National bank in Miami and asked foi 2 to accompany Craig 10 rally Grove Satur A large delegation of x the Picher high school 10 I and will make the trip in in tIA C Craigs oclock Wednesday if S Oo H S 2 it S Hi Metal AUK New York East Louis Zinc Kant Louis spot and future LlH 7s id future s id future Hit Hs
