Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - January 22, 1934, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Press Leased Wire Ottawa County Population XXXI 174 Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing JANUARY 1934 Office of Publication A Street and First Avenue N PRICE FIVE CENTS Store Clerks Say Leader of Kansas Prison Break Was Here Yesterday ONE IS RECAPTURED Charles Caught Near Kansas City Police Headquarters Pictures on Page 2 A man believed to be Big Bob leader of a band of seven convicts who escaped from the prison last entered a store here late Sunday purchasing a soft drink at the Several employes of the store were positive that the man was all of them comparing him with a photograph carried in the Miami which lay on a while he remained at the fountain apparently unaware that he was under I Immediately after the man left the store city police were County authorities were informed later and conducted an investiga tion in Miami and in the vicinity of but no trace was Tobacco Heiress Guarded Closely After Receipt of Extortion Threat NEW Daily News says Doris to bacco is being guarded by an extra detail of private detec tives because she received a threat ening The said the are seeking the writer of what was reported to be a kidnap letter sent to the heiress demanding money and threatening her Police refused to comment on the con Miss whose fortune is es to be more than was said to be in seclusion at her palatial home in Th first of seven convicts to leap tc the ground after scaling a wall of the Kansas state penitentiary here at daybreak Friday was first to be Charles Clifton sentenced for was returned to prison The still are at was arrested early yesterday a block from police hend in Kansas He still wore his prison which he said he thought might pass as William Smich special railroad recog the The convict said his escape was handicapped by a broken leg received wher he dropped too stiff ly to the He would not discuss plans for the break said he did not know where the other convicts Teacher Back Home Lewis schoolteacher hostage of the two escaping con returned home Sunday from where he was He identified the two as Jim Clark and Frank Another who escaped was Bob Big Boy who with Clark was among the 11 who fled from prison here last Memorial tak Warden Kirk Prather and two guards as later ing them in Lacey Simpson is the present The Kansas board of administra tion begins an investigation of the escape Reports that a second convict had been captured were received from where a special officer took a man wearing prison garb frun a freight Sheriff Want land said he resembled pictures of Fred one of the seven escaped But the prisoner insisted his name was II and that he had been pa roled from the prison Prison records confirmed that had been released on that but the man was held en the theory one of the escaped convicts might be using Idings worths Seen in Other Towns belief that at least two of the convicts Doris Duke and her town Youthful Prosecutor Brings 15 Mea to Trial in Ef fort to Break Grip Continued on Page Two Sinclair Returns To Enter Plea in Embezzling Case Harry Sinclair and his heads of the wide spread Consolidated Oil corpora arrived in Tulsa today to sur render and be arraigned on state charges of embezzlement filed by a special prosecutor after examina tion of the books of the bankrupt Exchange Trust At Sinclairs office it was said the oil men would appear during the afternoon to plead not guilty and post bond Three others of the group of 25 locally accused were arraigned during the They were Barnard and all Tul sa oil McFar Tulsa who wa in Kansas City the two Sinclairs and Frank New York oii remain to be Various members of the group had been accused of embezzling from the in trust held by the appointed by Wil liam filed the com teries of attorneys representing the state and the defense lined up today for a battle royal in the courtroom of Chief Justice Philip Finnegan of the criminal court of he largest racket trial in the States reached the point of opening To States Attorney Thomas Cook countys youthful the trial of the defendants meant the culmina ion of his first effort to rid Chica go of the labor Induct ed to office a little over a year ago on a platform to banish and Courtney and his staff launched an investigation of the toll legitimate business paid to the and said it ran into millions 24 Accused at First On July 27 of last Court ney tossed a bombshell with an an of blanket indictments against 24 men charged alike with acid and con to restrain legitimate through only IS have been brought to Citizens of prominence were drawn into the indictment net along with the notorious of gang Most widely known to paper readers of the 24 were Al already in a federal pi is on for income tax evasion Murray heir apparent to Capone at that time under conviction for carrying weapons Aaron Now York and Chicago organize n the cooperative marketing in the United and i l counsel for the Chicago Laundry Owners association Alderman Os car in Europe at I In Promoter Charged With Mail Fraud for Solici tation of Money From Al Hearst and Others to Buy Bust of Presidents Adviser Savs Home Owners and Farm ers Will Benefit SILVER MOVE BEGUN Paul Intermediary Miss Telephone Line Being Kept Open PICKUP ORDER ISSUED President Goes Over Prob lem of White Metal at Conference Today One of President prin cipal money George told the Senate banking committee today that home farmers and debtors would realize the greatest benefit from the ad ministrations monetary He expressed his views to the com conducting hearings paratory to Senate action while President Roosevelt went over the silver at M White House Indications grew that an effort would be made to attach silver legislation to the valuation passed Saturday by the The Cornell professor was ques sharply about his conten tions that the price of was determined to a considerable extent by the price of Senator Walcott asked if we might be driven into a period of extreme inflation should the proposed stabilization fund Warren replied that every ex treme inflation in the had been preceded by government bank violent revolution or a long period of and that if this Police Cars Put on Trail of Auto With Man Lying On Floor in Rear al activity by police and members of the family today pro renewed speculation over whether contact with the kidnapers of Edward wealthy banker abducted for ran was Walter wealthy contract or and friend of the could not be found and inquiries as to the whereabouts of the man who received the first and only note from the kidnapers shortly after Bremer was seized about last elicited replies of I dont know at his home and f At the Jacob Schmidt Brewing of which Adolph is principal the telephone line of the friend of Presi dent Roosevelt was kept clear by the companys Police Broadcast Order Police headquarters was virtual ly deserted by the detectives who have lounged about deferring ef forts to apprehend the abductors at the request of the elder One officer This is the last night of referring to BLOOD IN KIDNAP CAR ALARMS WIFE Blood smears in his from which Edward Paul was dragged by his kidnap have increased fears of shown and authorities that lie has been injured or The shown was abandoned by the abductors in a Paul residential 59 MILES OF ROAD WORK IS INCLUDED Approved by Administrator Improvement of All Rural Routes Expected to Be Given Also by Washington Authorities in Rapid country drifted into that condition i it would be an unusual historical Adolph it was might be the medium through Walcott said he did not sec how which the kidnapers planned to ar the fund could I range a rendezvous for payment of McAdoo Cites Fears the since Magee the first Senator said has been Continued on Page Seven Resignation of Araki j An effort to seize what legal men called a sucker list that looks like a crosssection of Whos Who was planned today by federal au following the arrest of Alfred Layton of one of the heads of the Better Housing institute was charged with using the mails to defraud in obtaining contributions from scores of the best known men in the country by employing the names of John Pershing and George Leo United States at torney said Layton had writ ten more than sign ing General Squiers asking contributions to purchase and pre sent to the government a portrait bust of General Pershing as a na tional James attorney for today the plan even contemplated having Presi dent Roosevelt accept the bust on behalf of he Among those known to have con Charles Daniel Alfred Parker Andrew Ogden Adolph William Randolph Alfred James and John May Mark Change Empires Policy in Continued on Page Seven today that General Irid Layton last M irch L between 25 or 30 inent men to raise purci the bust of General by who committed suicide by himself in of a New York subway said bad no idea hi name was being broad throughout the country signed to more than letters asking for He asserted that when was seized for two days week it contained in although Conference on Cuban Recognition Is Held Representatives of the 20 Ameri can countries will meet with account here showed be n deposited only re this afternoon to discuss tion of Indication that the United States government considers the Cuban situation rapidly improving wai given at the State department this when the projected presi conference was made Secretary returned j to t IK from his South American tie five dined to say that the presidential four y conference meant Cuban had tion was but did indi cate the government considers the Cuban people railly are r to the support of the new govern Twaa Just 4 Years Ago Today A the skyrocketed day delved back in ier records of the last and found that on Jar the nier a Ivii to 2ii figure is the low officially in And it i By the Associated Press World capitals speculated today on what effect the resignation of Sadao extreme militar as Japanese minister of war might have on strained relations between that country and Soviet a warning to Japan not to plot against our frontiers came from a high soviet head of the Moscow Communist party and member of the Soviet Central Exe cutive in an address to party leaders said we must be prepared for nn attack at any mo ment and that Japan must re member the Soviet Union is czarist Russia of Sa dao who in the eyes of the world the militant Continued on Page Seven Expected to Heed Pe tition Filed Today by Ailing Defendant A mistrial in the case of Alice Lindsay Wynekoop was declared this afternoon by Judge Joseph A pe tition by Alice Lindsay Wyne koop asking that her murder trin lie because of ill health was fied with Judge Joseph David Judge David previously had in he would grant such a pe tition if it were He had listened to the reports of several physicians that subjecting her fur ther to the rigors of the trial might have a fatal Alice did not appear in Her told the court she bad collapsed twice while Miss Mary county jail matron and attempted to dress her to go to Business Picking Judge Landis Says in Reply to Baseball Queries In Interview During Stop in Miami j some bo Czar of Major Leagues Par vies Questions About Ruth Relates Tale of the Traveling and Then Does Bit of Interviewing On His Own Judge Kenesaw Mountain fiery commissioner of whose duels with he mighty Habe over measures 10 years ago held eyes of the today expressed an optimistic view point on especially in where he was interviewed tri morning by a reporter the judge left by motor for Accompanied by his wife at the his actions not tin his some Go talked freely of improving br i lie n in which achieved national re sharp der his eyes hair familiar baseball fans ever the Gas Attacks on a Koines Stealthy Marauder Hunt ed as Result of Myster ious Episodes in Which Several Persons Have Been Made Showdown Between Murray Forces and Opposition Due to Come 5 and series o stealthy attacks with gas on widely scattered homes in this by a person whose identity is a baffling of two counties The gasser has released a nauseating gas in at least caused illness to several and has given the resi dents of this section a case of nerves during the last month or A woman is believed to be linked with the series of Investi gators have found the imprint of a womans foot in two But that is all the officers know about the strange gas of Gas Even the motive and the exact nature of gas used form part of the In his latest the marau der released gas in a home and then vanished without a trace as officers of two counties sought to trap him by converging from two Other traps have been but without Driver of who investigated one of the recent was quoted by county officers as saying was convinced chlorine gas was used in that This attack occurred at the home of at about days Womans Footprints Another attack occurred last Tuesday the home u between and Investigator said they tracks made y a at a spot where Duval said liu a man enter an which bad its motor and then speed The finding of a wo mans track was reported also in an investigation of a previous at In one of the earlier oc curring in Miss Alice Huff daughter of Cal Huff man ol was over come by a gas released in the Huff man Three separate attacks were said to have taken place on the Huffman home on the evening of The attack at the home and Clarence Hall of Si ill another was made OKLAHOMA both the Murray forces claiming vic Oklahoma Democrats today awaited the meeting of their state central committee hero 5 for a showdown in the fight for control of the partys organization for the next two The named Saturday in county will the state chairman and other County chairmen and vice chairmen make up the The group as less than a dozen counties chose officers opposed to START IS INDICATED ON COLLEGE PROJECT Order to Purchase Mater ials Received Word of Approval Has Not Been Transmitted Other Towns in County Share in County CWA headquarters re word today that Ottawa county had been given another generous slice of money by the state civil works The total amount approved for different projects in the county is but approval must be given by the department in Wash ington before the bulk of that can be The approved for road repair in the county was sought for reconditioning approximately 59 miles of rural mail Ev ery route in the county is in need of repair and final approval of the sum is hoped for some time this Men will be the projects as quickly as Jail Repair Included in the remainder of ap proved projects was for re pair work on the city jail at Fair for repair on the Peo ria and for street repair at An item of for repair and drainage on the campus and buildings of Northeastern ma Junior college is have been That amount will be taken from the state fund and The anti group likewise has not yet bcen claimed contending the or formed in more than a majority of the counties were op posed to Governor Murray and Tom of who is Murrays choice to succeed him as Ardmore fa vored by the forces fur the state de clared his ejection as chairman was indicated beyond Continued on Page Six STRIKE GROWS Results of the strike of medical profession became increasingly today as many ol Cubas sick and injured remained unat of the Cuban Medical federation were reported refusing to an inch in demands that the government en force a recent decree which would compel all to join the feder TO CUBA 22 Roosevelt today notified the diplomats of Central and South America that he was ready to rec the new Cuban BONDS HILL 22 The Senate today passed the House providing government for the authorized 000 of farm refinancing man for Right in at the He and was iay when he number of wint to ue Seven upon the home of All of tin victim by Kelly iyo it marks to ij States dol WEATHER FORECAST OKLAHOMA in partly cloudy in cast cold er tonight colder and smith ARKANSAS colder in portion tonight in MISSOURI fair and colder tonight and KANSAS Fair tonight and Tuesday colder Miami from l afternoon until IL Jilt the local of received material purchasing orders from State Purchasing Ag ent this State projects are usually handl ed in that a member of the CWA staff said this The orders are received then a telegram followed by an official letter confirming the approval of John president of the Junior college expressed Continued on Page Two Foods Scorned by Bates And Bailey Today 22 roast meats and succulent vegetables apparently had failed today to tempt Harvey and Albert convict to a hunger strike in protest against solitary confine ment in the federal the convicted kidnapers were not wasting The prison phy and two with a daily gallon of milk and rubber saw to that while two convict wit stood by to be able to tes the forcible feeding was not accompanied by The men who gurgled as they were forced to take the un accustomed beverage by he nostril route were sentenced to life for the ransom abduction of Charles oil They are believed to know where R of the ransom money is Federal officials are more than curious about George Machine Gun also to life for the Ur schel kidnaping and in a solitary cell has become a daily reader of the Prison officials say he has expressed a desire to be come an evangelist within the Kelly is THOMAS ILL 22 Senator Thomas was confined to his bed today with a severe office said his con dition was not regarded as be probably would be transferred to a hospital if there was any change for the Metal Market Lead steady spol New York Louis barley steady Kust Louis spot and future M til 15s future 17s spot 2s
