Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - April 9, 1935, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Leased Wire XXXII 242 MIAMI DAILY n Ever tnd Sunday by MUml Publishing 10 KILLED APRIL 1935 At Publication Avenue Ottawa County Population PRICE FIVE CENTS House Passes Drastic Aimed at War Profits CONSCRIPTION OF MANPOWER IS VOTED OUT But Measure Gives Presi dent Broad Powers to Commandeer Resources 100 PERCENT TAX IS SET Levy on All Excess Earn ings During Goes to Senate Next April provisions for taxing away all excessive war the McSwain antiwar profits was passed today by the 367 to and sent to the Just before the by a 206 to 183 eliminated a section permitting conscription of manpower in The would give the Presi dent broad powers to commandeer the nations public services and industrial and material re sources to prosecute To prevent uncontrolled price booms rising out of heavy war time the measure would place a ceiling over all prices upon declaration of 100 Percent Tax Specified The House voted that upon the declaration of war there shall be imposed a tax of 100 percent on all excess war profits that may be during said period of On this the Senate was expected by some Houes members to attempt to hang a specific tax schedule so drastic as to restrict corporations war earnings to 3 percent of their investment and individual incomes to around the limit of a major The percent limit was opposed by a War department spokesman earlier in the day before the Sen ate ft was generally expected that considerable difficulty would be en countered in reconciling all the dif The McSwain and the one ap proved by the munitions committee differ in many The had voted to send the Mil back to committee to eliminate the conscription The on the instantly did and passage came in a few Warning Sounded the War department put before the Senate munitions committee its opinion that 3 per Grand Jury Is For Tulsa Quiz Inquisitors Will Delve Into Gorrell and Born Killings And Connected Events Secrecy April grand who with two oth ers will investigate the mysterious deaths of two Tulsa youths and ju venile delinquency and other crime in had been chosen when district court was recessed at Carefully wording their ques prosecutors revealed no in formation on the subjects to be investigated by the called by a petition signed by 180 county Veniremen were asked only if there was any reason they could not Four of the 14 questioned were excused because of illness or business Judge Thurman Hurst said that he expected to complete the jury during the afternoon and begin questioning of the 180 petition who will be the first wit With the calling of the grand rumors which had lain dor mant since the conviction of Phil in February were reviv Kennamer now is serving a 25 year prison term for manslaughter in the death of John whose death is one of the two the jury is to The other is that of Sidney associate of Ken who was found shot to death was killed Thanksgiving Berns has insisted his son was mur dered despite police findings that he killed Secrecy Is Imposed Secrecy shrouded the hearing as it Following the selection of the jury from the the ISO persons who signed the petition calling the grand jury will be call ed to testify in a secret cent limitation on war profits might endanger loss of a Some committee how stuck to their view that such a limitation should The War department view was expressed by Har ris of the war plans who said I in the name of the sec of again warn that any measures adopted must not be so restrictive or binding in charac ter as to prevent necessary produc since any failure to product munitions when needed must b paid not in dollars and cents but in human lives and the conse of possible There ropart the tes MODIFIED BY CONFEREES ON INCOME TAX Exemptions Increased and Rate Range Lowered to Percent MORE FUNDS SOUGHT Marland Says Only Half Sum Needed For OKLAHOMA April an House and Senate conferees today increased exemptions and reduced rates incorporated in the drastic administration income tax The conferees raised Individual exemptions from to and those for husband and wife from to The rate spread was also modified from 2to12 per cent to omitting the 2 percent the corporation rate was left un changed at 6 insisting the appropria tion already made by the Legisla ture to aid the states unemploy ables is entirely de clared he will ask an additional to assist those unable to That sum would supple ment money already provided for the period ending June The governor predicted the first fund would be gone by Flood Board Studied The governor today was attempt ing to decide the personnel of the new state flood control He said he intended to place Frank Vaughan of Woodward on the board that Howard of former does not de Nickels Injecting Shot in to Chicago Business April 9 A monumental flock of nickels has given Chicago trade a new shot in the Commerce in the nations sec ond city was benefiting today from the stimulus of an aggre gate business credit estimated at injected by the refund of being made by the Illinois Bell Tele phone company to several mil lion And the refund is the result of than a billion of from coin box subscribers of 192334 and ordered returned as overcharges by the United States supreme court in accordance with an Illi Commerce commission rul ing for lower Since the refund was started last 15 an average of per month has been mailed The work has been speeded the telephone com pany and completion of the distribution to present and former subscribers is expected by June Further aiding the boost to trade is the payroll of a special force of persons employed full time by the company to push the distribution until the jury completes its Judge Thurman who pre sided at the Kennamer trial in today held that Holly An d county is quali fied to assist in presenting ny to the Owen as sistant will be in charge of the Bullet Expert Called Alva ballistics expert from the State Bureau of Criminal is the only other than petition who was known to been Shelton was expected to testify concerning the bullets which caused the death of the two In view of the great number of witnesses to be court at taches said that probably three weeks would be required the to hear Continued on Page Two Miami Keeping Fire Record Low in 1935 A report by Fire Chief Seay shows that fires were re to a low figure of 13 during the first three months of the year Answering these the fire department limited total losses to Seay said the value of buildings involved by fire was loss to these value of contents and to tal loss to The fire chief attributed much of the preventive measures to the carefulness of Seay left today for Coffeyville for a conference and school of In struction for fire chiefs of east Kansas and Northeast Okla This school was planned ai a conference in Miami severa weeks BODY HAULED IN AUTO TWO DAYS New Orleans Police Sift Bank Clerks Assertion Divorcee Killed Self Indian Studied By a Subcommittee April A Senate subcommittee delved to flay into the problem of aiding Oklahoma Indians and heard testi mony that opposition to the Thom Oklahoma Indian wel fare came primarily from white lawyers who would be deprived of that he termed guardianship and attorneys fees who said he was i tribal attorney for the saifi the Osage Oklahoma Bai association had adopted a resolu tion which opposed the proposal in part because their business be He said the tribe he represented favored the minor changes might be made without affecting provisions relating to other Chief and John rep resenting Ihe Creek alsi approved the Judge Boyd of Tulsa County Dies April county judge and daan of the county died early He had been ill for three Judge Boyd had been on the county bench since Survivors include the widow and a Subscribe for the Veteran Miner to Lay Aside His Wheelbarrow Next Month To Become Mayor of Picher Fred Employed Present on PWA Flood Control Is Eager to Justify Faith of Fellow Citizens Moderation to Be Keynote of Efforts for Betterment Of Conditions Within His He Fred Gary believes his new job will be but holds the de termination to do his best to justi fy support of townspeople in the recent spring He lays aside his wheelbarrow in three weeks to become mayor of On May 6 this who has spent 35 years as a will of open his first term in pub lic He is eager to change from his present on the federal PWA flood control project on Lytle he says the work has not been am going to try my hardest to clean up the Gary said in an nouncing his But 1 am not going to try to make it a Sunday nor do anything that might the Sees Need of Reforms The was referring to excessive drinking and which he avers have been all too frequently reported in his He aid he intends to give more pow ers to the city serving chiefly as chairman of the council and as police Gary is a veteran of the Spanish American He joined Company Fifth Missouri Volunteers in antry in and served until November of that Fol owing the he became a vorking continuously in that capac ty until three years when con forced reduction in payroll taffs of the While a he has been a ground foreman and machine man having been identified in the for mer capacity with the Charles T Orr company of Webb City for sev en He came to Picher in On Creek Job a Year A year ago Gary was given em ployment on the Tar creek improver ment When that task was he shifted to the Lytle creek As wheelbarrow he has worked by the side of two The latter have piled the and Gary has carried it The new Picher official states that he is in good condi better than when he started on the project On his first meeting night he will preside over the council of eight two of Lee Pay ton and Clyde have been Six mem bers of the body are Archie Dan Jack Claud Chambers and Bert Gary is not about any appointive He will let the take the lead in matters of his Additional plans will be laid before the council shortly af ter the new regime takes 1 want to give everyone a square deal in my cleanup cam Gary I want to make Picher a better place for peo ple to live Financial the mayar elect will be among the major tasks confronting NEW April Steve 32yearold bank was held for investigation today while police his weird story of riding around New Orleans for two days with the body of a pretty young woman stuffed in the luggage compartment of his He said she committed suicide while out riding with Frankly puzzled by the unusual details of the case as related by the who refused to be shaken through long hours of District Attorney Eu gene Stanley ordered further in The man said his Grace 21yearold shot herself fatally while were out riding Saturday af and fearing a scan he put the body in the rear compartment that night and en tered upon a period of ceaseless hoping to think a way out of his Surrendered Yesterday His which included two stops at his home in the early morning hours of Sun day and ended yesterday afternoon accompanied by the womans John unemployed and her Irene de store whom he picked up a short time he brought his with its gruesome to a stop in front of the court house to the district at office to tell his The district attorney and his as sistants listened as Macaluso calm ly told them he had the body of a woman in his car They rushed and drove the car into the police where HOME RULE TO BE RELIED UPON IN WORKS DRIVE Speed in Disbursement of Huge Fund Indicated as President Signs LONG DELAY DECRIED Amendments to Make Some Changes in Setup Necessary I I April Secretary Ickes said today a new decentralized Public Works admin would be created in the states to speed new projects and coordinate them with other parts of work pro His statement at a press conference conformed with other official assurances that greater home rule will be sought to ac spending the work fund and transferring jobless from direct to work Ickes said he plans to set up le financial and engineering di visions in in the states so they can pass on the projects and send them in He added that the new which he said could be set up immediate would cooperate with state planning councils in the entire pro Ickes said that so far as pos sible labor on projects ought to come from relief Differs With McCarl Despite an informal ruling by McCarls of fice that purchase of submarginal land and subsistence homesteads were not authorized by the work Ickes said it was his own opinion that the act was broad enough to cover subsistence home Presidents apparent dis STUCK IN THE HAPPY Nobody In harassed for weeks by dust storms which brought not merely annoyance but serious damage to land and other complained when enough rain finally fell to mire motorcars on The two views above show cars near after threequarters of an Inch of water had transformed the dusty Associated Press Photos with Senates long delay in passing the work relief shared in terest in the capital today with of assurance that a greater de gree of home rule will be relied upon to speed expenditure of the After signing late yesterday from a fishing trip off the Florida Roosevelt sped on to New York to attend the funeral to day of his Warren Delano the American minister to Long Delay Is Decried Government circles noted that a statement issued aboard his train the into law while returning they opened it and found the crumpled form of the woman curl ed up in a heap of bloody and mud stained She had shot through the loft Gun Not Found No gun was and Macaluso told the district attorney he threw it out as he was riding along a highway near the city in a moment of Then began a long questioning of by the district attorney which lasted from shortly after 2 yesterday until past mid when the officials ordered Macaluso booked for further in Wolfe and Mai ino also were The father said though he be story sounded he could not understand why he did not report the tragedy He said his daughter had been ill recently and had been depressed and that two years ago she mae an attempt to take her life by drinking He said she was divorced about three months District Attorney Stanley said Macaluso also was Continued on Page Two Father Hunted for Beating 3 April Angered neighbors jointed today in a hunt for Robert un employed bricklayer of after officers were informed that he had beaten his small daugh ter into unconsciousness because she could not spell The Norma Jean who will be 3 years old is in a hospital her body cov with welts and bruises and one arm in a Officers said the 27yearold father once served a term in Lor ton Norma Jeans young who ran to the home of a neigh bor yesterday to said her husband had whipped the Indian Actor Gains Release By Singing To Pair of Outlaws April Chief Indian opera singer who played the of the big chief in the motion pic ture gave two des an impromptu operatic concert on a prairie in Western Oklahoma last night in order to gain freedom after he had been robbed and with He told police about it here to En route by motor car from to Philadelphia to rejoin the Philadelphia Opera the chief and a young hitchhiker he had given a ride were held up on Highway 66 between Oklahoma City and Elk Driven into a side they were threatened with and death because they had only between Offering to pay ransom if the singer told the ban dits about his part in the picture and sang to them to demon strate his One who had seen the picture agreed that Caupolican was the chief all right and the Indian and his companion without further Four Are Taken to McAlester Prison child with a heavy belt Sunday night until she seemed to stop She said the little girl was beaten again yesterday and that she was prevented from going for a physician until her husband left the house late in the Norma Jean can Patty perfectly her mother told vis at the but she said A rabbit drive near netted rabbits in a 40scjuare mile the she father frightens her so that cannot Four prisoners were taken to McAlester this morning by Sher iff Ely The group included sentenced to one year in connection with the raising of a mine check Orel four years for the slaying of Hadley miner John five years for burglary Merle Cof 25 years on conviction of a statutory The Browns and Coffees are not President Attends New York Funeral NEW April special train bringing President Roosevelt to New York to attend the funeral of Warren Delano Rob bing arrived at the Pennsylvania station at oclock this morn The who sped north ward throughout the night from his fishing trip off the Florida was greeted at the station by his his James and his daugh Anna They left at once by automobile for Protest ant Episcopal Church of the In where the services for the late minister to Canad were to be OKLAHOMA local warmer in central and east portions tonight Wednesday local showers in east por ARKANSAS local showers tonight and Wednesday wanner tonight and in southeast portion Wednesday colder in ex treme northwest portion MISSOURI tonight and Wednesday warmer tonight and in extreme east Wednesday colder Wednesday in northwest winds be coming KANSAS Unsettled tonight and showers probable warmer tonight in extreme south east colder Wednesday strong shifting Temperatures in Miami from 2 yesterday afternoon until noon today STEEL FIRM HAS INSIDE REVOLT Two Stockholders Attack High Salaries Paid to Schwab and Grace April Two stockholders of the Bethle hem Steel corporation today at tacked the officers of the corpor of the high salaries they The criticism was un expectedly launched at the Thirti eth annual meeting of stockholders and came shortly after Charles chairman of the and Eugene had spoken with enthusiasm of the Leopold Coshland of New first of the said there cents their brows are men getting an hour by the sweat 67 of in the plants of the while three officers draw in speaking concerning the salary paid to said the chairman of the board was an asset to the real asset for the received a interrupted but there comes time when a man outlives his Referring to the salaries of the three Coshland It isnt just or honorable and if I were Grace I would hide my face in Dust and Rain in Oklahoma Storms By Dust The Associated Press storms and rain storms were among weather extremes Out in shifting winds kicked up more of the dust clouds which have harassed that Iry section for Meantime a steady rain fell in of the northeast section of particularly in the No At the state capital a cool and windy morning was replaced by summery temperatures in the afler loon and Harry nent predicted showers or the central but no pre for the dusty western Opens Fire On State Beer Law 2 4 6 5 10 2 4 6 8 10 Noon 52 April attic to preserve and to if he act permitting was to he started here today by delegates to the annual dry rally of the Ok lahoma Delegates representing all parts of the state arrived during the TRAIN CRASHES INTO WORK CAR IN FLOOD AREA Wreck Near Brings Toll of Rainy Spell Close to Score STREAMS RAMPAGING Many Persons Routed From Some Towns In Is High April 9i railway section working late to repair damage caused by recordbreaking were killed last night in a railroad accident near The which occurred when the workers light motor car crashed headon into a Southern Pacific gravel was the worst of several which have ac companied heavy rainstorms over the state in the last three Nine other persons have lost their lives through and untold property damage has been caused by high Bodies Flung Into Ravine The victims of the accident were killed instantly and their bodies flung into a 60foot ravine by the side of the An eleventh worker was possibly fatally in while three others escaped with minor Nine of the dead were found im mediately and identified at the morgue as Jose Steve Louis Apostolis and Sam all of Res cuers found the body of Pete Peni otes in the ravine Attend ants at the railroad hospital at said Tony Espinoza was Threats of more serious flood hazards were believed averted to day with the passing of the peak of the storm and prospective re turn of clearing railroads all lUffS ferdd from the effects of the storm in many sections of no tably in the and San Joaquin Rains Break Records Records of half a century stand ing in Sacramento and of 22 years at Los Angeles were shattered by the rains that pushed the seasonal total throughout the state above the normal and far above tation in recent Valley rivers were choked with the runoff from the Sierra Nevada overflowing over thousands of acres of lowlands and into Tributaries of the Sacraments river created the chief pushing it up within inches of flood stage at The dropped slightly to feet last but reclamation engineers feared it might rise again today The Feather one of passed flood stage north of Sacramento last and in its rush swept away a mile of Southern Pacific tracks on the Marysville branch Boats Used in Town Rising waters drove many per sons from their One hun dred wore driven from river bot tom camps at Merced was from three to five feet deep in water in the business district find parts of its residential sections when creek overflowed there last Merced hotels were jam med by persons quitting their flooded Damage was esti mated around in that Boats and canoes were used for transportation as scorns of auto mobiles and several sick persons were taken to hospitals in high wheel EAST HIT Severe ringing Along North Atlantic Coast Steamer Sends S O Rivers Rising Is Slain By Chicken Thieves April promi farmer living 10 miles east of died in a hospital this morn if gunshot wounds inflicted by chicken thieves whom he routed from his farm shortly after mid night By The Associated Press The worst noreaster in many years raged along the North seaboard rampant rivers brought the radic threat of heavy flood dam With tumultuous sean running in the North the British freighter wallowing 200 miles east of sent out an S 0 Hold filling the sage Several ships were pro to her Continued on Page Six Metal Market NEW April Lead steady spot New York East Louis Zinc quiet East Louis 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