Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - March 2, 1939, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Press Leased Wire MIAMI DAILY Ottawa County Population 209 Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing i Random ambling UNDER THE WEATHER snowplow manned by two city employes bucked along a city rolling off great slices of drift from its shouted the that looks like a hand sticking out of the It was a just under it a Further digging revealed an intoxicated none the worse for his snow CREDENTIALS MISSING baffled bride Vincent appeared to police after he lost his wedding Gorzney and his Dorothy returned to their respective homes unmarried but hoping the missing papers would turn up JUST BLEW IN An dersons uninvited breakfast guest came in like a lion upon the first day of almost lammed The Lee arrived vith a rush at the breakfast table seated in his automobile aft er it crashed through the kitchen SAVE OUR LUNCH is the secret of the popularity of fire They extin a rubbish fire in a church then received complaints about the smoke from upstairs where a church luncheon was in The firemen set up a huge fan on one of the trucks and pumped the smoke from the build The luncheon continued unin DUPLICATION Noticing duplicate entries in hospital rec at variance only in the Nurse Jessie Rivers went to the surgery to get the matter straight ened There she found John and John each receiving three stitches in their left hands to close wounds re while chopping 200 DISCHARGED FOR SIM Dismissal of Strik ers in New Jersey Under Recent Court Ruling March discharge of 240 work ers who participated in a sitdown strike at the Mer gott company was effected a company spokesman under a United States supreme court rul ing which declared an employer could not be forced to reinstate persons discharged for sitdown Emanuel S c h e c spokesman and counsel for the said he believed the mass discharge was the first under the court The members of the steel workers organizing took over the plant last Thursday in protest of what Scheck termed dismissal of 10 wo men workers the company charged had wilfully and deliberately em barked on a slowdown Scheck said the started their strike 23 a n d left the plant the next when started picketing and other rike The plant has continued in operation with be tween 250 and 300 employes at he 150 RESCUED OFF SHIP NEW March dio Marine corporation reported today the Newfoundland had rescued the 150 men aboard the leaking fishing boat Ranger which had sent out radio pleas for Radio Marine reported the rescue was effected in a heavy sea after the crew of the wooden Ranger had kept her afloat by bailing with THE WEATHER and warmer tonight and ARKANSAS Fair and con cold tonight Friday fail and fair to night and Rising tempera ture and in east and south portions rising tempera increasing colder in northwest anr north central portions and some what warmer in southeast portion Temperatures in Miami from I oclock yesterday afternoon until 2 today 4 i 1 5 i i 5 N 0 10 Midnight Noon 2 2 Office of Publication A Street and First Avenue SCORE MISSING IN HALIFAX HOTEL Only 48 of 117 Persons in Hostelry Definitely Accounted for MANY HURT JUMPING Others Perish After Hang ing From Windows 20 Survivors in Hospitals Nova March than i score of persons were missing and believed dead today after fire destroyed the Queen hotel and swept through a large section of his seaports business causing damage estimated at Only 48 of the 117 persons be to have been in the hotel the early morning fire broke out were accounted for definitely at but police said others un doubtedly had Police after conferring with hotel said the death list might be as high as The hotel register was buried in a safe beneath tons of Twenty survivors were in hos many suffering serious in uries from the flames or from lumping out windows when fire through the 50yearold wood and stucco structure cut off other avenues of Skating Star in Hospital Among the victims admitted to Victoria General hospital was Miss Jean Sherwood of New ice carnival The extent of her was not determined im Others missing or in ured all were listed as At four hours after he fire was the flames still were shooting from the ruined lotel and from adjacent jut it was believed they were under AVind Fans Flames Three business buildings in the same block were damaged by the fanned by a 25mile Firemen said men and women night clothes were clinging to window ledges and screaming for lelp when they first reached the Many jumped from upper stories and received grave Several were seen at filled windows trying to only to fall back into the blazing Within a few minutes after the first the blaze had spread from cellar to Many Hang From Windows When firemen men and women were hanging from hotel screaming for More an hour after the fire started officials could not estimate how many might have been cut off from I dont believe we got half of them said one All of Halifax fire apparatus was rushed to the A man suffering from burns staggered into a taxi office a block from the fire and asked for a car to take his wife to the Two firemen were among those taken to Some were bad ly burned others had bones brok en when they jumped from upper raising suc in carrying to the ground many who had clung to ledges or huddled in windows waiting for Saw Two Fall Back The brick Canadian Electric the National Drug companys brk a brick block housing several stores and wooden build ings along historic Water street all caught fire in spite of fire mens efforts to check the Police Sergeant Charles Judge said he saw two men stand Continued on Page Two WIDOW EXONERATED IN SLAYING OF MAN March Sylvia who shot her 50yearold to death on their farm near here two weeks was cleared of a murder charge today at a preliminary hearing before Justice Ernest Ed wards testified she shot her hus band because he choked their 16 yearold son and then threatened her with a club while he was in SHIP GOES DOWN INTO THE SEA MARCH 1939 MAJOR TEST ON STATE ECONOMY IMPENDS TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS As the American freighter begins its death plunge 25 miles off the New Jersey The crew gets away in a lower a half hour after the Lillian rammed another ship in the fogbound the Lillians crew on a nearing Brooklyn after being taken off their ship by the German freighter Wiegand which the Lillian Senate Leaders to Call Up Departmental Trimmed BATTLE IS EXPECTED CARDINALS ELECT PACELLI AS POPE ON THIRD BALLOT GOERING TO ITALY March Marshal Goering will leave within the next 10 days for a months holiday on the Italian Goering is trying to He recently has taken off many pounds from his and has trimmed his waistline considerably in the last six He is said to feel the need of a FIRM CALLS 60 TO WORK March vice president of Deep Rock Oil corporation an Co employes had been recalled to MORE FILINGS ARE RECORDED Three Miami Commission ers Enter Lists for v Reelection Three of the city commissioners who have served the last two years or more with Mayor Dobson announced their candidacy for re eJection Clyde Ward 2 Jess Ward and John Ward all filed as inde pendents at the office of county election board sec Mayor Dobson entered the cam to succeed himself day No one had filed at presstime for the city council vacancy in Ward thrown open yesterday by Roy Barnes decision to retire to devote his interests toward full time One change in precinct regis was announced Miss Vera 212 E north will serve in Ward Pre cinct Three Picher men climbed into the municipal office area this They are Earl for council from Ward Precinct 1 Demo for council from Ward Pre cinct and Buck for council from Ward Genevieve Republi filed for school treasurer at and Fred known sev eral years ago as the row again seeks that of fice at He filed late yes At Orb Dem will ask the nomination for police a position now held by Aubert Delia Republican and former city will request her former position at Al the filed yes Percy former Commerce police chief and present of the board of will run for He is a Republi Mysterious German Acid Capable of Damaging Battleship Hull Figures In Los Angeles Spy Trial Testimony Fall Injuries Fatal to Tulsa Sleepwalker Iarch Dwight suffered in falling from the window of his second story hotel room caused his death last night in a He received two basal skull fractures and several facial fractures in the which occurred Po lice said Berson told them her husband was a Survivors are the widow and two and it homo ihc and Oklahoma City a Oklahoma LOS March A mysterious of damaging the metal hulls of battle sensationally today in the federal trial of two men and a woman accused of peacetime The said United States At torney Ben was obtain ed from a German freighter by a Japanese fishing boat in 1937 and stored under the guard of an Ital ian at the Mexican port of Ensen 70 miles south of the Californ ia The Harri son burned down in a fire of undetermined origin the day be fore an American immigration of ficer was shot while trying to stop two men from crossing into the United All this the prose cutor was contained in one of the 69 secret reports of the naval intelligence service which Hafis former is accused of selling for to Mikhail manager of a soviet travel and his Nata From German Freighter amidst defense ob read to the jury from the report which listed the fishing registered to of San as the importer of two cargoes of the obtained from the German The Flying Cloud does little Harrison It fuels from the In flies an American but on the open sea flies a Japanese It has a powerful radio set capable of reaching Harrison asserted a quantity of the acid had boon obtained and When mixed with salt it turned to minute bubbles just under the It attacked further investigation with a 2apid corrosive ac The naval intelligence report went on to relate two instances when the acid apparently was used Quantities of the acid were be to have been dropped over board at Honolulu by a Japanese fishing boat in 1937 near a vessel loading molasses at a In a short percent of the un derwater metal of the loading boat had been eaten Again in two Japanese were arrested by the California Fish and Game commis sion at Los Angeles harbor for using acid in catching According to the German vessels were said to have brought of the acid through the Panama and a Raymond OPERATION BY FLASHLIGHT March Fowler operator of the Border hospital perform ed n major operation by flashlight recently when electricity failed during a The James is LIQUOR PERMIT NEAR LAW Phillips to Sign New State Dry Measure as Soon as Blanks Are Ready OKLAHOMA March dry Okla homa will launch this afternoon its farreaching experiment to shut the floodgates of illegal liquor with a permit Governor Phillips The chief executive said he would sign the permit into law as soon as he learned if the tax commission had the permits any shipment of liquor into Oklahoma must be accompanied by a tax commission permit show ing it will be used for scientific or religious Phillips put the damper on any hopes which drinkers might have held that drug stores would be permitted to sell whisky for med There isnt going to be any drug store prescription the governor that ought to show the people this real ly is a dry Foes of the charged as it passed the Legislature that it would legalize prescription whisky and convert drug stores into Phillips the would not work any hardship at all on those entitled to import liquor for legal The federal government with drew its help in keeping Oklahoma dry because the state had no per mit Phillips asked the be passed to enlist federal aid once in response to a ques said he had no idea whether the plan for rigid enforcement would boost the price of bootleg Country Club to Elect Directors The annual election of board of directors for Miami Country club will bo held at the clubhouse Mon day night following the member ships monthly stag Dinner will be by Russ Hawks entertainment committee at Balloting for tors will be the principal Jack new club profession will attend and may discuss briefly links plans for the spring and Curnutt Expects Tight Ev ery Foot of Way to Retain Fund Cuts OKLAHOMA March leaders donned fight ing clothes and prepared to call up today the big departmental trimmed in committee from the of the last Stiff opposition was in prospect as the administration faced its first major test on the floor on any of t h e big money Floor Leader Curnutt said it probably would be necessary to fight every foot of the way to maintain the economies which the appropriations committee already las Chairman Charles Duffy of the appropriations committee said he lad no how long it would take o get the through the upper chamber and to the As the departmental called for an outlay ot 005 for the next The committee trimmed this to J New Gas Inspector Test House still breathing lard after their initial tussle yes over the auto tag turn id to an equally controversial sub Francis Portas o cut the corporation commissions of 143 gasoline inspectors down to The departmental as it emerged from the shaving process n committee called for an outlay of for the next fiscal year and for compared with and of the last Curnutt said the pressure al ready was on to restore appropria tions which the committee lopped away from The administration had in mind saving more the next two years by making the School Land department and the corporation commission pay their own from their The corpora tion commission was due to get for each of the next two years and the land department The State Crime bureau and the securities headed for abolition by the Legis naturally were not included in the as it came from commit Heavy cuts were taken by the Planning and Resources which Governor Phillips wanted to It was reduced from this fiscal year to 435 next fiscal The safety de was cut from to Auto Tag Jam Because five Senate bills ready to be acted upon in the House today there was little like the representatives would have a chance to return to the con auto tag before to But when the measure comes up for Gib bons and other urban representa tives will try to get the House to back away from the system of dis Continued on Page Five Grand Jury Accuses Philadelphia Police Of Protecting Vice March 2 police department of the nations third largest from the mayor down to the most ob scure was charged by a grand jury today with protecting and permitting the ravages of commercialized vice and crime to flourish on a wide spread Winding up a 17monthslong in of vice the jury declared in its final present ment that political domination of the department by the mayor and high city officials had resulted ir the police being derelict in duty to their superiors and the The most farre aching tho dam aging political the jury has been exercised by Mayor Davis He ac tually so directed it the police de that organized vice could and did flourish in particularly jr the summer of Upon the jurys Mayor Wilson was indicted earlier this week on charges of DUD GRENADE KILLS FOUR March Japanese picking through the ruins on the battlefield at Kiang north of picked ur a band grenade he threw Three Japanese men ami a woman were killed and two other persons were CARDINAL PACELLI JURORS INDICT Charge Former Federal Jurist With Conspiracy to Defraud Government NEW March judge of the United States circuit court of was indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government by a special grand jury Indicted with the former jurist was George insurance agent and onetime representative of t h e late Archie The indictment contained three Conviction would make the two men liable to a maximum sen tence of six years in prison and a Manton resigned after District Attorney Thomas Dewey had accused a letter to Chair man Sumners of the House judi ciary of having accept ed loans from persons interested in cases before his who has denied any was a witness before the grand He was scheduled for further but his at torney said a glandular ailment forced him to go to a hospital for Continued on Page five Dodd Pleads Guilty In Case HANOVER March William former ambassador to Ger withdrew today his plea of innocence to a charge of hitrun driving involving an injury to a 4ycarold girl and changed his plea to Leith of Dodds announced the change in plea as the case was called for trial in circuit Judge Frederick Coleman ordered the defendant hesitating a re plied yes to the question do you plead guilty Judge Coleman then discharged jurymen summoned and a from commonwealths at torney Simpkins as to the Dodd was fined and State Fails to Get Expected misbehavior in office to suppress and failure AGED OPTICIAN CELEBRATES March OP Guthrie optician who is believed to be the oldest member of the profession in thr state in point of celebrated his work birthday at BV THE ASSOCIATED fair skies and slowly rising temperatures were forecast today by the Federal Weather bu reau at Oklahoma City after rain and snow billed for last night failed to show up except for a flur ry in the Minimum temperatures over night included 14 at 22 at Lawton and Oklahoma am 24 at The low was expected to range from ir the northern half to 30 in the southern Papal Secretary of State Under Late Pontiff Is Successor to Vatican Throne Under Title of Pope Pius DECISION IS QUICKEST IN THREE CENTURIES Benediction Pronounced on Cheering Throng by New Catholic Who Vis in VATICAN March Cardinal Pacelli today elected 262nd pope of the Holy Roman church on his and assumed the name of Pius The name under which the new pontiff will be spiritual ruler of Catholics was assumed in recognition of his succession to Pius to whom he was papal secretary of The election of the eminent ian cardinal on the third ballot of the first day of the conclaves vot ing was without precedent in the modern history of the Not since Gregory XV was chosen in has a conclave acted so Knowledge of The new pontiff has a thorough knowledge of the church in the United where he was a visi tor in October and The date of his coronation will be announced The election of Pope Pius XII shattered another tradition in that rarely has a secretary of state to the preceding pope been elevated to the papal Before the conclave Car dinal Pacelli was reported to be the favorite of the 27 foreign cardinals because he was believed to be best qualified to continue the policies of Pius who died As if to indicate his intentions of following in the of his the new pope se the same Crowd Cheers News Cardinal inioni made election and the new name from the central balcony of Cheers of the great crowd in the piazza prevented him from speak ing for several speaking in he said I announce the glad we have a As soon as he uttered the first name of Pius secretary of the crowd understood Pacelli had been Their cheers drowned out his next word and it was several seconds before he was able to say The although broke through the cordon of Cara and Fascist militiamen to swarm up the steps of the Radio Summons Faithful The Vatican radio broadcast a call to the faithful of Rome to come to Peters square for the official proclamation of the elec tion from the central The which rose close to 70 at dropped as the sun went but the crowd continued to increase in the chilly shadow that filled the In the central corridor of Vatican guards immedi ately began making preparations for appearance of the new pon Steps immediately under the central balcony were Inside the papal gen darmes and noble guards gathered to give the first salute to the from thousands of throats in the great piazza and echoed in the celebrat Ce il papa is a they And Abbiamo un papa have a Benediction Given Pius XII imparted his first papal benediction from the central bal cony of Peters to a wildly cheering throng shortly after the announcement of his Af ter giving his he re mained for several smil ing down on the vast The new pontiff is a member of an Italian noble family whose relations with the Vatican always had been He was received by President Continued on Page Two Metal Markets NEW March 2 UP Copper electrolytic spot export Lead steady New York East Louis Zinc steady East Louis spot and forward March Lead spot Hs 9d future 7s Zinc spot 10s future 16s V i
