Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - March 5, 1939, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Press Leased Wire 2j i MIAMI DAILY Ottawa County Population Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing Roosevelt Has to Lies Nazi DNB Says March of German news in an account of President Washington speech said the President turned from sentations and remarkable inter to downright The account carried by the DNB news bureau under a New York dateline said he lied that religion is persecuted in ed states so that no one can honor God in his own Roosevelt in his address be fore a joint session of Congress said Where democracy is snuffed out the right to wor ship God in ones own way is cir or DNB ridiculed American press freedom as unlimited permission to agitate and to The Berliner Lokal termed Roosevelt the Don Quixote of Besides comparing the President to the Spanish knight who attacked the newspapers ed him under a bamier headline Roosevelt Indulges in T The agency commented in dis i cussing the election systems of and authoritarian states We do not want to con vince Roosevelt of the correct ness of our state only insist that he refrain in in this manner in our af With ten million unemployed there must be more pressing tasks X X DEPARTMENTAL TO HOUSE Senate Leaders Jubilant at Holding Big Funds Meas ure to OKLAHOMA March big tax tapping car cigaret smokers and beer drinkers for their share of the cost of state will be given a hearty shove by the Phil lips administration in the House next The governors Senate leaders were rejoicing over their suc Bs in guiding the biennial de appropriation the upper chamber cut below the appropria tion for the current two The as it went to the House for further call ed for an expenditure of That was only high er than the recommendation of the Senate appropriation committee which studied possible economies for Appropriation committees of House and Senate will begin meet ing jointly Monday night on the huge institutional appropriation The University of Oklahoma budget will be discussed fol lowed by that of Oklahoma the smaller state supported and eleemosynary and penal Fatal Branding of Baby Is Admitted March 4 a surprise arraignment before a justice of the Paul former brickyard pleaded guilty today to a murder charge in the death of 2 yearold Miriam known at as the Rosebud He held without bail for the next term of I feel like I would like to die right Barrick Described as a jealous suitor of the childs he flinched when informed Miriam had died THE WEATHER and much colder Sunday and Sunday night Monday fair and continued showers in east colder Sunday Mon day colder in east and south KANSAS colder east portion Sunday Monday fair and or snow in rain east and south por colder Sunday Monday con colder in WEEKEND TEMPERATURES Temperatures in Miami from 2 Friday until 8 oclock Sat night i 52 S 57 Id 54 Noon 57 2 57 54 53 Midnight 51 2 6 4 j 8 2 4 Outlook for week Lower Missouri erable snow in north and rain in south portions luring the week temperature mostly near normal in and near or above normal in south EXTOLS LIBERTY VERSUS DICTATORSHIPS With Chief Justice He Addresses Congress in Anniversary Session IN PARALLEL VEINS Nations Best Defense Seen As Precepts Set Forth In Constitution March Upon a gala joint session of President Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes im pressed today the thought that the individual liberty guaranteed by the Constitution is this nations defense against those who would destroy Gathered in the hall the House of Representatives were the members of both branches of Con commemorating the first meeting of the national legislature under the 150 years ago With them were the members of the the su preme the heads of the army and and the diplomatic en voys of more than 50 foreign coun Democracy in Review It was an occasion for tradition al American patriotic for tribute to the founders of the and to the Consti But Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes made it also an occasion for reviewing a cen tury and a half of what it has meant and what it promises to mean to the people of They found their thoughts following similar chan said the with many other the United States will give no en to the belief that our processes are or that we will approvingly watch the return of government which for two thou sand years have proved their tyr rany and their instability Peaceful Means Stressed He served that the United States would not stand passive and silent while religious liberty was denied in other but would use every peaceful means to preserve religious and personal Where democracy is snuffed out to worship God in ones own way is circum scribed or he said Shall by our by our by assuming the atti tude of the Levite who pulled his skirts together and passed by on the other lend encouragement to those who today persecute reli gion or deny it The answer is just as in the days of the first Congress of the United States it was Preponderant Sentiment Chief Justice Hughes said the most significant fact in connec tion with the anniversary is that after 150 notwithstanding expansion of enormous increase in population and pro found economic despite direct attack and subversive in there is every indication that the vastly preponderant senti ment of the American people is that our form of government shall be the President described the of with its guar antees of freedom of Continued on Page Two MARCH 1939 Office of Publication A Street and First Avenue PRICE FIVE CENTS MIGHTY BULWARK ACROSS GRAND RIVER ASSUMES IMPRESSIVE PROPORTIONS cubic yards of concrete has been poured at the with high pouring scheduled Story on Page Bob mte President Seeks to Supplement Already Asked for Army as Defense Measure March 4 UP Immediately after his return from the naval maneuvers in the President Roosevelt asked Congress today for to supply critical items of army strengthen seacoast defenses and train civilian airplane The money would supplement the army appropria tion which the House passed yes and sent to the The Presidents request was transmitted in letters to Speaker Of the was earmarked to provide the army with additional semiautomatic ri antiaircraft gas antitank am munition and artillery to bolster seacoast defenses and for the pilot training To Train Young Fliers The President recommended funds for pilots be made available immediately so the Civil Aeronautics authority could get the program under way at the beginning of the fiscal year start ing July Budget Director in a letter accompanying the Presidents com said the program was designed to provide a trained re serve of competent and efficient pilots for service in our expanding air transport system and in addi form an important adjunct to an adequate national For seacoast the Pres ident recommended be appropriated for continental Unit ed States installations for insular possessions and 372 for the Panama Canal These sums would be supplemented by authorizations to make con tracts totalling for which actual appropriations would have to be made The President disclosed he in tended to ask Congress later for money to build a highway across the Canal Zones De fense experts have contended such a highway is essential for adequate protection of the vital and vulner able canal the nations life New Pope Will Be Crowned Sunday in Outdoors Ceremony VATICAN March Pius whose election departed from many ancient church restored one to day by arranging for his corona tion to be held The ceremony next March will take place on the outside bal cony of Peters after a pontifi cal mass inside the At least persons will be able to witness the Popes regularly followed this procedure until they became vol prisoners of the Vatican in protest over the Italian states expropriation of the Holy Sees temporal possessions in NEW AIR LINE TALKED FORT March Plans fo a new air line from San Antonio to Denver will be discussed March 27 with a congressional delegation in Wash Gandhi Begins New Hunger Strike As India Boils Again March Messages from all over India pour ed in on British authorities today immediate intervention to stop the fast unto death of Moa handas Gandhi before it led to dangerous As the 69yearold master whose influence is a potent force on Indias ended his second foodless his vitality was reported The Congress party Indian Na government of the Unit ed Provinces telegraphed King George VIs viceroy of urg ing him to It warned that if anything should happen to Gandhi we consider the ultimate responsibility Missing Business Man Sought in Girl Murder Case OKLAHOMA March for a 53yearold Okla homa City business who dis appeared from his home about the time of the brutal slaying of 13 yearold widen ed tonight as police in surrounding states broadcast his The newest suspect in the mur der was last seen by members of his family at 10 shortly before the junior high school student was beaten and strangled to death in h e r Detective Charles Ryan said the man rented a car from an Ok lahoma City firm and had not re turned Several suspects arrested yester day were released by Ryan after he declared he was convinced they had no connection with the Detectives Lee and McCurdy were sent to Webb last night to question a relative of tho missing The slain girls mother and step and Schar ber the funeral services I cant leave I cant leave the mother sobbed over and over again while her husband sought vainly to comfort Three in search of mingled with the 100 spectators at the but left junior high school shown was found dead in her Oklahoma City home hv her A wire cord was drawn around her throat and her head was She had homo ill from school ami wore only pajamas and a housecoat when Oklahoma State CHIEF SEIZES Ellis Confiscates Several Cash Money Games in Main Street Places Police Chief Witt Ellis ed Saturday 10 cash money in downtown He warned at the completion of his oneman seizures that ar rests will be made the next Ellis said he found the boards in six business houses located on Main Four establishments had two boards each places had one We have warned business men against placing cash money boards in their Ellis We did not molest cigaret We regard cash boards in the same light as slot machines or payoff marble The police chief revealed the gambling devices jackpot awards of to Each punch cost 5 County Attorney Barry said the boards are After conferring with the county attor Ellis said he would destroy the equipment at the suggestion of the He asserted that business houses had been warned several times to keep cash boards off Well keep em if they Ellis Verdict for Defense In Accident Lawsuit The defendant won a verdict in district court Saturday when a jury that deliberated about 20 min utes found that Frank 69yearold was not en titled to a judgment against Claude who resides in the eastern part of the Woods asked damages against Jarrett as the result of be ink struck by a ve hicle driven The accident occurred about three miles west of Woods was walking west on the highway at the his petition and also moving was alleged to have struck the 69 years State Dry Law May Pose Problem March 4 UP new liquor permit by which it is hoped to get Uncle Sams help in drying up the has tis problems for the gov Federal officials viewed the principal difficulty as the right to examine liquor ship truck or automobile to whether permits were The law requires ship ments by ascertain into the state be made un der slate Officials awaited copies of the new signed Thursday by Gov ernor before plans could be definite School Man Fined After Bus Mishap March Harry superintendent of pleaded guilty to day to a charge of permitting an unlicensed driver In operate a school He was fined The charge resulted from an ac cident yesterday in which a bus crowded with 46 children over turned near here while being op by Carl One of the Nellie Jo Parr of suffered cuts on her face and MUSKOGEE PIONEER DIES March will be held Monday for who died Uist He was a pioneer business Added to Problems of the Is Financial Plight of Six School Districts That Face Inundation By MAC BARTLETT The Grand River Dam Authority will lend an attentive ear Monday to a story about Not a of new teaching methods nor of any especial bene fits that may accrue to those who learn their writin and in Ottawa It will be a realistic discussion of financial problems facing six rural school districts which will be partly or wholly inundated by lake Howard county will say tomorrow that unquestioned need for a Gargantuan slice of land ex tending through these districts will create a sharp reduction in evalu ated property upon which levies are voted to support All but three county school zones ballot on new levies March 28 and according to state law the necessary information for patrons must be posted publicly by March Several Districts Affected Thus answer which 4 will give to Scott will affect vital ly the future of a dis whose residents have no idea now as to how levies should be to assure continued op of their The com evaluation of the districts is according to the records of county These affected directly and located in await southern Ottawa the outcome of Scotts conference builders with the dam 1 12 Council 29 Sulphur 30 and Big Two Hardest Hit Of the Big Bone and Coun cil Hollow districts will be hardest Most of the tillable lands em braced by these school areas will be covered by Voters will want to know before they approve a levy Whether the district can struggle along with enough rev enue from lands that will remain on the tax Whether they should consoli date remnants of other nearby dis and form a new school area although bits of districted terri tory will be scattered on both sides of the big Whether they should annex to the closest district that is District Tops List The county assessors records on the west side of the is the most valuable area involved by curtailment of taxable The evaluation for the area is The Frisco railroad and Shell and Ajax Pipeline companies contribute heavily in that No corpo rate valuation is available in any of the other five school There is no accurate estimate as to how much property will be removed from the tax Continued on Page Two Youth Released as Wolfenbarger Death Investigation Lags Sheriff Dee Watters announced Saturday the release from county jail of Leroy 19yearold Council Hollow Beets had been held for nearly a week while county authorities in the death 25 of Ernest son of and Homer The youths body was partly on a shoulder of a county road in the Council Hollow Beets had been held because of were told he had been with Wolfenbarger the night before the lalters body was No marks of violence were discovered on the Watters said he and County At torney Barry agreed upon Beets release after two ents and the father of the death victim had urged the youths free no reports have been received as to the outcome of a chemical analysis of contents in T h e y were sent to Oklahoma City for examination at a Election Monday At Country Club Members of Miami Country club will elect their board of directors for the ensuing year following a stag dinner at the clubhouse Mon day Dinner will be served at Russ chair man nf the entertainment commit has Nichols Twin Dies Citys Schools to Be Closed Monday An attack of scarlet which seized her four days proved fatal early Saturday to Martha Maye 4yearold daugh ter of and Nich 324 B street Besides the the girl is survived by her twin Mar garet and two older Mary Francis and Doris president of the board of announced that the citys public schools will be closed Monday in respect to the school executive and members of his Private funeral services will be conducted at the Nichols home at 3 The Jean as by the Harry Curtis and Elder wili Pallbearers will be Olin Jess Edwards and Tho body will be taken to Mex Monday for final rites and SUED FOR OKLAHOMA March 4 A suit for damages was filed in district court here to day against the Blackwell Zinc in behalf of the of Everett a former employe of the March al from poisonous fumes in haled while Big Port Bans Jap Scrap Iron Cargoes March In an unprecedented the Port of Astoria notice to day it would accept no more scrap iron to ports resolution broke an 8 day deadlock caused when Chinese formed a line before tho Japanese freighter Norway protest ing thp proposed of cars of Longshoremen refused to KO through the line to I load the The Chinese con tended would use the metal in manufacture of munitions for use against TIME MAKING MONEY NEW March and maga zine reported today 1938 net profit of as against for Outstanding are common shares of no par LAND COSTS ARE SEEN AS THREAT TO Possibility PWA May With draw Funds for Dam Is Voiced by Wright BUDGET LIMITS SET Fair Values Being Offer Head of Acquisition Department Asserts By HAGGARD Disturbed at mounting land general manager of the Grand River Dam sounded a veiled warning Saturday that the situation would cause withdrawal of federal funds from the Wright said the trend of com missioners awards in recent con cases precluded any pos that the board could stay within its estimate for land He pointed out that the board was restricted to a outlay for the entire project and that he was required by Washington to periodically certify completion of the job within that PWA Says No More Money If matters reach the point where I cannot send in a monthly cost two courses are avail able either close down the project o rask for more Wright Inasmuch as the Public Works administration has already written the board that no further funds will be Wrights state ment was seen as tantamount to a prediction the Washington agency would withdraw financial support if land costs continue dto Newman Disappointed At the same John head of the land acquisition termed as disappoint ing the failure of landowners in the basin area to cooperate in a program he described as designed to assure owners higher returns for their Newman disclosed that at the outset of the land ac it was decided to figure in normal condemnation costs when appraising tracts and add them to the price paid for Wright admitted that some cern was being voiced in Washing ton at the Spiral of laid These in several cases have exceeded our fair appraised values by 100 Wright Funds available for this job are specifically limited to STATEMENT BY JUDGE I have given definite in on procedure in eval lands in condemnation District Judge Thomas said The appraisers have taken an oath to make a fair and honest ap I am exercising my best judgment in choosing They have been cautioned very definitely that the land owner is entitled to all the dam ages more and no 000 and out of this must come all costs of construction and land ac The detailed costs of all including have been carefully budgeted and contracts have been let for the majority of our major If the pro ject is to be we must stay within the budgeted amount for each including the pur chase of The appraised prices we are of fering to pay for each and every property within the reservoir area are based on a uniform considera tion of tho elements of value and Continued on Page Two Bombs Found Under Two London Stores March incendiary bombs were found to day beneath two of the largest de stores in Birmingham aa police began an intensive search for An apparent attempt to bomb a railroad bridge in London and three simultaneous fires at Birm ingham also were The police sought a country house where they believed suspect ed Irish Republican army extrem ists had established headquarters and an Jury Indicts 18 More in Inquiry KANSAS March The Jackson county grand jury re turned 18 more indictments but guarded closely the names of persons involved and the nature of the The indictments brought the total number returned to date by the crime investigating jurors to Contents of the indictments ware expected to be made public after those named were apprehended ur
