Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - March 9, 1939, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Press Leased 215 MIAMI DAILY Ottawa County Population Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NOT STOOL PIGEONS BIRMINGHAM March Lindsays pigeons re fused to testify and won him acquit tal on a charge of harboring a Austin complained the birds him awake and a police judge fined Lidsay Lindsay ap The court ordered him to bring couple of the birds so a jury could decide if they cooed a The birds strutted along a court room blinked pink eyes at the but refused to coo a single The benefit of coo Lindsay was BANK NIGHT AT HOME MARKED Sev eral years ago a bank failure here convinced Toni Johnson he would put no money in he placed his savings in a 300pound Finally he ac Thieves broke safe in his cumulated in while he was took the 000 and the SLIGHTLY TARNISHED State po lice arrested a motorist on a charge of failing to yield the to another The motorist said his name was Golden TURNED HIS CHEEK men on a Louisville Nashville train gasped when they saw a man lying on the track late to keep from running over The engine and six cars passed over the man and The crew found the who said he was Maxwell of unharmed except for a scratch on the EMERGENCY DEPUTY The man for whom Sheriff Morse had a warrant was reported to be a swift The sheriff looked over his deputies and decided none of them would Forthwith he deputized Odell a star sprinter at the University of North Carolina a few years Child ers got his v UP TO NO GOOD Well in the world are you up to now Martha Bye greeted with handkerchiefs over their faces and revolvers in their hands who appeared at her She told police she found out a few minutes later when they forced her to sit down on a threw a blanket over her head and removed in cash and three rings valued at from her v TOO MUCH WILD LIFE SALT LAKE CITY After months of Val Snow knows the horrible has skunks in his While firing the furnace he came onto two of them at too close He laid his problem before biologi cal survey and received the com forting information skunks are ex mousers and ex cept when Snows immediate concern is how to keep the furnace in coal until the animals get the spring wander they HOUSE ADOPTS DRASTIC SLOT MACHINE Act Provides for Removal Of Officers Who Fail to Enforce Provisions Many Slain by Jap Bombers at Ichang March neutral foreign at goal of a Jap anese offensive into the heart of reported today persons had been killed or wounded there in two days of terrific bombard ment by squadrons of Japanese war It was estimated 120 bombs had crashed into the cen ter of the which lies on the Yangtze nearly miles by water from There was no definite word on the situation of 100 mostly it was not believed any foreigners were injured or any foreign prop erty THE WEATHER cloudy to night and Friday slightly warmer in extreme north portion ARKANSAS Considerable cloudiness tonight and Friday slightly cooler in northeast portion rain prob able tonight and Friday with slow ly rising rain to and Somewhat warm er Friday and in west and north Temperatures in Miami from 4 oclock yesterday afternoon until 2 today 4 4 f 0 R 8 I Id Midnight Noon 2 NEW BEER LAW URGED State Administration Press es Measure That Includes Strict Roadhouse Code OKLAHOMA March 9 machine law with the sharpest of teeth was passed by the House It provides that any peace officer or county attor ney who fails to perform the duties imposed on him by the act shall be guilty of wilful neglect of duty and subject to removal from Then the declares the fact that any person displays or operates a punchboard or slot machine shall be prima facie evidence that the sheriff of the county and the police of the affected city have know ledge the devices are being op Opponents spent an hour and fortyfive minutes trying to send the back to committee for re moval of the drastic provisions con county In doing the House bogged down in the worst parliamentary tangle of the Final Count 84 to 12 But on final roll even the most spirited opponents of the county official section climbed on the fearful of being recorded as voting for slot ma After a score or more votes were the final count was 84 to Earlier in the involved proceed the House 56 to a motion to send the back to committee with instruction to re move the controversial section con county and pro vide that operation of slot machines or should be a not a Creekmore Oklahoma author of the declared removal of the county official sec tion would virtually kill the Novelty dealers in Chicago and Kansas City are against this Wallace They are inter sted in keeping gambling ma hines in the drug stores and grocery stores and turning your your children and mine into McCuistion charged the was aimed directly at county Other members pointed out the danger that some enemy of a sheriff might plant a slot ma chine in some obscure then demand the officers The faces a doubtful fate in the A new beer tax doubling retailers license fees and clamping stringent regulations on roadhouses was pressed by administration leaders in the House Permits to operate country dance halls selling beer could be revoked if the places were kept open later than 2 on week nights or midnight Sunday oper ation would be completely Permits also would be cancelled if intoxicating liquor were sold or gambling Floor Leader Murray who supervised drafting of the beer said it would be brought up today after the House called roll on the auto tag and cigaret tax measure and considered the admin revolving fund Fee Would Be The beer raises retailers li cense fees from to but the state excise tax of a bar rel would Retailers also would have to secure annual per mits from the county costing Those permits would be sub ject to revocation if the holder per mitted intoxicated persons to loiter in his place of or allowed Permits to operate rural road houses would be revoked for Sun day operation after 2 week nights or midnight Satur or if the proprietor allowed minors under 18 to remain after 1 Gibbons explained the section was aimed at shady locat ed near incorporated No ef fort was made to supervise beer in cities since that is a problem for local he Only perfunctory roll call re mained before the House speeded to the Senate two big tax revised motor vehicle license tax measure and the new tax The tag perfected after nearly four days repeals the mileage tax on trucks and bus lowers tag fees slightly on pleasure raises the cost of li Continued on Page Two WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH NEW March 9 OB Gladys Frazin former actress and divorced wife of Monte associate producer for 20h Film early today in a plunge from t sixth floor apartment ol her ents in West End MARCH 1939 Office of Publication A Street and First Avenue Harassed by Unpaid Highway Department Now Ponders Threats of Revenue Federal Aid Loss Bombs Reveal Plot Discovery of four in Chicago safety deposit resulted in arrest of 74yearold Reinhold native who admit ted manufacturing explosives 22 years ago to scare American people out of getting into World HOUSE PASSES REGENTS Junior College and Eight Other Institutions Would Be Under One Board OKLAHOMA March House voted favor ably 84 to on a that would place the Northeastern Jun ior college at Miami and eight oth er state institutions under super vision of a board of regents to be appointed by Gov ernor Walter Miller of Miami said the carried an emergency clause and predicted its early pass age in the perhaps by the fore part of next Approval of the which bears the personal indorsement of Governor will mean the abolition of the present board of regents for the Miami school and will divorce the State Board of Education from control of the six state teachers Besides Northeastern Junior col lege and the teachers the Muskogee School for the Blind and the Negro university at Langston would look to the sevenman board for future guid I think the will pass the Senate without much Miller Since it has ad ministration support I look for a quick It could even be han by the Senate OKLAHOMA March 9 by a mountainous pile of unpaid road the nev State Highway commission also was plagued by two other threats in its The program would be and more than in federa aid would be lost next year if pro to sharply increase the counties share of the 4cent gaso line tax are Chairman San dy Singleton told the House reve nue and taxation committee today One proposal considered by the committee would give the counties nearly half the gasoline tax reve which amounted to more than last If you do said and we have to pay our debts out of current we couldnt build any new we couldnt main tain the ones we and we couldnt He told the committee the latest estimate of the Highway depart ments unpaid claims totaled most of which Singleton said he were legal obli Validity of the claims is under test in a district court Phillips Comments Referring to the pile of unpaid claims Governor Phillips said the program might have to stand still while we pay them I feared all the time that it might be even Phillips I as I have said be that the state is morally bound to pay the claims where peo ple have furnished materials and provided supplies for the high The question of the claims legal ity has been checked to district court and pending a decision the Legislature has held up a to fund the A Federal Aid Threat In the commission threatened today with loss of fed eral funds as a consequence of strict bidding regulations in the highway reorganization act passed by the Van state highway en said the Federal Bureau of Roads had complained the regu lations would be an obstacle to contractors and would restrict He said the bureau had intimated it might hold up federal aid if the law re mained in Before taking ac said the highway commis sion would seek a ruling from was Father of Dies at 89 OKLAHOMA March who traveled the Trail of Tears with the Indians as a government freight died today at the home here of a Guernsey drove a supply wagon and a mule ambulance for the In dians when they were transferred from southeastern states to Okla He later moved to to the Texas Panhandle and back to Oklahoma for the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho coun try in Since he had liv ed Funeral services will be held at tomorrow at the Brit ton church with burial Survivors also include Sanders of a Sympathetic To Cut in Spending If It Can Be Done March 9 7P Harrison said is in today President Roosevelt sympathy with efforts to reduce government spending if it can be Secretary Hanes and Repre sentative Cooper dis cussed government financing with Roosevelt at the White House this Harrison said the question of tax urged by many con gressional leaders and administra tion advisers as a means of lating business recovery was dis cussed very We discussed he curtailments possible in govern ment spending and the President is in thorough sympathy with this if it can be Phillips Reduces Guard at Refinery March 9 More than a hundred national guards men began moving homeward this afternoon from the West Tulsa re finery of the Petro leum corporation after Governor Phillips had issued an order re ducing the guard from 240 to gratified by the prog ress made at a Tulsa strike confer said We made sufficient progress that we could set a date for er conference and expect to get something WILL HELP IN SOLUTION OF Cooperation Pledged to Ru ral Discussing Problem at Fairland TAX LOSSES STUDIED Newman Offers Partial So lution Elections Likely To Be Held As Scheduled March knotty question posed by inunda tion of school districts through construction of the Grand dam was no nearer solution today than before a meeting in Wednesday but school boarc members went away that they would receive all possible aid from the Grand River Dam Authority in solving their com mon Rural school board the backbone of the American school Gen eral Manager Wright promise affected schools would not be disturbed until absolutely neces sary and in no event before In an informal meeting called by Howard county superintend ent of public board members considered their best course of action in calling school elections in the light of changes in the physical makeup of districts to be partly inundated when the dam is Consensus was that the elections would be called for this year on the same basis as hereto although no vote was Tax Losses Main Problem Prime problem confronting the districts is that taxable acreage will be reduced through of the most valuable lands from the tax What may be at least a partial solution to their problem was ad by John land acquisition who pre that redistribution of popu lation would in effect cause one dis gain to be anothers By Newman meant families dis placed in inundated areas would not remain in the same but would in all probably move to one farther away from the the school districts are confronted with these problems The flooding of portions of their taxable with consequent of school burdens by the reduced acreage the increased pro rata liability on remaining residents regarding out standing Inability of school districts completely surrounded by water to transport their transfer students o areas where schools are avail able with the corollary problem of the Fairland high largely Continued on Page Two Lead Price Raised Tenth of Cent Due To Modest Demand NEW March modest revival in demand for in metals brought an advance oday of of a cent in lead to cents a deliv ered in New the highest since Higher metal prices in London the firming of the do president of Joseph Lead told stock at the annual meeting to day that while he does not expect a boom in the companys business the concern probably make a better showing than n Recalling that at the end of 1937 stocks of lead were rane pointed out at present they rather than above normal vith operations running at about he 1936 Operations of the company in the Missouri area are on a week he with being PACT March The United States and signed farreaching agreements to day for the liberal extension of by the United States to The two countries also agreed to freeing the Brazilian ex chanpe market for commerce from the establishment of a Bra national bank and lion on dol lar H DETECTIVE THRILLER PREPARES TULSAN FOR AND ENABLES HIM TO SAVE March 9 T His felt crinkly as James filling at read lust night in bis detective story Let him have said a grating voice a machine gun a scream split the night and a writhing body dived into the dust Harlson laid his because there in the station was u customer with a shiny who Fill er up ami climb He did Harlson told the police and in the car was Thomas civil A few hours earlier Grubbs hinl picked up two men near Sand Springs and they him and forced him to lie down on the back The two hoth blind were driven about for some time and released in the country between here and Sand Grubbs was robbed of and the lost I wasnt Harlson told Police Sturgeon 1 thought Grubbs was dead when I saw him there in the back That detective story had me all ready for Guess it was about crimes that caused me to bide just he lore the holdup men came Arrests By Secret Service Hit Counterfeiting Ring Secret Service men reported the arrest of eight two of them in New had smashed an alleged counterfeiting Federal raiders captured in bogus and a printing shown Henry was held on counterfeiting Anna his alleged com was held for harboring a She holds milk for her 3yearold whom police took from her apart Third Suspect Is Facing Arrest in Murder by Auto March T Arrest of a third person in the death of Carl which the state was a bizarre murder by was fore een today by State Highway Pa rolman Ray Blond Coletta vidow of the riding enthusiast and paper factory and Harold a neighbor of the are held m first degree murder Our investigation is not aid assigned to the eass after battered body was ound beside a country highway We believe a third per on not yet arrested is Russell Hastings coun said his client hud not Sandusky on the night met 15 miles On that night 1 never saw any Ramsey quoted I look at this thing just ike Im reading a story about somebody else and Im won lering who it could Ramsey said Identified iy police as an told him hat on the night of 20 he rove to a Sandusky near his cur collided with a the autos headlight and ESCAPE Prison Dogs Lose Trail of Pair Involved in McAl ester Shooting PRICE FIVE CENTS PATH EASED FOR REORGANIZATION Economy Demands Appear To Have Softened the Opposition There HOUSE VOTE 246 TO 153 Count Follows Party Lines To Give Administration Easy Victory March economy demands appeared today to have softened Senate opposition to the govern ment reorganization which passed the House last night after attempts to amend it had Senator Byrnes predict ed the Senate majority for the measure would be proportionately that of the where the 246 vote followed party lines to bring an administration Byrnes said he thought much of the prospective Senate opposition had been tempered by the tion of governmental savings through consolidation and elimi nation of Byrd Hopes for Record Senator Byrd author of a measure differing in some respects from the administration commented I sincerely hope that there will be a basis on which we can for there must be come reduction in government bureaus if there is to be any Byrd made it that he would fight for an amend ment requiring both houses of Congress to give specific approval to any presidential reorganization order before it could become ef The would permit these orders to stand unless both chambers voted to nullify them within 60 Most Points Erased The extent to which Congress should retain this control became the only issue in the closing hours of the House fight Since the had been stripped of most controversial features which caused the tion measure last was little argument over other pro The struck a when Sumners pro posed an amendment giving either the House or Senate the power to vacate a presidential Re publicans voted almost to a man for Sumners Picking up 30odd Democratic they flabbergasted administration lead ers with a 153to133 standing vote in favor of the more stringent pro Democrats Turn Tide When a teller vote gave 176to March county officers fol lowed a cold trail today in their search for two gunmen who aban a stolen automobile here last night after exchanging gunfire with two Bloodhounds brought from the penitentiary lost the scent during the night in a wooded section southwest of the city and worked on the theory the men had returned to stolen an other and A description of the two men was broadcast by the highway pa trol last night after Walter Ster operator of a filling station four miles south of reported they drove off without paying for a tank of Police Tom Holleman and Policeman Ernest Ambrose over took the car at the edge of the city Continued on Page Two Hastings said he went to the truck drivers visited friends in tin neighborhood and returned to Ramsey Then lie went to the police station and reported tin truck He home u little after 9 was by her Stephen as J know ID be Prosecutor who has often heen seen in Hastings asserted which would provide payment of in ol accidental had been dis cussed by Hie couple in Hastings A farmer found body beside a telephone pole west Prosecutor Brady said the chest and neck and one leg Shattered glass was near l he said ivi ill ine showed Schlett I tus deliberately fun j Customers Shower Retiring Grocer With Cash Gifts March 9 many storekeepers quitting business get the tribute accorded kindly Walter Sim retiring us village grocer after 22 When Walt announced ho was shutting up the 300 many per sons famous in theater and financial got up a testimonial Most of them put in a That was in hiance fur the times the ruddy 1 proprietor had cared for their deliv ered messages or performed other favors outside the usual role of His gifts from customers totaled Among those who signed the letter were a Morgan partner Kath arine the actress Or son radio and stage pro ducer and and Pare Lor 15G approval to Sumners amendi Democratic leaders decided on an immediate final test in a call streaming inj to the noisy turned and the proposal was 209 to j Rebel piercing whistles andj loud applause from the Democratic side greeted Speaker announcement of the On the final roll only five Democrats voted against the and eight Republicans voted for The which ended shortly before was the first this year to run into the dinner The new directs the Presi dent to realign federal agencies to reduce increase effi and eliminate duplication of The omits last years ion which would have eliminated the and cut to one administrator the Civil Service These and certain other agencies cannot be revised under the new legisla Bogus Coin Molds Sought in Prison March Warden Amrine of Ohio penitentiary pressed an in tensive search today for molds from which he said counterfeit coins made by I regret to say I do not have He disclosed yesterday that his investigation of the prison had existence of within the Metal Markets cad spot 13s 9d future il 18s Zinc spot 16s 3d fu lire 2s NEW Copper steady electrolytic SD export New York Kast Leuis Louis spel and
