Miami News-Record (Newspaper) - January 12, 1928, Miami, Oklahoma 177 j JANUARY of Publication A PRICE PLANS WARSHIP PROGRAM Wilbur Reveals Project Is Part of Big Navy Proposals FOR REPLACEMENT Secretary Tells House Com Total Cost Will Be Near Secretary Wilbur disclosed today be fore the naval that department has drafted a 20year building pro gram df which program already announced is only n While he did not make public the larger die tesK fied under questioning tint it pro vided for the replacement oC little ships soon as this is possible un der the Washington arms He sail that the annual would be about per or a total cost of approximately Within a few he replacements of capital iwler the treaty be ami Uie program had been with that in Need He Says Vinson of ranking Democrat on the asked the secretary if the committee then must take into in passing upon the program already an the fact an additional program would be Wilbur replied that it The statement was made after Vinson had asked him if he be the American navy was now a first class fighting We need he As I tried point out that an absolute Then your position as secretary that we have not a first class continued Vinsom And to make it a first class navy it will be to to remember that was designed tof eral r EXCAVATORS FIND KING AP tomb of a king who ruled in Ur of the Chaldes more years and his servants nnd killed in cold blood that they might accompany their piaster 5n hda been uncovered by the joint expedition of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania nnd the British The discover is the first evidence that such burial rites were practiced in says Leonard director of the Details of the find werd contained in a message from The tomb contained the bottles more than a score of members of the kings but the kings body was not Treasures fpund Within the including a decorated a harp gold and silver illustrate the extraordinary degree of material civilization which Mesopotamia en joyed in the fourth millennium and how much that country in advance of the report A board was found in the grave with two sets of and One set of pieces is com posed of simple black squares inlaid with five dots each and the other is of shell squares engraved with animal One set of dice is of shell with lapis the other of lapis with gold A set of gold chisels and a full size also made of were found with four magnificent gold the most precious of the off erings dedicated to the dead men iG V ill Ett Decides to Extend Tour by Hazardous flight to South America Canal AP The trail of the Lone Eagle will South America before he returns to his home port of Colonel Lindbergh has decid to continue his will tour and the Spirit of Louis will be thoroughly cheeked before it carries him a new t of all as fpr Southern City Wins Over Frisco on Fifth Ballot Date Is June 26 SMITH NOTE SENT Brief Be Read at Dinner Row Staved Off was selected today for the 1928 Democratic National The choice was made by Democratic National committee on the fifth San Francisco The victor was a last minute entry in a list of a dozen but it led from the first The of count on the final ballot was 54 San On this ballot 53 needed for a Selection of Texas city resulted from one of those unheralded shifts of fortune which so often control the drift of June Fixed The resolutions fix ed June as the date the This is two after the Republican national con vention opens in Kansas Houston scarcely had been mention ed for a convention until a few days As the submission of forma offers began San Francisco and Detroit were the favorites and Houston still was in the But Texas representatives refused to be and the committee members were stirred to as spokesmen for the Star state including Dan Moody and Repre sentative made the commit tee room with oldfashioned Democratic They invited the party to come and try Houstons southern Democratic May Build New Auditorium An seating but persons was the largest they had to but promised that if St was inadequate they would build a new To reinforce their they presented a certified check for to convention the largest among bidders except for Sun Relatives Contesting Schu mann Claim to Million With draws Shown of an affectionate nature from late Okmulgee oil to Betty 21yearold today were vpad into the the hearing through which Miss Schumann seeks to estab lish her right to onehalf of his estate as his common law Opposition of lawyers for relatives of who are contesting tho girls was withdrawn after they had been permitted to read the let t In addition to indicating affection of tho millionaire for the let tors tended to strengthen her conten tion that legal resi dence Okmulgee and not as claimed by who are challenging fhe jurisdiction of the Ok lahoma court to administer his Ben Back Home T will fly from landing as fear as pos sible to Caracas is some miles from Colon by airline and Ihe flight Avill be over mountainous and dangerous By ordinary means of travel it takes six days to make the journey from Panama to From Caracas he will fol low the making stops at one of the Virgin Porto Haiti Santo en route to flight of 675 miles over water from Caracas to Thomas would bring him to the nearest point of his projected island Sentimental young girls pilfered the flowers which wore at Lind berghs place when ho left the dinner table at the home of William commandant of the Canal in black evening was a fig ure at the dinner the white uniforms and the white evening dress of the s There is a despair the girls of American colony because Lind bergh never danced and so far as careful watchers could ho never consciously saw one of his feminine He Flies to Colon Complet ing the last leg of his Central Amer ican colonel Lindbergh landed safely at France field at this H had hopped off from Panama City aft hour Ten thousand cheering spectators were there to greet and in the streets of through which he virtually the whole population of welcomed tho aviator PENS 12 was back in his qf not as R resurrected but a rider He died Pep His return lost night to the colony fov 24 years was as and only regal him 89 the his pomp pr ceremony was carried back to big In ft from an was tp await completion to mausoleum ot the where it is he fin D Friday Arkansas To night and Friday cooler Announcement Presidential Candi Will Be Read Adds Another Political Morsel for Speculation Alfred Smith of York has sent to Chairman Shaver of the Democratic National committee a brief letter to be read tonight at the partys day Gover nor Smith declined an to attend the dinner on the ground of pressure of public business in his own William who engaged with Smith in the most memorable deadlock in the nations political his tory at Madison Sauare Garden in will speak at the As talk of and for candidates de a wide stream sentiment for Governor Smith of there were indications hat the key note of harmony echo In from all branches of the 1 Continued oti Paire Two Fliers Because mail plattes passing over Corner poul try farms at frightened the hen huddle to and injure each other and also to decrease their egg Postmaster New has the National Air Transport to fly its planes higher over that The farm in a letter to postmaster ex pressed fear that might put him out of business and asked whether something could not be done to relieve the SNYDER STAY NOT ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDS EXECUTION SET FOR TONIGHT Fusillade Brings Down Pair Ambushed Early Today in Rankin Depository TIP Sheriff and Two Deputies Say Younger Robber Opened Fire When Trapped Mimic Fox in Jail For Writing Threat DAKOTA note and demanding of Henry a under n threat of death the money were not has led to the arrest of Harry 1 SAN unidentified men who are said to have forced their way into the First State bank at Upton were shot and at 4oclock this morning by officers who had been tipped that the bank was to be Barfield and were watching the accord ing to the They saw the two men force the door and when the of approached the bank the of the hinged apparently 26 of opened He jell dead from a load of buckshot fired by the other about 45 did not but ran and feet from the and within 15 Vlr alli caliber pistol the elder caliber Both men were poorly dressed and wore On the body of the younger man was found a telegram from El ad dressed to and with one as its He also carried a kodak picture of a girl and a small The number on the car was visible in the picture and officers said might lead to identity of the The older man had pouring might lead to his Received Tuesday The bank had been tipped on Tuesday that it was to be robbed and officers had been on guard Deputy Sheriffs Clarence Shannon and Hugh Gillespie were with Sheriff when the men were ered in the They said the fired after or 12 show were exchanged between nnd the The two men left considerable burglar paraphernalia in the officers leading to the belief they were Both men had been seen early last night around two Rankin An automobile stolen about 7 oclock last from the sas Oil was discovered today near Officers said they believed the two men had stolen Stoffles was arrested he ped At a mail box in front of tho Johnson where tho farmer had been directed place the Stoffles carried a but of no Coolidge at Mothers Bedside Calvin cd in from Washington at morning to 78 who f It auid at the hospital early tills morning that have percept on night that her AP guilty ta charges of nils appropriation of in fees alteration of public ev former of Kay today was sentenced to a year in the state Legion Report On Activities A comprehensive report of the ae anJ of Parry past American Legion the ing night by Charles retiring post The report covered the tf his whish was a year und a The Home in the he vate Q the directed to investigate the ell to taiw f they aw for member POUR ACTORS IN DRAMA OF DEATH and Henry Judd it y to 90 fti VARDEN LEWIS E Lawes In Doubt as Hour for Her Death in Electric Chair Draws Nearer GRAY SEEks WRIT Unfair for Paramour to Be Electrocuted If She Gains Lawyer Asserts In an opinion declaring that the stay of execution grunted to Ruth Brown Snyder by Supreme Court Justice Aaron Levy night was without jurisdiction or authority nnd is therefore Attorney General Albert Ottinger left to Warden Lawes of Sing Sing prison the as to whether Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray should he executed tonight for the murder of Sny ders You will understand that I do not presume to advise as to what your action should bo within the lim its of such discretion ns you raay have under the sentence of the the attorney general It was indicated by Ottinger that he would in his formal that the execution might be carried out any time before midnight in accordance with the de cree of the court of appeals the week as the time for X Days of Miamis Infancy Recalled In Chamber of Commerce Program Pioneer Residents Tell of Eurly Civic Groups Out of Which Grew Present Organisation and Relate Interesting Bits of Ottawa County History Days before Miami was oven in her swaddling when prairie chickens roved over what later be came the ami yowin were little more wore lived again in the week ly luncheon of the of Oom tit Hotel ut which pioneer residents and Ottawa county by old mostly in n humorous with bits of made the an The luncheon wus by llw chamber an old Three fid Three man wore who have lived in what is now Ottawa for 60 years or Another who in the same has been in tor bwt Bounty for John hi the group wore unit Hill with a oi 15 the couny were Joo Robert In the 80yoar group wore John Hoc and Mc lived here 26 wuro Vem Floyd and uiui those with 20 youra were and The of tln old of thu present was mention it that the of tiu were con wooden so that could got Three of the order that he moat s in contempt ho did not t Action Unprecedented stay of has ever granted on this ground la tho history of the criminal Hasel Uw the warden has nothing to do with the grounds on which a court order is stay was granted on grounds that Snyder would be a neces sary witness in an insurance suit brought by the Prudential which claims that a policy was fraudulently ob by Snyder without husbands knowledge or The prosecution at tho trial of Snydor and that this insurance was the chief motive tha The insurance suit j hearing in dependent of tho action ordered by Iho attorney general for vacation of tho stay on the ground that iHs Il if Justice Levy decides ro suit of tho hearing that is no cause for delaying it will take place at 11 1 oclock tonight as barring unexpected If Justice Levy decides that there is cause for delaying her he will then I ho asked by tho state to vacate his and if he the case will be taken before Presiding Justice of tho appellate Justice Levy said he advanced the time of tho hearing on request of Deputy Attorney General All said tho Is to Rive the child Lorraine any dors little who is bene of the insurance In Continued on Four Jesse Cole Dies in Veterans Hospital Word was re how today of thu death of Joss 88 yoara QUO of tho of the American le in Monday night in a gov ut Fort Cotoi who was connected with tho left horo a year itijo to outer thu Colorado was former commander of local legion Colo leaves wife and twp twin will ho at 2 Friday at the homu of hU mother in The color guards and of wil attend the In addition to his in the American wan u of tho and 8 i j New York
