County Democrat-News (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
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COUNTY DEMOCRAT-NEWS
V(IL XVI NO. .19.
Successor to Kiefer Chronicle, Tri-countv New*. Creek County Republic
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IS NEAR GOAL ‘l£we foStvo1
nil mi \I^ HIVIIM KM \mv, I Ml rn|»a v. JI n .. i«nw
Hoard of Creek County
Commission Refuses to
Approve Back Tax Sale
Death Wins Race on English Sands
New Ditto nee NecorH Hill He
R*UMi<<hr I If l.»nr Jour-
ney In 4 ompleted
RAINFALL IS ENCOUNTERED
Objective in I.MS Mi lev From ,
Starting Point; Two
Night* Spent in Air
a rxffri*7lt?c ston/gf
7T1&TTl&l Jljfe ''rt'on Mlow. Court Order to Prevent Dinponal of
y - ^ Seminole Realtor* Delinquent Property
! By unanimous vote the county
ri KN \WHI ( o. Rraill. July
|( Spl >—Radio signal* ptrkrd
up kr the station at Olinda
shorttv after 2 thka morn in*
Indicated that the lUlian
Iran* Atlantic flier* were ap
praarkini the <oa*t of Rra
all. The signal* from the
plane were coming from
(aytai* Ferrarin The weath
er oaa thick and It naa rain-
ing along the ronal lOlinda
la a rata 11 loan a little to
the north of frrnamkara )
BL'ENOA AIH. H. July 5 >Spl •
—A dlapatch to La Nation to-
day from Pernambuco said that
radio signals from the Italian
Iran* Atlantic flier*. Captain
Perrarln and Major Delprete
had been received at Natal.
Brasil The plane waa believed
to be rloae to the port, which :
BERTIE LOU-
thc (June End*
I By a unanimous vote the county commlaaioner* refused i
Tuesday to approve thr- sale of nearly 1 000 different pieces of
property on re-sale for back taxes to C Blaine whose prlre as
advertised In the Drumrlght Journal waa Itooon The refusal to
rer-mjnijp Blaine a bid waa predirted. after Judge John Norman
permanently enjoined the county commiaaloner* from dlspos-
Ing of the property owned by H U Bartlett which waa Included
In the bulk of the re-aale binds.
It coat Blanc m Seminole real ■ ————— - - - .
estate man. approximately $son ..
to advertise the specified ta* ,
sale which failed to go through,
his attorney said. To make the
deal legal the advertisement j r.
must appear In the official i f '"'“I
county paper Th» value of the m ^nt will start
\ MSSIt K TI KNS
TO FRIIT INDI'STRY
A Kiasirk.
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cr .; -yy •a'?—- - t ■■-Tg.f y ^
FOUR HOLIDAY
REVELERS DIE
IN OKLAHOMA
Middle Atlantic sad MMfHe
weatem State* Hear the
Brunt of ( anualtim
FIREWORKS ALSO SLAKED
Sw aiming Paul* and Heather
Are Included Hhen the
Cause*. Are f hecked
land has been estimated all the n*** *or hl"
I* about ISO
Pern am born
miles north
her young husband
former county
In busl-
If as an Indr-
way from 1250 000 to 1500 000 pendent fruit grower, he an-
"HIs i Blaine’s i estimate was nouneed today His new yen -
out of all proportion to the ture will be known as the Honey a* 4 .
r jet «r—•* Meanffl* |,rank"‘"
Ing "The land would have
been a bargain at 1350.00 “ "Since I was twelve years of;
It was thr suggestion of Judge age I have been working to-1
Burt. aealsunt county attorney. ward a commercial fruit farm,
that the property should not be wllh hop* of h.vtn and
",d J" l«ntp sum. but hopw u, have-the and on,
should be sold piece by piece of lh, larfrtl prl¥aU.,y owned
* *2JJr**J eliminates the apple orchards In Okiahoma."
small bidder " Burt told a re- Klsalck writes
porter "II I want to secure a
small bit of property It Is Im-
possible because the bids ore
for the thing as a whole "
| One of the most remarkable automobile rari >g photos ever token Is this tragic scene it hen
proeci rluring s 1 OIK mile race ,.n the Southport B ach England The ra, driver, by M ss May I or. „ne m.noreo .n* r,
llffe I* thoam at the moment of overturning whl.e traveling it high speed kfiM Cunllffe . father n
who was riding with her. was thrown to hi* death She still In ’.he machine in thu picture * *rlhdm,r anniversary
*ivn in 1 lines. _ |
Fireworks claimed their aharw
CHICAGO July 5 Spl , The
lives of 306 men. women and
children were t nation s sac
rtflee to the celebration of Its
one hundred and fifty-aecond
Wednes
fesra|**3 After Aged
Man Suffer^ Injury
I
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W
RIO JANEIRO July 3 <Apl>
A radio message from an Eng-
lish steamer to the chief of
telegraphs at Natal today gave
the position of the Italian
Wans Atlantic filers. Captain
Fbrrmrin and Major Delprete at
15 minutea alter midnight as
16 minutes north and 21 de-
gree* west 1 Tills would place
the plane about WO mite*
northeast of Pernambuco 1
With two nights of flying or
hind them the two Italians this
morning were believed to be
rapodiy nearing the cuaat of
Mouth America In a flight to
' establish a new distance rec-
ord
Capt Perrartn and MaJ Cas-
io P Delprete intended to reach
the Brasil coast at Pernambu-
co. about 4.01 miles from their
starting point. Munticcllo Pic id
Italy They woakl then have
bettered the dutanca record set
si IMS miles by Clarence
Chamberlin and Charles A
Levine by more than TOO miles
If they still have fuel they ea-
pect to continue on past Per-
nambuco. placing the distance
mark as high as possible They
already hold the duration
flight record of Sd hours. 34
minutea. 2« 1-5 seconds
Twenty minutes after mid-
night the steamship PhUarus.
which was north of Fernando
Do Norunha Island. Informed
the OUdda. Brasil, radio sta-
tion that It had been In com-
munication with the airmen
Their position was not given
They faced a flight of 1.600
miles over the South Atlantic
after being sighted at Cape
Verde islands at 6 p m
kGreenwich mean time til noon
eastern standard time) Wed
needay At that hour they had
been flying for almost 23 hours
and had covered a dtstar.ee es-
timated at 3.000 miles Their
average speed was above 136
mite* an hour
At 10 26 p m Oreenwlt h
Hate 16 16 p m eastern stand
aid time 1 the steamship Ionic
Star radioed that It had re-
ceived a message from the
filers saying all was well Then
position was not given
The airmen kept consistently
to their course They estimat-
ed when they started from
Rome Tuesday night that they
would be passing Olbraltar
about dawn and at 2 16 a m
they were sighted there
I was reared on an Oklaho-
ma fruit farm with a large
apple orchard, have studied the
business all my Ufa. and with
my past nine and a half years
of experience os county agent,
j studying farm business. I should
be able to make a go of It. both
In the production and In the
marketing of fruit.
Munday morning. July 2nd
12211. I started In as county
agent of Delaware county, and
with the help of the folk in the
__ . .__. ; county Interested In the de-1
Severe In juries velopment of the county, we
From Inserts Recovering hope to put Delaware up In the
ARMY OF ANTS
ATTACK DRUNK
MAN IN FIELD
Victim of
CAMDEN. N J. July 6
iSpI William Ingram. 40
of this city Is In a hospital
here with his teeth blasted
■wav the victim of a Fourth
of July prank
While he sat asleep on the
porch of his home presum-
ably with his mouth agape, a
practical Joker thrust a large
firecracker between his teeth.
Rghtcd the fuse and fled
The firecracker exploded.
Ingram leaped to his feet
and then dropped to the floor
writhing In agony His
shrieks brought neighbors
Physicians pronounced his
condition serious All bis
teeth were gone
COASTGUARDS
TO HUNT BODY
OF CAPITALIST
Sa|»iil|KAM* Survive
Another Fourth of
Europe's Wealthiest Man
Drape to Death While Hy-
ing Over North Sra
DINRIRR France. Jalv 5
4 Spl 1—Coast Guard* and light-
bouse keepers all along the
coast between Fort Mardvrk and
the Bray Dunes have been di-
rvrrd to search for Captain
Lowrnstein’s body. Pishing
boats were dragging the chan-
nel with nets but without re-
sults.
After Rescue
front ranks'
RESCUERS HALTED BY ICE
'LILA*
Eads old love
Peculiar circumstances re-
sulted tn the art eat of Owirgo
Gruma* of Sand Springs yes-
terday evening for drunken-
ness and his subsequent fine
of 210: which was paid by an
unknown woman.
Motorists reported to the po- u
lice that s car had been (M**LK!* HATHAWAY
• reeked on the Drumrlght HAROLD RIDLEY J'HA
TWO SMALL BOYS
TO BB TRIED POS
WOUNDING YOUTH,
BAY.
• Spl -Fifty
pack taa today separated
LONDON July 6 ,»pi
tain Alfred Losrenstein
famous Belgian financier and
I mystery man of Europe, fell
, from III* private airplan while |
] crossing the North Rea from
England to Belgium Wednesday '
night and was drowned
Spitsbergen Traveling ss he always did
miles of with a retinue, Captain Lowen
of the victim* as they always
have since the United Bute*
first began observing Indepen-
dence day with skyrocket, pin
July Olebration mm ii^mjT dnMuMb
the entire country, according
to the Associated Press tabu-
lation
Lake* and rivers lurwever,
exacted the heaviest tribute of
human life during the holiday.
1W1 drowning* being reported
Motorcar deaths ranked nest
in number with 64 Heal iaUa
•d 12 lives and Ugbtuing throe,
while four were killed in plane
crashes In addition there were
l* deaths attributed to other
causes directly connected with
Americas observance of the
Fourth
Dense Areas Bear Brawl
Two densely populated areas
the middle Atlantic states
and the midwest had soore
than half the country's total
deaths tor the day In the for-
mer there wwrv m fatal! ties,
which was five more than os-
currod in the midwest
The mountain states and tbo
northwest bad thr best section
The bombardment Is over
Tbe resounding detonations of
firecrackers, the swish of
rockets, the playing of bands,
and the syncopating melodies
of orchestras which began
early yesterday morning and
did not quit until late last
night, have ceased their be-
wildering racket Ms pulps has
survived another Fourth of
July
Crowds swarmed the city
park yesterday More golfers
than any time this tummer
were reported playing on tbe
Country club links
Traffic Jams, extending for
« mllas along the highway to
Tulsa kept traffic In a tur-
world
The firework*, which ware
set off last night at the park
were witnessed by a groat
number of people They coa-
tinued for nearly an hnue.
Os me* of all kinds, races and 1 each division
TOM*vKo
tried to be a friend
road three miles from town
A 8tudebaker sedan had plung-
ed into a ditch, and several
persons In the ear carried one
of their party across a corn-
field and placed him under s
tree about 100 yards from the
road, and left him The victim
apparently was Intoxicated
When Deputy Sheriff Ran-
kin Investigated the case he
BM D 'lv* bmswoiimI members of the
14.RB 1 IlaOe erew and Lieutcyianl
'.undborg. Swedish flier, from
—-- '.he Rii—iin tee breaker Krassir
Confessing to the shooting of Utempttng to rescue them The
Billie Miller Jr. 10-year-old huge masse* of Ice halted the
son of Bill Miller, charges of ,
delinquency were placed KraMln ln ,U *£,»*«*-
against Charles Hathaway. 11, ** tbe castawuyj
and Harold Ridley. U. this **» drifting nearer the vessel
morning In the county attor- Fug and adverse weather con
the ; *teln hopped off from Croydon
WITH DELIWqrKNCY
:
alrdome in one of his plana*
fVkker at 6 p ra for Brussels
with a British pilot at the con-
trols Two girl stenographers
were aboard so that he could
continue his business while In
flight The plane also carried
his valet and a mechanic.
When the plane was crossing
over the North Sea. Captain
ney s office They were appre- j Unued to hamper efforts to take ‘ Lowensteln left his scat among
hended by Chief of Police Tom tj,e men off the ice by airplane hti companions and started for
A new effort to pick them up
contests held the attention of
the crowds from early morn-
ing till things seemed to break
up gradually at midnight yes-
terday
No casualties were reported
from the strenuous day. al-
though wreckers were busy
throughout the day
TILDEN DEFEATED
BUT HELEN WILLS
IS HOLDING PACE
Everywhere through the mid-
west the temperature wo* high.
' ontrtbutlng both to deaths by
heat and by drowning Tbe
midwest led the country tn the
number of drowning* with 36
although the middle AUanttr
area had only two leas
The airplane sec Menu were
at Joliet. Dl . where s pilot and
two passengers plunged to
death when the wtng of their
plane snapped and at Beau
muni, Tesa*. where one was
killed
discovered the track* leading Brumley and were brought to
over to the tree, and found lh* court house Trial has been _____
Orumn* where they had left, “l ,or Friday before Judge *llh * u*ht Moth p'an*> wU: opened a door by which paa-
hlm The car tmd disappeared Chn*tlan made from Esmarck Island, nine j sengers leave the plane and fell
Oruataa body wag a maas The boy* stated that they from their reported posl-jtnto the sea
of large black an La They had !lBd fought with Billie Miller tlon. The in-motor rd Swedish
penetrated his clothing during at *nd that they had plane Upland will fly to the la-
hu stupor and war* centering lhot him as a result of their ,and to establish a base for the
the washroom In the rear He, LAC4MTE RALLIES TO WIN
never returned Apparent:, he | Wmmm xytm HPEfTA-
TORM YESTERDAY
the alcohol In hla system that
kept him from being killed by
the Insects
The victim was recovering
MOi^Ewife [hTalurnT* °* ^ ^
who ioved trouble -
r ’ »> iiv* iiti^
thetr attack around his throat., rlTalrJ' 'Peration
Hu skin was stung so severely Two lead slugs shot from ^**r *h° had been among
by the insects that It waa bad-! blank pistols pierced the hand ^h* missing was safe today The
ly swollen Rankin offered the and the hip of the Miller aviator Babushkin who
opinion that It was probably youth The shooting occurred eti his base ship the Ice break-
on a crowded downtown street er M,ll«ln' returned to
last Saturday night The Miller 'J'r *ftrr a harrowing five
-lays' experience with wind and
cbergs Shortly after leaving
the ship he had run into head
boy's condition Is not serious
WIMBLEDON. England July
6 'Spl , By the margin that
youth usually holds In sports.
Rene Lacoste of Prance check-
ed the come-back of the vet-
eran American ace. Big Bill
French coast He landed to the Tllden, yesterday In one of the
west of Dunkirk Prance on the neatest tennis battle* waged
beach at 2 p m The pilot es- ‘n many » T*ar on Wimbledon's [ police
For a while those remaining
aboard the plan* were ignorant
of what had happened and con-
tinued chatting Sometime later
they duscoverbd the tragedy The I
pilot headed at once for the i1
AIR CIRCUS PLANS MADE 1
plained to the custom* officers historic turf
there that he had decided toj On the American
land on the FVench coast be-
cause of the accident
In the meantime the banker's
Art Injured
The number of person* injur
ed. man, probably fatally. r»n
into the thousand* Premature
-xplosion of a truckload of fire-
works at Lamar Mu injured 25
persons ag 5.000 gathered in thr
public square to witness the dle-
pl*y In the larger cttle* the
hospital Hot of persons hurt
during observance of the day
ran into the thousands Chl-
rofo. with an ordinance pro
htblting th* sale of fireworks,
echosd all day with firecrackers
exploding and reports fie**
and hospital* that the
HUNGARY 18 SHOCKED
BY DIVORCE ACTION
•Spl
Hungary. July 6
-Hungarian society was
today when It became
| that Count Budotf Ap
ponyi. nephew of the famous
Hungarian staHian. has
brought suit for absolute dl-
hla wlfs, Countess
J&epCauwyr
Sunday
ROBERTSON GIVES SPEECH J“" •’1 "
rangemenl ml Luncheon
Stirring Patriotic Address Is De-
livered a! Picnic
Daily Star
HEFI.IN IS ABSENT
FROM KI.AN PARLEY
suns against
Van Hoita.
Tbs count. In hla petition
Hsgud that while ho waa ab-
ml In Um United Mates rs-
MU elan-
BSSst'
NEW YORK. July 5 1AP1—
Ouurded by klsruuncn armed
with (ustuU. clubs and sabers.
3.000 persons uttended a Ku
Klux Klan rally ln a 40-acre
field on Long Island Wednes-
day but the guest of honor,
Senator J. Thomas Heflin, fail-
ed to appear.
Late In the afternoon word
was received that the senator
was speaking at a klan rally
In' Jackson, Mich., and obvious-
ly would not b* able to address
the Long Island meeting. Th*
who had spent the
mirth of Hope Uland There
hla seaplane was tn constant
Unger of being crushed by Ice-
bergs Finally he managed to
’.ak# off again and found the
Vtallgln
In the meantime search for
Roald Amundsen and the five
men missing with him was be-
ing made by ships between
Spitsbergen and Norway An
VX■**»- »*“•“* • l
Mavor Jllr could * *eU-known aviator has mg men failed when the Italian
./ " d 001 bwn soured to have charge of teaplan* Marina I was forced
Raloh^ com th* ClrC,“ °th#f Tromww by bad weather
rp s»-s.sgs «s .>srs k,dna,,e" ",eR,iANi<
of th* most stirring addresses lhe ^ prof r.am
ever heard here. Uatoners agreed wiu be UkerTup for
Arrangements tor an aerial
circus, sponsored by th* Junior
- | chamber of commerce, were
Altluiugh the political pot ho* completed today at the noon
■ FI Xhtfk niflalinniQ already begun to brew, no evl- day luncheon at the American
1,1 BKKv wtVlOllUIIItl deuce ol politics was manifested Legion hut The date Ns touts
In the speeches made yesterday tively set fur the first
staff was awaiting his arrival
at Brussels Finally as the
hours passed and Captain Low
enatein failed to appear they
began telephoning to points! la lions of London bobbles
along the Belgian and French the end of
coasu and learned of the trag duel the tail game but tired
1 Tllden passed from the cham-
pionship singles In the semi-
. | number injured was probably
lade pen- treater than in recent years
dence day the two tennis sons *°"r Oklahowsn* flic
of the ancient allies France OKLAHOMA CITY. July $
and the United States, fought ' r°ttr parson* met death
It out before a neutral gallery fourth in Oklahoma
zfsJXTLZi ■sarWwTg £.*
ss :,sr
their sensational Mt<>aotft*f
v.m* h„, nred ®os klUed when hla automobile
crashed Into a highway rut-
bank went near Okmulgee
IN MEXICO RELEASED
Fred Patrick, candidate for
■ charge
of 22. The meet will be held In
SnSsSS-rsitss.-.
also were well received I of th# circus recently left for
--- Detroit to bring hack g new
HONOR WOODROW WILSON Plane
PRAGUE CUesho • Slovakia. The chamber's terrapin derby
July 2. (SpLi—CBucho-Siovakla which was scheduled to take
made July 4—which Is also th* piece last Labor day. bat wag I
tench anniversary of Ha ova Indefinitely ptrelpmarl wtll
•f- day In
the dedicationjrfa
tabs pine* on
w day this
turtles, al-
*. wtu be hi the
MEXICO CITY July 5 iBnl 1
DUpatches today mid that
W. M Mitchell and John P.
Hooper, two American mining
men who had been kidnaped,
had arrived tn Oeadalajara
They were released by their
raptors without paying the
21 AOS ransom demanded
Tbs Americana mid they had
porgabdsd Rosario OotUon, the
chieftain of th* band, to allow
thorn to retara home Ttay
that they had boat
SEVERAL SEEKING OFFICES finals. Just as he did a year
The fu!lowing candidates tiled ago
for office Tuesday afternoon All French Final
C L Nance, democrat. Justice The American had victory ln
of the peace of Bristow C Y his grasp a year ago here when
Ttnkheert. democrat, clerk of his game collapsed utterly
Mounds township Jack Bruin fore yielding to the *uprer»e -,. h
republican, count, treasurer. • ateodmem of Lacoste. wh«
Joe Wills, democrat, treasurer stuck to hU guns to win by
of Mounds township H Schorl scores of 2-6. 2-4 2-2. 2-4. 2-1
field, democrat, trustee of Creek Belea Not Extended
township; A J Johnson, demo Miss Wills' defeat of Miss
Ryan was noteworthy chiefly
far Its decisiveness The latter
had been playing fine tennis
and on th* strength of her dt-
--- __ fo»u o< Helen two and throe
■CTT l* FILCll yours ago to the United States.
Iliad suit to! was expected to extend the
the district smut today against champion Mlm Ryan's chops
Otney Flynn, si ml. claiming a and slices, however, held no
oral, treasurer of Creek town
d»lp. and W. J Overton, county
treasurer on th* democratic
ticket
Fireworks casualties upper -
ently were held to minor inci-
dents with no serious Injurtos
reported
The body of Boy Clark, gar-
age foreman, was rsrovered lets
' loot night from the Highland
swimming pool her*,
missing n Half hour before
search begun Hr had been ac-
companied by his wife and an-
other couph
c A. McConnell wholesale
man. and hla son Richard, ware
drowned In Lake Okmulgee,
aovon miles from thaw, whan
^®r bsm in whkh they
and five others wow riding *gn-
Uen on about 122 acres of prop-
erty
terror* or deception for Mlm
WUla, who simply teood Into
th* hall and poundod her ri-
vnl'e defense (o ptocoa In
It M Me fM Mtf
nell was
thortuos
the
the elder MeC
•till SMUchtog
hoy today
of Me 1
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