Sapulpa Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 218, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 16, 1936 Page: 1 of 6
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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1936
SAPULPA HERALD, SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA
vnL XTB. NO. 218.
IN STATE PRISON BREAK
Bodies Of Two Blacks
In Virginia Are Raked
Out Of Fire Coals
After Gun Battle.
On*
Thrtt
Six V
OW Y
Officers Round Up Late
Instigators In Reign Of j
Terror; Leader Of
Break Still Free.
Straw Sayings
)COK(il HIM.HAM
ituraj Reporter
By U S. WILLIS
United Pres* Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1938 by United Press
McALESTER Ok la May 16 (IP>—
Fosses today speedily mopped up" on
right freedom-crazed convicts who
hicke Irom the state penitentiary here
killing guard C D Powell.
—of kidnaping and
southeast Oklahoma
of the convicts still arc
one. Claude Beavers,
third tenner who led
GORDON VILLE Va . May 16 IIP>-
Two negroes killed a sheriff, wounded
five other white men held off a p06s<
numbering up to 5.000 men in a six
hour gun battle, and died finally in
a barrage of machine gun bullet In
their blazing home early today
Two hours later, after the ruins had
cooled enough to permit approach
members of the posse raked amonz
the ashes and recovered one of thr
bodies It wa« torn and cut up «nf1
parts of it including some of the
bones, were carried off as souvenirs
The body of the second negro—»
woman—was recovered several hours
later. It was dragged from the
smouldering ruins and left for the
curious to stare at and the few -re-
maining souvenir hunters to dis-
member.
The battle raged under the glaring
spot light* of fire trucks Mountain-
eers from the surrounding Blue Ridge
foothills with their traditional long
barreled ‘ahootln’ arms” citiaens with
pistols and shotguns, state and local
police with machine guns and auto-
matic rifles were on one side, and an
elderly negro man and his sister.
•nn«i with rifles and shotguns, were
Wednesday,
i: nd staging a reign
terrorism in i----
Cnlv llir.f
ai large, and
fctminole county
the break, was leported to be sur-
| rcunded near Clayton In the rugged
Kiamichi mountains of northern Push-
I inataha county
Jess Cunningham. Stephens county
I murden r serving a life term was
iizcd this afternoon near Antlers He
' was wounded by shotcun blasts lired
1 Into the c nviets by prison guards as
they lied Wednesday after kilims
J Fowtll and kidnaping Tuck Cope and
i Motor Conn two guards
fhorely after Warden Hoi Kenny
announced the capture o, Cunning-
ham officers at Clayton 2 miles
northeast of Antlers, called in that
Claude Fugate. Oklahoma county con-
vict. was seized there.
Beavers was reported to be- sur-
I rounded in a |>atch ot heavy limber
near where F'ugate was seized
Bill Anderson F*ontotoc county rob-
fc-Ki Hicks who has .success! ullV
fooled the public all the winter by
wearing a patent adjustable shirt
front, today forgot and pulled off his
Sun Flinders ain>eaied in the open
tedav wearing a new ‘ant of clothe-
He looked just like he felt like a
delegate.
• • •
There is a right -mart talk pro and
con about building a bridge acros.-
ih. fruiiv that washed m the road
Above A ruthless band oi two uwu
frlcn.- made a break for liberty at the
C kiahoma state ;>enit<nuary al M -
Alester Wedne.'day. May 13. killed a
•prison foreman they used to shie.d
their flight, kidnaped two guerds and
wounded another Six were caught,
uninjured, ten wounded and eight are
still at large These at large are
Top iow left to right. Claude Beaver
Julius D Bohannon Bill Anderson
and Jess Cunningham Bottom row
and S Ij. McWilliams, and George
Measong. of Culpepper All were taken
to University hospital at Charlottes-
ville. Young and oarr were In a crit-
ical condition
After repeated efforts, volunteers
from the state police managed to get
to an outbuilding near the ancient 10-
room frame house on the property of
the GordonvilV cemetery where the
negroes had barricaded themselves.
They saturated It with kerosene and
set It on fire.
While the crowd screamed and fired,
and bullets whistled, the blaze jumped
to the house. The woman appeared at
a window and was riddled with ma-
chine gun bullets. A moment later
♦he roof collapsed and the man ran
out. He was struck by a blast of bul-
lets and fell backward Into the fire
Walles caretaker of the cemetery
hac been asked to vacate the house
I He had refused and for several days
1 he and his sister had patrolled the
| grounds, armed with rifle* and re-
I volvers
Yesterday they threatened Mr.'
’ George Zimm. a wealthy land owner
, Fhe notified Sheriff Young who swore
I out a lunacy warrant With Sergeant
l J. R. Yeager of the town police and
State Policeman H U Dc:»nev he
went to the house A shot through the
door killed him
SPOTLIGHT
NEWS TODAY
IN SAPULPA
DEPUTY SHERIFF II An
NARROW ESCAPE.
Curt Bromley. chief deputy t°r
Sheriff Lew Wilder, was able to re-
port foi work this morning, although
he narrowly escaped serious leg wounds
last night when a 10-gauge shotgun
was accidentally discharged as It was
being taken from the ear at the court-
house
Brumley and deputy Ben Clmndler
had returned from a trip into the
• ountry and were taking the guns from
the back seat of the car The shotgun.
<-ne used tn the of-icers gun battle
with outlaws north oi Sapulpa. Feb 3,
1934. went off. Some of the shot and
v, adding grazed Brumley s legs but
OFFICIALS MEET AT GRAVE OF
NEW DEALS ORIGINALLY
PROPOSED LEVY
BACCALAUREATE
SERVICES TO BE
HELD TOMORROW
Sheriff Wilder Discounts
Theory That Sapulpa
Engineer Wa» Victim
Of Foul Play.
Last Minute Presidential
Stay Gives Program a
New Hope In 1936-37
Relief Plan.
B% JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. May 16 llPV—The
committee met today
May 16 <LP)—
VfcAI ESTER Okla
Five fugitive killer-convicts apparent-
ly e.scaptd today at least temporarily
from more than 200 officers and
civilians who combed the rugged Kia-
michi mountains for them.
Three convict* who escaped with
tl em in a bloodv riot and break at the
state prison brickvard Wednesday were
In solitary confinement today facing
possible kidnaping charges and the
death penalty
Two guards Tuck Cope and Victor
Conn kidnaix’d a* hostages, were re-
( leased Thursday night near Antlers
1 Wilburn Doak Blanco faimer. also
kidnaped was released with them
• iContinued on Page 2>
Tomorrow night 130 graduating sen-
iors of Sapulpa hi-h school will be
given baccalaureate exercises in the
Methodist Episcopal church here with
Rev. C Fred Mac Lean as pastor host.
Rev J F Graham, pastor of the
M E church South will deliver the
sermon to the students
Fallowing is given the completed
program
Organ prelude. tv Philip M<vrgan.
class processional with music by the
high school orchestra: invocation by
Rev Mac Lean foil ved by a song
•Watchers of the S ars." by the high
school chon : scr. tare reading t*
Major P T Fvnn followed by another
1 number from the nigh school choir
entitled "Prayers 'tie sermon by Rev
Oraham, entitled O. Worship the
King Benediction by Pev P L
' Pierce followed b\ the class reces-
senate finance
at the grave of the new deal's original
proposed tax on undivided corporate |______
profit* apparently prepared to accept' investigations
the general basis of a compromise j w Gillen. Sapulpan
boosting income levies on corporations lu the Country club l
and on the average man
Rebels against the corporate profits
tax contended they had killed the
law originally proposed by President
Roosevelt, despite retention of dras-
Within minutes a small detachment
o! police had surrounded the house
staying out of range of the negroes
sniping from second floor windows
Darkness came and Youn.'j brother
tried to get to the house to drag
awav the sheriffs body from the
oorch. He was shot in the cheek
Mundy tried and was shot through
the left arm and side Mersong was
n-xt and he received a buil»t in the
chest Then McWilliams and Carr
tried. McWilliams, shot in the shoul-
der dragged Carr, who had been hit,
in the back tinder the p«rh where
th •> were safe from the fire coming
from above, though endangered by the
fire of the posse
The two men remained under the
porch for more than an nour Finally
the posse concentrated fire on one
side of the house which enabled them
to drag themselves to sifnty
In the crowd was a boy. not older
than 12. firing a 22 calibre rifle JOs
through the crow d solicit -
Sheriff Lew Wilder today completed
into the drowning oi
■ i who was found
f club lake late Thurs-
and gave his opinion
i engineer had accident-
Wilder refuted any theiry that the
man had met with foul play or had
taken his own life
A coroner's jury will meet Monday
afternoon to give its verdict
Gillen was taken to the Country
club lake on Monday of last week by
a lecal taxi driver and left there The
cab driver wa,- told by Gillen that
friends living nearby would bring him
back to town
That was the last time the man
was seen alive, with the exception of
Tom Wallace and two others of a
fishing party who saw the engineer
sitting on some rocks on the blutt
r.ear where his body was discovered.
Wallace talked with the man and in
rtply to a question Gillen said he
was lust looking at the scenery.' but
not fishing
The finding of a woman's while lelt
hat on the shore of the lake where
Gillen s oody was located, was dis-
counted today by Sheriff Wilder a*
(Continued on Page Wve>
stay, planned today to nmcuon »
modified scale In the 1936-37 work-
relief program
With no new funds of it* own. PWA
will lend money in cooperation with
the reconstruction finance corpora-
tion to finance 55 per cent of con-
struction project costs Th<- work.:
progress administration fill supply
the other 45 per cent
The plan was put forward by Presi-
dent Roosevelt alter PWA administra-
trator Harold L Ickes had virtually
admitted defeat by WPA udminlstrtor
battle of
Baseball Result*
At Press Time
ACCOMODATE HOARD! R
Local police officers were surprise
to see J C Seay show itp at the po
lice station early last even
quiring for a room in the
because of hi* intoxicated c
Hr was accomodated and bo
drunkenness
The usual fine of $6 was
half because u----
ing himself up.
Only in very few odkes
come in to be locked up.
are in an Intoxicated condition, offi-
cers rominented.
At the end of more than a week
(Continued on Page Sixi
Harry L Hopkins in their
billions
Hopkln* sought the whole new *1.-
500 000.000 for his quick cheap work
Ickes wanted $700 000.00fr-or whatever
he could get—to distribute among po-
litical subdivision* for heavy building
The house of representatives cut the
$1500.000.000 to $1,425 000.000 then
voted Ickes out of the work-relief plc-
(Continued on Page Four*
NATIONAL LEAGUE
221 020 0 |
000 320 0 |
isser and Davis. Lan-
Cantwel and Lopez
000 000 000—0 8 2 !
000 003 00X—3 6 1 I
Swift and Padden. Clark 1
Ft Louis
Boston
I- Dean Hi
nlng. Blanche
I Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
NINTH ANNUAL OIL EXPO AT TULSA
FORMALLY OPENED THIS AFTERNOON
sster went ______
ing ammunition for him from persons
well supplied.
Tear gas and sulphur gas bombs
were thrown into the house, but ap-
parently their fumes were dissipated
by cross draughts.
The house wa sfired It burned
for almost an hour while the negroes
continued to fire Not until the roof
collapsed did the end come
INDIANA DEMOTE CHIEF
CAITOHNAWAOA. Que <LP*—Caugh-
nawaga Indian Reserve braves here
deorived Chief Good Leaf of his
;;___ “ — zj reduced
of Sear's anxiety in giv- Blanton.
and Phelps
do they Cincinnati
when they | New York
Stine and Lombardi
Marten so
Chicago
Philadelphia
_________ _ Henshaw and Har
l from a parking place ] Johnson and Wilson
the Criterion theatre on Wed-j J"
v afternoon was located yester-1 AMERICAN I.
v county officers about six miles | New York
Irvin came striding down the row
of assorted side shows, almost hidden
in a phalanx of oil committeemen.
Hp mounted the platform with W. O.
Skelly. president of the Skelly Oil
company of Tulsa and expopftion
By ROBERT II PARHAM
United Press St at Correspondent
TULSA May 16 .U>»—William A
Irvin, president of tlie United States
Steel corporation officially opened
the nnth International Petroleum ex- j
position today
Standing in the adow of a 120-
foot derrick that has company prob-
ably built. Irwin addressed more than
5.000 oil men and s;vctators here fori
th copen ing of the world's greatest!
oil show
At 9 a m gates t othe exposition
grounds were opened By noon most
of the early crowd had gone but
others had come to take their places
The crowd at 2 o'clock, jammed
around a slight wooden platform
! which had been erected for Irvin's
I speech in a cluster of huge, modern
steel derricks at the rear of the ex-
position grounds
ooo 00
000 20
Humbert and
ROGERS DIES AT
HOME OF HIS SON
Skellv spoke first He greeted the
oil men and patrons of the show,
then introduced Irvin
The theme of the steel head s speech
was the sixtv-year brotherhood be-
tween steel and its greatest user—oil
He touched on various phases cf
the development of the all industry
and its close alliance with the steel
business, tracing the history of both
enterprises s'jjy* inception of the
petroleum Industry in 1859 Then he
centered his praise on the southwest,
where most of the ptroleum supply Is
found. „ •
W c Rogers, age 87. of Decaturville.
Mo. died of a stroke this morning
at 6 oclock at the home of hts son.
T J Rogers, o; Kellyvtlle.
Rogers' father had been visiting
with him for the past ffve days
The bodv wITt be shipped tomorrow
nlgTTt to the home at Decaturville.
with D H Buffington funeral home
In charge of arrangements
_ . • . __i- * __ill w. KaM
wheels were missing aim me
framework had been burned
The owner's name was given
Fitzgerald •
OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy to-
night and Sunday Cooler extreme
northwest tonight Cooler north-
west portions Sunday
Ferrell: Harder
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