Payne County News (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 50, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1941 Page: 1 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Stillwater Advance-Democrat and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
E- <■
Payne County News
jf
VOLUME 50
STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1941
NUMBER. 7
Jap Cabinet Falls For Attempt
Soil Building
YearAreHiked
Peace With
To Negotiate
Jenkins Attempts To
Odessa Falls; Moscow Battle Rages
after
Negro Given
6-Months Term
is
By
-UP)—Fi-
tz
Senators Jump
( uoi th of Dustin, returned with the
pleaded
a
Hollis Physician
Disney Favors
16.
or-
the
closing
trans-
Monday in connection with the
shooting Saturday midnight of
Jack Henderson, 40, city marshal
time ago ,we should have
our naval and air forces
relentless economic pres-
at points where that would
active aid to axis foes,
that Japan was await-
outcome of the Russo-
war before taking new
Uk-
days,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—UP- -
Secretary of Navy Knox announc-
ed Thursday that two recommis-
sioned navy submarines would be
transferred to Great Britain unuei
provisions ot the lend-lease act.
In issuing the secretary’s un-
yard has 5150,000,000 in na-
defense orders.
possibility of a renewed
stoppage loomed for steel
Aged Physician Dies
CARNEGIE, Oct. 16. —UP) Dr.
W. W. Miller, 75, a pioneer phy-
sician of Gotebo and Kiowa county,
died Thursday. Services will be at
2 p. tn. Saturday at Gotebo.
Payne County Farmers’ Union
quarterly convention and picnic
will be held at the fair grounds
Saturday, Oct. 25, it was announced
; Wednesday.
Paul Adams, 4-H club supervisor
and Miss Mariee Caloway, county
home demonstration agent, will be
the principal speakers.
Election of officers and delegates
to state and national conventions
will be held during the business
j meeting.
anti-aircraft gunners manning their weapon atop
a truck Hoarding the entrance to Moscow. (NEA
Radio-Telephoto)
street.
Bal) said winesses told him each
man fired two shots in the ex-
change, but that only Henderson
was struck.
The suspect walked away after
tinialed, might be moving east-
ward along the belt of fortifica-
tions.
The spokesman said there was
not necessarily a chain of elab-
orate fortresses around the city
but rather dugouts and non-
permanent defense.
The German high command
pictured the entire Russian de-
fense line as reeling from the
fury of two weeks of intensified
assault with dive bombers, tanks
and masses of infantry.
The GeGrman statement tl.at
nazi troops were 60 miles from
Moscow referred apparently to
the sector west of the city,
where fighting lias been report-
ed along the old Napoleonic in-
vasion road near Borodino, 70
miles from the capital, and Moz-
haisk, 60 miles from Moscow.
TULSA, Oct. 14. —GP>— Rep.
Wesley E. Disney, first district
congressman, said he would take
a plane back to Washington if his
vote is needed tor repeal of the
neutrality act. He favors outright
repeal.
Disnev said he returned to the
state to visit his son. Ralph, who is
in the University of Oklahoma in-
firmary for treatment of a back in-
jury suffered a week ago in ,an
intramural football game.
was held in the county jail here: Wakasugi, Japanese min- ' Thursday at u b,g Detroit steel
plant, while at Pascagoula, Miss.,
States
"cer-
by
by
the
and
Six Orchestra
Players Killed
Cotton futures at New York
dropped $5 a bale, and wool, hides,
, cottonseed oil, and several other
sensitive staples immediately de-
clined.
Diplomats Are
Ready to Flee
From Moscow
As Berlin reports German troops rapidly
in on Moscow, this official photo was
mltted from the Russian capital, and shows soviet
with the theft of money’,
guilty to a grand larceny charge
in district court Wednesday and
was given a suspended sentence of
one year.
A second degree forgery case
German and Rumanian armies
have battered their way into the
big Russian grain porl of Odessa
and are fighting in the streets
against the last resistance of the
garrison and people's army which
held out through 59 days of siege,
the Rumanian high command an-
nounced Thursday.
The city was reported aflame.
The Rumanians said that in
tiie Russians’ last desperate de-
fense against the onslaught they
sent every ablebodied man, wo-
man and child into the firing
lines.
Leningrad was reported still
under heavy artillery fire
seven weeks of siege.
Odessa, in the southern
raine, under siege for 59
iiowever, was said by the Ru
Civil Service
Jobs Are Open
~.....- ----I
compared with 1.697.05G
on Aug. 31 this year,;
and 379,162 on Sept.
fund. The action fol- ;
warnings that rising j
expected to require
> made
was the fourth in four months, and had skeleton staffs in Kazan ready*
officials of the firm termed it a
“wildcat” strike. The plant, cm-
Red" Sievers orchestra. Sievers
( and four of the victims were from
Minneapolis. They are: Gordon
Dunham, Melvin Gilberg, Roger
i Johnson and Donald M. Simmons.
The other. Vernon Mollerstrom,
was from Henning, Minn.
Cos-1 ---------------------
One Killed In
Plant Explosion
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 16.
Fiber Material
For Auto Tags
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct.
Pepper Is
Sure War
Inevitable
Hubby Couldn't
See the Yolk
LIBERTY, Mo. — UP)-Earl
sairt is convinced his wife is taking British Sub Sunk
her goif game too seriously. Thei ROME, Oct. 16.—lA’i—-The Ital-
other day he opened the refrig- ian high command announced
erator and found that she had I Thursday the sinking of a British
slipped two golf balls in the tray submarine by an Italian submarine
with the eggs. J chaser in the Mediterranean.
Nippon Press Demands
Attack Now on Russia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. — GT)
— Senator Pepper (D., Fla.)
counselled the United
Thursday to prepare for
tain” conflict with Hitler
"immobilizing Japan” and
sweeping the seas clear of
Japanese, German, Italian
French fleets.
"It is just as certain that we
are going to have to fight Hitler
as it is that the United States
and Great Britain are going to
continue to exist," Pepper told
newsmen.
“We and Hitler are going to
ce the eventual ones between
whom the stiuggle wili be ce
cided."
The Florida senator, a mem-
ber of the foreign relations com-
mittee and a vehement advocate
of more
declared
ing the
German
military steps.
"If Hitler should destroy Rus-
sia,” he said, "it follows as night
after day that the Japanese will
strike with further aggression. A
long
used
plus
sure,
ao the most good.
"It is not yet too late to draw
a line and tell Japan if it
crossed we will shoot."
Mauzy Nomination
Goes to Senate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —GW—
The president sent to the senate
Thursday for confirmation these
nominations:
Whitfield Y. Mauzy to be United
States attorney for the northern
district of Oklahoma and John P.
Logan to be United States mar-
shal for the northern district of
Oklahoma.
Army nominations were topped
by that of Brigidair General Daw-
son Olmstead to be chief signal
officer of the army with the rank
of major general, to succeed major Sievers, leader of the group known
general Joseph 0. Mauborgne, who [ as “E— ------------------,-----
retired last September 30.
TEHERAN, Iran, Oct. 16.
Witli Moscow imperiled, authorita-
tive sources here said Thursday
tiie Soviet Russian government and
foreign diplomatic’ missions were i
prepared to move 450 miles east - i
Less Cotton
Now on Hand
tactics,” the sec-
formal statement,
and categorically
that the United
TOKYO, Oct. 16. —(AP)—The Japanese government re-
signed Thursday admitting its inability to agree on the great
issues confronting the empire.
Failure to reach an accord with the United States and
growing military pressure for action in the crisis arising from
---*G e rm a n successes against
Russia were strongly indicat-
ed as major factors in the
ministry’s fall. ,
Premier Prince Fumimaro Kon-
oye presented cn bloc the resigna-
tion of the cabinet, his third, to
Emperor Hirohito amid increasing
press agitation for an end to ef-
forts to conciliate the United
Stat es.
(Konoyd had let it be known
he would not take responsibility :
for * break with America.)
Piedictions were made in in-
formed that the crisis might pro-
duce a more vigorous foreign pol-
icy, designed to combat what tiie
Japanese call the “ABCD Encir-
clement" — military measures of
America, Britain, China and the:
Dutch East Indies.
Informed observers expressed
belief that, the cabinet’s fall was
linked with an unfavorable turn
in talks in Washington looking to- h} The AhmmIhIciI frew
ward lessening of Japanese-Amer-
( ican tension.
It was pointed out that a fever-'
lish series of conferences and im-
Bri+ish to Get
Two Submarines
manian announcement to
effect. Tiie last pockets of re-
sistance were being eliminated in
street fighting, according to ins
announcement.
A German military spokesman
said that Moscow was not any-
where nearly encircled and that
plenty of space was left for Mos-
cow civilians or the army to
move to tiie east from the cap-
ital.
Enlarging on the high com-
mand’s communique, he said that
its phrase, "we are already figlit-
ing at several points on Moscow s
outer defense tine,” meant that
tiie infantry already was there
while armored vanguards, ho m-
manian government to have
been entered by Rumanians and
Germans. DNB quoted the Ru-
that
; VI IHb UVIClOJVIld |
I West did not deny the accus-
West told practically the same
story that he told in a preliminary
hearing in which Saint was charged
with the burning of a farm house
on his property near Perkins. The
house-burning charge was 1____
dismissefl but 1
charge went to trial Thursday
morning.
West, slight-built, curly-haired
man, wearing overalls and a
leather jacket, said that he had
approached Saint in his S'tUlwa-
I ter office in an attempt to get
a loan of money. He said Saint
had refused to lend him money
hut had told him:
"1’11 give you a little money if
you’ll do a little job for me."
West, who was living in Saint’s
storage and al com- house at the time, said that Saint,
presses, 11,523,702 bales of lint asked him to burn the barn. West|
and 78,995 of linters, compared . said he told the Stillwater man he
with 9,296,898 and 61,142 on Aug. "°uld set fire to the structure for
31 this year, and 10,747,398
66,514 on Sept. 30 last year.
Prices Tumble
On Jap Crisis
OWATONNA, Minn., Oct. 16. —
'?P>—Collision of an orchestra van I i
and a cattle truck near here cost JUST W dTCnlny
the lives of six young men early I * - - -
( Thursday. The crasli occurred in a
fog just before dawn.
The dead included Edmund G.
Isn't Safe Any More
CARTHAGE, Mo., Oct 14.—(A’)
—A new occupational disease called
“the kibitzer itch” has turned up.
A stone wall around the site of a
new building offered a leaning
ledge that the construction kibit-
zers couldn’t resist Growing along
the wail was a vine. It was poison
ivy. You know’ what happened.
another Negro.
e The jury found Allen guilty after
County Attorney James M. Spring-
er, jr., presented witnesses who
testified that Allen was intoxicated
when the car he was driving crash-
ed into the Cimarron river bridge,
south of Perkins on the night of
June 15, killing Johnson.
Allen had bien in the county jail
for four months Wednesday and
will have only two more months home of^ his mother four .miles
of the sentence to serve.
William Klinglesmith, charged shotgun and met Henderson in the
Army Buys Skis
BOSTON, Oct. 16. — GW—The
war department announced con-
ion shortly after noon at the Na-' tracts Thursday for 34,048 pair ot
tional Magnesium corporation skis, for the regular army, sufflc-
plant, a company spokesman said, ient to send two diivsions gliding
Two injured were taken to St. : over the snow. Prices ranged from
James hospital $7.85 to $15.28 a pair and the
The plant is in the ironbound | ders went to manufacturers in
section, a short distance north of widely separated sections of
Newark airport. 1 country.
Four hundred men present at a
union meeting booed down Or-
ville Kincaid, their regional dir-
ector, when he attempted to an-
nounce the results of wage adjust-
ment negotiations he had carried
on with the management. One crit-
ic said the adjustments called for
an increase of only one cent an
hour for common labor, and a pick-
et line was formed at the plant
gates a short time later. The CIO
union has had a contract with the
company since July 16.
The announcement oi the baek-
to-work move at the Pascagoula
yard of the Ingalls Shipbuilding
corporation came from federal con-
ciliator Bryce P. Holcombe, who
said that representatives of var-
ious metal trades unions had agreed
to recommend to their membership
resumption of operations after
three day idleness.
The
tional
The
work
company operated "captive” soft
coal mines as a result of a dead-
lock in negotiations of workers
and management before the na-
tional defense mediation board at
Washington.
The president of Consolidated
Aircraft corporation, whose bomb-
er plant at San Diego has $750,-
000,000 in orders, served notice yes-
terday that he expected the gov-
ernment to pay part of the wage
increases negotiated recently for
AFL machinists.
Put | for James Henry Alien, rer Kins i««>•
not Negro charged with manslaughter]0^ Dustin.
un" I in the auto death of Jesse Johnson, I Henderson was shot twice in the
abdomen w’ith a shotgun. He was
reported near deatli in a Henry- 1
etta hospital. The shooting occur-
red on the main street of Dustin.
22 miles eoutheast of here.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 16. —
) UP)—Charman E. W. Smarlt said
Thursday the board of affairs was
I experimenting with a fiber ma-
terial—the stuff from which the
j new sales tax tokens will be fash-
ioned for automobile license tags
in 1943.
The tags for 1942 will be of steel,
the same as now, because the board
had enough of it on hand.
But in 1943, the board may turn
out the new plates, varnished for
weatherproofing, because the de-
fense program prevents obtaining
materials formerly used.
-GP)—
One person was killed and three j
others were injured in an explos-
Saint Arson Charge
Hearing Thursday.
Tommy Gokey, Ripley rural,
youth, was found guilty of second j
degree forgery by a district court
jury Wednesday afternoon but lelt
the sentence up to District Judge
Henry W. Hoel.
A district court jury late Tues-
day returned a verdict of guilty
and recommended a six months
sentence in the Payne county jail
I for James Henry Allen, Perkins
Higher Costs
Dig Into Fund
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 16.—UP) _______
— The increased cost of living'. - — ' .
struck the state a $101,02a blow i Lett Panama Alone
Thursday as Governor Phillips set1
aside a third of his $300,000 emerg- WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —GP>-
ency funds for the biennium to Secretary of State Hull assailed
meet higher expenses for food, ■ Thursday a* "unfair tactics” what
clothing and maintenance of pat- he characterized as attempts to
ients and inmates at s’tate instilu- “make political capital out of the
recent events in Panama.”
"Lest any individual be misled
by such unfair
retary said in a
“I state clearly
for the record
Slates government has had no con-
nection, direct or indirect, with the
recent governmental changes in
the republic of Panama.”
The United Slates Civil Service
Commission has announced exam-
inations for the following posit-
ions: Assistant Communications
I Operator and Junior Communica-
tions Operator; Acturaiai Mathe-
I matician, also Principal, Senior,
Associate and Assistant) Informa-
i» lion Specialist, also Senior, Associ-
ate and Assistant;
Specialist in Maternal and Child
Health, also Principal, Senior and
I Associate; Mineral Economist, also jy attorney^ ° J.....
I Principal. Senior. Associate and As- “He said that he couldn’t pay
| sistant; Inspector of Coal; Assist- Continued on Page 5. Column I.
| "ant Veterinarian and Junior Vet-1
I erinarian; Junior Multigraph Op-
I erator; Assistant Agricultural Sta-
tistician and Junior Agricultural
Statistician;
Radio Mechanic-Technician, also
Principal. Senior, Assistant and
Junior; Associate Aircraft Inspect-
I or (factory) and Associate Air Car-
I rier Maintenance Inspector; Phy-
I siotherapy Aide and Junior Phy-
siotherapy Aide; Senior Inspector |
Naval Ordnance Materials, also I
Inspector, Associate, Assistant and
Junior.
For further details apply at the
I Post Office.
and 525.
| In telling his story to the jury.
West said that after he had
visited Saint he returned to the
farm at Perkins and that be-
tween two and three o’clock on
the morning of February 5 he
had struck a match to loose hay
in the barn, then returned to the
house and goni* to bed.
I He said that no one came to
' the fire out and that he did
tell his wife what he had done
til later.
Several days later, he told
jury, he returned to Stillwater
and approached Saint for the $25
he said he had been promised for
burning the barn.
“What did Saint say?” asked
James M. Springer, jr., the coun-
Are Reported Down.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. -UP)
jlThe census bureau reported Tues-
I day that cotton consumed during
September totaled 875,682 bales ol
lint and 129,731 bales of linters,
compares with 874,113 of lint and
131,314 of linters during August
tliis year, and 638.235 of lint and
94,794 of linters during September
last year.
I . Cotton on hand Sept. 30 was re-
ported held as follows:
In consuming establishments, 1,-
636,521 bales of lint and 444,527 ot
linters, <
J and 437,771
and 781,116
| 30 last year.
In public-
presses,
It was pointed out that the far-.
mer can fulfill his part of the pro-
gram by planting 25 per cent of,
his cropland in soil building crops
by following his wheat crop with
some kind of summer legume, or
._j jater almost an>’ sma11 gruin planted for
tiie "barn burning 1 Pasturc or no1 harvested for grain.,
-‘There will be no payment on
general soil-depleting crops ether I
j than wheat, cotton, or peanuts, tin-!
less such payments are earned by 1
carrying out soil-building prac-
tices,” Cromwell stated.
Soldier Is Held
After Officer Shot perial audlences hcre a,
HOLDENVILLE, Oct. 13. —GP) most ^mediately after the re-
—A 20-year-old Fort Sill soldier, !?nl Washington last week of
I. zx III.. 1. ’ T .
I AFL union leaders recommended
resumption of work at a strike-
bound shipyard.
! The dispute at the Great Lakes .j v..c
Steel corporation in River Rouge States and British embassies have
ll.’ •! c I 11 f>.ii i'ik iii f z, ■ i ti .... 4|........1 li <1/4 ulz /i I it/m c I <1 in ii'/n «r
tions.
Fourteen penal, eleemosynary
and charitable institutions received
aid from the
lowed recent
s i prices were expected to r
funds beyond appropriations
< I last spring.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. —GP)—
Senator Gurney (R. S.D.) asked the
war department Thursday to in-
vestigate a new complaint against
the army’s shakeup of national
guard officers previously protested
in a telegram from Senator Clark
(D. Mo.) to Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear.
Guerney said he had received a
complaint alleging that a national
guard officer, whom he declined
to name, had been relieved of his
command without just cause.
Clark telegraphed Genera] Lear
Thursday declaring that Lear
ought to retire “rather than make
Major Gen. (Ralph E.) Truman the
goat” for what Clark described as
a "tactical defeat” of Lear’s second
army in recent maneuvers.
General Truman, a cousin of
Clark's colleague, Senator Truman
(D. Mo.), resigned from the army
after being transferred from com-
mand of the thirty-fifth national
guard division to the presidency of
the second army’s permanent re-
classification board. Subsequently
Lear wired Clark that General
Truman had resigned after "splen-
did and outstanding service.”
Saint’s Lawyer
Makes Target
Of Witnesses
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct.
GP)—Indication for violation of the
federal bankruptcy law, Dr. Sam- !
uel Wiley Hopkins, well-known
physician and surgeon of Hollis,
was at liberty on $1,000 bond
Thursday after his arrest by a U.
S. deputy marshal.
Charged with stealing more than I
$27,000 from the trustee of his I nouncement, the navy department
estate after he sought and won vol-1 said that the ships, both of which
untary bankruptcy in U. S. dis-j now are operating in the Atlantic,
trlct court here, Hopkins was m-> would be manned by British ofti
dieted on five counts by a federal I cers and crews before leaving
grand jury last week. American waters.
Wheat Breaks 10 Cents,
Cotton $5 Per Bale.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-
nancial and commodity markets
”"7 (were unsettled Thursday by news
prepared to move 450 miles east-, J J
ward to tiie squalid and overcrowd-1 President Roosevelt had cancelled
ed provincial city of Kazan. his afternoon cabinet meeting and
Since earlj' June both tiie United called in miltary advisers instead.
‘ Whether this step was taken be-
. , , cause of developments in the Far
to take over their functions when _
Moscow was evacuated, they said. ' East’ or lhe nazi successes in Rus-
Other foreign powers, it was!sa^’ was no* c*ear' out Wall Street
added, sent representatives to Ka-1
z.an with tiie understanding that it
was to be tiie temporary seat of
the Soviet regime when needed. _ . ..
(A Tokyo announcement said the' cents a bushel, the limit permitted
Japanese embassy already- had, *n one day’s trading in futures,
evacuated Moscow after it, and all Corn dropped the limit of 8 cents,
other missions, had been advised and grains generally were heavily
to get ready to leave by Wednes- ( liquidated.
day night.)
against Tommy Gokey, Ripley, the shooting and was arrested last
route 1,-went to the jury shortly U'Hht at his mothers farm home,
before 2 p. m. Wednesday. He is Rh" said’
charged with giving a bogus check
in the amount of $4.50 to Klein's I Iniz-sn
Filling Station in Stillwater in re- 1 a’ a V
;ceipt for gasoline and cash change. Pir-nir* 7R
Holding the spotlight of the en- ' IU,I,U ^GlUUCI
tire criminal session of district i
session of district court will be a
second degree arson charge against
S. F. Saint, Stillwater real estate *
and insurance man, which is sched-
uled to be heard Thursday, start- [
ing at 9 a. in. Saint is charged
with the burning of a barn on his
i farm near Perkins to defraud
| stat? insurance company.
Soil Conservation
Program Must Be Followed
Soil building payments on crops
for tiie 1942 season will be increas-
ed slightly. Word Cromwell, county
agent, announced Monday.
Payments can be earned, liow-
jever, only by following the conser-
vation program. Terracing, plant-
ing of soil-building crops and ap-
plication of fertilizers must oc car- j
' ried out on land considered as
■ cropland.
Base for Payments
Tiie payments will be determined
as follows: 70 cents per acre ol
| cropland in excess of the sum oi
' the cotton, peanut, or wheat al-
Jotments; $2 per acre for commer-
cial orchards on the farm in 1941;
for non-crop open pasture land in
I the farm, where tiie farm does not
] have more than 1,920 acres, lt>
1 cents per acre; and $1 per acre lor
commercial vegetables when there
are over three acres.
Only allotments for Payne coun-
ty will be wheat, cotton, and pea-
nuts, Cromwell said. This means
that there will be no allotment
for other soil-depleting crops, gen-
erally known as the "allotment tor
neutral.”
"However," Cromwell said, "to
earn payments on cotton, wheat, or
i jz.xv...— -------—ipeanut allotments, 25 per cent of
theft, had been convicted of the total cropland must be planted
shoplifting anti had paid fines in soil-conserving crops, which
’ fol- public intoxication 011 dif- does not include sweet sorghums."
ferent occasions in the past. iSoU BuUdln5 Crops......
* If u’oc nninton mi
Detroit Steel
Plant Closed
'Wildcat' Strike Puts
8,000 Out of Jobs.
The Associated Press
A new strike halted operations
Still Negotiating
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—G?i
Japan is still negotiating with
tiie United States in an attempt
[ to maintain peace in tiie Pacific,
i Major General Kiyotomi Oka-
moto was quoted Thursday in a
Domei broadcast, but the Japa-
; nese people should be fully pre-
j pared for the worst in case tiie
.aIks fail.
Okamoto, chief of se second
section of the army general
•liiaff, was quoted further:
“No matter what change may
take place in tiie current inter-
national situation Japan is de-
termined to pursue her resolute
policy of bringing the China inci-
dent to a successful conclusion
as well as work toward creation
of tiie prosperity sphere in east
Asia.”
A crescendo came just after
Washington dispatches told of a
meeting between Wakasugi and
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles, in which it was under-
stood both sides laid all their
cards on the table.
Wakasugi had been recalled to J
Toyko in August to make a full ....................
c, report on the American situation ploys 8,000 men and has^many'de-
Sherilf Harve Ball said the sus- and when he returned, by way of fense orders
pect told him the shooting resulted (Continued on Page 2, Column
from the arrest by Henderson of
I two other soldiers on charges of
j disturbing the peace.
Ball said the soldier went to the
BULLETIN'
A second degree arson case against 8. F. Saint wa* thrown
out of district court at I pan. Thursday when District Judge Henry
W. Hoel sustained a demurrer presented by Ernest F. Jenkins,
defense counsel, which held that the state's evidence against Saint
was not corroborated sufficiently.
Jenkins pulled his ace-iu-the-hole after the state had com-
pleted its testimony. The defense counsel claimed that the testi-
mony of Roy “Bill" 'West, the state’s chief witness, was not corro-
borated sufficiently to pin the charge on Saint. Jenkins quoted
from a state supreme court case, State vs. John Rogers, which
held that an accomplice's testimony was not sufficient evidence.
James M. Springer, jr., county attorney, vigorously protested
the demurrer, charging that there was enough circumstantial evi-
dence presented to show that Saint was Involved in the crime.
Defense counsel for S. F. Saint sought Thursday to dis-
credit ehe testimony of state witnesses who testified the 72-
year-old Stillwater real estate and insurance dealer had hired
the burning of a barn on his farm near Perkins February 5 to
defraud an insurance company.
Ernest F. Jenkins, Saint’s attorney, charged in quest-
ioning that Roy “Bill” West, Perkins, the state’s chief wit-
--------*ness in the second degree
i arson charge against Saint,
j had pleaded guilty to chicken
was inclined to the opinion the
Far Eastern outlook had worsen-
ed.
In
Chicago, wheat
dropped
10
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Bellati, R. Marsden. Payne County News (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 50, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1941, newspaper, October 17, 1941; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1588094/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.