The Ardmore Democrat (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1949 Page: 4 of 4
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Man Goes to
Chair Twice
Killer Given Three
Day Reprieve First
Time Dies Second
HUNTSVILLE Texas Aug 10—
(i P ) — W Fred Jones walked to the
electric chair for the second time
in three days early today This
time he died
The 40-year-old killer who Sun-
day morning won a three-day re-
prieve as he stood at the door of
the death chamber entered the ex-
ecution room at 12:03 a m (cst)
He was pronounced dead at 12:11
a m (cst)
Jones’ execution preceded that of
General Kerzee 57-year-old Dallas
Negro who was convicted of the
mutilation slaying of Gladys Scott
in Dallas in 1948
In his last statement Jones said
he held no ill will against anyone
Jones’ last hope for life was
snuffed out yesterday when the
board of pardons and paroles in
Austin ruled there would be no
further clemency
On Sunday as Jones reached the
death chamber an order from Gov
Allan Shivers stopped the execu-
tion and gave Jones three more
days of life
Governor Shivers granted the
stay on recommendation of the
pardon board which had been told
it would receive new evidence in
the case
But the ruling of the pardons
board yesterday said in effect
that the new evidence failed to
materialize
Jones a veteran of the second
world war shot H C Love of Floy-
dada in front of Jones’ Floydada
grocery store Sept 27 1946 He
accused Love of interfering with
his domestic life
Taint So About
Sooner Officers
Being Outlaws
OKLAHOMA CITY Aug 10—
(JP) — It isn’t so — all this talk about
Oklahoma law officers being out-
laws with shotguns and such
That’s why Elmer Cook of Ken-
osha Wis will be getting a letter
in the next couple of days
It’ll come from Glenn Carmich-
ael assistant commissioner of pub-
lic safety
He’ll be answering Cook’s letter
It said his wife is mighty upset be-
cause persons in Wisconsin told
her that “officers of the law re-
semble outlaws armed with shot-
guns without any identification
who will pounce upon the travel-
ers and mistreat them”
That says the assistant commis-
sioner is so much bosh
Cook wrote Carmichael he and
his wife plan a trip to Texas
through Oklahoma But all that
talk about Oklahoma he said
makes him wonder
Carmichael wrote him to think
nothing of it Oklahomans he said
are “truly representative of the
great southwest known and re-
spected for their courtesy and
friendliness”
In fact he added he’ll see to it
that Cook and his wife get safely
across the state line if they con-
tact his department when they
reach the state line
Tribal Chieftan Gets
Free Medical Aid
LONDON Aug 10— (JP)— When
Nil Kwabena Bonne III tribal
chieftain from British West Afri-
ca’s Gold Coast heard about Brit-
ain's national health scheme he de-
cided it was an opportunity not
to be overlooked
He arrived in London last night
from Accra capital of the Gold
Coast where he maintains a 56-
room castle Today he told re-
porters: "I understand I can obtain
health treatment free here and
spectacles too” Bonne explained
he had a stomach ailment and had
been in poor health since he was
operated on in 1944
The chief came to the right
place Under the British health
plan visitors as well as residents
are eligible for free medical care
Prehistoric Mammoth
Is Believed Found
LAWTON Aug 10 — 7P) — Carl
Benke has dug up what is be-
lieved to be a tusk of a prehis-
toric mammoth
The large curved bone was in a
gravel pit 1 J2 miles south of here
It is nine inches in diameter and
coated with a hard substance re-
sembling petrified wood
Benke discovered the tuck while
digging in the gravel pit
J M Stephens Lawton fossil
collector identified the object as
a tusk
Returns Home
Miss Helen Scrugham will leave
Thursday to return to Glendale
Cal after a vacation with her
parents Mr and Mrs Hay Scrug-
nam 414 E street northwest Miss
Scrugham Is secretary to Gladding
McBean Pottery company Glen-
Ardmore Markets
Oklahoma City Livestock
OKLAHOMA CITY Aug 10—
(&) — (USDA)— Cattle 2300 calves
400 run included 12 to 15 loads
steers and yearlings not much
done early on beef cows other
killing classes in comparatively
light supply and early sales fully
steady to strong bulls strong to
50 higher stockers active at the
early advance of the week pack-
age lot choice light yearlings at
2700 three loads good 733-lb
heifers 2500 around four loads
two-way 884-lb yearlings 2300
with around 25 per cent out at
2200 common and medium grass
heifers 1600 - 2000 heifrettes
1800-50 most beef cows 1650
down to 1450 canners and cut-
ters 1000-1400 bull top 1850
slaughter calves to 2400 cull
common and medium grades 1300-
2200 load choice 450-lb stock
steer calves 2500 choice heifer
calves 2350 medium and good
stocker yearlings 1700-2100 stock
cows quoted to 1600
Hogs 800 active 25 higher on
barrows and gilts top 2300 to all
good and choice 180-250 lb
weights 2250-2300 sows un-
changed at 1950 down stock pigs
largely nominal
Sheep 250 spring lambs steady
with Tuesday’s close top 2250
medium and good lots 2000-2200
ewes largely 850 and down to
700
Fort Worth Livestock ’
FORT WORTH Aug 10— W—
(USDA) — Cattle 2100 fully steady
spots higher on high medium and
good weighty steers medium and
good slaughter steers and year-
lings 1750-2400 Calves 600
steady good and choice slaughter
calves 2200-2450
Hogs 600 butchers mostly 25
higher than Tuesday average
sows and pigs steady good and
choice 190-270 lb butchers 2275-
2300 top 2300 (highest this year)
sows 1700-1900
Sheep 800 aged sheep steady
to 50 higher other classes steady
few medium and good spring
lambs 2000-2200
Chicago Produce
CHICAGO Aug 10— (A1)— (US
DA) — Live poultry fowl firm
chickens unsettled receipts 27
trucks prices unchanged except
a cent a pound higher outside on
fowl at 26-29 and one to two
cents lower on roasters at 25-29
both FOB
Butter steady receipts 738347
prices unevenly Vi cent a pound
lower to Vi higher 93 score AA
and 92 A 615 90 B 585 89 C
5425 cars 90 B 5775 89 C 555
Eggs steady receipts 9519
prices unchanged
Chicago Livestock
CHICAGO Aug 10 — (JP) — (US
DA)— Hogs 8000 fairly active
strong to mostly 25 cents higher
both butchers and sows top 2365:
both butchers and sows top 2365
for around one load practical top
2350 bulk good and choice 190-
260 lb 2300-2350 270-300 lb
2200-2275 few 325-360 lb 2000-
2150 good and choice 150-180
lb lights 2125-2275 good and
choice sows under 360 lb 1925-
2100 few choice 270-300 lb up to
2150 375-400 lb 1800-1900 400-
450 lb 1700-1825 475-550 lb
1500-1675 odd head heavier sows
as low as 1400
Cattle 11000 calves 400 choice
steers active strong to 25 cents
higher other grades steady heif-
ers steady cows fully steady bulls
strong to 25 cents higher vealers
firm top 2875 for four lbads high-
choice 1107-1221 lb steers few
loads 2825-2850 bulk good and
choice steers 2550-2800 choice
1400-1500 lb weights 2675-2775
medium to low-good steers 2200-
2525 good to low-choice heifers
2525-2700 good cows 1775-1900
common and medium beef cows
1450-1750 canners and cutters
1150-1450 medium and good sau-
sage bulls 1850-2075! odd head
2150 common to choice vealers
2100-2700 stock cattle scarce
firm medium grade stockers and
light feeding steers 1900-2075:
load good Kansas yearlings held
above 2250
Sheep 1000 slaughter lambs and
yearlings strong to 25 cents higher:
top native lambs 2350 choice
light yearling wethers 2100 bulk
medium to good yearlings 1900-
1950 ewes steady at 600-900 ac-
cording to weight
Chicago Grain
CHICAGO Aug 10 — (JP I —
Grains recovered a part — but in
most case not all — of an early
loss on the board of trade today
The market sank during the
morning on moderate hedge selling
in wheat and liquidation of corn
in anticipation of a bumper crop
forecast from the agriculture de-
partment after the close Soy-
beans showed resistance during
the early weakness
In the last hour soybeans led a
slight rally Beans advanced
above the previous close There
were reports of slight grasshop-
per damage to soybeans in Cen-
tral and Southern Iowa
Wheat closed 3i lower to V
higher September $2033i corn
was y4-T lower September $124
Ta-3i oats were 'ii-'i lower Sep-
tember 6534-7a rye was Vi-l 3i
higher September $151 '4 soy-
beans were 1 Vk to 2 cents higher
November $2383i-$236 and lard
was 2 to 10 cents a hundred
pounds higher September $1277
Wheat futures purchases yes
terday 14104000 week ago 13-
380000 year ago 9155000
Open interest in wheat futures
yesterday was 88361000 bushels
Wall Street Review
NEW YORK Aug 10 — (JP) — A
recovery movement rolled steadily
onward today in the stock market
chalking up gains of fractions to
nearly two points
The volume of trading acceler-
ated on the rise and hit a rate of
around 1500000 for the entire
day
Rails and oils led the upward
movement which got underway
in mid-morning after a slow start
Air lines also were active and
leaders were unchanged to frac-
tions higher
Stocks on the higher side in-
cluded Superior Oil of California
Barnsdall Oil Anderson-Prichard
Santa Fe Southern Railway Dres-
ser v Industries Cerro de Pasco
Kennecott Commonwealth Edison
U S Steel Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Chrysler U S Rubber
Sears Roebuck Internationa!
Harvester United Aircraft East-
ern Air Lines United Air Lines
American Cyanamid American
Can American Woolen American
Tobacco Zenith Philco and
Schenley Industries
Greyhound Bus Rams
Into Bridge 15 Die
(Continued From Page 1)
and a hearse and accompanied
by a police escort were brought
to the Indiana national guard
armory here to await identifica-
tion Driver Wayne Cramer of In-
dianapolis one of the survivors
said a front tire may have blown
out causing him to lose control
of the bus After striking the
abutment it skidded 150 feet down
winding highway 37 and came to
rest on its left side blocking the
emergency door
Flames enveloped the vehicle
almost immediately The driver
said he and “two or three” pas-
sengers got out the front door
The other survivors escaped
through a rear window which a
passenger kicked out
A Greyhound spokesman in
Indianapolis who declined to per-
mit use of his name confirmed
that there were 37 passengers on
the bus when it left Indianapolis
for Bloomington
Glen Van Horn manager of
radio station WTTS in Blooming-
ton said one of the survivors told
him he “walked through five feet
of flames” to get off the bus
The survivor Wells Richardson
18 of Evansville Ind told Van
Horn he was dozing when the bus
struck the bridge abutment
Van Horn said Edgar Davis of
Indianapolis a Negro was cred-
ited by other survivors with kick-
ing out a rear window through
which most of the survivors
escaped Davis suffered a back
injury and was brought to the
Bloomington hospital
Billy Ellerbrook of Evansville
another survivor said he was rid-
ing right behind the driver when
the accident occured He said his
impression was that the bus hit
a bump in the road and went out
of control
“I’m afraid my mother and
father are still in the wreck”
Ellerbrook said
Survivors set the time of the
accident at 12:40 a m (central
daylight time)
Bloomington seat of Indiana
university is about 60 miles south-
west of Indianapolis
City Takes Stand in
Rent Control Hearing
TULSA Aug 10— (JP)— The city
took a stand yesterday that it is
not required to call a public rent
control hearing
The action came in reply to a
district court suit filed by a group
of Tulsa landlords The case will
be heard in September
In his statement City Attorney
R L Davidson said: “There is
nothing mandatory in the public
housing act for the city gov-
ernment to hold a public hearing”
Mayor Roy Lundy has main-
tained that since the city did not
pass the regulations it does not
have to repeal them
Beetle Cure Found
WASHINGTON Aug 10 — UP)
— The lowly starling's appetite
for Japanese beetles stood him in
good stead here
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) yester-
day blocked passage of a bill
aimed at liquidating the large
flocks of the birds in the District
of Columbia
He told the senate that the
scarcity of beetles is largely due
to the abundance of starlings
AMATEUR
Plumbing doesn’t pay
Call us when you want
work that’s worth while
Forty-five years in bus-
iness Bob Barnett
PLUMBING
Phon 2383 18 8 Wuh
Amazing Recovery for Polio Victim
Mr and Mrs Jack R Hudkins of Old Ocean Texas kneel outside the window of St Luke’s
hospital polio ward to peek through the window at their son Keith 3 right Keith is showing en-
couraging signs in his uphill fight against bulbar polio which threatened his life just five days ago
Mr and Mrs Hudkins brought their two youngsters to Kansas City to get sway from polio — (NEA
Telephotos) j
James Stewart
Abdicates His
Bachelor Throne
By BOB THOMAg
HOLLYWOOD Aug 10— (P—
James Stewart who gained film
fame portraying the average guy
had an average American wedding
— except for the crowd and the
star-studded audience
The actor married Gloria Hat-
rick McLean late yesterday and
the ceremony almost fulfilled his
hopes for a small quiet wedding
untainted by the Hollywood touch
The couple took their vows in
the Hollywood Brentwood Pres-
byterian church before 50 friends
of the film colony while an or-
drely crowd of 500 waited out-
side Like the average bridegroom
Stewart was nervous He fidgeted
as he watched his socialite bride
walk down the aisle in a cocktail
dress of grey satin carrying white
orchids and a prayerbook
Stewart's replies to Rev Dean
Osterberg could hardly be heard
”1 got a frog in my throat” he
said afterwards
He murmured "I will” and
slipped a plain gold band inscribed
“Gloria and Jimmy 8-9-49” on
the bride’s finger
The pair appeared in front of
the small neighborhood church
after the ceremony and were
greeted by cheers from the crowd
Jimmy grinned broadly and heed-
ed photographers’ requests by kiss-
ing the bride three times
Among the early arrivals were
Jimmy’s parents Mr and Mrs
Alexander Stewart of Indiana Pa
Attending the bride was her sis-
ter Mrs Gregg Draddy who wore
a cocktail dress of steel blue taf-
feta Her husband gave the bride
away Best man was Billy Grady
talent scout who brought the actor
to Hollywood
He said Stewart grabbed for the
ring “like it was 40 million dol-
lars” After the 5 o’clock ceremony
the couple went to a reception at
the home of Agent Jack Bolton
The couple will stay in town
until Friday when they leave to
attend the soapbox derby in Ak-
ron The bride 31 was formerly
married to Ned McLean son of the
late Evelyn Walsh McLean owner
of the Hope diamond She has
two young sons who did not at-
tend the festivities
Stewart 41 was long Holly-
wood's most noted bachelor He is
now as he recently put it “past
the point of no return”
Switch to Dial
PONCA CITY Aug 10— ()P—
Ponca City’s switch to dial tele-
phone is causing more than a few
complications
Elmer Steanson district man-
ager of the Southwestern Beil
Telephone Co said a woman
called him and asked:
“How do I dial the dash in this
phone number?”
Truman Signs New
Armed Services Bill
(Continued From Pag II
and remove the statutory restric-
tions on the council’s member-
ship” As a whole however Mr Tru-
man said the bill “represents a
great advance” and will lead to
“increased efficiency and econo-
my and greater coordination of
our military forces”
Johnson wasted no time As
soon as the bill was signed he
appointed a national defense man-
agement and a management ad-
visory group
This new agency is to work out
a program for maximum reduction
of defense department expendi-
tures — and still maintain military
effectiveness
Johnson named General Joseph
T McNarney as chairman of the
management commitee Other
members will be Army Secretary
Gray Undersecretary of the Navy
Daniel A Kimball and air force
Assistant Secretary Eugene M
Zuckert
No Lipstick Please!
BOREHAM WOOD England
Aug 10 — ( JP ) — The Vicar of All
Saints Parish which includes the
film colony at Elstree studios has
asked women not to use lipstick
before attending communion ser-
vices Wrote the Rev W Maddock in
his parish magazine:
“I ask you to do this as an act
of devotion to God out of con-
sideration for other people as an
act of discipline and out of thought
for those whose freely offered
services keeps the altar vessels
and linen clean”
Elephant May
Give Birth
Aboard Ship
SAN FRANCISCO Aug 10—
(TP) — Flora is expecting
What makes its news is that
Flora is an elephant aboard the
American President Lines freight-
er President Taft four days out
of Yokohama
The vessel’s skipper Capt W S
Tyrrell retreated into silence after
messaging locanically that Flora’s
monumental labor was not far off
The Taft is due here next Tues-
day with a load of animals for
the Los Angeles zoo There was
every indication Flora would be
a mama before then
Carey Baldwin director of the
San Francisco zoo expressed fear
Flora and her offspring might be
“killed with kindness”
He explained:
“It’s tricky business but all they
have to do is to leave Flora alone
and give her plenty of privacy
and she’ll have her baby all right”
Once born the baby should be
taken from the mother Baldwin
said because sometimes mother
elephants “exhibit matricidal ten-
dencies “The calf should be bottle-fed
he said
Undergoes Surgery
Paul Wayne Ellis 16 son of
Mr and Mrs L T Ellis Dillard
underwent an emergency appendix
operation Tuesday night at the
Ardmore sanitarium and hospital
The father is employed with the
Rock Hill Oil company
Barkley and Widow
Deny (Wedding Rumor
ST LOUIS Aug 10— (TP)— Vice
President Barkley and Mrs Carle-
ton S Hadley have denied reports
they will be married in Paducah
Ky this weekend
Mrs Hadley also said last night
there was nothing to another
rumor that they planned to be
married in St Louis the following
Sunday
Barkeley made his denial in
Washington
The vice president has stopped
here twice in two weeks to see Mrs
Hadley Last Sunday they were to-
gether at a ball game Two weeks
ago they attended a private lunch-
eon together
Mrs Hadley’s husband a rail-
road attorney died four years ago
New Son Arrives
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Lemons
808 Tenth avenue northwest an-
nounce the birth of a son Aug S
for whom they have chosen the
name Gary Wayne
Before her marriage Mrs
Lemons was Miss Joan Scrugham
She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs
Ray Scrugham 414 E street north-
west The other grandparent is
Mrs Ethel Lemons 1024 First ave-
nue northwest
Cleanup Drive
ALTUS Aug 10— (JP)— Mayor
Ryan Kerr and Sanitation Com-
missioner J A Cross have started
a drive to clean up the city
Special attention is being given
to uncovered garbage containers
in the downtown business dis-
trict garbage dumped in alleys
and outside toilets
Sapulpa Voles
Change System
SAPULPA Aug 10 — (TP) —
Sapulpans voted yesterday to abol-
ish a 15-year-old civil service
system in their police department
and substitute an appointive plan
under the city manager
The unofficial count following
the special election was 813 to
628
Police Chief J O Edwards was
outstanding spokesman against
the charter amendment City
Manager J Orville Bumpus spon-
sored it Under the provisions
Bumpus will appoint a chief and
other policemen with the city com-
mission’s approval
Edwards said he will confer
with fellow offficers before taking
official protest action against what
he terms “an unintelligible bal-
lot” The city manager in the past
has charged that some members
of the 11-man force were “ineffi-
cient arrogant and indifferent”
He said he plans no immediate
dismissals as a result of the elec-
tion Hospital Romance
Ends in Marriage
For Elderly Couple
A romance which began while
the couple were patients at the
Ardmore sanitarium and hospital
resulted in marriage here Tuesday
for Franklin Monroe Strickland
81 Ardmore and Mrs Nettie Fran-
cisco 79 Stillwell
They met for the first time at
the hospital Strickland had been
an inmate of the hospital for the
past year Mrs Strickland came
here as a patient and was assigned
to the same floor
Tuesday they were married by
L A Linder justice of peace in
his office
The couple has established a
home in Ardmore at 930 Third
avenue northwest
Weather Note — Its
Cold in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES Aug 10— (JP)
— Weather nqte: Buenos Aires had
its coldest day of the year today
with a temperature of 2624 de-
grees fahrenheit
Ice uncommon in the winter
season' here glazed the streets
It snowed for the first time in
15 years at Mar Del Plata fash-
ionable resort 200 miles south of
Buenos Aires
Leaves on Vacation
Mac S Summers scout for the
Sinclair Prairie Oil company T
G Johnson attorney and Howe
D McCollom accountant have
left on a fishing and hunting trip
to northern New Mexico and Colo-
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