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charged with violations of the national
Wednesdny
Taking up the
Thirty-fourth
.. Judge John H Cott era I just before
HAT novel. "The Restieas Age,’
New' York,
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the shot.
Weaver,
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pictured the "phantom"
after the proliminary
been
shocked
BOY BANDITS
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oricers seeking driver of death ear
TROUBLE PARIS
COLDER WEATHER IS
ARCHITECT ON
Its also showed
। $25,000, is scheduled to open.
On the same day. a lad of 17 was
MILAN, Italy, Feb. .24.
JINE COUNTY
PROBE LAUNCHED
24.—
has
hearing.
induci
departn
led upon petition of citipenu who
in the
sked
investigntion
certain
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Flier Killed
Going Under
Eiffel Tower
WEWOKA RESERVOIR
SOON WILL RE READY
-R5 NOT Omaha Sniper-Killer
Has Horror Of ‘Chair
weeks ago there was a photograph
"a row of brand-new $10,000 rest-
maniac with malted hair and erased
eyes, perhaps u dope fiend. or a shell
art’s Assistant Takes
Charge Of Grand Jury.
lion: E.
Graybar
000 for the year.
National bank
BRIDGE BUILDER GETS
IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR
Buliders discuss new lien law, but
rill take no action.
thoritiea. Deckover lived at 1108 West
Ninth street.
PRINCE CAROL OFF
TO VISIT IN PARIS
WOMAN HURT WHEN
RUN DOWN DY AUTO
JURY STILL BUT
ON BANK GASES
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Mlalne county offices Details of the
nqulry were not made public.
cording to Joe Patterson, commimslon-
er of public property.
The grentest improvement will be
TO VOTE UPON
NEW LIEN [AW
HOLY CARPET WILL
MAKE TRIP TO MECCA
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2128
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More Instructions About Pen-
alty Are Asked In
U. S. Court.
IN FATAL CRASH
FACES CHARGES
Cleveland County Accuses
Motorist Of Murder; De-
COUPLE DRIFTS FOUR
DAYS IN OPEN BOAT
IURIOUS CHINAMAN
PREVENTS ROBBERY
BELGIUM APPROVES
DEBT FUNDING PACT
Two pollcemensheard the shots and
ured the thieves, who escaped.
Upper- Frank Carter, Omaha sniper-
stayer Inset, is revolver, with silene-
er, he used. Below, hin captor. Arthur
Collins, • ret inn hand. who recognized
Carter from printed deseriptions, and
formed posne.
National .
Frank Carter, Omaha sniper slny-
w. has horror of electric chatr.
United States will not enter world
ourt for at least a year, mays David
Lawrence.
Cooperative farm marketing mer-
tees may have world-wide scope, says
I. C. Royte.
decided
to Re
Three witnesses were before the Okla-
homa county grand lurv and will be
asked to tell in open court the nature
^heJiny
Times
The east receives them either aa ex-
Herts trimmed and ready to go, or
more units to pour into the whole.
Oklahoma city times
CEveolag sanien ot The Daily Oklahoman)
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
Chamber Committee Named—C. R
Donart, county farm agent, is chair
man tif a new livestock subcommittee
of the Chamber of Commerce that
wHI give speclal attention to the de
velopment of county livestock. It was
announced Turadsy. other n.emlwia
ot the committee are J. N. Dyer. J.
J Gibson, C. A. Hamlin and R. L.
Peebly.
Editorial
N the New York World a couple of
Local
I Indorsement of Trapp administra-
bion may cause split in democratic
Convention.
came into port wearing bandages on
his head
He went to the customs house, the
REMEMBER THE
WEEK DAY—
—Aid ON It full of useful labor.
— And keep it free from decelttul-
nena.
—And Invert It in some worthy
enterprise.
— And make it a holy day
—And may it never be spoiled with
—the spirit ot envy.
-And refuse to do more then one
day's worrying st a time
—And waste It not in arguing.
Dey snith, Detroit, National Retail |
Lumber Dealers' associatloh;" Leonard I
C Wason, Borton. Associated General
No verdiet had been reached early
Wednesday afternoon by the federal 1
jury eonsidering the fate of Jean M.
Caldwell and Russell H. Caidwell, for-
mer officials of the defunct National
FORECAST FOR CITY Bank Suffers
to permit the holy cavpet
veteran who did not
Contractors. and John
bank failed March J. 1922. and the
liquidntion of its ansets to han-
dled by the banking department.
The mortgage release was bought
by the holder or the first mort-
gage.
Decrease In land values in Coal
county is assigned as the reason
for the petition The bank com-
missioners stated that foreclosure
proceedings wculd not ret suffi-
cient money to cancel the first
portgage.
withdraw the assault charges if ’he
players compromised. He got $63 from
one, $70 from another and smaller
amounts aa he passed hia hat.
Then he announced that as far as
he was concerned, ths matter was
of the testimony they |
grand jury investigation.
street and Classen boulevard. A sunk-
en garden has Men constructed at
the entrants to this park but this will
not be of great benefit this year
Patterson said he had only money
enough to maintain the parka at their
present standard and it would be im
possible to make any great improve-
ments.
nesnes to testify
Electric company;
where she owned a poultry ranch.
She shared a room at the hotel with
a woman and four <children whom she
met on a train.
Mr* F. O. Genaske. mannger of the
hotel. said sho talked with her several
hours and regarded her conversation
as strange.
The woman haa been taken to the
county farm, still declaring she has
no memory of what transpired before
she found herself in the woods on
February 17.
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 14 —()
the debt funding agreement with the
—The Belgian senate today ratified
United States, negotiated at Washing
ton® The vote was 110 to 10, with on*
abstention
Jefferson took the
W. Shepard,
Jellett of Phils-
Bank of Commerce
spent two days in a Hugo hotel i their whole month’s pay."
recently under the name of Mins I •
Della Welch of Foreman. Ark., it was MRS. COOLIDGE IS ILL 1
. She left the hotel Petrunry 10 and WITH SERIOUS “COLD”
5,475 trials by court-m rtial in the
army tart year. Of this number, 5.380
involved enlisted men.
WATONGA, Feb 34 — ()-J. Berry
King, Batista ni state attorney general.
urrived here today from Oklahoma
In Memorial park
hearing soon after the killing.
As a result of the general exchange
of accumlions. Mrs. Jenkins. Carpen- .
ter/Choate and Jefferson all are in
jall.
noon to ascertain th maximum pen
aity In cans of conviction.
Judge Co Her al in instructing the
jury as to their deliberations warned
the twelve men that they must not
consider evidence produced at the
opening of the trial covering alleged
miaapplications of various amounts,
covered by eighteen counts which
were quashed Saturday when he sub
tained demurrers to all but four of
the twenty two counts.
Cases, previously set for trial Thurs
day, involving alleged violations of
the banking laws against J. Mike Cald-
well. M. L. .Caldwell and Floyd E.
Proffitt have been stricken from the
present trial docket, to be set for
trial in the April term.
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used widow if u m gets mil
HIGO, Feb 74 — •)— An aged wom-
en who was found by a farmer Satur-
day tn • sechuded forest ten miles
from here and who says she haa been
unable Io recall her name or past life.
A 5CENT poker game started at
A Kan Fra nelaco was continued
with time off for steep. meals snd
work. When the tanker reached New
York the zame was wide open stud
and Davis had $250 in cash and 8500
In "I. O. V.X* all on a borrowed dol-
lar from the ship's cook.
Ths players got suspicious, exam
ined the cards, detected whst they felt
were rather unethical markings and
descended on Davis. They relieved
CAIRO. Egypt, Feb
Egyptian government I
DRIVER OF CM II Call You! W CROSSING
TRAGEDY BRINGS
former president of the National Asso-
c at ion of Real Estate Boards, of
Washington.
Stale laws Combined
The proposed law. made public by
Chew Thursday. Is a compilation
from the laws of forty eight btales.
With the features regarded aa most
satisfactory being retained.
Opposition to a uniform builders’
lien law has been reported from some
building interests. Chew said, the As-
sociation of General Contractors bar-
I Ing gone on record aa opposing any
I lien law: and the Retail Lumber
Dealers' association Waving advanced
! twenty-one points toward a lien law.
( some of which conflict with the plan
devised by Chew end hia committee.
The builders’ asociation will elect
officers Wednesday afternoon. The
, nominating- committee haa recom-
mended re-election of present officers
David T Riffle of Pittsburgh is presi-
dent of ths association.
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NATIONAL BANKS SHOW
INCREASED RESOURCES
an increase, the totafon December 31
being $21,080,660,000. which was 11.
080,402,000 greater than those a year
ago. The Mime banks were carrying
investment • of $19,958,171,000 as com
pared with $18.236,906,000 Dec. 3L
1924.
The continued prosperity of the na-
tional banks waa indicated by statis.
tics showing a combined surplus of
$1,166,601,000 last December 31. while
in 1924 the surplus was reported at
$1,088,880,000.
given last night by Attorney General
an. Mrs. Sargent in honor of the
president snd herself.
| Dr. James F. Coups), the White
House physiclan, reported that she
was resting comfortably and would be
in usual health in a day or two.
lands Burns of Baltimore, president
of the Maryland Casualty company:
George V. Hedrick of Washington,
president of the building trades sec-
tion of the American Federation of
Labor; Charles V. Imley of Washing
ton, representing the national con-
ference commissivn on unified state
City Has Feeling Almost Of
Disappointment In Mild
Character Of Confessed
Slayer. _i
By SUE M’NAMARA
(Copyricnt, 1*H. by Coneolidated Prem■ >
OMAHA, Feb. 34—Omaha's relief
at ahe capture of its "phantom alay-
er.” who terrorised the city for tw3
weeks with his career of mysteroun
sniping, today appeared to be accom-
panied by a feeling of almost diaap- l
polntment at the character of the cap
live.
Nervously walking the streets, or
cowering around their firesides be
hind drawn window shades while the
ten fide killer was at large people had
Youths Commit Murder For
Small Sums.
PARIS—One of the teas pleamnt
legacies of the social disorganlzatlon
produced by the war in France to the
number of boy criminals, several of
whose exploits have been filling th*
Paris newspapers. There have been
the young murderers who have killed
the butcher boy. their companion. toe
MARIETTA. Feb. 24.-4
(Special.)—The tragic death
of four relatives of District
Judge Asa E. Walden in a
grade crowing accident here
yesterday stepped in and al-
tered plans in the hearing of
Mm. J. V. Jenkins, widow of
a former Love county rancher,
charged with the murder of
her husband.
Five million dollars was ucheduled
on a $15,000 bond by which Mra,
Jenkins was released from jail.
The bond was made by J. D. Leep-
er. a lumberman of Galnesville; D. T.
Lacy president of a bank at Gnines
Ville; Roy T Potter. vice president of
another Galnesville bank, and Frank
Conrad, president of a bank at Mart-
of one of those quiet litle cafes which .
are so characteristic of Paris. This I
Howell’s car, according to Information i him. of his winnings and split them
obtained by the Clevelana county au-lup pro rata. In the enzuins.dieunt
- - ---- — rton Davis was mauled bidly and
First step toward the prosecution I Then there was the murder by two
indicted by the Oklahoma other youth*. In the middle of the day
and in a crowded street, of the owner
For
"A farce." said Commisnioner Cot
ter. "All this tug business was un
necessary. The fellow was hit play-
fully in the face of sailors, who lost
morning. after failure to reach a ver-
dict Tuesday, the jury reported to
of persons--------
county grand jury will be taken
Thursday when the trial of Jewel
Hicka, state architect, on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the etale of
A woman who gave her name as
"Mrs. Smith, 5o8 North Francis
street" was run down snd seriously
injured at Maia street and Les ave
nue Wednesday morning.
She was struck by a car driven by
Mrs. E. G Winslow, 1022 West Park
place snd was taksn to the Okla
homa General hospital where it was
said that tbs full extent of her In-
juries had not been determined.
(ATINELLA got in touch with Com-
• misslona Cotter, they got a detec
tive sergeant in the case and all went
out to the Labrea in a hired tug when
they learned she was due to sail early
today.
As ths erew was lined up Davis
wuddenly announced that he would
CLUE TO IDETITY OF ....
MYSTERY WOMAN FOUND wricpnyaina "20
for the hired tug
CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone.
Feb. 24.-—Mer lew Phelps
snd Harry Lund of West Palm
Eeach, Fla were landed here
today by the British motorship
Mil ver Elm, which had pieked
them up about seventy mihes
off Miami after they had been
tossed In an open boat in rough
seas for tour days.
Ths pair toft West Palm
Beach on February 13 for a
fishing trip. Their engine
stalled a short distance from
shore snd .. strong wind blew
them out to sea The Sllver
Elm picked them up on Febry-
ary izTheg expect to ieade
for New Orleans on the first
ship.
stand and admitted it. Later he re-
tracted the statement, saying it had
been made in the hops of freeing
Choate.
. Four New In Jall
Choate ‘s habeas corpus hearing fur-
ther involved th* testimony when k
brought out Carpenter’s accusation of
Mra Jenkins. In the fees of the con-
tradictions, Aaa E Walden, district
judge, named Crawford Cameron as
special prosecutor. snd murder
charge* were filed againet Mra Jenk-
ins and Carpenter, the latter having
eent to Mecca for the pilgrimiage
ot the year 1214 of the hegira, or
fiUht to Mohammed Into* Mecca to
Medina. Th* ceremonies wHI take
place during lb* summer The carpet
has been prepared and will be trans-
ported to Mecca in ten large boxes
Unsettled and colder weather Is
slated for Oklahoma City Wednenday
night and Thursday. J. P. Slaughter,
weatherman, predicted Wednesday
morning Minimum temperature
Wednesday night is expected to range
between in and 36 degrees.
Over the state rain to expected in
the eastern portions, with fair and
colder weather Thursdny. Minimum
temporature in the city Wednesday
morning was 48 degrees, whue maxi-
mum Tuesday afternoon was 63 de-
grees. e
fendant Sought Here.
Deputy sheriffs were combing
Oklahoma City Wednesday in
a search for Jack L. Howell,
who is charged with murder by
Cleveland county authorities in
connection with the death of
Bert Deckover, who was struck
by Howell’s automobile on the
Newcastle road February 14.
Deckover recetved injuries which
caused his death in an Oklahoma City
hospital February 31. The murder
charge was filed late Tuesday by
Cleveland county officials.
Howell was first reported to be in
Oklahoma City Monday. A search for
him denclosed that hr had gone to
Altus. Altus authorities reported kite
Tuesday that Howell had returned to
Oklahoma City. No trace had been
found of him Wednesday noon
Deckover was changing a tire on his
automobile, which was parked beside
the highway, when he was struck by
dences," and a long story telling whst ’
a forward step they sere in con 1
venlence and efficiency
There wero fifteen houses In the 1
block and if an expert could tell one '
from the other he should hmve a gold 1
I medal and a maucer ot ice cream. A 1
perfectly Innocent man, living in that
block, would be llable to go home
nome night, put the key in the-tock,
and be shot dead.
That's th* eastern Men of fine
homes for moderate means Every
lone cut from the same pettern snd
It he whole cloth of monotony.
rWENTY years from now fifteen I
I 1 families will be living in those
hounes in New York. They. wlU be
allapldated, perhaps. At least, they
krill he run down at the heel. They
wit have no flowers, no vines, no cool
garden corners, any more than they
nave today They are as eramped
1 -ether as shrimps in a can.
I .f a real estate man in Oklahoma
IfTIty should try to get by with that
Frt of bunihess he would land in th
boring arms of the bankruptcy court.
Becnuse the west does not efface in-
uividuality, and pour everyone into
■ be asm* mold.
■ |( is used to men who come to share
bis loaves end fishes with nothing
but their own stamina to back them ,
WEWOKA, Feb. 24—(Special.—
Work on the big reservoir is vro-
greasing rapidly. It is expected tnat
the dam will be far enough advanced
to empound much of the water from
spring rains. This water supply has
been made more necessary by lbs
recent discovery of big pay sands in
l be oil field three milea west at W e-
weka which is directly in the drainage
area of ths Wewoka creek basin, the
present supply mource of the city.
arrested for a doxen burglarles, and
boasted that he had also attacked and
robbed two motor cars, as wen ns nev
jeral foot passengers. Perbape boom
of the trouble is due to the feet that
these young briganda know that M I*
absolutely imposgible to gulllotin* •
boy of under 11 years, for the taw for-
bids it.
Laborites Are Given Blow
SYDNEY, N. s W. Feb. 24-
The labor government ot New
Wales received a blow yegterdaz
the proposed abolltion of the
tive roun- ll was voted deW
council. The vote was
labor members voted asainat
eroment
Plane Catches in Wireless
Apparatus, Falls In Flames;
Wager Blamed.
"PARIS, Feb. 24——An attempt
to fly through the opening of the
Eiffel Tower proved fatal today. The
airplane, caught in wireless appa-
rntus, crashed in fames, and the
aviator was burned to death, a
i The aviator, Lleut. Leon Cal lot,
had pasned through the arch when he
struck the radio wires. He made a
despairing attempt to bring the ma-
chine under control, but it fell end
burst Into flames Firemn were
quickly on the scene but were unable
to save the aviator.
Lieutenant Callot’s brother wit
nessed the accident. He said the lieu
tenant attempted the feat after a
whger with an American frlend.
mer Crown Prince Carol of Rumania
left for Paris. Tuesday night. He was
accompanied by membera of the Ru
num ian court, who reently arrived in
Milan
Mme Magda Lupescu, who waa
Carol’s companion frequently at Ml-
tan. traveled on the same train.
various states for passage,’ never has
been presented to a national associa-
tion before. Chew Ba hl.
The convention here is not expected
to take definite action on the proposed
law, the report being a "progress re-
port" only, Chew said.
Member or Committee
Members of the national committee
J. T Clarke, proprietor of the
Southwestern Hridge and Culvert
compay of Oklahoma Cit?. Wednes-
day announced that he would be a
candidate for governor, on the dem
ocratle ticket.
Clarke. in a statement ecrompeny
Ing his announcement, condemns the !
present itate highway department
system as a "joke and one of the
costllest snd moat mismanaged de
part men la we have In our ntate gov-
ernment today.” i
CHICAGO, Feb. 34.—An inqul-
itive Chinese laundryman, who in-
inted on watching five robbers at-
empt te lo<.t a fur stgre, brought to
naught their plane , and averted a
robable $50,000 theft.
Trudging home, JohnFulong paused
• wateh three of the gang troso the
proprletor and two clerks of the ctors,
rhe robbers' lookout ordered him tq
move on. John thought he was in
rkted to walk in. When the lookout
■truck him with his pistol, John fled,
wcreaming. Another robber shot at
Proposed Plan Is Merely
Compilation Of Various
State Statutes.
Tentative draft at a uni-
form "mechanics lien” law
drawn by a committee of thir-
teen appointed by Herbert
Hoover, secretary of com-
merce, waa presented to the
National Association of Build-
ers’ exchanges Wednesday by
William F. Chew, a member
of the committee.
The propomd statute, whieh, if
adopted I v the department of com-
meres, wil be iecommended to the
Rumaninn Envoy Recalled
W AMRINUTON. Fvb. TT.-or—
Prince Antoine Bibesco, retiring Ru-
manian minister, presented hia letters
of recall today to President Coolldge.
$17,950 Loss
On^Mortgage
Drop In Land Values In Coal
County Blamed,
Permiaslon io release an $1s,000 '
second mortgage on land in Coal
county for $50 cash, was given
the state banking department, late
Tuesday, by the Oklahoma coun-
ty district court. The petition
was signed by O. B. Mothersead,
bunk commissioner.
The mortgage was made to the
Wilkin Hale State bank. June
26. mi. by F. W. Maxwell of
Coalgate, subject to a first mon
gage held by the Walter G. Caus
ey company, Peoria, III. The
know what he was doing.
Taken Without Struggle
Xow that Frank Carter has been
taken without a struggle and has con
fessed that he waa the wielder of the
dread .22 pistol with its grim
silencer, they can hardly believe that
this sturdy, prosale appearing middle
aged man, who says he baa Ilved i
most ot his life in the great outdoors,
and looks it. Is the phantom slayer. •
Carter is a new type to criminology 1
to th- polie e and the popplace ellke. '
Instead of being swept by a wave of 1
passion which might have led to sum-
mary vengeance on Carter at ths end
of a rope. Omaha’s only reaction I
seems to be criosity and amazement,
coupled with relief the one can sit
down to dinner or to bridge once
more without teur of a sudden, noise
less bullet zipping through the win
dow to spread consternation and pos- i
Bible ileoth.
Sociologists and pnychologists will
find interesting material for study In
Frank Carter, who admits twe kill
Ings, ths wounding of a third person
and authorship of a reign of terror
which has not been approached be-
tore in the city's history.
Disrusses Marders Calmly
Carter looks you straight in the eys
when be talks He discusses his.mur
ders calmly snd without regret. He
says he has not gotten much ot t ot
life for whal he put Into it and that
he hsa worked hard
"I'm getting too old to work so hard
in the harvest fields, where I have .
spent most of my life," he said. "Mo l
I decided the best way to get money
was by robbery. I don't wsnt much,
only two or three dollars a day to
live on. It made me mad for thone
two t e llowb MeDevitt and Senrles to
walk away without answering when
I pulled a gun on them. Even a hold-
up man is entitled to respect. Bo l
shot them."
Carter denies he is insane and says
he is ready to pay the penalty for his
acts. His only request is that be be
hanged. He has a horror of the elec
trie chair.
' subpoenaed as state witnesses by J.
| K. Wright, county attorney. Wednes-
day noon. The defense Lttorneys
have not yet asked for subpoenaes tor
sny witnesses to testify for Hicks.
A motion to quash tbs indictment
against T. D Taylor, charged with
destroying referendum petitions on
house blN No, 4. to scheduled to
come before George W. Clark, die
trict judge. Thursday.
Taylor's attorney, Ben Williams, of
Norman has sent for seventeen wit
Because ot lack of court funds the
trial probably will not be held until
July.
The charges against Mrs. Jenkins
grew out of testhnony of Horn Car
pent sr, a* employe on Doctor Jenk-
ins' ranch nesr Burney elite, that
Mra Jenkins had offered him $15,000
to kill her husband. Carpenter's
statement was made at the hearing
of a habeas corpus action brought by
Tom Choate, also one of the ranch
emptoyes, who was arrested in con-
nection with the dentist's death.
Choate is Accused
Doctor Jenkins was killed on th*
night of November 1, last, at th*
, ranch when he left hia bed to revair
a leak In a roof. B»tort he died he
accused Chests.
Choate sod Carpenter were arrest-
ed. At Choate's preliminary trial Car-
penter accused Tom Jefferson, a for-
mer employe nt the ranch, of firing
daring crime again appeara to have
been committed merely for the pake
I Twe adaitlonal witnesnen, John ot a modest sum that was taken trom
Von Elm and Charles Ryan, were the E1. .......
s-a"aszs-ttet
waa reacued. three day later from.a cel arrangements to attena the dinner
ben or leaves nurtering from exhaus —
tion and exposurs.
The woman told a clerk at the hotel
that her home was near Denver, Col.,
TRIAL THURSDAY -
____ I One of the trio la the son of • con-
.. .... ,n n. lviet. snd was born in ths penal settle-
No Witnesses Called By De-ment ot Gulana, in which devoted
fense Attorneys. wives can oin thelr husband* attor
J___- ! the first period of detention.
- wasn't far wrong. The restlesn
spirit developed th* growing common-
wenith of Oklahoma. It manifests
itself to large ways, and in small. One
or the small ways It shows itself is In
the determination of each citizen to
express his individuallty in his home.
[ He will not live in a readicut block.
He doesn't want the same floor plan
hiq neighbor haa If he wants a rose
harden, a double garage, or a fence,
he gill have it. If he wisher a radio
lierial. 18 wants no injunctions filed
by neighbors. He wants to be free,
Ind he will be free at all odds.
Funny Page
I One visitor as id the gatherinz of
democthtie committeemen was so har-
Lnonious it didn't neem home-llke.
lip it encourages them, helps them, banking lawa
delphia, former president of the Na
tional Assdetation of Heating and
Piping contractors; William R. King
of Washington, general counsel of the '
National Association of Builders' ex- '
changes.
Victor Mendeleff, Washington
American Institute of Archuecture:
Charles H. Paul. Dayton. Amerlcan
Engineering Council; W. T. Rossiter.
Cleveland. Builders' Supplies associa-
NO EXTENSIVE PARK ietty hall and other "polltical looking I
nnAAnma M mnmFn' pieces,” and finally told his story to
PROGRAM PLANNED Asristant Uhitedi states Attorney Cati;
nella He wanted to press charses of
Few Improvements will be mnde in ' asssuit.
Oklahoma City parks this ysar, ac- I
Mrs. J. V. Jenkins Of Mari-
etta Relaesed Today On
$15,000 Bond.
On 25-Day Poker
Game; Uncle Sam
Helps Him Collect
NyEw YORK, Feb. 34,— m—Charles
I IN C Davi, able seaman, not only
won al. the ready cash of his mess-
I mates in a 25-day poker game on
the high seas, between Ban Francinco
and New York, but obtained the aid
of the United States government to
collect some of his winnings.
He shipped on the oil tanker. Lab-
rea, January 28, without a cent in his
pocket and today quit the ship with
373 in pay and 1133 in poker winnings
tucked away.
It took the moral support of a
United Ntate* commissioner and as
sistant United States attorney and a
detective from the New York police
tin him to collect, however.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 34.— (—
Total resource* of the 8,048 national
banks on Dec. 31, 1025 was announced
by the comptroller of the currency
Wednesday ss 333.833.413,000 This
represented an increase of $1,361,265,-
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