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Final Home
VOL. XLIL NO. 212.
TWELVE PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1932.
PRICE: City 2c, Outside 3c
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As Burns Puts
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Trio on Trail
Children Saved From Fire
As Flood Breaks Levees Many Roads In
Workers Show
Bandit Is Caught.
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Eastern Area
Send Out Hurried Call for Boats.
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precipitated when
Ing of the next Democratic presiden-
tial
platform, especially regarding
Jail Breakers
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Burns, act-
the night 1.88 inches fell.
In the northeastern section, Tulsa
towns being used as refugee centers.
presents a major problem. Cold and ferior federal courts by which they
Still Raining in South
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a.e
Other reports included Enid.
mist at Beaver.
were gone.
Into the
On County Probe
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Chief Goff Will Attend
with
of the wire trouble centered around
While the county grand jury en-
tirely
attorney, Friday noon, the grand jury
the March convention of the South-
$843,
Saving
Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico
1100
The children are shown in the pic- will attend.
county able." A. L. Beckett, commission sec- to a fast Erie passenger train at Ad-
sif
Is Your Business
Towed Into Harbor
For Sale?
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State’s Chief
Has On>ii 'Open
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Sheriff Hunts Stilb;
Pays By tlx Gallon
ROME Jan 16 —(P— Italy's 1931-
32 budget, approved Saturday by the
George Goff, fire chief, said Saturday.
He and J. E. Taplin, fire chief at
Pausing here on his way to Wash-
ington, Governor Murray reg used to
collier Lemuel Burrows, arrived at
New London harbor shortly before 8
Co-operative methods in intercity
use of fire departments in case of
major conflagrations will be studied
DEFICIT IS SHOWN IN
ITALY’S ANNUAL BUDGET
dren. and his wife, and Harold Stam-
ford of Tuscarora were killed.
Condition of Mrs. Sam R. Hawks,
Clinton, wife of the state highway
commission chairman was reported
not serious. Saturday. although she
was in a Clinton hospital suffering a
broken arm as a result of an auto-
mobile acciden., Friday.
The car driven by her husband
overturned twice on U. S. highway
No. 66, five miles east of Clinton.
ALBION. III., Jan. 16.—(P——Sher-
iff Oscar Harper of Edwards county
is going on a still hunt, with a new
idea
at a
March.
ville. 2 inches, still raining.
The panhandle district remained
dry Friday night except for a light
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ture at the spot where they fired a
supply of papers stored in a stairway
alcove.
Labor Commissioner Reports
December Placements
Double November,
June, 1933, the possibility of balancing
the budget in line with any further
developments of the situation."
expected to turn to other
offices.
Floyd Taylor, left, and his little sister, Dorothy, on the basement
stairway where they set fire to their home at 3813 South Walnut avenue
Friday afternoon.
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Governor, in Chicago, Says
Free Speech Essential.
Reports Show Most Sections
Of State Received An
Inch or More.
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BOY IS RECOVERING
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re- and the Enid office 298 n
Farm hands, including 344 cotton rlood Waters Covering
WEATHER PREVENTS
ARRIVAL OF HAWKS
j door, he called members of the capi-
toi engineer’s force to put out the
I blaze There were no passengers
B‘
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Norman —
Oklahoma City . 1 15
44,
was devised following a meeting of 20
peace officers with Robert ‘
ing governor, and Charfs
Supplementing a widespread man*
hunt, a secret organization was per-
fected Saturday to start a search that
will end only when the desperado is
captured or killed.
Three Sleuths on Trail
At least three undercover men will
be assigned the task of trailing Floyd
to his lair, it was learned after a con-
ference in the office of C. A. Burns,
superintendent of the state bureau of
criminal investigation.
A centralized Information network
I
The meeting place of those
who have businesses to sell
and those who want to buy is
in the “Business Opportuni-
ties" column of Oklahoman
and Times Want Ads. By list-
ing your business in this col-
umn. nearly every prospective
buyer in Oklahoma City and
vicinity will be informed of it.
The Want Ada are bringing
buyers and sellers together al-
most daily.
were brought into Glendora and other ;
towns in the area, already crowded
with the homeless and most of them
knee deep in backwater.
Wartey .
Waurika ..
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heavy mist continuing: Claremore,
1 40. temperature 35 degrees: Holden-
. _______F. Barrett,
adjutant general. at the capitol late
Friday General Barrett was named
by Burns to head the organized coun-
ter attack of the law on Floyd.
“ThU is a desperate case," said the
acting chief executive. "Floyd has
terrorised the entire east central sec-
tion of Oklahoma with his outlawry.
Already six killings and ten bank rob-
beries are charged to him.
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The latest crista in the month-old William H Murray of Oklahoma de-
fight against the rampaging delta ; manded a voice Saturday in the writ-
Sorry Reward Is So Small
"His depredations no doubt have
permitted other and less fearless ban-
dits to hold up banks and filling sta-
tions and alarm law-abiding citizens.
He has instilled confidence in those
who want to break the law, and fear
in those who obey it. He must be
stopped.”
Burns said he would like to offer
• greater reward but that the funds
available for this purpose is nearly
exhausted The usual reward offered
by the state is 8500.
While much of the state's campaign
plan is secret, it was learned that
much of the "war" on Floyd will be
directed through KOPH, Oklahoma
county radio station.
Search for His Trail
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GLENDORA, Miss., Jan. 16 —(P— Tallahatchie county's flood-
ed Tippah basin became a raging torrent Saturday, sending ma-
, rooned families to their housetops and threatening life and prop-
erty, as a result of three major levee breaks
Relief forces hastened the task of removing several thousand
families from the basin, across the river from here before it was
too late.
word was received simultaneously ments were made from the Tulsa of-
that the escaped pair was in the city, flee. Compared with 2,632 jobs filled
and that they were seen in the 3400 there, the Muskogee office reported '
block North Blackwelder avenue. 820. the Oklahoma City office 602
were seen near a drugstore at Thir-
tieth street and Classen boulevard.
Goodall and Fraley are under a ten
year's sentence for the robbery of the
Farmers' State bank of Tuttle, Sep-
tember 27.
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About 11 o’clock, a call was
Neighborhood men were called, and I western Association of Fire Chiefs,
the fire department summoned. Dam- Chief Goff is association president,
age to the residence was less than Fire officials from Oklahoma, Texas,
which last week crashed
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Navy Coals for Maneuvers
GUANTANAMO, Cuba. Jan. 16.—
•--The main group of the United
States navy’s Atlantic fleet steamed
into Caimanera harbor Friday to coal
at the United States naval base for
spring maneuvers in Caribbean waters.
The dirigible Akron is expected early
in February.
NORTHWEST
Woodward
Enid
Beaver
Weatherford
eruy :.
KInstHher
Arnott
Coast guard officials said the Hern-
don will be towed to New York for
repairs if she is found to be exten-
sively damaged.
The Burrows, it bow slightly dam-
aged, probably headed for New York
after turning over the destroyer to
the Acushnet
Press reported.
General rains drenched Oklahoma
Friday night, with more than one-
inch fall reported in most sections,
setting a record for January since
1916.
The most severe thrust of the last
cold wave apparently had subsided as
Marooned Indians Fad
In some parts of California six
inches of snow and cold weather were
recorded, threatening citrus fruits, but
in New York spring apparel was in
; order.
said their
though streams were receding.
Portions of Decatur. Benton and 1 Guy Cahill operator. took the ele- l
Hardin counties along the Tennessee i vator from the fifth floor to the base- 1
They will be ready for battle at any
time, for the daring Floyd may be en-
countered on the main street* of a
busy city or high in the desolate his
of eastern Oklahoma.
Armed With Machine Gun
Wherever they find him, they ex-
pect-to see him behind a machine gun,
for the 28-year-old killer and bandit
leader has introduced gangster meth-
ods into his lawlessness. And he has
said he never will be taken alive.
Officers believe that. They credit
him with a dozen killings, most of
them in gun battles with officers.
They say he knows nothing of fear.
From eastern Oklahoma have come
two reports of Floyd. whose latest ac-
tivity was directing the robbery of
the Paden and Castle banks Thurs-
day.
Burns Saturday said that peace of-
ficers discounted reports that Floyd
has been seen in various Oklahoma
towns, the latest, Saturday morning,
from Bristow A waiter reported he
served Floyd dinner Friday night tn
Henryetta.
The state placed a 81,000 bounty on
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd Saturday
and moved to wipe out banditry
that has flourished in Oklahoma un-
der the reign of this steel-vested publto
enemy.
Announcing the offering of the
81.000 state reward for the capture
and conviction of Floyd. machine gun
bank robber and killer, Robert Burns,
acting governor, declared Floyd's ac-
tivities must be brought to a halt no
matter what the cost
After announcing the reward at the -
capitol, Bums said he would go to
his downtown office to draw up an
official proclamation to make the re-
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Courthouse Wonders If Jury CAMPAIGN “TAX" ROW
Is Through With Morris.
unawares, the flood workers called for
immediate concentration here of all
available boats to bring in the esti-
mated 11,000 Tippah basin residents
over whose farm lands the released
waters were rolling in some instances
ten feet deep.
Homeless Wade In Water
Throughout the night, refugees
sway.
Heaviest downfall apparently was
NORTHEAST
os Tahlequh"t.:
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matches again."
sweeping down on a thousand of
homes, still occupied.
A. B Webb, Swan Lake Red Cross ton n. . . w. . . ...
relief director, describing the situa- tonsnextvunehut asfrank enough
tion as a major disaster, said that aboutbeing,"after something to say
8100,000 would be needed to care 1 in that platform.
Cubans Held on Treason Charge
HAVANA. Jan 16.—)-The se-
cret police. headed by Capt. Muguel
Calvo, raided a dairy shortly after
midnight and arrested seven youths
who, they said, are members of the
1927 student directory. They were
charged with military treason and
conspiring against the government.
was heavily armed. Bank officials
could not identify him.
In addition to the state reward, the
Oklahoma Bankers association has a
standing reward of 8100 for a bank
robber alive or 8500 if killed while in
the -act of robbing a bank or in the
chase immediately thereafter. Under
this provision the captan at Ployd,
even though he is slain in the fight,
would get only 8100.
Information on the search, which •
will center in eastern Oklahoma, wtU
be handled through a clearing hmm
at the state bureau of criminal la*
vestigation.
More Rain Forecast
Continued cloudy and unsettled
weather, with probably rain, was the
forecast of J p. slaughter, federal
Oklahoma City Times
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
(Evening Edition of The Daily Oklahoman)
mother. Mrs. J. T Taylor, Ac II Old methods and new, and old •
She was shopping when the fire oc- i Lonterence at Houston weapons and new will be used against
| the 1932 successor of Oklahoma's
Spencers, Doolins, Terrills and
Kimeses of old. Men long trained In
the profession of catching the state's
bank robbers will go into the under-
world and search quietly for the elu-
sive trail of Floyd. Others armed with
machine guns and tear gas bombs
will rove the highways in cars, an-
swering reports that Floyd has been
seen.
commit himself regarding his own
! possible condidacy for the nomlna- rain and wanner temperatures held
Working Time Greater
Record Compares Well With
Figures for State in
December, 1930.
Oklahoma's labor market, suffering
from the strain of many lean months,
is responding to midwinter employ-
ment stimulus with more working
time, increase in aggregate pay rolls
and increased number of new jobs,
the monthly report of W A. Pat Mur-
ceived by Ted Schumaker. police Farm hands. including 344 cotton Flood Waters Covering
JX. kpotatozplakezs,andt 50,000 Acres in Tennessee
welder avenue. He immediately dis- new work record. Uncertainty of JACKSON, Tenn, Jan. 16 — (P—
patched scout cars to the scene but permanent work is reflected in the An area of farm land aporoximating
when the officers arrived the men ----- - -
Sixteen-Year Record Falls Here as Rain Drenches Oklahoma $1,000 Posted
decline which might be attributed to
the same cause,” said Murphy.
Activities of certain localities, par-
ticularly Tulsa, In coping with the
winter unemployment problem. are
reflected in the monthly report.
Some Increases Brisk
L. C. Wheaton, charged with appro-
priation of a 8400 automobile by we
of a fraudulent check, at Wichita
Falls. Texas, in April 1936. Both
men are in jail at Pawnee.
Adolf Hitler Acquitted
After Trial for Libel
Suspect Held at Boley
Bums said he believes the outlaw
is in hiding somewhere and that the
unusual amount of publicity given to
the Floyd escapades in the last few
days has resulted in the conflicting
.. - reports of the bandit's whereabouts.
She was in tow of the coast guard . At Boley, in Okfuskee county,
tug Acushnet which had taken her where a Paden bank official was re-
over from the Burrows five miles in- leased by the three bank bandits who
side of Montauk Point.. robbed the bank, a man who gave his
name as Troy Self of Carnegie wag
arrested as a bank robber suspect. He
three breaks occurred in the Talia- ___ ,________
hatchie river east bank levee in quick j “free speech."
succession north of Swan Lake. The ■
crevasses sent ten feet of water'
by fire chiefs of five states
meeting in Houston next
OAL-nsete ana warmer tonizht
te-sM
probably occasional ralai
warmer.
I retary. advised employes by letter dison. Five persons were killed and
their money would be returned if they seven injured.
I desired, - Arthur Woodbeck, two of his chil-
—... In Arizona there was heavy snow.
Harold Clary. 10 years old. 1704 fall and government planes dropped
West First street, burned severely food to marooned Indians. r •“
January 7. is still in serious condi- 1 south rains swelled rivers and threat-
tion at University hospital, but is ened riverports. The Mississippi was
recovering, it was reported Saturday. on a rampage near the delta. Imperil-
He received painful burns on his ing levees
Blackwell will leave Sunday for
Houston to make arrangements for
His stater. Aileen Clary. 15 years old.
jerked the flaming garment from his
body, and was credited with saving
hin life.
MBS. SAM HAWKS 18
REPORTED IMPROVED
To State Reported
Unexpended Appropriations
Are Ordered Lapsed.
Saving to the state of 8843.066
through non-expenditure of appro-
priations made by the twelfth legis-
lature, was announced Saturday by
Frank Carter, state auditor.
All unexpended balances from the
appropriations of the 1929 legislature
were ordered lapsed as of January 13,
under provsions of the law, Carter
said.
The big sum will tevertto the gen-
. eral revenue fund, for use in paying
ordinary governmental operating ex-
penses. ,
The total included 88.552 appro-
priated for general revenue for 1939.
8151,509 for general revenue for
1930, 8237,439 for general revenue for
1931, 112,431 for special appropria-
tions for 1930, and 8433.153 in special
funds for 1931.
The amounts were distributed
throughout the various departments
of government, and do not represent
holding up of building programs or
other work.
Police Make Futile Search
For Fraley, Goodall.
A city-wide search for Luther Good-
all and Arthur Fraley, confessed bank
robbers who Friday smashed their
way out of the Johnston county jail
at Tishomingo, was under way by
police and county officers Saturday
afternoon.
All available scout ear end cruiser
policemen and city detectives were
pressed Into the man-hunt upon or-
ders of John Watt, chief of police, as ;
curred. She had left the children at,
______ home together. They latched the doors '
ner of the state, with the lines from from the inside. which delayed their
Hollis to Wellington, Texas, out en-
Hollis. In the extreme southwest cor-
STATE DOUBLES REWARD FOR FLOYD
NEW LONDON, Conn., Jan. 16.—
(P)—The coast guard destroyer Hern-
I don, disabled In a collision with the
Unfavorable weather prevented
Capt. Frank Hawks, speed pilot, from
reaching Oklahoma City Saturday
morning from Dallas on his Inspection
tour of properties of Transcontinental
* Western Air, Inc. Officials said
Saturday noon they had received no
word from Hawks.
back when his nightgown was ignited Total rainfall in inches, by cities, is
by the flames of an open gas stove, as follows
weatherman. for Saturday night and
Sunday.
Nearby states also received rain Fri-
CONDITION OF GUN day night, springfield, Mo, had 1.26;
VICTIM IS SERIOUS Inches, sieetbndanamnmithys.68
__________ t, w v. ■ . — 1 -- urday at Dodge City.
Oklahoma. Ho.norrer. Hotel employes, condition of Julian Berger, 29 years Freakish weather eontlnued
One was J. F. Taylor, charged with renrormed. 2 SIty .firemen, confined old, 1131 west Twenty-seventh street throughout the country. A complete
defrauding the Bank of Republic. Re- e 10 onc room.____________ found shot Thursday night at Thir- ’ reversal of conditions gave the west
public, Mo., of 8185 with a bogus, ssesesesossssesesesestsesesesessssa... ; teenth street and Robinson avenue, coast almost freezing temperatures,
check on Oct. 30, 1931. The other was • was serlou Saturday Oklahoma City white the Atlantie seaboard was en-
I General hospital attendants said. joying premature spring with temner-
Berger, employe of the O. K. Trans- atures Friday up to 77.
fer & Storage Co., told police he shot — - - -
Ice Forms on Trees in City
But Melts Before
Morning.
Rainfall that exceeded two
Inches In a number of eastern Okla- 1
homa cities Friday night and Sat-
urday resulted in the evacuation at
lowlands by squatters in and around
Muskogee.
Eastern Oklahoma streams in-
undated highways and lowlands in
several counties. Unpaved roads
were Impassabie, the Associated
g‘0.c,n
-.as.
Gain in State Tippah Basin in Mississippi Transformed Into Raging
Torrent as Dikes Yield in Three Places; Rescuers
For the first time this year trees
Five of Dance Party ' cndtehedeh £
.11 1 . c i/i melted before daybreak when the
Killed in Grade Crash mercury tookiauslight trend upward.
Friday night s rainfall added 1.15
inches to Oklahoma City's rain bar-
. roll. The addition makes a total or
- । The gaiety of a family party return- 3.20 inches since the first or the 'ear
-1 ine frem . h»m danee was torned This amount is the heaviest precipi-
tation for a January since 1916, when
4 28 inches fell.
rain have added to the discomforts nullify that palladium of libery guar-
of refugees, an teed by the constitution—free A hnvyurNsnu..
Dr J. A. Harris of Swan Lake,! speech. We pledge our members in' aAneavy, covered Shawnee early
preparing to head a rescue party into! congress to impeach any federal Judge p.ana-nsnrainor 12 inches.
Tppo basin Saturday morning, said who in future makes any such breach F . au.nad. 25and °xemah. 1.15..
the area was thickly settled and ex- in power.' sottonmanchsrai rerored ipthe
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taken from housetops, in Washington
"WiLr Elevator At
Capitol Catelxs Fire
The west elevator at the capitol
. pu.. in the eastern section. Sallisaw
properly for the flood victims I "T bet th«"» be a minority report Saturdaxreported A two-inchprecipi-
h. domturhtponn
were affected by the delta flood. The some suggestions I will make. These
stimulus during December and the housing problem in partially flooded might include:
holiday trade, while others show s ---
NHE executive seat of govern-
l ment in Oklahoma had been
moved Saturday from the execu-
tive chambers on the second, to
the lieutenant-governor’s office on
the fourth floor at the statehouse,
and Robert Burns, acting gov-
ernor, was revelling in the free-
dom of a new "open door policy.”
"I keep the door open so I won't
have to get a doorkeeper and
bouncer," explained Burns. He
also was getting along, he said,
without a clerk, stenographer,
messenger, executive secretary and
secret service sleuths
“I'm letting Claude Weaver
(Murray’s secretary! take care of
the fan mall and speaking invita-
tions down below," Burns re-
marked.
The acting chief executive was
even running his own errands,
Saturday, writing out his own
messages, and taking them to the
telegraph office on the first floor.
. - Cordell charged school land em- -------------------
spent the afternoon considering rou- ployes were forced to contribute 2 .--.
tine cases Whether it will resume percent of a month's salary to party CORNING N Y . Jan. 16.—(P)—
consideration of routine cases or re- headquarters. Frank Carter, state au-T huci, —' - •'.....pi, --
turn to the Morris inquiry Monday ditor. another member of the land ing from a barn de nee was turned
was the question Saturday. board, said the assessing of employes into tragedy early Saturday when
Some time next week the jury is "is a practice I condemn as intoler- their crowded automobile crashed in-
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phy. state labor commissioner, re-
vealed Saturday.
Some Seasonal Upturn
More than doubling the number of
placements in November, the four
federal-state employment offices in
December found jobs for 4,352 per-
sons. compared with 2,030 the pre-
vious month The record compares
favorably with that of December.
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BERLIN. Jan. 16.—(—-Adolf Hit-
ler was acquitted Saturday of a J
charge of Ubel brought by Capt. Wal-
ter Stennes, formerly of the police ,
and at one time Hitler's colleague
Julius Lippert, editor of the na-!
tional Socialist newspaper. Angriff, i
was convicted and fined 300 marks or .
30 days in jail.
Hitler's attorneys insisted that he
had not written an article printed in
the National Socialist press last spring
in which Stennes was called a police
spy.
STEEL PLANT OUTPUT
INCREASE PREDICTED
NEW YORK. Jan. 16.—(P)—Dow,
Jones & Co. estimate that Youngs-
town district steel plant operations
next week willbeat percent of ca-
pacity. an increase of 3 percent over
the current week. “
CHICAGO. Jan. 16 —IP—Gov.
•We deplore the practic. of in- reported a continued rain Sat-
we deprore tne practice of in urday, 1.77 inches already gauged.
Bristow had 1.66.
TWO EXTRADITIONS desired. _____
GRANTED BY BURNS FirelRouts Hotel Guests
. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—(P)—More
Robert Burns, acting governor, Sat- than .hundred guests ‘were routed
the return of two men arrested to HotelSnewh"YorkehteToonaofthe
reinforced by city firemen, confined
Expressing fear that the breaks Fri-* —-----—
day night had caught many families rm
Murray l akes
Rap at Courts
(Please turn to Pan 2. Column 1) 50,000 acres remained under flood
----- c —. • ... water in west Tennessee Saturday, al-
Less than an hour after the first D:£.
report was received, the dispatcher re- pcculaUlon 11116
ceived additional Information the men 1
in ‘ the Wheeler Park May
Get Branch Zoo
rescue.
Excited when the fire gained head-
way, they ran to a front window and
attracted the attention of two school
teachers who were passing the house
The teachers. Mrs. J. Carl Conner
and Mrs Paul Fennessey, were taking
the school census in the block.
counei ofoministers. shows a deficit of He« gotng pay by the gallon.
^The estimated revenue is approxi- f I you, give the sherir informa,
mately 8942.000.000 and the expendit- ton 1eadinctq, the, seizureoastil
urea about 81.023.000 000. Govern-1 "tr J onessauon, yor
ment receipts are listed as 813.000.- reward,wi be.s1, or 1 its.a 25-
600 less than last year sallonaftair ,0UU get $25 and so on
The deficit, said a statement by the j UP he -ne
council, “reflects the world crisis, but n- • 1 1 nT
the government will take into con- Disabled Destrover
sideration between now and the end of __ _ _ J__
Pay Rolls And 11,000 Persons in Peril
A branch zoo may be established at
Wheeler park, Albert L. McRIIl, city
manager, indicated Saturday. A
movement is under way to petition
the city to retyn part of the animals
to the Wheeler playground. The zoo
was there until the 1923 floods. The
park board is to meet Monday, on
McRiIl’s call, to plan Wheeler and
other park improvements to-be car-
ried out between February 1 and
June 1.
Typical reports in- This business of playing with matches is mighty dangerous,
cluded: Perry, 61, still raining; Ant- Floyd Taylor, 5 years old, and his sister, Dorothy, 3 years old,
lers. 164, still raining, and Wau-1 agreed Saturday.
statehouse roof, Saturday caught fire, rika. 79 ! Their narrow escape Friday when their home caught fire
_______________________________ Along "the bordernineoethe frees, whiletheywere playing with matches made an indelible impres-
river are the most sorely affected but ment after he smelled smoke from the ing point, trees and wires were cov- on.inem, . a .0.1. , . .
the overflow bore promise of draining fire beneath hr feet Opening the ered with sleet and ice Saturday • * I nnx.tney. arned 887i,,. , c ,
rapidly there. door, he called members of the capi- morning and some wire trouble was wn 1 d nt believe they 11 ever play / kinf W.ll J
encountered. Western Union report-
ed it was able to reach all points,
however, by circuitous routes. Most
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SUBSIDES AT CAPITOL “The clevator has been in use „„
wow u..„ B ' since last week when, with no one in
joyed a day of rest after a full week riculture president, saying he and Ms ttit ran.w dfrom hto pot its shaft,
of investigation, the courthouse employes have not contributed to the Thesdamage.fromfire Saturday wa
buzzed Saturday with speculations as Democratic campaign fund yet "be- 1 only sght
to the direction the inquiry will take cause we have not been asked," the
Monday when the jury reconvenes. dispute over school land department
After dropping the investigation of donations had about burned itself out.
the office of Lewis R. Morris, county Saturday.
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1930, when jobs were found for 5,031.
D . J II Murphys report indicated a
Keported Here tmwara xjs
- in the aggregate of pay rolls.
Total number employed in the In-
dustries reporting was 23,619, with
combined weekly earnings of $554,-
748 80, or average earnings of 823.48.
Some industries show a seasonal
Organized Hunt Started
Peace Officers of Central Are*
Join Forces to End
Floyd's Reign.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 42, No. 212, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 16, 1932, newspaper, January 16, 1932; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1965562/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.