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NQiL. XLVI NO. 216.
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Tiny Fingers Pluck the Strings
State Asks Bids
Retail Stores
In Old Palace
Co-operative League Offered Congressmen Lose No Time In
Ai Aid to Business.
Overriding President.
Of Buying Ii Seen.
Opposition to Payment.
Banking Ca se
Capitol Hill, by Governor
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co-operate in any effort to increase
effort to accomplish thia ia m yet
Dn each of the four corner* stood a "colonial conflict" into a European
At one end rested the
he coffin.
for an “arbitrary and non-existent hy-
nhhocim ”
The memorandum characterised aa
Inside Today
Justice Van Devanter
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Filene Heads Project Roosevelt Won't Yield
Local Ownership, Masi Plan Menage Repeats His Original
May Band As
National Unit
Parole Urged
For Moore In
Bonus Vetoed;
Passed Again
In House Vote
Young Baptists Plan
Economical Convention
What's The
Answer?
Retailers’ Head Sees
Prosperous Era Ahead
Today on 25-Well
Drilling Program
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Ann Hewitt, Operation
Victim, Praised by Judge
chiatrist, Mrs. Mary
nostician. Dr. Tilton
YOU MUST
D/SPCAY
Would Sink Four on Lincoln Boulevard in
Front of Capitol, Others on Mansion,
Hospital Property, to Ask
Fourth Royalty, Bonus.
offieial
annual
Italians Charge
Peace Menaced
By British Pact
Mediterranean Action Called
Violation of Covenant.
ly by a psychlatrlat, testified for. al-
most an hour concerning the opera-
tion in 1934, the basis of her $500,000
this buying power, and thus create
a market large enough to keep bust-
ness profitable and keep the masses
Jury in Damage Suit
Deadlocks; Dismissed
some calculations.
New Fight Due
On Labor Paper
Second Attempt to Amend
Conatitution Planned.
Accused Broker Considers
Challenge of Validity.
Eternd Vigilance Is The
Price of Safety On
The Streets.
» Asked if she would have consented
to be sterilised had she been con-
sulted, she retorted:
Unofficial Clemency Board
Reports to Marland.
A parole was recommend*
ed Friday for J. E. Moore,
former president of the de*
funct Capitol State bank in
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24- un -
Justice Van Deventer of the supreme
court. who has been ill for several days
with a cold in his throat, was reported
Friday to be recovering rapidly.
The justice's secretary said it was
expected the justice would be permit-
ted Saturday to leave his bed.
of the league covenant, be provoked
by the application of sanctions.
Securities Law
Test Threatened
Parents, Five Children Die In
Indiana Crash.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-) —
Without a dissenting vote, the house
declined Friday to appropriate funds
to enforce the potato control act.
The vote came after the house had
refused to appropriate $1,000,000 to
gather and disseminate information
on potatoes. This amount was asked
by Representative Warren (D., N. C.),
author of the control law.
Indians Will Present
Marionette Show Here
Ute league convention will be constd-
red at each meeting.
Girl Called "Splendid Witness" After She Tells Story Of
Sterilization As a "Moron."
Body of King
Lies in State
The slate was prepared to advertise late Friday foe
oil lease bids on all state property in the capitol area, de-
manding one-fourth royalty and a cash bonus on 25 pro-
posed locations for wells.
Four of these locations would be on the Lincoln boule-
vard parkway immediately south of the statehouse.
It ws revealed at the same time that the state has re+
Pilgrims From All Parts Of
England at Westminster.
Jeorge died Monday fight.
King Edward. his face flushed, pothesia.
"Moat certainly
The girl, rated
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahona
(Evening Edition ot The Daily Oklahoman
THIRTY-TWO PAGES—OKLAHOMA CITY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1»<
Killion Persons Expected To
Pass the Royal Bier.
The Tiny Times is on page 17.
la a grown daughter a slaver
Kathleen Norris. Page 4.
Junior highschool graduates.
Page 4.
Building Lake Murray. A page
of pictures. Page S.
OU and the home owner, Forum.
Page 14.
Sarrant forma French cabinet.
Page 14.
Police clear death driver. Page 17.
Editors see Roosevelt victory in
Oklahoma. Page 17.
Never Mind the Lady. Page it.
A dramalot the seaz. Wirephotos.
Page 28.
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"complete solidarity for each league
member" should an attack, in violation
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leases is going ahead.
Although the standard is one-eighth royalty for prop-
erty owners, L. M. Nichols, board of affairs chairman, said
many property holders north of the capitol have received
one-fourth royalty from oil companies. The advertising
natice will read "a minimum of one-fourth royalty.”
■ ■ ■■ ♦ The chairman said he feels the
unconstitutional.
Lower Prices are Seen
"But it to not unconstitutional to
develop better methods of distribu-
tion; and by eliminating the tremend-
ous wastes of traditional merchandis-
ing, we could sell goods at such low
prices that the buying-power of every
customer would be tremendously In-
creased."
Filene said he was not ready to
announce the location of the stores.
(Veto Text on Page 31)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.
— (P) — President Roosevelt
summarily vetoed the bond
bonus bill Friday, only to
have the house override him
at once amidst predictions
that the senate would do the
same next week.
The vote was 124 to 41. No mem-
ber of the Oklahoma delegation was
listed among those voting to uphold
the veto.
In a handwritten message, the exec-
utive said his objections to the pre-
payment were a* impelling as when he
rejected the Patman bill last session.
Rooseveit Views Unchanged
“Therefore I can not change them,"
his 200-word message concluded.
Mr. Roosevelt, in his message, re-
ferred senators and representatives
"respectfully ... to every word of
what I said" in last year's veto of
a currency-expansion bonus payment
bill.
"My convictions are as impelling
today as they were then." the pres-
ideal said. "Therefore I can not
chahge them." •
Mr. Roosevelt added:
"The bill I now return differs from
last year's bill in only two important
respects: first, it eliminates the lasu-
snee of unsecured paper currency to
make the payments required and sub-
stitutes interest bearing bonds, which,
however, may be converted into cafh
for face value at any time; second, it
adds 1243.000.000 to the total pay-
ments by forgiving interest after Oct.
1, 1931, on amounts borrowed.
Clark is Defiant
"In all other respects, the circum-
stances. arguments and facts remain
essentialty the same as those fully
covered and explained by me only
eight months ago."
Indicative of the determination on
Capitol HUi to make the bill taw
despite the veto was the comment of
Senator Clark (D., Mo.), one of the
authors:
Wei paaa it over hl* veto."
One pertinent phrase from last
rayed silently for a few momenta
ate Thursday at the close of a brief unsound
erviee "romnlet
Bcally: the diag-
E. llman, and
The Safety Council of
The Oklahoman and Times
Oklahoma City, Oki*.
Sign and mail in to get your winduhieid atiehee.
Enelose 2-ceni stamp to eover return poatage
war.
Italy charged that Britain, in be-
ginning the interchange of assurances,
acted on her own initiative as head
of the league of nations. She protested
the security actions were unnecessary
and dangerous because they disclosed
that military conversations had taken
Roosevelt evidently had in mind Fri-
day was:
"The credit at the United States
is safe but it can not ultimately be
safe if we engage in a policy of yield-
ing to each and all of the groups
that are able to enforce' upon the
congreas claims fir special considera-
tion.**
Early Action !a Surprise
Whits House aides said Mr. Roose-
velt broke precedent of a quarter of
a century and sent his mesaage to
Capitol Hill in his own handwriting.
Up to the time of the adminis-
tration of Theodore Roosevelt all mes-
sages to congtess were written in long
hand. But none has gone to the
capitol in long hand since then.
While the veto did not come as a
surprise, the manner of its sudden
KAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24.A judge who complimented Ann
• Cooper Hewitt on her bearing as a witness pondered Friday
whether to issue criminal complaints against her mother and
two doctors, accused by the 21-year-old heiress of duping her
into a sterilization operation.
She testified she thought is was an appendectomy.
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Youngest student of the harp in Oklahoma is T-year-old
Rosemary Stockton, second grader at Gatewood school who
has to sit in a high chair to reach the strings.
Rosemary, daughter of Mrs. Louise Stockton, 1017 North-
west Twenty-second street, new harp teacher at Oklahoma
City University, will make her first public appearance at
4 p. m. Sunday in the university auditorium, playing a duet
with 6-year-old Earnie Joe Pulley, the city youngest cellist. •
Rosemary is a pupil of Finley Williams.
and parole board.
The banker. who received a ten-
year embezzlement sentence but nev-
er went to prison, is at liberty on a
reprieve that will expire February 7.
His conviction was upheld in October
by the criminal court of appeals
While the recommendation of the
board to unofficial, Governor Marland
has followed the practice of accepting
such recommendations.
Included in letters urging clemency
were the names of most of Moore's
business associates in Capitol Hill and
Mart Brown, former assistant county
attorney, who prosecuted.
Moore was convicted of embezzling
11,644 from the defunct bank, largely
upon the testimony of Earl Buttrill,
cashier, who pleaded guilty to accept-
ing deposits to an insolvent bank and
paid a fine of 4300. However, the
criminal court of appeals, reviewing
the evidence, said Buttrill’s evidence
was sufflclenUy corroborated by other
witnesses.
"In our opinion if the jury regarded
Its oath it could not have failed to
return a vexdict of guilty," the opin-
ion read.
The district court assessed a 91.000
fine in addition to the prison term.
On November 4, Governor Marland
granted Moore a reprieve until Feb-
ruary 7 in order for him to close his
private business affairs.
Train Hits Auto;
Seven Are Killed
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the surgeon, Dr. Samuel O. Boyd.
Judge Fraiaes Giri
At the close of the hearing, Sylvain
J. Lazarus, municipal judge, told Miss
Hewitt:
"You are a wonderful witness. It
isn't often we have people here who
testify as clearly and intellegently as
you have."
He said he would announce his de-
cision Tuesday.
Miss Hewitt, a tiny figure in the
witness chair, told of suffering ab-
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 24—/
—Seven persons were killed Friday
afternoon when their automobile was
struck by a Detroit-bound Wabash
passenger train at Grabill, near here.
The dead are Mr. and Mrs Marion
McBride and five of their children. •
They lived just north of Grabil and
were on relief.
Two other children of the McBride*
escaped with injuries.
House Refuses Funds
For Potato Curb Law
^The rolhssnddara was draped over
The convention of the Baptist
Young People's union here in March
will be the second largest convention
to come to Oklahoma City this year,
but the hotel space the young people
will take up will be less than that of
some smaller conventions.
The Baptist young people expect to
stay three or four in a room. Hotels
were asked Friday to quote prices on
that number The meeting, which
will be held March 17-20, will assem-
ble 3,000 B. Y. F. U. members between
the ages at 14 and 24 years.
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Harold Howard, 23 yean old. former
Central highschool student, died Fri-
day at a local hospital following a
brief illness with pneumonia He
lived with his parents at 1624 North-
west Eleventh street.
In addition to the parenta, Mr.
and Mre. L E. Howard, survivors are
a brother, Lonnie Jr., and a grand-
mother. Mrs. Nellie Stiewig. an of the
home address. The funeral will be
Saturday st 2:30 p. m. in the Garri-
son chapel and burial will be in Rose
Hill cemetery.
leveled imperial crown and over the
lead were the crosses of flowers from
Ung Edward and Queen Mary.
It was this scene which the royal
state to entitled to a good deal be-
cause their are no buildings to remove
and no conflict of property rights
that might lead oil companies into
litigation for damages.
Require Electrical Drining
On his desk Nichols had maps show-
ing 24 tentative and unofficial loca-
tions for oil wells on state property,
east, west and south of the capitol,
and north of University and Crippled
Children’s hospitala:
"If its humanly possible we're going
to drill four wells right down that
Lincoln boulevard." asserted Nichols,
swinging around in his chair and
pointing a finger down the boulevard
frqm hl* southside, third floor win-
dow.
In the leases the state wi require
electrical drilling at locatlons near the
hospitals, Nichola said, to prevent di-
turbance of the ill.
Under CHy Reguladon
There also will be regulation* pre*
venting dsllling within a certain dis-
tance of the capitol. Historicai Society
building. the executive mansion and
state highway department buildings
west of the capitol, said the chairman.
This aggressive step by the Mate
followed an opinion tote Thursday by
Mac Q. Williamson, attorney gen-
eral holding that the state must ob-
serve all city oil regulations because
as a property owner it has only a
proprietary and not a governmental
interest.
This opinion blocked efforts at Qov-
emor Marland and the board of af-
fairs to drill for oil on state land
without waiting for a city electlon to
determine whether the land would be
brought into the otl drilling sone.
Ne Trick Bids
Governor Marland said he asked
that the bld* be standardized to pro-
tect the state and the board at al*
fairs
"There will be bids put in here In
every kind of a way you can imagine-
trick bids.'' said the governor, a veteran
oil man himself. "There might be
bids offering a huge royalty and no
bonus—and then the bidder might
never complete a well. He could
drain state tend from wells he al-
ready had.
"There are a hundred ways a trick
lease could be drawn and I know the
tricka." the governor continued. "And
we want the bonus to be cash on the
barrel head—none of this bustnsss of
bonus out of the oil."
The governor reiterated his stand
against the state drilling its own
wells. "The state to going to tease
unless we are enjoined." he declared.
Nichola said the board will present
&KmS°i EXTENSION
ceived several offers from reputable oil companies to drill
__„ ______ ________ wells for the state—the effect of which would be the state
Marland's unofficial pardon drilling its own wells—and these offers still are being con-
sidered seriously despite the fact that the advertising for
A free marionette show, depicting
Indian life In Oklahoma and the mid-
diewest, will be given February 4 in
Central highschool auditorium by stu-
dents of Haskell Institute, Lawrence,
Kan., George Well*. state supervisor
for Indian education, announced Pri-
dy,
Mias Sybil M. Malm, a student of
Tony Barg, famed marionette artist,
will direct seven Indian students in
presenting the show.
Increased Sums Spent
For Plant Improvement
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—(-
American business spent 1155.000.060
in 1435 for plant and equipment, as
compared with $85,000,000 the pre-
vious year. These figures were re-
ported Friday by the securities com-
mission
The Weather
BOSTON, Jan. 24.-(P—
A league of co-operative de-
partment stores on a nation-
wide scale, designed to stim-
ulate business in every line,
was planned Friday by Ed-
ward A. Filene, Boston mer-
chant-economist.
The Consumer Distribution Corp.,
with a capital of $1,000,000, furnished
by Filene. would be the purchasing
agency and the directional head of
stores to be located in large cities
throughout the country.
Financing of the stores, Filene said,
has not been completed The mer-
chant-economist to president of wi-
item FUene's Sons Co , among the
largest of the world's specialty stores.
He denied the co-operatives would be
a bloW to retail trade.
To Help Retailing
“The whole project." Filene said in
announcing his plans, "is designed to
stimulate business in every line; and
no line will be helped more by thia
movement than the business of re-
tailing."
Profits from the co-operatives,
above nominal interest capital. would
be returned to patrons, under the
Filene plan.
The stores would not be referred to
as a "chain." Each would be owned
and operated locally. Funds would be
deposited locally, not handled by any
central organization.
Filene explained the distribution
corporation is not a holding company,
but would handle centralised buying,
conduct research, provide assistance
in management, public relations and
other functions.
Distribution Basie Problem
Saying he had long entertained the
idea of co-operative stores, he added:
'The depreMion , . . convinced me
thst a system at retailing, to be most
effective now, must be a system in
which the consumers are not only
securing every possible assistance
from the distributors but in which
they know and feel that all the
profits are to be their*.
"It ha* become a truism to say
that distribution to now our basic
A. Art Aauuk. M.Aw1a &. mrt A7A
SCOH9K3 proownu • • a ACIFM9H
buying power at the masaes is the
only possible remedy . . but busi-
ness has been so slow to recognise
•'our Days of Homage
BOSTON, Jan. 24--Constitu-
tiohality of the securities commission
set may be challenged in the federal
courts.
Henry H. Davis, Boston attorney
and counsel for a broker accused of
notating a section of the act dealing
with fraudulent practices, said he waa
considering such action. He refused
to recognize jurisdiction of the re-
gional securities board Thuraday and
hearing on the charge against his
client was adjourned to January 40.
Davi* Mid he questioned the broad
general powers conferred on the BEC
and believed the commission was
"usurping the right* of individuals
without due process of law.”
BiMie Nau to in Tanguen
NEW YORK, Jan. 24U—-Publi-
cation of the New Testament in
Ponape, tor use in Ponape, the largest
of the Caroline island, brings to 172
the number of languages i which
the Bibis or some part of it has been
printed, the American Bible society
announced Friday.
year’s veto
Aam9on sultwc “nederemother psy- employed. Unfortunately^ our national
NEW YORK. Jan 24-(—The
National Retail Dry Goods association
closed its annual convention Friday
with the assertion of its rearing pres-
ident. David Ovens of Charlotte. N. C.,
that “at no lime have I seen greater
evidence of sheer optimism for the
future, c
"So far as we are concerned." he
Mid “the depression to a thing of the
past. We are now moving rapidly
toward our greatest prosperity."
aton year* mental- this banie tact that t has tatla to
HUH vau Uevaver zE*Mxsskztda"‛*
Recovers From Illness "-2.
Amid this seen* th* body will re-
hsin until Tuesday, when It will ba
aken again through the street* of
London.
Two Minutes at Silence
Businesses were not asked to close
or the day of the funeral. Tuesday,
ut two minutes of silence will be ob-
erved throughout the empire during
he final zervice at Windsor, just west
if London.
Both houses of parliament, the
nembers of which lined Westminster
tall white th* body was received in a
drikingly simple ceremony, adjourned
mtll February 4 after receiving formal
aotice of the king’* death and pre-
rating condolence* to King Edward
wad Queen Mary.
Although the monarch's widow was
livested of her throne and title at the
noment of his death, a court circular,
Seseribing Thursday a ceremonies, still
efetred to her as nb* queen.''
Three Young Democrat
Organizations to Elect
Officers of three county League of
foung Democrat organisations will
e elected st annual meetings F-
ay night. John Thomas, secretary at
be state league, said Friday.
Elections will be held for the King-
laher county league at Kingfisher,
he Noble county league at Perry and
be Garvin county league at Pauls
A new attempt to amend the Okla-
homa City Trades and Labor council
constitution to void a section making
the Oklahoma Federation!* the of-
ficial publication of the council will
be mad*, Leonard H. Dickerson, pres-
ident. said Friday .
Vote on s motion to end recognition
of th* paper as the official organ was
59 to 33 Thursday night.
"Th* constitution cannot be
changed except by a two-thirds vote,
and we lacked a few," mid Dickerson
He said Chartea J. Brill, resolutions
committee chairman, may propose the
change again next week.
A committee, headed by Reuben
Martin, city employ*, waa named to
co-operate with other city groups in
preparing for President Roosevelt's
birthday party.
Harold Howard, Former
Central Student, Dead
amily left after the body was brought ---—----
nere Thursday from the Bandring- place between league members against
am country estate where King another, league member in preparation
I he Safety Driving Pledge
TN THE interest of accident prevention and safer
1 conditions on the streets and highways and for the
protection of myself and others—-
I promise to:
1. Never operate at reckless speed.
2. Drive on right of highway.
3. Stop at all S-T-O-P signs.
4. Refrain from jumping traffic lights.
5. Make turns From the proper lanes.
6. Signal before turning or stopping.
7. Give right of way in doubtful cases.
8. Heed pedestrians' rights.
9. Never past on curve or top of hill.
10. Slow down at intersections and schools.
11. Keep my vehicle in safe condition.
12. Be courteous and considerate of others.
/alley. Plans tor sending
lelegates to ths February 22
by Dr. Tillman.
"He looked at me and Mid he
guessed I should have my appendix
removed.” Mid Miss Hewitt, Mn.
Bcally asked "asinine questions," the
witness added.
. She Mid Mn. Bcally represented
herself aa a nurse and did not tell
her she was giving a mental teat.
Lax Examination Intimated
Miss Hewitt, who apeak* French
fluently, told of correcting Mr*. Bcal-
ly'* pronunciation of a French word.
"Never dispute a psychiatrist," re-
marked Judge Lazarus. "She probably
marked you down a couple of point*
for that.”
Miss Hewitt testified "at no time
did Doctor Tillman or Doctor Boyd
take my temperature. feel my putoe or
take a blood count."'
Anne B. Lindsay, a nurse who at-
tended Miss Hewitt. Mid Doctor Boyd
told her:
"I have a case that Doctor Tillman
sent me—-a 14-year -old girl with the
mentality of a child of 11, who haa a
sex complex. I’ve got to do something
to protect her and her family.”
“Most Attractive Giri"
Miss Lndsay described her surprise
at seeing Miss Hewitt, "an entirely
normal girl—4 grownup young woman.
I had expected a moron. I waa abso-
lutely taken off my feet."
She Mid Doctor Todd later said he
did not think Mire Hewitt was n mo-
ron but that he had accepted Doctor
Tillman's findings.
Judge Lazarus Mid to Miss Lndsny:
"I agree with you that Ann is a
most attractre girl. She has a fine
sense of humor, too. That's going to
save you a lot of trouble,' Ann. It's
going to make you happy."
ROME, Jan. 24.— P-Italy warned
the sanctionist nations of the world
Friday that Great Britain’s action In
arranging a Mediterranean security
pact constituted a “danger for Eu-
ropean peace."
A memorandum prepared for Gen-
eva distribution to the sanctionist pow-
ere protested that Great Britain had
acted outside the league covenant in
initiating the Mediterranean discus-
sions.
The move, Italy contended, was
made in the face of Italian assur-
ancea that she had no desire to drag a
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Unable to reach a verdict, a district
court jury which heard a damage
suit brought by Alta Tolle, El Reno,
in connection with a car mishap June
16, waa dismissed Friday by Ben Ar-
nold. diatrict judge.
Mr*. Tolle asked 26.000 from de-
fendant* the Triangle Product* and
Refining Co., the Kelly Oil Co., D. L
Kelly and Ed Keispert.
In n second damage suit, a jury
awarded $600 to Grace Cornell, com-
mon pleas court stenographer, aa a
result of an automobile accident nt
Northwest Tenth street and Broad-
way. The jury held the McKay fu-
neral home liable, absolving H. R.
Huff. Ardmore, and Warren Shreve,
Chickasha, also defendants.
which Mr.
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rTHE toll of traffic dead goes on
1 unchecked despite consistent
reports from police and other traf-
fic observer* that Oklahoma City
driver* are operating their can
with much more care than in the
past. What la the answer?
The number of accidents has
been reduced; the number of traf-
fic vlolatioh ckels is nmaller than
usual; fewer cars race through the
streeta at excessive speed. But ths
swinging scythe of Baath still sweeps
the streets and leaves splotches of
human blood to mark his harvest.
If you can say with assurance
that your brakes are right, your
lights bright, your Ure* good and
your steering gear in proper condi-
tion, you have a little better chance
that your name may not be the
next lettered into the book of the
deed.
Harold Hamilton, A & A cab
driver, declared Thursday’s per-
fect driver by the safety council
of the Oklahoman and Times, My*
he will not drive a cab or private
ear unless he is sure these vital
parts are in proper condition. Ex- •
perlence has taught him he makes
better time in the long run by
driving well within the speed limit,
thus avoiding delay* from accident*.
Drive safely and drive longer.
House Votes Millions
To Pay Off Farmers
WASHINOTON, Jan. 24—(A-
The house Friday approved an ap-
propriation of $296,185,000 to pay
benefits to farmer* on contract* under
the invalidated agricultural adjust-
ment act prior to the January 6 su-
preme court decision.
PRICE: THREE CENTS
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By BURDETTE JOHNS
Coprriht. 1936. by The Aasociated Prow)
LONDON, Jan. 24.—The
lirst of 1,000,000 sorrowing
ollgrims filed Friday past
he bier of the late King
Jeorge V—a black catafal-
que, approached on purple-
darpeted steps, in the ancient
palace of Westminster.
There, the new King Edward Vin
md the bereaved royal family left
heir liege for four days of public
iomage before the final service and
urlal next Tuesday at Windsor.
As Big Ben boomed 6 a. m. the na-
ion* pilgrimage began.
When the famous clock strike*
0 p. tn Monday, authorities Mid. at
test 1,600,000 of the dead sovereign’*
mubjecta will have joined in this last
iet of tribute.
Crowds on Street*
' Long before midnight, crowds gath-
red in the streets about the medieval
Westminster, sacrificing their sleep
md braving a misty rain to be among
he first to pay tribute to their late
tog
Huddled in mufflers and heavy
svercoata, they leaned throughout the
light against the gray stones of the
palae, which also houses parliament.
। When a rain-washed dawn broke
wer the rooftops of London, the
|U*tM stretched nearly a mile.
Through the great south window
t 'fitAmmtXitr hall, the crowds
mid see the glow cast by the flick-
ring candles where the dead mon-
urch lay. alone with his guarda.
"Heart of Empire”
The flag-draped catafalque, bearing
he royal coffin, formed an island
if light amid the shadowy space* of
n* ancient hall which the late king
nce called "the heart of our mighty
mmpire."
He spoke those words on May 4
when he received the congraulations
A parliament on his silver Jubilee-
hl last time he was at this spot alive.
The age-old rafters looked down
me* more on th* glory at medieval
aniforms aa a bodyguard kept vigil
hrough the long watehes of th* night.
At each of th* four corners of tM
atafalque stood a lifeguard, his head
lowed. A little deeper to the gloom
good four yeomen.
Guard Collapses
On* of th* yeomen at the guard,
sxhausted by th* ordeal, collapsed and
res carried from the hall. Without a
word, another took his place.
When the great crowd of pilgrim*
it last surged into the buildlug, it was
Ihepherded through wooden barriers,
n lines four abreast, along both sides
if the coffin.
Rich and poor, young and old, they
towed by throughout the day at an
mtimated rate of 15,000 persons an
tour.
Many countryfolk, bewildered by the
vhirling traffic of metropolitan Lon-
Ion, joined the throng.
"I wanted to make certain of ageing
ny king once more." Mid one old
nan who had traveled all night.
Candle at Each Corner
The catafalque, or temporary stage,
in which the royal coffin rested, was
if black end gold, with a purple hase
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 46, No. 216, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1936, newspaper, January 24, 1936; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1990114/m1/1/?q=wichita+falls: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.