Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 46, No. 244, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 26, 1936 Page: 2 of 20
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’ TWO—OKLAHOMA’ CITY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2<, 193^
Rain Hits Central Area, Homes, Barns Wrecked:
Oklahoman
Lim-wrecks
Fair Weather Returns
By Gale in
In Ohio Mail Robbery
State Windstorm
of
Be Analyzed.'
tivities, was distributed at the »ug-
Verdict
Continued From Page 1
June 19, 1935 and dropped last Pire Assurance Co.
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found two hours after the storm
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NEW YORK, Feb 26-IR—Reper-
cussions of the wide and confused
swings in utility shares which fol-
lowed the supreme court Tennessee
with alarm,
as forebod-
Finley Yields
To Coalition’s
Pension View
IbsM-W taw
door behind the mets
ehoukuo, indicated the coup was not
directed against the emperor him-
self. but that the rebels instead were
declaring their allegiance to him.
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Western Kansas Dust
Blots Sun From View
Probe of Market
Dealings Follows
Utilities Furor
Reports reachu
eapital of North
Made of the finest 14 and 16-
ounce worsteds, fine twists
and smart sport cassimeres
•.. all with new luxury trim.
Come in and try one on-- .
Judge them for yourself!
Genuine
FUR FELTS
were represented as
to proceed.
Royalty holders in Hall and Bris-
ooe. Inc., city oil company, emerged
disclosure of a
' of court.
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concession in order to form a coalition hrint com t. 011
with the Oklahoma Retailers associa- 1 Miss Willis was brought from the Jal
ton and W. A. Pat Murphy, state
AAA.
Rothschild’s Famous Basement
and to win, it must have wit or wis-
dom For the best limwreck of the
parentiy was little the worse for its
experience hospital attendants mid.
Harry Bradshaw, who was suffering
from severe cuts and bruises, was able
to recall only a few details of the
storm which struck while the family
indicated he would use this as the
basis of an appeal "If necessary."
Officers Are Witnesses
Throughout its cross-examination,
the prosecution endeavored to prove
Willis was a "good old man," that his
family and his daughter Emma in
particular were disobedient, and that
what punishment he meted out was
deserved
Three peace officers testified that
when arrested Miss Willis told them
H J. Criss, 1327 Northeast Seven-
teenth street, stereotype operator at
the Leader Prem Inc., 17 Northwest
Third street, was severely burned on
his foot Wednesday when some hot
lead feU on it Police reported that
Criss was carrying the lead when he
slipped and lost his balance. He was
taken to St. Anthony hospital.
Stereotype Operator
Burned by Hot Lead
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For Spring
Oklahoma City’s Greatest
HAT Value!
It Parkway Elimination
On Westwood Studied
confer Wednesday afternoon in an
effort to perfect a coalition of forces
and bring forth a rival pension plan
to that of Governor Marland.
Tax Method to Be Studied
With the agreement reached on the
amount of the pension, they were to
attempt to decide whether they will
propose natural resources taxes, in-
come taxes, privilege taxes or some
other form of taxation different from
the governor's proposed sales tax.
Finley said he still may insist on
writing the pension bill to provide a
930 state pension, but with the idea
of making $15 of the 830 inoperative
until some future year.
The V. I. A leader was to leave late
Wednesday on a speaking tour of his
county chapters that will launch the
coalition's pension drive. He will
speak Wedneaday night at Ehid and
continue through the fourth district
with a concluding speech Sunday at
Holdenvile.
of Manchoukuo.
The embassy spokesman voiced con-
fidenge that foreigners generally in
Japan were in no way involved in the
outbreak, and that diplomatic centers
in Tokyo were not concerned.
Japanese officials declared the im-
mediate trouble originated from an
order, given to the first army divis-
ton. statloned in Tokyo, to proceed
to the continental Japanese-advised
state of Manchoukuo.
Offibers Protested Orders
slept.
"The first thing I knew the house
was shaking and moving." he said
The storm wm accompanied by hail,
rain and electrical display.
roa par this "penalr
when the oldest
troops rushed to different parts of
the city, seized public buildings and
Genuine Whittman’s
• Gabardines 22.50
A Rothschild’s Label
in Every Suit
BASEMENT
which struck Turley, six miles north
of Tulsa, early Wednesday, damaging
homes and buildings at a loss esti-
mated at 115,000 Rain. hail and
lightning accompanied the wind.
Bight persons in the Tom Brad,
shaw family, one of them a day-old
baby, were injured when their home
was flattened by the wind.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hodge and two
email children were injured when
their home was blown from its foun-
dation The wind demolished the
home of W W Chase, injuring Chase,
his wife and their 1-year-old son,
Bobby . .
None of the eight members of the
Bradshaw family. all in hospitals here,
waa believed injured seriously.
The baby son of Mr. and Mrs Tom
Bradshaw, whose home waa destroyed.
I. B. Dudley, attorney for the oil
company, said the settlement was
made on the basis oI a $200 allow-
ance for each of 19 lots, plus ad-
ditional sum as extra consideration.
About 70 royalty holders had sought
•22.000 they alleged was due them
on unaccounted oll run from two of
the company's wells.
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Pennsyivania Educator Dies
PHILADELPHIA Feb. 26, - (PP) -
Dr. Albert E. McKinley. es years old.
enqineetina orgcmization in Ametleg
hasinventedanewdevicothdielim-
Industry Group Chief Joins
in $15 Payment Drive.
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11. Fart keering-Goneroualonmrpb
12. Demountable Basketaanycheanieg)
Sheep, to exist, must ftock toge
and have a shepherd. A goat to a
medic individual and can exist i
where on anything-
To Users of
NOSE DROPS
MentholatumLiquidisasaootb-
lag and comiorting to mo lee
head eelda. dry nostrils, an
other minor nasal imitatios as
the original Mentholatum oint
meal and to made especially fee
these who preler nose drops.
TERMS TO SUIT
OF COURSE
New low prices
from
Every iiay die Tunes oollo mere papon in Oklakoam City than there ago li—11
BASEMENT
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223 West Main, Okahoma City
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Insurance Firm Sued
in Night Club Blase
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The Baron s, a night club north of
This “ste
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ceived in private letters from Japan
to Nanking, that "everyone in Japan
considers war with Soviet Russia
inevitable, and it may start this
spring."
Settlement for $6,500
Closes Hot Oil Suit
CLEVELAND, Feb. 2« —(H-Fed-
eral officials announced Wednesday
that Grover Keady. 45 years old, of
Oklahoma, was under arrest on
charges of participation in the Gar-
rettsville, Ohio, mall train robbery ,
last November 7 in which $46,500 Was
taken.
Frank Wiedeman, assistant U. B.
attorney, issued a warrant bringing
Keady before U. 8. Commissioner B.
D. Nicola. Bond of $50,000 was asked.
Com * and look c fhe new
banka-Morse Rofigerator with Mo
„zclumiva,patontedCONSERVADOR
Thenyouw know whrwomen have
how she had done the shooting and
described the way her father lay on j
the bed as she shot him. But the girl
said that what she told officers her
mother had related to her and that
she could remember nothing of the
act
Neighbors testified on both sides,
with honors about even in making
out the dead man to be either the
■ good old man” the prosecution called
him or the "mean old brute,” as the
Mone—Ou rshes fhe cold cr.•
■ mz...Upgoestheslectic
istic for some time toward the cabinet
of Premier Okada, and especially to
Finance Minister Takahashi, this in-
cident apparently providing a motive
for immediate, swift action.
The rebels first met little resistance,
taking over the Metropolitan police
board and the residences of Premier
Okada and other cabinet officers in
the heart of Tokyo, reliable reports
said, but rioting and incendiarism
broke out later.
The Thud infantry regiment of
the First army division, stationed
in Tokyo. wm reported by Japanese
sourcea at Shanghai to have exec-
gated the coup.
China Is roused
A Reuters (British) news agency
dispatch from Shanghai said the re-
belltous regiment wm actually en
route to the Tokyo railroad station
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MW €MUreI ror MancnOUKUD When U5
Oklahoma City’s Finest Low Price
(SUITS
The first report on members’ daily i Oklahoma City, which was destroyed
I transactions must be filed by March by fire late in' December, sued in
13. covering the week beginning district court Wednesday for $2,738.18
1 March 2. These reports were started insurance from the American Home
through the southern Mil
and Dallas counties early W
left two families homeless and
action by the Japanese
army in China and sginst Soviet
B Th? ominous nature of the coup
was emphaatzed by a declaration, re-
against the firm with
$6,500 settlement out
labor commissioner. Murphy and E.
W. Smartt, state manager of the
retail group, agree with Governor
Marland on a 916 state pension but
oppose his plan of financing it by a
one-cent sales tax.
Smartt, Finley, Murphy and Tom
Cheek, president of the Oklahoma
Farmers union, were preparing to
Infant Tossed Out of Wrecked
Home; All to Recover.
tulba. Feb. 26—Fifteen per-
Mns were injured in a wind storm
Miss Willis and her mother, Mrs.
Sona Willis, maintained steadily that
the girl had insane trends when she
picked up a shotgun and fired it into
the back of her sleeping father the
morning of December 31 in their
three-room farm home near Eakly.
Giri Sticks to Story
The prosecution endeavored to show
that the gun was not loaded, and that
Mias Wits had to walk to a dreser
drawer in the room where her father
lay to obtain a shell.
All efforts of Stovall and his assist-
ant, Pugh. to shake the girl from her
story of not remembering any of the
; handed to the judge before it was
read.
The faces of the 18-year-old girl
defendant and her mother, Mrs. Zona
Willis, were drawn and haggard as
they waited for the verdict.
Sentiment in town and among spec-
tators in the courtroom was almost
the jury filed in. Its verdict was
which she was riding. The action
victors Wednesday in their
committee.
The other, on general trading ac-
ELIZABETHTON. Tenn., Feb. M —
(P—-Because, he said, it was chasing
his pigs, a farmer Tuesday killed a
bird dog valued by its owner at $3,000.
The dog, Floating Power, was owned
by the George Dugger kennels and
held six state titles and was runnerup
in one national event. It was in
training for field trials to be held
soon at Columbus, Miss.
$15 federal pension
With Finley’s concession, every pen Address your lmwrecks to the
slon group in the state except the LImwrecker, Oklahoma City Times.
Townsend organization has reached This contest wi close Saturday, so
agreement on a $15 pension bash, final entries must be postmarked be-
This leaves the fight in coming weeks fore midnight Friday,
to be pitched solely on the method.
of raising taxes.
Labor, Retailers' Support Sought
“The 915 pension seems to be the
wish of the others,” said Finley, head
of the Veterans of Industry in Amer
WASHINGTON. Feb. M-(P—J.
W. Steele, prominent figure in the oil
industry for many years and former
geological survey official, wm report-
ed reliably Wednesday to be to line
for appointment as chairman of the
east Texas federal tender board.
Although Secretary Ickes said the
appointment had not been made of-
ficially, it became known Steele ac-
cepted the secretary'se offer two days
ago. He will succeed James A. Frear.
former congressman from Wisconsin.
Girl’s Suit for Crash .
Damages Gets Started
A truck-car collision last December
at Northwest Sixteenth street and
Gatewood avenue wm reviewed in
district court Wednesday with the
opening of the trial of a $10,500 suit
against F. E. Northway, Inc, Okla-
homa City automobile firm.
Edna Maralyn Houser, 11 years old.
Central highschool student, naked
damages for injuries allegedly Buf-
fered when a Northway wrecker driv-
en by Berry Jackson struck the car in
SPRINOPIELD. Mo, Wk
A -me wind which
Way to Manchoukuo
«Copvriqht. 1036, by The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Feb 21.—A Japanese
military coup, which took the lives of
at least three of the nation's highest
governmental leaders, wm executed
, Wednesday by "a few hundred" mem-
bers of the army's first division, « Jap-
anese embassy spokesman announced. tea and author of the $30 pension
The spokesman said the militarists proposal that was thrown out recent-
rebelled at Tokyo. just m they were ly in the state supreme court Tn the jury did not take a vote before on
about to leave Japan for service in the kind that will go along with the noon, speeding the entire two hours
the continental Japanese-advised state majority. Personally, I still am in in discussion of the evidence.
favor of makirg it higher.” | The jury sent word it was ready to
It was unaerstood Pinley made the rnportthandreaurt patteahecouhurind
___promised not to disturb the peace of
protessor of history at the niversity R J. Cozart, 1314% Northwest
of Pennsylvania and former dean of Twenty-fifth street. Kittrell served a
the Liberal Arts college, Temple uni- five-day county jail term M result of
daughter, and of the cruel treatment
she received. When he finished many
women ware sobbing, and several of
the jurors were crying
The defense attorney revested he
has been receiving letters from all
over the country offering encourage-
ment and financial assistance. In
Mlaa Willis's eeU a pile of mail mount-
ed steadily during the trial.
Ralph May, assistant city attorney,
Wednesday wm studying legality of
a city park board recommendation for
elimination of the center parkway on
Westwood boulevard adjacent to the
•3,000,000 federal housing project
near Rotary part.
Project plans call for a 72-feot
street along the boulevard right of
way, and the park board approved
the plan subject to its legality. If ap-
proved. the park board will nuthorize
parking landscaping on each side of
the paved street.
Vest Indies Cruisers
Are Back Home Today
Sun-tanned end well fortified with
travel tales, the 94 members of the
Chamber of Commerce West Indies
cruise party reached the city by spe-
cial train Wednesday.
Although expected early Wednesday
morning the group did not reach the
city until nearly noon following delay
in docking at Galveston and to clear-
ing customs.
The party will be given an official
welcome by the chamber at its public
forum luncheon Friday.
Youth Free on Bead—Virgie Kit-
trell. 17 years old, 1413 Southwest
Twenty-sixth street, wm free Wed-
nesday after he wm permitted to sign
his own appearance bond and had
street Norman. gets a buck
t pii.v jeadar or the 130 pen- Each day the LImwrecker gives a
sUratrtnkc’weaneda cApttuiatedbuckffor he daygiestimwreg. A
: szi? s
pension plan to be matched by the J
events of the killing failed.
She and her mother, and 20 other
is Accused Day-Old Baby, 14
Ph Others Hurt In
in the newest Spring
Shapes and Colors
Actual 3.50 Values
featured in our
Basement Tomorrow
297
OOODLAND, Kan, Feb 23 —‛P—
Dust. swirled skyward by a strong
' wind, blotted out the sun Wednesday
u the area had its first bad dust
storm of the spring.
Use it daily for
baby's skin
MEEWTs
defense referred to him
Moat damaging testimony present-
ed by the state was that of Sam Smith
who aserted that after she shot her
father the 18-year-old girt suggested
to her mother that they bury him and
not tell the neighbors.
Hot Words Are Hurled
Cooper wrathfully Mked Smith if
he had not told him before the trial
that he heard no statements msde,
had arrived late at the Willis home,
and knew nothing "that would hurt
the girl."
In his closing argument to the Jury
Pugh asked the death sentence, and
referred to the slaying M “a cold
blooded murder of her dear old
daddy*
Cooper seised the phrase eagerly in
his pleading and in his long story of
the father's alleged brutality, repeat-
ed after each incident “that wm her
dear old daddy” mimicking Pugh.
Declaring that he had conducted
the girl’s defense to ease his con-
science, Cooper wept as he described
the bleak life of the tenant farmer's
$cS "scafchesec 4
"JUFEAsrrejhegingrepers 2
F" prevent Inf nett on 24
"rm at one*, mild.
Every editor welcomes suggestions
xesraushtthrnush ta.t-ur—h-
Fair skies and cooler weather were
forecast for Thursday by Harry
Wahigren, following a rain and hail-
storm which spilled 174 inch of rain
tn Oklahoma City Tuesday night.
Precipitation wm general through-
out central Oklahoma, Purcell, King-
,Va
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, gestion of the securities and exchange !
i commission.
At a driver he surely was fast;
In fact he was too good to last,
He pressed the gas feed
Ana so great was hts speed
TDa ne “ thing ° Stock.’ Rapid Swings Ar. To
POR this fast-moving little ballad
D on the fata of a speed demon,
Don Castleberry. 533 South Flood
unanimously for the girl, and a
speedy acquittal wm predicted on
every hand.
Closing argument of Amos Stovall,
county attorney, Wedneaday morning,
was devoid of fire . nd for the most
part reviewed testimony of defense
“It sounded like an argument' for
defense " said W. H. Cooper, defense
attorney “He repe. ted all our telling
points to the jury again.”
Throughout two days of testimony
-
diimueubaituti.ya
“Lookforthe
J Trade Mok I
Bh,
News of the Tokyo developments
wm received at Nanking '
a Reuters dispatch said.
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defense witnesses told a gruesome
story of beatings and abuse which the
slain man dealt his family.
Introduced into evidence were four
specific incidents in which the father
knocked the girl unconscious. Also re-
counted were several sexual advances
the girl sald her father had made to-
ward her.
The contention of W. H. Cooper, de-
fense counsel, that these beatings plus
the fear of her father’s improper ac-
tions caused temporary insanity wm
borne out from the witness stand by
two Oklahoma City alienists. Dr.
Coyne Campbell and Dr. F. B. Erwin,
Shortly before the trial closed
Cooper asked Will Unn. district judge,
to hand the jury en instructed ver-
dict of not guilty. He contended that
“only by reference” had the etale
proven the girl actually shot Willis.
The motion was denied, but Cooper
fisher, Ponca City, Okemah and
Shawnee all reporting fella of less
than one inch.
Wahigren expects the minimum
temperature Thursday to range from
30 to 39 degrees. Freezing weather
wm predicted in northern Oklahoma
counties.
Steele to Be Named To
Texas U. S. Tender Unit
strayed numerous barns and 6
outbuildings on farms in the Brig
and M Tor communities.
George L Shoftner, 23-yea
farmer, woke to hie two-room $
house and found the walls and
had been carried away. Near
Top., the home of M. R. Price
blown nat, but no one was ser
injured.
December. The club was located at the June-
The committee on business conduct tion of highways No. 66 and 77 two waaouna “wrckageor the house
in its questionnaire, has Mked dais of Britton The policy to- struck, near the ,oASNNe
on utility stock transactions on Feb- wastaken.out December 16 resting on a pile.of brush.
rUary 17 the day of the supreme . # , .4- +0 mati Tom Jr., found the infant.
cour rVA decision when the market in the, amount of 83,000, the Except for being cold and having a
swayed wildly under the leadership tion stated, slight cut on his head, the baby aP-
of gyrating power shares. ' ” " "
on Angry Farmer Kills
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Cheek thaw
isr-M Points against
AnyothezRetrigerator
.BeautyandMasvenene- .
2. Date Hninh (Black Kick Plato)
3. Rngertip Hardware
4CONSEKVADOB
B. More usable slorage "poc
S. ikxMoasy
T. r-M hedrinu MMuinetorto,
a STSSLi codvantlona machm
Postal Inspector 8. E Hattrick Mid
.... he tralled Keady for weeks and ar-
Valley Authority decision were felt I rested him secretly at his home to
Wednesday as the New York stock | Oklahoma. Hettrick and Wiedeman
---- _ _ —--- exchange rent members two question- 'said some of the victims andwitnessea
week, a prise of five bucks is awarded I identified Keady as one of the six
...— ---- --------- * "heinaires, ; men who staged the holdup.
One. on utility stock transactions,
was forwarded at the request of the |
i stock exchange business conduct j
eted Premler Okada, a retired ad-
mini, as not supporting sufficiently
the military program on the Asiatic
mainland
The following members of the cabl-
net were reported to have escaped in-
“Zik Hirota, minister of foreign af-
Ahirs.
Tatsunosuke Yamasaki, minister of
agricuiture and forestry.
Admiral Mineo Osumi, minuter of
the navy.
3 Keisuke Mochizuki, minister of com-
muntoettana
Gen. Yoshiyuki Kawashima, minu-
ter of war.
Count Hideo Kodama, minuter of
overseas affairs.
Chiji Machida, minister of com-
merce and industry
Bhinya Uchida, minister of railways.
Revolting Troops On
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