The El Reno Sunday Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 282, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 28, 1930 Page: 1 of 8
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The Heart of the Rich
Canadian Valley
VQLUME NO. ^82.
iff of si
MKMHER ASSOCIATED PRESS
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1930
CENTRAL PRESS SERVICE
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We Saw Today
The following which wu
Written by Whatley: A man
who gives his children habits
of industry provides for them
better than by giving them a
fortune.
Percy, County
Acont, Explains Present
Soil Composition -
(By FRED PERCY, County Agent)
|{« Milts of a preliminary survey
„f ihe romposffldlk of the soil of
(uiiatliati county will be of Inter
,,t |o all land owners and farmers
** l‘these results In a measuro
►h-w what our soil condition Is
po* compared with the time when
ur soils were first placed in
sltivatlon. To get the iuforma-
that will be discussed, virgin
mia cultivated samples 'of soil
sere taken from twenty-six farms
nd sent to the soil laboratory at
till water for a complete analysts.
I'Milts of these tests have given
basis upon which to work In
building u soil improvement pro-
ram. Analysis of samples will
rout inti* and any farmer wishing
o njoperaJe iu securing the in-
•irmatloh that la, being obtained
uw bring samples to the county
gents office. No charge is made
or Hie analysis by the college.
Samples for analysis were taken
rum the following farms: Hiram
mith, Yukon; Chat. Mohr, Mus-
aim; Frank tivans, El Reno;.Joe
gulf)', banner; Frank Blanc, El
eno; T. J. Welwel. Okarche;
vohert McNIch, El Renoi' C. J.
pltler. Mustang; John Boevers,
nion City; W. E. Sliedeck, Yu-
on; Roy Dlvln, Yukon; William
clieito, Richland; Herman Wejn-
i11IX, Richland; J. W. Lorenzen,
;! Reno; J. A. Dobry, Yukon; O.
l**nipke, Okarche; John K.
fuffit. Piedmont;. W. A. Clovis,
;i Reno; E. K. Hart, (ieary; L.
I. Duncan. El Reno; Tom Titter-
ngtoft, El Reno. A complete re-
lit of the test for these farms
lav be obtained from the county
gents i»y any of the men men*
Toned above. ■»V'■ , i
Shows Decline
All samples were tested for to-
ut organic matter content as this
ctcrniinea to a large measure the
ysicgb condition of the soil end
is moTriture bolding capacity. An
verage of the samples taken
howod a decline of thirty per
**nt in organic matter. The sandy
oils showed as high as fifty per
nt decline while some of the
ieary soils~ were around tweuty
r cent. .*Tlie highest "organic
latter content per acre was on
he. Canadian clay from Frank
Jvans' farm, 59,100 pounds to the
ere. The lowest, 13,500 pounds
wr_acre.
Nitrogen is usually one of the
4r*t plant foods exhausted and is
lie easiest replaced, by growing
egmne crops. Nitrogen was found
o he exhausted in almost direct
►roportlon to the organic matter,
A prominent El Reno cltl-
ten, who remarked, "As a rule
a man doesn't help matters
much by raving about the
lovely girli he knew before
he met the one and only one."
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By the calendar that there
were only four more days t>#-
fore New Year's day. Have
you decided just how many
resolutions you're going to
make and perhaps break?
Out our west window: Pe-
destrians stepping more brisk-
ly. Something must have hap-
pened to the weather.*
A. H DEWING DIES
IN TULSA HOTEL
Paralysis Fatal to Rock
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS
FUTURES MAHKETS
Measures Necessary To
■
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Prevent Large Finan-
cial Losses
/
Island Man
A. A. Dewing., 60, an employe
of the Rock Island railway com-
pany,1 was found dead In his room
s
in a Tulsa hotel Christmas day
by friends, who were expecting
him for a visit. Mr. Dewing work-
ed under W. O. Hunger, of Chi-
cago, superintendent of claims for
the company. He had been em-
ployed in the claim office at the
genaial Rock Island offices here
for aeveral Weeks.
Only meager information could
be learned today concerning the
death of the man. He has been
in the employe of the compaiiy
for more than 20 years and had
been stationed In El Reno for
several weeks. He had gone to
Tulsa to visit friends Christmas
day and when falling to appear
the friends called several hotels.
B
He was registered at one of the
hotels and when attendants weat
to his room he was found dead.
A coroner pronounced his death
due to paralysis, local friends and
fellow workmen reported Satur-
day.
His body is being taken to
California where his family re-
sides. ♦ .
(Continued on page 6)
laze in Unoccupied
Building Extinguished
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A blaze in an unoccupied build-
rig at 121 Nbrth Choctaw ave-
flue Friday evening might have
resulted in considerable loss and
•msge to the several rooms of
Pored furniture in the build-
ing and houses nearby, had a
tewerby * not • noticed - smoke
pouring from the windows and
Imported to the fire department.
Firemen went to the address
o investigate and found the
true!lire filled with* stored fur-
niture and a matress smoulder-
c ready to burst into flame..
R was reported that two small
Vy*~had been chased from the
wilding only u few minutes be-
for*> tjie stnoke was noticed by
Ike person who warned tho fire-
Two Fined for Vagrancy;
One Pays And One Stays
Ted Mender and Eddie Viewig
who were arrested Thursday and
held for investigation were charg-
ed with vagrancy Friday night
and assessed $20 each; Munder
paid his fine and Viewig will re-
main a city prisoner until his
fine is worked out.
W. J. 'DeKoren was ^arrested
Friday night and charged with
vagrancy... He was released Sat-
urday and ordered to leave the
City. • .
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—OP)
Defending its operations In
the cotton and grain futures mar-
kets, the (arm hoard today wrote
Chairman McNary of the senate
agriculturo committee, they were
necessary to prevent large finan-
cial losses and to avoid "serious-
ly disturbing" market conditions.
The letter was a reply to con-
gressional criticism of the board
for allowing its agents to deal in
futures. „ *
Meanwhile Senator Btelwer,
Oregon, RepuRlicwn. advocated
a higher tariff on wheat, rather
than imposition of a' temporary
embargo as suggested by Chair-
man I^egge of the board.
Stelwer said he feared an em-
bargo on wheat would disturb
our foreign relations and he saw
no reason why the tariff commis-
sion should require much time
to investigate (he adequacy • of
the present *2 cent tariff.
-Forced To I'm* Market
Tlje farm board letter to Mc-
Nary said the Wheat and Cotton
Marketing Associations had been
forced - to use the futures mar-
kets because of the system which
had been set up by private opera-
tors.
"The board lias not deemed
it wise to insist that cooperatives
should abandon these practices;
on the contrary, the board is of
the opinion that, under present
conditions, appropriate use of the
futures market by the coopera-
tives Is essential to tlteir suc-
cessful operation and hr even a
means of minimixing specula-
tion."
The letter said the only alter-
native to operating in the fut-
ures markets would-be for the
stabilisation corporation to "as-
sume. the burden of a much
greater portion of; the market
supply." It pointed out, how-
ever, "this might easily result In
tying up, in grain operations
alone, an amount exceeding the
entire revolving, fund authorised
by the agricultural marketing
act."
"While the position with re-
spect to cotton is somewhat dif-
ferent," the letter . continued,
"the. same general-principles ap-
piy-
"Please do not consider this
as a recommendation on our part
In support of the present sys-
tem of future trading." #
Passenger Business Drops
42 Per Cent in Past
Decade
WASHINGTON. Dte. *7.—UP)
nation's railroads were
Did You Hear
—THAT
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blggert,.
who are on a vacation in Cali-
fornia, witneaaed the Notre
Dame-All Stars game at Loa An-
geles Saturday. /
Many El Reno stores are get-
ting ready for the ‘'check and
double check" Inventory.
The aspirin and nerve tonic
buainets has Increased, due it U
said, to holiday headaches.
The fellow whq hettf*~up »
filling station ^because he
couldn't get work now has a
five year Job. ✓- —
FDD PRISON SITE
Formal Action is Taken
at Washington Late
Friday
George Otla Smith, le*t above,,
of Maine, newly appoitftod chair
man of the reorganised federal
power commission, may lose his
own Job for hit action in dlsmiss-
ing Charles A. Hassell, solicitor,
below center, and William V
King, chief accountant of the ol
commission, below right. If Sena-
tor Brookhart. right above, has hit
way In the senate. Brookhart has
l
Will Give Funds For
State Road Work
on the verge today of declaring a
rate war on the motorbua and
airplane, their more modern com-
petitors which to the last de-
cade have annexed 42 per cent of
passenger rail business. "
The campaign finally decided
upon by the railroads after years
of patiently watching Invasion of
the transportation field, In the
end probably will benefit no one
but thh public. This is the opin-
ion of on* old rillroad msn
here, who fla* witnessed innumer-
able fate slashing fights.
1 Farrq Cat
With passenger fares being cut
drastically. In some, cases be-
coming the lowest In a quarter-
century; a great opportunity will
be afforded persons of moderate
means to see the country cheap-
ly. # . ; , k
The first move In the forth-
coming general passenger rats
slashing was made by the St.
Louis-6an Francisco which re-
duced Its rates to a. two-cent per
mile basis. Other western car-
riers will. follow suit, according
to C. J. McGuire, director of the
Western Passenger Association,
the general passenger agent for
lines weat of the Missisalppi riv-
er. This is expected to be fol-
lowed by reduction on eastern
and southern^ lines.
ROAD MAKES CUT
CHICAGO. Dec. 27 (>P>—Plans
to inaugurate a pasaenger rate of
two cents a mile on four divisions
as an experiment to tee If the
lowered tare will successfully com-
tiMjni a . A hat motor bus competition, were
11,724 Bales as Against made public today by H. K. Pier-
ftAH . i<*>a Pont, vice-president in charge of
»,UM III ISK9 ■ traffic for tha Chicago, MllwaukM,
St. Patti nl. Pacific railroad. • *
announced he will ask that body
to reconsider Smith's - confirma-
tion. The latter dismissed Pus-
sell end King and accepted the
resignation of F. E. Cornier, be-
low left, as his initial action on
the commission. Russell and King
have been outstanding lu fighting
alleged power "grabs/* Bonner
has been under fire of ccnate "in-
snrgents."
ILLNESS IS FATAL
Death Ends Unique
Family Relationship..
4-
Owe Lives To Calm
Rescue Workers
10,000 Wells Can Con
tinue Flow
hen,
r
Muzzy
■osskmsion of children
•losephene Dyer and Angue B.
seek the possession of
•> children in proceedings filed
district court Saturday. Ite-
nilanU an* Dick Ross, Pauline
and Mina E. Ross. The
IMrcn Darrell, Boss, 3, and De-
tek 1, have boon In the cus-
dy of the plaintiffs up until De-
mber 23. They allege that they
1V« eared for the childrrn and
!‘<l all expenses since birth arrd
“ Id remain in their posses-
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TULSA, Okla., Dec. 27.—<LP)
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The nation's major oil com-
panies have heeded the cry for
aid of the 10,000 Oklahoma and
Kansas stripper oil well opera*
tors and will not let them go
down to financial ruin or let
their oil feserves be lost. ’
Secretary of . Interior, Lyman
Wilbur advised .the Tulsa Oil
Conference today that he had tho
assurance executives of ; major
oil-companies that they would
accept the production of * tlu*
stripper wells .threatened with
ho outlet when the Prairie Oil
A Gas company withdraws as a
crude oil purchaser January U
SANDUSKY, O., Dee. 27.—(IP)
Y hardy band of 100 persons,
who had gone fishing through
the ice on Sandusky tBay, tonight
owed their lives to the calm and
speed with which a few volun-
teers worked in rescuing them
from a runaway tee floe. _ -
Most of those rescued were
men and boys although there
was at least one woman tn the
fishing par<y.
They were trapped on the three
acre sheet of Ice when It broke
away from the main layer of ice
near the shore. A brisk westerly
wind carried the ice flpc toward
tho rough waters of l^ake Erie
and only tho quick work of the
volunteers., headed by police and
fire emergency squads, saved the
fishing party from possible
death., '7.:
The 100. persons were taken
from the large sheet of Ice by
the quickly organised rescue
squad just before It reached the
-choppy waters of % I*ake Erie.
The Ice 1 floe iys broken into
small pieces aa soon as It hit
the unprotected lake. •
Miss Daisy Braden, Canadian
county tag agent, announced Sat-
urday that there was a statewide
movement under jray to urge the'
citizens of the various counties
to buy -their automobile tags as
soon j/ter January 1 as possible.
Canadian county residents have
been about normal In bu* ig their
tags in the past, Misa Braden
said and she expects that they.
will cooperate with the movement
this year. ^
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The reason for urging early buy-
ing of tags this year Is to make
available funds-/or highway con-
st ruction.
. Sixty * per cent of the auto li-
cense fees go to the county to be
ysed for road work. Incorporated
cities receive 15 per cent of the
money used In the purchase of
auto tags. The remainder goes to
the state department.
The executive committee be-
lieves that If tags are purchased
soon after January 1 a sufficient
amount of money will be placed
lu circulation to provide employ-
ment for hundreds of meu.
Colton ginned In Canadian couft*
ty prior to December 13 ^totaled
11,724 bales, according to figures
released by the department of
commerce. Last year at this time
only 9,014 had been ginned which
gives an Increase of over 1,700
bales. ^
Practically every cotton produc-
ing county in,- the state has a
much lower yield* this year than
in 1929. Beckpam, the leader In
production last year, has ginned
50,000 bales as against 70,000 at
thia time a year ago. . , ‘
BREACH BETWEEN
BY TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT
OKARCHE, Dec. 1 27~Henry
Hunter, aged 81, died early Satur-
day morning and thus -ended a
unique family relationship of
nearly slxty-one years, in which
two brothers married sisters, liv-
ed together in the same house
and successfully eahared purse
strings.
General debility brought about
by old age was given as the cause
of death. Henry Hunter was born
In the town of Reeth, York-
shire, England In 1848 and
came to the United States when
he was twenty one years of age,
settling in Mankato, Minn. Later
the family moved to Waterloo,
Iowa, where. they lived three
years and then to Belleville,
Kansas, where for twenty one
years they made their home, At
the time of Mr. Hunter's death
they had Just completed their
thirtieth year of residence in
Okarche, where they engaged in
the mercantile business. ~
Funeral services will be held
at the residence at two-thlrtv
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev.
W. A. Roberto, Okarche, will of-
ficiate. Burial will be in the
Kingfisher cemetery. *
Mr. Hunter is survived by his
wife, j Asadla; one sister, Mrs.
Mary McMurray, McAlester, Ok-
la.; a brother, Richard Hunter.
Okarche; a nephew and two
nelcqp, Mr. R. H. Hunter, Okar-
che, Mrs. Aon Bonham, Norman,
Okla.; and Mrs. Percy Clarkson,
St. Francis Rectory, Laguna
Beach, California. 41
tion of the mammoth prison plant
Nye is Asked for Public
Apology
Mrs. Sadie Fk’khard and daugh-
ter. Miss Dick, 405 South Rock
Island avenue, are spending the
day with their sister and sunt,
^rs. E. E. Sims and Mr. Sims in
Oklahoma City. , ^7
Texas Champs Lose
Another Net Contest
NBW ALBANIA,, Ind., Dec. J7.
season's national
hlghVschool basketball cham-
pions from Athens. Tex., took
their fifth consecutive lacing In
Indiana Friday, by a 31 to, 29
count, from New Albany high
school. - * '• ^ k
Athens wsg/ahead 24 to 21 at
the en4 of the third period,- but
showed: the lark of stamina
which has characterised their trip
through Indiana, and faltered in
the fiual minutes. * ' • ?
Mrs.-Lee Roy Ewing. 500 Sun-
set Drive, spent Christinas ' day
and Friday with relatives in
Sayie. ’ V. ,
Veteran Rock Island Man
To
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le Retired December 31
In the accompany inr picture
Frederick Sheldon, Rock Island
Teachers Returning
For School Monday
J
The Instructors in the El Rene
public schools began arriving in
El Reno Saturday night and to-
day from various parts of the
state and adjoining states where
they spent the Christmas holiday*
with relatives and friends. Only
a few members of the faculty at
the high wchool except those who
live in the city, spent the holiday
ere. -
employe, who will be retfred De-
cember 31, 4s shown with Ms
wife, on his left, and Goldie Roush
of Chicago, on his r^ht Mr.
Sheldon has, b#Wi serving fn the
capacity of Trussing flagman for
the Rock Island since 1921. and
has been employed by the COR*,
puny for the past 20 years,
-Mr. Sheldon was bom In Eng-
land In 1K60. lie started working
In the coal mines near his home
when he was. 1*2 years old and
continued until he was>18.> At 18
• *4* Wm * fi
he enlisted in thef British army
and served in the Afghanstan,
Boer and Egyptian wars while in
the . service. He( was presented
medals Uy the Queen of England
at the close of the wars.
He W'as Married In 1883 and
the following year caiipq, to the
United States aad located for a
time ht Canton, Ohio. In 1967 Mr.
and Mrs. Sheldon came to Okla-
homa and In 1910 he became af-
filiated with the Rock Island com-
pany. The following.year he was
made coal chute foreman and in
1128 he was given, the duties of »
crossing . flagman at wiikh, he
worked Mjftl] his retirement the
last day of this month. Mr. and
Mrs. Sheldon stated recently that
they plauned to remain in El
Reoo unt1] they decided where to
to spend their remaining years.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ..27.—(/p)
—The breach between the Inde-
pendent Republican senators and
the regular party leadership to
day grew wider.
J. R. Nutt, treasurer of the Re*
publication national committee
demanded Chairman Nye of the
senate campaign funds investigat-
ing committee make a public
apology for asserting a national
committee account In a Washing-
ton bank wak "a slush fund/*
Nye" Is an Independent.
This development v* follows
closely upon the controversy “be-
tween Senator Nbrrls of Nebras-
ka, an Independent . Republican,
and Robert H. Lucas, executive
director of the national commit-
tee and the latter s effort to read
Norris out of the party.
Before the Nye coramitteer Lu-
yaw said the bank account in
question had been used to se-
cure a personal note out of the
proceeds of which he paid for
campaign literature directed
against the re-election of Norris.
Nutt said the account, which
was at the Commercial National
bank, had amounted to $50,000
and $32,000 of it had been dis-
bursed, all by check. He gave
an accounting of to whom the
oney went. , - —
The facts, he addod, were on
file at the capitol ‘ and could
have been obtained by- Senator
N> ■ n
"In view of tjhese.facts which
were readily ascertainable by
Senator Nye at the time he made
his statement that this wss s
slush ft«id,“- Nutt saUL "I think
the senator owes it.to himself, to
the senate of the United States
which he represents, and to the
Republican national committee
and its officers to make a public
apology for his , unwarranted
charged. ^ '
"Every dollar spent out of
this fund was spent in congres-
sional races, and not one dollar
of IF was used to oppose shy
senator/* W said. ^ • -
LITTLE HOPE IS
HELD FI JOFFRE
War Hero Fighting
Last Battle
-l
JPAR1S, Dec. 27.—(>P)—Mar-
shal Joffre, the gallant old sol-
dier who turned back the Ger-
mans in the first battle of the
Marne, lay between life and death
tonight in the hospital where his
left leg was amputated last Sat*
urday. r 1
Gangrene developing ^ tn the
advanced stages of arteritis made
the amputation Imperative, his
doctors said, but the operation
was not so successful as they
hoped and the latest bulletins on
the patient's condition were
gloomy, k looked as though the
general were going to lose his
greatest battle.
It was Madame Joffre. adher-
ing to her husband's policy since
his illness began, who withheld
news of the Marshal's grave Ill-
ness since last Friday when be
was taken to the hospital of 8t.
Jean de Dleu. He went there on
December 19 and the amputation
was performed the next day. The
leg was taken off above the
knee to arrest the progress of
the infection.
Formal transfer of a thousand
acre tract of land at Ft; Reno to
be used as the site fo^ the new
$3,000,000 federal, reformatory,
was made at Washington late
Friday afternoon, according 'to
a telegram received by The Trib-
une from Congressman Jed /bhn-
son. Patrick Hurley, secretary of
war, signed the executive order
which transfers the land from the
war department to the depart-
ment of Justice..
Action of making the transfer
has been expected for several
days, and was merely a matter of
routine. ^
Announcement of the reforma-
tory to be located here was made
December 3. Since the announce-
ment an Increasing spirit of op-
timism has been felt in El Reno
and Canadian county, Construc-
• n
wHJ give Employment to hundred*
and will relieve the situation her*
decidedly.
Expect Action Hoon
While no definite announce-
ment has been made It is ex-
pected'that definite action to-
ward the construction will be
taken aronnd the first of the
month. Money for.the reformatory
has been appropriated and noth-
ing stands in the wsy of an Im-
mediate beginning of the build-
ing program. • •
At present there are five fed-
eral prisons and all have double
the number of inmates Intended
for them when • orginally con-
structed. For this and other
reasons it is expected that there
will be no delay'in getting work
under way.
When the original announce-
ment was madr^he first of the
month it was sttt4d that Con-
struction would start within three
Months.
Tha federal reformatory will be
situated ip the extreme southeast
portion of the reservation. South
of highway 66 there Is a tier of
sections known on old blue prints
ss sections 9. 10, 11 and 12, run-
ning east. .The reformatory as
far as can be learned will be con-
structed in sections 11 and 12, in
pasture 14. Local cltlsens inter-
ested in the project were confused
when the announcement came that
the land In section 28 had been
sot aside for the reformatory.
Section 28 Is In the extreme north-
west part or the reee~r&tlon as
shown oa old blue prints. Infor-
mation from Fort Repo rtYealed.
• •
Charles Keith Dies
After Long Illness
. Charles Keith, Jr.„ age 25, died
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Chirles Keith, 301 E.
Ninth street, Oklahoma City, at
11:30 o'clock Saturday morning.
Mr. Keith bAd been confined to
his bed .with a lingering illness
lor the past three years.
The Keiths formerly lived in
K1 Reno where they made their
home for many l*arB
**~A brother, Benny tCelth, is In
a hospital at Colorado Springs.
Funeral services will be held in
K1 Re no Tuesday. * The place and
hour will be announced later.*
Bus Mills Kicks West
Team to 3-4) Victory
8AN PHANCISCO, Dec. 17.
The West vanquished the East
today, the westerners riding fo
victory by virtue of Col. Bus
Mills’ trusty toe. The. former
University of Oklahoma star
made a place kick which gave
a 3 to 0 victory to the Western
eleven. ’
Turn to
the Nev/
eStoru
"v Misses Mary aniX Elisabeth
Clark- will return lo their home
in Dallas, Tex., today aftyr
spending the Christmas holiday*
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Clark, 902 South Barker
•venue. *. /
Jbb Webster
*DAoi GIRL*
..Oklahoma: Generally fair; not
much change In temperature..
For
*$ P-
Ww, 3
21-honr period ending .ak-
in. Saturday—^high, 4(1;
; at 4 o'clock, 40. - ,
You'll Rnd
Joretta Adorable
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