THE CARTER EXPRESS
JUMPS FROM PLANE WITH
PARACHUTE WHICH BE-
COMES TANGLED
DANGLES, CAUGHT HIGH IN AIR
Horrified Thousand* Watch Sensation-
al Item Not On Program As She
Is Brought Safely To Earth.
By Her Rescuers.
Houston, Tex.—A rescue In tnliltilr,
rivaling anything fiction or screen ever
lms produced, saving Miss Kosalia Gor-
don, Houston chorus girl, front death
while more thun 5,000 horrified spec-
tators gazed skyward, provided the big
thrill of u series of aerial acrobatics
staged at Ellington flying field, near
here.
Miss Oordog. who formerly was an
aerial stunt performer, was attempting
to make a parachute leap from a mile-
high plane when the huge umbrella
became entangled In equipment on the
plane. After repeated attempts, she
finally was drawn up to the landing
gears of the machine where she rode
until the pilot brought the plune to the
ground.
Suspended In Air.
When the chorus heuuty leaped
from the plane the upper end of the
parachute became entangled with ap-
paratus and left her suspended In
midair, some 20 feet below the speed-
ing inechunicu! bird.
Dlavalo, acrobatic airman, was In
the plane, having assisted her over
the side of the fuselage. When he
realized the situation, he climbed out
on the fuselage and hand-under-handed
himself down to the landing gears.
However, with the inadequate footing
be was unable to draw her buck to
safety.
Kept Plane In Air.
Meanwhile, O. E. Pnngborne, the
pilot, kept the plane In the air, realiz-
ing that an attempt to land would
have meant Instant death to the girl,
who would have been dragged several
hundred feet before the inuchlne could
be stopped.
Freddie Loon, Houston aviator, went
up in another machine, piloted by
Tommie Thompson, to tend aid. A
mile from the ground he jumped from
Thompson’s plane to Jnngborne’s uin-
chlne. He then worked his way to the
landing genr, hut even he and Dlavalo
proved unequal to the task of drawing
the helpless girl back to the machine.
Held Her in Landing Gear.
Loon then mounted to the passen-
ger’s seat, and using the auxiliary
controls, drove the plane while Jang-
horne climbed down to the landing
geur and added his strength to that of
Dlavalo. Between them, they brought
the girl back to the landing gear, but
was unable to climb back into the
fuselage. I’angborne again took com-
mand of the machine and brought it
to earth. Dlavalo supporting the girl
In the landing gear.
Miss Gordon suffered a severe
nerve shock, but otherwise was un-
injured. She was slightly hysterical
but recovered rapidly.
HELP TO GROUNDED SHIP
Tug Takes Off 29 Persons From Pacific
Steamer On Jetty In Bay.
Marshfield, Ore.—The steamer Co-
lumbia, In the McCormick Steamship
$ company’s service, ran aground on the
north side of Coos bay jetty, near here,
while en route for Portland from San
Francisco. There were thirty passen-
gers aboard and a crew of thirty-seven,
including officers. Although It was be-
lieved the vessel will he n total loss
all passengers were removed in safety.
A coast guard boht stationed here
could not get to the Columbia because
of rough seas, but the steamer Cleone
which was In the harbor, went, to the
rescue and shot a line aboard the
stranded vessel. Passengers were re-
moved by means of a breeches buoy.
Because of the swell of the sea and
the ship’s pitching, the passengers got
» ducked while being hauled from one
ship to another.
KEEPS TRYST WITH DEAD
Aviator Who Promised to Meet Sperry,
Circles Incoming Vessel.
New York, N. Y.—When Lawrence
B. Sperry, aviator, sailed for Europe,
his pal, Lieut. Clyde Flnter, of the
army air service, promised to meet him
ir, a plane when he returned. Sperry
tried to fly over the English channel
In a tiny plane, fell und was drowned.
When the lleregerla, with Sperry’s
body aboard, steamed up the bay from
quarantine, recently, Lieut. Flnter cir-
cled in his service plane above the lin-
er until she docked, und then soured
away to his uirdome.
MRS. JENNIE E. CROCKER
Mrs. Jennie E. Crocker of Clifton-
dale, Mass., has been gi\nted American
sailing master's papers. Bhe is th*
First woman to be granted such papsrs
either for sail or steam on any ocean.
RIOTERS FACE “HOT SEAT”
PENITENTIARY CONVICTS
RUSH GUARDS
Use Of Dynamite Fails To Bring Free-
dom After Wrecking the
Main Gate.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Led by murderers,
bunk robbers and other desperate char-
acters, several hundred prisoners re-
volted at the Western Pennsylvania
penitentiary and made an ineffectual
attempt to dynamite their way to liber-
ty. The big prison, located on the
bank of the Ohio river three miles
from the business distQict, is quiet
again und the dungeons held these un-
ruly men who bad killed two prison
officers in their bold dash for freedom.
"The Four Horseman" transferred
to the prison here from the Phila-
delphia prison in 1921, aided by a
number of other notorious convletst,
hatched a plot und led the revolt.
They face the electric chair, for War-
den John M. Egan has turned them
over to the city homicide burenu.
An explosion wliich wrecked the
muin gates and a section of the south
wall, marked the beginning of the
riot, in which guards, county detec-
tives and city police took part.
After the prison yards had been
mopped up and the convicts returned
to their cells, a search disclosed
twenty sticks of dynamite and slrty
feet, of fuse near the soutli wall.
Warden Egan said lie had learned
that the convicts hoped to attract
the guards by the first blast, after
which they had planned to set off the
henvier charge.
TUT STARES AT EXCAVATOR
Coffin Lid Is Removed And Mummy
Case Is Revealed.
Luxor, Egypt.—The greatest discov-
ery in tlie history of Egyptology, even,
as many claim, in archaeology, was
made in tlie plainly udorned sepulcher-
al chamber of Tutankhamen, in the
Valley of the Kings.
In the presence of a gathering rep-
resenting the elite of Egyptology, the
lid of Tutankhamen’s great pink sar-
cophagus was raised, and a stupen-
dously magnificent mummy case, cov-
ered with plates of solid gold, was
brought to light.
Tlie mummy iase is perfectly In-
tact. It is described as one of the
most wonderful tilings of its kind
that ever have been found, Tlie Pha-
raoh is 'represented, In high relief
covered with sheets of solid gold,
more thun twice life size, his serene
and beautiful face exquisitely incised
with glittering eyes of aragonite nnd
a long, up-curved beard of solid gold.
The flail and scepter which the king
grasps in Ills crossed’ hands ure of
gilded wood more than three feet
long. From tlie'vVulst down the broad
wings of protective goddesses meet
across the knees to shield the pha-
raoh from danger.
The mummy ease stands In a coffin
on what seems to be a wooden sleigh
on which doubtless priests dragged it
to the Valley of the Kings.
FINANCIAL EXPERT QUIZZED
Position of High Commissioner In
Hungary Is Offered.
Geneva, Switzerland. — Various
American financial experts, whose
names are not disclosed, are being
sounded by the league of nations as to
whether they would accept the posi-
tion of high commissioner in Hungary
when the league’s financial re-construc-
tlon plan is definitely undertaken
Important Actions
of State Legislature
If the legislature fails to appropriate
funds to match federal aid so Okla-
homa can take advantage of roud
building opportunities offered by tlie
government, Governor Trapp will abol-
ish the state hlghwuy department.
This was the ultimatum handed leg-
islators by Trapp lust Suturduy morn-
ing when he sent tlie name of Gy
Avery, new appointee to the office of
highway commissioner to the senate
for confirmation, nnd announced that
the Tulsun would take office officially
March 1.
Paul Nesbitt, Walton highway com-
missioner, said tils resignation would
be filed with the governor the first of
the month. He said he had no an-
nouncement to make lit present re
gurding his possible entrunce Into tlm
race for the United States senate.
Nesbitt declared he will stay In Ok-
lahoma City temporarily. His home
Is at McAlester.
Avery, who Is a member of the
board In charge of the Spuvlnmv
water project ut Tulsa, Is an advocate
of the governor’s plan for a five-mini
non-snlnried highway commission. He
is in hopes that his service us com-
missioner will extend over only a few
months when he expects to be a mem-
ber of tiie reorganized highway com-
missioner.
George Short, attorney general, was
Instructed by Governor M. E. Trupp to
Investigate complaints by Ohurles II.
Burke, coinmissloner of Indian affairs,
of abuse of Indian rights Id Osage
county.
The state Is investigating charges
of violation of Indian rights us a
result of a report by Gertrude Bon-
nin, research agent of the Indian wel-
fare committee, generul federation of
women's clubs.
Main points of the report are:
That since county courts have
taken over handling of probate mut-
ters for Indians their estates have
been robbed, that the average cost
of administration of Indian estates Is
20 percent, and often as high as 70
percent, that excessive fees are al-
lowed attorneys, that Indian chil-
dren have died for lack of nourish-
ment.
“Otey suid he would rather go to the
penitentiary than to get his hankers
in bad."
“Flnul reports on the investigation
have never been officially approved or
filed.”
“Not a record straight since 191(1.”
“Otey kept many records at Ills home
‘because of snoopers'.”
Otey, former financial secretary of
A. and M. college, will go to trial in
the May session of district court In
Payne county, upon un indictment
charging embezzlement of nbout 1(12000.
J. W. Iteece, comity attorney of
Payne county made the announcemeht.
He also stated Otey Is out on a $2000
bend.
The state warehouse bill, approp-
riating $1,250,000 to aid Oklahoma fur
mers, wus declured unconstitutional
by the stHte supreme court.
The money was to have been used
to erect warehouses In various coun-
ties of the state.
The court ruled this was “an unlaw-
ful appropriation of public funds, und
Invasion of the legul rights of tux pay-
ers.
•'Public funds can not be used to as-
sist Individuals," was the decision.
Chief Justice J. T. Johnson, N- B.
McNeill and Fred Branson dissented
from the opinion which was written by
Justice C. It. Cochran.
The action to defeat the warehouse
bill was started by John Vette, an
Oklahoma county furmer. In district
court trial Judge William H. Zwiek
ruled the bill was constitutional.
Senator Harry Glasser acted as at-
torney for Vette in the appeal. The
action was levelled aguiust C. C.
Childers, state auditor, and A. S. J
Shaw, state treasurer, to restrain them
from using state funds.
That the state shirt factory Is oper-
ating at a yearly loss to the state of
about $70,000 whs the testimony of J.
G. Duncan, now superintendent of the
bureau of Identification ut Tulsa, nnd
an ofTIclal at the penitentiary from
June, 1915. until November, 1922.
The main charge In Duncuu’s testi-
mony was that under former adminis-
trations the maintenance fund of the
penitentiary was used to build up the
revolving fund.
Duncan Included among other Indus-
tries at the penitentiary that do not
show a profit, the brick yard, the pris-
on farm at McAlester, the farm at Ay-
Iessorth, the wagon shop, the shoe
shop, and the tin shop
Duncan wns then asked hy a mem-
ber of the committee which industries
were self sustaining. He replied that
the twine plunt, the tug factory and
the dairy always have shown a small
profit over nnd above the maintenance.
He said the tug factory, considering
the number of men working there, Is
the most profitable Industry at the
penitentiary.
Six bank officials connected with the
two failed institutions at Woodward,
are under Indictments upon charges
of mnklhg false returns to the state
banking department and receipt of de-
posits in insolvent institutions, M W.
McKenzie, assistant attorney general
announced.
Nineteen indictments In all were
returned by the grand Jury. C, H.
Martin, cashier of the defunct Cen-
tral Exchange hank, was mentioned In
seven counts; J. E Shellhart, vice
president, upon two; Puul Lohaugh.
president of the New Slate hank, two;
H. (3. Wilson, cashier, two; Tod Shy,
assistant cashier, two, and H. W. Trip-
pet, member of the board of directors
of the New State bank, upon three.
The Indicted bank officials will be
given trial at the next regular session
of the district court at Woodward, ac-
cording to McKenzie.
McKenzie declured tlie Investigntin
of the condition of the two defunct
hanks indicated they were "hopelessly
insolvent.”
The amount of money lost cannot be
determined pending completion of liq-
uidation
Seven grand Jury Indictments
against J. C. Wulton, former governor,
were thrown out of district court when
C. C. Smith, district Judge, sustained
ii motion to quusli on the grounds that
tlie grand Jury which returned the in-
dictment was not legally drawn.
This ruling affects not only the in-
dictments against tlie former chief ex-
ecutive but will give a precedent for
the dismissal of every indictment re-
turned by Iiie jury should the defend-
ants carry the matter back into the
court with a similar motion.
Tlie court held that tlie law had
beeh violated in the selection of the
jury by Cliff Myers, court clerk in
that, lie placed 200 additional names
In the jury box In July without re-
moving 150 names already In the box
which had not been used during the
Januury drawing.
At the same tune tne court signed
an order directing J K. Wright, conn
ty atlorney, to file Information on each
of the seven counts and proceed with
the case through the Justice of peace
courts nnd thus return to tlie district
court where a trial might be held
The house attached the emergency
clnuse to the gasoline tux hill Tilt
hill puts a two cent tux oil every
1 gallon of gasoline sold Id the state.
The $13,000 geological survey ap-
propriation, was reconsidered and
i pussed after being defeated before.
A hill that will make the sale ot
| bartering of babies a felony wus In
trodiiced in the sennte by Senator Joe
F. Ratliff, of Tishomingo.
The bill wns written at the request
of Mrs. Mabel Bassett commissioner ol
charities nnd corrections.
Mrs Bassett has been mnklng In-
vestigations of ulleged sale of babies
for some time und announced tills
week that there wus no law covering
the matter.
She charges that babies are being
sold In several cities of the state for
from $19 to $]<M and that no investiga-
tion is being made of the foster pur
cuts.
Some of the highlights In the testi-
mony of G. T. Balfour who prepared
the. audit of M. J. Otey's accounts of
A. & M college at Stillwater, are:
"Otey never attempted to explnin
the shortages,” at A. and M college.
"There were 139 state warrants pass-
ing through Into his persona) account.”
“Eleven thousand dollars were taken
from the student activities fund to
take up an overdraft on the chief clerk
fund, which by law Is fixed at $1,000,
and ‘it was fixed up to prevent a riot’.”
(Jver-riding the report of the health
committee of tlie state senate and dis-
regarding tlie opinion of the attorney
general, the senate voted to place on
tlie calendar (tie hill returning the Dar-
lington home for drug addicts to llie
Masonic grand lodge.
The opinion of the attorney generul
Is that the act by which the purchase
wus made is constitutional. Oppn
nents of the home have stilled that un
dor the provision In the constitution
limiting the contraction of debts, the
net Is Illegal. The attorney general
interprets the law In provide that tlie
state may contract debts up to
$400,000
MOTHER!
Clean Child's Bowels with
"California Fig Syrup”
Even If cross, feverish, bilious, con-
stipated or full of cold, children love
the pleasant taste of “California Fig
Syrup.” A teaspoonful never fails to
clean the liver and bowels.
Ask your druggist for genuine “Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup” which has directions
for babies and children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother! You must
say "California” or you may get an
Imitation fig syrup.
The Canvasser
After Mrs, Softlelgh liuU purchased
a can of talcum powder from a door-
to-door cunvasser Just to get rid ol
him she watched out of the window to
see him approuch tlie house of Mr.
Hurdheart, a neighbor ucross the
street.
In the rear1 of the yurd she could
see Mr. Hardhead tinkering with his
automobile. The canvasser also could
see him, so he pussed beyond tlie
front entrance walk. Then he doubled
back ucrojs the lawn and, keeping out
of sight of the man of the house,
rang the bell. Mrs. Ilardheurt ap-
peared and the peddler's wares were
instantly on dtoplny and the “canvass’’
begun. Mrs. Hnrdheart bought some-
thing und the agent departed us he
hud come, keeping well out on the
lawn and out of Mr. llurdheart's sight.
—New York Sun und Globe.
DEMAND “BAYER” ASPIRIN
Aspirin Marked With “Bayer Cross”
Hai Been Proved Safe by Millions.
Warning! Unless you see the name
“Bayer” on package or cn tablets yon
are not getting the genuine Bn.ver
Aspirin proved snfe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for 23 years.
Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin.
Imitations may prove dangerous.—Adv.
One Thing He Knew
Jones was late again, as usual.
When lie strolled coolly Into the office
at 10:30 the "boss” was storming up
and down.
“Do you know what time we begin
work here?" he asked the lute arrival
with deep sarcasm.
Jones took off his cont and tiat, hung
them up nnd strolled ucross to tils
desk.
“No, sir. I can't say I do. exactly,”
he replied, "but they're always at it
when I get here."—Des Moines Regis-
ter.
“CASCARETS” FOR LIVER
AND BOWELS—10c £ BOX
Cures Biliousness, Constipation, Sick
Headache,Indigestion. Drugstores Adv.
To Preserve Courtesies
)Vomen of Clurksdale, Miss., have
organized a movement “to preserve the
gracious courtesies which were once
n distinguished feature of the Old
South.”
“DANDELION BUTTER COLOR”
A harmless vegetable butter color
used by millions for SO^Fears. Drug
stores und general stores sell bottles
of “Dandelion” for 35 cents.—Adv.
Gap’s in One’s Life
At certain periods of life we live
years of emotion in a few weeks, and
look back on those times us on great
gups between tlie old life and tlie new.
A Universal Remedy for Pain.
For over 70 yeurs Allcock's Piaster has
been a standard external remedy, sold in
all parts of the civilized world.—Adv.
Now’s the Time
“Your wife says she cun read you like
a book.”
"I must turn over a new leaf.”
The lust charge against James R.
Tolbert, Kiowa, was exploded In the
Investigation room when Mrs Ben Ri
ley. pardon and parole clerk, testified
that the Walton pardon Tolherl was
charged with having altered wus
changed on authority of Aldrich Blake,
prime minister of the Walton dynasty.
To insure gllstenlng-white table
linens, use Red Cross Ball Blue In your
laundry. It never disappoints. At all
good grocers.—Advertisement
Few dreams are pleasant, but near-
ly ail are foolish.