Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 19

1,100 CANDIDATES IN OKLAHOMA RACE Herrick Would Return to Congress—Walton Seeking Senatorial Seat. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July 31. More than 1,100 candidates on five Uokets are entered in next Tuesday’s Oklahoma primary, in which the lack ©of a major issue will not be missed because of the turbulent and col- orful careers of some of the con- testants. The host of can- didates for noml- nation will carry Democratic, Re- publican, Socialist, Farmer-Labor and independent colors. Evolution, the Ku Klux Kianand prohibition are among the ques- tions that have been injected into some of the races J. C. (Jack) Wi ton, deposed governor and defeated | Democratic nominee for the United | States Senate in 1924, again is seeking the Democratic senatorial nomination. | Manuel Herrick, former aviator-Con- | gressman, whose exploits in diplo- , flying and romance kept Wash- | ington political circles amazed several vears ago, is entered for the Repub- lican nomination in the eighth di congressional race, and “Big | Jim" Harris, former Republican na _tional committeeman, is one of the contestants for the Republican guber- natorial nomination. Woman Opposes Walton. Walton is opposed by Mrs. Lamar Looney, first woman State Senator in | Oklahoma; Elmer Thomas, present | Representative in Congress from the sixth district, and W. A. Ledbetter, Oklahoma City at- 4. C. WALTON. can_side, Senator J. W. Herreld is contesting for re- nomination against a field of six comparatively urknowns. One of these, B. G. Bing- ham, a farmer, is an avowed “wet,” while Senator Har- veld is a pro- nounced “dry.” The Democratic gubernatorial race became a ‘“free. forall” w e Woen the MaNvEL mERRICK. Court ruled out the favorite, Gov. M, E. Trapp,” who assumed the chair Smen JValton was impeached in 1923 e groun: he was succeed himselr. Mo en candidates seek the Dem nomination, elght the Republican o | _-One a woman—the Independent. and | one Socialist and one Farmer-Laboy | candidate are unopposed. { Trapp Support Split. When Trapp was declared ineligib) his following split in almost ::]n;rxlu:;er directions as there were candidates, | The governor announced he was go. | Ing to support O A. Cargill, mayor | ©of Oklahoma City. Officials of the State highway department declared for W. M. Darnell, farmer candidate, who is & stanch good roads advocate. Henry M. Johnson, president of the first State Senate in Oklahoma, s proclaimed by his followers as the heir to the majority of the administration Yollowing because of his conservative Policies. Other candidates, however, | charge that he has been identified prominently with the Klan and will forfeit the support of voters opposed | to that organization. J. B. A. Robertson, former gov ernor, lays claim to being the concen- tration candidate of Klan opponents, and W. A. Franklin, present clerk of the court, has declared against the teaching of evolution and made strenuous efforts to force the other candidates to make -public their cam. paign expenses. All Oklahoma gov Democrats and the division of strength in the party is declared by Repub- licans to have boosted theif chances for the chair. Of the eight Repub- licans seeking nomination only four are recognized generally: James Hep- | burn, State district judge; Omer K: Benedict, postmaster at Tulsa; “Big Jim” Harris and W. J. Otjen, State Senator. One woman candidate, Mrs. | Miriam Bezanson, is in the governor’ derb; She s contesting with Ed | Boyle, chief mine inspector, for the independent nomination. <A e - | TWO SCALDED ON SHIP | AS STEAM PIPE BURSTS Members of Crew of Munson Liner Rushed to Hospital by Patrol Boat—One Badly Hurt. By the A ciated Press, LEWES, Del., July 31.—Two mem- bers of the crew of the Munson line steamship Munplace are in the Beebe Hospital here, suffering from severe scalds recelved when a steam pipe burst in the engine room of the vessel off_the Delaware capes today. The condition of Jose Sosa of Cuba, a fireman, is considered critical. Roy Lawrence of New York, second assist- ant engineer, is less seriously hurt. Both are unconscious. The injured men were rushed to Lewes In the Coast Guard patrol boat 217, which met the Munplace off Cape May in response to a wireless mes. sage calling for medical assistance. No other persons aboard were injured and the vessel was able to proceed. The Munplace, a sugar boat, is bound from New York to Norfolk. PR BARON IS EXONERATED IN PRINCE’S SHOOTING By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Austria, July 31.—The last act in'the tragedy which caused the death of Prince Cyril Viadimir Orloff and the suicide of Baroness Klinger two months ago, was played in the criminal court yesterday when all the proceedings against Baron Klinger holding him responsible for the death of the prince were aban- doned. The court ruled there was no evir dence to prove that the. baron fired before Prince Orloff when they ex- changed shots in a forest near the Dbaron’s castle at Raab early in June. The baron was wounded in the chest, nors have been Two Men, 52 Miles Apart, Killed by Electricity Charge ssociated . CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 31, —Two men, 52 miles apart, were electrocuted Thursday, apparently by the same charge of electriaity. L. A. Palletto, & lineman for the Appalachiap Power Co., was elec- THE SUNDAY WOMEN CLING TO JOBS LONGER THAN DO MEN Notion That Feminine Workers Are Temperamental and Unsettled Found Untrue in Test. Special Dispatch to The St 4 NEW YORK, July 31.—The business executive who says that women do not stick to their jobs 1s not up to date on {mody had been party to financial aid | automobile. trocuted at a substation at Nitro, negr here, when he tapped a wire carrying 44,000 volts of electricity. Fifty-two miles -away, at Gauley Bridge, Okey McCreery, an_em- ploye of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., while working on a telephone line and away from all high-tension wires, was electro- cuted almost simultaneously. Tele- phone company officials expressed bellef that the electricity discharged into the air at Nitro when Palletto | was killed, jumped to a telephone line and killed McCreery. POLICESEEKLINK INTHO SLAYNGS Killing of Women and Negro Pastor in Ch.ampaign, Ill., Bafflinj Mystery. By the Assoc CHAMP. , 1, July 31.—Con- fronted by 0 mysterious slayings that stand out aga'nst a background | of long buriness activity by Mrs. Anna | Carmody among the negro population officials today sought to link them a: by one hand. Authorities believe that the person who shot and killed Morgan Knox, negro porter, and left his body on a country road 10 days ago also killed the middle aged and reputediy wealthy >usiness woman whose body was found on a road outside the city yesterday. The finding of a suicide note when | all other evidence pointed to murder made the killing of Mrs. Carmody even more mysterious than that of the porter, in connection. with whose | death one clue was finally discovered. | Mrs. Carmody’s body had one bullet | wound in the head. Nearby lay a re- | volver which apparently had been | fired other times, her clothing was torn and her body bruised. The clue in the Knox killing was the track of an automobile tire which was traced to Mrs, Carmody’s home and subsequently fidentified as the property of Allen Thomas, negro. Authorities learned that Mrs, Car- given Thomas in the purchase of an The police are convinced that Mrs. Carmody’s business transactions with the negroes are back of her death, her name having been linked with the | killing of the porter through a finan- cial deal. It was learned that she carried in- surance of about $75,000. It was re- ported that she had within the past few days made provision for disposal | of her property. i - . - I} FRENCH FARMS THRONGED | Laborers Desert Mills for Country Because of Living Cost. PARIS, July 31 (#).—The ‘back- to-the-land” movement is receiving an unexpected stimulus from the con- tinually soaring cost of living. 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