University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Kenna Record, 1910-1921 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 6-10-1921 Kenna Record, 06-10-1921 Mr. and Mrs. A. C. White Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/kenna_news Recommended Citation Mr. and Mrs. A. C. White. "Kenna Record, 06-10-1921." (1921). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/kenna_news/379 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kenna Record, 1910-1921 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ( cm A 1 3 iM IV II 1 II I AW VOL. 16 KENNA, ROOSEVELT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921 NO. 12 MILTON WINNER Q K LA. Tires and Tubes Accessories TULSA, HAS Boots and Patching and Supplies IN AUTO RACES' Phono 42 BIG RAGE RIOT LESS THAN FOUR MINUTES ft. BEHIND MILTON WAS P. & GARAGE ROSCOESARLES Ellda, New Mexico Hum? KBY RECORD IH RACE Acetylene Welding Ten Blocks of Business Re-- W. E. LUCAS and Expert Mechanics PROPRIETOR Milton's Time for the 500 Miles sidence District Is Burned Around the 2a Mile Track on Which the Race Was Run, to the Ground Was 6:34:44:05 Indianapolis, Ind. Tommy Milton, world champion speed racer, piloted ED. J. NEER. an American car, a Frontenao, to the Undertaker and Tpmyrm finish line first in the ninth renewal LICENSED BY STATU BOARD Of the international racing claaaice, HRE 500-mil- e LOSS IS ESTIMATED $1,500,000 the dash around the India- arorswed day or risbt Ofilct pbooe t7 two itv napolis speedway. Milton's victory (J three rings, attoj tor ftovweii and AmarUo came through a beautifully driven Poctaiea, N tatce which was won after Ralph De Complete of Caskets talma, popular favorite for the vic- lino and Eobes tory bad set a terrific pace during the Riot Which Has Made Thousands Home first 250 miles that all of the foreign made cars, including his own, were . less Was Supposed to Have Started foroed from the track through me- chanical troubles or minor accidents. DRUGS, DRUG SUPPLIES After A Negro Man Insulted Of the twenty-thre- e entrants, only eight completed the 500 miles and SICK ROOM SUPPLIES A Young White Girl seven "of these were American made machines. Ralph . Mulford, driving an- other American-buil- t machine, was Your Mail Orders are Solicited awarded ninth position without finish- Military Commission to pass upon will rebuild the square mile of negro ing, after all the others had dropped guilt of 6000 negro held In concen- residence district dexastated came al- by the wayside. tration oampa; Adjutant General Bar- i most simultaneously. New Is In 300 Record Set J'lMm rett complete charge of city; An executive committee of seven Milton established new rec- Guardsmen on duty. appointed at a meeting of fifty pronv a track for cars 13 ou-Dl- c Tulsa Nine white men are known lnent Tulsans, pleas ord of not more than after for and inches piston displacement by to hare been killed In the race war promises of immediate relief'for the ROSWELL, N. M. completing the 500 miles in 5 hours, that raged here. Chief of Police Gus-tafso- a thousands of .refugees had destitute 34 minutes and 44.65 seconds for an estimates that sixty-fiv- e ne- been made, announced the com- that average speed of 89.62 miles per hour. groes hare been killed. Scores of mittee would to alle- undertake first The fastest time ever made In the, Whites and negroes have been wound- viate the miseries of the negroes ren- speedway races was but twenty hun- dered re- ed. homeless and then . would dredths of a mile per GO TO Practically negro build the faster hour, this the entire district district. mark being made by DePalma In 1015. ts a. mass of ruins. The loss will A subscription of $500,000 will be reach Into the thousands of' dollars. obtained, it was announced, and The victory brought Milton nearly the $36,000 money, The white residence districts which homes aotually owned by the negroes in prize 20,000 $for first place, $6,200 lap KEMP LUMBER CO. were menanced were saved from the will be reconstructed. No attempt Will in prizes and raged In negro sec- be by the balance In special prizes given by ELXDA, VL flames whloh the made the committee to rebuild accessory N. tion knowns as "Little Africa." The the business buildings in the district the companies. Less than four minutes behind Mil- city and county are under martial many of which were owned by white For Wire, Posts. Lumber and BoHdSsj ton came Roscoe Sarles, who - had Oroetit. law and Adjutant General Barrett of persons, or homes which were rented. Material. and the Oklahoma natioanl guards Is in The committee of seven alBo voted fought a bitter race with De Palma SeiDeora Hardttirt control. With these precautions tak- to employ immediately as extra po- in the early hours and who held sec- en it Is believed that the situation is licemen, fifty members of the Ameri- ond position most of the way. The temporarily under control. can Legion. A sum for their pay for race began with De Palma at the pole G. and Jumped G. BRIDGES, Man&ssn Seventy-fou- r persons known dead, thirty days was appropriated after he soon into a lead. more than 260 beaten, injured and which effortswlll be made to continue De Palma In Lead wounded, ten city blocks razed by fire, them with city funds. His ruthless speed kept him well to a populance frantic and incensed, a the front, although Sarles and Joe tramp city under martial law with the HOOVER WOULD GIVE AID Boyer. forced him Into a terrific pace of armed national guardsmen echoing during the early laps. Boyer soon through the terrorized districts, has dropped behind through of Vitally loss time transformed Tulsa from a peaceful, Credit Extension Facilities at the pits, but Tom Alley, a last Needed, He Says prosperous city Into a madhouse, minute entry, Jumped to the fore and !JHA BANK where the worst and bloodiest race helped Sarles rush De Palma. Grad- k TRUST COHPAHY. war In the history of Oklahoma raged. Washington. Formal expression by ually Italy's representative increased Crazed over the alleged assault up- Secretary Hoover of the belief that his lead, however, and at the half on a young white orphan girl, an ele- extended credit facilities are vitally way point he was more than two laps Kenna, Now Mexico. ' vator operator, by Dick Rowland, ne- needed in southern cotton states and to the good. gro after which white mon threaten- that . federal reserve system credit Boyer, however, .who raced along ed to wipe out "Little Africa" forever curtailments, having served their pur- side of De Palma although actually with the torch. More than sixty pose "are now bringing hardship," six laps behind from the fiftieth lap white men are Injured and wounded Confirming views he had expressed on, had started a series of sprints and two hundred negroes, men, wo- orally at the interview, Mr. Hoover which taxed De Palma's oar to keep men and children, are seriously woun- outlined a policy toward cotton em- in front and at the 101st lap De Palma ded some dying, reports Indicate. bracing four phases: First, credit ex- swung Into the pits. His engine had State troops under the command of tension through of re- been missing for several laps but Adj. Oen. C. P. Barrett took charge serve and member bank; second, bet after a quick change of plugs be of the city. Governor Robertson ter organized export credit machinery rushed back on the bricks still ahead has declared Tulsa and Tulsa county to get American cettoi into American of Milton, who had forged up to under martial law. controlled warehouses abroad; third, Street car service wag suspended. improved warehousing methods to O O O OO O O Business was demoralised and many make cotton certificates a basis of mo- FLEE FROM BROKEN DYKES business houses closed. All roads and bile credit and also acceptable as ac- bridges were reported guarded by tual delivery of the cotton; fourth, ex- Wall Broken by Flood Dis- posses. pression of the opinion prospec- Reclaimed armed that May All Be Under Water. Announcement that a formal grand tive reduced aoreage would contribute trict Jury Investigation rioting and stabilizing of the toward the situation over Woodland, WaBh. A dyke protect- incendiarism which so far have result- the next year. ing a reclaimed' area of some 120,000. In men public ed the deaths of nine white Mr. Hoover made by former acres near here broke under pressure twenty-on- e negroes property Caro- and and Senator J. L. McLaurln of South of flood waters. The pumping station $1,500,000 begins on loss estimated at lina, who conferred with the secre- at Burch slough went out soon 8, men after June and, that Tulsa business tary recently the break occurred and Indications were that the entire district would be COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT HONORS AMERICAN DEAD flooded. Between 400 and 500 fami- lies live in the district. Couriers were Geneva ie Choioe as Permanent Meet-lngPlac- e. Children Place Daisies and Corn Flow. sent to warn them to flee. r on Graves of U. 6. Dead. The dyke which broke was complet- Geneva. The committee appointed Suresnes. France. Full military ed this year at a ooet of about $200,-00- by the assembly of the league of na- and c)vio honors were paid to tho The flood from the Columbia tions to inquire Into the organization American heroes who died for their river began to cut into it last week CTOAIGIiT BANKING ON flAFU of the secretariat of the league and country throughout France.