Show Man Who Broke Up Oklahoma Outlaw I Gang Leader In in Cleaning Up Oil Town own c s I 4 4 h if L A 4 a t i 1 y 4 4 r J Above Above- Above J. J. J E E. E Murphy and some of his dancing girls Lower right right right-A A street t. scene jn in Cromwell Wickedest Town Lower left Old left Old Bill Tilghman year old old fighting copper who is cleaning up the town CRO CROMWELL WELL VS ELL Okla Nov 4 4 Cromwell paradise of the oil field huskies Is being cleaned State investigators call It Americas America's Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's wickedest town Old Bill Tilghman now 71 years cars old who back In 1896 broe broce Dalton Dalton gang and has been raising Cain ever since ir if the ii fields wields the In this town of sons state the found w ope agents claim they LIl J v J gambling dope peddlers tr many manyd dance halls IS in which hick young g iris irs danced d Ir for 15 cents a d dance to the tune of toJ weird jazz jazo music and r fifty blind bUd pigs in which c c corn n nr wh whisky iSky I and CHOC Deer beer were sold vu iJ Hijackers bootleggers and suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly rich oil men played for high r stakes around the tables in tie te clap clapboard clapboard clap clap- bO board l huts The ft noise of pi pianos nos and moaning saxophones rose s above the subdued r roar oar o of or the the oil derricks banking the mushroom town while oil oil- huskies usk es scratched over the rough pine floors with the dancing girls One out of or every ery three tiree houses in I town was a house of III fame state investigators Mrs Mabel Bassett state commissioner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner of charities and correction correction correction tion and Claud Connally state commissioner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner of labor visited this ton toan and made these charges But things have changed And the oil huskies' huskies passion for dancing has brought about the transformation There were not enough girls togo to togo go around for tor there fifty mento men mento mento to every woman In Cromwell so the dance hall men began importing importing import import- ing dancE dancers rs from the larger cities of o the southwest Dozens of girls were obtained from Tulsa Oklahoma ma City ar ard d Kansas City It is al alleged al- al S Suspecting a white slave ring state officials began their Investigations Invest Invest- One man was arrested in n Tulsa In the act of getting two young girls out of or the city But the investigation failed to reveal any white slave ring It did though bring to light the wicked- wicked r ress e ess s of Oklahoma's Tiajuana Governor Trapp sent Mrs Mrs' Bassett Bassett Bassett Bas Bas- sett and Connally down to look the I town over Judge George C. C Crump of got busy too The Investigators found condItions conditions conditions condi deplorable Girls under IS 18 IShad iShad had been brought In A boy of or S was caught g dope A number of arrests were made Judge Crump marched marched- a batch of ot the lawbreakers lawbreaker's ers on foot loot to Wewoka ka for trial tying them to a sixty sixty- foot chain with a deputy sheriff on each end Federal officials also stepped In drying drying- up the town town and breaking up thE narcotic traffic Then the governor and Judge Cru Crump backed by the business men decided wv u to LV hire U j- j Bill Bilt DIU iii inhuman hman Uman n a as s wv u to LV U j- j DIU iii inhuman hman Uman n a as s town marshal Though Bill Is alon along In years be he is Just as hard as he was in His days dayo the thA officials say say Bill has closed up the saloons s a lot of of ot the dance halls and put the dope sellers on the run In one week alone ne he and Deputy SherIff Sheriff Sher Sher- iff Aldrich ushered sixty-five sixty of or the thea a g girls out U o of town r But Bill says he e needs e a lot more help If it ills his cleanup Is going to be successful One of or Bills Bill's best beet volunteer as as- as and and you sou can talce take Bills Bill's word for it It-is It is J J. J E. E Murphy vice president of the ell Cromwell chamber of commerce member of or the board of ot health chairman of the school committee proprietor of or the Murphy dance hall ar d manager of the Murphy Dancing Girls |