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Show REDOUBLED EFFORT MADE TO CAPTURE MISS SMITH ARDMORE, Okia . Dec. 'I The probable appointment of a' special prosecutor to proceed after January 1 ag iIikI lam Smith, inos bcinK widely wide-ly sought in connection with the fatal Shooting here two weeks ago of Jake L. Iiamon, was forecast today by Charles A. Coakley, law partner of J. H. Mathers, county uttorney-eleco, of Ardmore, who said that their firm had been employed lo defend Miss Smith. He said Mr. Mathers would recommend that Russell Prown, present pres-ent county attorney, bo permitted lo continue In charge of the case for the state. Prosecutor Brown announced that there were no developments in tho search for Miss Smith, as far as his office was conc.MiK-,1 and that ho was leaving for his farm near Ardmoro for a day's hunting trip. In the meantime, the authorities of a dozen cities of Oklahoma and Texas, Tex-as, were redoubling their efforts to arrest MIsb Smith, for whom there Is a warrant (barging assault with Intent In-tent to kill. The warrant was lestied before the deuth of Hamuli, who was Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma, and an cxt'.nslve oil (operator. i |