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Oklahoma Hlstori
State Capitol,
Oklahoma City, Okla
The El Reno Daily Tribune
Unite Copy, Piva Canto
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El Reno, Oklahoma, Monday, August 19, 1946
m MEANS ASSOCIATED
New Teachers
Employed For
Coming Term
Gronp Will Assume
Duties at El Reno
For First Time
Fourteen new teachers art in-
cluded among the 92 who Save
been assigned to D Reno school*
for the 1846-47 term, Paul R. Tay-
lor, superintendent, announced to-
day.
In addition to the 14 new teacher*,
four others who formerly served In
the local school* are returning to
classrooms here this year.
Ikuolment period will open Aug.
89 and regular classes In all de-
partments will begin Tuesday,
Sept. I.
M. A. Mitchell, Jr., will assume
duties as registrar at the hlghschool.
He Is a graduate of East Central
State college, Ada. He was chief
clerk of a headquarters squadron
orderly room during hie three and
one-half years In the arm)-.
Mrs. Wayne ttglsnd, a graduate
Of Converse college, Spartanburg,
8. C„ will teacher history and Qig-
It'll In the hlghschool. She was
English teacher In the Palm Beach,
Fla, hlghschool three years.
Prank Land has been assigned as
teacher of science and assistant
coach of athletics. He Is a grad-
uate of East ^Central State college
and a graduate student In the field
of health education. HU last teach-
ing experience was at Alma where
lie was superintendent. He pre-
viously worked with Coach Jenks
Simmons at Northwestern State col-
lege Alva, and later was coach of
athletics at Anadarko.
MH. M. A. Mitchell will teach
English In the hlghschool. She has
a B. A. degree from ‘Bast Central
State college and has taught at
Cromwell. She also has had seer*
tarlal experience In connection with
the military service.
Bpeeeh Iaatraeter Named
Charles W. Overton, teacher of
speech, drama and debate In the
hlghschool, 'has a B. A. degree
from Central State college, Edmond.
His last teaching experience was In
Hcmyetta hlghschool. He recently
returned from England where he
■pent two years with the eighth air
force and eight months as lialaon
officer for the army education pro-
gram at Nottingham university.
Woodrow Barton, teacher of In-
dustrial arts and mechanical draw-
ing, received hts discharge from the
armed service Ust Apr. 20. He re-
ceived his master’s degree from Ok-
lahoma A. and M. college, Still-
water, with a major in the field of
his teaching assignment. He has
taught previously at long Dale and
Lawton hlghschools.
Clrrelda Burris, teacher of history
in the Junior hlghschool. Is a grad-
uate of Christian college and the
University or Oklahoma, receiving
her B. A. degree from the university.
During the war she served as a
clerical emploje of Prudential Oil
company at Ponca City, her home
town.
James Dunlap, teaclter of Eng-
lish aud mathematics in the Junior
hlghschool. has a master's degree
from Oklahoma A. and M. college
anti has had a number of years ex-
perience us teacher and supervisor
in the Indian school at Pawnee.
He will assist with the athletic pro-
gram In the hlghschool.
Mrs. Prank Land, teacher of the
sixth grade at Central, has a B. A.
degree from Northwestern State col-
lege and has had recent teaching
experience In Alma where her hus-
band was superintendent of schools.
Mrs. Wetzel 8. Welden, teacher
of the fourth grade at Central, re-
ceived her B. A. degree this sum-
mer from Central State college
where she ha* been a student the
past several months.
Others Are Assigned
Mrs. Beulah Hawkins has m B. A.
degree from Central State college.
Her recent teaching experience was
In the Wheatland school in Okla-
homa county. She will teach a com-
bination of first and second grades
at Webster school.
Mable Ann Eachary. teacher of
tint grade at Irving school, has a
B. A. degree from Oklahoma College
for Women, Chlckasha, and Is a
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V-2 Rocket Explodes During Test
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Workers at the White Bands, N. M., proving grounds lor army ordnance inspect a huge crater one and
one-half miles from the launching site of a German V-2 rocket. The V-2 rockets have been tested previous-
ly at this experimental base but this one lost a fin and crashed Into the ground with nearly a full load of
gasoline. (NEA Telephoto.)
Did You Hear
IJIOUR local youths who recent-
" ly enlisted In the marine air
corps have entered training at
San Diego. Calif. They are Jack
Pearce, son of Mrs. Maude
Pearce, 512 South Foster avenue;
Bill Wiggins, son of Dr. and Mrs.
C. W. Wiggins, Concho; Buddy
Marsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter P. Marsh, 1021 East Oak
street; and Pat Keller, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Keller. 1110
South Macomb avenue.
Lieutenant Commander and
Mrs. J. Z. Powell and daughter,
Constance, of Long Beach, Calif.,
are visiting In the home of Mrs.
Powell's parents, Rev. and Mrs.
J. W. Hodges. 704 8outh Macomb
avenue. Lieutenant Commander
Powell formerly was stationed
with the navy at San Pedro.
Calif., and now is enroute to
report for duty at New Orleans,
La.
Strike Is Called
By Oil Workers
Denver Company’s
Operations Halted
OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 19—(/P)
—Operations of the Denver pro-
ducing and refining company In
the West Edmond field of Okla-
homa county were shut down today
when members of the Oil Workers
union (CIO) walked out.
R. O. Rapp, president of the com-
pany, said the union notified him
the strike was called because two
union members, Newton Rethford
and V. H. Dinning, were laid off In
what Rapp termed a "general re-
duction” of employes.
Rapp said the reduction was nec-
jessary because of completion of a
drilling campaign in the field.
Union officials made no comment.
The company has 64 producing
wells In the field and refines gaso-
line for a number of dealers in Ok-
lahoma City.
Union and company officials
started negotiating soon after the
strike started but no reports were
forthcoming from the meeting.
PICKET LINES FORM
AT TULSA HOTELS
TULSA, Aug. 19 —Picket
lines were formed today at the
Mayo and Adams hotels as four
other unions joined hotel maids in
a walkout following a dispute over
union recognition.
Police Detectives Ben Johnson
and Les Cormack said they led two
squads of of Heel's to the Adams
hotel after reports pickets had
barred entrance to eight non-union
workers. The employes, however,
later entered the building and no
violence was reported.
MRyo Manager Frank Bentley and
Adams Manager Frank Burger re-
ported they feared serious disrup-
tion of hotel service later in the
day. Bentley said the Mayo coffee
shop was closed when the cooks and
kitchen workers joined the walkout. j Russia supported the prcpos tl, and
but other services were maintained Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
by a skeleton crew I Vishinsky said it .should be adop—
Oils Ryan, business agent for the ,l,c* as a svneral principle that all
building service employes union. I t>UPsUo*“ "of tt Predominantly
said the strike followed ’’failure ofl“e E,’°'l cl considered ...s
the management to cooperate with lalll,1K w,thln the committee’s
the union." He said recognition of is< 2!x '
the maids union was demanded. Iazl ’ ugosnva.
Two Tornadoes
Hit Minnesota
Seven Dead, Many
Reported Injured
♦Volume 56, No. 147
Conference At
Paris Slows
Italian Committee
In Long Discussion
PARIS. Aug. 19—l/P)—The pace
conference went Into Its fourth
week in low gear today as the
Italian economic committee be-
came Involved in a lengthy dis-
cussion of how various chapters
of the Italian treaty should be
divided between il and the political
committee.
Committees for the Finnish and
Hungarian treaties also began de-
liberations.
Fa nee touched off the dbrusvion
with a suggestion Hurt the economic
committee include on its agenda
article 72. which sets up a concilia-
tion commission in case of disputes
over Italian restitution of allied
property.
MANKATO. Minn., Aug. 19—<U.R>
—Rescuers counted seven dead and
66 Injured today in the wake of two
freak tornadoes which struck during
the week-end, leveling a tourist
camp and lipping apart the village
of Wells, 30 miles southeast of here.
The death toll rose to seven lost
night, when Ray Melvin, 93, owner
of a huge turkey farm near here,
died at a Mankato hospital. 8tx
thousand of Melvin's turkeys hod
disappeared in the twister.
The tornadoes, striking within on
hour of each other, swept up auto-
mobiles, roof Lop* and entire build-
ings, causing an estimated >3,000,000
damage.
At Wells, where 250 persons In a
I movie house miraculously escaped
Injury, not a single store on the
main street was able to opera)
today. St. Cashnir's Catholic eh'
held open air masses, and highway
crews with bulldozer equipment
worked to clear away the debris.
Sixty buildings—stores, homes and
olilces—were heavily damaged or
destroyed in downtown Wells, a
village of 2.700 population.
Forty persons still were hospital-
ized last night, and at least five of
them were reported in critical con-
dition.
The first twister, in which all
seven persons were killed, swept In
from the southwest and struck at
6:52 p. in. Saturday. It skimmed
the tree tops, then swept across a
highway directly Into the Green
Gable tourist camp, three miles
outside ol Mankato, where 70 per-
sons were living because of the
housing shortage. The camp's 26
cabins were destroyed.
During Storm
Strong Wind And
Lightning Caune
" I Minor Damage
Wn electrical storm Sunday night
pjqured refreshing rains on the city
but caused minor damage.
'A strong wind and lightning blew
fuses at Calumet and downed some
electrical lines at Banner.
Only minor interruption to elec-
trical service occurred in El Reno,
John T. Naylon, manager of the
Oklahoma Gas and Electric com-
pany here, reported
A transformer was blown out and
Wires were downed at the No. 1 city
pumping station while number 19
and 16 wells were put out of service
when motors failed.
Water Supply Adequate
However, C. A. Bentley, city man-
ager, said today that tha city water
supply appeared to be adequate,
with the wells expected to be put
bkek Into service quickly.
Rainfall at Fort Reno measured
1J2, the largest downpour recorded
there In the post few months. This
Was only the second heavy rainfall
te fall at El Reno the past month.
. Weather observers sold, however,
that a general rain of two to three
Inches was necessary to break the
drouth.
Although the state was generally
cool today, forecasters said It would
be warmer again in the northwesst
section Tuesday, the United Press
reported.
Norman Gets 1.63
Norman received the heaviest pre-
cipitation, measuring 1.63 inches.
Pauls Valley recorded 1.42, Ada 1.26,
Chlckasha 1.20, Oklahoma City 1.09,
Boise City .98, Waurika .76, Clinton
.62. Idabel A3, Lawton A8, Durant
A3. Hollis and Quymon .87, Antlers
.22. Elk City .20, Beaver, Pryor and
Muskogee .01 and Frederick a trace.
Temperatures soared os high as
109 degrees st Waurika in the
Southwest Sunday afternoon before
the cool front arrived. Lawton and
Pauls Valley reported 107 degrees,
Alva and McAlester 106, Altus, Ada,
erata lAntlera and Durant 106, Ardmore,
urablRlk City and Outhrle 164, Chld)-
Amovfasha 103, Oklahoma City, B Reno
and Chandler 102, and Biid 101.
Contestant Killed In
National Bicycle Race
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 19—<UJH
—The occidental death of 17-year-
old Louts O. Brill of Buffalo, N.
Y.. who was crowded off the track
while pedaling down the home
stretch, was certain today to
prompt new safety treasures for
future national amateur bicycle
choaptomdiip races
In yesterday** finale. Brill suf-
fered a fractured skull when rid-
era—striving for position near the
ftnlth Mne—crowded the Buffalo
youth and forced him to crash
into a 175-pound newsreel camera.
Tt woe the first fatality in the
mm * tb» evs**
Also Involved were union laundry
workers, painters and carpenters
and operating engineers.
Negroes Held In
Ambush Shooting
MAOEE. Miss, Aug. 19—<4V-
Two Negroes, members of a fam-
ily sought In connection with the
ambush wounding of a deputy
sheriff and three other white men.
surrendered to state ivollce today
as bloodhounds led a posse into
their swampland hideout.
Mayor O. J. Blglane said those
captured were W. O. Craft, who was
armed with an aimy rifle, and
Albert Craft. 12, who had a .22
rifle.
Another Negro, L. T. Hubbard,
was brought here wounded this
nioralngj by state police. Blglane
said Hilbbard was captured this
morning at the Craft home, where
the ambush occurred last night.
The mayor said he did not know
If Hubbard had been involved In
lost night’s affray.
The mayor described the situa-
tion here as “comparatively peace-
ful.” but "trlggery."
HOME FROM WISCONSIN
Mira. A. W. Rejlbids, daughter.
Prances, and son. Jackson, 517
South Macomb avenue, have re- day
the United
Slates. Greece, Belgium and White
Rush, all jollied in the delxite,
agreeing that practically all chap-
ters of the treaty have both eco-
nomic and political aspects, and
that consultation with the politi-
cal committee was necessary to
tslablish some line of demarcation.
Palestine Today
Generally Calm
HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. 19—OPi—
A nationwide offensive which three
underground Jewish groups wera re
ported preparing today failed to
materialize by early evening, aud
comparative quiet settled upon a
still tense Holy Land alter a
troubled week-end.
The only unusual incident up to
4 p. m. was another “operation
scram” at the Jerusalem postoffice
which was evacuated for 40 minutes
when an anonymous telephone call
warned the place was to be bombed.
This rapidly was becoming routine
in a war of nerves.
A series of "spot identity checks"
carried out by- the military In
Jerusalem in which passersby were
stpppcd at road blocks for examina-
tion of their papers gave rise to the
report that plans had been inter-
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 19—<U R>— I cepted lor a coordinated uprising
Douglas Henderson of Fort Worth. 1 uy the Stern gang Irgun Zvai
Tex., one-time professional wrest- \ ummi nnd Haganah.
ler who recently was discharged
from the U. S. army, said today
that he had written the veterans’
administration seeking financial
aid nnd-r the OI bill of rights
so (hat he can atudy bull fighting.
Henderson, who turned from
wrestling to bull fighting In 1984
nnd ha* appeared on 14 programs
hete as an apprentice, enclosed
In his letter a WU for >500 for
equipment, Including >200 for a
green-and-gold costume. $60 for a
hat and >100 for two swords.
Veteran Seeks Aid In
Studying Bull Fighting
VISIT IN HOME8 HERE
Mrs. Harry Dial and grandchild-
Brltlsh army sources denied such
a plan had been discovered, how-
ever.
The genera! calm since yesterday
encouraged some of the moderate
Jewish leaders to predict that a cor-
ner had been turned in Palestine’s
turbulent history and that terror-
ism might be on the downgrade
here. •
Stolen Automobile
Is Found Abandoned
An automobile stolen Sunday
night from H. O. Penner, 107 East
ren. Michael and Kay Mathers., Clark street, was found abandoned
who have been visiting friends and j this moving one and one-half
relatives in the southern part of miles north of El Reno. The oar
Oklahoma while enroute to their .had not been damaged, Lee Harvey,
home in Phoenix, Arts., spent Sun-
tumed from Milton, Win., where
they spent the summer with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Jackson.
in El Reno In the homes of
Mrs. Ruby Hanlon. Mrs. Anna
Lister, Miss Minnie Shsrp apd Mrs.
Veterans' Pay
Forms Arrive
Application Blanks
Are Received Today
El Reno veterans today stood
only 60 days and an application
foim away from payment for their
unused leave recently voted them
by congress.
The first bat,'h of the applica-
tion forms which veterans must
fill out to get the money arrived
today at the El Reno postofflce.
After they have filed the appli-
cation. veterans will get furlough
money within 60 days, army fin-
ance officers estimate.
Applications are to be taken
care of on a "flnst come, first
served” basis.
Centers to aid veterans In filling
out tlielr forms are to be set up
In El Reno. Yukon, Calumet and
Okarche. Piedmont veterans will
use the Yukon office and Union
City residents will come to El
Reno.
The El Reno center is to be set
up In the chamber of commerce
office here.
The bill passed by congress pro-
vides that enlisted veterans are to
receive compensation far furlough
time they did not actually receive.
Payment will be In the form of
bonds cashable In five years ex-
cept for amounts under >50.
chief of police, said.
The automobile, a 1937 model
coach, was stolen between 10 p. m.
Sunday and 7 a. in. today, tt hod receive refrigerators ticketed with
beea left parked et Fraser* Map*- sew nelllrgs _
Prices Increased
On Canned Fruits
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19 —0P>—
OPA today raised retail ceilings on
the 1946 pack of canned fruits and
authorised a price hike of about
6 percent for household mechanical
refrigerators.
Examples of tlie Increase for No.
2)4 cons of canned fruits are:
F>r fancy halves of impeded
apricots. 2 cents; fancy yellow
cling peaches, 1 cent; fancy Bartlett
pears, 7 cents; choice fruit cocktail,
tour cento.
The Increase also Included plume,
figs, prunes and product! made
from fresh prunes.
On a standard refrigerator, OPA
announced the Increase will be
from $io to >12.
Consumers will pay the higher
prices, OPA said, as soon as dealers
Fenimore Due To Post
New Records for Aggies
Nation’s Football
Fans Will Watch
Backfield Star
STILLWATER. Aug. 19— (Spe-
cial >-~Bob Fenimore, tailed the
finest beck In the half-century
history of Oklahoma football, goes
Into action again Sept. 21. when
Denver visits Stillwater, opening
the kenlor year of the noted Okla-
homa A. and M. star.
Twice All-American, Fenlmore’s
bid to become one of the few to
make It three In a row will be an
effort watched by the nation at
large. For two year* straight, the
Woodward blond has led the U.
8. In yards gained rushingi and
in the combination totals of rush-
ing and passing.
He’s daubed with more color
than a house-painter’s ladder. He
does everything sensationally well.
With a powerful team around him,
Fenlmaf* has paced the Cowboys
to two bowl championships and 19
victories in a row over college riv-
als. He has run the football tliree
and one-fifth miles for the Aggies
In throe campaigns.
What’s ahead of the Waddy
from Woodward? Every yard he
makes with the football under his
wing this autumn will set new
Aggie records. He has gone 5.801
yards in his three years, running,
passing returning kicks and lntor-
BOB FENIMORE
ceptlons. He wore out the head-
lines as long ago as 1943. He has
scored 170 A. nnd M. points
Colorful I Old Paint of the A.
and M. backfield has carried the
bell 402 times in rushing, averag-
ing 5.9 yards for three years. He
has Uirown 243 passes, completing
81.4 percent of them and gaining
2,039 yards. His putting average
was an even 40 yards last year.
Tliey say he’ll have more help
this fall with the Aggies coming
in bigger and faster than ever.
There’s a rugged 11-game schedule
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Another U. S.
Plane Attacked
Army Transport
Is Hours Overdue
TRIESTE, Aug. 19 —(F)— An
American army transport flying
near the Yugoslav border radioed
today that tracer bullets were
streaking post It, and then fell cl-
ient, leading to speculation that
Yugoslav fighter planes again had
attacked a V. 8. plane accuaed of
infringing upon Marshal Tito’s ter-
rttogy.
The transport tenlghTtras^iours
overdue on Us flight from Vienna
to Udine with a crew of three offi-
cers and two enlisted men.
Tills attack report came less than
24 hours after the U. S. embassy in
Belgrade announced that Yugoslav
fighter planes fired machine gun
bursts Aug. 9 into another trans-
port on the same route. Ambassador
Rlcliard C. Patterson denounced
that attack, which forced the plane
to land, as "a wicked, Inexcusable
and deliberate attack on a friendly
nation's airplane.” The crew and
passengers of that C-47 still are
Interned in Yugoslavia.
Both transports were assigned to
the U. 8. army's European transport
service, and both were flying the
route from Austria to Udine air-
port in the British-American occu-
pation zones of the Venezia Giulia
area, disputed between Italy anti
Yugoslavia.
The plane missing today left
Vienna at 7:30 a. m„ passed over
Klagenlurt in Austria at 8:50 a. m.
and messaged at 9:07 a m. that
tracer bullets were passing It. It
should have reached Udine at 9:20
a. m.
AMERICAN VIEW
OF CLASH REVEALED
WASHINGTON. Aug. 19—</P>—
The United States charged pub-
licly today that July 12 Yugoslav
troops illegally entered the allied
zone aroilnd Trieste end fired
"without provocation” upon Amer-
ican forces Investigating their
presence.
The American view of the clash
Certificates For
Reading Given
Three Children Win
Special Awards
Sixty-six El Reno school children
have been awarded certificates by
the Oklahoma library commission
for reading 10 or more books during
the summer, Mrs. C. R. Horton,
librarian at the El Reno Carnegie
library, announced today.
Special awards were given to three
children for reading a large number
of books and for outstanding par-
ticipation In library activities.
I They were Raycharlet Waller. 10
^'yeSraoV ^
:d, daughter of Mr. antf Mrs
Charles T. Waller. 414 South Bar-
ker avenue; Benlta Enfield, 6.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet
Enfield, 1220 South Hadden ave-
nue; and Allen Lee Conner, 7, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon A. Conner.
601 South Miles avenue.
Awarded certificates were:
Gail Joy Best, Billy Boyle, Patty
Lou Buchanan, Marvin Earl Burge.
Annette Bynum. Allen Lee Conner,
Ruth Maude Croak, Perry R. Elchor.
Dixie Beth Elenburg, Benlta En-
field, Nancy L. Erbar.
Martha Jo Flippen. Kay Gholston.
Mary Clay Gilbert. Peggy Ruth Gra-
ham, Ira Grcnnell, Tommy Hamby,
Orbledean Bather, Avo Hopkins,
Richard Maxwell Horton, Gary
Gene Hycr, Carol Ann Johnson,
Eddie Lu Jones, Clyde Yvonne Kau-
ger, Margaret Elizabeth Koebrlck.
Karen V. Krause, Wlllnetla Ln-
Follette, Barbara Jo LeFever, Nancy
Ruth Little, Evelyn Lorcz, Patricia
Ann McDaniels, Arlene May. Stowey
May, Sue Anna May. Lola Marquez,
Arietta Carolyn Miller, Ronnie
Moore, George Ray Mosher, Clarita
Murray.
Jo Ann Murray, Bob Nilson, Joyce
Ellen Owen. Jewell Puttcrson, Billy
Tom Reynolds, Jane F. Ross, Jo
Danlcc Schroeder, Frances Mae
Secklnger, John Curtis Shaw. Law
Anna 8herwood. Freddie Singleton.
Warren Smith, Barbara Taylor,
Freddie Taylor, Shirley Ann Tay-
lor, Shirley Ann Thomas, Sklppy
Thomas, Barbara Tlcdt. Libby Ann
Tledt, Janllh Torpey, Shirley Jane
Vaughn. Marilyn Vorhees. Ka.vchar-
let Waller, Nelda Jeanne Williams,
Jimmy Winslow, Lillora Jane Win
Pace Slackens
In Calcutta's
Ghastly Riots
Streets Are Strewn
With Thousands Of
Dead and Wounded
CALCUTTA, Aug. 19—0P>—Mos-
lems and Hindus killed each other
at a slackened pace today in the
stinking streets of Calcutta, whfch
In four days have been strewn
with 2,000 to 3,000 corpses.
The situation was the quietest
since Friday when the rival fac-
tions started the most ghastly riots
in Calcutta's turbulent history,
quarreling over differences regard*
ihg the British proffer of lndopen- '
deuce. •
Sporadic shooting con tin nod.
Eerie cries rang through the
streets. Bodies were piled here and
there, many of ttaapn dead four
days and picked by vultures. Many
were bloated. The danger at on
epidemic which might dwerf the
prtsent number of casualties moun-
ted by the hour.
Several thousands lay Wounded.
The food situation worsened as
stores remained closed.
Atrocities Raised**
looting was life. Police blotters
were i Hied with accounts of women
.-adisticaily raped, mutilated, then
butchered or burned with their
families. One 7-year-okl rape vic-
tim was removed to a hospital in
critical condition.
Fifty boats, owned mostly by
Hindus, were burned on the river.
Troops with tanks straw to res-
tore order. In one trrable spot,
police during the night fired into
a crowd, killing at least three.
Two factories were burned; hun-
dreds of homes went up in flames.
Hindu and Moslem leaden tried
to* legato control of the mobs.
They met yesterday and hostlltlea
ceased for a few houro but soon
erupted again.
When dawn broke, the situation
apjiarently was In better control
than any time In the four days
of terror. But sporadic shootings
and clashes continued and more
reports or killings reached suOior-
tiles.
The British-owned newspaper.
The Statesman, which was attack-
ed by a mob early in tha thrua-
day rioting, published the 2,660-
3.000 death estimate. It mid the
Injured numbered many thous-
ands. Other souiues estimated
4.000 hurt.
Street* Are Cluttered
Piles of corpses stlU cluttered
the streets, but mass fighting had
dwindled to sporadic clashes and
fires. British troops, shooting
when necessary, began to get the
city under control yesterday. It
will take several days before com-
plete calm Is enforced, even If no
further major outbreaks occur.
A government statement em-
phasized the diffieulties involved
In discing of hundreds of corpses
left In streets, rivers and poods
as fighting spurted through rite
city. A .stench of death permeated
the sun-scorched city.
Hospital and emergency feeding
facilities were overtaxed. Uncol-
lected garbage accumulated, and
there was a threat of smallpox and
cholera.
was made known with the release glow, Harriet Wright, Willard Leon
lu. ___A _ I___
by the state department of a note
delivered to the Yugoslav foreign
office Ust Thursday. The note
emphatically rejected the “distor-
tion of evidence” alleged in YiV’O-
slsvts's earlier complaint about the
Incident.
College Education Won
In Only 27.13 Seconds
AKRON. Ohio, Auk. lp-'ll.RV-
Tt took 14-year-old OPbert Klegan
'ess than 30 seconds to win him-
self a college education.
Klegan, a grinninv youngster
from San Diego. Calif., won the
1946 All-American soap box derbv
at Derby Downs yesterday before
a record crowd of 97,363 persons.
HU tkne was 2749 in the rinal
heat.
He best that record In the fourth
round elimination, however, when
he defeated Jerry Aullek. Scott*
Bluff. Netx, with an official time
of 36.67.
Klegan won his crown after eli-
mination races hod weeded out
the other 111 city champions
ttom tS over tha United States.
Wright and Mary Jane Zajlc.
Three Bonds Forfeited
For Traffic Violations
Three persons charged with traf-
fic violations Sunday forfeited
bonds In municipal court today,
records In the office of Lee Harvey,
chief of police, disclosed.
E. A. Boevcrs. 29. El Reno route
2, forfeited a >5 bond after being
charged with speeding.
Hugh Pickett. Geary route 2. and
R. S. Austerhout. 23. of 520 South
Hoff avenue, both of whom were
charged with running stop lines,
forfeited bonds of $2 each.
RITES ATTENDED
Mr and Mrs. Chester Lyons, Mr.
and Mrs. DennU Adams attended
the funeral services for Howard E.
House, of Lookeba, conducted at 4
o'clock Sunday at Lookeba. Mr.
House was killed in an automobile
accident which occurred west of El
Reno lost Saturday. He was the
cousin of Mrs. Adams and Mrs
Lj-oas. - -
Woman Slain By
Squirrel Hunter
LOOAN8PORT, Ind., Aug. 10—.
:u.R>—Carl Koppernold. 38. told po-
lice today that he shot and killed
Mrs. Elizabeth Pfaff, 41. when he
mistook her open crown hat for a
turtle and fired at her as she fished
In the Wabash :lver.
Koppernold said he and Wesley
Koppernold, 37, and Wesley’s son,
Richard, 17, were squirrel hunting
yesterday when they spied what
they thought was a turtle crawling
along the river bonk.
Koppernold said he fired at the
moving object snd ran toward It
In time to see Mrs. Pfaff fall to
the floor of the boat. She was dead
when the three Koppernold* pulled
her boat to ahore.
Koppernold explained that he bod
been standing on a lower ground
level than the river bank and what
he saw actually was a hat worn by
Mrs. Pfaff. He was booked on
manslaughter charges.
Weather
Slate Fvrecast
High temperatures today in lower
90s: partly cloudy tonight and Tues-
day; little change In temperature
tonight; warmer In northwest half
Tuesday.
El Boas Weather
* For a 34-hour period ending at
> 30 a. m. today: High. 102; low; TO;
at 6:30 a. m, TO.
State of weather: 0
warm during day and
night.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 147, Ed. 1 Monday, August 19, 1946, newspaper, August 19, 1946; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc920895/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.