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Volume 60, No. 101
Single Copy Five Cente
El Reno, Oklahoma/Monday, June 26,1960
i No Break Seen
In Switchmen's
Union Walkout
Shutdown Goee Into
^ Second Day; Strike
Conducted Orderly
There was a graveyard silence In
Mock Mend yards here as the
Switchmen’s onion strike entered
its second day with no word of a
break In negotiations.
Company officials said only a few
supervisors remain, and “.there U
no trouble of any kind."
i Cfcartos L. Riemar, secretary of
the B Reno Switchmen’s union,
said the walkout was continuing In
da orderly, quiet manner. Switch-
men are checking In to headquar-
ters twice dally.
No further Information about the
■trike has come from the national
committee, Relmar said. No picket
Unes are planned.
Effects Already Felt
Meantime, some mills are already
* fspllng direct effecti of the strike
and others are Just waiting and
hoping.
Kermit Schafer, general manager
of Canadian Mill and Bevator
company, said operations are closed
today and Tuesday.
“We’re treading water now, and
holding up shipments which are
supposed to go by rail,” he said.
, If the strike continues, the firm
* will send grain by truck to be
loaded at rail points In Tuttle and
Chlckaaha. Peed shipments go by
truck and the walkout has no
Mfect on them.
Bill To Lower
Tax Is Cleared
House To Consider
Proposal Tuesday
WASHINGTON, June 26—(IP)—
The $1,010,000,000 excise tax cutting
bill was cleared today for house
consideration on en “All-or-nothing”
basis.
The house rules committee ap-
proved procedures which would bar
any change or amendment ones it
was open for debate on the floor
of the house.
The rule governing debate win,
however, give Republicans ant
chance to offer a euhstttute peo-
_____ _____ P°**l RspahUoani, who haw called
■) fSr
awhile ” Trucks will be used when U*T *»
necessary, he eatd. Procedures such se were approved
Schafer said the firm won’t be
able to hold shipments more than
a week. If the situation is still
unchanged, Canadian Mills win
have to lay off an undetermined
number of Its IB employes.
L. M. Odden, plant euperlntend-
ent at General Mills, Inc., said
despite the strike “It’s buslnem as
usual so far,” by means of trucking
operations to other roll lines.
The future depends on other
railroads, he explained, and If /hey
also have labor trouhtaa, the com-
pany will be in a bad poattton.
W- H.
The Rock Wand railway has
halted all It* operations In Okla-
homa and is dividing Us freight
and passenger buslnem with three
other lines In the state.
Fire Liwee Affected
Rode Island is one of five major
western railroads affected by the
strike.
Oklahoma City terminal manager
D. N. Hunt said today Rock Island
business Is being handled by the
Santa Pe, Frisco and M-K-T Unes.
He said the three roads wlU
move at least 1,000 more cars of
freight daily, the amount usually
carried by the Rock Island.
Francis O’Neill. chairman of the
IT STARTED AS A PRANK—Mike O’Connor, 06. ofuOecS.
Ind., Usees his bride, the former Mrs. Alice Noble, It, of Wise, Mich.,
after their marriage In Bkhart, Ind. The romance btamomed when
Mrs. Noble, In a prankish mood, gave her name end address to the
driver of a bus she frequently rode, with instructions to give it to
"some nice man.” The driver turned the note over Ao a favorite
passenger, Mike O’Connor, An exchange of letter* started the
romance on its way.
today usually are attacked as a
“gag,” but Chairman Robert L.
Dough ton (Democrat, North Caro-
lina) of the house ways and means
committee was Joined on this oc-
casion by OOP committee members
in requesting a “closed” rule.
Doughton and Representative
Daniel Reed (Republican, New
York) told the rules group that
nothing but confusion would result
If amendments were permitted by
Individual house members.
Therefore, the house will open
a take-lt-or-leave-lt basis.
A vote Is expected Thursday,
,__, _ ... clearing the way for house mem-
medlauon board, UUted vrith both take a , of Jtlly
sides In an effort to find a for-
^ mula to end the walkout of 4,000
switchmen.
However, O’Neill said no joint
conferences were scheduled today.
About 33,000 non-striking em-
ployes were thrown out 'of work on
the lour roads paralysed by the
switchmen. The walkout also
threatened to Idle at least part of
the Great Northern's 31.000 non-
strtktng workers.
. The five roads are heavy freight
/ haulers and operate over 21356
miles of tracks In 33 states.
Halil We Win’
Union President Arthur Olover
said the strike would "stay in effect
until we win our objectives.”
Daniel P. Loomis, chairman of
the Association of Western Rail-
roads. called the strike a “violation
of the spirit and intent of the
rtihrav labor act."
. “This U just another unjustified
r strike which the railroads will have
is ait out.” he eatd.
The switchmen walked off their
Jobe over the nation at 6 a. m.
local time 8unday to enloroe a de-
mand that their work week be cut
from 6* to 4* hours without loss
hi W
Hie strike tied up completely all
the roads except the Great North-
ern. The Qreat Northern mid It
operated all Its major
Rise in Meat
Prices Seen
Experts Sty Beef
Will Cost More
WASHINGTON, June 36—(UJ9—
With some consumers muttering al-
ready about a meat-buying strike,
government experts foresee a furth-
er rise In meat prices this summer.
Use agriculture department's meat
experts predict that a seasonal pro-
duction slump will force meat prices
higher.
No price decline Is expected until
next fall when production Increases.
Animal slaughter hits its high point
In the winter. Priam may be down
considerably from currant levels by
meat experts agrae on the main
cause of today's high prices: “Con-
sumer prosperity.”
Since prewar (UM-W), said one
official, the American consumer's
income (after Income taxes) has
gone up more, percentagewise, than
the retail price of meat.
For that reason the experts don’t
see much prospect for a concerted
buyers’ strike, such as that recom-
mended last week by Mrs. Dennis
E. Jackson, president of the Cin-
cinnati consumers conference.
Mrs. Jackson suggested that
housewives stop buying meat until
°" the. me*^. tomorrow on | prices drop. She suggested they buy
' cheese, poultry, eggs and fish In-
trains and some freight trains Sun-
day and would “keep on trying to
give services."
Weather
Waurika Band
To Play Here
Approximately 25 members of the
Waurika band will stop In El Reno
between 1 p. m. and 1:30 p. m.
Tuesday when they will play sev-
eral numbers.
Appearing with the band will be
Joan London, who was tri-state
champion baton twirier in 1049 and
state champion this year. Miss Lon-
don will give a baton twirling ex-
hibition.
The Waurika band holds top
position In Class D In both concert
and marching in southwestern Ok-
lahoma and northern Texas. The
Waurika band is under the direction
of J. L. Patman. Jr„ son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Patman, 1011 South Hoff
avenue.
In addition to the stop at B Reno
Tuesday, the group wlU also play at
Duncan, Oommanche. Chlckaaha,
Mlnco and Yukon.
stead.
The expert said that smaller de-
mand would cause meat prices to
drop. But. he said, as soon as the
"striking” families resumed buying
their normal amounts of beef the
price would go right up again.
Beef Lover Complains
One beef-lover wrote the depart-
ment recently to complain. He had
It straight from his butcher that
the cattlemen were on a “produc-
tion strike.”
The department said no. the cat-
tlemen are Just holding down mar-
ketings to rebuild their herds which
were depleted After the war when
people ate beef faster than it was
being produced.
As the herds expand consumers
eventually will start getting bigger
supplies of beef. Some officials pre-
dict the Increase may not show up
until the fall of 1961.
But Charlie Burmeister, dean of
the agriculture deportment’s meat
experts, will tell you It’s safe to pre-
dict that meat prioas won’t drop
enough to make consumers happy.
Charlie has been at the agriculture
deportment B yean. Be says, with
o grin:
“Meat prices are always high.”
West Virginia
Death Toll 16
In Hash Hood
16 Others Mining,
iSt-irr
CLARKSBURG,
—6JJ9—Five more\___
covered today from ’ the flood-
ravaged six-county area swept by
week-end flash floods, bringing the
number of drowned to 10. Another
10 persons were miming and be-
lieved dead.
8tate Police Captain K. E. Stout
said the bodies of Naomi McKinney,
12, Llnnle McKinney, S, Clyde
Bailey, R. W. Roth well and on
unidentified man were recovered at
Avondale, o abort distance below
their homos in the vicinity of
family Disappears
Stout said the list of missing and
presumed dead Included six mem-
bers of the Cooper family of Smith-
burg- He mid their bodies had not
been recovered.
Stout directed the aearch by
radio from 8hlnnston after na-
tional guardsmen, police and vol-
unteer workers resumed their effort
at dawn. A thick fog caused search
operations to be suspended during
the night.
The Red Cross rushed food and
medicine Into the stricken area and
set up relief stations to care for
those whose homes were swept
away by the swirling water.
Power Restored
The Monongahela Power com-
pany at Fairmont said electric
utility poles and Unes were com-
pletely submerged or washed away.
Red Schroeder, in charge of the
company's repair crews, said it
would be two to three days before
service could be restored In Cello.
The Red Cross in Washington
said unconfirmed reports from its
field agent said there were 33 dead
and 10 to 16 missing In
county alone.
Planes Sped
ToWarArea
By Mac Arthur
TOKYO, Japan, June 30—MJU—
General Douglas MacArthur mad
An air-sea bridge of urgent war
disc to herd preseed south
Korea today. Included In the war
materials were 10 F-61 single-engine
Mustang fighters capable of carry-
ing a small bombload.
Approval for the transfer of the
planes has been received from
Washington, the announcement
said. The planes will be turned
Over to Korean pilots in Japan.
MacArthur's headquarters an-
nounced that U. S. warships and
planes will escort ships carrying
American guns, munitions and
other supplies to southern Korea.
B 9 was understood American
planes already have set up an
emergency airlift to rush emer-
gency supplies to southern Korea
from southern Japan by plane.
Meantime, reliable sources said
John Foster Dulles. Republican
adviser to the state department,
has cabled Washington urging all-
out aid for southern Korea.
Usually reliable sources sakl
Dulles feels a “heavy responsibility”
toward Korea. Only last week, he
promised In Seoul that America
hever would abandon the tiny re-
public.
Morris Blasts
European Aid
Points to Record
On Pension Plan
Toby Morris, sixth district con-
had been restored In alllgressman seeking re-election, hit
flooded towns except Cairo, where the government extravagance of the
Work Is underway replacing the
lights which were blown down on
the softball diamond at Legion
Park. Until the (Ismage has been
repaired, only one softball game
each evening will be played, It was
announced today.
Oamee this week include: Re-
formatory vs. Conoco tonight.
BARE vs. IOOF, Tuesday; Conoco
vs. First Christian church, Wed-
nesday: IOOF vs. Jaycee’s, Thurs-
day; and BARE vs. Peabody's,
Friday.
Results last week saw Anadarkn
easing by Deardorffs In an exhi-
bition game by a score of 3 to 2.
while Hydro took the measure of
the Jaycee’s 12 to 8. both games
having been played on Monday.
Thursday's results Included Jay-
cee's 12, Christian Church 11, In
one of the most closely contested
games, while on Friday evening.
Deardorff easily swept by Peabody
12 to 4.
It was pointed out that El Reno
has secured the district elimina-
tion tournament for the annual
national softball congress tourney,
to be held here the latter part of
July and the first part of August.
Teams to play here will be those
included west of Yukon, and east
of Clinton, and will be announced
later.
Four Persons Die In Oklahoma
Highway Mishaps; 14 Injured
BY UNITED PRESS
Four persons died end 14 wore
Injured In a eerie* of Oklahoma
traffic accidents yesterday.
The fttallttee talked the elate
road ton to 319 far 1990, com-
pand with 343 daring the same
pert of last year.
Three of the deatha and U In-
juries occurred m three p*
within a mile of each other on
Midwest boulevard out of Okla-
hnraa city. The highway patrol
has tagged the north-couth rand,
which leade to TUkor Air Fane
base, a “death trap.”
The three killed ware Mrs.
and Sarah, 0. Mrs. Velotta’s hue-
band. and another daughter,
Carol. 3, ware seriously Injured as
was her aunt. Mia. (Baud How-
ard. Columbus, Ohio. A son,
Mickey. 4, escaped vrith minor
Injuries.
Aaron Leo Btohep, Mirer of the
track which collided vrith Be cor
driven by Velotta, wee not hurt.
Gambler Gets
Prison Term
NEW YORK. June 33 - OP) -
Frank Erickson, kingpin of e na-
tionwide bookmaking business, to-
day was sentenced to two yean In
prison end a $30400 fine.
The chubby, 54-year-old gam-
bling mogul, who had piled his
multi-million-dollar betting trade
for a quarter oentury without spend-
ing a day In Jail, wee sentenced in
special sessions court.
He could have received up to SO
years in prison.
Erickson threw himself on the
mercy of the court laet Monday by
pleading guilty to a 00-oount gam-
bling charge.
New Government
Asked In France
Marshall plan and stressed his work
on old age pensions in a speech
Saturday night on the Canadian
county courthouse lawn.
A Urge crowd heard Morris ex-
plain his position and beliefs re-
garding the ald-to-Burope program,
“I wished that we might send
iome reasonable amount of money
» the poor people in Europeon
countries.” Morris said, but ex-
plained that he thought the United
State* was spending four times too
Much on the program.
ffee pointed out that/the mouRf
U being given to the foreign gov-
ernments, instead of poor people
who never see the result of U. 8.
aid.
“I should like to have seen one-
fourth the amount of the Marshall
plan funds sent to the hungry, poor
people.”
In speaking of making provisions
for old folks, he said, “I'm the un-
disputed leader of old age pension
program In the house of represen-
tatives.”
Morris explained that he had
Introduced a bill which would pro-
vide that every person 60 and over
would draw 960 per month pro-
viding "he or she Isn't making
enough money to file an Income
tax return.”
Explaining the difference In as-
sistance programs and pensions, he
attacked the case worker system.
“We ought to do away with case
workers entirely." he said.
Supports Veterans
“I want a set-up so that every
person Is treated In the same fair
way.”
Morris said he had supported
every veterans legislation although
he “was not a rubber stamp for
any group — including veterans
groups."
Morris said he did not believe
there was any immediate danger of
war with Russia and predicted that
1950 would be an outstanding busi-
ness year because of three laws—
farm price support, minimum wage
law and guarantee bank deposit
laws.
In making his report of work
done during his two terms In
office, Morris, who Is chairman of
the sub-committee of Indian affairs
of the public lands committee, said
ho woe trying to help the Indians
In Oklahoma and the nation. He
pointed to his efforts to give Fort
Reno bock to the Cfoeyenne and
Arapaho Indiana.
U.S. Pledges
Arms Aid To
SouflrKorea
Truman Condemns
‘Unprovoked’ War;
Secret Talks Held
WASHINGTON, June 30 -on-'
President Truman today pledged
full United States support of United
Nations efforts to end the “unpro-
voked aggression" against south
Korea.
In a statement, the president de-
clared:
“Willful disregard of the obliga-
tion to keep the peaoe cannot be
tolerated by nations that support
the United Nations charter.”
He said the United States to
pleased with the speed and deter-
mination of the UN security coun-
cil In ordering a withdrawal of the
Invading forces.
The big question being asked In
this capital was whether the United
States was ready to supply armed
forces It the United Nations aektd
for them to back up Its week-end
“cease fire” order In Korea.
Reporters got a chance to put It
to Secretary of Danetie Johnson
when he visited the Capitol for dis-
cussion of the general military as-
sistance program with the senate
foreign relations committee.
Johnson’s reply; "That’s a good
question.”
A reporter: “But what to the
answer?”
"I didn’t give an answer.”
Republican senators agreed un-
animously today that the Commun-
ist attack on south Korea should
not be allowed to Involve thto coun-
try in war.
Mr. Truman's advisor said the
administration regards the attack
By Moscow-backed Korean puppet
forces on South Korea as the grav-
est threat to world peace since the
close of World War H.
Secret Talks Held
The gravity of the Red invasion
of Southern Korea brought Presi-
dent Truman flying home Sunday
night from hie summer White
House at Independence, Mo. He
held Immediate and secret talks
with Achemn. Johnson sod U other
top-flight officials.
Mr. Truman, whp hat been talk:
Communists Push
Within Nine Miles
Of Korean Capital
BULLETIN
SEOUL, Karts, Jura 27—(AP)—CommeM Invaders
from north Korea throw s tank column to the nhHit»
of Stool early today.
The invaders broadcast a demand for aamndtr of tba
entire southern army.
The aarrender demand was made by General Chai Ur*
Jon, commander of the northern forces that suddenly
invaded south Korea Sunday moruisc.
SEOUL, Korea, June 28— (AP)—The north Korean Com-
munists, who invaded south Korea in full force Sunday,
thrust a spearhead of tanlre within nine miles of thlg south-
ern capital tonight
Fears were expressed that they might reach Seoul by
dawn.
Reeling from the surprise assault by an estimated 76,000
Russian-trained northern troops, the American-trained
southern army steadied Sunday night and launched countar-
attacks Monday, but the i--—-
northern heavy tanka and ar-
tillery proved too strong.
By 10 o'clock tonight, south
Korean polios reported the Invaders’
farthest-advanced column woo only
nine mile* from Seoul, hurtling due
south down the Uljongbu valley.
American advisers to the south
Korean army gave the report fall
weight.
Southern resistance collapeed at
Uljongbu. 13 mile* north at Seoul
A further defense was being put up
three miles south, but there were
no details.
Planes Strafe Tewn
The American embassy burned tte
Important secret papers In a huge
bonfire. Air raid sirens aereeclmd.
The city waa bussing after four
northern planet strafed downtown
streets.
The flying oolumn rushed toward
here from the Uljongbu valley. A
southern ooontar-effenslre than
failed miserably during the day.
Heavy artillery softened up the
UUougbu defenders and the tanks
pushed them out of town after
savage street fighting.
Two southern divisions totalling
30400 nun dug in oatstdo of the
town of UUougbu. But the deter-
mined onslaught of heavy tanks
pushed them said* and the north-
peace. told reporters the Oommun
tot attack “could be a dangerous
situation, but I hops It to not.”
The first meeting at Blair house
lasted far three hours but no word
was disclosed on the outcome. A
general report was expected late
today on the second conference.
Informed quarters said, however,
that General Douglas MacArthur
had been ordered to comb hta far
eastern defense supplies for anti-
tank and artillery guns that could
be flown to South Korea forthwith.
Shipments Begin
Ammunition shipments by air
from Tokyo began Sunday as a
first measure of aid. It was sent
on orders from Washington In re-
sponse to South Korea's "urgent”
plea for aid.
Some congreaamen voiced de-
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Marriages Are
Family Affair
LOS ANGELES. June 30-01.*-
A grandmother, 04, her daughter,
34, and granddaughter, 10, honey-
mooned today after a triple wed-
ding ceremony.
Mrs. May
H. Taylor, It,
Three Couples
Are Divorced
Three divorce decrees were
granted In hearings Saturday in
Canadian county district court be-
fore Judge Baker H. Melone.
Clarence E. Nicholson waa grant-
ed a decree of divorce from Rosla
W. Nicholson on grounds of ex-
treme cruelty and gross neglect of
duty. The couple was married June
21. 1945 In Chlckaaha. A property
settlement was agreed upon.
Eftle Whited was granted a di-
vorce decree from Cheater W.
Whited on grounds of extreme
cruelty and gross neglect of duty.
They were married Aug. 3, 1992,
In Purcell. Custody and support of
two minor children, Dorothy Ellen,
17. and Robert Jamas, 3, waa grant-
ed to the plaintiff.
Matilda Hagan was granted a di-
vorce from Ossrge B. Hogan. The
petition alleged extreme cruelty end
gross neglect of duty as grounds for
the decree.
The couple was married Sapt 34,
1310, at sttgtor.
temporarily j—o,
toward the capital.
President Syngman Rhes and hta
ibinet were In
at midnight. They were reportedly
discussing the Ongjtn
front, where southern farose pan
reeling or knocked oat
Two ships carrying 700 depend-
ents of American* still tax south
Korea sailed from the port of
Inchon tonight with iU.6 naval
and air escort.
The two vessels—one Norwegian
and one Panamanian—are bound
for Fukuoka on Japan's southern
Island of Kyushu. They are ached-
uled to arrive sometime Tuesday
night.
The women and children were
transported from Inchon’s docks to
the two freighters by lighters.
Cssoalttos Nat EriHimtom
There still was no reliable In
dication of casualties In the first
two days of the fighting, or of the
exact slxe of the forces involved.
Foreign sources have estimatd that
south Korea can mobltoe 90400
army regulars and 46400 police—a
total of 141,000 men—against north-
ern Korea's 06.000-man army,
10,000-man security force and 45400
police—a total of 110400.
The Communists posed their
gravest threat to Seoul with an
advance down the Uljongbu cor-
ridor, traditional Invasion route
toward the capital from the south.
Keep Draft,
House Urged
Korean War May
End Differences
WASHINGTON. June 30-
Chairman Cart Vinson
Georgia) of the house armed acre-
toes committee urged the house to-
day to stand pat on toe draft MU
The Oommuntot Invasion of
Southern Korea waa ssrosM to
•pur efforts to gttMr-
eneee between a tougher smuts MB
and the watered-down beam rar-
alon.
But Vinson sold ha was detor-
ana to the senate and’^oaUteMtoi
the houte to sand tbs question to
conference.
Tbs house bin would kaap nke-
Ura service machinery aura far tow
yean but would bar
til congna
Bonds Forfeited
In Police Court
Two bonds posted for traffic vio-
lations wore forfeited In police court
today, according to records of Lee
Harvey, chief of police.
Joe David Nichols, 94. Los An-
geles, Calif., forfeited a 96 bond an
a charge of speeding Robert Arthur
Robinson. 83. of 313H North Shep-
ard avenue, charged with driving
without a driver’s license, forfeited
an $11 bend.
El Reno Eagles Batter Geary
In Game Played Here Sunday
Korean war ns a i
united nations and ■
called for transfer of flgbtor pianos
to South Korean f cross, lbs iterate
appropriations ontnmlltes was ex-
pected to get a report from Seers
tary of State Dean Aebsson aad
Defense Secretary Louis tnlrmmt
when they discuss the $1333400480
military aid program.
Meanwhile, Democratic tax Watt-
ers thought they had Rapuhttegoa
over a barrel with their no-tom bin
to cut excise taxes. Pledged to exetos
reductions, it looked like the only
way they can help cut the levies
at thto session to to support tba
administration’s plane to raise cor-
poration taxes.
Secrets te Be Erteamd
The Justice department was ex-
pected to release a top-secret FBI
recording which could show If dip-
lomat John 8. Service gave war
secrets to Philip Jaffe. editor of the
defunct Amerasla magazine. Top
department officials have recom-
mended the move and Attorney
General J. Howard McGrath was
expected to give his okay today.
Senate leaders put a “rush-
label on confirmation of President
Truman's renomlnatlone of present
members of the Atomic Energy com-
mission. At least three of the four
nominations must be approved by
Friday midnight when their terms
expire or the AEG will be without
a commission to direct It* oper-
ations.
Thirty-seven house RepubUosms
petitioned Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan to fix Impart
quotas on foreign agriculture peo-
ductloru now surplus in this coun-
try. They laid the move eras aaoddd
to guarantae American farsson
“stable markets and prtosa.”
Training Union
Program Slated
The monthly planning meettac og
the tttoMbg U»l°n program of We
Firs* Wpttot church srighwlr
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