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The Heart of the Rich
Canadian Valley
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Daily Newspaper Serving Oklahoma’s Blue Ribbon Area
You Can Buy It For
Less In El Reno
Single Copy, Five Cents
UP) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1942
(U.R) MEANS UNITED PRESS
VOLUME 50, NO. 299
EARLY ATTACK BY
Hasty Precautions Made
To Resist Invasion
On New Front
Knox Says United States Enters Into
'War Era't ffYoducing Supplies, Ships
Manifold Dutiti1
Burden on Nai
NORFOLK, Va.. Feb. 16-
Secretary of Navy Frank
said today that the United
has passed into the "war e
the production of supplier
ships which, in the end, wil'
victory.
SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 16—(U.R)
—Australia prepared urgently to
resist a Japanese invasion today as
the result of the fall of Singapore.
Many people believed the flight
of a Japanese land-based bombing
plane over Port Moresby, New
Guinea, yesterday, was the first
warning that the attack would be
made soon.
The plane circled lazily over the
town, 330 miles from Australia, tor
half an hour looking over the sit-
uation, and left without dropping
bombs.
(The Australian radio said that
if the war cabinet would meet to-
morrow and the war council would
meet Wednesday. Parliament, call-
ed into special session last week,
meets in secret Friday.)
Singapore Opens Battle
Prime Minister John Curtin said
in a statement at Canberra today
that Singapore was Australia's
Dunkirk.
“Dunkirk opened the battle of
Britain and the fall of Singapore
opened the battle for Australia,"
he said.
“On its issue depends not merely
the fate of this commonwealth but
the frontier of the United States,
Indeed the frontier of all tne
Americas, and therefore in large
measure the fate of the British
speaking world.
"Only tile dullest person could
fail to discard all pre-concelved
ideas of strategy of the war, and
who would not accept the fall of
Singapore as involving a com-
pletely new situation.”
Army Minister F. M. Forde said
that it was still possible to save
Australia and the Netherlands East
Indies as bases from which to at-
tack Japan.
“All Must Fight or Work"
"We must all now either work or
fight," he continued. “Our exist-
ence may depend T>n it.”
Government quarters declined to
comment on the speed) yesterday
of Prime Minister Winston
Churchill.
The people had been expecting
the fall of Singapore but the news
started a new cry for effective ac-
tion instead of excuses, for vigor-
ous offensive spirit instead of
shop-worn assurances that every-
thing would come right In the ena
In unofficial quarters some per-
sons said that Churchill's speech
was one of the weakest he ever
had made, and asked whether even
now he fully realized the serious-
ness of the situation in the Pa-
cific.
^ § Vlany Fronts Place Extremely Heavy
u Protecting Shores and Coastal Commerce
8 ir shores and our coastal com- other means in the Alabama to de-
& terce. crease Its structural weight and
3, "We must protect those strate- to add considerably to its capacity
areas vital to our defense— for guns, armor and ammunition,
lawaii. th(* Panama canal, the When the $80,000,000 Alabama
Caribbean. We must defend our and preceding new ships of her
jood neighbors to the southward, class are completed the navy will
in I "We must protect the flow of j have 19 battleships, the greatest
g* ic
~ lav
that battle force in the world. Excluded
Speaking at the launching ...,
the Norfolk navy yard of the 35,- supplies to Great Britain,
000-ton battleship Alabama-fourth citadel of freedom. We must check from that figure are the Arizona
of a class of the most powerful as best wq, can the surging flood which was destroyed at Pearl Har-
warships afloat—Knox said the | of Japanese aggression in the An- I bor and the Oklahoma which cap-
navy now is operating over three-
fourths of the globe.
WHERE U-BOATS SINK 15 SHIPS
% jSL
SUNK DAMAGED
Draft Board Will Finish
Third Sign-lip At
9 I*. M. Tonight
CANADA
The Alabama, her grim, grey
greatness dwarfing the workers who
fashioned her from steel, was
launched from the Norfolk navy
of the Elizabeth river
Bows towering above a cheering
sized there and is temporarily out
of commission. Eleven more battle-
ships of still heavier classes are
in the published two-ocean fleet
program under contract.
The Alabama, fourth vessel of
tipodes, until we can muster cur
forces to send it hurtling back to
whence it came.”
All these activities, Knox said,
demand that the United States,
as rapidly as possible, gain con-
.... . . .. . , trol of the seas, not merely the I that name, is of the same class
!fr<!^Ulld,!1Lgu!'.t>S_<.,L0 6 W8 e S i surface, but the waters below and as the battleships Indiana, South
the air above. Dakota and Massachusetts, all of
Emphasizing that the Alabama which were launched last year but
throng of men who sped the was being launched nine months have not been commissioned,
dreadnaught to completion nine aiiead 0f schedule, Knox praised The Alabama Is 680 feet long,
months ahead of schedule, the Ala- ad wj)0 participated in its con- with a beam of 108 feet, 2 inches,
bama moved majestically down the strUction and disclosed that the and a draft of 34 feet. It has a
heavily greased ways and into the navy pennant has been award- designed speed in excess of 27
river with a mighty splash. ed the Norfolk navy yard for out- knots and will carry a main bat-
"Today we know beyond a doubt standing work. As evidence that tery of nine 16-inch guns mounted
that the burden upon our navy the navy has remained in the in three turrets, as well as the
is the greatest it has ever had to forefront of ship construction, he most modern anti-aircraft and
bear,'’ he said. "We must protect pointed to the use of welding and j secondary broadside guns.
Axis Air Raiders Continue
To Hammer Malta
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pending the next phase in the.
battle of Africa—which may be a(
Hitler surprise—the fighting in the
Mediterranean zone was marked
today by reports of patrol clashes
In Libya, fierce air action and an
axis assault on a British convoy.
Rome announced that axis air
and sea forces had sunk a British
destroyer, a patrol boat and seven
merchant men in a three-day at-
tack on a convoy bound from
Alexandria to Malta.
The Italians admitted that one
of their submarines was missing
in that battle and that British
bombers hit the towns of Augusta,
Syracuse and Florida yesterday in
an assault on the east coast of
Sicily.
Axis airmen continued to ham-
mer Malta, British Mediterranean
Island base 60 miles from Sicily.
Russian Offensive Unabating
The British announced patrol
contact with axis forces over a
wide front in Libya, where the
axis may be preparing a drive j
against Tobruk or to outflank it j
again in a thrust against Egypt.
Did You Hear
T
1 and two others from this
vicinity have completed all ex-
aminations preparatory to en-
listment as army air cadets and
now are waiting for a new class
to be called to Kelly Field, Tex.
The group includes Raymond
Urton, Jack Evans and Hubert
Marsh of El Reno, Al Mongold
of Fort Reno and Willie Fletch-
er of Concho.
Winton Stickley of San Diego,
Calif., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Stickley, 519 South Rock Island
avenue, notified his parents
Sunday by long distance tele-
phone that he has been chosen
to enter training in the "com-
mando" detachment of thq
Ctilled States marines.
Oklahoma Is Included In
Exploration Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—<U.R>—
I Secretary of Interior Harold L.
j ickes today recommended to con-
j grass a huge mineral and power
| resources development program to
; meet the nation's war needs.
I The program covered 25 states
and the territory of Alaska. Cost
or putting it into effect was not
estimated.
Ickcs urged the rapid completion
At noon today Canadian county's;
draft board had registered 1,250
more men in the 20-44 age group
as the third nationwide military
service registration drew to a close.
The first day of the current
registration, Saturday, 661 men
were listed by the local board, and
Sunday another 366 men were list-
ed to bring the total to 1,027.
While the draft board office,
located at U7V4 North Bickford
avenue, will remain open until 9
p. m. tonight, officials expected
only a few more men to appear
for registration.
Requirements Specified
The almost 3,000 county men
aged 21 through 35 who were listed
in the first two registrations were
not required to register again, but
all other men 20 to 44, inclusive,
were required to register for mili-
tary service Saturday, Sunday or
today.
The age group includes all men
born on or after Feb. 17, 1897, and
on or before Dec. 31, 1921.
National selective service head-
quarters announced Saturday that
men already registered would be
called for military duty before the
9,000,000 registering throughout the
nation over the week-end.
Procedure Revised
Originally it wTas said that names
of the newly enroled men would
be "integrated” with those of the
first two registrations, but now it
has been decided that the new
names should be placed on the
draft rolls behihd the 17,600,000
men previously registered. (
A lottery similar to those con-
ducted after each of the earlier
registrations will be held within
the next month or six weeks to
determine the order in which new
registrants will be made subject to
Call.
At registration eaclf man is given
a registration certificate which he
1 PENNSYLVANIA
Atlantic
Ocean
Norness, Jon. 14
,CoimbrjfeAm«:ilJol;nd'
Jan. IS
Feb. 2
Indian Arrow, Feb. 4
- ltw.UWd.M. 2
^ \ DLL ^Francis E. Powell, Jon. 27
VIRGINIA
Norfolk^
—
NORTH CA»
\
China Arrow, Feb. 5
San Gil, Feb. 3
iV_ » ^^Rochcster, Jon. 30
jJj^j^Moloy, Jon. 19
Allan Jackson, Jan. 18
j ‘
City ot%, Venore, Jon. 24 /
Atlanta,
Jan. 19
Bermuda-bound Canadian
liner Lady Hawkins sunk
Jan. 19; 245 live* lott
> Ciltvaira, Jan. 19
Deliberate Destruction By
Dutch Leaves Damage
Of $100,000,000
In a month of raiding off U. S. coasts, German U-boats have sunk
the 15 vessels spotted on map, damaged another, and sunk 15 others
in the north Atlantic ofl Canada. Nearly 450 lives have been lost in
the U. S. coast sinkings which took a toll of 113,163 tons of shipping,
mcluding 10 oil tankers.
|
and recommended
struction oi 17 sample steam and
hydro-eiectric projects in 12 states.
He estimated the cost of the sam-
| pie projects at $350,603,000, and
said they would provide 10,000,000,-
000 kilowatt hours of energy an-
nually.
The specific recommendation ln-
_ i eluded:-
Standard Oil Refinery Is Oklahoma—Exploration of lead
of the Bonneville-Coulee power I must have in his personal posses
system, and recommended con-] s,on al all tlmeSf and failure to
have in his possession hi$ regis-
tration certificate is a violation
of selective service regulations.
NEAR VENEZUELA
Shelled
WILLEMSTAD. Curacao, Dutch
West Indies, Feb. 16—(/P)—1The
unlbatcd and MU> bd^bmldW that M an«»y aubmartne
overnight blasted at docks in the
tacked Aruba today, torpedoed
gt ; three tankers and shelled the re-
Convict Beating Charged
By Mrs. Bassett
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I oil installations there. Texas —$4,205,000
week from
strait.
Fresh Uneasiness Noted
Vichy, France, bulked large in! The refinery
conjecture over Germany’s con-(damaged in the attack. Aneta said
in the Mcditer-'and there were no
I land.
and zinc deposits in tri-state dis-
trict.
j Arkansas — Construction of a
military plant at Batesville to pro-
duce 294,000 long tons of manga-
nese, and mining of 1.500,000 tons
of the ore in that district.
Kansas—Exploration of trl-statr.
lead and zinc deposits.
Missouri — Exploration of tri-
state zinc deposits, and of lead de-
posits in tri-state district and
TURKEYf IS SEEN
Germans Building Barges
In Greek Ports
11-Year-Old Boy Seeking Need of More Instructors
.$25,000 Mentioned By Bennett
In a damage action filed in
Canadian county district court b:
WASHINGTON. Feb, 16 —(4*)—
The daily per capita cost of op-
at
James Higgins, a minor, by his j erating the federal reformatory
father, Ed Higgins, a judgment of|El Reno, Okla., will be an estimat-
$25,000 for personal injuries is ed 75 cents during the next fiscal
being sought against Duard Palmer year compared with 70 cents this Japanese Invasion forces, pour-
Killgo, 29, of Pampa, Tex., doing)year.
BATAVIA, Feb. 16 —(4V- The
Japanese, already victors at Sing-
apore, gained another stepping
stone today in their southward
offensive—Palembang in southern
Sumatra—but the united nations
were exacting a frightful price for
this gain on the approach to Java.
United States, Dutch and Brit-
ish planes, furrowing Bankgka
strait with their bombs, scored di-
rect hits on two Japanese cruisers
and five crowded transports. One
of the cruisers was set afire.
The united nations command,
from its Java headquarters, an-
nounced that fighters and bombers
had caused "great devastation”
among the Japanese moving Into
the Palembang region.
Japanese Victory “Complete”
The smoke of the Dutch "scorch-
ed earth” policy hung over tjie
great oil refining center. The dam-
age, estimated at $100,000,000, was
said to be the greatest piece of
deliberate destruction by man of
his own property.
The battle of Malaya ended in
bloody but complete Japanese
victory.
The crucial battle of the Nether-
lands East Indies has started with
capture of the Palembang foot-
hold, and Australia is girding for
her struggle.
These closely linked developments
in the southward drive of Japan
were in turn deeply related to the
other major drive in Burma to cut
China off from the supplies of the
other united nations and force
the eastern gateway to India.
"Holding Actions" Envisaged
The united nations evidently en-
visaged nothing more than holding
actions until their full war poten-
tial could be mobilized for the
eventual counter-thrust.
business as Dixie Tire company.
The plaintiff's petition, recorded
in ttie office of Frank Taylor,
court clerk, relates that the plain-
James V. Bennett, director of the
bureau of prisons, told a house ap-
propriations sub-committee during
hearings on the justice depart-
tiff, who is 14 years of age, was ment’s appropriation bill for 1943,
standing to the south of U. 8. released today, that the increased
highway 66 at a point approximate- j cost would be due primarily to the
ly eight miles west of El Reno at rising prices for all commodities.
about 8 p. m. Jan. 31 when he was
struck by a car operated by Kill-
go.
Population Increasing
The estimated population of the
institution next fiscal year was
The plaintiff contends the Killgo j gjVen as 1.200 inmates compared
was only slightly
multiple-pur-
pose steam plant at El Paso, 25,000
kilowatt capacity.
M'ALESTER. Feb. 16 —(IP)— A
four-way investigation was launch-
ed today in the death of McAles-
ter penintentiary's oldest convict
after Mrs. Mabel Bassett, com-
missioner of charities and correc-
tions, charged a prison sergeant
beat him before he died.
The convict was C. E. Marble,
an 85-year-old eccentric whose
death sentence for killing an In-
gcrsoll, Alfalfa county, boy "be-
cause he pestered me,” was com-
muted In 1927 despite hts pleas
that he be executed.
Marble was found dead in his
cell Friday morning, a bruise on
his head.
Bell To Investigate
Tire death already was under in-
vestigation by Mrs. Bassett, War-
den Fred Hunt and County At-
torney Paul Gotcher, and W M
Bell, chairman of the board of
affairs, said he would "look into
It” when he comes here tomorrow.
Mrs. Bassett said prisoners gave
her this account of Marble’s death:
The aged man, who was tooth-
less, had been in the habit of
taking his food to hts cell in a
segregated tier where he ate at
leisure, giving some to cats and
dogs which went through the cor-
ridor.
Altercation Alleged
In addition, he always carried
with him a bottle of coffee which
he drank, refusing water.
As he started out of the mess
hall Thursday night, the sergeant
ordered him to stop, an order he
may not have heard.
An altercation over the food fol-
lowed, during which Marble was
beaten. Death came five hours
later tu Lift bell
templated moves tn the Meaner- mm casualties on
' uneasiness over the still The number of casualties among Goodwill DilintT
potent French fleet and the tre- the tanker crews was not learned
mendous possibilities involved if; immediately.
Hitler should demand and obtain ■ A fourth tanker was torpedoed
control of that battle force pre- near
Planned Tonight
vailed in Washington.
In Russia, Soviet troops were re
Willemstad harbor and was Goodwill dinner and entertain-
damaged badly but did not sink.
ment program will be presented as
German spring offensive contin-
ued at a furious pace.
Rail Brotherhood
To Have Banquet
shore objectives in the western
hemisphere but the wording indi-
cated that they were.
_____________ one person was injured slightly.
ported"''assaulting the winter de- ,The dispatch did not specifically scheduled at 6:30 p. m.. tonight at
fenses established by Hitler while I say that the three tankers were Red Rock despite almost 2 inches
the Moscow drive to stamp out any! sunk in this first axis attack on! ()f rain over the week-end, tt was
nUinniilinc in thfl Pm I I
announced today.
I While some of the country roads
Aruba, one of the islands of tne | were made impassible by week-end
Dutch West Indies, is only about irainS- the road to Red Rock still
800 miles from the Panama canal. |ls in Bood condition, it was saicl
It is trie site of the world’s larg- jRcd Rock is located on a grave
est oil refinerv. and Curacuao has road three-fourths of a mile north
of U. S. highway 66. 10 miles west
of El Reno.
The dinner will be served by wo-
men of the Red Rock community
| at 6:30 p. m. and later an enter-
! talnment program will be presented
| by the student entertainment bu-
reau of Oklahoma A and M. col-
Plans for a banquet have been I the second largest. For that rea-
announced by the Brotherhood of' son. British marines landed there
Locomotive Firemen and Englne-
ISTANBUL. Turkey, Feb. 16—(/Pi
—New information brought by
travelers today told of German
preparations in southwest Europe,
part of them apparently aimed at
a spring offensive in Russia, but
others difficult to explain as other
than ground work for a drive
against Turkey.
Three developments reported and
given credence in authoritative
quarters as pointing against Tur-
key were:
1. The Germans are building re-
inforced concrete barges in south-
ern Greek ports in a schedule
which called for completion of 200
by early March, each capable of
carrying upward of 200 men with
equipment. The description given
of them rules out the possibility
that they are intended for use
against any one but Turkey.
2. Axis troops on the occupied
Aegean islands, some of them al-
most within shooting distance of
Turkey, are reported practicing
disembarkation maneuvers from
rafts and other small craft.
3. Work on new aliports in these
islands also is said to be far ad-
vanced .
car was being driven at a "high
and dangerous rate of speed" and
alleges negligence upon the part of
the defendant in asking the $25,-
000 judgment for "serious and per-
manent injuries."
Killgo lost control of his auto-
mobile and skidded off the high-
way into a group of persons stand-
ing at the side of the road. It
was reported at the time of the
accident by G. E. Etheridge, state
highway patrolman stationed here,
who said the Killgo boy suffered a
compound fracture of his right leg
and other injuries.
men. It will be held Friday night,
Feb. 20, at the Eagles hall, begin-
ning at 7:30 p. m.
Members of the Ladies Society
of the B. of L. F. and E. will be
guests of the brotherhood at the
banquet and all members of both
organizations are being urged to
attend.
Bataan Peninsula
Fight Still Rages
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 —(/Pi-
Heavy enemy artillery fire and in-
termittent infantry fighting was
reported tn progress today on Ba-
taan peninsula in the Philippines.
A war department communique
said also that Japanese warplanes
were active on the fighting front.
Consolidation of the Japanese
victory at Singapore undoubtedly
will permit increased pressure on
General Douglas MacArthur and
]ik American-Filipino forces.
in 1940 to aid Dutch authorities in
providing protection.
Lindbergh Signs
For Army Draft
Colder Weather
Due For Tonight
The Oklahoma City weather bu-
reau forecast a cold wave for Ok-
lahoma tonight with temperatures
sinking to 5 to 10 degrees In the
north portion and near 20 in the
extreme southern sectors of Okla-
homa, the United Press reported.
It will be the coldest weather In
a month, as temperatures have
been above normal since the early
January cold spell. Strong winds
will accompany the cold wave, said
the weather bureau.
Rains over the week-end in Ok-
lahoma included Ponca City 1.54
Inches, El City 1.44, McAlester 1.16
Soldiers Unhurt
In Rail Accident
with a daily average of 1,023 in
1941.
Declaring that there is a large
amount of supplies now stored at
the E! Reno institution, Bennett
asked congress to permit employ-
ment of an assistant storekeeper
there at $1,800 a year.
He also said there was need for
two additional vocational instruc-
tors.
“Now that the institution has
been completed, we are organizing
classes in welding, automobMe me-
chanics, carpentry and so on," said
Bennett.
"We have not needed these peo-
ple until now because the insti-
tution was being completed."
Other Needs Cited
He urged also that an addition-
al steamfitter be provided at the
Institution.
A new boiler and a fire truck
are necessary, he declared. Addi-
tional funds to continue improve-
ment of the institution's sewage
disposal plant also were urged.
Bennett said urgent additional
farm buildings required Included a
piggery.
ing into southern Sumatra by sea
after a suicidal thrust by air-borne
shock troops had been crushed,
captured Palembang, only 250 miles
from Batavia, capital of the Neth-
erlands East Indies.
In Australia, Prime Minister
John Curtin called for mobilization
of "everything we have” in the
commonwealth's fight for life.
The Japanese said unofficially
that their captives in Singapore
numbered 60.000 men. London held
no hope that any large force had
escaped, for the Singapore strategy
had called for a fight to the fin-
ish.
Two Assigned To
Reformatory Jobs
Two El Reno men, Egon C. von
Merveldt and Estle H. lies, today
Oklahoma City .84, Waynoka .75, j began work at the El Reno federal
reformatory under civil service
temporary appointments, according
lege, Stillwater.
Draft of Business
Upheld By Court
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 —(JP)—
Smiling but declining to answer.
questions, Charles A. Lindbergh |
registered here today for selective j
service. He formerly held an air I _
corps reserve commission but re-1 M . ... ... _
signed it last summer while making WASHING! ONFetr Llv ,.n
speeches criticizing the president's Jhe supreme court s.al. °'
foreign policies. He now Is en-,daV congress had
gaged in a civilian research assign-1 Power to draft business establish-
ment for the war department. for the war effort andadded
_ i that still other measures may have
to be devised to prevent profiteer-
ALIENS ROUNDED UP
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 16—
UP)—Twenty-five raiding parties de-
scended simultaneously ,on Japan-
ing.
Justice Hugo Black made these
assertions In a 5 to 1 opinion up-
ese residents in the vicinity of j holding contracts entered into by
the government vfith the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding corporation for
construction of ships tn the first
World war.
strategic Sacramento air fields to-
day in another F. B. I. roundup
of suspected enemy aliens in
northern California.
Sabotage was ruled out today by
Rock Island railroad officials who
investigated the cause of a troop
train derailment Sunday -after-
noon three and one-half miles west
of Sayre.
No soldiers were injured seriously,
although considerable damage was
caused to equipment on the flat
cars that were derailed. Two sol-
diers suffered superficial injuries.
Several flat cars and boxcars
of the eastbound train were de-
railed when a rail broke, apparent-
ly after all the passenger cars, had
passed the point.
Traffic on the roadbed, which
was believed to have been weak-
ened by heavy rains, was halted
for a short time. Passenger cars
in the troop train continued to-
ward their destination with only
slight delay.
Ardmore .53. and Tulsa .39.
Rainfall at El Reno was gauged
at .78 Saturday, 1.06 Sunday and
an additional .05 after midnight
Sunday, bringing the total for the
week-end here to 1.89. according to
records of Clyde Musgrove.
Judgment Given
In Labor Action
In a hearing conducted before
Judge Lucius Babcock in Canadian
county district court Saturday,
Judgment for the plaintiff was
given in the action of Grady O’-
Connor against C. H. Krumm and
R. E. Whitlock, doing business as
El Reno Transfer and Storage com-
pany.
The action, filed here July 30,
1941. sought a money Judgment for
unpaid wages allegedly due the
plaintiff under the federal fair
labor standards act of 1938.
to prison officials.
Mr. Merveldt, operator of an
automobile agency, accepted an
appointment as a surveyor at the
reformatory, while Mr. lies, who
lias been working at grocery stores,
became a junior custodial officer.
• WEATHER
State Forecast
Much colder tonight, with cold
wave and strong wind in central
and northern areas: temperatures
5 to 10 above zero in the north to
near 20 above In the extreme south
by morning.
El Reno Weather
For 24-hour period ending at 8
a. m. today. High, 53; low, 35, at
8 a. m„ 35.
State of weather, cloudy.
Rainfall, .36 inch. Week-end
rainfall, 1.89 inches.
Woman Killed In Mishap
Near Marlow
MARLOW, Feb. 16—(/PI—Death
of Mrs. Levo Keester, 70, Okla-
homa City, -fn a three-car colli-
sion near here early today, brought
the state’s week-end traffic fatal-
ity to six, the state highway pa-
trol reported.
Patrolmen said that the car in
which the victims were riding col-
lided with an automobile approach-,
ing from the opposite direction.
First reports had no details of
the Identity of occupants of the
second car or extent of their in-
juries.
The patrol said the accident oc-
curred as the Keester automobile
passed a bus.
The Injured, all of Oklahoma
City, were Donald William Keester,
33; Majorie Luker, 22; Mrs. Leo-
tis Williams, 47, and Dorothy Kees-
ter, 17. All were in an Oklahoma
City hospital.
Divorces Granted
In Two Hearings
Two divorces were issued by
Judge Lucius Babcock during a
session of Canadian county dis-
trict court Saturday.
Jullettla Wright was granted a
decree from Jack Wright after al-
leging extreme cruelty. The couple
was married Sept. 24, 1946, at
Edinbnrg, Tex.
Grant Miller was divorced from
Bessie Birdchief Miller, with de-
sertion alleged as grounds for the
decree. The couple was married at
Calumet Mai'. 7, 1935.
Mr. and Mrs. Estle lies, who
have been residing at 915 South
Bickford avenue, are moving to
207 East Jenkins street.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 50, No. 299, Ed. 1 Monday, February 16, 1942, newspaper, February 16, 1942; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc923920/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.