The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 236, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1948 Page: 1 of 6
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Single Copy, Five Cents
OUS MEANS UNITED
Ifft MEANS ASSOCIATED
Damage Actions
Being Heard In
District Court
Barker Seeking
Judgments After
Highway Accident
Trial of the damage action of
Stanley M. Barker, El Reno, against
Dencil Wilcox and Josephine Wil-
cox of Tucson, Ariz., which opened
in Canadian county district court
Thursday, was being continued to-
day with Judge Baker H. Melone
presiding.
In his petition filed in the office
of Frank Taylor, court clerk, last
March 3, Barker asked judgments
totaling $2,999. Including $260 as
damages to his automobile. $1,000
for medical expense entailed by
his wife's Injuries, and $1,739 for
loss of his wife's services.
The suit was the result of a high-
way mishap which occurred Dec.
12. 1947. The petition related that
the automobile he was driving be-
came wedged between a truck in
front, driven by Mrs. Wilcox, and
a car behind which was driven by
Wilcox, and that as a result of the
ensuing collision he was caused to
suffer damages. Mrs. Barker was
riding in the automobile driven by
her husband.
Tlie accident occurred one-fourth
mile north of Bristow on U. S.
highway 66.
Serving as jurors in the trial
were J. W. Witcher, Hiram Paz-
oureck, J. T. Burkhead, Melvin
Harmon, Jolm Biller, Lloyd Chiles,
H. L. Enterline, Melvin Weber, W.
J. Peters, Esher Hofmann, Elmer
Schwab and Frank Ruzicka.
When Floods Struck in Southern States
Volume 57, No. 236
DEMURRER SUSTAINED
IN DAMAGE HEARING
In Uic damage still of Race E.
Malone, St. Joseph, Mo., against
Charles DeWayne Rilkes and Bill
Hunt, both of whom reside near
Geary, a defense deimurer to the
evidence was sustained by Judge
Baker H. Melone In Canadian
county district court Thursday after
the plaintiff's testimony hud been
introduced in the trial.
In sustaining tlie demurrer, the
court excused the jurors and the
case was dismissed.
In the petition filed last June 8
in the office of Frank Tuylor, court
clerk. Ilie plaintiff sought u judg-
ment of $1,443.70.
Tlie case was filed us tlie result
of a traffic accident which occuircd
at about 7:15 a. m. last April 7 on
U. S. highway 66 at a ixiint 11 miles
west of El Reno.
Malone's petition related that he
was a liasscnger in a 1942 model
sedan which he owned and which
was driven cast by his niece, Marie
P. Dawson, St. Joseph. A 1947
model truck owned by Hunt which
also was being operated east by
Rukes made a left turn across the
highway, the ])elitieil add*, and tlie
automobile collided with the truck.
Malone asked $1,000 lor personal
Injuries which he allegedly received
in tlie collision, plus $423.70 for
damages to lits automobile and $18
for medical expense.
Outhier Given
Service Award
Waiting for an evacuation boat, an Ensley, Ala., family sat patiently on the porch, viewing the fam-
ily automobile which was almost completely Inundated by flood waters. Three days of torrential rains
caused rivers to overflow their banks and hundreds of families in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee
were forced to leave their homes. (NEA Telephoto.)
Benefit Dance
Set Saturday
Policemen Seeking
Funds for Uniforms
No changes have been made in
plans for the El Reno policemen's
benefit ball, scheduled Saturday
night at Mustang field, it was em-
phasized today by Lee Harvey, chief
of police.
Rumors have been circulated.
Harvey said, that tlie dance was
being postponed since a part of,
El Reno’s Band day festival is to
be staged Saturday night.
Such rumors are erroneous, the
police chief declared.
Saturday night’s band program
will be completed In ample lime to
kj-rniit persons to attend both the
festival and the policemen's ball,
Harvey said. The band program at
Legion park Is scheduled to begin at
7 p. m. while the dance will start
at 9 p. m.
1,080 Tickets Sold
Harvey announced today tliat
more than i.ooo tickets to the
dance already have been sold.
Funds derived from the sale of
tickets will be used to purchase new
uniforms for members of the po-
lice department. Ticket sales prior
to noon today stood at 1.080.
Music for the dance Is to be
furnished by George Allen's seven-
piece orchestra from Oklahoma
City. -
Tickets are available from any
member of the police department
and they also can be purchased at
the police station as well as at the
Corner drug store in Yukon and at
the Calumet cufe.
( uuunittec in Charge
The committee in charge of ar-
rangements for the dance includes
John Owens, chairman. Clarence
Chappell, treasurer, and J. D. Ro-
land.
Harvey said that If sufficient
I funds are received to purchase
: complete uniforms for all members
A. R. Outhier has been awarded !01 ^le department. It will be neces-
a 10-year pin in recognition of 10 11 ^ clear a total of $1,800
Did You Hear
^ARLENE BAR’ION, El Reno
V student in Oklahoma Baptist
university at Shawnee, has been
selected to play with the Blson-
ettes. girls’ basketball team. Miss
Barton, a freshman, will play her
first season with tlie O. B. U.
varsity squad. She is the daugh-
ter of Mr and Mrs. W. E.
Barton, 832 South Hadden ave-
nue.
The manager of one of El,
Reno's stores received a note,
together with a sum of money,
apparently from someone suf-
fering from pangs of the con-
science. Tlie letter, unsigned,
read: "I got 2 flashlights at join-
store about 2 years ago. I'm
sorry. Here's money to pay for
it. Forgive me. Sincerely.”
years of continuous service with
Long-Bell Lumber company. The
announcement was made today by
L G. Everltt. vice president and
general manager of the retail de-
partment of the Long-Bell com-
pany. In Kansas City, Mo.
Outhier has been manager of the
Long-Bell company in El Reno
since 1944. He started with Long
Bell In 1936 as assistant manager
at Okeenc and was transferred In
1941 to El Reno as assistant man-
ager. In 1942 he was promoted to
manager of (lie Caldwell. Kan..
Long-Bell building material store
but returned to El Reno to assume
the management of the El Reno
store 111 1944.
Outhier Is married and has one
child, Ronnie, 5. Both he and Mrs.
Outhier have been active in the
civic and social life of EH Reno. He
Is a member of the Kiwanis club,
the senior and Junior chambers of
commerce, and has worked on ether
community developments since com-
ing to El Reno.
Expenses in staging the dance,
including the fee for tlie orchestra
and the rental of the lmll at Mus-
tang field, will be approximately
$200.
Delivery Is Accepted On
First 'Sirafojet' Bomber
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 —(U.R»—
Tlie air force has accepted deliver}’
on Its first Boeing B-47 "Strato-
Jet” bomber, a high-speed ship
with 18 Jet engines and swept-
back wings.
The Stratojet is In the 600-mile
an hour class with a cruising
radius of more than 800 miles and
a bomb capacity of 10 tons.
The plane recently completed
tests at Moses Lake air force base,
Wash., and will be returned to
the Boeing company for extended
flight testing. The Stratojet will
go into production at the Boeing
plant at Wichita, Kan.
Stephens’ Body
To Arrive Here
The body oi Sergeant Samuel C.
Stephens, son of Mr. and Mis.
M. W. Stephens. Calumet route 2.
will arrive here Monday and will
be taken to the Wilson chapel.
Funeral arrangements have not been
completed.
Sergeant Stephens was killed in
Italy, Nov. 4. 1944. He was with
tliq 45th division infantry. He was
born Oct. 21, 1911. in Hall county,
Georgiu. and came to tlie Calumet
area when 9 yea is old. He lived
there until he entered the armed
services.
Survivors lu nddition to the
parents are five sisters, Mrs. Joe
Blair, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Fred
Boone, in Texas, Mrs. Em&st Stover,
Geary route 2, Mrs. Charles Estep
and Mrs. Otis Estep, both of Calu-
ment route 2: and a brother, Prince
Stephens, of the home.
Weather
Chieftains Are
Playing Game
College Quintet
Opening Season
The El Reno junior college wTU
open its basketball season tonight
against the Seminole Chieftains at
Seminole, Coach Roy Smith reported
today.
The El Reno Chieftains have been
practicing the past couple of weeks
and Smith believes he has a combi-
nation strong enough to win the
Mistletoe conference championship.
Probable starters for tonight's
lilt will be Don I'eddeisen. center;
l<ewts Lutlroll and A1 Herbeiger,
guards; and Charles Hulberl and
BUI MacSwaln, forwards.
ether members of the 12-man
squad arc Jack Clady. Delmar
Stockton Harvey Dorsey. Alliert
Brown. Don Smith, Jack Gray and
Edward Purcell.
The El Reno schedule lias not
been completed but Smith an-
nounced the dates for 13 games.
They are:
Dec. 3—Seminole, there.
Dec. 6—Sayre, there.
Dec. 13—Mangiun, lhero.
Dec. 14—Amarillo, there.
Dee. 17—Seminole, here.
Jan. 3 -Carnegie, there.
Jan. 10—Alius, here.
Jan. 13—Mangum, here.
Jan. 17—Hobart, there.
Jan. 20—Altus, there.
Jan. 25—Hobart, hero.
Feb. 4 Carnegie, here.
Feb. 10 -Open.
Feb. 14—Sayre, here.
Youth Is Given
Prison Term
Three-Year Sentence
Drawn in Burglary
Ronald George Knight, 18. Ok-
lahoma City, charged with second
degree burglary, was sentenced to
serve three years in the state pen-
itentiary at McAlester when he
pleaded guilty Thursday at his ar-
raignment before Judge Baker H.
Melone in Canadian county dis-
trict court. '
Tlie youth and his younger
brother, Wesley Dean Knight. 14,
also of Oklahoma City, were taken
Into custody by local officers Nov.
13 in connection with a series of
burglaries at Calumet.
Brother Pound Delinquent
The younger of the two was ad-
judged delinquent w'hen he was
gi\ en a hearing lu Canadian coun-
ty Juvenile court on Nov. 23 and |
was ordered by Judge Roy M.
Faublon to be committed to the
slate training school lor boys at
Stringtownl
Tlie older youth was charged
.specifically with breaking Into the
Davidson and Case Lumber com-
prny’s office at Calumet Nov. 13.
taking a flashlight and four pocket
knives.
Other Burglaries Admitted
In addition to the lumber com-
pany's office, the H. G. Wilson
grocer}' and the Calumet cafe were
burglarized the night of Nov. Dor
early on the morning of Nov. 13,
officers reported. The grocery store
r< ported a loss of $21.50 in cash
and a quuntity or merchandise. At
the cafe, the loot included three
silver dollars, a dollar bill and a
quantity of cigars.
When the youtlis were taken
h.to custody, they admitted the
three Calumet burglaries and also
said they had burglarized a school
at Foss, Sheriff Lloyd Palmer re-
ported.
Two Convicts
At Alcatraz
Are Executed
Pair Involved In
Slaying Guard
During Rioting
SAN QUENTIN. Calif.. Dec. 3—
i/V— Two convicts from Alcatraz
prison were executed In San Quen-
tin prison today for the slaying
ol an Alcatraz guard In an at-
tempt to escape.
They were Sam Schokley. 36.
kklnaper from Muskogee. Okla.,
and Milan Thompson. 31, murd-
erer of a policeman In Texas.
The death gas was turned on at
10:04 a. m. They were pronounced
dead at 10:12 a. m.
Schokley turned as If to spit at
a guard as they walked him to the
chair and strapped him down.
Thompson had a tight little
smile on his lace.
Smile Fades
Just before gas pellets were
dropped, Thompson closed his eyes
tightly and Ills lips tensed. He ap-
peared to be praying. There never
was a smile from then on.
Schokley sat as if In a stupor.
He showed no emotion whatever.
In the 1946 Alcatraz prison
rioting the two were involved In
the killing of guard William A.
Miller. Two guards and three con-
victs died in that outbreak of
violence and marines were called
ir.to the struggle to subdue the
prisoners—who never escaped from
their cell building.
Appeals Are futile
Schokley made no last-minute
efforts to gain freedom by legal
action, but Thompsou tried un-
successfully two court appeals and
a plea to President Truman.
Thompson was In federal prison
for 99 years, for murdering an
Amarillo, Tex., police officer.
Schokley was serving life for
kidnaping and bank robbery in
Muskogee, Okla.
Both were transferred to Ban
Quentin to die since there is no
execution chamber at Alcatraz.
Blue-Blooded Animals
Go On Auction Block
Owners Preparing To Cash In on Highest
Prices Ever Paid for Meat-on-the-Hoof
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 —CU.R)— More
blue-blooded animals paraded to
the auction block at the interna-
tional livestock exposition today,
and their owners prepared to cash
in on some of the highest prices
ever paid for meat-on-the-hoof.
The grand champion hog and
lamb were groomed for sale,
among many other pedigreed ani-
mals. The blue-ribbon porker Is
"48 Model," a sleek Chester White
owned Jointly by Donald Brown
and V. D. Rider, sr„ of the Tip
Top farms, Flora. Ind.
The champion wether Is a
Hampshire owned by the Univer-
sity of Wyoming, the first of Its
breed to capture the title during
the 49 years the livestock show
has been held.
In other sales, two Iowa larm
boys whose keen rivalry’ began 10
years ago were competing again
lor the attention of cattle buyers.
Robert Schmidt. 18, Delmar,
Iowa, and Glenn Mommsen, 20,
Miles. Iowa, sent their Aberdeen-
Angus calves to the auction arena
ai.d waited to see which would
bring the higher price.
Schmidt's "Black Boy” took the
junior grand championship of the
show, and Mommsen's "Peanuts"
won the junior reserve grand
championship. In open competi-
tion, against veteran cattle raisers,
young Schmidt's entry won the
reserve Angus title.
Mommsen’s animal captured the
senior calf championship.
Wlille the auction sales were
underway, experts from the sheep
shearing bams of the nation com-
peted for the 4-H and professional
shearing titles.
In late results yesterday, Nathan
Goff. Clarksburg, W. Va.. achieved
a four-way sweep with his Clydes-
dale horses. Goff exhibited the
grand champion mare, the reserve
grand champion mare, the reserve
grand champion stallion and the
Junior champion mare.
Chester Weston, Concord, Mich.,
exhibited the reserve grand cham-
pion and Junior champion stal-
lions.
Play To Finance
Class Activities
Purpose lor the presentation of
We Shook the Family Tree,” El
Reno higlischool junior class play,
is to help raise funds to finance
the class activities. It was pointed
out today.
Junior class officers, who are as-
sisting with plans for the presenta-
tion of the play, include Jimmy
Brown, president; Jack Buss, vice
president; Margene Barton, secre-
tary; and Nadine Bynum, treasurer.
Class sponsors are Miss Mabel
Jones, chairman. Miss Helen
Knight. Mrs. Edwin R. Jewttt and
Miss Hope Wood.
Juniors in tlie pi ay cast, who are
working under the direction of
Charles W. Overton, are Joe Frank
Marsh, Merilyu Senn, Fred We-
werka, Elizabeth Ozmun, Jimmy
Mrs sr« ?
Kaiser-Frazer
Deal Revealed
Company Purchasing
Willow Run Plant
Plane Fires On
Tuna Clippers
BAN DIEGO, Calif, Dec. 3—<#>)—
DETROIT, Dec. 3—(/P)— Kaiser-
Frazer corporation announced to-
day it ts buying lor $15,100,000 the
famous, government-owned former
Willow Run bomber plant.
It cost the government $100,000.-
000 to build the factory, according
to unofficial figures.
As lease-holder. Kaiser-Fraser
has been manufacturing automo-
biles in the plant since taking oc-
cupancy after the war's end.
Kaiser-Frazer said it is buying
the plant from the government on
a 20-year Installment plan.
Uncle Bam built the mammoth
factory for the production of B-24
Liberators in the war. Kaiser-Frazer
has occupied it under a 20-year
lease
The great bomber plant, com-
pleted in 1942, was operated by
the Ford Motor company for the
army. It turned out 8.685 bombers
for the air forces
Ford vacated the property in the
summer of 1945 after V-E day.
Subsequently Kaiser - Frazer
obtained its lease.
Kaiser-Frazer. in its purchase
announcement, said it has pro-
duced more than 325,000 automo-
biles in the plant since June 1946.
Three Killed
At Crossing
Automobile Hit
By Streamliner
DUNCAN. Dec. 3 —(U.PJ— Three
men were dead today and a fourth
lay unconscious after a train
struck their car at a railroad cross-
ing where no blinkers have been
erected.
A witness said the 1948 sedan was
traveling approximately 50 inlles
an hour when a Rock Island
streamliner slammed into it and
carried it 60 feet down the track
before the car rolled into a ditch.
Lieutenant W. D. Hamilton of the
Lawton highway patrol detachment
said the highway crossing has been
open for three months but that no
blinkers have been installed.
Tlie victims, all from Duncan,
are:
Robert Lee Smith, 31, driver of
the car.
James Onthain Magee. 30.
Paul W. Whitlock, 21.
The fourth man in the car, Billy
G. Pipkin, about 22, was still un-
conscious this morning in Pat-
terson hospital here. His condition
is critical.
Tlie four men. employed by oil
firms here, were returning home
(rom work when the accident oc-
curred.
The trio of deatlis brings the
traffic toll for Oklahoma to 462 for
1948 This Is three more than the
number a year ago at this time. „
Slaughter Denies
Federal Charge
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 —(/p)
Former Representative Roger C.!anmlal wage reviews.
State Forecast
Generally fair tonight, slightly
warmer in central and west. Sat-
urday increasing cloudiness and
continued mild. Lows tonight 38
to 45.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8 a. m. today: High, 58; low, 33; at
8 a. m„ 35.
State of weather; Partly cloudy,
shower.
Precipitation: lYace.
tuna clippers off the coast of Nica-
ragua. Harold Oary, executive
munager of the American Tuna-
boat association, disclosed today.
He said that Curl Soares, skipper
of the Sun Ray, one of tlie three
fishing boats, sent him the follow-
ing telegram:
"Tuna clippers Liberator. City of
San Diego and Sun Ray fired on
by unidentified plane 12:15 Green-
wich time Dec. 2, 10 miles offshore,
70 miles southeast of Corlnto. No
damage suffered.”
Cary said he Immediately tele-
phoned the state department in
Washington, D. C., advising it of
the episode. He also Instructed the
tuna clipper captains to contact tlie
U. S. embassy at Nicaragua.
Cary said he presumed the tuna
boats were enroute to Punatarenas.
Costa Rica for refueling at the
time of the incident, and expressed
the belief their voyage was con-
tinued.
num. Jeannine Broady and Max
Niles. Mary Lou Hahn, a freshman
who plays the part of a little girl.
Is the 12th member of the cast.
The play will be presented Dec.
7 lu the highschool at 2:30 p. m.
and again at 8 p. ni.
Play Being Presented
At Calumet Highschool
"Creeping Shadows," a three-act
comedy drama, will toe presented by
tlie junior and senior classes ol
Calumet highschool at 8 p. m. to-
night In tlie Calumet school aud-
itorium. Tlie play Is under tlie
direction of tlie class sponsors, Miss
Viola Hart and Ernest F. Doke, jr.
A large cast will take part In the
play. The leading roles are held by
Joy Ellen Spear and Jimmy Thomp-
son while other principals In the
cast are Lavenie Lucas, Clyde Han-
sen and Paul NltzeL
Slaughter, Missouri Democrat and
political foe of President Truman,
pleaded innocent today to a charge
of violating the federal lobbying
act.
U. S. District Judge Henry A.
Schweinhaut set bond at $1,000 for
Slaughter’s release and gave the
defense until Dec. 24 to file mo-
tions.
Slaughter, defeated for re-election
in 1946 after Mr. Truman Inter-
vened in the primary campaign
against him, has denounced the
charge as "politically Inspired.” He
said after his Indictment Nov. 23
that he would fight it to the finish.
Tlie 43-year-old former repre-
sentative was accused of falling to
register with congress as a lobbyist
for grain interests In Kansas City,
Chicago and Minneapolis.
Maritime Unions
Ending Strike
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 3—</Pt—
Agreement was reached today with
the last of five striking maritime
unions to cud tlie west coast strike.
Omar Hoskins, federal conciliator,
said tlie CIO radio operators and
tlie Pacific American Shipowners
association came to terms after an
all night, conference. Both sides
were to hold ratification meetings
today.
Earlier the other unions and em-
ployers reached agreements to cud
the three-month strike.
Even before the radio operators
and shipowners readied terms, the
unions had agreed to a limited work
schedule today, with four ships
lieed for work In this port so that
Christmas cargo could start moving
to Huwaii and tlie Philippines.
Hie radio operators’ new contract
would run for tliree years, with
It provides
Two Forfeit Bonds
For Overparking
Two bonds of $1 each, posted
Thursday for overparklng, were for-
feited in municipal court today,
records of Lee Harvey, chief of
police, disclosed.
Bonds were forfeited by Mrs. Ed
Koelsch. 1048 South Miles avenue,
and W. H. Homberger, 915 South
Wilson avenue.
for a 10 percent pay increase, bring-
ing the basic freighter wage from
$295 a month to $325. Operators will
receive pay for shifting ships in port.
Six Children Are
Burned to Death
OSHKOSH. Wis., Dee. 3—
Six small children were burned to
death late last night when un ex-
ploding oil burner set off a fire
In their home.
Their father, Arnold Carpenter,
fought unsuccessfully to save them.
Firemen found four of the chil-
dren dead in the blazing home. Tlie
two others died enroute to a hos-
pital. The mother was working in
a factory at the time. She was
hospitalized from shock when told
all her children had died.
Carpenter, a machine operator,
was home alone with the children
when the fire started. A wall of
flame blocked Ills rescue attempts.
Although he was seriously burned,
he refused hospitalization.
Rose Marie, 7, Russell, 4, Kenneth,
3, and Sandra. 4 months, died in
the flames. Two others, Charlotte,
5, and Barbara, 2, were still alive
when taken from the blazing build-
ing.
Music Galore
Promised Here
Preparations Made
For Band Festival
There will be music galore In
El Reno Saturday when highschool
bands from a wide section of Okla-
homa will be In the city to par-
ticipate in the second annual band
festival sponsored by the chamber
of commerce and tlie highschool
music department.
Thirteen or 14 bands are expected
to start arriving in El Reno early
hi the morning.
Opening tile activities will be a
parade through the business district
starting at 11 a. m. The parade will
form south of London street on
Rock Island avenue.
Line of march will be north on
Rock Island to Rogers street, west
to Bickford avenue, south to Wade
street, west to Choctaw avenue and
north to the courthouse.
Trophies Offered
Two trophies will be presented to
tlie two top bands in the parade.
The judges will be stationed in the
200 block on South Rock Island.
During the afternoon visiting band
directors will attend a clinic under
the direction of Leonard H. Haug,
director of bands at the University
of Oklahoma, and Milbum E. Carey,
band director at Phillips university,
Enid.
Members of the bands will be
taken on a tour of interesting sites
during the afternoon.
Contests To Follow
The main marching contests for
the bands will be at 7 p. m. on
the football field at Legion park.
Cash prizes are being offered for
first and second places in both
class A and B.
The El Reno higlischool band and
the Booker T. Washington band
both will appear in the parade
Saturday morning, but neither will
be eligible to receive a trophy.
As an added attraction tlie all-
girl drum and bugle corps of Still-
water will be here and will take part
hi the program. The corps will not
compete for the awards.
Bands are expected from Weather-
ford, Sayre, Carnegie, Kingfisher.
Lawton, Yukon, Sulphur, Harrah,
Moore. Stillwater, Guthrie, Crescent
and Idabel.
Government Of
Chiang Kai-shek
Views Retreat
Smoke Columns
Are Rising High
Above Suchow
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chiang Kai-shek's government,
admitting the loss of burning Su-
chow, hinted today it will make a
fighting retreat Into mountainous
south China if the Communists
take Nanking.
Smoke columns 8,000 feet nigh
rose from Suchow, 211 miles north-
west of the capital. Indicating the
Chinese at least succeeded in de-
stroying vast stores there to keep
them from the Communists.
The quarter-million government
troops from Suchow are moving
south to try to relieve an army
group trapped at Suhsien. The
Communist armies appeared to be
better led and in better fighting
mettle and certainly in larger num-
bers than Chlang’s dispirited troops.
The threat to Peiping in north
China increased after other Com-
munists cut the 100-mile railroad
leading to Kalgan.
Madame Chiang Confers
Madame Chiang, who flew from
China to put on the bite for per-
haps a few more billions In Amer-
ican aid, saw Secretary of State
George C. Marshall for an hour.
President Truman said he would
talk to her at some later date.
She was making some prog-ess but
official Washington appeared pretty
cool.
The united nations approved a
new American plan for broad con-
ciliation on Jewish and Arab
boundaries In Palestine. Tlie pro-
posal disregards the plan ol Count
Police Bernadotte, the mediator
killed by Jews In September. The
political committee rejected a pro-
posal that the conciliators follow
Bernadotte’s recommendation that
Arab Palestine be given to Tran*.
Jordan.
Scare Campaign Launched
Communists launched a last-
minute scare campaign today to
try to keep Berliners from voting
Sunday.
Their newspapers asserted, with-
out foundation, that the U. s.
might withdraw from Berlin by
spring and that Washington might
recall General Lucius D. Clay, the
U. 8. military governor.
The Russians recognized a Com-
munist rump government “as the
only legal" regime for Berlin and
pledged it support. The regime was
formed this week at a Red mass
meeting. The Communists, assured
a trouncing In the western sector
city elections Sunday, are trying
to get Germans to boycott the vot-
ing.
Orders Issued
To Stop Talking
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3—«-On
instructions from the White House,
tile aimed forces have ordered all
personnel to stop talking about tlie
effect of the proposed budget on
tlie military.
Tlie tact that President Truman
has stepped In to shut off such talk
was disclosed today when the air
force issued a statement which
said:
“The air force is circulating to
all' air force personnel the letter
from President Truman which di-
rected that extreme caution be
exercised in statements on items
which may be Included in the budget
and legislative programs."
Adult Sewing Class
To Model Garments
Women who attended the second
adult clothing class will hold a
private “showing'' at 2 p. in. Mon-
day In tlie homemaklng rooms at
El Reno highschool. It was an-
nounced today by Miss Willa Dean
Nicholson, homemaking Instructor.
Tlie women will wear their com-
pleted garments at the meeting.
Alter the first of the year, Miss
Nicholson said, a course In tailoring
for adults will be offered.
Traffic Mishap
Causes Damage
Extensive property damage was
caused in a traffic midiap which
occurred at 5:10 a. m. today In the
700 block of South Macomb avenue,
Lee Harvey, chief of police, re-
ported.
A 1947 model sedan operated north
by Lawrence A. Dorsey. 21, of 619
South Roberts avenue, collided with
a 1947 model sedan owned by Rev.
J. W. Hodges, 704 South Macomb
avenue, which was parked at tlie
curb.
Damage to a front fender and
grille of the Dorsey automobile was
estimated at $125 while damage to
a front fender and grille of the
parked automobile also was approxi-
mately $125, officers said.
A 1938 model coupe operated east
on Watts street by A. L. Smith, 72,
El Reno route 1, and a 1941 model
sedan driven east by Mrs. M. P.
Kell}', 915 South Macomb avenue,
collided in the 100 block of East
Watts at 4:10 p. m. Thursday while
Smith was pulling from a parked
position.
Damage to tlie right rear of the
Kelly automobile was estimated at
$35 wiille Uie iett front of the other
vehicle was damaged slightly, Har-
vey said.
U. 5. About To Break
Wheat Export Record
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 —<U.R>—
Tire United 8tat.es is about to break
its own record for wheat exports.
Tlie agriculture department has
announced overseas shipments of
108.891,000 bushels of wheat and
flour for the first three months of
the 1948-49 flscal\year.
Tlie allotment brtngs to 413.000,-
000 bushels the total wheat eports
for the first nine months of the
current calendar year. That Is only
67.000,000 bushels short of the rec-
ord set In 1947-48.
Bond Forfeited On
Speeding Charge
Bobby Lee Ross, 115 North El
Reno avenue, booked at the police
station at 11:10 p. m. Thursday
on a charge of speeding forfeited
a $5 bond In municipal court to-
day. records of Lee Harvey, diicl at
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Harle, Budge. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 236, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1948, newspaper, December 3, 1948; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc924260/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.