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El Reno, Oklahoma, Monday, June 29, 1953
IF) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Barnes Favored
In Race for RFC
Attorney's Post
Party Heads To Meet
Tuesday for Try At
Patronage Fuss End
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 29-AJR)
— C. E. “Deity" Barnes, one of
Oklahoma's original boosters for
Dwight D. Elsenhower, today held
the Inside track for a job as at-
torney for the Oklahoma City loan
office of the Reconstruction Fi-
nance corporation.
Barnes, who led the Oklahoma
campaign tor Mr. Elsenhower oefore
his nomination last year, has been
recommended for the RPC post.
OOP National Committeeman Bailie
Vinson said today.
Barnes formerly was mayor of
Outhrle and' first met the president
when the latter was a lieutenant
colonel on maneuvers In Louisiana
In 1940.
Vinson, of Tulsa, said the Barnes
appointment—plus seven others—
have been agreed upon by the Ok-
lahoma Republican leademtlp Sev-
eral other Important appointments
have been the subject of bitter
controversy.
Meeting Set Tuesday
The Republican state central
committee will meet in Oklahoma
City Tuesday to try to settle the
patronage fuss.
Vinson said the Republican, na-
tional committee had Informed him
of the status ol a number of appli-
cants for prospective appointments
in Oklahoma. Barnes' endorsement
was referred by the national com-
mittee to the RPC last Monday,
according to Vinson's report.
Another leader in the Eisenhower-
for-president drive. Oklahoma City
attorney Vernon Downing. Is being
recommended as manager of the
Oklahoma City RPC office.
Recommended appointments which
have been forwarded by the na-
tional committee to the proper divi-
sions of the federal government in-
clude:
Controversy Arises
U. 8. marshal, western district—
Dudley Branom of Enid.
U. 8. marshal, northern district—
James Y. Victor of Afton.
(The U. 8. marshal for the east-
ern district is one of the appoint-
ments which had caused contro-
versy. A Democrat—H. I. Hinds—
recently was appointed to the post
temporarily because of the Repub-
lican deadlock.)
Director, farm home administra-
tion—Former State Senator Perry
Howell of Blackwell.
Federal housing administration.
Tulsa olflce —Hugh Prather of
Tulsa.
Two Recammeadrd
Two men have been recommend-
ed as members of the state com-
mittee of the production and mar
keting administration. They are
Forest Beall of Nash and A. J.
Allen of Bokchtto.
Vinson said he and state Repub-
lican chairman Floyd Carrier have
agreed on Lewis Wolfe of Outhrle
as state chairman of the produc-
tion-marketing agency, but Mrs.
Pearl Sayre, the national commit-
teewoman. has not endorsed him.
Vinson said Carrier has endorsed
his son. Floyd S. Carrier. Jr., as
regional director of the small de-
fense plants administration. Vinson
said he lavors Walter E. "Oene"
Curry of Oklahoma City for the
post.
Carrier Endorses Pair
Vinson said Carrier has endorsed
two Republicans. Ted R. Pisher of
Watonga and Carmon C. Harris of
Oklahoma City, for the U. S. at-
torney Job In Oklahoma City. Vin-
son and Congressman Puge Belcher
favor Fisher, while Mrs. Sayre
Joined Carrier in endorsing Harris.
According to Vinson, the Republi-
can national committee Is holding
both applications pending complete
endorsement of one man or the
other.
So far. only one major federal
Japanese Flood Toll Near
2,000 Lost; Rains Drive
Million From Their Homes
TOKYO, June 29—(UP)—The flood toll in southern
Japan climbed toward 2,000 today, as the clouds which
dumped 15 to 30 inches of rain on soggy Kyushu island over
the week-end moved southward to menace its southern coast.
Official reports listed 1,918 flood victims late today in
the inundated northern districts of the island—457 dead,
815 injured and 646 missing. Nearly 1,000,000 Japanese had
been driven from their homes.
No American casualties had been reported, but hundreds
of servicemen and their families narrowly escaped the flood
waters. At least two U. S. airbases were transformed into
islands by the floods, but no
serious damage to military
installations was reported.
General Mark W. Clark's head-
quarters here ordered U. 8 forces to
offer "all possible assistance and
lellef" to flood sufferers. Lieuten-
ant General Paul W. Kendall was
assigned to command a disaster
center at Camp Hakata. while State
Minister Bamboku Ono took charge
of the Japanese relief effort.
Water Seals Taaael
Flood waters sealed the tunnel
Unking Kyushu with the main Jap-
anese Island of Honshu, and bad
weather yesterday hampered air
lescue efforts. U. 8 planes swarm-
ed aloft today to carry relief sup-
plies to the flood zone.
Thirty-seven American men.
women and children were rescued
by breeches buoy from the U. S.
army rest hotel at Aso. isolated and
partially wrecked by a storm-induc-
ed landslide A Hooded ravine made
it Impossible to reach the hotel by
any other means.
Trucks and buses moved 49 alr-
lorce families out of a housing area
near Ashiya airfield last night, less
than two hours before the area
was flooded by water surging I group and bring the bill to the floor
Excess Profits
Tax Gains Favor
Bill Goes To Vote
Over Repeated Attack
WASHINGTON. June 29 —<JP1
The Elsenhower administration ap-
parently won Its battle today to get
house consideration of extending the
excess profits tax—and did it with-
out a knockdown drag-out floor
fight.
In back-stage maneuvers, house
Republican leaders got assurances
satisfactory to them, that the ways
and means committee would send
an extension bill to the floor des
pite the adament opposition of Its
chairman, 78-year-old Daniel Reed
iRepubllcan-N.Y.i.
OOP floor leader Halleck, (In-
diana i announced then to a cheer-
ing house that the leadership would
not press the drive It launched last
week to bypass Reed’s tax-writing
through a broken dike. Another
400 Americans were stranded at
Kokura by rail washouts.
MW Evacuated
Crash boats from nearby Itazuke
airbase evacuated 800 refugees from
Kurume yesterday. Plat-bottomed
“swamp gliders" also were pressed
into service to ferry refugees to
high ground.
Weather
Stale Forecast
Pair In the northwest and partly
cloudy In the east and south with
scattered s hewers or thunder-
showers in the east and south cen-
tral portions tonight and Tuesday.
Lows tonight In the mid-TOs. Highs
Tuesday from about 9b in the
southeast to 95 to 100 in the north-
west.
with a special rule from the rules
committee.
The ways and means committee
has kept the bill blockaded for
weeks despite all leadership efforts
to dislodge it.
OOP leaders have said that both
the house and the senate would
vote to continue the tax If an ex-
tension bill could be brought before
them.
The tax—Intended to syphon Into
the treasury extraordinary profits
made by corporations—expires to-
morrow midnight.
Halleck said he was convinced the
bill wotild Be “hindlad in the normal
matter by the ways and means
committee.”
A ways and means committee vote
sending the bill to the house floor
would be a smashing victory for the
administration in its battle to keep
the tax.
Rebels Lose, Deardorff Oilers
Win Twinbill Saturday Evening
Suffering from an attack of last
Inning Jitters that saw seven er-
rors committed, the El Reno Reb-
els 12-year-old nine fell before
Elk City S-iturday night at Legion
Park under the lights. 16-13. In
the first half of a doublebill with
Deardorff Oilers.
The Oilers, currently leading
their softball league, can give
credit for their 3-2 win over Con-
nie's of Oklahoma City to Joe
Riley who clouted two homeruns
and one double to tally the El
Reno scores.
Pitching for the Deardorff team
was Alex Warden.
In a regular donnybrook that
lound El Reno getting three
homeruns. by Dennis Dlcke. Boo-
gie Mowery and Bob McGoffln.
and one by Elk City's Richard
Hunt, the early game was a hit-
ter's battle with the lead ex-
changed several times.
The Rebels led going into the
last frame. 11-8, when starting
hurler McGoffln was relieved by
Charles Fisher, and then the com-
bined effect of errors, walks and
baserunning pushed eight Elk
City tallies over before McOoffin,
recalled to the mound, finally
ended It.
The Rebels slashed back, scoring
two runs, but with the bases load-
ed and the winning run at bat,
saw a called third strike nip their
bid.
The game was a replay of the
1952 State AAU tournament
championship finals. U-year-old
bracket, at Ponca City where Elk
City took the trophy by a 6-5 ex-
tra inning decision.
The Rebs meet Oklahoma City
Edgemere Robins there Monday
with their next home game being
against Midwest City at Legion
park Wednesday at 5:30.
Allies Ask Reds
To Sel Date For
Signing of Truce
UN Action Indicates
Problem of Rhee’s
Rebellion Settled
8EOUL. June 29 —<AV- The allies
today asked the Reds to agree im-
mediately to a date for signing a
Korean truce. Indicating they have
either persuaded rebellious President
Syngman Rhee to agree to an ar-
mistice or have decided to go ahead
without his okay.
General Mark Clark, UN com-
mander. told the Reda In a letter
delivered at Panmunjom that the |
UN command wtll enforce trucej
terms "to the limit of possibility "
His letter was delivered shortly
after he conferred in Seoul with
Rhee, President Elsenhower’s per-
sonal envoy Walter S. Robertson,
and other top U. 8. officials.
Meeting Is Secret
Although the meeting was secret,
the UNC's readiness to go ahead
with its truce plans Indicated it had
found some sort of solution to the
problem of the stubborn South Kor-
ean leader's refusal to accept the
present truce terms and his threat
to fight on alone if an armistice la
signed on those terms.
There was no Immediate comment
from Rhee on Clark's letter.
The ROK president's arbitrary
release of 27.000 anti-Red-Korean
war prisoners had frozen the truce
talks. Just as the negotiators ap-
peared on the verge of final agree-
ment.
Communists Protest
The Reds protested angrily In a
full-dress truce session June 20. de-
manding recapture of the prisoners
and assurance the UNC would con-
trol Rhee If an armistice were sign
ed.
Clark’s answer, delivered at Pan-
munjom by liaison officers, tdld the
Reds:
1. It would be "Impossible" to re-
capture the released POWs.
2. The UNC will "make every ef
fort" to gain South Korean coopera-
tion in a truce.
3. "Where necessary, the UNC will
to the limits of its ability, establish
military safeguards." to enforce
truce terms.
4. The truqe would be a “military
armistice between the military com
manders of both sides” (answering
a Red question If the South Korean
nation would be Included in a
truce.)
5. The UNC “does not exercise
authority over the Republic of Kor-
ea. which is an Independent, sover-
eign state" but It "does command”
the ROK army.
6. The UNC still considers the
prisoner breakout an "escape” as
far as it Is concerned. Clark said the
prisoners were " ‘released’ in that
the ROK government, without the
knowledge of. and contrary to the
intent of, the UNC. planned and ar-
ranged the breakout.
In Daylight Offensive,
6,000 Chinese Crash
Into Outposts of Seoul
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Rail Union's
Chief Is Dead
CLEVELAND, June 29 —</P>—
James P. Shields. 64, head of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers. died today following a heart
attack.
Shields had been head of the
80.000-member Independent union
since July. 1950.
Shields had been in railroad
union work since 1926 and became
assistant grand chief engineer, or
vice president, in 1942. He succeeded
the late Alvanley Johnston as grand
chief engineer in 1950.
B. U. RECTOR
To Watch GOP Interests
Election Board
Vacancy Filled
B. U. Rector Succeeds!
Late Hans C. Paulsen
The Republican party is again
represented on Canadian county's
election board following appoint-
ment ol B. U. Rector, veteran par-
ty worker who was sworn In Sat-
urday by County Judge Roy M
Paubion.
Rector was named by the state
HWtton board to fill the vacancy
created when Hans C. Paulsen. Re-
publican member ol the board lor
more than 20 years, died from in-
juries received in a car wreck ear
Her this year.
Rector, a retired merchant, lives
at 803 South Duane. He will direct
county election operations with J.
L. Patman, secretary, and Sam Wal-
lace. Democratic member of the
three-man board.
Consolidation Slated
First major task awaiting the
board is approval of a plan to re-
duce the number of Canadian coun-
ty voting precincts from the pres
ent 47 by between 15 and 17.
Patman said board members will
ixirbably meet to study the plan
early In the fall.
The election board secretary has
l)een working for the past several
weeks to draw lip a list of precincts
to be combined for recommendation
to the full board.
Part of Economy Move
The action is in line with a state
economy move which requires about
a third reduction of precincts in all
counties.
Patman said that following ap-
proval of the consolidation by elec-
tion board members, a series of
public hearings will be scheduled,
in order that voters may be given
in opportunity to learn the reasons
lor the change and to voice their
opinions.
Texas Coast
Dampened By
Meager Rains
By United Press
SHOWERS fell from New Eng-
land to the gulf coast early to-
day. and even bone-dry Texas
got a sprinkle of precious rain.
Meanwhile, at least 41 persons
drowned during the week-end-
most of them Sunday. The total
was far less than the 100 water
deaths reported last weekend,
probably because ol lower temper-
atures and cloudy skies.
The weather wrought one mari-
time disaster yesterday when a
Brazilian freighter and a Gulf
Oil Company tanker collided In
heavy fog off the New Jersey
coast. At least one man was kill-
ed and the fate of 24 Brazilian
crewmen was not known.
8Ull Not Enough
Although rain fell over most of
Texas except the eastern portion,
the moisture was not considered
heavy enough to save burning
crops and pasture grass, or ease
municipal water shortages.
The drought was so severe In the
Lone Star state. Oklahoma, south-
east Colorado and other southwest
areas that Secretary of Agricul-
ture Ezra Taft Benson announced
the federal government would be-
gin a program of disaster relief
“within hours.”
Dust Reported
The U. S. weather bureau re-
ported early today that dirt, remi-
niscent of the dust-bowl days of
the 1930s. was blowing in "sec-
tions ol New Mexico, the pan-
handle country, southwestern
Kansas and Southwestern Color-
ado."
The rainstorms today were con-
centrated on the Atlantic sea-
board from Maryland north into
New England and southeastward
from there across the eastern
Great Lakes region, the border
states and into the lower Mississi-
ppi valley. Other rainstorms were
reported in Montana, North Da-
kota and the northwest.
Heavy Artillery Barrage Backs
ROK Troops to Defense Line;
Heavy Drive Expected Tonight
SEOUL, Korea. June 29—(UP)—Two Chinese regiments
hurled back counter-attacks by First division Republic of
Korea soldiers today to retain their control of four key out-
posts protecting the invasion corridor to Seoul.
In an unusual daylight action, the 6,000 Chinese broke
the back of South Korean counter-attacks against outposts
Bak, Queen, Hannah and an unnamed hill. The ROKs fell
back to their original defense line.
United nations warplanes immediately began plastering
outpost Queen with 2,000-pound bombs.
The Reds supported their assault with an artillery bar-
rage so intense that more than 1,500 rounds fell near a
regiment command post far back on the mainline.
First corps commander Lieutenant General Bruce C.
Clarke narrowly escaped injury from falling shells.
Officers with the First
296 Books Added
To County Library
A total of 296 new volumes have
been received and cataloged for the
county school library, located In
the office of Neal V. Golden, coun-
ty superintendent of schools.
The additional books makes a to-
tal of 2,357 books now on the shelv-
es of the library for use of students
and teachers in all county schools
during the coming year.
Golden said purchase of the
books Is made possible through $10
per year given for library purposes
by each dependent school district In
the county.
Adding of the volumes is part of
the county's regular summer pro-
gram. and the new books will be
used by students from the first
through the eighth grades.
State Crime
Wave Mounts;
Two Accused
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Federal officials filed a bank rob-
bery charge in Oklahoma City to-
day against a former state convict
tn last week's robbery of the First
State bank of Anadarko.
At the same time, a 8eminole
county man was charged in the
iatal shooting Saturday night of
Wewoka Police Chief Joe Cotton
and state officers were Involved In
three manhunts In connection with
shootings at Miami and Bartlesville
and a robbery at Sapulpa.
The bank robbery charge was fil-
ed against J. Haywood Stephens,
24. who was released from the Mc-
Alester state prison June 18. He
has not been apprehended.
Seminole county attorney Tom
Smith filed a charge of murder to-
day against Joe Slsney In the fatal
shooting Saturday night of the We-
woka police chief.
Slsney, 66. Is in serious conditior
in a hospital from wounds received
in a gun battle which took place
after Cotton and Carl Sullinger.
Wewoka policeman, answered a call
tor help from Mrs. Slsney. Sullin-
ger also was wounded.
A 58-year-old Bartlesville grocer
was shot three times and his wife
was beaten by two bandits, climax-
ing a $20 robbery of the victims'
store today.
The grocer. Walt Perry, was be-
lieved in serious condition.
The two robbers fled from the
store on foot.
Two men who reportedly fired
three shots at two Miami policemen
were jailed at Miami today after
their arrest by state highway pa-
trolmen. The patrol Identified the
pair as Antone Wayne Massena. 22
and Garrison Harold Cowan, 20,
both of Seattle, Wash.
A hunt was still on for three
young bandits who robbed the co-
owner of a Sapulpa service station
of $400, beat him and later set his
car afire.
Farmers Pray for Relief in Drouth-Stricken Texas Areas
post within Oklahoma has
taken by a Republican.
been
$7 Million Wheat
Subsidy Approved
WASHINGTON. June 29—(A*)—A
7'A million dollar stop-gap wheat
export subsidy program was an-
nounced today by the agriculture
department.
Secretary Benson said in a state-
ment that it U designed to avoid
a break in the export movement of
U. S. wheat to traditional foreign
markets.
The program will become effective
tomorrow And will remain in effect
pending official ratification of the
renewed international wheat agree-
ment and the enactment of legis-
lation needed to carry out U. 8.
obligations under it.
CHARGE BRINGS FINE
Joyce Kllen Norvell. east of El
Reno, was fined $10 and costs Sat-
ROK division said they ex-
pected the Reds to throw a
“do or die” push against the
division tonight.
"We've chewed up two divisions
so far and we expect them to throw
In a third tonight," an officer said.
Reds Hold Reserve*
Eighth army .said a full division
was ordered into the campaign (or
control of the Imjin river outpost
line guarding the Chorwon valley
north of Seoul. Two regiments hit
the ROKs and a third stayed in
reserve.
United Press correspondent Fred
Pa in ton said the ROKs withdrew
trom the four outposts on the
order of I corps.
The ROK Third division recap-
tured strategic Lookout mountain
following a savage five-hour fight.
In a dawn attack, the 8outh Ko-
reans swarmed to the crest of the
peak and repulsed two Chinese
counter-attacks.
East Ceast Soggy
Chinese troops htt ROK First
division positions after the heav-
iest rainfall In Korea's history had
dumped 11.6 Inches of rain on the
east coast and three inches over
the rest of the battlefront.
Painton said the Chinese took
Bak Just before noon and put one
of their companies to work imme-
diately digging in on the northern
slope of the hill, which has changed
hands five times In the past four
days.
South Korean troops offered
stubborn resistance In the struggle
for outpost Queen.
They charged up Queen's eastern
slope at 10 a. m., after the Chinese
had taken the hill last night, and
reached the crest at noon. The
ROKs fought hand-to-hand battles
with the Chinese before withdraw-
ing from the summit.
Bombers Enter Fight
An estimated 300 fighter bombers
and light bombers came to the aid
of the united nations forces early
In the afternoon when a heavy
cloud layer over the 155-mile battle-
front lifted.
They dumped 330 tons of bombs
on Red frontline troops and forti-
fications in their first sorties of
the day.
Eleven B-29 Superfortresses from
Japan and Okinawa teamed to drop
110 tons of bombs on Communist
troops near the Pukhan river on
the embattled east central front.
After the Superforts finished
their mission and droned back to
their bases, the South Koreans be-
gan a counter-attack east of the
Pukhan river where the Reds start-
ed their big offensive a month ago.
A third ROK counter - attack
against Chinese troops took place
west of the Pukhan. The Reds
threw South Koreans off the crest
of outpost Lookout just before mid-
night.
Excavating Begins
At Site of Hospital
Preliminary dirt work for the new
El Reno hospital, west of the city,
has been virtually completed and
workmen are preparing this week
to begin construction of the build-
ing.
City Manager C. A. Bentley said
excavations for footing and base-
ments have been started, and a
quantity of steel is on hand at the
site today.
Digging of the excavations had
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