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SCRAP METAL DRIVE SLATED HERE APRIL 11
Plane Plant
Production
Probe Bared
DIES FEDERAL
COUNTS ECHOED
BY AXIS RADIO
Late Charges Flung at
Board of Economic
Warfare Applauded
By Nazis.
WASHINGTON, April 2 (U.R)—The
operate at .ui.    I white house today made public a re- I
In a formal report to the sena ,    jrom the federal communications
commission that axis and pro-axis J
propaganda radio stations are echoing
accusatioiis of communism made by !
chairman Martin Dies, D,, Tex., of
Goal Is 2 Car
No Tin Cans Are
Wanted; Ask All Out Aid
RAF In New
Smashing Raid
On Nazi Bases
New Pack
WASHINGTON, April 2. (U.R)—The
senate committee investigating the war
program charged today that a lack of
"over-all" planning by the armed serv-
ices and the now defunct office of pro-
duction management is responsible for
the failure of west coast airplane plants
to operate at full capacity.
In a fo--
based upon the study of a special sub-
committee from March 9 to March 25,
the group absolved labor and manage-
ment from blame for not reaching full    ....    „
production. It added, moreovei that t(lp house committee on un-American
output is ' several times greater n actjVjties against the board of econ-
it was a year ago" and is increasing omic warfare
mThe committee said the present war Th* re^11,relwrfdu by ^hltewh?^!
production board has not a "single top secretary William D Haswtt said that
notch aircraft production man" in its broadcasts from Berlin. Vichy and an
Film Find at 5
Bv Sidney J. Williams
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, April 2    (U.R) — British
planes in one of their greatest raids,
attacked objectives over western and
i northwestern Germany, Belgium and
Plans for a county wide scrap metal northern Prance, including the Paris
campaign, sponsored by the Junior! suburbs, and laid mines in enemy
Chamber of Commerce and working waters during the night, the air mln-
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organization. It called for a special
WPB airplane section headed by a
“trained aircraft production executive
drafted from industry "
A number of subjects were covered
unidentified axis propaganda station
had applauded Dies’ charges that 35
staff members of the board of econ-
omic warfare which is headed by Vice
President Henry A. Wallace, had “af-
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in the report, including a lease agree- filiation with front organizations of
ment between the defense plant corp. i the communist party,
and a private firm for obtaining ore 1 Hassett reminded newsmen that
for a magnesium plant at Las Vegas, Wallace nad remarked, in reply to the
Nev. It described the agreement as Dies charges, that the effect of the
"one of the mo6t flagrant attempts at! statements on the morale of this
war profiteering to come to its (the country would have been less damag-
committee's) notice."    lng "if Mr. Dies had been on Hitler’s
The plant will be operated by Basic payroll."
Magnesium, Inc., a company that also i Wallace also charged that Dies' ac-
will supply the ore from 600 acres of cusations "might as well come from
deposits The company, the commit- j Goebbels himself.”
tee said, is asking a royalty of $1 a The PCC monitoring service reported
ton on ore, which would mean an an- to the white house that German broad-
nual return of $280,000 compared to a casts to North America on Tuesday of
total investment "of not over $50,000." ! this week said:
Basic Magnesium Inc., is also to i "Dies’ revelation indicts president,
receive a lee lor the operation of the! "An old truth has been proved again
plant, which at maximum production by developments in the bureau of
will equal $560,000 a year over a pos- | economic warfare in Washington,
sible period of 30 years, although it is | "By way of Geneva comes a report
not even sufficiently financially re- of communist domination in this new
sponsible to warrant the leasing oi deal organization in the American
the property to it.” the report said capital. • The reports state that 35
The Defense Plant Corp. is paying i officiaLs in this bureau have been
"tremendous fees" to Basic Magnesium , shown to be members of Stalin’s world
for in connection with the construe- j wide, anti-American activity."
tion of the Las Vegas plant, which is [ The PCC said the Berlin broadcast
"only nine per cent complete” as far went on to accuse the President and
as the metal producing units are con- | Mrs. Roosevelt of primary responsibility
jointly with the county defense execu-
tives, were completed here last night.
The date for the local drive was set
for April II.
Surrounding communities represent-
ed at the meeting last night included
Drumright. Bristow, Kiefer, Oilton,
Olive, Mounds, Mannford. and Sham-
rock.
Each community is to conduct its
own separate drive for scrap metal
which in turn goes to war industries
that will absorb it in their production.
Sapulpa s goal is two car loads or
150,000 pounds. The vacant lot across
from the lire station has been donated
as the present “dumping ground .” Al-
though several trucks have been do-
nated to haul the scrap metal, others
who can spare them are asked to get
in line.
Jim Dinsmore is general chairman
of the drive.
The date of the local drive ties in
istry said today.
It was admitted that 15 bombing j
planes were missing and reports in-
dicated that hundreds of planes, in-
cluding the newest, biggest long range
bombers, had taken part, dropping
gigantic demolit-on bombs of new type.
The British planes were aided by
the light of the full moou in resuming
ferociously over thousands of square
miles their spring offensive.
The Matford factory outside Paris
was bombed.
Industrial objectives and communica- '
tions were attacked in west and north-
west Germany in an evident attempt
to cripple factories and railroads need-
ed for material for the German spring
offensive.
Docks and shipping were attacked 1
at Le Havre on the French invasion |
coast.
Mines were sown thick in enemy
waters through which German heavy
fleet units might seek to go to attack
I
BRITISH URGE
UNITED FRONT;
BURMA BRACED
Independence Offer to
Indian* Still Waits
Acceptance; Port
Australia Is
m
Bombed.
with the state program to collect scrap the British-American Arctic supply
cerned. The report pointed out that
the original contract was signed Aug.
13. 1941.
In addition to these charges, the
committee said, Basic Magnesium is to
receive a $300,000 construction fee. plus
funds for the actual building of the
plant, "although it had little or no
construction experience in the past,”
and although more than $1,000,000 is
to be paid for architectural and en-
gineering services to be performed by
others.
"Should Defense Plant Corp.. because
of poor performance or any other rea-
son, cancel BMI's contract to operate
for "this unsavory mess.
The FCC also reported that the offi-
cial French broadcast, "which comes
from Vichy and takes its cue from
Berlin," said on Tuesday in a broad-
cast to the western world:
"It has been called to our attention
from New York that 35 employes of
the board of economic warfare who
belong to a communist organization
have been denounced by the committee
against bolshevik activity."
A nazl propaganda station "Debunk,1
had this to say about the Dies ac-
cusations :
“Only recently Congressman Martin
the Las Vegas plant, it would under ’ Dies pointed out in a letter addressed
that contract have to pay BMI $1,000,- to Vice President Wallace that there
000.” the report said. "In addition. I are 35 avowed communists among the
BMI's royalties under the proposed ore higher officials of the bureau of econ-
lease would be doubled to $2 a ton or
$560,000 a year.
"The terms seem to put a premium
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omic warfare alone, not to mention
the exceedingly strong communist in-
fluence in Mr. Roosevelt’s numerous
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BABY BORN TO CONSUL’S
WIFE IN LIFEBOAT AFTER
NAZIS HAD SHELLED SHIP
Susan ‘Tagalong’ Levine
Hollywood's latest film find is Susan
‘Tagalong’ Levine, 5, of Los An-
geles, whose antics as a deadpan
comedienne have won her much flat-
tering attention. The little actress
is shown with her new contract after
it was approved by the California
Supreme Court.
Turn Jungles Into
War Production Is
Brazil’s New Hope
from April 8-18. The purpose of tl*
campaign is three fold, first, to aid in
national defense: second, to aid in
cleaning up Sapulps and third to aid
the local defease organization finan-
j cially.
Fred Boone, city manager: M J.
Katz, C. of C. president and Bob Mc-
1 Masters. C. of C. secretary among
others have pledged their assistance.
The Boy Scouts, students and civic
organizations will likewise participate
in the campaign.
Dinsmore stated that all merchants
and residents will be contacted in an
effort to make the program an “all out
I effort.”
J. A. Brown, member of the state
salvage committee, was present. He
stated that the need for scrap is great.
line to Russia's ports of Murmansk
and Archangel.
While the long range bombers were
making their attacks, planes of the
fighter command attacked objectives in
Belgium and occupied northern France
and destroyed one enemy bombing
plane.
It was understood that key air-
dromes and railroad centers were at-
tacked in Belgium and occupied France.
Here is the new pack designed by
Quartermaster officers of the U. S.
Marine Corps. An all-purpose car-
rier, it is easily adaptable to vary-
ing conditions ashore or afloat and
may soon be standard equipment for
the leatherneck*.
JOHNSON CHARGE
HERE CONTINUES
AT A STANDSTILL
Procedure in the prosecution of J.
Mahoney Asserts
Oil Co. Loyalty
Split Up 2 Ways
By Joe Alex Morris
United Press Foreign Editor
Japan appeared to be throwing maxi-
mum strength into the Burma war to-
day. pushing a powerful naval squad-
ron to within 75 miles of threatened
India and launching heavy air at-
tacks on alliled lines near the central
Burmese towns oi Prome and Toungoo.
The concentration of armed forces
on the Burma front indicated that the
enemy was hoping to strike at that
united nations sector immediately in
an effort to prevent alignment of India
as a full partner in the allied front
or to attack India before such an
agreement can materialize.
A fleet of 16 Japanese ships, includ-
ing four transports and 12 warships,
landed at least 5.000 troops at the west
Burmese port of Akyab. an Important
base on the Bay of Bengal only 75
miles from the Indian border and 310
miles from Calcutta. Akyab previous-
ly had been abandoned by the British
and its seizure completed Japanese
occupation of all Burma ports.
The seizure of Akyab gravely in-
creased the Japanese threat to India
at a time when Sir Stafford Crlppa
was struggling against formidable odds
to overcome the all-India congress
(majority! party’s objections to Bri-
tain's plan for post-war independence.
Crlpps insisted that he was still
hopeful and that negotiations would
continue next week, reportedly as a
result of a British offer to give the
Indians a greater immediate voice in
control of home defense. The congress
party rejection of the plan aa it was
offered, however, was believed to be
virtually unanimous and Indian sourest
said that the prospects for an agree-
ated that the need lor scrap is great rimmuir    _ ___-    __„    - uni**, other and lm
The organization collecting old metal    Company Vice President I)0rUnt (.on££lona were made.
is directly answerable to the war pro- eral, against whom a complaint was
duction board. The monev raised in filed for drunken driving in this coun-
this drive is merely incidental. The ty and who was involved in a traffic
final sale of the metal which will bring violation skirmish in Tulsa county,
relatively small proceeds will be turned continued at a standstill here today,
to the local committee of civilian de- | County attorney Everett Collins stat-
fense for its program here.
ed that there were a few matters pre-
Disputes Senate In-
vestigator's Late Con-
clusions.
The drive is for scrap metal only, ceding the Johnson case in the county
Tin cans are not wanted in this parti- attorney's office, that demanded his
cujar program.    ) attention at the present.
Here are a few types of metal sought: I The Johnson matter must take its
portant concessions were made.
Both sides were attempting to avoid
responsibility for breakdown of the
negotiations and it appeared that they
would continue.
On the Burma land front, the Brit-
ish in the Prome sector and the Chinese
I in the Toungoo area had successfully
WASHINGTON. April 2 (U.R)—Sen. set up new lines in expectation of a
Joseph C O'Mohoney, D., Wyo., to- new Japanese assault. Enemy bomber
day told officiaLs of Standard Oil Co. squadrons began blasting at theee
May Be Supply    SW US&lZl
iron, Drass. Deas, eiecinc uorus. uuy ^........ ....    --    between their agreements wltn foreign attempts to drive northward toward
rji    »    contain copper; old electric toasters, ter will be thorough and comp et    companies and the world policy of the the oil fields about 100 miles from
Plans Are Military irons, heaters, fans; metal door knobs, soon as possible he stated.    United States.
o .a* I?    IT hinges, keys, locks, springs, old kitchen Collins pointed out that a term of p A Howard vice-president of the
Secret; May Ease Up metal uttnsils. lamps, lighting fixtures, county court was m the immediate    dUputed what he termed the
metal ash trays, porch or garden fumi- offing, that several hi-jacking, burg- senalor.s "conclusion."
Rubber Shrrtage.
By David J. Wilson
United Press Staff Correspondent
RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil. April
I ture, toys, sleds, vacuum cleaners, lary and theft cases required his at
, stoves, fireplace equipment, plumbing tention.
fixtures, iegrigerator parts, chains,. -
batteries, license plates, motor parts— arrested Johnson here late last week
and all other Items of metal contain- has given his statement to the county
authorities He was Fred Archer. Of-
O'Mahoney said he was sure that
^‘°n    , ..    h the company's loyalty to the United
Only one of the three officers who statea would prevall
O’Mahoney made the statement at
the conclusion of a discussion before
(U.R)—Brazil hopes that, with United ing copper, iron, brass etcetera.    | authorities newa. rreo    A J the senate committee investigating the
mates aid it    ran turn the biecest    Assisting Dinsmore and    his local    fleers Jack Hrumiey ano r    war program of Standards use of
jUncie jn the    world into one of the    committee in receiving calls    for scrap    still are to make stateme . y    patent rights obtained from I. G Far-
world’s largest    production centers for    Iron are Tred Boone. Mickey    Katz. BiH    have Q^tJ°^dadnd ^hen thehstate-    '^‘'Industrie. German chemical trust,
war sunolies_including rubber—needed Bridges, Otis Humes.    I tune, Collins addeo wnen t    in the development of synthetic rubber
hv thePallied    Claude Bagsby. negro, represented menus are completed the Johnson case h, this country.
by the allied powers.    ,    ,    , - .....    ,    .    ...
The plan, some details of which are the colored addition last night
a military secret, fits into the visit of pledging assistance in the Apnl
Leon Henderson, U. S. price adminis- drive,
trator to Brazil and the journey of Rl RAI srRAP HETAL
Brazilian 'inance minister Arthur De |)R ALSO PLANNED.
Souza Costa to Washington
If Brazils hopes are realized, the Lynn Russell, county AAA officer,
vast, stemming jungles of the Amazon announced today that the USDA war
basin will be developed, with some board met this afternoon to plan a
collaboration by Peru and Bolivia, to county wide rural scrap iron collection
supply vital war materials for the campaign in the interest of national
united nations.    defense The campaign will start
By Alton B. Parker    I into the side of the ship, 30 were re-    There are two phases in the plan:    April 8 and end April 18.
United Press Staff Correspondent I ported missing, including Gen. M.    1. The immediate development of Those attending were Harry F
NORFOLK. Va., April 2 (U.R)—The Djoukanovitch of the Jugoslavian lega- part of the 2.500.000 square miles of jarnes, extension division. H. G. Math-
four-day-old son of a Jugoslavian con-, tion in Washington. Three members virgin land as an arsenal of supplies eriy ruraj electrification admintstra-
sular official cried lustily todav and of the gun crew, which stayed aboard such as rubber, vegetable oils and ti0n, J. W. Beets, Kellyville. Harry
showed little evidence of the fact that the vessel until the last minute to fire j hardwood, and perhaps minerals and carter. Sapulpa (arm security admin-
he was born "somewhere in the At- at the submarine, were known to be
lantlc" in a crowded lifeboat nearly dead. One survivor said he thought
in will be rounded up so far as local
11 j reports are concerned.
Prome and toward Mandalay, some
200 miles from Toungoo.
Chinese sources said that the enemy
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More Help Needed
In Construction Of
Model Planes Here
OUR WEATHER MAN
filled wih water.
"It wasn't so bad.” said the mother,
Mrs Desanka Mohobovicic, in the lew
words of English at her command.
The mother, a sturdily built woman
28 years old with blond hair and bright'
the crew had hit its mark with one of
the shells.
The story of Mrs. Mohorovicic’s ex-
perience is certain to become an epic
of the battle of the Atlantic.
Here is the story of the birth in the
oil, using $100,000,000 United States jstration. W N Wahl, Bristow soil
credit securing against rubber deliver- conservation service and Lynn Russell,
ies in the next five years.
2. A long range plan originated by
President Getullo Vargas to develop
a great outlet for the country's in-
dustrial el forts to build up raw ma-
terials to feed industries and to create
important waterways through the Ama-
zon basin in collaboration with Peru
and Bolivia Brazilians hope this will
some day triple their exports.
But for the united nations, threat-
county AAA officer.
OKLAHOMA Continued mild to-
day except somewhat cooler in the
panhandle; cooler in the north and
west portions tonight. Windy today
except in the panhandle.
Howard testified that in 1939. with
Germany already at war, Standard
prepared to trade its exclusive rights
in certain countries for I. G.'s ex-
clusive rights in other countries, rather
than purchase I. G patents outright.
"Your difficulty,” said O'Mahoney,
"is that you are bound by two loyalties:
one a loyalty to I. G. and its world
carterl, and the second to the United
States and its world policy.”
“I don't agree with your conclusion,"
Howard leplied.
Committee counsel Hugh Fulton in-
terposed to say that in the 1939 trade.
Standard not only gave up exclusive
| rights to some of the German patents,
but some of its own as well.
"That's right." said Howard
Referring to previous testimony con-
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blue eyes, showed how little effect the lifeboat as pieced together from
ordeal had upon her when she climbed survivors:
virtually unassisted up the side of a The skipper of the vessel had pre-
rescue vessel on a cargo net. The pared for such an eventuality and ar-
newborn babe had been handed up to ranged that the ship’s doctor would go
a husky seaman    in the same lifeboat with the woman ened with a .rubber shortage, the im-
Mrs Monoroviclc was en route to this in event the vessel was attacked    portant immediate problem is the
country to Join her husband who is Thus, when two torpedoes struck the short-range plan under which rubber
attached to the Jugoslavian consulate vessel Sunday shortly after noon. Mrs production of 100,000 tons annually
in New York. The medium sized vessel Mohorovlcic. her two-year-old daugh- would be sought in addition to ebony,
Sapulpa Has Had 12 Postmasters Since First P. 0.
Sapulpa has had an even dozen post- , was carried on horseback to Sapulpa
masters to date since this city's first village by William Smith. And the
post office. The treaty of 1866 be- comlng of the mail in those days was
tween the Creek nation and the United
States provided for the establishment a &a‘a eve,u’
of post oiftces within the territory    Mail orders were popular in those
Sapulpa's first postmaster was Char- days, ribbons and laces from the big
____________________ _______________ _    _______ _    ies Dorman in the formative period cities.
aboard which she was traveling with    ter. Dr.    L. H.    Conley of Brooklyn,    and    mahogany, rosewood, nuts, Carnauba    and J. F Egan was the    second official    The post office in early days naa me
her two-year-old daughter Vtsna was    two other women climbed into No. 4    wax (substitute for beeswax), tanning    postmaster here taking    over his duties    only safe in town
torpedoed by a Oerinan submarine.    lifeboat    with    17 other passengers    and    extracts, gum and other materials. The    the year of 1899. The    post office was    Sapulpa s tnird postmasr was    jo
She Vlsna the bnbv and 86 other    seamen    Dr    Conley fell Into the    life-    land may also contain great wealth In    located in a one room    store north of    N Bayless, its next postmaster    jonn
survivors were rescued after 40 hours boat after it had been lowered about mineral* oil and coal in addition to the present Frisco tracks    W >Blll> Bayless. Others in order oi
in lifeboats by units of the U S navy eight feet and fraatured two ribs. providing hides    | A portion of the mall came on the their service were J M^ uewz er
Of the 122 seamen and passengers. The doctor took with him the simple i The basin now contains only about train but the greater portion came Charlea '»u«hn. Carl HU»MS. acting    carriers
Bboard when, two torpedoes crashed j    (Continued on Page Pive) I (Continued on Page roun ^through the Sac and Fox agency and [postmaster, C. C. Taylor, w. K. cas-jaie two rural carreis.
teel, Don McMasters, acting postmas-
ter. C. C Warren, acting postmaster
and the present one. E. R. Unger
The present post office building was
constructed in 1931.
Early day diversion consisted of go-
ing to post office once or twice a day
and calling for the mail Expecting
it delivered in the beginning was quite
undreamed of. Only later when Sa-
pulpa town grew into a sizeable com-
munity of some progressive prospects
did the postman make his debut There
were about three in the beginning.
Now there are seven carriers. There
The Cosmopolitan club, sponsor of
the model airplane project for Sapulpa,
is issuing a fervent plea tor coopera-
tion of all who are adept at this kind
of work. An especial plea is being
made to adults, many of whom have
their own workshop* and facilities for
others to work with them also.
These model airplanes must pass a
rigid inspection before members of
the committee who are E. L. Southard,
chairman. Gordon C Davis, E. L. Bur-
gess and J. C. Skeen.
These planes are built from authenlc
plans, and when finished, must be
exact miniature duplicate* of the ori-
ginals. They are then used to train
civilians to recognize planes to be able
to distinguish between those of the
enemy and those planes of our own.
This work is obviously essential to the
defense work now going on in America.
Sapulpa's quota is 150 planes, building
three each, from fifty different plans.
Southard, instructor of industrial
arts and woodwork at Sapulpa high
school, is in complete charge of the
issuing of these plans. Due recognition
I will be given those who are active in
this project Any person who builds
! an accepted plane will receive from
1 the U. S navy, a certificate which
| gives them a model airplane rating
1 according to the amount they con-
I struct.
Every possible means of aiding those
who wish to take part in this project
has been taken. The materials are
furnished by the Chamber of Com-
merce of Sapulpa. Classes are being
held at the high school Tuesday and
Thursday nights from 7 till 9. If you
are adept at model airplane construc-
tion. you are sincerely invited to at-
tend these classes or call any member
of the committee.