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Oklahoma City Times
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VOL. LVIII. NO. 269.
EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY
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Republican Nod as Plan
To Beat Down Inflation
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7altln* fori *.n * populous area and reduced
ent. the group adopted the measure at
Tuesday’s meeting with only seven
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A Final Otter
The government had made its final
offer to the fewer than 1.000.000 work-
era still idle of the 3,000,000 who had
been on strike.
In swift succession the soviet em-
bassy announced that the French re-
patriation mission now in Moscow has
been ordered out at once, and the
Moecow radio reported that plans for
a French trade delegation to go to
Moscow were being canceled.
Moscow hinged its reprisal on the
ouster of 19 soviet leaders from
France and the closing of Camp
Beauregard, Russian repatriation camp
outside Parte, where French raiders
reported they found Illegal arms
caches.
The increase set by Anderson -
Prichard was 1'4 cents on gasoline
tankwagon prices and 1% cents on
kerosene and furnace oil. Retail out-
lets jvere undecided on prices Tuesday
co’s action.
Prices at filling stations here had
a range of 3 cents in all grades Tues-
day, due to price-cutting by independ-
ent operators during the past two
weeks. The only other gasoline price
boost announced was by Standard Oil ____, T, „
.reUU ouUeta Indiana Russia’s action closing
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M’NEIL ISLAND. Wash.,
Dec. 9—(4»>—Spreading of a
“hunger strike” to all of the
1,018 inmates in the main
building of the federal peni-
tentiary here, In protest
against meatless Tuesdays and
eggless Thursdays, was report-
ed Tuesday by P. J. Squler,
warden.
The demonstration in support of
complaints that the menus are be-
coming monotonous is “entirely
orderly,” the warden said, with the
inmates resorting only to a cam-
paign of “passive resistance.”
The demonstration began Sunday
night when about 250 inmates faUed
to appear for their final meal.
“I spoke over the prison radio last
night and advised the inmates they
could select three representatives
with whom I would be more than
glad to discuss the problem with a
view to settlement of the difficul-
ty.” the warden said, but there had
been no reply from the inmates
Tuesday morning—unless the spread
of the rebellion was the reply.
Kelly Remains
In Jail Despite
Banished Case
The Weather
Fras> U S Weather Suraao
Airport Static®
. LOCAL—MmUx cloudy, wtth
terssHtest Hght rata and little change
Tuesday. Tuesday
WMaesday. Windy Ts^
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ahmrt 48. aUadmam Tuesday night
tween the American sone and Czecho-
slovakia.
Diplomats in the western camp
looked to Tuesday afternoon’s session
for developments which could either
enlarge or erase altogether the pros-
pects of agreement suggested by a ser-
ies of soviet moves Monday night in
which some observers saw a hint of
willingness to compromise.
These were the moves:
ONE—Soviet Foreign Minister Mol-
otov submitted at the urging of U. 8.
Secretary of State Marshall a compre-
hensive set of proposals for economic
unification of Germany.
TWO—When Masefcell e*8< wUrti
No amendment* were made to the
... no I ----r,--- — ■ .o.R, ve«
to support or oppose it, there was no 1 Johnstown
discussion, and only William M. Cain, *
/MmihIhkjmim aMnt; ttt ____
The ordinance consists of more than communities affected.
. HO closely typed pages of descriptive
matter outlining areas of the city for
vanous types of businesses, residences
and apartment houses.
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Freak Accident Leaves Tanker Split
This is the former navy tanker Ponagansett as she appeared at
Boston Tuesday after breaking in two. Above, a general view;
below, a closeup of the divided steel plates.
f fJOOS; Dec. »—(UP)—Com-
munist labor leaders called off
the paralysing French strikes
Tuesday night soon after Russia
severed trade negotiations With
France and ordered out of Mos-
cow a French repatriation mis-
sion.
Bowing to a government ultimatum,
the General Confederation of Labor
(COT) ordered worker* of all trades
to return to work Wednesday through-
out France.
Soviet Move* Drastic
Capitulating to the stem demand*
of Premier Robert Schuman’s govern- upon citizen* as a whole’’
ment—demands marked by the begin- “ “
nlng mobilisation of 340.000 troops to
enforce them—the confederation called
a halt to the disastrous strike wave
that brought France to th* brink of
civil war.
The decisive break tn the national
ertete was her1aided by drastic soviet
moves of reprisal against France. The
Russian embassy handed the govern-
ment a note announcing that plana for
the reception of a French trade dele-
gatlon in Moscow were being canceled,
■hd a repatriation mission already
there waa being ejected summarily.
While the Russian counter-blast
was attributed by the soviets to French
action against Russian nationals In
this country, it appeared to be no co-
incidence that it waa loosed while the
fate of the communist campaign
against the government was teetering
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of the fight.
Wherry (R., Neb.) assistant Republi-
can floor leader, who said “there hag
been po conaLuctive or detailed antl-
--1 by any
officiate the
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$18,000 Death I
Award Given ■
Messenger Robbed
Of 822,000 in Cash
WAVERLY. N. y, Dec. g—
Two men held up and robbed a bank
messenger of S23,ooo in cash in the
center of this southern New York vil-
lage Tueeday.
. Police chief Lloyd Hedges said the
two men jumped in front of the mes-
senger from a black sedan parked at
a curb. Both threatened the messen-
ger. Wilson Coward, wtth guns and
ordered him to “hand it over,” the
chief said.
Although kidnaping charges
against city bootlegger Harold
Byford were dismissed in dis-
trict court here last Saturday,
the man he was charged with
kidnaping. Willie Joe Kelly,
still was confined in the coun-
ty jail Tuesday as a material
witness In the case.
Kelly was arrested November 32
by detectives Jake Robertson and
Jack Osborne on a bench warrant
Issued by Judge Albert C. Hunt.
On November 26. Kelly was sent-
enced to 20 days in the county jail
by Judge Hunt for contempt of
court for failing to appear as a wit-
ness when the case waa called nin*
days earlier.
Y. V. Burks, head jailer, said
Kelly’s 20-day sentence will expire
Thursday but he can not free him
then unless he has an order from
the court releasing Kelly as a ma-
terial witness.
Judge Hunt said Tuesday he will
take care of that little matter so
Kelly can be set free.
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Fire Destroys
Plant in Ponca
PONCA CITY, Dec. 9—(Special)—
Fire early Tuesday destroyed the main
plant of the Southwest Ice Co. in
downtown Ponca City.
Kenneth Long, fire chief, estimated
the damage at between $75,000 and
980.000.
Firemen were attempting to deter- I
mine the cause of the fire Tuesday. !
Defective wiring was suspected, Long
said.
The fire was discovered by a section
crew of the Santa Fe railroad. The j
building was located on the main line
of the Santa Fe.
and western Wisconsin, spread over
the entire Mississippi valley and the
Great Lakes region, southward over
Texas and Eastward across the north
Atlantic coast.
Clear skies and an unbroken
blanket of snow from 2 to 17 inches
deep, were contributing factors to the
sharp drop in temperatures in the
three-state area reporting sub-zero
temperature*.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—(ZP)—The administration Tues-
day submitted proposed legislation to congress which would
Permit the rationing of meat, gasoline and other commodities
while Republicans went ahead with plans for their own sub-
stitute, anti-inflation program.
A draft of a suggested measure to carry out the ad-
ministration’s ideas was given a senate judiciary subcom-
mittee by Secretary of Commerce Harriman.
Undersecretary William C. Foster, explaining it to the
senators, said it would permit the government to buy up
the entire wheat crop if that was found to be advisable.
Republican congressional leaders have declared there is
not a chance that a broad grant of price control and ration-
ing power will be given the administration, but are mapping
their own attack on high prices.
House Speaker Martin (R„ Mass.) told reporters separate bills
covering two of the three pointe In a OOP substitute for President
Truman’s economic program will be taken up early next week.
The senate, he said, will Initiate action on legislation to permit
voluntary Indugtrywlde agreements on prices without incurring
liability under the antitrust laws, while the house will start work
on a bill continuing and expanding export controls.
“We should be able to dispose of those two bills in time to
adjourn (the present session of congress) by the end of next
week,” he said.
The Industrywide agreement bill would provide funds for the
administration to promote a voluntary program to curb living |
costs.
said Tueeday more than 817
million* in machinery manu-
I factored for Russia and “ear-
i marked** for shipment to the
soviet is stored in war assets
administration warehouses in
the east and middle west. A
WAA official said, however,
the material b being or has
been declared surplus and “is
being processed for sale in the
usual manner** in this coun-
try. (Earlier details, Page 18.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 9—OP)—
General of the Army Dwight
D. Eisenhower will assume the
presidency of Columbia uni-
versity next June 7, it was an-
nounced Tuesday by Frederick
Coykendall. chairman of the
university’s trustees.
WASHINGTON, Dec. •—OP)
—The house voted down Tues-
day a proposal to ban exports
of fertiliser, farm machinery
and oil products under the
foreign aid program while
they are scarce in this coun-
try. The standing vote of 145
to 107 followed hours of hot
wrangling.
I BOSTON, Dec. 9—The
I 84 million former navy tanker
[ "Ponagansett” broke in half
I Tuesday at an East Boston pier
—pitching upwards of 250
I workmen to the decks.
On* man wu injured critically
•nd 13 other* were trested for minor
hurt*.
Fart* Remain Afloat
The 523-foot vessel was being con-
| verted to commercial use after serv-
ing in the Pacific during the war a*
a fleet oiler. She was Jullt in 1944
and te about 4,700 ton*.
parts of the ship remained
•Bost- A cleft eight feet wide at the
deck line narrowed toward the water
As she buckled amldahip witfc a
rending sound, a huge spray of oily
Water shot high into the air,
. c*rdua engineer. «*1d
•SSust he thought “aomething had
struck us.”
‘Just Weak in Middle*
•X wm to my room having coffee*
be said. “I heard a terrific crash.
There waa no explosion but only the
™*rtng ripping of steel plate* a* the
snip let go.”
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BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, TUESDAY^ DECEMBER 9, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS—
Truman Pushes Rationing
Bill; GOP Eyes Own Plan
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clearing
tonight, lowest M to tt west, M to 4e
•M4, Mgh Wedwday 39 to 4S weet
Fal’de^a^“aadaz
day night, lowaot IS’to to weat, 25 to
so tel the eoot. CoM Thereday wtth the
Mgh 3S to 4e north. 4* to 45 south.
KETKNOED—Temtoratww win av- _ ___ . Mn„.
2ith b*>*w .B*ra*aLf*r i nisht by Anderson-Prichard ae
2^7X1, ” ““ 0,1 c«
Hkeiy except to eaal and central Okta-
Nelther rationing nor crop
buying wm mentioned directly
In the measure Harriman pre- 1
sen ted to the senate group.
Foster explained these ration-
ing and crop-buying powera
were contained in a bill de-
signed to give President Truman
authority to allocate and fix
priori ties on scarce items, in-
cluding livestock and poultry,
steel, grain and grain products,
freight cars and other pro-
ducers and materials.
Need for Fewer Explained
Moreover, the measure would give
- - - -----any
other materials If he found after pub-
lic hearings that a shortage was basic-
ally affecting "industrial production or
the coat of living.”
Ben. Cooper (R.. Ky.) asked Footer
I whether implicit tn such authority to
| distribute scarce items waa the power
I to ration to consumers.
’’It would include that power.” Pte- I
ter replied.
When President Truman presented
hi* 10-point anti-inflation program to I
congress he emphasised—and cabinet
officers have since repeated it—that
the administration does not pre;
to uae any of the powers if their
can be avoided.
Thb administration
that it should have the power so that
it can be used if necessary to halt
runaway prices.
The measure presented to the com-
mittee would extend export controls
allocation and priorities powera
through March 31, 1950.
The draft of proposed legislation
apparently waa submitted to meet in-
creasing complaint* by Republican*
that the administration has failed to
be specific in outlining the powers it
wants. •
- Such critiriwn waa ieveiiwj t,y n—<
----"omkiu Repuoil-
**?er’ yho “ald ”thef» has
inflation legislation outlined
of the administration
president ha* sent up here.”
er acceptance of the Russian demand
for 310 billions in reparations from
Germany waa a “condition” for sov-
iet acceptance of German economic
unity, Molotov said it was not a “pre-
condition.- Instead, Molotov said, he
felt that reparations and economic
unity should be considered simultan-
eously—a statement which wa* in-
terpreted in some quarters a* indi-
cating a readinea* to dicker.
THREE—Molotov did not reject out-
right, a* he had at the Moscow con-
ference. proposal* by the western
powers that, in any economic sone
merger, various occupation deficits
should be shared. The question, he
said, could not be considered until
each power determined what the cost*
would be.
FOUR—Following Monday's session
a soviet official told reporters it had
been a businesslike meeting and that
progrees could be made where there
was a will to agree.
While these developments gave rise
to a glimmer of hope that something
might yet be accomplished by the
London conference, western diplomata
guarded against any tendency toward
over-optlmtam.
Snow Falls Over Wide
West Oklahoma Section
Wet, heavy anow, measuring up to four Inches at Buffalo and
apparently general throughout the northwest state wheatbelt, fell
Tuesday but skies were beginning to clear and Mr. Maughan's fore-
oast called for moisture to end Wednesday.
At least four Inches of snow fell at Alva early, was melted par-
tially by a rain which came as the mercury climbed, then grew
deeper again as temperatures dipped below 32 degree later in
the day.
Enid had a mixture of rain, sleet and snow flurries. Snow flur- Mr. Truman authoritV't^ anoewte
ries fell at Ponca City and Blackwell, and Wichita, Kan., had a‘
heavy snow. Snow at Guymon was reported unofficially at about
three inches deep.
Highways were slick and dangerous, and crews were assigned
to keep them open. The moisture, however, was almost Ideal for
a late starting wheat crop since most of It was soaking Into ground
already wet.
In Oklahoma City the official fore-
cast called for temperature* no lower
than about 38 degrees during
night, while the mercury will rise
higher than about 48.
It will be cloudy with intermittent
rain and relatively high wind* dur-
ing the afternoon and night here.
The state forecast calls for clearing
| in the northwest with rain in the
I western and northern parte of Okla-
homa. ending during the night. High-
est temperatures just below freezing
■ in the Panhandle.
No Drifting Reported
Official reports showed snow falling
at Elk City which had .06 of an inch
of moisture, Gage .09 of snow, Guy-
mon a trace of snow, and Waynoka
wtth .10 all snow.
Highest temperature in the state
during the last 24 hours waa 54 de-
grees at Ardmore.
i Observers said that the snow was
falling in the northwest part of the
state without wind, thus giving the
greatest possible benefit from the
moisture and the least blocking of
transportation and communication.
Preparing for Icy Roads
At Woodward there was .21 of an
inch of moisture and anow, but the
storm had ceased, at least temporarily,
| at mid-morning. Clinton reported a
drizzling rainfall of .05. Ponca City
had some moisture in a brief snow-
fall during the morning and Fort
Supply reported four inches of snow.
At Buffalo, the anow feU wtth the
mercury standing at the 32-degree
mark, then a hard crust, protecting
tender young wheat beneath it, be-
gan forming a* the snow turned to
sleet.
Temperatures in Oklahoma City the
last 24 hours ranged from 48 to 31
at the airport and from 45 to 31 at
the Classen station.
Season's Coldest Storm
Spreads in Midwest
(By The AMOcitUd Frau)
The coldest weather of the season
chilled parts of the midwest Tuesday
as temperatures In some sections of
Minnesota dropped to nearly 30 de-
grees below aero. Police Free Boy's Hand
The icy blasts from Canada, cen- r n se * .
tering in Minnesota, northern Iowa ffOtn t opcorn irlachine
VENTURA, Calif.. Dec. 9—(A*)—Pe-
ter Orozco, 6, found a popcorn vend-
ing machine can be a booby trap.
Peter apparently thought he didn’t
get his full quota when he deposited
a coin in the machine Monday. He
shoved his hand into the slot to get
more. Firemen who answered a call
sail they were able to free Peter's
stuck hand by partially dismantling
the machine.
Hourly Temperature
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State Marshall was reported Tuesday
to have determined to seek a show-
flown with soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov at the earliest opportunity on
whether Russia actually is ready to
negotiate a German settlement.
Amertaan officials aald they were
convinced, as Tuesday’s meeting of the
council of foreign ministers got under
way, that hint* of concession* given in
Molotov’s action* Monday night would
not be borne out on real iasue*.
Marshall's strategy apparently was
to strip one of these major issue*
probably reparations, down to its bare
ee*entlah and try to get a cicarcut de-
cision on agreement or disagreement.
Diplomatic expert* of all three west-
ern delegations considered the real
state of relations between Russia and
the western powers te represented
more by development* in Europe than
by the diplomatic maneuvers going on
here.
Developments considered significant
in this respect were Russia s angry
note to France Tuesday over repara-
tion. coupled wtth the disruption ot
•oviet-Prench trade negotiations, and
j a section of its
Austrian occupation zone to travel be-
wun tne Christmas dollar volume
the
United Btatea department of commerce
Tuesday revealed there waa a 3 per-
I 2w>t 1“^feaaa 1,1 department store aalee
— nine month* this
year over a similar period in 1946.
Tulsa, the report shows, had a 5
percent increase. In adjacent states,
8t. Joseph, Mo., showed a 7 percent
increase and Kansas City, 7 percent -
with Denver showing the highest in- tn the balance, at least for this round
'Council Voids
Bus Franchise
Draft Approval
City council members re-
versed their approval of the
pending Oklahoma Railway
Co. franchise Tuesday and or-
dered a special council com-
mittee to meet with company
officials in the hope of iron-
ing out controversial pro-
visions in the proposed draft.
After making an unofficial
commitment to support the
franchise submitted by the com-
pany at an Informal council
meeting Monday, members post-
poned introducing the franchise
ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting
when Mayor Street objected to
| provisions on amount of fran-
chise taxes.
Meyer Called Any
| Street explained he waa called away
i from the meeting before the council
made the commitment. The measure
called for a tax of 1 percent of the
first 31 million of gross revenue* and
3 percent of all gross revenues in ex-
cess of that amount in any one year.
“I didn’t know the council had
reached this agreement until I heard
about it by accident at a meeting
downtown during the afternoon.”
Street said.
“The estimates indicate the com-
pany’a gross earnings are not more
than 33,500.000 a year. Under this
percentage formula the city could ex-
pect to receive only >60.000 a nar
l«!S^aa’ with xiore than
663.000 received last year.
Extra Expense Unknewn
“Our lose from parking meters atone
in making room for bus etope te esti-
mated at about 910.000, and no one
knows or can estimate at present the
extra expense which will fall upon
taxpayers in maintaining streets used
as bus routes.
‘‘I »m as anxious as anyone for
Oklahoma City to conUnue to enjoy
adequate modem public transporta-
tion. but I feel we have a duty to the
public to see that this sort of opera-
i tton does not place too great a cost
- —aa.a - - “ “
Kent W. Shartel, attorney for the
> company, told the council that since
90 days would be required before the
franchise could be submitted to voters
after it te adopted by the council,
’’there te not much uae in Introducing
the ordinance today if you Intend to
amend it later.”
‘Ne Time Saved'
“Any amendment* would simply re-
quire new advertising and no time
would be saved,” he said.
At conclusion of the discussion, the
council Instructed Street to select
member* for a special council com-
mittee to go over the entire franchise
draft with company officiate and at-
tempt to reach an agreement.
Street appointed E. R. Newby, ward
two. chairman, and Earl W. Miller,
ward one; Leonard Dickerson, ward
three, and O. A. Stark, ward four.
Youth Is Electrocuted
On Alva Street Pole
An Alva youth waa dead Tueeday of I
an electric shock received when he
attempted to recover a toy balloon I
from an electric line pole in a down-
town Ahra street late Monday night.
According to highway patrol troop-
er R. E. Morris*, 30-year-old Ray Earl
Hankins, and other youth* were blow-
ing up balloon* and sending them up
when one caught on an electric line
pole. Hankin* attempted to recover it
and wa* fatally shocked.
The mishap occurred at 11:45 p. m.
Monday and Hankins, employed by a
Cherokee hatchery, died 20 minutes
later in an Alva hospital.
to Force Soviet Showdown I
LONDON, Dec. »— (UP)—
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov insisted Tuesday upon
a Big Four reparations agree-
ment on Germany as a pre-
requisite to the economic
unification of that country.
The council of foreign minis-
ters plugged away at economic
proposals for Germany for
three hours without reaching
any substanUal agreement.
Mrs. Richard Sheridan, Chandler
| Tuesday held an >18.000 federal die-
trict court verdict here against tha
Deep Rock Oil Corp., for which her
WM working when he was
killed in an accident at Chandler.
The verdict ta nearly five times the
•mount given by a federal jury in a
trial of the case last spring. At the
conclusion of the first trial. Federal
| Judge Stephen Chandler, set ■side
| the jury’s verdict of 83.500 on the
ground* that since the jury had found
the corporation liable for Sheridan’s
death, the damages awarded the wid-
ow were not sufficient. t
In the trial Monday, the only testi-
mony heard was that of Mrs. Sheri-
dan and her witnesses, to the effect
that her husband, 50, had an earning
capacity of 11,800 a year. She sued
for 844,000.
Sheridan waa working on one of the
corporation's tank cars at Chandler
when he fell from the car and waa
killed. In the trial Monday, she con-
tended that he had a life expectancy
of 30 years.
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Air Fare is
Sport* 19-2S
Market* 22
Radio tax 22
increase and Kansas City, 7
crease- 10 percent.
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JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 9—(4>)'
toning ordinance line of the Peoples Natural Gas 1
°< the General Ship and Engine
w“
“I waa standing at a window when
* cauae had not bern
definitely determined, adding. “She
was just weak in the middle
hadn’t been strengthened.”
Master Zoning Gas Line Snaps, Here
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Tuesday revealed “there
speed, the city council passed —A 20-inch break in the main [ here for the first
the master toning ordinance line of the Peoples Natural Oas
unanimously without debate Co. about 20 miles west of this
steel-making town Tuesday
the snuffed out supplies to industries
i" d°mcstlc supplies to a bare mini-
’ mum in sub-freezing weather.
■ The break occurred at Donahoe, Fa.,
J near Greensburg. In a 12-Inch line
' supplying large portion* of Weatmore-
1 land. Cambria and Blair counties.
, Altoona. Tyrone, Ebens-
burg. Ligonier. Portage. Loretto. Cree-
son^and Hollidaysburg, were among the
Supplies were cut off to the huge
Pennsylvania railroad shop at Altoona
and to Bethlehem Steel Corp.** big
mills at Johnstown, as well aa to some
eight other Industries, a gas company
spokesman said. At least 50.000 homes
found supplies of natural gaa “hardly
enough to take care of house-heating
needs" in 25-degree temperature, thia
spokesman added.
The gas company reported the break
was discovered about 5 a. m. after a
sudden drop in pressure on the firm's
main line eastward.
Gasoline Prices
Uncertain, Con
Action Is Awaited
Gasoline prices in Oklahoma were
in a state of confusion Tueeday morn-
ing aa major oil companies awaited
action by the Continental OU Co..
Ponca City, on advances posted by
Anderson-Prichard OU Corp., OkU-
homa City.
The advance was, announced Mon-
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 269, Ed. 3 Tuesday, December 9, 1947, newspaper, December 9, 1947; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1767962/m1/1/: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.