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Trio Injured
Oklahoma City Times
As Blasts Rip
March
Building Here
PRICE FIVE CENTS
13, 1948
Push in Holy Land
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State Told
505 NE 14, who was checking can at the door,
U. S. Road
Plan Best
Bill to Cut U. S.
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■: Duncan Death
Trial Ordered
Four Vehicles Are Set Afire as Explosions
Sweep 7-Story Auto Hotel; Woman Hurled
Against Truekrin Alley, Is Critically Hurt
tecutive
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Poised for Armed
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Air Fare
City Briefs
Crossword Puitlt
Markets
Badta Lot
Society
Sports
ay de-
House
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news conference congress has no right to confi-
of members of his cabinet.
he would veto any legislation requiring such records,
le veto would be overridden.
i 23.000 long
states. Union
ntatives came
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an agree- beii
tion's
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“"'rked- on plans for
> Jewish state in
lestine before or aft
Downtown Oklahoma City was a maelstrom of confused activity Thursday morning shortly after
explosions rocked the Auto hotel, 112 NW 1, blowing out every window in the building and scat-
^ass. and timber in a wide area. Curious onlookers had to be roped off by police and fire-
There was danger of another explosion for a time and several pedestrians were almost hit
.Hing glass.
Secrets Bill Gets Nod
'•nent in mr
lur pro-
roughly
fter that
13——President Truman 1
ientlal Information from the
Phone Operators
WASHINGTON, May 13—(AV-
Plana for a nationwide strike of long
“'»re set
American
the date'
the four
, unusual,
doors were
seats and
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aiming a Je
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HARTFORD. Conn.
i Ben. Taft (~
; Thursday thi
the nation's i
> Hartley act.
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Hourly Temperature
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2 motorist
still is going
-•—man said
still hope
ah.” king
___to head
tween Palestine
of neighboring
The Weather
Pr«B> U s Wreihrr Bureau
Airport station
LOCAL—Partly cloudy Thursday.
Thursday night and Friday. High
temperature Thursday near 78. low
overnight near S3.
Jews Start Mobilizing
For Palestine Zero Hour;
State to Be Proclaimed
CAIRO, May 13—(UP)—Well-informed sources
said Thursday night that Egyptian army forces will
cross the Palestine border one minute after the British
mandate ends Friday midnight.
The sources said the army received orders to take
battle stations at midnight Thursday in the Sinai desert
adjoining the Holy Land frontier.
JERUSALEM, May 13—(/P)—Jewish forces called upon
all trained men and women of fighting age Thursday to
mobilize for the “zero hour’’ in Palestine when a Jewish state
i is proclaimed.
Declaration Prepared
A five-man comniittee in Tel /
prepared a draft of the declarat
proclaiming the Jewish state.
Pof the first time in almoat 2,000
years this Sabbath Friday, candles of
the Holy Land Jewry will burn on the I
soil of a Jewish state,” a member of
the provisional government
Great Britain, which took the coun- j agreement
from the Turks in 1917 and was I United Stat
given a League of Nations mai
1923. wit! surrender the mai
taring the hospital Sunday morning. ™ldnt*ht p m" ea"tarn
night c
nt Jordi
. but wt
still foi
atagic road
the west. ..
Arabs and
n the mour‘
, vl Aviv, Tv...
“Ing since L
irab control. The
off the western <
lay.
e distance to the
fought into the
for the Jewish
ir Etalon.
--L vjn reoruary zo ...
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on Oklahoma highways this ear.
Rail-
__total______„__________
the week saJd the tappings, giving
" CBr*' ? that at ,east one of the
•--=t was still alive,
r pound!
estimi
missed by rains
and tn places w!
needed.
Guymon, in the center <
handle, had l»-inch. Beat
•*4 Gage 09. and a trace
Waynoka and Wsurlka.
Scientist* Honor Ike
BOSTON. May 13—(UP)—The
American academy of arts and sciences
announced Thursday the election of
71 Dew fellows including Gen. Dwight
D. Elsenhower
Conf
agencies
under a
The dual purpose c.
still on the unflnishc _
after a day of house debate Wednes-
day—is to (1) force executive agen-
ited by congress to give infor-
to congressional committees
i punish those who divulge the
ition after it is declared con-
Vehicle Output to Drop
DETROIT May 13—<Ab—The na- |
automotive plants will “build
cars and trucks this week, the I
paper Automotive News eati-
Thursday. This compares with
assembled last week.
distance telephone operators wex
—: Thursday by the CIO Ame
ilephone Workers union but
“ 1 walkout was left open.
The union headed by John J. Mor-
an, has been engaged In a wage dis-
pute with the American Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
The union represents
distance workers in 42 r
and A. T. and T, represent
here Wednesday for conferenc
conciliators of the federal m<
service in an effort to reach
ment.
20 Officers Visiting,
Studying Tinker Field
A class of 20 officers. IS of them Blamed
colonels, from the command and gen- i
eral staff college. Fort Leavenworth.
Kan., was at Tinker airforce base
studying maintenance and supply pro-
cedures.
Maj. Gen. F. S. Bo rum. command-
ing general of the Oklahoma City air
materiel area, and Col. Carter E. Dun-
can. Fort Leavenworth, in charge of
the class, said the officers were flown
here because of the Tinker record.
Woman’s I^g Broken
The blast, explained McAlpine, must
"— started from natural gas fumes
the building proper. He would
u definite statement, however.
t garage gas outlets have been
, J by Oklahoma Natural Gas
Co. employes.
The —Iav—---.--------
rpshid------ —------
, after the explosion. Both her legs were
: broken In several places.
Hospital attendants reported she
also suffered head and internal in-
juries.
Mrs. Johnston is employed by the
Roy V. Robinson Menu service in the
Insurance building.
Rain pelted the dry. northwest i tllS
Oklahoma wheoc belt Wednesday r
Finally Lapse
To 47 Tempo
----- a--ln the week_ I
there moisture is most STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
of the 194,1 U date’ 145: May« >•
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> feu at both Oklahoma’s 1948 traffic toil
Thursday stood at 145, the same
as on May 13. 1947, and for the
first time this year was not o. •> nv y
greater than on the same day Strike Planned
“n lM7r a total of 512 persons tost fly Lonff DiStOnCC
their lives aa the result of motor ve- ©
hicle accidents. The highway patrol
and state and city safety councils
hope the total for 1948 will go lower.
If the state goes through Thursday
without a, fatal accident. It has a
good opportunity to drop behind the
1947 pace. Last May 13, two persons ,in^2
died on state highways. In the last
19 days of May, 1947, a total of 23 ,
persons met sudden death on state ’
roads.
The state
luary
Despite Truman Stand
WASHINGTON, May 13— (UP)— The house Thursday
brushed aside objections by President Truman and approved
legislation to force certain government agencies to give con-
gress their secret files.
WASHINGTON. May 1
fled congress to get confidi
or the cabinet.
dential records Tf^memiM^of hl7c7bln^t“"° ...... At hl* bcdMdf wcre hlM w,fe' M"ry'
He said he would veto any legislation requiring such records, "nd a coustn- Mrs- Roy Giddens, Dai-
and that he did not believe the veto would be overridden. la8- *
The courts have held repeatedly he said,‘that the president
and his cabinet cannot be forced to divulge confidential informa-
tion.
igressional committee workers and officials in exc
s appear likely to be the only persons subject to jail
so-called “secrets” bill now pending.
of the measure—
ihed business list —
RD, Conn.. May 13—(A^—
(R., Ohio) asserted here
tat he was against placing
railroads under the Taft-
Sims. head of the
had told him he
s because you are
has been a lot of
a and we’U get it I
Taft Opposes Labor Act’s
Inclusion of Railroads
I is proclaimed. prc
The state will be proclaimed early Friday night, effec- lm]
tive one minute after midnight, when the British mandate The delegation sent a
ends. The Jewish provisional government decided in Tel ' Oov Turner and h. e.
, (Aviv to proclaim the state early in the evening to avoid such J^^the^
* action on the Jewish Sabbath. ~
The Jewish mobilization call, issued in Haifa, <
and women between the ages of 18 and 35 who hat^-------- r.~
vious military training to ijeport immediately for duty. These in- |
elude not only those who have had training in Jewish forces, but
also those who had any type of previous military training.
Observers said this was a precaution against possible invasion
by the neighboring Arab countries. Egypt has imposed a state of
siege to prepare for possible Holy Land action. Syria and Lebanon
are clamping down martial law when the mandate ends Friday
midnight. i
At the same time the seven- ;
nation Arab League prepared to
set up what It called an Arab
civil administration, as dlstin*
gulshed from a state, to function |
WASHINGTON. May 13—The
Oklahoma congressional delega-
tion Thursday urged state offi-
cials to accept a compromise
agreement on disputed federal
aid highway projects under
which 90 percent of the unap-
>roved Jobs are scheduled for
imediate construction.
„ M The delegation «ent a telegram t«
■The ■?ewigA p,?v?Biona.1..
___ ? compromise arrangement as
"the best possible under the clrcum-
ordered all men stances "
ive had any pre- All But Seven Approved
■ ■ — Under the compromise, the publio
roads administration approved all but
seven state-submitted projects and
. substituted for them seven “hlgheta
1 priority projects where a large amount
of federal funds already have been
spent and which PRA doea not wish to
put aside op thia year s program.
The seven projects have
jected, it was explained in i
gram, because they have not
included on the approved high
tern.
In rejecting them, however. PRA
indicated that they can be approved
soon for inclusion on the highwey
system and that work can be started
[ay 13 at an early date.
Ilan for ap- Detaiie Prepared
*-i Nations Work •* ««her front
«ta^ funds or from funds resulting tat
was ae- gllght Chan8e8 m other projects or
5 a more likely from new appropriations
for federal aid which win soon be
available, the delegation said.
"The public roads administration
Insists these seven unapproved proj-
ects can be placed under construction
under new federal funds almost at
both strong the ,ame tlm' “ Mher Phrta °*
iinTES Pro«™m. as soon as their ineligibility
tne unitea by lncluston on the ap-
proved highway system." the telegram
said;
A series of explosions roared through the seven-story
Auto hotel, 112 NW 1, Thursday morning, injuring throe
persons and snewing glass and timber in a 100-foot radius.
One victim is in a critical condition.
The blasts, believed to have been caused by an accumu-
lation of gas fumes, were almost simultaneous, starting in
the basement and spiraling to the top floor.
Critically injured was Margaret Jane Johnston, 22, of
2708 NW 18, who was walking in an alley behind the build-
ing when the blasts occurred. Concrete window sills, thrown
out by the explosion, crushed her legs against a parked truck.
The other victims were two Negro employes of the parking ho-
tel Herman Roof. 407 NE 1, was taken to Mercy hospital. Working
in the basement at the time of the explosion, he suffered bums
and lacerations on his face and legs.
Harold Johnson. 505 NE 14, who was checking cars at the door,
suffered an arm injury.
The explosion,'* he said, “came up the stairway and blew me
Into the middle of the street. I landed right in front of a big sta-
tion wagon, but it was going slow and didn’t run over me.”
Charles Hall and Wayne Phillips, scoutcar patrolmen, were at
the intersection of NW 1 and Broadway when the blasts came.
-----1 “I could hear two explosions,
— almost at once,” Phillips report-
ed. “The glass was falling like
rain and smoke was pouring out
of all the windows.”
Car Damase Light
None of the automobiles inside was
seriously damaged. The upholstering
of four in the basement Caught fire.
The blast pushed two cars and a
truck partially through the rear sli-
ding doors on the main floor of the
garage.
Fire Chief George Alpine could give
"o estimate of the total damage until
,.e had completed the investigation.
The main blast, he said, occurred In
s small room In the southeast comer
I of the basement. It bulged out the
two-inch thick walls of the room.
All Windows Shattered
The explosion then mushroomed
.. ascending to other sections of the
sliding through elevator shafts and
Related news, picture, Page 14
staircases. Every window in the garage
was blown out. Plaster was ripped off
the ceilings of all seven floors.
The large, concrete-lined windows
in the rear were blown across the
alley, some landing on nearby roof-
tops. The alley was a mase of wreck-
nremen ware farced to use oxygen
masks to descend into the basement.
Carbon monoxide gas filled most at <
the building.
One of the largest crowds in yean
gathered between Robinson and
ma- Broadway, and the police were farced
t t© to establish roped-off lines to keep
Firemen at first feared more explo-
sions. Another danger to firemen and
‘ onlookers was the glass which con-
1 tinued to fan from the splintered
1 windows above.
McAlpine aald the fires in
automobiles were extremely
"Their windows and “
. closed,” he said “Yet the
upholstering were afire.”
Tso Rich to Explode
“The gas fumes must have been
down there quite a while and seeped
in through the car's body structure.
The mixture was too rich to explode,
so it burned.
The fumes, he said, were set off
some sort of fire in the basement.
At first, firemen believed the explo-
sion was caused by fumes from gaso-
line being discharged from a truck
parked in an alley.
Later investigation, however, i
closed the gasoline went directly 1
a tank beneath the alley, and
j vent for excess vapors opened onto
street.
1 SOUTH ST. PAUL. Minn, May IS
— <UP>—Police and sheriffs deputies
tried to breach mass picket lines at
packing plants here Thursday but
were beaten back with clubs and fista.
Angry pickets openly defied an ulti-
matum from Sheriff Norman Dieter
to "cut down the number of pickets
or arrests will be made.”
Policeman Injured
One policeman was injured in tha
fighting and was carried from the
scene. All the others were knocked
down before the pickets' superior num-
bers drove them to the side of tha
street opposite from the huge Swift Ar
Co. plant.
Dieter had announced that ha
wound attempt to cross the lines of
the CIO United Packinghouse Work-
ers in an effort to enforce a court in-
junction limiting the number of pick-
Pickets-
DUNCAN. May 13—(JP>—A 3S-year-
; old former Duncan policeman was or- hemorrhage was
dered held without bond Thursday for p^e<w,ur7' ‘
• district court trial next autumn in ■ t,,£ • ‘
the trunk murder of Hcleh Beavers
I here last January 23. h,s «
E. L. "Lefty" Fowler of Waurika de-
nied at his preliminary hearing he i
voluntarily signed a confession admit-
ting he killed the 26-year-old waitress.
He said he was threatened by officers
before making the statement.
Fowler accused Ted Paine, state
highway patrolman, of putting his
hands on a pistol several times, lifting
Fowler from his cell bed by the hair
and slapping him before the confes-
sion was signed.
Paine testified Wednesday that
neither he nor any state or county of-
ficer used force at any time during the
. questioning of Fowler in Duncan or
Chickasha.
I Fowler said Jake 2
■ state crime bureau.
i had "better confess
i an ex-cop. There k
I publicity about this
out of you.”
Plane Wreckage Checked
For Missing Amphibian
TAMPA. Fla . May 13— (A»>—Plane
wreckage in the Bahamian islands was :
ing checked Thursday in a search |
t for a missing navy amphibian. ‘
clea creat
mation
and (2)
Informat,
fidential.
Ready for a vote when the house
adjourned Wednesday was an amend-
ment by Rep. Brown (R.. Ohio) spe-
cifically excluding from the penalty
provision individuals other than con-
gressmen and committee employes.
The amendment has overwhelming
PIXA8X TURN TO
PACK 2. COLUMN 4
Cobb was stricken last Thursday
While In his Office at Langston uni- . Maneuvering ami On
versity law school headquarter, in the | maneuv7ring — .
capiteL He was taken to his home. on A JewUh aBency 8pokeainai
2124 N Stonewall. He rested quietly Wednesday night that “we .til:
-------- | for an agreement with Abdullah,
Story, picture, Page 7 of Trans-Jordan to the east. U
---------------------------------------- off full-scale war betv----
Jews and the armies <
Arab states.
But in those states there were new
reports of preparations for invasion.
The Jews Thursday night claimed
capture of the important Jordan val-
ley Arab city of Beisan. but west and
south of Jerusalem they still fought to
clear Arabs from strategic roads.
Some 10 miles to the west, at the
Bab el Wad gorge. Arabs and Jews
faced each other on the mountainous
supply road from Tel Aviv, which the
Jews have been trying "Ince r
to wrest ftom Arab cw
drove the Jews g.; ....
the gorge Wednesday
About the same w
south, the two sides
darkness in a battle
settlement of Kefax
Friday and Saturday, but lapsed into
unconsciousness early Sunday.
Although in a comatose state,
held his own Sunday and Mond«
then took a turn for the worse Tues-
day night, his temperature soaring to
104 degrees.
His physician said onset of the
~±3 caused by high blood
, from which Cobb suffered
the last 10 years. The condition was
ravated by overwork resulting from
many official and civic activities.
Arrangement, for services have not
completed. They will be an-
nounced by Smith and Kernke fu-
neral home.
Drop in Freight Volume
on Rail ‘Strike’
WASHINGTON. May 13 — (A*) —
Railroad freight volume dropped
slightly last week In advance of the
scheduled rail strike which did not
materialize.
The Association of American
roads reported Thursday that
revenue freight loadings for
ended May 8 came to 880,617
decline of 11.021 cars or 1.2
below the previous week.
Arab forces.
Marital Law In Egypt
Waganah, the Jewish ageney, I
planned, to take over all-Arab Jaffa,
which adjoins Tel Aviv. Jaffa’s emerg- 1
ency committee, set up when the port
' city's municipal government collapsed
last week following Jewish attacks,
surrendered Jaffa at 11 a. m. in Tel
Aviv, accepting all Jewish terms.
In Cairo. Egypt 's cabinet members I
approved a draft of a royal decree i
proclaiming martial law for --
a means of supporting possible Egyp- | foP
tian military moves in support of the states
Palestine Arabs. The decree provides
for appointment of Premier Mahmoud
Fahmy Nokrashl Pasha as military
governor. The interior ministry said
the king would sign it in a matter of
hours.
U. S. Palestine
.Plan Assailed
In co-eperatlon with occupying
a-.k ----- LAKJ: 8UCCESS Mfty r —
Ths new American plan
pointment of a United
commission for Palestine was d
scribed by Russia Friday as
road to war.
Russia joined in the attack after the i
: Jewish agency had blasted the United
States proposal as an attempt to set 1 j,
aside the UN assembly's decision of .
: Nov. 29. 1947, to partition the Holy '
Land
, • B* Polgnd and Guatemala. .1
fOr partition, also assailed
**“ 2_„j plan.
Arabs Find Fault
I^kMman nutxide 2 Mi^rst mmtlne ^al ro*d* commissioner, la preparing let-
*«*• to Turner and ■»*** Outlining
SS3, «" Miw—>• in dn.ll. B.P.
Arab representatives, although mak- Monroney. spokesman for the
Aviv ing no public statement, were under- aee«*ll°". rww
Stion stood to find serious fault with sev- ’3“
eral provisions of the American pro- Lr^ tLi^av
posal. They said they still were await- tolegrams early^Thuntoay afternoon.)
j ^N©fficialsStentatively>es<:heduled a The seven ' high priority" projects
J later meeting of the 58-nation political which the federal agency insist be tas
ild. committee in the hope that some tita program: .
he coun- i agreement would be reached on the a Eleven and six-tenths mites of pav-
and was ! United States plan by that time. |ng. U. 8. 89 north of Caddo; dwt-
,ndate in Quaker Named Mayor teas surface on 9.5 miles U. S. 60
indate at Informed quarters said meanwhile between Fairland and Wyandotte;
standard | that Harold Evans. American Quaker. P«ving U. 8. SO and 73 near Bar-
. had agreed to serve as emergency tleavilte and Dewey: miles of
mayor of Jerusalem surfacing on 8H 51 between Oneta
Evans, who is presiding clerk of the and Coweta; 12.4 miles surfacing 8K
Philadelphia yearly meeting of the 8o- 29 between Wynnewood and Elmore
ciety of Friends, previously had been City; completion of surfacing 8H 10
accepted by both Jews and Arabs for south of Wyandotte and grading and
the appointment as mayor, or munici- drainage on U. 8. 88 between Chockto
pal commissioner, the name used of- and Kiowa.
tidally in the UN. The seven projects declared ineligi-
Offictal announcement of hta ap- ble include three in Johnston county
pointment wa* expected later in the I to cost 8157,984; two in Logan county
day. to cost 8211,050; one in Payne county
-------*------ I to cost »115.965. and one in Garfield
BULLETINS
WASHINGTON. May 13—PickctS RcDCl
—The senate Thursday side- _ *
tracked a chril rights battle at lipd* A
this time by returning to com- * VFAAVX^ r&tUlVA
mittee a southern states’ edu-
cation compact bill.
EASTHAMFTON, Maas., May
Sunday 13—(UP)—A U. S. airforce
ie Arabs C-47 transport plane crashed.
“*• exploded and burned in a hay
field on the outskirts of East-
hampton Thursday. Two bodies
were recovered, and an air-
force spokesman said he be-
lieved seven men may have
perished
SHAMOKIN^Fa.. May 13— i
(UP)—Rescue works attempt-
ing to reach three men en-
tombed in a flooded independ- 1
ent mine reported they heard
tappings on the mine wall
about 150 feet below the sur-
face Friday. The rescue crew
" * ** * ‘ - hope
.... — w..« «. men
percent WM gtm aUre< was jn response
to their poundings on the wall.
They estimated they were
about 50 feet away.
WASHINGTON, May 13—
—The house voted Friday to
exempt newsmen from penal-
ties of the so-called “secrets”
i bUL h
rlier in the weei
Randell Cobb,
Former State
Attorney, Dies
Randell S. Cobb, 51, Okla-
homa City attorney and former
otaic auwiiivy Kcncrai,
cerebral hemorrhage at 4
Thursday In Polyclinic hospital.
He had been unconscious since en-
state attorney general, died of a
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Industry Killed
WASHINGTON, May 13— no
(UP)—The senate commerce he
committee Thursday killed
the controversial Moore-Riz-
ley bill which would have re-
stricted federal control in the
natural gas industry.
The committee rejected the buii<
house-passed measure, 9 to 4.
The vote followed a last-minute
pica by Sen: E. H. Moore (R.,
Okla.) that the bill was in “the
public interest” and should be
passed
Needed to AM ExpanatoN
Supporter* of the bill argued «t
hearing" before a commerce subcom-
mittee that paaaagv was necessary to
a»*ure expansion of the industry and
overcome the shortage of natural gas.
Opponents painted to studies pre-
pared by the bureau of accounts, fi-
nance and rates of the federal power
commission contending that possible
rate increases of 11 pipeline comp-
nles under the bill would amount
356 millions each year.
The bill would have excluded pro-
ducers and gatherers of natural gas
from the jurisdiction of the federal
power commission. It would have
limited the commission's jurisdiction
over interstate pipeline companies.
BmmU Termed Trivial
It also would have allowed the pipe-
line companies to treat their pro-
duction and gathering operations as
•rparate enterprise" and claim a fair
* commodity value" for gas produced.
Proponents of the bill declared rate
tncreaaM would be trivial and that the
bill is necessary to encourage gas com-
panies to expand distribution.
Moore told the committee that the
measure has become a [XJlitical Issue.
i “No newspaper has ever written
about it that understands it." he
MMsi.
Wimberly far SabstHatea
Sen. Clyde Reed (R.. Kan.) said
that even if the senate passed the bill.
President Truman would vote it.
' I have no desire to give the pres-
ident a first class political issue in a
campaign year.” Recd said. within
The bill was opposed by all four rlv,e,1 '
members of the federal power com- “ntd
mtaMon; but chairman Nelson Lee
Smith and vice-chairman Harrington
Wimberly. Altus. Okla., favored sub-
stitute amendments to the present na-
tural gas act which opponents claim
would have the same effect on rates
Parched Grain
Belt Gets Rain
critically-injured woman was
to St. Anthony hospital shortly
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 90, Ed. 3 Thursday, May 13, 1948, newspaper, May 13, 1948; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1768360/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.