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EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY
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Pickets Facing
Contempt Suit
In City Strike
Ada Stages 64-Alarm
Fete for Fire Chief
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armed services subcommittee on
the plan estimated to cost $161
millions.
The prospective radar stations would
The modem central fire station looked more like a florist
shop than one of the most efficient fire fighting plants in
Strong Winds, Colder
Due Here Tomorrow
Rain, Possible
Ice Forecast
City's Downtown
District Shaken
By Strange Blast
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FINAL HOME EDITION
Miamian’s Appointment
As Marshal Is Signed
4, TULSA. Feb. 13—(U^>—U. 8. Judge
Royce H. Savage was to sign a bench
appointment Saturday naming Ben
Stanley. Miami, as U. 8. marshal for
the northern district of the state suc-
ceeding John P. Logan.
Logan, dean of U.
City Briefs
Cherebes
Ci seewsri Fussie
Markets
RaSto Leg .
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‘Piece of Heaven’
Is Created in City
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Plans for Huge Arctic Baby Aids
Radar Defense Revealed Papa Win
Rep. Albert Assigned
To Farm Committee
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—UPV—Rep.
Car! Albert at Oklahoma ha* become
a member of a house agriculture sub-
committee.
Albert said the group will consider
,ny curii
: Belt
State Spurts
Ill New Firms
Tax ConimiMion Data
Shows Trade Growth
Continued business growth in the
several bills, metadtag one which would
repeal or revise the agriculture set
approved last year.
Marketing quota legislatton and church here. All churches in the city
Bandit Returns to Cafe
For Breakfast, /g Jailed
LAWRENCE. Kan, Feb. 13—<U.»—
Ace H. Rutt. 30. was in Jail Saturday
because he returned to the scene of a
crime. Police said Rutt. Kansas City,
Mo., entered a restaurant, threatened
the proprietor. R. B. Gemmel, with
a pistol and escaped with 6728.
The bandit wore a white handker-
chief over his face, but Oemmel rec-
ognised the gunman when be returned
an hour later and ordered breakfest.
Oemmel called police and they found
8571. Identified as part of the loot, in
his pockets.
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Paraguay Presidential
Vote Set for April 17
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Feb. 12—OF)
—Oenral Raimundo Rolon. Paraguay's
provisional president, announced Sat-
urday elections will be held April 17 to
choose a new president.
General Rolon beads the junta which
overthrew the government of President
J. Natalicio Gonsales on January 30.
He said the Colorado party, the only
one active in Paraguay, trill meet
March 1 to select its presidential can-
dldate.
GI Lochinvar Denies
Guilt in Berlin Court
BERLIN. Feb. 13—(TV—A former
American paratrooper who broke
through the Berlin blockade tar love
demanded an immediate trial in a sur-
prise move Saturday and pleaded in-
nocent.
United States military government
granted the request of Edward J. Lada.
Newark. N. J, to answer formally
seven charges hanging over him since
he hitch-hiked to Berlin to see his
German girl and their 3-year-oid
daughter.
Defense counsel Robert M. Donlhi
said the 24-year-old former paratroop-
er hoped to wed Ruth Riecki. mother
of hla child, aa soon as the trial ends
if army authorities will permit &.
ATLANTA, Feb. 12—(*>—
** Curly-haired little Ann
Christine, aged 14 months—
barely old enough to prattle
(xirted the north Atlantic regional se-
■ity arrangement which Canada is
Ipins negotiate.
Irked Wife
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TWELVE PAGES—500 N BROADWAY. OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1949
Custer Officers Capture
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Sheriff toFile
Liquor Appeal
Pair Also Convicted
Of Muskogee Payoff
MUSKOGEE. Feb. 13—(Times Staff)
Motions for new trials for Sheriff Ed-
die Briggs. former jailer Harley Green-
wood and Fred Payne, bootlegger, con-
victed here Friday in a whisky payoff-
protection trial, will be filed within
the next 10 days.
Defense attorneys announced this
plan after a federal court jury con-
victed the defendants of conspiracy
to violate the Internal revenue laws.
Roy HATSha. county commissioner,
said he would wait for instruction*
from the court and county attorney
before taking any action to remove
Briggs from office.
Three other defendants. Gene An-
drews. civil deputy sheriff; Guy Payne.
27. and Xelta Peters, 28, were ac-
quitted.
Red Cross Must Halt
Food Gifts in Berlin
BERLIN, Feb. 12—The
Russians tightened their block-
ade Saturday to stop the Swedish
Red Cross from supplying food
for western Berlin s children.
Thia was disclosed by western al-
lied military commandanta, who an-
nounced they were providing air lift
■pace to fly in 22 tons of Swedish
soups and cereals.
The Swedes have been conducting a
program of supplemental feeding here
which gave 'all German children
throughout the city between the ages
of 3 and 6 years one extra meal a day.
The Runalant let the shipment* come
through from the west by rail and
truck.
Now Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotlkov.
soviet commandant, has informed the
Swedes that such shipment* hence-
forth are prohibited to prevent i—
fcxxl entering the blockaded western
aecton. Only gifts for the Russian
sector will be admitted.
Japs (ret Quake Alert
As Volcano Rumbles
TOKYO. Feb. 13—Japanese ex-
pert* studying recent intermittent i
eruptions of Mount Yake Saturday,
warned the 5.000 inhabitanta of the
foothills area to beware of earth-,
quakes and possible descent of boil-:
ing water. .„
The volcano, near the west coast gained
and" steam February 5 after being dor-
mant nearly a century. . .
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12——Canadian Prime Ministej Louis
St Laurent said Saturday the Canadian and United States gov-
ernments are planning a vast radar interceptor network across
northern Canada. _ _
Buch an aircraft<detection system would screen the Arctic area1* ••Mama.” Papa"—could be the
Cold, strong winds, and rain which
probably will turn into an ice storm.
Saturday was heading toward Okla-
homa on the heel* of springlike
weather which . brought temperatures
as high as 73 degrees at Guymon, in
the Panhandle. Friday afternoon.
It could be the worst possible news
for power and telephone companies,
as weU as automobile drivers, and
owners of shade trees and orchards,
weather observers said. There will
be strong winds. It is wind, whipping
ice loaded wires which all utility
maintenance men fear.
Temperatures in Oklahoma City are
expected to touch 66 here again dur-
ing the afternoon, about the same
aa the • 63 at the airport, 65 at the
Classen station during the last 24
hours. But skies are expected to
grow thicker with clouds.
The mercury is expected to drop
to abbut 30 degrees by morning, com-
parsd with the 47 st the airport. 51
at the Cis seen station early Satur-
day. Light rain is expected to begin
freezing during the night, and con-
tinue as framing rain or snow Sun-
day.
Observers said that the main hope
for this area is that tbs moisture
probably will be light.
Shippers were warned to expect
readings as tow as 17 degrees in the
northwest part of the state by morn-
ing—with the main cold not due un-
til late Sunday.
same
booked on'a ch
tomoblle while
liquor.
The couple wks arreeted following a
minor accident in which their car
sideswiped a parked automobile near
the Alamo Plasa tourists courts last
Saturday night.
Cabin in Disorder
Investigating officers found the
tourist cabin, which the couple had
been staying In a state of disorder,
with blood spots on bedding, towels
and floors.
An autopsy, ordered by the stats
and attorneys for Lorensen, revealed
Mrs. Kegehnan had suffered a brain
hrmorrhage snd was suffering from
advanced stomach ulcers which the
examlnlnf physicians reported might
have caused her death.
Laboratory testa now
are expected to be completed before
the physicians are called upon to
testify at Lorenzen's preliminary
hearin<.
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Chinese Leader Dies;
Was on Reda’ Criminal List
CANTON, China. Feb. 13—OF)—Tat
Chuan-Hsien, a political Intimate of
Generalissimo Chians Kai-Shek and
veteran kuomintang party leader, wm •
found dead in bed Saturday.
The official Chinese Central news
agency said Tai died of an overdose
of sleeping tablets. The agency said
he “was despondent over political de-
velopments in China.” He was on the
Chinese communist list of "war crim-
inals."
Tai. 56. was the second cloae as>
aoclate of Chiang’s to die under sim-
ilar circumstances. The first was Chen
Pu-Lei. an adviacr who died last No-
vember.
Miskovsky Employed
To Aid in Death Case
George MisktWsky, former
county attorney, returned to ths
role of prosecutor Saturday. Ho
announced he has been em-
ployed as a apodal prosecutor tn
the manslaughter case against
Harry F. Lorenzen, Canadian
county judge.
Preliminary hearing for Lorensen
has been set tentatively for February
22 in the court of Otis James, jus-
tice of the peace.
Hired by Vletim’a Kin
Miskovsky said he was employed by
Oran Dale. Roswell. N. M . brother of
Mrs. Marian Kegflman. El Reno so-
cialite who was divorced from Loren-
last autumn.
>frs. Kegelman died in a eity hos-
pital after being found unconscious in
the women's ward of the city jail. She
had been arrested by city police and
booked on a charge of drunkenness.
the same time Lorenaen was
of driving an au-
r the influence of
By MABK SARCHET .
ADA, Feb. 12—Mrs. J. C. Haley knew she was right Friday.
She and her husband were convinced after 35 years they didn’t
make a mistake whep they signed a release in 1914 allowing their
16-year-old son to Join the fire department.
Their son. Ed Haley, 51. celebrated hia silver anniversary
Friday as chief of the Ada fire department and his thirty-fifth
year as a member of the department. Ada and all of Pontotoc
county pitched in and helped.
Oklahoma—a plant which has
cut Ada's fire Insurance rate
to the minimum.
Chief Haley seated hi* mother in
hla official chair, and. flanked by
his wife and father, opened gift af-
ter gift. With each present, the elder
Haleys wiped moisture from their
eyes. And even tlje old fire-eater
himself pulled out his handkerchief
once or twice.
When a delegation from Ada
lodge 118, A. F. and A. M^ presented
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Haley with a spunglaaa fishing rod.
the chief choked up Inside. And
when fireman Dudley Young, who
has been on the department with
Haley fur 28 yean, presented a life-
time reel to milch the rod. the
chief got smoke in his eyes.
The reel was a present from the
11 regular firemen and 12 volun-
teers. Those 11 regulars aren't old
men. but between them they rep-
recent a total of 187 yean on the
Ada fire department.
Mem hem of the department put
an extra shine on the bras* and
nickel plate. The beds were made to
the pleasure of an old fashioned
top kick. You could eat lunch off
the floor ... and then tbs guests
started to arrive.
Ada schools turned out class by
class and the children were led
through tbs fin station by the reg-
ulars When each class reached the
chief's office, the pupils sang aonga
of praise.
And ths children were outnum-
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LET'S MAKE IT IOO1
pronounced the excommunications,
also served sharp warning on other
communist states by threatening the
same penalty against "all those who
in ths future should become involved
in the same crimes’* (as against Car-
tlon. called for special ms asm on
April 3 "to expiate ths crime of the
enemies of God ”
He added that the enemies of God
are spreading evil "almost all over the
world like a virulent disraea."
Cardinal Mindssenty was sentenced
to life imprisonment Tuesday by a
court in communist-governed Hun-
gary on charges M treason, espionage
tie to pull Mama and Papa
back together.
Mama is a pretty dark-eyed
girl, the war
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across which some military strategists contend Russia would strike
at this continent in event of a war.
A bill providing for a widely spaced radar screen around the
United States already has been Introduced in congress. Hearings French-Hungarian
under way before a house bride of Simon Kendall. 28. Benton
— Harbor. Mich., a former merchant
marine officer.
Drys to Form New Unit
SHAWNEE. Feb. 13—(Special)—A
Pottawatomie county chapter of the
United Drys of Oklahina will be or-
‘ last year. ganised Sunday In the First Baptist ftotafly retired closing a M-
j quoo ‘ 2_ 12_ f
meagiirw calling for the rsorganiza- are co-operating in the meeting, which Stanley, recommended for the appoint-
tion of the agriculture department and ‘ was eaDed by the Shawnee Ministar- •"•«* mnernr* ha*
farm rssssrrh ales win be studied. ' ial alllancb.
Whisky Vault Guarded
Prosecutor Probes Mystery.
Of Ownership; Armed Men
Standing Watch Over Stocks •
CLINTON, Feb. 12—(Special)—With an $8,000 liquor
cargo under armed guard, Fred LaRue, Custer county at-
torney, Saturday said he hoped to be able to charge “four
or five persons” before nightfall with bringing in the largest
load of whisky and wine ever seized in this county.
He said he also will move to confiscate two trucks in
which Sheriff Albert E. Gorshing found 164 cases of liquor.
Striking swiftly after receiving an undisclosed tip,-
Sheriff Gorshing led a raiding crew to Rainbow Courts, just
outside Clinton.
There he found one truck loaded with 107 cases, the other with
57 cases.
Trucks and liquor were seized. Saturday the liquor was In
the sheriff's whisky vault at Arapaho, Custer county seat, under
armed guard.
"We’re not taking any chinces,* LaRue
'Someone could break into that vault and steal
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same thing in Atlanta.
Simon and Beatrice had a spat at
Benton Harbor. The little wife
I packed up and came with the baby
„ .. , , .. . . to stay with relatives of the At-
He diacloaed there are Americana at i.n,. veteran
■weather station* and LORAN .long
range aid to navigation) establish-
ment* in northern Canada but there
are not a* many of these place* a*
some of your army and air force peo-1
pie would like to see in existence.”
He said the Canadian government,
ha* not received any official sugges-.
tions from the United States for ex-1
pension of the network but added: I
We've seen plans which call for ex-
penditures so great that if they were'
carried out. there wouldn't be any
money left for anything else. There
have been planners in Canada and I
planners in the United States working
on thli.’*
He said plans "have never gone be-
yond this very preliminary stage."
St. Laurent, who is here tor a visit
Fieket Lines Reformed
They returned to their picket line*
Saturday morning despite the fact
Schwoerke advised their business
sgent. Jack Ryan, to pull them off.
Ryan is business agent of the Build-
ing Service Employe* union and the
strikers are members of the office di-
vision of that union.
Schwoerke charged the Saturday
advertisement listed the Wolf address
as 308 NW 6.
Charging the firm started using
FLKAaX TURN TO Pickets
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the first time at Marseille*. France.
under the house bill to guard strategic with the help of brown-eyed Ann
air approaches. i Christine—he's trying to do the
On the northern Canadian radar net-' “““ »*•«— •- *»i—».
work. St. Laurent told reporters that
the whole project is still in the plan-
ning stage.
A mysterious explosion rocked
downtown Oklahoma City at 6:15
a. m. Saturday, but neither police nor
the fire department could find its
source.
"I just hope it wasn’t a couple of
burglars cracking a safe," one offi-
cer said sourly.
The blast, which appeared to be
heard clearest near NW 1 and Broad-
way. brought dosens of frightened
persons running from hotels and
cafes.
B. A. Maxwell and R. T. Wade,
scoutcar officers parked at NW 2 and
Robinson. reported the explosion
"made our car shake.” At the police
station. Bill Marcum, radio dispatch-
er. Was deluged by calls from alarmed
residents.
Bill Keister. 16. attendant In a mo-
tor hotel in the 100 block NW 1. said,
"It was a deep roar and the ground
seemed to shake.” He thought the
sound cmne from the east.
Hearing Set Friday;
Injunction Also Is
Sought Against Firm
A district court contempt
citation was signed Saturday
by Judge Albert C. Hunt
against atriking employes of
the John E. Wolf Advertising
Co., as the women strikers
continued to march despite a
temporary restraining order
restricting their picketing.
The citation was signed by
Judge Hunt at 9:30 a. m. Satur-
day when the strikers continued
to picket the N Robinson en-
trance to the Home State Life
Insurance Co., building, NW 6
and Robinson, in violation of in-
junction issued against them
Thursday.
Hearing May Ba Earlier
A hearing on the citation was set
for next Friday but it is possible it
will be heard earlier in the week.
Charles Schwoerke. union attorney,
■truck back at the Wolf company by
filing an injunction seeking to force
compliance with a IMS statue which
provides newspaper advertisement*
seeking employe* to replace strikers
must state the firm or plant is in-
volved tn strike.
Schwoerke conferred with Granville
Scanland, county attorney, Saturday
morning regarding poealble penalty
action in the case.
After conferring with Edward Spiere,
Wolf's attorney, it was decided to in-
sert a phrase “to replace employe*
now on strike” in future newspaper
advertlsementa.
Advertisement Cited
Wolf advertised in The Dally Okla-
homan Saturday morning for employes
to replace those now on strike but did
not point out bis regular employes
were on strike.
"Its 1806 statute that was put on
the books to keep employers from im-
porting strikebreaker* from other
state*.’’ Spier* said.
"We have agreed to follow the law
in the future.”
Schwoerke. however, filed a district
court injunction suit Saturday morn-
ing following his conference with
Scanland and Spier* to force Wolf to
obey the statute. It will be beard
next week.
The ptekete were withdrawn from
Simon won his bride. Beatrice, the insuraam company building Fri-
day afternoon when Schwoerke filed
a motion to modify the temporary In-
junction Issued against the union. The
pickets, however, returned to their
picket lines around the building when
the motion was set for hearing next
Monday.
aad black market money dealings.
The sacred consistorial congregation
formally decreed on December 28 the
in the arrest of the cardinal two days
earlier.
Saturday's declaration widens the
excommunication to include all thoee
connected with the trial and sentenc-
ing of the Hungarian primate. An ex-
communicated person is denied the
sacraments of the church and the
society of Catholics.
Excosnmunicatton "la tee sen ten-
tiae.” especially reserved to the apos-
taUe see. la one of the church * gravest
^^addiumT^taSamie juris"—or dec-
laraUoc of infamy and perjury—was
teried against the Hungarian authori-
ties who toot action aginst the car-
dinal. t \
QHE had made up her mind, she
told an Atlanta reporter, to di-
vorce Simon and marry the At-
lantan.
Simon lost no time following his
wife and baby to Atlanta. He asked
Beatrice to go back home with him.
She refused and he took the baby.
She said he "grabbed” Ann Chris-
tine and sped off in an automobile.
He Mid simply that he "recovered”
| the baby.
Then, he announced Friday to a
reporter that he and Ann Christine
were going back to Benton Harbor
without Mama. Mama mw his
statement in the afternoon paper.
Then the 21-year-old Beatrice
changed her mind about going back
— —- — ------- - ... about a divorce . . . about ev-
wi^i President Truman, strongly sup- erythlng.
““ ‘ “ "I will go back to him." she ex-
claimed to a reporter. “Any tiling.
... I cannot give up my baby."
Her avowal was printed in Batur-
| day morning's paper Maybe Bimon
will see it snd change his mind
about going back home without her.
Red Leaders Believed
Holding Secret Conclave
I ROME. Feb 12-Palmiro Tog-
liatti. Italy** communist chieftain and
I cominform member, left Rome wtthin
> i —— . I tea hours for an unan-
state was reflected by a tax commis-, oounced destination, a reliable diplo-
tion report Saturday showing the state matjc source said Saturday
----------- 787 business concern* during A well-informed Polish source said
of Honshu, began giving off »"^ke 1»4« ’ (n Warsaw Friday night that the
and steam February 5 after being dor- i,)Creasr fn ^e number of businesses cominform i* now believed to be meet-
mant nearly a century. WM not«i in all lines making aides ins in Prague or elsewhere in Ciecho-
Kyodo news afency tax reports except the public utility i Slovakia.
"T i^ «nd transportation group, which |--
st,s- ZZ2tl Pontiff Launches Attack
recorded for the year, according to
the report, which shows 8.857 firms • __ w •
JAeainst Foes of God
cerns making sales tax reports, and' F^
does not include manufacturers, whole-
Miers. etc. VATICAN CITY. Feb. 12——Pope Plus XII warned Satur-
Food stores showed the greatest jay -a conspiracy has been formed against the Lord” in certain
chantsi during the yw. 4.377 opening countrles. The Vatican immediately pointed up his warning by
tb.tr *~1 ASM rirwin. th.™ excommunlcating jjj those connected with the arrest, trial and
sentencing of Josef Cardinal Mlndszenty of Hungary.
The pope did not mention any nation by name. However, the
Vatican's action left no doubt that he meant the communist-led
countries behind the iron curtain, where the British foreign of-
fice Friday charged a drive is in
progress to stamp out the
churches.
—TW M*M rte«* Sr J«* 3glllw
How’s for Some Fishing, Chief?
Ed Haley celebrated his silver anniversary as chief of the Ada
fire department Friday along with 35 years as a member of
the force. Above he fondles a spunglass fishing rod and lifetime
reel, two of the many gifts from fellow townsmen, who turned
out to honor the veteran firefighter.
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• bltgwrd sweeping the area,
ever. —---'---
or visit the mountain peak due to the
wsaltwr.' _
The Weather
Prom u * Wallwr Burvau
Airport SUitloa
L O C A L—Increasing cleadinea*
bm| wtedy. and eantlnaed mild to-
day. failwwvd by rain, turning to
freedng rain and much ealder with
strong nartbecly winds tonight
Light fraaslw rain «r anew and their doors and 4.344 closing them,
ealdar Swsteay. with fresh to strong j Next was the motor vehicle group, tn- I
northerly winds. High today near eluding car dealers, fUling station*.
65 Law tonight near 36. High San- garages, etc The year wound up with
day to 36‘a.
SHIPPERS—Prepare far tempera-
tares nett 36 to 36 bears, northwest.
IT to 33 degrees, northeast 33 to 36.
aaathwent 87 to 33, sootheast above
8g.
STAT E—Increasing eleodinem
with i lea si an* I light rain, highs
55 to U, tarning s eider north por-
tion by afternoon. Light rain er
flrosedag rain and mach colder to-
MSht. Lews tonight 15 to 35 north.
85 to M sooth. Monday light rain
or freezing rain and colder. Strong
shifting wind*
Hourly Temperature
eral service career begun in 1816.
Atdd Saturday.
"Someone could break into that vault and steal the liquor pretty
easy unless we had it under guard." The county attorney said ha
was pressing an investigation
to determine who brought the
liquor to Clinton and who
owned It.
Investigation Is Pushed
"I've got to do quite a little investi-
gating.” be declared. "I don't know
for sure who brought it in. but I
have a pretty good idea who the
liquor belong* to.
"There will be some four or five
fellow* charged when we get around
to filing charges.”
He said he hoped to be able to file
charges late Saturday, but might not
have them prepared until Monday.
Other Raids Made
Earlier, Sheriff Gorshing made two
other raids that brought in three cases
of whisky.
Accompanied by Claude Allen,
county jailer, and Ben Moss, Clinton
policeman, he seised moot of the
liquor at the home of Roscoe Conklin.
Conklin was charged with liquor
possession, pleaded innocent and was
released on 8250 cash bond.
John Linde and Lawrence Goucher
were arrested prior to the raid on
Conklin’s place. Each posted 8500
bond on a charge of possession.
U. S. Army Breaks Up
German Smuggling Ring
FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb. 12—
()P)—The United States military gov-
ernment reported Saturdsy it has
broken up an International ring that
smuggled possibly 81 million in food
package* into the German black mar-
ket through forged Import licenses.
The food was shipped into Germany
from neighboring European countries
in the guise of relief supplies. A mili-
tary government spokesman Mid a
German forger and "several'' displaced
persons had been arrested.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1949, newspaper, February 12, 1949; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1769170/m1/1/: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.