Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 13, 1954 Page: 1 of 12
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Court Refuses to Block
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Low Bidder Fails to Grab
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Einstein
Contract After Witnesses
Lashes At
Grillings
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Stanley Dreper
Says in Pica
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light the eyes up. ...
that a central fund be established
November
for the defense of persons who
McCarthy Backs Aid
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He is seeking, by injunction, to force the city to award
the money he received to the re-
search organization.
Weather
British Liner’s
Crash Kills 32
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Television had added to the woes
i
was
3"
Noftsger
never had an
Attorney James O. Braley filed
about this if you hadn't asked me
the archi-
Throat Disclosed
Should an Injunction be approved
will’be able to get his mail for
Probers
PIEASECLMN°
"Should I receive any funds, the
Their memories were refreshed,
watching television.
by plane Monday from the United
men who gave Canadian county
merfield’s concurrence in a ruling
examiner that
'Cowboy's” mail be stamped un-
from Sydney, Australia, to London.
Coming into Kallang airport from
f
l
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But the jolttest roar is a man's last laugh. ...
“Pete'' himself.
I
the following small craft warning
aught Inside Firm
winds shifting northerly 25 to 35
westward Saturday and eastward
also had loot taken from a
four, both
al affairs division.
gitive from their jail. Oklahoma
What9s inside
of military police trainees.
Elderly Man Killed
and accused it of waging a cam-
foreign intervention in sage of his resolution calling
acoirg The vnta waa a ______i___ Zil... a. a.L. :.t.+
ment as
The vote on this key section of Communist influence.
rport:
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| bid for re-election.
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American Nations Slap
At World Communism
Probers Press
Sen. McCarthy
For Showdown
So Chef Ernest Kell sent Evans
and officer Raymond Thomas to
Marie Stafford Steen. wife of a
Perth physician, had flown here to
IVs Time Winds to Fade
To Smile! But State Due
early Saturday: Continue small
craft warnings from Brownsville,
Texas, to St. Marks, Fla., for
county district court Hearing on
whether the order will be made
Schine Shuns
Press Parley
Pink Trumps
U.S.Mail Ban
permanent
March 23.
GOP Senator# Call
For Full Airing
Of Cohn Charges
HE CHAIN LETTER, if un-
broken, promised to return
Kerr’s Ballot
Bid Readied
Court Order Gives
Temporary Relief
DURANT. March 13—I_"Cow.
Dr. Eugene Briggs
Results, but no $5,250
Formal Announcement
Of Race Coming Today
3 Americans Among
Dead at Singapore
by fire.
Firemen said Aaron Johnson,
about 75, died while still in bed.
The blaze was believed started
from an overheated wood stove An
Saturday night and Sunday,
Comic Dictionary
Hypochondriac—A woman who
hates to hear how well she looks.
Storm Warnings Issued
Along Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS, March 13—
States.
The British Overseas Airways
Corp. Constellation was on a flight
lawful and returned.
The order blocks Summerfield's
For Cold Night
Dust Blow ing Only
in Southwest Area,
Air Clearing There
Chester Warner of Pres-
ton. engulfed in flames
For a Fugitive
Jailbreaker Spotted
In Television Picture
By D BACON NEw
E
2
(rapped while rescuing
others.
Practically all the northern
half of Okalhoma was free
from blowing dust Saturday
Testify He’s Not Qualified
W. A. Crisp’s injunction petition was denied shortly
before noon by Judge Clarence Mills. The judge did not
rule on the damage section of the petition because
Crisp's attorney said he was entitled to a jury trial. A
motion for a new trial will be filed within the next few
days.
parently was starting to clear.
At Hobart, several miles to the
, while fighting a wind-
‛ ’ whipped range fire north of
iv Okmulgee Friday, died at 4
Editorial Pafa
Robort C. Ruark has little sym-
pathy for opponents of Gov.
Shivers’ proposal to outlaw the
Communist party.
MAA An to a
MMaea Air
i The flour-like dust had sifted into
There are smiles that merely most homes, raising lines of silt
led to his freedom January 15.
Face la Familiar
on
Americans Should Defy
‘Inquisitions,’ He
Stevenson Due
Tough Reply
Nixon to Meet Issues
Head-on, He Pledges
WASHINGTON, March 13 -UP
—Vice President Richard M. Nix-
on, with White House backing, is
scheduled to give the nation Satur-
day night the Republican party's
official reply to a blistering attack
by Adlai E. Stevenson.
Nixon promised he would meet
head-on the issues raised by the
1952 Democratic presidential can-
didate at a party rally a week
tions, regardless of the cause or
the caliber of men involved.
paign issues.
On Monday, Kerr will hold a 2
p.m. press conference to introduce
his campaign manager and to an-
swer questions put by newsmen.
He said he hopes “the boys" will
fire a lot of questions.
Kerr’s announcement Saturday
will be in line with his put habit
of starting political Ventures about
March 15, the birth anniversary of
Churches ............
Crossword Punle .....
Markets .............
Sports ..............
Town Talk...........
Vital Statistics.......
Women's Pope.......
" Councilmen Jim Norrick, ward
one, and Marvin Cavanar, ward
can party as hopelessly split, “half
McCarthy and half Eisenhower,”
didate for a second term.
Kerr said his statement will be
released late in the day. He indi-
cated it will give his stand on cam-
“public kicking" in a specified
spot.
Saturday's action closely follows
Postmaster General Arthur Sum-
Andrew Jackson.
Roy J. Turner, who like Kerr is
a former governor, announced on
March 4 he would oppose Kerr's
March.
diplomatic victory for U. S. secre- tion whenever any one of their
tary of State John Foster Dulles. number falls under international
revealed that he had had no
experience as a prime con-
tractor. I examined the qual-
ifications of the Martin com-
pany and they are qualified.
fiver Heve Argumen?
"There were a number of things
in the specifications that Crisp hsd
not included in his bid. I called
these to his attention and he said
45
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to “win." .... .
Draper is out of the city and
1 ____E.. AAwman+ Hiif
him the contract, or award him damages.
Saturday morning, Gaylord Noftsger and Martin Law.
rence, partners in an architectural firm hired by the city to
examine plans and specifications for the state fair buildings,
both testified that in their opinion Crisp was not qualified
to build the livestock exhibition building.
"I examined his qualifications," Noftsger said, "and It
Indonesia, its landing gesr nicked
the ses wall which rsises the —
along windows and furniture.
But even at Hnllis. the ai
day accused the army of attempted
"blackmail" and said it had of-
fered "plenty of dirt" on the air-
force and navy if he would switch
his investigations to them.
'Utterly Untrue'
also discovered "Joe" actually waa
Elisha. "
Grady county authorities aren’t
sure when they will get the fugitive
back to face two burglary chargea,
but they plan to place a "hold" or-
der on him.
Canadian county haa first crack
at Woods and his companion. Sam
Robertson, assistant county attor-
bis way.
"This is not my first participa-
tion. Neither have I ever won."
By bob McMillin
A bitter district court injunction suit battle neared its
ence M. Mills, district judge hear-
ing the suit, rapped for order as
BUSINESS SUCCESS
TEST NO. 5
Should dissatistied workers be
dismissed?
No, »y psychologists. A Uni-
versity of Michigan study revealed
that a dissatlsfied worker may
have good Idea* tor improvement
but no authority to carry them
out. Employers are advised to get
close to such people. They may
have answer to many problems
But if your problem is finding
buyers, renters or good help,
Claasified ads satisfy you I Dial
CEntral 3-1311 for a courteous,
helpful Ad Taker.
ge
o A,
confidentially only among a se-
rious and responsible group of
executives such as yourself.
It’s your responsibility to keep it
that way."
Doris Fleeson sees Nixon’s job
in answering Stevenson one et
making Elsenhower the issue to
i. this fall's elections.
Fair Project; 5 Percent
Offer Denied by Builder
$6,250 for a $2 investment.
Two college presidents, a for-
mer collector of internal revenue
and a dozen or more other prom-
. • 2 1 3 r " f
3
Jahn Cameron Swayz observes
that the financial tycoons of yes-
teryear had one thing in com-
mon-vitality.
' Frederick C. Othman to dis-
turbed by the U. S-Canada plan
to cut Niagara Falla down to a
trickle when the sun goes down
Higher Ranking Urged
For Service Chief#
NEW YORK, March 13—-
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz (re-
tired) wants the secretaries of de-
lense and state to have vice-presi-
dential rink and the secretaries
of army, navy and airforce made
members of the presidents cabl
net.
Such ranking, he told a navall
officers’ dinner Fridiy night, would
be more in keeping with impor-
tince of the jobs of state and de-
fense secretaries.
The Weather
«nited states Weather Bureau Airpor
LOCAL— Partly cloudy ind
colder, with slowly diminishing
winds this afternoon. Fair and
colder tonight. Sunday, partly
cloudy and slightly warmer. High
today, about 40. Low tonight,
near 22. High Sunday, in the 40s;
STATE— Fair today, tonight
and Sunday, with diminishing
winds. Cold today and colder in
the east and central portions to-
night. Warmer in the west and
central portions Sunday after-
noon. Low tonight, 15-20 in the
northwest, to 20-25 in the south-
east portions. High temperatures
Sundsy, in the 40s in (he west
and 35-40 in the east
Hourly Temperature
Sen. Robert S. Kerr prepared
Saturday to issue a formal an-
Hi
ft
chain letters before, but without on a world tour which they started job.”
..... ■ -¥- -d ai-ha । Chatti- There were indications that
Only holdout found on the im-
pressive list of names is Stanley
Draper, managing-director of the
Oklahoma City chamber of com-
merce, who apparently didn’t get
word in time.
TF ANYONE is interested
1 enough, they’d probably find
the nine or 10 checks he got in
return for his initial $2 invest-
ment are now at the Oklahoma
Medical Research foundation.
That’s the institution to which
most participants promised to
transfer anything they happened
waa scheduled for
—PThirty-tWo persons, including true," "false" and "fantastic." . , serkteanedtamndountyPserierind John B.°0gden,abou whether he boy" Pink Williams Saturday
three Americans and one Canadi- McCarthy agreed before leaving 7 ntnsherteernd ever argued with the contractor, granted • temporary re str a l
IACH PI RSON who sent copies an, died Saturday in the flaming for Wisconsin Friday night to call - Pu y N------a.a — a -- h" he order preventing the postmast
Eto five of his friends, of pre- crash of a British air liner at
sumably the same caliber, was Singapore’s Kallang airport.
• a a- -sit.. di, hie Fisht erow memhora pce
testiried voted tnr-chhcagenawyer,dhgswnftmad
the labor department’s internation-
Before his income tax falls due. W-
—--------------------------- Stevenson pictured the Repubn-
visibility so bad during the night
that driving on the highway was
almost impossible. Visibility had
increased somewhat Saturday r
morning, but it was still reduced 1
w. ...u, ... facing robbery he waa going to have them fur-
charges Saturday in El Reno, Ear- nished by an out of city concern
• ■ - Questioned by Cnsp’s attorney,
the money to a chairty. .The Americans were listed
H. C. Jones, who’d toyed with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Wood.
. .. „ .. . . inent men ruefully sent back
at Hollis, the air ap-, checks they hoped they could
< starting to clear, give to their favorite charity.
11 dress press conference’’ for and then added ins
„ Pvt. G. David Schine Saturday but taking the officers'
the former aid of Sen. Joseph R
McCarthy will not be forced to at-
—."FESASECVOUMT° Project
They identified Woods ea the fu--------------------------------
north and east, visibility was ex-
C tended several miles shortly after
2 dawn, when the wind velocity low-
2 ered. At mid-morning, visibility
■ was 10 miles, although the wind
■ was still blowing in gusts at 30-35
m miles an hour. Visibility had been
5 two to four miles.
kV Winds t Die Down
h There was some indication the
■ entire state might be free from
■ dust by night.
■ The weatherman said winds all
■ over the state are to diminish slow-
looked down its nose at the office
help, but thoroughly buttered the
boss—has bit the dust like its
poor relations.
When the postoffice crowd
heard of the goings-on, neither
------• □ , . m0;01 the letter’s impressive list of
as winds began to diminish, names nor sworn promises that
but the southwestern corner it was all for charity, did any
—....--------- manager, testified “that because al
Chief Kell Mid Capt. Evans and his limited experience, he should
Hfinop Thamae caneh+ WnnHe “12 V. ...-.7 .2,t4k 4ha enntpact **
ton, 29, were taken to the Canadian building.
—. " G. T. -pete” Baker, state fair
net will immediately be trans:
m tted santhsprtngenkotarn dub. meet i dayehter who
paign of "slander, dissension and —A—The 10th Inter-American con- ine Rea zsue ua, Teen ueuat
ference Saturday voted overwhelm- heatedly in the political- juridical
them afoot in the country- i.,_________
One of the suspects, who gave the two men laughed.
W ly through the day.
2-ie Although temperatures were to
hnz be sharply reduced over most of Mup.. „ — -------
EE the state Saturday and Saturday not available for comment, but
E22 night, the weatherman thinks it will his office help recalled sending
H warm up some Sunday.
Friday night was a chiller. It
scalp. He said he would "exert
every effort to keep Roy on the kuknhadan
ih" th, age done to their "jail by a bur-
— glary suspect who sawed the bars
tage" in a "blackmail" attempt.
The army once refused to "in-
terrupt the training" of the 26---- -------— .—
vear-old son of a wealthy hotel his companion, Willie D. Middle- tions as drawn up to build the
-The U. S. weather bureau issued owner but afterward agreed to ar- t, -.....L.....t- T-u-.....--
range for press conference Satur- county jail there,
dav if Schine la willing. C—— "
“We are respecting his rights ( ________,______________
and not urging him to make any officer Thomas caught Woods not be entrusted with the contract'
-----------------statements,” Lieut. Patrick J. Christmas day inside the Ne-Hi ....... "
miles per hour, Pensacola, Fla., Towle jr„ base public information Bottling Co. He Mid the
__________ ______________ 'However, he did call me on the then, the Caddo barber and rancher
from hia aecond floor cell and phone about 7 a.m. one morning. will be able to get his mail for
ripped up blankets for a rope which He said he waa going to lose out the first time since the poetoffice
on account of hia bond and ‘if you department cracked down on hia
don't quit going down there and questionable mail invitations to
Tneir memories were rerresnea, telling lies about me, I'm going cattlemen to attend a picnic for a
however, while sitting at home to beat he— out of you.'
watching television. "I don’t think he meant it—or
। They saw the pictures of the two could do it.”
—— -h- ---- f---dia- -t- When excused by the attorneys,
Noftsger walked to the back of the
^FtoTH rantepreventingoharpostmtrtnia
.Argument with the Caddo from returning his mail ad-
Ogden asked him if dressed to "Cowboy” on grounds
that the army is using his former Woods to be his twin brother—or
committee consultant as a "hos-
There are grins that stretch PHEASEEUMT°
the jaws out, too.... ------------------
Isn’t it lucky National
Smile week fades out Satur-
day! C. C. “Tex" Boren.
3405 NW 20, affable city
oilman, demonstrates how
his ready laugh normally
blossoms from pleasant grin
to side-splitter—until some-
body mentions the Ides of
S- ». 432 3337
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Bo '1
By WAYNE MACKEY .
mH I BLUEBLOOD of Oklaho-
1 ma chain letters—one that
Ml s courtfoom and"conterred in. mertzerqpostomsur
“full dress press conference" for and then added insult to injury by friendly manner with Crisp. Clar- “Cowboy'a” mail
*" — ' car and leaving * "" —1 “ "5
officer, told newsmen. ------------
Towle said Schine, whose brief glary of the Chickasha Milling Co.,
military career has become the ob- and admitted both break-ins.
ject of a controversy over McCar- m“"---"
thy’s investigation of the army,
was on bivouac with hia company City fingerprint expert Frank Nash
More Prober# Sought ..0 ___________________________________
WASHINGTON March 13—OB— the U. S. -sponsored nti-communist Mexico led the way in trying to
The Eisenhower administration is resolution waa 17-1 with only Gua- get the proposed resolution amend.
osSibise. and Argentina abstained. country were threatened by outside
______ >ral work- Guatemala, accused by U. S of agents. Several countries wanted
era. President Eisenhower asked ficials in Washington of being assurances that the citizens of in-
HAMILTON, Ont., March 13—V congress Friday to approve trans- Communist dominated, has fought dividual states .Wouid have to
Police reported Saturday that fer of $1,150,000 in state. justice a bitter, lone battle against auch right to chooM tteir own form ot
thieves broke into a drugstore here and treasury department funds toa declaration by the conference, government and economy wiuwut
Sunday. The only thing musing permit completion of thia task by That country’s representatives outside interference from )
June 30, here deny their government ia nn- . quarter. ,
( r ’ \ '' . : •'.
success didn't let that stand in at New York, and Michael Shathin,' '
far eastern representative of War- —
ner Bros. Motion Picture Co. .. I..
tion. Neiner nave i ever won. The Canadian was not immedi-
he said in his supplement, ately identified.
An Australian victim, Mrs. Anne
Army Secretary Robert T Stey-
SINGAPORE. Malaya. March 13 of dirt" charge. weres"utter> un Sier they beat and overpowered the
conversations between them. —
"I wouldn’t have said anything application for the order in Bryan
CARACAS. Venezuela, March 13 * Redtinfluroncaamndcrleim they neaSqtundry mompafinedhgalnd nouncement Mi. wim be . can-
The Red issue has been debated the pair.
a. m. Saturday. He was
•meetingef hissubcommittee-HetA ^/"iur. of the
required “to Vetify'“"on his Eight crew memberg escaped, next Tuesday because ot his own Sin follaminmatheiry capture tnetr“hdeverbeen"any telephone it is unlawful.
honor" to tend $2 to the man but the big plane's 31 passengers and other members absence from the "identificationNor ne o them as ----------
named at the top of the list. and one crew member died in the the capital. escaned prisoner from the
Then he waa required to at- flames when the doors of the fuse- But he served notice he was pre- chicksAPsdtyiitwrmonts ___________
tach another paragraph pledging Inge jammed. _____ w.a „ pared ".neMLnmoSIaF Cohm Chickasha ^police ^C AAei. c ^TwLt^? mM? th? arehl"
btrorgotten the dam- tect said.
KHELDON STERLING, second
□ man in command at the
chamber, apparently ranked high
enough to be invited to partici-
pate. but he didn't get involved.
"The letter's .till in my desk.”
he explained. "I just didn't care
for chain letters, even if they
were for such wonderful causes.
The temptation must have
been great. The opening para-
graph of the blueblood missile
described it as "a chain known
of the state still was under1 good.
seige No one was apparently called
An observer at Hollis reported onatheregrrtlonut wwrd egunut
L......
it
WASHINGTON, March 13
—(U.R)—Republican members!
nf the senate investigating PRINCETON, N. J., March 13— - .
olthesenate.nytsau AP•Physicist Albert Einstein end here Saturday with witnesses testifying that:
8 u b c o m i n marked his diamond birthday Sat- ONE—In their opinion, W. A. Crisp, city contractor, la
l shtirdan -anPhdemandedt"a imomeriepne • livestock exhibition building at the
showdown on the army s ex- vatervesvand politicalathationa. TwCrisp denying that he ever offered Leonard H.
plosive harg saxain: »». wholanatsmmtibat SIA. Dickerson, ward three councilman, 5 percent to get the eon-
* Ser rvorett M Dirksen (R have altered the course of scientif- tract.
Ill) was believed to have receivediie thinking, said the citizen. of his THREE—Gaylord Noftsger, city-employed architect,
approval from senate GOP leaders adopted country should "refuse 10 testifying that Crisp had threatened to beat him over the
for a prompt investigation of co-operate" with any undertaking contract.
charges that Roy M. Cohn sought that t.violates their constitutional A parade of witnesses testified that after examining
foxodabchineptrormer’ubcommi: He denounced “any restriction of Crisp's experience questionnaire, they felt he should not be
tee aid drafted into the army last academie freedom" and suggested awarded the contract. m
1 ........* “d ‘Crisp’s low bid was rejected by city councilmen Febru-
ary 23 and the contract went to the John B. Martin Co. at
a price of $369,883, about $35,000 above Crisp’s offer, Coun-
Senate Confirm# Negro
WASHINGTON, March 13-.
J. Ernest Wilkins, (0, the first Ne-
gro in 40 years to win nomination
to sub-cabinet rank, will soon take
over aa assistant secretary of la-
He waa followed by the firm’s —_ _
chief draftsman, Leo Layton, who dramatize the plight of cattlemen
said he did not believe Crisp un- under the Eisenhower administra-
Ei Reno to check after Woods and derstood the plans and specifica- tion. _
In Fire at Elk City vaig u „
• deception. xereue pauuny oyuv. heatedly in the poultcal-juriaical
ELK CITY, March 13—(-An el-1 Nixon was said to be Mr. Eisen- ingly to condemn the activities of committee of the conference for a
derly man who lived alone burned hower’a personal choice to repre- the international communist move- week. Dulles led the fight for pas-
to death Saturday morning when sent their party in a “free time” ment as f-gg —t-e i "age 0 m .une. “
his small frame home was razed speech at 9:30 p.m. cat over CBS Amercan affairs. The vote was a American states to take joint
radio-television and NBC radio, ....... ' ” "---- * ■
TONES, NOW a resident of
J Tulsa, hesitated to discuss it
with a reporter Saturday, but
said he'd finally cashed in—but
bad sent the money back.
“No one contacted me official-
ly about it," he explained, "but
I heard some talk and sent the
checks back. I guess I got two
or three replies."
No one apparently got the
PEEASE Letter
Charity or Not, the Law’s the Law
Bigwig Chain Letter
Nipped in the Bloom
$6,250 Dream ma
Failes For
VIPs > ■
adjoining house was heavily dam-seking’morsmanpowertorinish temala voting against |L Mexico ed to call for joint action only 11 .
aged. the . 6 of investi atin sin- -nd Aonantina ahetained -nunt"” wzere threatened hv outside
Castor OH Stolen curity] risksamong edera
Dirksen, a member of the sub- have refused to testify in "inquisi-
committee whonhas ba kedeMp U rhe German born scientist, who cilmen rejected the bid, they said, on the advice of the archi-
Pe charge" and1 Jid “some sort ago, will be 75 years old Sunday. .......
of action" must ho tsken. The He issued his pronouncements in
two other Republicans and the answer to questions on "academic
three Democrats on the committee purAsg TURN to Einstein
earlier called for an investigation. PAC i. COLOMS a -nse
An inquiry into the army's dyna-
mite-laden report on Cohn’s ef- rITI I IT .
forts in behalf of Schine will I V Hnds Hn
apparently be pushed despite Me- * V U11U3 --uI•
Carthy’s stout defense of his 27-
year-old chief counsel.
The Wisconsin Republican Fri:
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p-- Oklahoma City Times
1 hK Accidents to March 1 5 300 Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper in Oklahoma Today's Inspirational Message, bp
I Uy Injured to Marchi 1850 (Eveninz Eaition ot The MM Oklahoman. Entered at Okiahoma City. Okiahoma. Postotfice •• vecond dao man matter usOtt the ti Marta a, lira Rev. Truce V. Lewellyn, Rage 4.
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