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Spring Arrives,
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the progress of the training program,
however, were understood to have re-
Draft Pilfers Opera
Chorus, Nabs the Tenors
Amendment Takes Wind Out of Opponents’
Sails; Easier Going Is Predicted
Quick House Approval
To Be Duplicated
shall, chief of staff, expressed doubt
that the army would be strong enough
three-year enlistments in the regular
army.
The full strength of 1,418,000 will
be reached in June, according to pres-
Temperature to Remain
In Seasonal Range
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WASHINGTON, March 20— (A) —
Backed by the thumping bi-partisan
house majority of 336 to 55, the $7,-
000,000,000 British aid appropriation
bill went to the senate side of the
capitol Thursday, where administra-
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loaded freight trains of the
Southern railway were locked in this death grip early Thurs-
day after a headon collision at Spartanburg, S. C. Six train-
men were killed, but it was several hours before their bodies
were recovered from the twisted steel that held them. (Wir-
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He said Bulgarian saboteurs had*
dynamited at least two German oil
trains, blown up bridges and cut
telegraph lines. He asserted that every
telegraph line in southern Bulgaria
had been damaged during the last
two weeks.
The informant said that political
elements who had long been bitter
enemies had united to oppose the
German march and that among them
were many men who had gained
notoriety for skill with bombs and j
dynamite.
According to the informant, hun-
dreds of agents operating for the or-
ganizations had been well supplied
with money and dynamite and plans
had been made for espionage and
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Greek commanding officer
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yard facilities, as permitted by the
lease-lend bill, to repair warships
damaged by Nazi U-boats and bomb-
l ers.
What action would be taken on the
request was not indicated. Although
navy yards here are jammed with
rush work on the two-ocean fleet, the
secretary said they had "some" la- |
dlitles for repair work available.
(A few hours after Knox revealed
that Britain has asked this country
to repair some naval vessels, there
were unconfirmed reports that a Brit- l
ish cruiser would enter dry-dock at
Norfolk, Va., next week for routine
overhauling," the United Press add-
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until after the report is filed with
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tanbul Thursday that Bulgarian underground organizaitons had
started on the greatest sabotage campaign ever seen in southeast-
ern Europe to impede the German armies and that they had al-
ready thrown German communications in southeastern Bulgaria
, into a chaotic state
The report was brought by an authoritative anti-German Bul-
garian who had just escaped across the Turkish-Bulgarian border.
end of their year's service next Sep- | Interviews and investigation of eng-
tember and in the ensuing six months | neers interested in the work were left
all should be demobilized, unless clr- , by the council to Ballev and Hefner
cumstances dictate a new decision. ] Hefner declined to give the names
. only recently Gen. George C. Mar- ' of any engineers under consideration
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Undercover Activities
BISBEE. Ariz., March 20.—(P)—
Housewives stormed Police Chief J. L.
Ramsower with complaints that gar-
bage can covers were disappearing.
Investigators learned the town’s boys
were using the covers as shields in
mock warfare.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—
Mexico Remodels Army
MEXICO CITY, March 20.—«P—
Three thousand of Mexico’s 9,500
army officers will be retired for age
to make room for younger men as
modernization of the nation’s mili-
tary, establishment progresses. It was
reported in the ministry of national
ATHENS, March 20 Well, even the growing control of the air
• over Albania bv the allied forces has its mental hazards, as
proved by the nasty five minutes through which the ground
staff of a Greek airfield is reported to have passed not long ago.
On a reconnaissance flight over an Italian position, 12
Greek machines were sent out. operating in formation. About
an hour later, at the prearranged hour for their return, the
planes were seen, like black specks coming over the mountain,
at the end of the valley. • ________
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 20 (UP)— A report reached
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Lots of people have
found that it is easy
and profitable to sell
used furniture and
house fur nishings
through the Want
Ads. If you are buy-
ing new furniture or
furnishings offer your
old pieces in a Want
Ad. Someone will
surely want them.
pass the bill in an hour, they had the necessary strength in test
" votes. । moved those doubts and to have per-
Most of the opposition, on the sur- ]
face at least, has been centered on
the charge that the bill to license
small loan dealers and allow them
to make service charges above 10 per-
cent interest "is designed to let big
outsiders into the state."
One of I he inportant amendments
accepted bv Harold Freeman, floor
leader, was one limiting issuance of
licenses to residents of Oklahoma, or
corporations in which 51 percent of
the voting stock is held by residents
of the state.
Freeman predicted Thursday that
we re going to have easier going
now that these amendments are ac-
cepted-and there should be a little
bandwagon movement, too, that will
help."
The measure has been demanded
by Governor Phillips in two messages
to the legislature, to stop charging of
263 percent and higher interest on
small loans to little borrowers in
Oklahoma. Banks are not included In
the bill, although the banking de-
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under the selective service net.
| Reports have circulated in recent
I weeks that the guard’s tour of active
service might be extended six months
or even a year, in view of world con-
ditions
Army Wont Need Them
The war department has been
W oodsman Dies Saving
Two Front Falling Tree
HOLLAND, Mich., March 20.—(P)
—The childish eyes of Lois Moore and
George Solemn danced merrily as they
gamboled around the lot where Theo-
dore Anderson was busily engaged in
cutting down a tree. Anderson had
the tree cut halfway through when it
started to fall in the direction where
the 7-year-oId children were playing.
But the 67-year-old Anderson
braced himself against the trunk of
the tree to divert its fall and suc-
ceeded in throwing It away from the
children. He was crushed to death
when the tree felled him.
j Responding to appeals for unity to
show the world the United States was
_ whole-heartedly behind the aid pro-
gram. an irresistible coalition of house
Democrats and Republicans sent the
record-breaking peacetime bill to the
senate Wednesday night without a
single change.
A senate appropriations subcommit-
tee decided to start hearings on the
measure Thursday afternoon and
called various army officials as the
first witnesses. Senate Majority Lead-
er Barkley <D. Ky.) and other Dem-
ocratic chiefs forecast It would be ap-
proved by the senate subcommittee
Friday and pass the senate without
change Monday or Tuesday.
One hint of senate feeling was given
by Senator Taft (R, Ohio), who
fought the original lease-lend bill to
the last. Now that the program has
been adopted, he said, “what we ought
to do is send Great Britain all the
aid provided under the bill."
Vichy Decree Curbs
Prices in Colonies
VICHY, France, March 20.—(PP—
The government Issued a decree
Thursday fixing prices of commodi-
ties in France’s colonies to combat
rising living costs.
The decree was one of many meas-
ures designed to improve the colonial
situation since the recent visit to
Vichy of Gen. Maxime Weygand, com-
minder of French forces In north
Africa.
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Chickasha Girl Killed
By Truck, 100th Vietim
Fatal Injury of a Chickasha girl was
the one hundredth traffic death re-
ported this year, highway patrol rec-
ords showed Thursday. March fatali-
ties reached 24. compared with 15 for
last March and 84 for the same period
of the year. Latest traffic victim:
FRIEDA M’DONALD. 8 years old,
Chickasha, instantly killed late Wed-
nesday beneath the wheels of a truck
in an alley near her home.
Fugitive Tells of Dy namitings, XX ire Cutting
To Disrupt German Troop Movements
approval would be necessary to ex-
tend the training periods, under ex-
isting circumstances.
The army’s decision against re-
questing any extension in the service
periods was because the primary pur-
pose of the present peacetime defense
preparations was to train as large a
number of men as possible. There-
Tons of Propaganda Fed Into Furnace After burning 1 tons of foreign propaganda
r • Postmaster William H. McCarthy of San
Francisco warned Thursday that the same fate awaits all subversive matter arriving in the
future at the port of San Francisco. He said about three tons arrives on each ship from the
orient—virtually all from Japan, Russia and Germany. This is the scene in the postoffice base-
ment late Wednesday during the session with the furnaces. (Wirephoto.)
gleha.
Miss Vernal Exulnox. that charm-
ing. veil-clad toe-dancing sybol of
spring. will need an umbrella when
she arrives in Oklahoma at 6:21 p. m.
Thursday.
Harry Wahlgren says he can’t help
it, but there is going to be occasional
light spatterings of rain Thursday and
Friday. In honor of spring, however,
the weatherman said temepratures
will remain at a comfortably high
level.
Thursday’s low was 43 at 1 a. m.,
and Wahlgren expects a high in the
upper 50s. The same range can be
expected Friday.
Ardmore and McAlester each re-
ported a trace of rain Thursday morn-
ing. as did Oklahoma City. Muskogee
had .01. while a dense fog held sway
in Waynoka. The cloudiness is gen-
eral throughout the state.
$7 Theft Costs $142
CINCINNATI, March 20 — (P)— To
steal a robe worth 17 from Lew
Davis' automobile, somebody cut a
hole in the car roof. Davis told po-
lice the repair bill would be $142.
The aircraftsman took a lorig
stare and shouted his answer
It's not our boys! Take cover I
Its the Italians!"
There was a general dive for shel-
ter and ackack guns, amid curses
of Italian duplicity.
By this time, however, th? com-
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300.000 to
600,000 or
trainees.
seemed filled by flares, bursting shells
and tracer bullets. There was a great
white flash in the sky as the guns
struck one raider in the suburbs Then
there was an explosion and the sound
of bits of a German plane whizzing
through the air. There was silence for
a moment and then a cheer burst
from gun crews and groups of civil-
ians. It was reported that three more
were downed later.
Fires soon were burning in build-
ings of all sorts, including movie
houses and shops.
Outer Areas Hardest Hit
For the first time in many nights
the searchlights went on, seeking to
spot German planes for the gunners.
The outer areas took the worst
punishment. One crowded working
area which was a favorite target in
the early days of mass bombing was
hard hit.
At some places rows of homes were
wrecked and the families living
In them were buried in the ruins.
Four bombs straddled one eight-story
apartment house. In which were 400
people. Including refugees from other
city areas Three luxurious homes in
one of London's most exclusive
streets, and one in a street nearby,
were destroyed by fire. Priceless
paintings were burned in them. In
this area men and women in eve-
ning dress ran Into the street to put
out fire bombs.
Two high explosives struck one
hospital. The 166 patients were evacu-
ated by nurses and others of the
staff under a rain of explosive bombs.
Eight wards were wrecked and 13
others put out of action.
Five nurses were burled in the
debris when a bomb struck another
Finland Sends Aid
To 14 Ice-Locked Ships
HELSINKI. Finland, March 20.—1/f)
—The Icebreaker Jaakarhu was dis-
patched Thursday to the aid of 14
homeward bound Finnish ships Ice-
locked near the island of Gotland in
the southern end of the Baltic sea.
A record cold spell has virtually
paralyzed Baltic shipping most of the
winter and dozens of cargo vessels still
are tied up here waiting for the ice
to go.
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read the soldiers oath to
Frank Moncada, right, in New York City late Wednesday and
told Moncada to reply, “I do.” Moncada answered, "I wont.”
He said he was a member of a religious sect opposed to war.
But Moncada did not escape the draft; he was inducted di-
rectly to the guardhouse and entered his army career feet
first in the hands of a squad of soldiers, as in the lower pic-
ture. Thursday he was behind bars at Camp Upton. (Wire-
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tive service quotas and additional 91 1.000 Uppei Bluff cieek water
project will be delayed until
Mayor Hefner confers with H E.
Bailey, city manager, he said
Thursday
Hefner said he probably would call
the city council together Thursday
afternoon to consider the question of
engineers.
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National guard units, making up to make a report at that tune," he
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large flotilla of patrol boat re-
inforcements for Britain Thurs-
day, and at the same time study-
ing an admiralty request for use
of American yards to keep the
present fleet in fighting trim.
The patrol ships—mosquito boats, I
submarine chasers, trawlers and con-
verted yachts—would represent the
first installment of naval lease-lend
assistance. One unofficial estimate
was that at least 150 light craft were
on the list that would be transferred
shortly.
Secretary of Navy Knox. In an- i
nouncing Wednesday that the ships
would be made available, said there
were no destroyers on the list. The
patrol ships would be useful for coast- ,
al work, anti-submarine operations
and limited convoy duty.
Knox also made known the British
request for use of American navy
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NEW YORK, March 20.—(PP)—The
ordinary American building of eight
stories or higher is safer from bombs
than underground shelters. says a
Brooklyn architect just back from a
two-year tour of warring European
nations.
The average air-raid dugout abroad
is from five to 10 feet deep, said
Erling F. Iversen, while "most bombs
plunge from 10 to 30 feet into the
ground before exploding," Iversen
declared that even i,000-pound bombs
could do little damage to steel and
reinforced-concrete buildings such as
most of this country’s tall structures.
Skyscrapers are safer, he said, be-
cause if a bomb landed on top only
the two or three topmost floors would
be damaged, and if it hit the side it
would glance off without harming the
interior.
Britain’s Use
ST. PAUL. March 20 —(P— The
draft ruined the even tenor of the St
Paul civic opera's tuneful ways.
The organization was just getting
warmed up for "Martha" which will
lx* produced late in April, when the
draft swept through the opera chorus,
taking all three top tenors.
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia,
March 20.—(P)—An un-
I confirmed dispatch from
the Albanian frontier said
Thursday that the Greeks
had entered Tepeleni, on
the Albanian central front,
scene of Italian resistance
for many weeks. Many Ital-
ian soldiers and quantities
of war materials were said
to have been captured.
binoculars at his eye.
The commander was just writing
down the usual “all our planes
returned safely" when the spotter
yelled:
"Wait a minute—Wait!" His lips
were seen moving. He scratched
Ills head. Suddenly he threw the
glasses abruptly at an aircrafts-
man. standing nearby.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—(P
—A high army authority dis-
closed Thursday that, barring
I the gravest emergency, the war
department had decided to de-
mobilize nationil guard units
upon completion of their year
in federal service.
The same policy also will apply, it
was said, to the thousands of men
who have been or are to be inducted
Into the armv for a year’s training
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LONDON, March 20.—
(L’P)—Rescue squads, aided
by volunteers, dug Thursday
for the broken bodies of men,
women and children buried in
the ruins of homes, apartment
houses, tenements, hotels and
in at least five air raid shel-
ters during the night, in the
worst German air raid of the
year and one of the worst of
the war.
Flying over the city in waves—
scores in each wave—the Ger-
man planes dropped many thou-
sands of bombs, incendiary and
high explosive, from soon after
dusk Wednesday night until
early Thursday morning. Bombs
crashed into the homes of sleep-
ing people in the fashionable
west end and in the crowded,
terming east end. into hospitals,
police stations, schools, public
houses.
Hours of Continuous Attack
For hours of continuous attack, the
crash of the bombs and the thunder-
ous roar of one of the greatest anti-
aircraft barrages ever fired made the
city a bedlam.
In the brief intervals, the roar of
British fighter planes seeking out the
German raiders could be heard.
Thousands upon thousands of in-
cendiary bombs fell on one area
which suffered Its worst raid of the
war. As they fell, fires shot up to
light an area of between 30 and 40
square miles.
Men standing on the roofs of build-
ings or their own homes began a grim
fight to save the entire area from de-
struction. They kicked burning bombs
into the streets as explosive bombs
started to fall. and persons in the
streets doused them.
Fires Under Control
The fire situation was worse than
it had been since the blitz raid of
last Denember 29. according to some
newspapers, but by daybreak the fight
had been won and here and in all
other London areas all fires had been
put out or put under control.
The air and home security minis-
tries admitted that some public serv-
ices were temporarily affected
A heavy toll was taken in lives
among the civilian population.
One great bomb crashed on a big
public shelter in which many persons
had sought safety from the rain of
bombs and shell fragments.
Rescuers brought out 70 shattered
bodies and others remained deep in
the debris.
The German raiders scored hits on
at least four hospitals. In one a bomb
wrecked the maternity ward which
was being used as an emergency first
aid shelter.
Guns Herald Raid
A burst of fire from anti-aircraft
guns heralded the raid as German
planes were sighted flying up the
estuary. The alarm followed within
a few minutes.
Yellow parachute flares began to
drop over the city in pairs.
Machine guns shot savagely at the
flares as the tempo of gun fire In-
creased and incendiary bombs began
dropping The great guns jointed in,
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B E I. G R A D E. Yugoslavia,
March 20.—IP—A dispatch
from the Greek frontier town
of Gevgelia said Thursday
that "great numbers of British
troops" had landed Wednes-
day at Salonika, Greece.
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CAIRO, Egypt, arch 20.—
(PP- A dive-bombing, machine
gunning assault on Italian po-
sitions in the hills around
Cheren, Eritrea's key city,
| was reported Thursday by the
British Royal Air force Ship-
! ping at Tripoli. capital of Lib-
ya in north Africa, also was
heavily attacked, the R. A. F.
said.
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