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THIRTY PAGES—500 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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quainted with it
it apparently arose from a
witness’ story that he found
Senators Back Gary’
destroy the letter before secret service agents were called
S an electric light pole, only to be
• electrocuted as he crawled from
5-Mill School Tax Lid
following postcard message—ap-
this place, I will kill him if I get a chance.
by the "hot" wire. Officers and a
artificial respiration and the vic-
tim was administered oxygen in
Nationalists Call Dulles
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Talk a Pledge to Fight
mitting the several school finance proposals in a single
“Your unsigned postal card of
TAIPEH, Feb. 17— (INS)—Nationalist China went
Refinery Fire
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Federal Communications Comm is-
Thursday announced it has
Storm Rollin
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a Mont-
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Mild weather prevailed O'er the:
front is on the way and should
evacuation of the Tachen islands
mitted to the FCC.
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Hourly Temperature
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FCC Approves
WKY Station
For Alabama
Flu Takes Toll
in Enid Schools
Chill, Kain May Hit
Panhandle Friday
House Approves
Anti-Subversive
Action by 1 HI to 2
3,000 at Fete
In Kingfisher
Prominent Officials
Served at Barbecue
Committee Abo Favors One-Package Bill
For Fear Single Plans Would Be Defeated
Friday and Friday night. High
today about 64. low tonight
Police Investigating
Freak Electrocution
After trash Here
than 3,000 persons jammed the na-
tional guard armory Wednesday
night for the 11th annual Kingfish-
ahead Thursday with renewed determination to defend
offshore islands from the communists on. the basis of
public support by U. S. Secretary of State John Foster
$1,500 Bonanza Leads
To New Type Of
Book Lover
This is the first fire at the re-
finery in several years. No one
coastal positions to the defense of
Formosa" which like the nearby
Pescadores the United States is
specifically pledged to protect.
Increasing winds this afternoon.
Increasing cloudiness and windy
tonight and Friday. Scattered
showers developing over west
and north and probably turn-
ing colder in the Panhandle
late Friday Lows tonight 35 to
40 High Friday 50s northwest
HURSDAY Ralph Hudson,
state librarian, received the
Pump Blows, Sets
Blaze at Bristow
and possibly introduce testi-
mony. in an attempt to show
that a lawyer client relationship
ployes of Wilcox refinery were
burned in an early morning blaze
at the refinery Thursday.
Comic Dictionary
Kangaroo—The largest spe-
cies of grasshopper known to
man.
TULSA. Feb 17— P—Charles C.
Raich, 46. general organizer of the
AFL Pipeliners Union. Thursday
was fined $2,500 and placed on 18
months probation by Federal Dis-
trict Judge Royce H Savage.
Savage had found the labor lead-
er guilty on two counts of obstruct-
ing justice by attempting to in-
Mary Goddard
Allas Marie Gordon
STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1955 to date, 71; February, 14
1954 to date, 74; February, 11
A 73-year-old retired Earlsboro
oil field worker. John Allen Death-
erage. was killed shortly before 9
a m. Thursday when his car was
Kev Point After
Early Rush
By HENRY BURCHFIEL
Taking of testimony in Rob-
ert O. “Bob" Hurt’s second tor-
parently cranked out on a dupli-
cator machine—from Shawnee:
“I would like to contract with
you for ‘frisking rights' on all
books in your establishment.
Upon frisking these books, should
$1,500 in a book on a local book-
store shelf to pay his “expenses”
in a political race from which
I he withdrew.
strike the Panhandle region about
Friday night.
Earlier weather forecasts called
for snow in the northwestern sec-
27 in Tulsa during the night and
MeAlester and Ponca City had
lows of 29
ing the day.
Three witnesses testified dur-
ing the early morning session,
clearing the way for the testi-
mony of Frank Massed, city
criminal lawyer, during the aft-
ernoon.
Bridge lessen
Comics
Crossword Puzzle
Markets
Oil Reports .....
Sports .......
Times Talk .....
Vital Statistics...
Womens Pages ..
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By HUGH HALL L, — u . .
Gov. Gary won an easy victory in the. Renate educa- Universityhospitalinterne apPed
hospital.
The freak accident left police
undecided on whether to count the1
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him to another federal institution.
The indictment was returned by the federal grand
jury Wednesday afternoon, one of the first true bills re-
turned after it was convened Wednesday morning by
be mailed.
Prison authorities said they gave Smith a chance to ■
Dulles.
Nationalists quarters in Taipeh interpreted Dulles'
was 14, authorities said.
which operates WSFA and WSFA-
tionalist withdrawals such as the TV, for $568,598, under terms sub-
election.
At the same time the committee heavily favored sub-
tion committee Thursday to put a 5-mill limit on extra
taxes school districts could vote by virtue of an amend-
possibility was deleted from later
forecasts and was replaced with a
(Oklahoman Time. Enid Bureau'
ENID. Feb. 17—Mild epidemic of
flu in Enid has affected Emerson
junior highschool more than any
other age group. De Witt Waller,!
superintendent of Enid schools,
said Thursday morning
Emerson reported 103 absent
Thursday morning, better than
double the average rate Longfew-
low junior highschool reported an
increase of about one-third as did
Enid highschool, Waller said.
Grade schools in the system re-
ported normal absence Thursday
morning. Waller said he does not
expect the percentage to increase.
•
Tulsa Union Aid
is Fined $2,500
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tee. .
"Frisking rights" is the new
New York speech Wednesday night as a
to defend Nanchi, Matsu and Quemoy islands which might ।
be used as possible spring-
boards for an invasion of
Formosa.
Nationalists Content
Dulles said that the United
States is not committed to defend
these island outposts “as such."
But he added that the Chinese
which was carried out last week
under protection of the U. S. Sev-
enth fleet.
Civilians Evacuated
Following his California convic- Igprraam'sorryitodinhormmyn
TopPW Officer Denies
Okaying ‘Peace Rally’
By KEITH K. KING
FORT SILL, Feb 17—AF—The nine counts of collaboration with
senior officer in a North Korean the enemy entered its 18th day
struck by a Rock Island freight
train in Earlsboro.
Trooper George Moore said
Deatherage's car was struck on I
the trunk by the north bound local
freight train. The impact knocked
Deatherage's car 42 feet and the
man was thrown out.
Head Strikes Cross-Tie
His head struck a crosstie on a
nearby spur line and he died en-
route to an Earlsboro hospital. He
was a Mason and a former mem-
ber of the Earlsboro school board.
Here, police traffic officials were
still investigating the death of Rob-
ert Peyton McCarter, 33. of 219%
Harrison, electrocuted after his car
crashed into a power pole in the
1100 block NE 13.
The Oklahoma City motorist sur-
vived a grinding crash early
Thursday when his speeding auto
knocked down two small trees and
Suspect Bitter at Detention
By PAUL ROBARTS
A 19-year-old El Reno reformatory inmate, Richard
Arlan Smith, Thursday faced a federal grand jury indict-
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be required to register with the |
county court clerk each six,
months.
Non-residents would be required
to register with the secretary of
state within three days after en-1
tering Oklahoma.
Short Day Looms
Statements would be given under
oath and would furnish the per-
son s names, age. residence and
the names of the subversive or-
ganization.
Indications were that Thursday
would be a short workday in both
Hurt Prosecution Near
were taken to Bristow Memorial |
hospital for treatment of first and
second degree burns on the hands.
The fire occurred about 4:30
a m. when a packing gland on a
gasoline pump blew out turning
gasoline loose. The gasoline was
ignited by a fire in a still. accord-
ing to Keith Tiernan, refinery su-
dmeosewt
QKLAHOMA’S lexicon apapr-
• ently is in for a new phrase,
thanks to revelations before a
legislative investigation commit-
Editorial Paga
Margaret Latrobe asks who
is Ava Gardner to be giving
advice on sex appeal with
all the husbands sbes lost?
Robert C. Ruark is not fa-
' orably impressed by fads m
the English language, Ameri-
can style.
Frederick C. Othman and
his wife look at the grocery
bill situation and like what
they see.
Burns 2 Men
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head of the secret service bureau here, and Wilson A. _
j Gilliam, another agent. I
Youth’s Note Is Intercepted Frisking
Inside Reformatory Walls;
T 1. . was burned or hurt in the last one
I ax Lid ; which was a major blaze.
1 to 3 year suspended sentence
Thursday for passing bad checks.
District Judge John B. McManus
said Mrs. Maybelle Fairbanks had
0 led an exemplary life before a
• three-state check-writing spree. He
By MARY GODDARD
ICooyright, 1955. By Th • Oklahoma City Times
PAULS VALLEY, Feb. 17—After sharing Vir-
ginia Thompson's cell—and bed—for 14 hours, I do
not know whether she is a steel-cold murderess, a
frenzied religious killer or a "normal woman with a
torment-triggered temper.
The jail door clanged shut at midnight Tuesday,
leaving “Marie Gordon" alone with the frail woman
who is accused of beating, kicking, stomping, clawing,
knifing and burning a helpless, hopeless blond boy
until he died in agony.
Virginia did not know “Marie Gordon" was this
Oklahoma City Times reporter. Picked up "after
having too many lone beers" in a Pauls V alley tavern,
I acted the part of a big, scared, half-sturid girl tossed
into the Garvin county jail’s single cell for women,
as a possible vagrant.
Conceivably, this was a dirty trick—gaining the
woman's confidence under false pretenses. Having
seen her 5-year-old nephew, Lloyd George Stanley,
screaming, in pain in the days before he died, “Marie
H-Bomb Would Imperil Big State Area
The danger from H-bomb blasts no longer is limited
to the immediate area in which it is detonated.
French Robertson, regional civil defense adminstra-
tor. Thursday noon told a Midwest City audience that
radioactive dust from such a blast—the “fallout ef-
fect" imperils an area 190 miles long and from 20 to
40 miles wide. According to information available,
such a bomb triggered at Oklahoma City would, under
a wind from the northwest, kill all unprotected per-
sona between Canton and Holdenville and endanger
er county Coyote Roundup club
barbecue. Doors opened at 6 a.m.
and most of the people had been
served by the time the program
started at 7:30 pm.
Program for the event was fur-
nished by various schools of King-
fisher county. The Kingfisher high-
school swing band furnished mu-
sic during the serving of the bar-
becue. Eldin Baker acted as mas-
ter of ceremonies.
Member* of the club prepared
has been identified as the officer from Nanchi which lies just 23 Referring to one of two letters
with whom Nugent made a com- miles off the China mainland. In in which the FCC asked for infor- ine iow nere inursaay nigi
PledgelPEAKEer Station should" a ** "1
Despite the lack of a specific sion inursaay annourceu
pledge for defense of the coastal approved the purchase of -
islands. the Nationalists were con-1 gomery, Ala., radio and television
tent with Dulles' remarks which station by the WKY Radiophone
were taken to mean that the Unit- Co Oklahoma City,
ed States will not stand by idly if In a meeting Wednesday, the
the communists move against the commission decided, by a 4 to 3
Nationalist outposts in strategy vote, to grant transfer of control
uimed eventually against For- without holding a hearing,
mosa. . WKY, which is owned by the
Nationalist officials were partic- Oklahoma Publishing Co., will buy
ularly pleased with Dulles rejec- Montgomery Broadcasting Co., state again Thursday, but a cold
tion of the idea of further Na- ------ • ---- '—• i — tha ’ -d aheld
president unless he was pardoned or transferred. word combination, and there
The letter, described as obscene as well as threaten- was no telling Thurday how
ing, was intercepted by prison authorities before it could many librarians had become ae-
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L Fogg must pass on .the ad-
missability of his testimony.
Relationship Attacked
eta suit.
The Weather
From the U. S Weather Bureau
Airport statlon
LOCAL—Fair and mild with
Increasing southerly winds this
afternoon. Increasing cloudi-
ness and windy tonight and
Friday with occasional rain
BRISTOW. Feb. 17-Two
KINGFISHER, Feb.
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ment the legislature is rushing toward a March 25 special nounced dead on arrival at Mercy
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Company's welcome.
Three Favor Hearing
0 kl a h o m a Television CorpI tions by Friday night, but that
which operates KWTV, Oklahoma — .....
City and Capitol Broadcasting Co.,
The Tachen withdrawal, in the which operates WCOV and WCOV- promise of scattered'showers
eyes of the Nationalists, merely TV in Montgomery, had demanded p
meant a tightening of defense lines a hearing, claiming the sale would1
along the China coast with Nanchi not "best serve the public interest.
By ALLAM CROMLEY
(Oklahoman Times Washinston Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—The
151 members, it was announced
Among dignitaries attending
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therefore suspended sentence on
conditions of good behavior.
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.......s o‛-......—' t1 . . . . death as a traffic fatality or an
amendment for fear some of them would be dereated at; accidental electrocution
I the polls if submitted in The death certificate was signed
separate packages, electrocution, and the attending;
The committee) sentiment was physician reported finding no other ।
expressed at a breakfast meeting injury, other than the severe elec-
called by Sen. Oliver Walker, trical burns. Part of his clothing
Dale, its chairman. pEA turn to Crash
Resolution Passed PAGE 2
The amendment resol u 11 o n,
passed by the house Wednesday,
was to reach Walker's committee
Thursday after the required sec-
ond reading in the senate
17—More Decision to submit all the pro-
posals as a “one-package" amend-
ment was a departure from what
tion, he was committed to the - . „ • . .
federal training school at Engle- that thessta f.and,:1 ready
J A,, .nJ leanef „oq have decided to ITISK Ue 8tate
wood, Solocanrdwaztransfe 29 library's collection ourselves and
‘’ 1953 Renowreformaterncei2. plan to do so this weekend.
Virtual pledge ble for Daroc next September. I dnvr-nti 0 a
Arraignment Due Friday benefit of the state library, not
Smith is slated to be arraigned for us. The library is in constant
before Chandler either Friday or need of financial and other sup-
, irstof ex weelpo in order to better accom-
A number of other indictments plish its duties "
were returned by the grand jury H _____—
Wednesday afternoon. Grandmother Let Off
George Howard Redmond, 46,
now serving a sentence in the Cal- Eaty in Hot Check Gate
warninaitttd onsonarcesaneBtentin ALBUQUERQUE. N.MFeh.z
- cashing • $145.90 government gandmehen
his overturned car
His face and head then came in
contact with a 4,000-volt, electric
line on the upended light pole,
which had fallen across McCar-
ter's 1950 model Ford
Rescue Aftempts Fall
His face, the back of his head
and his hips were severely burned
Defense attorneys will argue. During the interview he told the agents "If the presi- I
1 dent does not give me a pardon, or transfer me out of
about140. High Friday about 65. PLEASE TURN TO
STATE—Fair and mild with -----
Until the three children, Lloyd George; James
Edward, 3, and Karen Lvnn, came to the Thompsons’
home, “they never knew what it was to have a sheet
or cover on the bed. They never knew what it was to
have a meal cooked for them. Lynn (George’s 9-
year-old sister) used to try to fix sandwiches and
cereal," she charges.
They knew no discipline either, Virginia claims,
and therein lay the seeds of death.
“I overcame the littliest one and Lynn, but I
could not do anything with little George. There was a
demon in him and a demon in me,” she said.
She says he wouldn't eat without vomiting at
the table. She says he wouldn't mind "about playing
or anything." It was not clear whether this started
in November, when the children arrived, or began
during what we came to call delicately "the trouble."
Small Jimmy was "overcome" only after he suf-
fered burns, broken ribs, a chin injury and attempted
(Continued on Pape 2!, Column 7)
By WAYNE MACKEY
A house-passed bill re-
quiring registration of all
communists in Oklahoma
Thursday was on its way to
the senate for action.
The bill, authored by Hep Tom
Stevens of Shawnee, cleared the
house, with several others, late
Wednesday by a vote of 110 to 2
The measure would also apply
to anyone who becomes affiliated
with a foreign political agency or
any group he knows has been de-
termined by the United States at-
torney general as a communist
front or subversive organization.
Mechanics Explained
Stevens said the bill would not
make membership in the Commu-
niat party unlawful because there
fs some doubt as to the constitu-
tionality of such legislation.
Violation of the registration law.
though, would constitute a felony,
Osborne passed the case on to his Washington su-
. periors, who advised him to seek the indictment against
---—-----the youth. Conviction car-
ries a maximum sentence of I find any money concealed
r veara therein, I would be entitled to
Smith,'from Bandy, Utah, wm so percent the find up to
sentenced from California in De- ’ .mn .. amr
cember, 1953. He had been ar- Any amount over 1,500 I
rested as a juvenile delinquent wou ld consider 10 percent. Con-
after stealing a car in Utah and tract to expire Nov. 1. 1958.If
driving it to California. interested, address postoffice box
„ ... . . c , , D . .. Authorities said he stole the 24, Shawnee, Okla
Formosa Bolstered by Secretary s Kejection car after escaping from a boys
Of More Withdrawals From Offshore Isles
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Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper in Oklahoma 76) w far tnis er. 1"
Eventna Edition ot The Dally Oklahoman.) Entered •• Second -Class Miner at the Postotfic »< Oklahoma Ct Oklahoma • «n jured in 3,408 accidents.
punishable by a maximum penalty those between Holdenville and Idabel. As can be
of $10,000 fine and 10 years in seen, Oklahoma City’s water supply lies directly IB
prison. ! the affected area. (Details on Page 21.)
Anyone affected by the bill would —-----------
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FIRST FINGERPRINTS
DATE BACK TO 2M B.C.
Ancient Chinese tablets dating
back to 200 B.C. show fingertip
impressions. It's assumed they
denote the signature of the au-
thor of the tablets.
But to put your finger on the
solution of an everyday problem.
Oklahoman and Times Want Ada
art your method.
CEntral 2-3311 for an Ad
Taker She helps you word ads
to reach just right prospects
Gordon" took the job without a qualm.
The 29-year-old original tenant accepted her
new cellmate gladly, sympathetically, generously and
with apparent candor. Armed with a Bible and a
blank memory, she revealed nothing new about her
case.
We talked sleepily until 2:30 a. m., and began
again when the rising sun slanted redly through
barred windows. Until early afternoon, her story
unfolded bit by hit, broken by numerous cups of
coffee, breakfast, morning mail, one visitor and a
cell sweepdown.
Without rancor, Virginia says the children's
parents were not providing for them. The senior
George Stanleys separated at Galveston and “author-
ities" were about to take the six youngsters, she
said. "My brothers and I stepped in," she added.
Virginia calls the mother “a peculiar woman.”
but a "good old girl" who “ran around a lot and
didn’t take care of the children." The father, she
claims, “has always been 'big 1 and little you'.”
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„ . „ । into the case, but he refused.
Oklahoma City also may have a
few showers Friday and Friday
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island now the northernmost out- cohvenience and necessity expected to stay mild it should be
prison camp swore Thursday at The court recessed at mid-mom- post Commissioners Frieda B. Hen- about 64 here Thursday afternoon
Maj. Ambrose H Nugent’s collab- ing until 1:30 p.m at which time Nanchi lies 125 miles north of the nock. Robert T Bartley, and Rob- It was a warm 63 in Ardmore
oration trial that he never author- the defense is scheduled to call Chiang Kai-shek bastion and out- ert e Lee voted for a hearing. Wednesday. 62 in Hobart and 60
ized American prisoners to take Brig Gen M. O. Perry. now head side of the sensitive Formosa Miss Hennock and Bartley entered here. The temperature dropped to
part in communist “peace meet- of the military advisory group at strait a dissentitg memorandum. in
ings" Maxwell airforce base, Ala. He Civilians have been evacuated which Lee did not join
Ths witness. Lt. Col. John J has been identified as the officer from Nanchi which lies just 23
Dunn. 43, of Rome, N. Y., gave •— — ------------ —— — — —
the testimony as theeWisconsin of- PLEA T rn to N„gent | phase turn to
ficer s general court • martial on page a mugent • ,
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; . - ... . . ... । LUDSON, himself a sharp let-
training school in Utah Smith Mter writer, whipped the
has. been confinedtoa number following reply to the address:
of boy s training schools Since he - - -
PLEASKaE T 70 Threat
Stephen S. Chandler, U. S. district judge.
Smith was indicted after he wrote a letter to the
ture-robbery trial moved swiftly president threatening his life last. September 13. and
Thursday. Prosecutors may after telling two secret service agents he would kill the;
complete their main case dur-
fiylfcu
PLEASKGTEN To Curb
—
Gov. Gary apparently told senate
leaders late Wednesday.
The administration's proposal to
submit three separate proposed
amendments to the pedpie—one for
an extra 5-mill levy, one for a
4-mill county-wide levy necessary
foredese and8 atipubind onstitution Frank Wright and Max Charles communists “have inked the
bond issue of $17 millions—drew
quick fire from the committee
when it was unfolded Wednesday.
Poll Defeat Feared
Apparently two-thirds of the 16
senators there said separation
— ■ . , , , .. would be certain to defeat one or
fluence witnesses in a labor rack- 1,400 pounds of meat for this more of the issues.
year's show Officials of the club Particular fear was expressed intendont
saidit wasthespargestvatt ” for tne +mili. county-wide levy PNn ndmnate of the amount of
instheshitoyys Dresden of the which would replace the 4 mills damage has been made
Henry huiuiis. president or me now available for separate schools.
Roundup club, said the 1955 mem- It was said counties which now
bership of the organization num-1____
bered over one thousand persons, please turn to
Frank Morris. Hennessey, led in PAGE 1
the new membership drive with;
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