The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 62, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 22, 1953 Page: 4 of 12
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Sunday, November 22, 1953
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving » Blue Ribbon Community
Iuued Dally except Saturday from 201 North Rock Island Avenue,
and entered as second-class mail matter under the act of March S, 1879.
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RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D. WARD
BndBCM Muiftfor Mmu|1ii| Editor
HARRY BCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
member of the ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republlcation
of all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all UP) news
dispatches. _
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Sunday, November 22, 1953
There Is nothing lovelier than a Brent tree. Even in the arctic winters of
Norway the majesty of the trees stripped of leaves Is by no means lost.
The psalmist lived In a dry and barren land, and trees grew mostly by
the brooks and rivers. A symbol of the miracle of rebirth and strength.
And he shall be like a tree.—P». 1:3.
Questionable Action
DEVELOPMENTS in the Harry Dexter White case suggest
U the folly of resting argument on political, rather thnn
factual, foundations. For since it exploded Nov. 6, both
Attorney General Brownell and former President Truman
have been compelled to shift their ground to compensate for
political overstatement. Neither emerges unscathed.
In the latest phase, Mr. Truman, answering Brownell’s
charges, said he decided to let White stay with the govern-
ment in 1946 so the FBI could continue to investigate him
and other alleged spies and build up a foolproof case.
He said that in consultation with Secretary of State
Byrnes, Secretary of the Treasury Vinson and Attorney
General Clark in February, 1946, he determined that this
course would protect the public interest and security as well
as allow the FBI to press its inquiry fruitfully.
"No other course could have served both these ends,”
he stated.
In rebuttal against him, the key witness before the
Jenner committee in the senate proved to be not Brownell
but J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the FBI. What he said threw
into question the wisdom, though not the essential truth, of
what Mr. Truman said he decided.
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WEDNESDAY looked like any
VI other day; full of a iktlllon
things I had to do. was willing to
do, and wanted to do. Ran right
on a tight schedule through my
last appointment which wss at
S p.m. at Fort Reno.
As I came In from there saw a
whopping big thunder cloud rising
In the southwest but completely
Ignored Its potentialities and pos-
sible intimacy with the Oklahoma
City rain maker.
Fay and I came In from dinner
about 7:45 and noticed a few
drops of rain falling. So what?
Rain. Oood for the farmers. It Is
warm where we are, the roof
doesn't leak and we’re among
friends. And so to bed around
eleven. Didn’t quite make It. Am
sitting on the side of the bed
leaned down to put _ the phone
connection In the base-board
(remind me sometime to find
out why those things cannot be at
least waist high) when b-b-r-r-r
It rings right in my hand.
It is Don Eagle of the fire de-
partment who says ’’Annie, get
the canteen out. We're off to the
north end to get folks out of the
water.” I wish I could think of
some snappy reply to these sud
den calls like ‘Roger’ or ’right’ or
any of the current acqulescences,
but the best I can do Is “Huh?
Uh Huh. Be down In 10 minutes
or thereabouts”.
Union'Circus' 25 Years Old
MADISON, Wls., Nov. 21—(U.R>—A
149-rlng "circus,” as been perform-
ing here continuously for 25 years.
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hy Bruno Fi sc n e r
Of'VKIGHT BY BRUNO FISCHER DIGT H I HU TF O BY NRA SFRVIC I IN C
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THIS was the heart of Hoover’s statement:
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1. The FBI did not in this case, and does not in any case,
recommend that a suspected spy be kept in government so
he may be further observed. It was not a party to any
agreement to this effect, as some people implied.
2. Had it been the FBI’s intention to handle the White
case as an “intelligence operation," in other words to keep
him under continued surveillance, the FBI would not have
distributed widely through government agencies its findings
on White and other suspects. This increased prospects of a
leak that would alert the suspects, the very thing Mr. Tru-
man implied he was trying to prevent by keeping White on.
_.....3. Thus, Hoover made plain his belief that the White
case was ended, not continuing, when he sent the former
president a detailed report on him Feb. 4, 1946, two days
before the senate confirmed him as U. S. representative on
the international monetary fund. He had told Clark and
Vinson he believed it unwise for White to remain in govern-
ment.
IN support of this point, he cited many instances in 1946
* when, as soon as evidence of serious nature was compiled
against a man, he was separated from federal service, Un-
happily, this did not include many key figures.
4. Far from serving the FBI’s aims, keeping White on
made its job of surveillance more difficult, since the fund’s
premises, like the UN’s, nre “extraterritorial.”
5. In deciding White should stay and he kept under
watch, Mr. Truman declared his intention to surround him
with “safe security risks.” But White nevertheless was
allowed thereafter to name two other key suspects to jobs
on the fund. Brownell supported Hoover here by saying he
could discover no evidence to show White and others were
interfered with in continuing to supply government secrets
to the Soviet Union.
In the light of this testimony, any citizen may have
strong doubts of Mr. Truman’s statement that retaining
White was the “only course” consistent with national secu-
rity and FBI desires. Indeed, one is led to consider that what
Mr. Truman did may have been the very poorest course he
could have followed.
Down Memory Lane
Nov. 22, 193.1
IT was to honor her daughter, Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham,
* of Herington, Kan., that Mrs. Kepler Johnson, 1112 South
Donald, entertained informally yesterday afternoon with a
prettily appointed tea.
Named as officers of the Red Rock farm women’s club
at a meeting yesterday in the home of Mrs. Price Thompson
were Mrs. C. M. Hopkins, president; Mrs. Thompson, vice
president, and Mrs. Earl Clark, secretary.
Mrs. Irvin Hurst and sons, Randle and Owen, of Okla-
homa City are guests of Miss Mary Ashbrook, 519 South
Hoff.
L. E. Sheldon, jr., of Electra, Tex., is visiting with his
family at 101 North Williams.
Several members of the El Reno American Legion post
attended the regular Legion meeting at Oklahoma City last
night. They included Charles Burger, commander; Lee J.
Stoneman, Guy C. Knarr and Nelson Hancock, past post
commanders.
Nov. 22, 1943
ADOLPH MESSENGER of El Reno roiled a sizzling 1,2.12
six-game series Sunday afternoon to climb from fifth to
first place in the Harpmam singles bowling tournament in
Oklahoma City. Messenger included games of 223-221 in
his high series as he ran his pin total for 12 games to 2,388.
He has won nine games in the round-robin and has a point
total of 56.38.
Approximately 7,400 Oklahoma schools have been askec
to participate in the seven-point "schools-at-war" program
directed by Paul R. Taylor of El Reno, state chairman.
Members of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen elected officers at their regular session
in Trainmen’s hall Friday. They were Mrs. Roy Palmer,
president; Mrs. J. W. Sawyer, vice president; Mrs. W. O.
Wick, secretary; Mrs. J. E. Offield, treasurer; Mrs. Gena
Shepard of Oklahoma City, chaplain; Mrs. Sam Wallace,
conductress; Mrs. Charles Morrison, warden; Mrs. Dave
Rauh, inner guard; Mrs. A. E. Heiligman, outer guard; Mrs.
Corliss Allen, pianist, and W. 0. Wick, counselor.
THE STORY: WHh the help of
hl> boM. Martha Fale.v, Paul Flagg
electa to rover up the murder of
District Attorney Barnet Larkin In
order to protect his small son Joey.
Larkin's wife Dina, who la also
Paul's ex-wife and Joey’s mother.
Martha believes Dina la trying to
frame Paul for the slaying.
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. VII
| FOLLOWED Martha Into the
sumptuously modern kitchen.
Everything but the electric range
and the refrigerator was maple.
I sat on one of the four high bar
stools facing the kitchen at the
counter and watched her put up
coffee.
I said: "Boss, if you don't know
Dlnn, why do you dislike her so?"
"I know what she tried to do
to you tonight.'
"You like to mdnd other people's
business, especially mine and Joey's.
George Maudson must have been
the one who told you Barnet Larkin
was going to become a judge. What
did he have to say about Dina?”
Martha carried the coffee maker
to the range. Her rather wide hips
swayed In the blue denim Jeans.
There’s a rumor that she wasn’t
exactly a faithful wife.”
“Did her husband know?"
"George didn't think so. It's
possible that Larkin followed her
to your place because he suspected
you were the man."
"That’s nonsense.'
"It wias only vague gossip, George
said, but It bothered him. The wife
of a candidate for Justice of the
State Supreme Court has to be like
Caesar's wife, and Oeorge wouldn’t
back any man he wasn’t positive
would win."
She came up with a platter of
cold chicken and took It to the
work table. “Tell mle about her,
Paul.”
Sitting hunched forward with
my elbows propped on the counter.
I wanted to talk about Dina for the
first time In years. I was tied to
her now not by love but by an act
of murder.
I said: "It was good. A fine
young love. I was only a couple
of years out of college, a legman
on a newspaper. We met when
she came to town to visit her
married brother. She stayed a
month and at the end of that time
we were married. A year later
Joey was born, and about then I
became assistant city editor. I
didn’t rate the Job on age and
experience, but Dina had become
friendly with the publisher's wife.
That’s the thing to remember about
her—her ambition even then. She
had It all doped out for me to
become managing editor by the
time I was 30. She would have
worked It, If the war hadn’t come
along. Right after Pearl Harbor I
enlisted."
* * * *
«U/HY?" Martha said. "They
v? weren't even drafting hus-
bands at that time, let alone
fathers.”
“That was the way Dina looked
at It. But I had to be a hero. I
was young and chock full of a
sense of duty. When I was sent
overseas they moved to Raven toe
to stay with her mother. While her
mother took care of Joey, she
she worked for an tip and coming
lawyer. His name was Barnet Imr-
khV’*
“I see,” Martha muttered.
“Dp you? I don’t think there was
anything between them. ®e ad-
mired him immensely from the
first; he was her kind, grimly de-
termined to get places. Her letters
to me were filled with complaint
It was bad enough I had let myself
be sent Where I could easily make
her a widow; why wasn't I at least
brass?"
Martha approached the counter
with pieces of cold chicken on one
plate and sliced bread on another.
"What bothered her more—your
lack of rank or not having you with
her?”
I helped myself to a chicken
leg. "Call It fifty-fifty. She couldn’t
admire anybody who hadn't his
sights aimed high—but she still
loved me When I returned home,
all I wanted was to take her and
Joey back to where my old news-
paper Job was waiting for me. But
Dina Insisted on staying In Raven-
ton."
Nibbling on the chicken leg, I
watched Martha's rather slender
hand hold the coffee maker tilted
over my cup. "She had dug up
an Austrian refugee named Adler
who was a whiz at making novelties
out of plastics. During the war,
when there hud been little to buy
except knicknncks and no price
ceilings on them, people in that
line had cleaned up. Now she in-
tended for me to clean up."
* ♦ *
rrtHE hot coffee felt better than
1 Scotch going down my throat.
Anyway, there I was In business'
I went on. "Adler supplied the
know-how- and I the money and
what business ability I had. We
bought mnehines on time and hired
labor and made ashtrays and fruit-
bowls and clgaret, boxes Adler
knew his stuff, but the war was
over and novelties were a drag on
the market. In six months we fold-
ed."
"And Dina was left with a poor
man on her hands.”
Worse than poor. Loaded with
debts I finished paying off only
last year. Larkin had been nomi-
nated for district attorney, and She
w«s up to her ears in his campaign.
I got a job at the desk of the
Raventon Star, where I earned less
than Dina.”
“While Barnet Larkin was going
places.” Martha aatd.
"Yes. I still don’t know how
much, If anything, was between
her and Larkin at that time. I
wondered, of course, but tried not
to. Because of Joey. A broken home
would be the worst thing for him.
I kept telling myself it was Just a
passing phase, and hung on to
what there was.”
(To Be Continued)
Look and Learn
1. How does the new "United
States” luxury liner rank In size In
the world?
2. Which of the planets Is noted
for its rings?
3. What one thing prevents any
machine from ever being W0 per-
cent efficient?
4. What city has long been known
as the "furniture capital of the
United States?"
ANSWERS
1. It is third with 53,300 tons.
First Is the "Queen Elizabeth" with
83,673 tons, followed by the “Queen
Mary” with 81.235 tons.
2. Saturn.
3. Friction.
4. Grand Rapids, Mich.
lJED CROSS rallies ’round and
IV we wait. The national guard
arrives in the person of Its top
brass. "Where to?" they ask and
I tell ’em the calls from Fair ad-
dition are coming In. They’re off
and David DeLana arrives and
runs innumerable errands. Fay
keeps constant check with the po-
lice station. Jack Walsh In and
out on his transportation and
communication detail.
Mr. Hardwick Is marooned at
Consumer's, contact with him
maintained through two-way ra-
dio at reformatory. Harpers corn-
ers has the accumulation from
this side. Can’t cross Four Mile
creek on 66 and Adams park is a
sheet of water. Rube Herod reg-
isters the refugees, and Bea Gil-
bert with Qerda man the canteen.
The night wears on. Refugees
come in. cold wet and frightened.
They are coffeed. fed and bedded
down on the floor or draped over
chairs around the stoves.
Morning sneaks in with more
rain. I eat breakfast with the
chief of police and his son and go
back to the office. The day Is
like the night more rain, more
water, more evacuees. Folks bring
in clothes. Registration for as-
sistance begins. The phone rings
constantly. These times never
come but I give thanks for the
willingness of public utilities to
go all out to help us.
The "circus," as officials like to
call it, Is a mixture of concerts,
plays, social and square dancing,
forums, sports events and dozens
of other activities all housed In
one building on the University of
Wisconsin campus.
The building Is the Wisconsin
Memorial Union, and the perform-
ers are students,, faculty members
and alumni who spotlight the
Union’s halls with 14# varied rec-
| reatlonal programs each year.
The Memorial Union, housed In
a building originally costing more
than $2,863,000. is now Worth
$6,000,000 as it moves into its silver
anniversary year.
Alumni, faculty members and
friends will gather in Madison to
help the younger student genera-
tion light the gigantic 25th birth-
day cake.
While the current student body
takes the building for granted, the
older guests will spend a good part
of their reunion reminiscing about
the building and how it began.
British Model
The Wiscon Union started out
to resemble what a former univer-
sity president, Charles Van Hiae,
called the "cradle of the British
parliament.”
Van Hlse wanted to plan the
union after the Oxford and Cam-
bridge meeting halls. There future
British statemen were able to meet
with their Instructors In an infor-
mal atmosphere to discuss prob-
lems of the day
Van Hise didn’t have the re-
motest ldeA What his plan would
lead to. Tor today the union has
grown to be the fifth most valuable
public building in the state, and it
Includes everything lrom a $1,000,-
000 theater to an old-fashioned
German rathskeller where beer and
other refreshments are served.
The Wisconsin Union, the third
oldest tn the nation, has served as
a model for similar buildings at
other colleges, and for the many
who used tt during the past quar-
ter of a century it will always re-
main “the living room of the
campus."
HOLLYWOOD REALISM
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(U.PJ—It must
have been a realistic movie Paul
Pendergrass saw. Pendergrass said
that one scene In the movie showed
watches of all actors and actresses
stopping due to magnetism. When
Pendergrass left the theater, he
found his watch had stopped for
the first time in three years. A
peweler could find nothing wrong
with the watch, which suddenly
started working again.
DON’T FORGET!
Public Auction
Monday Night
7:00 P. M.
EVERETTS
AUCTION HOUSE
US West Wade—Phona 717
C. U Everett and Data Walk*.
Auctioneers
Open Daily at liSO p. m.
Last Showing Abe* 9:*$
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■vrow its Thursday, we do all
IN right. The VFW gives a big
assist. Order finally comes out of
chaos. Rube and I go to Oklahoma
City at six p. m. for our last com-
mittment of the day. Get home
about 11:30. Hit the sack and do
not come to for seven hours. Get
up thinking what a near miss on
a tragedy we had. We had the
most nearly perfect opportunity
to drown a lot of people that has
ever occurred in our town. Some-
body surely takes care of Canad-
ian county folks.
Here is a rousing, roaring story of the train-
ing camps, of glory and grime and greatness
from the studio that gave you “Battleground”!
And it tells of the greatest weapon that was
ever forged for freedom ... the guts ... the
grin ... the gun of the guy they call the
American Infantryman!
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Lesson in English
Chinese Challenge
Answer to Previous Puzzle
ACROSS
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63 Italian city
64 Rim
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5-capital is 66 Soothsayer
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15 Notes in
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16 Confederate
general
17 Aperture
18 Renovate
20 Turns
4 Declare
5 Sick
22 Most of China ,®^an r0*d
controlled Jo Ti'nyS
24 Gibbon ** J}n% . .
25 Horses' gaits
29 Former
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8 The Yangtze,
Hwang ho, and
Si-Xiang terrltorle*
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principal — 28 Asterisk
30 Husband of
Gudrun
31 Horse color
23 Sketched 41 Anger
25 Solicitude 42 Lion
26 It has an- 44 Hit lightly
of 3,760,339 45 Arrays
square miles
with its
32 Saintes (ab.)
47 StorehouM
49 Arrived
50 Its Gobi
desert 1$ —,
51 Peal
55 Proboscis
54 Carry (coll.)
55 Heavy blow
58 Against
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do
not sav, “It’s just like I thought It
would be.” Say. “It's Just as I
thought It would be."
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED. Hoi
polloi (the populace I. Pronounce I
hoi-po-lol, the ol in each case as
as in boll, the o as In pole un-
stressed, principal accent on last
syllable. .
SYNONYMS: Justice, justness,
fairness, lawfulness, rightfulness,
equity, legality.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word
three times and it is yours." Let us
Increase our vocabulary by master- |
one word each day. Today’s
word: METHODICAL; character-
ized by method or orderliness;
systematic. "She came and went I
with methodical regularity"
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34 Greek letter
30 Child
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common to
the Chinese
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port
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43 Keeps
46 Born
48 Salt
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87 Deed
60 Midday
61 The-
dynasty
controlled
China for .
, generations
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