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The El Reno Daily Tribune
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EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1942
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Work On Approaches
Will Co Forward
With Greater Speed
ypproaches in ttie highway cut-
program south of El Reno can
constructed in only a few months
completion of the overpass lt-
T may not be possible for an ln-
inlte time, officials of the El
no Construction company said
lay.
The El Reno firm, a partnership
Herman Merveldt and Ferd Mer-
dt, began construction of the
irpass last Aug. 21 and now ap-
rently will be awarded the con-
ct for construction of the ap-
Lwches.
Construction of the overpass is
hng retarded by inability to ob-
n the necessary steel, but con-
uction of tire approaches will not
juire any materials that are im-
>sible to obtain.
The El Reno firm is expected to
awarded a contract by the state
•thway commission next Tuesday
Jr construction of the approaches,
ilch will extend from the over-
I north to Cavanaugh street on
k Island avenue and southeast
Witt’s corner.
nieir bids, opened yesterday by
ft highway commission, were the
v bids offered, the Associated
hess reported.
Far Below Estimates
While bids for the approaches ]
•re higher than engineers’ esti-
•ites, bids on the entire program
[eluding the overpass still are far
low estimates for the entire pro-
am.
'Engineers' estimates for the over-
ss were $233,000, but the El Reno
•m received the contract on a bid
$200,911.17. Estimates on the
[uth approach. 1.052 miles of grad-
drainage and paving, were $92,-
and the company bid $104,023,
lie on the north approach estl-
were $27,000 and the company
d $29,750.
After letting of the contract for
{instruction of the approaches,
heduled next Tuesday, about two
"•e weeks will be required for
orking out of final details before
work order can be issued.
To Require Four Mouths
While only about 30 days will be
Squired to lay the actual paving,
sading and other preliminary work
ill make construction of the ap-
roaches about a four-month job,
was estimated.
i The north approach project, ex-
mding from the overpass to Cav-
uaugh street, will necessitate re-
oval of the present paving, le-
gation of utility lines and laying
a new 60-foot pavement. The
ith approacli will be an entirely
ew highway extending in a wide
j,urve south and east from the over-
tass to Witt's corner.
Detour routes for U. S. highways
jjB, 81 and 270 will be determined
the state highway department.
A detour may be necessary around
e north approach for several
but a detour around the
uth end of the cutoff, while it Is
connected to existing high-
ys at Witt’s corner, is expected to
necessary only a few days.
Four-Lane Outlet
When finished the entire cutoff
rogram will give El Reno a four-
nc highway outlet from the busl-
: district south and east to Witt's
, eliminating all dangerous
urves and grade crossings of the
resent route east on Elm street
d around the cemetery.
Though the present 28-foot pave-
ment on South Rock Island avenue
>etween Cavanaugh and Elm streets
be replaced with a 60-foot slab,
-foot parkways still will remain
each side of the street, as the
property lines are 100 feet apart, i
orth of Cavanaugh street Rock Is-'
and avenue already is 68 feet wide.
12 Spans In Overpass
The overpass pavement will con-
sist of two 25-foot roadways sepa-
rated by a rounded 2-foot island,
it also will include 3-foot side-
walks on both sides for pedestrian
raffle. The overpass structure will
consist of 12 spans totaling 537 feet
length and crossing three rail-
id tracks.
The south approach will consist of
22-foot roadways connecting at
Witt’s corner with the three-lane
avement of U. S. highways 66 and
going east and with the two-
ne pavement of U. S. 81 going
uth.
Miss Esther Clapper, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Clapper of Calu-
met, who was one of 39 students
who completed a three-year course
in the school of nursing at St. An-
thony hospital in Oklahoma City
early this month, was awarded a
scholarship for one year of study
in the advanced school of nursing
at St. Mary's college. Leavenworth,
Kan. Only one student among each
class graduated at St. Anthony each
year is granted this scholarship.
Miss Clapper, who was graduated
from Calumet highschool, attended
Central State college in Edmond one
semester before entering the school
of nursing.
Six Candidates
To Plead Cases
‘Shadow Names’ Bring
Protests at Capitol
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 20—(U.R)
—Six candidates who want six
other candidates eliminated from
the primary election ballot will
go before the state election board
Monday at the capitol to plead
their cases.
The six Include:
U. S Senator Josh Lee against
Josh Lee. 48. Vinita farmer.
Corporation Commissioner Reford
Bond against R L. Bond, 61. Okla-
homa City salesman.
Auditor Frank C. Carter against
Frank Carter, 37. Pauls Valley
barber—candidates for secretary of
state.
Supreme court clerk Andy Payne
against Jack Dempsey, 42. Okla-
homa City salesman.
Joe C. Scott, president of the
board of agriculture, against Dun-
can McArthur, 64. Holdenvllle.
State Senator Paul Stewart.
Antlers, against Paul Stuart. 30
Millerton farmer. (Both are can-
didates for congress in the third
district.)
Seventh Contest Dismised
A seventh formal contest was
dismissed when G A. Childers, 27.
Chickasha salesman, withdrew from j
the auditor’s race against C. C
Childers’ who currently is sec-
retary of state.
Two minor matters of contention
also will be considered by the
board at Its hearing. Daniel Nel-
son, Oklahoma City, wants his
name changed to Dan Nelson on
the U. S. senate ballot.
A protest was filed against Oliver !
O. Cromwell, Clinton, as an Inde-
pendent candidate in the state
senate race in the district which
includes Kiowa, Washita and Cus-
tre counties. It was stated that
Kiowa and Washita counties are
suposed to nominate the candidate
for the district this year and that
Custer county nominates the can-
didate in 1944. Cromwell lives in
Custer county.
Detroit Group
Denies Airplane
Work'Fumbled'
Auto Manufacturers
Claim Production
Is ‘Coming Along’
DETROIT. May 20—(U.R)—Auto-
mobile manufacturers vigorously
challenged today suggestions that
they were fumbling the manufacture
of airplanes.
They said sub-assembly of air-
plane bodies was “coming along,”
and the industry also was pouring
out motors, guns, tanks, gun mount-
ings and ammunition. They had
heard that J. H. Kindclberger, pres-
ident of North American Aviation,
Inc., had said that it was costing
twice as much and taking twice as 1
long for automobile makers to get
into the production of planes as it
would have aircraft makers, using
their own methods.
“Should Come and See”
"Kindelberger should come to
Detroit and see,” was the general
attitude here.
K. T. Keller, president of Chrys-
ler corporation, said Chrysler al-
ready had sent the first sub-assem-
blies of body sections of a bomber
to the factory for assembling.
Within a few weeks, he said,
Chrysler would be shipping several
sub-assemblies a day.
Chrysler, however, is just start-
ing, compared to the Briggs Manu-
facturing company. It has been
producing wings for fighting planes
for more than a year.
W. P. Rown, the president, said
the wings had reached a production
basis in April, 1941, and in that
same month, Briggs started making
bomber parts, wings, flaps, tail sur-
faces, ailerons, duct ventilators,
bulkheads, tank doors, and bomb
doors.
Conversion Demonstrated
He said Briggs now was making
wings for another type of bomber
and part of the fabric wings for a
reconnaissance plane. Chrysler
showed newspapermen visiting the
Chrysler plant under sponsorship of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers a huge room, filled, like a
fair exhibition, with tanks, guns,
pontoons, airplane sub-assemblies,
motors, trucks, sirens, fire engines
and ammunition.
He said it demonstrated Chrys-
ler’s conversion to war production.
Did You Hear
I^ARNEST POTTS, son of Mr
and Mrs. E. N. Potts, 511
South Edison avenue, has been
elected to serve next year as
pledge master for Alpha PI Mu,
national pre-medic fraternity at
Oklahoma A. and M. college in
Stillwater, where he Is com-
pleting his Junior year.
-o-
Everett Thompson, who en-
listed in the coast guard last
Jan. 2, has been promoted to
rank of fireman third class. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
E. Thompson, 108 li North Rock
Island avenue. He now is sta-
tioned at Treasure Island, in
the San Francisco bay.
-o-
Private Merle D. Long, 22.
son of Mr. and Mrs. M F. Long,
Piedmont, was graduated yes-
terday from the air corps tech-
nical school at Sheppard Field,
Tex., where he has attended
classes the past five months. He
was attached to the 314th tech-
nical school squadron. Now
qualified as one of the eight
specialists necessary to keep one
plane in the air, he is eligible
for assignment to any unit
maintained by the air corps.
Sacred Heart
Program Is Set
Catholic School
To Conclude Year
Twelve pupils will be graduated
from the eighth grade at Sacred
Heart school while 15 students
will be awarded their Sacred Heart
highschool diplomas during cere-
monies to be conducted at 8 p. m.
Friday in the El Reno highschool
auditorium.
Pupils in the eighth grade are
James Bums. Lu Alyce Compton,
Delores Deterinan. Clarence Dill,
Madonna Fox, Rose Marie O’Keefe,
Frank Menz, Monita Ratterman,
Marianne S c h 1 c c h t, Genevieve
Schwab, Alfred Smith and Paul
Strelt.
Members of the senior class at
Sacred Heart are Ray Dill, George
Elmenhorst, Don Fuhrman, Betty
Jean Haley, Marian. Hufnagel,
Lenora Jacquot, Marcella Leonard,
Australia Calls
For More Men,
Guns and Ships
MacArthur’s Airmen
Continue Search For
Jap Invasion Fleet
MELBOURNE, May 20 —(U.R)—
Australia renewed its demand for
more planes, men, guns and ships
today as General Douglas Mac-
Arthur’s allied air force continued
its wide reconnaissance flights in
•earth of an enemy invasion fleet.
J One newspaper by implication
! criticized the United States for
sending additional forces to North-
ern Ireland unless they are in-
tended for an immediate offen- ]
slve against the German-held I
! continent of Europe.
1 Air Minister Arthur S. Drake-
ford. in a statement, said:
“Tlie need for planes cannot be
too strongly stressed . . . Our slo-
gan should be planes, more planes
and still more planes. Without
them our task will be made heavier
and longer.”
Views Are Aired
The critical newspaper was Tlie
Sydney Daily Telegraph. Com-
menting on the arrival of Amer-
ican troops in Northern Ireland,
it said:
(“Australia would be the first
to cheer the Americans if they
were bound to Britain to partici-
pate in the coming critical weeks
in an offensive against the axis.
“But we shall not be so pleased
if the Americans are going into
camp for the summer.
“The united nations should be
rushing more men, ships, guns and
planes to points where fighting
is actually taking place.”
MacArthur Is Terse
(At his press conference yester-
day. President Roosevelt was told
that some Australians feared the
arrival of more American troops in
Northern Ireland might mean the
United States was minimizing the
dangers in the southwest Pacific.
Mr Roosevelt replied that he
hadn't heard of it.)
VOLUME 51, NO. 70
Former (AP) Staffers in Army
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munique, his shortest to date, said
’ "Operations were limited to re-
connaissance.”
importance now rivaling that of
and added that 90 percent of Chrys- I Helen Menz- 0111 Norvell. Mary I the heavy United States aerial at
ler’s floor space and 100 percent of
its personnel were engaged in war
work.
Ann O'Keefe, Agnes Ratterman. I tacks 0,1 Japanese bases, because
Catherine Reding. Bernard Strcit, | belief strengthened that the Jap-
Mary Ann Weaver and Jack Wolk- I anese wero preparing to assemble
ing. | a big fleet for another thrust
Songs Arranged i toward Australia.
Opening number in Friday night’s
I program will be a welcoming song.
I "We're Mighty Glad You Came,
by the primary grades. This group
includes Bobby Boynton, Joe Virgil
Bundrick, Martha Mary Determan.
QinnrocHnn l\.„j„,i ! Mary Ellen Eaglenest, Janice Rae
Mij,nestion I orwarded 10erber Jayne Ann Heuser Gel..
To Secretary of War I trude Hix. Rita Jane Hufnagel.
j Stewart Uiff, Leo Paul Jacquot, j
WASHINGTON. May 20 — </p>_ ! James Kastner, Billy James Self, j
Harvest furloughs of 10 days or two I Shirley Williams, Andrew Wolf, |
weeks for soldiers needed at home! Dorine Meyer, Paul Marchewskl,
to take care of the harvesting of
wheat and other crops were sug-
Lodge Prepares
For Anniversary
Porta Will Preside
At Masonic Program
Russian Armies
Are Pushing On
Toward Kharkov
Monster Tanks I>ead
Advance Over Fields
Littered With Dead
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russia's Ukraine armies, led by
monster 52-ton tanks, advanced
over fields Uttered with many
hundreds of German dead in toe
nine-day-old battle of Kharkov to-
day while the Nazis sought des-
perately to ease the pressure with
a dlversional attack 80 miles to
the south.
Apparently the Russians refused
to be decoyed.
At mid-day the Russians report-
ed they were smashing ever closer
to Kharkov, despite stiffened Ger-
man resistance, and declared the
fighting was spreading like wild
the along the entire southern
flank of the 125-mlle front.
Dispatches to Red Star, the
Soviet army newspaper, said that
in one sector German and Rus-
sian tanks and infantry were lock-
ed in a terrific battle at such
close quarters that Nazi warplanes
dared not risk supporting their
own land troops for fear of hitting
them. In this clash alone, 46 Ger-
man tanks were reported left In
ruins and 51 others destroyed else?
where.
Likened To Bataan
“The Red army is breaking the
fierce resistance of the Hitlerite
beasts and pushing them back to
the west,” Pravda reported.
Pravda likened the Russian
stand at Kerch to the long Ameri-
can defense on Bataan peninsula
in the Philippines.
German dispatches to neutral
Switzerland frankly expressed sur-
prise at the unexpected Russian
pressure against Kharkov and at;
the quantity of the Red lymy's
heavy new equipment which in-
cludes United States made tanks
and planes.
Mannheim Attacked
While the two armies battled at
peak fury, Britain's aerial "second
front” offensive pounded heavily
at the big German war foundries
city of Mannheim and attacked
the Nazi U-boat base at St. Na-
zatrre, France.
The British said “hundreds” of
will be inducted at the first meet-islvTe Wflr' B t V ^ exp'os‘'cs
ing in July xt was only natural, he suggested, on Mannheim, Europe s second big-
Current officers, besides Dr. Con- that ea'culatj°ns as to the duration
of the war should be made In the
light of these facts.
In reply to other questions, Hull
said the work of immobilizing
French warships at Martinique still
FORT SILL. May 2ft—Lieutenant Charles J. Wellner, recently called
to active duty and assigned as public relations officer at Fort Sill,
discusses army life with two former associates of the Associated Press
bureau in Oklahoma City—Corporal Leland Gourley. who recently was
transferred from Camp Roberts. Calif., to become a student at the
Fort Sill field artillery officers’ candidate school, and Private Francis
E Barden, who recently was inducted. Lieutenant Wellner, former
night editor of the (/P) in Oklahoma City, Corporal Gourley, former I/P)
sports writer, and Private Barden, former l/P) state editor, all were
given leaves of absence by the Associated Press to enter military service.
Staff Nominated Earlier Victory
By Lions Club Held Possible
Dr. B. E. Carder To
Serve As President
Secretary Hull Sees
Grounds For Hope
Dr. B E Carder, vice president WASHINGTON. May 20 —(/Ph-
ot the Lions club this year, was nom- Secretary of State Cordell Hull in-
inated as president for the 1942-43 dicated today he saw grounds for
year at the civic organization’s reg- i,0pe that victory for the united
ular luncheon-meeting Tuesday noon nations might come sooner than
in the Southern hotel dining room, had been expected earlier this year.
Other ol fleers nominated include He was asked at his press con-
Bryan V. Biady. vice president; Dean ference whether developments in re-
Ward, secretary-treasurer; Dr. Jo-
MacArthur, in a five word com- *’Pt' M. Ozmun. tail twister; Asa fronts encouraged him
Mayfield, Lion tamer; E. H. Fran-
cent weeks on the home and foreign
to believe in
cis and 8. Boyd Wilson, directors. ^n^rlnh/ ^he^nnh i H
Dr. L. R. Conrad, president of1. *" Pf1 * °"*f
... ... _____ _... the powers and facilities of the
However. r,eo„ml».„„ J*
for next year. . , .
Election of officers will be con- not °nly ort /’"‘‘nsive-defenslve
ducted June 2 and the new staff I °l*?l'atlons' but for outright offen-
(b-I)efendant In
Trial Collapses
NEW YORK. May 20—(Ab-Ely
Shonbrun, co-defendant in the
murder trial of Madeline Webb
and another man. collapsed in his
chair at the counsel table today
and was carried from the court-
room by attendants.
Shonbrun's attorney, Jacques
Buitcnkant, said that Shonbrun
was suffering from a heart, con-
dition.
gested to Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson today by Representa-
tive Clifford Hope (Republican.
Kansas.)
Hope wrote that Kansas and
adjacent states soon would begin
harvest of the wheat crop and
that it was evident there would
be a great shortage of labor.
The Kansan suggested as a gen-
eral policy one which woulu per-
mit the granting of 1 D-day or two-
week furloughs where the services
of a soldier were needed at home
to harvest and save growrng crops,
and where the furlough would not
interfere with the soldier’s traln-
I ing. It would cover, he suggested,
only those soldiers stationed at not
too great a distance from home.
Fiftieth anniversary of the El
George Hedrick. Donna Ahern., R,eno Masonic lodge and 47lh an*
Wayne Bowling, Donald Corwin.' »versary of thp 01 Eastern
Donald Elmenhorst, Frances Rose I Star chapter w111 ** observed with
Fautz. John Flagg, Jean Flagg. | 8 banquet and entertainment pro-
Robert Fletcher. Francis Flores | gram t0 ** staged by the two
Betty Hutton, Clyde Henry Kappus.! groupa at 8:30 p' Thursday in
Raymond Marquez, Bernard Red- he MBsonic temple, it has been
ing, Tommy Ray Maher, Patricia
I
Youths Are Intercepted
Despite Fishing Poles
MEDFORD, May 20—(U.R)—Two
15-year-old Kansas City boys were
on their way back home today be-
cause W A Northcutt, Grant
county sheriff, didn’t believe
everyone who carries a fishing j
pole is going fishing.
By carrying fishing poles, the
i boys—who were running away
Ruth Murray, Jo Ann Sweet,
Jerome Tamm, Phillip Wayne
Walch, Barbara Ann Wolking,
Murlene Jean Worth. Tommy
Woolworth, Jim Avant, Jack Piatt
and Mary Ann Zajic.
Others Will Appear
announced.
A. Francis Porta will preside
over the informal entertainment
program as master of ceremonies.
Features of the program will be
a review of the lodge’s history
by Leo Anthis and a review of the
rad and Dr. Carter, include Mr.
Ward, secretary-treasurer; A. Fran-
cis Porta, tail twister; Bill Craig.
Lion tamer; Mr. Francis and Dr.
Ozmun, directors.
Members of the nominating com- j was 8°*nK 011 but that the task of
rnittee who recommended next !'emovlng fuel oil from the vessels
year's staff were Walter H. Boon, bad been completed. Tills, he said,
chairman, Jesse W. Haydon and Mr. (Made it impassible for the vessels
Wilson.
The program at the Tuesday noon
meeting was conducted by the sight
conservation committee, with Henry
C. Hicks in charge.
Jennings B. Newman, principal
of Irving grade school, discussed the
Lions club sight conservation pro-
gram at that school and presented
several of the school's pupils, who
related benefits they have received
from the program.
to put to sea but left enough oil
to operate their electric lighting
systems and other minor installa-
tions.
Further Rains
Are Forecast
The Oklahoma City weather
! Eastern Star chapter's history by bureau forecast continued scatter-
. Mrs. J. M. Woods. i ed rain and thunderstorms for the
, , *0.?8’ “ ^°U fan 1 slng' j Tllc Program will be open to all J east and central portions of the
Whistle” will be given by tHe fifth j members of lodge No. 50, A F
and sixth grades comprised of Jo and A. M.. and their wives, and
Ann Avant. Robert Lee Brungard.1 members of chapter No. 27, Order
Beverly Bruns. Dolores Cooksey, of Eastern Star, and their hus-
Mabel Davis. Jeanette Crawford, bands.
Leo Henry Determan, John Henry _
Davis, Jack Dyer, Billy Jo Eagle-1
nest. Paul Elmenhorst, Francis | Unu/Pr \nPPfl tlinnpdorl
Elmenhorst, Joe Elmenhorst. Carl j jpeeQ jUgQ65l6Q
Elmenhorst. Thomas Flagg, Cecil | Ta Prounni ftac Dalinnc
Flanery, Patsy Fletcher, Alonzo ^ rlvVulll Uui Kd'IOlli
Flores, Billy Finn. Robert Fry.
state tonight and falling temoera-
tures in the western section, the
United Press reported today.
Elk City, with 77 degrees, re-
ported the highest temperature in \
'he state yesterday. Guymon, with
48. had today’s early-hour low.
Stocks Of Goods
To Be Limited
WASHINGTON. May 20 —</P)—
The war production board is ex-
pected soon to limit the stocks of
goods which may be held by re-
tailers and wholesalers.
Such a plan is definitely being
considered by the board, Informed
persons said today, in order to
assure an equitable supply of con-
sumer goods, despite wartime pro-
duction curtailments, for all mer-
chants and their customers.
Free Medical Clinic
For Children Arranged
gest inland port, the site of major
chemical, armament and engineer-
ing works. Fourteen planes includ-
ing two fighters were acknowledged
missing.
German night raiders struck back
with an attack on a town In
northeast England, killing at least
12 persons and starting fires which
left hundreds homeless.
NAZI PARACHUTISTS
MASSED FOR ASSAULT
LONDON, May 2ft—OP)— Marshal
Scmeon Timoshenko's power drive
toward Kharkov was reported by
Russian sources today to have
ixmetrated "into the heart of the
city's defense" while in the battle-
torn Kerch Isthmus af the Crimea
the Nazis were believed massing
100,000 parachutists for a mighty
airborne invasion of the Caucasus.
Indications that Hitler was pre-
paring to hurl powerful air forces
into such an attempt to hop the
Kerch strait, which halted his
troops last fall, were seen strongly
in the announcement In the Berlin
communique that the air com-
mander, General Baron von Rich-
ithofen was on Kerch peninsula
It was von Richthofen who dl-
j reeled the bombing of Belgrade
and who later paved the way for
Germany's aerial Invasion of Crete
j by the use of hundreds of high
level and dive bombers to smash
ground resistance on the island.
JAPANESE CONTINUE
Dona Jean Gerber, Helen Louise
Thompson Still In
Coaching Business
LAWTON, May 20—UP)—Lieuten-
ant Jess E. Thompson, a naval
athletic director, still is in the
coaching business.
Here for a visit., the former
ithletic coach at Cameron Agri-
cultural college. Lawton, told
friends that he had been assigned
as head boxing coach for about
1.800 reserves at the University of
Georgia. Thompson is a former
Seminole highschool coach.
His collapse upset Miss Webb.lfT,' ^
28-year-old model, who rushed toi ,c''h kc f‘01" Kansai Clty to a
his side. The trial In which Miss ’ " M^f°rd *‘th°Ut ^T'
Webb, Shonbrun and John D.
Culllns are charged with slaying
Mrs. Susan Flora Reich, a Polish
refugee, in her hotel suite early
last March, was recessed.
A dint* out of every
dollar we earn
IS OUR QUOTA
for VICTORY with
U.S. WAR BONDS
Ing suspicion of unwitting motorists
who gave them lifts.
Sheriff Northcutt Intercepted the
fleeing youths, "wormed” their
1 LITTLE ROCK. Ark., May 20—
, „ /P)—Governor Homer Adkins asked
Huttom Mary LeVerne KaPP^ governors of six adjoining states
Mike Kastner. John Menz. Robert I to(lay t0 ,n Arkansas * egtab.
McClaren, Richard McClarcn, Joan jlishin({ # 40_mlle hlghway specd
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2) limit in the hope of forestalling
gasoline rationing in this oil pro-
I rograni ( (inducted I Tile request was telegraphed to
On Room Improvement ! governors of Missouri, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Wade McCann was hostess! t°u,8lana’ Texas' Mississippi and
to the Red Rock home demonstra- I TennessPC
tlon club at Its meeting Tuesday. 1 belleve that lf Washington
when members conducted a pro-
gram on living room improvement.
Free medical clinic for children of
Elk City, with -30 of an inch, pre-school age In the Central grade
had the heaviest rainfall recorded school district will be conducted at I SOUTHWARD SWEEP
in the state In the 24-hour period 9 a. m. Friday in the school library, CHUNGKING, May 20—l/P/—The
ending this morning. Other pre- it was announced today by Mrs. E. | Japanese are continuing their
cipitatlon recordings included Guy- i A. Cox, chairman of the summer | southward sweep In Chekiang prov-
mc.n .26, Tulsa .24, McAlestcr .21 round-up committee for the Cen-|lnce. the coastal district south of
it was reported today by Miss Doreen
story out of them and held them Fickel, county home demonstration
In custody until they could be re-
turned home. The boys, dissatis-
fied with school, were enroute to
Los Angeles.
LAIRD JOINS NAVY
BUI Laird, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Laird, 720 South Rock
Island avenue, enlisted In the navy
Monday and departed Monday
evening to report for duty.
officials were Informed that we
were setting the pace In seeking
to conserve rubber by reducing
speed limits, they would be more
agent. 1 willing to accept our viewpoint
Mrs. Rex Colt discussed walls and ! ™U°nlng Sh°Ul.d n0t. be ex
wall finishes, members held a round-
table discussion on floors and floor
coverings, Mrs. McCann presented
a demonstration on making floor
wax and Miss Fickel gave a dem-
onstration on making slip covers.
Mrs. E. H. Miller wlU be hostess
to the club at its next meeting, which
whl be held on June 9.
Final Touches Placed
On Income Tax Rates
WASHINGTON, May 20 —(A’)—
The house ways and means com-
mittee put the finishing touches
today on new individual income
tax rates increasing the normal
levy from 4 to 6 percent and
graduating surtaxes steeply upward.
Chairman Robert Doughton
(Democrat. North Carolina) an-
nounced that the committee had
agreed both to Increase the nor-
tended to our area,” Adkins told! ma' tax rate anc* *° tStrive for an
1 additional $2,750,00,000 in
tral Parent-Teacher association.
A physician, a dentist and a nurse
will contribute their services in
giving complete physical examina-
tions to all children In the district
, who will start to school for the first
Shanghai, which ts believed tq
contain potential bases for bomb-
ing Japan, the Chinese acknow-
ledged today.
A communique said the Japanese
who captured Cuukt mi the rail-
time next September. I road 40 mUeg south of the pro-
All parents who have children j vlnclal metropolis of Hangchow.
expecting to enrol In the first grade
next year should take their chil-
dren to the clinic Friday morning,
it was said.
continued southward with the aid
oi planes which bombed Chinese,
positions
newsmen.
CLASS ON DUTY
The third Red Cross canteen
class, taught by Mrs. Alfred Haun,
has completed the course and now
is on duty at the canteen in the
Rock Island station.
revenue,
but he declined to disclose what
the surtax raj.es might be.
Members indicated that the
present 6 percent surtax on the
Hist $2,000 of not income probably
would be jumped to 11 or 12 per-
cent and that the maximum would
be 80 or 85 percent.
Weather
State Forecast
Scattered showers and thunder-
storms In central and eastern
areas; cooler.
El Reno Weather
For 24-hour period ending at 8
a. m. today; High, 73; low, 52; at
8 a. m„ 57.
State of weather, mostly cloudy.
Rainfall, trace.
President’s Son
To Become Major
WASHINGTON, May 20 —l/PV-
Captain James Roasevelt, son of
the president and who once held
a lieutenant colonel’s commission
In the marines, has been selected
for temporary promotion to major,
the marine corps disclosed today
In announcing the names of 310
captains chosen for advancement.
The list Includes the names of
11 officers who now are believed
to be prisoners ol war.
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