The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1939 Page: 1 of 6
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1REATEST FIGURE
TO RETAIN PEACE
ecord - Breaking Appro-
priation For Navy Is
Proposed
Honor StudetJ^ Prepare
Speeches At Graduation
WASHINGTON. May 1 — (U.R) —
I peacetime defense spending
:ords will be broken by the
psent congress, it appeared cer-
tain today. The total was expected
pass $1,700,000,000 and quasi-
Tense projects will aggregate well j
er $2,000,000,000.
\ record-breaking naval appro-
bation bill carrying between
110 000,000 and $300,000,000 will be
sorted to the house this week,
[pbably Wednesday, increasing dp-
lse appropriations for the ses-
in to approximately $1,421,108.-
i.
That is exclusive of large sums
. quasi-defense purposes such
the United States maritime
* nmission ship building program,
ers and harbors Improvements
d civil works program adminis-
ed toy the army and navy.
Better Prepared
The widening defense program
t the Foreign Policy association
report today that the United
ates is unquestionably far bet-
prepared for conflict than ever
lore in its peacetime history,
le association, in an analysis by
ivid H Popper of its research
iff declared that any invasion
the western hemisphere by
hei European or Asiatic powers
'ould be foolhardy." Tlie report
itcd that America's armed forces
id been placed on a basis en-
ling them to conduct long-range
erseas operations.
Plane tonsil uetion Criticized
|Thc report suggested ciitical ex-
ninatton of the rapid expansion
arms, particularly the new plane
nstruction program.
Certainly the new airplane con
ruction is not necessary for de-
lsive purposes," the report said.
it, Important that the American
blic exercise its right to limu
e almost endlessly increasing de-
ands of the services whenever
sees fit to do so. scrutinize all
Hilary developments from the
•nit of view of the efficient ex-
[■nditure of public funds."
TO BE ORGANIZE)
IN TEN SECTIONS
Streets Will Be Blocked
For Colorful Feature
Of Celebration
First of Commencement Activities At El Reno
Scheduled For Friday Night
Edith Dyer will give the valeoic- | annual junior-.,c.uoi banquet. Com-
mencement services will bn held
lory address and James Bui mm'i
will give the salutatory address loi
the El Reno high&chool giaduatiu;;
class of 1939 when commencement
exercises are conducted Thursday
night, May 18. Class activities will
begin next Friday night with the
Frontier parade that will climax
the Pioneer day celebration next
Monday wili consist of 10 sections
including all phases of the giant
two-day event, it was announced
today by Herman Mcrveldt, gen-
eral chairman.
Rock Island. Bickford and Choc-
law avenues from Penn street to
Watts street will be blocked '.o
automobile traffic all day Monday
for the celebration.
The pageant at 2:30 p. m. Mon-
day will form on South Rock Island
avenue at Wade street, maren
north to Rogers street, west to
Bickford avenue, back south to
London street, west to Choctaw
avenue and north to Foreman
street.
Parade section.- will be arranged
as follows, acco.dlng to the an- j
Sunday night. May 14. Gass night j nouncement:
will no conducted Tuesday night,
May 16. and the commencement
exercises May 18 will conclude the
program. Governor Leon Phillips
will givp the commencement ad-
dress May 18.
T
DISCLOSED HE INSTALL OFFICERS
Section 1—Motorcycle patrol, col-
ors. ox-drawn carts driven by 89ers,
parade marshal with Governor
Leon Phillips and other distin-
guished guests, El Reno highschool
band.
Section 2—Pioneer men and wo-
men on foot, whisker contest en-
trants, Yukon highschool band.
Section 3—Pioneer vehicles. Jun-
ior cowboys and cowgirls on foot.
Section 4—Kiltie girls band, clubs
or organizations on foot, '89er*
with largest families.
Section 5 — Geary highschool
, | band, antique vehicles, junior
! horse show’ entries, largest family.
Rector Named To Replace Mrs. Cecil Kinder To Con- j section 6—ei Reno highschool
| drum end bugle corps, city school
limn MillIt’S | floats, Concho Indian school band
__ j Indians from the Cheyenne-Ara-
Transfer of four Rock Island Mrs. Cecil R Kinder will serve
railroad officials was announced again next year as president of
today by G. *’ Raney, general the El Reno Pa rent-Teacher as-
superintendent of the Ei Rene sociation council, it was announced
division. today as officials made plans for
H T. Livingston, du-trict man - installation of 1939-40 officers at
tenance engineer at El Reno has a mPPljng May 26.
been shifted to Little Rock, Art: Mrs j^ov Mitchell has been elect-
ed vice president to succeed Mrs.
Joe Howarton, Mrs. Robert M.
Stull secretary to replace Mrs. W.
C Elliott and Mrs. N A. McClellan
treasurer to succeed Mis. Mitchell.
Principals of the El Reno schools
automatically will become members
of the P. T. A. council under a
—O-
POLITE GUARD at the
federal reformatory here
now will know why Mrs. Eliza-
beth Dugan. Weatherford farm
woman, left so abruptly.
• On a sightseeing trip she
passed the elect romagneUc
"frlsker." It went on a rani-
pace.
i "I'm sorry, the guard told
her. "but you have metal of
some sort about you. You'll
have to move tt if you wish to
pass through the door"
Mrs. Dugan blushed and left
the place. “You see, I had on
an old-fashioned corset with
metal stays,’ she explained later.
--o-
El Reno is among the 32 of
the 40 eligible Oklahoma cities
entered in the national safety
council's 193!* traffic safety cam-
paign. Entries are limited to
cities with 5,000 or more In-
habitants.
For 1938 El Reno was one of
eight cities in Oklahoma and
157 In the nation to receive
honor certificates from the na-
tional council for a record of
no fatal traffic accidents dur-
ing the year. Other Oklahoma
cities sharing the honor are Elk
City. Cushing. Duncan, Henry-
etta, Miami. Altus and Holden-
ville.
Civil Docket Opens Today
With Action Against
Montgomery Ward
Germany and Poland Are
Near Showdown On
Danzig Issue
Trial of the damage action of
Ellen Whitsell of Geary against
Montgomery Ward and company
was opened in Canadian county
district court at El Reno today
with Judge Lucius Babcock pre-
siding.
In the suit filed here last Deo.
12. the plaintiff seeks a judgment
of $3,000 for personal injuries.
The plaintiff’s petition relates
that on June 5. 1937. she was a J was elected state monitor for the
customer in the Montgomery Ward Catholic Daughters of America at
stoie in Oklahoma City and thaijihe organization's
while she was walking through an ' nial convention Saturday amt Sun-
oisle in the basement of the es- day in Shawnee, it was reported
tablishment a heavy wash basin j today.
fell off the top of its pedestal, | The conference next year will be
Livingston
TO AID BUSINESS
Elimination of Deterrent
Taxes Proposed
striking her across the back
She alleges she was thrown to
the floor violently and that two
employes of the store were need-
ed to ’ift the weight of the basin
off her.
Mis. Whitsell contends she suf-
Icicd serious and permanent in-
juiies.
Jurors Selected
Jurors serving in the case are
A D. Lynn, P L Mansfield.
Frank Owens, Frank Blanc, R A.
Bruce. R M. Mallonee. Alex Huf-
nagel, Roderick B. Rice, B. H
Reding, R B Armstrong, M E
Girard and Johnnie Lorenzen.
In the suit of Shirley E. White
against Art M. Lemon, the court
today adjudged the defendant in
default and rendered judgment for
the plaintiff in the sum of $1,500
and judgment foi the intervener
for $998.94. Garnishment was sus-
paho agency at Concho.
Section 7—Rural and consolidat-
ed school floats, hillbilly bands,
club or organization floats.
Section 8—Fort Sill motorized
Held artillery battery, jallopy con-
test entries.
Section 9—Booker T. Washing-
WASHINGTON. May 1 </Pi—The
treamry was disclosed by well in-
formed legislators today to have j taincci and the garnishee was or-
drafted a comprehensive four-point' dered to pay the amounts of
program to eliminate taxes criti- j judgments.
» ... i Judgment for the defendants and
cized as "business deterrents. , aga,nst the plainlin U1 thP amount
The lawmakers outlined the pro- 10f $2,850 was ordered by Judge
gram as follows:
1. Elimination of the present un-
distributed profits, capital stock and
as superintendent of the Arkansas
division.
Mason W. Rector, formerly of
El Reno, will be transferred back
from Kansas City to replace Mr
Livingston.
C. B. Pratt, formerly of El Reno
and recently general superintend-
ton school negro band, mounted j excess profits taxes. Substitution of
cowboys and cowgirls. ; a flat, rate corporation income levy
Section 10—Horse-drawn com-j of not more than 22 percent,
mercial floats, motorized commer-
cial floats.
Worth as general superintendent consti'utional amendment adopted;
there and Mr Livingston will take by the council at Its meeting Jut
his place at Little Rock. Friday. »>s° »'»* a'«n°u»«<i to- I
Babcock today In the litigation
of the state highway commission
against Earl E. Cary and others.
A jury was selected and trial
of this case was opened before
the plaintiff and defendants an-
nounced they had reached an
agreement. Judge Babcock dis
charged jurors from further con-
sideration of the case and ren-
dered judgment.
(iVagon Hitched To Star
Of Peace’
Mr
Effective Today
Rector has oeen
disti ict
Four - Year Sentence
Pronounced Today
NEW YORK. May 1 —(U.R)—
| resident Roosevelt, opening the
York world's fair with his
l rst public utterance since Adnlt
Sutler's rejection FridHy of his
leace plan, asserted yesterdayJhat headquarters m Chlcag0
maintenance engineer in the second MRS. I. \V. DOUGLAS
division with headquarters a* Kan- TO HEAD DALE UNIT ■
sas City, and in succeeding Mr. Date tor the May meeting of |
Livingston at El Reno will fill Etta Dale Parent-Teacher a.ssocia- I
a similar position here. tion. when 1939-40 officers will be )
F. A Bogue. whom Mr. Prat! installed, will be set in a few days, i Floritie Rogers. 20-vear-old El
is succeeding as general super in- jt was announced today by Mrs. i Reno negro found guilty of sec
tendent at Fort Worth, has been Han.y Garrett, president. 1 end degree manslaughter by a
named superintendent of safely
2. Reduction of higher-bracket
' personal income taxes from a
j maximum of 75 percent to a maxi-
j mum of 60 percent.
! 3. Authorization for corporation
to carry over tax credits for losses
lor three years instead of one.
i 4. Modification of capital gains
tax in an effort to encourage in- ]
\ vestment.
Roosevelt In Accord
The legislators indicated Presi- j__
dent Roosevelt had approved the i
(entire program except the pro-I Pendergast Associate
posed reduction in upper level in- J Believed DrOWfied
BY AissOCIATED PRESS
Guns and allies were Europe's
May das keynote today as 'tie
issue between Germany and Po-
land over the Free City of Dan-
zig and the Polish corridor ap-
parently drew closer to a show-
down
In Berlin, Adolf Hitler proclnim-
ed Germany nnp of the “most,
heavily aimed nations of the
world" and Nazi diplomats piess-
,ed efforts to isolate, Poland to
eighth b'en‘ make her ripe for yielding to Gei-
man demands.
Russia staged her annual May
day show In Moscow with the
biggest military display the Red
square ever has seen
In Paris, an authoritative .source
said Premier Edouard Daladier
and hts air minister had mapped
lilans to strengthen Fiance's air
iorce.
In London. Foreign Secretary
Viscount Halifax was renon,eu u>
have said British negotiations to
bring Russia into the Anglo-
French front were 'making ex-
cellent progress."
Bills calling for military con-
scription of men aged 20 years
for six months of training and
enabling the government to call
up reserve forces when It depms
necesary were introduced in the
house of commons
Joint Plan Indicated
Viiginio Gajda. authoritative
Italian editor. Indicated Germany
and Italy were working out a Joint,
military plan to counter what
he charged was an Anglo-French
attempt at “encirclement.”
Tire possibility was raised in
Warsaw that Poland might, seek
control of Danzig to block any
Geiman action toward forceful an-
nexation.
This followed reports tha t Hi! -
ler had backed up his demands
for return of warlost Danzig lo
Germany ancl a highway-railroad,
linked through the Folisli corridor
to East Prussia with specific de-
Errors Shown By ( ouri|taiis of what he wants.
Ti» Up fnrrprfprl I Hitler made two May day
lo lit l orrtlltn |SpeechCs. taking occasion to strike
-- | at American action against Ger-
neld at Chickasha, while the next
state convention will be held in
1941 at Oklahoma City.
Mrs William Pfotenhauer. Okla-
homa City, was elected slate regent
to succeed Miss Ada Link of Cliick-
asha. wtiile Mrs Edna Pecore of
Shawnee was named vice regent
to succeed Mrs. Pfotenhauer.
Miss Kate Quasebarth. Oklahoma
City, was selected secretary to re-
place Miss Cecelia Burtschi of ,
Chickasha, and Miss Florence Deck-
er of Chickasha was chosen trea-
surer to succeed Mrs B E. Horri-
gan of Tulsa.
Mrs. Edward H. McComas, grand-
regent of El Reno court Salva
Regina No. 847. gave a report at
the Sunday afternoon business ses-
sion of the convention.
The meeting opened Saturday
and the program included business
and entertainment before the final
business session Sunday afternoon.
L
OKLAHOMA CITY. May 1—(U P* i man goods
come taxes. Secretary Henry Mor- j
Igentliau probably will discuss that
—.. — - - . idea with him before talking to
The junior highschool P-T. A. Canadian county district court jury the house ways and means committee
lie American wagon was
|> a star of peace and that Amer-
■an nations were "united in a de-
re to encouragp peace and good-
I ill among all nations.”
There was no direct reply to
liltler's speech, nor any refrence
li it.
There was a suggestion, however,
If refuting totalitarian claims of
l-taknc u in democratic structure
■ hen the president said American
llstorians would wrrite of "recent
■ears that the people of every
larty of vour land acquired a na-
tional solidarity of economic and
lor ml thought such as had never
]ern seen before.”
He recalled that democratic gov-
[rnment had endured in the United
for the Rock Island lines with lmR not meet this month at | Friday morning, today was sen
its regular meeting date, she ex- tenced by Judge Lucius Babcock
to serve four years in the state „ __.... .- „
McAlester. after llot anect lntomes undtl 80000 8
Mr. Bogue will replace
Snedd. who is retiring.
L.
plained.
Mrs. I
next week.
The suggested tax reduction would
W. Douglas will be in- j penitentiary at
All transfers become -Ifcctive ’ „c(| ,)s prCRit|0nt next year, Mrs. | overruling a defense motion for a >'ear-
day. according
inent.
to the announce-
Five Men Killed
In Rail Accident
PITTSBURGH. I’a.. Mav I—(U.R' retary. Officers were elected last
—Five men were killed and Hirer Tuesday.
were injured Sunday when two -- ■ ---
gient locomotives, pulling 36 freight
cars, ran through an open switch
Just outside the Kenny yards ol
I the Pennsylvania railroad
I Thp dead:
|«| 1SuJHreiS
u, ! it*™-
i/Pi—A sucide note was found to-
i day in the automobile of Edward
L. Schneider, secretary-treasurer
of seven corporations headed by
“Boss” T. J. Pendergast.
The car was parked on a bridge
over the Missouri river, near here.
Sheriff Frank Zimmer of Wyan-
dottee county found the car anti
’! tax 'on corporations should be but Pj8™ to draB the
Friday the jury aggreed on a con- have set 22 percent as a top
| vietion of second degree manslaugh- limit. Corporations with income
ter but was unable to agree on a! of less than $25,000 a year would
I sentence, leaving punishment to I be given special favorable treat-
1 the court. 1 ment.
j A charge of murder was filed aft- | nie suggested capital gains pro- j -
| er the stabbing of Pearl Cary. 18- j vision some members of congress PENDERGAST DENIES
j year-old El Reno negro woman. I saj{ji would tend to speed the flow | tax EVASION CHARGES
last Dec. 2. Fatal wounds were! of “takc-a-chance" capital Into
| inflicted with an ice pick. j new investments.
„ _ i The Rogers woman has been
WASHINGTON. May 1_//P>-The , ^ ^ ^ cmjnty Jajl here sincc
fjohn Roblyer as vice president., new trial I The treasury experts hope the
|Mrs. R L. Stevenson as treasurer' The defendant was tried oil a program will result in no loss ol
1 and Mrs Carl Whitlock as secre- murder charge and the case went i revenue. They have not yet deter-
t.,,.y j to the jury at 3 p. m. Thursday., mined exactly what the flat rate
Mrs. Roy Mitchell is retiring vice ! After deliberating until 9:15 a. ni
president. Mrs. M. P Modrall trea- '
surer and Mrs. Victor Brame sec-
—W. A. Pat Murphy, state labor
commissioner, said today there was
little likelihood that new codes
would be drawn up to make the
state wage-hour law effective until
errors in the act pointed out by
the state supreme court were cor-
rected.
Minimum wage-maximum hour J
codes affecting the laundry, clean-
ing, hotel garage, pharmacist,
1 restaurant, building maintenance.
| retail merchandising and wholesale
KANSAS CITY. Kan., May 1—j distributing Industries expired
yesterday.
The house of representatives,
shortly before the 17th legislature I
adjourned Saturday, refused *o
concur in a seriate bill killing the j
act. but failed to appropriate money
The United (States lias organ-
IzedSa boycott against German
goods," he declared. “It would have
been better to import German
goods than Geiman emigrants."
WEATHER SEEN
Forecast of Past Week Is
Repeated
river near the bridge. ! s.ion, said, “and we cannot set up
Schneider testified four days last codes and do the other necessary
week before a federal grand jury ' work without it. I m sure nothing
which is investigating business af-'more will be done until the laws
I defects are taken care of."
OKLAHOMA CITY. May 1—(U.P*
m the 'industrial welfare commls-1-Wwth^man Harry ..Wahlgven
S^V“T„y money,!-- ^
Murphy, a member of the ccmmis-1 rBl^at,s nearly a WPek 0f the
same forecast,” he said, “and it
fairs of the political boss.
New Defense For
Panama Created
Iny other
I Tits has been due. he said. ' to
liur own form of government Itself
Ind lo “a spirit of wise tolerance."
•We in the United States." he
jd. "and. indeed, in all the
Americas, remember that our pop- j
war department created a 7 with (rial of her case be.
Engineer Daniel H Lingafeiter. first line of defense for the Panama | Wednesday morning
62, Uhrichsvllle. Ohio.
canal today by establishing a
llation stems from many races and j M Denniaoni Ohio
kindreds and tongues. Often. I |
.link, we Americans offer up the
Silent prayer that on the continent
If Europe, from which the Ameri-
can hemisphere was principally
lolonlzed. the years to come will
break down many barriers to inter-
ourse between nations—barriers
vhich may be historic, but which
greatly, through the centuries,
have led to strife and hindered
friendship and normal Intercourse "
Engineer Charles Edgar Rine. 45. military department in the Carib
Dennison, Ohio.
Fireman David R. Conroy, 44.
Columbus. Ohio
Conductor Thomas E Ratusour.
Severe Temblors
Are Felt In Japan
bean sea.
Secretary Harry F Woodring said
headquarters would be located at
the military reservation of San
JThe departments action.« Sixty thousand terror stricken res-
taken under the direction of Presi
ftl/MUdg
DAILY TRIBUNE
CLASSIFIED AI) FAN
KANSAS CITY, Mo. May 1—
i/Pi—Tom J. Pendergast, Kansas
City’s Democratic political dictator,
pleaded Innocent today to a fed-
eral income tax evasion Indictment
when arraigned before Judge Mer- | McALESTER. May 1—(U.Ri—She* -
rill E. Otis. 1 iff Walter Haggard said today
He pleaded innocent to both ’ kidnaping charges would be filed
looks like I car. keep on using it "
Hollis, in the extreme south-
western comer of Oklahoma, las*
j night received 36 of an inch of
The state supreme court held j rgjn but the resl Gf the state was
that the law was unconstitutional; dry wail raining at Amnrit'.o
in part. j and Abilene. Tex.
----! Wahlgren said there was a pos-
sibility of light, scattered showers
Witness In Theft j
... . • |t* i • I but. the possibility was so faint
Kidnaping V lClimi that hP could not include it. in ins
official prediction He said the
state's rain needs were acute
Alva.,Frederick and Lawton had
maximums of 85 degrees yesterday
for the top temperature reports
m the state. Today's higlis will
be around 90. Wahlgren said
i AKITA, Japan, May 1—i/Ti—
Outing Conducted
_ f,. n . dent Roosevelt, will bring under
OV EjI Keno l lUn control of the new department, be-
J _ ! ginning July 1, the islands ol
; gimiing July
Twenty-eight members of the El Puerto Rico, including
all adja-
ldents of this northern Japanese
coastal city fled to the open spaces
today during a series Of earth
shocks described as the most severe
m 25 years.
Reports received up to tonight
Reno Bicycle Safety club spent; cent keys and islands together with j discioseci n0 casualties but it. was
toper Appointed
To Canadian Post
WASHINGTON. May 1 —(A’*—
“resident Roosevelt sent to the
[senate today the name of Daniel
3. Roppr, former secretary of com-
aercc, to be minister to Canada.
Roper had been out of office
re the middle of last December,
i nomination to the diplomatic
it brought him into a new field
service altrough he has been
government work almost con-
siuce 1884.
i T '
' \
Sunday afternoon at Lake Over-'the Virgin Islands
holser and Lincoln park zoo in! the United States
Oklahoma City. ] ---
They were accompanied by Mr |
and Mrs. C. W Farley. Richard
Whittle, Mr and Mrs. A. E. Far-1
mer, officials of the El Reno Vet-!
erans of Foreign Wars post, spoil- j
sor of the safety organization
Members attending the outing j ^
were Elaine Ream, C. R. Mason.
belonging to
WEATHER
j understood parts of nearby Oka
] peninsula and the southern coast
; line of Akita perfecture had sunk
beneath the sea. <
The quake shook widespread sec-
tions of northern Japan. Only
fragmentaiy reports were coming
in tonight from some sections,
railway and telegraph communica-
tions having been disrupted.
The first tremor shook the
Forecast
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues-
Sltghtly warmer in extreme
„ „ east portion tonight, cooler in,
J. J. Ozmun, R. C Beiry. H. B I northwest anc| north central por-1 needle of the seismograph in the
Skinner. R. L. Hardwick, J. M. . Tuesday. Tokyo meterologieal bureau off its
Rector. Ernest Ricketts. Charles: Reno Weather ' base. The shocks continued to-
SSS SS. SEE Hot "»• s?-*-*r*
Gustafson. Lewis Luttrell, Harry m ,oda5^ HlRh' 80' 1 81'
Moore. James Clark, Billy Flippen. 8 a- m“ 64
State of weather, clear.
Rainfall, none.
Sun rises tomorrow at 5:23.
Sun sets today at 7:01.
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counts of the indictment charging j against eight persons who allegedly i
he evaded the tax on $443,550 in held Buzz Newton. 65-year-old
1935 and 1936. | Stuart farmer, lor two days to.
The first count concerned his in-I keep him from testifying in a
come for 1935 and the second his 1 s>tealiiig case. ' UKlRnOnUI vTCQlt
income for 1936. I Haggard said six of the eight (
_____ iweie in custody litre.
I AH J I Newton was to have testiifeci j _
Insurance*Murder lat HoldenvlUe fast Friday as corn-. OKLAHOMA CITY. May 1—,T"
tv • f a. _ J ' plaining witness against Roy Txive-| _T-ne date's credit still was intact
King Is Suspected all. charged With theft of six ot|today
_ | Newton's cows. Newton did not ap- j sp.681 funding bond is-
pear in court for the case. , stlP was ginned ar.rt sealed on time
Saturday night he told Harvc | anC| (bP financial goose hangs high,
Remaining Intact
PHILADELPHIA, May 1—(/Pi— |
bpjng! Bail. Hughes county sheriff, that I reported John D. Conner, assistant
,aa rSfirder ch^ge B«d been dmgged and kidnaped , state treasurer.
ia-reii,-. the nomine Thursday, taken to Poteau and Today was the deadline for fund-
held until Saturday. Newton said
hts abductors beat him.
James Whittle, Lillian Whittle,
Lorene Fuller, Billy Joe Morris,
Stanley Frosch and M. C. Man- 1
Pin. ' 1
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Smith. Mrs.
H. A. Smith and daughter, Miss
Doris, spent Sunday at Lawtrn
where they visited with another
daughter of Mrs. H. A. Smith.
Mrs. Arthur Sears, and Mr. Sears
Said Addie, “I
Would like to swap.
My pony
For a cow;”
So through an AD
In Classifieds
Our Addie’s
Milking now.
, detectives supervised the oocning
| of graves of three men whose
J widows are held as members of an
| eastern insurance-murder ring.
Tne bodies will be examined for
traces of poison such as found in
four others dug up in recent
months.
The new prisoner was Morris
Bolber. called a witchcraft prac-
titioner by others under arrest In
the plot that detectives say took
scores of lives—possibly 100 — in
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jer-
sey and Delaware in the past 10
years.
Campfire Program At
Legion Park Postponed
Campfire program planned for
tonight at Legion park by al<
Girl Bcouls and Brownies of El
Reno troops lias been postponed
because of school activities. It was
announced today.
The program will be set at a
date after the closing of schools
later this month.
ing the treasury tax anticipation
notes issued during the past year
Conner reported $12,145,000 of the
new bonds which will be ex-
changed for the tax notes were
safely In tne state treasury while
the $6,011,081 balance of the Issue
was In the hands of the purchaser,
the Chase National bank In New
York.
The legislature. Governor Leon
Phillips and other state officials
worked feverishly during the past
three weeks to obviate the possi-
bility of a technical default on
notes which came due today.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 57, Ed. 1 Monday, May 1, 1939, newspaper, May 1, 1939; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc920562/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.