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The Heart of the Rich
Canadian Valley
A Blue Ribbon Daily Newspaper Serving Oklahoma’s Blue Ribbon Area
You Can Buy It For
Less In El Reno
Single Copy, Three Cents
UP) MEANS ASSOCIATED P* C,
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5,1940
(UJS MEANS UNITED PRESS
VOLUME 49, NO. 162
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NAVY ORDERS MANY OF Th \
Britain’s Prime Minister
Predicts Doom For
Hitler Regime
LONDON, Sept. 5—UP)—'Winston
Churchill declared to his parlia-
ment today that the BritLsh-Amerl-
can exchange of destroyers and
defense bases will enable the
United States "to take danger by
the throat whilst it is still hun-
dreds of miles away”—but he warn-
ed the British to remember that
America is not In the war.
The prime minister, speaking for
a time during a general London
air raid alarm, declared, however,
that Hitler "no doubt will pay
the United States out if he ever
gets the chance,"
Nevertheless, he expressed his
boundless confidence that the em-
pire of the third relch "will pass
away as swiftly—perhaps more
swiftly—than did Napoleon's army,
although of course, without any of
its glitter and glory."
Churchill told the house of com-
mons that no one must read Into
the Brltish-Amerlcan agreement
anything more than is on its face
and he stressed that it did not
affect "in the slightest degree, the
non-belligerency of the United
States."
Heavier Fighting Expected
Turning to the battle of England,
even while it raged above the
capital Itself, the prime minister
declared the Oermans had used
a greater proportion of their air
strength already than the British;
warned of heavier fighting to come,
and predicted:
‘The whole nation will stand up
to It. grim and gay."
While he was speaking, the deep
bleat of the London sirens sound-
ed the "all clear."
British crews already are taking
over the first of the 50 over-aged
American destroyers which are be-
h lng transferred to Britain In ex-
' change for western hemisphere de-
fense bases in a, deal announced
t only Tuesday. Churchill reported.
"That." he said smilingly, "is
a case of what one might call the
long arm of coincidence."
"Particular Danger" Reported
Churchill explained the house of
commons adjourned for 45 min-
utes during an air raid alarm
prior to his war statement be-
cause it was learned there was
danger of a particular kind in
the vicinity.
“When that special condition de-
parted," he said, “we Immediately
resumed our work under condi-
tions of alert until the all clear."
He did not say specifically
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Widely Known Economist
Invited To Address
El Reno Meeting
Eastern Oklahomans Begin Slow Work
Of Digging Homes Out of Yellow Mud
Rivers Swollen By Cloudbursts Begin Receding Today Under Clear
Sky and Bright Sun, But Many Sections Still Are Under Water
WASHINGTON. Sept. 5—(U.R)—Here is an artist’s drawing of the
secret new low-wing, all-metal dive bomber which is being built for the
United States navy by Curtiss-Wright corporation. The navy has ordered
many of these 1,700-horsepcwer planes because of the success of dive
bombers.
Eunice Cormack Resigns 100 Percent New Dealer
Highschool Duties
Miss Eunice Cormack. vocatlon-
Wins Nomination
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 5—
al home economics instructor the | -Senat°r William H. King,
past three years at El Reno high- | veteran conservative Democrat,
school, has resigned to accept a returned to Washington today as
federal position, it was announced
today by Paul R. Taylor, super-
intendent.
She will become district super-
visor of the publir schools hot
lunch program for the Work Proj-
ects administration. Her head-
quarters will be established at
Enid.
Miss Cormack will be succeeded
by Miss Verna McCallum. whose
home is in Holdenvllle, Miss Mc-
Callum, a graduate of Oklahoma
College for Women at Chlckasha.
has taught the past three years at
Pryor.
English Teacher Assigned
The El Reno public schools fac-
ulty list has been completed with
the addition of Miss Della Rose
Utterback, who will teach English
and speech at Etta Dale Junior
highsclinol, the supeilntcndent
added. That position nad not been
, illled previously for this year,
whether the danger was to the. Mlgg auerbncK n,.ad of thP
house* of parliament located - Htnton highschool English depart-
rectly on the Thames on ie ment lhe pas( three years, was
north end of Westminister bridge., Bracjuate<l from Oklahoma A and
--- j M college, Stillwater, Her home
is in Tonkawa.
} Regular classes in all the El
| Reno public schools will start
I Monday morning with full sched-
ules.
Dr. Leonard Logan. widely
known economist and faculty
member at the University of Okla-
homa. Norman, will speak at a
Joint meeting of all El Reno civic
clubs Monday, Sept. 16, it was
announced today by chamber of
commerce officials.
The session will be held in the
form of a dinner-meeting in the
auditorium of Etta Dale junior
highschool and will be open to
the public, with farmers of Cana-
dian county especially invited to
attend.
Tickets will be available at the
El Reno chamber of commerce of-
fice up to noon on Saturday, Sept.
14.
Speaks at Conference
Dr. Logan was one of the out-
standing speakers at the Midwest
Defense council conference Aug.
28 in Kansas City, when business
leaders from 200 communities in
nine mid western states convened to
urge a greater proportion of de-
fense expenditures be made in the
interior of the United States rather
than along the Atlantic seaboard.
Walter H. Boon, president of the
El Reno chamber of commerce,
and H. L. Fogg represented Cana-
dian county at the Kansas City
conference and after their return
suggested that Dr. Logan be In-
vited to deliver a similar address
here.
His talk is of special interest to
agricultural communities, they
said.
Lark of Balance Cited
Dr. Logan discussed the lack of
balance between agriculture and
Industry throughout the midwest,
emphasizing economic and socio-
logical aspects of that, lack of
proportion and explaining its ef-
fects on national preparedness.
In the midwest agriculture has
expanded vastly, causing overpro
ductlon and surplus, while industry
has not expanded sufficiently,
causing a lack of balance that is
harmful to the midwest and to the
entire nation, he said.
Men and women interested in
the welfare of El Reno and Cana-
dian county will be urged to hear
Dr logan at the meeting Sept
16 by officials and members of
the various civic clubs.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eight health depots were es-
tablished in northeastern Okla-
homa today in the wake of the
worst local flood since 1923.
More than 200 families were
homeless and the Red Cross and
health officials worked desperate-
ly to prevent an outbreak of dis-
ease.
Under a clear sky and bright
sun, waters swollen by cloud bursts
began to recede slowly but many
sections still were inundated.
Four-fifths of Bixby, Arkansas
river bottom land town of 1,300
residents, was under water during
the night. More than 150 fam-
ilies were removed in boats. There
was no loss of life.
The Frisco railroad reported wa-
ter over the tracks at Kellyville
wag still holding up service be-
tween Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Tvo doctors and three sanita-
tion engineers from the state
health department went to Paw-
nee county. The engineers will
survey water sources.
Dr. O. F. Mathews, state health
commissioner, said that if dysen
appeared imminent, mass immuni-
zation would be started.
Robert E. Wntte, St. Louis Red
Cross field representative, was di-
recting rehabilitation in Sapulpa.
The Creek county health unit, a
WPA project, was setting up health
depots.
Highway department crews were
repairing U. S. 66 at the west edge
of Sapulpa.
Kiefer, Mounds and Beggs on
U. S. 75, south of Sapulpa, and
Bristow, southwest on U. S. 66,
were reported still isolated by
high water which was receding.
Residents of the northeastern
area of the state began the slow
work of digging their homes out
of a sea of yellow mud as the
flash flood crests flattened on a
dozen rivers and creeks.
The United States engineers of-
fice at Tulsa said the flood crest
on the Arkansas river — which
reached 16 feet there last night
—was moving rapidly downstream
in the vicinity of Fort Smith, Ark
at mid-morning.
At Jenks, one of the hardest
tery and typhoid fever outbreaks | hit towns along the river, 76 fam-
ilies still were being quartered in
the highschool and in the Masonic
hall. They were evacuated from
their homes on the west side of
the town when the waters of
Polecat creek started hiking yes-
terday morning. The rising Ar
kansas flooded part of the east j
side, marooning the town for I
hours.
Several cities in the area drench-
ed cloudbursts over the 24-hour
period were suffering from inter-
rupted water and power service. At
Cleveland, gas service was cut off
when Rush creek broke a service
line south of the city.
Scores of homes along the Sand
Springs road in Tulsa still were
in high water, but the seven-foot
drop in the river permitted oc-
cupants of higher ground to move
back today. The river was falling
at the rate of approximately one
foot an hour.
The entire area was covered with
the sticky yellow mud that made
returning to flooded homes a dis-
heartening task. The flood at Tulsa
was the worst since 1923 when
the river gauged more than 19
feet.
HELD AS LIKELY
FOR KING CAROL
Royal Decree Issued To
Dissolve Rumanian
Parliament
Series of Entertainments
Planned At Christmas
Canadian County Second
In Number of Policies
STILLWATER, Sept 5 —(U.R)—
Final figures today disclosed In-
creased Oklahoma participation in
the wheat insurance program de-
spite absence of the drouth which
last year caused farmers to stam-
pede for policies.
When the August. 31 deadline
a lame duck, defeated for renom-
ination by Representative Abe
Murdock, a 100 percent new deal-
er.
A combination of local and na-
tional Issues beat him at the polls
Tuesday when Murdock took a 2
to 1 majority of the votes cast
In the Democratic primary.
Political observers said the
farmer-miner vote was for Mur-
dock because he supported legis-
lation beneficial to the sugar beet
growers and the laborers.
Murdock Supports President
But they also said that support
came from throughout the state
for the representative because
up had gone down the line with
President Roosevelt on new deal
policies.
King had voted against most
new deal expenditures and he op-
posed reorganization of the su-
preme court, the Wagner wage-
hour law, and reciprocal trade
treaties, Murdock supported them
all.
labor Antagonised
King antagonized a large seg-
ment of labor by sponsorship of
a bill to deport Harry Bridges.
west coast C. I. O leader. Mur- NIAGARA FALLS. N Y.. 8ept. 5
docit, on the other hand, received —(U.R)—Petite, dark haired Mary
endorsement of John L. Lewis, j Wolf. 17, recent highschool honor
C. I. O. director. Late ip the cam-J graduate, pleaded Innocent today to
Enrolments Continue 1 P»tgn King secured an endorse- ! first degree murder In the fatal
Enrolment began Wednesday In, ment from William A Green. I shooting of her brother. Frederick,
the highschool and will be corn- American Federation of Labor IJ 9. as he slept last night,
pleted Friday when highschool president. The girl cried softly during her
freshmen, Junior high students and I International Issues did not en-
rlementarv school pupils are en-jtfr campaign. Both King and
r0lec) Murdock are ardent intervention-
Did You Hear
AL
Bullet Fired At Boy On
‘Sudden Impulse’
Directors of the El Reno chamber
of commerce have invited the El
Reno Ministerial Alliance and the
Canadian County Sunday School
association to cooperate in spon-
soring a Christmas program next
December, it was disclosed today
by Walter H. Boon, chamber of
commerce president.
A series of programs, all staged
■by local groups, will be arranged
to take place of a program pre-
sented last year by a commercial
e\. «nlaation
Santa Claus will distribute candy
to tlie children at a Sunday school
parade on Saturday, Dec. 7, in the
EH Reno business district. The
chamber of commerce will offer
cash awards of $25 for first, $15
for second and $10 for third best
floats entered by rural Sunday
schools, and similar awards for
floats entered by El Reno Sunday
schools. City floats will not com-
pete against rural floats.
Musical Event Scheduled
On Saturday, Dec. 14, the El
Reno highschool band, highschool
drum and bugle corps, county choral
club of 400 voices, the Booker T.
Washington band and the negro
school drum and bugle corps will
present a musical program from a
platform in the El Reno business
district.
The oands will present marching
demonstrations in addition to
Christmas music, while the rural
school chorus will feature singing
of Christmas carols.
The El Reno hlgliscnool music
department and El Reno churches
will cooperate in staging a Chrlst-
ROGERS of Colorado
Springs, Colo., winner of
the 1940 annual Pike’s peak
automobile race, Is a brother
of Mrs. H. C. Perkins, 318 North
Choctaw avenue. As winner of
the 22nd annual running of the
mountain climb, staged on
Labor day, Rogers received a
purse of $2,000. His time was
15 minutes, 56.9 seconds. Dri-
vers took the hairpin curves of
the world's most crooked race
course in a manner which made
the 5,000 spectators gasp. Rogers
drove a Coniff Special, the car
in which he won first place in
the Land's End contest at
Grand Junction, Colo., recent-
ly.
William A. Menz, 22. and John
W. Koos, 19. both of El Reno,
Daniel H. Determan, 22. of
Okarche, and Thomas B. Mc-
Cabe. 20, of Calumet, have en-
listed in the United States
army. They have been assigned
to the infantry at Fort Sam
Houston, Tex.
Many Changes Are Made
In Staffs
Governor Will Announce
Projects Monday
arraignment in city court on the
charge preferred by S. O. Mansour.
•ant Nlarara county attorney.
First, genera! faculty meeting Ists; both suppoited wholehearted- who said she had made a statement
Complete faculty lists for six in-
dependent and consolidated schools
of Canadian county were compiled
today by Miss Glen Evelyn Mc-
Carty, county superintendent.
At Piedmont the same faculty
that finished the 1939-40 school
year will return to open the 1940-41
school year, she said, but numerous
changes have been made in the
teaching staffs at East Walnut,
Union City, calumet, Yukon and
Mustang.
The county superintendent listed
the faculties at independent schools
as follows;
East Walnut — Coleman Brown,
superintendent, history and manual
training instructor: Miss Martha
Hinz, English and commerce in-
structor; G. E. Castleberry, math-
ematics and science instructor; Mrs.
Coleman Brown, first and second
grades teacher; Miss Annie Newton,
third and fourth grades teacher;
and Miss Ava M. Grecian, fifth
and sixth grades instructor.
Others Designated
Union City—R. F. Roselle, sup-
erintendent; Garner B. Hatchett,
coach; Miss Martha Nell Darnell,
mathematics and commerce In
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Abdication of King Carol II was
reported likely in Bucharest gov-
ernment quarters today as the
Rumanian monarch bowed to the
demand of his new iron-willed
premier. General Ion Antonescu,
for a virtual dictatorship.
After an all-night conference,
ending at dawn, King Carol Issued
a royal decree dissolving parlia-
ment and suspending the constitu-
tion.
With full power yielded to Gen-
eral Antonescu to save the strife-
torn kingdom from anarchy, aris-
ing from the recent cession of
great chunks of Rumanian terri-
tory to Soviet Russia and Hungary
—the rich little Balkan country
for all practical purposes became
one more in the growing list of
European dictatorships.
As Carol was reported on the
verge of quitting his kingdom for
the second time, Hungary's aged
regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy
rode astride a white horse leading
80,000 troops of the Hungarian
army of occupation into northern
Transylvania—the rich timber re-
gion wrested from Rumania under
an axis-supported threat of war.
Peasants Bear Crude Arms
Mobs of Rumanian peasants In
the ceded area, armed with pitch
forks and other crude weapons,
were reported clashing with Hun-
garian peasants as a result of the
occupation. More than 150 were
reported killed at one border town.
Unconfirmed reports said 3.500
Rumanian soldiers had volunteer-
ed to form a “death legion' to
resist Hungarian occupation of
northern Transylvania “to show
the world that Rumania has cour-
age."
The legionnaires reportedly
pledged themselves to man the
concrete forts of tire Carol de-
fense line near Oradea, which is
not scheduled to be turned over
to Hungarian troops until tomor-
row under the terms of an axis-
dictated settlement.
Hitler Given Challenge
On the war front, meanwhile,
British RAF bombers, challenging
Hitler's threat to “erase” English
cities in retaliation for night raids
on Germany, droppad high ex-
plosives on the Berlm area in a
two-hour attack, damaging a big
electric works nine miles from the
heart of the capital and an army
warehouse
German raiders gave London a
I 56-minute alarm starting at 10 a.
structor; Miss Irma Pittman, voca- m after widespread night attacks
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 5—(/$»)
—The federal aid highway pro-
gram, its list of military projects
bolstered by a number shifted
from the state aid network, will
be announced Monday, Oovernor
Leon Phillips said today.
While details remained undisclos-
ed. the chief executive Indicated
will be held at 8 p. m In the >V the administration foreign pol-
Junior highschool library tonight | ,cy
with A. L. Crable, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, as
the principal speaker. Another
general faculty meeting will be
held at 8pm Friday at the new
Lincoln elementary school with a
. . ,____, panel dlacusslon as the feature,
was passed 24.760 policies had been , |nd R lh(rd win ^ 1)fld at t0 a
Issued for ti e 1941 crop. Saturday in
a gain of 1.520 over the 1940 total „brRrv wtth superintendent ad
admitting she fired a .22 caliber
rifle bullet into her brother's head
on a "sudden Impulse" to see what
It would be like.
The victim died Instantly. The
A nllmrivofl ;shooting occurred at about 11 o'clock
rNow Aui.nuri4tU!lRSl nlBht shorlly Rflrr MRry.8 ^
Wheat Mixtures
the state had not budged much
mas cantata at the highschool audi- from lls or(Rinal over-all pro-
torium on Wednesday night, Dec. j pram of state and federal aid
18. and again on Saturday alter-1 projects for every section of Okla-
noon, Dec. 21. . homa.
I \ ~ ~ 1 This stand was taken despite
SUvimmimr Pool Insistence of the federal bureau of
OWIUIIIUII5 A ws rotdg on morf new proJects which
the government considers strategic,
which necessarily would crowd out
some state aid projects.
Clasing Monday
of 23.240.
C. D. Walker, acting adminis-
trative officer in charge of the
Oklahoma AAA. said the pro-
gram had proved a "good business
proposition by returning more than
the growers put into it.
"Moisture and favorable crop
conditions for the 1041 wheat crop
failed to stop the demand for
Insurance this year." Walker said
"The 1940 total was reached when
drouth and adverse planting con-
ditions gripped the state. Also, a
month's earlier deadline on taking
out the contracts did not cause
the 1941 total to drop below last
year's."
Kiowa county led the state In
algiilng new contracts with 1.407,
Canadian county was second with
l,i98, Orady county third with
1,152. and Garfield county fourth
with 1058
RETURNING to COAST
Carl Underwood and Harold Wy-
kert of Loa Angeles, CallF. plan to
depart Sunday for the eo«*t after
spending the past wees with the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs 8.
p Underwood, south of El Reno
dressing the teachers.
Food Distributed
To 563 Families
Tlie star* hoard of public wet-
Latest, instructions received by
the Canadian county agricultural |
the Junior high 1 “dJuslmen.1 °"lc,e wl“, , permlt,
farmers to plant a mixture of
wheat, for pastures in addition to
their regular wheat allotments, Ad-
ron A. Avery, administrative as-
sistant. said today.
Earlier instructions prohibited
entirely the use of wheat or a
mixture of wheat for pasture, it
was explained.
Now farmers may plant, in ad-1
friend. Emmett McNutt. 18. ltad left
the Wfllf home cn an errand and be-
fore he returned.
Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge Wolf, the
parents, told police that Mary had
been "reading too many detective
stories."
Second Effort Neee«*»ry
She used a rifle which she had
borrowed for target practice. Tire
first time she pulled the trigger.
Mansour said she told him. the
weaprn missed fire.
She went downstairs for another
The El Reno municipal swim-
ming pool will be closed for the
winter after this week-end. It was
uinounced today by John Oliver
.fall, city manager.
Sunday will be the last day the
pool will be kept open tor the j
t940 season, he said.
tlonal home economics instructor;
James White, vocational agriculture
Instructor; Miss Agnes Martin. Eng-
lish and music Instructor; Miss
Natalie Smith, fifth and sixth
grades instructor; Miss Frances
Gooch, third and fourth grades
teacher; and Miss Ruth Calhoun,
first and second grades teacher.
Calumet—Vernon C Walker, sup-
erintendent; Dee L. King, high-
school principal; Miss Helen Mont-
gomery, English teacher and libra-
rian; Mrs Dec L. King, commerce
Instructor; Roy Lucus, social science
instiuctor and athletic coach; Miss
Lois Davidson, home economics In-
structor; Ross Cubbage, elementary
school principal; Mrs. Roy Lucas,
highschool English Instructor and
grade teacher; Miss Francis Qulscn-
berry, grades teacher; and Mrs. T.
I. Montgomery, primary grades
teacher.
Additional Assignments Made
Piedmont—Harold Collett, sup-
whlch the British said caused little
damage and failed to live up to
Hitler's threat to assault the island
kingdom with thousand-fold fury.
New Unit In Highschool
Proposed
fare comml '-nry at El Reno dt»-' ,jlUon to ,hcir w|,eat allotment*. Pllllto, tn h„ hrnf
trlbuted 65 167 pounds nf food to pnuturrs of a wheat and barlev or . . . . ...
2.127 person* In 583 Canadian ..... aru) oats mlxture provided "SS Tin
county families during August, ill the wheat makes up less than 50 JTfl ,ul r Plrr(ied the bo>s skull
. . ' . '. The girl then went bark down-
***ro*n 0 RtMilM. j stairs, summoned a doctor and told
her parents what she Imd done.
McNutt, held as n material wit-
was reported today hv I. E Kull-
mann, countv administrator.
The oommlssarv also distributed
831 articles of rlothlng to the same
relief families during the month
Commodities were Issued as fol-
lows:
"Trying To Flay Horse"
The federal bureau hsd rejected
Oklahoma's request for funds on
the grounds that contemplated con- jerlntendent and science Instructor;
struetton did not Include enough J C. A. Morris, athletic coach and
military roads. i history teacher; Mrs. Wade Mc-
The governor charged that J. A. Callon, home economic and math-
Elllott, federal engineer, talked | etnatlcs Instructor; Miss Alma
with hint and "then made differ-1 Fralm, highschool and grade,
ent demands on the highway com-j teacher; Miss Ada Kennedy, fifth
, „ • , 11 1 mission than he made on this (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 8)
In Uinvict Hunt
The politicians are tr*. to j ()rdered Qp
Two Others Die
Burglary Charges
WEATHER
Forecast
Generally fair except scattered
Raisins, 2.814 pounds; primes, j howen in north antral and
257 pounds; white flour, 8.739 northeast portions tonight and in
pounds; lard. 2.042 pounds; beans, north rentral portion Friday; not
1.690 pounds; rice. 3.366 pounds; much change In temperature,
salt pork. 792 pounds; cheese, L- *2 Reno Weather
264 pounds; powdered milk, 3.793 For 34-hour period ending at 8
pounds; potatoes, 17.910 pounds; a m, today: High, 87; low, 85, at
fresh green peas, 2,310 pounds; j 8 a. tn., 73.
orange". 5.935 pounds; wheat err- j State ol weather, cloudy.
e«l 2,139 pounds: fresh peaches. Rainfall, 3 02,
7,308 pounds; smoked ham, 2,217 Bun gets today at 8:42 p, m.
pounds; and fresh prunes. 3.542 Sun rise* tomorrow at 6:5« a
pounds. I ®<
ness, relumed to find a grlef-atrlrk-
en hnusehrld. He told police he knew
I of no reason why Mary should
have done what ahe did and aald
she was "tn good spirits" earlier In
the evening.
The girl readily admitted her act
when pollre came to take her In
| custody They said she slept well
In her Jail 'cell last night.
NYLANDKRR RETURN
E. L. Nylamler and son, Jimmy,
902 Smith Williams avenue, re-
turned Wednesday from a 10-day
trip to Ohirago and Peoria, 111.,
and Das Moines, Iowa.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Sept 5- pb*y horse with Oklahoma." Phillips
/PI—Bullets today cancelled two asserted He specified John Car-
more convicts' names from the mody. federal public works ad-
wanted" list of Arkansas's whole- !mlnlstrator, and Representative! -
ale Labor day prison break. , Wilburn Cartwright of Oklahoma Jobn Roy Richeaon, 30. Wilbur
State patrol headquarters here as responsible for the trouble | Curtis Ashley. 35. and his wife
announced guards from the Cum---- Vivian Iona Ashley. 21, all of Okla-
mins prison farm shot to death \]/w«•»*/» Isi (IrHorPfl I homa City, charged Jointly wtth
two of the fugitives in a gun-ll’cK1'1 I” viuim u 1second degree burglary, were bound
right In rural southeastern Arkan- ] rp I*uV 10
,as and reported recapture of an- 1 1 0 I By F 1116 ,
as and reported recapture
other.
Luke Barber, patrol radio op-
A suspended sentence of a $20
rator, said those killed In a (me against Ora Smith. El Reno
battle at a cabin between Win- j negro, was revoked Wednesday
cheater and Tiller were James ] nlgHt In municipal court at El
Scott, 21, and Raymond Harrell. 1 Repo, according to records of Lee
33. He said the man recaptured | Harvey, chief of police,
was B. O. HolUclaw, 47, a con-1 The negro was found guilty of
vtetrd ulayer. I disturbing the peace and ordered
This left at large only 11 of the to pay a $20 fine on July 20, with
36 men who broke from the Cum
mlna farm Monday after killing
a guard Four have been shot to
death and 21 recaptured.
the sentence suspended on con-
dition that she leave town. The
suspension was revoked Wednes-
day night,
preliminary hearing was con-
ducted before Felix K West in
Justice of peace court at El Reno
Wednesday afternoon.
Bond for each defendant was
set at $1,000.
Information filed In the case
by William L. Funk, county at-
torney, charges the three with
breaking into the E F. Thompson
residence st El Reno Aug. II. A
portable radio waa stolen from the
home, pawned at Oklahoma City,
and later recovered by Canadian
officer*.
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Organization of a Parent-Tea-
cher association unit at. El Reno
highschool will be sponsored by
the El Reno P.-T. A. council, it
was announced today by officers
after the first council meeting of
the year, Tuesday afternoon.
All patrons, both mothers and
fathers of highschool students,
inti all highschool teachers will be
asked to meet at 7.30 p. m. Tues-
day, Sept. 17, in the highschool
auditorium to discuss the proposed
organization of a new P.-T. A.
unit.
Deluate <'ho*en
At the eouncll meeting Mrs. I.
W. Douglas, president, was named
official delegate to the Oklahoma
Congress of Parents and Teachers
convention in Oklahoma City Oct.
9-11 and Mrs E. A. Newman was
named alternate,
Three committee chairmen out-
lined their plans of activities for
trial "after',he yMr lhey wer* Mr* H ■
Lumadue, program chairman; Mrs
R L. Stevenson, membership chair-
man; and Mrs. Ben Anderson,
welfare chairman.
Message Is Read
Miss Etta Dala, principal of
Central elementary school, read
the president's massage, We Must
Not Fall." The national president
is Mrs. Virginia Klatssr of Port-
land, Ora.
The m Rano p.-T a couaefi
adopted as its theme for
1940-41 year "The Child in
Community."
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 49, No. 162, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1940, newspaper, September 5, 1940; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc921121/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.