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Hawaiian Docks
May Be Seized
Before Nightfall
New Efforts Are
Made To Settle
, Prolonged Strike
HONOLULU. T. H., Aug. 9—(U.R>-
A territorial government official
promised today to seize the strike-
bound Hawaiian docks before night-
fall by invoking the new territorial
dock seizure law.
The threat started an immediate
flury of new efforts to settle the
three - months strike of the CIO
International Longshoremen and
' Warehousemen’s union which has
brought the islands to a virtual
state of blockade.
Federal conciliator George Hillen-
brand said he had spoken to both
union officials and representatives
of the seven struck stevedoring
firms in efforts to schedule new
negotiations.
He said he was hopeful the new
negotiations will be successful.
t Persistent reports said the new
negotiations will start as soon as
Harry Bridges, president of the
ILWU, returns to Honolulu. Bridges
now is on a three-day tour of the
Islands to observe scattered strike
fronts.
Wage Increase Sought
The union struck for a 32 cents
an hour wage increase, which the
seven companies refused.
Observers pointed out that only
I a company-union agreement ending
the strike dispute could intervene
to stave off government seizure of
the docks under the new law passed
Saturday by the territorial legis-
lature.
Ben Rush, chief of the new gov-
ernment stevedoring agency created
by the new law, said he would be-
gin to recruit dock workers this
morning and "probably seize the
, docks tonight."
Rush said workers would be hired
at the foot of Aloha lower. Hono-
lulu's famed waterfront landmark.
Jack Hall, regional director of the
ILWU, said the union would picket
government stevedoring operations.
Freighter Sails
These developments were paced
by the secret sailing last night of
the Isthmian freighter Steel Maker,
second ship to sail with cargo from
l the Hawaiian islands since the
strike started.
The Steel Maker carried 11,000
tons of sugar’ and pineapple for
regular gulf and Atlantic ports.
Crew members boarded the ship at
2 p. m. yesterday under heavy po-
lice guard. The vessel cast off at
7:05 p. m. and sailed silently for
the harbor's mouth.
The Steel Maker maintained si-
lence until near the harbor’s mouth.
' Then she sounded a warning blast.
The signal was answered by an "all
clear” signal from the strikebound
fleet in the harbor.
The sailing was made secretly to
prevent violence by ILWU pickets.
A dock guard said there were no
union pickets around when the
crew went aboard and that the
union apparently didn't know the
ship was making ready to sail.
(UJ9 MEANS UNITED PRESS
Treason Trial
Nears Finish
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 9—<U.R)—
The government’s treason case
against Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino
(Tokyo Rose) may be finished by
the week-end. chief prosecutor Tom
* DeWolfe said today.
He began calling Japanese war-
time technical experts of Radio
Tokyo to the witness stand.
Their testimony sought to bolster
a key government point—that the
broadcasts featuring Tokyo Rose
came from Tokyo.
A major defense tack has been
that programs of the "Zero Hour"
heard by troops in the south Pacific
1 came from other Japanese stations.
Three Japanese witnesses told the
court yesterday that the "Zero
Hour” program on which Mrs.
D'Aquino is accused of making trea-
sonable broadcasts was capable of
beaming shortwave programs to the
south Pacific area. All worked for
the station while the defendant
was employed as a disk-jockey.
The government has called 36
* witnesses to the stand In the six-
week-old trial. DeWolie originally
planned to call 71 witnesses, but he
announced yesterday that many
would not be asked to testify and
some already had been dismissed.
1,000 Weary Men Fight
Northwest Forest Fires
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 9—(U.PJ
—Disastrous forest fires roared
out of control In Montana and
Idaho today as more than 1,000
weary men battled without rest
to check them.
A dozen blazes in the two states
have destroyed over 12,000 acres
of valuable ttmberland. One killed
13 firefighters over the week-end.
But It, a roaring Inferno In the
gates of the mountain area of
Montana, was eclipsed today by
another in Idaho’s Payette na-
tional forest.
Slim Vassar, a dispatcher sta-
tioned at McCall, Idaho, said the
Payette blaze was "spreading
rapidly" afer destroying 4,200
acres.
Vassar reported that the Pay-
ette blaze had inflicted a few
casualties on firefighters but
that injuries appeared minor.
The Gates of the Mountain
blaze has consumed 6.000 acres
of forest and may take another
two days to bring under control.
A. D. Motr, supervisor of the
Helena national forest said.
Flames from the Payette forest
fire sent smoke 11,000 feet In
the air, Dave Johnson of the
Idaho Statesman said after fly-
ing over it.
The forest service reported that
nine new fires had started in its
region one. It dispatched eight
smokejumpers, firefighters who
parachute to the scene of a blaze,
to Crystal creek In the Kootenai
forest on the Montana-Idaho
state border.
Rutledge Starts Conversation Of
70-Year Term Vaughan Told
Doctor Arrives At
Iowa Penitentiary
PORT MADISON. Iowa. Aug. 9—
(U.R>—Dr. Robert C. Rutledge, jr„
28. started serving a 70-year sent-
ence as. inmate No. 21770 of the
state prison here today for mur-
dering his blond wife’s seducer.
The St. Louis baby specialist wore
the gray, blue striped prison uni-
form issued him little more than
three houre after Dstrict Judge
J. E, Heiserman sentenced him in
Cedar Rapids.
The young physician stood erect
in the hot courtroom yesterday
where he was convicted May 28 A
jury found him guilty of the second
degree murder of Byron C. Hatt-
man, 29. St. Louis.
Rutledge was accused of tracking
Hattman to a Cedar Rapids hotel
room and stabbing him to death
in a bruising fight last December.
The fight grew out of Hattman's
seduction of Rutledge's wife, Syd-
ney, 23.
Sympathy Stated
After pronouncing sentence. Hei-
serman looked directly from the
bench at Rutledge and said:
“This court feels sorry for you.
as it would feel sorry for any
talented, professional young man
who finds himself in this terrible
situation. That is not condoning
your act.”
Heiserman suggested that the
state parole board take over com-
plete control of Rutledge in prison.
Iowa law sets no minimum term
which must be served before parole,
leaving the matter up to the parole
board.
Rutledge bowed his head as he
heard his sentence. His honey-
blond wife wept softly. She had
testified In the long trial that
Hattman pursued her and seduced
her by force.
Appeal Proposed
Heiserman said he had rejected
a life sentence because of ’the edu-
cation and highly specialized train-
ing of the defendant."
He said, however, he thought the
sentence should be “severe.”
Rutledge's father, Dr. Robert C.
Rutledge, sr., Houston, Tex., has
said he will appeal to the Iowa
supreme court for a new trial for
his son. Heiserman refused last
week to grant one.
Heiserman set an appeal bond at
$40,000 and gave defense lawyers
60 days to file the necessary papers.
Testimony Given
By Housing Chief
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9 —<yp>—
Housing expediter Tighe Woods
said today that Major General
Harry H. Vaughan summoned him
to the White House in 1943 and
told him Vaughan's friends were
interested in a California race
track construction case.
Woods said the track owners
then were trying to get government
clearance for construction at the
Tanforan track, near San Fran-
cisco, Calif. The use of scarce
building materials was sharply re-
stricted at the time.
The housing official told a spe-
cial senate investigating commit-
tee that Vaughan. President Tru-
man's military aide, told him at
the White House on Jan. 9, 1948:
"I want to make sure there is
no prejudice in your office just
because this is a race track case.”
Woods said Vaughan also told
him:
"Rome friends of mine are in-
terested and It is your duty to
handle the case on its merits and
on its legality."
Francis D. Flanagan, an attorney
for the committee, previously had
lead a private memorandum saying
Vaughan had stepped into the dis-
pute. It quoted Vaughan as saying
he was "damn sore” at Frank L.
Creedon. federal housing expediter
in 1947, for his handling of the
case.
Creedon was succeeded by Woods,
who testified he had been expediter
only a little more than two months
when Vaughan got in touch with
him.
The government had ordered
construction work at Tanforan
halted in 1947. Other witnesses
testified that construction went
ahead anyway and that it took a
court order to stop it.
Glen Baker Taking
Louisiana Position
. Glen Baker, 1017 South Barker
* avenue, shop foreman at the El
Reno American, will leave Satur-
day for Bastrop. La., where he will
be business manager of a semi-
weekly newspaper.
Baker has been with the Amer-
» fear, the past three years. His fam-
w, ily will move to Bastrop In about
I three weeks.
All-Star Game
Being Mapped
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 9—(U.R)
—Coaches for the annual state
highschool all-star football game
were arriving here today to plot
their strategy for the grid tilt
Aug. 19.
The players will begin arriving
tomorrow and mentors Joe B. Met-
calf of Hollts and Paul Greene of
Wewoka expect to have enough
boys to run off a practice session
tomorrow afternoon.
The North's squad was completed
yesterday with the announcement
that Frank Magana, 190-pound
end, will fill the vacancy made by
Phil Seagrove of Tulsa Rogers. Sea-
grove notified officials he would
be unable to play. He was Injured
in a motor scooter accident this
summer.
Magana, who made all-district
last year and honorable mention
for all-state honors. Is a rugged de-
fensive man and a good pass re-
ceiver.
Hinton Man Enters
Polio Ward Here
The number of patients in the
polio ward at the El Reno sanitar-
ium increased to eight again today
with the admittance of John R.
Hollis, 36, of Hinton.
Hospital attendants reported Hol-
lis is suffering from the milder
type of the disease.
Seven Hurt
On Subway
NEW YORK. Aug. 9—(U.R^-Beven
persons were injured today when
the main fuse blew out of an ex-
press train of the Eighth avenue
subway, jerking It to a sudden halt
In the 42nd street (Times Square)
station.
The fuse blew out with an ex-
plosion. The flash and smoke mo-
mentarily panicked the more than
400 passengers. The train was
thrown into darkness.
The explosion occurred as the
north-bound Washington Heights
express was pulling out of the sta-
tion. The seven persons were hurt
when they were knocked off their
feet by the sudden stopping.
Six were taken to St. Clare's
hospital.
The passengers sat in frozen
silence as smoke went through the
train. Then several women
screamed.
The attendants quickly opened
the doors and let the passengers out
onto the station platform.
El Reno, Oklahoma, Tuesday, August 9, 1949
Congress Nears
Final Action
On Foreign Aid
Quick Agreement
By Senate-House
Committee Seen
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9—</$■)—'The
multi-billion dollar foreign recov-
ery bill sped toward final con-
gressional action today after a
stormy passage through the senate.
Lawmakers expected a senate-
house committee to reach quick
agreement on the somewhat differ-
ent versions the two branches have
passed. The senate approved Its bill
late yesterday by a top-heavy 63
to 7 vote.
Senators ended almost two weeks
of wrangling to shake the measure
free from the confusion which had
blocked action on more than $20,-
000,000,000 in money bills in addi-
tion to other legislation marked
"must" by the administration.
Few Hold Out
When the final showdown came,
only six Republicans and one Demo-
crat voted against the $5,797,724,000
measure.
Despite all the sound and fury
of debate, the senate bill does not
differ greatly from the house-
approved measure. The senate re-
duced the money totals about 10
percent and added some amend-
ments—none of which is expected
to cause much trouble.
Senator James Kem (Republican,
Missouri) made the final effort to
amend the bill with a move to deny
economic cooperation administra-
tion aid to any nation which in
the future nationalized a basic in-
dustry.
Amendment Denied
The Kem amendment was ruled
out of order last Friday by Senator
Millard Tydings (Democrat. Mary-
land), the senate's presiding officer
at the time. He held it violated
senate .rules against writing policy-
making law into an appropriation
bill.
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CHILDREN ENTOMBED IN CATHEDRAL—Huge blocks of stone lie before the altar of the
cathedral at Ambato, Ecuador, in which 60 children were entombed when an earthquake struck. They
were being catechized by a priest, who also was killed. (NEA Telephoto.)
Social Security
Plans Delayed
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Hope Abandoned For
Early Expansion
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9 —<£>>—
Democratic leaders virtually aband-
oned hope today for any social se-
curity expansion this year. They
called this stand realistic, even
though the house ways and means
committee yesterday announced its
approval of legislation to blanket
11.000. 000 more persons under old
age insurance.
The committee, in its most im-
portant social security action In a
decade, decided also to boost old
age insurance benefits by 50 to 150
percent in some categories, and to
increase the payroll taxes to finance
the expanded program.
Under the legislation, confirming
presently scheduled increases, the
payroll taxes will jump from $1,-
800.000. 000 to about $2,700,000,000 in
1950.
But one top Democrat told re-
porters there is little, if any, hope
that the legislation will be passed
by the senate before 1950, although
a drive will be launched to press it
through the house this year.
The senate legislative log jam
prevents action there, he said.
Regardless of whether congress
acts, the tax will Increase from
the present one percent to 14 per-
cent against employes’ pay and em-
ployers' payrolls on Jan. 1.
Requests Made
For Polio Funds
Governor Supports
Earlier Appeal
BY UNITED PRESS
Governor Roy J. Turner today
joined an effort to get $75,000 in
emergency polio-fighting funds for
Oklahoma, as the state counted its
46th death from the disease and
the 1949 total of cases neared 600.
Turner said he will ask Basil O'-
Connor,, director of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,
i to advance $75,000 to see Oklahoma
through the remainder of its polio
epidemic.
The governor will back up an
earlier appeal by Dr. George L.
Cross, president of the University
of Oklahoma, and Dr Mark Ever-
ett. dean of the university's medical
school, for more funds for Crippled
Children's hospital. Oklahoma City.
Budget Exceeded
The officials told O'Connor the
hospital now is exceeding its budget
by $12,750 a month. They said the
university hospitals are faced with
a $75,000 deficit if present condi-
tions continue.
Money from the foundation would
be used to pay salaries of six
physiotherapists. 26 graduate nurses
and 23 polio packers.
Crippled Children's now has 123
polio patients, 37 of them in acute
stages of the disease. Two new pa-
tients—7-year-old girls from Okla-
homa City and Thomas—were ad-
mitted overnight.
Warner Girl Dies
Latest polio death victim was
Dorris Crittendon, 7 - year - old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Crittendon of Warner, in Muskogee
county. She died in a Muskogee
hospital.
Cecil Brock, 15, Prague, has been
admitted to Benedictine Heights
hospital. Guthrie. One r.cw pa-
tient, John Trumble, 13. Stillwater,
was admitted yesterday to St. John’s
hospital in Tulsa.
Two Automobiles Are
Damaged in Collision
Extensive property damage was
caused in a traffic mishap at 12:15
p. m. Monday at the intersection
of Wade street and Evans avenue,
Lee Harvey, chief of police, re-
ported.
A 1948 model coach driven south
on Evans by Mrs. Alice L. Douglas.
119 North Rock Island avenue, and
a 1949 model sedan operated west
on Wade by B. B. Dragslem, 46. In-
dependence, Ind., collided at the
intersection. Damage to the left
front of the Douglas automobile
was estimated at $200 while damage
to the right side of the other ve-
hicle was approximately $200, of-
ficers said.
Dragslem's wife, Phyllis, 40. re-
ceived a bruised elbow In the mis-
hap.
Crash Is Fatal
To Picher Man
COMMERCE. Aug. 9— (U.R) —
Glenn Henderson. 49. Picher, died
yesterday of injuries received when
he was flung out of a car as it col-
lided with a truck three miles east
of Commerce on U. S. 66.
Raymond Heath, 48, also of
Picher, driver of the car, received
minor Injuries when the vehicle
overturned. Howard Rodecape, 70.
Bluejacket, driver of the truck, was
uninjured.
El Reno Negro Troop
Wins Swimming Meet
Members of the Boy Scout troop
No. 389. sponsored by the Booker
T. Washington school, won the
senior division swimming meet at
Oklahoma City Monday.
The meet was held at Washington
park with Negro Scouts from Okla-
homa City, Wewoka and El Reno
participating.
Members of the El Reno troop
taking part in the meet were Ray-
mond Handy. William Lee Johnson,
Charles Lee Nicholson, Roy Lee
Robinson and Herman Tucker.
Johnnie B. Tucker, jr., is Scout-
master of the troop.
Mrs. Mesta
Is Honored
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 —<U.R>—
Mrs Perle Mesta, who will relin-
quish her unofficial No. 1. position
as a Washington party giver, was
honored by the national woman’s
party last night.
More than 250 guests, including
70 congressmen, were present to
bid goodbye and bon voyage to
Mrs. Mesta. a former Oklahoman.
She will sail Aug. 16 on the liner
America for Luxembourg.
“I accepted the appointment as
United States minister to Luxem-
bourg because I want to represent
women," Mrs. Mesta said. She has
been an ardent supporter of the
chief aim of the party—a constitu-
tional amendment giving equal
rights under the law, regardless of
sex.
The 70 congressional Invitations
for last night’s party were sent to
lawmakers who are supporting or
are friendly lo the equal rights
amendment.
Austin Is Returned
Here by Sheriff
Sheriff Lloyd Palmer returned
from Visalia. Calif., Monday night
with Charles Leon Austin, charged
In Canadian county with first de-
gree rape.
Palmer left last week to return
Austin to the county. Austin was In
jail In Visalia serving a 15-day sen-
tence for petit larceny.
Austin is charged with the forcible
rape of a 16-year-old Darlington
girl.
Did You Hear
rpHREE El Reno persons were
among the 645 who received
degrees Monday night in the
summer commencement exercises
at the University of Oklahoma,
Norman. They were Floyd M.
Durham, master of commercial
education; Charles W. Overton,
master of education; and Dor-
othy C. Strate, bachelor of arts
in journalism.
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Sergeant Robert W. Abies, 610
North Rock Island avenue, an
enlisted reservist in the army
quartermaster corps, has received
orders from headquarters of the
fourth army at Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Tex., to report for active
duty training with the 4006th
army service unit at Fort Sam
Houston from Aug. 20 to Sept. 4.
Misery Spreads
In Quake Area
Drenching Rains
Follow Disaster
Junior Fair Is
Slated at Fort
Arrangements For
Exhibits Completed
The Canadian county 4-H and
FFA junior fair, set for Saturday,
Sept. 17, will be held at Fort Reno,
it was announced today.
The past few years the fair has
been held in the Lincoln school
auditorium and underneath the old
football stadium in Legion park.
Crops exhibits and livestock will
be housed In the riding barn at
the fort and the adjoining stables
on each side. Judging will be in
the show ring in the riding barn.
Bleachers, erected for recent sales
at the post, still are In place and
will be available for use by fair
visitors.
Exhibits by the women of the
home demonstration clubs in the
county will be housed in the east
room of the post infirmary. The
infirmary is located Just east from
the riding barn.
It also was announced that eat-
ing facilities will be arranged on
the grounds for both exhibitors and
fair visitors.
Full arrangements for the fair
have not been completed but it was
reported today that with the larger
accommodations there probably will
be more exhibits than in past years.
'Revolt' Ended In
Slovakian Town
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. Aug. 9
—(/P)—Police have put down a "re-
volt" in a Slovakian town where
Catholics defending their priest
from threatened arrest had set up
their own local government, a Com-
munist weekly news magazine re-
ported today.
Aroused villagers led by a band
of fighting peasant women had
beaten up the chairman of the
"Communist-controlled local execu-
tive board, Svet Prace, weekly
magazine of the Czechoslovak Com-
munist party, said.
Two persons were reported
wounded and “several" arrested in
the incident at Streno, In north-
western Slovakia.
QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 9—(U.R)—
Drenching rains have added to the
misery of 125,000 homeless victims
In the Ambato earthquake area 70
miles south and tents are urgently
needed, reports from the stricken
city said today.
Homeless victims of last Friday's
disastrous quake are seeking shelter
from the rain under trees and fallen
roofs, these reports said. Thou-
sands are huddled In public squares,
waiting for help to come.
"We have no shelter left for the
people." said an urgent plea from
Mother Aulestla and six Catholic
sisters in Ambato. "We supplicate
you to send us tents, perhaps from
the United States."
To Use Bulldozers
Reports reaching here said the
stench of decomposing bodies buried
deep in the rubble was spreading
across the devastated area.
President Galo Plaza Lasso said
rescue workers would try for a few
more days to recover bodies nearer
the surface. Then, he said, bull-
dozers will be put to work to cover
both rubble and bodies
The biggest problem now is hous-
ing, the president said.
"We need tents and temporary
shelter," he said. "Aid from the
United States and Colombia already
is arriving."
The president said the Ecuado-
rean treasury had been authorized
to issue funds for rescue work and
that a special fund had been estab-
lished to coordinate donations.
Refugees Evacuated
Anticipating the possibility of
floods from the rain, the president
said all refugees had been evacu-
ated from the lowlands.
The Pan American highway and
the railroad running through Am-
bato remained blocked by land-
slides and rubble. A shuttle airlift
organized by the government re-
mained the only avenue of help for
the disaster area.
American military commanders in
the area offered their full help to
the Ecuadorean government. The
big C-47 cargo planes from Ameri-
can bases in the Panama canal zone
joined the airlift to Ambato after
bringing in six tons of medical
supplies. t
A spokesman from the president
said the government had not yet
been able to compile a death list,
but estimated that the toll was
between 2,000 and 4.000. Earlier
estimates of the dead had ranged
up to 6,000.
Volume 58, No. 137
Military Chiefs
Return From
Survey Abroad
Views Exchanged On
Joint Program For
European Defense
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -(U.R)—
The joint chtefs of staff returned
to Washington today after their
10-day on-the-spot survey of the
military needs of western Europe.
The "Independence," President
Truman's personal airplane, landed
at the military air transport, ter-
minal here at 7:32 a. m„ about 20
hours after it left Vienna with the
nation's top military leaders aboard.
The European survey of Oeneral
Omar N. Bradley of the army, Ad-
miral Louis E. Denfeld of the navy
and General Hoyt S. Vandenberg
of the air force was designed to
expedite the formation of a Joint
military program for free nations
under the Atlantic pact.
Bradley told newsmen that thev
discussed the organization with the
leading military leaders of western
Europe. He reported a "frank ex-
change of views," but said no de-
cisions were reached.
Leaders Are Pleased
He said that the military lenders
of western Europe were “very
pleased” that the American chiefs
of staff visited them so soon after
ratification of the pact by the
United States.
He said they took the trio as an
indication of “our willingness to
make the Atlantic pact effective."
Bradley said that although no
decisions were reached, the organ-
ization of the military part of the
Atlantic pact should be speeded as
a result of the preliminary con-
ferences.
Denfeld said that the administra-
tion’s proposed military air pro-
gram was not discussed. But he
Indicated that the joint staff’s
belief that the full $1,450,000,000
should be authorized was strength-
ened by their survey.
Reporting to Johnson
“We hope that these frank dis-
cussions and exchanges of views
will help our respective govern-
ments and will shorten conferences
necessary to organize under the
pact," Bradley told reporters at the
airport in Washington.
The three chiefs were scheduled
to report to Defense Secretary
Louis Johnson at a luncheon meet-
ing. Tomorrow they are to appear
before the senate armed services
committee.
The committee is sudying the ad-
ministration’s $1,450,000,000 foreign
arms aid program, designed to pro-
vide the arms that the European
pact members say they need.
It had before it today proposals
by a group of senators to limit the
transfer of over-age, surplus equip-
ment to Europe to a total of $500,-
000.000, and to count that as part
of the $1,450,000,000 total.
Weather
State Forecast
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed-
nesday with scattered thunder-
showers. Little change in tempera-
ture.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8 a. m. today: High, 84; low, 67;
at 8 a. m„ 74.
State of weather: Showers.
Rainfall: XI Inch.
Ocean Searched
For Two Soldiers
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9—(U.R)—
Coast guard planes and ships
searched the ocean today for two
soldiers missing since they set out
fishing in a rubber raft last Sat-
urday.
A third member of the original
party. Corporal Paul L. Neely, 34.
of Bonham, Tex., was rescued by
the steamer China Transport.
His companions were Sergeant
James E. Agee, 29, Brush Creek,
Tenn., and Corporal Howard M.
Dunn, 31, Bonlfay, Fla.
Neely was found unconscious
clinging to the craft in which they
put out from Gavlota Beach, near
Santa Barbara, Calif.
“The wind blew us toward Santa
Cruz island, and Sunday one of the
fellows tried to swim ashore,” he
said. "I don’t know what happened
to the other one.”
The three men were stationed at
the army's disciplinary barracks,
Camp Cooke, Calif.
Vote Heavy In
Strike Ballot
DETROIT, Aug. 9 —UP)— The
| state - conducted strike election
among Michigan Ford workers is
drawing a big vote, and both the
company and union hall that report
as a good sign.
With two days of balloting re-
maining, more than 30,000 of ap-
proximately 80,000 Ford Motor
company production employes al-
ready have voted, the state labor
mediation board announced today.
The vote will determine whether
CIO United Auto Workers officers
may call this year's second strike
In Ford plants In Michigan. Such
a walkout would back up UAW
’demands for $100-a-month pen-
sions, welfare and health benefits
\ and a fourth-round hourly wage
Increase.
While the first day's voting was
going on, company and union rep-
resentatives continued wage and
contract negotiations that have
been underway for more than two
months.
11 Forfeit Bonds For
Overparking Tickets
Eleven bonds of $1 each, posted
Monday for overparking, were for-
feited today in municipal court,
records of Lee Harvey, chief of
police, revealed.
Bonds were foreflted by Forest
Coleman. 2204 South Bickford ave-
nue: John Lanman, 518 South
Hadden avenue; Warren Bradney,
220 North Foster avenue; R. H.
Alexander. 502 South Bickford ave-
nue: Polly Cooper, 2014 East
Woodson street; Merle Shearer. 606
East Wade street; William R. Rey-
nolds, 309 East Wade street; Virgil
Stephens, 1100 West Watts street;
John Griggs, Calumet; Mrs. How-
ard Fisher, 1005 South Ellison ave-
nue; and Claude Clark, 1194 North
Bickford avenue.
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Harle, Budge. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 9, 1949, newspaper, August 9, 1949; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc923539/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.