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American Red Cross
War Fund Drive
March 1 to 18
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Daily Newspaper Serving Oklahoma’s Blue Ribbon Area
Single Copy, Five Cents
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She Wants To Help Sister by Helping War Effort
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943
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Loan Rates Set
On Barley And
Grain Sorghums
Government Seeks
Heavier Production
Of ‘War’ Crops
Canadian county farmers who
plan to share in helping produce
the barl»y and grain sorghums
which aie two of the 1943 war
crops of the county weie informed
today that the Commodity Credit
corporation has announced that
prices to producers of barley and
grain sorghums will be supported
ui 1943 by making loans available
these crops.
•lie 1943 loan rates on barley
'ill be 15 to 20 cents a bushel
nigher and on grain sorghums the
rates will be from 25 to 30 cents
higher than corresponding loan
iates last year.
As announced today by the AAA
office, loan rates on grain sorgh-
ums stored on Oklahoma 1 arms
are. No. 2 or better. 85 cents; No.
3, 80 cents; and No. 4, 70 cents per
56-pound bushel.
Increased Acreage Asked
The announcement of this rale,
which was received from the state
AAA office added that the loan
would be made on sorghums stored
on farms In Oklahoma areas eligi-
ble for farm storage grain sorgh-
um loans.
Grain sorghums are one oi the
"war" crops on which the agricul-
ture department is requesting in-
creased production. In February,
Ihe state USDA war board, alter
announcing other production goals,
added a goal of 22.400 in grain
sorghums to Canadian county's
against W. R. Carrigan and People's charge of taking a Fort Reno sold- i buota foi the year.
Canadian ier's wife to California. John Brett.
assistant federal district attorney at
1940, was reversed and the case was Oklahoma City, reported to press
Lena England. Chicago, was sworn into the WAVES at Chicago
by Lieutenant Commander J. L. Clarkson. Miss Englund joined up
alter receiving a letter from her missionary parents telling her that
her 12-year-old sister is a prisoner In a Japanese concentration camp.
1NEA Telephoto.!
VOLUME 52, NO. 10
Court Nullities Prosecution On
Damage Verdict Mann Act Due
Opinion Reverses
Henderson .1 udjiment
In an opinion handed down by
the slate supreme couit this week.
Divorce Petition Is
Filed by Soldier
Oscar Berry, former school teach-
er from Thola, Ark. is in federal
a damage Judgment given to Mrs. custody in San Francisco awaiting
Ethel J Henderson of El Reno federal prosecution on u Mann act
W. R. Carrigan and P(
Finance company in
county district court on May
remanded to district court.
Mrs. Henderson was given
associations Wednesday.
Brett said the soldier, a private
judgment of $500 as actual damages stationed at Fort Reno, said his
and $1,000 as punitive damages in wife had received threatening let-
n jury verdict after trial of the ters from Berry before leaving for
action • the west coast with him.
Ft The plaintiff's petition Hied Oct. “We don't know whether he took
% 27. 1939. asked $1,000 as actual dam- her by force or kidnaped her. but
ages for “mental anguish" and an she was seen getting into an auto-
additional $1,000 as exemplary dam- mobile with Berry and his uncle a
- a*es- block from her home in El Reno
Her petition telatcd that on Oct. Iast November." Brett was quoted
18. 1939. Carrigan as manager of the 85 saying,
finance company came to her home
in Clark's addition at El Reno.
, stating Mrs. Henderson's husband
l
Woman Held as Witness
The attorney said Berry had been
living in California mast of the
owed money to the finance com- Ume for lhe past few years, occas-
' J1,01 ll!lslJa’^, llad moyetl tonally making a trip to Thola to
see his wife and five children.
This is an increase of 7,400
acres over the 1942 planted acre-
age.
A barley production goal of 16,-
800 acres lias been set for the
county. Tills is a 13 percent in-
crease over tile 1942 crop.
Other Rates Specified
Loan rates on barley stored on
Oklahoma farms are: No. 1, 7b
cents: No. 2. 73 cents; No. 3, 70
cents; No 4 67 cents; and No 5.
60 cents per bushel.
E7 Rero mills now are paying
83 cents a bushel for barley.
To be eligible for loans, farmers
must plant not less than 90 per-
cent of their war crop goals.
Additional details of these two
programs will be available later at
the county AAA office.
Did You Hear
CEROEANT HUBERT J.
WOMACK, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Teague of Fort Worth,
Tex., who Is stationed at the
army air base at Alamogordo.
N. M„ is assigned to a heavy
bombardment group flying the
B-24 bomber in high altitude
bombing. He is -in a combat
crew and is in his second phase
of training here. He went into
the army in September 1942 and
was graduated from the Las Ve-
gas, Nev., army gunnery school
last November, receiving his rat-
ing as sergeant and his silver
wings. He is a graduate of El
Reno hlghschool and is the
brother of Mrs. Sylvan Frederick.
116 North Rock Island avenue.
Lieutenant Garland J. Smith,
formerly employed by Cessna
Aircraft company at Wichita,
Kan., lias been promoted to rank
of captain at the army air forces'
basic flying school at Pecos, Tex.
He is married to the former Miss
Corinne Courtney of El Reno and
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Smith. El Reno loute 1.
Harold Rush, who Joined the
navy a week ago. has been sta-
tioned at San Diego. Calif., for
his basic training. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Rush.
1304 South Choctaw avenue. He
was graduated from El Reno
highscliool in 1942 and attended
Northwestern State college at
Alva last fall.
-o-
Private Tommy L. Peterman
and Private Edward B. York of
El Reno now arc aircrew stu-
dents with army air forces train-
ing detachment at Southwest
Texas State Teachers college in
San Marcos, Tex.
Registrars For
City Elections
Are Announced
Hooks Open Mar. 17
For 10-1 Jay Period
To Qualify Voters
Registration books will open Mar.
17 and close at midnight on Mar.
26 for city elections scheduled in
El Reno. Yukon and Oeary on
Tuesday. Apr. 6, it was announced __
today by J. L. Patman, Canadian j consumers who use all their pro-
23,611 No. 2 Ration Books
Are Issued in County
Overlap Period Will Accommodate Consumers
Lacking Stamps Heforc First Period Ends
Excess pounds of coffee on hand I
were declared at 1.009 pounds.
Practically all individuals in the |
county are supposed to be register- '
ed now lor war ration book No. 2.j
Institutions, cafes, hotels, lunch j
or certificate for dried bean, anu i counters, etc., must register ue- 1
peas bought as seed, and the an- fore Mar. 15 for their processed j
nouncement of a seven-day ovei-
lap period for the convenience of
News from the ration front at
the El Reno war price and ration-
ing board today included tnc total
ol war ration books No. 2 Issued
m the county, a revocation of the
CPA order requiring ration points
county registrar.
Voters who have been dropped
from the rolls for reason that they
loods rations.
The state rationing office has
announced that the requirement of
cessed fcod ration stamps belore | certificates for the purchase of
the beginning of the new periods.
The ration office announced to-
have not voted In one of the last j day that 23.611 ration books No.
three elections will be required to | were issued in Canadian county,
re-register. Those who re-register There were 8.312 declaration sheets
will be permitted to do so up to
and including election day.
for families tiled.
Miss Mllcred Streeter, clerk, re-
Qualifications of voters specify | ported that 8,104 cans and jars of
that each must be an American processed food were declared by
a mortgaged automobile from the
county, and that Carrigan and the
company "were going to send him
to the penitentiary unless the In-
debtedness was paid immediately."
A
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Canned Meat
Ban Claritied
Related Items Are
Unaffected by Freeze
................„ ______t Clarification of several phases
uotnt June 15. 1940, and the high where he and the defendant were the OPA "freeze” on canned
couit s opinion reversing the action living, with Oscar Berry, former I nieat sales was offered today by
court waK llantletJ husband of the defendant, and went Virgil Shaw chairman of the Ca-
' with Berry to California whete they | nadian county war price and ra-
have been living.
Married Last October
Buttery's petition slates Ids' wife
lias written him to the effect that
she now is living with Berry.
The petition, filed in the office
of Frank Taylor, court clerk, states
Brett said the soldier’s wife, pick-
ed up with Berry in Vallejo. Calif.. |
is being held as a material witness
i a»d will be returned to Oklahoma
The plaintiff alleged the "state- city also
) menu and threats" made by Car- .. ..
• Titan "produced fright, mental pain J' “ d‘vor,ce *ct‘°n, f,,cd 111
«u! anguish." "ad‘an county district court today
, , by Ernest J Buttery against Flor-
Thc verdict of the juiy, giving the Pnce L. Buttery, the plaintiff's peti-
plaintlff judgments totaling $1.500, tlon relates that on Nov 17 the
was appealed to the state supreme defendant left the rooming house.
citizen, at least 21 yeais of age. and
must have lived in the state at
least one year, in the county at least
six months and in the precinct at
least 30 days.
List Submitted
Registrars In tile city of El Reno
were listed by Mr. Patman today as
follows:
1-A—Sam Wallace, 218 Norlh
Barker avenue.
1-B—Mrs. Guy Cubbage, 508 East
Russell street.
1- C—Mrs. John Roblyer, 115 North
M avenue.
2- A—Ml'S. M. M. Golden, 819
North Choctaw avenue.
2-B—Mrs. B. B. Ray, 121 North
Evans avenue.
2- C—Jual Scott, 800 North Ad-
mire avenue.
3- A—Mis Tom Avant. 220 South
Choctaw avenue.
3-B—Ernest Hodgkinson, 1005
Sunset drive.
3-C—Mrs. J. N. Hutchens, 825
South Miles avenue
3- D—Mrs, R. M. Quisenberry. 1001
South Hadden avenue.
4- A—Mrs. Homer Ricketts, 716
South Roberts avenue.
4-B—Mrs. Blanche Fischer. 619
South Barker avenue.
4-C—Mrs. Henry Beline. 1017
South Macomb avenue.
Others Serving
Registrars tor the town of Yu-
kon were listed as follows:
Yukon 1—C. A Newkirk.
Yukon 2—Carl Addington.
Registrar for the only Geary
precinct which lies in Canadian
county is Mrs. Grady Baker, reg-
istrar for Valley 2.
In the election at El Reno, three |
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county residents and point values
lepresenled by them removed from
their ration books No. 2. She
stated that 437 stamps remained
to be removed from books, the
registrants having declared more
food than stumps allowed to ue
removed.
dried beans. |ieas and lentils to be
used for seed has been removed.
Miss Streeter said, and such items
can be bought point-free.
Virgil Shaw, chat! man ol the
French Troops
Seal Doom Of
Rommel's Men
Stimson Discloses
Long Drive Across
Equatorial Africa
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secretary of War Henry L.Stlin-
son said today that Fighting
French troops had made contact
with other French legions in a
flanking movement around tliq
southern end of the Marcth lmc
in Tunisia, thereby sealing the
trap on 250.000 axis troops under
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Stinison said General LeClerc’s
county rationing board, announced i _ iglvtlng French columns, who had
that consumers who may run out Clllven more 'bun 1.200 miles
of ration stamps lor processed j acroas tbe desert from Lake Chad
loods before the first ration period
expires are permitted a seven-day
in the heart of equatorial Africa,
closed the ring around the axis by
overlap period—the last week of | j^n^cting Oeneral Henri Girand’s
March—during which time con-
sumers may spend both their first
and second period stamps.
French forces.
Slimson's disclosure was linked
with the statement that allied
Stamps A. B and C are valid lor I lorce!> in the Tunisian battle the-
tlie first period and may be used | utre "bad much the better of the
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Textbook Money Germans Feel
Is 'Oil Record' Effects of War
sands of dollars In cash to five more than 10.000 tons a
individuals In 1937 and 1938 on already has wrecked more than 2.-
Legislativc Committee
Is Told of Payments
Factories Wrecked
Hy British Bombs
OKLAHOMA CITY. Mai 11—t/P)
—Willis Smith, president of
i fighting last week" but lie said
that losses on both side had been
j substantial.
Many Tanks Destroyed
j The war secretary told newsmen
! bi Washington that the allies had
raptured more than 1.000 German
| and Italian prisoners and destroy-
I ed well over 100 tanks.
On the Russian iront, Hitler’s
• high command asserted that Nazi
shock troops were battling "on the
: edges" of Kharkov in the Ukraine,
while In the north the Russians
orders from textbook
without keeping a
payments.
record paunents wus practiced.
Smith told the legislative invest!-!
ing $1,112,000. for free
for needy children.
He testified that the unusual,
payments were made only to agents
down this week
Marsh Attending
ODT Conference
Pt
Waller P Marsh, principal of EH
Reno hlghschool. Is In Washington, the plaintirf is a soldier at Fort
D C„ this week lo represent the Reno and that he and the defendant
Oklahoma Hlghschool Athletic as
soeialion in a conference with offi- 1942.
cials of the office ol defense Iran-
pollution in an effort to formulate
a satisfactory plan for continua-
tion of athletic programs next
year, in view of restrictions upon
traveling.
Mi Marsh, a member of the WASHINGTON, Mar. 11— ./!'> —
board of control for the state Coffee rations will go back to one
athletic association, was to be pound Tor five weeks beginning
Joined in Washington by represen- Mar. 22
I a lives (of athletic organizations In Price Administrator Prentiss
oilier southwestern states for the Brown announced the increase to-
confercnce with ODT an hoilties. day. saving the "welcome news to
Departing for Washington Tuesday, lens of millions of American cef-
Mi Marsh planned to return to
El Reno the first of next week.
were married at El Reno on Oct. 21,
Coffee Rations Ordered
Back to Former Quotas
ar
fee drinkers is made possible o.v
the improvement during the past
few weeks of the import situa-
tion."
The current ration is one pound j
a person for six vtfeeks. The next
roffpc Stamp No 2fi in ration booz
, , No 1, which also is used for sugar
slightly ill a collision at the inter- H|ld shoes w(j.
Automobile Diima^ed
At Intersection
Two automobiles werr damaged
between
I
section of Wade street and Barker Ma~, ~
avenue at 4:30 p. in. Wednesday,
according to a report filed in the
office of Lee Harvey, chief of
police.
A 1938 model sedan driven west
on Wade street by Mrs. Walter
Martin. 318 South Hoff
and a 1939 model coupe operated
north on Barker by D. A. Yeager a
of Oklahoma City collided at the ter, the schools have been holding
intersection. The front of the Mar- classes from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Schools at Okemah
Revision Schedule
CKEMAH Mar. 11-tu,R>—Public
avenue, schools in Okemah will revert next
Monday to theld old scheditle-9
in. to 4 p. m. During the win-
tin car was damaged and the right
side of thejither car was damaged
officers said.
Return of the old hours wlil
permit rural pupils more time lor
i work after school.
honing board.
The OPA iris ordered that sales
ol canned meat and canned llsli
be frozen until meat is rationed,
but Mr. Shaw pointed out that
canned soups, broths and chowders
made from meat, poultry or fish
are not covered by this ban, noi
Is canned chicken meat, canned
turkey meat, and other canned
poultry meat frozen.
Canned soups containing meat
ore rationed as processed foods
under ration order 13. Tnere Is
no ration or freeze of canned
chicken meat, canned turkey meut
or other canned poultry.
Mr. Shaw also pointed out that
baby foods sold by druggists require
[joints, just as other processed
foods sold by grocers.
He's Glad To Be On—
And Around—U. S. Soil
DUSTIN, Mar. 11— (tl.Ri —Mrs.
Ruby Dtcus received a letter from
her son, Lee O. Langwell, now re-
cuperating In a navy hospital at
San Diego from injuries suffered
in naval action. Wrote the youth,
explaining his Joy at being back
in the United States:
"I Just got down on my kneet
and ate a whole handful of good
old American soil."
Picket Carries
Whiskey Bottle
Action Demanded On
Prohibition Repeal
OKLAHOMA CITY. Mar 11—i/Pi
—Dressed In a white uniform and
carrying a half-gallon whiskey
bottle. Ernest Allbright began pick-
eting tlie legislature today, de-
manding action on prohibition re-
peal.
"Lets stop the $30,000,000 boot-
leg racket in Oklahoma,” said one
side of a placard he carried on his
shoulders “Let the people vote!"
"Every one knows 3.2 beer is in-
toxicating," the other side read.
"Stop dodging the issue. Act now!
Support tlie Madrano resolution."
Allbright said he woukl march
around the capltol building until
something was done about a re-
peal amendment introduced in the
house yesterday by Representative
Dan Madrano of Tulsa.
The bottle bearing the label of
a popular brand of whiskev was I
full
Allbright said he would let the! ginning at 2:30 p. m Friday In
legislators guess whether it con- Central Methodist church wUI be
taineri the real thing. t . , ~........ UCMU31W|V
A strip ol paper pusted ovtr the1,, *!' * <>r 1>laver ,lom , all school books used In Oklahoma
bottle read: "Wet state price, I t"ousands of Christian churches all ! are passed, said he advanced large
$7.85. Dry Oklahoma price. $20!over ,he worltl' with women of 13 '
up"
LONDON, Mar 11—</Pi—The R.
tlie A. F.'s ceaseless bombing offensive j reported impressive new galnq,
Soviet headquarters declared to-
Jasper Sipes school book deposl- now showering German Europe with
tory, testified today he paid thou- fire and explosives at the rate of
day that tlie Red armies on tlie
month.1 central front had captured at
least. 44 towns and villages, crush-
ed stiffening German resistance
Tills policy of making off-the- told the house of commons today.
He said photographic reconnais-
sance showed that the raid on Es-
companles 000 German factories and left more
record of the, than 1.000.000 Germans homeless, j and advanced within 80 miles or
Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair ; Hitler's old headquarters at
Smolensk.
Although virtually outflanked by
the Red army's capture of Belv.
the Nazis were battling desper-
ately to defend their grip on lhe
key bastion of the last major bar-
rier on the road to Smolensk.
Narrow Corridor He mains
Soviet dispatches said tne Rus-
sians had all but completed the
encirclement of Vyazma leaving
the Germans only a narrow corrl-
gating committee, only during that sen, home of the Krupp arsenals
period when the state was spend- 0,1 lhe night of March 5-6, "prob-
texlbooks ab'y was tlie heaviest blow struck
at German war Industry in the
whole of the bomber offensive.”
Sinclair disclosed that already 4.-
of companies doing business witli 000 tons of bombs have been drop-
the state. He added that he did Ped 0,1 tl,e ielch this month,
not know how the money was used.
Agents who received
record payments. Smith said, in-
ducted J. T. Daniel, former speak-
Prayer Service
Plans Complete
Annual Observance
Arranged for Friday
World Day of Player services be-
Tlie devastation at Essen, he said,
off-the- wa,s t-omParablc only to that caused dor for retreat toward Smolensk
at Cologne last May in the first of, Red army columns were reported
the R. A. F.’s 1.000-bomber raids. driving forward with the utmost
er of the house of representatives,' . ®"!rth damagc„ U> steel works in speed along a broad front with the
who was sentenced to two years in ““ “nd ,Saar' 1,e *aid' had Germans bitterly resisting and
federal nriunn f..r imv.m* i„v tut ■‘150.000 tons from Germanys using dug-in tanks as pillboxes
annual steel-making capacity. ..xhe cnemy mad„ stubboni at_
Damage lo the Phillips radio tempts to halt our advance at de-
, .. „ ,, c<Mit tense positions." the Russian com-
pile Germans the loss of millions of malld said, referring to Ihe Vvaz-
radio tubes annually, a critical loss ma sector
federal prison for income tax eva-
sion following last year's grand
JU'Y investigation of alleged graft' w“j^ Elnm.oVln.Toiimid.'^t j
In state textbook adoptions and
purchases. All five were book com
pan.v representatives, Smith said.
Tlie U. S. district attorney in-
formed the court after Daniel
In modern warfare, he added
had halted his trial with a no,
defense plea that the jury un-
covered evidence of “lavfsh pay-
offs" by book companies in con-
nection with book sales to the
state.
Smith, through whose depository
‘Penny Milk’ Is
Proving Popular
"As b resnll or fierce lighting
our units overwhelmed the enemy's
defenses and advanced, capturing
a number of populated places."
Russian shock troops were suld
to be wlth'n 13 miles of Vyazma
at the nearest point and a cotn-
lialf-pints munique said more Ilian 20 towns
to Soviet forces operating In
the vicinity. In addition, "sev-
An average of 1.000
of milk are being dispensed daily tell
at the four elementary schools in
El Reno under the cooperative eral dozen" villages were engulfed
, I ------- • —
| different denominations partiri-
| paling.
sums of money to the agents from
iit the Belv sector 70 miles nortli-
Ruml Plan Has
G.O.P. Support
, Unable to obtain program ma-
: terial as in tlie past, an inspira-
i tloilal program has been nnaugeci
by El Reno women under the lead-
ership of Mrs. C. L. McGill of the
WASHINGTON. Mar. 11—(/p—J First Presbyterian church.
I Tlie house Republican steering | Music for the service is in charge
committee laid plans today to;of Mrs. E. A. Jackson and Mrs. A
align the party's strength behind j W. Hauser, organist. Ollier women
sisrTuS’isr -* - •» -———
sumed Wednesday,
records were kept, v(.a,e(j
Because no
he said lie could not say how much
money was paid
his report re-
the Ruml plan to abate a year's j from
Income taxes and put the nations
44.000.000 taxpayers on a pay-as-
you-go basis.
Republican Leader Joseph Mar-
lin of Massachusetts reported the
El Reno churches will assist
In the program.
Four Projects Furthered
From the offering taken during
the services donations are made to
four varied programs—work among
"penny milk" program, it was an
‘“7- -u w;c 1™n* nounced today by Paul R. Taylor. west ol Vvazma
i,aP i--“L“CC“U,1.t. a,,d WHi> re: superintendent of schools. A total Reserves (ailed Up
On the flaming Kharkov Iron1.
400 miles below Moscow. Rpd
army headquarters said the Ger-
Under the "penny milk" pro- mans
gram, tlie child pays 1 cent for a
1 half-pint of milk. The federal gov-
ernment. under tlie Agricultural
Marketing administration, pays 1.6
cents, and tlie remainder of the
total cost of 3 cents Is met through
funds provided by Parent-Teacher
Because of the increase ol tier- organizations.
The milk is served In mld-inom-
ing at most of tlie schools, and
Additional Clerks Are
Serving Rationing Board
committee supported the Ruml | the children of migrant laborers;
plan unanimously and predictions j rclli ious education In United Slates
were made freely by Republicans i Indian schools, support of union
that sufficient strength can be j colleges for women in tlie orient;
mustered to pass the "skip a year*'j and providing Christian literature
the house.
tax proposal in
Martin said ''an overwelniing
majority" oi his party's 209 mem-1 lumr and fifteen minutes,
bers would vote for the Ruml plan ■
in foreign lauds.
The El Reno services will last an
Tlie program will lie nou-deuomi-
nnd the committee arranged for a , national and will be open to tlie
party caucus Monday to mobilize public. The Venice is conducted
for the flocr battle on the abate- j on the first Friday in Lent every j
throughout
leal work involved with recording
oi war books No. 2. registration
of institutions for processed food also at the noon hour.
and tlie customary detail of gas-__
oline rationing, tliree additional
clerks have been employed for a
30-da.v period by the El Reno wur
price and rationing board.
Mrs. William Cosgrove and Mrs.
Jack Newquist are assisting the NEW YORK. Mar. 11 — (U.R) —
gasoline panel and Mrs. T. J. Kirk When Magistrate Frances W. Leli-
ts helping witli tlie clerical work rich told Michael Katclien she
of war ration books Nos. 1 and 2. wanted him to stay in jail, she
were continuing to throw
great masses of reserves Into their
comeback offensive against tlie
“Soviet Pittsburgh" but so far tlie
battle appeared to be indecisive.
O’Mahonev Draft
Bill Is Rejected
Bond at Higher Figure
When Court Reopens
These additional employes were meant It.
authorized for a 30-day period
tile state OPA office.
ment issue.
1
State Parent-Teacher
Convention Cancelled
j year hi communities
jail (lie civilized world.
1‘ievlous Leaders Named
| Leaders of tlie annual service here ! Center Grove, home deinonstra-
j in previous years include Mrs. W. G. lion club met at tlie A.-T. A. hall
i Pllimil Pnnft nl I _1______1. . re. ■ . - .
Study Conducted By
Center (Jrove Club
A bondsman arrived
with $500 to bail out
charged with beating his wife. He
was insistent, so Magistrate Leli- sential
rich ruled lier court was closed and service il no
found.
she couldn’t accept bond. She re-
opened court a few minutes later
In jail and raised Katchen's bond
OKLAHOMA CITY. Mar. 11—(U.R> ' Ce”t,al church; j Tuesday will, Mrs. Cha.les Whitley bLdLmn was^-Uimg^Ul<?
___ . _ Mrs. Sam Fieeman First nhi-M on 1 m i,a. ____.i________, ____ "‘‘**“* w a”-
WASHINGTON Mar. 11—</P. ^
The senate rejected 49 to 32 today
a proposal by Senator Joseph C.
O'Mahqney < Democrat, Wyoming!
lor - the draft deferment of farm
workers and apparently cleared the
way for early passage ol another
measure directing the deferment
ol workers employed "substantial-
ly full time" on farms.
The O'Mahoney bill would have
yesterday broadened provisions of the pie ■
Katchen. ent law under which local draft
boards are directed to excuse es-
agricultural workers from
replacement can be
Visiting Wednesday in tlie home
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lambert,
107 South Macomb avenue, were
Mr. Lamberts brothers, Walter
Lambeit and wife and Lee Lambert
and wife, and nephew, Clarence
Lambert, all of Shawnee. They
were called here by the serious Ill-
ness of Mr. Lambert.
—Tlie Oklahoma Congress of Par-
ents and Teachers today can-
celled Its 1943 state convention In
line with tire saving and trans-
portation programs of the federal
government.
School patron units will elect
voting delegates who then will cast
their ballots on state P.-T. A. of-
ficers by mail.
Mrs. Sam Fieeman. First Christian as hostess to six members and one
church; Mrs. Clyde Musgrove, First I guest. Mrs. Pearl Morris of Oeary.
Weather
Presbyterian church; Mis. Wayne '
Essley. Fiist Methodist church; i
Mrs. Whitley was leader of the
lesson on conservation of clothing.
Mrs. C. D Lord, Evangelical i Methods of patching overalls on
church; Mrs. C. A Richard. First
j Baptist church; Mrs. Flora Shut-
tee, First Presbyterian church;
Mrs. Roy Eichor.' First Baptist
chuich; Mrs. John C. DeLana.
Christ Episcopal church.
seiring machine, and of darning
socks and sewing on buttons with
the machine were demonstrated.
Profits Returned
From Lowly Okra
SAYRE. Mar. 11— (U.R)—Tlie low-
ly okra plant is a high-paying cash
crop, Milton Kurtze. greenhouse
Next meeting of the club will be operator, reveals. From four 140-
conducted In the hall at 2 p. m. foot rows last year he reports he
Mar. 23. made $80
State Forecast
Warmer tonight.
El Reno Weather
For 24-hour period ending a* 8
n. ni today: High, 40. low. 26.
at 8 a. m.. 29
State of weather: Unsettled
Precipitation: None.
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER SERVICE FURTHERS RELIGIOUS WORK IN ALL LANDS. PLAN TO TAKE PART IN FRIDAY OBSERVANCE.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1943, newspaper, March 11, 1943; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc924007/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.