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Oklehoraa Histoii
State Capitol,
Oklahoma City,
The El Reno Daily Tribune
Single Copy Five Cents
01 J>J MEANS UNITED PRESS
El Reno, Oklahoma, Wednesday, June 1, 1949
l/P) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Volume 58, No. 79
Seven Persons Southwest Wheat Harvest
Are Injured In Slowed by Bad Weather
Highway Crash
Vehicles Collide
Almost Head-On
West of El Reno
Output May Be Reduced One-Third as Rains,
Winds and Hail Continue To Pound Fields
FREDERICK. June 1 -(/Pi-
Southwest Oklahoma’s wheat crop
has been cut a third by bad weath-
er during the last three weeks
Seven persons were injured, two
of them seriously, when a pickup
truck and an automobile collided
almost head-on at a point eight
miles west of El Reno on U. S.
highway 66 at 9:10 a. m. today.
Earl Janssen, state highway pa-
trolman, reported.
Ellis Bryan Hall, 17, Amarillo.
Tex., driving east in a 1948 model
pickup truck, accohipanled by Harry
Sears, 41. Stratford. Tex., was fol-
lowing two other vehicles, one of
them a truck which slowed to make
a right turn onto a country road.
Hall attempted to slow the pick-
up but was unable to do so and
pulled to the left, where he met a
1947 coach driven east by Leonard
Armstrong, 24. Oklahoma City.
Left front of the Armstrong car
collided with the right front of the
pickup.
Hall and Sears were thrown out
of the vehicle and onto the pave-
ment.
Sears received several broken
ribs and severe cuts about his head.
Hall suffered pavement burns on
his back; Both were brought to the
El Reno sanitarium by ambulance
for treatment.
Armstrong, accompanied by six
other persons, was enroute to
Bridgeport to attend his grand-
mother's funeral. His wife, Row-
ena, 20. received slight cuts and
bruises. His mother, Mrs. Winnie
Armstrong, 44, also of Oklahoma
City, suffered a broken thumb and
severe bruises. A sister. JoAnn
Armstrong, 14. was bruised. An
uncle of Armstrong, John Hull, 60,
of Oilton. suffered severe cuts and
Injuries to his chest, the extent of
which was not determined imme-
diately. but he was said to be in
serious condition.
Armstrong had bruises about his
head but was not hurt seriously,
Janssen said.
Two other occupants of the car.
Jack Armstrong, 10. and Teddie
Lou Armstrong, 6, both were un-
hurt.
Damage to the Armstrong auto-
mobile was estimated at $700 while
t damage to the pickup, owned by
Sears, was approximately $350.
and the yield northward through
the wheat belt remains a question
mark as rain, wind and hall con-
tinue to pound fields. This is the
estimate of experienced graimnen
in the area where harvesting has
started.
Tillman county harvest went into
high gear Tuesday and continued
Wednesday morning as rains which
hit Jackson, Kiowa. Harmon and
Greer counties skipped over the
area from Frederick south. Clouds
in Cotton county slowed harvest
and in northern Tillman county
kept combines idle until noon Wed-
nesday.
Elevators in Frederick remained
open until 1 a. m. Wednesday to
receive wheat from combines that
continued to run up until damp
night air started to bring up mois-
ture content of the grain. Streets
were again lined with trucks full
of grain when the elevators opened
again at 6 a. m.
Kiowa county, where harvest *as
scheduled to start Friday, was
hardest hit by the weather Tuesday
night. Hail which broke windows
in Hobart beat grain down in an
area extending six miles south of
Hobart to eight miles north. High
winds and a heavy rain added to
damage over the entire area. While
no exact check was possible Wed-
nesday morning, Kiowa county
growers expected heavy losses.
Heavy showers over Jackson
county stopped harvest, but some
combines expected to start work by
noon Wednesday. Some 25,000 bush-
els of wheat were cut in Jackson
county before the rains hit, with
fields producing from 15 to 20
bushels per acre.
Clyde Caudill, Altus grain man,
said the Jackson county grain crop
would come up to estimates if no
addition.,! damage was received.
Early rain and wind cut the esti-
mate to some extent, but grain
men still expected 2,500.000 bushels
In the county.
The big push in Jackson county
will start the first of next week,
providing no additional rain falls.
Arrogant Eisler
Threatens Suit
To Recover Bail
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Communist leader
Ridicules Clark
And Chief of FBI
Holdup Foiled
By Rookie Cop
Three Killed At
Rail Crossing
Two Gunmen
Are Captured
Truck Crashes Into
Passenger Train
THREE HURT SERIOUSLY
IN UNION CITY CRASH
Three persons were hurt seri-
ously when the automobile in which
they were riding collided with two
other vehicles at the south end of
the South Canadian river bridge,
south of Union City, at 11.45 p. m.
Tuesday. Earl Janssen, state htgh-
way patrolman, reported today.
Lewis Padgett. 26, Yuba City,
Calif., traveling north on U. S.
highway 81 in a 1941 model coupe,
struck a gasoline transport truck
owned by Becker Oil company,
Enid, which had been parked on the
shoulder, headed north, after mo-
tor trouble developed.
Janssen said the right front of
the automobile hit the left rear of
the transport truck and then
swerved out into the other lane
of traffic, the left rear of the car
sideswiping a cattle truck traveling
south.
Padgett was arcompanied by Ver-
non Dale Pack. 14. also of Yuba
City, and Clyde Willmon. 25. Minco.
Fadgett's jaw was broken on both
sides and several of his teeth were
knocked out.
Willmon received a severe head
n injury, a broken jaw and had sev-
eral teeth knocked out.
The Pack, boy had a deep lacer-
ation about his chin, which cut
entirely into his mounth. He also
lost several teeth
LYNWOOD. Calif.. June 1—(/Pi—
A nervy rookie cop was credited to-
day with foiling an attempted su-
per-market holdup and capturing
two gunmen after a gun battle.
The rookie, Ralph Dever, 26,
wounded one of the men before
help arrived Held on suspicion of
robbery were Claude Newton. 44.
an ex-convict, and Timothy Math-
eny. 21. both of Chula Vista, Calif.
Matheny was wounded slightly ni
the right thigh.
The men surrendered when trap-
ped by the officers' crossfire.
Newton said he was sentenced to
the Oklahoma penitentiary In 1924
for slaying a policeman but was
later paroled.
There was no money taken in the
holdup although last February
gunmen took $17,000 from the store.
Newton was paroled In 1944 after
he gained national prominence for
earning $25,000 while behind bars
at the state penitentiary at Mc-
A1 ester.
He started a leather goods shop
in the prison and sold his products
all over the country.
When paroled, he took the money
and opened a similar shop at Phoe-
nix. Ariz. He also married there.
Turner Signing
New Measures
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 1—(/Pi
—Governor Roy J. Turner took his
first crack today at some 200 bills
passed by the legislature that need
his final approval or rejection.
He signed 76 including a number
of departmental appropriation
measures. One other, the unfair
sales act pertaining to tobacco
products, was signed but Turner is
still holding it in his office for
more study.
It would forbid the sale of cig-
arets, cigars and other tobacco
products below cost in order to
stifle competition.
A $200,000 appropriation for con-
RY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three farm laborers were killed
early Wednesday when their pickup
truck struck a Santa Fe passenger
train at a grade crossing two miles
south of Fairfax in Pawnee county.
The state highway patrol identi-
fied the dead as Joe Fritz Miller,
31; Thomas Ray Butler. 27. and
Gene Scott, age unknown. Address
for all was given as route 2, R»1
ston.
Truck Thrown 92 Feet
Hugh Enos, patrol trooper, said
the accident apparently occurred at
3:30 a. m. when the northbound
train was due at that point. The
bodies, however, were not discov-
ered until two hours later.
The truck hit the train on its
left front fender, then hurtled 92
feet, Enos said. The men were
thrown from the vehicle and ap-
parently died instantly.
Members of the train crew did
not know of the accident until
they had finished their run to
Arkansas City, Kan., and returned
to Shawnee.
The month of May went into the
state highway patrol's records Wed-
nesday with 29 death marks, 11
less than the same month last
year.
Car Plunges From Bridge
The month’s total hit the 29
mark Tuesday night when two oil
field drillers died as their car ran
off a washed-out bridge one and
three-fourths miles southwest of
Blanchard on state highway 76.
Dead were Floyd D. Salmon and
Raymond Rhodes, both of Lindsay.
Their car ran through a wooden
barricade 75 feet, from the bridge
and wound up 50 feet from where
tt hurtled Into space.
PRAGUE, June 1—(U.R)— Com-
munist Oerhart Eisler threatened
Wednesday to sue the United States
government for damages to cover
the $23,500 bail forfeited when he
fled from the United States to
escape a possible prison sentence.
The international Communist
leader and fugitive from American
justice was interviewed in the
luxurious state-owned Ambassador
hotel between embraces from top-
ranking Communists who greeted
him like a long-lost cousin.
FBI Is Hooted
Jubilant at his escape, he called
U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark
"this year's candidate for the Nobel
prize for stupidity” and boasted
that "Uncle J. Edgar Hoover is no
superman.”
He refused to divulge details of
his bail-jumping voyage from New
York "because the FBI still doesn't
know—and I don’t want to spoil it
for any more political refugees.”
He said he had left instructiqps
with his London attorney to file
suit against the U. S. for the bail
money lost when he skipped.
Eisler claimed that he was con-
science-stricken for "letting the
civil rights congress hold the bag
on his bail" when he fled. BUt he
said his flight was governed by
three considerations:
Wife Seized. He Says
"If I had stayed in the United
States, my appeal would have cost
thousands of dollars without result
—because I would have been tossed
into prison anyway.”
"If I came back to Germany and
the time came when German
money was worth something,
could repay my friends."
"X could better fight for peace in
Germany than in a United States
prison."
Eisler accused American author-
ities of seizing his wife as a "hos-
tage—just like the Nazis.”
“I hope they will let her go and
join me." he said. "She has suf-
fered enough. There is no reason
for keeping her in an American
prison.”
Demand Raised
For Records On
Atomic Energy
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Hickenlooper Insists
On Having I^ook
At Security Data
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FORI) WORKERS RETURN IN DETROIT—Ford Motor company workers in thb Detroit area,
some 16.000 of them, started back to work Tuesday at Ford's Rouge plant. Union and company repre-
sentatives met to choose an arbitrator to settle the "speed-up" issue which union spokesmen said was
the cause of the strike which extended over 24 days. (NEA Telephoto.)
Veteran Pension Polio S,rikes
Bill Is Advanced More Adulls
House Sends Measure
To Senate Today
-The
Clark Refuses
To Give Files
Information Termed
‘Extremely Delicate’
Drop Shown In
Building Permits
There was plenty of building
bridge "on "state" high- act‘vily ‘n pro^ess in E1 Reno
1 rlnrinn inn mnnth 11
m ruction a ^ c;n“^;‘n j during the month Just closed but
way
river in Dewev county was signed
„ seven.. ..I The bridge, sought for many years
All three were brought to the wpstern Oklahoma, would *
F,1 Reno sanitarium by ambulance
Padget was to be removed to an
Oklahoma City hospital today and,
. . ...... i ' ner included the new truck load
It. was thought Willmon also might ] ........... IV._
be gemoved to Oklahoma City,|
Janssen said.
Damage to the Padgett automo- j
bile, which was almost demolished,
was estimated at $300. Damage to
the gasoline truck was approxi-
mately $250, Janssen said, while
damage to the cattle truck was neg-
ligible.
the greater part of It was on
construction for which permits were
by western Oklahoma, would be jissue<1 ln April-
near Camargo. | Only nine building permits were I entered this country
Other major bills signed by Tur- i issued during May, records of Miss j five years and are known to have
Ethel Dowell, city clgrk, show. ] engaged in "espionage or related
Total value of the work was esti- activities.'
WASHINGTON, June 1—</P)—At-
torney General Tom Clark today
refused to give a senate committee
the secret government files on 164
officials of foreign governments.
Clark told a senate judiciary
sub-committee the information is
“extremely delicate" and even in-
volves ambassadors and foreign
ministers of European governments.
He promised to cooperate with
the committee to give “all the in-
formation possible."
Chairman Patrick McCarran
(Democrat, Nevada, said the com-
mittee does not want the files them-
selves—but he wants a “revelation
of the basic facts" In the files.
Clark and John E. Puerifoy. as-
sistant secretary of state, had been
subpoenaed by the group to pro-
duce the files on 164 persons. Clark
said all but two or three of them
are foreigners.
Instead of the files, McCarran
demanded Clark produce informa-
tion to show how many Com-
munists or Communist agents have
in the last
WASHINGTON. June 1 — </P)—
The house passed and sent to the
senate today a World War I and
II veterans’ pension bill after
knocking out an "unable to work”
provision.
Passage came quickly after a
spirited fight over the unemploy-
ability proposal recommended by
the veterans' committee. The pro-
vision went out of the bill by a
standing vote of 172 to 57.
There were no other change^
proposed to the bill, estimated A0
cost, in its present form. $65J)00,-
000.000 in addition to what JfJow is
.being paid in pensions ui/der vet-
erans' administration regulations.
Debate I., •Rrit.f
The one-sSdedness of th® fight
over th* unemployability clau*®
led to abandonment of a planned
battle to eliminate World War II
veterans from the bill's provisions.
There was less than two hours
of debate on the bill, which actually
writes into permanent law regula-
tions under which pensions now
are being paid to many veterans.
A much more costly bill was de-
feated by the house in March.
Chairman John Rankin (Demo-
crat, Mississippi) of the veterans
committee had opposed the unable-
to-work provision as unfair and dis-
criminatory.
Effect Is Noted
The effect of the provision was
to say that a veteran who can work
half a normal day or earn half a
normal day’s pay is not eligible
for a pension.
A group of young World War II
veterans who helped defeat the
first bill said they would fight to
kill Rankin's amendment. If they
lost, they said, they would try to
defeat the whole bill.
The unemployability provision
says veterans who, because of dis-
ability. can't do more than half a
day’s normal work or earn more
than half the normal pay for the
work they are doing, shall receive
the pensions. Others would not be
eligible.
NEW YORK, June I—(/Pi-
trend toward a higher proportion
of poliomyelitis cases among adults
continued during last year's wide-
spread epidemic, the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
reported Wednesday.
A survey based on cases from 22
states and the District of Columbia
showed 17.8 ■percent of 15,151 per-
sons stricken in those areas were
over 20 years of age, Basil O'Con-
nor, president of the foundation,
said.,
had 27,894
Gassers Next
Foe of Eagles
El Reno Club Faces
Tough Opposition
TJhe United States
li?!ted cases last year.
Children under 10 made up 60.2
percent of the survey total; chil-
dren between 10 and 14 constituted
14.3 percent: and those in the 15
to 19 age group 7.7 percent.
O'Connor said the trend toward
higher incidence among older age
groups was indicated by comparison
with surveys of previous years, al-
ifioue-h mo past records on an exact-
ly comparable basis are available.
Mercury Hits
95-Degree Mark
‘Guesses’ on Heat
Are Fairly Accurate
Successor For
Babcock Named
limit and extension of the turnpike
authority until 1951.
Military Aid Is
Termed ‘Urgent’
Swimming Plans
To Be Discussed
WASHINGTON. June 1 —(/Pi—
Undersecretary of State Webb said
today that President Truman con-
siders the proposed foreign military
aid program one of his "most ur-
gent proposals" for action at this
Swimming program for El Reno
children will be discussed by rep-
resentatives of various organiza-
tions at 7:30 p. m. tonight in the
chamber of commerce rooms.
The dozen organizations sponsor-
ing the summer recreational pro-
gram will either accept or reject
the offer made by the city council
last week concerning the swim-
ming program
Council members voted to split
the cost of the swimming pool
session of congress.
At a news conference Webb vol-
unteered a statement on the legis-
lative situation, emphasizing that
the administration definitely wants
action on the $1,450,000,000 arms
program—mainly for western Eu-
rope—before adjournment.
mated at only $6,515.
Some of that was for new con-
struction of small buildings, such
as garages, but most of it was for
remodeling work. No new homes
were included in the work.
Permits for construction amount-
ing to $424,185 have been issued
during the first five months of this
year. Miss Dowell’s records show.
Permits totaled 98.
Those figures compare with 58
He submitted a list of 11 ques-
tions to Clark and asked that he
answer them by next Monday.
Osage Ranches
Start Big Push
PAWHUSKA, June 1—(U.R)—’The
first of thousands of cattle from
the lush grasslands of the Osage
operations Tor the program' which j country have reached markets, It
includes swimming three mornings was announced today,
each week for a period of 10 weeks. The big push to markets ex-
The group also will discuss the pected to be in
permits and $135,200 for the same
period in 1947 and 88 permits and
$274,895 for the first five months
of 1948
The last permit for last month,
issued May 31, was to Guy E. Sel-
fridge. for enlarging a room and
porch at the residence at 518 South
Roberts avenue. Cost was estimated
at $900.
Council Clashes
On Veto Issue
Taxi Is ‘Castle’
Under British Law
CARDIFF. Wales, June 1—<iP>—A
Cardiff court dismissed a charge
that a man had been drunk and
disorderly in a public place—name-
____ . full swing around
iumor toetein^ue VoJcct which | June 20, W. H. Munday. spokesman [ ly a taxicab-with this ruling:
iTa uart of the recreational pro- for the Osage County Cattlemen's 'When he has paid his fare, an
_ p > association, announced,
gram.
| Englishman's taxi is his castle."
PARIS. June 1—(/Pi—The foreign
ministers council today took up
the question of restoring four-
power control of Berlin and clashed
at once on the veto iss>ie.
American sources said the three
western ministers urged that t.he
rule of unanimity be abolished in
a revived kommandatura.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky strongly objected, say-
ing that, unanimous decisions were
"the only way to govern.”
The kommandatura. a four-power
body, governed Berlin in the im-
mediate post-war period before the
cold war division of the city. It
broke up last year following con-
tinued east-west deadlocks.
The issue of Berlin and the cur-
rency situation there made up the
second item on the agenda of the
I foreign ministers council.
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 1— l/P>
—Morris M. Thomas. Oklahoma
City, was appointed chairman of
the industrial commission today by
Governor Roy J. Turner.
He succeeds Lucius A. Babcock,
El Reno, who resigned yesterday.
Thomas has been a member of
the board since Aug. 16. 1498.
He was appointed after Turner
requested the resignation of several
officials of the department.
Leverett Edwards, also of Okla-
homa City, was named as the new
board member.
All other board members were
reappointed. New appointments,
which are co-terminus with the
administration, were necessary be-
cause of the new legislative act re-
modeling the board.
El Reno residents were mopping
the sweat from their brows Tues-
day and today. They generally
agreed that the weather was slight-
ly warm.
And their “guesses” were fairly
accurate since the official thermom-
eter showed the mercury crawled
up to the 95-degree mark Tuesday
afternoon before calling It a day
and sliding downward for the night.
That was the first time the fluid
had broken into the 90s this season
and a check of the records shows
that on the same day in 1948 the
maximum reading was only 78 de-
grees.
But, before El Reno residents
start the rumor that it is much
hotter this' year than last, the
records for 1948 also show the
thermometer registered temperatres
in the 90s on seven different days
during April and May.
First of the 90-degree weather
In 1948 came on April 16. This year
the fluid hit only 75 degrees. The
last day of April 1948 also was a
scorcher with a maximum tempera-
ture of 93.
That 93 degrees was last year’s
top mark until June 4 when the
fluid touched 95 degrees.
Temperatures this year have been
kept down considerably by the un-
usually heavy rains during May.
Total rainfall for the city during
the month was approximately 11
inches. The rains were varied and
the gauge at Fort Reno recorded
10.81 inches while the gauge kept
by Mrs. Lloyd Palmer north of
El Reno recorded 11,22 Inches.
El Reno Eagles baseball team
may have a bit of tough sledding
when they met the Oklahoma City
Gassers at Adams park at 3 p. m.
next Sunday.
The Eagles have had only two
Commercial league games this
year due to bad weather postpone-
ments while the Gassers have had
five, winning four and dropping
one.
The Eagles' score so far is two
losses, one to the Capitol Hill Mer-
chants and the other to Herman's.
The game to be played here Sun-
day is a contest originally scheduled
for May 15. All games that day
were rained out.
The league leaders, Wilson Pack-
of Oklahoma City, originally
were scheduled to play here this
Sunday but tjiat contest was post-
poned before the season opened to
allow the Packers to participate In
a tournament at Duncan.
Records Compared
The Gassers are battling with
the Packers for the league lead,
the Gassers having four wins
against one loss while the Packers
sport four wins. The Gassers’ single
loss was a 13-9 defeat by the Pack-
ers on the opening game of the
season.
Eagles Manager Mike Preno, from
his bed in the El Reno sanitarium,
said the Eagles will be ready to
go Sunday afternoon. Preno en-
tered the sanitarium Tuesday for
treatment for a strained back. His
physician said the team manager
probably will be dismissed from the
hospital Thursday or Friday.
In the meantime, George Sheets,
co-chairman of the Eagles baseball
committee, is directing the squad
members in their practice.
Hawkins May Start
Preno said he hoped Farrell ’ sites
WASHINGTON, June I—(/»»)—
Senator Bourke Hickenlooper (Re-
publican. Iowa i today demanded to
see atomic energy commission
records on 14 agreements and
transactions and security data on
an unnamed number of persons.
Hickenlooper fired this demand
when the senate-house atomic com-
mittee began hearings on his
charge that there has been "in-
credible mismanagement" of the
atomic energy commission under
the chairmanship of David E.
Lilienthal.
Hickenlooper had a sealed en-
velope he said contained the names
of the persons he wants to get
security data about. He did not say
how many names there were.
With Lilienthal and Carroll L.
Wilson, AEC general manager, fac-
ing him over a committee table,
Hickenlooper began by saying that.
Lilienthal is "inadequate" to fill
the Job he holds.
Information Demanded
The Iowa senator then demanded
the information on 14 different
matters, and started to hand to
Lilienthal the sealed envelope.
Hickenlooper said he wanted this
material to use in future question-
ing of Lilienthal.
Chairman Brten McMahon (Dem-
ocrat. Connecticut) asked to see
the envelope.
McMahon opened it, read the list,
and handed it to Lilienthal.
Besides this. Hickenlooper asked
that the commission deliver to him
by 3 p. m. today the following:
1. All correspondence regarding
the custody of atomic weapons.
2. Reports of the commission's
advisory committee.
3. Records of all overtime paid to
headquarters personnel in Wash-
ington.
4. The minutes of the commis-
sion's general advisory board.
5. The minutes of its military
liaison committee.
6. The commission's minutes.
Other Records Sought
7. The records of the Quebec
conference pertaining to atomic
matters. (The conference was a 1943
meeting of the late President
Roosevelt and then British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
their advisers.)
8. A Hyde Park memoir on
atomic matters.
9. Records of the Potsdam con-
ference regarding atomic affairs.
10. A statement on the position
of the United States and the United
Kingdom on atomic matter in Jan-
uary 1948.
11. An inventory of the Man-
hattan district when it was turned
over to the civilian commission.
12. Correspondence with the fed-
eral bureau of Investigation on lost
or misplaced atomic source material.
13. Engineering plans for reactor
Hawkins will be able to start on 14. Records of all the investiga-
the mound for the Eagles this Sun- | tions for applications
day. Hawkins sprained two fingers ships.
for fellow-
Reports Made* At
Eagles Meeting
on his throwing hand about two
weeks ago and was unable to pitch
in the game May 22 against Her-
man's.
City Manager C. A. Bentley said
today that barring rainy weather
during the remainder of this week,
damage to the Adams park grand-
stand will be repaired sufficiently
for use by Sunday.
Officials of the eight teams in
the league will meet at 7 p. m.
Thursday In Oklahoma City to dis-
cuss dates for playing of postponed
games. It Is hoped that all post-
poned games can be played before
the opening of the second-half
schedule on June 12.
$75 Fine Ordered
On Slot Machine
Park Concession
Rights Granted
Reports of delegates to the Ok-
The new law raises salaries from lahoma-Arkansas bi-state Eagles
$4,500 for the chairman and $4,200 j convention at Little Rock, Ark„ last
for members to $7,500 and. $7,200.
Weather
State Forecast
Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs-
day with occasional thunderstorms,
mostly in east. Continued warm.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8 a. m. today: High, 95; low, 70;
at 8 a. m.. 77.
week were given Tuesday night at
the weekly meeting of the El Reno
aerie.
It was reported that three El
Reno lodge members were named to
offices of the bl-state aerie. John
Shaw was elevated to president
from vice president; George Young
was re-elected trustee and Earl
Nunn was re-appolnted secretary.
Walter Rowe, retiring president
of the El Reno aerie, thanked mem-
bers for their assistance during the
past year and announced the team
captained by J. J. Barnett was win-
Mrs. Ethel Butler. 39. El Reno,
charged with permitting a slot
machine to be set up at the Reno
Rancho, was ordered to pay a fine
of $75 and court costs Tuesday
{when she pleaded guilty at her
arraignment before Walter P. Crites
in justice of peace court.
Information filed in the case by
Bobby Lee Morrison, county attor-
ney, alleged that on May 25 the
defendant had permitted a slot
machine to be set up for the
purpose of having or allowing the
machine to be played for money.
The complaint was signed by
Sheriff Lloyd Palmer, who con-
fiscated the machine at the Reno
Rancho, located southeast of El
Reno, last Wednesday morning.
State of weather: Hot during I ner of the membership contest,
day. electrical storm and shower Joint installation of new officers
at night.
Rainfall: .05 Inch.
Mrs. R. S. Choice was the only
bidder for the concession rights and
the council voted against reopening
the bidding. Her bid was $61.
George Hammond was the high
bidder for concession rights at Bur-
ton park. Two bids were received
for the Burton concession right.
Hammond bid $37 monthly for
the summer season while Clarence
W. Wiley bid a flat $42.75 for the
season.
Under the law the contracts can-
not be officially awarded until 48
hours after the bids are opened.
The council also passed resolution
No. 4 on paving district No. 23. and
set June 15 as the date for a
hearing of the engineer's statement
of reassessment.
Progress of work being done ln
the north section of Adams park
also was discussed.
Pilot Is Trapped As
Plane Falls into Sea
Patrol Interviews
41 Applicants
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 1—</P)
—Forty-one applicants for 50 state
highway patrol Jobs have been in-
terviewed so far by a special screen-
of the Eagles lodge and auxiliarying board. Paul Reed, commissioner
will be held next Monday night. of public safety, said Tuesday.
PANAMA. June 1—(/P)—The body
of R. Wayne Ingram, 29, United
States pilot from Waco, Texas.
Wednesday was found in the wreck-
age of his plane in the sea off
Puerto Armuelles in Chiriqui pro-
vince.
Searchers reported that the body
was trapped in the plane's cabin.
Divers are expected to raise the
craft Wednesday. The plane, en-
route to Armuelles to pick up
passengers, fell Into the sea after
losing its tall and part of its
fuselage in a midair collision with
another aircraft Tuesday. Ingram
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Ingram of Sedgwick. Kan.
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