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, Decorations For
Annual Rodeo
To Be Erected
Western Attire
Will lie Worn
i Next Two Weeks
El Reno will take on a festive
appearance this week as the rodeo
association starts decorating the
business district in preparation for
the fourth annual rodeo, July 7,
8 and 9.
Individual citizens also are asked
to get Into the spirit of the rodeo
and assist in advertising the affair.
* A **rge number of the Junior
chamber and El Reno Wranglers
club members have been foregoing
daily sessions with the razor the
past few weeks. Other men are
asked to let their whiskers grow
and participate in the contest for
*50 in cash prizes for the best
bristles.
Men and women alike are asked
to don their western attire for the
next two weeks as another means
of letting tourists and strangers
know of the event.
Decorations More Extensive
Street decorations will be much
more extensive this year than in
past years, association officials re-
ported Saturday.
In addition to the streamers
across the streets, most of the busi-
ness houses will have gaily colored
bunting strung across their fronts.
A decoration contest is being con-
ducted and rodeo officials said
Saturday that the most decorated
block in the business district will
be the scene of the three contests
—old fiddlers, square dancing and
beard judging.
The three events will be held
during the morning and early after-
noon of the first day of the rodeo.
Signing for Bunting
At the present time, it was an-
nounced, the 100 block South Bick-
ford avenue is leading in the deco-
ration contest, all but two of the
stores in that block having signed
up for the bunting.
Erection of the bunting will start
the middle of the week.
Admission tickets for the three
night performances will go on sale
Monday at the Tindel jewelry store
in the Crown drug building.
Dr C. A. Bentley. Jr., chainnan
of the rodeo parade committee, in
an announcement Saturday urged
all business firms to confirm their
float entries during the coming
week.
It is hoped, he said, that a large
number of decorated floats will be
entered in the parade so that it
will be the best staged here in
years.
Council Will
Acton Bids
Two special meetings of the El
Reno city council have been sched-
uled for the coming week, It was
reported Saturday by City Manager
C. A. Bentley Both will deal prin-
cipally with developments of paving
district No. 24.
First of the sessions will be Tues-
day night at which time con- j
tractors' bids and bond bids on !
the project will be opened.
Friday night the coimcil will meet j
again to award or reject the bids. 1
Law requires the council to wait
at least 48 hours between the open- I
ing of the bids and the awarding
of the contracts.
There also will be some discussion
Tuesday night of the new sanitary
sewer district No. 26, recently peti-
tioned by residents of the Jensen.
Bonvtew and Fairview additions.
Rex Collins, engineer, said the
resolution of necessity will be ready
for presentation to the council.
Following passage of the resolution
the council will set the date for
the protest hearing.
Vaught To Speak
At Lions Program
Edgar S. Vaught, Oklahoma City,
federal district judge, will be the
principal speaker at the installation
ceremouies for new officers of the
Eli Reno Lions club.
The ladies' night dinner meeting
will be at 7 p. m. Tuesday in the
Etta Dale school.
Judge Vaught is past president
of Lions International, serving in
that capacity during the year 1921-
22.
He Ls well known In El Reno
and is the fattier of Mrs. M. S.
Morris. 701 South Williams avenue.
LINCOLN MIDGETS ARE GOING GOOD—Booming bats of the Lincoln school midgets bares
big league material for some major league outfits, come 1959. The boys, coached by Frank Prevratil,
C. H. Perry and Dennis Adams, have been doing a bang-up job on the diamond in the games
they've played this season. They have beaten Webster 14-8 and 8-4, Irving 14-2 and Weatherford 25-17.
while losing only to the strong Falling Supply midgets of ISnid 8-5. In the back row, left to right,
are Perry, Adams and Prevratil. Third row, left to right: Hooter Johnson. Malcolm Fire, Dean Rice,
Walter Land and Freddie Singleton. Second row: Gary Hanks, Kenneth Russell, James Wynes, Eddie
Williams, Chuck Link and Burke Prevratil. Front row: Robert Adams, Albert Walker. Mike Fire,
Charles Perry, Bruce Fire and Jerry Welch. Not pictured, but members of the squad, are Tommy
Zachary. Johnny Shaw, Galen Hadlock and Bob Maynard. The group will journey to Enid for a return
game with the Failing midgets on Tuesday, and will entertain the Weatherford nine here on Wed-
nesday. • (Photo by Tribune Photographer)
Women's Golf
Tourney Set
Qualifying Rounds
Slated Monday
Annual women’s golf tournament
of the El Reno Country club will be
played the week of June 27, it was
announced Saturday, with qualify-
ing rounds to start Monday morn-
ing.
Play is scheduled to begin at 8:15
a. m. in the nine-hole flight, where
pairings include:
Mrs. Aubrey Bryant. Mrs. Frank
Vogel. Mrs. Don Barnes and Mrs.
Aaron Youngheim.
Mrs. Stella Beets, Mrs. Floyd
Leidy anti Mrs. Ed Koelsch.
The 18-hole flights will start at
9:15 a. m. The pairings are:
Mrs. H C. Brown. Mrs. Hayward
Wright and Mrs. Emerson Kelso.
Mrs. R. N Dulmage. Mrs. C. A.
Evans and Mrs. Sim Richard Re-
ville.
Mrs. V. R. Mordy. Mrs. Garland
Sears and Mrs. Duard Barnes.
Mrs. Earl Barnes, Mrs. H. G.
Davis and Mrs. Marvin Chambers.
Mrs. Fred H. Hampton, Mrs.
Jack Moore and Mrs. H. J. Davis.
Mrs. Glen Brown, Mrs. J. B.
Swaim and Mrs. J. T. Roberts.
Mrs. John Mueller, Mrs. Lola
Trevathail and Mrs Earl Wood-
house.
Mrs. I. W. Douglas, jr.. and Mrs.
Robert E. Islimael.
All women of the club are eli-
gible to participate in the tourna-
ment. Those who have not regis-
tered but desire to participate will
be paired Monday morning, the an-
nouncement added.
75 Polio Patients
Are Being Treated
At State Hospital
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 25—
(U.R>—Crippled Children's hospital
here has 75 polio patients today,
four of them admitted since yes-
terday afternoon.
New patients include a 3-year-
old boy from Seminole, a 4-year-
old boy from Oklahoma City, a
girl. 3 12, from Cogar in Caddo
county, and a 6-year-old boy
from Lawton.
Thirty-seven patients at the
hospital are in acute stages of
the disease while the others are
convalescing.
Hillcrest hospital in Tulsa has
admitted one new patient, a 5-
year old boy from Bartlesville.
The Tulsa hospital has a total of
nine polio patients.
Guard Payroll
Checks Here
Regular payroll checks for Com-
pany B. 179th Infantry, the local
unit of the national guard, will be
issued from 12:30 to 4 p. m. Mon-
day In the council room at the
El Reno city hall. It was announced
Saturday by Master Sergeant Wal-
ker Juhan. Fort Reno, administra-
tive assistant of the local guard.
The payroll checks were late in
arriving this month. Juhan said.
The guard unit will not drill
Wednesday night of this week,
Juhan added, since this will be the
fifth Wednesday in June. The
guard is allowed only four drill
nights per month.
Enlistments in the national guard
also will be taken by Juhan Mon-
day while he is here to issue the
payroll«checks. No enlistments in
the guard will be accepted after
June 30 until the end of the sum-
mer camp which is slated Aug.
7-21 at Port Sill.
Eagles Face
Oilers Today
Weed Is Slated
To Take Mound
Alva Weed, only told-tinier play-
ing with the El Reno Eagles this
season, will be on the mound when
the game between the E&gles and
Cato Oilers opens on Adams park
j diamond at 3 p. m. today.
Announcement of (lie choice for
starting hurler was made Saturday
afternoon by FYed Forquer. assist-
ant manager. Forquer and George
Sheets are directing the Eagles
during the illness of Manager Mike
Preno. The latter is a patient in the
Catto hospital.
Weed was one of the leading
| El Reno pitchers prior to the war.
! He played some baseball last season
j and this year has been patrolling
the outfield.
He has told Forquer his arm is
I in pretty fair shape.
The Eagles have met the Oilers
I once before this season and are
hoping results of today's contest
I will be just the opposite of the
prior game. That afrair ended 14-2
in favor of the Oilers.
All teams of the Oklahoma City
Commercial league are scheduled
to be in action today.
In addition to the game here,
Herman's will meet Capitol Hill at
Sandlot park, Oklahoma City, Wil-
son Packers will meet Tinker Field
at Tinker while the Gassers will
travel to Minco.
$5,000 Taken In
Bank Robbery
Leisurely Bandit
Obtains Money
! HOUSTON, Tex.. June 25—<U.R>—
A "businessman” bandit leisure-
ly walked into the Northside State
i bank here today, demanded "the
' money,” and escaped with an esti-
! mated $5,000 without even display-
j ing a gun.
The man, well-dressed in a light
brown summer suit and bright yel-
low tie. took the money in *100
and $50 bills from a lady teller
after spurning *200 Cashier C. P.
Sewell produced.
Alarm Is Spread
Police swarmed over north Hous-
ton minutes after Sewell spread the
alarm, but the robber had strolled
out of the bank and disappeared.
Sewell said the man, known by
sight to several bank employes,
walked to his cage and addressed
him by name.
When Sewell arose to greet the
man. the suave bandit put his right
hand in his coat pocket at counter-
level and said. "Pull out your
drawer. I want your money.”
When the $200 was all Sewell
could muster, the robber ordered
him to the adjoining cage of Mrs.
Lona Edwards, teller. The bulk of
the loot, mostly in $100 bills, came
from there, Sewell said.
Talks with Employes
"He pocketed the packets of
greenbacks and left without saying
another word," Sewell told police.
"I'm sure he had a gun."
Mrs. Margaret Griffin, bank re-
ceptionist, said the bandit spent
most of yesterday in the bank, and
that she had conversed with him
again this morning shortly after
the bank opened.
Mrs. Ruth Monk, a clerk, said
she saw the "very business-like”
man around 10 a. m. today, and
asked him if he was being waited
on.
"No," Mrs. Monk quoted him, “I'm
waiting for my brother. I am go-
ing to cash some bonds."
All lady employes agreed the
holdup man was “very, very hand-
some."
Hunted Pair's
Trail Fades In
Western Kansas
Thornton’s Car
Found Abandoned
At Dodge City
DODGE CITY. Kan., June 25—
(U.R)—The trail of a young couple
hunted in the motor court flaying
of W. A. “Tex" Thornton, famed
oilfield troubleshooter, evaporated
in dry western Kansas air today.
The trail which started at an
Amarillo. Tex., motel and sent
Texas Sheriff Paul Gaither of Pot-
ter county on the search broke off
at Dodge City after Thornton's car
was found here last night.
Gaither carried a pair of "John
and Mary Doe" murder indictments
in his pocket for the young man
and young woman who are believed
to have hitchhiked from Dodge Ctiy
last night about 11 o'clock.
Road Blocks Ordered
Peace officers threw up custo-
mary road blocks in the Dodge City
area despite an eight-hour lead
l|eld by the suspected couple.
Thornton, who followed a violent
Occupation which sent him with his
Nitroglycerine troubleshooting in
• ery major oil field in the world,
4ied violently in Amarillo.
His body was found by a maid
at the motel last Thursday. He had
been beaten and apparently robbed.
A shirt was knotted around his
beck.
The Texas sheriff believed the
couple grabbed a taxi to an inter-
section of state route K-45 and
U. S. highway 154 .about one mile
from Dodge City. (Highway 154
connectes with U. 8. 54. a route
from El Paso, Tex., to southern
Missouri.)
Car in Good Condition
Mrs. John Van Dine directed
Police Chief Pearl Manda yesterday
to Thornton's car after noticing
that "it had been parked a long
time" near the hlghschool building.
She believed it was parked late
Thursday night.
Thornton's saddle and bools were
found in the car. Lieutenant John
Sughtur said. The vehicle, minus
Ils keys, was in good condition.
In Amarillo, Don Sipes of the
city police identification department
said a pair of man's slacks and a
jjjjtii's handkerchief bearing lip-
stick marks were left behind in
cabin 18 at the Park Plaza motel,
where the slaying occurred last
Wednesday night.
Offices To Close On
Saturday Afternoons
Offices in the Canadian county
courthouse will be closed on Sat-
urday afternoons in the future,
beginning on Saturday, July 2.
County officials announced they
had signed an agreement to close
the offices on Saturday afternoons,1
effective next Saturday, and that
the offices will close at 12 noon'
each Saturday,
Permits Are Obtained
For Remodeling Work
Two building permits, both for
additions to residences, were issued
Saturday by Miss Ethel Dowell,
city clerk.
First of the permits went to J. J.
Howard for a 12 by 28 addition tq
the residence at 124 South O ave-
nue. Cost of the work was esti-
mated at $400.
The second permit went to Walter
Wilson. The permit indicated he
plans a 12 by 14 addition to the
residence at 1117 South Hadden
avenue at an estimated cost of
(1,000.
Barbershop Quartet
Singers Will Meet
Regular meeting of the El Reno
barbershop quartet singers is sched-
uled for 8 p. m. Monday at the
highschool, it was announced Sat-
urday.
It was pointed out that any one
who is Interested In harmonizing
in the barbershop quartet manner
ls welcome to attend the meetings
of the El Reno chapter of the
Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement of Barbershop
Quartet Singing in America.
Arrest Made For
Disturbing Peace
Aaron Nail, 29. Enid, booked at
the police station at 12:30 a. m.
Saturday on a charge of disturbing
the peace by fighting in the 100
block of South Choctaw avenue,
forfeited a bond of *11 In municipal
court later in the day, records In
the office of Lee Harvey, chief of
police, disclosed.
50th Reunion Held
By Rough Riders
LAS VEGAS, N. M„ June 25—
(U.R)—The shadow of the 20th
century's wars hung over Teddy
Roosevelt's Rough Riders as they
gathered today in their 50th, and
what may be their last, reunion.
The “boys" of '98, now elderly men
of 70, talked about their charge up
San Juan Hill 50 years ago, and the
bad food, and the dysentery of the
Spanish-American war of 1898. But
some of them believed they were
forgotten men now.
Major George Wilcox of Warren.
Ariz., a cavalryman who rode
through Cuba, said the years
haven't been kind to the veterans of
his war. He said he felt history had
given the Rough Riders a bad
break.
'There are a lot of people who
have never heard of the Spanish
American war," said Wilcox. "It
may not have been as big a war
as the ones that came later, but the
mud was just as wet."
His voice was bitter as he re-
called that he heard a World War
II veteran exclaim, during con-
gressional consideration of a Span-
ish war pension bill:
“Who in the devil are these
Spanish war rats, anyway?"
American Slav
Congress Hit
Red Label Applied
By House Committee
WASHINGTON. June 25 —</P>-
The house un-American activities
committee said today the American
Slav congress Is a Russian weapon
for subverting 10.000.000 Slavic
Americans by pressure and "poison-
ous and lying propaganda."
It emphasized twice that the big
majority of these people are anti-
communist and loyal to America.
It said they must be "protected
from intimidation and victimiza-
tion by foreign governments or their
agents.”
An American Slav congress of-
ficial said in New York that all the
committee's charges are "baseless,"
that the Slav congress is “purely an
American organization."
The committe said that not only
does the Slav congress toe the Com-
munist party line but It is a "Mos-
cow-inspired and directed federa-
tion of Communist-dominated or-
ganizations."
The committee put out a 151-page
report about the Slav congress,
which it recently investigated.
It wound up with 10 recommenda-
tions. including a proposal that for-
eign Communists be barred from
admission to this country. It said
clitzenship of alien Communists
should be revoked and they should
be deported.
A Red label Is nothing new for
■ the Slav congress, which has head-
] quarters in New York. Attorney
General Tom Clark has listed it as
Communist and subversive.
Leniency Proposed
For Young Burglar
DUNCAN. June 25 —(U.R)—Police
Chief Raymond Webb said today he
will recommend leniency for a 16-
year-old Duncan Negro boy who
burglarized four homes for $3 so
that he could go to a church youth
rally this week-end in Oklahoma
City. Webb has turned to boy over
to county authorities.
STROUD MAN INJURED
STROUD. June 25 —(U.R)—Leroy
Shelhope is recovering from a freak
buzzsaw accident Shelhope had
turned the saw off and was placing
the idling machine on the floor
when it caught his trousers and
pulled his right leg Into the saw-
teeth. The leg is now in a cast.
Aged Master Swindler Is
Held in Jail at Chicago
CHICAGO, June 25—(U.R)—Sig-
mund Engel, aged master swind-
ler, boasted today that he bilked
scores of women of millions of
dollars during the last 50 years
and could "make King Solomon
with all his wives look like a
piker.”
The dapper, balding confidence
man, captured here yesterday in
a trap set by a suspicious widow,
is a prized prisoner of Chicago
police who said they would prose-
cute him rather than turn him
over to any of a multitude of
cities where he ls wanted.
An increasing number of re-
ports poured into the Chicago po-
lice headquarters on Engel's ac-
tivities In winning women’s
hearts with promises of riches
and then disappearing with their
savings. Officers were having
trouble booking him because he
"talks and talks and smiles and
smiles, but doesn't tell you any-
thing."
Bond Caravan
To Visit City
Opportunity Drive
Is Given Emphasis
Transcribed music will be fused
with local entertainment when the
covered wagon caravan of the U. S.
treasury's Opportunity bond drive
comes to El Reno Tuesday to
promote the sales of U\ S. savings
bonds, it was announced Saturday
by Mrs. N. C. Lewis, bond' com-
mittee chairman of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars auxiliary.
Traveling with the caravan is a
huge silver colored army and air
force recruiting van. This van has
a modern radio control room
equipped with microphones, public
address speakers and phonograph
turntables.
Transcriptions Furnished
! The movie industry has furnished
a number of special 15-minute
"Guest Star” transcribed shows to
be played at the site of the covered
wagon caravan. Stars appearing on
these transcribed shows include
Bing Crosby, the Andrews sisters,
Frank Sinatra and Bob Crosby.
Local entertainment Is to appear
at the show area while the caravan
is in town.
Covered Wagon Is Symbol
Accompanying the silver van ls
a navy unit and an old covered
wagon which serves as a symbol of
the Opportunity savings bond drive
now underway.
Mrs. Lewis said that the theme
of the covered wagon symbol is
to contrast the opportunities of-
fered the thrifty pioneer with those
available to the thrifty 1949er who
invests In savings bonds.
The caravan which will arrive
at 11 a. m. Tuesday will be parked
in the 100 block of South Bickford
avenue for the duration of its stay
here.
Health Group
Will Confer
Dr. G. F. Mathews, Oklahoma
commissioner of health, has sched-
! tiled a statewide meeting of health
i department officials for July 7 and
8 in Oklahoma City, it was report-
ed here Saturday by City Manager
C. A. Bentley.
The meeting, Mathews' letter to
Bentley said, will be for the pur-
pose of discussing health problems
of the state and for laying of plans
to facilitate statewide health cover-
age with the aid of local health
departments.
Mathews said he hoped the meet-
ing would result in the working
out of ways and means to give full
time health service to all people of
Oklahoma.
I Bentley said that he, Mayor Her-
man Merveldt and possibly some
other members of the El Reno city
council probably will attend the
two-day session.
Heavy Damage Is
Caused by Rains
ANADARKO, June 26 — (U.R) —
Heavy May rains in the Washita
river watershed caused *11,030,000
damages to soil, crops, and property
on farm and ranch lands, regional
headquarters of the U. S. soil and
conservation service estimated to-
day.
Some 29,579,000 tons of topsoil,
valued at *7,394,000, w--u> washed
away from unprotected lands in
Caddo. Kiowa, Washita and Grady
counties, the service said.
Crops washed out or covered with
sediment were valued at $3,332,000
and losses in stored crops and live-
stock were set at *92,000. Terraces,
ponds anti levees were damaged
$212,000.
The service said performance of
flood control structures in the wa-
tershed was satisfactory “in every
respect." The structures gave ample
protection to soil and crops In bot-
tomland Involved.
Engel, internationally known as
a confidence man. is listed on
police records as 73 years old but
he says he is 80 “and good for
20 more years."
"‘Eighty isn't too old to charm
women," Engel said. "Look at
King Solomon and his 1,000 wives.
I could make It 1.001 if they let
me out of here."
Police estimated that he mar-
ried 49 of his victims. He denied
that, and said he couldn't remem-
ber how many women he had
swindled.
"I got maybe five or six million
dollars through the years," he
said. Chicago police gave a more
modest estimate of one to two
million dollars.
Engel will be arraigned Monday.
The hearing will be on a warrant
signed by Mrs. Reseda Corrigan,
39-year-old red-headed Chicago
widow, who charges him with tak-
ing $8,700.
Lewis Reveals
New Strategy
Mines May Operate
During Wage Talks
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
W. Va., June 25—<?P>—If the na-
tion's coal operators will agree to a
three-day work week, John L. Lewis
was reported willing today to keep
the mines open while he debates
new contract terms with them.
That would mean that the 400,000
soft coal miners who today began
their annual holiday would have
part time work when the 10-day
vacation period ends July 5.
The reduction to three days a
week also would fit right in with
the United Mine Workers president's
expressed wish to stabilize employ-
ment in the industry.
Sounding Sentiment
Operators who left here yester-
day for the week-end presumably
were back home sounding sentiment
on a three-day work week.
They have scheduled meetings at
various points. The big one will be
held Monday at Pittsburgh. It will
be organized by George H. Love,
head of the big Pittsburgh Consoli-
dated Coal company.
It is Love’s opinion that because
Lewis invited them into contract
negotiations June 14. his group has
until Aug. 14 to talk things over
without threat of a strike. Alto-
gether they hope to speak for about
three-fourths of the industry when
all the stray tonnage is lined up.
60-Day Notice Required
The reason for Love's optimism is
the Taft-Hartley act provision for
60-day notice before a party can
end a contract. That deadline would
fall Aug. 14.
U. S. Steel is in a different spot.
Lewis notified Harry M. Moses,
head negotiator for the giant firm,
on May 13 that the contract would
be running out June 30. and nego-
tiations for another agreement
would be in order.
That makes the 60-day deadline
for the steel company fall on July
13.
Only the operators speak of these
"deadlines.” Lewis won't talk. He
grins when asked about them. It
serves his purpose to keep the oper-
ators guessing.
Movie Industry
Rebuked Again
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 25—i/P)
—An Oklahoma senator of Indian
descent who criticized the movie
industry during the legislative
session earlier this year leveled a
new blast today.
He is Senator J. Gladston Emery
of Wllburton.
In a letter to Hollywood today,
Emery said:
“Never has the Indian been por-
trayed as the defender of his home-
land in his meager attempt to pre-
serve his homeland from the white
aggressor.
"By sitting through 'Custer’s Last
Stand' some years back twice. I've
seen the Indians win twice. Of
course that was a 'massacre' be-
cause the Indians won," he contin-
ued.
“The pot shots my folks took at
wagon trains was no more than is
done now on occasion when we find
a trespasser on our porperty.”
Divorce Is Granted In
District Court Hearing
Ralph William Bell was divorced
from Lorraine Josephine Bell after
a hearing was conducted before
Judge Baker H. Melone in Canadian
county district court Saturday.
Mrs. Bell was awarded custody
of four children, Ada Marie. 9.
Patricia Jean, 8, Ralph William, 5,
and Geraldine Ann, 3. with an
allotment of $90 per month as
maintenance.
The couple was married Nov. 5,
1939, at ES-ie, Kan. Abandonment
was alleged as grounds for the
decree.
Volume 58, No. 100
Flooding Of
North Canadian
Is Protested
Operations At
Canton Dam Are
Held Destructive
YUKON, June 25 —(U.R)— Cana-
dian county officials and civil lead-
ers will meet Monday atternoon
with a representative of the U. 8.
army engineers to protest flooding
of the North Canadian river by
water released from the Canton
reservoir.
The Canadian county residents, It
was learned today, are convinced
that tens of thousands of dollars
worth of property damage between
Canton dam and Lake Overholser,
Just west of Oklahoma City, could
have been avoided.
County Commissioner R. G.
Courtney said the flood waters have
caused untold thousands of dollars
damage to crops, pastures, high-
ways and bridges along a 65-mlle
stretch of the river.
Six bridges across the stream
have been closed because of flood
damage through the area.
Farmers “Up in Arms"
Courtney said hundreds of farm-
ers along the lowlands "are up in
arms” because the Tulsa district
of the engineers has ordered water
released from Canton reservoir at
a rate of 4.000 cubic feet per second
the past few weeks.
He said the district engineer. Col-
onel Edward G. Daly, had told him
two weeks ago the request to cut
the flow would be "considered" but
that flooding has continued.
A. J. Hlckerson, a supervisor of
reservoirs for the engineers, will
meet with the Canadian countians
at 10 a. m. Monday to discuss the
situation.
Robert A. Park, editor of the
Yukon Sun, said the campaign
against the high water will be car-
ried direct to Washington if the
flow is not reduced next week.
Park said he was told by Colonel
H. F. Dyer, executive officer to
Colonel Daly, that Canton "is being
operated in a normal fashion."
Present Rate “Necessary”
Dyer was quoted as saying the
release of water at the present rate
is necessary "in order to clean out
the river channel."
Asked about rumors that It was
necessary to release the water be-
cause of a crack or seepage in the
newly-completed Canton dam, Dyer
said such rumors are unfounded.
Dyer said seepage occurs on every
dirt-filled dam and ls evident be-
low the structure at Canton for
about half a mile. Dyer added that
the district had no information of
any extensive damage caused by the
flooding.
He told the Yukon editor that,
had not Canton reservoir been used
during recent periods of heavy
rainfall for flood control, 29,000
acres of lowland crops would have
been destroyed in the disputed low-
lands.
Man Is Held
For Murder
GRUNDY CENTER. Iowa. June
25—(U.R)—Edward J. Beckwith, 27-
year-old factory hand, was charged
today with the gruesome sex mur-
der of a tavernkeeper's wife.
Beckwith, held on a nou-bailable
open charge of murder, waived pre-
liminary hearing in the court of
Justice of the Peace Harvey Kim-
ball yesterday.
He was bound over to the grand
jury for Indictment on charges that
he raped Mrs. Harvey Stahlhut,
cut her throat from ear to ear,
severed her breasts, slashed her
abdomen and then left her nude
body in the walk-in refrigerator at
her husband's tavern.
Beckwith told the court he could
not pay for an attorney. Kimball
said counsel would be appointed to
defend him.
Beckwith admitted to Sheriff
John A. Meyer that he slew Mrs.
Stahlhut ealry Thursday after sit-
ting all evening drinking at the bar
and "entertaining the idea of at-
tacking" her.
Mrs. Stahlhut's husband was out
of town. He found her body when
he returned. The Stahlhut’s 13-
month-old-son slept In an adjoin-
ing room as his mother was killed.
Beckwith said he became angered
when Mrs. Stahlhut resisted his ad-
vances. He slashed her with his
knife.
Weather
State Forecast
Considerable cloudiness Sunday
with scattered thunderstorms, prin-
cipally in east and central portions.
High temperatures 85 to 92.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8 a. m. Saturday: High, 87; low, 66;
at 8 a. m., 71.
State of weather: Overcast, rain
during night.
Rainfall: Fort Reno gauge. .21
inch; Palmer gauge, 46 inch;
Courtney gauge (Heaston), 1.30
inches.
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