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Red Prisoners
Defiance Fades
Before Iron Fist
Troops on Guard For
Escape Tunnels At
One Koje Compound
KOJE ISLANli, Korea, June G—
(U.R)—British troops dug for possi-
ble escape tunnels outside prisoner
of war compound C6 today while
the North Korean officers inside
brazenly displayed metal-tipped
spears.
In other compounds, including No.
85 which is so solidly Communist
it has not been screened, prisoners
set up maximum “monitor” details
to prevent escapes and to watch for
any move by allied guards.
Prisoners in compound 60, where
some 200 war crimes suspects are
held, held “bayonl drill*' with wood-
en poles. They Imitated U.S. second
division infantrymen drilling in riot
tuctlcs with gas masks and bayonets.
Defiance Fades
But gestures of defiance were fad-
ing before the “get tough” cam-
paign of Brigidier General Haydon
L. Boatner. camp commander. An
officer called it the “quietest” day
on Koje since the former command-
er, Colonel Francis T. Dodd, was
kidnaped a month ago and held
hostage for 78 hours.
American bayonet practice ap-
parently was in preparation for
the “big shift” when the 80.000 pris-
oners are moved to smaller com-
pounds. An eighth army spokesman
said Boatner’s headquarters was
studying “methods and tactics” to
permit guards to enter and inspect
the new enclosures.
The “monitors” stood at 30 to 40
yard intervals inside the barbed
wire of compounds 78 and 85. Some
observers believed the die-hard
Reds might be having difficulty
holding full control over prisoners
who in the past apparently have
demonstrated and created violent
incidents on order.
Reds Show Weapons
Seventeen anti-Communists were
rescued from compound 85 Wednes-
day. One of them said he had been
sentenced to be clubbed to death
as an anti-Communist. He said
there were probably 200 more anti-
Communists among the compound's
2.000 inmates.
In compound G6 which holds
about 3,000 North Korean officers,
about 50 strolled near the allied
guards and showed spearheads they
had made from scrap metal.
A sergeant of the King's Shrop-
shire light infantry paid little at-
tention.
“They know they can’t do any-
thing with them,” he said.
Registration Books
NOW OPEN
You Can't Vote If
You’re Not Registered T
MEANS UNITED
El Reno, Oklahoma, Friday, June 6, 1952
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To Help Buy New Band Uniforms
Jack Burger, left, El Reno’s national VFW committeeman, presents a check for $390 to
Lloyd Carroll, EHS Band club president, to help purchase new band uniforms. The gift
gets full approval of VFW Commander Frank Prevratil, second from left, and Band
DirectorMelbern Nixon. Carroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Carroll, 1011 East Fore-
man. accepted the check at ceremonies in the VFW Hut Thursday night.
Soviet's Berlin Blockade j Meeting Slated
Scares Germans to West
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BERLIN, June 6—(AP)—The East German Communists
found today their scare campaign against West Berlin had
backfired and frightened thousands of Russian zone Ger-
mans into flight to the west.
West Berlin’s crowded refugee stations took in more
than 1,510 East Germans during the last three days. In
West Germany the flights across the zonal frontier increased.
In the past 24 hours the Coburg frontier station reported
between 300 and 400 East Germans arrived there from areas
! where the Communists are creating “safety belts
their zone from the west.
Many of the refugees were youths wKo fe
On City Hospital
State Official To
Study Federal Aid
Representatives ol the city coun-
cil will meet with Paul A. Snelson, _______________________ w„
director of the hospital division of j glanced off his shoulder.
Robbery Charge
Dismissed Here
On Amarillo Trio
County Judge Says
j Evidence Is Clouded;
Other Charges Filed
County Judge Roy M. Faubion
late Thursday dismissed charges of
rcLbcry with a dangerous weapon
filed against two men and a woman
from Amarillo, Tex., in connection
with an alleged beating and robbery
at a service station here last week.
The Judge said evidence did not
Substantiate the charges.
However, the judge ordered that
Troy K. Salmon, 25, one of the
accused trio, be bound over to dis-
trict court on a charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon.
The court also ordered that the
Xbunty attorney file charges of
jltunken driving against Norman
Spencer Steen, 32, and charges of
being drunk in a public place
against Salmon's wife. Patricia
Salmon, 21.
| Assistant County Attorney Bobbie
(Morrison filed the charges against
Mrs. Salmon and 8teen Friday
morning. Date of the hearing had
not been set early in the afternoon.
Mrs. Salmon, failing to make $40
bond, was placed in the county jail.
Steen was released Thursday morn-
ing, and according to court records,
no bond was made.
Cash Box Rifled
The charges had accused the
three of robbery of $48.72 from a
cash dravor in the Southside ser-
vice station Tuesday night, May 27.
Arlan Padgett, 16. of 246 North L.
attendant at the station, said he
was struck on the left shoulder
with an iron tire tool uy one of
the trio who drove up to the sta-
tion and asked that the front
springs of their car be greased.
Padgett said he raised the car
slightly on a rack in order to get to
the springs, and looked up in time
to see one of the men standing over
him with an iron tire tool. He said
he dodged the downward swing of
tool
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the state department of health at
10 u. m. June 12. in Snelson's office
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A TOUGH FIGHT. BUT WE WON-Bobby Bourne, center, get,
plenty ot help as he proudly displays the nine-pound blue catfish
that he landed with a light flyrod at Lake Altus Tuesday. The big
blue gave the young angler a battle of more than an hour and a half
belore he boated the catch. Flanking Bobby are his fishing com-
panions, his father. R. H. Bourne, left and Taylor Gustafson, right.
Arrested Sa
in Oklahoma City to discuss federal! Tht comPlaint alleged the money
participation in construction of a • *as taken from the cash register of
municipal hospital here. i,he station after the blow *as
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announced they are forming.
Many families fled in fear of
a new war.
The Russians and their satellite'
army
Red Diplomat
To Leave U.S.
WASHINGTON. June 6 —(/P)—
Russian Ambassador Alexander
Panyushkin announced today he is
returning to Russia. U.S. diplomatic
officials said George M. Zarubin,
former Soviet ambassador at Lon-
don, has been selected to replace
Panyushkin here.
Zarubin was summoned back to
Moscow from London May 29. His
name has been submitted to the
state department for its approval.
Zarubin was ambassador to Can-
ada at the time a Russian spy ring
allegedly stole some atomic secrets.
However, the royal commission
which investigated the ring report-
ed on June 27, 1946 that the Soviet
ambassador had no part in the
“improper and inadmissible activi-
ties.'*
• Panyushkin told reporters he is
leaving the Urtited States forever,
“in connection with a new ap-
pointment.”
Panyushkin said he will leave
Sunday for New York enroute back
to Moscow through Sweden.
Panyushkin has been Russian am-
bassador to the United States since
Dec. 31, 1947.
German 'people’s police" erected ,
new barricades and strengthened
border patrols to stop the flow of
refugees.
Press Soothes Reds
The entire Russian-controlled
Seven Enemy
Jets Downed
By UN Planes
a letter from Snelson. presented
to councilmen at a meeting Thurs-
day evening, at which the council
formally approved sale of the first
$225,000 of a $350,000 bond issue to
First Securities company with
offices in Oklahoma City and
Wichita. Kan.
Firm Low Bidder
The firm was judged low and
best bidder among seven firms, with
an offer of $35,837.50 net interest
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In their meeting with Snelson
SEOUL, Korea, June 6—<>P) ----- .. _____
U. S. Sabre pilots shot down seven f°r the 15 j^ear period,
press took up the job of trying to Russian-built MIG-15s and dam- L
quiet the population. The East J aged two today as the Red jets the council representatives will
Germans were told it was free West swooped on allied fighter-bombers dis( _______ __________
Berlin which was panicky, and that | blasting North Korean rail lines chitectural contract with the* firm
the Communist “security” measures ! near Manchuria, the airforce an- of Parr and Aderhold, a hospital
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The MIG kills were the first re-
ported since Saturday.
Five were shot down and two
on interzone travel—were necessary
as protection against the west.
Again today the Russians barred
consultant’s contract, and approval
proposed hospital sites.
. Site Is Discussed
Councilmen also informally dis-
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American and British motor patrols damaged in a battle between a cussed pending arrangements fer
from the Berlin-West German su-
per-highway, ignoring repeated
lied protests.
Radio Holds Fort
In the heart of West Berlin. Rus- j the same time between 28 Sabres
Compromise Offered
By Taft on Delegates
INDIANAPOLIS, June 6 —(U.R)—
Senator Robert A. Taft, Republi-
can, Ohio said today he is willing
to compromise “on a fair basis”
contested delegations to the Re-
publican national convention.
Taft told a news conference he
would like to avoid a fight before
the credentials committee of the
Chicago convention if compromises
could be reached.
Several contests are In prospect,
Including those involving Texas’ 38
delegates. Louisiana's 16, Mississip-
pi’s five and Georgia's 17.
sian tommy-gunners and German
Communist propagandists, still stub-
bornly held out against the British
army's siege of Radio Berlin.
Two City Soldiers
Leave Korean Front
Two more El Reno men have left
Korea, where they have been serv-
ing with the 45th dvision, for re-
turn to the United States.
They are Master Sergeant W. L.
Shirey. son of Mr. and Mrs. George
J. Shirey. 735 South Miles, and Ser-
geant John D. Wilson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Hawes. 315 East
Watts.
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screening force of 36 Sabre jets a proposed site west of the city
and 16 Red fighters. City Manager C. A. Bentley has
Pilots reported one MIG knocked beon instructed to negotiate for
down in a separate fight at about land- subject to federal approval.
In addition the council Thursday
evening ordered reconditioning of
flooring in the canteen building at
Mustang field, together with some
carpentry repairs and repainting
on the outside of the building.
The floor was damaged when
water leaked into the building dur-
ing a storm last year.
and 12 MIGs. A check of gun cam-
era film later showed a second MIG
was destroyed in the battle.
On the ground, action was light.
In the heaviest fighting yester-
day, dug-in North Koreans blasted
allied raiders on the mountainous
eastern front with grenades and an
artillery and mortar barrage.
At Munsan. allied truce negoti-
ators said today the UN command
never will follow the path of “be-
trayal, force and bloodshed." by
bowing to Red demands for blanket
repatriation of some 170.000 allied-
held war prisoners.
The prisoner issue is blocking
negotiations at Pamnunjom for a
Korean armistice.
Returning to Planes Unpopular
With Oklahoma's Air Reserves
President Leaves For
•15th Division Reunion
WASHINGTON. June 6 —(>P)—
President Truman left at 10:08 a.m.
CST today for 8prlngfield. Mo., to
attend the annual reunion of the
35th division, the World war I unit
In which he served.
The presidential plane took off
In clear, hot weather for the 3-
hour flight.
Margaret Truman, the president’s
daughter, saw her father off at the
airport.
OKLAHOMA CITY. June
(U.R)—Airforce officials disclosed
today that one of every three
inactive air reservists being in-
terviewed here does not desire
to fly.
Officials also said that 18 per-
cent of the officers and 37 per-
cent of the enlisted men who have
Leen processed said they would
like to quit the reserves.
Lieutenant Colonel Lee R.
Young, who is in charge of the
survey, said replies of reservists
not wanting to fly "are not dis-
turbing at all." A total of 83 said
flatly they wanted to stay on the
ground, and 51 weren't sure they
wanted aerial duty.
Colonel Young said a recent
survey in another area showed 34
percent of ther eservlsts do not
want to fly.
“I think,” he said, “that if
there were a general mobiliza-
tion, most of those who say today
they don’t want to fly will change
their minds.”
Young said none of the 83 told
him they would disobey orders to
fly. A small number of reservists
at other airforce bases recently
refused to obey flying orders.
The airforce is holding the in-
terviews as a part of a national
project to determine the size of
the airforce’s reserve manpower
and to notify the men of their
status in the event of a national
emergency.
Young said that 331 reserve
pilots and air crew members have
been interviewed, and 197 said
they are willing to fly if recalled
to active duty.
An average of 60 reservists are
being processed daily during the
survey which will continue until
July 19.
Rock Island Loses
$25,000 Lawsuit
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 6—</P)
—A federal district court jury to-
day awarded a mother and her
month-old child $25,000 damages
for the death of the baby’s father
in a grade crossing accident last
October.
The suit was part of three other
actions filed by Faye Daubenspeck,
Marlow, widow of Morton Daubens-
peck, for herself and as guardian
c! the baby daughter and dead
man’s father, Larkin Daubenspeck.
The suit asked $150,000 from the
Rock Island railroad.
The jury of eight women and
four men also awarded Mr. and
Mrs. Larkin Daubenspeck $7,541.20
for the death of ther son Ervin
and $3,863.10 for the death of their
son James Allen In the same acci-
dent.
rested later that night in an Okla-
homa City night club following a
radioed pickup order sent out by
Sheriff Tiny Royse. They were re-
turned to the Canadian county jail
early the next morning.
Following the preliminary hearing,
which was to determine whether
sufficient evidence existed to try
the case, Salmon was returned to
the county Jail under $1,000 cash
bond, or $2,000 personal security
bond.
Mrs. Salmon was committed to
the jail in lieu of $40 bond, but
Steen, charged with drunken driv-
ing, was released and the court n__
ord showed no bond had been made.
Judge Faubion said today tl
Steen’s attorneys had promised to
make sufficient bond for their
client, pending hearing.
Wholesale Prices On
Potatoes Shoot Up
WASHINGTON. June 6 —<#)—
The government reported today
wholesale prices of white potatoes
shot up as much as $2 to $4 per
hundred pounds overnight after the
removal of price ceilings.
The office of price stabilization
lifted the controls late yesterday
after the senate had voted to exempt
fresh fruits and vegetables from
price controls beginning July 1.
TB Group Appoints
Committee Heads
Appointment of committee chair-
men and approval of a proposal
to buy materials for pajamas to
given needy patients in the West-
ern Oklahoma tuberculosis sana-
torium was the principal business at
a meeting of the Canadian County
Tuberculosis association Thursday
Named committee chairmen at
the meeting, first of this fiscal year,
were Neal Golden, who was reap-
pointed head of the program com-
mittee, and Mrs. Joe Maxey, reap-
pointed chairmaq of the hospi
committee.
Mrs. Maxey's committee is en-
gaged in the project of securing
pajamas for the sanatorium p
tients. and so far has collected
three pairs. Goal for this county
12 pairs.
Board members also discussed
plans for this year’s work including
clinics to meet the need of the com-
mittee, a health education progra
and this year’s Christmas seal sale
campaign.
New members of the executive
board are Rubert M. Fogg. S. Boyd
Wilson, Mrs. Pete Sheppard of Co
cho, Mrs. Don Ahern and Mary
Walsh.
Witness Hits
Overcharges
On Contracts
WASHINGTON, June 6—(JPy—A
top government accountant testified
today that taxpayers have been
overcharged by at least a half bil-
lion dollars on World war II con-
tracts—“a frightful toll.”
Frank H. Weitzel, assistant comp-
troller general to the justice depart-
ment, said the general accounting
office already has reported $21 mil-
lion in overpayments.
And the justice department.
Weitzel told a house judiciary sub-
committee, has recovered only
about $300 thousand.
The sub-committee, headed by
Representative Chelf < Democrat,
Kentucky) is investigating the
justice department. Today’s hear-
ing was devoted to the department’s
record in prosecuting war fraud
contract cases.
A lawyer for the general accbunt-
ing office, Norman Engleberg, said
his agency has called the justice
department’s attention to what he
described as a $26,068.96 fraudulent
claim involving two New York City
firms but does not know of any
action against them.
He named the firms as the Ul-
tima Optical company and an
affiliate, the Optical Instrument
company. One firm was cited Dec.
2, 1947, and the other Aug. 24, 1948,
Engleberg said.
Repairs Completed On
Mustang Field Road
Repairs to blacktop paving on the
road to Mustang field have been
completed by county crews this
week, County Commissioner George
Hurst said today.
Hurst said workmen were engaged
on the project for about three days
this week, using asphalt patch, and
mixing it with chat in the worst
places on the road.
County crews also improved drain-
age which had been bad in some
places along the six-mile stretch.
The road leading to the El Reno
cemetery was repaired last week.
El Reno Jaycees
Io Boost City
National Convention
'Will Get Souvenirs
El Reno Jaycees will take advan-
tage of the national junior cham-
ber of commerce convention, to be
held in Dallas, Tex., the week of
June 23, to publicize El Reno.
Dr. Francis W. Hollingsworth re-
ported to the organization at its
regular noon luncheon meeting to-
day that the Oklahoma Flour Mills
has given the club a quantity of
two-pound souvenir sacks of flour
to distribute among convention
delegates.
Delegates from El Reno also hope
to be able to present other sou-
venirs of the city at the conven-
tion, he added, explaining that the
state has shown considerable in-
terest in the big meeting from the
publicity standpoint.
Exhibit Is Prepared
The state planning and resources
board has prepared a state exhibit
to be featured at the convention.
Jaycees also announced at today’s
meeting that all tentative plans to
sponsor a fireworks display here
July 4 have been dropped, and that
no display will be sponsored by the
group this year.
Stanley Youngheim, chairman of
the insect spraying committee, said
three sections of the city remain
to be sprayed before the first
round of the operation for the
summer has been completed.
Committee Is Named
Those who will operate the fog-
ging machine next week were an-
nounced as Paul Liebmann, Jim
Bass, Howard Eisenhour, Earle
Garrison, Kenneth Crownover, Leo
Tate, Paul Huber, Mervil J. Meyer,
Cecil Ledbetter, Jim Phelps and
Gene Marshall.
Phelps reported on the Jaycees’
installation dinner to be held June
20, and a oommittee composed of
Marshall, Liebmann and Eisenhour
was named to handle ticket sales.
Bill McNaught and Bryan Padg-
ett are new Jaycee members.
Weather
State Forecast
Generally fair tonight except for
c few local evening thundershowers
in the southeast portion; Partiy
cloudy Saturday with local thund-
ershowers in the state afternoon
and evening, mostly in the west
portion; slightly warmer: lows to-
night around 60 panhandle to 65 to
70 east portion. Highs Saturday
to 95.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8 a. m. today: High. 84; low, (
at 8 a. m„ 68.
Platform Is
Clarified At
Kansas Talks/
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
General Dwight Eisenhower
heads today for New York
and his second out-of-uniform
news conference while re-
action to his first one still
ripples across the political
pool.
The retired general’s first
huddle with reporters since
he formally launched his bid
for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination ranged far
and wide. It covered domes-
tic, foreign and political is-
sues and stirred up highly-
divergent comment.
Under a barrage of ques-
tions from newsmen at the
Abilene, Kan., conference yes-
terday, Eisenhower said he
believes:
1. World peace and securi-
ty is the issue of the day.
2. There is no ready solu-
tion to the Korean problem
and any expansion of the war
there would be dangerous un-
less the allies build up mili-
tary strength.
3. Questions like aid to ed-
ucation and fair employment
practices should be handled
by the states, rather than the
federal government.
4. Agriculture should be supported
by a sound price foundation and
labor problems can not be solved
by laws alone.
5. Socialized medicine is not the
an.swer to health problems.
Eisenhower also said he was In
the political picture now “heart and
soul,” had no iddl whom the Re-
publicans would nominate but
would support the GOP nominee.
Taft Sees Gain
Taft, in a Cincinnati radio broad-
cast last night, said he believes his
chances have improved since Elsen-
hower’s debut speech Wednesday.
The senator did not elaborate.
Eisenhower backers, like Senator
Frank Carlson of Kansas, were
jubilant over the Abilene appear-
ances. Carlson said they caused
“national sentiment to shift toward
Ike—some delegates who came here
as Taft men are now for Eisen-
hower.”
But a Taft rooter, Senator Hugh
Butler of Nebraska, differed: “In-
stead of calling him General Eisen-
hower we should call him Gener-
alized Eisenhower.”
South Approves Stand
Eisenhowers view that fair em-
ployment practices was a state, not
a federal, patter brought approval
from two southern Democrats in
congress, Representatives Frank
Smith and William Colmer, both of
Mississippi.
But the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
wired Eisenhower: “The failure of
37 of the states to take any af-
firmative action to assure equality
of job opportunity points to the
urgency of the need for federal
action—we urge you to reconsider.'*
Eisenhower flies today to New
York where he has a news con-
ference on tap tomorrow. After
week’s stay he plans to go
Denver until the July 7 GOP con
vention picks its presidential nom
inee.
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OLD FRIENDS—Leaving his first political press
tiring from the army, Dwight Eisenhower pauses
hood friend, 62-year-old farmer Davis Chase, out;
in Abilene. (NEA Telephoto.)
Red Cross To Seek
More Blood Donors
Two “Tag days,” to secure new
pledges for the Red Cross blood
procurement program, are sched-
uled for June 18 and 19, it was an-
nounced following a meeting
blood program committees Thurs-
day night.
Red Cross workers announced
that they will seek 300 new pledges
for the program, to donate blood
for use by the U.S. armed forces.
At the same time the committees
drew up a schedule for their 1952-
53 program, which will begin here
with another visit of the bloodmo-
bile to El Reno on July 16.
Exact dates on subsequent mobile
unit visits have not been set, but
under the program approved Thurs-
day the unit will be in Yukon
sometime during September;
Calumet in November, back in
Reno next January, and in b
Okarche and El Reno next May
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