The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

Good and Dry fpY Editorial Page See Page IS. Other features: Country 3 State Briefi ..21 Good Morning HCSociety 12 Obituaries Sports 22,23 Public Records 19: Undo Itny .11 HE DMI.YJOKLAHOMAN Partly cloudy and continue warm Monday and Mondav nigh High nor 85. Map on Pa0. 27. TWKNTY-E1GHT 500 BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, MONDAY, APKI1, 5, I0M.

fOL. OH, NO. 89, MornitiK and Suncht SINGLE COPY PRICE: Unity 5c, Sunday 13a I ni I As French Win Crucial Round in Fight for Fort Laniel, Pleven I Toscanini Bows Out Kicked, Slapped i Unparalleled Exit I By Paris Rioters i st-- Enemy Strength Slowly Ebbing, Command Says Valiant Garrison Holds Fast Under Stand-or-Die Edict HANOI, April 4 tun The French "Kb command announced Sunday light, that: its forces had won a crucial round in the battle of Dieti with which he Hatred of European Army Sparks Crowd To Turn on Leaders heat for the clima lr'and final! il unparallel a savage five a Castries' heavi lay struggle Col. Christ ly outnumbered but valiant garrison held fast under his sland-or-die order, and then began pushing tilt force slowly back, tho high command reported. ter of Firemen more into the wreckaae of the Securitv bank buildina to battle the fire which destroyed a quar jSpol-the tomb of the Unknown hcy did know it was his las at the Arc de Triumph, scheduled appearance of th.

(Stones were also hurled but hit! winter season with the orchestr; The first round of the battle for is Hi on Pint is over." hich a block of BlackwelVs business district. At the Jar right is the bank proper, while an insurance office and the SUi shoe store can be seen in the foreground. The picture teas taken shortly after t'tie blaze was brought under contrt spokes i proclaimed. rid clearly i Governor's Fund 45th Reshapes Fire Still Smolders Hew Drag Strip I Police said it was (he Tirst time! I in She modern era anvone had suc-i Iceeded in making a physical at- tack on a French premier or Cab-; inet minister under such circtim-; stances. i They arrested of the 100; demonstrators.

Most of the crowd were identified as supporters of Rod Assault Eases Off flic proclamation of a great de-lsive victory on which the course the whole war could hinge me after a day which saw the 1 assault eased off for the first no since last Tuesday. The relaxation of the communist Scrapes Bottom Armory Tactics In Blackwell Ruins Off to the Races Giant Crowd Sees Hot Rodders Zoom Four More Die On State Roads Two Men Killed In Tillman Crash STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1954 to date, 146; April, S. 1953 to date, 125; April, 4. pre: most significant on tern flank, where tho lunger had buet weirs the high ommand reported. filtrated.

Saturday night. Firemen continued their Prober, Lawyer Both on Pay Roll By BILL VAN DYKE Payments from the governor' itra-hclp and extra-ordinary pro -the money's almost gone. Figures in the budget dirr-ctor'. Tiff show onlv left it More than 30 entries and almost ,000 spectators turned out Sunday Governor Hopefuls To Undergo Quizzing By ELWIN HATFIELD TULSA, April 4 Candidates foi governor of Oklahoma within the next few weeks will be asked foi (heir stand on the 45th divisior armory now "held captive" by Hit state highway patrol. fire, and salvage crews moved in of walls and begin clearing the are A heavy bank vault containinj which was buried bv the debris i undisclosed amount of money it under control, tors tried to ov for the initial hot rod session Oklahoma City's first drag strip, 2001 Western.

the principal target salvage If was on "Bald Head hill," commanding access to tho center sf the embattled fortress, that tho tide of battle turned. There screaming waves of black-clad communist shock troops hurled Ihemsolves 11 times at the French inion defenses. Attacks Beaten Back And cloven times in the five lays of furious fighting the "hu- Iwu Grandfield men were killed a hushed a Laniel, Pleven and Sunday alternoon vv'ien their car Among th Bill Jones and Bob Eichor, crs of the strip, termed races missed a curve and overturned on I and numerous offices housed Color Television Has City Debut lolhe The July gathered around the Arch of Triumph for services honoring the defenders of Dion Bicn Phu. the The Oklahoma a pier of the liable. fund only $3,307.1 cess." The sanctioned drag strip was a long sought goal of hot rodders here and their fans.

Race contestants from both Sunday morning Conimunist-beleagu Indochina. The rd pr. rriso cd by the Late 1 lis iert but a in .1 highest-r a county road five miles west of two ruined two-story buildings was Grandfield in Tillman countv ithe Security bank. Officials saved many of the banks records, but a hSyi 2 efl currency and some $3,000 in day reported deaths of two jh th vautsbelieved Sturdfv" to withstand the Tecumseh resident injured earlv D'azc' Sunday ir an accident near Robs-i Bank Wl11 Rebuild embers by the As nday night de Castries, -iday ordered his men to Pnlor television made its debut ITexas and Kansas registered for iCnmhat-ints in Oklahoma City Sunday and its initial audience seemed to like 1 performances, i Oklahoma, cars1 So far as what it saw on wky-iv cnan-iwere entered from Duncan, Tulsa son for the roily and stand where they were and die if necessary without yielding another inch radioed Gen. Henri Navarre's headquarters here: "Vietminh forces attacking Bald Head hill relaxed pressure in the town, Texas.

Even while the fire raged late lal probk-n outburst by pei Still another mishap caused crit- night, bank otneiais take care of hisjoai he capllol rate the; for mouth paid L. IX; the hrector of the of the strip said cars Jen. Flal Muldrow, and himself for the governor's il tho assignment i i in solution pa scd Efforts Fail 'inory in question Pauls Valley hurriedly, and announced they ily $300 pel backed ithe of City publish of the aftern (ap.m. to 5 p.m. Opening of 11 lanager, and Andres, i nost'oped beciu-'' of' r-dn oily woman.

i sito. Glenn Brumbaugh is prosu Jhe dead: (he banj. WILLIAM PALMER, 29, Grand- Final tabulation of injuries f'eW-' ithe citv's biggest fire showed I Th assistant 11,000 when the Red attack began. Paul Wi'ncheU show at! and Eichor said the dr; reverent crowd and thereby ew nolice off-guard. But as soon riD "meets all reauirements WILLIE PALMER.

44, his un- persons hurt, including four fi jwo'i'ld I studios, isanction" by the Nation; as Laniel and Pleven showed up Koajthev emerged and began shouting slogans and "Long Live suffered also of Grandfield. ig an undisclosed number of par-troop reinforcements Saturday. Promiso Is Kept Do Castries had nromised la i For the inaugural snowing flying gla: Most se: mi! orced 1 he stri know LEE SMITH, 60, Ardmore. EARL ELSBERUY PRICE, leal. injured was sets, one snowing le! a a the 19, Thursday in a radioed appeal for route wagoner.

UiSfnnt rnshier of the bank, who color, were set up side bv Unknowi irpark on about 50 McKinley and The younger Palmer, the driver, fen tnrogh a glass door while! The color TV set used Sunday; of public no avail, member: innls that he would hold bastion in northwest Western. i 14-inch own iheloine a doctor save records from hed Off request was com- i off the road-, plied ith. Sugg said RCA will prod' inch model soon. At the same time, bur d. Both were pinned ickage and both died needed to close a severe cut he youth's leg, but he was later I.Timmie Patterson, who pushed his! Marshal vipiionse of 1032 Ohl'-mobile modified stock car was dismissed Jtot ow in! through the speed trap at 7J.55 piluary posts fast week for spectators at the Hoi Other payn attend a meet nc th ai ine scene.

released from the Blackwell Gen- Trooper Bill Bowers said a third eral hospital. Municipal Auditorium's Zebra miles an Hour. and the lightness of the the fortress on Friday thc-reportctl that the garrisor sn squeezed into a triangle anti-Rnn'help fund ha Jewell Rob- 1 touched offHtoscn, young of national defei on, 39, also of Grandfield, only a mile and a half to the the first cole; progr ni televid cla P.ob 1 1 ishap oc'curedi injured. The September of she 1 playin Broncos baseball Sugg explained that for the past land." modified 'stock class World War II Recalled when he rushed Smith was killed instantly in a three-car accident at 10:45 p.m. Saturday eight miles north of Ard- -delayed the paratroop drop, arre sent the new strengll (unlay, along with supplies scattered thrusts by th bled white by heavy casu were reported during tin from the eeeirclinj but Sunday lLoiiB.

class Mare class len Book" at the shrine into the club's offices to save re ords and player files, i He and Swede Gundersnn. bu: ked the first time anvone had and Hcrshel White, Class O. i one. other than encineers and! There's a Promise Of Rain Tuesday Then they surged foi and SH 77-C. lartun blocked the gether with twojlcehni at the station.

i Australian Blast Kills Sunda sent Monday. But the cut with anoth- 0nd-story office before the fire i-trailer truck, reached it. But thev made the mis-; were injured, "take of opening a window. Smoke icnously. riHod the room, overcoming Way, ooners Charles and the others were forced to but.

none of them Highway pa as beamed here av from NBC's irk City, which Five; Four Are Injured BRISBANE. Australia. April 4 im Five mer died and four others were critically injured today in destroyed the Commercial Hotel a Cunnamulla, 4(18 miles west Brisbane. and Calvin Duncan said carry him out without saving the inch Morale High ries radioed Navarre tha as high and the supremi er answered: success belongs to runout until the last quarte un convinced it will bi ous soldiers of Col. d.

will hold out to th. Princess Martha, 53, Of Norway Is Dead OSLO, Norway, Mondav. April 5 Princess Martha of 1: ry of the 189th field i of the national guard urn onto U. S. 77 during the, Batt al between the passing of a jtillerv driven north bv Arbnn Lee Black ell was callcn out again na, Sugg said WKY- early Monday after of red bodie.

Martha, I'Olaf. died CSTt. Today's Headline News Sugg said the asssi-rs." Backward Driver a hospital from for ich Stand Fir The French did 6,000 Cheer McCarthy's New York Talk A military spokesm bodies of 200 Reds YOU April -h R. McCarthy i highly enthusiast! ay he would contin a the U. S.

in his ia and the tJ. S. BCSTNKSS SUCCESS i t'thi trter.dij for the S175.0UC.