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58, NO. Ill Morning and Sunday The proud new British luxury liner Masdelena was on the Death of a Ship Go Over! N( Secretary ii Blasts Defense Senate Sizzles On Bonus Vote Bonds By 4-1 Stormy Debate Rages in House Over Labor Bill way home from her maiden voyage to Brazil. Off Rio de Janeiro, she went aground Monday. Her 350 passengers were taken off safely. The ship was refloated Tuesday, but she broke up as she left the rock.s.

These dramatic pictures show her end. At left, buffeted by the waves, she is coming off the rocks. Center, her jjlern and center section are breaking up. Right, the forward section is going under the waves. Most if not all.

of her crew of 237 was saved in the last minutes. Forcshadowinjr defeat of the proposal, the state senate Tuesday tied iLself in a knot over submitting to vote of the Oklahoma City schools won a millions victory at the; polls Tuesday. The bond building proposal carried by more than a four-to-one margin, with S.o49 otcs cast. Score: WASHINGTON, April iav 04 a millions bond issue for a veterans Before packed galleries. bonus, 6.96.; "yes" 1.586 "no" votes.

A 60 percent majority wasiday as' seCretary of the navy, louse piungect into stouu oe-i DroDOsal to finance the bonus bond issue by a 2 perceni Spanked Boy Puts Bullet in Teacher ARTHUR. 111.. April 26 MV-A lG-year-old boy, spanked for i required. 'firing a roaring broadside aij At tne same nme. voters appruvra mr rcBuiui ij-mwi icjr iui secretary ot Leiense jonnsoni operating expenses of schools for 1949-50 and a 5-mill building; pate over Tnfi Uross production tax on oil was put before the senate in a storm: Lratitm bill to repeal tne lau- gesslon hv Ray Fine.

Gore, a war veteran member. In the form 0: Hartley laoor law. ja subslllute for a CommitUee bill which didn't provide means 0: Rep. Lesln.sk! Mich.V PonoriflnancIng tnp issue meim6rS SnSi A test vote showed ihe senate more favorabIe to financing congE" "wV5ib0D1B witn an added l-cent sales tax thon the gross Productioi: for halting construction of the navy's super-carrier, the USS United States. The New Hampshire Ircshman said he was deeply disturbed because Johnson acted "so drastically and arbitrarily" without consultation with the navy.

And he said he is convinced the! move means a renewed effort to abolish the marine corps and to transfer A total of 6.798 votes was counted for the 15-mlll levy, and 1411 against. On the 5-mlll question, the vote was 6.829 for" and 1,490 "against." Boxes were open at 210 voting places. Adding estimated proceeds from the 5-mlll levy to the bond fund, the school board will have approximately S3.800.0C0 avail- able for new buildings, additions passing notes. Tuesday shot and seriously wounded a country school teacher. Mrs.

Nina Donahoo, 57, leachcr at White school west of here, was shot in the groin by a .38 caliber automatic pistol bullet. She is suffering from shock and lo.ss of blood. Sheriff Glen W. Braden said Mrs. Donahoo was shot in "revenge" by one of two boys who were spanked by her husband Monday.

The husband. George old buildings, sites, moderni zation and repairs, and equip State Boy, 70, Brands Dad As a Killer ment. hysteria una vengeance. iax. n.

vute suuwcu io ui 10 But Rep. McConncii Pa.) told; against tabling a motion to fi-the house that the Lesinski bill would! nance it by sales tax instead of cut out a provision of the present oil tax. which enabled the atomic energy 1 Aner about two hours or debate, the commission to protect atomic on motion of J. C. Nance, Pur-from communist labor officials." consideration of the Mcconnell went on: "As a matter jn umil a later date, of fact, this (Lesinski) bill encotir-, 9ld advocates of the bonus ages the infiltration of communists; u.v ,0 reach nn agrecincnt wllh and their leaders into unions and: ens of the pross production tax opens the door to complete commu-j means of financing it.

and if nisi domination of unions. U)CV couWn.t lt be pushed. Jammed 3 all naval and marine aviation elsewhere." Action Regretted Fifteen mills will produce about $2,400,000 for the schools general Johnson dismissed Sullivan's attack budget. with a terse statement from his office While balloting Tuesday was light reflecting the usual voter apathy "I regret very much Uiat my old friend and colleague. John L.

Sulli ward school Issues, the total number of bond issue votes was only 635 lessi W. Donahoo, is teacher at the nearby Maple Grove school. He punished the two boys after ho caught them passing notes. The boys arc Lloyd Titus. and Glen Phillips, 11.

They were captured under a bridge more than a mtle from the scene. Braden said both boys made slate-meats that Titus fired the shot. TULSA, April 20 A 10-ar-old boy stood in th itness box Tuesday and dra van, has joined the aircraft carrier issue on personal grounds, and I believi that he, too, will soon regret his ac- than the total tabulated on th repeal of prohibition a $4,050,000 proposition voted in 1945. bucked measure would deprive the: matically pointed out power it NOW has; ir(u -U1 ifnl her Molhnrn Mntt No Promises Made Sullivan's resignation, widely expect ed since Johnson lowered the boom "Hel'iV" Ji! i slaer f.Ms ynger sister Observers expected an even lighter te for two reasons. First.

people; the big flat-ton Saturday said It. would also abolish provisions) nJ. sib mil-' 11 iviuu, iouKeo. on unpas more cautious about spending 'protecting the political freedom of money. And second, no promises were Truman.

Botn or tneir communications were couched in the polite patter Dr. Fred Hosier, superintendent or of protocol. Sullivan submitted his Spectators' galleries were jammed as the heated, arm-wiwlng debate lions building bond issue proposal. Hc The proposal was Tor adjusted com-a charge of murdering Marv France pensatlon for veterans who served iniMott( 6 as she siept viih the the first war from April 6,191 to jtheir home at neighboring Saht Dec. 17, 1919, and in the lflsL Springs the nisht of March 8 followlni from Dec.

7. 1941. until Dec. 3. famiy quarreL ignation "with profound regret." The1 school, and school board members, who were caught short on 1945 bond president accepted it reluctantly- ana oromises when prices soared, refused opened.

Speaker Rayburn Texas) had to admonish the visitors against applauding speeches on the floor. with deep appreciation tor suutvanj outline specuic projects to oe ouui service. ould provide SlO-a-month for Phillips' foster parents. 'The 'boys approached Mrs. Donahoo in the school yard and demanded her purse.

They followed her into the building, where young Titus struck her on the head with the pistol and grabbed the purse as she fell. She got up and followed them outdoors. As she attempted to retrieve her purse, the Titus boy shot her. Mrs. Donahoo crawled to the school house and fainted.

John Ozler, plowing in a nearby field, heard cries of the pupils. He called an ambulance. House lenders said a final vote Is Letter Is Blunt Money will be spent where the But Sullivan cut loose his pent-up service in this country and S15-a-month for overseas service. The top amount would be $300 for those whose i not expected before late Friday. The debate was formally launched greatest needs arise, Dr.

Hosier wratn in nis letter to tne new secretary of defense. The letter, released sen-ice was confined to tne united by Chairman Lesinski of the house labor committee, whose bill would kill by Sullivan's own office shortly after Charles Wayne Mott. ihe state's star witness, testified that he saw his father get a butcher knife and draw It across his sleeping sister's throat. The boy said he then saw his fathei coming toward him. knife in hand.

"I said 'daddy, daddy don't do it' oi I appreciate tne line support given Dr. Hosier said Tuesday night. Officials Watch Returns Mr. Truman accepted his resignation, the Taft-Hartley act ana reinstate States, nnd $500 for those with over- Xcarly 300.000 Veterans In offerlnc the bonus proposal. Mrs.

Nina Donahoo began bluntly: the old "new deal" Wagner act along It was the first school election here On Saturday, April 23. without dis 7,008 Hours! Pooped Pair Quits the Air FULLERTON. April 26 weeks of droning monotonously through the skies ended Tuesday for BUI Barris and Dick RledeL They boosted the world's endurance flight record to 1,008 hours, landing at 1:45:50 p. Oklahoma time to the cheers of their townspeople. Tired, but smlUng and fresh-shaven, the two Fullerton airport employes were able to walk away from their little Aeronca monoplane, "The Sunkist Lady." without help.

We're pooped, but well be all right in a short time." said the 36-year-old. graying Barris. "The worst thing was the monotony of the engine. It Just about drove us crazy. We never try It again.

This is our last try." HIS blond partner. Rledel. 34, was first out of the plane. He quickly embraced his wife. June, and two children.

Dickie, 10. In a wheelchair with arthritis, and Barbara. 4. Barris' wife. Betty, and their two children.

Patty. 2. and Steven, 1. were right there, too. An estimated crowd of 8.000 half of Fullerton's population and then some turned out to welcome the boys back to the field they left March 15.

Thus, after three previous unsuccessful attempts. Barris and Riedel became the first fliers to stay Up more than 1.000 hours consecutively. On April 14. they passed the previous endurance record of 726 hours set by Wes Carroll and Clyde Schlleper of Long Beach. Calif.

The old mark was made 10 years ago. "A shower and a haircut." was Barris first request. Rledel wanted a bath, rubdown and dinner haircut later." some changes recommenaed oy cussion with the chief of naval opera for th new superintendent, who took President Truman, Fine said there had been talk since tions, without consultation with the office last autumn. John Pearson, something like that. He didn't say any- the close of the war oi aamsteo school board president, also expressed pensatlon for veterans.

The bill, he Substitute Is Backed Arrayed ngnlnst the Lesinski bill backers of a substitute measure secretary of the navy, you directed the discontinuance of the construction jf thanks to voters. said, would nowhere compensate for All school board members and Dr. Picture on Page 19 Hosier were at the election board of- by Rep. Wood These were chiefly Republicans and southern Democrats, with a sprinkling of Tru- imng out inea to pun tne covers or: me. I held onto the covers.

I guess hi threw the knife behind the divan anc I heard the door close," Charles tolt the court. Public defender Quinn Dickason one of Mott's attorneys, asked the boj if his father looked "anv differen the service but would oe an eitort to give the veterans some compensation. Hc said it was futile to pass a bonus measure without means of fi to watch tabulations. the USS United States, the More persons voted on the bond tion of which had twice been approved nancing it. He said the 2 percent gross by the president." lan Democrats.

The Wood bill would most of the Taft-Hartley law, hile repealing it in name. Shortly before the session began, i mnriiielinii tax would raLse S7 mU proposal than on the other two questions. The 5-mlll levy took 8.319 votes; the 15 -mill levy. 8.209. After recounting details oi tne legis from what he usually looked" on th lions a year and retire the bonds In lative authority for the 65.000- Rnyburn predicted to newsmen tlvt 15 years.

He said Oklahoma had nearly 300. $189 millions craft. Sullivan noted that the final decision was announced The vote by wards: Ward one bond issue. 2,955 for. 000 veterans of the last war and the nigtit or the slaying.

Charles an swered "no." "What was his condition tha night?" Dickason continued. "He was drunk." the bov renliec 653 against: 15-mill levy. 2,926 for. by Johnson while he (Sullivan) in Corpus Christi, Texas. on It Is expected Thursday.

Opposing strategies began to take ad lusted compensation would be 561 against; 5-mlll, 2,955 for. 610! feeble effort for the men who de agalast. ueepir liisiuroea" shape early. simply. of course very deeply dis Ward two bond issue.

i.33o for, fended their country. Will Roaers, Muskoaee. another 397 against: 15-mill levy, 1.320 for, turbed by your action." fauinvan wrote. Assistant county attorney James Devine rested the state's case followint 346 against; 5-mill levy. 1.320 for.

372 hlch as far as I know represents cran-member. said the senate wouid be more or less derelict if it didn't the first attempt ever made in this against. reminded the house that the Democratic party campaigned last autumn on a platform advocating repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. They called for support of the administration's bill to do that. country to prevent the dcvelopmec provide means or retiring tne do: and with the gross production tax nconle would know what they Hard three bond Issue.

i.OZo lor. 9 against; 15-mtll levy. 986 for. Chnrles' testimony. The jury is quail tied to inflict the death penalty.

Thi case is expected to reach the Jurj Wednesday night after the defense i heard Wednesday. powerful weapon. 'The conviction that this will 242 against; 5-mill, 1,010 for, 251 voting for and how the issue would be suit in a renewed effort to abolish the against. financed. 20 Have Paid Bonuses marine corns and to transfer all Union Gains Cited McConncii and Reps.

Hertcr Wadsworth N. Ward four bond issue. 799 for, 21 1 and marine aviation elsewhere adds against; 15-mill levy. 757 for. 205 leck and Howard W.

Smith mv anxiety. agalast; 5-mlll, 774 for. 197 against. Hc said 20 states paid bonuses after the first war and about 20 states have since the last war. He said the rank However, even of greater signifi vaj.

countered mis Dy noting Rural precincts bond issue, 849 lor, cance is the unprecedented action or and file of the veterans wanted Glen Phillips, left, and Lloyd Titus 50 against; 15-mill levy, 809 for. 57 against; 5-mlll, 770 for, 60 agalast. that a majority of the present members of the house voted for the present law two years ago over Mr. Tru-i bonus regardless of the position of the part of a secretary or aeiense lr drastically and arbitrarily restrict- Needs Are Acute Approval of the bonds will mean American region. Frank Mahan, Fairfax, said he was fnr a bonus but axainst the oil In- -IEDEL T51 they said, labor unions havt Medical Research Center to Be Started Actual construction of the Oklahoma medical research center bulldinj on ne 13 is scheduled to start nexi Monday.

Officials of Oklahoma Medical Research foundation said it is right it line with the schedule set severa! months ago. Workmen lor J. J. Bollinger Construction Co. began' moving equipment on the ground Tuesday The rest of the week will be used ir making preliminary surveys and oth- IV three ticklish ie school board can build extra elementary classrooms to meet! gained in membership and won wagcjdustrv having to pay for it.

He cited increases while the law has been in jgres to show the oil companies: without consulting with that service. "The consequences of such a procedure are far-reaching and can bt tragic." nisoute Comes (o Head WKY-lVDay! It'll Be June demands or a booming graaescnooi age population. enccr. 0id nbout 43 percent of the money Madden, ut-muiaaui. mi-mud ui received oy uie general iuna.

Hosier nas stated mat tne the labor committee when the Taft- Sullivan's heated communication Joe Bailey Cobb. Tishomingo, said gradeschool children whose ranks Hartley law was passed, described it expected to Increase by 10.500 In pointed up the long smoldering dispute between the navy and the air- hc was a i-t er ana naa aone wei durine the war. He said so did oth greatest legislative mistake next six years win get nrst days of the Volstead pro ers and Sen, Robert S. Kerr. He said; tention.

Television will make its formal: er preparations. hibition act." Kerr had made $10 millions Crackerbox" annexes the tempor The airforce saw the building of the super-carrier as an attempt to Invade its field of strategic bombing. Sullivan ary units erected to meet postw debut in Oklahoma June 6. On that Monday, WKY-TV will begin regular television broadcasting. hadn't paid his pro rata share of the taxes.

Don Baldwin, Anadarko, said oil April Showers Too Wet KETCHIKAN. Alaska. Anril 2fi- emergencies could be junked hi favor of permanent structures. Sixty-four Kansan Says Tornado Dips Near El Dorado said that navy planners consiuer construction "indispensable to fP Nobody sings about "April show- classes In scattered sections or the dis- will be bought where it is the cheapest, and a 7 or 8 percent gross pro continuing development of American P. Sugg, station manager, made the announcement Tuesday less than week after the station's first test housed in such build er arouna nere witn any glee.

50 far this month there's been 28 Inches duction tax would raise the price of WICHITA. April 26 A power ings. sea power so mucn so twice they have sacrificed other construction For senior nignscnooi students new oil. "If Oklahoma oil is a penny of precipitation in Ketchikan. That's already 10 inches over the previous record for April.

company patrolman reported a tornado near El Dorado, Tuesday afternoon. He told the Wichita building funds probably would mean to give it top priority. Th nss United States was planned pattern went on the nir. Sugg said engineering tests have progressed rapidly. A test pattern is being broadcast dally between 1 and higher a barrel than Texas oil, the cnance at vocational training, ur.

weather bureau it dipped to earth the largest aircraft carrier in tne Texas oil will be bougnt." he said. Baldwin proposed the amendment to Illght aecK a mm ui 4 p. m. to enable state dealers to center planned at NW 10 and May world, orieny men moved nortneast apparent damage. Airforce to Cut Pay Roll WASHINGTON.

April 26 fP CI-ilian personnel of the airforce In Ha Eyes of Texas Brighter Here rpO learn how a large central cattle market operates, four Moore county, Texas, 4-H club boys brought their cattle to Oklahoma City Tuesday. They went home with several dollars more than their county agent, J. B. Waide. had expected them to get from the sale.

"They got 50 cents to a dollar more a head thnn we had figured based on Monday's quotations," Walde said. The four boys. Charles Sheldon Eddie Stnllwltz, both of Dumas. Texas, and Neal Messingcr and Billy Plehl of Channing. sold 27 head of cattle.

Six head, however, belonged to Harold Hamm of Outlining, who was unable to make the trip. The sale was just part of an all-day study by the boys of market functions here. They were taken on a tour of Oklahoma City's stockyards by A. K. Mackey of the Oklahoma National Stockyards Co.

WAIDE brought half a dozen 4-H club members here on a similar marketing trip last year. "This is the largest and closest central market to Dumas. We have auction markets at Dalhart and Amarlllo, but we want to. give the boys a chance to see a big market." The Moore county agent said he briiiRS club members who plan to ui get eariy consiaeratiou. adjust receivers.

Although regular programs will nol be on the air until June 6 Okla-homans will get to see actual television pictures long before. waii will be reduced 2.700 in the 12 months startine Julv 1. Secretary Sv. mington of the airforce disclosed Tues Decisive China Battle Looms As Reds Turn Toward Coast whole flight, which was conducted bv refueling from a Jeep which followed them from port to airport. These came during storms over Fort Worth.

Florida and Beaumont. The carburetor iced up In the Texas How about sleep? "Actually we're right up on our sleep; said Barris. "Well Just have to get used to sleeping more than four hours at a stretch." The biggest thrill of the night? "Easy." laughed Rledel. "this landing." After an airport reception, the fliers were hustled off to a hotel for a checkup by doctors who pronounced them "both In fine shape." It was a big day for Fullerton clti-tens, 2.000 of whom had chlppti in SI apiece to help keep the boys aloft. BARRIS said: "We credit a great deal of our success to the diet which our nutritionist prescribed for us.

It really was the McCoy." (The diet Included lean meats, milk, lots of fruit juices.) "Actually we feel pretty good except that our legs are pretty numb. It like that last drink that you didn't need. "As soon ma we get our land legs, we'll be all right." Rledel. asked what was their worst time, replied: "The low point for us was the last few days before we broke the record. That was the crucial point: tfcat was what we were striving for.

Cncv we got that far. we felt we were a cinch to reach 1.000 hours." One of Rledel's first acts was to ask a secretary to send out souvenir picture postcards of "The Sunkist Lady," with special stamp cancellations for collectors. Picture on Pagt It Hail Barrage Hits Buffalo, Crops, Cars, Signs Damaged In the testing period, many different day. types of programs will be tried out in an effort to iron out all faults. Sugg said this vrould include both local staff members and film.

SHANGHAI, April 26 (iP) Chi- An Intense hailstorm struck Buffalo, ministration association headquarters packed up to move to Canton, south The June 6 opening will come only communist columns, boasting Harper county, about 6:30 p. m. Tues Man, 33, Rescued From Sealed Room After 10 Years NEW YORK. April 26 (JP Brook. a year and four days after the federal High temperature In Oklahoma City Wednesday is expected to be about 78, compared with Tuesday's peak of 80.

State highs are expected to range day, breakinz neon signs, windows. China city now serving as the tionalist capital. they had overwhelmed two govern communications commission granted; ances, wheeled west of Shang denting automobile tops and damaging I crops. Some of the hailstones were WKY-Tv a construction permit. (The communist radio in Pelping announced that lives and property of "That's an achievement few other hai Tuesday toward Hangchow and a uosslble "decisive battle.

stations have bnen able to Some showers were reported as large as tennis oaus. tuntira editor of the Harper County Journal, foreign nationalists would be The broadcast was heard by the AP lyn police Tuesday rescued a 33-year- Shanghai, which remained calm i Sugg declared, "and that's with the; said, but most were about the size of i the state Tuesday. Tulsa had .01 of an inch of rain, and McAlester .13 of; when the Reds broke the. Yangtze river i man who they said had been held prisoner in a sealed room for thi fire we had and the winds that de-laved installation of the antenna." golf balls. an inch.

in san Francisco.) The communist radio said Red columns had captured Ihlng and Chlng-tal. about 80 miles west of Shanghai Meanwhile, the weatherman pre past 10 years by his mother. began to show signs of panic. 'Business was almost at a standstill. The money market was chaotic.

dicted partly cloudy weather foi police identified the man as Paul A front which first entered the I northwest part of the state shortly after noon Tuesday, was scheduled to! If true, they were half way from the! He was referring to the $150,000 fire in Little Theater of Municipal auditorium last November. The fire destroyed more than $100,000 worth of television equipment that had to be Nervousness increased as tne united Makushak. They said he had a long beard, described his apeparance a. Wednesday in Oklahoma City. Pair weather is expected over the north and west parts of the state with showers in the southeast.

i reach Oklahoma City around mid States and Great Britain moved heavier naval units out of the Whang- uuny ana saia ne apjrentiy had tad no change of clothinK in the nasi night. Ceilings will lift and the weather will clear after the front Yangtze to Hangcnow, us mues southwest of Shanghai. Hangchow may be the site of a last-ditch government stand on the populous eastern seaboard of China. They were anchored the The Buffalo storm lasted more than 10 years. passes, weather observers promised.

go into the livestock business. Many of his members already own sizeable herds. "These are the boys who need to know about cattle markets," he said. 30 minutes, doing most damage reordered. High winds kept workers from climbing the 968-foot tower for many days In March.

Yangtze to the north to avoid possible Involvement in any fighting. The strange story, police said, cami the north edge of town. An Intense A thunderstorm was reported dropping rain on Gage and other sections in the northwest section of the state rain followed the hail. Telephone cir Many of the government forces which seem to have vanished from Technical' testing of equipment will to light after the mother, Mrs. Anna Makushak, was forced to enter a hospital because of illness.

cuits, wnicn railed during tne storm. nationals were getting out. Many inort elected to stay. U. 3.

economic ad "In four or five years, they win be active west Texas cattlemen." Shanghai may be at Hangchow now. (Continue ri Colu late Tuesday. quictiy restored..