The Ada Evening News from Ada, Oklahoma • 1

1 Lit 1'1 1 PI I 4: 'I VI A 4 Pt I 4 00 411 Khrushchev seems to have caught some spirit of peace while here in the US at least he has continued to spread the idea of thawing the Cold War during his current tour to Red China and in talks with strong man THE AD OU Clobbers Colorado See Sports Page EVENING NE Mudbath Hurts Ada Cougars See Sports Page 56111-YEAR NO 174 4a ADS OKLAHOMA SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 1939 32 Pages 5 CENTS WEEKDAY 10 CENTS SUNDAY Crash Scullin Roff Native Killed in Of Light Plane Near Lowell Hudson Killed in Forced Landing Attempt Creeks Rise Out Of Banks I momrm 'k i I I I 1 6 I I 4A11ftIr It' I i i 40 111e9t i 4 16 li lic- A '11 Pe ''''4 ektw2 14iV''' 1 4 7 2: 414S I 1 I epi'' i 444 tk 4 1 4 1 irs tv 1::) 7 1 1: I 0 i -4 00 et 11( 1 431 tuirtil 'A i I r' ir ol 0' li 1 0 (144 WW100" 7) ') 9 A 4 LI "mamma Rain hit the Ada area another healthy Wallop Friday night and with most of the rest of the state Nearly all the county streams were out of banks again: Spring Brook Sandy Clear Boggy Muddy Boggy all spread all over the country Ada itself according to weather observer Pitt got 303 inches of rain in the 36 hours ending at noon Saturday But it was a rain that just couldn't quit It kept right on after the 7 o'clock mark Howard Smith at Latta reported 3 35 inches between 6 Friday and 11 am Saturday Smith also reported that Sandy Creek went out of banks sometime before daylight Saturday "She's out and she's walking pretty 1 7-43gp Lail tills 1 WA'stmemirripmonsoloPc 4trookaiLij3 1 4 or il I 1 I dat OM 1 411 I 4 A 4 I 4 i 1rb I -'1'ii A 1 olb 1 'P't 'At 4" A 1 LI '''-'21' I' 7: '('''''''''''iiS' i'- 1 '1 I I I A 1 '1L i 2 i i 11''i '1 f6i 1'' fb '''')ct 7 1 -F I A- 4 A 1 -4 'k: A ''''kik )1 7'1' 41411870110 1- 4 '''''s: i i ii 1-t' I- 1 1 i-1ifil' i' '1 i ''-f' -'k' 1 1 '3- 4- 4 1'1 lig' olivalotALlit 31111 i rt CHEERS IN THE RAIN: These kids really have pep A driving rainstorm didn't keep these fired-up East Central collegians from staging a scheduled pep rally at 7 pm Friday night on Main Street They took shelter in store fronts but the pepfull crowd was complete with bandsmen cheerleaders athletes fans and our press photographer (NEWS staff photo by Corb Sarchet) By CORB SARCHET (News City Editor) A 45-yearold native of Roff was killed in the crash of his light plane while apparently trying to make an emergency landing one mile north of Scullin Saturday evening between 6 and 6:15 pm Lowell Hudson Fort Worth Tex apparently died instantly when his plane plunged into a muddy farm field and burst into flames lie was on his way to Ada from Hobart where his oil exploration company Lowell Hudson Oil Company is drilling some wells His wife Mrs Marjorie Hudson and her moil Mrs Ethel Smith Roll were waiting at the Ada airport for him He was going to visit with them and his mother Mrs Pearl Hudson Woo owns the Roff Cafe and his brothers and sisters here Had Trouble? His Tr-Pacer 135 apparently either developed engine trouble or the dense fog and heavy drizzle prompted him to seek an emergency landing site Relative reported he had radioed ahead to Ada and had learned that weather conditions were such he could land here The family apparently learned he had crashed after calling Hobart to see if he had returned there The tragic story was graphically pictured in the mud of the field Clear imprints showed where his wheels touched down as he tried to make a landing The plane then bounced hit again and dug in breaking off its propeller and skid ding to a rest on its side ripping off one wing Flames burned the plane to a crisp Nothing remained except the metal framework His body was found slumped in the cockpit badly burned beyond recognition He was identified from burned papers in his billfold and brief case Does Ghost Guard Treasure Smith commented "It 'looks like somebody's going to have to re-sow some oats around Ihere I Fittstown reported a total of 4 Buried on Creek Near Roll? inches Jesse nearly 4 Frisco 4 with the additional information that "Clear Boggy's out" To the northeast Muddy Boggy also kicKed up her heels and be- ga spreading out over her bot' tom lands 1 Spring Brook Creek was up south of Summers Chapel I where an unofficial 6 inches of rain fell The Roff area which missed out on some earlier rains drew a happy 4 inches to put water into stock ponds Surrounding ai ea weren't slighted Sulphur had 2 to 3 inches about 2 Atoka 3 to 32 and Coalgate about 2'1 The new Atoka Reservoir filled up to the point of closing S11 43 north of Stringtown The only road reported closed according to the State Highway Department was SII 99 about 12 miles south of Seminole where 'Salt Creek got up over the WATER OVER THE DAM: This Is the way the city lake dam looked Saturday morning after rains had filled the lake to capacity Bill Nims the interested spectator on the dam heard the roar of the miniature Niagara and stopped to watch This scene is being repeated all over the state this week only the water Is going down the main Itreets in many of the cities instead of over the dam (NEWS staff photo by Terry West) favored by pioneer travelers to dig a hole bury their chest and return IThey went on their way The chest was no longer in evidence The mules pulled the wagon with ease What was in the chest? The eon sensis among the Rollians was: gold It was clearly heavy: it as clearly valuable if it was worth all that trouble: and the char aeters in the wagon looked quite capable of holding up trains or There for some eight or ten years the matter rested Then one Bob Atkins got to mousing around the area located the old tell you some 50 years ago just the time of Oklahoma's statehood Seems that a couple of hard looking characters turned' 'up in Rolf one day driving a team of mules hitched to a wagon In the wagon was an iron chest And judging by the way the mules had to lean into the harness the chest something heavier than goose feathers The hardcases drove on out 4est and north of town AppaiH ently nobody felt quite foolhardy enough to follow them But they were gone just about long enough to reach the place mentioned the site of a camp ground on the banks of a creek much I I By KNICKMEI'Elt (NEWS Staff Writer) Down in the Rolf neighborhood be more exact about two miles west and a half north of a ghost guarding a chest of buried treasure And don't laugh either This story may be true Connie Grinstead a Rolf resi dent from '1kay back kont swear to the tale himself because it didn't happen to him But he knows or knew the men who did encounter the ghost They told him about the experience And says Grinstead -They were truthful men" The thing began Grinstead NVill Hundreds of Families Watch Sky After Floods Swallow Their Homes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flood victims and rescue work campsite and picked a spot where he thought the chest might be buried lie enlisted the help of Ira Carson and Jim Harrison tRut to save a lot of unnecessary digging Akins went to Ada first and consulted a fortune teller told him that he had indeed found the right spot She also told him a good deal more There would be two men with she said and when the dig 'ging began these two men would hear sounds of cats fighting Akins himself she went on wouldn't hear the sounds: but the other two would hear them and tell him about it After a little more digging they would hear a rooster I crow Again just the two: not 'Akins Woman to Scream Next as the digging continued there would be a wornan's scream if you'd stuck your pick into her" To be heard by Carson and Harrison but not by Akins And finally with a bit more digging an Indian would come: i Iers kept their eyes on murky Oklahoma skies Saturday as ers and streams crested then began to recede Steel Strike Talk Tempo Quicks As Deadline Nears Survived One Crash Oddly enough Hudson was the only survivor of a plane crash during his youth in which one man was killee He escaped from that Icrash badly burned Recalling that terrible incident the first thing his wife asked upon hearing of the 1Saturday crash was if the plane had burned No one apparently saw or heard the crash although several persons including Mrs Roy Turner heard the plane circling overhead Residents of the area thought Ire may have been seeking the airstrip located on the Turner Ranch could not safely be pumped through pipes Some Tulsa streets were flooded as the Arkansas River crested at 112 feet above flood stage about noon Saturday Worst Flood When soldiers moved into Guthrie's flooded west side in the after noon they found an elderly man in the second floor of his home Ile had been there since Friday afternoon "I didn't want to leave with the others" he said "but I didn't PITTSBURGH newering in tops of some homes in the area could be seen Towns Evacuate Fifty blocks were under water at Blackwell as the Chikaskia River crested 6'1 feet over flood stage at rnidday Sixty-five families were homeless Runoffs from persistent rain continued to push streams out of bounds Late Saturday the most serious flooding was concentrated in the northeast Pawnee 50 miles northwest of Tulsa and Skiatook 13 miles nortll of Tulsa were cut off by hig1- water Avant north of Skiatook evacuated half of its 400 population Some 200 homes on Pawnees: north side near Black Bear Creek were evacuated and patients were removed from one hospital The city's electric light plant as tin- strike took on Saturday as beat possible to get the Crackle Along Hundreds of families in north central arvi northeastern sections of the state had no hopes of re-' Central USA to their inundated homes 'before Sunday By THE ASSOGATED PRESS The Weather Bureau said only Thunderstorms crackled from light rain would fall in the flooded the southern plains into the mid areas where there has been pre' Mississippi Valley a a cipitat ion for four days Heavy rains were forecast for the south- bringing more heavy rains to east storm and flood-plagued sections and the north and south forks of Texas Oklahoma and Missouri the Canadian River were ex- But the weather picture bright pected to flood in the east late 1 ened in the snow-clogged central Saturday or Sunday Rockies as skies cleared and tem Guardsmen Called Out i peratures rebounded upward after Army trucks loaded with emer: five days of heavy snow anti rain gency supplies left Ft Sill en in Colorado Snow had piled up to route to Tulsa Civil Defense head II Pa to meet here at 10 to a quick end of the strike which riding out on a white horse he RI-day-old steel am Monday has resulted in the loss of millions When the Indian appeared flu David 1 McDonald president of dollars in wages and fortune teller concluded the) a note of urgency! of the USW also summoned the Ition would know that their search wa5 egotialors tried to 11111011'S International Executive The 170-man Wage Policy Corn over: they'd be right on the treas raft-Hartley action Board to meet in an unusual Sun mittee can either reject or accept Lire 000 strikers back day session at 2 pm new contract The Executive Akins Akins returned to Boll gathered Some observers were optimistic Board makes recommerdations to up Carson and Ilarrison and Steelworkers slim- over the developments But others' the Wage Policy Committee picks and shovels to go erful Wage Policysaw no concrete moves leading There are widespread but un- orotind and the trio set off for Iconfirmed reports the industry is the treasure site They began to ghter Battles willing to give the USW an cent-an-hour annual package in a Keep Digging two-vear contract provided the And after a while sure enough union permits management more Harrison and Carson heard the I 1 I 11- control over local working condi- unmistakable sounds of a cat Pa Committee to meet here at 10 the RI-day-old steel Iklonday David 1 McDonald president a note of urgency of the USW also summoned the negotiators tried to union's International Executive Taft-Hartley action Board to meet in an unusual Sun 500000 strikers back day session at 2 pm Some observers were optimistic Steelworkers slim- over the developments But others' powerful Wage Policysaw no concrete moves leading Freighter Battles riding out on a white horse When the Indian appeared the 'fortune teller concluded they would know that their search was over: they'd be right on the treasAkins returned to Rolf gathered up Carson and Harrison and enough picks and shovels to go around and the trio set off for the treasure site They began to dig Keep Digging And after a while sure enough Harrison and Carson heard the control Mel- win vto pang uonto- souruis ()I a cat- in Ihe mills The United moned its know it was going to be thisl Turner Jim McCelland and bad" Oki timers called it the Frank Wilson were among the citys worst floul first at the crash "It was burn Houses and garages had floated 1 ing pretty hard" recalled Mc off their foundations and nearly Celland The three had gone north every business establishment in to look at some property of Turn-the area was inundated er's but hadn't noticed anything Four traffic deaths occurred on their way up But upon their return past the crash site they noticed the flames in the field and investigated Skid 275 Feet When they reached the wreck- age they saw that Hudson had killed and concluded he had been killed instantly "Ile probab rbeen killed instantly "He probab- der water end drinking water Continued on Page 2) Continued on Page 2) Raging Hole Fire Raging Hole Fire tions These conditions vary from fight They commented on it to tfil2 inches in Denver and more quarters for possible use in small as predicted company to company hathi-t than 30 inches in Colorado Springs towns inundated in the northeast The reported offer would give heard a thing and Canon City 'Three helicopters each capable of NEW YORK Ok1))--An AmerL The Coast Guard understood eight cents for pension and wel- "Keep digging" he said and Thousands of Oklahomans carrying 20 troops stood by for acml moved into emeroencv shelters action In Lo zIprIngs WV 111 Ly Three helicopters each capable of 1 of Oklahom acmillan ans carrying 20 troops stood by forl Thousands of Oklahomans carrying 2o troops WW1 ny lor moved into emergency shelters action Sees Sees chased from their homes in Still- National Guard and Army re chasen Irom Inew nomes Ole Itittildi lifa ut 0 si lily v- ater Guthrie and Skiatook by serve troops labored at the enl- four days of driving rain Flash lege town of Stillwater in north onservative WI I-- 1 A ii onservative Win flooding also forced evacuation of central Oklahoma Hundreds of what hit him" said Trooper White Sulphur said the plane skidded some 275 feet from the point it first touched down One wing was folckd under the plane Hudson made his can freighter with 55 to 59 persons that there were 43 crewmen and tare benetits tor one year With iney (mg aboard was reported ith a fire 2 passengers no pay raise as such In the see The rooster crowed Harrison 1 ond year eight cents would go for heard it: so did Carson They both blazing furiously in her No 3 car- The vessel made no immediate go hold about 65 miles from Ber- report on what had caused the wages told Grinstead later that they McDonald and Conrad Coop heard it But Akins still heard muda Saturday However the yes- fire and did not give any details I er the industrys chief negotia- nothing particular assistance taken to combat it sel the Mormacteal asked no as to what measures were being tor would not say if any offer "Keep digging" he urged The ship was in the vicinity of its on the contract table They met I They dug hurricane Hannah and its (liffi- i' for an hour and 20 minutes Sat! They Fled culty was believed to have result- Fleeing Cubans urday morning maintained a Then as the pick sank into the news blackout and went their ground there was the anguished ed in some way from the storm 1 possibly a breaking loose of some I separate ways sound of a womars if r' Use Grenades I Although McDonald and Cooper (Continued on Page of the general cargo it was carry- I ranqati enrnmont ilne intilteirty 1 1 refused comment one industry 500 persons from Seneca Mo on persons there still were unable to Bh Vot the Oklahema-Missouri line after get back into their homes All but an eight-inch downpour one road was open at Stillwater rit i More than one inch of rain pelt- which earlier had been isolated ell Fort Smith Ark just before Cnttono and Creek continued to 1 British Vote kOg ONDON (PI Prime Minis A Macmillan and Gaitskell both approach to the south and the dan and nearly an inch fell in fall at Guthrie 39 miles north of pl point- est Tex as at Midland Oklahoma City The creek runs ter Harold Macmillan predicted earmarked in final campaign plane ended up on its belly Little immediate relief was in through the west side of town an sight for the region at the peak of the flood only th 'swings this weekend through the ecl slightly northeast about 60 hintedands 1feet off S1112 The crash took place on Drop 1 The crash took place on prop dSaturday his Conservatives would win Britain's boiling-hot election next Thursday But latest public 'Opinion polls show the outcome nearly a tossup between the Conservatives and Laborites ing Despite the lack of any request 1 for assistance two Coast Guard To Seize Plane cutters were dispatched to the 1 HAVANA Of a scene Despite the lack of any request for assistance No Coast Guard cutters were dispatched to the To Seize Plane HAVANA of a scene erty owned by Garland Nowlin but leased by Turner I Hudson had formed his oil about two years ago aft cr serving for In years as admin I istrator of the Fort Worth City 'County hospital Prior to that he I had been in charge of the Methlodist hospital there MILT Grad The lloff native graduated from Roll High School and Southern Methodist University He served as a Methodist preacher several years for churches in Texas and was a chaplain in World War source close to the negotiatioris! said no money package had been hI a Apparently Seeks put on the bargaining table 1 (l While there was a glimmer of The Coast Guard in New York Cuban airliner by grenade-toting optimism some persons close to! passengers who forced the pilot the scene pointed out that the above and that an American sub- to 11Y 0 to Miami brought on a new 1 USWs Executive Board and the behind as the Mormacteal headed oid War Truce In Far East said one of its planes was hovering drive against antigovern- Wage Policy Committee had met marine was trailing about mile security ment activities here Saturday several times during the strike for Bermuda 1 Air Force Chief Juan Almeida McDonald first announced the' WASII1NGTON (API Soviet breathing spell in the East A spokesman for the Moore-Mc- issue ers prohibiting night meeting of the 40-man Executive Premier Nikita Khrushchev ap- conflict no progress on any Cormack Ship Line in Nev York of private planes over Cuba up of the union parently is trying to find sonic -West lies out of West Berlin ti Red Eisenhower determined said the freighter hd sailed from without prior government international officers General formula for a cold star truce in His public performance liffl the Far East as ell as in En- the talks on Berlin un a IA New York Sept 10 for South ance- i Counsel Arthur Goldberg and dis- shchev either lifted his America with a crew of about 48 Air force headquarters author- jrict directors The union chief' rope Ithhei nlaieINT so 1 bterien kind of test in government realized that he would get and 11 passengers 'lied police riflemen to open fire said merely he wanted to give the of his follow-up attitude toward his i Friday night on two unidentified board a "sittiation report:" officials doubt that he can talks kith President Eisenhower on any other matter did so 7 ri tu tiiiiurriiieu breathing spell in the East-West conflict His public performance in Red China has been a kind of test in the view of the government of his follow-up at toward his talks with President Eisenhower' of this lies out of West Berlin no progress on any other Eisenhower determined the talks on Berlin until either lifted his realized that he would get on any other matter did so I''l have become more and more confident of the result" Macmillan told a news conference With only five days left the polls showed 395 per cent of the voters behind the Conservatives and 38 per cent for Hugh Gaits skell's Labor party A little more than two weeks Macmillan called the They were slugging it out on the 1 main Conservatives to the right of representing Britain at an East-West summit and Labors promises to old age pensions and do i away with sales taxes on necessit les i Said the urbane 63-year-old Macmillan: "I do not see how a which is split as the are on every major issue can possibly form a government with a large enough majority to play an effective role at the summit" Macmillan former defense minister and foreign secretary took over as Prime Minister in January 1957 when ailing Sir Anthony Eden stepped down in the wake of the Suez invasion crisis Gaitskell in a campaign speech in Liverpool argued that the Conservatives were "hopping mad" about Labors pledge of sales tax relief They are very excited because we have dared to say we IA ill take the purchase tax off necessities" he said "That's he I Ile election on the crest of a popu- laritv wave and in the flush of larity wave and in the flush of (Continued on Page 2) that actually is his Nearly two hours later after an- light planes flying over suburban! resent purpose in Red ncing the Monday assembly Havana The net inn nou puro in tw unci the Monday assembly F' pse nina Havana The action forced the no last weekend Appraisals cannot be definitie yet because no one here knows what Khrushchev and the Red Chinese leaders have been talking about priyak-4y But the conviction is growing that Khrushchev may he try: ing to use his influence to try to get the Chinese Reds to take some steps toward improving their own relations with the United States they made subject to focus Khrushchey threat or nowhere unless he The break came Sunday morning when after a brief personal session between Eisenhower and Khrushchey late Saturday night Khrushehey began to agree to some things At that point it became possible to consider the threat to Berlin lifted and to talk about other topics Late Sunday morring Khrushchev raised the question of Communist China and Eisenhower said the present policy I I- of aads4 'President Eisenhower's visit here Conservatives appeared a sure thing to win an unprecedentd ed third term and run Britain for five more years 1 At that time the polls usually accurate in forecasting elections' in Britain gave the Conservatives a 75 per cent margin as against the present I5 It may he the 18 per cent of undecided voters who kill deter -mine hich party controls the 630- member House of Commons and I impressed with the eL tower at Havana Airport the Wage Policy Committee McDonald a but they are iublicly liN ed up to eav In detour a Cubana Airlines tur- me boprop plane making a landing IT nal(' issueo a formal state spirit of he has "W'e have called a meeting I -amp the David on his trip to Peiping the area It is not known OKLAHOMA Mostly cloudy I111 the the union's International Wage Hi warnings to his Chinee i itinehintruding Planes were hit Policy re with occasional rain Sunday and dt normal patthern is lot- i Committee for 10 am Communist allies against upset- Sunday night scattered show- Monday" the statement said ting his efforts to develop more owe governmonaentlauce authorities of will ers and thunder storms extreme I "This is in keeping with our pol- peaceful relations with the United southeast portion: continued cool reimpose nfrying rs Cuba's internal i of keeping the membership States and the Weqern pimurs Sunday and Sondav night lows PaSserigers irnia Hilly informed on the situation in have been taken in (war- wes I 50s southeast airlines in oil cr prevent iiiis nortn 1 i the steel negotiations through Ire- ters here as further proof of the viduals seeking to flee (Oa from highs Sunday 55 northwest to 70 (merit meetings with their duly Eisenhower administration's view iorrtA 0-- a IgFv ri otitillitIMIdt1(111 southeast (Continued ffe402 It is well to remember the humorous adage that "nothing is so embarrassing as watching the boss doing something you told eno couldn't be What happened as this: When Eisenhower and hhrushchey got into a stalemate mer Khru- 'him (Copr I on Page 2) elected representatives" that Khrushchev needs at least a sh(hevs threat to squeeze the A1 Continued on Page 2) iContinued on Page 2) Gen Pea Corp) forms the next government.