Holdenville Daily News from Holdenville, Oklahoma • 1

asf Allied Dead VOL XVIII HOLDENVILLE OKLAHOMA MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1945 NUMBER 251 WRECKAGE AIRLINER IN WHICH 22 PERISHED A Bomb Control OCCUPATION ORCES Talk rowned NEAR 100000 MEN On by Britain a Gen MacArthur Rites Set or before wc start would not cover even 1922 is survived by his falhbr 4 lnzi innrdzi i Bronze Star Dia To Lt Huser sales Saturday Closing Japs Surrender To Chinese for service overseas WEATHER game the last and loss personnel distribution processing and reas have insomnia sleep when at be adopted notice the Saturdays the club will men available players of the paid that and capital had waited three and one half years to give him Great crowds lined the flag drap was which Lt for duty in a upon rc ALL STARS READY OR ADA IN SOTBALL SEASON INALE TONIGHT re the City softball fans who watchr ed city league participants perform the last three years have a chance tonight to repay those performers for hours of entertainment by at tending a game the proceeds of which will go to supplying a for players of the five city league teams Tonight's game scheduled to start at Wolverine stadium at 8:30 matches city league All Stars man aged by Clyde Wren against an all establishments in the report shows gained 22 increasing from 251 in to 273 Businesses de tax payments 'decreased Lt Woodrow Storey USNR has teen cited for per formance of duty in the face of constant enemy during the battle of Okinawa while serving in that theatre on the staff of he Commander of Minecraft in the Pacific yhLy: Lt wife the former Miss Eunice Glass makes her home at 5C2 Broadway She is employed in the Hughes county War Price and Rationing Board office He is the son of Mrs Dora Storey 506 Broadway re Entering service in October 1942 Lt Storey trained at Harvard com munications school and thp sub chaser school in Miami la He was on convoy duty on a destroyer in the Atlantic for a year before be ing assigned to the staff of com mander of destroyers in the Atlantic at Portland Me rom July 1944 to ebuary 1945 Lt Storey was on the communica tions flagship USS Panamint than whose heroic de I lense ot Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942 gave the allies time to plan the defense of Aus tralia and the military comeback which led last week to Tokyo s' re Partly cloudy with scattered showers southeast Cooler High temperatures 75 panhandle to 85 southeast air tonight and to morrow cooler southeast tonight and warmer west half tomorrow afternoon High 81 Low 62 You never really you can't" even time t' git up uneral services for Sgt Tate 49 will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon the Baptist church I Mr and Mrs Diamond will I turn from airfield withinnext several days star aggregation from Ada Personnel of the city team had not been decided upon by Mgr Wren mis alternoon but consist of the best picked from leading five teams Admission to the to be plaved this season has been fixed at 10 and 25 cents Ada has sent word that it will field a classy team tonight embrac ing the best softball talent WASHINGTON Sept 10 (UR) American code experts deciphered Japanese ladio military messages and made possible a daring air am bush that brought a sudden fieiy death to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto who once bragged that Japan would dictate the peace terms in the White House in Washington Dustin Winners To Compete Here I Denver Wilbanks Calvin farmer I receiving compliments on produc lion of 120 gallons ol sorghum from film nrTP fif Tnmon Allnn SCATTERED OVER A SWAMP near lorence is the wreckage of an airliner which crashed expoded and burned while en route from Miami to New York Twenty two persons nine of them soldiers were killed in the accident The plane cut a swath 50 feet wide through 200 feet of trees (International' Soundpho to) TOKYO Sept 10 American forces today took over three more cities and two naval bases south of Tokyo today as a steady stream of reinforcements swelled the occupation army to nearly 100000 men Radio Tokyo said 3000 troops of the 27th division oc STATE REGISTERS GAIN $19533145 A Bronze Star for battle partici pation credit for the has been received here bv former irst Lt Oliver Stanley Huser a former member of the 474th fighter gloup who leceived a discharge from the aimy air corps in July The Older also stated he was en titled to the Distinguish Unit badge rne citation of unit en the fighter group of Huser was a member standing performance of joint air ground attack ti eating enemy forces beyond the alaise Argentan area in rance on August Huser and his wife the former Miss Yvonne Lyons make their home here He returned to the states several months ago and re ceived his discharge after being sta tioned in Texas and Alabama Deciphering of Jap Code Messages Led To Yamamoto Death brother and two sisters Bearers will be Clem Pogue Luke Chadwick Robert Blackwell Roby Arthur Gaddy and Gus Parks oreign Ministers Or Big ive Meet In England Tuesday three supreme court juistiecs lour ciwlians was unanimous ccpt for two distensions on points lAmencan occupation troops landed 6 Admiral Sir Bruce raser mander of the British Pacificsailed from Tokyo aboard his Here riday And Saturday Members rom 26 Clubs Will Offer Keen Competition Singapore Docks Must Be Rebuilt com fleet flag ship the Duke of York for Hong I Long where the often postponed I official Japanese surrender was I scheduled for today or tomorrow i 7 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat Long Stay Overseas Near End for Amis Twenty months service in the European theater of war with the ifth armored division will end this month for Roy Amis hus band of Mrs Doris Amis 207 Cypress according to a cablegram received by Mis Amis this morn ing SSgt Amis member of the arm 'Cd forces since October 1939 is a former resident of Hazard Ky you this month" he cabled from a rench port of debarkation ipr rr HiiriH lEPiniMitu 4 Officers of the American north Pacific fleet were scheduled to in spect Japanese naval vessels at Ominato naval base in northern Honshu following the enemy's sur render of the area yesterday 5 Korean patriots protested the announced American plan to main tain Japanese government officials office Korea untill all 100 000 have SINGAPORE Sept 10 (UR) The Singapore naval base was damaged so badly by allied dock installations will have to Sty rebuilt a survey cfthe area re veals Title lonly Japanese vessels ife maining in the base are two cruisers cf the Nachi class a destroyer and 70 suicide boats The bulk of the Japanese gar rison of Singapore already has mov ed across the Singapore causeway into Malaya in accordance with sur render instructions British naval officers said Japa nese naval experts in Singapore called the battle of the Coral sea the turning point of the far eastern naval struggle The Japanese used Singapore as headquarters for their Oth zone fleet whicli controlled activities in southeast Asia Postal Notes Now On Sale in City I a majority 01 me people who ought to be covered He said that 2000 new 12 slufc Idents will continue in training until July 1 1946 No decision has been reached on their status thereafter He restated the navys intention not to release persons merely because their education was interrupted by inauction They must conform to the point stem like everyone' else he said He predicted that the coast guard will follow the lead and al low similar credits for overseas du ty The marines he said can make no change in their point score un turn to page Col (j Of Indian Office Announced Today Thp 'IhcdI nffirn nf fhn TI Tn jdian Service will hereafter be clres ed on Saturdays Leland Stark dis tinct agent said today All ledcral government bureaus new on a 40 hour week sched ule and the head of the Indian Bu reau decided to close the field offices on Saturdays rather than slforten the woik day on Monday through I veteran army a Max Schmeiing Given Acquittal HAMBURG Sept? 10 Max Schmeiing former heavy weight boxing champion wras ac quited today of a charge of provid ing false Information to the Brit ish foreign office 10 Okla TOKYO Sept General MacArthur supreme allied com mander has abolished the Jap i la 1 hea ci ua cm a nd imposed rigid press and radio cen sorship it was reported today Japanese newspapers will con tinue to publish but any violation ot the allied rules will be dealt with immediately it was announc ogle uneral Held Sunday Postal notes are now on sale nt i the local post office Assistant master Howard II Davis bps an nunccd I The notes which were supposed to go on sale at the local office on July 1 when the office was upped to a first class but the supplies ihave just been received I Notos for one cent to $10 will besold with a five cent fee on each re Imposes Rigid Jap Censorship Overseas Broadcasts Of Jap Radio Ended SAN RANCISCO Sept 10 The Japan Corpor casting Corporation today announc ed suspension of all overseas broad casts on the order of Supreme Al lied Commander General MacArth ur Tokyo laclio lepoitcd Oterseas broadcasts in fet eign languages were discontinued Sept 4 but overseas broadcasts in Jap anese were allowed to continue un til today Tokyo radio reported in a broadcast heard by United Press San rancisco orders "do not al feet domestic broadcasts 111 Tokvo raid least Asia left his headquarters at Kandy for Singapore to accept tne Japanese sui lender' probably on Wedncsaav 8 Australian officers on Borneo ordered Lt Gen Adachi the Jap anese commander to stop stalling and to land on Kairibu air field tcmoi i ow re More than 80000 American oc cupation troops had landed in the greater loxyo area by yesterday and reinforcements were streaming I ashore by air and set by thethous ancle Sagamishara and Zama Three hundred other troops entered Hiratsuka 35 miles southwest of Tokyo to arrange for its occupation probably Wednesday by another 3000 men of the 27th the broadcast said Both Hiratsuka and Odawara are on the main Tokyo Nagoya coastal trunk railway Joint army navy task forces ran up the stars and stripes over the Katsuyama naval base at the southeast en trance to Tokyo bay and the naval base on the east coast of the Chiba peninsula southeast of Tokyo a a General occupation policy continued in force and no untoward incidents were repor lCU Other developments included: 1 MacArthur told his troops they must respect the propcity oi pcronal rights of the Japanese people and carry out their occu pation duties unneces sary violence and without undue 2 The Eighth armv announced that 8085 allied prisoners have been liberated included 6096 who al ready have evacuated 3 Radio Tokyo said 50 mine eepmMhrif timen began nT vniiiy tiro Keen competition in crops and articles produced by Hu ghes county 4 club boys and girls is anticipated here riday and Saturday when representatives of the coun 26 clubs enter exhibits in the annual club fair to be held in civic center Entries County Agent Vernon I rey in 10 a iifey an hour before judging is scheduled to begin Judges for the event will be Ce cil Bowman of the state extension division StUiwater for the boys di vision Alice Carlson Stillwater as distant 4 club agent for Oklaho ma and Martha Merrifield exten sion clothing specialist from Still water for the division Exhibit the division will be shown in five classes: horticul ture entomology crops legumes and handicraft Under these classes will be exhib its of Irish potatoes sweet potatoes garden seed fruit honey sorghum corn kafir cotton wheat grain sor giium oats peanuts cowpeas soy beans forage crops and club mem ber reports 1 Contests for girls will' consist of clothing canning home improve jnent and record books Cash awards have been set up for places in the various divisions and classes Quality of exhibits prepared for the expected to be of a high erder in spite of handicaps brought about by the late growing season though crops were late this i year" rye said "it looks like have some very good City and county residents are in vited to attend the fair particular ly during the open house arranged for riday from 7 to 9 i DEATH DECREED OR ORMER NAZI PUPPET LONDON Sept 10 orm er Puppet Premier Vidkun Quis ling i Norway has been con victed of treason and sentenced to Radio Oslifsaitl The broadcast said Quisling's I ot tune totalling 1008000 kronor was onficil The verdict of the court of and ex two Aaron Calvin i He died riday morning at 7 in the Mc Coskey General hospital Temple Tex and Ins body arrived here Sat urday morning Rev red Williams Calvin will officiate at the services and burial will be the Gerty cemetery under direction of the Hudson uneral Home £gt Talc a World war who reenlisted the NANKING Sept 10 A Jap anese general dipped a Chinese brush in a pot of ink Sunday and 17 minutes signed documents sur rendering 1000 tOO Japanese troops ami bringing to a formal end eight years of war in China Paunchy Gen Yasuji Okamura Japanese supreme commander IChina signed his name in Chinese and alternately bowing and hissing passed the documents to Stern Gen Ho Ying Chin Chinese ground for ces commander The surrender was signee in the Central Military aca demy here The surrender agreement applied to all Japanese forces in China out side of Manchuria and in ormosa and the northern half of rench (Please turn to Page Col 3) Lieut Storey Wins Citation vJahorca Historical So a 'State Capitol Ckla OkJa iHughescounfyalestaxcbllec tions for the month of July in creased 1626 percent over collections for July 1944 led by an increase of 263 percent registered in Holden ville Collections for the month were $1004629 compared with $863957 for July 1944 a gain of $140672 by county business institutions igures released by the State Tax Commission showed $134822 of the gain registered in Holden ville where sales tax collections in creased from $512424 to $647246 Business county the in number 1944 linquent in from 1434 percent to 1355 percent Tax collections broken down into business stouds reveals the fond group led eight other classifications a tumultuous reception which the 1 4 ii Aanifal hnrl ttinil nrl 111 11U111UCL aim CUHeUVlUIlS Vol lections according to groups1 were as follows County Makes Big Increase In Retail Sales Wmneis the 4 club fair Dustin Saturday will compete the county fair here this riday and Saturday Lucille Clark heme dem onstration agent said today The fair sponsored by the Dustin Home Demonstration club was judged by Lewilta Douglas home economics instructor at Calvin high school Entries in the fair were of a high quality and may be expected to rank high the county exhibit this weekend Miss Clark said Interest in 'the' Dustin 'fair' was particularly high in the girls divi sion where 26 girls entered com plete exhibits Girls who entered complete ex hibits are Mary Jo Kirkendall Bil lye Parks rancis Robinson Vera Wells Pearlie Marie Brown Jewel Dean White Margaret McKenney Jo Ann Graham Bobbie Jean Mil ler Norma Jean Biddle Loretta Mott Laura Mae King Virginia Ann Newton Betty Lou Holmes Lor raine Manning Velma Sue Wells Patsy Wcotten Bonnie lannagin Le Ann Harmon Maxine McKin ney Wanda Gene Ryan Carol Sue Drake Shirley White Jo Ann Dod son Gloria Loe Wells and Maudine Smith Winners in the various classes were announced as follows irst year Le Ann Har mon first Norma Jean Biddle sec ond and Patsy Wootten third irst year Le Ann Har mon first Norma Jean Biddle sec ond and Laura Mae King third irst year home improvement Lorraine Manning first Norma Jean Biddle second and Laura Mae King third Victory girls Shirley White first Jo Ann Dodson sec ond and Maudme Smith third Victory girls home improvement Gene Ryan first Carol Sue Drake second and Maudme Smith third Second year Bobbie Jean Miller first Margaret Mc Kenney second and Jo Ann Gra ham third Second year Wardna Smith fiist Bobbie Jean Miller second and Jo Ann Graham third Second year home improvement Ann Graham first Bobbie Jean Miller second and Margaret McKinney third Third ye canning rances Robinson Pearlie Mae Brown andlJewel Dean WhiteThird year clothing i rances I Robinson first Pearlie Marie i (Please turn to Page Col 4) SAN ANTONIO Tex Having completed a tour of duty of 17 months in the European theater of operations Sgt William Jones jr 409 8 Hinckley Holdenville Ok la has arrived at the San Antonio district AA command for signment His awards include Purple Heart Distinguished Unit citation Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters European Theater of Operations ribbon with seven battle stars Processing and reassignment for AA returnees ordinarily are com pleted from 10 days to two weeks I after which personnel arc generally assigned to stations in this countiy 1 1 AROUND I oreign Minister Evatt Demands ull Enemy Payment meeting pEace CHANGED The Business and Professional Women's club will meet tonight at 17:30 in the 'Civic Center building The meeting had prev iously teen scheduled in the home ot Mrs Jim Hamilton 305 Bul litt I WASHINGTON Sept 10 (UP) Meat rationing will end Oct 1 and ijshoe rationing will end soon after jit was learned today I of AgncuJtuie ClintonlAiiGerson favored lifting ra uneral rites for ogle Ironing Sept 1 it was learned but eminent resident of ain icld Ill Pncc Adiiiini traloi Chester Bowles taken paid chaplain Committees appointed by the president will also be announc ed at tonight's meeting Program for the meeting desig nated as Men's Night" is as follows: Opening prater ledge of allegiance to the flag Special Martha Washing ton Rev Kirk Instalation of Rev A Downing Address: War Atti tude Towaid Knight I Address: Others Have Wade Refreshments i Thompson of Burlington la form uii) vi iiuiuuii vine wuiu iiuiu day afternon in airfield Diamond flew to airfield urday afternoon to join Mrs mond and other relatives wno al ready were airfield was made Turner Troup plane with Jimmie Mavfield local pilot and aviation instructor at the con trols Mayfield flew back from airfield Sunday Hating visited here many times Mr ogle was acquainted with inanv local residents He was a pioneer citizen of airfield and was one of the community most beloved citiz ens He had been ilLhealth for many months Mis ogle their two daughters and one son Thomas ogie of Cali fornia survive 5 Japanese troocs killed un tn Ci 11 fx A i Im I wu Ivtuivu MU JlUOtiandU SUX" dieis without justification or excuse at Milne bay New Guinea in 1942: Many including women natives were subjected to frightful mutilation and some ei used lor bavonet nrac Iticejw liile they? still were alive Evatt said the upoit taken in conjunction with the American statement on atrocities released last week strengthened confirmedpolicy of the Australian government that there should be no im munity lor tual foi war crimes for any Japanese whatsoever" Austi Mia hus inloi med the war crimes commission that it desires niachimiv motion Im mediately for the trial of Japanese ciiininals Evatt said laic acre oi cane Inman Allen Keystone hotel manager disclosing that the hotel will bcgiven a tlror cugh over" with DDT spray the very near future Uncle Jess Humphrey 80 year old city pioneer back from a weekend visit1 with his 90 year olj sister in Ok lahoma City Jimmie Mayfield encountering than my of head wind as he flies back from allfield Ill Sunday after flying Oilman Harry Diamond to air field Saturday afternoon Coun cilman I Hayes the motor mag nate being out cf town Several local college students campus bound Shorty Larson objecting to be mg passed by by his Daily News cm Her Streets and roads fields and gardens pretty much in need of a good scakmg rain The soft ball season to be brought to a close tcmght with a classy outfit group of All Stars from Ada here to match its skill with the Holdenville All Stars After tonight city sport fans attention will turn to with some though to the major league baseball race now in its last lap Leland Stark mak ing an early announcement that the Indian office here will be closer! on Saturdays for an indefinite period Meat Rationing i Ends Oct 1st Holdenville Daily News With which fa combined THE HOLDENVILLE DEMOCRAT EstabUshed in 18 98 A NEWS paper dedicated to the welfare of HugheTEnty PESSIMIST 4 By BOB BLANKS JR Some folks raise such a dust rush around that they see directions on th' sign post 750000 Sailors To Get Early Navy Release I WASHINGTON 10 NUR) The navy Sunday night authorized ene quarter point for each month cf overseas and sea duty in a re vision of its point system demobih zationjstandardswhich will more than double the number of person nel eligible for immediate discharge The nayy estimated that 750 000 persons will be eligible for de mobilization on September 15 ef fective date of the new credit This is an increase of 423000 over who became eligible on Aiigwt 15 when the navv first announced its demobilization plan Secretary James orrestal said tne overseas credit is being grant ed place of an immediate reduc tion in the critical point score The I score will be reduced however Capital Gives Wainwright Rousing Reception 'score win oe reauuea iiuwever me secret oi me Dome would co' (promptly as conditions he i as a to the conference torn a news conference Also effective September 15 the navy announced a critical point score for the discharge of medical and hospital corpsmen and nav nurses Nurses will need 35 points doctors will need 60 but the for female doctors will be the 'WASHINGTON Sept' 10 Gen Wainwright a hero jin defeat Hew home from the uglyshadows of a Jap prison campto 'day to a reunion with his wife and Newspapers and radio are now forbidden to discuss allied troop movements and to criticize the 71 rtlxlVU pUY Cl Oj llU CLllllULtllLUllldwlv saia Ejrnes the newspaper said will be asked for assurance that bomb icimula will not be given any com ten supreme commander for south U1C1 Cldl vUHliJHlc $3 56275 cd route of his motorcade through $47698 general merchandise 54 $338577 furniture fixtures and 5 $5282 motor vehicle 41 $112686 lumber materials $40410 $424TO pub lic utility 11 $173 52 24 $43939 LONDON Sept 10 Great" took a firm stand today against any dis cussion of the future control of the atomic bomb at the Big ive council of foreign ministers opening here to morrow oreign Commissar Molo tov of Russia arrived bv plane today for the council established at Potsdam to set the course toward the final peace settlements and main tain liaison among the uni ted nations governments Molotov announced a prc con fcrcnce meeting with British or eign Minister Ernest Bevin for tomorrow morning Bevm was seeing Georges Bidault of rance and Wang Shih Chieh of China later today Secretary of State James Byrnes was due at Southampton on the Queen Elizabeth in time for the first formal session of the: conference to An official Butish spokesman re (clearing waters and around the vealed Butams opposition to taking Igasebo naval base in western Kyu up the future of the atomic bomb iSjIU nh marines scheduled to land at the conference He expressed rafter a channel has been cleared ouipiioc a xxjnoon ovar patch saying that Russia rance and China would be allowed to share the atomic secret when the coun cil opened Bevm the commentator said has ''suggested that it is a matter which appropriately falls to the United Nations There has been official sug he added that the subject of the atomic bomb on which the future peace of the world may de pend be taken up by the foreign ministeis The Star said a joint request for the secret of the bomb would come Eaten by Japs Aussies Charge City AA Veteran At San Antonio nr and lather cf Mrs: Harry Dia Wrested that no action be i mend of Holdenville and Mrs Eloise 111111 OPA had cut down its num piu sun Having laid oit most of its field employes OPA has agiced Sat inieaL rationing will so Oct 1 me two agencies have drawn up blucPiints htjaldino tho mH The 'trip I Theie is a good supply of beef inuuoir ana poultry on the maikG although there still a poi shoi tagc I ats and oils will continue to be 'rationed as will sugai Ire Shoe iatioringit was learned will probably end between Oct 15 and 'Nov 1 avoritism To Labor Charged WASHINGTON Sept 10 A ji epubhean accused theiadnilnistra tion today of deliberately keeping mm in iimfoim war workers could get fust crack at peacetime Meanwhile the navy granted suf ficient ci edits for overseas sei vice to release an additonal 423 CGO naval pci onncl immediately The republican charge similar to that levelled during: the 1944 elec tion campaign was made by Sen ator Robeitsun of Wyoming in an interview with tne United Press? am the westerner said this administration does not intend to let these toys out until tlic wer workers have tne jobs" LONDON Sept 10 oreign Minister Dr Herbert Evatt of Australia demanded today that officers up to the presum ably including Emperor Hir ohito and the imperial gen eral staff be punished for Japanese barbarity in south west Pacific He made the demand in releasing official report to the united nations war crimes commission on? Japanese'cannibalism and tortures in the Australian Avar zone Australian newspapers reviewing the report urged the allies to scrap soft peace terms for Ja pan ami mete out the harshest treatment to the enemy The report charged: 1 Japanese soldiers ate flesh from their own and American and Australian dead New Guinea fol lowing the Buna Gona campaign in 1942 43 2 150 Australians who surrendered under a white flag New Britain shot or bayonetted to death a few at a time the presence of those still to die 3 Two Roman Catholic priests one a Dutchman and the other an American and two Catholic Nunswcie baj to death in a New Bntam village Aug 19 1942 The bodies of Hie Nulls were naked when found 4 Two American prisoners were i ciibsuled and thnr hvers removed i while they were still alive in the i Kokumbona area oi Guadacanal i in the latter part of September i War Dads Wil! Instal Tonight Newly elected officers of the Hol denville chapter ot American War Dads will be instated tonight at the regular weekly meeting in Le gion hall starting at 8 Officers who will be instaled bv I uie reev A Downing one of the two chapter chaplains are: re Sam Buckley president Washington to catch a glimpse of iMale the now full General Jona score 1 'OrtlllU db 1U1 UU1U1 XCHlcUC UillCClO I Hospital corps male and female I officers including specialists will be governed by same score as other male and female officers 49 and 35 points respectively Pharm mates and hospital corps men male and female will need tne same points required by enlisted personnel 44 for men and 29 for women Answering this criticism orres slal said it would be impossible to award combat credit on a fair ba'is He said is our firm conviction that we should not count in the formula any factor which we know I The shorter dav may later but until further office will be closed onC nvlr core! re The Geological Survey of 'fice in the Post Office building alsowill be closed on Saturdays I Cljde Wren county administrator of the ai Security Admnustra tion has icccivcd no instructionsconcerning oflice hours under the4O houi week schedule Iko Clark Discharged Pfc Ike Clark Dustin received a discharge from the army at Camp Chaffee Ark last week Also re i ceivmg a discharge last week was Cpl James El Martin Allen Mr and Mrs John Lucas spent the weekend Oklahoma City 4 Club air OKLAHOMA CITY Sept Sales tax collections of the homa Tax Commission for the month of July 1945 totalled $177868402 This was an increase oxer July 1944 of $19533145 An increase is shown by all coun ties of the state except Cimarron Harper and Beaver the north west part of the Kay in the north central Cleveland Coal Jef ferson Love and Marshall the south central part of the state rniinlv mq! tnnfnc of all fhocn counties except Harper also show roues Vlce Prc'ident Rod losses In addition Medford rein secretary Robert Stillwell Grant countv Blackwell and Ponca 1 treaurer and the Rev Kirk City in Kay county Cheyenne in Roger Mills county Altus in Jack son county Seminole in Seminole county Duncan Stephens coun ty Stilwell in Adair county Stigler in Haskell county show es The number of returns for tax continues to show an increase over the same period the preceding year or July 1945 the total was 30486 with a delinquency of 3388 and July 1944 a total of 29730 with a delinquency of 3828 Jan Sgt Tate.