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Oklahoma Guardsmen
Leave Handful of
Officers at Dam Site
Construction Men Giving
'Splendid' Co-operation,
State Aide Says
By th» Auoetktcd Prut.
DISNEY, Okla., March 14.—Fifty -
■even Oklahoma National Guards
men reached the Grand River Dam
■ite today, then turned around and
went back to their mobilisation
point at Wagoner, leaving a handful
of officers to carry on Gov. Leon C.
Phillips’ "State’s rights war."
After a conference with I. N.
Towne, construction superintendent,
Adjt. Gen. Louis A. Ledbetter said
it would not be necessary for the
troops to remain at the dam site
because “we are getting splendid co
operation from all officials here."
Maj. H. B. Parris, commander of
the Guard company, arrived at the
site of the $20,000,000 power and
flood control project last night. He
ordered Mr. Towne to stop all con
struction which would cause water
of the river to back up in the
reservoir.
$850,000 Sought.
Gov. Phillips declared martial law
to prevent completion of the dam
before the Public Works Administra
tion pays the State's $850,000 claim
for damages to bridges and roads.
At present, water is flowing under
two arches of the mile-long struc
ture through temporary openings
60 feet wide. Only one arch, No. 6,
remains to be completed.
Asked if construction would be
permitted to continue on arch No.
6 as long as water flowed through
the other arches, Gen. Ledbetter
said that was a matter to be decided
by Col. Philip S. Donnell, Oklahoma
A. and M. College dean of engineer
ing.
uonneii will %have technical di
rection of the dam and will be in
charge until martial law is lifted,”
he said.
Gov. Phillips delivered a scathing
attack against the P. W. A. yester
day.
"This action might not have been
necessary if they hadn't broken
their word by starting the last
arch,” he commented. "I am going
to keep the guards there until I
know I am safe. When I know
I’m safe I’ll pull them out.”
Gov. Phillips, a staunch advocate
of State's rights, also planned a
State court fight to prevent closing
the gates and flooding the 52,000
acre reservoir. He ordered Attorney
General Mac Q. Williamson to seek
an injunction.
Carmody Is Silent.
Federal Works Administrator Car
mody remained silent on Gov. Phil
lips’ declaration of martial law, in
dicating the agency would stand,
for the present, on recent letters to
the Governor’s suggesting that the
matter be settled in court. This
the red-haired Governor adamantly
has refused to do.
Gov. Phillips asserted, in issuing
his order for the troops, that he
doubted whether the Government
“would pay if we got a judgment.”
“I’ve got to choose between being
a sucker and letting the State get
a Judgment it can collect in 1982, or
getting it now.”
The P. W. A. granted the Dam
Authority, a State agency, *9,000,000
outright and purchased *11,000,000
worth of its bonds.
Berlin
(Continued From First Page.)
any such attempt, at least while the
Reich wants Rumania’s oil and
wheat. Danube River ice, frozen
■lnce December 39, began break
ing up yesterday at Glurgiu, Ru
manian oil-shipping center, and
river tankers were expected to start
moving north as soon as the river
Is navigable.
A search for friends in the 8outh
was given also as the reason for
authoritative reports in Rome that
Moscow was beginning trade nego
tiations with Italy.
It was noted that these reports
came almost simultaneously with
Germany’s agreement to fill most
of Italy’s coal needs with rail ship
ments in order to circumvent the
British sea blockade.
The head of a Russian trade com
mission which has headquarters at
Milan, Italy, was said already to
have left for Moscow to obtain final
Instructions for negotiations ex
pected to start shortly in Rome.
Russ-German Alliance
Now Dead, Soy British
LONDON, March 14 OP).—Peace
between Soviet Russia and Finland
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and Germany being driven into a
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tional Guardsmen mobilized In his fight over funds with the
P. W. A. —A. P. Wirephoto.
full military alliance, authoritative
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They asserted it was the British
government’s view that Russia and
Germany are not military allies
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economic sphere.
Since Intervention in Finland by
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would result in a Russian-German
military alliance.
Now that peace has come to the
North it is widely held here that
Russia may become isolationist for
the .time being. It is argued she
lost heavily in men and supplies and
will want to consolidate her gains
before considering any further ad
ventures abroad.
Sources holding this interpreta
tion of the peace said Russia would
continue to supply Germany with oil
and wheat but on a greatly reduced
scafe due to war losses.
So far as Germany's aid to Russia
in the war with Finland was con
cerned, this was regarded as indi
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represented as believing Germany
“consistently refused aid to the
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Witnesses Charge
Law Officers Joined
In Flogging Parties
Strap Used in Fatal
Beating Matches Scars
Of Another Victim
By tiw Associated Press.
ATLANTA, March 14.—Evidence
before a coroner’s Jury of widespread
terrorism by nlght-ridlng (loggers,
accused of numerous abduction*
whippings and one death over a two
year period, linked three church
working county officers with the Ku
Klux Klan today.
One of the Fulton (Atlanta) Coun
ty deputies and a suburban police
man were ldentlfled with a flogging.
A leather strap used In the fatal
lashing of Isaac Gaston, East Point
barber, was matched with the scars
of another flog victim.
A coroner’s jury heard the evi
dence yesterday, falling to name
Gaston’s slayers. Its verdict said he
died from "an unlawful beating ad
ministered” by three or more un
identified men. His beaten body was
found last Priday in a lonely sub
urban section.
Strap Matches Scars.
T. E. Young of East Point, where
several of the lashings were reported,
bared his back to the coroner’s Jury,
showing scars he said were caused
by wounds inflicted by the terrorists
last summer. Assistant Solicitor
Daniel Duke matched the heavy,
4-foot strap, found near Gaston’s
body, against the welts on Young’s
back.
Called as a witness. County Deputy
Sheriff W. W. Scarborough testified
he was the exalted cyclops (head
officer) of the East Point Ku Klux
Klan. He declared Deputies Herb
Eidson and Edward Burdette also
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