Show MARTIAL LA PROCLAIMED IN BRIDGE BATTlE Oklahoma Troops Move to Gu- Gu Guard Gurd rd Span Canne C Connecting State With Texas If GOVERNOR DEFIES COURT Military Rule First in j Eight Years in Midwest Zone CD Br United Tress Press DURANT Okla July 24 A 24 A detachment de- de e- e of thirty Oklahoma national national national na na- na- na guardsmen today matched to the north bank of the Red Bed river and put into effect a 1 proclamation of martial martial mar mar- law by Governor W. W H. H Alfalfa Bill nm Murray They bore orders to use force torce if necessary to prevent any ny persons from Crom crossing crossin a toll toU bridge across the stream between Durant and Denison Te Tex Invocation of martial law for the first time in eight years ears in this state was resorted to by Governor Murray as a dramatic climax to a e controversy controversy contro contro- versy ersy that has raged for a a. week Reek around use ue of toll bridges and free tree spans linking Oklahoma and nd Texas SPECTACULAR MOVES lOVES Governor Murray whose whore administration administration administration adminis adminis- of six months has ha been becQ marked by many spectacular movin moves In the thc Interest st of the common people people peo peo- insisted that the two states Joint owners of the free tree bridges throw them open to traffic immediately immediately immediately immedi- immedi immedi immedi- In defiance b of of a f federal C court ur Injunction in Texas Governor Ross Sterling multimillionaire multimillionaire oilman aUman who became chief executive of Texas early this year expressed ex ex- pressed the same desire to to have the bridges opened but said it must be bedone bedone bedone done In an orderly manner without violation of oC terms of the Injunction When word was carried to Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Murray Murra that owners of the toll toU span bet between een Durant and Denison Continued on op Pare Pue Eight I MARTIAL LA lAW PROCLAIMED IN BRIGE BATTLE Continued from from PA Pau e One were planning to tie his hands by te Injunction he ordered t out the gad guard guara ORDERS CONOL CONTROL He directed the guardsmen to t maintain military control against all al interference whatsoever except only an n order otherwise whatever b by the superior executive power of ot the president of the he United States States' Lieutenant Colonel John A. A MacDonald MacDonald Mac- Mac Donald a state senator was wa placed In i command of the detachment of thirty guardsmen mobilized from I company E of ot the theOne One Hundred and howitzer campan company com cam Eightieth infantry a cm- cm pany pan and ad the Ninth brigade headquarters head head- quarters unit The guardsmen assembled in Durant Te during gadmen the night and shortly after Drant dawn wn marched out to t the bridgehead bridgehead bridge bridge- head lead and occupied the narrow area aea naw placed under under martial law by Murrays Murray's With Wih military precision the guard gad was posted and ad were ere arranged to t o keep watch over the bridge twenty twenty- four our hours hous a day dy The only persons permitted to t p pass ss the blockade bloke on were hoe having official cial te carriers business and United States stats mall mal t se |