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Show LEGAL CLOUDS CLEARING All IIIOJPLIA After Day of Strenuous Court Tight Both Sides Concede Point on Question Ques-tion of Legislative Call REFERENDUM STATUS NOW RESTS AS LEGAL Application to Force Initiative Initia-tive on Ballot for Tuesday Withdrawn by Opponents of Govern or Walton OKLAHOMA CITY. Okie, Sapt ft (Sy A. .) A praalamatian Indefinitely In-definitely paatpanlna a eaeeiel etote eleatlea a had u lad for Oeteaar t la whieh waula haw bean vatod upon an in it imtmA bill - - - - . K. etste eegislatur ta aanven and In-vatigat In-vatigat th effietal acta f the eaeeutiv wa leewed shortly eftsr midnight by Gvrnr J, C. W alien. OKLAHOMA CITT, Ok!, Sept J (By A. P.) Legal proceedings Instituted by Campbell Russell to fore on th ballot at a pclal stat election October t, an Initiative Initia-tive msasur authorising the otat leartslatur to convene by a majority major-ity call to Invest I gat th official acts of Oovarnor J. C. Walton, war withdraw tonight In district court her by agreement of council. At th gam time, attorneys for th executive also withdraw their application which rosulted today la th Issuance of a temporary Injunction In-junction restraining the state election elec-tion board from entering th pro 4 poeaL on the ballot. Thla leave the case in th earn tatus It held when Bee ret at? of mat 8 need held th petition for the referendum legal. WALTON GITS WRIT. ' Ruaaell filed th application Tat today ehortly before council for Governor Walton was granted a temporary Injunction In another division di-vision of tha court preventing the proiauaal Uwoa being placed, be Core (he voters. Hearing oa th mandamus acta ac-ta on began Immediately. While no local opinion eould be htlned a tha raea, observers considered con-sidered It certain that if th writ of mandamus la Issued, this automatically auto-matically wilt auperaede the Injunction In-junction which Governor Walton obtained ob-tained on grounds that Soma of the signet urea an tho petition for tha referendum are forgeries. Hearing: Hear-ing: on th petition to make th Injunction In-junction permanent 1 got for next Monday, fcarller la th day, th state su-prerae su-prerae "court bad opened th way for a vote on tha InlUnJlv proposal pro-posal when It denied both RueaeH's application for mandamus snd th governor's request for a rehearing or his appeal from tha ruling of tha secretary of State, holding tha petition lagal. Thla action, however, did not provide specifically that tha question ques-tion could be submitted. It simply eliminated all legal obstacles at the time In tha path of th measure, BOARD PU2ZLKO. Election board officials. In a quandary aa to the correct eourae to pursue, requested an opinio from tha attorney general's department depart-ment for their guidance: but before be-fore th attorney general, George Hhort, had briefed th rave, new barrier arc in th form of tho proceeding la district court. To further com plicate tha tangle It became known today that tha election board had not submitted apeclflcatlona to th stat board of affairs, which lets contract for election ballot printing. W. C. McAllater, secretary of ths election board, was understood to bo waiting to tha la at possible minute min-ute In hope that th fight over th initiative propoeal would be settled set-tled In tim to prepare fur th alec i Don. |