Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service EW YORK when youn young g red bed N NEW phillips played gua guard rd on the U university n i v e of oklahoma football footma 11 te team a n i rosity to 1 1915 15 he was scaled down to a mere game of poll politics bics tics pounds but Is another story in spite of that man aged to toot through the line like a high pow ered snow shovel sometimes he stop when the whistle blew and they had a hard time to keep him inside the state lines today as gov leon C phillips of oklahoma he weighs in at and is even more abandoned to in his bootin bootin guard play he orders out the national guard to repulse the invasion of the federals trying to build a dam on the grand river in his state this one of his many scrimmages m a ge is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he considers the illegal encroachment of the federal government he is an apostate new dealer having defeated the similarly belligerent alfalfa bill murray on the issue of new deal adherence in the 1938 democratic primary now mow he has switched teams with a big cigar protruding from his lips at a cocky angle biting it to shreds when he gets steamed up he says the new deal is a social service outfit and social workers are sorority sisters like the fiery a and nd of the oklahoma cowboy song hes aarin to go and he sends word to the war department that he wont let any invader set foot on oklahoma soil he started to be a preacher but switched to the law born 50 years ago to in grant county missouri along the covered wagon trail he was taken to oklahoma at the age of two and grew up to in the cheyenne and arapaho indian countr country y ile he attended epworth university uni verity one year studying presumably militant christianity and then entered the law school of the university of oklahoma his fame as red phillips the bone crushing man eating football player gave him a fast running start to in politics and he soon landed in the state legislature he made his campaign tor for the governorship er on an economy platform sweeping the state the citizens still know him as red and the yea redl red yell of his college days serves tor for his political campaigns |