Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The center is a conference in the office of Col. Earl H. DeFord, commanding officer, center shown with Col. Harold G. Peterson, left, executive officer and Capt. James H. Bearly, base adjutant."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bobby Catherine Crockett, City"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dog - "Mike" - Trained dog owned by Howard Pack - Okla. City."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Henry P. Iba, Oklahoma A. and M. athletic director and basketball coach goes all out at whatever he's doing."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City was given honorable mention for outstanding work in the prevention during 1941, and presentation of a special scroll from the national fire underwriters association was made last week to W. S. Eberle, chairman of the chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee by fire Chief G. R. McAlpine."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Henry P. Iba, Oklahoma A. and M. athletic director and basketball coach goes all out at whatever he's doing."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Caption: "Warren Edwards, shown above in two poses, member of the school board the last three years and president of the board in 1940 and 1941, announcedMonday he is candidate for county attorney."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Although he towered nearly four inches above the top of the navy's yardstick, Roy C. Patterson, 6 foot 7 1/2 inch Oklahoma city policeman, was snapped up by the local naval recruiters after the army, marine corps and coast guard had turned him down."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Warr Acres - Churches"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Like father like son is a bit bromidish - except that it's about the most applicable expression for Major John T. Walker and his son, Jerry g. Walker."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue Workers expected to find additional bodies in this wreakage as they clear away the damage done by Monday's tonado at Pryor. This is all that was left of the Safeway grocery. The entire building collapsed at a busy shopping hour. There was no estimate available on the number of people in the store and no check of those who may hace escaped."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Here is the way searchers sought bodies left in the wake of the Tornado at Pryor Monday. Under wreckage that once was the walls, floors and roofs of homes and business buildings they found a score of dead and injured. The search will not be complete until ever piece of wreckage in moved."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This auto not only had a flat but is flat. Hundreds of cars parked in street by defense workers were smached."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Drawing/negative picture of the U.S. flag on a pole being held by a guy wearing a hat pretty much out of picture.)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "They've got to tell their mother that Lester wont be home. J. E. Taylor worked all night as a first aid worker in the Pyror tragedy believing his 17-year-old brother, Lester, was injured slightly and under treatment in a Muskogee hospital. Tuesday morning searchers removed Lester's body from the debris. J. E., left, and his brother, Clifford, are shown weeping as they sat on a culvert a block and a half from fearing to break the news to their mother, Mrs. Rosie Taylor, an invalid for eight years."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "No building was left undamaged down this Main street of Pryor by the Tornado which struckit at 4:45p.m. Monday. When the storm passed, dead were in the street, injured were screaming for help. The sidewalks were piled high with broken bricks, merchandise and furnishings of business establishments. The the workers from the Chouteau powder plant moved in with their giant equipment. By morning much of the mess had been cleaned up."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The powerful equipment that Uncle Same is using to make a plant to produce death dealing powder in the war effort Monday night and Tuesday turned to errands of mercy as duPont workers helped Pryor dig its dead and injured from the wreakage left by Monday's tornado. Here a bulldozer clears a sidewalk."

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Daily newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.