Navy plan for unified security and autonomous air forces
The article outlines a proposed national security framework including a permanent National Security Council with a secretariat, a joint chiefs of staff for unified commands, and central research and intelligence agencies. It argues for an autonomous army air forces and a continued independent navy with civilian secretary in the cabinet. Also included is a sermon urging Christ’s message in a postwar democracy and the need for moral unity and social conversion.
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NAVY
Army
National Security Council
National Resources Board
Security Council
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army Air Forces
Central Research Agency
Central Intelligence Agency
Marine Corps
Navy Department
Christ
God
John
W.E.G
Delaney Elected Oklahoma Minerals Conference President
The Oklahoma Minerals Conference chose W. A. Delaney Jr. as president, praising his mineral knowledge and development efforts. The editor urges rapid information sharing, state resource discovery, and joint work by the Geological Survey and Conference to attract investment and expand resource development. Germany’s leaders are described as culpable and deserving execution. the piece argues for swift justice for war crimes and condemns delays in legal procedures.
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Oklahoma Minerals Conference
W. A. Delaney, Jr
Gush
Geological Survey
Delaney
Arkansas
Gus
Oklahoma Tax Commission October sales tax trends and county impacts
The October sales tax report shows a state gain of over 5 percent from 1944. Some counties like Beaver Cherokee Cimarron Comanche Creek Grady Grant Latimer LeFlore Love McCurtain Muskogee Ottawa and Pawnee posted losses due to reduced war activity and lower agricultural outputs. Pontotoc county rose over 11 percent, with border counties trending up, suggesting no cross state buying.
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Oklahoma Tax Commission
Beaver
Cherokee
Cimarron
Comanche
Creek
Grady
Grant
Latimer
LeFlore
Love
McCurtain
Muskogee
Ottawa
Pawnee
Pontotoc
Border
Patterson Relives War Flight and Dachau Horror
Ada airman H Pat Patterson recounted D-Day to the Rhine front through Cherbourg to Muenster with the Thunderbolts and ground crews. He described Paris greetings, the St Lo fight, and the Dachau camp’s brutal scenes including executions, cremations, and a starving boy playing Deep in the Heart of Texas on a violin.
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Ada
English Channel
St. Lo
9Th Army
Cherbourg
Muenster
Dachau
Texas
Pat” Patterson
Ata Lions Club
Thunderbolt
Ninth Army
Versailles
Barton Patterson
Raymond Barton
Reims
Belgium
Germany
Patterson
Rise in English divorces tied to long overseas separations
AP reports a surge in English divorces linked to protracted military separations during the war. The piece notes mutual infidelity, legal pitfalls over alleged adultery, and the impact of relocation and wartime social shifts on marriage stability.
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Tommy
More Troopers For State Road Patrol In Oklahoma
Oklahoma City reports Gov. Kerr used a $30 000 contingency fund to raise the state highway patrol strength from 79 to 105. Public Safety Commissioner J M Gentry cites a surge in crime and highway accidents as the rationale for adding troopers. The prior legislature cut the force from 154 to 79 but promised returning troops would reclaim their jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Public Safety
J. M. Gentry
Gentry
Surplus Goods Proposed for Veterans by Symington
Washington December 12 Surplus Property Administrator W Stuart Symington urged Congress to make surplus goods available to veterans. He proposed priority for veterans over most buyers and allow personal purchases, with screening by the Veterans Administration replacing the War Plants Corporation.
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Washington
W. Stuart Symington
Congress
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Symington
Lyndon Johnson
D-Tex
Veterans Administration
War Plants Corporation
Two Hunters Bag Bobcat in Montana Misfire Incident
SCOBEY Mont December 11 Two hunters a man and a bobcat pursued a jackrabbit. Sheldon E Kosher fired missing the rabbit but the bobcat was bagged.
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Scobey
Mont
Sheldon E. Kosher
Will Protest-Jap Captain As Witness
Commander Ike Hashimoto, former Japanese naval officer, will testify tomorrow in the court martial of Captain Charles B. McVay. Hashimoto, skipper of submarine 1-58, was said to have sunk the Indianapolis en route from Guam to Leyte after midnight July 30. He was flown from Tokyo for interrogation as McVay faces charges of inefficiency and negligence. Captain Thomas J. Ryan Jr. said Hashimoto and interpreters would be available for interviews before his testimony.
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Washington
Ike Hashimoto
Charles B. McVay
Hashimoto
Indianapolis
Guam
Leyte
Tokyo
McVay
Thomas J. Ryan, Jr
Truman Confident He Will Get Strike Prevention Law
President Truman expressed confidence that Congress will pass a strike prevention law before Christmas. He said fact finding boards would probe labor disputes with a 20 day period and bans on strikes five days before and after inquiries. House leaders voiced pessimism and blocked the anti strike bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
J. Truman
John L. Lewis
House
House Labor Committee
Truman Reinstates Priority Controls on Building Materials
President Truman reinstates priority control on building materials and imposes price ceilings on old and new housing. He also names Wilson Wyatt as special housing expeditor, following a Snyder recommendation. The White House clarifies no new legislation is needed for priorities under the war powers act.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Louisville
Office of War Mobilization
John W. Snyder
J. Truman
Office of Price Administration
White House
Tulsa County's First Treasurer Dies at 88
H T Uncle Tole Richardson longtime Tulsa county treasurer and political figure dies at his Okla farm home after a long illness. He had lived 64 years in the same house built in 1881 claiming Bird Creek and the Arkansas river as early digs.
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Owasso
Okla
H. T
Tole) Richardson
Treaurer
Tulsa County
Richardson
Bird Creek
Arkansas River
Vast New Oil And Gas Fields Seen In Kansas Oklahoma
Wichita oil man P H H Patton says a giant oil and gas field is opening in western Kansas and Oklahoma. The area in Seward Meade and Beaver counties may hold over 100000 acres suitable for production, east of the Hugoton field. Stanolind wells on Adams Brothers ranch yield gas and oil, with a daily output near 1000 barrels and gas producing over 10 gallons per 1000 cubic feet.
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Wichita
Kas
H. H. Patton
Wichita Oil
Kansas
Oklahoma
Seward and
Meade
Msas
Beaver County
Hugoton
Patton
Ted R. Lofland
Lofland
Stanolind Oil Company
Adams Brothers
Pool
Oklahoma Education Association Plans Home Office in Durant
Durant Okla Dec 12 A home office building for the Oklahoma Education Association is planned with possible Oklahoma City location. President Davison says the group will buy or build. A study committee chaired by L W Weber includes Clark Cunningham and B Pippin among others. A separate unity committee names L D Peak Ruth Green F M Schubert Arnett Cross and R R Russell to align local and state groups with the National Education Association.
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L. D. Peak
Sulphur
Ruth Green
Oklahoma City
F. M. Schubert
Davenport
Arnett Cross
Clinton
R. R. Russell
Woodward
Perrin Field Team Faces Tigers at East Central
Perrin Field cagers meet the Tigers at East Central tonight. Coach Ed Wilds seeks five-click lineup with Leigthinlar York De Foyd Mayfield Littrel or Grimes. Possible reserves include Carleton Tinney Sahmount Ward and Holmes as Perrin aims for a first win after five games.
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Ed Wilds
Perrin Field
East Central
Leigthinlar
York
de Foyd
Mayfield
Littrel
Grimes
Carleton
Tinney
Sahmount
Ward
Holmes
Tigers
Kerr Plans Washington Trip With Five Oklahoma Farmers
Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr will name a five-farmer committee to accompany him to Washington to press Congress to make surplus machinery available for soil conservation. The group will visit January 15 and 16 and Kerr aims to secure a meeting with President Truman. He will seek similar action by the other 47 state governors in a planned march on Washington.
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Oklahoma City
Robert S. Kerr
Washington
Congress
Kerr
Truman
Soil Conservation Board
Newlywed Tarrant Passes Out Cigars After Charivari
Oklahoma round up reports in Malva youths jeered Mr Lawrence Tarrant and his wife. In Aline the city council seized the former movie house to ensure residents access to films, scheduling twice weekly showings.
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Oklahoma
Alva
Lawrence Tarrant
Tarrant
Nature
Aline
Nylon stocking sale sparks stand in downtown LA
In Los Angeles 1,400 pairs of nylon stockings were put on sale at a downtown department store. Women lined up in five long lines to claim tickets, but three shoppers rejected nylons with a defiant remark, "Nylons? We don't want no nylons."
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Los Angeles
Millions Forced By Nazis Into Virtual Slavery In Germany
Nazi war crimes trial details describe more than four million laborers, men women and children from fourteen nationalities shipped to Germany for war production. Prosecutor Dodd cites Nazi records of brutal slave labor under Sauckel Rosenberg and Speer, with reports of babies tossed from trains and force as a production method.
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Wes Gallagher Mernberg
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Adolf Hitler
U. S
Thomas J. Dodd
Reich
Dodd
Fritz Sauckel
Alfred Rosenberg
Ukraine
Albert Speer
Rosenberg
Speer
Allen Baptists New Planning Building
The First Baptist Church of Allen led by Rev. George McDow launches a 5000 dollar building fund drive with 1300 dollars raised from members. December highlights a Christmas program on December 23 directed by Mrs. McDow, ending in a love offering for the fund. Building plans, seating, and committee members Jack Hammonds O L Pence and W D Barnes Jr are noted with Barnes as chairman.
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First Baptist Church of
Allen
George McDow
Jack Hammonds
O. L. Pence
W. D. Barnes Jr
Barnes J
Marines To Stay In Far East Until Japan Surrender
President Truman said United States Marines will remain in China while surrender terms with Japan are carried out. The move aligns with Byrnes’ pledge to help return surrendered Japanese units home. Truman noted Byrnes will meet Molotov and Bevin in Moscow as part of the Yalta discussions.
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Washington
Truman
United States
China
Byrnes
Moscow
Molotov
Bevin
Yalta
Ex-service enrolment at Oklahoma A and M may reach 1500
Stillwater reports that enrollment of ex servicemen for the second semester at Oklahoma A and M could hit 1500 if applications continue at the current rate. M G Orr notes the veterans service office averages 20 new GI Bill enrollments daily. Dr Henry G Bennett plans a veterans village on campus to house ex service men with 200 house trailers ready by Christmas and efficiency houses by late January 1950.
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Stillwater
Oklahoma A
M. College
M. G. Orr
Sprce
Sai Orr
Veterans’ Service Office
G. I
Henry G. Bennett
Discharges Reach One Third of Grady County Servicemen
CHICKASHA December 11. Local draft board records show over a third of Grady county servicemen have received discharges. The report highlights the ongoing postwar demobilization impact on the community and military personnel.
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Chickasha
Grady County
Local
Draft Board
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