Lawless Mobs Spur Alabama Crime Fighters
Birmingham dispatch reports turmoil within the Ku Klux Klan as leadership resignations follow a clash among top officials. Grand juries probe a wave of floggings and cross burnings by masked members. records demand and anti Klan actions unfold as authorities pursue ringleaders and two suspects in a lash attack near Goodwater.
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Birmingham
Ala
Klag
Alahaene
EB. PF. Pruitt
Binningham
Pruitt
Klan
Wiltiner
Wilter Hogan
Morris
Albert A. Carmichael
Federated Ku, Klux Klan, Inc
Nowe Ware
Dolph Bailey
Laa Nivel
Goodwater
Bobby Buckner
Buck Burkhalter
Alexander City
Bailey
Cleburn Cabwin
D. Thome
Three Charged in Small Baby's Death
Pa May 2 1 1 Pawhuska Oklahoma three people are charged in the death of a newborn baby found near Two Mile Creek five miles north of Hominy. Suspects include Momer Attwood 9 his wife 50 and Nivs Attwood 29. The two women are jailed awaiting arraignment while Attwood remains at large. The baby was born July 11 in a vegetable garden where the women worked. The manner of death is reported as a rock tied to the infant and dropped into the creek.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Uur
Athelney R
Haekens
Osae
Here
Momer’ Attwood
Nivs
Attwood
Weather summary forecast with scattered storms
Partly cloudy weather with a few scattered thunder showers tonight. Cooler in the north, warmer in the south with lows around 73 to 88. Friday will be sunny or partly sunny with highs 85 to 92 in the north and 91 to 100 in the south.
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Fricay
Partion
Obituary for J J Anderson longtime Roff resident
J J Anderson 69 longtime Roff resident died Wednesday in Ardmore after a long illness. Born in Texas in 1879 he lived around Roff 45 years and served as city marshal for 30 years. Survived by three daughters Mrs Earl Weaver Mrs Alina Crome and Mrs Paul McCurdy two sons Leonard and Andersen and numerous grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Roff
Fevsom
Ade and
Mes
Paul McCurdy
Rott
Leonard
Andersen
Sam Berber Ariz
Gramichildren
Two New Traffic Deaths Push State Loss To 292
Two Oklahoma traffic deaths raised the year’s highway fatality total to 39 percent. The victims were Beota Jean Crouch, 2, of LeFlore County, and Jackie Ray Peterson, infant son of My and Mrs J Peterson of Rendwick. Crouch died at Woodson Hospital after a car train collision near the Ar Kansas fire. Peterson died after a boxcar incident near Rendwick.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Wednesse Beota Jean Crouch
Fred Croucy
Monras
LeFlore
Woodson
Poteau
Ar- Kansas
Hera Hale
Jackie Ray Peterson
Dom
J. 2. Peterson
Rendwick
Lincoln Courtly
Highway Patrol
Boxe
Wels Drys Battle Prelims Open in Oklahoma Campaign
Oklahoma enters the final phase before the 1940 dry and wet county campaign. David Shaperd and Roy Holloman head to Buffalo to organize county units in the far northwest while Oklahoma County unit formation is set for tomorrow. A. G. Kulp of Tulsa visits to aid the wet side in Oklahoma County. The initiative petition that sparked the September 27 special election is linked to the effort.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
David Shaperd
United Drys
Roy S. Holloman
Buffalo
Oklahoma County
Mearnwhile
A. G& Kulp
Tulsa
Kulp
Oklahoma Economic Institute
Hospital Funds House-to-House Calls Monday
The Hospital Auxiliary of Valley View Hospital plans house to house canvassing on Monday July 25 starting 3 Sose to raise funds for a $75,000 hospital expansion. Volunteers will call on homes across the city with further arrangements to be announced later this week. H. R. teachers warn parents about plans to create a polka ward where children may receive faster treatment if affected by future luggage concerns.
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Valley View Bospital
Hopital
H. R
Contractor Cashes Big Check Then Heads for Unknown
Arkansas authorities broadcast a pickup order for Orlem Josep Lewis, an Oaack contractor who cashed a $539,709 government payroll check for a land clearing job at the Huluh dam site on the Grand River near Bartlesville. Deputy Prosecutor Jonah Yates says Lewis faces embezzlement charges based on subcontractor complaints. Lewis’s wife and business partner were questioned in Pawhuska, and Lewis was last seen leaving Clarksville airport after cashing the check and flying away.
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Ark
Arkansas State Police
Oaack
Gheck
Orlem Josep Lewis
Jonah Yates
Lewis
Hulah
Comney
Bartlesville
Ohla
Little Rock
Ter Lewis
Fort Smith
Wilace
Yates
Clarksville
Quark
Ging
Bowring
Olta
Work Starts on Twenty-Fifth Street By City Department
Street department begins paving two blocks of Twenty fifth Street from Johnston to Stockton avenues. Adjacent property owners supply materials while city labor and equipment install a greatly improved driving surface on a long rough stretch. Work continues on Twenty second Street with foot paving progressing from Johnston Avenue and most grading now completed.
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City Strees Department
Twentyifth Street
Johnston
Stockton Avenues
City Labor Ami
Johnston Avenue
Wednesday Heat Lingers With No Rain In State
Oklahoma remains roasted as temperatures hover in the high nineties to over 100 degrees. Alva hits 103, with no rainfall reported and a hot pattern continuing across the region.
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Algo
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Alva
Fcr
Ada
Plans for Pontotoc County Dairy TourScheduled
Avanta H Hailey and assistant Zester W Smith lead a one day Pontotoc County dairy tour set for Tuesday July 23 with John We Beehy extension dairyman from Oklahoma A and M college directing the touring party and dairy visits. Previous tours were successful but this year expects higher interest due to the Pontotoc dairy program. Smith is checking dairies and Hailey plans two stops, requiring careful timing to cover sites.
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County Avanta
H. Hailey
Zester W. Smith
Pontotod County
Pontotoc
Smith
Hailey
Fim
Thurstin
House Kills Farm Plan of Brannan
Washington reports the House tentatively approved the Gore Wilk Milling administration trial run of a farm subsidy plan and extended the current farm program for another year. The vote split with many Republicans joining Democrats to repeal the act supported by Senator Aillen. The plan provided up to 90 percent parity price support for major crops beginning next year.
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Washington
House
Gore Wilk
Derin Jerats
Ail Fen
R-Wt
Wherry Would Close Door On Giving Atom Bomb To Others
Washington report cites House Un American Activities Committee naming two scientists Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and David Bohm as members of a radiation laboratory communist cell at the University of California Berkeley. The committee says others remain under investigation while some witnesses refuse to answer, and notes a cleared scientist and his wife.
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Washington
House
Merberg
Theviiager
Giovanni Rossi Lamantis
David Bohm
University of California At Berkeley
Steve Melsort
Natty Draamaet
San Prencisco Bay
Pennsylvania
Lomanitz Wit
Fisk University of Nashville
Princotec University
Oklahoma City
Petcepe
A. Lomanitz
Catahomna City
Nelson
Berkeley Laboratory
Spain
International Brigade
Kiled
Berkelex
Carote
Gionvanni
Lomaniz
Communist Party
Davide Bohm
Man Charged in Death Shoots Self
PONCA CITY Os July 21 A man identified as Homer Atwood shot himself at a Newkirk hotel after learning he faced murder charges in the death of a newborn. Atwood, his wife and Mrs Attwood’s daughter are charged after the infant’s body was found in a creek near Pawhuska last week. Sheriff Charles Cass said Atwood admitted killing the baby in a postmarked letter received this morning. The man shot himself twice when officers arrived at the hotel and found him wounded on the floor.
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Ponca City
Newkirk
Osage
Charles Cass
Atroound
Horning
Attwood
Coates
Truman Downplays Atomic Talks To Press Critics
President Truman said there is no cause for alarm among Americans about hush hush talks on atomic foreign policy. He criticized a news conference for leaks and said he knows who the leakers are but did not identify them. The Blair House meeting with high officials and leaders marked the first major atomic talks, followed by a Capitol meeting seen as easing lawmakers’ misgivings about potential unilateral action.
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Washington
Truman
Blair House
Tryrsdal
Mir
Club Girls Hold Record Book Workshop Thursday
About 25 Pomtota county 4-H club girls met at the County agent office for a project record book workshop. Miss Juanita Floyd directed with Mifiss Martha Mote assisting. they used clothing entries as examples to teach home improvement, cooking, gardening, and clothing records. Books must be complete for an out of state prize, with a September 2 deadline, as leaders and agents guided the session.
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Juanita Floyd
Aome
Mifiss Martha Mote
Piob
Timrsday
Marie Woodley
Patsy Odom
Maxine Clifford
Fatsy Langier
Mosie van Schwyver
Patsy Thompson
Wanda Maddox
Dora McKinney
Oneila Bryant
Phyllis Hart
Frankie Sulllivan
Vinenz McDonald
Phyllis Siullivan
Thine Ann Fellins
Wanda Keeling
Thaddeus Keeling
Marly Wall
Wanda Young
Nancy Eliott
Katie Owens
Carafe Wall
Donna Fil Cummins
Donna Cochran
Elinor Tilley
Mary Feil Bmion
Wille Duckworth
Vaross
Francis
Fitzhugh
Lula
Union Hill
Mel Lish
Raff
Latta Trub
Fletcher Watson
Pitehwgh
Tola
Burrough
Varoes
Omar. Enloe
Union Hb
Fall
Latta
D. Calidford
Lola
Textbook shipments increase storage need at school
Boxes with textbooks arrive raising total received to 2350 for the five textbook program. Before the latest shipment there was no room for eight other boxes. Until extra storage is found, the surplus cannot be unpacked.
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Cour
Local Cog Engine Logs 12000 Trips Toward Pike’s Peak
An old coal engine named No 2 reportedly made more than 12 000 trips toward the summit of Pike's Peak at an altitude of 14 108 feet. Engineer Herman C Gauling, aged 27, handled the throttle for 9 200 of these trips.
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Pike's Peak
Herman C. Gauling
Oklahoma Man Relates Whisky Hijacking Near Neosho
Arthur Sherman, 34, reported on Highway 60 seven miles west of Neosho that three to four hijackers robbed him of 44708 in whisky and emptied his truck of 103 cases. He said he was shot at and struck with a revolver butt before being locked in the Ford trunk and escaping. Patrolmen found the trailer empty and the truck bullet-splattered on a country road.
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Neosho
P al Chatam
Okls
Highway Patrol
Arthur Sherman
Sherman
Flimois
Gray
Shermen
Funeral July 27 For Sgt Kenneth Williams Williams
Funeral services for Sgt Kenneth Utah Williams of Roff will be held July 27 at Stratford’s First Baptist Church. Williams, born in Vanoss and a former welder in CalYformas, died in a Luxembourg hospital after being wounded in the Battle of the Bulge on December 20, 1944, and the following day. He is survived by his widow Dorothy Hue Storie Williams of Rott, his parents Mr. and Mrs. EW Williams of Stratford, five registered and four brothers. The Ada VFW post and Fort William detachment will conduct rites.
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Stratford
First Baptist Church
Kenneth Utah Williams
Roff
Luxembourg Bee
Nebraskan Senator Wherry Warns on Atlantic Pact A Bomb Clause
Senator Wherry told the senate the North Atlantic Pact should be reserved to avoid obligating the United States to share atomic secrets. He pressed a reservation sponsored by Taft and Watkins claiming the treaty does not compel military aid or disclosure of atomic materials. The administration plans a $1.429 billion arms aid bill, likely after ratification, and Wherry urged recalling General MacArthur for congressional testimony on Japan.
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Washington
Wherry
Mapul
Senate
J. Witt
Nebraska
Frumian
Truman
neeMahan
McMahon
Senate House Atomic Brorgo
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Watkins
Utah
Wee
United States
Batt
Prumari
Douglas MacArthur
Japart
General MacArthur
Japan
Energy of A bomb compared to sunlight blast
A distorted description compares atomic bomb energy to sunlight, claiming the bomb releases vast energy in an instant while sunlight heats large areas gradually. The piece emphasizes the concentration of energy in a small package versus diffuse daytime heat.
Bed Binaliz 73 and the night window shade mystery
A fragment hints at a 73 year old named Bed Binaliz amid a nocturnal chase or crime scene. References to a rolling spree, a window shade, and reading a murder story suggest a sensational similar event. The text mixes dialect and unclear action, with eagerness and determination implied.
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Osage County
Evie Bird
Valley View
J.J. Anderson
Hospital
Brannan
Hush-Hyah
Backes
Sanes
Trbove
Pr Phota
Sot
Williams
Aras
Battle of
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Sarator
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