Secret Charts of German Minefields Aided Safe Invasions
A wartime NBC style feature recounts how secret German minefield charts captured during a night battle before H Hour enabled Allied invasion of southern France without losses. Lt. Cmdr. Bulkeley’s Endicott seized the papers. minesweepers proved safe passage by dawn. no troop transports were lost.
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France
George Tucker
Hal Boyle
Paris
Admiral Davidson
Augusta
Davidson
Edward H. Jones
Mediterranean
Rawson Kirby Davis
Toulon
Endicott
John D. Bulkeley
Pacific PT Boat Fame
Bulkeley
FEPC near death as Congress drags on funding
Washington reports the Fair Employment Practices Committee faces extinction without a June 30 appropriation. Since 1943 it has logged over 8,000 discrimination complaints, mostly by African Americans, amid strong southern opposition and limited House action.
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Roosevelt
Congress
FEPC
House
Senate
Monthly Labor Review
U. S. Department of Labor
South
East
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Malcolm Ross
James Marlow Washington
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Germany
House Appropriations Committee
Oklahoma City osteopath dies by suicide after memorial day shooting
Dr E Paul Harris of Oklahoma City killed his wife Catherine Harris and wounded daughter Virginia Bartow before slashing his throat and wrist in jail. Acting Coroner Everit Crismore ruled death by suicide as jail staff reported a dazed condition after the incident.
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Oklahoma City
E. Paul Harris
Everit Crismore
Ralph Smith
Harris
Fred Phillips
Phillips
Bartow
Paul, Jr
Enforcement Crew Nets Penalty Total
Oklahoma City reports nearly $9,000 in penalties collected by an enforcement crew in the first week for violations of state highway laws. The patrol notes $8,122.34 in permit violations, $316.28 gasoline tax, and $507.50 for overstated vehicle length or weight, totaling $8,946.12. Crew includes state patrol, bureau of investigation, highway commission and tax commission and worked on U S 66 at Vinita.
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Oklahoma City
State Highway Patrol
Natrol
State Bureau of Investigation
The
State Highway Commission
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Vinita
Goads Together Again and Homecoming News
Portsmouth reports Lt Harold Goad back home with his wife after wartime death announcement. He survived 18 months in a Japanese prison near Rangoon and plans a vacation before resuming life with his family. Other items note Sam B Turner death in Holdenville, and Don Swan collecting swans in Waterloo.
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Goads
Portsmouth
Harold Goad
Navy
War Department
Rangoon
Alteration to Dead for Missing Jap POWs in Davao Penal Colony
Reports from the Davao penal colony after Japanese withdrawal describe 150 skeletons and numerous mummified bodies found in hospital beds porches and walks. Officers suggest changing status of about 800 Allies listed MIA since Pearl Harbor to dead or POW. Lt. Mendelson recounts grisly scenes noting neglected graves and a nearby American cemetery plot with twenty graves.
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U. S. 24Th
Davao
Mindanao
P. I
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Leonard S. Mendelson
Pittsburgh
Hospital
Mendelson
Mock Texoma invasion simulates Iwo Jima feat
About 25 000 Oklahoma and Texas residents watched a mock amphibious assault on the Texas side of Lake Texoma. Camp Howze troops used Higgins landing craft to storm ashore, with flame throwers and mock air support recalling Iwo Jima. A B 17 dropped a 3000 pound lifeboat parachute demonstration.
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Denison
Tex
Texas
Lake Texoma
Camp _ Howze
Red River
New Orleans
Iwo Jima
Mount
Suribachi
Government Urges Civilian Efforts During War Weekend
Government agencies call for home vacations to free rail space for troop redeployment and furlough travel. Citizens are urged to join the cadet nurse corps, salvage paper, assist price control, and maximize victory garden harvests, with warnings of current paper shortages and winter canned vegetable scarcity.
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Pacific
Hodges Narrowly Escapes Capture in Ardennes Breakthrough
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges evaded German capture during Von Rundstedt’s Ardennes breakthrough in December 1944 as three German columns neared Liege. Hodges redirected staff and reserves to Liege, then moved east to Chaufontaine as Ridgeway’s 82nd Airborne entered the breach.
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New York
Courtney H. Hodges
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Hal Boyle
Associated Press
Boyle
Hodges
First Army
Pacific
Japan
Spa
Belgium
Liege
Matthew B. Ridgeway
82Nd Airborne
Chaufontaine
Ridgeway
First
Europe
Omar Nelson Bradley
Africa
Bradley
Carlos Brents Stricken Suddenl y in Dallas
Carlos Brents 46, son of Mrs. T E Brents of 406 South Broadway Ada, died suddenly at his Dallas home Sunday evening. The body will arrive in Ada Tuesday for burial. He was a salesman of automobile accessories traveling across Oklahoma Texas Louisiana and Arkansas. He leaves a widow Mrs. Doris Brents two daughters Barbara and Nancy Sue Brents his mother two sisters Maud Pittman and R R Snow and two brothers Ed Max Brents and Ed Brents.
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Carlos Brents
T. E. Brents
South Broadway
Dallas
Ada
Brents
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Ed Brents, Jr
U. S
Matsudaira Quits As Jap Minister
Tokyo radio reports Tsuneo Matsudaira resigned as minister of the imperial household and was replaced by Sotaro Ishiwata, former finance minister. Appointed in March 1936, Matsudaira cited responsibility for the palace fire related to the Tokyo raid of May 26. He previously served as ambassador to Washington and London and as a London naval conference delegate.
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New York
Tokyo Radio
Tsuneo Matsudaira
Imperial Household
Sotaro Ishiwata
Associated Press
Matsudaira
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Washington
London
Pvt Roland Fowler Missing In Action
Army and navy casualties announced through the OWI list Oklahoma names. Missing Private Roland Fowler is identified as missing in the European theater with others listed as wounded dead or missing across European and Pacific fronts. The roll includes sailors, marines, and soldiers from Ponca City Loveland Oklahoma City Tulsa Muskogee Ada Duncan Welch and other communities.
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Army
Navy
OWI
Whitesboro
I. E. Duncan
Tulsa
F. A. Dunlap Jr
Seminole
S. G. Lyles
USMCR
Edmond F. Lyles
Bud Lyles
Coalgate
Ens
J. R. McKelvey
B. S. Riggenbach
Alva
J. A. Riley
Welch
W. E. Bathurst
Route 3
Cherokee
Pacific
P. O. Dauman
Yale
T. P. L. Sullivan
Shawnee
Roland C. Fowler
J. E. Grisson
Ada
Quinton Freudenrica
Route 2
Duncan
G. E. Weesner
Muskogee
Sub Hit Em And Beat It
Submarine U S S Barb, commanded by Comdr Eugene B Fluckey, surfaced to attack a Japanese convoy in shallow water near night escort screens. The action, described by the navy, led to numerous enemy ships sunk and earned Fluckey and the Barb high honors and the presidential unit citation.
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Washington
U. S. S. Barb
Navy
Forrestal
Eugene B. Fluckey
Fluckey
Annapolis
Flackey
Earb
Knife Wounds Put Man In Hospital After Weekend Fight
Guy Bittle is hospitalized at Valley View with abdominal wounds following a fight in front of Bee's Case on Sunday. Luther Bittle and Thomas R. Jackson were also injured and held by police. charges may follow Guy Bittle. Police report about six girls involved and a weekend tally of five drunks and several disturbances.
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Guy Bittle
Valley View Hospital
Bee
Luther Bittle
Thomas R. Jackson
Bittle
Rains Return To Oklahoma Drenches State After Mixed Weekend
Rain began Sunday and paused Monday before a furious downpour. Totals varied by city from Ada 1.18 inches to Enid 0.05. Oklahoma City logged about 0.82 at the airport, with many areas recording over an inch. Some hail and wind caused minor crop damage in Lawton and surrounding counties.
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Associated Press
Lawton
Ada
Pauls Valley
Ardmore
Enid
Guthrie
el Reno
Oklahoma City
City
Altus
Chickasha
Clinton
Woodward
Durant
Idabel
McAlester
Sgt. Whitford Freed From German Prison Returns Home
Sgt. Stuart Whitford, a Marauder radio gunner, was freed from captivity in Germany and has reached American shores. His mother, Mrs. Bessie Whitford, received telegrams confirming his release and return to the United States.
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Stuart
Buzzy” Whitford
Germany
States
Bessie Whitford
U. S
Boston
American
Tokyo Life Back To Normalcy Claim
San Francisco June 4 Life in Tokyo once described as scorched to the ground is said to be back to full normalcy by Tokyo radio. A FCC heard broadcast offered a different view noting that residents now live in an underground shack and streets are becoming vegetable patches.
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San Francisco
Tokyo
Tokyo Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Toky
Help Yourself to Better Government pamphlet for citizens
A June 4 report notes a new guidebook titled Help Yourself to Better Government. The US Chamber of Commerce distributed it to business members to encourage citizens to inform their congressmen and boost participation in government.
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Washington
Congress
United States Chamber of Commerce
Howard L. Volgenau
Chamber
Department of Government Affairs
Oklahomans Decorated in India by Twentieth Bomber Command
Four Oklahomans in the Billy Mitchell group receive decorations in India on June 4. Maj. Gordon L. Eaton Okemah First Lieut. Willard W. Holderby Byron S/Sgt. Laurence L. Hammond Oklahoma City and T/Sgt. George C. Vincent Okmulgee earn air medal oak leaf clusters and bronze star medals. A doctor notes women’s wish for equality with men.
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Twentieth Bomber Command
India
Gordon L. Eaton
Okemah
Willard W. Holderby
Byron
Laurence L. Hammond
West Park Place
Oklahoma City
George C. Vincent
Okmulgee
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Holdenville
Sam B. Turner
State Bureau of Identification
Turner, Sherif
Hughes County
State Peace Office Association
Swan Waterloo
Don Swan
Glass
China
Victory Road
Allied
Hong Kong
Hainan
South China Sea
Indies
Yellow Sea
Kyushu
Ishanghai
East China
Formosa
Sea of Japan
Philippine Sea
Esapalau
Arafuto
Foxyo
Iwo
Okinawa
Saipan
Tinian
Guam
Truk
By Richard Bergholz
Government
Office of War Information
Biggs Field
el Paso
Richard R. Whipple
James Finley
Rod Evans
Okla
Pvt
Roland Fowler
Himmler
Hilde Lobauer
U.S
Belsen
Sub
Normandy
Henry S Aurand
Anselmo Como
New York City
Peleliu Island
You
Sgt. Whitford
America
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