Prisoner Saved After Final Korean War Release
Pfc. James F. Allen, son of Mrs. Mae Bennett, survived capture with 86 other Americans after being held by north Korean Reds since July 21. He weighed 75 pounds at liberation and recalled a column of colored troops as a “wonderful sight.” Allen, a Sasakwa High School graduate, served 18 months in the 11th Airborne before re joining infantry due to a back injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James FR. Allen
Mae
Bennett
South Cherry
Reds
Allen
Associated Press
Pfc
Korea
Sasakwa High School
Army
11Th Airborne
Infantry
Hadong
Pie. Allen
Holdenville
Drumright
Okla
Forrest Uptograft
Japan
United States
Drurmright
Harold Uptegratt
San Francisco
Washington, D. C
Apiegrait
Hong Kong Breathes Easier As Korean Reds Are Crushed
Hong Kong relaxes as the Chinese Reds face setback in Korea while British forces, about 25 000 strong, stay ready. Observers fear a siege if Beijing mounts a large assault, though border activity appears reduced and loyalty among local Chinese remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Fred Hampson
Red China
Korea
Asia
Keres
British New Territories
Beaver Surprises Electric Shocking Crew at Helena Creek
Beaver swam between electrodes of an electrical shocking device on Little Prickly Pear Creek near Helena. The startled animal leaped, sank, and after 45 minutes was recovered and returned to the water. The incident ends with the beaver resuming its wood-cutting behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
Prickly Pear Creek
Moscow orders West Europe communists to recruit millions
Secret Berlin speech by Suslov reveals Kremlin plan to enlist 20 to 25 percent of Stockholm peace appeal signers into Communist ranks. Cominform aims to expand influence by infiltrating Western worker councils and organizing municipal wins, with focus on France Italy and other regions. Suslov cites appeal as prelude to a broader anti Western mobilization.
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Moscow
West Europe
Leon Dennen
NER
Paris
NEA
Stockholm
Mikhail Susloy
Joseph Staelin
Berlin
Suslov
Communist Party
Kremlin
Comirform
Cominform
Stalin
Sustov
France
Italy
P. N. Pospelov
Soviet Union
Red
Palmiro Togliatti
Jacques Duclos
Wang Chia-hsiang
Chinese Communist Party
Harry “Pollitt
Great Britain
Rail Yardmasters Get Fat Raise
The White House announced a monthly raise of about 54 dollars for 7,000 AFL yardmasters after a pact with railroads, aided by John R Steelman. The 25 cent total hourly increase includes an 18 cent base boost plus a new five cent increment, plus a penny per hour for each point rise in the cost of living index, with a three-year contract restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
AFL
America
John R Steelman
Truman
AFL Switch Union Negotiates Five Day Week Plan
The AFL Switch men's union negotiated on July 6 a plan establishing a five day workweek. The 40 hour week will be set aside for at least one year and then remain “subject to the desires of the employees and the manpower situation.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
Switchmen's Union
Demo spearers named to serve in election speakers bureau
Oklahoma City on September 30 P I State Democratic Party Chairman J H Arrington announced Ferrill Rogers Gomer Smith Jr Harold Freeman and John Brett will serve on the party s general election speakers bureau The finance committee chairmen likely to be announced Monday Arrington said
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Oklahoma City
Democratic Party
J. H. Arrington
Ferrill Rogers
Gomer Smith, Jr
Harold Freeman
John Brett
Finance Committee
Arrington
Anchor brings in 39 pound sea bass catch
Beach area fishermen reported a dramatic 39 pound sea bass hauled by skipper Jack Melroy aboard a sports fishing boat. Melroy used the boat's anchor as a hook, lifting the heavy fish after pulling the anchor up. Other boats brought in 15 to 20 pound sea bass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long “Beach
Calif
Jack Melroy
Melroy
Conway Reunion Revives Early Town Days in Wintersmith Park
More than 80 people gathered at Wintersmith Park on September 24 for a Conway reunion, recalling a bustling rural town with a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, schools, church, and a once-thriving railroad. Attendees, including families from Ada, Stonewall, Lula, and nearby areas, shared memories of life before the railroad bypass, the rise and decline of Conway, and plans to make the gathering an annual event.
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Wintersmith Park
Conway
Statehood
Mnneath Renad Ae Peay
Yeuch
Loklicu
Allen
Stonewall
Ada
Santa
Dr. Burns
Threlkeld of
Cannon School
Steedman
Cannon
Hope Threlkeld
Orel Busby
Lula
Effort to Escape Ends With Death
Charles E Baker a 19 year old inmate serving five years for robbery died after chest wounds suffered during an escape attempt at the Granby armory. A companion Leo Jorozwifke 25 Ottawa county was wounded in the arm as the pair attacked a guard with a knife to seize a truck used for cane hauling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangum
Gida
Eunaol
Charles E Baker
Oklahoma County
Leo Jorozwifke
Ottawa County
Blizzard Willham to Judge Stock Show at Langston
Dean W L Blizzard of Oklahoma A and M College will judge the fat steers and Vice Dean Oliver Willham will judge swine and sheep placings in the seventh annual Oklahoma Negro Junior Livestock Show October 9 12. The event sponsored by Langston University will be held at the Logan County Fairgrounds near Guthrie. The Red River of the North is noted as contrasting with the Red River forming part of the Texas Oklahoma line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langston
Okla
W.L. Blizzard
Oklahoma A. End M. College
Oliver Willham
Langston University
Logan County Fairgrounds
Guthrie
Alabama Tries Two On Mask Raid Law Trial
Birmingham report on October 2 describes two defendants Bret Brasfield and A Byrd Carradine facing trials under a mask flogging law. Indicted after hooded raids linked to KKK activity, four prior flogging trials ended with acquittals. Carradine previously heard.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Bret. Bras- Held
A. Byrd Carradine
Caradine
Carradine
Brasfield
Kulux Klan
Audie Fairchild Dies Returning to Navy Duty
Audie Fairchild 48 of Roff and Houston died Thursday in the San Diego naval hospital while en route back to active duty. A 24 year Navy veteran, he served as chief gunner on the battleship Nevada and retiring in 1946. The body will reach Oklahoma today for funeral services to be announced by Dunn Funeral Home of Sulphur. He was born in Drake Oklahoma and raised in Ross, survived by his parents two daughters a granddaughter and several sisters.
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James Audie Fairchild
Roff and
Houston
Naval Hospital
San Diego
Calif
U. S. Navy
Oklahoma
Dunn Funeral Home
Fairchild
Warren Fairchild
Carlsbad
N. M
Nevada
Oklahoma City
Drake
Okla
Ross
W. A. Vance
Peggy Lynn Fairchild
Norwalk
Elaine Vance
Jewell Anthony
Lamar
Celo
Mercer King
Elmer Davis
Vilas
Europeans face higher costs as rearmament grows
An Associated Press summary warns European workers will bear the hit of intensified armament, with Germany facing more employment in steel and armament production. Prices rise across Europe, threatening scarce goods and potential political strain in France as luxuries falter and shortages worsen, while black market activity may increase.
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Paris
Western
Europe
Germany
Bain
France
Associated Press
Unemployment and Employment Drop in September
The census bureau reports both employment and unemployment fell from August to September as many students left the labor force for school. Employment dropped 1,142,000 to 61,226,000 while unemployment declined by 59,000 to 2,341,000. Nonfarm payrolls fell 792,000 with farm jobs down 349,000. The armed forces rose to 1,453,000, drawing 116,000 men from civilian labor.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Murray in Pledge Of Fair Legislation
McALESTER Oklahoma September 30 UP Johnston Murray the Democratic candidate for governor promised benefits for industry and labor if he wins the November 7 general election Speaking at a third district rally he said he would hold no grudge against Democrats who supported his opponents in the July primaries Also on the program were U S Sen Robert Kerr Rep Mike Monroney and Rep Carl Albert Murray pledged to enact laws attracting new industry and supporting existing industry through tax exemptions and non discrimination He said he would block any laws infringing labor rights and favored a veterans bonus with revenue measures to fund it and back the Education Association program
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mcalester
Okla
Johnston Murray
Murray
U. S
Robert Kerr
Mike Monroney
Oklahoma
U. S. Senate
Carl Albert
Democratic Party
Oklahoma Education Association
Woman in transit on air freight plane for exhibit
A transparent plastic figure of a woman, insured for 150000 dollars, was moved from LaGuardia to Newark to board a larger air freight plane. She is being shipped from a German museum to the Cleveland health museum for use in a medical exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
LaGuardia
Newark
N. J
Cleveland Health Museum
Ada Peanut Co. Set for Good Crop Amid Acreage Delays
Piloted by Cy Boies, Ada Peanut Co expands with new oil mill and storage as 17 tons await drying. Government buyers set peanut prices while Pontotoc county farmers face unmeasured acreage delaying sales, with penalties for overplanting and open-market penalties applied to non cooperators. Harold Uptegratt, a Drumright soldier paralyzed in Korea, is flown home for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Peanut Company
Cy Boles
Boies
Oi Mi
Pontotoc County
PMA
FMA
PDEA
West German police foil planned Red blitz rallies
West German police swiftly acted to thwart communist outbreaks this weekend. They arrested 221 Red leaders in dispersed cities after an informer warned of 30,000 Soviet controlled agitators and street fighters arriving from East Germany to spearhead surprise demonstrations. In Luebeck the raid at a Red youth hostel netted 101 detainees including 85 with Soviet zone IDs. Police also searched homes across the British zone for illicit activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Germany
Eee
East Germany
Luebeck
Baltic Sea
Truck Crashes Past Barricade Near Erick
A large van-type truck crashed through a highway barricade on U.S. 66 near Erick and seriously injured construction worker Albert H. Reed, 62. Reed, acting as a flagman for traffic, had his left leg broken by debris hurled from the barricade. the driver continued without stopping and state patrols were alerted to locate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erick
Okla
U.S. Highway 66
Albert H. Reed
Reed
Largest Korean War casualty list released by defense department
Washington dispatch reports the largest casualty list of the Korean War listing 915 names in list number 111. It provides names addresses and next of kin for 118 killed or dead of wounds 1938 not wounded 94 missing and 44 injured.
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Washington
UPI
Deense Department
Medic Detachment Buck Names Show Unit’s Buck Count
CAMP POLK Louisiana September 30 The 243rd heavy tank battalion medical detachment has more men named Buck than any other unit in the 5th Infantry Division. Of twelve members four carry the Buck surname and three are new recruits. The Buck brothers include Capt Lawrence Buck and Retired Thurman Buck near Altus and Ret. George Buck and Ret. Johnny Buck of Meadow, Texas. Two Buck couples are cousins. The piece notes a Korean term for a cheer.
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Camp Polk
243Th
A5th Infantry Division
Buck
Allus National Guard
Cpt
Lawrence
Thurman Buck
Altus
George
Johnny Buck
Meadow
Texas
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Los Angeles
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Strasse
Skid Row
World Congress of the Partisans of Peace
U.S
State Acheson
Russia
Mikhail Suslovv
Moss Wimbish
J. W. Huff
Luther Condren
Bud Blackburn
Clifton Deaton
Charles Laughlin
J. B. Farnham
Linda and
Jerry
Alice Allison
Lillian Kifer
C. ©. Davis
Joe Hodges
Blue Blackburn
Jackie
Lester Gillaspy
Lavella
Delbert
Geneva May
Nelda Ruth May
Thelma A. Killian
Bile Y. Blackburn
Kin Alexander
James
Stella Cole
Harrah
Stella Tigner
Ina. Miller Henson
Francis
R. L. Cannon
Ormo Fred‘erick
Owen
Ce Harve Farris
Allen, T
Leonard Bradley Y
Edmond
Geo. F. Campbell
Shawnee
Mary Ritchie
Martha Cheatham
Blanshard
C. C. Earnest
Milam E. Cowan
Wewoka
Blizzard
Willham
Red River
Audie Fairchild
Navy
The
Ada Garden Clubs
Ada Public Library
Aswan
Egypt
Segun
Ada Peanut Co
Hales
Psn
Lloyd Teal
Orange
Tex
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