Rain and Frost Forecast for Flooded Northwest Oklahoma
The Associated Press reports more rain and freezing temperatures threaten northwestern Oklahoma already hit by floods. The National Weather Service expects 30 to 35 degrees at night with showers possible, while rivers and creeks rise and bridges suffer damage. The North Canadian River near Woodward is rising toward flood stage, with Canton and El Reno also affected.
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Oklahoma
Federal Weather . Bureau
Bureau
Canad@ian
Woodward
Canton
el Reno
Ada Ardmore game night invites fans to bundle up
Football fans are urged to bring wraps for tonight's Ada Ardmore game at Norris Stadium as northerly winds push temperatures toward the mid forties. Ada reports .04 inch of moisture Wednesday and a falling barometer, with showers uncertain.
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Ada Ardmore
Norris Stadium
Ada
Ada Greenhouse
Northwest Oklahoma
Oklahoma City braces for crest as flood risk rises
City water chief M B Cunningham warned the Cana dian river may rise two feet above flood stage at peak. evacuation decisions for lowland residents will await developments. A frost and shower warning followed with forecasts of heavy frost in northwest Oklahoma, cooler today, clearing skies tonight and temperatures from 30 to 35 in the northwest and 45 to 48 in the southwest.
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Cunningham
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
O Neill's Ice Man Cometh Wins Praises in New Play
New York critics hail Eugene O Neill's The Ice Man Cometh as a major return after 12 years. The four hour Theater Guild production sells out with early praise from Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and John Chapman of the Daily News calling it magnificent and deeply thematic.
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New York
Eugene O'Neill
Ben of O Neill
Theater Guild
Brooks Atkinson
New York Times
Oneill
John Chapman
The
Daily News
Weather summary for Oklahoma with cold tonight
Partly cloudy in the northwest half while the southeast sees thunder storms tonight. Strong northerly winds bring much colder air and freezing temperatures with light frost in the panhandle. Friday looks fair and cooler in the east and south portions.
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Oklahoma
Panhandle
Spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower Delights Ada and Omaha Fans
Ada residents reported a brilliant meteor shower Wednesday night with speeds near 1,000 per hour at the peak around 9:30 to 10 p.m. Schooling the sky, observers in Omaha and across the midwest watched a dazzling display while clouds muted parts of the country. Experts used radar to track meteors about 50 miles out, with Harvard astronomers noting about 17 meteors per minute amid a broad, citywide awe.
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Ada
Fairgrounds
Associated Press
Mid
United States
Giacobinizinner
America
National Bureau of Standards
Washington
Earth
Harvard
Joint
Army Air Forces
Whiteside
N. M
Camp Evans
U. S. Corps Laboratory
Belmar
N. J
Wagner Schlesinger
Adler Planetarium
Chicago
Ban on flights over Czechoslovakia lifted amid Romanian and Hungarian suspensions
United States Europe headquarters lifted the ban on American flights over Czechoslovakia while suspending service over Romania and Hungary. A Pan American pilot speculated the moves related to Russian army maneuvers. Pan American halted all Middle Europe service pending clarification. flights over Soviet-occupied zones in Germany and Austria continued.
Traxler Fights Oklahoma Extradition Over Robbery Charge
Pete Traxler, jailed in Texas after a Denton arrest, says he will resist Oklahoma's bid to extradite him on a robbery with firearms charge. Attorneys notified Governor Coke R. Stevenson’s office of the challenge. Traxler has a long history of felony convictions and penitentiary terms dating back to 1924.
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Austin
Tex
Pete Traxler
Coke R. Stevenson
Oklahoma
Traxler
Denton
Allied Council rejects clemency for sixteen Nazis
Berlin Oct. 10 Allied Control Council rejects clemency pleas of 16 convicted Nazi war criminals. Goering Keitel Jodl petitions to switch to lesser sentences denied. S.S. Gestapo and Nazi leadership pleas barred as not receivable. Kaltenbrunner Speer and Schirach listed among those not appealing. Raeder petition also denied.
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Berlin
Allied Control Council
Control Council
Hermann Goering
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
S.S
Gestapo
S.D
Secret Service
Nazi Party
International Military Tribunal
Adm. Raeder
S. D
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Albert Speer
Hitler
Bladur von Schirach
Norman to send forty FFA members to Kansas City
Norman Oklahoma businessmen contributed nearly $1,000 to cover travel and expenses for 40 Norman FFA members_BOUND to represent Oklahoma in a national contest in Kansas City. Earlier funds built a greenhouse and bought farm shop equipment for the FFA group.
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Norman
Okla
FFA
Kansas City
Two WSB Members Offer Resignations
The wage stabilization board faces uncertainty as two industry members Earl Cannon and A Colman Barrett resign effective today if President Truman accepts. Chairman Wirtz says no meetings expected and the tri partite wartime panel may be scrapped amid calls to end wage controls and wage price policy.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
W. Willard Wirtz
Earl M. Cannon
A. Colman Barrett
Barrett
Cannon
Truman
Sedalia Movieless For Many Weeks
Sedalia Missouri has had no local movie theater since August 17 as the mayor and city council resist a 5 percent tax on gross receipts. The plan aims to raise roughly 12 000 to 15 000 dollars yearly, but theater owners shut their doors in protest, arguing the tax is illegal and unfair compared with other businesses. The dispute pits Mayor Julian H Bagby against theater chains and a local independent, with creditors and residents watching closely.
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Sedalia
Julian H. Bagby
Petitioners push for immediate decontrol of beef prices
The beef industry urged immediate price decontrol and promised ample meat supplies soon possibly before November elections. R G Haynie of the OPA beef advisory committee said cattle and calves are ready for market once ceilings lift, while officials in Washington weighed new rounds of talks. whether prices rise after decontrol is deemed immaterial.
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Washington
R. G. Haynie
OPA Beef Industry Advisory Committee
White House
Charles G. Ross
Truman
Anderson
Congress
Haynie
Argentina Offers Boneless Beef to Ease U S Meat Shortage
Argentine ambassador says 4,000,000 pounds of boneless canned beef available for immediate shipment to the United States as the Truman administration weighs emergency actions to relieve the domestic meat shortage. Will Clayton and other officials discussed South American imports as a possible lever to move home bred cattle to U S packers.
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U. S
Washington
America
Truman
Oscar Ivanissevich
Argentina
United States
Will Clayton
White House
Tuman
Democratic
Robert E. Hannegan
OPA
Paul Porter
Clinton P. Anderson
John R. Steelman
Clayton
Clark Clifford
Anderson
Nurses Die As Durant Hospital Fire Spreads To Second Floor
A Durant Oklahoma hospital nurses home fire on the second floor killed Mary Ellen Lovell 19 and injured Vernie Arnold 19 and Mrs Addah Broadhurst 52 as four other nurses escaped. The blaze started in an unoccupied room and remained on the second floor with minor overall damage. Norm an C Mitchell and Virgil Medlock led county teachers association meeting with school program proposals for November 5 and speeches by Dr John Abernathy.
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Durant
Okla
Durant Hospital
Mary Ellen Lovell
A. T. Baker
Vernie Arnold
Baker
Pontotoc County
Aldridge Hotel
John Abernathy
Oklahoma City
Dr. A. Linscheid
East Central
Virgil Medlock
Lawrence
State Senate
C. A. Gentry Center
Norman C. Mitchell
J. B. Watters
Ada High School
Betty Lou Jumper
William Heimann
J. N. McKeel
McLish
Oklahoma
E. E. Battles
OEA
Dr. Abernathy
Crown Heights Methodist Church
Danube Open Trade Plea Stirs Balkan Conference
United States and Britain urged the Danube be opened to free commerce as part of a European peace conference effort. Senator Vandenberg led the demand, joined by British Foreign Secretary Bevin, while Yugoslav Deputy Premier Kardelj challenged the majority Danube provisions citing Yugoslav interests.
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Joseph Dynan
Paris
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Danube
U. S
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Europe
Vandenberg
Edvard Kardelj
Balkans Commission
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Romania
St. Lawrence River
St. Lawrence
Canada
Missouri Gridmen On Meatless Diet
Missouri football players face a meatless diet as the training table was abandoned due to food tightness. Coach Don Faurot hopes the table will be restored next week. Meals have featured chicken turkey or fish with no beef on three road trips, including Texas.
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Columbia
Iowa State
University of Missouri
Don Faurot
Faurot
Tigers
Texas
Reynolds joins Richmond Rebels of Dixie pro league
Jim Reynolds selected from Pittsburgh Steelers to play for the Richmond Rebels in the Dixie pro league. He will face the Norfolk Chamrocks in the league contest Sunday after a career at Oklahoma A and M and a stint with the Chicago Cardinals.
Pan American Halts Mid Europe Flights
Pan American Airways announced it halted all service to middle Europe following a U S military order banning flights over Czech and Russian controlled territory in Hungary Romania and surrounding zones. The statement said no civil or military aircraft would fly over Czech or Russian controlled territory from October 9 to 14 and a Prague Vienna clipper was turned back yesterday.
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London
U. S
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Hungary
Frankfurt
Germany
Calvin Dyer
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Pan American Airways
Prague
Pan American
Middle Europe
Austria
Army
Brussels
Pan- American Airways
Vienna
Miners Seek $125,000 Damages Over Silicosis
Three Ottawa county miners Virgil D. Cox Earn Carder and H Gene Collins filed suits in federal court claiming health damage from silicosis contracted on the job. They name Eagle Picher Mining and Smelter Co and F W Evans operator of the Shorthorn mine in Ottawa county as defendants.
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Tulsa
Okla
Ottawa County
Federal District Court
Virgil D. Cox
Earn Carder
H. Gene Collins
Eagle Picher Mining and Smelter Co
F. W. Evans
Shorthorn
Hull Shows Slight But Definite Gain In Health
Washington reports slight but definite improvement in Cordell Hull condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The 75 year old former Secretary of State has been in serious condition since a stroke on September 30 and rested well last night.
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Hull
Washington
Cordell Hull
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Pessimist Attitude Not Informed on First Contact
A colloquial remark notes the pessimist who greets with Whatya know rarely provides new information at first contact. The line captures a wary social observation and the tone of cautious dialogue.
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By Roger D. Greene
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