Pilot sacrifices descent as Amer i can flight crashes at Fort Leonard Wood
A Convair with 30 aboard aimed for Forney Field but broke up near Liebler Heights Army post. Captain Hugh Barron Tulsa Okla earlier saved 40 on a crippled plane last November 9. Eyewitnesses recall flames and a wing separation before the crash in sunny, low flight.
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FT. Leonard Wood
American Airlines
A. J. Brewster
Post Airport
Hugh
Barron
Tulsa
Okla
Convair
Forney
Liebler Heights
Beverly Streeter
Wac
Asbury Park
N. J
Lebanon
Left Hand Beekeeper and Litterers Dominate Thayer Page
Rural Thayer resident Mrs. Roy Starbuck was stung on the hand by a bee while driving near Neosho River bridge, leaving a swollen hand as evidence. A later item notes out of state couple releasing three dogs on a private lawn, shocking the homeowner from an upstairs window. Additional notes cover grief among advertising colleagues after a Joplin visit and a Fort Leonard Wood airliner disaster.
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Roy Starbuck
Thayer
One Man Is in Jail After $10,000 Robbery
A man is jailed and police seek his brother after a bank branch robbery in JOINER AR involving about $10,000. William Anderson, 21, from Augusta AR, was captured in a soybean field near Cotton Plant in southern Missouri within hours.
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Joiner
Ark
William Anderson
Augusta
Cotton
Missouri
Elsmore Church School Nears Final Week
Elsmore Vacation Church School will run Monday to Friday next week from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Nearly 50 boys and girls aged 4 to 15 are enrolled. The closing exhibit and program will be held at the Elsmore church at 7 p.m. on August 12.
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Elsmore
Elsmore Church At & P.m
Puzzle contest notice from The Chanute Tribune
Readers are invited to solve a crossword style puzzle by mail for a $5 bonus plus potential $10 subscriber bonus and additional prizes. Rules require postcard submission by 5 pm Wednesday with only one correct solution and juries' decisions final.
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Tribune
Little Stinker
Channute Tribune
Chanute
Kansas
Unsolved puzzle jackpot climbs in week 15
The Tribune reports 1,885 entries failed to solve the money puzzle as the jackpot rises to 170 dollars in its 15th week. An author’s note explains several difficult clues and wordplay from the ongoing contest.
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The
Tribune
Plane Crash Casualty List From Fort Leonard Wood
The New York office of American Airlines releases a revised casualty list for the Ft. Leonard Wood crash that killed all aboard. Names include crew Captain Hugh C. Barron Tulsa and Captain William Gates Tulsa and numerous passengers from New York City Chicago Detroit Milwaukee and other cities with addresses in Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Texas and New York listed.
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New York
American Airlines
Ft. Leonard Wood
Hugh C. Barron
Tulsa
Okla
William Gates
Thelma Ruth Ballard
Jerry McColley
Ardmore Okla
Samuel Hobson
18Th
Short St
Galena
Kas
John L. Cross
New York City
Joan Monaco
North College St
Neosho
Tilson J. Farough
Royal Oak
Mich
Herman Schmyser
Detroit
Karen Franks
Milwaukee
Wis
Kansas Tot Killed Under Tractor Wheels
Stewart K. Toews aged four was crushed to death when a tractor rolled over him on the family farm in Whitewater Kansas Yesterday He reportedly released the brakes then climbed the tractor and fell or jumped as it began to move He was the son of Mr and Mrs Novalis Toevs.
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Kansas
Whitewater, Kas
Stewart K. Toews
Stewart
Novalis Toevs
Chrysler sales rise in first half of year
Chrysler Corp. reports higher than ever first half sales with cars and trucks leading the rebound. Profits for the period exceed eight times the total for all of 1954 as the company fights to overcome a 1954 slump.
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New York
Chrysler Corp
Chanute Juco Graduate Feared Slain by Kidnaper
A Chanute junior college graduate is feared slain after a kidnapping case. Rainfall and weather notes follow with 4 inches reported at Burlington and varied statewide totals. forecast calls for more showers and warmer conditions into the weekend.
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Chanute Juco
Driver Arrested for DUI and Parole Violation
Terrill All day, 1301 S Santa Fe, was taken into custody yesterday afternoon on a charge of operating a motor car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He was committed to the county jail for a parole violation, following a 90 day sentence on the same charge last December. Hearing on the new charge set for next Thursday.
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Terrill
S. Santa Fe
Traffic Fatalities Reported Across State
The state accident records log shows 1 death in the last 24 hours and 309 to date in 1955, compared with 318 for the same period in 1954. An earlier death not previously recorded is noted.
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Topekap
Kansas
Trade Talks Planned to Ottawa by Dulles Cabinet
The State Department says Secretary Dulles and three other Cabinet officers will travel to Ottawa on September 26 for trade talks with Canadian officials.
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Washington
State Department
Dulles
Ottawa
Honor graduate denied Naval Reserve Commission over mother's past
Cadet Midshipman Eugene W Landy, 21, at Kings Point, receives his degree and Merchant Marine certificate as classmates graduate. Rear Adm. McClintock says Landy will not get a commission until a counterstatement to a Navy order is received, while noting no question of Landy’s loyalty exists despite his mother’s Communist past from 1937 to 1947 or 1948.
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Kings Point
N. Y.pa
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Communist Party
Naval Reserve Commission
Eugene W Landy
Academy
New Jersey
Adm
Gordon McClintock
Landy
Naval Reserve
Navy
Missing Wilma Cookus Allen Believed Victim Of Foul Play
Chanute friends and family learned of Wilma Cookus Allen 23 years after she left Ottawa for Chanute Junior College that she was missing and believed killed. Relatives, now alerted, said Allen married Kansas City dealer William Allen Jr. in 1943 and had two sons.
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Chanute
Wilma Cookus Allen
Kansas City
Chanute Junior College
Allen
Clarence W. Moody
Moodys
Burlington
Iowa Soap Co
William Allen Jr
Billy
Bobby
Osage City
Ottawa
Frank Cookus
Tulsa
Wilma
Tulsa Central High School
Moody
Frank Klein
J. W. Sutton
J. W Cookus
Dodge City
Clarence Cookus
Barstow
Calif
Estes Park
Colo
Bedford
Colorado
Cookus
Kas
Wilma Allen
Car Found With Bloodstains In Missing Wilma Allen Case
A blood stained 1955 Chevrolet convertible containing ripped clothing was found abandoned near 22nd and Broadway in Kansas City. Police theorize Wilma Allen, 34, a missing mother of two, was kidnapped and slain after shopping and likely killed in an isolated location.
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Kansas City
Chevrolet
22Nd and Broadway
Union Station
Eugene Pond
Allen
Billy
Bobby
Allens
Mother Learns Of Tragedy on Newscast
Tulsa mother Mrs. Frank Cookus, mother of Mrs. Wilma Frances Allen, heard on a radio report today that her daughter was believed kidnapped in Kansas City. She said the early morning broadcast gave the information.
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Tulsa
Okla
Frank Cookus
Wilma Frances Allen
Kansas City
Cookus
Erie Legion Hall Dedicated At Soldiers Reunion
The new Wilson Hall on South Main in Erie is named for Emery Wilson, longtime post member and welfare officer. The 50 by 150 foot building features modern kitchen and dining, office space and hosts Legion activities. A dedication dinner capped the 82nd annual Soldiers and Sailors Reunion with 158 Legionnaires present and a beans and bacon supper planned for tonight.
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Erie
Charles F. Forsyth
Wilson
Emerymander
Kyle
Kirby Snodgrass
Wil
South Main
South Main, Is 50 By 150 Feet In Tron
Post
Wallenberger
Vernon
Coss
Medicine Lodge
Mander
John Nation
Chanute
Kenneth Young
Topeka
Statehouse
John Wallen
Dance Toberger
Girard
Ted Kyle
Act Young Men's Assa
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