Probe continues on coed’s fiery death in Alva
In Alva Oklahoma investigators press two fronts into Mildred Ann Reynolds 22. Northwestern State College student questioned after a coroner's jury found the blaze incendiary and recommended a renewed probe. Tests on brake fluid used in Reynolds burning car to assess ignition potential will be conducted by Oklahoma Natural Gas. state crime bureau agent Ivan Oatis voiced renewed belief Reynolds died in a freak traffic accident though the jury disagreed.
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Alva
Okla
Mildred Ann Reynolds
Northwestern State College
Ivan Oatis
Five teens jailed in matron slaying escape case
In Akron Ohio five teen girls pled guilty to manslaughter for the death of matron Eula Bonham during a break from Summit County Detention Home. Ruth Beichler 17 Zelda De Cost 16 were sent to Marysville reformatories. Three 15 year olds Shirley Shingler Margaret Nicholson and Mira Cain received sentences to the Delaware girls industrial school until age 16 then reform school.
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Akron
Ohio
Summit County
Common Pleas
Ray B. Watters
Ruth Beichler
Zelda de Cost
Reformatory For Women
Marysville
Shirley Shingler
Margaret Nicholson
Mira Cain
Delaware
Reformatory
Eula Bonham
Weather For Other Areas
There was a warming trend in the Southeast and cold weather in northern and western sections of the nation today. The Southeast rose above seasonal normals while the South Atlantic Coast saw the biggest warming and the northern Gulf Coast and Florida also advanced. Savannah reached 59 compared with 42 yesterday. Colder air stretched from the northern and central Pacific to the Rockies, with below freezing across the Great Lakes New England northern Rockies and the Great Basin. More fair and warm weather was expected for southern areas.
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South Atlantic
Gulf+Coast
Florida
Savannah
Pacific
Rockies
Great Lakes
New England
Geat Basin
Democrat Candidate Pushes Kansans Vote on Right to Work
Hutchinson area report shows Poo Lewis Ostwald, Democratic U S Senate hopeful, urging Kansas to submit the right to work measure to voters in a statement. Ostwald says legislators should not decide adoption or rejection, calling the issue the hottest since early prohibition politics. Governor nominee George Docking, who opposed right to work in 1954, offered no comment on Ostwald’s proposal. A separate statistic notes 400 of 100,000 U S babies born in 1950 expected to live to 1050.
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Hutchinson
Poo
AL Lewis Ostwald
U. Senator
Kansas
Questering Oswald
George Docking
Oswald
U. S
George Cady to Speak Wednesday on Campus
George Cady a chemistry professor at Washington University will speak on Wednesday at 7 30 pm in Malott Hall at Kansas University on the topic Two Arctic Solvents Hydrogen Flouride and Trifluoro Acetic Acid. He tours for the American Chemical Society and his speech is sponsored by the local chapter. He is a former Lawrence resident and his family resides in Kentucky.
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George Cady
Washinton University
Sesatthe
Malett
Kansas University
Cady
Mrss PL Cady
Ruth Cardy
St Ayy Randecy Ffuwillat A
Air Engineer Students To Compete For Prizes
Kansas University air engineering students will vie for prizes at the Aeronautical Sciences paper competition in Dallas Texas April 9 and 20. Donald T Higden and Tom Woods defend their divisions, with top prizes of 300 dollars. They will tour four aircraft plants and attend an award banquet, accompanied by Associate Professor Edwin K Parks. The trip runs April 18 to 29.
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Fistiute of Aeronautical Sciences
Dallas
Tex
Donald T. Higden
Kansas Cus
Aviston Tis
Agreratt
Tom Woods
Snp
Serosipaeay Engineering
Paps Ois
Divsian
Oan Dduersia
Chance Vough
TenUa
Convair
Bell Helicnder
Ifigdon and
Woods
Edwin K Parks
Rainier Heads Home For Final Arrangements On Wedding
Rainier left Paris by train to prepare Monaco for the upcoming marriage to Grace Kelly. The prince intends to ensure the Riviera preparations proceed despite a week of rain and forecasts of continued bad weather threatening the April wedding festivities.
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Grace Kelly
Paris
Prince Rainier
Monaco
Wagoon
Riviera
Mediterranean
Emporia farmer profits in sale of dam to city
Emporia farmer sold Soden’s Dam to the city after the waterworks project was planned. The deal paid Thor Rees $400 for the dam and related rights. Four years of drought increased the dam’s value to the city which aimed to build a pumping station.
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Emporia A
Ity
Thor Rees
Soden
Reyer
Empera
Rees
Dbim
Kansas Democrat Chief Dies in Larned Hospital
A longtime Kansas Democrat leader, 80 year old R A E Hawes of Larned, died in a local hospital. He served as Pawnee County Democratic Central Committee chairman for many years and was a delegate to three national Democratic conventions. In 1944 he challenged Rep. Clifford Hope for Congress but was unsuccessful.
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Larned
Kas
Humorist recalls Klansman view in Fred Allen note and other jokes
Earl Wilson sketches a late Fred Allen letter and jokes from Groucho Marx to Kefauver and others. The column mixes anecdotes on celebrities, wit about weddings, fashion, taxes, and punchlines from Toots Shor, Cab Calloway, and a Tennessee reference, finishing with March hopes and rhymes about Grace Kelly and Margaret Truman weddings.
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Fred Allen
Groucho Marx
Fred
Portland Allen
Taffy Tuttle
Margaret Truman
William Lowenstein
Earl
Bandits Invade Home In Johnson County Suburb
Three bandits invaded a suburban Johnson County Kansas home last night and escaped with 157 dollars and 9000 dollars worth of jewelry and furs. Mr and Mrs John F E Dean and their daughter Georgia 19 were tied.
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Bandits
Johnson County
Kansas City, Kas
Kas
John FE. Dean
Georgya
Robbers Loot Home. Resident Frees Self
A resident describes being restrained on a bed by intruders who ransacked the dwelling. The man, identified as Dean, a retired purchasing agent for a manufacturing firm, freed himself and alerted officers after the bandits departed.
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Dean
KU Grad Appointed Public Health Director at Hanford
Dr. David B. Rowlett, holder of A.B. and M.D. degrees from Kansas University, is named director of public health in Richland Washington, home to the Hanford works of the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Kansas University
Richland, Wash
Hanford Works
The
Atomic Energy Commission
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