McCarthy Sparks Senate Uproar Over Stevens Phone Probe
Senate investigations chair Mundt clashes with McCarthy as Stevens is forced to confirm a taped phone call, with Army employee named in testimony ordered to appear and swear transcription. Welch conditions intro of the material amid tense hearings.
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Mundt
Army
Lucas
Waghington
Pvt
David Schine
Joseph N. Welch
Senate
McCarthy
Washington
Sen
R-Wis
Senate Investigations Committee
Stevens
R-S.d
Roy M. Cohn
Wen Oahiun
Sultant
McCarthy Has Army
Cincone
Likens Red Arms To Nazis Debate Sparks Tension
A fragmented transcript shows a tense exchange in which Senators quarrel over ad miscibility of telephone notes and a witness asserts the notes reflect an accurate verbatim report. The scene references McCarthy and a probe, with calls for calm and international cooperation to avert an atomic era hysteria.
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Mundt
Stevens
Jenkins
Reds Seize Outpost At Dien Bien Phu
Communists attack Dien Bien Phu as French defenders cling to the shrinking fortress. Paris dispatches report fresh paratroop reinforcements arriving from Saigon aboard American airlift planes to bolster the besieged outpost amid heavy fighting and renewed Vietminh assaults.
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Dien Bien Phu
Aan
Indo-China
Saigon
Colombo
Bangkok
Thailand
Soviet Seeks Big Five Expansion of Geneva Talks
Paris notes say Moscow demands a broader Geneva conference to include Communist China as a full participant alongside the United States Britain France and the Soviet Union. Western powers reject the move noting China was invited but not a major power. NATO ministers in Paris discuss Korea Indo China and China with Dulles Eden and Bidault in secret session.
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Paris
Russia
China
United States
Britain
France
Geneva
Molotov
Berlin
Peiping
North Atlantic Alliance
Lord Ismay
NATO Council of Ministers
U. S
State Dulles
Eden
Georges Bidault
NATO
Korea
Bidault
Europe
Olney blasts FHA methods in housing loan scandal
Warren Olney III as the nations top prosecutor accuses the FHA home repair program of being co opted by lenders and swindlers. He tells the Senate Banking Committee the program funds rapid fraud against homeowners. FBI and Justice Department pursue fraud amid resignations of five top FHA officials.
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Washington
Warren Olney III
FHA
Olney
Senate Banking Committee
FBI
Justice Department
Albert M. Cole
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Siamese Twin Boys Born To Fort Sill Soldier Die In Illinois
Siamese twin boys born to Pvt. Kenneth Crawford and his wife at a Pekin Illinois hospital died after live minutes. The joining twins weighed 11 pounds and were 10 months gestation. Crawford, on 10 day emergency leave, is with the Aviation Enlisted Student Company at the Army Aviation School since March 2. The burial occurred Thursday.
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Fort Sill
Pekin
Kenneth Crawford
Pvt
Crawford
Army Aviation School
Pekin Hospital
Yaghees
Army Opens First Atom War Game In Flash Burn Exercise
At Fort Bragg North Carolina the opening ground move of Exercise Flash Burn began with a 10 000 strong aggressor force advancing at sunrise. The test includes 100 000 troops and airmen, and Tacair 54 7 training runs with Air Force support. A C119 crash near Goldsboro killed two crew members. others parachuted with minor injuries.
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Ft, Bragg
N. C
Piney
U. S
Air Force
Tactical Air Command
Goldsboro
Arts and Crafts Fair at Howell Elementary Opens Weekend
Howell elementary hosts its second annual Arts and Crafts fair inviting the public to Lawton from 10 a m to 3 30 p m Saturday and 2 to 4 p m Sunday. Teachers led by John Littlefield arrange varied art displays with about 25 floral arrangements from the Layton Garden Club council.
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Howell Elementary
Oklahoma
Texas
Lawton
Howell School
John Littlefield
Layton Gat Garden Club Council
Pee
Marguerite Young
Ruth
Dorisa
Pea
Jo Givens
Mae Likeas Bolascoares
Lillian’ Ewing
Clarice McMillian
Aeane
Sill turfing contract set for Bermuda grass cover
Work to lay Bermuda grass at Fort Sill begins early next week in four sections near the Army Aviation School, barracks area, Ordnance warehouse, Snow Hall, Artillery School classroom building. Harry Martin Traction Co. of Wichita Falls won the $15,830 bid, about 20 workers to be hired, project to take roughly 45 days.
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Fort Sill
Army Aviation School
Snow Hall
Artillery School
Harry Martin Traction Co
Wichita Falls
Morris Swett to retire as Fort Sill librarian this year
Fort Sill librarian Morris Swett, 65, plans retirement from civil service after 39 years at The Artillery School library and nearly 44 years of Army library work. A West Point program veteran, Swett helped generations of officers, with four children educated locally and a long career noted by colleagues at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
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Philippines
Morris Swett
Fort Sill
Civil Service
Army
Old Field Artillery Journal
Wilbur S. Nye
Swett
Artillery School
United States 7 ‘ Academy
West
Fort Sill Librarian Honored For Building World Class Library
Lawton and Fort Sill paid tribute to Morris Swett longtime post librarian and author credited with creating the finest military library at The Artillery Center. The event at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon included Maj. Gen. Charles Hart and Brig. Gen. James Brittingham who reviewed Swett’s career and praised community cooperation behind the library’s growth.
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Lawton
Fort Sill
Artillery Center
Morris Swett
Charles E. Hart
Swett
James F. Brittingham
Chamber
Ray Babtt
Brittingham
Artillery School
Dan T. Moore
Ralph M. Pennell
Pennell
Library of Congress
West Point
Mike” Aa
Sage
USDA Endorses Dust Bowl Emergency Loan Bill
The Agriculture Department endorsed a bill to authorize the Farmers Home Administration to lend 15 million dollars of emergency loan funds to farmers in areas not eligible for existing emergency credit. K L Scott testified noting some regions face sharp price declines and demand for emergency credit exceeds current authority.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Farmers Home Administration
K. L. Scott
Agricultural Credit Services
George D. Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Scott
Farmers’ Home Administration
Hotel Directors Win Re-Election
Five directors of Lawton Community Hotel Inc were re-elected at the annual stockholders meeting in Emerson school auditorium. All officers were retained in a later board session. Frank Kitchens reported progress on the Hotel Lawtonian and predicted the 10 story building would be finished by December. About 600 stockholders attended. over 3,000 shares were represented by proxy, establishing a quorum.
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Lawton Community Hotel Inc
Emerson School
Lawtonian
Frank Kitchens
Shelton
Gen Hart To Speak At Texas A&M Rites
Maj. Gen. Charles E. Hart will be principal speaker at Texas A&M college cadets commencement May 21. Hart, commanding general The Artillery Center, will present Army commissions to 213 cadets and 150 graduating seniors will receive Air Force commissions by Maj. Gen. Gabriel P. Disoway. All 11 Army ROTC branches will furnish new second lieutenants. The exercises start at 1 p.m.
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Texas A&m College
Charles
Hart
Artillery Center
Air Force
Gabriel P. Disoway
Waco
Tex
Army
Russia-Cites Protest Over Soviet Diplomat Kidnapping
Moscow reports a protest against the kidnapping of Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov by Australia during a tense exchange. No further details provided on casualties or responses.
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Moscow
Russia
Australia
Vladimir Petrov
Court Takes Rita's Girls Into Custody
Miss Hayworth's two daughters Rebecca Welles 10 and Yasmin Khan 4 are placed in custody amid neglect charges filed by the Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The children were reportedly kept at an antique shop operator's home near the store and worked there three days a week.
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Amind
Roney Plaza
Miss Hayworth
Westchester County Society For the Prevention of
Dorothy Chambers
Rebecca Welles
Orson. Welles
Yasmin Khan
Prince
Haymes
Florida
Weather forecast for Oklahoma with scattered rain odds
The forecast shows rain in the northwest and north central regions tomorrow while most of the state remains dry. Fog in southwest Oklahoma this morning gives way to partly cloudy skies with temperatures rising toward the weekend highs near 85.
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Oklahoma
Southwest
Northwest
North Central
Lawton
Lawton Mercury
Satur
Ponca City
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St. Joseph's College
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