Lawton Rangers Rodeo Opens City Birthday Festivities
Lawton plans a multi day rodeo at LO ranch just south of town on US 277. The ninth pioneer rodeo performance starts at 9 p.m. with a 6 p.m. opening, and a grand entry is set for 8:30 p.m. Local and western rodeo stars, including Bob Crosby and noted trick ropers, arrive as events like calf roping and steer roping promise $2,000 purses. Officials announce flexible judging and a public address system for the performances.
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Lawton
Lawton Rangers
New LO Ranch
U. S. Highway 277
Fort Sill
Bob Crosby
New Mexico
Powderhorn
Fete Adams
Tulsa
Bull Brady Jr
Chester Byers
Ray Ramsey
Juntin
Weaver Gray
Naincy Bronga Telele
Wall Ax Dingy Burk
Wallan Pogue
Teedh
Cheyenne
Wyo
Burk
Pogue
Toots Mansfield
Rasdeo Association
Art Ashe
Jap General Is Reported Killed
Manila reports unconfirmed native accounts claim Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines, was killed in a bombing raid last month in the Cordeliera mountains. A Japanese prisoner said Yamashita was alive on July 5. Australian air strikes hit Borneo and U.S. forces sank a freighter at Kuching as operations spread along the coast of China and Southeast Asia.
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Manila
Luzon
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Philippines
United Press War
Ralph Teatforth
14Th Corps
Lingao
Sixth Infantry
Yamashita
Hepao
Cordeliera
Bataan
Yamashiro
Borneo
U.S. Navy
Kuching
Asiatic
Korea
Malay Peninsula
Seventh Air Force
Seventh Fleet
Tighal
Shanghai
South China
Samuel Leggett Dies in Capital
Samuel D Leggett a G Lawton resident for 42 years and former railroad agent died at 11 45 p m Thursday in an Oklahoma City hospital after an amputated left foot injury months earlier He was born August 28 1865 in Polo Illinois and married in 1895 at Trinidad Colorado to Cherrette Croseley They moved to Lawton in 1903 when he became local agent for the Frisco railroad retiring in 1939 Surviving are his wife a daughter Mrs Glen Grimes of Oklahoma City a son Eugene Leggett of Beaumont Texas three grandchildren a brother R A Leggett of Lawton and several nieces and nephews The body will be sent to Lawton by Ridler funeral home Arrangements will be announced later
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Samuel D. Leggett
Glen Grimes
Oklahoma
Eugene Leggett
Beau- Tmont
Tex
R. A. Leggett
Laird
Lawton
Ridler Funeral Home
Court House to Close for Pioneer Day Celebration
County offices will close all day Monday to observe the Aug 6 pioneer celebration. Chairman Pat Branden said the closure follows the yearly custom so officers and employees can participate. The board will hold the regular first of the month meeting on Tuesday morning.
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Court House
Pat Branden
Board of County Commissioners
Brandon
Laval Denies He Is Nazi, Loves France
Pierre Laval told the treason trial of Marshal Petain that his remark about overthrowing the republic was a jest. He denied fascist or Nazi intent and said he loved the republic, while recounting France's war days and a secret 1935 36 pact with Italy and the Hoare Laval agreement known to the British government. He testified further that he sought to appear on the German side in public.
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Belman Morin
Paris
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
Republic
Vichy
France
Musaalini
Laval
M. Pomaret
Senate
Pomaret
Jules Janneney
Paul Mangibeaux
Mangibeaux
Guarda
Aly
Italy
Maurice Gamelin
Pietro Badoglio
Mussolini
Samuel Hoare
Ste
Stinnett Receives Discharge Following Air Force Career
Lt. Edwin Merle Stinnett of Lawton is discharged after 55 combat missions as pilot of a B 26 Marauder with the Ninth Air Force. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with two clusters, with five European Theater stars. He entered service in 1942, trained at multiple bases, served in England and France, and returned to the U S in 1946.
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Lawton
Camp Chaffee
Aris
Edwin Merle Stinnett
G. R. Stinnett
South Second
Nashville
Tenn
San ‘Antonio
Tex
Uvalde
Randolph Field
Ellington Field
Houston
McDill Field
Tampa
Fla
Ardmore
Battle Creek
Mich
England
Stinnett
France
Belgium
Holland
Normandy
Rhineland
Ardennes
Cameron
States
Ark
Three Building Permits Issued For Improvements
Three building permits for improvements to Lawton property were on file today at City Clerk and W. Simpson's office. The permits were issued to S. M. Cunningham for a 300 dollar frame residence at 915 A, to Otis Davis for an 800 dollar house at 032 A, and to Carl L. Roberts for repairs to a six room house and construction of a chicken house at 716 G, costing an estimated 200 dollars.
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Lawton
W. Simpson
S. M. Cunningham
Otis Davis
Carl L. Roberts
Pioneer Lawton Women Preview Birthday Parade Attire
Pioneer Lawton Women’s club members stage a pioneer preview parade in Lawton’s business district to showcase 1901 fashion. About 24 women will model long sleeves, trimmed gowns, and period accessories at 8 p.m. at the courthouse square, ahead of the August 6 parade.
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Lawton
Lawton Paincer Women's Club
Court House Rune
Lawtons
Adell Crawford
Eva McBride
B. Provine
Return of 45th Division Troops Hits New York Harbor
The Sea Tiger with 2065 troops from the 45th division docked off Piermont New York as the first of ten ships carrying 4568 American troops. Other vessels included Fitzhugh Lee 727 and Noah Webster 705 troops. The 45th Thunderbirds fought in D is days from Sicily to New France, with 27253 total casualties.
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New Yor
Piermont
Camp Shanks
N.Y
Fitzhugh Lee
Noah Webster
Ethan Allen
Artes
Corse Victory
Sarah Bache
Lightning
Zacapa
John D. Archibald
1Sth
Thunderbird
Sicily
Anzio
New
New Mexico
Arizona
Eighteen Youths Reach Draft Age During July
Eighteen Comenche county youths reached their 18th birthday anniversaries and registered with the local draft board during July. Chief Clerk Mrs. Carle M. Williams reported today. The list includes Paulino Perez Lennon Duane Zimmerman Rovert Junior Boyd Glenn Howard Pinchback Caspar Keith Riley Jessie Ebner Kelley Jr Floyd Lea Spence Gene Lee Slaughter Charles Louig Rounds Thomas Cousey Williams Edgar Samuel Jones Jr Henry Joe Renschen Joe Gene Pritchett Timothy Davis Robert Ame Shultz Charles Lind berg Theahkic Virgil R. Trout and Edward Junior Anderson.
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Comenche County
Carle M. Williams
Paulino Perez
Lennon
Duane Zimmerman
Rovert
Junior Boyd
Glenn Howard
Pinchback
Caspar Keith Riley
Jessie Ebner Kelley Jn
Floyd Lea Spence
Gene Lee Slaughter
Charles Louig Rounds
Thomas Cousey Williams
Edgar Samuel Jones Jr
Henry Joe Renschen
Joe Gene Pritchett
Timothy Davis
Robert Ame Shultz
Charles Lindberg Theahkic
Virgil R. Trout
Edward Junior Anderson
Farm Leaders Hear Anderson on Postwar Prosperity
Oklahoma farmers heard Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson outline postwar prosperity conditions. He stressed full employment as vital for buying power and firm farm demand, plus full distribution to prevent inadequate incomes from limiting farm markets. He projected moderate postwar price adjustments with livestock prices potentially 40 to 50 percent higher than the 1935–39 era.
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Stillwater
Ohloa
Clinton P. Anderson
Oklahoma Farmers Today
Aninal
Oklahoma A
M, College
Pacific
Anderson
Japanese Homeland Blockade Completed and Mines Placed
The 20th Air Force announced B-29s have fully blockaded shipping between Japan and continental Asia. Typhoons and mines threaten all coastal harbors from Korea to the Manchukuo border, sinking hundreds of thousands of tons of Japanese shipping. Allied raids disrupted railways and targeted Tokyo, with air forces claiming substantial damage to ships and military targets in multiple prefectures.
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William I
Tyree
United Press
Guam
Japan
20Th Air Force
Okinawa
Kyushu
China Sea
Rai l Transportation
Tokyo
Greater Tokyo
Manila
Iwo
Utsunomiya
Omiya
Madsashi
Takasaki
Radio
Nanile
Kobe-Nagoye
Okazaki
Meiji Komaki
Kokogawa
Nagasaki
Senators Back Big Three Plan To Restore Order In Europe
Prominent U S senators broadly approved the Big Three plans to restore order in war damaged Europe and reduce Germany to a farming nation. Senator Taft criticized the proposal to give Poland a large eastern Germany chunk as a seed of another war. President Truman, en route home from the meeting, prepared a sonar report on the decisions reached. Russia’s potential role in the Pacific war was debated as officials weighed how Moscow might fit into the final stages of the war with Japan.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
U. S
Taft
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Poland
Truman
Auguste
London
Russia
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Pacific
Truman Heads Home From Potsdam Cruise Aboard Augusta
President Truman sails for the United States aboard the cruiser Augusta after the Potsdam conference. He plans a radio address upon return to the White House, describing weary but satisfied impressions of the talks with his three partners. King George VI exchanged visits with Mr. Truman during the voyage.
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Uss
Augusta
Truman
Potudam
White House
Europe
English Channel
Atlantic
King George VI
Canning sugar issuance up in Comanche county for August
Comanche county will receive a sugar quota more than triple July's. Ration board chairman E. L. Richardson said those with no sugar yet will be served first, with 10 pounds per Stamp No 13. Certificates issued Tuesday August 7 from 8 am to 4 pm at the county election board room.
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OPA
Comanche County
E. L. Richardson
County Election Board
Court House
Richardson
Pioneer Settler Of County Dies In Oklahoma
Mrs. Henrietta Caldwell, 76, longtime Comanche county resident since 1902, died of a heart attack at her Boswell Oklahoma home. Funeral services set for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Woodlawn Church with Rev. Harold Reaves. burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Survived by five sons Jett, John, Joe, Henry, Frank. daughter Winnie Mead. nine grandchildren. she was a former Bell County Texas native, married Thomas Wesley Caldwell in 1884, and lived near Sterling before moving to Boswell.
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Henrietta Caldwell
Comanche County
Boswell
Okla
Woodlawn Church
Sterling
Kucash Woodlawn
Harold Reaves
Sterling Baptist Shuren
Henrietta Jones
Bell County
Texas
Thomas Wesley Caldwell
Caldwell
Lockney
Tex
Caldewell
Boswell Singa
Christian Church
Jett Caldwell
Medicine Part
John Caldwell
Plainview
Joe Caldwell
Abilene
Henry Caldwell
Wynnewood
Oia
Frank Caldwell
Winnie Mead
Touteane
Fetcher
Wisener Funeral Home
Fletcher
Waters Near Japan Strewn With Wrecks
Waters near Japan lie littered with shipwrecks as Superforts mine major ports from Korea to the Manchukuo border. The five stage operation aims to maintain a total blockade of Japanese shipping, with hundreds of thousands of tons sunk or damaged since March.
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Aji
Japan
Honshu
Shimonoeshi Strait
Tokyo Bay
Kobe-Osaka
Chester W. Nimitz
Okinawa
Wing 313
Kure
Hiroshima
Tokayama
Kase Ho
Shimonoeshi
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Buck Gand
Samuel Leggett
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Big Three
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Britain
Steddoms
Holgate
Plaisie
Teach-a-Tot
Hobby Hill
Billy & Ruth & Blayshoole
Pres. Truman
Admiral Mark Mitscher
Security Bank and Trust GO
Edward Thomas
Lone Ranger
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