PATROL S PISTOL SHARPSHOOTERS HONORED IN DISTRICT
Lawton merchants awarded trophies to top marksmen among Fourth District Highway Patrolmen in a June 18 test at Craterville Park. Homer B Kidd of Durant district led with 96 of 100, Dan B Combs Anadarko placed second, Leonard L Kelsoe Lawton third. A large trophy was given to Lt. C. T. Raley and annual awards planned statewide next year.
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Lawton
Frank Garrett
Garrett
C. T. Raley
Homer B. Kidd
Dan B. Combs
Leonard L. Kelsoe
Craterville Park
Chickasha
Durant
Anadarko
Lt. C. T. Raley
Sweden and Norway Back India For Peace Panel
Sweden and Norway voiced support for India participating in the Korean peace conference as the General Assembly considers a resolution co sponsored by Denmark Australia and New Zealand. Sweden questioned being a negotiating member while backing Russia’s inclusion. US opposition to inviting India persisted with Lodge Jr saying he would vote against inviting India. Delegates pressed to set a slate of representatives and finish before next week.
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United Nations
U. N
India
United States
Denmark
Sweden
China
North Korea
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
General Assembly
Joao Carlos Muniz
Brazil
Dag Hammarskjold
K. Krishna
Optimists Elect Woods President in Lawton Club
Lee J. Woods, partner in Gilbert Woods Drugstore, is elected president of the Lawton Optimist club to fill the unexpired term of Jack Danner who moves to Oklahoma City to become assistant general agent for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance. Woods, a 1947 member and former vice president, will lead Christmas tree sale and minstrel fundraisers for youth work. He is a registered pharmacist graduate of Texas A&M, living with wife Marilyn and two sons at 1710 Oak.
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Lee J. Woods
Gilbert Woods Drugstore
Lawton
Woods
Texas A&m College
Marilyn
Bruce
Mark
1710 Oak
Witness Boss Questions Rothschild Theft Allegations
Washington GPO deputy public printer questioned testimony that Edward Rothschild stole a secret code and military pamphlets during World War II. He said the agency has not decided how to proceed after Rothschild, a 42 year old bookbinder, was suspended for refusing to answer Senate questions about communist ties or past pilferage.
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Washington
Government Printing Office
Edward Rothschild
Philip L. Cole
GPO
Rothschild
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Miss Cleta Guess
U. S. Merchant Marine
Miss Guess
New Orleans
O'Brien Starts New Odyssey
Michael Patrick O'Brien, called the man without a country, travels from Lisbon to Brazil seeking asylum. Brazil grants a refugee visa after a decade of refusals by Hong Kong and Macau authorities. He arrived in Rio de Janeiro aboard a liner after leaving France.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Hong Kong
Michael Patrick O’brien
China
Red Cross
Macau
le Havre
France
Rio
Cattle Loss Suit Filed By 3 Comanche Ranchers
Three Comanche county cattle men sue Ralston Purina Co and Lawton Feeders Supply for 66114.55 over losses from allegedly poisoned Pellets. The suit in superior court names George Hewes Radford Hewes and Billy Hewes of Star Rt Lawton as plaintiffs. They seek damages for 138 cattle losses calf crop veterinary bills and loss of service totaling 66114.55. The filing marks the first action in Comanche county over a feed poisoning plague that devastated Southwest Oklahoma and Texas herds.
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Comanche County
Lawton Feed
George Hewes
Radford Hewes
Billy Hewes
Star Rt. Lawton
Ralston Purina Co
C. R. Stone
Lawton
Oklahoma
Texas
Hewes
Reds Agree to Neutral Probe of Complaints
In Panmunjom Korea on August 21, the UN accepted a plan for an unbiased inquiry into Red Cross treatment charges at POW camps after the Reds released 150 American prisoners, the day’s largest one-day total since Operation Big Switch began. The exchange left 1,465 Americans freed overall, with 3,313 to be returned. Storms blocked repatriation of the remaining Communists from Koje Island.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Red Cross
South Korea
United Nations Command
Military Armistice Commission
Blackshear Bryan
Lee Sang Cho
Camp No. 9
United Nations
Kaesong
J. D. Britton
Surgoinsville
Tenn
Exchange
Freedom
Koje Island
Cameron College Sees Fresh Enrollment Surge
Cameron college reports over 190 freshmen pre enrolled for fall term, a first time for fall pre enrollment. The plan, announced by Dean Gordon L. Paine, aims to ease faculty workload and give students time to pick courses. Enrollments run until Sept 1, with regular freshman courses starting Sept 9.
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Cameron College
Gordon L. Paine
Paine
Mediators Map Fresh Talks In Phone Strike
CIO Communications Workers press for wage gains as long distance service in Chicago halts. Picket John Riley arrested in Kansas City after throwing bottles. Indiana and Texas locals report attacks on facilities, while federal conciliators convene in St. Louis to resolve the six state Southwestern Bell dispute.
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Chicago
United Press
Kansas City
CIO Communications
St. Louis
CWA
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Southwestern
Indiana Bell Telephone
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
At&t
New York
John J. Riley
Riley
San Antonio
Tex
Ray Callen
Bell
Nisei POW Won Medal By Bayonet Heroic Korea Award
The Army revealed how Corporal Hiroshi H. Miyamura of Gallup New Mexico earned the Medal of Honor while a prisoner of war in Korea. The citation, secret for two years, details actions during the April 1951 offensive after Brig. Gen. Ralph Osborne broke the news to Miyamura at Freedom Village.
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Washington
Korea
Hiroshi H. Miyamura
Gallup
N. M
Freedom Village
Ralph Osborne
7Th Regiment
U. S
Non- Reds Stop French Strike Amid Partial Restarts
Paris reports a first crack in a 16 day strike as thousands return to work across France. Unions meet to settle terms while postal telegraph and telephone workers end their walkout and government promises key concessions. Rail and subway service remain limited and coal mines idle as talks continue.
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Paris
France
Socialist Workers’ Force
Christian Labor Federation
Joseph Lanier
Laniel
Rough Going Up Easy Coming Down
In Bristol England Frank Gadsby aged 74 returned from retirement to revive his carnival act a 70 foot dive into a tank of blazing oil He filled in for his ailing son and said the climb up the ladder sparked his heart but he was fine on the descent
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Bristol
England
Frank Gadsby
Gadsby
POW says two GIs aided Red thought police in Korea
U S prisoner Cpl Elias J Preece 20 Del Rio Texas accuses two American GIs of aiding Communist captors during questioning at Camp 1 Changsan North Korea He says he was questioned by one of them and that both of them questioned other prisoners Preece identified them as Muleface aides and notes they were repatriated and guarded by Chinese during confinement
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Inchon
Korea
U. S
Elias J. Preece
del Rio
Tex
Preece
Shanghai News
Texas Re
Patriate
Muleface
The
Red
Changsan
North Korea
City Strikers Allow Carrier to Deliver Pay Checks
Local Southwestern Bell Telephone employees will not cross their picket lines to receive pay. Self-addressed envelopes were delivered to management for mailing checks to strikers, with 45 switchboard operators on duty and long distance calls increasing to about 75 percent of normal. Union leaders promised no crossing of lines and noted ongoing 24 hour pickets at exchanges and warehouses.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Cross Line
George Page
Telephone Company Exchange
Page
Irwin Cotter
Lillian Sheehan
Prison Riot at Washington Reformatory Ends in Death and Wounding
At the Monroe state reformatory a riot left one inmate dead and three wounded after inmates set fires across the grounds. Guards opened fire when rioters rushed the yard gate, with damages estimated up to 2 million dollars. Officials planned to separate and return 160 inmates to cells after an exercise period. Walter Lyshail of Seattle was killed. Glenn Anderson, also of Seattle, was critically wounded. Douglas Ferris of Benton County sustained leg injuries.
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Riley
Indiana
Indianapolis
National Guard
Logansport
Indar
Harold A. Doherty
Southwestern Bell
Monroe
Wash
Washington State Reformatory
J. J. Jackson
Jackson
Walter Thomas Lyshail
Seattle
Glenn M. Anderson
Fort Sill Prisoners Escape Guards Bridge North Pit
Three Fort Sill soldiers escaped from a prisoner work detail before 9 a.m. overpowered a guard at the burning pit on Post Field. Escapees were Melvin Weis 28 Choctaw Robert Colville 19 Ardmore and Jare H Williams 17 Oklahoma City. They fled in stockade uniforms leaving a guard’s gun behind. Williams 5 ft 7 in 130 lb red hair skull tattoo right arm and "Red" on left. Weis 6 ft 151 lb red hair two blue birds on left upper arm. Colville 6 ft 2 in 182 lb black described with R C initials on both arms and T M on right and A M. State-wide pickup issued by Highway Patrol.
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Fort Sill
Post Field
Melvin Weis
Choctaw
Robert Colville
Ardmore
Jare H. Williams
Oklahoma
Highway Patrol
Williams
Weis
Colville
R. C
T. M
A. M
Shah Returns to Iran After Five Days in Exile
The Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi arrived in Baghdad en route to Tehran after five days in exile following Mossadegh's overthrow in a royalist revolt led by General Fazollah Zahedi. He would fly to Tehran the next day, planning to meet King Faisal of Iraq and be joined by Queen Soraya soon. Princess Ashraf accompanied the party, while Rome's Iranian colony cheered the departure.
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Baghdad
Iran
Rome
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mohammed Mossadegh
Fazollah Zahedi
Mossadegh
Tehran
Faisal
Iraq
Soraya
Legation
Royal Dutch
KLM
Shah
Calm Moroccans Get New Sultan
Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa was proclaimed the new Sultan of Morocco as 44 year old Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef was dethroned and exiled by France to Corsica. The 64 year old Arafa succeeded him while tensions with Berber hillmen waned amid heavy French guards and patrols in Moroccan cities and Tangier.
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Paris
Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa
Morocco
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
France
Corsica
Araa
Pasha Thami el Glaoui
Marrakech
French Morocco
Tangier
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North African
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Odyssey
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Purina Range Breeders Checkers
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Reds
Cameron
Dan Hanna
Lawton Exchange
Sill
Radiant Shah
Abdulahlah
Air
Ashraf
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