Indian Swindles Prompt FBI Fraud Probes
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported a surge in government fraud attempts with 1620 cases investigated in the year ending June 30. Prosecutors secured 202 convictions, 437 years in prison, and about 3.24 million dollars in savings and recoveries, including schemes against veterans and Native land titles involving Indian communities.
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FBI
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Cameron Enrollment Seen Record Forecast
Cameron college expects a 15 percent enrollment rise for 1953 54, said President Vernon Howell at a Northwest Kiwanis meeting. He described Cameron as the region’s largest junior college, a major employer in Comanche County paying about 223 000 annually, and urged continued support to make Lawton a regional education center. Willene Kleeman, daughter of County Commissioner Bill Kleeman, performed two songs.
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Oklahoma
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Willene Kleeman
Bill Kleeman
Peary’s Pole trip foresees aviators future flights
Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary, famed for his 1909 North Pole journey, predicted aviators would conquer polar skies. The National Geographic Society notes his early insight into air power and military dominance in the air.
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North Pole
Robert E. Peary
Peary
National Geographic Society
California Magnet For U. S. Movers
A Louisiana sociologist reports aging Americans are migrating more, with about 130000 of 297000 interstate movers settling in California in the past decade. Florida and Texas follow, with migrants mainly from the Great Plains, Midwest, and Northeast.
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San Francisco
California
Louisiana
H. L. Hitt
Louisiana State University
Hitt
Gerontological Society
Florida
Texas
Great Plains
Midwest
Northeast
Ferguson Name On Housing List
Washington sources said Jo O. Ferguson will be announced as FHA director for western Oklahoma this week. The Pawnee publisher, a former Republican governor candidate, will head the Oklahoma City FHA office overseeing 47 counties. The office did 29 million dollars in business last year including 18.5 million in home mortgages. John F. Pratt Jr. remains as assistant director after 14 months in the acting role.
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Washington
Jo O. Ferguson
FHA
Oklahoma
Ferguson
Pawnee
Oklahoma City
Federal Home Administration
John F. Pratt Jr
Ambling Chipmunk Suit Filed Against City
Yoshigo Iwasa sues Los Angeles alleging he paid 357.76 to stop for a crossing chipmunk and was sideswiped by a fire department pickup while avoiding harm. He seeks restitution for the driving incident and related costs.
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Los Angeles
Yoshigo Iwasa
Iwasa
Fire Department
County home agent to judge Apache district fair
Comanche Agent Mrs Clara J Kelley will judge the home economics division at the Apache fair on Thursday. Farm women and 4-H girls from western Caddo county will compete in that division.
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Clara J. Kelley
Comanche County
Apache
Caddo County
Hog Marketing Clinic Planned at Oklahoma A M College
A Hog marketing clinic on swine production and marketing will be presented at the Oklahoma Swine Breeders Association field day at Oklahoma A&M College this Saturday.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma Swine Breeders’ Association
Oklahoma AM College
Bricks Where Presidents Tread at Santa Fe Depot
Santa Fe officials announced the brick walk in front of the railway depot will be torn up to replace it with a smooth concrete platform. For fifty years notable visitors including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and various kings and movie stars walked the path.
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Queens
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Santa Fe
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
King
Dick McGuire Sets Knicks Assist Mark For Four Years
Dick McGuire, star playmaker for the New York Knickerbockers, has led the Knicks in assists for the fourth consecutive season, confirming his role as the team’s top creator.
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N. Y. Knickerbockers
NBA
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