Vargas Aide Accuses Generals Of Betrayal In Brazil
Gen Zenobio da Costa, war minister under Getulio Vargas, charged that fellow generals betrayed the constitution as Vargas killed himself after officers forced his resignation. Da Costa claimed Joao Cafe Filho vowed to keep him as war minister but then acts against Vargas. He warned of a power struggle among army and air forces as Cafe assumed the presidency.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Zenobio da Costa
Getulio Vargas
Vargas
Henrique Baptista Teixeira
da Costa
Joao Cafe Filho
Catete
Cafe
War
Navy
War Ministry
Oswaldo Aranha
Hotel Lawtonian carpet contract awarded to local firms
Lacy Furniture Company and Colony House Furniture of Lawton won the 4700 yards carpet contract for the 150 room Hotel Lawtonian. The $27,977 bid beat Fowler's Paint Wallpaper & Glass, Cache Road Furniture, and Harbour Longmire. Work covers second to tenth floors with nine weeks estimated.
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Warkentin
Navy Icebreakers Reach Northwest Passage
Two American vessels the Navy Burton Island and Coast Guard Northwind sliced through the blocked McClure entrance to the Northwest Passage in mid August officials said. The historic transit ends years of exploration by others and marks a milestone for Arctic navigation.
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Washington
Northwest Passage
Canadian Arctic
Navy
Burton Island
Coast Guard
Northwind
McClure
Pay Up Or Else Officials Shape Plan For Collecting Taxes
Delinquent taxpayers in Comanche County face warrants within 10 days after Treasurer Lillian Waid and Sheriff Everett Hale outline a plan. Warrants will be prepared in a week and many served personally by the sheriff as part of a new effort to seize personal property for back taxes. Hale says large debt cases will see direct contact and a last-chance payoff before seizure, with up to 60 days’ notice after warrants arrive.
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Lillian Waid
Everett Hale
Miss Waid
Sheriff's Ofce
Hale
Comanche County
Miss Ward
Soviet Chiefs Are Deserting The Kremlin
A Moscow shift aims to de emphasize the Kremlin as the seat of government and make the ancient fortress a symbol of Russian history. Departments move to scattered Moscow villas while plans discuss Lenin and Stalin tomb relocation and making the Kremlin a public museum.
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Kremlin
Moscow
Nikolai Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Red Square
Lenin Hills
Two Navy Planes Feared Lost On Training Flight
San Francisco rescue parties searched for two Navy AD-6 Skyraiders missing after a routine training flight from Moffett Field at 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The pilots were Lt Cmdr Hubert L. Worrell and Lt (J.G.) Roger W. Tillson Jr., both listed as missing while authorities comb the area between the San Francisco Bay region and Fallon, Nevada.
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San Francisco
Navy
San Francisco Bay Area
Fallon
Nev
Moffett Field
Here
Cmdr
Hubert L. Worrell
Sunnyvale
Calif
Hutchinson
Kan
J.G
Roger W. Tillson Jr
Mountain View
Middleboro
Area Highway Work Slated in Southwestern Oklahoma
State Highway Commission invites bids for nearly 1 million dollars of road work in Tillman Jefferson Cotton counties and a Comanche county project near Cache. Project scope includes 3.96 miles of improved surface on a county highway from U S 62 south of Cache plus bridge reconstruction and paving costs totaling hundreds of thousands, with cost sharing by county and federal government. Bid deadline is 1 30 p m September 14 and contracts may be awarded later the same afternoon.
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State Highway Commission
Oklahoma
Comanche County
Cache
Pete Wynn
Lary
U.S. 62
Military and Wildlife Reservations
Tillman
Jefferson
Cotton Counties
Jefferson Counties
Davidson
Grandfield
Wau
Tillman County
Ark Border
Texas Line
Taylor
Cotton County
County seeks surplus relief food for needy families
County commissioners set up a county wide surplus relief food program with Emil Woesner to administer. Applications will be sent to Oklahoma City for certification forms and first month shipments. Lawton will host the distribution at 201 E D Ave via OK Transfer and Storage Co. trucks.
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Oklahoma City
Emil Woesner
Central District
State Emergency Relief.Board
OK Transfer and Storage Co
E. D Ave
Lawton
Woesner
German plot to lure West officials to East exposed
Bonn reports that Dr Otto John allegedly masterminds a Communist plan to attract prominent West German officials to the East and undermine Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's pro Western government. Intelligence officials say more agents will follow John and Karl to behind the Iron Curtain.
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Bonn
Germany
Otto John
Westand
Konrad Adenauer
John
Karleee
Irons
Dr Hamm Re-Elected Staff Chief At Memorial Hospital
Dr Leslie T Hamm was re-elected chief of staff for 1954 55 at Memorial Hospital. He guided staff for the Joint Commission survey with provisional accreditation achieved. The administration named officers James H Bushart Royce B Means J N Mitchell Ches ley Martin and Carl J Schow Jr to the medical staff and departments.
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Dr. Hamm
Memorial Hospital
Leslie T. Hamm
Hamm
Joint Commission On Accreditation of
Memorial
James H. Bushart
Royce B. Means
J. N. Mitchell
Chesley Martin
Elgin
Carl] E. Schow Jr
Joe Pasden
Actu
Ar’ Raybill
First Cotton Bale of 1954 in Comanche County Ginned
W E Vice of Cache Creek bottom land near Porter Hill harvested the county’s first 492 pound lint bale from about 10 acres of cotton on a 160 acre farm. Lawton businessmen plan a premium of 75 dollars for the bale, which could have brought 156 dollars in storage loans. Officials estimate statewide 2 000 bales this year from 20 438 acreage. last year about 5 100 bales were produced.
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W. E. Vice
Porter Hill
Comanche County
Vice
Cache Creek
Pannell
Lawton
Ala Jacobi
Stone
Parnell
Three Climbers Trapped On Ledge Near Crestone Needles
Westcliffe authorities report three climbers marooned on a 12,000‑foot ledge on the Crestone Needles in the Sangre de Cristo range. One climber, believed to have a leg injury, is part of a Denver‑Lawrence, Kansas group that began the ascent from Denver on Monday. Local rescue units led by Camp Carson began the up‑slopes at daybreak with an 11‑man mountain rescue team.
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Westcliffe
Colo
Crestone Needles Peak
Camp Carson
Robert Kulstad
Rip Collins
Lawrence
Kas
Tony Mueller
Denver
Caen
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Collins
Cleve McCarty
eRodney McWhinney
Richard Wink
Dallas
Tex
McCarty
McWhinney
Crestone Needles
Wink
Lofty Peak
Whitney
Gilbert J. Mueller
Argo Oil Corp
Yale University
Woodrow L. Christensen
Whitefish
Mont
U S Realigning Pacific Forces Amid Global Tensions
U S officials say a sweeping realignment of Pacific forces is under way to maximize mobility. Troops and planes are pulled from Korea and redeployed to key Pacific islands or the mainland while the Pacific Fleet remains ready due to China’s threats to Formosa. The plan aims for rapid redeployment if a big new fight erupts, without lowering Far East vigilance. In Paris, French leaders press for a delay on the European Defense Community treaty as cabinet unity and possible compromises surface amid political turmoil.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Eisenhower
U. S
Korea
Far East
Paris
National Assembly
Pierre Mendes- France
Mendes-France
Elysee Palace
EDC
Rene Coty
Assembly of the French Union
France
Foreign Office
Poland
Germany
Russia
New York
New York Times
the Herald Tribune
Dispatches
French National Assembly
Britain
Erick Bandits Plead Guilty In Oklahoma Bank Robbery
Three men implicated in the July 29 Farmers National Bank heist in Erick Oklahoma pled guilty in federal court. Sentencing set for September 7 at 10 a.m. Defendants Bobby Joe Rine James Darrell Holland and James Earl Spangler faced a bank robbery charge after surrendering in Borger Texas. Authorities noted a psychiatric exam for Holland may affect sentencing.
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Oklahoma City
Farmers National Bank
Erick
Okla
Edgar S. Vaught
Bobby Joe Rine
Borger
Tex
James Darrell Holland
James Earl Spangler
Tulsa
Texas Panhandle
J Vaught
Holland
Coyne Campbell
Laynie Harrod
Holland and Spangler
Wind Storm Hits Ponca City Area Causes Floods
A wind storm with gusts up to 75 mph struck Ponca City, delivering about one inch of rain and triggering a period of flooding and property damage. Nearby Henryetta saw Thursday winds and its first rain in two months, Okmulgee reported 0.1 inch, while Lawton forecast hot, fair weather near 100 degrees for five days.
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Lawton
Ponca City
Henryetta
Okmulgee
Mercury
Oklahoma
Chiang Reinforces Red Attacked Isle
Nationalist China dispatches more troops ships and aircraft to Quemoy Kinmen amid a Red raid on the island off the China coast. Beijing reports doubled air patrols and naval moves as defenders fortify beaches and hills with pillboxes and artillery.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Quemoy
Kinmen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Amoy
Chiang
Malta Censors Rule Marilyn Monroe Photos Decent
In Valletta on August 17 a government censor staff burned a pile of Marilyn Monroe pictures torn from an Italian magazine. The action reflects strict controls on imported periodicals. The censor verdict on the Monroe photos was they are in decent standing.
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Valletta
Malta
Marilyn Monroe
Poca
Miss Monroe
Two Aircraft Lost In Plains
Denver dispatch reports the 44th Air Rescue Squadron scrambled two Grumman Albatros amphibians to search the Great Plains for a missing F-86D Sabrejet interceptor that departed Sioux City Thursday night. A civilian pilot, Stinson N-918-D, did not arrive at Amarillo as scheduled, and no trace of the plane or fuel status was confirmed amid thunderstorms.
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Denver
44Th Air Rescue
Air Force
Great Plains
Amarillo
Grumman
Sioux City
Iowa
Air
J. M. Addison
Stinson
Most Wanted Man of Canada Nabbed
A man described as one of Canada s most wanted fugitives was arrested minutes after leaving court where he had paid a fine for drunkenness. Police Captain August Terragno said the man gave the name Raymond Martin, 35, but Canadian authorities say Henderson had been on the Royal Mounted wanted list for five years following a 1949 murder of his common law wife in Calgary, Alberta.
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San Francisco
Canada
August Terragno
Raymond Martin
Calgary
Alberta
Terragno
Henderson
Royal Mounted
Labor battle turns deadly at Memphis fairgrounds
At the Memphis fairgrounds yesterday a gunfight between non union and union men left two AFL workers near death and three others wounded. About 30 men fought. no charges have yet been filed per homicide inspector Wiebenga. Seventeen AFL members were among those involved, with nineteen union men and eleven non union workers present.
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Memphis
Tenn
AFL
Pete Wiebenga
AFL International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers
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Communist Party
Nikita S. Khruschev
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John Lurina
East
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Paul Reynaud
Rene Mayer
Erick Bandits
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Aught
Texas
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Rine
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