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Lawton Constitution

Location

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1956

Page

3

Washington Pension Union Held Communist Front Says Cain

Former Sen. Harry P. Cain ruled the Washington state pension union is a Communist front, saying it is managed by Communist Party leaders and parroted Moscow lines. He urged the SACB to classify it as manipulated by Moscow and require registration with the attorney general.

Robert F. Coll United Press Washington Harry P. Cain Subversive Activities Control Board Herbert Brownell Jr Senate Cain Pension Union Brownell SACB Sherman Adams Seattle Pension Communist Parte Communist Party Moscow Union Kremlin U.S

Demos Clutch Ic In Name Blast GOP

The Democratic Party accused the GOP of trying to drop the letter i from Democratic and criticized Republican officials led by L Richard Gaylay. A Democratic memo claimed a secret poll backed them and accused campaign strategists like Robert Montgomery Murray Chotiner and Leonard W Hall of orchestrating the move as part of a broad advertising effort.

Washington UPI Democratic Party GOP Democratic National Committee Peither United Press L. Richard Gaylay GOP National Committee Democrat Party Robert Montgomery Murray Chotiner Leonard W. Hall Whoa Joe Smith Montgomery Eisenhower Chotiner

Reform School Inmate Throws Acid On Sleeping Youth

A 14 year old reform school inmate admitted in court that he threw sulphuric acid over a sleeping 16 year old schoolmate after an argument about food. He took the acid from a fire extinguisher following newspaper accounts of a similar case. The victim was hospitalized with severe facial neck and chest burns.

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Killer On Brother's Wife Executed At Sing Sing

Ossining N Y A prayer on his lips 27 year old Joseph L Reade died in Sing Sing prison electric chair for the rape slaying of his brother s wife and the strangling of her infant daughter Reade was convicted of killing Mrs Beverly Reade 26 in a Jamestown apartment July 11 1955 His brother Francis 24 found the wife and child dead upon returning from a night shift The former taxi driver entered the death chamber at 1104 p m accompanied by Rev Luther K Hannum the Protestant chaplain His lips moved in prayer as he was strapped into the chair Three minutes later he was pronounced dead Reade s wife Carol and his mother Mrs Theodora Kline of Jamestown refused his pleas to visit him.

Ossining N.Y Joseph ‘L. Reade Sing Sing Reade Beverly Reade Jamestown Francis Luther K. Hannum Carol Theodora Kline

Memphis Blues Home Torn Down on Beale Street

MEMPHIS Tenn UP Pree Weis Saloon once famed hangout on Beale Street where William C Handy wrote Memphis Blues and Beale Street Blues is being torn down to clear the site for a modern shop. The saloon closed during Prohibition and never reopened.

Memphis, Tenn Pree Wee Beale Street Wiliam C. Handy Handy St. Louis Lorenzo Pacini Fee Wee

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