Greenberg Death Probe Launched in Chicago
Police launch a three pronged probe into the street corner murder of Alexander Louis Greenberg, a former Capone mob associate and brewing magnate, while examining if the ex convict John Coletta was killed in retaliation. Coletta’s body was found in a burned car near Barrington after Greenberg’s shooting near a restaurant. A $5,000 reward is offered for information leading to arrests.
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Chicago
Alexander
Louie) Greenberg
Underworld
Capone
Greenberg
John Coletta
Coletta
Barrington
Lawton Hi Y Club Attends Pre Legislature Session
Thirty five Lawton and Douglass high students joined more than 100 state Hi Y members at the University of Oklahoma for pre legislature sessions. Warren Smith and Mrs Holsinger accompanied the group to Norman.
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Latin Club Association
Kouri
LHS
Thespian Society
Baptist Training Union
First Baptist Church
National Forensic League
Julia Fullerton
Sam Hamra
Val Frakes Jr
George Kouri
Don
Oklahoma Baptist University
Lawton
Douglass High School
University of Oklahoma
Warren Smith
YMCA
W. W. Holsinger
Norman
Fairris case draws officials with strong Texas ties
Special invitations went to Capt Wayne Harbolt of the Oklahoma City police department Oklahoma County Atty Granville Scanland and attorney Dave Tant. Harbolt Tant plan to attend while Scanland may attend or send an assistant. Authorities challenge Price confession as an attempt to exonerate Fairris. Fairris is the youngest in a Texas crime family. his mother killed two husbands and is imprisoned his father faces burglary charges in Paris Texas and his uncle Raymond Hamilton was executed years ago as a noted southwest outlaw.
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Wayne Harbolt
Oklahoma City Police Department
Oklahoma County
Granville Scanland
Dave Tant
Fairris
Harbolt
Tant
Scanland
Price
Texas
Paris
Raymond Hamilton
Southwest
Mount Lassen Active From 1914 To 1917
Mount Lassen, a 10 543 foot volcanic peak in northeastern California, showed activity from May 1914 through June 1917 across the Lassen Volcanic National Park area, marking a notable period of eruptive episodes.
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California
General Bird's Academy to Gyroscope Era at Fort Sill
General Bird, a Oklahoma native, trained at Oklahoma A&M and the University of Oklahoma before West Point class of 1925. He rose through Fort Sam Houston and Fort Sill posts, taught at The Artillery School, commanded 5th Field Artillery Group, served with Sixth Army in the Southwest Pacific, then as assistant deputy chief of staff for plans with the Seventh Army in Stuttgart, and led 1st Division Artillery during the Gyroscope move.
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Bird
Fort Sill
5Th Field Artillery Group
Seventh Army
Stuttgart
Germany
Indians To Select Tribal Councilman At Fort Sill School
Comanche Indian tribe members will elect a tribal councilman on December 17 in a 1 p.m. meeting at Fort Sill Indian School to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Paul Attocknie of Vinita.
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Fort Sill
Paul Attocknie
Vinita
President to Return to Gettysburg After Talks With Leaders
A public bulletin reports the President will head to Gettysburg Tuesday after conferences with congressional leaders. Snyder says if in the President’s position he could not judge run again for two months while noting the daytime schedule will be quiet from noon to 2 30 pm for lunch and rest. The President has felt well and looked well sleeps and rests well and relaxes easily with only occasional mild sedation since leaving the Denver Navy hospital.
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Gettysburg
Snyder
Denver
Navy
Arms Race Drives Medium Range Rockets Development
The article notes joint Army Navy work on medium range missiles with about 1,000 mile reach, including Redstone rocket development at 300 to 500 miles. Long range rockets may extend to 5,000 miles. Capable of carrying hydrogen or standard atomic warheads, their speeds exceed sound and high stratospheric flight hinders interception with existing systems.
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Army
Navy
County School Superintendent Scott Heads Comanche Education
Comanche county education chief is L. C. Scott, who oversees 10 one room country schools with about 230 pupils, nine additional county schools totaling roughly 2,598 enrollments, and a county film library valued at about 8,000 dollars. He is assisted by Mrs. Helen Burns and noted for administrative duties, teacher supervision, and public service.
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Fairview
Beaver Bend
Scott
Ash Grove
Messing
Roseland
Flower Mound
Bishop
Hillside
Stony Point
Cache
Indiahoma
Sterling
Geronimo
Fletcher
Elgin
Faxon
Chattanooga
Medicine Park
Central State Teachers College
Edmond
Oklahoma City University
Burns
Frances King Barker
Hobbs
N. M
State Department of Education
Oklahoma
State Board of Education
State Department
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Comanche County
Debating honors and beauty contest figure in local tragedy
COED honors in debate and a local Masonic beauty contest were noted as police hunted a campus killer. Snowbound search used a mine sweeper to recover shell casings near Elmwood Park while a light colored convertible fled the scene at 1 20 a m. Investigators questioned acquaintances as a preliminary autopsy found three .32 caliber bullets in the victim, with no rape.
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Elmwood Park
Green
Carolyn
Budget balance prompts tax cut speculation in Congress
George predicts a swift House move toward tax cuts with Rayburn's approval. He notes Senate delay due to hearings and floor action, seeing the delay as a chance to gather more data on whether the budget will balance.
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George
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Senate
Local Messiah concert features Cameron performers and guest soloists
The Messiah performance features Miss Haley as accompanist with Cameron faculty, plus Mrs. Brammer and James E. Carter among lead soloists. Choir includes sopranos altos tenors and basses from area churches and schools. Handel's oratorio, an opera without sets, is presented free to the public this afternoon.
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Brammer
Lawton
Cameron College
Schubert Music Club
Oklahoma Music Teacher’s National Association
First Baptist Church
the Messiah
James E. Carter
Kent Scherler
Bill Holley
Melvin Keeney
Priscilla Brandon
Sheridan Ann Brandon
Daisy R. Chance
Carl Chappell
Sandy Ciley
John P. Clark
Eleanor W. Clough
Peggy Currey
Ina Lou Fees
William Forsyth
Pat Grey
Sally Haggerton
E. H. Hanes
James T. Harris Jr
Diane Hart
Arthur QO. Holliday
Pat Horton
Charlotte Hubble
Margaret Lehman
Julie Means
Kay Lu Pierce
Joanne Shackelford
Chesley K. Seely
Kathy Simpson
Adele Skrolle
Sylvia Sparks
Elaine Stark
Chlorica Stephens
Nancathryn Waller
Robert S. Ward
Barbara Wilkerson
Sarah Wright
Altos
P. G. Brown
Martha Bufford
Linda Cooter
Roberta DeWolf
Nona Edwards
Helen Ellsworth
George Glasby
D. R. Grimes
Frederica Hammond
Beverly Johnson
Janet Moody
Rubena Nelson
Sundy Mae Priest
O. L. Parsons
Kay Reader
Maureen Gears
Jo Sessions
Leta Mae Smith
Betse Stowe
Suzy Stowe
Gordon Wayne
Kristin Webb
Toye
Yoder
Maurice Carson
Colin D. Ciley Jr
Kenneth Myers
Emmett C. Reese
Vincent Spotted Bird
Forest B. Tilson
Curtis B. Whittington
Basses
Merle J. Brandon
Everard Carter
David Craig
Fred Hunter
Joseph M. Lank
Phil Lehman
Frank Lewis
Bailey Magruder
Ben Mills
Whit Ozier
Paul B. Parham
Robert S. Robinson
James A. Rominle
Charles Wickwire
Wendell Woods
Calvin O. Woodall
Jim Yoder
Handel
Traffic toll rises as icy crashes claim many lives
A succession of wrecks on icy roads left several people dead and many injured. Names include Foster, Conner, Mrs Paramore, Ray Woodrome, Miss Casey, Eddie Ronald Simmons, Garroutte, Thomas, and a Hensley girl. The 1955 toll ends at eight more deaths than 1954, with Patrol urging cautious driving statewide.
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Highway Patrol
U.S. 62
Newcastle
Paramore
Norman
Ralph Fromme
Ray Woodrome
Duncan
Casey
Tulsa
Minco Creek
Pine Street
Bob Phillips
Bullard
Miss. Crockett
Verdigris River Bridge
S.H. 20
Claremore
Eddie Ronald Simmons
Roy Lee Cypert
Garroutte
Tahlequah
Thomas
Ada
Hensley
Maysville
Bessie May Hensley
Patrol
Tulsa Bus Strike Erupts Amid Christmas Shopping Rush
Tulsa Oklahoma December 10 bus strike disrupted the city of 220000 as Tulsa City Lines drivers mechanics and city officials failed to agree on a contract. A public hearing on a fare increase was set for Tuesday morning to finance concessions demanded by the union.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa City Lines
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