Five Blows Of Cleaver Kill Wife
Gainesville Texas police arrested W T Brown in Dallas for the murder of his wife Billie Allen Brown a 22 year old nurse aid found in their garage apartment with five cleaver wounds to the head. The body was discovered at 7 30 am by her uncle after a Dallas call. Brown worked at a Santa Fe railroad roundhouse and was said to have blood on his trousers. The couple had a child who died days after birth. Justice of the Peace Carl Burchong ruled murder.
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Gainesville
Tex
Dallas
Billie Allen Brown
W. T
Pete) Brown
Santa Fe Railroad
Sheriff's Department
Brown
Bill Decker
Decker
Texas
Lewis Rickler
Archie Nichols
Roundhouse
Gainesville Sanitarium
Clodfelter
U. S. Public Health Service
Fort Worth
O. R. Welch
Justice of the Peace
Carl Burchong
Murer
Leager Admits Owning Whisky
Wayne Hair a 38 year old Lawton bootlegger admitted to County Attorney Manville Redman that he owned over 1,000 bottles of liquor seized Saturday from a farm five miles east of Lawton. Hair pleaded innocent at arraignment on illegal possession of liquor. The raid netted 1,092 bottles and Mrs. Bob Latham, in charge of the farm, was arrested.
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Wayne Hair
Lawton
Hair
Washington
Manville Redman
Redman
Sheriff's Department
Bob Latham
Latham
Desert ordeal ends as pilot walks free
Phoenix student pilot John De Castro, 19, spent five days in the desert after running out of fuel on a cross country flight to Tucson. He survived without food or water by digging for moisture and using a fuel trick to restart his engine. He arrived home unharmed, carrying his relieved sister and niece and nephew.
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Phoenix
Ariz
John de Castro
Tucson
Air Force
Aeronca
German Born GI Seeks Return Home as Gyroscope Sets Voyage
Private Zeke, of the 267th AFA Battalion, eyes Germany as his unit heads to Europe on Operation Gyroscope. Born near Berlin, he recalls a beachfront as a child and says America is now home despite longing for the land of his birth. He grew up in Chicago after his family lost a shop in the Berlin blitz and joined the Army six months after graduation.
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Pfc
Leo Duffy
Zeke
Siegfried
Michaelis
267Th Afa
Germany
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Berlin
267Th
America
Chicago
Europe
Windy City
Siegfried Michaelis
Fort Sill
Battallion
U.S. Army
Mystery meeting of utility rates probers angers Oklahoma lawmakers
In Oklahoma City angry House members confronted an uncalled Legislative Council meeting to probe utility rates. The session centered on Sen Everett Collins and a summons for L D Thomas of Consolidated Gas Utilities over a 1953 rate case. Ozman defended fair notice while demanding full committee inclusion.
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Angels Ozman
Oklahoma City
Legislative Council
Everett Collins
D-Sapulpa
Collins
Charles Ozman
Dlawton
Lawton
L. D. Thomas
Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp
Corporation Commission
Thomas
Commission
Consolidated
Ozman
Saar Votes Back Bid For Union With Germany
Saar voters backed a return to Germany with 63.9 percent for three pro German parties in a 50 seat parliament. They fell short of the 75 percent needed to scrap autonomous status immediately. Caretaker Premier Welsch to form new government as constitutional changes loom.
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Rbruecken
Saar P
Saar Valley
West Germany
Christian Democrats
Democratic Party
German Socialist Party
Bonn Republic
Saar
Heinrich Welsch
Christian People’s Party
CVP
Johannes Hoffmann
Hoffmann
Germany
Assault Charges Follow Stabbings
County Attorney Manville Redman filed felony assault charges this morning against Willlie Bates and Katherine Wooten after separate knifings in the early hours of Saturday. Bates allegedly attacked his wife Frances King Bates, while Wooten faced multiple stabbing counts against Pvt. Jose Tafoya at Fort Sill. Police also logged two late Saturday knife incidents, with victims declining to press charges.
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Manville Redman
Willlie
Candy) Bates
Katherine Wooten
Lawton
Bates
Frances King Bates
Wooten
Jose Tafoya
Fort Sill
Boxer
George Williams
Gore
Bill Scroggins
Georgia
Mary Williams
Scroggins
Williams
Reception Slated For Sill Generals
More than 300 persons will honor Brig. Gen. John B. Horton and Brig. Gen. John F. Bird at a joint 7 p.m. Tuesday reception in Gaffey Hall Fort Sill. Horton retires Dec. 31 after 35 years of service. Bird arrived Dec. 10 after commanding 1st Division Artillery since March 1954. Music by the 7th Army Band.
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Fort Sill
Gaffey Hall
John B. Horton
John F. Bird
Gen
Horton
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
City National Bank Opens After Remodeling in Lawton
About 6,500 Lawtonians and Southwest Oklahomans attended the bank’s formal opening of its remodeled quarters. Over 200 flower arrangements adorned the building, with many later sent to city hospitals. George Whitten, senior vice president, noted the morning flower overflow. Open house ran 2 to 6 p.m. Six hundred orchids and roses were given to visitors. Balloons were distributed to children.
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City National Bank
George Whitten
Weather forecast for area with cold snap continues
Partly cloudy and cold this afternoon and tonight with a hard freeze. Highs near 35 today, 40s Tuesday. Lows around 15 to 20 tonight,今日 low 19. Morning reading 28. Sunday's high around 53.
Four Israelis Egyptian Die In Gaza Clash
Four Israeli and one Egyptian soldier killed in an hour long clash in the Gaza Strip reported by Egyptian military officials. Jordan imposes Bethlehem curfew as riots over Baghdad Pact flare. Clashes in Jerusalem injured Arabs and Turkish official. Christmas pilgrimages impacted.
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Gaza
Jerusalem
Egypt
Gaza Strip
Jordan
Bethlehem
Christ
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Syria
Holy Land
Christendom
Jordan - Administered
Palestine
Here
Hakki Kentli
Boy's Leg Snaps In Freak Accident At Oklahoma Street
Seven year old Jimmy Dale Duran of New York Street is treated for a fractured left leg after being pinned between a car bumper and a house at 1305 Oklahoma. The driver, John Lively, 44, said he accidentally pressed the starter, causing the car to jump. Two Fort Sill men hospitalized after a rollover on U S 62 near Meeker are Dallas Crabtree, 28, with a broken back, and Albert Spruce, 27, not seriously injured.
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Jimmy Dale Duran
Helen Duran
New York
Oklahoma
Memorial Hospital
University Hospital
Oklahoma City
James C. Blackburn
Duran
John Alexander Lively
Oklahoma Street
Lively
Blackburn
Fort Sill
Chandler
U. S. 62
Meeker
Dallas H. Crabtree
Albert Junior Spruce
Leon Jones
Roy McIntosh
Highway Patrol
Crabtree
Texas Youth Kills Girl With Shotgun
In Henrietta Texas an 18-year-old boy pointed a 12 gauge shotgun at a girl sitting beside him in a car and asked what would happen if he shot her head off. The gun apparently discharged by accident, striking 13 year old Doris Haggard in the head and killing her instantly. The boy Gene Crawford collapsed and was treated at a hospital and later released.
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Henrietta
Tex
Doris Haggard
Gene Crawford
North Korean Ex-Foreign Minister Sentenced to Death
Tass reports Pak Huen Yung once North Korea’s foreign minister was sentenced to death for conspiring to overthrow the Communist government under American orders. He allegedly contacted an American spy as early as 1919.
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London
Tass
Pak Huen Yung
North Korea
Winter Preview Frosts Europe Amid Severe Arctic Blast
London reports seven weather deaths across Britain and Scandinavia with eight ships trapped by ice in the Gulf of Bothnia. Britain endures frost and fog as traffic slows. Vienna smiles at unusual warmth while Berlin and Hamburg see city snow. Police and crews aid stranded vessels and emergency services, with major highways iced and airport fogbound.
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London
Europe
Helsinki
Scandinavia
Britain
Gulf of Bothnia
Sweden
Finland
Gulf of Finland
Lonon
Thames River
Vienna
France
Germany
Berlin
Hamburg
Arctic cold grips Minnesota as temperature hits 45 below
United Press reports a coast to coast cold wave with Arctic winds driving snow east from the Rockies. Bemidji and Big Falls reach 45 degrees below zero as 24 weekend deaths are tallied. West Coast gusts up to 63 mph trap residents and wreck structures, with roofs blown off and windows shattered.
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Pacific Coast
Rockies
Midwest
Plains States
Pennsylvania
Bemidji
Big Falls
Minn
West Coast
San Francisco
Cow Palace
Bay Areas
California
Siskiyou
Sierra Nevada
Linda Mar
Bay
Reds Promise Big Loan To Afghans
Premier Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev flew to Moscow leaving behind a promise of a 100 million dollar long term loan for Afghanistan. The loan targets agriculture and electric power and doubles the current 42 million dollar U S aid program in the landlocked kingdom along the southern border of Soviet Asia.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
U.S
Sovietsia
Defense orders curb scams against servicemen insurance
The Defense Department issued an immediate directive to shield soldiers from aggressive life insurance salesmen. Overseas bases must file annual accreditation and financial statements. U S companies must be licensed in states or territories and not run mass or captive sales in training camps or at embarkation ports.
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Washington
Defense Department
House
Armed Services
Rep. Hebert
D-La
United States
Chill Will Fade In City Tuesday
Oklahoma's weather will swing from cold to warm then cold again through the week as forecasters warn of a hard freeze tonight with a low between 15 and 20. Light snow lingered in the northwest while Gage and Guymon saw ongoing flurries, with Lawton forecast for a 35 high today and 40s tomorrow. Sunday's high reached 53.
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Oklahoma
Gage
Guymon
Lawton
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Sill Generals
Wire Services
Minnesota
United Press
Reds
Fraucis
Russia
Bulgaria
Mahmoud Daud
Nehru
U Nu
Daud
Chou En-lai
U.N
China
Lincoln
Neb
Air Force Base
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