Urgent FBI Kidnap Case Reveals Intensive Rescue Effort
The article recounts the 1953 Urschel kidnapping case with FBI agents moving quickly from Oklahoma City to ensure the oil man's safe return. It details ransom notes, surveillance, and the family’s role in decisions about payment, along with Dor Whitehead’s forthcoming book reveal and serialization in The Lawton Constitution.
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Ben Whitehead
Fbus
Ranson
J. Edgar Hoover
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma Ci
Walter BR. Jarrett
Oklahoma City
FBI
Sol
Jarrett
Urschel
Niter
Dor Whitehead
Random House
Lawton Constitution
Bandits Shot in Bank Raid Trigger Massive Hunt
In Campton Kentucky a bank raid triggered a four hour gun battle. Night watchman D B Stone, 22, wounded one bandit and an alert Wolfe County sheriff plus five volunteers forced three or more suspects to flee. Sheriff Lit le and two Fayette County officers were wounded. State police search wooded areas and residences for trail of the attackers.
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Campton
FBI
D. B. Stone
Wolfe County
Farmers and Traders Bank
George D. LitHe
Lexington
Fayette County
Kentucky
Airliner Crashes Near Tulsa Killing One Passenger
A two engine Convair crashed about six miles north of Tulsa Municipal Airport in drizzle and poor visibility, fatally injuring a woman passenger Mrs. Neil Tobier. Co pilot Paul Johnson walked to a farmhouse for help. pilot Wesley G. Mims survived. Six other passengers and three crew members were hospitalized with injuries.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa Municipal Airport
American Airlines
Neil Tobier
Paul Johnson
Providence
R. T
Wesley G. Mims
H. B. Schillcutt
Springfield
Jerry Souter
Syracuse
N.Y
Nona Warren
Carterville
Leeanna Swadiey
Miami
Port van Smithen
Home Savings Boosts Dividend Rate To 342 Percent
Home Savings and Loan association, which set records in 1956, announced a dividend rate increase from three to three and one half percent for savings accounts effective Jan 1. Ray Babbitt, president, said the raise reflects dollar value and aims to draw more savings and lending capital. The boost will add about $30,000 yearly to dividends. The 33 year old firm reported savings up $681,167 to $6,218,268 and record savings holders and families served. Net savings rose 9.18 percent. holders reached 4,072. total dividends paid to savers were $172,079, up 9.29 percent.
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Home Savings and Loan Association
Todey
Ray Babbitt
Babbitt
Association
Bee
Foxe 2 Col
Exiled Egyptian Jews Tell Story Of Terrorism
Jewish refugees arriving from Alexandria recount terror and forced exodus in Egypt. An Egyptian officer defends the treatment as voluntary departures. Many stateless Jews fear losing citizenship while a minority with other passports plans to stay. Families note generations long in Egypt and cite difficulty obtaining citizenship.
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Italy
Egypt
Misr
Alexandria
France
England
Cairo
Ian
State Liability Rates Top Area
Oklahoma City faces the highest motorist liability costs in the Great Plains region per a study by Mi State Insurance Commissioner Joe E. Hunt. He cites Oklahoma City as third highest among 10 area cities and criticizes a 22.9 percent rate increase approved by the Insurance Board, effective December 20. Hunt questions why Oklahoma rates are higher than neighboring states and notes some motorists cross into Kansas for policies. He did not discuss factors driving the higher rates.
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Oklahoma City
Joe E. Hunt
Oklahoma
Great Plains
Hunt
Insurance Board
Kansas
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
Colorado
Nebraska
New Mexico
Night Club Bandits Steal 35000 At Miami Beach Spot
Two hooded gunmen robbed the Cotton Club in Miami Beach taking 35000 in cash. They bound the owner George Weinger and manager Jerry Hirsch with Venetian blind cards. The pair untied themselves a few minutes later and notified police.
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Miami Beach
Fla
George Weinger
Jerry Hirsch
Fog To Return Early Tuesday In Oklahoma
A dense fog blanketed southwestern Oklahoma this morning, reducing visibility to under 100 feet in Lawton and delaying traffic and flights. The sun began burning off the fog later, yielding partly cloudy skies and upper 50s temperatures, with a forecast of more fog Tuesday morning and a chance of showers Wednesday night or Thursday as colder air moves in.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
Red Hungary Dashes Hopes For Freedom
Budapest reports that Soviet tanks reappeared before key buildings as Janos Kadar proclaimed a dictatorship of the proletariat. The 10,000 word declaration warned satellites to accept their fate, accused Imre Nagy of treason, and promised Soviet aid while pledging to restore Hungary’s war losses.
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Budapest
Hungary
Angee
Janos Kadar
Kadar
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Bulgarian
Romania
Albania
East Germany
Nikita S. Krushchev
Georgi Malenkov
Secret Police
Ayvait
Nagy
Imgre Nagy
Minjor
Soviet Union
Oklahoma suspects held in Mississippi bank robbery case
Six Oklahoma men and a woman, including Gene Paul Norris, remained jailed in Mississippi on $10,000 bonds each, though state officers said they are no longer suspects in the Pauls Valley First National Bank robbery. Bonds cover possession of guns and burglary tools found in cars. Norris and wife face $2,000 bonds on narcotics fraud charges. Lyles and Ernest Leroy Cowan are free on $2,000 bonds on second‑degree burglary.
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Gene Paul Norris
Texas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
First National Bank
Pauls Valley
Norris
Louise
Billy Joe Pearce
Lawton
Edward Lyles
Lucille Harris
Pearce
Gulfport
Miss
Harris
Lyles
Jackson
Pauly Valley Bank
State Crime Bureau
Reba Ward
Helen Powers
Ernest Leroy Cowan
Oklahoma City
Polio Death Recorded For Fort Sill Woman
Polio death of 21 year old Mrs Marjorie Ruth Crowningshield wife of Sp Joseph A Crowningshield 915 A of Fort Sill occurred in the Fort Sill hospital from acute anterior polio bulbar spinal type She fell ill about a week ago entered hospital Thursday and died Saturday afternoon A child was born dead earlier in Comanche county the first polio death in more than a year and first bulbar case seen locally, according to the public information office.
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Fort Sill
Marjorie Ruth Crowningshield
Joseph A. Crowningshield
Fort Sill Hospital
Public Information Office
Charles Miller
Crowningshield
Comanche County
City Opens Hearts After Heart Girl Fund Drive
A 3 year old girl handed a piggy bank with 642 pennies to a Lawton mother Sunday. A boy with muscular dystrophy called to donate funds raised for Barbara Moore who must undergo Mayo Clinic heart surgery. About 132 dollars had been received by mid-morning as community response grows.
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A. Lite
Lawton
Barbara Moore
Lawton Constitution Press
Barbara
Dennis Moore
Taft
Mayo's Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Walter Oswalt
Marie McDonald details 80 000 ransom and kidnapping
Marie McDonald described two swarthy men who abducted her and demanded an 80 000 ransom from four named individuals including actor Michael Wilding and Marie Tuboni. She testified from her bedroom, detailing calls, threats to her children, and that whisky and pills were given during the ordeal.
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Encino
Calif
Marie McDonald
Michael Wilding
Elizabeth Taylor
Aelel Weens
Harry Kati
Miss McDonald
Marie Tuboni
Harold Plant
Wilding
Flant
Karl
Carroll
Norman
McMonald Fage
Woman Dies After Wreck In Gore Boulevard Crash
A Lawton woman Rosa Angeline Ferrell, 26, died at Memorial hospital after a car driven by her son Kenneth Ray Cambron, 19, crashed into a utility pole on Gore Boulevard. Cambron was arrested for reckless driving and posted bond.
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Lawton
Ninth Yarns Gore
Rosa Angeline Ferrell
Memorial Hospital
Comanche County
Kenneth Ray Cambron
Melvin Kelley
Billy Ward
Cambron
Gore
Gore Blvd
Parkway
Bond Camkron
Henry A. Gariels
John McCaig
Aid Only Plan For Stopping Subversion
Secretary Dulles told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States would not invade any Middle East country to overthrow a government, regardless of how it came to power. He said a U.S. guarantee against overt aggression plus economic aid would meet the threat of Communist subversion, and that armed defense would be used if attacked, under the U.N. Charter. The plan aims to head off subversion by helping regional states stand on their own feet, while noting it could heighten tensions with the Soviet Union.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
Middle East
U.S
Congress
Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bolton
R-Ohio
Zablocki
D-Wis
Dukes
U.N
U.N. Security Council
Cole
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E. E. Kirkpatrick
Daily Oklahoman
Wirkpatrick
Kansas City
Kirkpatrick
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