Douglas Chandor Dies Noted Portrait Artist in Texas
Weatherford Texas January 14 1946 Douglas Chandor a 55 year old artist who painted portraits of many notable figures died Tuesday night at his English style estate White Shadows He returned to Texas last October from England and had painted Queen Elizabeth II and President Roosevelt among others He suffered pneumonia while painting Queen Elizabeth last autumn and later had a cerebral hemorrhage Services are planned for 2 pm Thursday burial in Weatherford cemetery Chandor a naturalized American native of England moved to Weatherford in 1934 with his Weatherford born wife Ina Kateman Hill
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Weatherford
Tex
Douglas Chandor
Prince of Wales
Duke of Windsor
Marie
Romania
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Mellon
Stanley Baldwin
Winston Churchill
Gen
Eisenhower
New York
Winthrop Aldrich
Great Briain
Queen Elizabeth
Chandor
Eleanor Roosevelt
England
United States
Ina Kateman Hill
Chicago Grain Market Range Report
Chicago markets show grain price activity with open high low and close levels. The brief notes fluctuating ranges reflect unsettled trading as buyers and sellers assess supply and demand signals.
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Chicago
Whitaker state home to build $50,000 pool at Pryor
Work will begin this week on a proposed pool costing 50000 at the Whitaker state home for orphans. It is the final phase of a 1.8 million building and renovation project started two years ago.
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Pryor
Okla
Whitaker State Home For Orphans
Concertino nine piece ensemble stars in winter concert
Lawton high school senior band under James Matthews features The Concertino, a nine piece group, with Handel Royal Fireworks Music and a varied program. Performers include Gale Easton and Joe Woods on clarinets, Adele Skrolle flute, Horns by Eddie Laudenback and Marvin Inman, Colleen Poindexter oboe, Homer Mitchum bassoon, Glenn Webb first clarinet, John Waller sax, and more. The concert precedes the Jan 22 senior high program.
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Lawton High
Gail Easton
Tim Guzzle
John Waller
Joe Woods
Glenn Webb
Edward Laudenback
Marvin Inman
Adele Skrolle
Colleen Poindexter
Lawton High School
James Matthews
Gale Easton
Eddie Laudenback
Linda Suggs
Homer Mitchum
Sousa
Phantom Regiment
Leroy Anderson
Philip J. Laing
Night Beat
Walters
Probers To Check Rhodes Scholars In U S News
Washington House investigators say they will review Rhodes scholars chosen yearly for study in England. Rep. Velde says there are indications Communists may have influenced past Rhodes appointments. Close hearings in Chicago last summer revealed English Communists sought Rhodes scholars during tours in England.
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Washington
House
England
Rep. Velde
R-Ill
House Un-American Activities Committee
Velde
Chicago
Cecil Rhodes
Oxford
Cambridge
Russians Urge Punishment For Victims Of Capitalist
Izvestia accuses Voronezh district local government workers of allowing a capitalist intermediary to supply coal at four times the state price. The intermediary allegedly kept the excess, while the county council received coal. The article calls for punishment of the officials involved.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Voronezh
Transit Strike Grips Philadelphia Citywide
Philadelphia faced a citywide transit strike that halted all buses trolleys elevated and subways. Tens of thousands were late or unable to reach work as CIO Transport Workers Union members walked off after rejecting a proposed contract. Private fleets and car pools mobilized to ferry workers to essential sites including U S Navy installations.
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U. S. Navy
New Directories Offered At Lawton Schools
Lawton junior and senior high directories are on sale for 25 cents each. The DE club published this annual booklet since 1949 with complete listings of faculty and students including addresses and telephone numbers. Major work by advanced DE class members Dianne Tomas Jerry Sunday Jim Herring Bill Burch Karl Lieppe Johnny Newman Max Dalton Bob Kenningham and Bill Brewer. Proceeds fund the DE club trip to the state convention in March. Milton Worley is club sponsor.
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Lawton
Distributive Education Club
Dianne Tomas
Jerry Sunday
Jim Herring
Bill Burch
Karl Lieppe
Johnny Newman
Max Dalton
Bob Kenningham
Bill Brewer
Milton Worley
Dentist's Quest To Return Money Finally Rewarded
Cushing Oklahoma dentist Dr. Tom F. Harrison announced he found a purse containing $1,040 in New Mexico. The identification slip named Mrs. Vione Kuhnemund of Fairview Oklahoma. A newspaper man traced the case to a Kuhnemund niece who said the aunt now lives in Albuquerque.
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Cushing
Okla
Tom F. Harrison
New Mexico
Vione Kuhnemund
Fairview
Harrison
Enid
Zane Miles
Five Soldiers Convicted of Mutiny at Camp Gordon
An Army court martial at Camp Gordon has convicted five soldiers of mutiny and acquitted a sixth in a case arising from a rebellion at the Army disciplinary barracks. Sentencing, including possible death, is being prepared after closed-session evidence. Among the convicted is Fred R. Mendiola of San Antonio Texas.
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Augusta
Army
Camp Gordon
Fred R
News Vendor Purchases 1953 Cadillac After Decades Spared
North Chicago resident John S. Motley, 73, finally buys a 1953 Cadillac with a $5,487.41 check after saving since 1930. The longtime newspaper vendor had watched cars speed by his corner and decided to upgrade to first class.
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Chicago
Ill
John S. Motley
Motley
State Doctor Call Likely To Be Low In March Draft
Oklahoma's Selective Service Director Clive Murray said the March draft quota for doctors is likely low. The Defense Department seeks 471 physicians and 258 dentists nationwide. Murray had no Oklahoma breakdown but said March figures resemble February when the state quota was seven doctors and three dentists.
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Oklahoma City
Selective Service
Clive Murray
Oklahoma
Defense Department
Murray
B-36 Force Up Finletter Says
Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter stated the B 36 bomber force is stronger than ever after a September tornado damaged one plane and seriously harmed 71 others at Carswell Air Base Texas. He noted 35 additional B 36s were damaged but some were repaired and added that the Strategic Air Command remained operational with more aircraft a month after the storm.
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Washington
Thomas K. Finletter
Finletter
Strategic Air Command
Church Meeting Series Led by Rex at First Pentecostal Church
Rev Robert L Rex national director of the pulpit of the Air will lead a meeting series at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church 15th and D starting tonight through Sunday services begin 7 45 p m each evening with special music announced by pastor Rev G A Adkisson public invited to attend
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Robert L. Rex
Pulpit of
First Pentecostal Holiness Church
15Th and
G. A. Adkisson
Northwest Kiwanis Outlines Plans For 1953 Program
Jay Dee Fountain, newly elected president, outlined the Northwest Kiwanis club plans for 1953 at Tuesday’s luncheon. He announced committee appointments and discussed Kiwanis International objectives for the year, as previously listed in the Constitution Press.
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Jay Dee Fountain
Northwest Kiwanis Club
Constitution
Kiwanis International
Second Ax Victim Dies In Maryland
In Baltimore the 89-year old granddaughter of former Maryland governor Thomas King Carroll died yesterday, the second victim of an ax burglar who attacked her ancestral home eight days earlier. The murdered woman Miss Katherine Cradock had been a relative of Carroll and Mrs Jesse Stockton, 65, also died from injuries sustained in the raid. Housekeeper Mrs Pearl Harmon, 50, remained hospitalized.
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Maryland
Katherine Cradock
Thomas King Carroll
Jesse Stockton
Anti Jewish Trials May Be Key Stalin Seeking New Pact
Western diplomats in Vienna see a link between East European anti Jewish trials and purges and a possible Moscow Berlin axis. They argue Russia seeks Ruhr wealth via West Germany neutralization and a Berlin Moscow nonaggression pact, trading unification and lost territories for stability. Liquidation of opponents in Poland and East Germany is viewed as underway.
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Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Mexico
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Kremlin
Romania
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Andrei Vishinsky
United Nations
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Ruhr
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Japan borrows ten ships from U S to rebuild fleet
Japan borrowed ten ships from the United States as a starter toward rebuilding the fleet lost in World War II. Some ships had previously been loaned to Russia. The transfer followed a strong U S backed statement warning Russia that American backed forces would shoot down intruding aircraft over Japanese territory.
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Japan
United States
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