Wet City Streets Trigger Seven Evening Crashes
Wet city streets from an afternoon drizzle spurred seven traffic accidents between 4:00 and 7:15 p.m. One person, Mrs. Everett M. Fielder, 35, was treated for minor injuries. Accidents occurred near 17th and Taft, Second and I, Gore, Hawkins Drive In, and around Bishop Road on US 277. Four drivers faced charges. no fatalities.
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Everett M. Fielder
Memorial Hospital
Taft
Arnie Lee Matlock
Smith
Second
Robert Henry Strachen
Denver
Gene Samuel Cox
Temple
17Th
Gore
Louis Leon Gibbs
Joe D. Lyon
Fort Sill
Acci
Calvin M. Warren
Bishop Road
Willie Hernasy
Indiahoma
Moore
Junior Hawkins
Murl Rhoads
James C. Blackburn
Lee Clark
John McCaig
Walter Asbery
State Gets Thanks For Teaching Allies Highway Building
Oklahoma officials welcomed a federal praise for training workers for allied nations. Since 1949 the Oklahoma Highway Department trained 34 students from the Philippines Iran Uruguay France Brazil French colonies in Africa Algiers Morocco Australia Belgian Congo Nigeria and French Cameroon. Two more trainees arrive January 30 for a six week course.
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C. D. Curtiss
C. A. Stoldt
United Nations
U. S. State Department
Oklahoma Department
Philippine Islands
Iran
Uruguay
France
Brazil
Africa
Algiers
Morocco
Australia
Belgian Congo
Nigeria
Cameron
Thailand
Cattlemen State Meeting for Feb. 3 Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association will hold its annual convention on February 3 in Oklahoma City to discuss the soil bank plan cattle theft control and a state beef council. Guest speaker at the convention dinner will be Alex Dreier. Board members and committees arrive February 2 to prepare recommendations.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association
Alex Dreier
Kidnapping and Assault Charged in 7 Year Old Attack
Phoenix reports outline plans to file a capital kidnapping for assault charge against Robert Vance Taylor 33 in a brutal attack on seven year old Carla Hixon. Initial charges include kidnaping aggravated assault and grand theft of a stolen car. The new charge carries the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Carla Hixon
Maricopa County
William P. Mahoney, Jr
Mahoney
Robert Vance Taylor
Mesa
Taylor
Auto Industry Idles 25 000 Workers
The auto industry has idled about 25 000 production workers in the past month to balance supply and demand. Plymouth division of Chrysler Corp laid off 10 350 workers, the largest single notice since industry trims began in mid-December, with 8 350 in Detroit and 2 000 at Evansville plants Indiana.
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Detroit
Plymouth Division
Chrysler Corp
Plymouth
Evansville
Ind
Lover Cleared In Slaying Of Husband
FLINT Mich Jan 21 The boyfriend of Mrs Betty Kehl William Thomas 25 was cleared of suspicion in the murder of her husband Robert 34 at a dump near the city limits Prosecutor Jerome O Rourke ordered Thomass release after a four hour meeting with detectives Kehl and Thomas were detained Earlier Mrs Kehl said a dark skinned stranger shot her husband she later named Thomas as the killer Kehl admitted an affair and lied about the shooting She is expecting a baby in six months and had asked a Flint gambler to beat up her husband but the gambler Joseph Cicalo declined the offer.
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Flint, Mich
Betty Kehl
Jerome O’rourke
William Thomas
O’rourke
Kehl
Flint
Joseph Cicalo
Last Union Veteran To Leave Hospital
Albert Woolson, last surviving Civil War Union Army member, will leave Duluth hospital next week after fatigue and lung congestion treatment. His daughter, Mrs John Kobus, said he is spry but there will be no celebration of his 109th birthday on February 11.
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Duluth
Minn
Albert Woolson
John Kobus
Kobus
Bomb threat at railroad station ends without finding device
A union railroad station ticket clerk reported a call warning of a planted bomb Saturday. Police conducted an immediate search but found nothing. Arthur McArthur said the caller talked briefly, then hung up before the clerk answered. The caller later stayed on the line and claimed a bomb, which the clerk dismissed as a joke.
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Oklahoma City
UPA Union Railroad
Arthur McArthur
Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports 1955 traffic arrests and warnings
Oklahoma City dispatch says Oklahoma Highway Patrol arrested 44 551 motorists for traffic violations in 1955. Convictions reached 35 947 about 85 percent. 16 percent pending. The force issued 107 337 courtesy warnings, aided 201 167 motorists, made 5 992 personal appearances to 416 535 people, and conducted 1 389 radio and television safety programs.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Jim Lookabaugh
Lookabaugh
French Kill 385 Rebels In Week In Algeria
French authorities reported that 385 rebels were killed, 44 wounded and 151 captured last week as operations against the Nationalist Army of Allah continued. In Kabylie and Aures, 457 firearms were seized. Calm returned to Tlemcen after rioting that damaged Jewish shops.
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Algiers
Algeria
Army of Allah
Kabylie
Aures
Tlemcen
Liberation Army
Constantine
Salah Tahar
Salah Abdel Kader
Morocco
British Jet Rams House In Oxford injuring pilot
A Royal Air Force jet crashed into a house in Oxford on Saturday, injuring the pilot seriously while four residents, an 18 month old boy and a four year old girl, escaped with minor injuries. The incident followed three crashes on Friday that killed six and injured 25.
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London
Royal Air Force
Oxford
Britain
Negro Singer Plans Summer Wedding With Chicago Girl
Sammy Davis Jr., the Negro singer and night club entertainer, announced plans to wed Claudia King of Chicago in the summer. He said no date is set but the ceremony will likely take place in California after his Miami Beach engagement ends.
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Miami
Sammy Davis, Jr
Teo
Claudia King
Chicago
Davis
Miami Beach
California
East German Army Wears Nazi Uniform
Berlin reports that East Germany will form a National Peoples Army modeled after the Wehrmacht. The 120,000 strong Soviet built Peoples Police Army will be reorganized with Prussian tradition in spirit, new titles, and field grey dress mirroring Hitler era troops.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Wehrmacht
Fuehrer
East Germany
National Peoples Army
Capitan
Peoples Police Army
Germany
Red Wehrmacht
Hitler
Capital Men Find Shooting Geese From Plane Expensive
Two Oklahoma City men were fined for shooting geese from an airplane. State Game Ranger Bill Gaines arrested them in El Reno for violating an Oklahoma law against aerial goose shooting. The pilot paid 50 dollars plus eight dollars costs. the shooter paid 100 dollars plus eight dollars costs.
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Oklahoma City
Bill Gaines
el Reno
Oklahoma
Soviet to Ship 20,000 Tons Wheat to India Flood Aid
Soviet authorities agreed to ship 20 000 tons of wheat to India immediately to aid flood relief. Indian sources said Moscow responded quickly to the request and left terms and prices to be discussed later.
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Moscow
India
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