Ex-Con Hawkins Escapes City Jail Before Transfer
Noel Hawkins a 31 year old Lawton ex convict pried from a city jail using a shower bath pipe and bunk chain and walked out through a police station door just before a deputy sheriff planned to take him to New Mexico on a forgery charge. The red headed fugitive boasted of an earlier state prison escape and threatened inmates with the pipe as he opened a hole for a route to freedom. A statewide alert went out describing him as dangerous though police labeled him a burglar. He is five feet seven inches tall and weighs 150 pounds and may be the man who forced his way into Cache Road Furniture and stole five radios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
New Mexico
Noel Hawkins
McAlester
Hankins
Otis Waldron
Ralph Hennessee
Hawkins
Cache Road
Thieves Strip Capital Store in Oklahoma City Robbery
A beanpole man and a plump woman posed as shoppers to rob the Capital Store, locking manager Fred E. Garrett and clerk Mrs Ruby Minton in a restroom. They escaped with valuables worth several thousand dollars after binding the pair and fleeing about 25 minutes later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Fred E. Garrett
Garrett
Garett
Ruby Minton
Vacation Pac offered for addressless travelers
A newspaper notice invites readers planning travel to use the Vacation Pac service to store papers until return. It mentions no extra cost and provides a Circulation Department phone number for ordering. The ad emphasizes securing residence details during trips and appeals to individuals with or without a permanent address.
Whisky Cases Pad Trial State Whisky Cases Pad Trial
A large economy size jury trial package in Lawton targets August 10 with 86 cases, 57 liquor charges. Most defendants waive jury trials and seek continuances or suppress evidence in illegal search cases. Defendants include A. P. Gent Howard Shaw Ralph Hudson Wayne Tisdel Jack Shaw Ross Hinkle and Sid Ludwig. About 35 bootleggers have cases pending, whisky cases unusually numerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
A. P
Boots) Gent
Howard Shaw
Ralph Hudson
Wayne Tisdel
Jack Shaw
Ross Hinkle
Sid Ludwig
Hero
Criminal Court of Appeals
Cleaning Fluid Fatality Strikes Lawton Infant
A 16144 month old Lawton baby named Dennis Kieth Ware died at Memorial hospital after drinking Energine cleaning fluid. The child, born March 6, 1951, was rushed to hospital but succumbed to internal injuries. Parents, home address 1210 A, faced shock as details on how the liquid was obtained remain unclear. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Dennis Kieth Ware
Jennings Kieth Ware
Memorial Hospital
Safeway Food
11Th
Becker Funeral Home
See Child
South Koreans Sweep Ahead in Three Mile Advance
South Korean infantrymen pushed northward three and one third miles on the eastern flank of the Allied center front drive Saturday night and neared the Kumson river line. The west flank faced heavy Chinese resistance as American air and artillery bombarded the hills while South Koreans gained about five and a half miles in three days. A Chinese regiment briefly held Sam Hwon Hill, west of Kumsong, before United Press reports noted renewed Korean efforts and napalm air strikes to renew the advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Kumsong
Kumson River
Sam Hwon
Reds
United Press
Bill Miller
Feed Aid Plan Strikes Snag in Comanche County
County relief board chaired by Elbert Wolf met Saturday to discuss a revised policy that ties cheap government feed to drought relief eligibility based on inability to pay current market prices. Members questioned the restriction and warned of possible resignations unless clarified. one predicted cattle prices could drop by 2 to 3 dollars per hundred by next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comanche
County Brouth Relief Board
Elbert Wolf
PMA _ committee
Drouth Aid
OU Students Die In Navy Flight School Crash
Twenty two University of Oklahoma students were killed when a Marine Corps transport plane crashed near Milton Florida during Navy ROTC exercises. The university president called it the greatest tragedy in OU history and ordered flags at half mast. One student was critically injured and 19 others were en route by other means.
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
Florida
George L. Cross
Marine Corps
Milton
Fla
Sooner
Naval Reserve
Norfolk
Oklahoma
Tom R. Benedum
University Board of Regents
Woods
Navy
Five of 46 Survive Giant Marine Craft Crash
MILTON Fla July 188 A twin engined Marine transport plane carrying 1600 Naval ROTC cadets crashed during takeoff killing 41, mostly ROTC students from Corpus Christi and Norfolk training. Five injured survivors include two crew members Capt C E Graff and Cpl J P Tuttle. Survivors include Dale E Scott Jay B Weidler Jr Thomas F Maggard. Navy grounds all Fairchild planes like the crashed model.
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Milton
Fla
Corpus Christi
Tex
Norfolk
Corpus Oe
C. E. Graff
Morehead City
N. C
Cpl. J. P. Tuttle
Chaumont
N. Y
Dale E. Scott
East Lansing
Mich
Jay B. Weidler, Jr
Philadelphia
Thomas F. Maggard
Kansas City
Navy
Fairchild Packet
Communists Ready to Discuss Armistice at Panmunjom
At Panmunjom the Communists said they were prepared to discuss preparations for signing a Korean armistice and would begin immediately. They claimed South Korea would observe the armistice, but warned they might raise the issue of freed prisoners at a political conference after the armistice if the U N command cannot recover 27,000 prisoners. They also insisted that South Korean opposition to Indian troops policing the prisoner agreement must be resolved before any truce. NBC reported UN officers briefly left and then returned as talks continued after a 38 minute recess. Allies pressed for immediate armistice preparations.
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Panmunjom
Red
Reds
South Korea
U. N
NBC
New York
John Rich
United Nations
Rich
W U. N
Triple Jet Ace Piles Up Awards
Maj James Jabara history's first jet ace received three oak leaf clust ers to his Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea. Lt Gen Samuel Anderson presented them for his second tour. Jabara, from Wichita Kansas, downed his 15th MIG and becomes the world's second ranking ace. He will return to the United States for reassignment to a post in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
James Jabara
Korea
Tokyo
Jabara
Samuel Anderson
Air Force
Wichita
Kan
United States
New York
Azerbaijan Premier Bagirov expelled by Azerbaijan Communist Party
London radio reported Azerbaijan Prime Minister Mir Ozhafar Bagirov, a longtime associate of Lavrenti Beria, was expelled from the Azerbaijan Communist Party Central Committee. He faces dismissal as council of ministers chair and potential trial as observers note Beria’s purge in the Soviet leadership. Bagirov, 54, had been first secretary before April 18 reorganization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Azerbaijan
Mir Ozhafar Bagirov
Lavrenti Beria
Communist Party Central Committee
Bagirov
Council of Ministers
Moscow Radio
Beria
Central Committee
Bagiror
Azerbaijan Party
Area Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy With Showers Likely
Partly cloudy forecast with no major temperature change. Sunday may see scattered showers late with a high near 90 and a low in the upper 60s. Saturday’s high was 90 with a 65 low and 9:30 p.m. temperature at 80.
Police Strike Back Snatch Illegal Booze
City police recovered part of the alleged hooch haul after raiding 715 Douglass. Officers seized over 300 bottles of booze from a concealed linen closet as two charges were filed in connection with Friday night thefts. Lincoln Wade faced liquor possession and loading at 411 McKinley, while Robert Wimple was charged with liquor possession and reckless driving after a pursuit near Gent’s residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
Ralph Hennessee
Lincoln
Step) Wade
McKinley
A. P. (Boots
Edd Roberts
Wade
Roberts
Robert Wimple
Jerry Paul
J. R. McCaig
Wimple
Car Overturns Near Elgin Incurred Injuries To Man
A middle aged man tentatively identified as Earl Atterbury, address unknown, was hospitalized late Saturday night with injuries after his car overturned on the road near Elgin. The driver, apparently alone, was taken to Southwestern hospital by a Fletcher ambulance. no immediate report on his injuries was available.
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Earl Atterbury
Southwestern Hospital
Elgin
Highway Patrol
Fletcher
Logan Defends Building Plan In Oklahoma Senate
State Senator Logan of Lawton defended a bill permitting state construction of a capitol office building. He disputed reports on the bill, saying it would retire rent costs of up to 110000 yearly and possibly 200000 with licensing revenue, and noted the measure is permissive with no mandatory appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Logan
Lawton
Senate
Logan
Oklahoma City
Committee On Senate and Legislative Affairs
Murray Calls Parley In Row Over Capitol Office Plan
Governor Murray invited legislators and newsmen to a Tuesday meeting with three men who could organize a state capitol office building trusteeship. He accused House Speaker James C. Nance of aiming to make the project a gubernatorial race issue. Attending are Harry Schwartz of Tulsa, Floyd Harrison of Oklahoma City, and William Mullinax of Oklahoma City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Murray
New York
James C. Nance
Harry Schwartz
Tulsa
AFL
Floyd A. Harrison
William J. Mullinax
City Family Navy Minded Six Sons Sailors
The John Davis family of 916 Monroe has six sons all entering naval service. Curtis M. Davis, 21, enlisted last November and is stationed at Bremerton. John Edward, 32, joined in 1942 and is finishing a Boston course before a transfer to Key West then Cuba. Eldest Emmett James, 38, served since 1945 and works for the Los Angeles water department with five children. Jackson B. Davis, 35, enlisted 1943 and served in Korea and the Pacific. lives in Lawton with one child. Eugene Davis, 26, joined in 1945 and serves in the Pacific. operates Merchants Transfer and Storage with his father. Charles W. Davis, 23, also listed. The family’s Navy service spans World War II to postwar assignments.
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Jeanne Howell
John Davis
Monroe
Navy
Gee
Curtis M. Davis
Bremerton, Wash
John Edward
Europe
South Pacific
Japan
Boston
Key West
Fla
Cuba
Davis
Emmett James
Pearl Harbor
Marshalls
Los Angeles Water Department
Jackson B. Davis
Korea
Philippines
China
Okinawa
Lawton
O. K
Cornell
Eugene Davis
Alaska
Merchants Transfer
Eugene
Kenyon
Charles W. Davis
Victims list notes Marine C119 crash on farm site
The Marine C119 Flying Boxcar crashed after clipping trees, scattering burning wreckage and bodies across a farm yard. Six survivors were rescued by Navy teams, one man died hours later at Whiting Field hospital. Photographer Billy Lavendar reported a possible left engine failure. Local witnesses described aids pulling burning clothing from survivors.
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Billy Lavendar
Mobile Press Register
Alex Allen
Navy
Whiting Field Hospital
Gunners Spare Big Beer Cache On the Goat Trail
Central Front dispatch reports 3000 cans of beer found near a captured valley. General Patton tanks moved to seize abandoned Allied gear while avoiding the beer tent. Sgt Albertis Ressoe of Kearney Neb recalled their relief at leaving beer behind. Local air of irony surrounds a celebrant’s birthday amid combat duties.
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Central Front
Patton
Albertis Ressoe
Kearney
Neb
J. Raymond Birton
Beecher Falls
Biron
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Hennessee
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Ludwig
Burns
Navy Rotc Flight School
University
Beria Cham
Cus Times
Curtis
Iles
Jackson
Bulletin
Henry S. Hernandez
Oxnard
Calif
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