Murder case near FBI in Hawkins death probe
Fort Sill and FBI pursue a murder investigation into Guy Earl Hawkins 55 a floral shop employee after a late dance at the American Legion. Pvt Charles F Harris 24 Fort Hood admitted fighting Hawkins and covering his mouth. Harris held in the guardhouse. Hawkins died en route home from the dance. autopsy cites a burst blood vessel in the lung and possible suffocation yet to be proven.
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Ralph Hennessee
Guy Earl Hawkins
FBI
Fort Sill
PIO
Harris
Hawkins
American Legion
Memorial Hospital
Fort Sillman
Harry Higgs
Florence Harris
Higgs
Advanced Korean Officers Graduate at Fort Sill
Twenty six Republic of Korea officers including two brigadier generals earned diplomas from Fort Sill’s Special Allied Officers Field Artillery Advanced course No 2 at 10 am. Brig Gen James F Brittingham spoke as commanding general The Artillery Center. Graduates included Lee Choon Kyung and Park Chung Hee with other colonels and majors.
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Fort Sill
Special Allied Officers Field Artillery
James F. Brittingham
Artillery Center
Choi Shung Chuk
Lee Choon Kyung
Park Chung Hi
Brittingham
Fort Sillain
Korea
Mrs. Hall Wins Divorce and Cancels Property Pact
Mrs. Bertrude Fields Hall, a Democrat national committeewoman, won a divorce from gubernatorial candidate William A. Hall and cancellation of an anti-nuptial agreement that would have split her $500000 fortune. Judge A P Van Meter granted the divorce and voided the pact, with final testimony on property values in Comanche Cotton Kiowa and Oklahoma counties.
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Oklahoma City
Bertrude Fields Hall
Democrat National
Hall
Oklahoma Area Weather Forecast Cool With Showers
A cooler pattern with scattered thundershowers possible through the week as the five day outlook from southwest Oklahoma shows high mid 80s and low around 62. Western regions may receive a quarter inch to three fourths inch of rain with more Friday. Tulsa area reports light precipitation in the state as fronts move out.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
Tulsa
Miami
Two Measures Face City Council Tonight
City council members plan a meeting with two main items on the noon agenda. A contract for a street department truck is up for approval and a proposal to annex part four of a neighboring area into the city limits is under consideration.
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City Council
Harvest Jobs Placed To Aid Oklahoma Harvest
Lawton OS ES assigns two full time workers to coordinate harvest activity with farmers and laborers. Al Wilson and Merton Munson will track surplus or shortage of combines and tractor operators, coordinate with Volunteer Farm Placement reps, and report daily to Lawton. James Evans will oversee harvest progression in Cotton Stephens and Comanche counties.
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Oklahoma State Employment Service
John Looney
al Wilson
Merton Munson
James T. Evans
Evans
Cotton
Randlett
Stephens
Comanche
Lawton O.S.E.S
Caddo County
19 Believed Dead In Brazil Air Crash
Parachute rescue teams raced to a mountainside 210 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro where 19 Brazilians were believed dead after a National Airlines crash. The Meridional News Agency said the plane carried four crewmen and passengers when it went down near Belo Horizonte.
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Rio
National Airlines
Meridional
Shdeian Ancore Casaka
Citain
Belo Horizonte
McCarthy McClellan clash over informants in Army hearings
McCarthy blocks access to Schine files by Democrats until informant names are deleted. McClellan demands legal clarity on government papers and access to evidence. Cohn produced files backing Schine’s Army work, McCarthy says no right to turn them over. The dispute centers on whether confidential informants can be exposed in the probe.
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Sen. McCarthy
Army
G. David Schine
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
McCarthy
Eisenhower
McClellan
Congressional Committee
Peg Th
Arkansas
Roy M. Cohn
McCarthy Army
Pvt. G. David Schine
McCarthy Subcommittee
Cohn
Ray H. Jenkins
Flanders
Dennis the Menace
Colin
Dennis
Hank Ketcham
Schine
McCar
Pain Is Elected Lions Governor For District 3 L
Leslie Pain Lawton attorney has been elected governor of Oklahoma District 3 L of Lions International at the state convention in McAlester over Memorial Day weekend. Pain, a Lawton Lions member, oversees 57 clubs with more than 2 700 members and succeeds Dr M L Wardell of Norman for 1953 54. Other district governors named include Wiltz B Trible Tulsa Casper Duffer Ada and Marion J Surface Cushing. Pain has long Lions activity since 1938 with WWII service, a Chickasha Lions past president and former deputy district governor. He led Boy Scout troop sponsorship and earned the Lions Extension award for Verden. He serves as secretary treasurer for Comanche county chapter National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and was 1954 March of Dimes director locally. He sits on Lawton Safety council and previously held multiple Grady County posts including Red Cross and Tuberculosis association. He led Chickasha Red Cross roll call and local American Legion poppy drive. See PAIN. Page 2
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Lions International
Wiltz B. Trible
Tulsa
Casper Duffer
Ada
Marion J. Surface
Cushing
Pain
Lions Work
Chickasha Lions Club
Vermont Senator Flanders Attacks McCarthy in Senate Fight
Senator Flanders denounces Senator McCarthy in a floor speech calling McCarthy's anti communism Hitler like and says he may be in the pay of the Communists. He questions the heart of the McCarthy Army dispute and criticizes both parties for not probing the real issues.
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Flanders
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Senate
Army
Alo Ald
Ime
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
G. David Lehine
Roy M. Cohn
Molotov Returns To Geneva Parley
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov returned to the Far Eastern conference in Geneva after a two day Moscow trip. Western observers think he reported to Premier Malenkov on talks and possible Soviet strategy in Indo China. A French Vietminh meeting to set opening of military discussions on armistice terms was also anticipated.
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Kremlin
Georgi M. Malenkov
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Cancer Strikes City Child Anita Rae Bartlett
A Lawton couple watches their 3%4 year old daughter Anita Rae Bartlett in critical condition after surgery to remove a cancerous kidney tumor. Grandparents Mr L Bartlett of San Jose travel to Lawton to be with the family as they keep faith and prayer for her recovery.
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A. C. Bartlett
Anita Rae
L. Bartlett
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Calif
Bartlett
Spartan Aircraft Company
Fort Sill
Dallas
Tex
Holiday Death Toll Sets New Tragic Record
Violent deaths during the Memorial Day holiday rose to a new high with at least 523 fatalities from traffic accidents drownings and other mishaps. The traffic toll reached 355, above pre holiday forecasts, as Eisenhower lamented highway fatalities while praising trucking driver of the year Gomer M. Bailey. An AP survey tallied 243 traffic deaths 50 drownings and 66 miscellaneous deaths across states and Washington DC from May 14 to May 17.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Eisenhower
Washington
Gomer M. Bailey
Denver
Oklahoma Weekend Fatalities Rise During Memorial Day Period
Oklahoma's Memorial Day weekend death toll reached eleven as the period ended. Fatalities included nine auto deaths, one drowning, and one electrocution, with victims ranging in age from 3 to 63. Names include James Edward Wickliff, Charles Patterson, Don Russell, Lloyd Tea g, Billy Feeler, Gilbert Ende, Katherine Baker, John Henry Johnson, and Russell Brown.
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United Press
Oklahoma
James Edward Wickliff
Gordon Wickliff
Pryor
Wickliff
Saline Creek
Dewey
Charles Patterson
Oklahoma City
Don Russell
Lake Murray
Lloyd Dean Teag
Alva
Billy Dean Feeler
Bartlesville
Gilbert Edward Ende
Stillwater
Katherine Baker
Franklin Baker
Tulsa
John Henry Johnson
George West
Tex
Russell Brown
Boynton
Memorial Day Traffic Safer. Raley Reports
Highway Patrol Lt. C. T. Raley commends nine county district for a safe Memorial Day weekend with no fatalities and only a few injuries. District includes Caddo Grady Stephens Jefferson Cotton Comanche Tillman Jackson and Harmon counties. Arrests were at a low point in years.
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C. T. Raley
Raley
Caddo
Grady
Stephens
Jefferson
Cotton
Comanche
Tillman
Jackson
Harmon
Tomek
Reds threaten Hanoi lifeline on the Haiphong route
Communist troops captured a defense post nine miles east of Hanoi along the Haiphong lifeline, imperiling the flow of American supplies. French high command said traffic was not cut off, but the post marks a first near the road. Giap massed four divisions near Phu Tho with a fifth, intensifying the Red River delta actions against French defense plans.
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Haiphong
Indo - China
Vo Nguyen Giap
Giap
Phu Tho
Red River
Nine Die In Crash Of Guard Plane
A C47 Air National Guard plane carrying 14 men from the Indianapolis speedway race crashed near Duluth Minnesota killing nine and injuring five all from the Duluth area. The aircraft belly flopped on final approach at Duluth municipal airport tearing through gravel pits and terrain. Rescue crews found multiple bodies scattered around and inside the twisted fuselage.
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Minn
C47
Air National Guard
Air National Guardsmen
Air Force
National Guard
Ott
Duluth Municipal
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