Duchess of Windsor to be questioned in Woodward slaying
One thousand mourners attended the funeral of William Woodward Jr. as Nassau County District Attorney Frank Gulotta said the Duchess of Windsor would be questioned in the fatal Long Island shooting. The duchess had been the guest of honor at the party hours before the tragedy.
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New York
Duchess of Windsor
William Woodward Jr
Frank Gulotta
Nassau County
Woodwards
Long Island
Gulotta
St. James Episcopal Church
Manhattan
Woodward
State Honors Four County 4-H Members
Four Comanche 4-H club members topped state competition for record books and related achievements. three will attend the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago Nov 27 to Dec 1. Margie Mae John from Flower Mound, Marvin Livingston of Faxon, Douglas Livingston of Cache, and Jim Clower of Faxon named top honorees. Livingston, Clower, and Miss John will attend the Chicago congress. Margie John, an 18 year old freshman at Oklahoma A&M, has long led in dress review and clothing projects, with 149 articles created and 17 county medals. her trip is sponsored by Simplicity Pattern Co. and she joins a state hall of fame consideration. Marvin Livingston is the state poultry winner and a district recipient of a $25 bond from Public Service Company. he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Livingston.
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Chicago
Margie Mae John
Flower Mound Club
Marvin Livingston
Faxon Club
Douglas Livingston
Cache Club
Jim Clower
Faxon
Livingston
Clower
Miss John
Margie
Oklahoma A&m College
L. S. John
National Congress
Simplicity Pattern Company
Comanche County
O. C. Livingston
Marvin
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
Work of
Public Service Company
Oklahoma Gas
Crash Mangles Sill Man's Arm Near Wheatland
Two Fort Sill soldiers were seriously injured after a car lost control on a curve east of Wheatland on S 152. Sp3 Dennis Weddle 22 suffered a mangled right arm and facial lacerations with possible amputation. Pfc Calvin Currinder 20 had head back injuries and a broken arm. Both were taken to Tinker Field base hospital in serious condition.
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Fort Sill
Wheatland
Weddle
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Oklahoma City
Currinder
Tinker Field Base Hospital
Arch Hamilton
Jim Garibaldi
Oklahoma County
Plane Crash Sought Cause as 44 Die in Colorado
Investigators seek possible cause of a United Air Lines four engine DC6B crash in a sugar beet field near Longmont Colorado killing 44, including 39 passengers and five crew. Witness accounts vary on whether it exploded in flight or on impact. Civil Aeronautics Agency leads the probe with assistance from CAB. Bodies moved to mortuaries in Greeley amid cold, snow, and mud.
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Longmont
Colo
United Air Lines
Colorado
UAL
New York
Seattle
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington
CAA
Greeley
Denver
United’s
Jake Heil
John McNeill
Platteville
Walker Receives Five Year Federal Sentence
A young airman Albert Eugene Walker aged 17 faced burglary charges in Superior court but the case was dismissed after his federal conviction for transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines under the Dyer Act. He pleaded guilty in U S District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and was sentenced to five years.
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Albert Eugene Walker
Walker
U. S
Oklahoma
Manville Redman
Western District of Oklahoma
City Buys 4 Police Cars
City council in a special session accepted Green-Phillips Chevrolet as the low bidder for four new eight cylinder police cars and noted delivery within 20 days. The bid, with trade-in allowances, totals 6 287.48 after adjustments. bids on six cylinder cars averaged lower at 5 955.48 after allowances.
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Green-Phillips Chevrolet
Green-Phillips
Jake Witzel Ford
Green-Howenstine
Plymouths
Knox-Jensen
Plymouth Plaza
Knox- Jensen
Plymouth Police
Oscar Cox Pontiac
Chambless Given Prison Sentence For Robbery
Orville Lindsay Chambless, 39, dubbed the flying bootlegger, was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary after Judge Robert S. Landers denied a motion to set aside the Oct. 21 jury verdict. He had been found guilty of armed robbery in connection with an Oct. 19, 1953, $5,000 whiskey robbery from Albion Henry Potts Jr. on a Comanche county road in Oklahoma City.
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Orville
Lindsay Chambless
Oklahoma City
Robert S. Landers
Chambless
Albion Henry Potts Jr
Comanche County
Army Leader Urges M Kay To Give Land
Washington secretary of the Army Bracker urges transfer of 10 700 acres from Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to expand Fort Sill Oklahoma defense officials say Conferences held Interior opposes transfer McKay proposes a firing range use plan Interior D Ewart says no land title transfer 17 conservationists met to discuss wildlife interests Shoemaker notes opposition and recreation development claims challenged in committee testimony
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Washington
Secretary of the Army
Bracker
Secretary of the Interior
McKay
Army
Fort Sill
Okla
Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Oklahoma
Brucker
Wickersham
Defense
Interior Department
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Interior
Wesley A. D’ewart
Carl D. Shoemaker
National Wildlife Federation
D’ewart
Congress
Secretary of
Douglas McKay
Storm Traps F k Hunters in Montana Snow
A bulldozer labors through heavy drifts in Montana’s Gravelly Mountains near the Tobacco Root range to reach hunters believed trapped after a rapid elk hunting season began last Friday. The number of missing hunters remains unknown amid worsening conditions.
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Virginia City
Mont
Rocky Mountains
Tobacco Root Range
Montana
Area Weather Forecast With Cold Shot
Partly cloudy and dusty with a hard freeze by morning and continued cold Thursday. Strong northerly winds at 35 to 40 mph today diminishing tonight. Lows near 26, today 39, high 56. 11 am reading 54. Tuesday high 70.
Gas Hearing Opens on Consolidated Utilities Rate Request
Oklahoma City. A long delayed application by Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp seeks a 417 560 annual rate increase. Harold Freeman takes part as the new Corp Commission member. Richard W. Camp testifies that net earnings have fallen due to higher costs and a one cent gas cost rise. The firm serves western Oklahoma with about half as many customers per mile of pipeline as larger city utilities. The hearing continues with three days of testimony next week.
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Oklahoma City
Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp
Corporation Commission
Harold Freeman
Raymond Gary
Freeman
Board of Affairs
Gary
Ray O. Weems
Camp
Ray C. Jones
Wilburn Cartwright
Richard W. Camp
Consolidated
Campbell
Oklahoma
Nina Warren Weds Doctor in Las Vegas Elopement
Nina Warren 22 daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Dr Stuart Brien 33 of Beverly Hills married in a surprise Las Vegas ceremony. Justice of the Peace John Mendoza officiated in a Riviera Hotel penthouse after the couple obtained a Santa Monica license two days earlier. It was each inaugural marriage.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nina (Honey Bear) Warren
Earl Warren
Stuart Brien
Beverly Hills
Calif
Los Angeles
Justice of the Peace
John Mendoza
The
Riviera Hotel
Santa Monica
Russians Propose German Council to Bridge East West Split
Geneva report says Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed an all German council to bridge Bonn and East Berlin differences, with mixed committees on economic, cultural ties and currency, and a stance to keep Germany divided for now. Western officials expect rejection by US Britain and France, as Britain shifts away from an East West buffer plan.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Bonn
East Berlin
Germany
V. M. Molotov
United States
Britain
France
Council
Council On European Security
U. S
Molotov
Eden
Europe
Brooklyn man holds motel owners then kills trooper
A 26-year-old Sammy Alverez of Brooklyn trapped Fernwood Motel owner Edward Whritenour and his wife for nearly an hour before a struggle freed Whritenour. He killed State Trooper John Anderson after a traffic stop on Garden State Parkway. Whritenour shot Alverez in self defense, ending the siege.
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L. A. Smith
Odessa
Texas
Rimaces
Smith
Neptune Township
N.J
Sammy Alverez
Brooklyn
N.Y
Fernwood
Alverez
John Anderson
Garden State Parkway
Red Bank
Edward Reid
Rt. 66
Edward Whritenour
Dazzling GM Show Opens Here Nov 10
General Motors Parade of Progress arrives November 9 for a four day, free science show at McMahon Memorial auditorium grounds. The exhibit features Futurliners with built in animat ed displays and a 40 minute stage show illustrating jet engines and the world of science.
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General Motors
McMahon Memorial Auditorium
Aerodome
Tests Ordered for Reservoir at Elgin Site
Special water study committees of the city council and Chamber of Commerce approved Wyatt Hendrick a Lawton consulting engineer to begin core tests at the proposed Elgin reservoir site on Cache creek. He forecast a feasibility and cost report within 60 days and said tests to 90 feet could start in a week or two with initial costs about 2500 dollars.
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City Council
Chamber of Commerce
Wyatt Hendrick
Lawton
Elgin
Cache Creek
Council Chamber
Hendrick
Elgin Reservoir
Lawtonka
Hard Freeze Expected Over Southwest Oklahoma Tonight
A season’s first hard freeze will blanket Southwest Oklahoma tonight with temperatures dropping below freezing across the state. Blowing dust, partly cloudy skies, and northerly winds up to 40 mph are forecast to ease by tonight. Temperatures today reached a high of 56 with a 39 degree low, while tonight’s low may hit 26.
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Oklahoma
Istate Weather Bureau
Goodland
Kan
Weather Bureau
City Students Get Card From Mamie Thanks For Prayer
Jefferson school fourth graders sent letters to President Eisenhower when he faced a heart condition. Mrs. Lehman mailed them. a card from Mamie Dowd Eisenhower arrived thanking the pupils for their concern and prayers.
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Mamie
Jefferson School
Eisenhower
Margaret Lehman
Denver
Colo
Mamie Dowd Eisenhower
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Nashua
Crash Mangles
Sill Man
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Farm Field
Ai Clover Faxon
Doug Livingston
Margie Mae John Flower Mound
M'Kay
Shoemaker
House
Senate
L. E. Thomas
Nina Warren
Anderson
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