Eisenhower security purge tallies 6926 separations from federal payroll
The Eisenhower administration reports 6926 U.S. workers separated from the federal payroll for security reasons as of June 30, including 1743 with subversive data, 2611 terminated and 4315 who resigned before final determination. The tally compares with 2486 in March.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Civil Service Commission
Nixon
Stephen A. Mitchell
Mitchell
Eisenhower Security Proram
Tabu
Tropic Storm Turns Course Toward Haiti
A tropical storm edged toward Hispaniola with Haiti under direct threat. Winds reach 115 mph as the storm shifts from west to northeast, risking torrential rains and floods in Haiti and potentially Cuba. If it slows or turns, Florida and the western Bahamas could remain unaffected.
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Haiti
Hispanola
Dominican Republic
Au Prince
Leonard Pardue
Miami Weather Bureau
Cuba
Santiago de’ Cuba
U. S. Navy
Guantanamo Bay
Florida
Bahamas
Asia Defense Parley Opens
Asia defense talks began with the United States Australia and allies meeting informally to discuss tightening defense lines in southeast Asia and the western Pacific. The discussions focused on economic and social progress as a means to undercut communism, with no final decisions expected. John Foster Dulles met Australian External Affairs Minister Richard G Casey and New Zealand Ambassador Lelie Knox Munro, forming a rotating council under the ANZUS framework.
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IGTON
United States
Australia
Southeast Asia
Western Pacific
Pashese Wasparti
John Foster Dulles
Richard G. Casey
New Zealand
Lelie Knox Munro
Casey
Ottawa
Weather notes show showers and warmth across Oklahoma
Scattered showers hit downtown Lawton around noon with no lasting rain. Forecast calls for rain and strong winds later, then clearing skies. Tuesday may bring more light showers. Temperatures rose to about 91 in Lawton and Fort Sill yesterday and may be matched today.
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Lawton
Mercury
Fort Sill
Ponca City
Gage
Woodward
Hobart
Tulsa
Lawston
Guyman
Oklahoma
Court Pays Justice Jackson Tribute and Funeral Plans
Supreme Court planned memorial services for Justice Robert H. Jackson who died of a heart attack at 62. He served 21 years in Washington and 13 on the Court, and had led New Deal era litigation as solicitor general and later as chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Capital
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
Nuernberg
McLean
Carter
Socialists Back French Chief Mendes France Seeks Backing
Paris reports the French Socialist Party backs Premier Mendes France in Parliament for a vote on the London rearmament plan for Germany. Former premiers Paul Ra Jo Mayer and Felix Gouin spoke in support. The party holds 105 of 627 seats, with the Popular Republican Movement split on the issue.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
London
Germany
National Council
Emerge
Paul Ra Jmadier
Felix Gouin
Mon- Ges-France
Chamber of Deputies
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Assembly
Robert Schuman
Georges Bidault
European Defense Community
EDC
Socialist Council
lendes-France
Soviet Withdraws From Port Arthur
London reports Moscow says it will pull troops from Port Arthur in Manchuria, a strategic rail free port since World War II. Observers view move as pressure on the United States over Formosa. The joint Sino Russian base has housed the railway terminus and ice free port at the Liaotung peninsula.
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London
Moscow Radio
Russia
Port Artthur
Gulf of Chihli
Japan
Issin
United States
Formosa
Erminus
Manchuria
Liaotung Peninula
Tornado Warning Issued For Central Oklahoma
The Oklahoma City Weather Bureau issued a tornado warning for a large area of central eastern and western Oklahoma expiring at 9 p.m. Isolated tornadoes were forecast from City to Walters east to Wagoner north to Hulah dam and back to Elk City from 1 45 p m until 9 p m.
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Delahoma City
Oklahoma City Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Walters
Wagoner
Hulah Dam
Elk City
Pair Burned After Second Car Fire Early Today
Two Cement men G. A. Eversole and Joseph Poulson suffered serious hand burns when their 1954 car caught fire after a prior blaze within ten minutes near First and Euclid at about 3 a.m. Police Lt. Cleo Stout said the engine burst into flames again after a brief attempt to start the car, and both men were treated at Southwestern hospital and released.
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Cleo Stout
G. A. Eversole
Joseph Poulson
Euclid
Eversole
Poulson
Stout
Southwestern Hospital
Capehart urges firing FHA staff loyal to Powell
Senator Capehart urged President Eisenhower to remove FHA workers with ties to Clyde Powell the agency’s former rental housing chief. He called the moral fiber of government employees suspect and said legislation may be needed to allow firings. Powell has invoked the Fifth Amendment in relation to a Senate inquiry into FHA schemes.
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Washington
Sen
Capehart
R-Ind
Eisenhower
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Clyde L. Powell
Court
Senate Banking Committee
Powell
Royal
Spumniter
Senat
CBS
Civil Service
Ci Service
Capehart Sai
Young Polio Victim Uses Rocking Bed
Eight year old Sharon Faye Barnett of Comanche was removed from an iron lung and placed in a rocking bed at Memorial hospital. She had been in the lung since September 8 and was recently transferred from Crippled Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City.
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Sharon Faye Barnett
Otto Barnett
Comanche
Memorial Hospital
Sharon
Crippled Children's Hospital
Oklahoma City
Bowles Defies Records Demands in Racial Tensions
Milford Delaware Bryant Bowles, 34, held on charges of conspiring to break state cation law says his organization will refuse to turn over all financial records to the state attorney general and will only release records to authorized courts. He cites short notice as impossible. Bowles faces further trouble over an antisegregation edict from the U.S. Supreme Court and was arrested twice yesterday for conspiring to violate education law by leading a Milford high school boycott that added 11 Black students. He is free on $6,000 bond for a November 3 Dover hearing.
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Milford
Del
Bryant Bowles
Delaware
Lye
Bowles
H Albert Young
National Assn
NAAWP
Young
Dover
Marine Corps
U.S. Supreme Court
Folga Strikes Floating Mine in North Sea Fire Report
Rotterdam reports the Norwegian tanker Folga struck a floating mine in the North Sea and caught fire. One crewman is missing while twenty seven were rescued. others later returned to fight the blaze as engines ran at half speed.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Folga
North Sea
Ames
Dirkanagers Shipping Agency
Floods Paralyze Chicago Industry After Record Rainfall
A 32 hour downpour dropped 6.21 inches in Chicago, flooding the Chicago River area, flooding basements and subbasements, halting Union Station rail traffic, knocking out power to large plants, and forcing thousands from work as suburbs marooned and transport rerouted. River gates opened to ease pressure while Lockport locks controlled flows downstream. No exact dollar loss known as crews assess damage.
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Chicago
Union Station
McNichols
Loop Business District
Dearborn
Chicago Daily News
Commonwealth Edison
Lake Wick
Ian
Vietminh Parade Through Hanoi With Booty Display
Vietminh units 305th and 52nd divisions paraded through central Hanoi after Dien Bien Phu victory. Troops carried captured French and Allied arms, welcomed by crowds, while U S diplomats and foreign correspondents observed from nearby streets.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Vietminh
Dien Bien Phu
Francis Garinier
Clement
Cremated Body Found In Car with Foul Play Suspected
Oklahoma City reports a burned body found in a car after a chemical fire. Preliminary autopsy points to foul play with indications the victim may be David Fred Hagler. Hagler’s identification was hampered by the extent of the burns but a partially burned leather bag bearing his name and a Social Security certificate were located near the scene.
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Oklahoma City
David Fred Hagler
Fen
Erations Administration
Hagler
Taylor Rogers
Wrecks Leave One Dead Seven Hurt
A weekend of crashes left one dead and seven seriously injured. Steves of Fort Sill died when a car struck his motor scooter west of Lawton on US 62. Lloyd Wayne Garrett of Waurika was critically injured in a separate one car wreck east of Lawton. Other injuries included Buster Latimer, Joyce Fulton, Leroy Hill, Thomas McAfee, Herman Williams, and Frances McBride with various injuries. Two Fort Sill men were seriously hurt near Minco when their car hit a transport truck. The driver received a summons for driving left of center. See CRASHES Page 2.
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Steves
Fort Sill
Lawton
US. 62
Lawton-Duncan
Lloyd Wayne Garrett
Garrett
Leroy Hill
el Reno
Hill
Minco
Thomas Jefferson McAfee
Herman J. Williams
Fort Sill Station
McAfee
Drivin
Robert Newe x Craig
Chickasha
Lawton-Duncan “Y
Duncan Hospital
Frances Lorenne McBride
Waurika
Latimer
Air Force
Seamen recount disaster that sank Mormackite with 37 dead
Eleven survivors tell of two days adrift in shark filled Atlantic waters after the 6000 ton Mormackite capsized 150 miles east southeast of Cape Henry. Coast Guard inquiry opens to explain the sinking blamed on shifting ore cars. 37 crew members died including Captain Patrick J. McMahon. Bodies of 12 recovered, 25 missing. sharks sighted by survivors.
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Norfolk
Patrick J. McMahon
Valeley Stream
N.Y
Rope
Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
Cape Henry
Kannea
Delay Urged On Pike Bonds in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City senator George Miskovsky urges delaying the sale of bonds for three toll road turnpikes until after the January Legislature session. He notes selling separately could save up to five million dollars and that new lawmakers next year might change the sale method. He adds public disclosure should illuminate terms and interest rates.
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Oklahoma City
George Miskovsky
Miskovsky
Britain Demands Russian Open Reply on Arms Plan
United Nations New York Britain’s Selwyn Lloyd pressed the Soviet Union in the General Assembly Political Committee for a clear statement of how far Moscow will go to meet Western demands on arms reduction and atomic control. He asked if Russia accepts a stringent international inspection system to be in place before any arms cuts or atomic ban.
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United Nations
N.Y
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Russia
Kremlin
Jinsky
General Assembly
Joiis Mock
Iton
Lloyd
Vishnnesky
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Asia
Eile
FOP
Oklahoma Fraternal Order of Police
Paul McQuillen
Muskogee
R. C. Dennis
National
Ron Wheatley
Port Arthur
Bulletin
Lke
Sanitary District
Lockport
Peoria
Joseph Corcoran
International Armistice Commission
Haiphong
Corcoran
State Department
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