Plane crash kills Thorne and two others in North Hollywood
Wealthy playboy Joel W. Thorne piloted a small plane that crashed into a two story apartment building in North Hollywood. He died with two others including an infant. nine people were injured and two children were critically burned. The craft, returning to Las Vegas from Lockheed Air Terminal, reportedly shed a wing before diving into the structure. Police identified Thorne from rings, a belt buckle, a gun, and his will found at the scene.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Joel W. Thorne
Thorne
Lockheed Air
Burbank
Las Vegas
Nev
Betty Jean Wolf
Sheryll Camille Preston
Jury Declares Otto Loel Sane
A seven man five woman jury in Oklahoma City found Otto A Loel sane after a 40 minute verdict. He faces trial on a murder charge for the slaying of Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson in Compton California. The state will seek the death penalty.
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Oklahoma City
Otto A. Loel
California
Harold Witcher
A. P. van Meter
Max Lawrence Jr
Lady Legger Turns Herself In To Serve 30 Day Jail
Helen Hudson a noted bootlegger in Lawton surrendered at the Comanche county jail to begin a 30 day term after pleading guilty to possession of liquor. Judge S R Harper set a $50 fine with $22.50 costs. Hudson carried her quilt and pillow into court. She had been arrested many times for liquor possession but this was her first conviction. The conviction was not final as she appealed to Dis See SENTENCE Page 2
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Lawton
Helen Hudson
Comanche
S. R. Harper
Fund Drive Hits 43 Percent Of Goal On Day One
The Lawton Fort Sill United Fund Red Cross campaign reached 43 percent of its 96314 goal on day one with 41500 raised. Fort Sill contributions included a 16500 check plus 25000 from advanced gifts and early employee solicitations. Sears Roebuck & Co reported 1101.50 from 156 staff, average 7.06, with 14 new contributors. Pace setters included American National Bank, Security Bank, Coca Cola Bottling, J C Penney, Memorial Hospital, Hoyles IGA, and Wrights Restaurant, all at 100 percent participation.
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Phyllis Gibson
Lawton-Fort Sill
Geronimo
Lawtonian
All-Workers
United Fund
Latha H. Prosser
Sears Roebuck & Co
O. B. Lord
Sears
American National Bank
Security Bank & Trust Co
Coca Cola Bottling Co
German Leader Visits Fort Sill
German defense figure Dr. Hans Speidel arrives at Fort Sill with Hans-Georg Von Tempelhoss for a two day NATO oriented visit. He is met by Maj. Gen. Edward T. Williams and tours the Post museum Knoxhall and artillery displays including the 280 mm gun.
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Hans Speidel
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Fort Sill
Speidel
Hans-Georg von Tempelhoss
NATO
Tubingen University
Germany
Postfield
Edward T. Williams
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
Williams
Oklahoma
Artillery
Post Museum
J. E. Theimer
Department of Communications and Electronics
Knoxhall
Slight Warming Trend In Lawton Area Forecast
A slight warming trend brought warmer air to Lawton with Wednesday highs near 80. The five day outlook calls for temperatures four to eight degrees below normal through Sunday with no rain forecast. Today’s low was 39 and tonight’s near 47. A heavy dew formed this morning and no frost was reported.
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Lawton
Northeastern States Tackle Clean Up Job
Floodwaters drained back into river beds as six Northeastern states began a backbreaking cleanup. Connecticut bore the worst damage from this flood sequence, with 42 deaths and missing persons. Rains ceased or lightened across Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Federal aid moved in as the major disaster declaration was extended, enabling SBA and the Housing and Home Finance Agency to assist flood victims. Red Cross reported about 6900 homeless or displaced. Hurricane Katie is leaving the area as it weakens in the open sea.
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Connecticut
Diane
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Sherman Adams
Small Business Administration
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Washington
Val Peterson
Civil Defense
Eisenhower
Denver
Red Cross
Arnau Death Trial Opens As 12 Jurors Picked
Lawton murder case against Louis J. Arnau proceeds with a 12 member jury selected. Police Chief Ralph Hennessee testifies that Arnau called him announcing a shooting and to come to his Oak Street home. State's witnesses describe the events while defense hints at self defense.
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Arnau
Ralph Hennessee
Superior Court
Louis J
Nig) Arnau
Oak
Hennessee
Lawton
Jack Shaw
Shaw
Alford Hennessee
Sam Braddy
Bill Livingston
T. L. Bean
Maurice E. Elledge
Leonard Layton
Earl C. Austin
W. T. Conrad
P. C. Hoodenpyle
Creed H. King
Frank Brown
Cloyce Littlefield
David Harkey
Layton
Robert S. Landers
Landers
Lawton Burton
Roy Maynard
Ned Hawkins
Maynard
Manville Redman
Hawkins
Redman
Oscar W. Lock
Lock
Bumper Cotton Crop Forecast for Three Oklahoma Counties
A bumper cotton crop is forecast for Comanche Cotton and Stephens counties with 11 900 bales expected to be ginned. Picking continues though wet lowlands slow work, and fields are drying for harvest. Major demand centers include Temple Randlett Bray and Fletcher with listed bale projections for each town.
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Comanche
Cotton
Stephens
John Looney
State Employment Service
Looney
Oklahoma
Bray
Randlett
Lawton
Faxon
Sterling
Fletcher
Walters
Temple
Marlow
Boy, 19 Confesses Murdering Mother in California
Pasadena police said 19 year old John Hawley confessed beating his mother to death with a hammer because his parents didn’t understand him. He then tried to kill himself by leaping in front of two cars and a truck. Hawley was in serious condition at a San Bernardino County hospital about 60 miles from Pasadena. Detective Richard L. Jamison reported the confession.
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Pasadena
Calif
John Hawley
San Bernardino County Hospital
Richard L. Jamison
Hawley
Newsprint price raised by St Lawrence Corp to $131 a ton
NEW YORK St Lawrence Corp one of the largest Canadian pulp and paper makers raised newsprint prices by five dollars per ton effective November 1. President P M Fox said the firm cannot absorb rising costs and needs more money to boost production. The base Canadian price rose to 127 a ton, with U S deliveries at 131. Fox also serves as chairman of Great Lakes Paper and noted no talks with that company’s board. A Great Northern Paper spokesman in Bangor said price increases had not yet been discussed. Manuel C McDonald, president, was unavailable for comment.
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New York
St. Lawrence Corp
Canada
P. M. Fox
Montreal
St. Lawrence
Canadian International Paper Co
Consolidated Paper Corp
Abitibi Power & Paper Co
Price Brothers & Co
Fox
Queen Returns From Scotland For Family Talks On Townsend Romance
Queen Elizabeth II arrives in London with Prince Charles and Princess Anne after Balmoral trip. A family meeting at Buckingham Palace is planned with Prince Philip and Queen Mother as government talks on the Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend romance continue. Prime Minister Eden holds cabinet discussions as Parliament is left puzzled by the handling of the issue.
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London
Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret
Peter Townsend
Grimy
Euston
Balmoral Castle
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Buckingham Palace
Clarence House
Margaret
Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Townsend
Eden
Townsend-Margaret
Inet
Downing St
News-Chronicle
Capital Printers Go Out On Strike
In Oklahoma City 140 union printers clash with The Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times plus Local 283 of the International Typographical Union. Pickets march outside the Oklahoma Publishing Co. plant while about 60 printers walked off. A union spokesman calls it a lockout by management as rolling output is curtailed and the morning edition is reduced to two instead of four.
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Oklahoma City
Daily
Oklahoman
Oklahoma City Times
International Typographical Union
Oklahoma Publishing Co
Field's Daughter Freed By Russians
Erika Glaser Wallach, foster daughter of Noel Field, has been released from Vorkuta labor camp and awaits travel documents in Moscow. She told reporters she was seized by East Berlin police in 1950 while seeking her foster parents, endured solitary confinement for about two and a half years, and was sentenced to death in January 1953 by a Russian military court in East Berlin.
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Moscow
Noel Field
Erika Glaser Wallach
Vorkuta
Soviet Union
East Berlin
Rebellion Flares Anew In Africa
Paris reports of nationalist attacks in Algeria reach the National Assembly as Premier Faure faces a confidence vote. Gunmen ambush a bus with a military escort at El Mizer Pass, killing five guards and eight Europeans, with four passengers missing. Rebels also besiege Stora near Philippeville as fighting continues.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
Algeria
National Assembly
el Mizer Pass
Stora
Philippeville
Traffic Court Proposal Due
Members of the city council traffic committee will decide tonight whether to separate traffic court cases from other Municipal court trials. The committee met municipal judge J Merle Oaks and Police Chief Ralph Hennessee to discuss possible move to council chambers.
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J. Merle Oaks
Ralph Hennessee
Central Fire Station
Douglas Smith
Council
Evans Jury Deadlocked In Long Comanche Trial
A Comanche County jury reported at 9 a.m. today a deadlock in the trial of Thomas Evans, 34, charged with a subsequent automobile embezzlement offense. Jurors deliberated from Monday afternoon until 9 a.m. today after a long session, marking a zero for the county attorney in the opening cases of a busy criminal term.
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Toby Morris
Thomas Evans
Comanche
Robert S. Landers
Olen Ragan
Lawton
E. H. Moore
Hal Hughes
Columbia
Evans
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Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson
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Sanford
Fla
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Sandy
Northeastern States
Katie
Florida
Huddle
Huddles
Withs
Bill Dixon
Boy
Capital
Field
Africa
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