Japanese Army Chief Visits Sill in Fort Sill Tour
Lt General Takeo Tsutsui chief of ground staff of Japan’s defense agency arrived at Fort Sill for a two day visit with a 17 gun salute and an honor guard. He was greeted by Maj Gen Edward Williams and inspected the 522nd Infantry Battalion before a Page 3 report.
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Japan
Takeo Tsutsui
The
Defense Agency
Fort Sill
Post Field
Tsutsui
Edward T. Williams
Artillery and Guided Missile Center
522Nd Infantry Battalion
Robert S. Carpenter
Jane Susumu Toyoda
Washington, D.C
Russia Knew Japs Quitting Before Yalta
Tokyo United Press interview with Roy L. Morgan, associate prosecutor at Tojo trial, alleges Russia acted as mediator in Japan US peace talks in spring 1945. Morgan says Japan sought mediation after pawn raids, with Togo outlining terms including Emperor retention and no Allied occupation. See Russia, Page 3.
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Tokyo
Russia
Yalta
Japan
United Press
Roy L. Morgan
Hideki Tojo
Morgan
Shigenori Togo
Togo
United States
Moscow
Peter Townshend snubbed at royal tribute ceremony
London reports a possible royal snub as Peter Townshend received no invitation to a memorial ceremony for King George VI. Margaret stood in rain watching relatives, Townsend in a separate flat, while Queen Elizabeth III spoke of her father’s faith and home life in a speech about the late monarch.
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London
Peter Townsend
Margaret
George VI
George
Townsend
Lowndes Square
Elizabeth III
Capital Hoodlum To Face Sentencing Here Nov 8
Orville Lindsay Chambless, famed Oklahoma City bootlegger, was found guilty of robbery with firearms by a 12-man Superior court jury. Sentence set at five years in the state penitentiary with sentencing at 10 a.m. on November 8 before Superior Judge.
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Orville Lindsay Chambless
Oklahoma City
Chambless
Robert d S. Lanners
Albion Henry Potts Jr
Potts
Lawton
Ned Hawkins
Dave Tant
Morrow
Welda St. Clair
Roswell
N. M
Stella Massey
Cisco
Tex
Manville Redman
Refuge Land Fight Looms
Oklahoma politicians and Army officials clash with Interior over transferring 10 700 acres of Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to Fort Sill Congress has approved expansion with land acquisition for Fort Sill and defense training cited as vital Kerr Wickersham Monroney note Congress authority while McKay remains opposed and a final White House decision looms
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Oklahoma
Army
Interior Department
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Fort Sill
Interior
Douglas McKay
Congress
Washington
McKay
Pentagon
White House
Sen
Robert S. Kerr
Victor Wickersham
United States
Mike Monroney
Tulsa
House
Senate
State says Loel story fantastic in closing murder trial
Otto A. Loel, the Sandy police chief, testified he killed Elizabeth Henderson to protect himself, a claim the state called a “most deceptive, fantastic story.” Assistant County Attorney Max Lawrence urged the death penalty, while defense attorney Harold Witcher challenged the premeditation claim. Evidence reportedly showed Loel made no attempt to conceal his link to the case.
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Oklahoma City
Otto A. Loel
Sandy
Ore
Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson
Compton
Calif
Max Lawrence
Harold Witcher
Rocky
Okla
Loel
Okays Crime Fight Program Aims Nationwide Action
President Eisenhower approved a major crime attack plan outlined by Atty Gen Brownell in Denver. The fiscal year 1956 judicial program calls for making it a criminal offense to invade a jury's privacy during deliberations and includes a $9,000,000 See IKE project, with details on the conference and Brownell's remarks.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Brownell
Wichita
Kas
Prosser Quits United Fund Top Post for Iowa Promotion
Mrs Latha H Prosser executive director of the Lawton Fort Sill United Fund for seven years resigned at a board meeting. She will join the United Fund of Iowa in Des Moines as field consultant, leaving Lawton December 1 to help organize fund groups across the state. President George Dent said the resignation was received with regret but viewed as a major promotion.
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Latha H. Prosser
Lawton-Fort Sill
George Dent
Iowa
Prosser
Dent
Iowa Post
Jeanne Howell
Bill Ritzweiler
Harold Lee Prosser
Fund Drive At 53 Percent After Fifth Day
The 1955-56 Lawton-Fort Sill United Fund Red Cross drive reports $50 721 15 raised on day five, reaching 53 percent of the $96 314 goal for 24 agencies. Firm gifts total $23 662 50, employee gifts $10 558 65, and Fort Sill donations $16 500 amid ongoing donations and impending audit Saturday morning.
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Lawton-Fort Sill
Rotary
Jinx Train Kills Two in Fort Worth and Oklahoma City
Two people died in separate accidents tied to the Santa Fe Texas Chief jinx run. Cora Brawner, 53, was killed north of Fort Worth when a man apparently raised his head into the path of the train. In Oklahoma City, Delmar D. Smith, 23, deaf mute, crashed his auto into the locomotive and died at a hospital. The incidents pushed the year’s traffic fatality toll to 454.
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Oklahoma City
Fort Worth
Santa Fe
Texas Chief
Cora Brawner
Delmar D. Smith
Chief's Summit Talks Revealed
Washington United States Russia peace talks at Geneva Big Four conference are summarized in an 88 page State Department booklet. The document records Eisenhower assurances that the U S will not join in aggressive war against any nation and includes formal statements by Eisenhower and other leaders from last July summit.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Dulles
United States
State Department
Local Area Weather Forecast Mixed Sun and Slight Cooldown
The forecast calls for fair skies and cooler conditions this afternoon and tonight with a high near 76 and a low around 45. Saturday should reach about 80 with a low near 48. An 11 am reading shows 68 and Thursday’s high is forecast to reach 86.
Hair Dresser Jailed On Extortion Charge
William Allen Brooks, 25, a Lawton hair dresser, was jailed on federal extortion charges after a threatening letter to Mrs. H. N. Bird of Duncan. Brooks waived preliminary hearing and is held on $2,500 bond to await transfer to Muskogee for arraignment. The letter, mailed at Duncan, warned of harm unless doors were guarded.
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Lawton
William Allen Brooks
Park
U.S
Charles D. Campbell
Brooks
Muskogee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
H. N. Bird
Duncan
Constitution
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