Slaying Mystery Hovers as Car Dealer Silent Suspect
Lawton bootlegger Jack Shaw was shot at a Oak Street home owned by used car dealer Louis Arnau. Arnau admitted firing the shots but declined to speak further, while detectives piece together a possible preshooting scuffle and motive amid six .22 shells and bullets found at the scene.
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Lawton
Jack Shaw
Louis J
Arnau
Oak
Constitution
Mally
Arnaus
Louis Jr
Ernestine Russell
Dearborn
Waldron
Crabtree
Blackburn
United Fund Boosts Mission Budget by 2978 Dollars
Lawton Fort Sill United Fund directors raised the City Mission allocation to 5978 dollars for the coming year, up from the previous amount and last year’s budget. The City Mission board protested prejudice in the allocation. Directors also denied additional funding to the Girl Scouts Union and prepared to act on the American Can...
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Lawton-Fort Sill
Girl Scouts Assn
Can
Cer Society
T. D. Nicklas
Girl Scouts
Lawton Burton
Mission Board
George Dent
Fund Board
Lawton City
United Fund Drive
Burton
The
Constitution Today
United Fund
Truman Urges U S Guards Against Subversion
Former President Harry S. Truman told Chicago executives the Communist bloc shows a peaceful surface, but the United States must maintain military strength and avoid relaxing the balance of power. He criticized Eisenhower cuts and urged ongoing buildup to protect freedom and deter tyranny. He spoke as a former president with lessons from hard experience.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
America
Eisenhower
Convict Riot Shocks Nebraska Reformatory in Lincoln
Rioting inmates at the Nebraska Men's Reformatory led to calls of violence as guards fought to control the yard. One inmate, Luis Morales of San Antonio, was carried from the scene after a shot rang out during a sitdown strike. Authorities report 25 to 40 participants, with as many as 150 idle in the yard, and a fire set in the carpenter shop amid protests following the supervisor’s dismissal.
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Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska Men’s Reformatory
Luis Morales
San Antonio, Tex
Peterson
Governor backs supervised corporal punishment plan
Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary urged a legislative tweak to permit supervised beatings in state training schools to prevent inmate control. He criticized past brutal firings at the State Training School for Negro Boys in Boley and proposed chaplain and superintendent presence during any punishment under strict oversight.
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Oklahoma City
Raymond Gary Friday
Gary
Boley
Legislative Council
Board of Affairs
Artillery Airlift Demonstration Set For Saturday At Fort Sill
The Helicopter Artillery Airlift will showcase an entire battery of 105mm howitzers air lifted into position at Landing Strip 15 tomorrow at 9 a.m. Units from Fort Sill provide aircraft except for H-21 helicopters. Air sections from four Field Artillery Groups and the Army Aviation Unit Training Command supply aircraft. Tickets available at Lawton Chamber of Commerce.
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Fort Sill
17Th Field Artillery Group
93Rd Field Artillery Group
77Th Field Artillery Group
41St Field Artillery Group
Army Aviation Unit Training Command
Lawton Chamber of Commerce
Five-Day Heat Wave Forecast for Southwestern Oklahoma
Weather forecast predicts five hot days in Southwestern Oklahoma with temperatures up to four degrees above normal. Today will be fair this afternoon with partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday. Mercury may reach 100 this afternoon. tonight's low in the upper 60s. The 11 am reading was 90 and Thursday's high reached 97.
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Oklahoma
Army General Held For Plot Against Peron
Brig. Gen. Delmiro Felix Videla Balaguer, head of the Rio Cuarto garrison, was held on the outskirts of Buenos Aires amid reports of a conspiracy against President Peron. Other officers were believed under arrest in garrisons near the capital as authorities denied official word.
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Peron
Buenos Aires
Delmiro Felix Videla Balaguer
Rio Cuarto
Balaguer
la Epoca
Argentina
Jose Epifanio Sosa Molina
Congress
Radical Party
Mauricio Yadarola
Yadarola
Republic
Cache Road merchants urged quick decision on by pass plan
Fort Sill area merchants and property owners were asked to decide soon on Cache road improvements from Fort Sill Blvd to west of the city as a by pass for U S 62 is studied by the State Highway Commission. A meeting within four weeks will decide whether to proceed with the by pass, which would cost about 2.75 million for five miles of paving plus 460 thousand for five interchanges.
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Cache Road
Fort Sill
C. R. Ellsworth
State Highway Commission
G. H. Bittle
Robert Barr
Hennessey
U. S. 62
U. S. 277
Fort Sill Military Reservation
Lawton
Douglas L. Smith
Wyatt Hendrick
Freedom Prospects Brighten For Penitentiary Silent Man
John A. Cane, an Oklahoma City life prisoner who pretended to be deaf and mute for 18 years, may win parole after ending his deception. Pardon and Parole Board chairmen said he earns credit for honesty, though Cane is described as a killer and life-terrorist and parole will be gradual. No parole hearing is currently docketed despite past denied requests.
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Mcalester
Okla
John A. Cane
Oklahoma City
State Pardon and Parole Board
Tom Phillips
Holdenville
Cane
Phillips
State Parole Board
Parole Board
Adenauer seeks POW release before normalizing with USSR
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer meets Soviet leaders in Moscow urging release of German war prisoners as a prerequisite to normalizing relations. He asks Bulganin Khrushchev and Molotov to commit to a swift reunification with the Western powers, while Soviet leaders stress barriers from NATO and EU membership.
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Adenauer
Soviet Union
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Russia
Kremlin
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Molotov
Germany
NATO
East Germany
Spiridonovka Palace
Two More Ports Closed By Waterfront Strike
New York harbor remains in its third day of a waterfront strike as Norfolk Virginia and Boston close, leaving Philadelphia and Baltimore back at work. About 70 ships idle, with 20 million dollars daily in trade blocked on the New York New Jersey waterfront, as the ILA fights the Waterfront Commission and faces contempt action.
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New York
Norfolk
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York Harbor
New York-New Jersey Waterfront Commission
New York- New Jersey
New York Shipping Assn
ILA
Bistate
State Supreme Court
Memorial to Get New Parking Lot
Memorial hospital awards a $2,000 contract to Maddox Asphalt of Lawton for a new 50 car parking lot on the east side of Memorial hospital. Hospital administrator Bill Love says existing 100 car lot, built in 1951, is inadequate.
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Memorial Hospital
Maddox Asphalt Company
Lawton
Bill Love
Love
Patrol Probers To Question Holt
McAlester Oklahoma two demoted Highway Patrol officers are to be questioned today by a Senate investigating committee. Norman Holt demoted from captain to lieutenant and Andy Bidwell demoted from lieutenant to second in command of the McAlester district. The panel will also discuss a possible probe of the War Veterans Commission and hearsay witnesses.
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Mcalester
Okla
Senate
Kirksey M. Nix
Norman Holt
Andy Bidwell
Nix
United States draft plan for German reunion and European peace
The United States has drawn up a dramatic new plan to reunite Germany and secure peace in Europe. Official sources said a security treaty would be signed by 14 nations from the East and West to demonstrate Western willingness to defend the Soviet bloc if a reunited Germany threatened to attack.
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London
United States
Germany
Europe
U. S
Soviet Bloc
Post Office Receipts Fall Near Ten Percent in August
Murray Gilbert assistant postmaster reported August post office receipts totaled 34836.46 a drop from 38393.68 a year earlier. July and August combined fell 13.5 percent from 76088.01 to 65792.95 as Lawton shifts toward receiving mail rather than shipping.
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Murray Gilbert
Gilbert
Bennie Stephens
Lawton
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Nebraska
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State Board of Control
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State War Veterans Commission
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