Fort Sill Guns Headed to State Fair in Oklahoma City
Fort Sill moved out early in a convoy of heavy weapons including the 280 mm atomic cannon and Honest John rocket under Maj. Ralph E. Johnson. Seventy three enlisted men and five officers planned a static display, requiring permits and special axle reinforcement to traverse routes via U.S. 62 Apache Anadarko U.S. 81 Union City and S H 152.
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Fort Sill
Honest John
Oklahoma City
Ralph E. Johnson
Fairgrounds
Oklahoma Highway Department
Oklahoma Military District
G. E. Etheridge
Department of Public Safety
Jack Adams
U.S. 62
Apache
Anadarko
U.S. 81
Chickasha
Union City
Five hurt in city car crash near 19th and Andrews
A five vehicle stretch of early morning crashes left five people injured, one seriously. John A. Anderson, 56, of 1511 Euclid, sustained chest injuries and head wounds. he is at Southwestern hospital. Drivers William Marvel Brown, 49, and William Marshall Burch, 20, had minor injuries. Two other Brown passengers also treated and released. Two additional wrecks at Seventh and Roosevelt and the 100 block S Sixth produced no injuries.
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John A. Anderson
Euclid
Southwestern Hospital
Anderson
William Marvel Brown
Brown
Andrews
William Marshall Burch
W. T. Ebisch
Allie Turner
Monroe
Central
Bryan Logan
Hank Bartels
Burch
Roosevelt
Rebel Chief Dissolves Argentina's Congress
Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi provisional president of Argentina dissolved Congress on Thursday and said he has assumed the powers inherent in the constitution. The move came in one of six decrees issued from Cordoba, the provisional capital, about 400 miles north of Buenos Aires.
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Buenos Aires
Eduardo Lonardi
Argentina
Congress
Lonardi
Cordoba
Ruanne Airoc
Watershed gets rain boosts Lawtonka reservoir hopes
Heavy rainfall spread across the Lake Lawtonka watershed boosting hopes of reservoir gains. Measurements near Medicine Park site at press time showed 0.25 inches with 1.20 inches at a rain gauge and Lucius Long area near Meers reported about three inches by 1 30 p.m. Rain and cooler air followed a tropical moisture surge from Hurricane Hilda and a cold Canadian front.
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Lake Lawtonka
Bob Bauman
Lucius Long
Meers
Bauman
Lawton
The
Constitution
John Frampton
Medicine Park
Saddle Mountain
Canada
Bulganin Sends the Disarmament Note to Eisenhower
Paris reports Soviet Premier Bulganin sent a long 11 page letter to President Eisenhower aiming to break the deadlock on world disarmament. Alexander Anikine delivered the note to French Premier Edgar Faure, with a copy also to British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. The move precedes the Big Four foreign ministers conference in Geneva next month.
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Paris
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
Alexander Anikine
Edgar Faure
Anthony Eden
Bulgaria
Geneva
Indian Is Found Hanged In Cell
Apache Indian Stecker Archilta, 43, was found hanged in an Anadarko city jail cell on Wednesday night. Police Chief Olen Wilson said he used a belt looped to a foot square peek-hole in the cell door, with the hole six feet from the floor. Archilta, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, was treated by an Anadarko doctor for about 45 minutes but died. See INDIAN, Page 28.
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Stecker Archilta
Anadarko City
Olen Wilson
Archilta
Chief Wilson
Five More Greenlease Ransom Bills Found
FBI agents disclosed that five additional ransom bills from the Bobby Greenlease case were found in currency passing through the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago bringing the total unearthed there to 40.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank
FBI
Disease Epidemic Strikes Tampico Amid Flood Crisis
In Tampico Mexico City a disease epidemic worsened the flood disaster from the Panuco River. Unofficial northeast Mexico deaths reached 205 with 400 missing and 1,000 injured. Dysentery hit 30,000 homeless as two children died at a concentration center and 100 more were critically ill. Emergency aid and airlift medicine arrived. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines visited coast. US helicopters aided rescue as a billion peso property loss reported and 1,000 residents were evacuated from a hilltop.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Gulf Port
Panuco River
Mexico
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
U.S
Panuco
Douglass Lions Ardmore Dragons Game Delayed to Monday
Tonight’s Roosevelt stadium football game between Douglass Lions and Ardmore Dragons is postponed to 8 p.m. Monday due to heavy rains. Coach H King announced the delay this afternoon.
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Roosevelt Stadium
Douglass Lions
Ardmore Dragons
King
Janet Becomes Hurricane 10th Tropical Storm Of Year
Hurricane Janet nears the Caribbean with 115 mph winds centered 1,700 miles east southeast of Miami. Warnings cover the Windward Islands from St Lucia to Grenada while northeast and northwest storm alerts extend toward Dominica Tobago. Barbados reports 60 mph gusts and evacuation of a weather observer as Janet heads west at about 16 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Janet
Barbados
Caribbean
Windward
St. Lucia
Grenada
Dominica
Tobago
South America
Leeward Islands
Greater Antilles
Atlantic
Bridgetown
Dulles Sees Enduring Era Of Peaceful Change At UN
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the United Nations General Assembly the world may enter a decade of peaceful change ending the cold war. He urged universal UN membership, a charter review, and mutual aerial inspections to advance arms reduction and pave the way for German reunification and broader European security. The envoy spoke of a favorable Far East trend and urged all nations to gain from a lasting, less brittle international order.
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N. Y
John Foster Dulles
UN General Assembly
Far East
Red China
United States
Dulles
Eisenhower
Russia
Geneva
World Organization
Paris
London
Germany
Austria
Soviet Union
City Fireman and Area Woman Hit By Polio
A Lawton fireman and a Snyder woman were diagnosed with acute polio at Memorial hospital. Wiley Cox, 1008 Washington, admitted after first falling ill Sunday, and Mrs LeRoy Benson, Snyder telephone operator, admitted Tuesday. Both in fourth floor isolation ward in fair condition but fever stages. cases not yet determined as paralytic. Four other polio patients released earlier, all in satisfactory condition. Fred Larrance Jr., 514 B, dismissed with non paralytic polio, home condition satisfactory.
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Lawton
Snyder
Memorial Hospital
Wiley Cox
Washington and Lawton
Memorial
Southwestern Hospital
Lawton Junior High School
LeRoy Benson
Snyder Telephone
Cox
Benson
Fred Larrance Jr
Larrance
Kress Stores Founder Samuel H. Kress Dies
Samuel H. Kress, 92, founder and chairman of S. H. Kress Co., died at home in New York. He began in Nanticoke Pennsylvania as a teacher, then wholesale stationery in Wilkes Barre, and built a chain of more than 250 five and dime stores. He led the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and served as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
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New York
Samuel H. Kress
S. H. Kress Co
Kress
Nanticoke
Wilkes- Barre
Samuel H
Snyder Farmer Treated For Spider Bite
Hilbert W. Wilson, 37, a Snyder area farmer, was rushed to Memorial hospital this morning after being bitten by a black widow at about 6 a.m while tending farm chores near Snyder. He is receiving sulfuric injections and is in satisfactory condition.
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Hilbert W. Wilson
Snyder
Memorial Hospital
Wilson
Foreclosure suits filed on 37 city residences
Foreclosure suits were filed in federal court today by Federal National Mortgage Association on 37 houses in the Greer addition bringing to 145 the total number of rental units involved in foreclosure action this year. 32 of the total 145 rental units were sold to FNMA at a public sale in Comanche county courthouse this morning.
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Federal National Mortgage Association
Greer Addition
FNMA
Comanche County
Mt. Scott Homes Inc
Tomlinson Addition
25Th Street
Gore Blvd
Mike Sapp
Mort
Patrol Hearings To Start Friday
Public hearings on the Highway Patrol by Sen. Kirksey Nix's state senate investigating committee will begin at the Hotel Lawtonian at 10 a.m. Friday. The probe concerns recent personnel shifts including the demotion of C. T. Raley, a patrol veteran close to retirement, and draws ire from Lawton residents.
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Highway Patrol
Kirksey Nix
State Senate
Lawtonian
C. T. Raley
Five Day Old Baby Kidnapping Demands $5,000
A ransom note demanded $5,000 for five day old Robert Marcus, but the caller did not meet the rendezvous point. A woman matching the kidnapper description was seen near a clothesline attempting to steal diapers. A letter threatening death to the child turned up at Oakland’s main post office after a clerk refused a postage shortfall.
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San Francisco
Robert Marcus
Marcus
Sanford Marcus
Oakland
Calif
Baby
Boy testifies Emmett Till was taken to plantation barn
In Sumner Mississippi an 18-year-old farmhand testified four white men carried Emmett Till into a plantation barn hours after his kidnaping. He heard screams, saw John Milam leave with a pistol, and placed the barn on Clint Sheridan's Drew area plantation in Sunflower County. The case ties Sunflower to the murder as Milam and Roy Bryant face trial.
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Sumner
Miss
Emmett
Bobo
John W. Milam
Milam
Roy Bryant
Chicago
Sunflower County
Reed
Till
Money
Leflore County
Tallahatchie
Tallahatchie County
Sunflower
Drew
Mamie Bradley
African Plane Crash Kills Fifteen at Tripoli Airport
A BOAC four engine Argo nautil crashed on approach to Idris Airport Tripoli early today killing 15, including 13 passengers and 2 crew. Of 42 aboard, 27 passengers and 5 crew survived. Survivors taken to a British hospital as wreckage burned for hours.
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Tripoli
Libya
Idris
British Overseas Airways Corp
London
BOAC
Lagos
Nigeria
West Africa
North Africa
Area Weather Forecast With Cloudiness And Showers
Considerable cloudiness through Friday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Showers may be heavy at times, cooler afternoons and evenings. Highs in the 80s today and Friday, with a low tonight around 64. 11 a.m. reading 71. Wednesday high 95. Rainfall total 1.10 inches.
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By Bob Greenberg
Bill Dixon
Argentinas Congress
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Paraguay
Juan Chaves
Foreign Office
Edward Barbour
Harvey Harding
Barbour
Harding
Bulganin
Greenlease
Navy Ministry
Bulletin
Kress Stores
Raley
Raymond Gary Lee
Emmett Till
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