Quiet Restored After Duncan Veteran March
Duncan on Sunday and Monday saw a clash in the high school auditorium as angry war veterans and Jehovah’s Witnesses fought for about an hour. Iron pipes, brass knuckles and clubs were used, with chairs and a window broken. Police restored order after 3:10 p.m. and all clear was given at 4 p.m. Sr. officers noted about 1,000 people attended. damage to the hall was roughly 100 dollars.
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Duncan
Times
Jehovah’s Witnesses
American Legion Post
United States
Webb
M. M. Downie
Brooklyn
N. Y
R. L. March
Joseph C. Davis
March
Davis
Board of Education
Legion
Guy Tucker
Legion Post
Elmer Fraker
State Legion
Tucker
American Legion
Otto Ott
Sooner
Lawton
State Bureau of Investigation
O. K. Bivins
Bob Turner
Dale Lane
Oklahoma City
Bivins
Finis Martin
Slavs Look to West Belgrade Movie Listings
Belgrade July 18 report notes Yugoslav movie goers increasingly favor Western films. Local listings show British and American movies dominate screens while others are scarce.
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Belgrade
Weather Summary From U S Weather Bureau Airport
Partly cloudy and continued hot with fresh to strong southerly winds. Tonight through Tuesday expect thundershowers, mainly tonight. Highs around 95 today, 90s on Tuesday. Fair and hot with scattered storms. Tonight partly cloudy, few thundershowers north. Tuesday partly cloudy and not as warm with scattered showers east and south. Highs 95 to 100, Lows around 72 to 76.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Troops Patrol Streets As Klan Spreads Panic
Groveland Florida faced a weekend of terror as a gun battle, a mob, and Ku Klux Klan leaflets spread fear in the Negro district. National Guardsmen patrolled the town for hours after Sheriff McCall requested help, with 50 troops dispatched and later withdrawn as order was restored.
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Fla
McCall
Tavares
Lake County
Orange County
Sheriff McCall
Gov. Warren
Leesburg
Eustis
Highway Mail Routes Mapped and Bids Sought
Oklahoma City to Muskogee via Okemah Henryetta Okmulgee and another route to Mangum via Chickasha Anadarko are proposed for highway post offices. If bids mismatch government figures the service may be government operated. Abandonment of several lines allows at least one more highway post office in the state.
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Oklahoma City
Postoffice Department
Washington
Charles F. Davis
Railway Mail Service
Post Office Department
Muskogee
Okemah
Henryetta
Okmulgee
Mangum
Chickasha
Anadarko
Davis
Ada
Atoka
Fort Smith and
Locust Fear Forces Fabray to Halt Open Air Show
Broadway star Nanette Fabray collapsed into tears during a Dallas Starlight operetta performance when a large insect struck her face triggering a childhood locust attack memory. The show was halted, rain checks issued, and the cast aided her to the wings as she screamed for minutes before resuming.
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U.P
Nanette Fabray
Miss Fabray
Starlight
Steel Umpires Open Probe Into Steel Contract Dispute
President Truman’s steel fact finding board will begin hearings in New York on July 28 to study wage and pension issues between the industry and the CIO Steelworkers union. The three man panel aims to finish in 45 days, with a nonbinding report that could shape future settlements across several key industries.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Steel Factfinding Board
New York
CIO Steelworkers Union
Carroll Daughterty
Daugherty
White House
John R. Steelman
Steelman
David L. Cole
Paterson
N. J
Samuel Rosenman
Roosevelt
Philip Murray
Chicago Glue Factory Burns
Chicago Swift and Co glue plant in the stockyards district was destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss estimates vary from 250000 to 500000 dollars. The blaze began on the third floor in a storage area. About 200000 pounds of glue and adhesive powder were lost. Firemen used 55 pieces of equipment. two firemen were slightly injured and two overcome by smoke.
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Chicago
Swift & Co
Stockyards
Kansas Boy Dies in Medcine Lodge Crash
A seven year old, Robert Eugene Tillotson, was killed instantly when a car collided Sunday night west of Medicine Lodge on highway 160 near Medicine River. In hospital with serious injuries are Merle Tillotson, semi conscious with bruises, Mrs. Merle Tillotson with head injuries, Walter Lee Tillotson with a broken leg and cuts, and Marlene Tillotson, 23 months, bruised but not hospitalized.
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Medicine Lodge
Kan
Hardiner
Robert Eugene Tillotson
Merle Tillotson
Medicine River
Walter Lee Tillotson
Marlene Tillotson
Angry Passengers Say Crew Deserted Unscheduled Flight
At Albuquerque Municipal airport a twin-engine plane from New York with about 30 passengers landed after a tire blowout. The crew departed to town, leaving passengers hungry and distressed until a new wheel arrived. Several passengers moved on to other flights. officials labeled the trip non-scheduled.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Albuquerque Municipal
Los Angeles
Vincent Reilly
New York City
Air
Harold B. Strawn
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Strawn
Breezes and Showers Forecast for City Plan
Summer weather brings warm highs near 95 with strong winds and possible showers. Forecaster Mr Maughan expects a cooler night around 72, then a breeze and thundershowers by Tuesday. In the past 24 hours temperatures ranged 96 at Classen to 104 at Frederick with Alva at 66 and Carnegie at 103.
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Frederick
Hobart
Carnegie
Alva
Henry Wallace to Run For Senate on ALP Ticket
Henry Wallace will be named the American Labor party candidate for the United States Senate next autumn on a ticket with Rep. Vito Marcantonio for mayor. Wallace, of South Salem New York, seeks the seat caused by Robert F Wagner Sr's resignation. Marcantonio, ALP leader for Spanish Harlem, said he would oppose O Dwyer if he ran again.
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New York
U.P
Henry Wallace
American Labor Party
United States
Vito Marcantonio
ALP
Wallace
South Salem
N. Y
Robert F. Wagner Sr
Marcantonio
Spanish Harlem
Congress
O'Dwyer
Jet Display Plugs Drive for Reserves
At noon Monday a jet engine exhibit opened at 213 West Main by the 2592nd Air Force Reserve Training Center at Tinker Air Force Base. The exhibit runs daily from noon to 8 p m Monday through Saturday to recruit 1,000 enlistments and reenlistments in the Oklahoma City area. Air Force personnel answer inquiries and job specialty posts are available to men in the area.
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Main
Flood Waters Lift Tent As Boy Clings To Branch
In Philadelphia on a rainy Sunday nine year old camper John Fudala Jr. grabbed a low branch when the Pennypack creek swirled his pup tent and camper away. Neighbors heard his shouts and Mrs Imogene Bassler pulled him to safety.
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Philadelphia
John Fudala Jr
Pennypack Creek
John
Imogene Bassler
Oklahoma Legislature Unknowingly Reopens Liquor Gap
The Oklahoma legislature failed to reestablish a dry law but passed a measure enabling federal action on bootleg liquor. Officials were alerted by Sam Lattimore about the sleeper provision, allowing the alcohol tax unit to seize imported liquor again. The shift follows decades of federal state cooperation and flagging permit systems.
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Oklahoma
Tom Clark
U. S
Robert Shelton
Leo K. Nash
Alcohol Tax Unit
U S Jaycees Back Hoover Commission Report
Tulsa July 18 Leaders of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce voted to back a campaign for adoption of the Hoover commission report. The executive committee will present the proposal to the national board next month. A three months blitz campaign will use Town Hall meetings and media to inform the public.
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Tulsa
U.P
United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Hoover Commission
The
Jaycees
National Board of Directors
Clifford D. Cooper
Enid Air Force B-25 Explodes Killing Three
An airforce instructor and two cadets were killed when their B-25 from Vance airbase near Enid exploded mid flight and crashed at the city’s southwest edge. Witnesses reported motor trouble before the crash as it circled for landing. area roped off for investigation. victims identified after next of kin notification.
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Enid
Airforce
Vance Airforce
Turner Resumes Washington Talks After Gotham Visit
Oklahoma Governor Turner returns to Washington from New York to press RFC loan talks for funding the Oklahoma City Tulsa toll road. He aims to meet RFC officials today and continues a week of discussions with RFC and government leaders on the toll road project.
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Turner
Washington
Gotham
Gov. Turner
Oklahoma
New York
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Oklahoma City-Tulsa
RFC
Braniff Receives Two Safety Awards for 1948 Record
Braniff Airways was honored by the National Safety Council with two citations in Kansas City for 1948, completing the year without a fatality and marking 1,000,000,000 miles flown without an accident. The awards went to T. E. Braniff, president, presented by Ned Dearborn, council president.
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Braniff Airways International
National Safety Council
Kansas City
T. E
Young Accident Victim In Critical Condition
Ronnie Buffalo, 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Buffalo, remained in a critical condition at St. Anthony hospital after being struck by a car in the 500 block S Hudson Sunday afternoon. He suffered a broken right thigh, a head injury and possible internal injuries. Police investigators W. D. Connell and R. D. McGuire said the boy ran in front of a car driven by Victor Earl Smith, 72, of the 600 block NW 17.
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Ben Buffalo
St. Anthony Hospital
Hudson
W. D. Connell
R. D. McGuire
Victor Earl Smith
Sudden Flood Traps Bathers on Lookout Mountain
Five bathing-suit clad picnickers huddled on a mountain ledge for 15 hours before rescue by firemen on Lookout Mountain after a flood swept their gorge Saturday afternoon. Virginia Shepard 18 Virginia Crisp 19 Doris Hutsell 18 Sheridan Hutsell 22 and Jack G Fulks, all of Chattanooga escaped without hospital care.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Lookout Mountain
Virginia Shepard
Virginia Crisp
Doris Hutsell
Sheridan Hutsell
Jack G. Fulks
Army Pay Raise Wins Approval by Senate Panel
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a military pay raise by 9 to 1, sending the bill which the House already passed to the Senate. The plan costs about 300 million dollars annually and boosts pay 3 percent for lower enlisted to 37 percent for brigadier generals. Chairman Tydings questioned passage without offsetting savings tied to the armed forces unification bill, which supporters say could save up to a billion dollars yearly.
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House
Tydings
Senate
Congress
Million proposed to battle grasshoppers in west
Sens. Hunt and Humphrey urged the senate appropriations committee to spend 3,500,000 to fight a grasshopper scourge across the middle west. They warned millions of acres in Wyoming and Montana are being ruined and the pests could invade Utah Arizona the Dakotas and Minnesota.
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Washington
Congress
Middle West
Sens. Hunt
Wyo
Humephrey
Minn
Senate
Wyoming
Montana
Utah
Ariezona
Dakotas
Minnesota
Hog Prices Hit New High Since November
Chicago July 18 live hogs rose to a new high since last November with early trade top at 23.50. The November peak reached 23.85, while last year at this time the daily peak was 29.75.
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Chicago
Vacation readers can receive The Daily Oklahoma paper
The Daily and Sunday Oklahoman offer special arrangements for travelers. News dealers in many vacation spots will stock home papers for Oklahoma visitors. Call 2-1211 and ask for the Out of State Circulation Department to arrange delivery or mail service before you depart.
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Oklahoma
Ri dbaasesee sports section summary
Ri dbaasesee reports on women’s sports and local teams with game results and player highlights. Key names and venues are noted, outlining season progress and upcoming fixtures for readers following regional athletics.
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