Siege isolates defiant Reds in U S zone
In Frankfurt on March 2 armed military police sealed the Russian repatriation mission after orders to leave the U S zone were ignored. Water, gas and electricity were cut, food was blocked, and MPs arrested outsiders trying to enter or exit. Four officers and four soldiers with families remain inside as negotiations stall.
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Germany
United States
Russia
Lucius D. Clay
U. S. Army
Clay
Col
Sterling Wood
Provost Marshall
Vasily I. Argoonov
U. S
Clarence R. Huebner
Detters
Berlin
Wood
B-50 completes first nonstop world flight from Fort Worth
The B-50 Lucky Lady II with 14 crew refueled four times and logged a 94 hour 1 minute eastward flight covering about 25 452 miles. It departed Carswell AFB February 26, reached the base again March 2, and demonstrated in flight refueling pivotal for long-range bomber operations.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Carswell Airforce Base
Carswell Base
Azores Islands
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Azores
Philippines
Hawaii
Symington
Strategic Air Command
Airforce
Senate Armed Services Committee
Russia
Labrador
Alaska
United States
Pastor and Officers Raid 24 Wewoka Establishments
The Wewoka Ministerial Alliance and county officers raided 24 establishments in Wewoka from March 2 to March 4, seizing numerous gambling devices. The operation followed a request for stricter whisky and gambling enforcement, led by County Attorney Jack Scott Sheriff Ray Rich deputies and Rev H B Woodward.
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Wewoka
Wewoka Ministerial Alliance
Alliance
Jack Scott
Ray Rich
H. B. Woodward
Shawnee youths chosen for Boys State at OU campus
Eighteen Shawnee youths will be selected by local civic clubs to attend Boys State at the University of Oklahoma south campus from June 3 to 11. Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon, with a high near 47. Thursday expected to reach the mid 50s. Temperatures vary regionally with tonight's lows around 28 to 32.
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Boys State
University of Oklahoma South
Kasee
Pawnee County Wildcat Widens Keystone Field
Toklan Production Co. Tulsa opened or extended the Keystone field in Pawnee county at No 1 Peterman. Burgess sand found at 2319 feet with total depth. Initial test Tuesday night flowed seven barrels of clean oil per hour through tubing. no salt water. Well shut in for tanks and separator. Located near center of a 240 acre lease block. Toklan Production is a subsidiary of Toklan Royalty Corp.
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Toklan Production Co
Tulsa
Pawnee County
Peterman
Toklan Production
The
Toklan Royalty Corp
Lonely Heart Deaths Probe Expands Across States
GRAND RAPIDS Mich March 2 U P Lists of missing women in a dozen states were checked to learn if the lonely heart killers had slain more than three victims. Raymond Fernandez 34 and Martha Beck 30 admitted slaying Delphine Downing and Rainelle Downing and Janet Fay. Police reopened investigations into the deaths of Jane Wilson and Myrtle Young.
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Mich
U.P
Lonely Heart
Raymond Fernandez
Martha Beck
Fernandez
Delphine Downing
Rainelle
Byron Center
Janet Fay
Valley Stream
N. Y
Jane Wilson
New York
Cadiz
Spain
Sow Repeats Motherhood In Five Days
An Oklahoma sow on the Rucker and Ellexson farm near Norman produced two complete litters of seven piglets each in five days. The first birth occurred at 5 am with six pigs weighing 12 pounds each and one runt that lived, tended by farm hands. The second litter arrived at 6 am Tuesday, seven healthy piglets all weighing 1½ pounds, and all living.
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Norman
Duroc Jersey
D. A. Ellexson
Oklahoma A&m College
Dibble’s Consolidated School
Washita Well Shows Rising Mud and Water in Proctor No 1-A
Mud and emulsion increase Wednesday at the Max Pray et al No 1-A Proctor wildcat east of Elk City in Washita county. Gas holds near 2,000,000 cubic feet daily. Weekend analysis shows 50 percent oil, 40 percent mud, 10 percent fresh water. by Wednesday morning fresh water rose to about 50 percent with 30 percent mud and 20 percent emulsion. Oil content in emulsion about 50 percent. Testing to continue until mud and fresh water exhausted. Zone currently 9,615 to 9,707 feet with perforated casing.
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Max Pray
Oklahoma Economic Institute plans repeal petitions filing
The Oklahoma Economic Institute will present its repeal petitions to Secretary of State Wilburn Cartwright in Tulsa Wednesday afternoon. The petition, said to have over 200,000 signatures, will be bound in groups for study and filed with Cartwright within one to two days. Filing was previously targeted for March 7 after a Monday notification.
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Oklahoma Economic Institute
Wilburn Cartwright
Leo Gibson
The
Institute
Tulsa
Cartwright
Economic Institute
the Institute
Army fails to locate 250 mile sky high rocket record
Washington reports the army cannot find the Wac Corporal rocket launched last week. It reached 250 miles high and 5000 mph, the highest altitude ever by a man made device. Instruments tracked it, but the actual impact point may never be found as sand burying it 90 miles from the launch site is suspected.
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Washington
Wac
French Round Up 28 In Communist Spy Hunt
Paris reports twenty eight people have been detained and eight charged in France amid a communist spy hunt. Interior Minister Jules Moch announced before the council of ministers that eight face espionage accusations as 20 additional probes proceed. Police said six communists, two army officers, were captured for leaking military secrets to a foreign power, possibly Poland or Yugoslavia.
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France
Jules Moch
Moch
Council of Ministers
Vincent -Auriol
Poland
Yugoslavia
Police Quiz Veteran in Millionaire Slaying Case
In New Orleans on March 2, police planned to continue questioning 25 year old veteran Louis Eugene Hoover, a hospital patient, about the slaying of millionaire James A. Mahoney. Hoover attempted suicide in his jail cell with a tin cup, and was described as in "good" condition at Charity Hospital after the incident.
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U.P
Veterans Hospital
James A. Mahoney
John Jackson
Louis Eugene Hoover
Jackson
Hoover
Charity Hospital
Oklahoma Senate Hears Plan To Adopt State Song
Oklahoma Senator John Jarman proposed a resolution on Wednesday to designate Oklahoma as the official state song and set a timeline to retire Oklahoma, a Toast, by Harriet Parker Camden. The move aims to replace the current song with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma
Senate
John Jarman
Oklahoma City
Harriet Parker Camden
Jarman
Sheriff Burns Destruction of Slot Machines and Gambling Gear
Sheriff Newt Burns supervised the destruction at the courthouse of gambling gear valued over 15000 dollars. The haul includes 47 one armed bandits and pinball machines seized under county administrations. Nickels from machines go to the court fund and parts may be given to city schools. About 20 machines have been seized since January.
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Newt Burns
Common Pleas
Don Stone
Burns
Criminal Court of Appeals
Ators
Lofty Ambition Of Cow Frets State Farmer
Lawton reports a cow named Iodine on Glen Fuqua 360 acre farm climbs haylofts. Neighbors recall Grady cow escaped a silo last week, five days trapped until powered helpers freed her. The second story window perch drew stares as the calf watched, prompting use of an electric prod to bring her down.
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Grady
North America
Glen Fuqua
Mussolini
Death Toll in Storms Reaches Twenty Three
The Associated Press reports a death toll of 23 from storms sweeping the northeast and mid-Atlantic. Six deaths in Connecticut and Massachusetts each. four in New Jersey and New York. two in Rhode Island. one in Maine. Snow totals up to 25 inches in some areas amid cold conditions north of Lake Ontario.
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Lake Ontario
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
Maine
Tennessee
Carolinas
Gulf Coast
Alabama
Arkansas
Chater N. C
Nashville
Enn
Weather Ahead Looks Brighter For Oklahoma
Pleasant weather is forecast to return to Oklahoma by Thursday with warmer conditions. Rain and melting snow to end in eastern Oklahoma by morning, with clouds breaking later. Oklahoma City temps expected from 35 to 47 degrees, higher than recent readings. rainfall totals vary across the state from traces to .19 inch.
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Oklahoma City
Classen Station
Ponca City
McAlester
Guthrie
Tulsa
Waynoka
B-29 Believed Down Over Rugged Luzon Range
An American B-29 with nine aboard vanished on a routine local flight in the Caraballo mountains northeast of Clark Field, Manila. Clouds hindered search efforts as planes from Clark Field scouted the area. Brig. Gen. Jared V. Crabb said the bomber’s home base was in the United States and the aircraft was overdue.
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Carabello
Luzon
Clark Field
Jared V. Crabb
U. S. 18Th Fighter Wing
United States
A&M Seeks Ruling on Negro Enrollment at Oklahoma A&M
Attorney General Mac Q Williamson said he received a request from Oklahoma A&M President Henry G Bennett regarding Henry Floyd of Eufaula and Jane Ellison of Oklahoma City, both Langston University students, seeking enrollment in political science and home economics courses not offered at Langston. The A&M board meets Friday to decide if Negro students will be enrolled.
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Stillwater
Mac Q. Williamson
Williamson
Henry G. Bennett
A&m
Henry Floyd
Eufaula
Jane Ellison
Oklahoma City
Langston University
Floyd
Langston
Ellison
the Negro College
Bennett
Board of Regents
A&m Colleges
Greek Guerrillas Suffer Heavy Losses North of Athens
The Greek general staff reports 56 guerrillas killed and 32 captured in a running battle north of Karpenissi. They say guerrillas have suffered over 1,000 killed or captured since retreating from Karpenissi on February 7. Karpenissi lies 125 miles northwest of Athens.
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Karpenissi
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