Two Die as Tornadoes Hit 4 Southern States
Storms tore through Louisiana Mississippi Texas and Arkansas on Monday killing two and injuring about 50. A 100 mile Jackson to Yazoo City stretch in Mississippi suffered the worst blows including a 10 month old baby killed and several injuries. In Louisiana six were hurt and a Missouri Pacific station wrecked at Tioga. An auto carrying three Negro occupants was dropped from a wind gust. all three suffered minor injuries.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Arkansas
Jackson
Yazoo City
Humphreys County
Yazoo
City
H. L. Deg@son
Fair Oak Springs
Brookhaven
Miss
Tioga
A. P. Colvin
Missouri Pacific Railway
Monroe
Helen Acton
Chatham
Charles Acton
Texarkana
Hockley
VA ends GI training progress reports program
The Veterans Administration will eliminate monthly progress training reports for veterans under on the job GI training programs effective April 1. Earnings reports remain required and noncompliance could suspend the trainee. In Oklahoma City region most trainees have faced suspensions since last September, with several hundred suspended monthly and as many as 1500 at peak. Delinquent veterans for January and February will stay suspended until reports are filed as training officers are assigned to check compliance.
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L H. Walton
VA Vocational Reae
Tues J
Oklahoma City
Walton
Weather Outlook at State and county fairs and Shippers
Local fair windy and cool with partial cloudiness and rising warmth. High today near 60, low tonight around 42. Wednesday highs in the 60s, fair in east with increasing clouds west and warmer. State fair mostly in the 50s to 60s with cooler east and warmer west. Shippers should expect 30 to 35 northwest temperatures for 24 to 36 hours, other directions above 32. Extended five day outlook shows average 4 to 8 degrees warmer through Sunday.
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U. S&s Weather Bureau
Panhandie
Boston Cowboy Falls From Kansas Horse Injury Reported
Boston student Bob Chisholm at Kansas State college bought a spirited horse and new saddle from a mail order catalog. He rode the horse Monday, and minutes later a doctor treated him for a broken arm and hip. He later learned the saddle had a bucking-encouragement attachment.
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Manhattan
Kan
Bob Chisholm
Boston
Kansas State College
Chisholm
Girl's Spy Defense Is Novel Says Attorney
Judith Coplon, a former Justice Department employee indicted for espionage, is described by her New York attorney Archibald Palmer as serious minded and possibly writing a novel. Palmer suggested she was gathering material for a book while facing two counts of espionage. Coplon pleaded innocent, Judge Keech set trial for April 25, released on $10,000 bail. Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev, a UN Russian engineer, face additional proceedings.
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Washington
U.P
Judith Coplon
Justice Department
Archibald Palmer
New York
Palmer
Miss Copion
Richmond B. Keech
Keech
Valentin Gubitchev
United Nations
Koreans Held Admit Killing in Seoul Slaying
Police Chief Kim Tat Sun announced the arrest of five men linked to the killing of American Mrs. H. H. Underwood in Seoul. The slayers confessed after her son Rev. John Underwood led prayers at the funeral, attended by about 2,000. Mrs. Underwood, wife of the president emeritus of Chosen University, was shot March 17 by two hooded gunmen.
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Seoul
Kim Tat Sun
H. H. Underwood
South Korean Labor Party
John Underwood
New York Bar Cuts Beer Price to Nickel
Sam's Bar and Grill near the Bowery cut regular seven ounce beer price from ten to five cents. The proprietor cited weak business as the reason for the Tuesday price drop.
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New York
Sam’s Bar and Grill
The
Bowery
Stassen to Keynote at University of Pennsylvania Forum
Philadelphia reports Harold E. Stassen president of the University of Pennsylvania and former Minnesota governor will deliver the keynote address Tuesday night at the opening of the 1949 Evening Bulletin forum.
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Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Evening Bulletin
Reds defend rights in conspiracy trial opening
A defense lawyer invoked the First Amendment in the 11 defendant conspiracy case. George W. Crockett Jr. said the defense will justify all statements and actions as protected by freedom of speech press and peaceable assembly. Prosecution opened with claims of a plan to up rise. If convicted, defendants face up to 10 years and $10,000 fines.
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New York
United States
George W. Crockett Jr
Detroit
John F. X. McGahey
Eugene Dennis
Communist Party
Dennis
Roosevelt
Harold R. Medina
Crockett
Louis M. McCabe
Bus Union Accepts 2-Cent Pay Cut Under Contract
About 400 Oklahoma Railway Co. workers including bus operators and maintenance men took a 2 cent per hour wage cut retroactive to Jan. 1 1949 and effective March 20 under the company union contract. The cut follows a cost of living index rule, with a maximum total reduction of 5 cents an hour by July 1950.
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Oklahoma Railway Co
Robert Bowers
Gordon Malone
Amalgamated Association of Street Car and Motor Bus Operators
ORC
Bowers
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Malone
General Motors
Automotive Workers Union
Burglary Charges Filed Against Two City Suspects
Police filed burglary counts Tuesday against Buddy Gene Hopper 19 and Abra Buddy Wiley Jr 23 still at large in the looting of M and W grocery 3208 N Drexel. Wiley was captured Friday with Hopper and another youth but escaped near the police station as officers fired. The other youth was released after questioning and not involved in the burglary.
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Buddy Gene Hopper
Abra Buddy Wiley Jr
Drexel
Bert Giddens
George Leech
Wiley
Hopper
Federalists' President Leaves for New York
Cord Meyer Jr president of the United World Federalists will fly to New York City Tuesday after a two day Oklahoma City stay promoting world peace. He spoke at two Biltmore hotel meetings on Monday night including a dinner for state college and university presidents and Oklahoma UWF leaders Samuel Levering. Ararat Virginia national chairman of the Friends Peace board also departed Tuesday.
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Cord Meyer Jr
United World Federalists
New York City
Oklahoma City
UWF
Meyer
Biltmore Hotel
State College
Oklahoma Uwf
Samuel Levering
Ararat, Ve
Friends Peace Board
Confessed Slayer, 14, Tries to Strangle Self
Chicago youth Howard Lang, 14, named as the city’s youngest confessed slayer, attempted to hang himself in the county jail hospital. Guards reported finding him on his bunk with a belt around his neck and head buried in pillows after his second murder trial for Lonnie Fellick, 7, abruptly ended.
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Chicago
U.P
Howard Lang
Anthony
Lonnie Fellick
Life Insurance Benefits Reach 296.94 Million for January
The Institute of Life Insurance reports January life insurance benefits paid totaled 296.94 million, up 7 percent from 278.14 million a year earlier. The data were released Tuesday and pertain to New York.
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New York
Institute of Life Insurance
Music Festival Planned for Rural School Event in Blackwell
Plans for the rural school music festival here on April 29 are being formulated with assistance from County Supervisor Ham, Newkirk, Mrs. Juanita Barnett of Ponca City, and Mrs. Jeanne Bratcher of Blackwell.
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Blackwell
Superviee Ee
Ham
Newkirk
Juanita Barnett
Ponca City
Jeanne Bratcher
Detroit woman praised as heroine in Smoky Mountain crash survival
Mrs. Fred Hall, 40, of Detroit, hailed for keeping four injured crash survivors hopeful during a 62 hour vigil on Hangover mountain. Her husband was among the four saved after a Cessna crash. the group endured freezing conditions with little food until rescuers arrived.
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Aryville
Tenn
U.P
Fred Hall
Detroit
Mich
James Hardy
Orville Rich
Mrs. Hall
RS. Hall
Oklahoma burglary ring tied to coast to coast auto thefts
Investigators linked a vast theft network to repeated burglaries of tag offices in Oklahoma unlocking hundreds of automobile titles. Police say stolen titles are used with stolen cars in other states, then re-registered under fictitious names as titles surface in Dallas New Mexico California and Memphis. The ring moves cautiously and targets multiple states, with recent breaks including 50 title transfers stolen at Pauls Valley and 96 original titles seized in Wewoka.
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United States
Oklahoma
Pauls Valley
James R. Sullivan
National Automobile Theft Bureau
Sullivan
Duan Iy Ene
Dallas
New Mexico
State Bureau of Investigation
Jake Sims
Wewoka Tag
California
Memphis
Wewoka
Bartlesville
Coalgate
Holdenville
Odom Sets Longest Solo Flight Distance Record
Washington March 22 U P Bill Odom completed a Honolulu to Teterboro New Jersey nonstop solo flight of 4 957.24 miles. The National Aeronautic Association credited it as the longest non stop solo flight in any plane pending instruments checks by the National Bureau of Standards and certification to the FAI. Earlier solos surpassed include Lindbergh New York to Paris 3 609 538 miles and Wiley Post New York to Berlin 3 942 miles.
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Washington
U.P
Bill Odom
Honolulu-Teterboro
N. J
National Aeronautic Association
National Bureau of Standards
Odom
NAA
Fedon Aeronautique Internationale
FAI
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Berlin
Wiley Post
Legislator Seeks Restrictions on State Car Use
Oklahoma City representative R. O. Cunningham plans a house bill to curb private use of state owned cars and trucks. The measure requires each vehicle to display state property signs and ownership, and mandates drivers to carry permits with destination and estimated return time for every trip.
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R. O. Cunningham
Oklahoma City
Death Penalty Urged For State Labor Leader
Muskogee attorney Ed Edmondson urged seeking the death penalty for labor leader Jack Ridenour in two rape cases. Ridenour, 44, free on bonds totaling 17,500 after pleading innocent, faces a March 29 preliminary hearing. He is president of Muskogee's central labor union.
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Muskogee
Ed Edmondson
Jack Ridenour
Ridenour
Edmondson
Brewer
Warm and Windy Forecast For Oklahoma Week
Weather report notes a warm and windy pattern with possible showers later in the week. Forecaster Mr Maughan predicts clouds and moderate temperatures midweek, with 60 to 42 degree range for the next day and rainfall expected across the state by Thursday into Friday. Ardmore and McAlester record highs around 70, Gage and Guyman low 32, McAlester low 44.
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Mr. Maughan
Classen
Oklahoma
Ardmore
McAlester
Gage
Guyman
Equality Group Granted Charter at Oklahoma A&M
The American Committee for Equality received a charter to use Oklahoma A&M college facilities for meetings. The student senate granted the charter Monday night, with the senate approving a revised purpose clause after denying a charter last week.
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Stillwater
American Committee For Equality
Oklahoma A&m College
Senate
State Official Named to Oil Compact Post
Lawrence R. Alley, assistant conservation director of the state corporation commission, will become assistant secretary of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission, effective April 1. Dan Dunnett, petroleum engineer, will succeed Alley. Alley is the department’s oldest employe, moving from clerk to deputy in 1933.
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Lawrence R. Alley
State Corporation Commission
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Earl Foster
Reford Bond
Corporation Commission
Dan Dunnett
Conservation Department
Alley
Dunnett
Department
Oklahoma City
Compact Commission
E. G. Dahlgren
Arthur S. Davenport
Dahlgren
Commission
State Conservation Department
Walker T. Pound
38 Births Claimed By State Woman Quints Included
Atwood Oklahoma March 22. A 65 year old former Texan now living in Oklahoma says she gave birth to 38 Dallas births with 11 still living. Father is the late John Womack, married in 1900. She claims five sets of twins three sets of triplets a quadruplet and a quintuplet. The quintuplets died shortly after birth. Mrs Berry moved here after marrying G E Berry.
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Atwood
Oklahoma
Dallas
John Womack
Proposal Would Raise Schoolmen's Standards
A bill introduced by Rep. E. T. Dunlap would require county superintendents to hold a bachelor’s degree and four years teaching experience, replacing the current rule that requires only a teaching certificate and two years experience. Dunlap said the move follows the house’s refusal to approve a section in the omnibus school bill.
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E. T. Dunlap
Education Committee
Dunlap
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Stassen
Reds
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