Pickets surround Waldorf Astoria during world peace protest
In New York on a Friday march, about 2,000 people gathered on Park Avenue as 150 marchers protested outside the Waldorf Astoria where delegates met for the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace. Police stood by, endorsing no clashes, while signs highlighted Cardinal Mindszenty’s Hungary detention and a quotation from the cardinal.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Park Avenue
State Department
Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
People’s Committee For Freedom of Religion
Soil Rebuilding Field Day At McGee Farm Draws Hundreds
A farm near Fairview hosts a soil rebuilding event beginning Friday at 10 a m with hundreds from McClain Cleveland Garvin and Grady counties. Tenant J R McGee funds the restoration aided by Pete James and Oklahoma A M extensions. The day includes lime phosphate seedings and terrace construction.
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McGee
Pete James
Oklahoma A&m College Extension Department
Pennsylvania to raise gas tax by five cents in June
Harrisburg March 25 motorists in Pennsylvania will pay a state tax of five cents a gallon on gasoline starting June 1. Gov James H Duff signed the bill approving the tax increase and implementing the hike.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
Spring Rains Enter Picture Across Oklahoma
Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to reach Oklahoma and linger into Saturday forenoon. Forecasters expect moderate to heavy rain over the state in the next five days, with eastern areas possibly receiving up to two inches and western sections at least a quarter inch. Temperatures will be variable, with highs around the 70s and nights dropping into the 40s.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Fort Worth
Hobart
Classen
McAlester
Guymon
Ardmore
Blind Woman Robbed By Courteous Thief
In Chicago on March 22 a blind woman, Elizabeth Zinnerlin, was helped by a young man at Halsted and Clybourn. As they crossed, the courteous stranger snatched her purse containing $7 and a watch that helped her tell time, and fled.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Zinnerlin
Halsted Street
Clybourn Avenue
Gladys Starks Found Safe After Overnight Absence
Eight year old Gladys Starks sparked a large Stillwater search after leaving a park with a friend. Police and radio broadcasts aided the effort until the girl returned to her own bed, much to her parents relief. Neighboring family Janell Lambert hosted her for the night before Gladys came home.
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Bruce Palmer
WKY
Starks
Gladys
Eugene Field School
Janell Lambert
Lamberts
Soviets Step Up Berlin Air Lift Drill Announcements
Berlin reports Soviet forces intensified air lift region drills with four air to air firing notices and a separate bombing exercise. Western powers lodged another protest, citing violations of quadripartite air safety rules during the Berlin air lift operations.
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Berlin
Godbey Calm, Gets Sentence For Murder
Roy Frank Godbey, a round shouldered ex convict, was sentenced to life in the McAlester state penitentiary for the January 11 murder of Earl Pruet, Oklahoma City lawyer. He told Judge Clarence Mills he held no ill will toward anyone and accepted the verdict without appeal.
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Roy Frank Godbey
Clarence Mills
McAlester
Godbey
Earl Pruet
Oklahoma City
Mills
William N. Mounger
Dave Tant
Harold Theus
State Penitentiary
Dick Finley
Thieves Crack City Safe Take Signed Checks
Police alerted city stores after burglars at Mullinix Construction Co. looted 45 blank checks signed by officials and $300. A second break in at Hicks drugstore cost $600. Detective Mark Bain said the entry was skillful and may indicate a new Oklahoma City gang.
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Mullinix Construction Co
NW 5
Hicks
N Western
Leo L. Pollock
Mark Bain
Rachel Justice
J. M. Erts
Jess R. Mullinix
Bain
Oklahoma City
Cache Woman Dies in Crash Near Healdton
Mrs Cecelia Neal 49 a Cache resident was killed instantly at 735 pm Thursday one mile east of Healdton on US 62 in a collision between the car she rode in driven by her husband Charles Marion Neal Frisco railroad ticket agent at Cache and a car driven by Ralph Lewis Crompton Snyder Irvin Heidebrecht highway patrolman said Crompton left across the highway when the accident occurred Mrs Neal suffered a broken neck and injuries to her head and shoulders Neal was taken to an Altus hospital suffering from shock
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Cache
Healdton
U. S. 62
Neal
Charles Marion Neal
Frisco Railroad
Ralph Lewis Crompton
Snyder
Irvin Heidebrecht
Crompton
Altus
Gunman and Woman Rob Taxi in Dawn Crime
Morgan B Moore 52 describes a theft when a dapper bandit and a woman rode off in his A A taxi after threatening him with a .38 revolver and stealing $23. He was treated at Mercy hospital with 12 stitches. The cab and money changer were found two hours later. money missing.
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A&a
Mercy Hospital
Moore
D. C. Worthy
Fred Ward
NW 23
Classen
NW 36
Grand Boulevard
NW 39
Sheriff's Office
Worthy and Ward
NW 29
Indiana
Axis Sally given 10 to 30 year treason term and fine
Mildred E. Gillars known as Axis Sally was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for treason and fined $10,000. The judge noted loss of citizenship on conviction. Gillars, 48, convicted March 10, broadcast Nazi propaganda including Vision of Invasion. Chandler and Best received life terms in separate trials.
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Mildred E
Sally” Gillars
Edward M. Curran
Miss Gillars
Curran
Sally
Judge Curran
Normandy
Evelyn
Ohio
Congresswoman Edith Rogers Guards After Threats
Police guard the home of Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers after she receives letters threatening death. The 67 year old Massachusetts Republican, dean of women in Congress, noted threats began around Valentine’s Day and continue. A related divorce suit involves Capt. Harold Latta Lawrence and his wife Eliene Latta Lawrence, alleging he had close ties to Rogers and visiting her hotel suite late at night.
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Willie, le Wigely
Harold A. Latta-Lawrence
Eilene Diana Latta- Lawrence
New England
Missouri
Chattanooga
Tenn
Los Angeles
Mrs Rogers Retains Counsel Plans Fight
Boston March 25 Aged congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers said she has consulted lawyers over an outrageous charge she influenced the breakup of a navy captain's marriage. She called the allegations absurd and said she has a lawyer and cannot talk. She arrived from Washington to attend a federal check presentation at a veterans housing project.
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Boston
Edith Nourse Rogers
Mass
Navy
Harold A. Latta-Lawrence
Shawnee PTA Discovers Comics Influence on Kids
Shawnee March 25 special report shows average child reads 742 comics weekly, 11 650 copies needed for fourth to ninth graders while only 2 848 are sold leaving many swapped among juveniles. P T A survey of 1 657 students notes peak interest in fifth and sixth grades, Blondie leads, and 45 pupils do not read comics. Parents urged to monitor reading with a blacklist of 165 titles and co operation from 22 local newsstands.
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Blondie
Dick Tracy
Sawyer
Bugs Bunny
P-Ta
Frank Cleere
PTA
Shawnee
Postal Group Founders to Be Honored Tonight
Old time postal letter carriers who in 1907 founded the Oklahoma City branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers will be honored by the branch at a banquet Friday night in the Sorosis club. Past presidents of the local branch will also be honored.
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Oklahoma City
National Association of Letter Carriers
Sorosis Club
Truman accepts Bedell Smith resignation as Moscow ambassador
Reports from Washington say President Truman accepted Walter Bedell Smith’s resignation as ambassador to Moscow. In Dallas, a mid morning windstorm caused minor property damage with dark skies and rain and hail.
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Washington
Truman
Walter Bedell Smith
Moscow
Dallas
U.P
Lawton Hens Rivalry Produces Mammoth Eggs
Lawton hens stage a big eggs contest. A hen owned by Jacob C. Lauback laid an eight inch egg around, another hen owned by Mrs Fred Am burgery topped it by an eighth inch and weighed a quarter pound.
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Lawton
Jacob C. Lauback
Fred Amburgery
Weather Summary From Local Weather Bureau Station
Cloudy and colder with showers and a few thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Saturday forenoon High today near 52 low near 40 High Saturday in the lower 60s Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight and east portion Saturday a little cooler this afternoon high 55 65 warmer tonight low 50s Saturday not much change high 60s Temperatures average 3 to 6 degrees above normal through Sunday turning colder Monday and Tuesday becoming warmer again Wednesday Precipitation moderate to heavy mainly Sunday and Monday then rain again Wednesday amounts 1 to 2 inches eastern Oklahoma to remains west Oklahoma
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