Oklahoma Drys Halt Fight Against Repeal Petition
Oklahoma Drys abandoned a three month campaign to defeat the repeal petition and rely on Gov. Turner not calling a special election. David C. Shapard asked the state supreme court to dismiss protests and indicated the measure could still go to a statewide vote either in a general election or a future election, if the governor chooses.
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Oklahoma United Drys
Oklahoma Economic Institute
Turner
David C. Shapard
United Days
State Supreme Court
George Miller Jr
Drys
Shapard
Roy S. Holloman
B. C. Clark
Henry L. Goddard
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Gov. Turner
United States Treasury Department
CEI
Caddo Leaders Plead for Aid In Flood Wake
Anadarko officials led by Ace Reed appealed for relief at a state federal briefing on Washita flood damage in Caddo county. They reported 75 percent of area farm terraces ruined and 860 bridges washed out, with many families stranded without food or seed. An aerial survey and erosion study were ordered, with a findings report due July 15 and relief recommendations to Washington.
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Washita Valley
Anadarko
Caddo County
Ace Reed
Clarence Burch
State Planning and Resources Board
Reed
Washita
Burch
Oklahoma
Washington
Fort Sill
Capitol
Drive In Church in West Texas Draws Crowd
In Big Lake Texas a Presbyterian congregation holds a drive in church on an outdoor platform due to lack of funds for a building. More than 50 cars lined up Sunday as Rev Rodney Gibson stated there should be no strangeness in worshiping God this way.
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Big Lake
Texas
West Texas
Rodney Gibson
U S Closes Red Isolated Consulate in Manchuria
The United States orders the closing of its Mukden consulate in Manchuria. Consul General Angus Ward, his wife Mrs Ward, and nine consular staff are to be recalled. Ward was cut off after the communists captured Mukden last November, losing radio contact with the state department and other American posts.
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Washington
United States
Mukden
Manchuria
State Department
Angus Ward
Chassell, Mich
Ward
Orient
German Union Seeks Halt to Oil Factory Dismantling
German miners union chairman August Schmidt urged foreign ministers in Paris to halt immediate dismantling of German synthetic oil plants. He argued dismantling undermines democratic reconstruction and asked support from American and British labor.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
August Schmidt
Paris
Montreal police nab Edouard Belland after heroin attempt
In Montreal on Monday night police tackled Edouard Belland who resisted and attempted to swallow a capful of heroin. He was restrained for five minutes before finally coughing up the evidence.
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Montreal
Edouard Belland
Belland
Weather outlook from U S Weather Bureau station
Partly cloudy and windy today with warm temperatures. Tonight showers and thunderstorms and warmer. Wednesday partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms and cooler. High near 94 today, low near 75. Fair and warmer tonight, Wednesday hot and fair, lows 72 to 75, Panhandle 60 to 65, high 98 to 100. Extended period showers and thunderstorms mainly Thursday and Friday, about 0.5 to 1 inch elsewhere. Temperatures near normal, warm and humid Wednesday, cooler Thursday and Friday, warm again Saturday and Sunday.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Observer predicts 112 million bushels for Oklahoma wheat
C. W. Lane, special representative of the Santa Fe railroad, forecasts an 112,000,000 bushel Oklahoma wheat crop despite rain hail floods and rust. He says weather may cut about 4,000,000 bushels, with optimism that further rain or rust could reduce total yield. Kansas and Texas panhandle regions are also near record potential.
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C. W. Lane
Santa Fe Railway
Oklahoma
Lane
Kansas
Texas Panhandle
South Plains
Wife Finds Slain GI Remarried
YORK May 31 An infantryman listed as missing in France in 1944 and later presumed dead appears alive and in Staten Island with a new wife and family. Anthony V. Martino, a taxi driver, walked into an army recruitment station, shocking his Connecticut wife Mary Martino who learned he might be alive. Martino told officers memory gaps. fingerprint identification confirmed his identity. The couple’s children, Edward 11 and Lorraine 7, and Martino’s Staten Island employer Nicholas de Joy verify his work history and location. Family plans to meet with army officials as uncertainty remains.
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York
Connecticut
Staten Island
Anthony V. Martino
France
Mary Martino
Waterbury
Martino
RMY
Nicholas de Joy
Staten Island Taxi Company
de Joy
Tompkinsville
Juliano
Victor
Edward
Lorraine
Eiger
Brooklyn
Rain Forecast Hits at Wheat in Oklahoma
Rain to soak Oklahoma wheat fields delaying harvests as storms move in. Five day outlook predicts widespread rain with heaviest doses Thursday and Friday, temps climbing to near 94 in Oklahoma City then cooling overnight. Statewide rainfall reported in last 24 hours includes Bartlesville 0.09, Vinita 0.05, Ponca City trace.
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Oklahoma
Maughan
Oklahoma City
Classen
Classen Station
Elk City
Boise City
Bartlesville
Vinita
Ponca City
Son of Former Sooners To Teach Bible in Japan
Edward M. Brown of Abilene Texas son of a Hughes county couple will go to Otsuki Japan in June to teach Bible in Japanese schools. He and his wife are sent by the Churches of Christ of Hamlin and Anson Texas. Brown formerly was superintendent of Spaulding and Dustin schools in Holdenville.
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Holdenville
Edward M. Brown
Abilene
Texas
Hughes County
Otsuki
Japan
Orient
Churches of Christ of
Weather Delays Officer's Flight To Wife's Bedside
Navy chief petty officer William J. Kopytko's mercy flight to his critically ill wife Marion was forced to return from two hours out of Honolulu due to engine trouble and bad weather. He was near the end of a 5000 mile journey from Guam. her condition remains unchanged in a general hospital iron lung. The arrival in San Francisco was not definite for resumption.
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Los Angeles
Navy
William J. Kopytko
Honolulu
Guam
Marion
Kopytko
San Francisco
Former State Merchant Dies in Washington
Joe M. Baum of Elk City and Chickasha, a longtime merchant, moved to Washington D C as an accountant about 12 years ago. He died in Washington Monday after months of illness. Burial planned at Fairlawn Cemetery. services not yet set locally.
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Joe M. Baum
Elk City
Chickasha
State Department
Washington, D. C
Washington
Fairlawn Cemetery
Recall Petition Dies in Court
Ora J. Fox's recall petition seeking removal of public officials was rejected by the state supreme court on Tuesday. The 91,949 signatures were deemed insufficient as the appeal was not perfected within the 10 day limit, blocking a statewide vote on recall powers.
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Ora J. Fox
State Supreme Court
Wilburn Cartwright
Fox
Supreme Court
Cartwright
J. M. Ashton
Amber of Commerce Research Hire
Barkley to Host Dinner for Truman in Washington
Vice President Barkley will host the annual vice presidents dinner in honor of President Truman at a Washington hotel Tuesday night. About 85 guests have been invited to attend the event, marking a formal White House occasion with notable officials and dignitaries present.
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Washington
Truman
Barkley
Trial of Hiss Opens at Last
Alger Hiss began his federal perjury trial in New York on May 31 after six postponements. Judge Samuel Kaufman presided as jurors were chosen from about 60 talesmen while Hiss and his wife Priscilla sat together in the front row.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Samuel H. Kaufman
Talesmen
Hiss
Priscilla
Wednesday Is Day To Spray Pecan Trees
County agent Harry F. James warns that June 1 is the correct time to spray pecan trees for casebearers and delaying is not advised. Inspect grown nut ends for moths and eggs. Recommend 4 pounds of 50 percent wettable DDT per 100 gallons of water, plus two pounds of zerlate if scab is present.
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Harry F. James
Woman Seeks Train Death In Brooklyn Tragic Decapitation
New York police report a young woman aged about 35 from Brooklyn deliberately laid her head on an oncoming ten car subway train in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The victim tentatively identified as Dorothy S Klar.
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New York
Brooklyn
Dorothys. Klar
Diplomat McGhee Named Assistant Secretary of State
George C. McGhee OU Rhodes Scholar and 1933 Oklahoma graduate is chosen as one of five new assistant secretaries in the state department. A Rhodes scholar at Queen's College Oxford, he joined the geophysical field and oil industry before entering diplomacy.
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Oklahoma
Queen’s College At
Oxford
Schriever
State Department
McGhe
McGhee
Rhodes
Cambridge
England
Ponca City
Continental Oil Co
Geophysical Division
United States
Foreign Office
Clay Ends Long Army Career
General Lucius D. Clay, former U S governor in Germany, retires from the army after 31 years in a Fort Myer ceremony. President Truman recommended his full general rank for combat in the last war and Cold War service. He will receive an honorary degree at Columbia University before returning to Marietta Georgia.
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Washington
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Germany
Fort Myer
Truman
Congress
Army
Gray
Tracey Voorhees
Omar N. Bradley
Clay
New York
Columbia University
Marietta, Ga
Vandals Strike Jackson Junior High Office
With four days of classes left vandals damaged the Jackson junior high school offices at SW 26 and Villa. They shattered interoffice windows emptied desks and left years of records in disarray. Principal W D Graham says no valuable items were taken though hundreds of records must be sorted before year end. Police detective Mark Bain notes entry through a classroom window and suspects lack of effort rather than theft.
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City School
William R. Cater
Jackson Junior High School
SW 26
Villa
W. D. Graham
Graham
Mark Bain
Aircraft Strike Ruled Illegal by U S Court
The U S Court of Appeals ruled Boeing Airplane Co workers strike in Seattle last year illegal and overturned the Machinists Lodge 751 as the bargaining agent for 14 500 Boeing workers. The decision nullified the National Labor Relations Board finding that the walkout fell under Taft Hartley provisions. The group involved is the Aeronautical Industrial District lodge, a branch of the International Association of Machinists.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Boeing Aircraft Co
Seattle
National Labor Relations Board
Boeing
Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge
International Association of Machinists
House Numbers Turn Up at Wrong Address
Police hold 31 house-number markers after a Sunday disturbance in the northwest. Patrolmen McGuire and Connell recovered 15 signs from M. N. S. Kessler at 2137 NW 25, who said he found them in his yard when he awoke Monday. The remaining signs were reported dumped in the yard of C. P. Hixon at 2817 NW 24 by a speeding car.
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R. D. McGuire
W. L. Connell
M. N
State Drivers Score Holiday Crash Victory
Four persons died on Oklahoma highways over Memorial Day weekend, nine below feared totals. Traffic statewide was heavy but orderly as motorists traveled for the long weekend. Officials warned the toll could rise, urging polite driving and safety pleas. Names of victims include Tiny Freeman Lawton Mary Ellen Loch Sharon and Gere tru Ballard Lawton in linked wrecks.
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Oklahoma
Safety Council
Klahomans
Oklahoma Safety Council
Freeman
Lawton
Mary Ellen Loch
Sharon
Watonga
SH 33
Freda Bessie Cloud
Payne County
Perkins
Geretrude Ballard
It’s 90 Years and Big Ben Has Slumbered Once
London marks Big Ben turning ninety with the clock still steady in service since 1859. Only one major stoppage occurred in 1944 when a pendulum spring broke, temporarily halting its chimes. Named for Sir Benjamin Hall, the chief works commissioner in 1858, the clock began operation in 1859.
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Big Ben
London
House of Parliament
Benjamin Hall
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