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Pryor Prisoner of War Camp to CloseTULSA, March 8. — (IP) — The prisoner of war camp three miles from the Oklahoma ordnance works near Pryor will be closed and the 1100 German officers interned there will be moved to other sections of the country, it was disclosed today.Rep. George B. Schwabe (R-Okla), in a telegram to the Tulsa Tribune, said he had been advised by Major Howard W. Smith of the war department that the camp definitely would be abandoned. Movement of prisoners was reported already under way.No official reason was given for the action but it was believed to have resulted from complaints that the prisoners constituted a menace to the $50,000,000 powder plant nearby.Protests against the location of the camp were made to the war department last month by Gov. Robert S. Kerr, State Safety Commissioner J. M. Gentry and Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla). The camp then had been in^op-i er%ion four months.
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Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Mar 08, 1945
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