Dust Storm Threat Sparks Plains Mobilization For Rain
NEA Service reports a sweeping effort across Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado Nebraska and surrounding plains as farmers plead for rain to halt deadly dust storms. Officials urge shelter belts cover crops and new tillage to curb soil erosion, with windbreaks and crop rotation key to long term recovery.
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Girl ends life near Hayward in farm tragedy
Wilma Weisman a 17-year-old high school student was found hanged at a barn on her family farm near Hayward. Authorities offered no reason for the suicide after the Garfield county attorney decided not to hold an inquest.
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Wilma Weisman
Hayward
Frank Weisman
Roy Holbird
Garfield County
New Trial Ordered After Jury Exclusion Ruling
The U S Supreme Court set aside death sentences for Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two black men convicted of assaulting a white woman near Scottsboro, Alabama, and ordered a new trial. Chief Justice Hughes held that exclusion of black jurors violated equal protection and suggested forged jury rolls.
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Clarence Norris
Haywood Patterson
Scottsboro
Ala
Supreme Court
Hughes
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Collier Opposed Plan to Abolish Indian Bureau
Indian Commissioner John Collier warned that abolishing federal guardianship over Native Americans would be a shameful betrayal, citing past land losses under local white settlers. He argued the Wheeler Howard act reforms guardianship rather than ending it and blamed distrust of government for opposition to reform.
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Roosevelt backs NRA with Richberg in labor tug of war
Washington reports show White House seeks to salvage NRA with Donald Richberg amid fierce labor opposition led by John L. Lewis. Labor gains equal representation on NRA Board via Phil Murray while supporting Wagner bill in principle as tensions reshape New Deal policy.
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Double Tragedy In Bowring Feud Ends In Shootings
Funeral services were arranged for A. S. Drake 60 of Bowring and trapper John Wilson who were shot yesterday afternoon in Pahuska Osage County deputy sheriff George Clower said a long standing feud prompted Drake to shoot Wilson and then kill himself.
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George Clower
Osage County
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Marland commutes death sentence for Prescott
Oklahoma Governor Marland commuted 19 year old Billy Prescott's death sentence for the murder of Joe Bell in Muskogee County to life imprisonment after the pardon and parole board recommended clemency. Prescott had faced execution April 5, following a long national attention and a prior stay by Chief Justice Hughes. Prescott maintained innocence and had been on death row since the 1930s.
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Allen Gerty road project advances amid civic meeting
An FERA project to build a road from Allen southeast through Gerty to Highway 75 was launched at a Allen and Gerty business leaders meeting in the city hall. The Getty to Highway 75 road is nearly done except for gravel. Dr. R. D. Morris, a local physician, was treated for a wrist infection after returning from Holdenville Emergency Hospital and remains unable to resume practice.
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Cattle TB Testing Planned in Coal County April 1 6
Coal County will conduct tuberculosis tests for all cattle from April 1 to 6 in a cooperative effort by federal state and county authorities. Testing aims to cover every herd in one week at no cost to the county. A fatal accident occurred near Lehigh when three year old Virginia Lou Conally died after being struck by a horse at her family farm. Frank E. Plummer of Long Beach California visited Coalgate this week and reconnected with relatives before continuing to Muskogee and elsewhere.
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Joe H. Conally
Frank E. Plummer
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Muskogee
Walter Pope
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California
How Relief Billions May Be Spent Chart
A chart outlines how a four billion dollar work relief appropriation could be allocated under President Roosevelt. It shows maximum payments by nine activity branches in millions and notes the president’s power to reallocate up to twenty percent of the total funds among classifications.
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Harvey Wins At Fat Stock Show In Oklahoma City
W E Harvey of a ranch southwest of Ada led five Hereford calves to the state fat stock show in Oklahoma City last week. One calf aged 15 months and another 12 months placed second in a division for bulls and earned a pending prize. Harvey sold the quintet for 915 dollars, leaving only registered stock on his ranch.
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Ada
Oklahoma City
Slot Machine Raids Grow Sheriff Seizes More Devices
Sheriff’s force continued confiscations, seizing more than a dozen slot machines from county venues over Sunday and Monday. The devices included expensive models and an electrically operated machine, with nickels taken for the court fund. Vendors planned new installations amid the raids.
Ted Cole Makes New Escape Attempt From Prison
Ted Cole who escaped last year in a laundry bag was found in a garbage box at the county jail as trustees moved it out for disposal. Once sentenced to death for armed robbery in Tulsa county, Cole faces federal charges under the Lindbergh kidnapping law in the abduction of J A Rutherford, a Cushing pipeline worker. Rutherford was forced to Springfield Illinois at knifepoint before release. Cole was captured in Dallas and returned for trial.
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Tulsa County
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Cushing Pipeline
Rutherford
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Ill
Dallas
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Center Boy Hit By Auto Sunday injures leg
Calvin Lee, 2, of Center, was struck at Gaar corner Sunday afternoon when an automobile knocked him down and ran over him. He was taken to a local hospital with a fracture in one leg and is reported to be on the road to recovery.
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