Publication Notice in Palmer v State of Oklahoma
Thelma G. Palmer sues the State of Oklahoma and unknown heirs of W A Cobb and Nancy E Cobb in Pontotoc County. A public notice orders defendants to answer by May 11, 1944, or the court will adjudicate ownership of five acres described as part of Section Five Township Three North Range Six East. The action seeks to determine heirs and bar claims to the described premises. Court Clerk Pella Bedford signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
State OF Oklahoma
Thelma G. Palmer
W. A. Cobb
Nancy E. Cobb
State OF
Oklahoma
Pella Bedford
F. Robinson
R. P. Mole
Gollia Mole
W. M. Emanuel
Pontotoc
E. Trippe
Lillian H. Trippe
Ada
Busby
Harrell and Trice
American Building
Jewel
R. E. Lee
R. E. Stout
Jewel Stout
Delores Stout
Della Bedford
Thirteen Oklahoma Soldiers Wounded in Action
Thirteen Oklahomans were wounded in three war zones, the army announced. Names and hometowns include Pfc. Nelson T. Cotten Anadarko. John W. Burress Norman. Jack W. Burrows Shidler. Marion G. Carter Chickasha. James E. Gilcrease Fort Cobb. William J. Kirby Westville. Milton O. Sears Willow Tech. Reford N. Smith Noble. Arthur A. Spangler Poteau. Omer L. Wanhole Fargo. Lester O. Woodruff LeQuire. Cletus R. Caroland Waurika. Cpl. Omer L. Wanhole listed, injuries in the Mediterranean and other theaters.
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Washington
Nelson T. Cotten
Anadarko
Mediterranean
Tech
John W. Burress
Fred W. Burress
Norman
Jack W. Burrows
Etta M. Burrows
Shidler
Marion G. Carter
Chickasha
James E. Gilcrease
James W. Gilcrease
Fort Cobb
William J. Kirby
John F. Kirby
Westville
Milton O. Sears
Willow Tech
N. Smith
Wessie G. Smith
Noble
Arthur A. Spangler
Alvin D. Spangler
Poteau
Omer L
Victory Gardeners Get Gas Ration Break
Victory gardeners receive an extra gasoline allotment of 300 miles for trips to plots this season. Eligibility requires cultivating at least 1,500 square feet and visiting twice weekly, plus a ride sharing plan if possible and proof that no other transport is available.
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Washington
Allied blockade eases to boost grain to Greece
London reports the Allied blockade relaxes allowing a 50 percent rise in Greek food shipments. The British ministry of food warfare said the monthly relief to Greece will increase from 12,200 tons to 18,000 tons, following a January decision at the neutral relief commission’s request.
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Greece
London
Europe
British Ministry of Gem Warfare
Neutral Relief Commission
Lehigh Students Build Ration Free Car
Lehigh University chemistry students create a ration free automobile using a charcoal powered engine. Professor Charles Stoops explains air passes through a hot charcoal bed producing carbon monoxide fed into cylinders. The car reaches about 15 miles per hour.
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Bethlehem
Lehigh University
Charles Stoops
Stoops
Fitzpatrick Learns Son Missing In Action
P J W Fitzpatrick Western Union telegraph office manager in Lincoln Nebraska learns his son S/Sgt Joseph W Fitzpatrick is missing in action. He says he had been expecting such news after handling many similar messages. he has two other sons in military service.
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Lincoln, Neb
J. W. Fitzpatrick
Western Union Telegraph Office
Joseph W. Fitzpatrick
Dress firm payroll theft shocks New York worker
Nancy Tuttman, a dress firm employee, was relieved from behind as a thief snatched $2500 from the payroll, realizing the pilferer was not her joking uncle. She cried out but the culprit fled.
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Associated Press
New York
Nancy Tuttman
Dog mascot finds lost pet in Tarrytown tour stop
In Tarrytown New York a patrolman’s dog mascot brought the lost retriever to town police. The desk sergeant notified all patrols and promised a return of the dog to its owner. The incident occurred during a nightly tour with the mascot.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
Four's His Number: Birth in Frankfort on Fourth Day
James Stephens Shepherd was born yesterday at 4 44 in Frankfort Indiana on the fourth day of the fourth month in 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Ind
James Stephens Shepherd
WAC Private Hitches Ride With Marine Officer
Pfc. Helen Kautz of the WAC was ordered to Fort Oglethorpe for training and accepted a ride with Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift as he departed in a plane toward the same general area.
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Salt Lake City
Helen Kautz
WAC
Fort Oglethorpe
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Turning the Tables in War Games on EanEuv ers
Pvt. Robert M. Courtright a Red infantry division truck driver was captured by a Blue patrol in Tennessee. He led his captors to a Red stockade where the guard became a prisoner, completing a turnabout in the mock clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Army
Oneaneuvers
Tenn
Robert M. Courtright
Courtright
Laundry caretaker saves his shirt in Norfolk fire alarm
Norfolk laundry caretaker W E Hackett was awakened when a brick crashed through his window and a man yelled that his building was on fire. Hackett grabbed a rope and slid to the sidewalk in his nightshirt. the laundry was valued at $20.
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Norfolk
W. E. Hackett
Hackett
Greater returns for amount in vested
The notice outlines improved value for invested funds and boosted yields from vested amounts. It notes eligibility requirements and the mechanism by which returns are calculated, with emphasis on better rates for long term contributors.
Local Notes From Wilson Sunday Gatherings
Sunday School attendance was noted with a prayer meeting held each Wednesday night. Several residents hosted or visited friends and relatives including Claude Arter at home on furlough and Ina Hooser visiting Center.
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Claude Arter
Mary Ellen Gurley
Thomas Smith
Nancy Smith
Laura Welker
Ewey Stone
Allen Sweat
Elizabeth Smith
Virginia Hooser
Ina Hooser
Friends In Center
Local Visits and Thanks From Shawnee Area Residents
Mrs Thelma Lee and her daughter visited her parents Mr and Mrs Jack Danner in Shawnee over the weekend Viola Isaacs visited her aunt at Maxwell Bill Wortman called on Alvin and Corbin Jamar Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs Ambers Bittle visited in the J R Newby home Saturday afternoon Mrs J R Newby spent Saturday with Mrs Cora Danner and Grandma Cochran Clyde Bray of Oil Center visited Mr and Mrs E C Jamar Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs W O Ragland and daughter Clara Joe and Ruth Newby visited friends in Stratford Saturday night Mr and Mrs J R Newby and the Isaacs family thank their friends for helping save their home from fire
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Lee
Shawnee
Jack Danner
Viola Isaacs
Maxwell
Bill Wortman
Alvin
Corbin Jamar
Ambers Bittle
J. R. Newby
Cora Danner
Grandma Cochran
Clyde Bray
Oil Center
E. C. Jamar
W. O. Ragland
Clara Joe
Ruth Newby
Stratford
Isaacs
Easter Egg Hunt At Union Valley School
The Union Valley community notes an Easter Egg hunt at the local school Friday afternoon. Local families, including Mr. and Mrs. Arvel Davis and others, visited relatives and friends across Stonewall and Ada over the weekend while church services were planned for Sunday by Rev. Brother of Ada.
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Union Valley News
Arvel Davis
Wayne
Stonewall
Cleo Sandford
Lester Henry
Imogene Adams
Oklahoma City
Mary Nell Hagar
Kathryn Stephens
Roy Loman
Stephens
Kathryn
Ada
Oakman area notes busy weekend with neighbors and clubs
A long list of weekend visits as Oakman residents hosted relatives from Ada Homer Francis WeWoka and Watsonville California. The Ladies Quilting Club met with sixteen members and planned a quilt for the upcoming bond drive. Sunday School prizes were awarded and church programs highlighted by the Young People and Bible Class. Pfc B J Ainsworth of Camp Adair Oregon visited the Berryman family Tuesday.
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Dewey Higdon
Jim Roundtree
Lamoine
Joe Caton
Wewoka
J. N. Caton
D. T. Baum
Watsonville
California
J. P. Adams
Center
A. M. Cecil
Pauline Lillard
Mary
Vada Lillard
Wayne Lee
Stanley Lillard
Henry Hudson
Ada
Jackie Lamb
Keith Massey
Verlie Anderson
Miskell Anderson
Ola Anderson
Elmer Lee
Mart Massey
George Carter
William
Evelyn Scroggies
Jess Berryman
Orel Dryden
Tad Lillard
Conrad Massey
Sharon
Jimmie Thurman
Leon Rogers
Vancel Cecil
Bobby Leeds
Charlie Laughlin
Homer
Mart Raney
Harry Patterson
Elwood
Muleshoe
Texas
Ladies’ Quilting Club
Oakman School House
Bond
John Kaiser
Pete Rainey
James Clark
Bob
Tex Seymour
Patsy Bryan
Barbara Joe Foxx
Charlie Carter
Francis
Murray Smith
Jessie Fern Bryan
Betty Rose
Mary Lou Kaiser
Sunny
Calvin Lee
Ond
Dwayne Coventon
Vander Cecil
William Carter
Gale Cecil
Juanita Foxx
Dale Cecil
Toen
Young People’s League
Jaanita Ausmus
Pfc
B. J. Ainsworth
Camp Adar
Oregon
Yosemite Size Compared to Rhode Island Noted
Ada News Want Ads highlight Yosemite National Park's vast area, likened to roughly the size of Rhode Island as a point of reference. The brief item underscores park scale in a regional listings context.
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Yosemite National Park
Rhode Island
Negro pilot nearly wiped out RAF high command in Italy
A delayed London report recalls an American Negro pilot whose plane lifting off near RAF leaders stalled when its engine failed. The bomb loaded Warhawk skimmed ground and stalled near Sir Charles Portal Sir Arthur Tedder and other senior officers. The frightened pilot survived and quipped about heaven with high powered company.
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London
High Command
RAF
Italy
Charles Portal
Arthur Tedder
Arthur Coningham
Broadhast
Nazi state song Horst Wessel restored amid ban shift
Underground reports claim the Nazi state song Horst Wessel is restored to general use after a period of restricted access. A Napoleonic era Prussian tune translated as God who made iron grow was briefly favored during the ban. The gestapo has ordered banning the old song and restoring Horst Wessel.
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Horst Wessel
Gestapo
Governments Await British American Go Ahead on Agreement Details
Dutch and Norwegian governments protest the lack of published details on any agreement with Britain and the United States. They have a detailed announcement ready, awaiting the British American go ahead signal.
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Britain
United States
Senate Leaders On New Hot Spot Now
Senate leaders face entangled politics as CIO protests against lawmakers who supported the Smith Connally anti strike bill. Republicans nominate two appointees to the investigating panel while Democrats face pressure from CIO demands to exclude any member who backed the measure. Ball of Minnesota supported the bill but opposed overriding Roosevelt, Butler of Nebraska did not vote. Majority Leader Barkley denied CIO knowledge of the protest.
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Washington
CIO
Senate
C.n.co
Barkley
C.lo
Bible and Bazooka Hero of No-Man's-Land
Private Ross Poole of Herndon Virginia crawled through mud and minefields in the Garigliano sector to blast a German house with a bazooka then hid in a waterlogged hole reading his Bible. After hours he crawled 800 yards to his lines where an American officer commended him for returning safely.
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George Tucker
Hal Boyle
Fifth Army
Italy
Ross Poole
Herndon
No-Man’s-Land
Poole
International Business Machines
Washington
Garigliano
Jerry
Anthony Manfra
Boston
Oregon Awards Votes to Willkie and Roosevelt
Oregon will send 15 Republican votes to Willkie and 14 Democratic votes to Roosevelt in the national conventions as the May 19 primary deadline passed with no other presidential candidates filed. Dewey petitions were withdrawn at the NY governor’s request. Stassen’s name was not pursued. Roosevelt filed by petition. Only Rep. Lowell Stockman faces opposition among Oregon’s Republicans for the primary. Former Governor Sprague seeks the Senate seat of interim appointee Guy Cordon alongside two other Republicans.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
St. Paul
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Dewey
Lowell Stockman
Charles A. Sprague
Guy Cordon
Charles L. McNary
Paper Scarcity Spurs New War Economy Tactics
Washington reports that paper shortages will worsen before improving with the war, hitting low priority goods like cosmetics. Salvage efforts grow, especially brown paper for shipping boxes, while government agencies adopt paper saving measures and households may swap red pepper for black in cooking. Zinc caps for home canning resume in limited quantities as demand rises through 1946.
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Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
War Production Board
Budget Bureau
Horover
Department of Agriculture
Victory Gardeners
U. S
Governmental units levy taxes in United States
A total of 155,148 government units levy taxes and render public services across the United States, reflecting the breadth of local and state level administration and service provision.
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United States
States May Speed Moves To Offset Supreme Court Ruling
Southern legislators predicted quick state actions to offset a Supreme Court decision upholding negro voting rights in the Texas Democratic primary. They warned of changes to keep white primaries, and discussed possible shifts in South Carolina Alabama and Florida to preserve party control over primary qualification. The ruling seemed focused on Texas for now.
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Congress
Aransas
Alabama
Texas
Maybank
S. C
South Carolina
Andrews
Fla
Czechs Agree With Big Three On Plan Of Administration
Washington dispatch reports the Czechoslovak government in London agreeing with Russia Britain and the United States on a civil administration plan for liberated Czech areas as Allied forces advance. Prague officials say Czech committees will aid the returning government, with Slovaks joining guerrilla bands and liaison officers accompanying Russian troops. The scheme foresees no Allied military government.
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Flora Lewis Washington
London
Russia
Britain
United States
Czechoslovakian
Red Army
European Advisory Council
Benes
Slovakia
Carpathian Mountains
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Oklahoma Driver Registry Declines by 37,000 in Year
Oklahoma City figures show 629,969 registered drivers at February end, down nearly 37,000 from a year earlier, reflecting a significant drop in month to year totals across the state.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Civilian life too much for escaper McDonald back in custody
Dewey Jackson McDonald a 37 year old convict who escaped from Oklahoma's state farm prison near McAlester 38 miles away surrendered to two Dallas officers after wandering into a cafe 36 hours later He asked to be returned to confinement in Oklahoma and was brought back by Dallas police.
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Dallas
Dewey Jackson McDonald
Oklahoma
McAlester
McDonald
Oklahoma City convict goes missing after walking from subprison
Dewey J. McDonald 37, reported missing after last night in Dallas, is listed on his fifth term by the state parole office. He is serving five years from Atoka county for theft, committed March 11, 1942. His record includes earlier sentences from Granite Oxla reformatory and others.
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Oklahoma City
Lpi
Dewey J. McDonald
Oklahoma
Dallas
McDonald
Atoka County
Granite
Oxla
Reformatory
Lincoln, Neb
State Penitentiary
Leavenworth, Kas
Federal
Hornsby Quits Mexico Baseball Manager Post
P Rogers Hornsby resigned as manager of the Era Cruz club in the Mexico League in Mexico City. He cited unpaid expenses and unresolved issues, saying he may return to Fort Worth and seek opportunities in the United States. Hornsby led Era Cruz to a second place after a slow start, contributing two wins as a pinch hitter with a bases loaded double.
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Mexico City
P. Rogers Hornsby
Mexico
Era Cruz
Fort Worth
Tex
Hornsby
Jorge Pasquel
Vera Cruz Club
United States
Executive Kills Self After Verdict in Triumph Case
Elkton Indiana April 5. Joseph Ben Decker 58 a former Triumph explosives executive who faced a three year federal sentence for mail fraud died in a hospital from shotgun wounds self inflicted hours before his scheduled prison term. Decker had previously been vice president and general manager at the munitions plant near Elkton and was implicated with Gustav H. Kann in the 1943 Triumph case following the plant seizure in 1942. Kann was later placed on probation.
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Elkton
Ind
Joseph Ben Decker
Triumph Explosives
U. S
August Klecka
Decker
Ker
Pittsburgh
U. S. Supreme Court
Gustav H. Kann
Triumph
Navy
Kann
County Oil Output in Pontotoc County February 1940
Pontotoc county oil production for February totaled 341 384 barrels per the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. The daily output exceeded January while overall volume was below January 364 940 barrels. The Jesse field produced 1532 barrels daily against a 1600 allocation. March allocation stays 1600. Fitts field February allocation 6100 divided Cromwell 500 Hunton 900 Upper Simpson 2500 Wilcox 2200 with February production about 5922 barrels and March allocation cut to 6000.
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Pontotoc County
Conservation Commission of Oklahoma
Jesse
Fitts
Cromwell
Hunton
Upper Simpson
Soldiers benefit from G I taxis at Biloxi training post
At Keesler Field Mississippi soldiers officers and civilians on official business may use G I taxis with one way service only if the business is completed within ten minutes. If the trip lasts longer personnel must walk back. The motor pool requires drivers to wait ten minutes max for passengers. Libya is cited as an old Greek name for northern Africa.
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G. I
Keesler Field
Biloxi
Miss
Post Motor Pool
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Cordell Hull
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