Allen wins county meet at Stonewall in strong showing
Allen grade school captures the lit erary and fine arts county meet at Stonewall with Rott second and Washington of Ada third. Roff wins the girls glee cup as medals are set to be awarded. numerous grades and events feature strong performances by Allen, Washington, Roff, Latta, and peers.
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Allen Grade School
Stonewall
Rott
Washington
Ada
Met
Allen
Roff
Byne
Lawrence
Latta
Pinck Rock
Francis
Horace Mann
Hays
Oakman
Owl Creek
Pleasant Hill
Vanors
Homer
Resuke
Market Report Oklahoma City Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Oklahoma City markets show cattle and calves steady numbers around 800 cattle and 200 calves. Good beeves bring 4.00 to 4.75, cows 2.00 to 2.25, bulls 2.25, calves 4.50 to 5.00. Hogs trade strong with packers up to 2.46 and outsiders to 3.50. Sheep 500 spring lambs steady with fed wooled lambs at 25 low.
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Kansas City
U. S. Dept
Arizonas
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Farmers See Growth In Community Sales Days
In Payne County and nearby areas the spring 1932 Stillwater Sales Day has raised interest as community sales expand from a few towns to about 40 or 50 with aims to spread methods. Since February 1932 Stillwater auctions have yielded about $45 000 in cash for farmers selling hay cattle poultry and farm goods. The April 18 19 conference will feature practical reports from successful sales organizers not expert instruction.
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Oklahoma
Stillwater
Payne
Poultry Prices Reported in Chicago Trade
Chicago on April 12 reports live poultry prices for 31 trucks with firmer quotes. Hens 12 to 13 cents, leghorn hens 10, roosters 9, turkeys 12 to 18, old ducks 12 to 13, spring ducks 12 to 14, geese 11, leghorn broilers 17, rock broilers 20 to 21, colored broilers 20.
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Chicago
Potatoes steady as U.S. shipments inch up
Chicago April 12. Potatoes on track 306, total U.S. shipment 693, about steady with slow trading. Supplies moderate. Wisconsin round whites 75 to 80, Idaho runets 1.40 to 1.45, occasional car higher.
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Chicago
U. S. Dept. Agr
U.S
Wisconsin
Idaho
Creamery Prices Steady as Market Reports Narrow Range
Chicago April 12 reports Thutter 6 954 firm creamery specials score 93 at 21 to 21 1 2 extras 92 20 1 2 extra firsts 90 91 20 firsts 88 89 19 3 4 standards 90 centralized carrots 20 1 2 Eces 28 571 steady to firm prices unchanged
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Chicago
Grain market falls on profit taking cooling gains
Heavy profit taking led to a weaker grain market in Chicago. Wheat lost about 1 to 1 1 2 cents, corn down 2 cents, and oats and provisions also declined amid thinner buying and a prior rapid rise in wheat.
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Chicago
Crain
Grain prices in Chicago wheat and corn quotations
Spot grain trading reports from Chicago on April 12 show Wheat No 2 red at 61 3 4 cents per bushel Corn No 3 mixed at 33 cents No 2 yellow old at 33 5 8 to 33 1 4 No 3 yellow 32 1 4 to 33 1 4 No 3 white 4 dollars to 4 34 1 2 Oats No 2 white 21 3 4 No 3 white 20 to 21 1 3.
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Chicago
Cotton Declines As Markets React to Liquidation
New York reports by sources show cotton reacting to realized or liquidation selling. July contracts traded down to 6.69 in early morning on the general list, with scattered selling from local and Wall Street sources.
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New York
Wall Street
Cotton market closes steady with slight downtick
New Orleans spot ecotton closed steady points down as sales reached 1,225. Prices shown were low middling 6.07, middling 6.57, good middling 6.97. Receipts were 4,352 and total stock stood at 1,005,685.
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New Orleans
Cotton futures close steady as prices slip
New Orleans April 12 AP report shows cotton futures ending steady with net declines of 3 to 4 points amid daytime trading.
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New Orleans
Norman Howard post holds regular meeting with junior legion plans
The Norman Howard post met Tuesday with county boys and Ada Lesionnaires. Earnest Sawyer announced summer Junior Legion team plans and a committee was set to manage a dozen practice baseballs. Charley Stone said the regional tournament will be in Ada in August drawing teams from Arkansas Louisiana Texas and Oklahoma. Harold Constant reported Jack Whitford’s near blindness from war injuries. A school award committee progresses on selecting eighth grade boy and girl recipients. Val Crawford spoke on Woodrow Wilson with a 30 minute life lecture and student essays stressing Honor Courage Service Leadership and Scholarship. The post commander requested a membership report and Adjutant Joe Roper said 250 members have paid 1933. 50 are outstanding.
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Norman Howard Post
Ada
Earnest Sawyer
Charley Stone
State Department
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Charley
Lecion Schoor
Woodrow Wilson
Val Crawford
Ada Asked 10 Join Baseball League
Tulsa April 12. Oklahoma may have a class C baseball league if the dream of L C Wren holder of the Muskogee Western Association franchise comes to fruition.
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Ada
Baseball League
Tulsa
Oklahoma
L. C. Wren
Muskogee Western Association
Meeting Aims To Form Regional Baseball Loop
A meeting he called at Ada for next Sunday aims to organize a regional loop. Invited cities include Muskogee Ada Bartlesville Cushing McAlester Okmulgee Holdenville Shawnee Drumright and Bristow. He would ask J Alvin Gardner Texas League head to direct the loop. Tentative plan calls for a six to eight team league playing a 126 game schedule with a $700 salary limit.
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Ada
Muskogee
Bartlesville
Cushing
McAlester
Okmussee
Holdenville
Shawnee
Dramright
Bristow
J. Alvin Gardner
Ada Man Commands Forge Under Fire In Peiping Skirmish
A U S legation reports bullets falling near Chinwanstao as fighting flares at a summer camp of the 15th Infantry near Peiping. A small detachment guards the railway corridor while Manchukuan troops reportedly occupy Chinwanetao. No American casualties. The Japanese claim Sea Port seizure and Chinese evacuation south of the great wall. British denial of landing by marines is issued.
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Peiping
United States Legation
Chinwanstao
Fifteenth Infantry Regiment
United States Army
Chinwanetao
Rengo
Great Wall
Swan River
Dennis Moore
Clarksville
Texas
Ada
Okla
Nakayama
Taitonying
Taitongving
Oklahoma Debts Soar as State Budgets Report High Costs
Oklahoma City April 12 analysis shows state and local budgets totaling 93.87 million for the year with 69.55 million for current expenses and 24.32 million for debt service. Property taxes and other revenues fund operations while the highway department faces a 586 thousand deficit and no new construction this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rogers
Rogers
Murray
Three Cult Slayers Convicted in Mills Case
Kentucky April 12. John H Mills Ballard Mills and Blaine McGinnis were convicted in the Mills human sacrifice case by a jury. John H Mills sentenced to life. Ballard Mills and Blaine McGinnis given 21 years each. Mollie McGinnis and Ora Moore acquitted. Jury deliberated 2 1 2 hours.
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Fred Mills
Tommie Boyd
J. F. Bailey
Commonwealth
J. B. Clark
Harry F. Ramey
Defense Counsel
John H. Mills
Mollie McGinnis
Ora Moore
William Keith
Far East
Oil activity at Bebee continues with multiple wells update
In the Beebe area operators report progress across several sites. Norris No 2 at Bene dum Trees unit completed at 2560 feet with about 1500 feet oil in hole and to be shot Monday. Patsy Oil drills and rigs on adjacent sections while Mason and McCraw wells move toward testing and new rig moves planned for next week.
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Deiner
Patsy Oil Company
Mason
Ligon & Todd
Se-Ne-Se
McCraw
Gray
Ne-Nw-Se
J. A. Richards
King & Delaney
John
J. L. Moore Wins Higher Position In Harvester Co
J L Moore brother of Captain Milton Moore holds a rising post with International Harvester Co He is Memphis farm machinery division manager after a career in the company starting in Dallas 1919 with transfers to Springfield Wichita Havana and Buenos Aires before returning to Memphis in 1929 Moore born in Paris Texas is noted for WWI service with the Second Army in France
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J. L. Moore
Milton Moore
China
Naval Acamedy
Annapolis
International Harvester Co
Moore
Memphis
Second Army
France
Harvester Company
Dallas
Springfield
Wichita
Kan
Foreign Service
Bennos Aires
South America
Havana
Lake Ada lowers fishing permit prices this season
Ada city park commission expands fishing access by cutting rates at the lake. Daily permits cost 25 cents while a season fishing permit is 3.50 and a combined fishing and hunting season permit is 5.00. The commission notes good bite and urges locals to enjoy the lake. The summer program starts earlier this year with openings planned for Glenwood and Wintersmith parks and new entertainment facilities.
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City Park Commission
Commission
Ada
Glenwood
Wintersmith
Halt called on ROA building
Oklahoma City April 8 The state highway commission said it faced a cut of about 22 1 3 percent in its maintenance department payroll as it nears the end of available funds.
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ROA
Oklahoma City
State Highway Commission
Miss Thomas to Get Travel Pay
Oklahoma City April 8 Miss Maude O Thomas Beaver was awarded travel expenses amounting to 77 55 for trips to the Oklahoma College for Women board meetings at Chickasha The attorney general J Berry King ruled the claim legal and to be paid from the college maintenance fund after it had been charged to the revolving fund The expenses cover April and May 1932 during her service on the state highway commission and raising questions about her holding two state offices
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Oklahoma City
Maude O. Thomas
Beaver
Board of
Regents
Oklahoma College For Women
Chickasha
J. Berry King
Frank Carter
Thomas
State Highway Commission
Carter
Hitler Civil Service Law Bars Jews from Official Life
Berlin reports the cabinet publishes a civil service law foreshadowing widespread dismissals. Thousands from the previous regime will be discharged, and Jews are barred from official life though some incumbents may be spared. The law targets officials who rose since 1918 via party membership and those lacking full support for the regime.
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Berlin
Turkey hen at Oklahoma station sets egg record
A turkey hen at the Oklahoma experiment station in Stillwater has laid 205 eggs in the past year, far surpassing the usual one hatch per year. Station attendants say she likely holds a world record for turkeys.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma Experiment Station
Heavy Decline in Oil Production
Tulsa reports show a weekly drop in U S crude output to 2 230 902 barrels daily from 2 599 656. Texas falls to 975 667 barrels while Oklahoma City area cutsOil and Gas Journal notes declines across Oklahoma East Texas and Kansas with California modestly higher at 463 000 barrels.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma City
East Texas
United States
The
Oil and Gas Journal
Texas
Journal
Oklahoma
California
Kansas
Rock Mountain
Seminole-St. Louis
Texas Sc
Texas Panhandle
Louisiana
Arkansas
Rocky Mountain Area
Survivors Testify On Akron Wreck Before House Panel
Three Akron airship survivors Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley Richard E. Deal and Moody Erwin told a House committee of the disaster in the Atlantic detailing strong winds heavy hull stress and gas tank danger. They described escape via fabric openings and the ship’s final plunge while Navy inquiry plans proceed. April hearings itemize additional accountability and cost scrutiny for airship programs.
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Washington
Akron
Atlantic
House
Herbert V. Wiley
Richard E. Deal
Moody FE. Erwin
Wiley
Vinson
Rep
McClintie
Okla
House Rules Committee
McClintic
Congress
Navy
Lakehurst
N. J
Andrew
Mass
Delaney
Erwin
Phoebus
New York
Wagoner Man Convicted in Fatal Coweta Farm Slaying
In Wagoner Oklahoma on April 7 1P Jaint Fleetwood was convicted of second degree manslaughter for the November fatal beating of Floyd Jones a Coweta farmer after a drinking bout. The jury left punishment to the court with Judge W J Crump setting sentencing for April 11 Sam Stark faced the case and was granted a severance.
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Keer
Perramastip
Carmen Scott
Black Rock
Fern Cotton
Mary Elizabeth Scott
Cleo Emerson
Helen Burnett
Corna Jo Zumbro
Vaness
Connie Loman
Dorothy Lee Thomas
Thelma Breeden
Lee Hart
Bervin Castleberry
Imoxene Strather
Itath Jones
Wanda Mead
Geraldine McKinzie
Eidth
Walton Smith
Pauline Fuller
Ill
Pers
Richard Frazier
Vera E. Mays
Richard D. Minton
Mary Dna Cozad
Ethel Hallmark
Jetty Husles
Wilfred Dean
Noff
Dorothy Smith
Bynes
Harvey Robinson
Alta Leasure
One
Florence Elrod
Merle Hamer
Koff
Janes Manton
Lana Alexander
Hoff
Newell Stephens
Arthur Ray Shaw
Poff
Julia Grable
John Haliburton
Lyndal Reese
Jessie Epperson
Mildred Fern Johnson
Rolf
A. T .Watson
Dell Green
Billie Rushing
Geneva Goodman
Haley Herrin
Spelline
Vinita Reed
Geridin Burnett
Frances Tearson
Everett Milner
Lawanda Gibbons
Durward Pase
Nadina Howard
Pearl Hackwort
Fore
H. J. Johnson
Ryne
Henretta Hunt
Delphia Gomez
Marc Cole
Edna Alexander
Emma Elizabeth Kile
Electh Gerade
Winnie Scott
LaFern Scott
Julia Crable
Pine Arts
Dorothy Ruth Lucas
Betty Lon Jumper
Betty Osporn
Alberta Moore
Billye Joe Oxbirn
Edith Hilton
Bill Littl
Hocrace Mann
James Hoosier
Joy Barringer
Payne County
Ghlatn
Doe
Harold Constant
Jack Whitford
Jack
Muskogee Hospital
Joe Roper
Ada Man
Lapson
Chinwangtao
Shanhaikwan
COR Oklahoma
Fd McDonald
Highway Department
McDonald
Murr
Bebee
City Lake
Miss Thomas
Hitler
Wocments
Supreme Court
Ocean
Nave Enquire
Deal
Copeland
Carl K. Dresser
Pauline Dresser
Tulsa County
Walter Fisher
James Hoover
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Lucinda Rogers
Comanche County
Oklahoma Railway Co
Ross M. Woods
Canadian County
A. F. Bourne
Hal Johnson
Prohibition
Inter City Finance Corp
S. D. Hooker
New State Life Insurance Con
Maude Lebarre
Cotton County
J. B. Campbell
Tax Commission
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