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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1939
Page
1
President Roosevelt warned Democrats tonight that a conservative drift would spell death for the party. He urged members who disagree with policies to join a party that reflects their ideas or subordinate their prejudices and stay loyal. He warned against allying with enemies to undermine the party’s program.
A notorious counterfeiter embezzler nicknamed for a German prison escape was indicted as master of a nationwide bogus money ring. Thirteen others named. prosecutor described Henry Neus worth as a possible successor to Victor Lustig Miller. Secret Service agents seized a printing press, paper, ink, and cash in his apartments.
The Ada Chamber of Commerce Retail Merchants division voted unanimously Tuesday night against installing parking meters on a trial basis. Merchants attended in record numbers, voicing disapproval and offering traffic regulation suggestions to Mayor Bill Crawford as the city considers the Dual Parking Meter Company proposal from Oklahoma City.
TIFFIN Ohio April 20 A red haired pastor Colson Owens 41 pleaded guilty to attempting familiarities in 1987 with a 14 year old girl since married. He was sentenced to one to 15 years in Ohio penitentiary for the offense. Indictments alleging adulterous relations with three women and obtaining $800 under false pretenses from a touring group were held in abeyance.
Oklahoma City April 19 The Oklahoma Senate voted 23 to 18 to remove A L Crable from the state schools board of control, placing six teachers colleges and Langston under a governor appointed seven member regents board. The move, tied to potential school aid cuts, came as the legislature adjourns near midweek amid other measures and conferences on the departmental appropriation bill.
Clyde Kaiser and his wife welcomed their fourth set of twins Tuesday noon at their Oakman home near Ada. The two healthy girls weighed seven pounds twelve ounces and eight pounds four ounces and arrived within 26 minutes of each other. Dr Threlkeld attended and reported the mother in satisfactory condition. The Kaisers now have twelve children, with one previous child having died.
The Fitts territory shows continued drilling activity with Magnolia No. 8 Shaffer testing Crom well sand at 1844 feet after plug, Jet Simpson Roadhouse No. 1 testing Gilcrease sand, Patsy Oil No. 3 Bates rigging up, and Continental No. 5 House preparing in the Augustana and Jesse pools with high interest in the Bebee extension area.
A county court jury acquitted Jack Phillips and Claude Davison on illegal possession in bootleg whiskey cases, while Doc Boggess was found guilty with a 30-day jail term and $150 fine. Wadlington seeks his third conviction in the current term as other defendants pled guilty or waived jury. Sentence date set for April 26.
A 26 year old oil field worker John Long said tonight the suspect admitted slugging a couple in a park last summer and being questioned in two brutal attacks on sleeping girls. He admitted using a rock August 29 to slug a man and a woman in Douglas Park. Charges in the case were withheld as investigators questioned the man in the slugging of Dolly May Sheridan in her bedroom Sunday morning. The slugging was similar to an attack on Edith Rutherford on April 30, 1928.
Mrs. Anda Schrader age 60 is in serious condition at Valley View hospital after a two car crash at Broadway and Fourth. She suffered a fractured right hip and possible additional injuries, though not deemed critical. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, C. Schrader, which collided with E. A. Witt of 119 North Johnston.
About 150 World War veterans at Ada Aldridge hotel lauded President Roosevelt for urging international peace. The Fourth District American Legion meeting adopted a resolution praising his appeal to combat aggressor nations in anxious Europe.
Europe’s Rome Berlin London talks pressed to win smaller powers as Hitler’s 50th birthday celebrations take center stage. Germany moved to honor the fuhrer with a two day event while international diplomacy continued with high level meetings in Rome Berlin and London.
OKLAHOMA CITY April 19 A bill to let the state board of education issue up to 1 000 000 for self liquidating buildings at East Central college passed the senate 32 to 1 The measure by Sen John Boyce McKeel would allow the board to erect refectories dormitories libraries commons and other buildings where fees can retire the bonds Similar measures have passed the senate for Oklahoma A and M College and the University of Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY April 19 T M Gentry commissioner of public safety resigns to Governor Phillips and will not be at his office tomorrow He asked the governor to fill the post and offered no further comment The resignation came two years after his appointment by former Governor Marland and follows criticism of the department while the governor delayed naming a successor until after the legislative session ends Senate confirmation is not required.
Lieutenant Louise Ayers, who aided Salvation Army work in Ada for three months, is transferred to Oklahoma City, Major Damon Nichols says. Mr and Mrs Virgil Potter will work with the Ada post in the future. Potter had been transferred to Oklahoma City weeks earlier. As of March 1 1923 there were 2 388 airports and landing fields in the United States with 721 ports and fields and night lighting equipment.
Marvin Matthews of Kansas City testified to police about a meeting at a bus station with a young man claiming to be from Australia. They discussed kangaroos then played a coin matching game with a third man, costing Matthews 20 dollars as the scheme unfolded.
In Mexico City on April 19 a walkout by employees shut down El Universal and its afternoon edition El Grafico after the plants closed in the afternoon. The strike affected both morning and afternoon editions of the publication.
W E Tack Moore longtime Ada resident since 1901 died Wednesday after a long illness. Funeral Thursday at 2:30 p m at Criswell Funeral Home with Rev W L Blackburn officiating. Burial in Rosedale Cemetery. Survived by wife Mrs Moore two daughters Mrs Cly Newton Edith Ace Moore a son Jack Moore student in Kansas City and a granddaughter Merilyn Moore. Born September 1 1876 at Mount Vernon Missouri he moved to Oklahoma in 1901 and joined the Presbyterian church before becoming a Methodist. Active in civic and business affairs and Masonic work, ill health curtailed his activities after an operation Tuesday. He was 62. His friendly nature earned many friends in the community.
Berlin April 19 Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels praised Adolf Hitler as pointing a new historical development for Europe and the world in a radio address urging a two day birthday celebration. Flags fly as Berlin swarms with crowds and Nazi workers march toward Wilhelmstrasse in a spectacle of the Führer's birthday.
In Columbus on April 19, Pi-Three trio of crime, father and son plus a friend, executed for the September 3, 1937 Springfield cafe robbery and the slayings of Patrolman Martin Randolph and Chief Deputy Sheriff Edward Furry. The three were dispatched in sequence.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh begins a temporary duty survey of U S aviation research centers to help improve the nation’s war planes. He will visit about 30 centers over four weeks and report confidentially to Maj Gen Henry H Arnold.
The county court continued its term with trials as the state sues E. H. Moore Inc on oil development contamination. A jury found Doe Boggess guilty of unlawful whiskey possession with a 30 day jail term and a 150 dollar fine. Earlier, Jack Adams was found guilty of defrauding a boarding house keeper with a 50 dollar fine.
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