Missing Witness Still Sought in Gas and Electric Probe
Senate lobby investigators heard testimony that operating companies in the Associated Gas and Electric system paid about 25 million dollars since 1929 to private firms owned by the system or by H. C. Hopson for services costing less than half. Hopson remains at large after a week of search efforts.
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Washington
Senate
Associated Gas and Electric System
H. C. Hopson
Hopson
United States Marshal
New York
Stuart C. Ross
New York Utilities Committee
Ross
Rural America Now Going Off Relief Rapidly
Rural middle America is going off relief as thousands of farm families become self-supporting due to better crops, resettlement loans, and self-help. An Associated Press survey shows Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and others cutting relief rolls significantly with improved weather and prices noted by officials.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Middle America
Kansas
Carl Howard
Federal Resettlement Administration
Howard
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Herman Somers
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
North Dakota
Dreuth
FERA
F. C. Hauser
Hopson Missing Stirs Senate Lobby Probe Findings
The senate lobby committee has subpoenaed H. C. Hopson of the Associated Gas and Electric system after he remained missing. A.G. E. counsel Brumbach was asked to locate him while the treasury was ordered to provide returns filed in income excess profits and capital stock to the committee. Patrick Hurley criticized hiring him to influence any new deal congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
Senate Lobby Committee
New York
Patrick J. Hurley
Hoover Administration
Congress
Senate Committee
Hopson
McKeown
Dokla
Black
Committee
Garrett Brumbach
A.G. E
Schwellenbach
D-Wash
Brumbach
The
Treasury
Roosevelt
Heat Victims Amid Record July Heat Across Midwest
The Midwest endured lethal heat with at least 12 deaths and many prostrations. Chicago, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Ohio reported fatalities and heat-related illnesses as temperatures reached the mid 90s to 105 in multiple towns. Authorities warned crops could endure only one more week of extreme heat.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas City
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
Ohio
Sadalia
Topeka
Kas
Fremont
Neb
Mercury
Grand Island
Lincoln
Fairview
Okla
St. Louis
Springfield
Ill
North Platte
Omaha
Waynoka
Kansas
Mose Henry Appointed Night Sailer In Sheriff Force
The sheriff announces Mose Henry as night jailer increasing the force to seven, succeeding Elmer Hodges who is promoted to deputy sheriff. Henry, a Pontotoc county native, joins Sheriff Clyde Kaiser Undersheriff Claude Sturdevant and Deputies Charley Shockley Alvis Jones Hodges and two jailers L A Rains in the seven man team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Kaiser
Mose Henry
Henry
Elmer Hodges
Pontotoc County
Hodges
L. A. Rains
Kaiser
Claude Sturdevant
Charley Shockley
Alvis Jones
League of Nations to Make Final Peace Push
In Geneva Italy rejects broader talks, insisting only arbitration on the Ethiopia dispute. Italy and Ethiopia face a renewed push by Britain and France to restart conciliation, pending a fifth neutral arbitrator over frontier questions.
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League of Nations
Italy
Ethiopia
Geneva
General League
Tecla Hawariate
Paris
J. A. C. Avenol
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Premier Laval
France
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Avenol
Eden
Associated Press
Wheat Acreage Cut Under AAA Plans in 1936 Contracts
The AAA announced a 15 percent wheat acreage reduction for farmers signing 1936 contracts. The four year plan sets 85 percent of 1930–32 base as maximum and 54 percent as minimum for 1936, with a 25 percent cap in later years. Davis stressed compliance even if Supreme Court voids the program, with full compensation up to the decision date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
AAA
Chester C. Davis
Supreme Court
Davis
Secretary of Agriculture
High Court
Not Lobbyist Hurley Asserts Not Lobbyist
Washington July 31 Patrick J Hurley secretary of the war in the Hoover cabinet said he would not have used influence for a new deal congress and that his law firm was paid 25000 by the Associated Gas and Electric company He testified before the senate lobby committee saying his connection was legal not lobbying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Representative Patton
D-Tex
House Rules Committee
Representative Cox
D-Ga
Patton
Cox
Senate
E.V. Sellers
NRA
John W. Carpenter
Texas Power and Light Company
Sellers
Bonnie
Patrick J. Hurley
Hoover
Congress
Senate Lobby Committee
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Hurley
Fletcher-Pecora Banking Committee
H. C. Hopson
Corbin
Miller
New York
Hopson
Senate Investigating Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Committee
House of Representativs
Ethiopia Rejects League Mandate Over Its Independence
Addis Ababa reports the Ethiopian foreign office will reject any proposal for an international League of Nations mandate, stating no such proposal exists and it would be refused if received. Haile Selassie hosts a guarded council of chiefs to discuss Geneva’s Italo-Ethiopian crisis amid warship and armaments movements in nearby Djibouti and Italian mandate opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addis Ababa
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Foreign Office
Haile Selassie
Kings
Lion of Judah
Geneva
Council of the
Djibouti
French Samiland
League Council Seeks Path to Avert Italo Ethiopian War
The League of Nations council, amid one of its gravest crises, met in private session at Geneva to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia. Britain warned of a thorough discussion of the African situation at the council table, as Italy indicated its aim to resume talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Geneva
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Mussolini
League of Nations
League Council
Italy
Ethiopia
Council
Great Britain
France
League of Nations Council
Facin
League
Stresa
Britain
Bill Murray Busy On Farm Improvements
William H. Murray former Oklahoma governor oversees workmen on his seven acre Idabel farm. A log house is planned and a seven log fence is under construction. He has stocked the property with blooded cows hogs and mares and often hitchhikes the 12 miles to Idabel.
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Idabel
William H. Murray
Oklahoma
Murray
Seminole County Joins Cleanup Drive Against Slot Machines
In Wewoka on July 31 Sheriff deputies, with county attorney Tom Huser’s order, began a cleanup campaign against slot machines. Operators were visited with no protests as they were told to cease operations, and the drive extended to other Seminole County towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wewoka
Seminole County
Tom Huser
Seminole
Huser
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Seminole Banker R E Steigleder May Be Paroled
Oklahoma City reports seven current and former public officials recommended clemency for R. E. E. Steigleder a Seminole banker and 1926 embezzler currently in state prison. The board’s action follows his prior parole by Gov. Murray and includes several lawmakers and officials among 25 prisoners up for clemency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
R. E. E. Steigleder
State Penitentiary
Steigleder
William H. Murray
Pardon and Parole Board
Seminole State Bank
Wesley E. Disney
W. W. Hastings
Leon C. Phillips
Dave Logan
al Commons
Mark Bozarth
Wilbur Morse
Henryetta
House
Sale of Huge Texas Oil Concern Ends in Transfer
Houston July 31 The long pending sale of the Yount Lee Oil company was completed with Wright Morrow Houston attorney buying the aggregate stock then selling the physical assets to Stanolind Oil and Gas a Standard Oil subsidiary. Cash between 42 million and 46 million dollars. Stanolind to start operations August 1 with about 283 009 acres of oil land and leases in Texas and Louisiana including 3900 acres proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Yount-Lee Oil Company
Wright- Morrow
Texas
Stanoland Oil and Gas Company
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Stanolind Company
Yount-Lee
Stanolind
Louisiana
Farmer Held After Neighbor Found Dead in Kansas Cellar
Lars August, a Greeley county farmer, is jailed as police investigate the discovery of neighbor Frank Andrews's body in August's cellar. August had surrendered after recounting a story that he killed Andrews in what he described as self defense during a quarrel after Andrews visited his farm.
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Tribune
Kans
Lars August
Greeley County
Frank Andrews
August
Andrews
Bachelor Farmer
Turman death ruled suicide by coroner's jury
Allen G Turman salesman for a Fort Smith biscuit company was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car near Lawrence Oklahoma about seven miles from Ada. A coroner's jury ruled death caused by a personal safety related gunshot wound and cited financial difficulties leading to the act. He is survived by his wife two children and a brother in Granite Oklahoma.
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Allen G. Turman
Fort Smith, Ark
Lawrence
Ada
Rosedale
Turman
Nashville
Tenn
Granite
Oklo
Jeff Shields
Death Penalty Given Young Slayer of Girl
Gerald Thompson, 26, was convicted of the ravishment murder of Mildred Hallmark, 19, in Peoria Wisconsin. A circuit court jury imposed the death penalty in the electric chair after deliberating from 4:45 p m to 8:36 p m The verdict followed an earlier finding of guilt on the murder. The body was found June 17 in a cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Gerald Thompson
Mildred Hallmark
Joseph E. Daily
Last of Uniun veterans moved to state institutions
Governor Marland ordered five surviving Union soldiers home inmates moved to two state institutions. The hospital building they left will go to the Crippled Children’s hospital to provide space. Two inmates go to University Hospital. three join the Crippled Children’s annex. George Ade Davis said the board approves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Marland
Union Soldiers Home
Crippled Children’s Hspital
University Hospital
Crippled Children’s Hospital
George Ade Davis
Soldiers Home Board of Trustees
Dundee Injured in World Championship Fight
Vince Dundee Baltimore fighter and former middleweight world champion suffered a concussion and possible broken jaw after a third round loss to Freddy Steele of Tacoma in Seattle. He was knocked down 11 times and required hospital treatment with x rays to determine the full extent of his injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Vince Dundee
Baltimore
Freddy Steele
Tacoma
H. T. Buckner
Dundee
Higher Pensions Voted for Spanish War Veterans
The Senate approved by 71 to 1 a bill restoring about 45 million dollars in pension benefits to Spanish American War veterans. It now goes to the White House. Senator Hastings was the single dissenting vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
White House
Hastings
Oil boom expands Wilcox sand prospects in Oklahoma field
In September 1933 E L Moore's No 1 Fitts field well in 29-27 showed Bromide and Wilcox sand potential. The No 3 Atkins near 32-27 flowed from the basal McLish with early rates near 176 bbls per 15 minutes, signaling a larger infield discovery. Other wells, Carter No 1 John Thompson near Centrahoma and Continental No 1 McCarthy near Jesse, push southeastern developments as Skelly No 1 G Smith adds a new offset in 35-26, expanding activity west of Highway 48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Moore
John Fitts
Hunton
Atkins
Virick
Fitts
Oklahoma City
Seminole Wilcox
Corporation Commission
Moore
Arbuckle
Conservation Department
Ada
John Thompson
Centrahoma
Jesse
McCarthy
Olney
Amerada No
Travelers Life
Viola
Iitts
Skelly
Cotton Thrives But Other Crops Needing Rain
Oklahoma City July 31. The week’s heat boosted cotton across the state while corn progressed poorly and pastures gardens and minor crops dried due to rain shortage. Threshing is nearly finished except in the eastern section where it is in full swing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Harry Wahlgren
Federal Weather Observer
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