Engineman Blamed For Deadly 1940 Wreck Near Akron
Rail investigators faulted engineman Thomas L. Murtough for not taking the gasoline coach to a siding on the Hudson Akron line. The crash killed 43, with five children among victims, as a freight train collided head on and gasoline tanks exploded.
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Akron
Thomas L. Murtough
L. M. Wolcott
Cleve
Pennsylvania Railroad
Murtough
Wolcott
Silver Lake
E. W. Smith
Hudson
Pittsburgh
Harry) Shafer
Charles) Bilderback
Theseus Reported Attacked by Sub Off Ireland
The British steamer Theseus, a 6527 ton Ocean Steamship liner, was reported by Mackay Radio as being attacked by a submarine off the southwest coast of Ireland. Position given 51.48 N, 21.21 W places her about 509 miles west of Fownes, Ireland, with no further details available.
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New York
Mackay Radio
Ireland
Ocean Steamship Company Ltd
Liverpool
Fownes
Singapore
England
Marseille
France
Rae
Greater returns for amount in vested-Ada News Classified Ads
An Ada News notice explains enhanced value from investing more in vested classified ads. The piece cites higher exposure for larger placements, with guidance on budgeting for preferred dates and longer runs.
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Ada News
Weather summary for several states
Oklahoma remains fair and warm tonight and Friday. Missouri sees generally fair nights with scattered thundershowers in extreme north, cooler in northwest. Arkansas partly cloudy with east Friday showers. East Texas partly cloudy with near coast thunderstorms. Kansas generally fair with cooler north and northeast. West Texas increasing clouds with scattered showers and little temperature change.
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Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
East Texas
Kansas
West Texas
Cotton Price Dip Seen As Market Opens
Washington August first cotton market opens with prospects of a dip that alarms producers and federal officials. Last season closed strong with 13.8 million bales sold and 6.2 million bales exported, the highest since 1933. Export demand is expected to slide below 3 million bales as war and blockade limit buyers. only Britain and Japan remain sizable. Officials propose government loans to store unsold surpluses.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Miss Fuller Named Driver of the Day
Miss Fuller 20, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Fuller of 1126 South Johnston, was named the police department driver of the day. Traffic Officer Paul Corbin noted she obeyed traffic signs followed road rules and signaled correctly while driving from south of town to the business district. She has driven about three years without an accident.
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Mattie Bess Fuller
Ralph Fuller
South Johnston
Police Department
Paul Corbin
Miss Fuller
Offer On Canning Starts In Ada County
Mrs. Jessie Morgan home demonstration agent offered use of her office two weeks ago to swap unused fruit jars for vegetables canned from the county overflowing gardens. The initiative has drawn 500 plus calls and 1,179 visitors to the office by Thursday morning. About 11,792 jars have gone out while jars brought in are filled by farm club women.
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Jessie Morgan
Ada
Back To Farm Movement Grows In Oklahoma
Oklahoma reports a back to the farm movement with farm tracts auctioned since 1939. Secretary Charles B. Steele notes 274 tracts in 18 counties worth 854 809 dollars totaling 35 445 acres mostly sold to occupants. Many more farms in several counties expected before January 1.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State School Land Commission
Charles B. Steele
Steele
Farm Security Administration
Former U S Embassy Clerk Charged in Secrets Act Case
London August 1 Kent a former United States embassy clerk and a Russian woman Anna Volkoff were formally charged under the official secrets act at Bow Street police station. They were remanded for seven days after secret proceedings. Kent was dismissed from the embassy and detained following action by U S Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy.
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London
Tyler Kent
United States
Bow Street
Anna Volkoff
Kent
Moscow
Joseph P. Kennedy
Workers Resentful Of Mexican Accord
In Mexico City Aug 1 the tentative oil workers accord to reorganize the industry faced strong resentment as it awaited ratification by the 18 000 member union. The plan includes the dismissal of about 3 000 workers wage cuts and curtailment of other benefits while government administrators and the oil commission push for approval.
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Mexico City
Oil
Petroleum Workers Union
Gullatt Freed As Trial Bound In Estate Fraud Case
Ada attorney W. P. Gullatt was freed on charges after Peace Justice W. L. Reed ruled the evidence insufficient for district court trial. The case involved two alleged Negro accomplices and a claim of ownership to an estate valued at more than three million dollars.
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W. P. Gullatt
Ada
W. L. Reed
Gullatt
Reed
Raymond Jackson
Seminole County
Lucretia Bivans
Willie Wright
Burt Freeman
Jackson
Wright
Carloss Wadlington
Bivans
Draft Bill Is Put Off Till Monday
Senate military committee delays vote on Burke Wadsworth training bill and call out national guard until Monday. Proposal would limit conscription to 1,000,000 men aged 21 to 30, with further sections for phased calls next year. Reed court case and bond dispute involving Raymond Jackson also described.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Senate
National Guard
Lee
D-Okla
Bridges
R-N. H
War Department
McNary
Oregon
Ada Firemen's Rodeo promoted by booster tours and train display
The Ada Firemen's Rodeo touts August 8 to 11 with a giant steer as mascot. Booster Tours run Monday to Wednesday with varied routes, Jaycees join bus trips at one dollar per person, advance ticket sales begin at the Ada fire station, and a Santa Fe miniature freight train exhibit in the parade is highlighted as a crowd-pleaser.
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Ada
Oklahoma City
Henryetta
Shawnee
Texas
Hugo
Durant
Ardmore
Chickasha
Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Santa Fe
Mary West’s Name To U. S. Senate
A bulletin says President Roosevelt sent Mary W. West’s name to the U S Senate for confirmation as Ada postmaster. She has served since February 1936 first as acting postmaster then with full appointment. This marks the first permanent Ada postmaster appointment under recent rules. Some say the Chesire cat phrase came from molded cheeses in Cheshire county England.
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Associated Press
Mary W. West
Roosevelt
National Senate
Ada
Cheshire
England
Ada Hot Weather Tops State Readings
Ada finished July with no century degree mark as government thermometers stayed at 60 degrees while Adans felt near 100. Heat intensified Wednesday with lightning seen Thursday night but no showers, and Alva reached 110 degrees as the state's hottest city per Associated Press.
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Ada
Alva
Associated Press
Mercury
Russia Says It Is Not Taking Part In War
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov told parliament that Soviet Russia is not taking part in the war and expects England and the United States to oppose Germany and Italy. He warned the United States and Britain they will be held responsible for actions against the Baltics and discussed relations with Finland and Japan amid ongoing World War II hostilities.
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Moscow
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Russia
England
United States
Germany
Italy
France
Molotoff
Finland
Britain
Japan
German Airmen In Repeated Attacks On English Ports
German bombers pressed raids along the English coast amid improving weather, striking at ports linking the empire. In a southeastern town several people were killed as bombs sparked fires, while British planes pursued the attackers and authorities assessed earlier damage. The Nazi high command cited Virginio Gayda predicting Britain would be brought low by bombing and blockade.
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Dover
High Command
Channel
Scilly Islands
Lands End
England
Gayda
Germany
English
Hanover
Britain
Arctic
North
Africa
Tokyo
Domei
London
Japan
Spain
Portugal
Europe
Russia
Supreme Soviet
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Union
Associated Press
Ministry of Home Security
Virginio Gayda
Baseball scores and scattered league results
National League first game Pittsburgh beats Brooklyn 8 to 7 after a 9 inning rally. second game details unclear. American League and other games listed with incomplete lineups. A separate Dublin Georgia note tells of farmer James L. Whitaker wiring nails into apple trees, except one, causing heavy fruit yield on those trees.
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Dublin
James L. Whitaker
Th' Pessimist on Real Con Men in Street Life
A brief column notes that most people are forgotten before they die and mocks street level con artists who are never fully convincing or well dressed.
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Cony
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Columbus
R. E. Amos
Theseus
Ses
Haasan Military Affairs Committee
Hamilton
Ses Tank
U. S. National Guard
John Getz
Ohio
Champion Paper and Fibre Co
U.S
Barkley
Kentucky
Chandler
D-Ky
Guffey
D-Pa
Ada Fire Station
Mary West
U. S. Senate
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Brazil
Alcantara
Rio de Janiero
Trinidade
Delight
Mediterranean
Malta
Cairo
Egypt
Mt. Yuzan
Miyake
Isle
Brooklyn
Heintzelman
Klinger
Lopez
Wyatt
Mancuso
Percy
Feee Ae Butcher
W. Davis
Grissom
Phelps
Chicago
Potter and Hayes
Smith, Appleton and Tresh
Weeee Breuer
Dickey
Rowe and Tebbetts
Coca Ostermueller and
Foxx
Harder
Hemsley
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