Notice to Sell County Property in Pontotoc County Oklahoma
Sam Dew county treasurer announces sale of county acquired land in Pontotoc County Oklahoma on August 18 1945 at 9 a m. Each tract sold separately to highest bidder with minimum bid of 1.00 cash. Purchaser pays advertising costs. Sale subject to board approval.
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Sam Dew
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
Allen City
Jesse S. Bonds
Commercial Addition
Jesse S
Board of County Commissioners
Notice by Publication Gwendolyn Carpenter seeks majority rights
Gwendolyn Carpenter, by her mother and next friend Cora Carpenter, petitions the Pontotoc County District Court on August 10, 1945 to grant her majority rights for contracts and real estate dealings including deeds mortgages oil and gas leases and related instruments. Kerr Lambert Conn attorneys represent the applicant with the notice dated July 24, 1945.
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State OF Oklahoma
Pontotoc
Gwendolyn Carpenter
Cora Carpenter
Pontotoc County
Kerr, Lambert & Conn Attorneys
Dissolution of C. & W. Construction Co. Partners
I L Cope and N B Wilcox dissolved the partnership on July 12 1945 by mutual consent. Wilcox is authorized to collect all debts and pay all bills. Dated July 12 1945. I L Cope N B Wilcox. 7-19-2tw
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I. L. Cope
N. B. Wilcox
C. & W. Construction Co
Ada
Oklahoma
Cope
N. B. Wiillccox
Japanese Admit Damage to Home Land Last Month
San Francisco reports the Japanese headquarters acknowledging substantial damage to home island cities factories and shipping from Allied air raids last month. They claim 1021 Allied planes and 25 ships destroyed or crippled in reprisal while noting 29 B 29s shot down and 70 damaged.
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San Francisco
Radio Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Trial of Petain Sees Leahy Letter Support Defense
In Paris on August 1, Admiral Leahy’s letter praising Petain was read at the treason trial. He defended Petain’s actions as protective of France, while noting Petain resisted axis demands. Prosecution pressed to focus on essential facts as Weygand and Reynaud clashed during testimony.
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Paris
P—Adm
William D. Leahy
Truman
Marshal Petain
France
Solier
Leahy
Potsdam
Petain
U. S
North Africa
Paul Mongibeaux
Mongibeaux
Pierre Laval
Maxime Weygand
Andrew Mornet
Weygand
Paul Reynaud
Mata Hari
Republic
Mornet
Reynaud
Armand du Chayla
Luxembourg
Madrid
Control of State Hospital Questioned By Attorney Cobb
Oklahoma City August 1 Attorney General Randell Cobb questioned the 20th legislature measure that would place Ardmore Southern Oklahoma hospital under the University of Oklahoma board of regents. Cobb said title to the property runs in the state not to regents and that the act may be legally weak but not clearly illegal.
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Oklahoma City
Southern Oklahoma Hospital
Ardmore
University of Oklahoma Board of Regents
Randell Cobb
Lloyd Noble
Southern Confederate Hospital
Board of Regents For Higher Education
University Regents
Cobb
A. L. Crabb
Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Health
State Health Department
Grady Mathews
B 29s Strike Four Japanese Cities In New Raids
Tokyo radio said U.S. Superforts attacked two Kyushu cities Kawasaki and Shimonoseki and two Honshu targets Niigata and Nagaoka between 9:50 and 11:30 p m Japanese time. Niigata had not been bombed before. Nagaoka was warned for destruction.
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San Francisco
Tokyo Radio
U. S
Kyushu
Honshu
FCC
Kawasaki
Shimonosemi
Niigata
Nagaoka
20Th Air Force
Shimonoseki
Margaret Wood Returns to Byng Teaching Post
Miss Margaret Wood, who has worked in Arkansas for the summer, has returned to resume her teaching duties at Byng.
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Margaret Wood
Arkansas
Byng
Birmingham Without Newspaper 21 Days
Birmingham, Alabama, has been without its three daily newspapers for three weeks, troubling 268,000 residents. Mayor W. Cooper Green cites declines in department store sales, movie attendance, and real estate deals, plus lost legal advertising and fundraising impact. Printers walked out after publishers rejected a union agreement.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Steel Manufacturing Center
W. Cooper Green
War Chest
Plain Citizen
Gq Daily
International Typographical Union
AFL
American Submarine Joins Bombardment in Philippines Salvage
Manila report shows divers recovering 8.5 million dollars in government silver sunk in Manila Bay in 1942. Crates deteriorated after three years, salvage officer Lt. Tore H. Anderson said. Fifteen divers work the project, with five or six months more required.
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Manila
P—Army
Navy
Philippines
Manila Bay
Tore H. Anderson
Kearny
N. J
Ft. Belvoir
Butter for Civilians In August Butter Supply Rise
Washington reports more butter than anticipated will be available for civilians in August. The Agriculture Secretary notes no further cut in the butter point value is expected. Government creamery butter set aside drops to 20 percent, with about 100 million pounds available to civilians versus 90 million originally. September quota not yet set.
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Washington
Anderson
OPA
Chester Bowles
Denmark
U. S
Europe
Filthy Crowded Troop Train Faces Delays to Camp Grant
Wartime troop train from Camp Kilmer to Camp Grant carried 167 officers and 625 enlisted men in 18 cars amid filth and crowded conditions. Delays on Indiana sidings allowed seven luxury passenger trains to pass, prompting frustration but morale stayed up as crews discussed homecomings and processing plans.
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S. Burton Heath
NER
Camp Grant
Ill
Camp Kilmer
New Brunswick
N. J
Chicago
Indiana
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Pennsylvania
Fort Wayne
New York
Thicago
Grant
Columbia City
Golden Triangle
Pennsylvania Limited
Admiral
Liberty Limited
Broadway Limited
Ind
Camp Graant
Living Cost Peak Reaches Highest Since 1921
The Labor Department reported June living costs rose to 129 percent of the 1935 39 average, the highest since spring 1921. The cost index reflects retail prices paid by wage earners in large cities and excludes wartime factors like tax increases and war bond purchases.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
American Submarine Bombards Tokyo Area in Japan
Tokyo radio reported a American submarine joined the bombardment of Japan last night, shelling the northern Hokkaido Island area with To makomai referenced, the attack lasting about thirty minutes and described as causing extremely slight damage. Mus tang fighters launched from Okinawa or Iwo Jima attacked airfields and transport facilities in Osaka Kobe for nearly an hour.
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San Francisco
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Tomakomai
Hokkaido
Federal Communications Commission
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Osaka-Kobe
Honshu
Labor Majority Forms New British Parliament
A labor majority-dominated parliament assembled in Westminster for routine organization. Winston Churchill, stepping from prime minister to opposition leader, was cheered by the assembly marking a historic transition in British politics.
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London
Westminister
Winston Churchill
Verdict Returned On Seven Germans
In DARMSTADT Germany seven Germans including two women were sentenced to death for the killing of six captured American airmen last August. A six day trial produced two verdicts and three others face long prison terms while an American investigator described the killings as the most brutal he had seen. The airmen were marched through Russell-Hein to a prison train, then mobbed and killed in the village streets according to testimony.
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Chicago
Japan
Pacific
Darmstadt
Germany
Russell-Hein
Canada Packers Face General Strike
OTTAWA Aug 1 Canada meat packing faced a possible general strike as 5,300 workers were already out. Thousands more were ready to join Thursday unless the dispute between the United Packinghouse Workers of America CIO and Canada Packers Limited is settled. In Winnipeg Regina Moose Jaw and Prince Albert Sask 1650 union members voted to walk out Thursday in sympathy strikes.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Packinghouse Workers of America
C. L O
Canada Packers, Limited
Winnipeg
Regina
Moose Jaw
Prince Albert
Sask
Truman Plans London Flight to Meet King Aboard Renown
President Truman will fly to England to meet King George VI aboard HMS Renown with Secretary of State Byrnes and Admiral Leahy. They will lunch at sea and rendezvous before Truman returns to the Augusta. The king will depart London with Lord Halifax and Sir Alan Lascelles.
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London
Truman
England
George VI
H.M.S. Renown
James F. Byrnes
William D. Leahy
Plymouth
U.S
Augusta
Potsdam
Lord Halifax
Washington
Alan Lascelles
Sir Harold Campbell
Charges Dismissed Against T. Dorsey in Balcony Clash
The Los Angeles case ends peacefully as Antonio Icaza sues Tommy Dorsey for 40000 after a flying battle at the musician’s apartment. Icaza settles out of court for undisclosed terms. Earlier assault charges against Dorsey and others were dismissed following a nose cut on actor Jon Hall.
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Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey
Antonio Icaza
Dorsey
Icaza
Jon Hall
Butter Used to Make 135000 Pounds of Soap
Cincinnati August 1 The Proctor and Gamble Co used 90000 pounds of rancid butter to produce 135000 pounds of soap. Officials said the butter was bought recently from an industry wide lot and was unfit for human consumption. they did not identify the supplier.
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Cincinnati
Proctor & Gamble Co
State Superintendent Crabl to attend southern educators conference
State Superintendent A. L. Crabl will depart tomorrow for Nashville Tennessee to attend a conference of southern educators and will return next week.
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Oklahoma City
A. L. Crabl
Nashville
Tenn
Indians Prepare For Anadarko Indian Exposition Week
An estimated 600 to 700 Indians from 15 tribes in eight states arrive to set up camps for the August 14 to 18 exposition in Anadarko Oklahoma. The event features a pageant of Indian heroes by Margar et Speelman with night performances, plus horse racing archery dancing and ball games. Notables including William A Brophy governor Kerr senator Thomas and Rep Johnson expected to attend.
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Anadarko, Okla
Robert Goombi
Oklahoma
William Palmer
Col
Lyndreth Palmer
Germany
Raymond Lee
Fort Sill
Goombi
William A. Brophy
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Robert S. Kerr
Elmer Thomas
Jed Johnson
Bradley’s Group Dissolves After Historic War Run
In Wiesbaden on August 1 the Twelfth U. S. Army Group under Gen. Omar N. Bradley is dissolved. The unit, numbering 1,233,000 in the field, fought across France the Low Countries Luxembourg and deep into Germany before surrender. It logged 416,406 casualties 74,237 dead 297,509 wounded and 44,660 missing while taking 2,500,009 German troops and inflicting heavy replacements.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
U. S
Omar N. Bradley
France
Low Countries
Luxembourg
Greater Reich
Bradley
Rationed Items Can Be Sent Overseas
The OPA ruled that rationed food and shoes sent to civilian friends abroad must use ration stamps. Food for servicemen overseas and shoes for government representatives abroad are exempt. Chester Bowles urged that helpers abroad can give up part of their own scarce rationed shares. Congress criticism, notably from Rep. Latham, was noted.
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Washington
OPA
Chester Bowles
Congress
Rep
Latham
Loan On 45 Cotton Will Be Fraction Lower Than in 44
The Commodity Credit Corporation sets the 1945 loan rate for 7/8 inch middling cotton at 19.84 cents a pound, down from 20.03 cents last year, at 92.5 percent of the parity price of 21.45 cents. The 15/16 inch rate stands at 21.09 cents, with regional differentials from 20.42 to 21.63 cents. Loans run through May 1, 1946, with 3 percent interest and repayment due July 3, 1946, and may be made directly or via CCC-approved lending agencies.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Carolinas
Arizona
California
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
CCC
Board of Cotton Examiners
Agriculture Department
Kerr grants paroles to nine inmates in Oklahoma
Governor Kerr revoked the parole of Thomas Jones who was serving five years for larceny of an automobile in Garvin county and granted paroles to nine others. The released inmates include Hugh Gilley, Shelton Sealy, Jessie Coward, Melbert Hudson, Virgil Bellinger, Wallace McCullough, Jack Hill, Edward Haney, and Francis Schauff with various prior convictions. The governor also commuted Dan Hoover's remaining manslaughter term and granted three leaves of absence for life or burglary sentences.
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Oklahoma City
Thomas Jones
Garvin County
Robert S. Kerr
Jones
Carter County
Hugh Matthew Gilley
Oklahoma County
Shelton Sealy
Choctaw County
Edward D. Haney
Bryan
Francis J. Schauff
Woods County
Dan A. Hoover
Clifton Cleo Oakley
Jess Brown
Beckham County
Gordon Clifton
Seminole County
Governor-General Named For Canada
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, hero of Dunkirk and El Alamein, was named Canada’s 17th governor-general by King George VI. At 54, he heads the Mediterranean theater and will succeed Lord Athlone, whose term ended last June. He is publicity shy and a twice wounded WWI veteran who led British forces in key 1940s campaigns.
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London
Harold Alexander
Britain
Dunkerque
Burma
el Alamein
Canada
Mediterranean
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Lord Athlone
France
Alexander
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News Ads
An Ada area notice announces higher yields on vested investments in local ads. The change affects advertised funds and benefits readers by showing improved return rates and term specifics. The advertisement references the responsible issuer and the policy shift guiding redemption terms.
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Ada
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State Hospital
Illinois Central
Rockford
Canada Packers
U.P.W.A
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T. Dorsey
Anadarko
Ada News
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