Red River Dam Project Moves Toward Prosperity Begin
Durant Oklahoma August 1 UP The Red River dam country nears a new era as federal funds start with a Wisconsin contractor to clear 6361 acres of timber at the dam site to aid flood control and hydro electric development. The work costs 18327 dollars and intends to employ about 100 men over three months. More than 50 million dollars of federal spending is planned.
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Durant, Oxls
Red River
Wisconsin
Here
Bryat County
Cartwright
Red River City
Congress
Oklahoma
Texas
Army
Southwest
Phillips
Leon C. Phillips
Secretary of War
C. C. Hatchett
Durant
George Moulton
Denison
Tex
Shreveport, la
Move For Action On Mexican Oil
Washington reports that Senator Pittman said the foreign relations committee would act tomorrow on a plan to probe alleged American support in the sale of oil seized in Mexico. Senators Neely Bridges and Guffey filed or spoke on resolutions seeking a full inquiry as ties to Mexican oil seizures are examined. Ambassador Najera said Mexico aims to resolve the dispute with U.S. oil companies with State Department contact ongoing.
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Washington
Pittman
D-Ney
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mexico
Neely
D-Wva
Bridges
R-Nh
Guffey
D-Pa
Senate
Mastillo Najera
Cardenas
Najera
Sumner Welles
Rapid Oil Output Boost in United States Week
U S crude oil production rose 25 581 barrels to 3 636 753 in the week ending July 29 the Oil and Gas Journal reports East Texas led gains with 74 658 barrels. Texas total up 284 263 to 1 631 588 Oklahoma down 26 050 to 440 378 Illinois down 4 750 to 276 900 and California up 4 000 to 608 250 New Mexico unchanged at 125 940.
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Tulsa
Okla
Texas
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
East Texas
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
Oklahoma
Illinois
Eastern
Louisiana
California
Michigan
New Mexico
Oxla
East Tex
Wes
Mexico
U. S
Mail Car Crew Stops Robbery Near Chanute Field
In Champaign Illinois a mail car crew battled two would be train robbers guarding a $36 000 army payroll for Chanute Field. One robber named John F Walden of Chicago was wounded and captured after leaping from the train. The other fled with a companion as police hunted along Illinois routes.
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Champaign
Til
John F. Warden
Chicago
Urbana
Illinois
Hern
Earl Boothman
Boothman
Onarga
Ill
Nurse tarred and feathered by two women in Calgary
An 18 year old nurse testified in police court that Mrs. Ethel Allen and her daughter Betty tarred and feathered her in her Calgary apartment two weeks earlier. She described roofing paint, a feather pillow case emptied, and her hair clipped to aid removal. The hearing was adjourned to Friday.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alice Knowles
Ethel Allen
J. L. Allen
Betty
County Roadwork Restarted By County Officials
County commissioners began road work again after state funds, totaling 6703.07 dollars, were approved by the county excise board. The appropriation covers maintenance tools and equipment, faseline, roadway upkeep, bridge maintenance, and road construction, with work resuming after a month-long halt.
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County Excise Board
Study Methods Of Getting New Firms In Oklahoma
Oklahoma business leaders plan a 4700 mile trip beginning October 6 aboard a special train from Tulsa to study how other states attract new industries. Governor Phillips may join Ford Harper of the state Chamber of Commerce, visiting Texas through Tennessee to learn southern industrial strategies and capital investment patterns.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Ford
Harper
Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce
Tulsa
Phillips
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
South
Idabel Twins Saved by Quick Doctor Ingenious Oxygen Device
In Idabel on Aug 1, twin boys Charles and Jaarine Faulkner born April 3 survived a near-fatal whooping cough when Dr George K Fisher improvised an oxygen delivery system from a fruit jar four rubber tubes and a welders oxygen drum. He used water in the jar to regulate flow and fashioned a nose mask from a stomach pump. The doctor said there was nothing else to do as nearby hospitals were too far away.
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Idabel
Charles
Jaarine Faulkner
George K. Fisher
Louis Faulkner
Permian Basis Is Remaining Adve
Odessa in Ector county remains the Permian Basin hot spot as 21 counties show high activity. Odessa hosts the largest oil supply center with 25.5 percent of wells. July figures show Ector county contributing 23.1 percent of basin drilling. The area reports 39, daily potential and ongoing construction projects including courthouse, city hall, federal building, and a new park planned for September.
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Odessa
Tex
West Texas
Permian Basin
Betor
Texas
Hetor County
Estor County
Ector County
Permian
Gas Prorations Under Commission Hearings In Topeka
Topeka Aug 3. Attorneys for the state corporation commission argue prorating gas production is within its power to prevent waste and conserve resources. They support last September’s order regulating gas in the Hugoton field while development companies call it undue restraint. Roberto Fulston for Republic Natural Gas says enforcement would force major producers to share markets with unconnected wells.
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Topeka
Eas
State Corporation Commission
Commission
Hugoton
Roberto Fulston
Republic Natural Gas Company
Large Corporations Earnings Rise in Second Quarter
New York August 1 The Associated Press reports the first 180 large firms show second quarter net income of 243 393 000 up about 61 percent from the prior period but 1 percent below the first quarter. Utilities and steel profits rise while railroads incur losses.
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New York
Associated Press
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Kiwanians Enjoy Rural Meeting in Ada
Ada Kiwanis club members and guests met in the country for a rural gathering in Union Valley area. After a humorous softball demonstration, attendees shared informal talks on country life and enjoyed an outdoor meal with visiting and discussion.
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Ada Kiwanis Club
Moneday
Union Valley
State board raises land assessments in several counties
The state equalization board endorsed land assessment hikes in Bryan McCurtain Gaffield counties and approved an 8 percent raise in Atoka. In Great Harmon Jackson counties, a 5 percent increase passed in part but was blocked by some members. Minutes show votes by Gov. Phillips Frank C. Carter and John Rogers among others, with treasurer Sebring and attorney general Cothers opposing certain raises.
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Oklahoma City
State Equalization Board
Phillips
Frank C. Carter
John Rogers
Great
Harmon
Balanes
Carl Sebring
Wil
Panson C. D. Childers
Joe Scott
State Tax Commission
Carter
Sebring
Williamson
Rogers
Figures How Youth Uncle Were Stain Figures How Youth Uncle Were Stain
CORONER BELIEVES former New Castle athlete and steel worker Edward Dombroski shot his bachelor uncle Iz natz then killed himself after in a car on a country road. A farmer found the dead men whose bodies showed multiple bullet wounds. a pistol lay beside them. No motive found, the two had long been constant companions. The horn may have been short circuited or struck.
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New Castle
C. Piper Byers
N' Castle
Edward Dombroski
Iz’ Natz Dombroski
Dombroski
Byers
Ang
Solomon J Carrier Dies After Heart Attack in Oklahoma
Solomon J. Carrier, alfalfa county state representative and former county Republican chairman, died of a heart attack on the way back from a business trip to Avard Woods. He was rushed to a Hopeton clinic but died before midnight. Survivors include his wife, three daughters, parents, a brother, and three sisters.
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Carmen
Ate
Solomon J. Carr
Alfalfa
Avard
Woods
Carrier
Ahysician
Hopeton Ang
Cartier
Affairs
Republican Party
Carrier Cit Company
8. E. Carrier
Enid
Albert Schulte
Evelyn
Ellyn
Edwin Bensing
S. B. Carrier
Orother
Floyd Carrier
Garfield County
Albert Shultz
S. G. Hart
Oklahoma City
Dov Carriers Skaggs
Eni
Sense Not Math Needed In Gunners
The British Navy air service plans to recruit gunners by an intelligence test of five questions not about gunnery. A sample asks who sits in the middle among Brown Robinson and Jones, suggesting pass marks rely on simple reasoning.
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London
Auc
British Navy Air Service
Gunery
Brown
Robinson
Jones
Irvin Cobb Sidelined by Gastric Upset in San Francisco
San Francisco reports writer actor and mini-julep expert Irvin S. Cobb ill in hospital with a gastric upset and summer flu. Doctors say he is not in bad shape but must stay three or four days for treatment.
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San Francisco
Irvin S. Cobb
Rolund
Hollywood
Joseph McGuiness
Piano industry enjoys best year as shipments surge
New York Aug 1 The National Piano Manufacturers association reports a strong year for the industry with 47000 pianos shipped in the first six months, a 30 percent rise from the prior year. The convention notes new finishes including tweed and bright leather upholstery as a trend.
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New York
National
Piano Manufacturers’ Association
Association
Commodity Truck Schedule Listed
A schedule for visits of the commodity truck in August was announced by Harve D. Lambert county administrator for the Welfare department. General relief clients are asked to be at the nearest stop on time to speed deliveries. The schedule lists a Saturday stop at 3:20.
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Harve D. Lambert
Welfare Department
Ailen
Roosevelt Decides on Hatch Bill Action
President Roosevelt said he has made up his mind on the Hatch bill restricting political activity by federal employees and would reveal his decision the next day. Earlier reports indicated a statement within 24 hours, but officials would not say whether he would sign, veto, or allow it to become law without his signature.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Dry Law Sparks Clash in Bombay Amid Prohibition Move
In Bombay Aug 1 a protest against a new prohibition law left fifteen persons wounded as police clashed with demonstrators. All 8,500 local bars and liquor shops were closed. liquor for foreigners is rationed. A Muslim procession protesting the ban was pelted by Hindus. police reported five wounded seriously and ten more hurt by stones, signaling possible wider Hindu Muslim fighting.
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Bombay
Bund Camps Near Army Bases Warned by Bund Leader
Roy P. Monahan, New York, chair of the Bunds national Americanism committee, told the D A W national convention that 22 Bund camps in the United States lie within 20 miles of major army bases or munitions plants. He said there is proof these camps could become spy centers in a war and alleged a plan to buy land for a camp in Massachusetts with sites considered in Roxbury. He urged cities to outlaw war uniformed groups not approved by the War Department.
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Boston
Aug
United States
Roy P. Monahan
New York
National Americanism Committee
Monahan
Germany
Bund
Mass
Roxbury
War Department
Grand Rapids
Mich
Langston hiring shakeup eyed for Colored A M University
Gov Phillips said he sought the best negro educator to lead Colored A and M University after J W Sanford was dismissed as president by the board of regents. Board chairman W C Kite was replaced as Phillips discussed Tuskegee Institute options to unite factions and appoint a strong leader. Pure Oil reports six month earnings of 2,483,456 against 2,021,440 last year after charges.
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Oklahoma City
Albara
J. W. Sanford
Colored A
M. University
Jbanaston
Phillips
Sanford
Board of Regents of
Coma Colleges
W. C. ‘Kite
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee
Ala
Lengston
Alva
Pure Oil
Shicago
Pure Oil Company
Sweeney Urges Dipregreting Phillips in Tulsa Letter
Tulsa county legislator A. F. Sweeney said he sent a letter to Secretary of War Woodring asking him to disregard Gov. Phillips protests against the Denison Texas dam project. He claimed the governor expresses his own ideas not Oklahoma sentiment and implied Phillips seeks national attention.
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Sweeney
Phillips
Tulsa
UPI
A. Fl
Tulsa ‘County
Woodring
Denison, Tex
Oklahoma
Barefoot Boy Fixes Gas Throttle to Save Home
A barefoot boy in overalls by the roadside helped repair a broken gas throttle on a Sharpsville fire truck as it rushed to a total blaze. He unfastened a safety pin which held up his overalls and the improvised fix enabled the vehicle to reach the scene, saving a home.
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Sharon
Sharpsville
Temporary salary cut for Oklahoma county deputies approved
A 30 percent temporary salary reduction for county deputies was ordered pending an attorney general opinion. County officials read Wadlington's view at a joint excise board and county commissioners meeting, with cuts based on 1200 yearly limits for some offices, and 80 to 90 dollar monthly rates for others. If the opinion allows higher pay, the difference will be repaid.
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Oklahoma City
Carloss Wadlington
Stounly Excise Board
Board of County Commissioners
Wadlington
George Collins
Collins
Bill Bevers
Sside
Tom Grant
Grant
Oklahoma
Excise Board
Ben Hatcher
Don Evans
W. M. Pegg
Mrs Haslet in Very Grave Condition After Car Crash
GALLUP New Mexico August 1 Mrs Charles C Haslet wife of a Washington Associated Press writer was reported in extremely grave condition today from injuries in a Sunday night automobile accident Physicians said Mrs Haslet had a lapse this morning after a slight improvement last night Her husband arrived at her bedside early today Haslet worked for 12 years as capitol reporter for the Oklahoma City UP bureau
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Gallup
N. M
Charles C. Haslet
Washington Associated Press
Hasset
Haslet
Capitol
Oklahoma City
UP Bureau
Sophie Tucker Suspended By A F A
Hollywood August 1 Sophie Tucker vaudeville star and AFA president was suspended today by the Screen Actors Guild after the AFL AAAA charter. Guild leaders condemned the action as a detriment to the guild and jurisdiction over actors.
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Hollywood
Sophie Tucker
American Federation of Actors
Screen Actors’ Guild
AFL International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Ralph Morgan
Guild
ATSE
Associated Actors and Artists of America
AFL
William Green
Screen Actors’ Guild Board
AAAA
Ada
Clas
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