O Daniel bids farewell amid Houston sendoff
Governor W Lee O Daniel told 20 000 barbecue crowd he wished he were running for something as he prepared to leave Houston for Washington to become Texas junior senator His departure climaxed a six hour day that included dedicating the Ordnance Depot at San Jacinto and triggering a dynamite blast amid cheers Former Governor Hobby praised his record and joked about politics as O Daniel prepared to depart for Washington to defend democracy.
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Iris Sally
O’daniel
Houstonians
Washington
Texas
America
Washinton
Houston
War Department
Ordnance Depot
San Jacinto
W. P. Hobby
Hobby
O'Daniel
Mike
Tex
Odaniel Passes State Leadership as Stevenson Takes Over
The governor's train crossed the Texas border at 12:25 a.m. Sunday shifting the chief executive role to Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson. O'Daniel spoke at the ordnance depot dedication, saying Texas will retain defense manufacturing post emergency. Molly's wedding day: the governor wished to speak to his daughter before the ceremony but could not.
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Molly
Trousseau
Texas
Coke Stevenson
O’daniel
Japanese Press Questions Thailand Crisis Shapes Asian Policy
Tokyo reports show heightened worry in Japanese media over Thailand as the empire tightens control amid a deepening crisis. New gasoline limits rise marine insurance rates and Japan seeks to protect economic ties with Britain and the United States.
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Tokyo
Thailand
Hochi
Japan
Indo-China
Kokumin
United States
Britain
Chungking
School Heads Work Out Bus Routes
County Superintendent Ray Stegall and his assistant Mrs. Juanita Rains were finalizing revisions to county school bus routes. A latent study by a state investigator prompted the changes, prompted by the legislature for efficiency and reduced overlap. The new system should be ready when county schools begin in early September.
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Ray Stegall
Juanita Rains
State Department of Education
Stegall Stegall
Food Prices Rise Across U S In July Report
Washington August 5 The Bureau of Labor statistics show meat canned vegetables and navy beans up in 18 city retail prices in late July Pork chops rise about 5 percent between July 14 and 29 Chuck roast up 3 percent and round steak 3 percent as prices keep climbing.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor
Panhandle Plains Museum Builds Second Unit in Canyon
Ochiltree County residents who helped during the dust bowl era donated 4213 bushels of wheat during the United Service Organization drive and have completed purchase and delivery of 4213 brick for the museum’s second unit at Canyon to honor their community.
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Perryton
Tex
Ochiltree County
United Service Organization
Panhandle County
Panhandle Plains Museum
Canyon
Marriage Licenses Issued to Alexander and Lee in Francis
The court clerk issued marriage licenses to Altus Tonie Alexander 24 and Cynthia Elmo Lee 18 both residents of Francis.
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Altus Tonie Alexander
Cynthia Elmo Lee
Francis
Four Gunmen Rob Bank Steal 76000 In Stroudsburg Heist
Four gunmen wearing dark sunglasses robed the First National Bank on a Stroudsburg street taking 76000 in cash from tellers Ralph Rheinfels and guard Lewis Heiney. They escaped in a black sedan across the Delaware River bridge into New Jersey, the car likely stolen in Easton. The money was insured and consisted of five ten and twenty dollar bills.
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Stroudsburg
First National Bank
Ralph Rheinfels
Lewis Heiney
Federal Reserve Bank
Philadelphia
Heiney
Delaware River
New Jersey
Easton
School Lunch Plan Targets Fall Start Across District
Lorena Anderson outlines a fall hot lunch program starting when schools open in September. The project will audit hot lunch kitchens for state sanitary compliance and assess housing, equipment, and food sources. Eligibility includes direct relief, WPA families, low income, or mothers unable to prepare meals. State Health, Education, Oklahoma A and M, and Public Welfare boards sponsor.
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Lorena Anderson
Deeine
State Board of Health
State Department of Education
Oklahoma A. and M. College
State Board of Public Welfare
Two U S Cruisers Arrive in Brisbane for Training Cruise
The Navy reports heavy cruisers Northampton and Salt Lake City have reached Brisbane Australia on a training cruise. They will refuel and grant crews a brief recreational period of a few days. command rests with Rear Admiral S A Taffinder.
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Washington
Navy
United States
Northampton
Salt Lake City
Brisbane
Australia
South Pacific
S. A. Taffinder
Three State Girls Seek Way Back Home
Juvenile authorities in Los Angeles sought to arrange with a travelers aid society for transportation back to Nowata Oklahoma for three hitchhiking girls. They were identified as Joan Taylor 18 Dolly Fuzzell 16 and Audrey Lee Brandon 17 from Coody's Bluff near Nowata. They were picked up at San Dim as while trying to thumb a ride and said they had visited Miss Taylor's Sacramento sister before heading south.
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Los Angeles
Travelers Aid Society
Nowata
Okla
Joan Taylor
Dolly Fuzzell
Audrey Lee Brandon
Coody’s Bluff
San Dimas
Sacramento
Miss Taylor
Has the Cat Set Your Tongue at Fort Bliss
A 63rd coast artillery unit paused on a road when a cheerful woman asks, Have you read the papers. The soldiers fall silent then reply with the retort of a military camp exchange. The moment underscores a humorous interruption in an otherwise routine stop.
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Fort Bliss
Tex
63Rd Coast Artillery
Coppers Laugh Last As Culprit Counts Pennies
In Mt. Vernon a defendant fined for speeding paid with a large pile of pennies. Police Magistrate A D Webb ordered the man to count 740 coppers, and the defendant smiled as he tallied the coins.
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MT. Vernon, Sr
A. D. Webb
State Farmer Held After Attack On Bride Of Son
Chester Howard a 58 year old Nash farmer was held on a 5000 bond after a preliminary hearing on charges of criminally assaulting his daughter in law Inez Howard 22 on their wedding night The incident occurred May 14 after her marriage to Wayman Howard in Wellington Kas Wayman Howard was later arrested on a check charge and is sought for abandonment charges District court will reconvene in October The case proceeded in a packed Medford district court with Inez Howard testifying and her mother and a friend attesting to her character
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Medford
Chester Howard
Nash Farmer
Inez Howard
M. E. Prout
Wayman Howard
Grant County
Cora Howard
Opal Warner
Walters
Farm Youth Killed in State Plane Crash Near Tonkawa
Tonkawa Oklahoma August 5 Wayne Shorter 20 dies in Ponca City hospital from injuries after a light training plane piloted by Shorter and owned by George Ogg of Edmond crashes near the home of Oggs parents three miles southeast of Tonkawa Ogg 24 was killed instantly Shorter was to report for naval pilot training Oggs parents survive and Shorters ill mother survives in Perry hospital.
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Tonkawa
Wayne Shorter
Ponca City
George Ogg
Edmond
Shorter
Ogg
Blackwell School of Aeronautics
Charley Cleared in Ada Confederate Bill Case
Ada Evening News recalls 1906 trial where Charley, a Francis boy, was accused of passing a Confederate ten dollar bill. The jury found him not guilty after testimony split on whether he sold the bill for silver and candy. The fate of the other boy and the bill remains unrecorded.
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Ada
Winn
Charley
Francis
James Gels Farm Post Named AAA County Officer
Lilburn J James announced Tuesday as the new county administrative assistant of the agricultural adjustment administration succeeding J W Herron He has served as AAA officer at Ardmore for four years and takes over on Friday August 1 Herron moves to James former Ardmore post James a Boise City Oklahoma native holds a B S from Oklahoma A and M at Stillwater and has done graduate work He and his family reside at 815 East Fourteenth Street
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Lilburn J. James
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
J. W. Herron
James
AAA
Atdmore
Herron
Ardmore
Boise City
Oklahoma Panhandle
Oklahoma A
M. College
Stillwater
East Fourteenth Street
Huge Red Tanks Rout Nazi Troops
The Soviet Army magazine Red Star reported two enormous Soviet tanks routed an entire German column, including a battalion, in a dramatic engagement. The tanks, so large they did not need to fire, advanced and overcame the German force.
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Moscow
Red Star
Land battleships assault Nazi column destroying tanks
The magazine reported two armored formations labeled land battleships attacked the Nazi column from head and tail, crushing 15 light tanks and 10 armored cars in separate encounters.
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Ion
Congress Approves Flood Control Authorization Bill
Congress approved a $275 million flood control authorization bill after house and senate conference action. The measure sets flood control works eligible for later construction but does not appropriate funds. The bill goes to the White House for final action.
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Congress
Washington
White House
House
Senate
Canada Coal Output In Early 1940 By Province
Canada produced 5,801,500 short tons of coal in the first four months of 1940. Nova Scotia supplied 2,516,200 tons, Alberta 2,067,100, British Columbia 629,900, Saskatchewan 416,900, and New Brunswick 73,600 tons.
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Canada
Nova Scotia
Alberta
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
New Brunswick
Two Dead Nine Injured In Oklahoma Road Mishaps
Automobile crashes over the weekend in Oklahoma left two dead and nine injured. Beatrice Grisham 36 Kilgore Tex and Kitty B Kerns 35 Shamrock Tex were among the injured in a head on collision three miles north of Norman. Occupants Edyth Grisham 28 Wanette and Mrs C H Mann 31 Kilgore were lightly hurt.
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Oklahoma
Smith
Hammon
A. Williams
Oklahoma City
Norman
Kitty B. Kerns
Beatrice Grisham
Kilgore
Tex
Edyth Grisham
Wanette
C. H. Mann
Ed Lovelace
Shamrock
Will Lovelace
Clinton
Robert Burrows
Lovelace
Clarence H. Scott
Elk City
Scott
State Farmers Ask Wheat Penalty Cut
Three Oklahoma farmers representing about 30,000 pro testing wheat growers urged the Senate agriculture committee to reduce the excess wheat penalty from 49 to 15 cents a bushel for this year’s crop. Dan Donahoe Jr., Perry Howell, and Gerald P. Tackwell traveled to Washington to press the request as Senator Thomas agreed to seek a full committee meeting next week.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Senate Agriculture Committee
Dan Donahoe, Jr
Ponca City
Okla
Perry Howell
Blackwell
Gerald P. Tackwell
Piedmont
Rep
Rizley
Agriculture Committee
Thomas
D.-Okla
Smith
D.S. C
Texas Group Seeks Lower Freight Rates
Attorney General Gerald C. Mann named a Texas delegation to a Kansas City conference to prepare evidence supporting lower freight rates for Texas. The team includes Cecil C. Cammack E R Tanner John H Frederick and T D Cherry to present to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Austin
Tex
Gerald C. Mann
Texas
Kansas City
Cecil C. Cammack
E. R. Tanner
John H. Frederick
University of Texas
Transportation and Industry
T. D. Cherry
Texas A
Cushman Named Principal at Konawa High School
J. W. Cushman former Ross high school principal and basketball coach was elected Konawa high school principal. He will finish his master's in high school administration at Oklahoma University this August. Mrs Cushman will teach home economics and mathematics at Marlow Central high school and pursues a master’s in home economics education.
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J. W. Cushman
Ross
Konawa
Cushman
Oklahoma University
Marlow Central High School
Bishop Named For Amarillo Diocese
The Very Reverend Laurence Julius FitzSimon has been named bishop of the Amarillo Texas diocese by Pope Pius XII. Born in San Antonio in 1895 he studied in Texas parochial schools and attended the North American College in Rome. The Amarillo diocese has been vacant since early year after Bishop Robert E. Lucey was transferred to San Antonio.
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Washington
Laurence Julius FitzSimon
Amarillo
Texas
Pius XII
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
San Antonio
North American College
Rome
Robert E. Lucey
Britain mobilizes 3 million in munitions work near war end
Near the war’s end Great Britain reports over 3 million people engaged in munitions and nations work, reflecting vast wartime labor effort and industrial mobilization across the country.
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Great Britain
Starting Fires With Care Theory Faces Real World Tests
A theoretical approach to fire safety promises careful handling now but warns that practical lessons will emerge within months. Authorities stress rigor in implementation as risks and responsibilities unfold.
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Ada News
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Land of the Free
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Ada Evening News
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Canadian Coal
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