Denver Flood After Castlewood Dam Breaks
Torrential rains released millions of gallons as Castlewood dam collapsed, flooding Denver and surrounding areas. Five thousand people evacuated. bridges and power lines were ruined. crops, railroads, highways and buildings suffered extensive damage. Dozens rescued and at least one drowning reported near Mathieson.
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Denver
Castlewood
Wildcat Canon
Here
Claude Hill
Mathieson
Cherry Creek
Polo Club
Denver Country Club Jowland
Candice Light
City Auditorium
Fourteenth
Champa Streets
Walker
Castlewood Dam
Agso
Oklahoma pastor seeks affirmation of life term
The state asked the Court of Appeals to uphold the life sentence of Rev. S. A. Berrie for the death of his first wife. Prosecutors said notes and poems to Ida Bess Bright show lack of protected communications, and outlined evidence alleging poison in tablets. Berrie remains imprisoned at McAlester.
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Oklahoma City
Criminal Court of Appeals
Berrie
McAlester
Nitro Glycerine Creates Panic in City and Enid
Enid resident J Y Callahan recalls appointing Hugh Johnson to West Point and lauds his recovery act leadership. In Chicago a nitroglycerine scare ends when agents and officials safely dispose of a gallon of the explosive after failed attempts to discard it.
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Enid
Oklahoma
Hugh Johnson
J. Y. Calllahan
Callahan
Oklahoma Territory
Congress
Dennis Flynn
Territory
West Point
Indian man badly injured after highway collision near Ada
Renno McKinney of Tuskahoma was struck by Walter Wray's car on Highway 458 two miles north of Ada. He suffered severe head wounds and facial injuries. x rays were planned to assess possible skull fracture. Witnesses said McKinney walked into the car as Wray swerved to avoid him. He was taken to the hospital. relatives identified him after an acquaintance contacted Sasakwa relatives.
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Renno McKinney
Tuskahoma
Walter Wray
Ada
Highway 458
McKinney
Bohannon
Seminole County
Konawa
Reno
H. McKinney
Sasakwa
Wray
Claude Sturdevant
Joe Smith
Bound Over On Burglary Count To Court Trial
At a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Sherwood W Hill Rich Warren was bound over to district court on a second degree burglary charge for the Perry Blue store break in Allen with bond set at 500 dollars. David Cordrey faces a driving while drunk charge. charges filed in Justice Court of J D Willoughby.
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Prem
Daity
Sherwood W Hill
Too Tender Hearted to Plow Up Cotton
Muskgee Oklahoma Aug 3 Ed Keithley of Webbers Falls a cotton farmer with 190 acres says the crop will yield bale per acre He contracted with the government to plow seventy acres but broke down when destroying the stalks He left the field to hire neighbors and now stays indoors eating watermelon to numb his remorse Neighbors say he weighed 200 pounds and came home in tears after the first rows fell to the ground
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Muskogee
Cp Ed Keithley
Webbers Falls
Sam
Keithley
Neigbors
Prison Life to Be Made Harder in Prussia
Berlin Aug 3 under a new Prussian law the treatment of prisoners changes to harsher regime. Prisoners both men and women face stricter rules with less access to privileges and visitors. Hans Kerri a cabinet member said punishments aim to deter crime by making prison life harder.
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Berlin
Hans Kerri
Heavy rains soak northwest Oklahoma towns
Northwest Oklahoma reports soaking rains last night and today with amounts from 1.54 inches in Woodward to over 3 inches in the panhandle. Enid had a light shower and a sprinkle this morning as temperatures fell to 66 degrees at 8 am. Beaver saw light rain on its edges.
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Northwest
Oklahoma
Enid
Ave
Guymon
Hooker
Boise City
Shattuck
Woodward
Alva
Buffalo
Panhandle
Beaver
Kidnappers Free Baskowitz After Credit Offer
Nathan Taskowitz is freed in New York after five gunmen abducted Baskowitz from friends’ home. Artie Bass, linked to Humbert Fugenzy, tried to pay with credit claiming a $2,000 plan. Baskowitz arrived later by taxi at the Fugazy Bowl in Coney Island after being blindfolded and held in an unknown building.
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New York
Aus
Nathan Taskowitz
Baskowitz
Artie Bass
Humbert Fugenzy
Artie
John J. Sullivan
Coney Island
NRA Ends Popular Pastime in Mt Morris General Store
In Mt Morris Pa merchants from 16 surrounding hamlets agree to close their stores at 6 PM to comply with NRA rules and support the blue eagle of the NBA ending local evening gatherings and traditional pastimes at the store.
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MT. Morris
NRA
United States
Blue Eagle
NBA
Woman Marries Banker To Reform Him
A widow reports a World War I era tale of a woman who married a banker to reform him, illustrating persistent themes of sacrifice and social reform in early 20th century attitudes.
Federal building work advances in Ada with stone reaching third floor
Construction in Ada features the federal building at Twelfth and Ren nie where stone facing rises to the third floor. Delays in stone delivery slow progress as Rogers and Leventhal of Chattanooga work with I L Harvey supervising. Contractors aim to finish stonework this month and pour basement floor this Saturday. Plasterers set for August 25 and plumbing and wiring progress, with heating installations half complete. Ada Ice Company expands its plant by 32 feet adding a new ice machine to double production to 35 tons per day under manager J A McCurley using Byrds Mill water.
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Ada
Federal
Twelfth and
Rennie
Ada Ice Company
East Main Street
Rogers and Leventhal
Chattanooga
Tenn
I. L. Harvey
J. A. McCurley
Byrds
Many Apply for Home Loan Funds in Ada
Distressed Ada homeowners quickly exhausted initial stocks of 50 and then 25 more loan applications. Local agents J W Bolen and J B Gilbreath say several hundred more will apply once forms are available. Most applicants are expected to qualify under government regulations. Loans cover taxes and insurance with government bonds exchanged for the loan, interest guaranteed but principal not.
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J. W. Bolen
J. B. Gilbreath
Home Loan Organization
Ada
Gilbreath
Two new Ada stores prepare to open soon
Ada to welcome Schram Art and Gift Shop and A-T Drug Store at East Main and West Main. Mr and Mrs C C B Schram moved from Oklahoma City to stock 118 East Main and plan August 15 openings with extensive china and glassware selections and a ladies wear section. Carl Allen Jewelry joins at 124 West Main with Earl Allen in charge. P A White will be pharmacist and J F Kirby general manager, former McAlester city manager, in remodeled premises designed for modern service.
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Schram Art and Gift Shop
A-T Drug Store
CC. B. Schram
Ada
Oklahoma City
East Main Street
A-T Drug Company
Carl Allen Jewelry Company
P. A. White
J. F. Kirby
Kirby
McAlester
Earl Allen
Oklahoma cotton crop forecast at 893000 bales
Oklahoma's state board of agriculture forecast this year's cotton crop at 893000 bales, down from 1084000 last year. The ten year average is 1221000 bales. Area harvested for harvest Aug 1 was about 2972000 acres, with 70 percent normal condition. July boll weevil damage reported light.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Board of Agriculture
Kelly appoints NRA assistants in city re employment drive
T. G. Kelly, local director, selects Mrs. Roy Chrisman as lieutenant general and names Dr. W. F. Dean as Colonel No 1 to lead organization and canvass unemployment compliance. J. Huch Biles becomes Colonel No 2 directing publicity and campaigns. B. R. Stubbs oversees speaker arrangements and information bureau.
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T. G. Kelly
Roy Chrisman
City Movement
Kelly
WF. Dean
J. Huch Biles
Ada Evening News
B. R. Stubbs
Bureau of Information
Old Loans Delay Payments on Farm Debt Crisis
Washington April 4. Farm administrators expect President Roosevelt to rule on exempting payments to growers who join reduction programs from government claims. Offsets against debt may delay most of the 100 million dollars in aid to cotton and wheat farmers as many have unpaid seed and crop production loans totaling about 140 million.
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Washington
Aus
Roosevelt
Cummings
Glass worker dies from 110 volt shock in Sapulpa
Sapulpa report says Luther Sherrill 32, a glass factory worker, died from an electrical shock after touching a 110 volt wire while handling wet lighting fixtures amid molten glass. Widow and two children survive.
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Sapulpa
Luther Sherrill
Sherrill
Sheriff Dies From Mistaken Shootout in Lincoln County
Aug 3. Sheriff Louis Wallace of Lincoln county died in a hospital after shotgun wounds from a posseman during a pursuit of two car thieves. The sheriff urged absolution for O Shepherd, saying it was really his fault as he tried to corner the fugitives in a woods near Meeker.
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Chandler
Louis Wallace
Lincoln County
O. Shepherd
Shepherd
Meeker
Civil docket cleanup under way in district court
Judge J F McKeel aims to clear the district court civil docket with an August 14 motion demurrer and non jury hearing. A 420 case list covers long pending and recently filed matters, some years old, awaiting final disposition or settlement.
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J. F. McKeel
District Court
McKeel
Ada Elects NRA Administration Chairman And Allies
At a Thursday night meeting of city civic clubs T G Kelly was chosen chairman of the NRA administration committee for Ada. Mrs Roy Chrisman named lieutenant general, with others to be appointed to enforce the president's employment agreement. Postmaster James W Lewis said employers of under three workers may sign and receive the Blue Eagle insignia at the post office. Consumers cards have been issued to buyers patronizing compliant merchants, and Blue Eagles grow as firms conform to the national wage employment campaign.
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T. G. Kelly
NRA
Ada
Roy Chrisman
Kelly
James W. Lewis
Looseveilt
Oil Truck Demolishes Wagon Near Ada No One Hurt
An oil truck hit a wagon on Highway 12 about a mile east of Ada. The impact injured the wagon horses but the two occupants Alfred Franklin and his son escaped with no injuries after being thrown clear. The windshield was shattered by a horse driven head first into the cab.
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Ada
Highway 12
Alfred Franklin
Textbook board adoptions face AG ruling on legality
Oklahoma City Aug 4 Attorney General J Berry King ruled that Gov Murray commission for textbook adoptions is a legal body despite a legislative requirement for three educators. The decision supported the appointments to Vaughan stating 40 percent of the new system is unlawful yet the overall process stands.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
J. Berry Kine
John Vaughan
Vaughan
King
Cardus Promises Relief for Weak Women’s Ailments
An advertisement claims Cardus strengthens women from weakness causing small symptoms. It asserts nourishment improves health and makes the body better able to take its natural course, reducing pain and nagging complaints.
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Cardus
Court Rules Fines Part of Sentences in DUI Case
The criminal court of appeals upheld including fines and costs in sentences. Frank Meyer serving a state prison term for drunken driving faced a $1500 fine, with a year’s term already served. Other rulings involved Kibbe, Daniels, Polk, Bean, Jacobs, Harrington and Blake with various sentences and fines.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Criminal Court of Appeals
Frank Meyer
Walter Kibbe
Ellis County
R. L. Daniels
Cleveland County
Gordon Polk
Washita County
Tillman Bean
Lee Jacobs
Ottawa County
Crand
Lou Harrington
Mayes County
Frank Blake
Texas County
Chicago Police Turn to Golf
A lighthearted note discusses police interest in golf as a remedy for lagging efforts, with a witty aside about optimism and a playful line about pie and ice cream.
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Chicago
Strong Hurricane Hits Texas Coast Wrecks Property
A 50 to 85 mph hurricane struck the lower Rio Grande valley from Brownsville to Mercedes causing citrus and cotton damage. Point Isabel suffered unroofed buildings and wrecked boats, while residents sought safety in sturdy structures as waves battered the coast. No deaths were reported.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf of Mexico
Brazos Island
del Mar
Valley Citrus Fruit Growers’ Exchange
Mercedes
Point Isabel
Here
Bio Administration
Point Isabel Company
Ballard
Champion Store
Scores
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United States Secret Service
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Detective Bureau
Lieut. Treacy
Mike Mills
Northwestern University Crime Laboratory
Clarence M. Muchsberger
Lake Michigan
Qreatese
Aathan
BY Williams
Jaima
NEA Service, Inc
A-I Drug Company
Dean, Biles and
Stubbs
Textbook Board Legal
Attorney General
Texas Coast
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