Accident hires Louisiana auditor sparks protest
Sam Bounds, an Oklahoma accountant, was assigned to check Charity hospital in New Orleans by chance. Frank B. Shattuck defended the hire in a letter to the Society of Louisiana CPAs, saying the audit was routine and Bounds could have been placed elsewhere. Shattuck noted press sensationalism and denied any sweeping probe.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Bounds
Oklahoma
New Orleans
Frank B. Shattuck
Shattuck
Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants
Bounds
George Long
Huey P. Long
George Vidrine
Highway Commission
Books of Charity Hospital
Earl K. Long
Shatdusk
Eastern Seaboard War Practice Moves to Plattsburg
Troops from nine states converge at Plattsburg New York for a two week field test of modern weapons staged as a mock invasion and defense. More than 50 000 personnel from regular army national guard and reserve units will encamp along Lake Champlain forming the largest peacetime concentration in U.S. history. Major General Hugh A Drum will command the invading black army and Major General James A Woodruff the blue defense army. Observers from 17 nations will attend including European powers to assess latest gear notably the M1 semi automatic rifle.
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Plattsburg
N. J
Seaboard
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Knox
National Guard
Historic
Lake Champlain
New England
New York City
Hugh A. Drum
New York
New Jersey
James A. Woodruff
Port Benning
Goering Announces Vast Iron Deposits In Germany
Berlin reports Field Marshal Wilhelm Goering stated high quality iron ore deposits are extensive enough to be worked for a century. He emphasized Germany’s generally iron-poor status but said the nation now has confidence and determination to defend its interests while pursuing peace.
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Berlin
Merman Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Gotting
Fuehrer
Justice Dept invites Kerr to Washington on gas price matter
Wyoming Attorney General Ewing T. Kerr was invited to Washington to offer concrete suggestions on breaking up a Wyoming gasoline trust. Senator O Mahoney, chair of the National Economic Committee, would discuss the Wyoming oil situation with any Wyoming special legislative session.
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Washington
Justice Department
Wyoming
Ewing T. Kerr
O' Mahoney
D-Wye
National Economic Committee
Nels H. Smith
Kerr
Thurman Arnold
Arnold
O’mahoney
Ralph Morgan Firm On Actors Guild
Ralph Morgan president of the Screen Actors' Guild warned that members would quit work if the stagehands union gains control. He pledged to only answer to actors as he and eight Hollywood colleagues head to Atlantic City to speak before the AFL executive council amid a sectoral fight over AFL and stagehands’ union affiliation.
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Kansas City
Ralph Morgan
Screen Actors’ Guild
Guild
Morgan
Hollywood
Atlantic City
American Federation of Labor
Edward Arnold
Binnie Barnes
Jean Muir
Larry Teers
Lucille Gleason
Wayne Morris
Henry Hull
Mischa Auer
American Federation of Actors
Stage, Hands’ Union
AFA
Associated Actors and Artists of America
Gas Strike Links Two Kansas Oil Pools
Wichita reports a gas strike linking Cairo and Cunningham pools in Pratt county at Skelly Oil No. 1 Rouse well. The well flowed 1,000 feet of gas daily from Viola lime at 4,288 feet and will be acidized to raise production. Nearby, the Wilson pool in Cowley county extended with No. 3 Smith well yielding 280 barrels daily from the Arbuckle lime at 3,511 feet.
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Wichita
Kas
Cairo
Cunningham
Pratt County
Rouse
Skelly Oil Co
Viola
Cairo Pool
Cunningham Pool
Wilson Pool
Cowley County
Smith
Gerald Smith
Pryor & Lockhart
Center East
Forgotten spectacles found after 25 years in Southend
Jesse Wallace of London walked into a Southend police station with old-fashioned gold-rimmed spectacles found 25 years ago on his honeymoon. He said the item had slipped his mind until he returned home and planned to hand them to police on his next visit.
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Southend
England
Jesse Wallace
London
Governor Red's Uniform Fails to Suit Review Day
Oklahoma City Aug 9 The Oklahoma national guard commander will wear a plain business suit when he reviews troops at Fort Sill Sunday. Governor Phillips says she has only two uniforms olive drab from World War II and a Knight Templar outfit both not fitting for the occasion.
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Red
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma National Guard
Fort Sill
Phillips
Obituary of Mrs Frances Knight and Mr O White in Ada area
Frances Knight of Francis aged three died at home in Francis on August 6. Funeral at Church of Christ Francis Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev Shipman of Ada officiating. Interment in Certownahoma cemetery Criswell Funeral Home in charge. Survived by son E J Knight Byng and five daughters. O White 39 died at home 222 West Thirteenth. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. Methodist church Rev W L Blackburn. Burial Rosedale cemetery. Surviving: mother Mrs A W White Ada, sister Mrs J Rivenback Dallas, three sons Leroy Orville and Booby White Ada.
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Frances N. Knight
Francis
Church of Christ
Shipman
Ada
Centrahoma Cemetery
Criswell Funeral Home
E. J. Knight
Byng
J. A. Landith
R. P. Flatt
O. White
A. O. White
Homie
West Thirteenth
Methodist Church
W. L. Blackburn
Rosedale Cemetery
Keith Funeral Chapel
A.W. White
J. Rivenback
Dallas
Leroy, Orville
Booby White
Aes
Plan to Restore Runoff Primary Considered in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Veterans of Industry of America discuss forcing runoff primary restoration by filing candidates in all 77 counties for each state office in the next election. Ira Finley flagged voter confusion and ballot printing costs, while LeFlore county leaders push a resolution amid broader party criticism. The state meeting is set for October 8. next primaries occur in July 1940 with statewide officers, district judges, and many legislators to be chosen.
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Oklaeoma City
Aug
UPA
Veterans of Industry of America
Ira Finley
LeFlore County
U. A
Steve Medall
Oklahoma
Rusoff
Finley
Corporation Commission
Supreme Court
Criminal Court of Appeals
House of Representatives
Pioneer Ben Freeny to Attend Ada Rodeo at 76
Ben Freeny a 76 year old cattleman and pioneer from near Chickasha will appear in opening ceremonies as an Ada rodeo opens. Freeny helped drive cattle to Missouri markets and shipped cattle from Purcell, becoming a key early figure in Oklahoma ranching and Chickasaw history.
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Ben Freeny
Oklahoma
Ada
Chickasha
Freeny
Clay
Rube
Will Go On With Buying Of Planes
Washington August 9 The failure of Congress to enact wider wartime powers for the War Department to buy more than two thousand planes might not delay air corps reinforcement. Louis Johnson acting secretary of war said the program would be completed on time with industry extension. The measure would have let the department award orders to any of the three lowest bidders rather than all at the bottom price.
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Washington
Congress
War Department
Air Corps
Senate
House
Louis Johnson
Department
War department gains powers under 1926 act for design bids
The decision this week confirms the war department holds authority under a 1926 act to award contracts to any of the three lowest bidders when a design competition selects a plane rather than testing an actual prototype. This clarifies procurement rules for evaluating aircraft designs and may affect future contracting in military aviation.
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War Department
Four States Join On Freight Rates
Oklahoma Governor Phillips and the corporation commission announced a regional effort with Texas Arkansas and Louisiana to obtain lower freight rates for the southwest. Certificates up to 9000 a year will finance Oklahoma's share of litigation before the Interstate Commerce Commission. A. S. Shaw said at least three years are needed to complete the rate case. Arkansas has 35000 Texas 30000 and Louisiana pledged funds for the fight.
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Oklahoma City
JPL
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Southwest
Phillips
Corporation Commission
Interstate Nomimerce Commission
A. S.J. Shaw
Shaw
Advance Theory In Slaying Of Girl
Camden New Jersey August 9 A possibility arose that a counterfeit money ring may be linked to the Lovers Lane slaying of Wanda Dworecki a 17 year old minister s daughter Detectives pursuing that angle recalled her father Reverend Walter Dworecki a Polish Baptist minister who was arrested in 1935 on charges of passing a bogus five dollar bill He received a suspended sentence in federal court The slaying occurred days after seven men and women were arrested on charges of complicity in counterfeit ring operations in Camden and nearby communities Five young men were questioned but offered no light on who beat and strangled Miss Dworecki and dumped her body from a car along a highway Detectives say locating the seven or eight months earlier abductors and assailants who dumped her 125 miles from home would move them closer to solving the case
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Camden
N. J
Oday
Wanda Dworecki
Walter Dworecki
Cing
Lawrence
P. Doran
Miss Dworecki
Dworecki
Prisoner Leaves Smokestack Perch at Kingston Penitentiary
A Kingston prisoner climbs a 100-foot smokestack and ends a dawn-staged stand after a rainstorm storms in. He demanded transfer back to St Vincent de Paul near Montreal where authorities had sent him from the dominion’s strictest facility.
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Kingston
Montreal
Dominion
Prisoner threats raise alarm during escape attempt
A prisoner shouted demands to guards after an alarm. searchlights lit the scene as he loomed at the stack, making a motion as if to leap when a guard neared a ladder, causing the guard to retreat.
Windbreaks Reach Far Across Prairie States
Washington reports a windbreak program planting 4,750 miles on 7,079 farms across six states. J A Fitzwater notes WPA labor produced 32,589 man months with additional supervisory and clerical effort totaling 2,977. Nebraska led with 1,000 miles on 2,053 farms, and overall windbreaks since 1935 cover 11,000 miles on 20,000 farms with only 190 miles abandoned for fencing issues.
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Washington
Prairie States Forestry Project
J. A. Fitzwater
State Forestry Division
Department of Agriculture
WPA
Forest Service
Nebraska
Fitzwater
Rains Boost Oklahoma Agriculture Across State
Federal forecaster Harry Wahlgren reports soil moisture sufficient for current needs except in extreme northwest, south central, and eastern areas. Rain improves pastures gardens grain sorghums and minor crops, though dryer soils limited fall plowing. Cotton shows slow progress with hot weather and little rain, particularly in southwestern and south central sections.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Harry Wahlgren
Wahlgren
Woman Fined For Shorts To March In Rodeo Parade
Mrs. Grayce Alexander of Nettleon Arkansas, a 11 year old housewife, was fined for wearing shorts in public and will appear in the Duncan rodeo parade on September 4, announced by the Duncan chamber of commerce.
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Duncan
Grayce Alexander
Social security cuts lump-sum old age benefits
Washington Aug 9 UP The social security board halted new lump-sum claims from those over 65 as amendments to the act await presidential approval. Monthly payments replace lump sums for eligible workers, with 485,000 expected to receive the revised benefits next year at about 110 million dollars, far above the prior 30 million. About 178,000 lump-sum claims totaling 10 million had already been paid.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Altmeyer
Manyose
Mrs. Cummings Claimed By Death
Mrs. Homer S. Cummings widow of the former attorney general died at Ruthven near Rock Creek Park after illness from high blood pressure following a Florida trip. She built a reputation as a gay and original cabinet hostess amid late 1920s Washington society.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Ruthven
Rock Creek Park
Cummings
Florida
Workmen Begin Clearing Debris After Kalamazoo Tornado
Kalamazoo Michigan August reports crews clearing debris after tornadic winds killed one man Lester Baker 31 in Scotts and injured scores. Two factories unroofed in Kalamazoo as power and communications disrupted. South Comstock Midland areas hit with homes overturned and residents treated. Red Cross mobilizes aid. Mrs Arla Belie Coon 79 survived in wheelchair after house blown apart.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Westerl
Central Michigan
Red Cross
Lester Baker
Scotts
Here
Comstock
Midland
Arla Belie Coon
Germany Seeks Talent for Wartime Civilian Power
Berlin directs a nationwide survey of civilians to register talents and capacities for emergency service. Registration excludes soldiers and young children, with a mid August readiness peak planned. Authorities push gas rationing, Poland propaganda, and a Siegfried Line movie campaign to bolster morale. Berlin schools may house troops as maneuvers urge doubling class sizes to avoid school disruption.
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Berlin
Germany
Cigenticecard
Reich
Poland
Siegried
Living Cells May Transplant Across Organs Says Scientist
NORTH TRURO Mass Aug 9 A Amherst College embryologist Dr Scholle or Schotte spoke at a five day symposium on growth and development noting living cells may replace eye lenses ears and mouths with different organs within the same animals. He said experiments show tissues can interchange to form new organs regardless of initial role. In a separate report a 19 year old mother Rex Moncrief was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot at her parents farm near Mud Creek 18 miles southeast of Duncan Sheriff Hervey ruled it a suicide after she had been despondent over her health.
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North Truro
Mass
Scholle
Amherst College
Schotte
Duncan
Rex Moncrief
R. Frederick
Brooks Hervey
Hervey
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