Broomcorn Row Marks Lindsay Annual Market Rush
Lindsay Oklahoma hosts its annual broomcorn market flurry in July and August with two blocks of wagons and about 50 buyers. Prices rise about 23 percent from last year as demand stays strong and Oklahoma leads production nationwide.
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Lindsay
Okla
Garvin
Oklahoma
Oklahome
Anadarko
Texas
Colorado
Sterang
Ling- Say
Illinois
Nat
Fighters Retreat From Forest Blaze
In Oregon near Saddle Mountain 2000 firefighters fell back as flames swept across about 20000 acres. The blaze damaged logging camps lines and timber stands while workers dug trenches and hid underground for seven hours to escape the heat and smoke.
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Portland
Ore
Saddle Mountain
Oregon
Cetil Kyle
Trying To Avert Threatened Strike Chicago Armour Workers Seek Talk
In Chicago Armour plants 6000 workers face possible walkout over the dismissal of 15 men. CIO officers Don Harris and Henry Johnson met with superintendent W. S. Renfro to discuss reinstatement and avert a strike.
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PWOC
W. S. Renfro
Armour
National Labor Relations Board
Chicago
Armour and Company
Chicago Armour
Don Harris
Packing House Workers Organizing Committee
Henry Johnson
Demos Not Owing Lewis Says Quayle
Fittsburgh Aug 9 Oliver J. Suayle Jr treasurer of the democratic national committee said the committee was not obligated financially to John L Lewis and dismissed a $560000 contribution rumor. He stated the national committee had only $50000 from Lewis paid off and a $50000 loan from the United Mine Workers in 1936 was repaid in two installments. Lewis defended labor, while Perkins and CIO officials interacted with General Motors as Lewis urged political debts from the administration.
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Oliver Ja Suayle
Democratic National
John L. Lewis
CIO
Lewis
Democratic Party
Quayle
National Committee
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Hership
Labor
Perkins Earler
General Motors
Genaral Motors
Not Politician So She Resigns Job Not Politician
ANSAS CITY August 9 Miss Estelle J Crowder superintendent of the rural Jackson county hospital sent a resignation letter to Judge J Byam Jr. She said she enjoyed the work but feared failure as a political employee and that she keeps thinking of the public as those to be served while political forces are not in repair. The county court controlled by Pendergast faction did not act on the letter.
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Ansas City
Estelle J. Crowder
Jackson Bounty Hospital
J. Byam
Byam
Pendergast Democratic
Jews Seek Refuge Still Denied Them
Five hundred hungry refugees, mostly from Czecho Slovakia, arrived at Istanbul aboard the crippled Parita seeking asylum denied at Mediterranean ports. Turkish quarantine looms as authorities reportedly refuse landing. On a long voyage from Constanza and other ports, the ship is low on provisions and fuel. In Rome, ten firms must transfer Jewish ownership under Italy’s anti Jewish laws, marking the first step toward dispossession of enterprises connected with national defense or employing over 100 persons.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Czecho-Slovakia
Mediterranean
Panama
Constanza
Romania
Rome
CPRL
Italy
Nazette
Heat Of July Harms Oklahoma Corn Crops, Reports Warn
Oklahoma crop report shows extreme July heat reduced corn to 69 percent of normal, with an estimated 15 bushels per acre and 27,750,000 bushels total. Cotton at 66 percent of normal, broomcorn 66 percent, grain sorghums 65 percent. prolonged heat could further cut yields if rain fails.
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Tres City
Oklahoma
State Department of Agriculture
Gambling Ships Threaten Suit Against Officers
Los Angeles August raids on four floating casinos ended with ships Texas Showboat Tanga and Rex surrendering. Attorney Joseph Orloff demanded piracy charges against Earl Warren Baron Fitts Eugene Biscailuz and Leo Silverstein or a million-dollar damage suit. Officers allegedly seized 25000 in equipment and other paraphernalia. Rex operator Tony Cornero refuses to surrender.
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Los Angeles
Lady Luck
Joseph Orloff
Texas
Orloff
U. S
Earl Warren
Baron Fitts
Eugene Biscailuz
Leo Silverstein
Texas Charge
Tony Cornero
Rex
Britain protests Japanese seizure of British coal mines in China
London reports Britain's ambassador to Japan instructed to protest the confiscation of British owned anthracite mines in Henan province under Japanese occupation. A government spokesman says Sir Robert Craigie was reminded of Japan's pledge to maintain order in North China as a second British protest this week follows the bombing of two British vessels on the Yangtze.
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UPI
Britain
Japan
Henan Province
China
Robert Leslie Craigie
Bri
Yangtze River
Mie
Yorkshire
Lord Halifax
William Strang
Strang
Moscow
Hollywood
Richard Carlson
Price Trouble Lingers as Oil Demand Rises
Tulsa dispatch notes gasoline consumption at high levels while oil prices remain stubborn. Crude markets ease in the Mid-Continent amid competition from Illinois. Standard Oil of Louisiana posts 80 cents per barrel in Magnolia pool Arkansas, down from prior payments. Oklahoma and Kansas August allocations cited. Tank wagon prices slip slightly in Chicago as refining profits stay thin. Illinois drilling accelerates with 340 tests in Basin area and new Edwards County pool. Magnolia pool Arkansas yields 549 barrels in 24 hours.
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Mid-Continent
Illinois
Standard ‘Oil Company of
Louisiana
Magnolia
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
American
Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Oil and Gas Journal
New
Edwards County
Columbia County
Magnolia Pool
Canadian County
Okla
Europe Turmoil Deepens With British Maneuvers and Nazi Survey
British air and naval drills test air defenses as a German civilian power survey is conducted for wartime readiness. Anti American protests flare in Japanese controlled China, while Forster returns to Danzig from Berchtesgaden for a mass meeting amid rising tensions.
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Britain
Air Ministry
England
Germany
London
George
Waymouth
Danzig
Albert Forster
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Free City
Forster
Torrow
Hitler
Linyang
Kikungshan
Henan
Hwolisien
Shansi
Shihchiachwang
Hopech
South China
Swatow
Hatch Defends Clean Politics Law Against Criticism
Senator Hatch denounces the Young Democrats of America president Mauer for calling the legislation un-American. He says the 10 day limit and merit-based appointments uphold principles long held by the party and warns federal workers attending a Pittsburgh convention as delegates risk dismissal under the law.
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Hatch
D-N.m
Pitt Tyson
Maner
Young Democrats of America
Pittsburgh
Mauer
Pitsburg
George Washington
Filipina mother linked baby heart anomaly to prayer images
In Manila a 24 year old mother Esperanza Rafael says three months before birth she fixed on two wall pictures showing Jesus with his exposed heart and the Virgin Mary. Doctors say the infant’s heart is outside the body and requires placement surgery. Leading Philippine surgeons will consult to determine feasibility of an operation to relocate the heart.
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Jesus Christ
Esperanza Rafael
Christ
Mary
Philippines
Trey
Government Bureau of Science
Two Men Trade Eye Tissue in Denver
DENVER Aug 9 Several days must elapse before two men who swapped an eye removal for a sliver of cornea tissue learn the outcome. Every Devis 98 WPA worker blinded in a tunnel accident at Yakima Washington had his left eye removed to save his right eye. William Lewis 69 year old Denver attorney blinded by a tear gas cartridge discharge financed the twin operations yesterday in which Devis eye was removed and a three eighths of an inch square grafted onto his left eye.
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E. Devis
WPA
Yakima
Wach
William E. Lewis
Lewis
Davis
GRDA Plans To Move Oklahoma Graves For Flood Control
Grand River Dam Authority seeks relatives consent to relocate about 1,400 graves as a flood control project. Special GRDA employee McCullough oversees cemetery relocations and has obtained consent from all contacted families. Also notes marriage licenses issued for Ada area couples and surrounding towns.
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Vinita
Okla
Grand River Dam
Divorce Petitions Filed in District Court This Week
Divorce petitions were filed in district court on Monday by Mildred Bartlett against Reese Bartlett and Archie McFarlin against Jessie McFarlin. Audry Click filed for divorce against Dorothy Click on Wednesday. Mrs Jessie Morgan, home demonstration agent, remained unchanged after a fall left her bedridden. Miss Lemng Maloney, Shawnee district home demonstration agent, visited the county on Wednesday for office business.
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Mildred Bartlett
Reese Bartlett
Archie McFarlin
Jessie McFarlin
Audry Click
Dorothy Click
Jessie Morgan
Lemng Maloney
Shawnee
Serbs Croats Not Near Agreement On Yugoslav Federal Talks
Belgrade reports the Serb Croat negotiations transforming Yugoslavia into a federal state are indefinitely suspended. Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich and Dr Vladimir Macek were said to travel to Italy, with talks unlikely to resume before fall. Regent Prince Paul warned Croatia could secede without swift concessions, signaling potential world war risks.
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Belgrade
Vpi
Dragisha Cvyetkovich
Vladimir Mecek
Italy
Prince Paul
Cretkovich
Maeek Macek
Croatia
Former Frisco Man And Bride Visit In Ada
Mr and Mrs G L Babb visit Ada for a few days before Sulphur and Oklahoma City. They wed last Friday in Greenwood Arkansas with Nora Martin before marriage. Both grew up in Hartford Arkansas. Babb formerly lived in Frisco before moving to Oklahoma City.
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G. L. Babb
Ada
Oklahoma City
Jasit Friday
Greenwood
Arkansas
Babb
Nora Martin
Hartford
Frisco
Neighborly Note From Poundmaster Sparks Outrage
In Helena Montana Patrolman Jimmy Williams hauled in a St Bernard to the city pound. Poundmaster Lyle Hansen, after buying four pounds of steak per meal for the dog, left a note to Williams advising violence against horses and dogs. The note reads The next time you bring in a dog that size also shoot a couple of horses and run fire nose in to water it.
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Helena
Mont
Jimmy Williams
St. Bernard
Lyle Hansen
Williams
Ada Weekend Social Roundup With Travel Notes
Local residents report visits and trips across the region and to California including Mr and Mrs Charles A Zorn and son Gus touring the west coast for about three weeks. Several families including Chastains McKeown Hicks and others plan or enjoy vacations to Colorado Oklahoma and Texas with social visits to Ada.
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Charles A. Zorn
Gus
California
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