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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
5
Johnny tracks Molly Travers to Capetown and confronts his past with Jean Reynolds. Molly awaits a date while Johnny faces a torn love life as he plans a visit to the Meltons and contemplates the future with a new girl. The triangle echoes through a seaside town as plans unfold.
Copyright notice indicates CY Mildred Williams holds the rights under NEA Service, Inc. in 1940. The item records ownership and agency attribution to the creator for that year.
United Press reports that Papago medicine men allegedly treated rabies with a local method before Pasteur. Dr. Crabbe of the Indian Hospital notes a rabies case where a woman refused Pasteur and was cured by tribal practice. Papago vaccinations against smallpox are said to have preceded white methods with cruder but similar toxin introduction.
Governor Phillips met with Charles E. Dierker U S district attorney in Oklahoma City to coordinate law enforcement efforts. Phillips said details were not disclosed but the two men were in accord and would work with every federal branch that will cooperate.
Wake Island transforms barren coral into a vegetable garden using tank farming under Torrey Lyons, UC 1938 graduate. Two new tanks, 75 feet by 3 feet by 9 inches, will expand crops for the 30 Pan American Airways workers on the atoll. Tomatoes and beans lead the harvests with plans for more varieties as the system grows.
Johnny confesses love to Molly while hiding his long friendship with Jean Reynolds. At the Meltons party Jean arrives, Molly arrives, and Sue stirs trouble, but Jean shows unexpected warmth. Johnny realizes his plan is exposed as Molly accepts tea invitations and the trio navigates affection and social niceties.
RIOM France Aug 13 The Petain government seeks probes into pre war and wartime actions to fix war guilt on ministers and their subordinates. Edouard Daladier and Maurice Gamelin are named as principal figures likely to face charges. A new supreme court will investigate the questioned actions.
Norman Oklahoma August 13 The model community boys state legislature opened routine business with money as the first item Governor James Brown Henryetta urged cuts in expenses noting a five cent tax on 250 citizens could raise 12.50 The prior year taxes brought in 10.75 and were placed in an alumni fund and remain mostly untouched.
Mrs Ida B Wise Smith of Evanston Illinois was unanimously re elected president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union for the seventh straight year at the sixty sixth annual convention in Chicago August 13. Mrs De Leigh Colvin of New York was also unanimously re elected as vice president for the seventh time.
An official of the United States Chamber of Commerce told Congress there is no need for extravagant haste in enacting an excess profits tax while urging prompt action on allowing deduction for defense plant expansion costs. The linked tax and amortization plan faces immediate enactment, with emphasis on separation of amortization from tax plans and early approval.
Oklahoma City August 13 Chairman Lloyd Noble of Ardmore said the University of Oklahoma board of regents will take several months at a minimum to appoint a successor to President W B Bizzell whose resignation becomes effective July 1 1941 He noted the board is not encouraging applications for the 9000 a year post and that they should seek the best man rather than have candidates campaigning He declined to confirm reports tying Joseph Brandt head of Princeton University Press to the post.
Governor Phillips outlines a slow build for a $2.16 million Grand River Dam area road program to span three to four years. First projects include $259,000 twin bridges on US 60 over the Neosho and Spring rivers, a $120,000 bridge below the dam, and 3.56 miles of grade and gravel surfacing toward Spavinaw. Bids faced delays as plans were incomplete and federal aid requirements mandating a 35 day bid notice apply. The effort followed a Washington compromise collapse over a federal injunction linked to the dam and road system.
Three holders of Ph D degrees will join Langston A and N University faculty next fall. Three current faculty members will receive sabbatical leaves.
Premier General John Metaxas rejects a Rome Berlin suggestion that Greece renounce Britain's guarantee of independence and territorial integrity. The axis claim to have conveyed the proposal to Metaxas via the Italian chargé d affaires at a morning meeting with the German minister. Metaxas then met with King George and with the British minister and the foreign office head.
President Roosevelt told reporters the odds are 100 to 1 that the national guard and organized reserves would not leave the United States or its possessions in peacetime. He discussed an amendment tied to a training bill that would limit service to the continental U S and possessions, noting a possible emergency exception. He recalled the Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916 as a past deployment.
President Roosevelt completed a defense inspection tour in New England returning to the White House and saying the preparedness program is making progress. He viewed sites from Maine to New London and noted faster conversion of dollars into war matériel, expanded training facilities, and plans to double submarine production.
Four major fires in southern California consume 25 000 acres of timber and brush. The Los Padres blaze near Santa Barbara has scorched 20 000 acres and destroyed 35 cabins including the Sexton mansion. About 2 500 firefighters, CCC recruits, and volunteers work to contain the blazes with hundreds of homes at risk across the region.
William H. Smith received a five day jail term suspended on condition he stand on France avenue at Morningside entrance on Monday Wednesday and Friday 5 to 6 pm and shout Slow down to motorists. Justice Henrich J Kuhlman also fined him $3.
Two Oklahoma Corporation Commission members urge President Roosevelt to allocate an equitable share of preparedness appropriations. They cite Oklahoma’s natural resources coal lead and zinc oil timber and agricultural products and argue freight rates hinder defense mobilization but can be adjusted. They note potential for manufacturing smokeless powder dynamite nitroglycerine ammonia aluminum and sulfuric acid.
Oklahoma City August 13 The attorney general ruled that all executives and attorneys for the unemployment compensation division must take a merit examination. The first quiz will be given this autumn. In a second opinion the AG told W T Longweil secretary of the state board of governors of registered dentists that the board must buy its supplies through the State board of affairs.
Ray O Garber of Des Moines Iowa was elected supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias at the convention John Lee Smith of Throckmorton Texas became supreme vice chancellor and will succeed Garber two years hence The order s state secretaries supreme keepers of records and seal elected Theodore Yarbrough of Weatherford Texas president and Thomas H McCay of Tulsa Okla a vice president
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