Oklahoma Faces $9.88 Million Deficit In Current Year
State Auditor Frank Carter warned the general revenue fund could end the fiscal year with a deficit near 9.88 million dollars if taxes are not raised or expenditures cut. Governor Phillips planned a Monday conference on further reductions, including possible 2.5 million from common school aid, to avert a special legislative session.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Frank Carter
Phillips
Carter
Supreme Court
General Fund
Another Slaughter Of Pigs Possible
CHICAGO Aug 3 The sixth anniversary of the government pig slaughter program today finds hog producers headed toward trouble similar to 1933. Prices are the lowest in five years with hogs at about 6.56 per hundredweight. Top hog price yesterday was 6.60, while the 1934-36 droughts and production surges loom in memory. The market still yields about 2 more than the day the 6,000,000 pigs and 200,050 sows were sent to the government to aid swine raisers.
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Chicago
Man Returned In Embezzling Case
Higginbotham was placed in the county jail after a four day trip to San Diego with Sheriff Kaiser and Deputy Porter to return the embezzlement suspect. He allegedly took an automobile from the Allen firm and was arrested there.
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Bugh Higginbotham
San Diego
California
Clyde Kaiser
Joe Porter
Ada
Higginbotham
Allen Automobile
Extension Or Shutdown To Be Discussed
AWS Aug 23 CP Earnest O Thompson urged the Interstate Oil Compact Commission to meet Monday to decide if the six state oil production shutdown should be extended. He noted major oil executives would testify at a rationing hearing before the Texas Railroad Commission where he serves. The aim is to curb excess gasoline and ensure adequate stocks before reopening. Current complete or partial shutdowns cover Louisiana Arkansas Texas Oklahoma Kansas New Mexico and Michigan sharply curbed output in Texas ends Tuesday night unless extended.
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Aws.tm
Earnest O. Thompson
Interstate Oi Compact Commission
Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Michigan
Ada Rain Clouds Fail To End Year Dry Spell
Ada experiences a brief shower that yields a rainfall of .46 inches after a day of mixed clouds. Thunder and lightning appeared but did not sustain a heavy downpour, leaving cool conditions and renewed lawn growth after the rain faded.
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Dreath
Ada
Health Department Seeks Typhoid Carrier in Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma state health department began a search for an unidentified typhoid carrier described as an extremely dangerous person. Dr. Eugene A. Gillis said a specimen tested positive for typhoid, but could not be identified due to illegible labeling on the packaging. Dr. G F. Matthews urged anyone who submitted a specimen and has not heard back to notify the department.
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Oklahoma City
State Health Department
Eugene A. Gillis
G F. Matthews
Annenberg Named Again by Jury
A federal grand jury urged legislation against Annenberg’s turf news network for illegal gambling ties and monopoly claims since 1935. It did not indict on anti trust charges, saying laws not meant for activities that are inherently illegal.
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Chicago
CRI
Congress
M. D
Annenberg
International Turf News
End to Meter Problem Seen By City Chiefs
A city budget session with county excise board members and city commissioners examined revenue needs for 1939-40. The group discussed installing $10,000 worth of water meters, shifting water receipts to the city treasurer, and expanding the six inch water main network to outlying homes while library funding remained unsettled.
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County Excise Board
Ben Hatcher
Excise Board
Water Department
Albert Trice
Ada
Hatcher
Don Evans
Albert Chamberlain
Finance
Milton Keating
Chamber of Com Merce
Ity
Pryor
J.H. Pryor
R. C. Heard
Heard
Bol Emanuel
Lmits
South Highland
Hitler Sends Poland Demands to Chamberlain
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler issued a memorandum outlining Germanys stance on Poland to Prime Minister Chamberlain. Britain was to deliver Chamberlains reply via Sir Nevile Henderson. Germany insists on Danzig and a Poland under German influence if war breaks out, or a Bohemian Moravian style protectorate if Poland seeks peace. The memorandum argues Britain and France have no say in Germanys Polish deals.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Poland
Chamberlain
Berchtesgaden
Nevile Henderson
Hitler
Danzig
Partition of
Jeans
Bohemia and Moravia
Britain
France
Henderson
Wes Disney Home Picketed in Tulsa by WPA Members
In Tulsa on August 23, two Workers Alliance members picketed Representative Wesley Disney at his home, banners accusing him of anti New Deal votes. Disney spoke with them, defending his vote against the spend-lend bill while noting his support for $13 trillion in relief funds since taking office.
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Tulsa
Okla
Workers Alliance
Disney
Wesley Disney
Department
Elmer L. Moss
WPA
Oren Billingsley
Congress
City mulls higher sewage charges for out of town residents
Emanuel and professor Hugh Norris urged equal access to city services while Norris argued outsiders should pay more for sewage. City commissioners are studying a plan to charge residents outside the city for sewage service plus fire and police protection.
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Emanuel
Hugh Norris
Norris
Plans to rush home Americans if war breaks out
Washington dispatch reports official plans to evacuate thousands of U S citizens from Europe should war erupt. Merchant ships and more than two dozen Atlantic naval vessels would aid, with a presidential call for a special session and revisions to neutrality policy under consideration.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Roosevelt
Congress
Germany
Russia
Hull
belligen+ents
Besis
Great Britain
France
Jerzy Potocki
Poland
Potocki
State Department
Warsaw
State ‘Department
Northern Ireland
Italy
Danzig
Morgenthau
Ten Million Men Under Arms as Europe Is Tense
A global mobilization looms with ten million troops under arms. Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow prompting fears of conflict over Poland. Hitler's Poland demands include Danzig, Polish corridor lands, and a protectorate. Britain France and Belgium consider war footing as Roosevelt and others react.
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Europe
Germany
Russia
Moscow
Poland
Fuehrer
Joseph Stalin
Vyacherstaff Molotoff
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Berlin
Danzig
Pomorze
Poznan
Upper Silesia
Road Work To Start Up In County
County commissioners gain funds to resume road work after the excise board approved an 8982 appropriation. Money comes from rotor vehicle license tax gross production tax and gasoline tax and will cover tools trucks equipment maintenance gasoline oil bridge and road upkeep insurance and WPA cooperation.
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County Excise Board
Out State Drivers Must Register Or Get Visitor Permit
Chambless, tag agent, announced that drivers with out of state licenses must visit the tag office to obtain a visitor's permit or be registered. A Carmichael letter sets a daily penalty of five cents for 60 days, then doubled. Patrolmen will help enforce. law effective July 1 and to be rigidly enforced.
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Chambless
J. D. Carmichael
Oklahoma Tax Commission
Slot Machine Charge Filed
Sid Parker pleaded riot guilty at arraignment on operating a slot machine in a Stonewall area dance hall and beer joint. Bond set at 250 dollars by Judge Hoyt Driskill after a Tuesday raid. Parker held on the charge of letting a slot machine run for money or property. Aug 23. Oklahoma City. The Democratic state central committee fixed September 24 for a party love feast in France Paris city with 5 000 to 10 000 expected, aiming for party solidarity and harmony. no business planned.
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Sid Parker
Stonewall
Parker
Farkler
Hoyt Driskill
Oklahoma City
Democratic State Central Committee
France
Paris
War Psychology Boosts Wheat Prices Across Markets
Wheat surged as war psychology unsettled markets on August 23. In Winnipeg futures rose the full five cents per bushel while Chicago followed more slowly. Canadian wheat board withdrawals of cash wheat aided the rise, and Wall Street saw moderate selling as traders scanned foreign news.
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New. York
UPI
Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Wall Street
Poland
TH PESSIMIST TH PESSIMIST
The fragment suggests a noisy, cryptic line about pinning blame on an oudist amid remarks by S08 Clanks. The text reads as distorted OCR and lacks clear people, places, or events to verify a coherent news item.
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