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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1929
Page
4
The text lists head measurements for various grains and a score card for grapes. It notes Kafir varieties around 10-12 inches for standard and 9-11 inches for dwarf, Milo 74-83 inches, Feterita 8% inches, with fragmented notes on other items and a grape score card.
Severe fighting between Arabs and Jews over worship at the Wailing Wall spreads to Jerusalem and Palestine towns. Twelve American Jewish students are dead. Haifa and Jaffa see attacks and casualties as British authorities scramble responses. Refugees flee to Beirut.
Burrows 4-H Club hosts its first campfire meet uniting Burrows and Pontotoc Johnston county youths led by Eugene Breshears and Jewell Vaden. County agents Lee Craig Curtis Floyd and Mrs. Morgan spoke on 4-H work, camp fire origins, music and dances, with a community lunch and a decision to make the event annual.
In Muskogee, Roy Leach 25 was arrested at 10 45 am on automobile larceny charges and arraigned at 11 10 am. He waived a preliminary hearing, was bound over to district court, and sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary, all within twenty five minutes.
Reports detail deaths of two Englishmen and several Jews in Ain Karim and Befalpha, with further killings at Kastina and Beisan. Arab forces attack Haifa suburb Hadar Hacarmel, and looting spreads. Rehovoth and Artuf suffer assaults as Christians mark blue crosses. Medical shortages and rising prices worsen refugees’ plight amid Wailing Wall tensions.
A 100 gallon still was seized in a raid near Byne last Saturday night. Three Tyler men F M Tyler E L Tyler and Wesley Tyler were arrested. The raid was carried out by Sheriff Fred Bowles Walter Ford Sam Hargis and A L Hardwick.
Twelve Americans died aiding Jews at the Slaboka Rabbinical College in Hebron amid a three day battle that left 45 Jews and about 40 Arabs dead. Fifteen Americans were wounded as fighting raged across Jerusalem and surrounding towns with extensive property damage. Names of two victims, Benjamin Hurwitz and Jacob Wexler, were released.
Broken Bow report says seven new fires over the weekend raise the total as 25 older blazes remain largely uncontrolled. District forester C. O. Doster warns firefighters cannot curb flames quickly and estimates about 100000 acres burned since August 1 with no early letting up.
In Philadelphia jail Al Capone studies Napoleon to learn about racketeering. Sing Sing adds library chairs so prisoners can read seated, but the reform may not be a strong incentive.
Prof. A T Watson added a Guernsey bull calf to his registered stock herd arriving from Michigan last week. He has kept the breed for several years and is pleased with the results, noting a mix of registered animals and some graded stock his breeding program produced.
Mrs. Morgan informs her club girls that entrants for trips this year must participate in judging contests at the township and county fairs. This judging feature counts one fourth in their total score.
Early Pontotoc county corn yields are expected to be about half of last year. Much of the June corn remains green and a rain could help salvage a crop.
The county fair will open September fourth with livestock and poultry tents provided by secretary J B Hill. Hogs will be kept in last year’s pens. Despite dry weather lowering crop quality, Hill expects improvement over previous fairs and hopes more farmers participate to make it an outstanding annual event.
August 27 reports a volatile session in New York with call money rising from 7 to 9 percent and broad selling. Early gains lifted over 20 issues to new highs before late trading paused as rails pushed higher, led by Atchison up 7.5 points and Baltimore and Ohio at 140.5% with other rails and names advancing.
Hogs 8,500 head and 630 direct. weights 230 lb down 10.25 cents from Monday. Top 11.15 on 180-210 lb hogs. Butchers 250-350 lb 9.50 to 10.65. 200-250 lb 10.25 to 11.10. sows 8.00 to 9.15. stock pigs 7.50 to 8.75. Cattle 7,500. calves 1,200 steady to strong. Lightweight steers 15.50. slaughter steers 950-1,500 lb 16.00 to 16.25. yearlings 12.00 to 16.00. heifers 11.00 to 14.75. cows 7.50 to 10.50. Stocker and feeder steers 10.25 to 13.00. Sheep 8,000. Colorado lambs 13.25. lambs 11.75 to 13.20.
Chicago wheat idled with no clear trend after an early two cent drop. Liverpool prices rose slightly as traders absorbed news of a million bushels sold for export. Corn eased on limited selling but recovered as rain failed to materialize. oats held steady and provisions slipped.
Chicago spot prices list as of August 27 with wheat at No 1 hard $1.21 and No 3 mixed $1.25 per bushel, corn No 2 mixed 99 1/2 cents, No mixed 98 1/2 cents, oats No 2 white 42 43 cents and No white 40 41 cents.
Kansas City listing shows eggs at 34 cents for firsts and 28 for seconds. Butter ranges 45 to 48 cents, butterfat 39, packing butter ie. Poultry prices include hens 22 cents, broilers 21, roosters 14, springs 22.
Opening advance in the cotton market faded on private reports of showers in the southwest but firmed as official advices showed no drought relief in Texas and Oklahoma. Mid-afternoon activity was quiet yet steady with gains around 12 to 16 points.
In New Orleans on August 27 cotton prices edged higher amid favorable cables and a bullish private crop report. Gains were modest as offerings absorbed at moderate losses with October at 18.58, December 18.86, and January 18.93, 16 to 18 points above the day’s lows before trading steadied near session highs.
Cotton futures closed steady in New Orleans with a net advance of 10 to 12 points on the session. The market showed slight gains across most active contracts as traders胃 assessed supply and demand signals.
New Orleans spot cotton closed steady with revised quotations. Middling and higher grades held with middling at 18.56 cents. Sales reached 2,889 bales while receipts totaled 5,159 and stock at 48,901.
Washington reports 1928 saw 29,252 miles of highway work across 48 states, up from 26,722 in 1927, including 8,675 miles graded and drained and 20,577 miles surfaced. Texas led with 2,356 miles, Kansas 1,785, and surfacing covered gravel, bituminous macadam, Portland cement concrete, and other types.
The semi annual production report from the aeronautical chamber of commerce shows 3 500 planes built in the first half of the year valued at 25 million dollars without engines. Commercial planes totaled 2 854 with a value of 17 032 747 and military planes 527 valued at 6 652 825.
The report ranks states by highway mileage at year end 1928 and lists totals for surfaced, graded, and unimproved roads. It also shows types of pavement and a 13 090 mile increase from 1927. Aircraft production leaders include open cockpit planes, cabin monoplanes, and biplanes with value differences.
In Oklahoma City a new city property well No. 1 Trooper Park near Cromwell Franklin Oil, Foster Petroleum and Wirt Franklin Petroleum, began with 400 barrels per hour and produced 8,662 barrels from 7:10 a.m. Sunday to 7 a.m. today. The well, in section 13-111-3w, yielded high gravity oil at 39.8 and 78 degrees and an estimated 15,000,000 in gas, marking the largest daily output in the field.
Oklahoma City district operators plan a Tulsa meeting tomorrow to discuss proration of the local oil field. Several prior conferences have argued production should be restrained until pipeline and transportation facilities can accommodate demand.
The Ada park event honored Frank H. Reed of Neosho Missouri for presenting a wading pool at the city park with ice cream for hundreds of children. Judge Orel Busby presided. Faunt Le Roy entertained. Ms. Reed credited for ongoing pool projects totaling about 40 thousand dollars for 20 pools. Judge McKeel accepted the pool for the city and praised Reed and the Lions Club. Four young award recipients were Grace Elizabeth Cowell, Mary Jane Livingston, Dorothy Sue Edgman, and Waltena Morgan.
Mrs Louis McPherridge Thaden from Pittsburgh topped the field in the women’s trans continental air derby finishing at Cleveland Municipal airport after leaving Columbus at 1 30 pm. Her unofficial time 20 hours 19 minutes 4 seconds. Blanche Noyes of Cleveland followed at 2 29 30. Amelia Earhart placed fourth at 2 39. Thea Rasche and May Haizlip also completed the last leg from Columbus.
The Ludlow Kentucky double slaying of Dave Miller and Al Thomas may end Chicago police’s hunt for the slavers of Policeman Ray Martin and Philip Blumental. A man believed to be Ernie Rossi claims to be Al Thomas and fingerprints will be compared. Also noted, New York Police Commissioner Whalen will monitor crooks from his limousine with a radio set.
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