Oil Men Urged To Harness Gas Not Waste It
New Orleans dispatch reports American Petroleum Institute president Axtell J. Byles urging oil field operators to recycle gas instead of burning it. The process uses gas to pressurize wells, boosting oil recovery from about 50 to 75 percent, with cost sharing among producers as the main hurdle.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Axtell J. Byles
American Petroleum) Institute
New London
Tex
Byles
Freight rate cuts loom over Oklahoma hearings
Enid hosts rehearsals for Warren West pageant as 46th Cherokee Strip celebration nears. A 500-strong cast works on a 288-foot outdoor stage at Phillips University stadium with two performances planned. Oklahoma and federal officials discuss rail rate cuts affecting state and interstate traffic amid broader freight relief moves.
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Enid
Cherokee Strip
Enid's Fair Pavilion
Phillips University Stadium
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Coro
Ivoration
Fd Stinnett
Kansas Corporation Commission
C. B. Bee
Oklahoma Commission
Interstate Com
Kansas
Bee
Wildlife Movement in State Gains Quail Release in Harmon County
One hundred twenty seven weeks old quail released in Oklahoma wild life demonstration area of Harmon County. Quail hatched at Blackwell hatchery near Stillwater and distributed on 12 farms by 4 H wildlife volunteers with plots at least one acre fenced and water provided. Birds nest and forage among planted food and shelter. many rabbits and squirrels observed.
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Tom Marks
Oklahoma
Harmon County
Ford Mercer
F. MI. Baumgartner
Brotmrht
D. R. Vaniman
Blackwell
Stillwater
Sapulpa To Work Free This Fiscal Year If Budget Cuts Allow
Sapulpa city employees will work without pay for a month if the county excise board approves budget reductions by the city commission. The commission trimmed $16,280.93 from a proposed $102,153.93 expense, including 11 months of salaries instead of 12 and lower department appropriations to meet cash basis needs.
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Sapulpa
Sapulpa City
County Excise Board
Corn Bell Farms Ready To Harvest Cribs Already Full
Chicago reports that corn belt farmers face 1939 harvest with cribs crowded and government loans backed by half the old stocks. About $18,000,000 of collateral value exists, while the government plans 24,000 new bins and 14,000 more to raise capacity to 69 million bushels. Some grain already on farms can be mortgaged. farmers without loans may miss the artificial scarcity benefit.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Pussia Honors Her Anti Jap Warriors
Moscow reports Russia awards 936 military men with honorary decorations for valor amid border fighting with Japan near Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo while Russia maneuvers to raise conscription age and strengthen troops on tense European frontiers.
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Pussia
Witt Eancock
Moscow
Russia
Outer Mongolia
Manchoukys
Europe
Supreme Soviet
Far East
Speediest U S planes rushed to Panama Canal zone
Eighteen fast pursuit planes based at Selfridge field Michigan were ordered by the War Department to fly to the Panama Canal immediately. The ships with non commissioned officers and enlisted men will be stationed permanently at the Canal base.
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U. S
Canal Zone
MT. Clemens
Mich
Selfridge Field
War Department Talay
Panama Canal
War Department
Canei Base
Sound Pictures Of Cook Attacks On Girls On Campus
Police reveal sound reenactments of DeWitt Clinton Cook 20 provide jurors with details of murders and assaults. District Attorney Baron Fitts says Cook confessed killing Miss Sosoyeva and beating Myrtle Warner and Delia Bogard while admitting hundreds of burglaries since arriving from Waterloo Iowa. Cook reenacted February 24 on campus and March 29 on a Hollywood street.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
DeWitt Clinton Cook
Anya Sososyeva
Prand
Baron Fitts
Cook
Miss Sosoyeva
Myrtle Warner
Delia Bogard
Fitts
Maurice Costello Is Married Again
NOLLYWOOD August 80 Maurice Costello the matinee idol brought a bride back to Hollywood to introduce to surprised friends. She is Ruth Reeves daughter of Federal Judge Albert Reeves of Kansas City. They eloped to Tia Juana Mexico yesterday. He gave his age as 54 she as 30. He said they were very happy and that their first marriage two months ago was a retake. He met her 14 months ago and declined to say where the ceremony took place. His bride has appeared in pictures. He is father of actresses Dolores and Helene Costello. Dolores is a former wife of John Barrymore. Mae the daughters mother died ten years ago two years after Mae and Costello divorced. He was ill in 1932 and last May Dolores sued for 200 for support. the suit was not pressed due to his ongoing film work.
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Maurice Costello
Hollywood
Ruth Reeves
Albert Reeves
Kansas City
Tia Juana
Mex
Costello
Costella
Dolores
Helene Costello
John Barrymore
Mae
Agtor
Wi L Gilbert Jr
Acror
Actor-Stagehand Peace Move Fails
New York and national strike talk loomed after breakdown in talks between the Associated Actors and Artists of America and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. The feud involves about 90 000 AFL members and could halt Broadway shows including Leave It to Me. Ralph Morgan condemned Browne as the dispute deepened.
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New York
Associated Actors and Artists of America
4-A
Geo. E. Browne
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
IATSE
Actors Stagehands
AFL
Vinton Freedley
Sophie
Tucker
Hollywood Stars
Ralph Morgan
Screentors’ Guild
Browne
Gigantic Struggle Looms On Manchukuo Borders
Tokyo dispatch reports Russia's nonaggression pact with Germany frees Moscow to mass troops in Siberia. Tokyo observers fear a new Russo Japanese war as Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia brace for possible escalation. Reports cite troop movements northward while Tass denies large Far East deployments.
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Russia
Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Asia
Korea
China
Manchoukuo
Soviet
Siberia
Outer Mongolia
Moscow
Tass
Far East
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Mukden
Hsinking
Harbin
Manchukuo
Khalka River
Valley View Hospital Signals Busy Day Ahead
Valley View hospital records show Wednesday August 20 as one of its busiest days with every bed full and patients on the sun porch. Superintendent Elizabeth Hanson noted that additional patients were brought in for care and would be provided for. The period mirrors last August when the hospital was newly opened and also busy.
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Valley View Hospital
Elizabeth’ Hanson
Slovakia Surrenders Powers to German Occupation
Bratislava aug 30 the slovak government in a decree issued by premier tiso surrendered its powers to the german military which has occupied the protectorate on polands southern frontier more than 300000 german troops are in slovakia observers estimate slovaks must supply autos horses foodstuffs and other material to the german army and those who fail to comply will be tried before german military courts german planes pass over bratislava bound for airports near the polish frontier
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Bratislava
Slovakia
Tiso
Poland
Erfrontier
Film Bit Player Kellard Involved In Atmospheric Landing Scene
Robert Kellard and Guy Gabriel, both actors, were among a group that gathered at the crash site after a plane landed in rain. No injuries occurred as a mechanic hurried repairs while Navajos from the district bid farewell to the rain bringers. Gabriel credited Miss Gibson with uttering the line sil our lives.
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Robert Kellard
Guy Gabriel
Navajes
Gabriel
Miss Gibson
Teacher Of Stroud Fatally Injured
SAPULPA Aug 30 Miss Daisie Burton 34 a Stroud school teacher was killed in a crash four miles west of Sapulpa when her car and a second vehicle collided with a truck. Burton was thrown from her car and pinned beneath it after the impact. Mrs Haskell Eldridge of Sapulpa and driver Lowell Rider 24 of Sapulpa escaped with minor injuries.
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Sapulpa
Daisie Burion
Stroud
Here
Sheriff's Office
Miss Burton
Haskell Eldridge
Bay Pulpa
Lowell Rider
Hidden motives behind empires and revolutions
The passage argues that some nations seek empires while others aspire to acquire them. Moscow is portrayed as aiming to foment conflict between these sides, pushing proletarian revolution and dictatorship through mutual destruction. The analysis emphasizes propaganda shaping this international dynamic.
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Moscow
Wyoming Wins Tree Claim Over Colo
Wyoming foresters claim the largest standing single timber in the Rocky Mountain region by 0.22 feet in girth after measuring pine in the Medicine Bow National Forest near Saratoga. Colorado contends a cottonwood near Dominguez measured larger at 19.68 feet in girth, but Wyoming's 19.9 feet upholds the claim. Both trees await formal recording at forestry headquarters in Washington.
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Gunnison
J. B. Sesis
Allen S. Peck
Forestry
Washington
Woman Pilot II Hailed By Navajos
Crown Point New Mexico August 20 Inez Gibson 25 year old stock flyer and transport pilot from Burbank California was hailed as a rain bringing potent by Navajo residents of the eastern reservation after a forced Sunday night landing near Crown Point. Her red plane tail carriage damaged, the craft was surrounded by Navajos who credited the visit with bringing the season’s heaviest storm to the area. She was accompanied by her husband.
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Crown Point
N. M
Inez Gibson
Burbank
Calif
Miss Gibson
Crown’ Point
Propaganda Flood Worries Dies Committee in U S
Washington Aug 20 The Dies committee charged hundreds of foreign agents flood the United States with propaganda across media to steer American foreign policy. It cited substantial evidence of activities violating the registration statute and warned amid two main blocs London Paris entente and Berlin Rome axis with Russia in a special category.
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Washington
Dies Committee
State Department
Rome
Russia
Two Lives Lost In Highway Accidents In Oklahoma
Associated Press reports two highway deaths in Oklahoma as August ends. Mrs. John S. Morgan of Normen died in Chickasha after an auto truck collision near Chickasha Sunday. John Franklin Phelps, 73, of Chester, was struck and killed crossing a road near El Reno.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
John S. Morgan
Normen
Chickasha
Chickashas
John Franklin Phelps
Chester
el Rens
WPA Expects To Increase Number At Work In County
WPA projects in Pontotoc and surrounding counties continue with about 270 workers presently on WPA and WFA efforts, 112 fewer than before the law. Jobs are shifting to farm to market roads reductions, with 104 cut and 177 still employed, while 10 men remain on street work and 8 women on county projects. Women's crews may grow to 30 again by September 1 as sewing room work continues for welfare payments, with some workers seeking private sewing jobs. Allen school work resumes with doors and floors pending completion by September 15, and Glenwood pool is set to start by September 12. A seven and half mile Maxwell road project awaits state approval, linking with highway 13.
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WPA
WFA
Ccounty
Wintersmith Park
Galey
John Hurst
Sepi. 1
Joe Roper
Pontotoc County
Roper
Welfare Department
Allen
Allen School
Glenwood
State Office
Maxwell
Oklahoma Oil Production Cut Proposed By Commission
Oklahoma City August 30 A cut of 43500 barrels a day in September oil production is to be recommended by the state corporation commission after talks with producers and buyers. The plan sets a 384950 barrel daily limit, down from 428000, with 155000 barrels for stripper wells and 225956 for prorated areas. Wells would bear a 15 percent cut. The group criticized Texas for starting wells early and exceeding 200000 barrels during the shutdown. Gov Phillips praised cooperation and said the state would honor its agreement, noting he told Texas railroad officials that Texas should have delayed opening until Sept 1.
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Okklahoma City
Oklahoma
Corporation Commission
W. J. Armstrong
Arceas
Heard Corporation
Ray O. Weems
Texas
Gov. Phillips
Phillips
Lon Smith
Texas Railroad Commission
Southwestern
Best Of Golfdom Ready For Tourney
Hershey Pennsylvania August 30 1939 UP officials report the Hershey Open Tournament will begin tomorrow with about eight thousand dollars in prize money. Entry list includes Henry Picard PGA champion Byron Nelson National Open king Ralph Guldahl Harry Cooper Horton Smith Johnny Regalta Gene Sarazen and Jim Thompson.
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Hershey
Henry Picard
Byron Nelson
Ralph Guldahl
Harry Cooper
Horton Smith
Johnny Regolta
Gene. Sarazen
Jimmy Thompson
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