Indian Round Table Conference Looms Over Civil War Risks
London hosts a pivotal round table with Field Marshal Wavell Pandit Nehru and Mahomed Ali Jinnah as Hindus and Muslims clash at home. The aim is a federal interim government to contain violence and grant independence to India amid rising communal strife.
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U. N
London
Far East
India
Lord Wavell
Pandit Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
Wavell
Bulgars Move Arms Along Greek Border Report
A re labeled source says Bulgarian military equipment concentrates along the Greek Bulgarian frontier near Turkey. Greek mobile units move east toward the Turkish border and Thrace fighting continues as Tsaldaris seeks UN study aid. British and Greek leaders discuss support with no immediate arms decision.
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Athens
Constantin Tsaldaris
Greece
Paris
New York
United Nations
London
Foreign Office
Lord Montgomery
John Spiliotopkbki
Pontotoc County Nutrition Committee Discusses School Lunch Goal
The Pontotoc County Nutrition Committee met in the County agent’s office with Mrs. Lois French outlining the value of seven basic foods and cooking methods. Plans include expanding school lunches county wide and distributing materials from Pauline Mayer and partners to promote the program.
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Pontotoc County
Lois French
Farm Home Administration
French
Elva Duvall
Pauline E. Mayer
Department of Public Welfare
Fairgrounds
Iva Jones
Roberts
Stillwater
Adans Open Store In Durant Monday
The grand opening of the E&M Clothiers, a men’s store at 203 West Main, Durant, was held Monday. manager Mike Mount, with 18 years in Ada, served four years in the Army Air Force. he and his wife have moved to Durant and will run the second E&M Clothiers store. The shop will carry nationally known men’s brands and feature organized interiors.
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Durant
E&m Clothiers
West Main
Mike Mount
E&m Clothiers, Inc
Mount
Vandenberg Likely To Shape AMG Germany Probe
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan looms large over the GOP push to investigate American military government in Germany. As potential senate president and foreign relations chair, his stance could limit or guide the inquiry to domestic aspects, with Secretary Byrnes opposing any probe now to avoid disrupting delicate international negotiations.
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Washington
Senate
Germany
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Vandenberg
War Investigating Committee
Byrnes
Ada News Want Ads Feature Larger Returns
Classified readers note increased value from vesting funds as Greater returns for amount in vested items. Local circulation highlights efficiency and prompt payouts for readers using Ada News Want Ads.
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Ada News
Trapping Season Opens in County for Fur-Hunting
The annual trapping season opens Sunday and runs through January, inviting residents to hunt possums skunks and other fur bearing animals. Thousands of hides are expected to be taken and the season may bring in between twenty thousand and fifty thousand dollars to local trappers.
United States Opposes Veto in Arms Limitation Talks
Sen Tom Connally denounced Soviet plans to place all arms control under the Security Council and veto power. He urged inclusion of inspection tools to ensure compliance with all weapons bans and warned the United States will not accept a plan allowing a veto over enforcement.
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Max Harrelson
Success
N. Y
United States
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Tom Connally
D-Tex
General Assembly
Feel U S Must Control Islands
Tokyo dispatch reports Rep Ed Izac and Rep C W Bee assert U S must militarily control Pacific islands. Izac says unilateral control keeps the Pacific as a U S ocean, listing possessions and mandates as rationale while Bee calls such islands United States islands in strategic terms.
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Tokyo
United States
Pacific
House
Orient
Ed V. Izac
D.-Calif
Japan
France
England
Rep
C. W. Bee
Strategic Islands
United States Islands
Roy Keller Undergoes Emergency Operation in Ada
Roy Keller Hobbs Army Air Field fire chief and former Ada city official underwent emergency surgery Saturday at Valley View hospital for a ruptured appendix. His condition is improving steadily after a stop at Tinker Field in Oklahoma City where fire prevention inspectors from Wright Field reviewed installations.
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Roy Keller
Hobbs Army Air Field
Ada
Valley View Hospital
Keller
Tinker Field
Oklahoma City
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Tinker
Hobbs
Pontotoc County
Eight Oklahoma Counties Lead in November Road Fatalities
Oklahoma highway patrol reports eight counties accounted for 26 of 44 traffic deaths in November. Oklahoma, Tulsa, Lincoln and Okmulgee tied with four fatalities. Garfield and Muskogee had three each. Comanche and Cleveland two each. Through January 1, 467 fatal accidents occurred, with Tulsa and Oklahoma counties totaling 96. Nowata county, third for the year with 16, had none in November.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Lincoln
Okmulgee
Garfield
Muskogee
Comanche
Cleveland
Nowata County
Freighter rams lighthouse off Copenhagen injuring vessel and lighthouse
The American freighter Blue Island Victory rammed the Drogden lighthouse near Copenhagen early today, tearing a four yard hole in her hull. The ship, heading to Gdynia with a herd of horses, docked for repairs and the lighthouse was rendered out of service.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Blue Island Victory
Moore - McCormack Lines
Drogden
Gdynia
Poland
United States
Budapest Houses Nearly One Ninth of Hungary
The city of Budapest is home to more than one ninth of Hungary's 8,604,000 residents, highlighting its status as the nation's major population center and economic hub.
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Hungary
Budapest
Hixons Sentenced To 25 Years For Bank Robbery
Federal Judge Edgar Vaught sentenced Joseph Luther Hixon and his brother James Hixon to 25 years each for the daytime robbery of the Walter3 Oklahoma National Bank in Enid on August 8. The plea was entered November 19. The brothers, describe as Electra Texas natives, smiled in court as deputies watched. Only $5,027 recovered from James and $1,600 with Joseph were known. the fate of the rest remains unclear. James was captured in the Kiamichi mountains, and Joseph in Electra before returning to his wife.
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Oklahoma City
Edgar $ Vaught
Joseph Luther Hixon
James Hixon
Okla
National Bank
Electra
Texas
United States
Vavzht
James
Joseph
Poses
Kiamichi Mountains
Southearn
Oklahoma
Elecra
Yonkers Okies Return After New York Visit
A group of 11 Yonkers Oklahoma residents toured New York City on December 2 as part of Yonkers Oklahoma town’s tercentenary events. They viewed the Empire State Building, rode a sightseeing bus, attended a matinee of Oklahoma!, and enjoyed a city lunch despite 18 degree weather. They said the trip was wonderful but they planned to return home soon.
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New York
Yonkers
Okla
New York City
Hudson River
Yonkerseg
Oklahoma
Empire State Building
Syphilis In Vets To Cost Heavily
NEW YORK December 2 Dr Donald Pillsbury of the VA forecast care for World War II syphilis veterans could reach as high as 1 000 000 000. He noted over 400 000 entered or developed syphilis in service through Jan 1 this year and that 1 280 cases of general paresis existed from prior wars. Par esis care could cost about 40 000 per patient with 1 to 5 percent reaching that stage. The statement was released by the American Social Hygiene Association supporting a national disease education drive.
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New York
Donald Pillsbury
The
Veterans Administration
Pillsbury
American Social
Cotton Meeting Aims National Cotton Prices Reform
In Mangum Oklahoma Greer county cotton farmers formed a plan to create a national organization. They expanded a local meeting into a state wide gathering and voted to eliminate futures trading on cotton exchanges. A constitution and by laws will be prepared by December 14 with grain producers included. M/Sgt John C Woods of San Antonio Texas Nuernberg hangman remarks interrupt the report.
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Mangum
Okla
Greer County
Boards of Trade
John C. Woods
San Antonio
Tex
Nuernberg Hangman
Defeated Solons Plan Private Lives After Loss
All Oklahoma congressmen defeated for reelection outline future plans. Jed Johnson returns to farming near Chickasha to plant apple trees. Lyle Boren forms a $250000 mercantile company in Seminole with other private ventures in Seminole and Wewoka. Paul Stewart to run Antlers paper and businesses. Victor Wickersham opens a Washington real estate business to last through his children’s school term.
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Charles Haslet
Washington
Oklahoma
Jed Johnson
Lyle Boren
Paul Stewart
Victor Wickersham
Wickersham
Stewart
Antlers
Oklo
Boren
Mercantile Corporation
Seminole
Wewoka
Johnson
Chickasha
Dance Floor Too Much for Heifer at Auction
A five month old prize heifer calf named B. F. Princess Royal A slipped on the wax floor at the Congress hotel during the American Shorthorn breeders dinner in Chicago. James Napier of Grain Valley Mo. bid 1300 dollars to win the calf donated to Col. E Arthur Ball of Muncie Ind. Proceeds and contributions totaling 6500 dollars benefited the national 4 H club. The calf will be sent to Grain Valley to mate with two top shorthorn bulls Napier owns.
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Chicago
Congress Hotel
Ed Morris
James Napier
Grain Valley
Col
E. Arthur Ball
Muncie
Ind
Napier
Twelve Killed In French Plane Fall
Twelve people died and a 13th was missing after a French army transport plane crashed in a snowstorm in the Vosges mountains. The craft, en route from Liden Germany to Paris, burned and scattered wreckage as rescuers moved through deep snow.
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Belfort
France
Vosges
Liden
Germany
Paris
Ballon D’alsace
Seventh Army
French Air Ministry
Teachers Lost in Hills Rescued Near Harrisburg
Two teachers Miss Marion L. Forney of Pax Tang and Miss Beatrice Watkins of Wisconisco wandered in densely wooded mountains north of Harrisburg while gathering evergreens for classroom decorations. A Wisconisco rescue party found them about nine hours after they entered the area. they had built a fire prior to rescue.
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Harrisburg
Here
Wisconisco
Marion L. Forney
Paxtang
Beatrice Watkins
Tulsa Players Reject Postseason game with Oklahoma
Tulsa university football players voted unanimously against a proposed post season contest with Oklahoma at Norman on December 14. Coach Buddy Brothers announced the school would not accept bids for post season bowl games.
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Tulsa
Okla
University of Tulsa
University of Oklahoma
University
Norman
Buddy Brothers
Oldest football painting found in Italian plaza scene
Sarasota reports Everett Austin of the Ringling Museum cleans two artworks and uncovers what may be the oldest painting of a football game dated about 1525. The scene shows a kick amid a crowded plaza before Florence’s San Lorenzo church with peers and spectators, noting early forms of football in Italy.
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Sarasota
Fla
Nea
Everett Austin
John and Mable Ringling
Underground tunnel progress reported with drillers and workers
In a fog filled cavern the crew works on the pilot tunnel with two drill teams drilling into rock. Drillers earn 1.75 dollars per hour and helpers 1.50, with wage rises tied to air pressure and mud conditions.
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McTernan
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel project deep under East River
NEA correspondent Bert Brandt describes the planned Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to run 9117 feet two way, awaiting 1947 or 1948 opening with 16 million cars annually. He details the subways like work conditions two years before completion, including decompression chambers and muddy passageways four stories underground.
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New York
East River
Brooklyn Battery
America
Europe
New sewer cleaning machine nearly pays for itself in Ada
City purchased a sewer cleaning machine about two weeks ago at 285 delivered to Ada. It cleaned 1 100 feet of line in 45 minutes with two workers. Without the machine seven or eight men would have taken days and cost about 262. with the machine costs were about 2, earning a net gain of 260. One more job saving 25 will finish paying for itself.
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Ada
Overproduction Critique by Barnett Criticizes Demagogues
The remark from E. C. Barnett of Garretsville labeled the current surge as overproduction of demagogues. The noted grocer spoke in a local setting, pointing to a surplus of public figures appealing to mass emotions.
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Nehru
all-India Congress
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County Nutrition Committee
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AMG
By Jack Bell
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U. S
Hobbs Airfield
Hixons
Okie Yonkerites
Solons
Heifer
Tulsa U
Stagg
John Hawkwood
Paolo Ucello
Florence
John
Italy
Caesar Augustus
Henry II
Princeton
Rutgers
New Brunswick
Cornell
White
Brooklyn -Bakery
Bert Brandt
John McTernan
McTernen
Manhattan
New York- Treoxlyn
E. C. Barnett
Garretsvillé
O. Grocer
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