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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1929
Page
3
A series of short items reports that Mr and Mrs J L Barringer visited Ardmore yesterday and returned this morning. R B Faunt LeRoy, optometrist, did business in Duncan. Various residents travel to Wewoka Bonham Holdenville and Ada for visits shopping or meetings. Local clubs Lions and business notes appear with ads for plumbing and deals.
Select Christmas cards are displayed at the News Office. Numerous notes mention visits and weekend trips across Oklahoma including Oklahoma City Holdenville Madill Waurika Konawa Hennepin and Harrah. Local residents report travels and greetings as holiday season outreach continues.
Marjorie Lou Almond of Oklahoma City visits grandparents Mr. and Mrs. N. Lamb in Ada. Miss Allie Mae Deal remains bedfast with a relapse of flu since Saturday. Bill Brundage Neva Hewett and O. A. Davis traveled to Seminole today. G. F. Ware of Tulsa is in Ada on a business visit. Albert Ely of Dallas is in Ada for business matters.
A personal letter reports John Gardner, in a Dallas hospital, is improving after a pedestrian auto collision in Ada weeks ago. Doctors say his injuries were more serious than first thought but his strong physical condition aids recovery.
Housewives urged to shop Ada Fruit Co for lowest town prices on fruits and vegetables. Store at 10th and Constant offers ample parking and hours 12 to 6. Mrs. W. F. Parrish and her infant son from Shawnee visit Dr. 3. B. Dawson, father of Mrs Parrish.
The largest Fokker land plane, the four motor F-32, burned after crashing. Anthony H. G. Fokker returns to New York from Europe as owners of homes damaged by the fall of the craft consider suing. The pilot, a Department of Commerce inspector, is blamed for the accident.
Senate Finance Chairman Smoot called a meeting to discuss the $160,000,000 administration tax reduction resolution after the house approved it. The tariff bill moved forward with three finance committee amendments raising duties on various wool products to align with the house’s rates. The panel set rates for scoured wool, skin wool, and sorted wool with changes from the house bill and present law.
County justices deal with several possum cases as hunting rules tighten. A youth kept seven possums in a pen awaiting season, but was fined ten dollars plus costs. Other hunters released animals or faced fines for hunting without licenses as the season nears.
Merchants on the west side of West Main near Townsend decline to let the east block join in decorating. A committee arranged funding for a one block west extension with spruce light poles evergreen trees and multicolored lights. Installation is expected early next week.
Berkley California December 6 The resignation of Carl Zamlock as baseball coach at the University of California was accepted here today by the executive committee of the associated students.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh have leased a five room studio suite in Sutton Place on East 57th Street New York the building owners announced. This marks the couple's first home in the city after the new building was completed.
Jack Dempsey former world heavyweight champion was granted a referees license by the New State Athletic Commission and unofficially named to handle the 12 round bout between Phil Scott and Otto Von Porat on the charity card at Madison Square Garden next Monday night.
A hog in Tonopah Colorado bolted 100 feet from a hotel kitchen to its pen after the voice of a hog calling contest speaker broadcasting from Prairie View Kansas reached the animal through a kitchen window.
The Mukden political council approves the preliminary China Russia accord over the Chinese Eastern railway after negotiations at Nikelsk-Ussuriisky. It waives objection to reemploying Emshanoff and Eismont and backs fulfilling the 1924 operating agreement while banning propaganda in the railway area.
The fourth district soil conservation conference sponsored by the state soil erosion commission gathered in Enid with county agents, businessmen and farmers from Garfield to Logan counties. D. P. Trent of Oklahoma A and M led the session while Dr. Charles N. Gould of the Oklahoma Ecclesiological Survey was slated to speak after a noon luncheon and morning round table discussion.
President Hoover directs that Fort Cheyenne be renamed Fort Francis E Warren in honor of the late Senator Warren of Wyoming. Fort D A Russel at Cheyenne becomes Fort Francis E Warren while Fort D A Russel is assigned to Camp Marfa, Texas.
Hunters in Pontotoc County report mixed quail success with some quotas met and others frustrated by posted lands and limited access. Several landowners permit entry to chase birds, others warn intruders as hunting season continues.
A five-school athletic conference is formed by McAlester Ada Durant Ardmore and Pauls Valley. R E Crudup principal of McAlester high school announced the circuit and a name will be chosen by balloting after each principal submits a suggestion. The conference will be governed by the Oklahoma High School Athletic Association.
Justice Hitz of the District of Columbia supreme court postponed for one week the setting of a date for the trial of Edward L. Doheny the wealthy oil man on charges of bribing Albert B. Fall former interior secretary in obtaining the lease of the Elk Hills Cal naval oil reserve.
Major General Robert Lee Bullard retired suffered a heart attack in his New York apartment and is in a critical state. He has long battled heart disease and is now too ill to be moved to a hospital.
Rep McKeown of Oklahoma introduces a bill to authorize a special commission of commissioners to try misdemeanor cases in any federal district court when the docket is delayed by pending misdemeanor cases.
Albert Betzel was appointed manager of the Tulsa club in the Western League, replacing Nick Allen who will manage Jersey City in the International League. Betzel previously led Indianapolis in the American Association and played as an infielder in the majors.
The secretary of agriculture would be authorized to accept for the government a donation of 160 000 acres of land in Beck ham Custer Harmon Greer or Roger Mills counties Oklahoma to operate as an agricultural demonstration farm under a bill introduced today by Representative J V McClintic Democrat Oklahoma.
Five masked gunmen roared into the Layton Park State Bank in Milwaukee Wisconsin today and escaped with about 56 000. Three robbers forced four officials and 12 patrons to lie on the floor as others seized cash from the cashier’s cage. The caper completed in minutes with cashier Erick Weberns among those threatened.
The thieves, about 30 to 35 years old, roamed the bank accompanied by three assistants named Fred Quaden, Leo Betanski, and Henry Lemmerman, who were present during the incident.
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor told delegates in Cleveland that the federation would support the International Ladies' Garden Workers' Union in any strikes they may call to win improvements in working conditions.
Testimony in a Choctaw Lumber Company suit against Home Builders Lumber Company over 200 000 in negotiable bonds secured by mortgage neared conclusion before J G Ralls Atoka federal court referee. Also two suits by A J Wal dock and Home Builders against Choctaw involve 4 800 000 worth of timber in McCurtain county. Arguments to begin next Friday at the Oklahoma City capitol.
Oklahoma Governor Holloway ordered Floyd F. Eaton returned to Marion county Kansas to face charges of child desertion under a requisition from Governor Clyde Reed of Kansas. Eaton had been held in Okfuskee county Oklahoma.
An aircraft arrived from Seville today on an exploratory flight to assess establishing air service between Germany and South America via Seville and the Canary Islands.
Miss Ann Scarborough, a college graduate and chorus girl, told the book and play club that the chorus helps train actors. London notes discuss Zena Dare and a royal engagement to an American comedienne, and debates about actresses in royal service. New York reports 200 debutante heartaches and a limited junior assembly tonight. Chain tobacco and drug stores cut cigarette prices to 12 cents a pack as discounts drive down prices nationwide.
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