City Lake Clubhouse Fire Destroys Most of Building
A Tuesday blaze at City Lake in Wintersmith Park destroyed all but the west wing of the Lake Clubhouse. Damages around $10,000. The fire began about 2 30 p m and firefighters fought three and a half hours. The building, rebuilt after a 1943 fire, housed an office and a ballroom, and will be rebuilt but lumber shortages delay reconstruction.
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City Lake
Wintersmith Park
Wayne Wheelock
Bud Carell
Vilian Conservation Corps
R. E. Blanks
R. E. Ferguson
Ada
Senate votes to join United Nations relief drive
The Senate approved joining the United Nations organization 65 to 7 and moved to speed a 55 million dollar UNRRA appropriation final installment. House debate opened on a second 1.35 billion pledge as McKellar signals to yield for action before the December recess. A UNO meeting is planned in London next month.
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Washington
Senate
United Nations Organization
McKellar
D-Tenn
Rostrem
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
House
Hitler Planned to seize seven neighbors by 1938
At Nuremberg the German air force records showed Hitler aimed to conquer Poland Czechoslovakia and five others by 1938. Prosecution presented a May 2 1938 document on air bases in Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Lithuania Latvia Estonia and Austria.
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Nuernberg
International Military Tribunal Today
Hitler
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Austria
Hermann Goering
Prague
Goering
Neville Chamberlain
Emil Hacha
Berlin
Flu Strikes Ada and Pontotoc County Schools
Flu disrupted Ada and Pontotoc County schools with up to 30 percent absent. Rex Morrison reports Ada attendance improving by midweek as Fittstown, Byng, Roff and Vanoss show varying impact and rapid clearing of cases.
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Ada
Pontotoc County
Ada Ada
Rex Morrison
Fittstown
J. N. McKeel
Byng
Roff
Vaness
Ahloso
Guns Go Back On Walls After Kimes Taken Into Custody
Report describes firearms being returned to display as Matt Kimes is under arrest. It notes prior weeks with many guns cleaned and readied, a task not seen for years, while proceedings continue.
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Kimes
Matt Kimes
Oklahoma Girl Wins Award As Best Junior Gardener
Eileen Ball a 17 year old Yukon resident captured the Oklahoma top honor in the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association scholarship contest. She won the southern sectional prize at the Cincinnati convention and earned 100 dollars from the 6900 dollars in scholarships funded by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Ball raised a half acre of Swiss chard potatoes beets and more on her father Frank C Ball's 800 acre farm and contributed to home canning and local sales.
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Oklahoma
National Junior Vegetable Growers Association
Eileen Ball
Route 1
Yukon
Grant B. Snyder
Massachusetts State College
Cincinnati
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Canadian County
Frank C. Ball
Eileen
Prospects Rise as Army Sells First Synthetic Rubber Casings
Washington reports the first civilian casings from the army will reach markets in about a month, with 400000 units expected. Follow up offerings include auto, truck, and tractor tires at a sizeable rate as the government exits the rubber-from-alcohol program due to petroleum-based synthetic rubber plans.
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Washington
Pava
Consumer Goods
War Assets Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Leases Sold By Five Tribes Tuesday in Oklahoma
The Five Civilized Tribes Agency sold 43 oil and gas leases totaling 3 320.89 acres out of 5 781.72 offered. Total bonus 32 527.27 dollars, average 10.16 per acre. Top bid 105.27 per acre by J R Neal for a Garvin county lease. Other buyers included T G Mayes Magnolia Petroleum and Eason Oil Co. Also reports Gen Wyche to attend Miami ceremonies and Tulsa bond approval for school modernization and other city projects.
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Muskogee
Okla
Five Civilized Tribes Agency
J. R. Neal
Miami
Garvin County
Neal
Ohio Petroleum No. 1
Tolbert
T. G. Mayes
Pauls Valley
Magnolia Petroleum
Eason Oil Co
Kerlyn Oil
Oklahoma City
W. H. Foster
Seminole
Okfuskee County
Diary Of Adans' Nephew Tells Prison Life Tale
Diary of Capt. George C. Brundrett of Wichita Falls Texas reveals brutal life in Japanese camps. Entries dating Dec 13 1944 to June 12 1945 recount starvation thirst disease and bombings, mingled with memories of Easter 1945 and hopes for home. Brundrett died in prison July 4 and his diary was found by a fellow prisoner.
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George C. Brundrett
Wichita Falls
Tex
Claude Pitt
L. J. Crowder
Birdie Elliott
Ada
Brundrett
Rio Grande Valley
Moji
Valree
Bonnie
Dixie
Winds Message Not Sent By Jaws
Congressional investigators heard that Japan did not broadcast a winds message signaling a break with the United States before Pearl Harbor. The probe found no evidence in Tokyo that the pre arranged signal to consuls was ever transmitted. Separately Oklahoma projects totaling 1.369 million dollars on US 70 were set for a Dec 18 letting by the state highway commission.
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Washington
U. S
Pearl Harbor
William D. Mitchell
Senate-House
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Britain
United States
Russia
Mitchell
Oklahoma City
Choctaw
McCurtain
Bryan
State Highway Commission
Pontotoc County
Ada
Hurley accuses diplomat of aiding Chinese Communists in China
Major General Patrick J. Hurley testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accusing George Atcheson Jr. of seeking lend-lease arms for the Chinese Communists while at Chungking. Hurley said John S. Service was involved and that Stilwell’s removal affected actions. He argued policy defeats by career diplomats and defended his own stance toward Chiang Kai-shek and China.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
Chungking
George Atcheson, Jr
Hurley
Acheson
China
Stilwell
Roosevelt
Service
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Joe” Stilwell
State Department
Chiang Kai- Shek
St Byrnes
Byrnes
Rep
Anderson
Calif
Far East
United Nations Orga
Feed prospects in Oklahoma force feeding adjustments
Oklahoma officials warn farmers to adjust feeding practices due to poor feed prospects. President Joe C. Scott notes protein supplement shortages as the reason. Only a fraction of 90 000 tons of soybeans allocated for processors has been obtained, hindering local crushing, transportation, and delivery at the protein ceiling price.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Joe C. Scott
Board of Agriculture
Scott
Commodity Credit Corporation
Stewart urges aid for neglected Oklahoma region
Rep. Stewart of Oklahoma told the House that Southeastern Oklahoma has been neglected in food control projects. He supported a 1 million dollar deficiency appropriation to start the Wister dam and reservoir, saying federal aid would curb erosion and protect fertile lands hampered by the Poteau river. The amendment moves to the Senate for action.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Rep
Stewart
D-Okla
House
Wister
Senate
Bodies of 109 airmen exhumed at Luebeck in war crimes probe
HEREFORD Germany Dec 5 The bodies of 109 American airmen including at least 35 likely murdered have been exhumed at the Baltic port of Luebeck as part of a U S war crimes inquiry. A senior officer said Germans used cemeteries to bury murdered airmen and falsify grave records.
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Hereford
Germany
Baltic
Luebeck
U. S
Kiel
Oil Search Resumes Near Laurel in Jones County
Woodley Petroleum plans a new oil test about four miles west of Laurel in Jones County. Previous wells in the county, including Gulf Refining No. 1 Flynt, have proven dry and were abandoned. The new drill site lies north and west of the abandoned discovery in section 35, township 12 east.
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Laurel
Miss
Jones County
Woodley Petroleum Company
Gulf Refining Company
Karloff Divorce Sought by Wife in Los Angeles
Mrs Dorothy S Karloff sues actor Boris Karloff for divorce on grounds of cruelty alleging insults and threats and seeking custody of their seven year old daughter The filing was made in Los Angeles on December 1 19xx.
Glasses Fail To Help With Witherspoon’s Blurred Vision
J. G. Witherspoon struggled to recognize people Tuesday morning, misreading faces at several places. A friend checked his glasses and found no fog. only rims remained, revealing he had broken them earlier.
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J. G. Witherspoon
Mr. Witherspoon
Weather Shifts To Chilly Rainy Weekend
After days of mild late fall, a south wind brings chill and light rain. The Saturday rain measured about 0.15 inches following a Friday high of 63 and a low of 48 degrees.
Oakman Bond Auction Over Subscribed Quota
Oakman residents greatly exceeded a $2 190 quota by two and a half times at a Friday night bond sale held in the schoolhouse. The event ended 25 minutes after it began with total investments of $5 006 25. Harvey Lamber MC Joe Bryan speaker and Charles Rushing auctioneer led the program.
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Oakman
Harvey Lamber
Joe Bryan
Charles Rushing
Drive Starts to Clean Up Racing
New York December 5 A national bureau of investigation will be formed by the Thoroughbred Racing Association to probe and root out infractions affecting the sport. Officials from 33 tracks authorized the move to protect racing’s name and combat a perceived crime wave.
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New York
Thoroughbred Racing Association
Bureau of Investigation
Alex Robb
T.R.A
Skittish Kitty Rescued After 60 Foot Leap
Queenie the gray cat owned by 15 year old Don Brighton leapt 60 feet from a palm frond onto a tarpaulin below and then to the ground. Don Brighton now tries to coax the frightened feline into a house.
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Kitty
Los Angeles
Queenie
Don Brighton
Don
Lawton Post Nears 1000 Members Votes to Sell and Build
Lawton's Lowery Post No. 29 reports membership approaching 1000 and votes to sell remaining assets and proceed with constructing a new facility.
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Lawton
Lowery Post
Camp Fire Leader Set to Help Plan 1946 Activities
Miss Claire Barricks, Camp Fire district field secretary, arrives Thursday to lead planning for 1946. She will conduct volunteer training at the Library club room, speak at the Thursday night meeting and Kiwanis club, and hold courses for leaders, Blue Bird sponsors, and teachers Friday and Saturday. Barricks cites personal Camp Fire experience and a career aim to expand opportunities for girls.
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Claire Barricks
Wll
Kiwanis Club
Library
Blue Bird
Miss Barricks
Campre
Pontotoc County Schools Back On Course After War
Pontotoc County reports a postwar revival in education with repairs to almost every school, restocked libraries, Kellogg Foundation health education, hot lunches in fifteen schools, nine new buses, and a reorganized grade school basketball conference. High school athletics largely continued through the emergency.
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Pontotoc County
Kellogg Health Foundation
Oklahoma Baptists Plan Own Building
The Oklahoma State Baptist Convention executive board chose a site for a new four story headquarters in Oklahoma City, expanding the orphanage farm to 1500 acres and approving a widow’s plan for ministers wives. The facility to cost nearly a quarter million dollars will house all state Baptist offices and include an auditorium a broadcasting studio and editorial offices for the Baptist Messenger. The widow’s plan provides a widow about $960 a year from a minister who dies earning $2400 at retirement.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma State Baptist Convention
Orphans’ Home
State Baptist
Baptist Messenger
Wi4w
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UNRRA
Daniel DE Luce
Jim Spell
Columbia
James L. Ammon
Albany
Ore
Navy
Wyche
Ira T. Wyche
Eighth Corps
Camp Gruber
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Clarence A. Miller
Picher
Paul E. Davis
Fairland
Miller
Ottawa County
Davis
Tulsa
Frank Stivers
Board of Education
Arnett
Ada News
Adans
Walree Brundrett
Jaws
By Jack Bell
Atcheson
Chiang
Nazi Germany
Nberg
Nuern
Carmen
George F. Miller
State Confederate Hospital
Ardmore
Miss Claire Barricks
Oklahoma Baptists Plan
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