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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1934
Page
1
A digest of news from Washington and Georgia highlights humane leadership and modesty around Roosevelt allies. Wiley Post sketches a rapid stratospheric flight plan while Ada Wintersmith park works advance CCC and FERA projects. Red Cross appeals aid for 25 local families at Christmas amid war debt talks and Soviet official murder fallout.
The district court session today centers on robbery and larceny cases with other charges including obtaining property by false checks. Judge J F McKeel and assistants aim to finish before Saturday night and leave a lighter docket than in recent years.
Washington December 12 The Roosevelt administration pushed legislation to strip profit from war as the Senate munitions committee probes disclosures. Nye denounced the move as sidetracking while Vandenberg warned it could derail the inquiry. Penrose letters cited Dupont influence and DuPont States claimed a fleet of planes could threaten civilian New York if massed incendiaries were deployed.
Oklahoma City December 12 Harry B Cordell president of the state board of agriculture declares open warfare against higher ups at A and M college over the extension department fight He says speeches claim the extension department is doomed and warns those backing the opposition of a fall He declines to name the individuals involved.
Lonnie Walker was acquitted on charges of assault with a sharp and dangerous weapon after a jury trial that began over a week ago. The verdict came late Tuesday afternoon, clearing Walker of the accusations. A separate note mentions a congressman protesting Roosevelt's image in a liquor ad thanking the president for repeal, highlighting congressional role in repeal law.
CAP James E. Van Zandt said President Roosevelt may order full cash payment of soldiers bonus certificates before Congress. He cited NRA relief funds authority and noted assurances from lawmakers that a Jan first payment is likely, to avoid disrupting the recovery program.
Nashville reports at a convention Donald Kirkpatrick general counsel of the American Farm Bureau Federation asserts agriculture should stay capitalistic. He says farmers will own control production, seek fair returns and reasonable profits, while cooperative services aid marketing and pooled purchases. Secretary Wallace urges duty reductions to expand non agricultural imports and foreign markets for exports.
John A. Freeman 47 a Ada carpenter was killed in a Tuesday afternoon auto accident near Shawnee. Funeral will be Thursday at 1 pm at First Baptist Church with burial at Memorial Park. Survived by four daughters, a son, a brother, a sister, and his father. Resided at 330 West Fifteenth.
Phil Kennamer, 19, told the Associated Press he killed John Gorrell in self defense during a confrontation over an alleged $20,000 extortion plot against the Homer Wilcox family. He claimed Born Jr. was murdered to prevent his potential testimony, while Sheriff Price maintains a murder theory.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Winnie Faye Fischer of Ada who died in a crash six miles west of Seminole on the Turkey Creek bridge Sunday morning. H A Lions of Ada is in serious condition. four others received minor injuries. Survivors include four brothers and one sister in Ada and her husband, killed in a previous accident.
E. M. Bowman of Allen, application writer for Shawnee Production Credit Association in Pontotoc county, has received notice of the first annual meeting. The session to be held in January will elect the 1935 board of directors and review nine months of operation. The association, started March 1934, has issued loans at five percent for crop and stock production and aims to provide year round financing to farmers and stockmen.
In the Fitts field Oklahoma the Ed Moore No 1 Akers well near Section 36-2-6 began flow washing in Wednesday morning. In the first half hour it yielded 390 barrels and later reports show 800 barrels in a one hour period before shut in. The well bottoms in Bromide sand and his location along with Moore No 1 Smith tests to the east shapes the field edge. Nearby wells from Deal county and Sulphur graben areas edge toward spudding in the coming days.
Paris December 10 France approved by the cabinet a fifth war debt default to the United States and authorized sending the customary note to Washington. The move signals continued Parliament opposition to payment while Edouard Herriot urged settlement with Washington. Finance Minister Louis Germain Martin and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval were tasked to draft the note based on Laval’s earlier outline.
Oklahoma City reports the government emergency buying program extended to include 30,000 head on Oklahoma farms without winter feed. Officials say one third will be slaughtered for relief and the rest moved to other regions for processing. Total purchases reach 986000 head across the west and southwest.
Sheriff Bush said James E. Ekberg 29 of Tulsa told him four men discussed the Tulsa Brown Derby slaying of John F. Gorrell Jr. Ekberg, jailed on a bad check charge, alleged a drunken admission by one man to “put him on the spot” and named Phil Kennamer who has confessed to slaving Gorrell.
In Red Oak a lane horse race argument escalated to fatal gunfire. Homer Thomas, about 40, was shot four times and beaten as he lay dying. His father Seaton Thomas and brother Bill were involved. Seaton was wounded. Harvey Mings, 45, is jailed without bond awaiting murder charges. County Attorney Jack Bradley to file charges Monday.
The Ada News announces a new modern fast newspaper press to ship in January and be running by February. It will print 30 000 sixteen page papers per hour and do two color work, with stereotyping and AP service to elevate Ada to metropolitan daily standards.
Funeral services set for Ronnie Hinson 50 veteran Muskogee policeman who died from a wound received after confronting James Vernon a Negro taxi driver Vernon was killed in the exchange of gunfire and Patrolman Billie Guy says the suspect fired first during a vehicle crash investigation.
D. J. Henderson, 20, received life imprisonment after a district court jury found him guilty of murder in the September 22 shooting of Hayden Norris. The two youths were riding in Norris' car when he was killed.
Washington December 11 The Townsenders announce a nationwide drive to grant all persons over 60 a $200 monthly pension from the Treasury with funds to be spent within 30 days. Dr Fr E Townsend ex Health official from Long Beach says 15 million signatures are sought, with California Oregon Washington Arizona delegation largely supportive.
Five charred bodies recovered from the ruins of Hotel Kerns near Lansing Michigan, raising the total dead to 23. A medical aide noted at least one body appeared to be a woman, and a key ring bearing Senator John Seidlein's name was found near another victim.
In Lansing Michigan a deadlier fire at the Kerns hotel leaves at least 14 confirmed dead including six legislators with estimates of 30 to 40 more victims. Investigators from the fire marshal state police and prosecutor will probe cause and possible negligence as crews search the ruins and the Grand river for victims and clues.
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