14 Dec 1944
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
1
Tonight Ada community group sponsors a bond sale at the big barn west of Ada at 8 o clock. The event aims to push purchases toward the county's Sixth War Loan quota as final drives continue.
Tuesday sales recorded 13 650.00 with total to date 237 306.25 Other types show 65 866.00 in Tuesday sales and 605 082.62 to date A a ee te et a Bonds total 1 054 000.00 with cumulative 842 388.87 to date
A prize German rifle preserves from a battlefield will headline an upcoming auction along with cattle hogs and assorted merchandise. The county report shows $13 500 in bonds and $65 866 in other items, with rural district sales not yet tabulated. Fittstown reports $4 237 50 in bond investments after Tuesday's sale, district purchases near $10 000, and leaders expect to surpass the quota. Weekend sales include Pecan Grove Wednesday, Steedman Thursday, and Colbert Sunshine communities Friday.
A national farm census will begin early in 1945 and aid post war planning. Pontotoc county is in District 3 of 16 counties. applications for enumerator positions are being accepted. US citizen ages 18 65 of either sex may apply, with own transport.
President Roosevelt will give his traditional Christmas eve radio address at 4 15 p m over all major networks. The White House withheld the speaking location, noting last year he spoke from Hyde Park New York while reporting on Cairo Teheran conferences with Churchill and Stalin.
A humorous office column contrasts two groups in a workplace, portraying one as close knit and the other as overly friendly. The piece sketches personalities and light office dynamics through lighthearted satire.
General MacArthur's headquarters reports that more Japanese troops were drowned in inland seas off western Leyte on Monday and Tuesday, pushing total Japanese deaths past 30,000 as bombed reinforcement convoys spilled to their deaths.
Pfc. Marshal L. Ray, 20, of Roff and Pontotoc County, was reported killed in action in Germany on December 1. He served seven months overseas with a rifle squad in the Ninth Army after four months of basic training in Florida. His wife Dorothy Dixon and their son Marshal Jr. live with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Ray, in Roff.
Washington dispatch reports a pensions proposal to extend the federal employees retirement system to congressmen, backed by Congressman Norton with support from other leaders. The article also ties the debate to a separate raise for congressional pay and executive officers, amid ongoing WW II convoy actions around Leyte and Palompon, with Japanese losses and American counterattacks continuing.
Charleston West Virginia December 13 A second rescue train was dispatched to reach a snowbound two coach passenger train stranded in deep drifts about 45 miles east of Charleston. The Graf ton bound locomotive had died for water after failing to push through the drift as a prior effort also halted near Elkhurst. Weather blocked air search by the civil air patrol.
Congress approved a $1 billion post war flood control program and a companion rivers and harbors measure totaling half a billion. Senate changes reject two major waterways while sending the bills to a conference committee. The flood control plan includes a $400 million Missouri River Valley project and authorizes power sales, irrigation safeguards, and state project review.
The B 29 aircraft contains 149 electric motors, more than ten miles of wiring, and about 1.5 miles of tubing, underscoring the intricate electrical and plumbing systems in wartime air power.
In Washington, William L. Clayton urged a world price for American cotton with production shifts for farmers. In Paris, U S First Army units attacked toward Bonn, breaking through near Duren as Hodges's muddy riflemen advanced over a mile into Rollesbroich.
British reinforce Athens after night attacks on central areas and a key barracks on the Kifissia road. Elas face setbacks in Piraeus and in the Mt Likavettos area as Scobie seeks an Elas surrender while leftist leaders show wavering in demanding Prime Minister Papandreou’s resignation.
The state reports a warm spell with Tuesday highs up to 50 degrees in Elk City and a low of 29 in Ponca City. Bright sunshine persists though a high wind is expected and only the northwest area may stay below freezing.
A Tokyo broadcast reported that key war industries in Japan's capital would be relocated to underground sites to avoid destruction from American B-29 Superfortress attacks.
Kansas fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Lows 25 to 30 in the west, 20 to 35 in the east. Oklahoma fair tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Lows 25 to 30 across most of the state.
Nagoya was hit by a large bomber force in midafternoon as 29 B29s, possibly the largest group used against Japan to date, conducted the raid. The attack followed the Saipan dispatch by the 21st Bomber Command with Nagoya named as a principal target for inflammable targets and war plants.
Soviet assault forces pressed toward Budapest from Godollo 10 1/2 miles northeast as the Red army siege closed in on the capital. German garrison dug in to withstand destruction while fires burned in the city. The Moscow communique reported 400 Germans killed at Godollo and noted advances near Miskolc and in central Slovakia.
Seaman James D. Blanton 24 of Trousdale died at Norman Naval hospital from injuries in an auto accident east of Purcell. S/Sgt. John Adams of Ada was in critical condition in a Purcell hospital. Blanton was on leave from Pensacola Florida and Adams was on furlough from Santa Ana California.
B 29 fliers reported heavy explosions and fires during a raid on Nagoya on Honshu. General H H Arnold said preliminary strike reports indicate visual bombing. Nagoya, a major industrial hub on the Nobi plain, hosts aircraft factories, arsenals, electric plants, and steel works, with dense residential and industrial districts creating fire hazards.
Admiral Chester Nimitz chaired talks with central Pacific and Aleutian theater commanders including Spruance Mitscher Emmons Buckner Fletcher McMorris and Sherman to discuss upcoming operations and potential direct effects on Japan. The gathering at U S Pacific Fleet HQ aimed to refine strategy despite surface focus on the Aleutians.
Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser, commander in chief of the newly formed British Pacific fleet, arrived in Melbourne today amid official welcome and formalities reflecting the post war naval reorganization.
County commissioners rejected four bids for the Rosedale cemetery road reconstruction northwest of Ada. With a $2,000 appropriation and after engineering deductions leaving $1,860, every base bid from Chickasha Oklahoma City and two Adas ranged from $2,300 to over $5,000, leading to rejection.
Giant new type fire rims enabling heavy artillery to speed cross country at 35 and 40 miles an hour roll off U S instruction lines.
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