Ice Load Breaks Many Telephone and Power Lines
Northern Oklahoma suffers widespread ice damage as emergency crews restore service. Bell Telephone reports major cities back online with smaller towns still isolated. power lines and trunks repaired slowly amid continued outages and weather concerns.
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Associated Press
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Bell Telephone Company
Enid
el Reno
Chickasha
Oklahoma City
Ponca City
Tulsa
Miami
Muskogee
Panhandle
Watonga
Homestead
Imo
Hydro
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Bridgeport
Weatherford
Hayward
Lucien
Peckham
Aw City
Lyman
Webb City
Foraker
Billings
Four Hurt In City Wreck On West Main
A head on crash in the 700 block of West Main opposite Glenwood Park injured four people. Leon H. Jones suffered a broken kneecap. Donnie Thomas had a severe facial cut. Elwyn Old endured possible internal injuries. Art Yeager had a bruised knee and deep gash but was released from hospital. Jones wife and Yeager were passengers. cause of collision undetermined. Miss Thomas worked at a city sandwich shop.
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Senate amends crop program to cut costs and boost farmer aid
The Senate unanimously approved an amendment to cut administrative costs of the new crop control program. Washington expenses limited to one percent and outside expenses to two percent. The plan requires public disclosure of county committee spending. Senator Byrd Russell and Hatch pressured for lower administration costs, described by Barkley as a compromise.
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Panay gunner returns fire of Japanese planes
Three American Panay bombing survivors reached Shanghai declaring the gunboat returned Japanese air attack with flags clearly visible on Panay deck. Survivors, two wounded, testified Panay and accompanying vessels were clearly marked, while Japanese spokesmen claimed no flag markings were seen.
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Collier’s Magazine
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Standard Oil Company
O'Donnell
House Turns Down AFL Substitution On Wage Hour Bill
The House rejected the AFL 40-40 wage hour substitute by a 162-131 vote after a heated session dividing along party lines. The AFL plan would set 40 cents minimum, 40 hour week, no differentials, with enforcement by the Justice Department, while the House bill assigns enforcement to a Labor Department administrator and the Senate plan creates an independent five member agency. The debate occurred as supporters and opponents framed the impacts on business and regional workers amid broader talks on wage standards and local conditions.
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Kentucky
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Agriculture Department
Burns Announces For Lieutenancy
Oklahoma City attorney Robert Burns, who previously held the lieutenant governor post, announced his candidacy for the office again. Also mentioned is France Paris of Tulsa seeking the Democratic state chairmanship, with the party chair vote slated for February.
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William H. Murray
France
Paris
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Burns
Senate
Sam Battles
Barton Cox Fined $75 for Drunken Driving
District Judge Tal Crawford ordered Barton Cox to pay a $75 fine on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated after patrol officers arrested him for drunk driving.
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Tal Crawford
Cox
Oklahoma Civilians Conservation Corps Camps Face Closures
Senator Lyle H. Boren of Oklahoma assured that Oklahoma CCC units would not be abandoned by June 30. He warned that 300 camps in other states will be shut down and ordered closures affected Rush Springs and Okmulgee Oklahoma.
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Washington
Lyle H. Boren
Greater returns for amount in vested
Ada News advertises a classified line noting greater returns for vested amounts. The short notice highlights investment or savings terms and urges readers to inquire for details.
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Ada News
Linscheid Family Returns From Three Month Tour Abroad
Dr and Mrs A Linscheid and son Billy return to Ada after three months visiting Europe Africa and the Holy Land. They landed in New York and drove home. Dr Linscheid, as state text book commission chair, must review thousands of books in the coming days.
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Convicts kill prison official in South Carolina uprising
Six condemned inmates seized Captain Olin Sanders in the South Carolina penitentiary yard after a ruse for favors. Sanders was killed with a blade and guards later routed the captors with tear gas. The six are to face January trials in solitary confinement.
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Olin D. Johnston
T. Alev Heise
William B. Woods
Olin Sanders
Sanders
James C. Dozier
A. Fletcher Spigner
C. L. Christmas
Christmas
Charlie
Speral Christmas
Col. J. S. Wilson
Railroads Denied Immediate 15 Percent Freight Increase
The interstate commerce commission overruled a petition by railroads for an immediate 15 percent freight rate rise. Commissioner Aitchison announced the decision as President Roosevelt urged solvency and private ownership of railroads. Railroad leaders fear delays in relief until next April 1 amid no detailed explanation.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Clyde B. Aitchison
Roosevelt
Aitchison
Roosevelt seeks full redress for Panay bombing and apolog
President Roosevelt conveyed to the Japanese emperor deep concern over the Panay bombing and the United States demanded full compensation and apologies plus guarantees against a repeat attack. Secretary Hull delivered the message to Ambassador Saito who offered Japan's regrets and promised relief to Panay survivors amid ongoing Sino-Japanese fighting.
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Collision on East Main Injures Boy and Two Cars
A boy on a bicycle and a hit and run driver collided on East Main at Main and Mississippi about 6:15 am. William Mayberry, 611 West Eighteenth, was bruised but released after hospital check. Another collision at Main and Stonewall involved Arbert George, a college student, with nose fracture for him. driver John Lane and Howard Newcomb were unhurt amid late evening fog.
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Mayberry
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John Lane
Howard Newcomb
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Stonewall
Lane
Noel Shaffer
Newcomb
Supreme Court Orders Dismissal Of Sit-Down Strike Suit
The Supreme Court ordered dismissal of litigation over the constitutionality of sit-down strikes, sending the case to the Philadelphia district court as moot after the strike at Apex Hosiery was settled. The labor group pending a damages suit under Sherman act remains active, and the Wagner act was cited in prior rulings linking the strike to interstate commerce.
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Supreme Court
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Circuit Court
Foreigners Safe After Nanking Fall Defense Line Shifts
The Japanese embassy said 27 foreigners including three Americans remained safe in Nanking after the city fell. About 150000 Chinese were in the safety zone and Japanese forces pressed inland along a new defense line five miles northwest of Nanking. Gen. Iwane Matsui established field headquarters at Punchen to speed the interior campaign as Panay survivors reported Yangtze area battles.
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Nanking
Panay
Yangtze
Punchen
Iwane Matsui
Gomer Smith Wins Fifth District Seat in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City Democrat Gomer Smith won the fifth district congressional seat in a special election. Unofficial returns from 427 of 438 precincts show Smith with 20,848 votes to Harlan Deupree’s 7,035 for the Republican, with under 100 votes shared by three independents. Smith succeeds R. P. Hill who died in October.
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Gomer Smith
Congress
Smith
Harlan Deupree
Oklahoma City Republiian
R. P. Hill
No Change Noted In Condition Of Sherwood Hill
The condition of 72 year old Sherwood W. Hill, justice of the peace, was reported unchanged after he was critically ill with pneumonia at his home. Flu and pneumonia had weakened him in the days prior, but he rests quietly as his illness persists.
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Sherwood W. Hill
Senate confirms Hanes and Frank to SEC board
The senate late tonight confirmed John W. Hanes of North Carolina and Jerome N. Frank of New York to be members of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Senate Late
John W. Hanes
North Carolina
Jerome N. Frank
New York
Securities and Exchange Commission
Holt Sits With Supreme Court on 35 Million Road Note Case
Thomas P. Holt of Ada sat in conference with Oklahoma Supreme Court justices over the $35,000,000 road note test case. Indications were that a decision on constitutionality would not be handed down before December 21. Holt was named special justice after Denver Davison, Ada, disqualified.
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Thomas P. Holt
Ada
Supreme Court
Holt
Denver Davison
Christmas shopper riddles spark optimistic notes
A humorous column riff surveys holiday buying woes and marriage themes. Cather Harp remarks he would not have believed it without seeing his wife wrap Christmas ties. C Lem Wheeler teases a Christmas shop pinned with a gift for his wife as he finishes the ax.
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