Rail freight reform urged amid water vs rail rates debate
In Ada Oklahoma the weekly edition calls for ending the water freight subsidy as illogical and costly. The piece tracks how government fixes rates, questions navigability projects on the Trinity River, and notes Ada’s oil pool near Stratford improving local prospects. It highlights state highway gains and boosted access aiding Ada boosters after four years of effort.
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McClain County
Stratford
Ada
State Highway Commission
Trade barriers and world war outlook from a 1940s column
The writer condemns inter state trade prohibitions as tearing at national unity while urging patriotism and home production. He predicts European wars may end by spring or summer and notes Germany seems near exhaustion, believing dictators cannot suppress all thinking men who sustain opposition.
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Adolph Hitler
Germany
Russia
Finland's Stand Amid Odds in Wartime Struggles
A reflective Christmas sentiment contrasts with the harsh reality of a financially strained state. The piece notes citizens facing governance challenges and praises Finland's resilience, suggesting the nation may rise in standing if independence endures and victory follows.
Friends and Foes of the Kingdom Sunday Lesson
A Sunday school lesson on Jesus of Nazareth in Nazareth explains how locals viewed him with skepticism despite his wisdom and wonders. It contrasts the unbelieving townsfolk with those who welcomed truth and the Gospel, noting Herod’s fear and the faithful who glorify God.
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Nazareth
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Jesus
Egypt
Babe
Jesus of
Herod
California Farmers and labor clash in state politics
A long discussion contrasts California farmers and union labor with Governor Olson’s administration. It notes tensions over bargaining rights, cost of labor, and marketing fruit and vegetables. It highlights national interest and cites New York Mayor LaGuardia urging strict enforcement against drunk driving.
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Farmers Organization
California
Culbert L. Olson
Senora No 2 Porter Prospects In Bebee Test
BEBEE AREA The Senora No 2 Porter top of the Viola at 2 230 feet is the highest local well. In Bebee Patsy Oil Co topped the Viola at 2345 feet on a dolomite well near 1 mile northeast. The well reportedly produced about 267000 barrels in six years. The Senora 2 Porter may drill to 2600 feet as dolomite lies about 250 feet below the Viola. Surface pipe at 2340 feet. An offset Gypsy Oil Co No 1 Tucker set at 2360 feet to the Viola and awaiting cement. Superior Off Co No 3 Summers set pipe at 2955 feet in top of Viola and is shut down. HOMER SCHOOL AREA Delaney and Sandbach No 1 Massey shows air or gas and is dry at 1801 feet. CLEVELAND COUNTY W A Delaney No 1 Fortman drilling at 7450 feet.
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Bebee
Patsy Oil Co
Porter
Gypsy Oil Co. No
Tucker
Superior
Homer
Delaney and Sandbach No
Massey
Cleveland County
W. A. Delaney
Fortman, Wild
Soldier Hurt in Car Crash Near Tishermingo
Two young men, Dr. Metcalf and Edward Burk of Mannsville Oklahoma, are in city hospitals with serious injuries after a late Sunday automobile crash east of Tishermingo. Sanford Smith, an army regular, was taken to Fort Sill with a broken back and facial cuts. all are expected to recover. Durant highway patrol investigated.
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Army
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Tishermingo
Metcalf
Edward Burk
Mannsville
Okla
Sanford Smith
Army Hospital
Burk
Smith
Durant
Start Audit Soon Of Foster Estate
Oklahoma City December 26. State Tax Commissioner Dunn announced an audit of the estate of the late H V Foster, Bartlesville oilman, to determine inheritance tax due. Foster Petroleum Co. anticipated the estate at about 8 million dollars, with potential general fund gains up to 350 thousand dollars as officials seek a quick settlement with widow and executrix Marie Dahlgren Foster to aid the budget.
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Oklahoma City
Kpi
D. D. Dunn
H. V. Foster
Bartlesville
Foster
Foster Petroleum Co
Hare
Marie Dahlgren Foster
GRDA Directors Consider Buying Transmission Lines
GRDA directors met at Vinita Oklahoma to study purchasing power transmission lines owned by Public Service Co in northeastern Oklahoma. They did not decide on action but indicated a policy to market power from the $20 million hydroelectric project. Sam Sheehan applied for GRDA general manager job as 13th candidate.
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Vinita
Okla
Dee
Grand River Dam Authority
Ines
The
Public Service Co
Oklahoma
Atc A. Ge
Tep
Works Administration
Ray McNaughton
Sam Sheehan
Grda Land Department
West Centers Injury Victim in East West Charity Game
In San Francisco on December 26 a 20 minute scrimmage sidelined Hardin-Simmons center Douglas Bulldog Turner who weighs 221 pounds as the West team prepared for the East West charity football game on January 1. Turner left the drill with a charley horse injury.
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San Francisco
Douglas
Turner
Hardin-Simmons
Charley
Coalgate High Sets Football Letters for 1939 Season
Coalgate High School announced that 17 players earned their letter as the unbeaten 1939 football team compiled a 202 to 43 scoring margin. Seniors listed include Vietta Williams Gammon Ghigo Whitt Jones Vogher and others. juniors and sophomores also received letters. The squad posted wins over Tishomingo New Lima Allen Asher Haileyville Roff Woodland and Atoka with a 6 6 tie against Stonewall and a scoreless draw with Holdenville.
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Lowell Green
Coalgate High School
Coalgate
Aece
Dominic Vietta
Vernon Williams
Stonewall
Holdenville
Gramminis Vietta
Vernon Wiliams
Harold Gammon
Louis Ghigo
Frank Whitt
Harold Jones
Richard Vogher
Bill Bell
Jim Ruffini
Bill Powers
Earl Hart
Leroy Magness
Bill Magness
Lonnie Hoffner
Henry Diaz
Johnson Ott
Elmer Edwards
Tishominga
New Lima
Allen
Asher
Haileyville
Roff
Coodland
Atoka
East team scrimmage reports no major injuries
Coaches Hollingberg and Jones said he may return to uniform briefly. Alternate Western center Johnny Schiechl from Santa Clara stood in. Casualties included Bob Smith of Oregon and Le Toy Zimmerman of San Jose State, both with sore ankles but not serious. East squad scrimmaged again yesterday without injuries.
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Orin Hollingberg
Biff Jones
Johnny Schiechl
Santa Clara
Bob Smith
Oregon
Toy Zimmerman
San Jose State
Red Cross Chief Sees Grave Problem
Washington December 26 Ernest J Swift vice chairman of the American Red Cross returned from a three month survey in Europe and warned that the vast movement of war weary civilians is one of the gravest world wide crises. He noted refugees from Poland, Poland's new districts, 200000 POWs on farms, Poles fleeing into neighboring lands and Jews being forced to migrate.
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Washington
Ernest J. Swift
American Red Cross
Europe
Swift
Poland
Germany
Veteran teacher at Arkansas U dies after pneumonia
Fayet teville Ark Dec 26 Mary Anne Davis 65 longtime University of Arkansas instructor died in hospital after pneumonia attack She served 12 years as dean of women and taught English and mathematics Also a poet author of From My Window Survivors include four brothers and two sisters Funeral services planned for Springfield Missouri Wednesday morning
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Fayetteville
Ark
Mary Anne Davis
University of Arkansas
University
Preston S. Davis
Tulsa
Okla
Josiah G. Davis
Winfeld C.davis
Houston
Tex
W. R. Davis Jr
Springfield
W. P. Reid
J. A. Black
Oklahoma City
Alertlerk Gets Counterfeiter Four
McPherson Kansas December 28 a vigilant grocery clerk helped arrest two men and their two women companions after one man tried to pass a counterfeit 25 cent piece. Police Chief John Holloway said the four named Ear ward Kiger Littleton West Virginia Dennis Berry Ethel Math ews and Adah Scott Mooreland Oklahoma were booked and to be turned over to federal agents. A cabin camp was raided and counterfeit coins amounting to 33 80 in nickels and quarters were seized. The group admitted passing the bogus coins across central Kansas during Christmas.
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Holloway
Kansas
McPherson
Oklahoma
U Law Student Edgar Beavers Killed In Crash
Funeral services were held today for Edgar D. Beavers a 27 year old University of Oklahoma law student who died Sunday from injuries after his car collided with a transportation truck at a Muskogee street intersection He suffered head and internal injuries Beavers also played professional baseball in summers at Pampa Texas and was a star athlete in his hometown area.
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Muskogee
Edgar D. Beavers
University of Oklahoma Law
Beavers
Pampa
Texas
Local man remembered by family and community
Survivors include his widow and parents Mr. and Mrs. J Beavers, four brothers and three sisters. The statement notes his life at a local high school and later at the university, highlighting strong family and community ties.
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University
J. & Beavers
Japanese say 15000 Chinese slain in central China fighting
Chinese and Japanese dispatches report heavy combat across north central and south China near Hankow. Japanese claim to have repelled a Chinese winter offensive, destroyed air bases in Kwangsi, and mopped up near Canton. Chinese accounts mention ongoing battles around Paotomochen and Chiangenih with Chinese troops advancing in Shansi.
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Shanghai
Hankow
China
Kwangsi
Paotomochen
Peiping-Suipuan
Suir’ Yan
Chiangenih Sheastern
Shansi
Seato
S. 1
Kwangtuing Province
Canton
19Th Route Army
State To Attack Mutual Problems State To Attack Mutual Problems
Chicago dispatch reports the Council of State Governments will tackle trade barriers and transient indigents in 1940. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania plan regional actions to end discrimination against out of state beverages and lower tariff walls. Vermont and Maine will discuss welfare code uniformity and reciprocal aid for the needy. Moscicki leaves Bucharest for a Swiss sanatorium. Vatican notes Pope Pius sends aid to Helsinki vicariate for Finland Catholics.
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Chicago
Aleast
United States
Council of State Governments
Buffalo
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
New York
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
National Association of Attorneys General
The
Courier
Vermont
Maine
Wheat Boom Seen Continuing Says Chicago Trade Chief
Chicago Board of Trade president John G. McCarthy predicts a long lasting bull market for wheat driven by winter drought, war demand, and reduced Argentine supplies. He argues prices rise without government credit and bemoans regulation while noting farmers profit from government loans as prices stay firm.
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Chicago
John .G. McCarthy
Board of Trade
Drouth
Mr. McCarthy
McCarthy
Uneam
Keen Girls Fed Clothed Says Oklahoma Official
Norman Oklahoma December 26 UP Mrs Burnham superintendent of the state industrial school for girls at Tecumseh told a Norman Business and Professional Women's Club luncheon that hunger drives delinquency among girls. She cited that 85 percent of the girls come from broken homes and lack basics like food and clothing.
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Norman
Creighton B. Burm‘ham
State
Tecumseh
Norman Business and Professional Women's Club
Burnham
Good Alibi For Hubbies Who Can’t Hear Junior
Providence, R I December 28 Brown University psychologist Edward H Kemp reports that many men over thirty cannot hear high frequency sounds like a baby’s cry or industrial noises. He warns early loss of high tones signals later deafness to ordinary sounds and notes a 30s man with loss above 4000 cycles will likely develop broader hearing loss with age.
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Providence
R. I
Science
Edward H. Kemp
Department of
Psychology
Brown University
Junior Te
Kemp
Community urged to aid girls after release from school
Mrs. Burnham urged communities to support girls released from the school by ensuring they are placed in employment. The school provides each girl with a vocational training course to prepare her for an occupation after leaving. She warned that without community protection many will return or drift into worse behavior and end up in penal institutions.
Vitamins vital to germs and humans, says scientist
Monterey Calif December 24 Dr W J Van Wagtendonk Stanford biochemist told the eda Society of Naturalists that most disease germs rely on ready made vitamins from hosts. He cited that while some microbes can make most vitamins, they need essential substances from diet to multiply. plants manufacture vitamins from soil oil water and light.
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Rennie“Taylor
Monterey
Calif
W. J. van Wagtendonk
Stanford University
Eda Society of
van Wagtendonk
van Wagendonk
Policy Racket Is In On Man's Death
New York police report James Cangro a 44 year old Dutch Schultz mobster was strangled beaten and stabbed and dumped in a vacant Bronx lot. Investigators say the killing may mark the start of a war for control of Bronx policy as Cangro sought to unite independent racketeers into a mob led by himself. He was married with three children, a brother said.
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Underworld
James Cangro
Dutch Schultz
East Bronx
Bronx
Newark
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