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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1944
Page
1
Kansas City dispatch reports loud and bitter opposition from stockmen as John J. Madigan of the Office of Price Administration outlines proposed ceiling prices for meat and livestock products.
Millard Lawson is named among the wounded in today’s War Department list, bringing to three the number of Lawson brothers wounded. The five brothers are in service, with Hubert, Sam Buddy, Roy V, and Raymond already reported. Millard joined Aug 10 1943, served in armored infantry from March 1944, and is the husband of Virginia Lawson of 801 North Hickory. he previously worked at Hodges Grocery.
Moscow reports Soviet forces breached the first inner ring of the encircled Nazi garrison in Budapest while the Austrian border front firms along the Danube. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky staged converging drives toward Komarom as vanguards push near the Hron river and Esztergom.
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher forecast a major Pacific War turn by next summer as U S forces near total domination of the Japanese navy. Meanwhile Admiral Nimitz reported fresh air raids on Saipan and Iwo Jima with Lib erator escorts and patrols over Mindoro and Tinian.
Allied forces press a three pronged push in eastern Athens against Elas strongholds. Ardittos hill is seized after heavy fighting, with Greek troops pushing from Zappion park and Kissariani. 7,500 prisoners reported. 350,000 civilians fed by relief stocks.
A captured Nazi officer Lt. Col. Friedrich von der Heydte, parachute troops leader, surrendered to Capt. Robert A. Goethens in Monschau after hiding five days. He claimed to be wounded and unable to walk, asking for a doctor and ambulance. He was taken to an American army hospital for treatment of pneumonia and trench fever.
American armored forces pushed toward Rochefort as von Rundstedt’s offensive slowed. U S Third Army moved up to three miles, and Rochefort outskirts were reported entered on the east bank of the Homme by 10 am. Weakened enemy pockets, 1,200 prisoners, 63 tanks, 49 guns, and 177 vehicles marked the engagement at Celles and Humain.
The Associated Press predicts continued cloudiness and colder temperatures in the northwest region tomorrow. Tonight lows may fall to 25 in the panhandle and 40 in the southeast as moisture from yesterday's mist and snow flurries totals .22 inches at McAlester and smaller amounts elsewhere.
Last Monday was Christmas and most stores and offices closed for the day. Next Monday is January 1, and New Year's Day will close for many again. Post office banks and public offices will close with merchants excluding groceries and drugstores. Quail hunting season ends. public schools reopen Tuesday while colleges stay off until then.
Four Oklahoma men were promoted to captain by the army. They are Frederic Elwhre Dix Jr of Tulsa Theodore Gregor Coursault of Oklahoma City Sam Moore of Claremore and James Charles Hubbard of El Reno. Robert Dean Teverbaugh of Ponca City was advanced to first lieutenant.
An expenditure of one billion dollars for U S street and highway construction would create about two million on site jobs and an additional 450000 in manufacturing equipment and materials supply.
State planners back tax relief as Oklahoma faces the 20th legislative session. They call for lower personal and corporate income taxes, repeal of the manufacturing machinery sales tax, repeal of fuel taxes on naptha solvents, and a statute of limitations to reduce workers compensation costs. Gov Kerr and House Speaker Hill support moves. Senate critics oppose.
Washington December 29 The tire shortage forces the Office of Defense Transportation to abandon any idea of raising the national 35 mile per hour highway speed limit. Proposals to lift or modify the limit are dropped as tests show uneven observance since 1942 when the limit was set to conserve tires for war needs. Only trucks carrying vital war supplies may travel faster with an emergency pennant. no federal enforcement exists.
The government seeks a federal court ruling on the legality of the army seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company facilities in seven cities under a presidential order. About 12,000 workers began serving the government, while Sewell Avery challenges the action. A hearing before Judge Sullivan is requested to declare legality and halt Ward officials from interference.
Mrs Dashie B Howry receives word from the War Department via the Red Cross that her husband Pvt Miles T Howry is a prisoner of war of Germany. He last was heard from October 14 as missing in action after basic training in Alabama and overseas to Italy in July. He worked as a truck driver before enlisting. the couple and their small son live at 520 1/2 West Fourth.
President Roosevelt used a pocket veto to block a bill abolishing the Jackson Hole National Monument in Wyoming. In his memorandum of disapproval he warned the measure would deprive the nation of the area's naturalistic historical scientific and recreational value. The 222000 acre monument adjoined Grand Teton and was created by executive order last March amid Wyoming private opposition over tax and land issues.
Pontotoc county reports total war bonds of 1 394 239 86 during the Sixth War Loan drive, about 339 739 over the quota. E bond buying trails, with 356 293 75 total toward a 372 000 goal, needing nearly 8 000 daily through Friday and Saturday.
Eighteen years after Clifford Pegg reported a stolen wrist watch, police have jailed a man they say found Pegg's timepiece. The police, however, do not know Pegg's current whereabouts.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Oklahoma lows 25 to 30 northwest and 35 to 40 southeast, cooler in the northwest Saturday. Kansas lows 15 northwest to 30 southeast, with somewhat cooler conditions in the west Saturday.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. rapidly launches an offensive after Rundstedt’s December 26 attack. His armor advances 16 miles in six days from the Luxembourg border to west of Bastogne, relieving the besieged garrison and threatening Luxembourg. The Bastogne corridor narrows to one mile as U.S. forces enter.
Oklahoma's traffic death toll for the week stands at 26 after the death in an Oklahoma City hospital of Robert L. Meadows, 58, from an auto wreck. Earlier, Mrs. Willa Jean Morris, 21, died in a Woodward hospital from injuries in a Dewey county collision.
A brief quip suggests people who live like they drive end up with circles under their eyes, remarking on lifestyle and fatigue.
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