Holiday Week End Violence Tops 750 Nationwide
Chicago dispatch notes Christmas holiday week end violent deaths exceeded 750 with 555 traffic fatalities. State tallies show California leading traffic deaths at 58 and Illinois 43, while Kentucky reports 11 other violent deaths. Oklahoma records 15 fatalities including head on crash near Stillwater and a Tulsa injury death from a wreck.
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Ada
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Bristow
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Britton
Pauls Valley
Ernest L. White
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Here
Labor College Head Seeks Federal Probe Over Cleric Sermon
Arkansas Commonwealth Labor College acting director Arthur Skreberg urged a U S Senate civil liberties inquiry into Rev L D Summers after the Baptist pastor warned from the pulpit the school teaches communism socialism and atheism and called for closing the college by legal means. Summers chairs a citizens committee and 914 residents signed a petition criticizing school claims of violence. The college enrolls about 50, many in overalls, and lies in the Ouachita mountains.
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Arthur Skreberg
Commonwealth Labor College
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L. D. Summers
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Citizens Petition
Arkansas
Menica
New Congress Faces Long, History-Making Agenda
The 75th Congress convenes January 5 with Roosevelt’s inauguration January 20. Major issues include court power limits, wage and hour laws, housing subsidies, relief budgets, neutrality, farm tenancy, and government reorganization. Majority leadership in the House pits Rayburn against O Connor. Senate leaders remain Robinson and Harison with McNary as Republican minority head.
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Texas
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New York
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Alabama
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O'Connor
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Arkansas
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Charlie McNary
Oregon
Vandenberg
Michigan
Gert Snell
Coughlinites
Waner Twins Lead NL Batting Titles For Pirates
Paul Waner earns his third National League batting title with a .373 average for Pittsburgh. In 148 games he had 585 at bats, 107 runs, 218 hits, 304 total bases, 53 doubles, 9 triples, 5 home runs, 7 stolen bases. Lloyd Waner finished 13th with a .321 average in 106 games, 414 at bats, 67 runs, 153 hits, 165 total bases, 13 doubles, 8 triples, 1 home run, 1 steal.
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VIA Will Make New Demands From Shawnee Meeting
Ira M. Finley president of the Veterans of Industry says a Shawnee district VIA convention demanded the legislature submit at a special election a new age pension law and three other measures. The proposed aged pension would drop the age from 65 to 60 and be financed by taxes on oil gas and other natural resources.
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Building Loans Pay Dividends in Oklahoma State
From every savings and loan association in the state thrifty shareholders will receive aid in paying Christmas bills by dividend checks which either already have been mailed or will be issued shortly. The program provides relief across Oklahoma with funds to assist families during the holiday season.
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Oklahoma Building and Loan League
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Savings and Loan Association
Farmer club originator Graham led rural youth movement
Washington dispatch profiles Albert B. Graham, a long time rural educator who helped found the first boys and girls agricultural club in the United States on January 15, 1902. He fostered farm life plus city conveniences through 4 H clubs and Future Farmers of America, now with millions of members.
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Clark Couny
Ohio
United States
Oklahoma’s Yellow Fever Martyr Dr Howard Cross
Died in 1923 while aiding a Johns Hopkins team amid a yellow fever outbreak in Mexico. The Weatherford native, former Southwestern Oklahoma Normal biology head, aided colleagues as his body became part of vital experiments.
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Wreckage of United airliner sighted near Saugus
A missing United Air Lines plane with twelve people aboard was spotted in the mountains north of Burbank near Saugus. Wings lay on a ridge and the fuselage spread into the valley below. Officials described an acute body extraction problem as a search continued with planes circling the site.
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Alameda
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Kidnappers Demand 28000 in Tacoma Ransom Note
Police report a masked intruder abducted Charles Mattson from Dr W W Mattson’s Tacoma home last night. The ransom note demanded 28000, with 10000 in old wrinkled bills, and noted investigators found fingerprints on the note.
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Five Years In Pen Sentence In Auto Theft
Ralph Harmon pleads guilty to automobile theft and receives a five year sentence in the state penitentiary. The case involved a car stolen from Joe Shivers of Ada, with arraignment before Justice A W Oliver and sentencing before District Judge Tal Crawford.
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Joe Shivers
Ada
A. W. Oliver
Harmon
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