Birthday parties raise near one half million to 1.5 million
An Associated Press survey from 47 states and the District of Columbia reports vast public gatherings for President Roosevelt’s birthday, aiming for the Warm Springs foundation. Early tallies show hundreds of celebrations and totals approaching a million plus, with projections possibly exceeding 1.5 million.
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New York
District of Columbia
Associated Press
National Committee
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Philadelphia
Birmingham
Ala
New York City
Washington
New England
Texas
Garner
Kentucky
Soviet stratosphere balloon Oso aviakhim crew killed in crash
All three crew members died when the Soviet stratosphere balloon Oso aviakhim crashed near Potiskystroy, 155 miles southeast of Moscow. Witnesses heard two explosions as the gondola hit the ground. Bodies were found in the shattered gondola. one was mutilated beyond recognition. A special commission investigates and the victims are to be buried in Red Square.
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Stanley P. Richardson
Associated Press
Moscow
Osoaviakhim
Potiskystroy
All Union Congress
Communist Party
Foreign Office
Communist Congress
Red Square
Mordoffsky
Katoshkino
Moscow- Kazan
Roosevelt Receives Nationwide Greetings On 52nd Birthday
President Roosevelt, in the White House, greets 150000 telegraph messages and 100000 birthday cards as gifts pile up. Birthday balls are planned for Warm Springs foundation funds to aid infantile paralysis victims.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Oklahoma
Mr. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Henry L. Doherty
New York
Georgia
Bank Robbery Reported at Independence Kansas
Four masked men robbed Independence State Bank in Kansas this morning, taking between 196000 and 11000 dollars and escaping in a Ford V-8 sedan abandoned six miles northeast of town. Five bank employees were held hostage and released near Highway 75.
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Independence
Kans
Jan
Independence State Bank
Here
Roosevelt Birthday Gust of Cards From Nation
Washington roosevelt receives more than 76000 birthday cards and up to 106000 total including telegrams as he plans a private party with his 1920 campaign allies and staff. The White House mobilizes plans to thank the public by radio at 10 20 p.m. central standard time.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Tovis
Mac
Charles McCarthy
Albany
Thomas M. Lynch
New York
James Sullivan
Boston
Oklahoma Angles At Washington For Relief Talks
Oklahoma officials led by Frank Buttram arrived in Washington to press for resumed federal relief funds. Buttram plans talks with Harry Hopkins as Oklahoma faces potential grant cuts unless it bears a fair share burden. Carl Giles of the CWA and Aubrey Williams also joined discussions to avert worker reductions, with about 102000 employed in civil works.
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Washington
Frank Buttram
Oklahoma
National Emergency Council
Buttram
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Murray
Pat Malloy Okla. oil figure found dead in El Dorado hotel
Pat Malloy a long time oil industry leader and former assistant attorney general was found dead in his El Dorado hotel room. He died of coronary occlusion. He was 49 and based in Tulsa as head of Malloy & Company with oil interests across Oklahoma Arkansas and Kansas. His widow and three children survive. He had played a key role in El Dorado south field development and in several industry associations. Funeral services will be in Tulsa.
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Ark
UPI
Pat Malloy
Midcontinent
United States
Tulsa
Okla
Malloy & Company of
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Western Petroleum Refiners Association
Midcontinent Oil and Gas Association
American Petroleum Institute
Roosevelt
Eugene Constantin
Malloy
Constantin Refining Company
Malloy & Company
Constantin Company
el Dorado Field
Laura Reuter
Bartlesville
Henry Hudson
E. A. Demes+ules
Oklahoma Bar Association
American Bar Association
Ann Arbor
Mich
Allen Oil Field Worker Injured In Tractor Accident
Herbert Halsey, an Allen oil field worker, was rushed to Ada after a fall from a tractor and being run over by the machine. He suffered severe bruises and a back injury but officials say he will recover. The report notes Goering’s rise in Prussia as a hunter of communists and Jews.
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Herbert Halsey
Allen
Ada
Halsey
Sugg Clinic
Hermann Goering
Prussia
Oklahoma lawmaker introduces Pawhuska federal building bill
Representative Disney of Oklahoma introduced a bill to appropriate 25000 dollars for the construction of a federal building and post office at Pawhuska Oklahoma yesterday. The measure seeks funding to establish federal facilities in the Osage County town.
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Pawhuska
Okla
Disney
Change in county lines asked for Oklahoma City
A petition from more than 100 families in a 21 mile square area of Roger Mills County seeks division of the county to join Beckham County. The group cites better access to Beckham towns and notes Cheyenne lacking a good road. State Senator Ed Reed says Governor Murray can call a special election. the governor declined to comment.
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Oklahoma City
Roger Mills County
Murray
Beckham
Cheyenne
Roger Mills
Ed Reed
Elk City
Greenfield man recovers after needle migrates through body
Greenfield Indiana Ivory Duffenbaugh had a needle migrate into his lung and travel through several organs causing a swelling in the left arm. A surgeon removed the needle and he is reported to be feeling okay.
Franklin D Roosevelt Birthday Timeline Through the Years
The record lists key dates from 1882 to 1934 highlighting Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life milestones. From birth in Hyde Park to early education, legal studies, political roles, and evolving career as he neared the 1930s presidency.
Extension Open for Cotton Contract Writing in County
An extension to write cotton acreage reduction contracts is ordered by national cotton control administrators. J B Hill, county agent, directs field force to continue enrolling contracts and monitor any possible cease order. A change lowers the minimum production to 75 pounds per acre on a five year base, allowing more farmers with thinner land to participate in government payments for taking land out of cotton.
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National Cotton Control Program
J. B. Hill
Fourth District Endorses Moore for State Chair
Delegates at the fourth district democratic convention adopted a resolution endorsing B. Moore of Ardmore, the administration choice, for state chairman. Richard Elam of Wewoka was re elected district chairman with Florence Pigg of Shawnee named vice chairman and Helen Lucas of Holdenville as secretary.
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Okemah
Okla
A B. Moore
Ardmore
Richard Elam
Wewoka
Florence Pigg
Shawnee
Helen Lucas
Holdenville
Arnett Bound Over On Murder Charges
After a preliminary hearing in Ada the case of Arthur Arnett was bound over to district court on murder charges tied to the death of John Echols a farmer from near Franks Echols rode to Ada on a bus and returned in a car with Arnett R C Hilton and C Y P Alcorn The state says a blow from a spring leaf within the car caused a fatal blood clot about 3 AM the next morning
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Franks
Arthur Arnett
Pond
J. D. Willoughby
Echols
Ada
Arnett
R. C. Hilton
C. Y P. Alcorn
Arrett
Union Valley
Canadian Trains Halted by Storms
A severe eastern Canada blizzard crippled the Canadian National main line from Riviere Du Loup to Campbellton for over 24 hours marooning about 400 passengers. Two eastbound trains finally reached Campbellton last night while other routes via New Brunswick were rerouted. An army of railway workers labored to clear tracks and restore service.
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Montreal
Matapedia
Canadia
Canadian National Railways
Riviere du Loup
Que
Campbellton
N. S
New Brunswick
Roosevelt Ball a Major Ada Birthday Event for Warm Springs
President Roosevelt’s Ada visit drew a large crowd at Oak Hills country club. Funds from the ball, likely around 200 dollars, will support the Warm Springs Foundation. A floor show by the Dubie Lee Dean School of Dance highlighted the evening.
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Roosevelt
Ada
Oak Hills Country Club
T. G. Kelly
Warm Springs Foundation
Country Club
T. J. Chambless
Mickey McBride
Dubie Lee Dean
Marjorie Norris Hayner
Ada Trio
Wilma Bryant Neone Sloan
Maria Lois Graham
Dinah
Wesley Isaacs
Bufford Howard
Maxine Masterson
Wilma Bryant
Neone Sloan
Harden No 1 flows after acidization in John Fitts field
The A J Harden No 1 well was acidized to boost oil flow and opened Monday. It flowed at an estimated 200 barrels per day, becoming the second oil producer in the John Fitts field in south Pontotoc county. W A Delaney and associates near completion of the Dawes Harden well at 1260 feet for a gas ser, the field’s fourth, with production expected soon. Two burglars in New York stole a bottle of germs worth 10000.
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Hunton
A. J. Harden No. 1
John Fitts
Pontotoc County
W. A. Delaney
Delaney and Associates
Dawes Harden
Delaney
Fitts
Andrew Harden
Norris Farm
George Manahan
Boetcher Oil and Gas Company
Westheimer & Daube
Ardmore
Stonewall
Choctaw Oil and Gas Company
Jesse
Roosevelt Revises Gold Dollar Value
President Roosevelt announced a new gold dollar at 59.06 percent of its former weight. The coin will contain 155.21 grains of 9 10 fine gold and the Treasury will buy gold at 35 dollars per fine Troy ounce starting tomorrow.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Ada man dies in self-inflicted shooting attempt
Fenton Herron was treated at Ada hospital after a Tuesday night self-inflicted gunshot at a local cafe. He said the act was impulsive, born of months of disappointment in finding work, and the bullet from a .32 calibre entered from the front but caused a non dangerous wound.
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Fenton Herron
Ada Hospital
Herron
Wilcox Oil challenges commission on pre prorata reports
Oral arguments were heard by the supreme court on January 30 on Wilcox Oil and Gas company appeal seeking to bar the corporation commission from requiring reports on oil production before the new proration law. The suit contests the validity of the commission order arguing the old law was inoperative.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Wilcox Oil and Gas Company
Corporation Commission
Stonewall Block Formed Signals Oil Boom Near Ada
A Sunday article notes rising oil activity in Ada and the Bebee sector with new gas wells in section 28-4-6 and several oil ventures in sections 25-5-4 and 25-5-? It mentions Hercules Gas, Patsy Oil and Gas, Schooner Brothers, and Delaney rigs, plus a large East Ardmore block and upcoming drilling near Jesse.
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Schooner Brothers No. 1
Standridge
Braywell
Inman Faces Charges After Oklahoma City Plea
Elmer Inman, released Monday without bond after pleading not guilty in Oklahoma City to harboring Wilbur Underhill, slain desperado, is jailed in Pontotoc County. He faces second degree burglary in the December Mc Swain theatre safe robbery and was brought to Ada by Sheriff Clyde Kaiser. Sterling Jones, wanted on two forgery charges, is back in Sulphur jail after a recent escape. he faces ten charges and may be arraigned here soon.
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Elmer Inman
Oklahoma City
Wilbur Underhill
Desperado
Pontotoc County
Inman
McSwain Theatre
Ada
Clyde Kaiser
Sterling Jones
Sallisaw
Court Uses Uncollected Taxes to Compute 1932-33 Levy
Oklahoma City January 30 The state supreme court ruled that in setting the 1932-33 levy the net uncollected taxes for 1931-32 may be included but those for 1930-31 may not. The ruling reverses the Tax Reviews Court in Sinclair-Prairie Oil Co protest over a Pottawatomie county levy.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Court
Sinclair-Prairie Oil Company
Pottawatomie County
Local hunter nets seal in yard near Nova Scotia arena
Nimrod Truro Nova Scotia reports George Cavanaugh hunted a large seal in his marshy backyard near the sea. He says the animal was killed with a club and the pelt now hangs on the wall of the nearby hockey arena office.
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Truro
Nova Scotia
George Cavanaugh
Will Rogers Enjoys Garner Dinner With Roosevelt Aide Crowd
Will Rogers at a Washington dinner hosted by Cactus Jack Garner and his wife for Franklin D. Roosevelt and guests. Rogers joked about Republicans present and performed a monologue, while Lewis Douglas tried to balance a budget column amid a lighthearted, late-night reception on a glass roof in cold weather.
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Washington
Will Rogers
Cactus Jack
Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rogers
McNary
Oregon
Representative Snell
New York
Roosevelt
California
Dunninger
Lewis Douglas
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