Teachers to Attend Tulsa Meeting Prompt Early Dismissals
East Central state Teachers College will suspend Thursday classes at noon to allow faculty to join the Oklahoma Education Association sessions in Tulsa Thursday through Saturday. Ada city schools remain open, with district teachers attending department meetings and a reduced term schedule. Hinshaw travels to Tulsa for supervision meetings, while choir and all state chorus participate in events at the Coliseum.
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East Central State Teachers College
Oklahoma Education Association
Tulea
Ada
Tulsa
Th College
Hinshaw
Tulan
Department of Superintendence
Ata Hisca
Coliseum
J. W. Huff
Bertha Perry
East Central Alumni Association
Albin Hotel
East Central
East Central College
Alvin Hotel
F. EF. Harris
Okmulgee
C. L. Parker
Colleen
Troy Melton
A. Linncheid
Will Spear
Congress Tries 10 Speed Work In Senate
Washington February 1 congress seeks faster action on appropriations and relief measures as hearings pressure for economy rise. Senator LaFollette calls for day and night sessions with limits on debate to clear bills while others warn against rushing.
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Washington
Senate
LaFollette
Wis
House
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Hastings
R. del
House Coinage Committee
Veterans
Veterans Administration
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Couzens
Reconstruction Corporation
Joseph B. Eastman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma House Backs Favorable Highway Bill Report
Oklahoma City January 31 by a vote of 74 to 39 the house rejected the minority report on the senate highway bill aimed at removing Lew Wentz as highway commissioner and adopted the favorable majority report. The emergency clause faces a five vote shortfall if final roll call mirrors committee votes and Governor Murray warned the measure must pass or be killed.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Senate
Lew Wentz
Timmons
Tulsa County
Murray
Wentz
Nat Henderson
House Roads and Highways Committee
House
Strickland
Abernathy
Pott
Armstrong
Beaman
Beard
Billings
Boyer
Brazell
Chambers
Cline
Cloyd
Coe
Conner
Copeland
Eason
Eby
Tulsa
Ellis
Fraley
Graham
Grisso
Grunert
Hart
Holliman
Johnson
Osage
Kenan
Kirkpatrick
Lonsdon
Massey
Morse
O'Neill
Palmer
Roberts
Smalley
Pontotoc
Sutherland
Almark
Wilmot
Worthington
Wright
Nas
Oil production steady with regional shifts in Oklahoma
US crude oil output held near the prior week’s level at about 2.014 million barrels daily. Texas rose by 4,472 barrels while east Texas eased. California and Oklahoma fell, and Kansas rose slightly amid a field-by-field tally. Legislative fight in Oklahoma City over removing Lew Wentz from the highway commission dominated session with charges of coercion and party politics.
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Tulsa
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Texas
East Texas
California
Oklahoma
Kansas
Oklahoma City
Louis
State
West Texas
Texas Panhandle Gurf Coast
Southwest
State of
North
Louisiana
Arkansas
Ste
Rocky Mountain Area
Bill Would Bar Two Family Members on Oklahoma Payroll
Senate proposal by Senator Louis Kritzp hat Guthrie would forbid any state officer from employing relatives on the payroll. The bill excludes existing relatives and imposes a misdemeanor charge with up to $500 fine and up to six months in jail for violations.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Louis Kritzhaupt
Guthrie
Oklahoma
County Court Clears Several Docketed Cases This Week
The county court dismissed two more cases on motion by county attorney Truman Harrison this morning, reducing the docket. Eight cases remain for trial with many more postponed to later in the week as Judge C. V. Thompson pushes to clear old files.
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Truman Harrison
C. V. Thompson
Second Floor On Federal Job Sucks
Pouring of concrete slab for the second floor of the federal post office building at Twelfth and Rennie will begin Friday barring weather or unforeseen delays. Workmen have formed and reinforced with steel as others prepare sand rock and cement for the mixer. Columns will be poured first and set to firm the mass of steel and concrete.
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Federal Post Office
Twelfth and
Rennie
Oklahoma Appropriations In Senate Committee Action
Oklahoma Senate appropriations committee approved a 200000 hospital for the negro insane at Taft and 596000 state printing plant at the Meisteser penitentiary was rejected. They passed 600 salary and 700 expenses for a state dairy commissioner Hill. A 3700 time clock system at Langston was killed. The institutional bill for biennial hospital funding was set for this afternoon.
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Oklahoma
Taft
Okla
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Hill
Me Iester
Joe Whitaker
Eufaula
Supreme Court
Colored Agricultural and Normal University
Langston
Texas Man Dies After Courthouse Testimony
W James Gamble 56 a former Dallas policeman died from bullet wounds after leaving the Stephensville courthouse where he testified in a divorce case. Roscoe Cupp surrendered. Gamble had testified for Mrs Cupp seeking custody of her children.
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Stephenville
Tex
W. James Gamble
Dallas
Roscoe Cupp
Gamble
Cupp
Mrs T E Cullins Answers Summons
Mrs T E Cullins died this afternoon about 2 o'clock at the family home on the northeast outskirts of Ada after a long illness of influenza. Surviving are her husband five children T O R B and O R Cullins Mrs Leslie Maxey and Mrs Shelly Tracy. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from the Presbyterian church with Rev O B Lee officiating.
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T. BE. Cullins
Ada
Cullins
Tennessee
Miller Wins Suit Against Tone in Erie Court
Zack T Miller Oklahoma rancher and showman wins a civil suit against Tom Mix for 66000 in damages alleging a contract to appear with Miller's 101 Ranch show. Trial followed a prior 96000 award on appeal and lasted two weeks with 18 hours of juror deliberation. Mix allegedly agreed for 1929 pay then joined another circus.
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Erie. Pa
Zack T. Miller
Oklahoma
Tom Mix
Miller
Mix
Chicago
Mabel Ward Mix
Ruth
Selis-Floto Circus
Hog triggers rifle accident injures owner in Osage City
A hog in Osage City rubs against a loaded rifle leaning on a fence post and fires, injuring Will Regeneld who owned both gun and hog. The Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant at Henryetta resumes after seven months shutdown, with about 300 workers returning.
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Osage City
Kan
Will Regeneld
Henryetta
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
County Court to Reducing Docket Cleans Old Cases
County Court continued on a week’s docket aimed at clearing old cases charges and appeals. Judge Claude V. Thompson presided as many cases were dismissed on motion with some passed, and two or three set for trial later in the week. The judge expects citizens to perform unpaid jury duty as the court fund is exhausted.
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Claude V. Thompson
Truman Harrison
Thompson
Bankruptc y Bill Passes House as Senate Moves Ahead
The House approves the McKeown LaGuardia emergency bankruptcy reform bill 201 to 43 and sends it to the Senate where action is expected. Hoover and Roosevelt back the bill while amendments target court debt settlement and pending cases.
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Washington
Senate
House
Treasury Post Office
McKeown-LaGuardia
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Thacher
Proration Battle Over East Texas Oil Faces Court ruling
Houston reports describe a three judge federal court hearing on Texas state proration of production in the east Texas field. The case challenges production limits while activity grows in the Gvent and Conroe fields amid fires and a govern ment backing proration enforcement.
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Houston
Texas
Court House
East Texas
Gvent
Conroe
Gulf Coast
East
Texas Railroad Commission
Ernest O. Thompson
Bill limits hotel phone charges placed on calendar
Rep Beard of Tulsa county introduced a bill to curb hotel charges for in room calls. The measure targets a hotel practice of paying 24 cents per call to the telephone company while guests were billed 10 cents. The bill advanced despite an unfavorable committee report.
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Oklahoma City
Rep
Beard
Tulsa County
Oklahoma City agencies arrest six men and a woman in major counterfeiting ring
Six men and a woman were held as suspects in what deputies labeled the largest counterfeiting ring uncovered in Oklahoma in ten years. Four raids yesterday yielded large quantities of counterfeit bills and paraphernalia, with other suspects being sought.
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Oklahoma
Women Ordered Moved to Supply Hospital
Oklahoma City Feb 17 Governor Murray issued an order transferring two women inmates from the Enid Institute for Feeble Minded to the Western Oklahoma Hospital Supply. The note says they are beyond the age for a children’s institution and too large and rough for matrons to handle. A fragment mentions baseball holdouts rejecting offers and aiming for $25,009.
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Oklahoma City
Enid Institute
Western Oklahoma Hospital
Supply
Murray
Man Charged With Assault After Attack On City Officer
John Shipley faced charges of assault with a dangerous weapon after allegedly striking city policeman W. E. Heady in the face Saturday night as Heady tried to escort him home. Heady received first aid for a cut nose and swelling. Shipley pleaded not guilty at arraignment. bond set at 3500. a change of venue motion was filed by his attorney.
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John Shipley
W. E. Heady
Shipley
Heady
J. D. Willoughby
Willoughby
Blizzard Toll Rises as West Marooned, Rescues Continue
In a blizzard sweeping the Far West, 11 lives were lost with northern California, Nevada, and Idaho hit. Two California deaths were added and a wanderer died in Nevada as hundreds remain stranded in the San Bernardino mountains near Lake Arrowhead. Rescue efforts rely on cleared roads and snow plows. The Sierra Nevada snowpack grows near record depths.
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Gan Wrancisco
California
Nevada
Strugate
San Bernardino Mountains
Los Angeles
Lake Arrowhead
Highway Department
Idaho
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Railway
Oakdale
Cal
Steve Rablen
Sonora County
Charlies J. Herman
Portland
Ore
Redding
Guy Davis
Carlin
Banks Directed to Be Lenient in Oil Proration Case
Vera Sellers testified before the Oklahoma senate proration committee about an alleged oil dealing ring. She described a blind insurance office used to move hot oil payments with figures between Parker Walker Insurance and associates, including Cicero Murray, and noted money passing in front of the First National Bank.
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Oklahoma City
Canada
Oklahoma Senate
Vera Sellers
R. C. Walker
Cicero J. Murray
Chorce
Cicero Murray
Rutherford
Walker
Cicero
First National Bank
Ciccero
Senator Rutherford
Miss Sellers
FE. C. Duncan
G. A. Stephens
Beuiance
Sellers
Rtutherford
Joh Galbreath Jr
Mark Kleeden
Galbreath
Kleeden
R. A. McArthur
Duncan
Waltker
Oklahoma Senate Acts On Bonds and Countryside Edicts
In a brief session the Oklahoma Senate killed one bill and advanced three others before recess. Senator Claud Briega's measure allows county and city treasurers and boards of education to enforce obligations via bonds and warrants as sinking fund investments by suing. A Briggs bill to let nine counties cities and towns hire special counsel was postponed indefinitely. The body also approved abolishing the county court at Lexington and advanced a proposal to cut the salary of the Cleveland County assistant county superintendent.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Claud Briega
Wilburton
Boards of Education
Sover
Lexington
Cleveland County
Treasury faces hurdle in final disposal of new equipment
Cross notes the treasury department must resolve the final disposal of shiny new equipment, a problem affecting budget and asset management.
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Cross
Treasury Department
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