Ada Plans Large Addition to Aldridge Hotel in Ada
A. J. Nicholson of Houston announces a major addition to the Aldridge hotel costing 175000 to 200900 dollars. The six story wing will extend south from the present building, provide luxury suites, a ballroom and dining rooms, add air cooled ground floor, and aim to double capacity before fall.
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Ada
Aldridge
Nicholson
Houston
Texas
Guy C. Reed
Oklahoma City
Ada Cold Wave Drops to Near Zero After Mild Monday
Ada residents awoke to a brutal cold snap with temperatures around eight degrees above zero and winds making it feel like zero. Thermometers varied, ice patterns decorated windows, and brief snow flurries were reported as conditions eased to about 20 degrees by noon with a forecast for milder weather Wednesday.
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Ada
Oklahoma
Assassination of Nazi Leader in Davos Sends Shock Across Europe
In Davos, Wilhelm Gustloff, 40, head of Nazis in Switzerland, was shot by David Frankfurter, a 26 year old Jewish medical student from jerne. Frankfurter surrendered, saying he acted to avenge Jewish suffering and to strike at Hitlerism.
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Switzerland
Wilhelm Gustloff
David Frankfurter
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Frankfurter
Jerne
Gustloff
Franfurter
Hitler
Berne
Yugoslavia
Leipzig
Federal Council
Fire Damages Ada Ice Plant Warehouse
A fire of undetermined origin damaged a sheet iron warehouse attached to the Ada Ice company at 401 East Main Street. Merchandise and a truck were ruined as barrels of oil and potatoes burned. the brick ice machinery building had only minor smoke damage. Fire Chief Ed Haley noted damage estimates await a full inventory and suggested an electrical short in the truck as a possible ignition.
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Ada Ice Company
East Main Street
Ed Haley
Haley
Two Accused in Theft of Chicken
Jasper Golden posted a 1000 dollar appearance bond while Otis Blondell remained in custody on charges of larceny of domestic fowls after arraignment before Justice Sherwood W. Hill. They pled not guilty to removing one hen from a coop behind the Davidson grocery on West Main Street without the owner’s knowledge or payment.
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Jasper Golden
Otis Blondell
Sherwood W. Hill
Davidson
West Main Street
Pontotoc County Farmers Meet Over Farm Legislation
A call urged Pontotoc county farmers to attend a Saturday 1 30 p m meeting in the district court room to discuss proposed federal crop control legislation. Speakers will outline substitutes for the now defunct AAA and other proposals as business leaders are invited.
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Pontotoc County
Phil McLachlan
Southeastern Oklahoma Farmers Association
AAA
Congress
Roosevelt drafts farm tax plan amid credit cuts talks
President Roosevelt scheduled to draft farm tax measures to finance a half billion dollar program while canceling over one billion in authorized credits. Key advisers and officials from Morgenthau Wallace Cummings Reed join the session as debate over new taxes versus replacing AAA levies continues. Parliament debates inflation fears and mortgage refinancing plans amid White House reviews of direct spending cuts.
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Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
White House
Morgenthau
Wallace
Cummings
Stanley Reed
Burns
Capitol
Frazier- Lemke
Congress
Allen Youths Face Mail Robbery Charge
Two Allen youths aged 14 and 16 are jailed awaiting possible federal charges for a Sunday post office burglary in Allen. One boy confessed involvement. the theft yielded 10 cents in cash and 26 three cent stamps.
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Allen
Elmer Hodgers
Alvis Jones
Edgar Dyson
Hodges
Pontotoc
Governor Marland backs bill for state liquor monopoly in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Governor E W Marland endorses a proposed constitutional amendment creating a state liquor monopoly. The measure, filed by George A Shenshaw, would issue licenses, empower a temperance commission, and direct revenues to an old age pension fund. It requires about 96 000 signatures to trigger a vote, with potential for a special election before the 1956 primary and state control over liquor pricing and enforcement.
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Oklahoma City
E. W. Marland
George A. Henshaw
Olahoma City
Oklahoma
Marland
Temperance Commission
Prohibition
State Commission
Record Cold Grips Nation From Rockies to Atlantic
A massive arctic outbreak sends the mercury to 47 below zero in the northwest and 13 below in Chicago as heavy snow and blizzards close highways and disrupt rail and air travel from the Dakotas to New England. Snowbound Iowa towns face coal shortages while governors seek coal and mines labor fate.
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Missouri
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Florida
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Grand Forks
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S. D
Milwaukee
Iron Mountain
Mich
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Mico
Mundelein
Montana
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Utah
Nebraska
Norfolk
Kansas
Iowa
Marshalltown
Clyde L. Herring
Buffalo
N. Y
Roosevelt seeks repeal of three farm acts in surprise message
President Roosevelt asked Congress to promptly repeal the Bankhead cotton act Kerr Smith tobacco act and the potato act of 1933 as the agricultural adjustment program ends The AAA had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and Georgia Governor Eugene Talmad e challenged the Bankhead act in court The administration aims to replace the AAA with a new farm program.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
Eugene Talmade
Georgia
Waner Trophy to Lotus Harrison Ada to Honor Oilers Player
Lotus Harrison of the Konawa Oilers will receive the Waner baseball trophy in Ada Monday night despite donor Lloyd Waner’s absence due to pneumonia. Harrison hit .557 in the state sandlot season and drew praise for his home runs with the East Central college team. The exact time and place will be announced in Monday’s Ada News.
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Konawa Oilers
Ada
Lloyd
Pittsburgh Pirates
Harrison
Cy Blanton
Pirates
Hurler
Pepper Martin
St. Louis
East Central College
Ast Central Tiger
Sasakwa
Tne Ada News
Grand jury probes Tulsa man death near Claremore
A county grand jury in Claremore Oklahoma is investigating the death of William O Gaffney of Tulsa found dead on a highway last week. Officers say he was likely struck by a car. County attorney D M Battenfield would not reveal other matters before the panel.
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Claremore
Okla
William O. Gaffney
Tulsa
Here
Gaffney
D. M. Battenfield
Highway Deaths Fewer in State Than Last Year
Oklahoma City report shows 39 fatalities in the first 29 days of January 1936, down from 60 the same month last year. December 1935 had 64 deaths, with 98 injuries in January and 172 injured in traffic incidents that month, compared to 319 injuries in January 1935.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Highway Commission
Decision In Pension Case To Come Soon
The state supreme court heard final arguments on the initiated constitutional amendment for a $30 monthly old age pension. Justice Monroe Osborne signaled a rapid ruling, with the court prioritizing the public question. Sam W. Hays argued the September 24, 1935, special election validity, asserting gubernatorial overreach before the secretary of state ruled.
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Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
Monroe Osborne
Sam W. Hays
Associated Industries of Oklahoma
Secretary of State
Roff man in critical condition after 22 foot fall
Glen Castleberry 22, a rig builder for a local oil firm, remains in critical condition after a 22 foot fall from a derrick at Fitts field. He fractured his skull landing on his right shoulder and back of the head while at work and is hospitalized in Ada. He is unmarried with brothers Bill of Ada Grover in Roff and Lester of Wichita.
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Glen Castleberry
Castleberry
Ho 1
Roff
Bill Castleberry
Ada
Grover Castleberry
Lester Castleberry
Wichita
Kan
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Stolen Goods and Car Recovered During Ada County Trip
Undersheriff Claude Sturdivant and Deputy Elmer Hodges found an Ada stolen car and recovered fresh meat, lard, cream cans, wheels, and bridle near Fittstown. Two men were jailed for safekeeping as officers traced the cache to burglaries involving local meat thefts and a butcher knife linked to Horseshoe Road thefts. The abandoned vehicle was located north of the O C A A underpass on Highway 48 within Ada’s vicinity.
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Fittstown
Claude Sturdivant
Elmer Hodges
Ada
Sheriff's Office
With
Horseshoe
O.c.a.&a
Highway 48
South
Mississippi
A. J. Crain
East Thirteenth Street
Missing Student Found Safe in Ponca City
Pawhuska Oklahoma February 5 1 Max Devlin the missing university of Oklahoma student was located unharmed in Ponca City after a wide search. Sheriff Dick Connors said Devlin explained he went to Pawhuska late last night then drove a friend home in Ponca City and stayed there. Earlier his purses found on a highway sparked fears of kidnapping.
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Pawhuska
Max Devlin
Ponca City
Dick Connors
Devlin
University of Oklahoma
Convicted in Defrauding Case Leads Second Week Docket
A. R. Ragan was found guilty by a jury of defrauding a boarding house keeper, fined $60 and costs. Earl Hammond's case was dismissed after costs. W. W. Toler's water contamination case went to trial, while Jim Horton’s unlawful possession case had bond forfeited.
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A. R. Ragan
Earl Hammond
W. W. Toler
Jim Horton
Tulsa Street Cars End Service After Sale
Street cars in Tulsa stopped at midnight following the sale of United Service Co. to Union Transportation Co. Tulsa had operated street cars since 1907.
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Tulsa
United Service Co
Union Transportation Co
Bank Robbery Erases Cash From St. Charles Bank
Five armed men held up and bound five National Bank of St. Charles employees as doors unlocked by the janitor allowed entry. The bandits escaped with between 15 000 and 20 000 dollars in cash. Police pursue leads across the city.
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ST. Charles, Iil
National Bank of
Roosevelt scraps unused borrowing powers in major budget move
President Roosevelt and aides decided to cancel more than 1.9 billion dollars in unused borrowing powers including HOLC, farm credit, and Reconstruction Finance Corporation authorizations. Officials say the action does not tight en purse strings or end the emergency. The White House plan follows discussions on financing for bonus payments and tax measures, with a current deficit listed at 2.144 billion as of February 1.
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New Deal
Roosevelt
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Congress
White House
The
Washington Post
HOLC
Farm Credit Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Tax checks arrive in Ada and now issued at the tag office
Receipts show consumers tax checks received in Ada are being issued at the tag office. Local officials confirm distribution with taxpayers urged to bring identification and prior notices. The program aims to expedite refunds and update residents on the status of payments.
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Ada
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