Ada Industrial Variety Getting Show Case Display
In the lobby of the Aldridge hotel a display highlights Ada's recent settlers and local industries. Items include flour from Ada Milling, Royal Crown bottling, Pepsi Cola, Johnson's bakery, Kirby Shoe and Harness saddles, Pontotoc county pottery, South Builders and Supply doors, Peggy Payne neckties, and lacquered nuts on wood plaques. Old Ada residents recall the town’s growth and diverse industries.
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Aldridge
Ada
Leson
Surrounda
Royal Crown Bottling Company
Pepsi Cola
Johnson’s Bakery
Kirby Shoe and Harness Shop
Pontotoc County
South Buiders and Supply
Peggy Payne
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
Atla
Diversifie Industries
Okmulgee Veteran Flier Takes Bride
Major Harold Brecht a 91 mission veteran from New Guinea, heads home to Okmulgee Oklahoma with his bride Maxine Cox after a five day whirlwind courtship. The couple married at the Clarendon Baptist church in Virginia before Brecht reports to Miami Florida for reassignment.
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Washington
New Guinea
Harold Brecht
Okmulgee
Okla
Brecht
Maxine Cox
Harold
Kathleen Brecht
Secretary of War
Maxine
Clarendon Baptist Church
Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
Miami
Fla
Meat promises raise civilian share for 1944 year
Civilians under U S allied military needs may receive about 132 pounds of meat per person in 1944, six pounds above prewar averages. Officials dispute the figure as they assess final 1943 quarterly consumption and the year’s distribution from the war food administration.
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Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
U. S
War Food Administration
Department of Culture
Wartime Driving Cuts Exhaust Pi Lifespan
A wartime driving period drastically reduces the useful life of certain exhaust pi models from 15 000 miles to about 3 000 miles.
Allies Renew Raids On Nazi Territory
Allied heavy bombers mediums and fighters renewed daylight raids across the English Channel targeting central Germany while Mosquitos hit Berlin and western Germany at night. Berlin claimed heavy losses from four engine American bombers though no confirmation came from Washington. The Mosquitos reported no losses in last nights nine forays.
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Henry B. Jameson
London
English Channel
Europe
Berlin
Germany
United States
Ludwigshafen
Schweinfurt
Rayburn calls for unity in wartime speech
Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn, long known for his silence, delivers a brief yet impactful address on dangerous talk and national unity. He warns against disunity and self serving postwar thoughts, urging every patriot to unite under the flag to win the war.
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Howard Flieger
Washington
Sam Rayburn
House
Congress
Rayburn
Quiet House
Ano
Supreme Court Declines to Rehear Racial Labor Case
The Supreme Court refused to reconsider its December 6 decision that limited a group of Black porters at St. Paul union depot from choosing their own representative union. Justice Rutledge favored granting the petition for docket restoration and argument. The United Transport Service Employer warned that the ruling affects Black workers in intercity railway labor relations.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Rutledge
United Transport Service
Internce
Hopeess
United States Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
St. Paul (Minn
National Mediation Board
GOP To Nominate Candidates In Chicago Convention
The Republican national committee chose Chicago to host the June 26 convention for presidential and vice presidential nominees. The decision followed a bid competition with Fargo, North Dakota, and included a push for laws to aid absentee voting by armed forces.
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Jack Bell
Chicago
National Committee
William Stern
North Dakota
Fargo
N. D
Henry A. Wise
Virginia
Young Missourians stir voting age debate in Oklahoma
A Missouri delegation and a state editor argue lowering voting age to 18 would grant youths majority rights. The piece notes constitutional age for voting differs from adulthood and recalls that many 18 year olds can already contract and marry under state law. The author reflects on family plans as son Bob nears 18 and returns to military school.
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Missouri
Oklahoma
Bob
Bob, Jr
Russia Warns Poland on Territory and Borders
The Soviet government broadcast a declaration denying any yield of Ukrainian and White Russian lands gained in 1939. It backs a Curzon line based border and suggests Poland could join the Soviet bloc as a regional bulwark against Germany, while denouncing the Polish government-in-exile.
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Associated Press
London
Soviet Union
Poland
Germany
Baltic Sea
Moscow Radio
Red Army
Russia
Czecho-Slovakia
Moscow
United Nations
Food stamp validity notices and coupon details
The notice lists various USDA food coupons and stamps with their respective books, types, values, and expiration dates. It covers meats fats and processed foods, sugar, shoes, gasoline, B and C coupons, fuel oil, and period validity across regions with dates ranging from January 15 to March 13. It notes units and multiple coupon values per item.
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Associated Press
Middle West
South
Firemen Battle Dual Blazes in Knoxville
Knoxville firefighters answered a call at a residence and diverted to a second fire two doors away as two blazes burned simultaneously. Crews battled both fires with no further details provided.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Potete
Attorney General Biddle argues insurance firms fall under Sherman act
In a Washington session on January 11, Attorney General Biddle urged the Supreme Court that insurance companies are subject to federal anti trust prosecutions under the Sherman act. He said Congress aimed to reach all trusts and rejected states claims that federal regulation would cause chaos. The case centers on Justice Department anti trust actions against 196 southeastern stock fire entities.
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Washington
Biddle
Supreme Court
Congress
Justice Department
Company Aid Men Save Lives Right Up At the Front
TEMPLE Texas January 11 A medical unit report says company aid men saved more lives at the battlefront than doctors. Captain Jack O Akins a wounded medic commander from Salerno recounts shell fire and losses among his men while praising aid men and medics. The text notes evacuation by plane to interior hospitals marking a first in US army history.
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Temple
Texas
McCloskey General Hospital
Jack O. Akins
Tulsa
Bauxite
Ark
U. S. Army
Ak Ns
Africa
German Propaganda In Retreat From Once Strong Front
German propaganda once a powerful weapon is retreating on a broad front after Nazi forces face reverses. Dispatches from German papers note a more pro Allied tone in Portugal Sweden and Switzerland. The shift follows military setbacks including in the eastern front and the Scharnhorst loss.
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Wade Werner
Lisbon
Adolf Hitler
Europe
United Nations
Priser Zietung
Sweden
Switzerland
U. S
Dispatch
Scharnhorst
Berlin
R.A.F
Russia
Red Army
Turner Bull Sells For $38,000 To Set All-Time High Mark
The fifth annual Turner ranch sale in Bismarck North Dakota set an all time high for Hereford prices as T Royal Rupport 99th reserve champion bull at the National Hereford show in Dallas last year sold for 38000 dollars. The sale drew about 500 buyers and averaged 6796 dollars for twenty bulls with the day’s top price confirmed by R J Kinzer president of the American Hereford association.
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Turner
Roy J. Turner
T. Royal Rupport
Dallas
Ardmore
Nebraska
Kansas City
Turner’s
Charles Pettit
Flat Top Ranch
Walnut Springs
Texas
Gladacre Farm
Gladacre
R. J. Kinzer
American Hereford Association
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Royal Rupert K
John Wisdom
Des Moines
T Rupert Questor
Claude Heard
Beeville
Mr. Heard
W. W. Thorp
Britton
S. D
W. A. Delaney Jr
Capt
Arthur Ramsey
Oklahoma City
Long Island
Col
Arthur W. Thompson
Omaha
N B
Earl Gartin
Hereford
Idaho
Jim Sharp
Green Hill Farms
Tulsa
M. R. Deacon
Denver
Colo
Hereford Ranch
Claud Heard
R. T. Alexander
Ae Sharp
Raymond Adams
Maple Hill
Kas
Muncie
Ind
P. Stephens
Parsons
High Point Farms
Romeo
Mich
H. Ford
Duncan
Wea Springs
CAP Unit To Be Organized Here
Ada to host a meeting for forming Ada Flight One of the Seminole squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. War-time group offers male and female members ages 16 and 15 respectively with training under the Army Air Corps supervision.
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M. S. Bishop
Tex Fisher
Seminole
Ada
Civil Air Patrol
F. C. Norris
Aldridge Hot
Ada Flight One
Patrol
Air Corps of the Army
Luce's Daughter Dies In Accident
Anne Clare Brokau daughter of Clare Boothe Luce was killed in an automobile crash in Palo Alto California. She was 19 and lived with the Luces in Greenwich Connecticut. Mrs Luce editor of Time Life and Fortune magazines was near collapse from shock according to a Connecticut companion.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Anne Clare Brokau
Clare Boothe Luce
Miss Brokau
Grandmother Seeks Reunion Amid Quiet Year Progress
In Oklahoma City on January 11, a brief item notes Mary Witt, aged grandmother, has enjoyed a record year with no work this period. She hopes to catch up with relatives soon, amid a steady pace and plans for the month ahead.
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Oklahoma City
Witt
Mary
Disney Would Curb Federal Spending in Elk City Dinner
Rep Wesley E Disney proposed a federal spending curb modeled on Oklahoma's budget-balancing amendment at a Elk City dinner. He warned debt could reach 275 billion by war end and urged nationwide adoption of the amendment. He hinted at a Senate bid potential and praised his independent voting record.
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Elk City
Oklahoma
Wesley E. Disney
Adheaiy
Congress
Disney
Elmer Thomas
W. G. Smith
Senate
McGaffin to Speak at Oklahoma Press Meeting
Oklahoma City January 11 Associated Press war correspondent William McGaffin announced by Secretary Vernon Sanford as a speaker for the Oklahoma Press Association convention. The event begins January 20 with McGaffin’s talk scheduled for January 21 in the forenoon.
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Oklahoma City
Associated Press
William McGaffin
Cairo
Moscow
New Delhi
Vernon Sanford
Oklahoma Press Association
McGaffin
E. K. Gaylord
The
Oklahoman Times
Oklahoma
Waldo Stephens
Columbia University
James F. Pope
Louisville
John H. Casey
University of Oklahoma
Clyde N. Nemery
Better Business Bureau
Kansas Press Association
Colored ration token illustrations to be used in public info
Washington January 10 colored illustrations of the new ration tokens to be used starting February 27 may be employed in advertising or any material informing the public about rationing. The Office of Price Administration announced this exception to the otherwise black and white wartime token design.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
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Ada Industrial
Diversified
Texan
Neel Kearby
San Antonio
Frank Prist
Truman
GOP
Pole
Ukraine
Ada News
Tulsan
Air
Italy
Ft. Myer
Thomas E. Selfridge
Orville Right
Army
T. Royal
Patterson Land and Cattle Co
Wee
Bismark
Sheppard
Atlanta
W. Tharp
Wachenaue
Rush
Lawton
Idaho Hereford Ranch
CAP
Luce
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