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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1935
Page
5
Gov. E. W. Marland outlines a new Oklahoma program tied to the Roosevelt era, urging constitutional changes, private ownership protection, and public works to employ the able bodied. He cites hunger amid abundance, pledges relief, and calls for emergency taxes to fund relief and infrastructure.
The Tenth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that income from investments of wealthy Indians is subject to federal income tax. The case, Sandy Fox a Creek Indian, involves oil lands in Oklahoma under superintendent and Interior Department supervision. The government sought a $269 deficiency after taxing investment income from allotments deemed excess to tribal needs.
Rev J A Grimes announces actual construction on the new Fittstown Methodist church will start next Monday. Volunteers are asked to report Tuesday and Wednesday. The 30 by 40 foot boxed building will be three blocks east of Highway 48 and a half block north of Norris avenue.
Federal officers return Jim Clark and three others Frank Delmar Aubrey Ansell and Ennis Smiddy to Oklahoma City for trial. They are charged with robbing a Kingfisher bank using hostages to cover their escape. Smiddy was captured near Duncan in a Brantley Stanfield operation.
Oklahoma City report outlines Senator H M Curnutt plan to create nine districts abolish congressman at large. New map assigns Tulsa County to various districts and shifts Will Rogers and Josh Lee into different districts. Also notes Wichita Wheeler-Howard bill criticism and unrelated legal trouble in the county.
Two dangerous blazes were brought under control Sunday by the Ada fire department with little damage. At 5 p.m. flames threatened the Strand theatre from the alley, likely starting there. Around 7:30 p.m. firemen saved a bus on 6th Street and Mississippi Avenue belonging to L. A. Nance bus lines. A separate Nance bus was recently destroyed on a highway southeast of Ada.
Two members of a Coffeyville Negro church went to the federal relief office asking for donation plates. They said the church’s plates had disappeared during a social event and since then they had used the minister’s own plates.
Oklahoma Governor Marland asked the state legislature to enact a one year emergency recovery plan funded by higher taxes. Proposals include销售 tax rise to 3 percent, gasoline tax up to five cents, plus new levies on oil gas cigarettes incomes rents and inheritances to fund five new deal boards and relief for about 150,000 unemployed.
Joseph Bruner of Sapulpa Oklahoma leads the American Indian federation to Washington to press grievances against the Wheeler Howard act and Commissioner John Collier. Delegates from across the nation gather to plan a test of citizenship and address alleged mistreatment under the bill.
James H. Mathers attorney for George Kelly and Kathryn Urschel states federal court lacks jurisdiction over possession of the 16 cylinder Kelly automobile after a Denver appeals court ruling. Mathers asserts the car is his as an attorney fee and says Urschel must pursue state court action. Kelly bought the car in Cleveland for 6250 dollars and paid 4940 at purchase with 1310 later as ransom. Mathers currently holds the vehicle.
Mitt Brown was arrested after a rapid pursuit by City Policeman Babe Chaney and Frank Shipley when he boarded a northbound Frisco freight. They drove the distance to Francis in under ten minutes after learning Brown had boarded the train here. Also known as Craven or Linton Brown, he had passed a bogus five dollar check to Mrs. C E Britton and tried similar schemes at several locations.
Four inmates tunneled out of the state penitentiary at McAlester on the eve of Governor-elect Marland's inauguration. Three fled in a taxicab and one on foot, linked to the seven-man breakout from the tuberculosis ward on September 27, 1934.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on January 10 the long standing Dutch calendars forecast rain by peeling onion petals and salting them placing the petals on a windowsill. The amount of moisture detected in each petal is read as predicting month rainfall.
Seminole January 10 A collision near Seminole killed M. E. Haney 50 a Chism farmer. W. H. Hall 37 a Chism storekeeper suffered a fractured hand and possible internal injuries. W L Arthur in the Haney car was only slightly hurt.
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