Southern Governors End Up By Cheering Wallace and Rayburn
At a Washington gathering the southern governors and other lawmakers cheered for Wallace and Rayburn as a coalition aim arose for freight rate equality. The meeting with President Roosevelt was reported as very agreeable, with a pledge of regional action in the freight issue and no call for a Roosevelt fourth term. Governors Cooper Arnall and others from North Carolina South Carolina Arkansas Alabama Florida Oklahoma Texas Louisiana and more attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shington
Wayne Speaker
Rayburn
Wallace
Roosevelt
South and West
Prentice Cooper
Tennessee
Southern Governors Conference
Experiments Reveal Ways To Save Milk
Department of Agriculture stations test methods to stretch milk supplies for shortage areas. Pennsylvania seals dried milk with nitrogen to prevent spoilage. Wisconsin trials a low water evaporating milk removing only 25 percent of water, keeping twice as long and usable in shortage zones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Stevick
NEA
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Pennnsylvania
Wisconsin
War Food Administration
U S Eighth Air Forces Hero Howard Faces Fierce Air Battle
Maj Howard earned hero status as the U S Eighth Air Forces Command credited him with two Nazi planes destroyed two probables and one damaged though bomber crews say he shot down six. He engaged a lone MB-109 for five minutes in a deadly dogfight protecting bombers with three of his four 50 caliber guns spent and a single bullet hole on his plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flying Tigers
Burma
China
Howard
Chiang Kai- Shek
Britain
France
Germany
U. S
Eighth Air Forces Command
Maj
Beer-Dance Law Ruled Legal by Oklahoma Judge
District Judge Albert C. Hunt upheld the constitutionality of Oklahoma's beer-dance law ruling it falls within state police power. He denied injunctions in five suits by beer dealers challenging license revocation and noted appeal to the state supreme court. If carried to the high courts the law's validity would be reviewed. A criminal case remains before the criminal court of appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Albert C. Hunt
Hunt
Supreme Court
Oklahoma County
State Tax Commission
Criminal Court of Appeals
Bradley Receives Senior Command Post in U S Ground Forces
Lt General Omar N Bradley named senior American ground forces commander in the United Kingdom and potential western invasion commander. The Missouri native, 50, succeeds Patton and is praised for Tunisian Sicilian campaigns, with West Point origin and a noted endurance record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Omar N. Bradley
United Kingdom
U. S
Tunisia
Sicily
Bradley
George S. Patton Jr
U. S. Second Army Corps
Hal Boyle
Missouri
Bizerte
Military Policeman and Private Citizen Share Arrest Rights
Oklahoma City January 18. Attorney General Randell S. Cobb says a military policeman and a private citizen have identical rights to arrest a civilian. Col. E W Taulbee asked if MP instructions conflict with state law. Sam Lattimore replies a private citizen witnessing a crime may arrest under the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. P
Oklahoma City
Randell S. Cobb
Cobb
E. W. Taulbee
Oklahoma
Sam Lattimore
Taulbee
Basement fire damages Nation Bank building in Tulsa
A basement locker room fire in the Nation Bank of Tulsa building sent smoke to the seventh floor. Assistant Fire Chief W L Thornton said the blaze started in a sack of trash likely from a cigarette butt. Damage was estimated at 600 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
Bank of Tulsa
W. L. Thornton
Governors In Rate Demands For Southern Rate Equality
Southern governors led by Tennessee's Prentice Cooper and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr joined influential lawmakers to demand freight rate parity with the industrial east. The push, aimed at the Interstate Commerce Commission, seeks a new economic era and lower southern freight costs to spur regional factories and growth. A White House lunch with Roosevelt was planned as part of the effort, with wives dining separately. Joining Cooper were Florida's Holland, Georgia's Arnall, Alabama's Sparks, Arkansas's Adkins, North Carolina's Broughton, South Carolina's Johnston, and Kerr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. Ellis Arnail
Georgia
Roosevelt
Wallace
Sam Rayburn
Tex
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Rayburn
Congress
Cooper
Arnall
Broughton
North Carolina
Johnston
South Carolina
Adkins
Arkansas
Sparks
Alabama
Holland
Florida
Kerr
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Texas
Washington
Robert S. Kerr
South
Prentice Cooper
Tennessee
Southern Governors Conference
OCC
White House
Frank C. Walker
Democratic National Committee
General's Daughter Serves as WAC Private at Fort Riley
A general's daughter, Pvt. Priscilla Reams, serves as a WAC private at Fort Riley cavalry replacement training center. She is the daughter of Brig. Gen. Donald A. Robinson and wife of Capt. Edward K. Reams, who has spent two years in the Southwest Pacific. She trained in Des Moines after basic training and previously taught ballroom dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Riley
WAC
Priscilla Reams
Donald A. Robinson
C.R.T.C
Edward K. "Reams
Southwest Pacific
Fort Riley TC
Eisenhower In Kansas Visit
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower enjoyed a brief Kansas reunion during a layover on his trip home from Europe. He stayed at his brother M S Eisenhower's home in Manhattan meeting his mother Mrs David Eisenhower and later departed for Washington with his brother. The visit remained secret until war department confirmation. Ties to Kansas City and other officials are noted in passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kas
United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas
Marshall Field
Fort Riley
M. S. Eisenhower
Kansas State College
David Eisenhower
Abilene
Europe
Washington
Eisenhower
War Department
Kansas City
A. B. Eisenhower
Commerce Trust Company
Stanfield Delivers Men to Texarkana
Deputy U S marshal Allen Stanfield delivered three prisoners to the Federal Penal and Correction Institute in Texarkana Arkansas Friday. Ed Long former sheriff of Marshall county John Glenn former constable in that county and Jack Young a Madill restaurant operator will serve terms on conspiracy charges. Long and Young get two years each Glenn one year. Sentences run concurrently. The men were found guilty in federal court in Ada last March and appealed before conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Stanfield
U.S
Texarkana
Ark
Federal Penal and Correction Institute
Ed Long
Marshall County
John Glenn
That
Jack Young
Madill
Long
Ada
Three Appointed To Advisory Staff
Three men who have worked with the state department and the White House were named by Secretary Hull as vice chairmen on the new advisory council on postwar foreign policy. The appointees include Myron C. Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
White House
Hull
Advisory Council
Myron C. Taylor
Seven Oklahomans Wounded in Action In War Department List
The War Department added seven Oklahoma soldiers to the wounded in action list today. Pvt. Daniel C. Manley of Ninnekah Grady County was wounded in the Southwest Pacific. Other names include Tech 5 William E. Bulen of Grandfield, Staff Sgt. Jack M. Gibbs of Norman Pfe, Alfred McVey of Forker listed by next friend Charles H. Godding, Tech 4 Lawrence F. Russell of Muskogee, and Pvt. James E. Sangter of Earlsboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oklahoma
War Department
United States
Daniel C. Manley
Susie Manley
Ninnekah
Grady County
Southwest Pacific
Tech
William E. Bulen
Luna M. Bulen
Grandfield
Jack M. Gibbs
Frances Gibbs
Norman
Pfe
Alfred McVey
Charles H. Godding
Foraker
Lawrence F. Russell
Minerva Myers
Muskogee
James E. Sangter
Joe B. Sangter
Earlsboro
GRDA Plans Appeal Over Wyandotte Dam Flood Damage
GRDA prepared to appeal a state supreme court ruling that awarded $902 to Wyandotte Board of Education after flood waters from Grand River Lake rose above 750 feet and damaged a school basement. GRDA argues it followed Army orders allowing lake levels to reach about 752 feet.
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Oklahoma City
Grand River Dam
Army
Thompson Heads County Bar Group
Claude Thompson was elected president of the Pontotoc County Bar association in a Monday morning meeting at the county courthouse. Elected with him for 1944 were W. W. Stanfield as vice president and Miss Fred Andrews as secretary, with retiring officers C. L. McArthur Warren Rice and Vernon Roberts. Albert Trice spoke briefly as president of the state bar association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Thompson
Pontotoc
Bombs Land Near Oil Well Near Centrahoma
L. B. Young reports four bombs exploded near an oil test well four miles east and one mile south of Centrahoma. He was at the power plant at 8 a.m. when the blasts tore four holes in the ground. he believes the devices were practice bombs dropped from an airplane. No injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Young
North Broadway
Centrahoma
Mr. Young
Amarada Company
Sen Elmer Thomas Opposes National Service Measure
Oklahoma Senator Elmer Thomas criticizes a national service law as unnecessary citing labor surplus and rising unemployment. He notes Tulsa and Muskogee reclassifications, supports a soldiers vote bill, and predicts Democratic strength in Oklahoma while avoiding comment on the presidential race. He plans to campaign for re election on return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Muskogee
War Manpower Commission
Thomas
Congress
Roosevelt
Sen. Thomas
Quake Wrecks City in Andes
A survivor described the Juan Juan earthquake as a sudden, brutal blow that plunged the 30,000 population into darkness. Troops and rescue workers combed the ruins as Argentina mobilized aid after its worst quake in 83 years, with dead estimated from 1,400 to 1,600 and 90 percent of San Juan buildings destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Juan Juan
Moises Rudman
Mendoza
Argentina
San Juan
Latin America
Ramon S.castillo
Ardmore flier killed by errant bullet during training
Staff Sgt. Elmo A. Hagen a radio operator from Ardmore Oklahoma was accidentally killed when struck by a stray bullet from another plane during a Gulf of Mexico combat training mission announced by the Galveston army air field. His mother Mrs. Claudine Hagen resides in St. Paul Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
Galveston
Elmo A. Hagen
Onn
Okla
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston Army Air Field
Claudine Hagen
St. Paul
Minn
Greater returns for amount in vested
An Ada News classified notices section highlights strategies to maximize value on vested amounts. Readers are advised on investment options, risk considerations, and potential returns in relation to annuities and savings plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada News
Governor Kerr Urges Oklahoma War Bond Drive
Governor Robert Kerr and State Chairman A. E. Branshaw in Tulsa promote the Fourth War Loan with a Jan 18 opening date proclamation. Kerr cites Carole Lombard’s death and notes weather and farmers’ cash limits as hurdles, but stresses unity and resolve to buy bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Kerr
War Finance Committee
A. E. Branshaw
Tulsa
Kerr
Oklahoma
A. E. Bradshaw
Meats and foods stamps and coupons dates listed
Book Three brown stamps and Book Four green stamps with expiry dates January and February for meats fats processed foods and sugar. Shoes and airplane stamps indefinite. Gasoline and fuel oil coupons with varied valid through dates. Europe Not Starving Eisenhower discusses cereal rehabilitation and future overseas markets for U.S. agricultural products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
Middle West
Relief handling in North Africa helped win Tunisia battle
President Milton S. Eisenhower said that sensible relief and rehabilitation aided Allied success in Tunisia. He noted supplies from the United States and Great Britain supported military, economic, and psychological aims, and urged that rehabilitation be seen as part of the war, not a postwar task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Jan
North Africa
Tunisia
Milton S. Eisenhower
Kansas State College
Europe
United States
Great Britain
Eisenhower
Kansas Board of Agriculture
Office of War Information
North
Africa
Mediterranean
Sicily
Italy
Two Adans Study Poultry Diseases
Ralph Mitchell and Neal Lundgaard of the Ada Milling company studied poultry diseases in Charles City Iowa under Dr Salsbury. Sponsored by Ada Milling the trip aims to improve poultry service work and reduce losses to boost war food supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Mitchell
Neal Lundgaard
Ada Milling Company
Ada
Charles City
Iowa
Dr. Salsbury
School of Poultry Diseases
Mitchell
Lundgaard
Poultry Disease School
Ohio State University
Ek Heads Hotel Men
Two hundred members of the Oklahoma Hotel Association elected W. E. Ek of Oklahoma City as president at the annual convention. He succeeds Martin Garber of Enid. Hollis W. Hodges of Tulsa was named vice president and J. B. Morris secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
The
Oklahoma Hotel] Association
W. E. Ek
Martin Garber
Enid
Hollis W. Hodges
Tulsa
J. B. Morris
State GOP to set meeting dates at Oklahoma City rally
Oklahoma Republicans will fix precinct county and state meeting dates at a February 12 session in Oklahoma City before the Lincoln Day banquet, announced state Chairman C. R. Nixon. The report notes a focus on war bonds as a key issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
State Central Committee
Oklahoma City
C. R. Nixon
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Omaha
WACS
Joe Cathey
Shirley
Mass
Camp Devens
45Th Division
Cathey
Oklahoma National Guard
Field Artillery
Het
Vatican City
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
Isaiah Bowman
Charles P. Taft
Taft
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry C. Hawkins
Reed City
Mich
Hawkins
Stanfield
GRDA
Thompson Heads County Bar Group
McArthur
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Ada Milling Co
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