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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
8
Australian and British forces breached Tobruk defenses and entered the town as Italian defenders held out in the western sector. Allied air and sea bombardment supported the advance with multiple reports of prisoners and damaged fortifications.
RAF bomber command attacked Italian military buildings and railway lines at Elbasani in central Albania. British planes returned safely after facing anti aircraft fire and enemy fighters while Greek reports spoke of new gains in Tepeleni and on the northern front amid improving weather conditions.
The former associate justice, aged seventy, announced retirement after years of service and reluctance under friends urging continuation. He will keep his Elkton home, may visit a Pacific coast brother, and foresees limited travel due to world conditions. Roosevelt replied with best wishes for health and happiness.
Oklahoma City barber Paul Ferree notes that while women's styles shift frequently, men's haircuts have remained largely steady. He recalls the 1925 and 1941 cuts being similar and says most young men favor sideburns with a neat border over the ears, with occasional freak styles.
NUMBER SEVEN states a joint meeting of four states will be in Wichita Kansas January 28 29 and 30. An entertainment chair wrote Chicago for a speaker lead and Chicago headquarters suggested Dr Linscheid for the job with a January 9 date. The piece says groups should skip the middle man as neither Chicago nor others know a better speaker than Dr Linscheid.
M. Z. Thompson, East Central faculty member and State textbook commission member, was named defendant in a district court suit filed Wednesday seeking 15750 dollars. Plaintiff Howard Newcomb, formerly of Ada and now in South America, says the March 1939 automobile collision seriously impaired his health.
The Fourth District convention of the American Legion Auxiliary met at the First Christian church in Ada with strong turnout. Officers and guests from multiple units were introduced and reports from district president, treasurer, and unit leaders highlighted hospital visits, community service, poppy sales, and membership gains. A traveling Community Service trophy was awarded to the Ada Unit for its top district effort.
Moffett, an eastern Oklahoma border town, asked the Work Projects Administration for help in building a city hall with offices a courtroom jailer quarters and two small cells. The project, submitted to state WPA offices, contemplates an expenditure of funds for the new government building.
Missouri's government frays as Democrat led legislature blocks Republican Forrest Donnell's governorship over a 3613 vote margin. Gov Lloyd Stark blocks funding for the investigation and withholds state money, leaving agencies broke and staff unpaid in a fiscal crisis. Attorney General calls the veto unconstitutional but Stark controls the purse strings until funding is restored.
Okemah revives after Fort Smith & Western closure as Okfuskee county opens new oil field. Hotels court workers with 20acre spacing and testing terms. Six wells drill, housing shortage grows, and a local supply house may open. Improvements spread to homes and businesses amid the boom.
The house appropriations committee backed an emergency $313.5 million plan to build 200 cargo ships to counter wartime shipping shortages. Roosevelt called the need urgent. The program includes $500,000 from the president’s fund and a $36.5 million contract authorization. Admiral Emory S. Land testified the first ships would be ready in 11 months and the full program in 24 months.
In Bucharest on January 22 193? chaos pushed Ion Antonescu to place the army in charge of police and seize 87 key industries. A 10 pm curfew was ordered as Iron Guard clashes with the army draw Nazi aid. Antonescu warned of the death penalty for crimes against German troops. Sima left for Berlin to confer with Nazi leaders as talk of a military dictatorship spread.
Senator McNary of Oregon said he would aid the bill only if it is modified from its present form calling it concentrated power in one person. He spoke as the house foreign affairs committee received Norman Thomas statement opposing the bill. McNary supported aid to Britain short of war but condemned the bill as not democratic.
Washington informs that the first class of the revived advanced course for field artillery officers at Fort Sill Oklahoma will finish around February 5. The second class starts the same week as the 12 week program continues through June 1942 with about 30 officers each cycle.
Nowata officials warn a February 1 blackout of street lights unless funds are found to cover the near exhausted lighting fund. A transfer of other funds could occur by May or June, with possible arrangements to keep lights on via the Public Service Co.
Warden Jess Dunn of Mc Alester penitentiary bans all prison orchestra trips after an internal investigation into mis conduct by convicts on a Pawhuska trip. Walter Johnson and Governor Phillips were briefed. three guards have been discharged after reports of intoxicated players and undue liberties at a Christmas dance.
Holdenville asserts it has a three year water supply even without rain. Lake Holdenville covers 550 acres at about 20 feet deep with a capacity of 3.5 billion gallons. City use runs around 400000 gallons daily, or about 150 million gallons yearly. Evaporation loses roughly four times the city’s use.
France Paris of Oklahoma, Democratic chairman, is recovering in Washington after three days confinement to his hotel due to illness. Physicians attributed his condition to a reaction from an anti tetanus serum given following a recent automobile accident in Oklahoma.
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