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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
7
Multiple legal notices in Pontotoc County Oklahoma seek to quiet heirship and foreclose mortgages. Names include Joe B Powell Margeret Hisaw N C Hisaw and Liza Gipson estates with deadlines in February 1935. Notices request answers by February 28 1935 and foreclose on described real estate in Pontotoc County.
The Oklahoma State Bank of Ada is named with a long list of defendants and unknown heirs. The sale covers 60 acres in Pontotoc County Oklahoma described as southeast quarter of northeast quarter section 9 and other parcels in section 10 township 4 north range 5 east. The bid is 1389.51 with 8 percent interest and costs. The sale takes place at 2 p m in the Ada courthouse on the 71st day of July 1934.gd
Oklahoma City January 30 state workers face payless pay days through July 1 after a warning from Eugene P Gum secretary of the Oklahoma Bankers association. Warnings say warrants beyond No 50472 risk not being met with funds likely short. Attorney Gordon Stater cites constitutional limits and estimates warrants after this date could reach 4 million dollars. Abolishment of the ad valorem tax cited as main deficiency cause.
In Gloversville New York a poisoning dubbed creeping death claims John Payfar and14 other victims. The outbreak spreads through three central industrial cities with new hospital admissions and fresh arrests after a warehouse raid seized denatured alcohol. Frank Fanelli 22 and John Nole 33 are charged with intending to redistill denatured alcohol for beverage use.
An Associated Press survey shows Oklahoma rural and city districts exhausting funds, with many schools ending terms after six to eight months without state or federal aid. Counties like Pittsburg and Ottawa report multiple districts near or at closure, while Ada and Muskogee offer partial relief amid enrollment and space pressures. Federal aid talks continue as officials seek funds to extend school terms.
Police report that sixteen people have died and three more are dying after drinking poison liquor in Utica New York. Victims include Victor Peterson and Jack Callahan who faced manslaughter charges. authorities trace the liquor to illegal sale amid federal state and city probes. The deaths rise from wood alcohol contamination, with eight deaths reported yesterday and prior fatalities over the past week.
Dr L F Trawrick of Seminole headlined the Central District Dental Society gathering at the B and P W clubroom in Convention Hall. About thirty dentists from Prague Shawnee Seminole Norman and Durant attended while Dr Roy Gravill and Dr Walker of Norman spoke. A dental clinic and dinner are planned for February 22 with representatives from eleven counties.
G. L. Howard, working for E. H. Moore on the Smith lease in the Fitts oil field, suffered painful burns to the face neck hands shoulders and left side in a gasoline gas explosion early Sunday evening.
A I Thompson 71 long time chief engineer of the railway division for the state corporation commission died of a heart attack in Oklahoma City. He was found slumped in his chair at the commission office and died at 11 20 a.m. Surviving are his daughter Mrs Moody Tidwell Jr of Miami his wife a former State Junior Chamber of Commerce president four sisters and a niece. Known as Father Thompson he had served since 1910 with a six month break during establishment of the commission.
Julius Jude Berry about 25 was found dead in bed at a friend's home in Roff Monday afternoon. An inquest led by Sherwood Hill began, with five witnesses questioned as officials await stomach analysis from a state lab to determine cause of death.
Oklahoma City January 29 UP The Oklahoma house passed an administration bill adding a 3 cent per pack cigarette tax by 111 to 6 and adopted an emergency clause 102 to 15 amid opposition. The measure would expire June 30 1936 if enacted.
Officers Babe Chaney and Frank Shipley staged the raid confiscating whiskey and arresting Crimm who bonded out and is to appear in police court this morning. Crimm has been jailed several times on whiskey possession charges and is linked to a bootlegger firm distributing cards on the streets. Soon after the raid officers seized another half gallon of whiskey at the Roland rooms and made an additional arrest.
Oklahoma City January 29 Eugene P Gunn secretary of the Oklahoma Bankers Association warns bankers who accept state general fund warrants beyond the numbers 50472 do so at their own risk. He urges that warrants for fiscal years 1933 34 and 1934 35 not be cashed Gordon Stater attorney says state employees face a payless period until July as banks likely refuse to cash warrants.
City officers reported finding forty pints of whiskey hidden under a water tank at the residence of Lewis Crimm 826 East Sixteen Street late Monday night. Chief of Police Somer Jones led the investigation.
Washington reports that a conference committee was directed to accept a senate amendment to a deficiency appropriation bill restoring the last five per cent of the federal pay cut by April 1. The decision comes as part of ongoing budget adjustments in the federal compensation package.
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