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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1937
Page
4
Dorothy Thompson revises her peace advocacy after studying wartime indoctrination across nations. She argues defense readiness is wiser than America remaining neutral and warns against dictators provoking conflict. Ellis and Julius Hauptmann justice and fascist press control follow.
A column mix of social humor on a psychologist noting how wives influence men, a sketch on early transportation with planes, France’s postwar finances, and Oklahoma topics. It mentions the Oklahoma City state fair opening September 25 with dairy and hog premium boosts, grasshopper outbreaks and military help, political forecasts around Bill Murray, and the push for six terracers in Pontotoc county to curb erosion.
Manhattan miscellany notes Irving Berlin piano by ear with a sliding keyboard and an assistant orchestrating. Al fresco operas at Jones Beach rely on good weather with half hour weather broadcasts from Newark Airport. A club jo ined sign reading Gone Fishing Back September 15. A locksmith advertises Not Feeling So Good.
Representative R P Hill of Oklahoma City urged Senators Elmer Thomas and Josh Lee to back Chief Justice Monroe Osborne of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court for a federal judgeship in the eastern district. Hill said Osborne would consider the appointment if offered, though not actively seeking the post.
Vernon Lee Cox and Walter S Hill were arrested in Ada after being stopped driving a car reported stolen in Shawnee. Officers found a .38 pistol in the lunch room and connected them to the Byars night watchman murder. Investigators traced the license 412-655 to Shawnee thefts and questioned the men as a Byars Hardware Store suspect.
J. H. Chambers of near Clarita in Coal county pleaded not guilty when arraigned before U. S. commissioner W. C. Edwards on a federal charge of possession of four and a half gallons of moonshine whiskey. Bond set at $2,000. Chambers held in county jail. Allen Stanfield, U. S. deputy marshal, arrested him.
Ira M. Finley president of the Veterans of Industry demanded a Washington investigation into Crayton Key an Okmulgee district WPA administrator accused of building a political machine. Ron Stephens WPA director said no action. 600 VA members alleged discrimination against the VLA in district rolls during a Sunday Okmulgee meeting.
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