Plans for East Central short term session announced
Five teachers will run the August short term at East Central Teachers College from July 19 to August 9. Dr. A Linscheid, president, announced the session with Luther G. Edge directing. Short term options include biology English history math and education psychology. About 85 students attended last year and similar enrollment is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Central Teachers College
A. Linscheid
Luther G. Edge
State Department of Education
Edge
East Central
W. D. Toler
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Stillwater
Geneva George
Miss George
A. C. Kidd
Wewoka
Louise Hornbeak
Europe
Henry Diebel
Carl Albert
McAlester
Federal Housing Administration
Albert
Oxford University
England
Oklahoma City
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
Epworth
Panhandle
Enid
Texas Teachers Association
Tulsa
Skelly Stadium
Auto deaths in nation across six months in 1935
Travelers Insurance reports 15,200 deaths and 300,000 injuries from automobile crashes in the first six months of 1935, about two percent below the same period last year. Complete state figures are pending. if the trend continues, annual casualties could total 35,600.
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Hartford
Conn
United States
Travelers Insurance Company
No Confessor Says Edwards Frustrated at Office
U S Commissioner W C Edwards faced three followers within half an hour of entering his federal office. He was reportedly irked by their persistent questioning and requests. The incident occurred Monday in the federal building as Edwards handled routine matters.
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Caller No
Edwards
Durant
U. S
W. C. Edwards
Federal Building
Senate Panel Receives Revised Bank Bill from Glass Group
The Glass sub-committee reports a majorly revised administration banking bill to the Senate banking committee. A seven member Open Market Committee would run credit with five Reserve bank reps, while board terms extend 14 years. Treasury secretary and comptroller of the currency would be removed from the board after 90 days.
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Washington
House
Federal Reserve Board
Administration
Senate Banking Committee
Glass
Reserve
Reserve Bank
Reserve Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
J. ¥. T. O Connor
Oklahoma Mills Join Tax Fight
Oklahoma milling firms including Leger Milling Co Altus Acme Flour Mill Inc Oklahoma City branch and Chickasha Milling Co filed for federal court injunctions to block the AAA processing tax. The tally rises to six actions in federal court with three already granted against internal revenue collector H C Jones. Judge Edgar S Vaught set hearings for permanent orders next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Milling Companies
AAA
Leger Milling Co
Altus
Acme Flour Mil, Inc
Chickasha Milling Co
H. C. Jones
Internal Revenue
Oklahoma
Jones
Edgar S. Vaught
Oklahoma City Mill & Elevator Co
el Reno Mill & Elevator Co
Perry Milling Co
Italy Refuses British Gift in Italo-Ethiopian Talks
London reports Capt. Anthony Eden told Parliament Mussolini rejected a British plan to cede a strip of British Somaliland to Ethiopia to aid a settlement with Italy. Eden said the move aimed to ease access to the sea and potential concessions, but Mussolini declined the proposal.
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Associated Press
London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Mussolini
Italy
Great Britain
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Rome
Paris
Eden
Il Duce
British Somaliland
Pierre Laval
France
Africa
League
Europe
Laval
Great’ Britain
Mexicans May Let Political Exiles Return
President Lazaro Cardenas and his new cabinet discussed plans to permit political exiles to return, possibly revise the constitution to make socialist education compulsory, and relax anti church policies while allowing private schools to reopen under government outlined curricula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Cardenas
Department of Military Justice
United States
Monsignor
Leopoldo Ruiz Y Flores
San Antonio
Tex
Adolfo D. Yaguerta
Los Angeles
Jose Vasconcelos
Gilberto Valenzuela
Plutarco Elias Calles
Bandits flee as posse encircles Arkansas town bank raid
A small band of men tried to raid Citizens Bank in Arkans as a 50 member+ posse hunted them. They fled by car leaving shotguns nitro and a notebook with bank diagrams. Sheriff Troy Carroll and multiple agencies led the search. two local stores and a nine mile distant shop were diagrammed.
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England
Ark
Citizens Bank
Plymouth
Troy Carroll
Lonoke County
Little Rock
North Little Rock
Jefferson
Lincoln County
Bank
Ben High
High
George Cope
Charley Barker
Bank of England
W. P. Willbanks
Arkansas sales tax rebels firm pledge to resist levy
Little Rock July 1 Merchants reopen with prices set to avoid the two per cent tax. Revenue Commissioner Wiseman warns collection by July 15 or penalties apply. Harley Stump Stuttgart leader says no signed merchant will back down. Stump claims 59 of 60 DeWitt merchants and most Stuttgart merchants signed.
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Little Rock
Earl Wiseman
Harley Stump
Stuttgart
Wolcn
Stump
DeWitt
Roosevelt vetoes bill on Taylor heirs claim in lands dispute
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill allowing the Court of Claims to decide a $389,706 claim by the Oklahoma heirs of James Taylor a Cherokee Indian. He objected to a provision permitting attorneys fees in addition to the award saying it would make the United States pay fees for both sides.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Court of Claims
Oklahoma
James Taylor
Cherokee County
North Carolina
Taylor
North Caroline
Rogers
D-Okla
Congress
United States
Oklahoma City Attorney General to Address Pryor Fourth
Oklahoma City attorney general Mace Q. Williamson will speak at Pryor’s Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the American Legion post of Pryor and Salina. The event highlights community unity and patriotic activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Mace Q. Williamson
Pryor
American Legion Post
That City
Salina
Greatest returns for the amount invested
An ad highlights solid returns from prudent investing, urging readers to compare value, efficiency, and potential profits. It promotes a slogan of smart spending and reliable growth, inviting inquiries and promising quick results.
Relief projects funding approved by CP president
The CP announced approval of 161 million for work relief. Of this 91 million goes to the rural resettlement administration and 69.985 million to low cost housing and slum clearance under Secretary Ickes. The Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine gets 110 thousand for forest insect control by the CCC.
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Washington
Rural Resettlement Administration
Ickes
Public Works Administrator
Bureau of Entomology and
Agriculture Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
U S Opens 10000 Jobs in Oklahoma Expansion
Uncle Sam offers more than 10,000 jobs in Oklahoma as expansion enlistment begins in army and Civilian Conservation Corps. The army offers 2,200 posts for men at Fort Sill and enlistment stations in Oklahoma City Tulsa Muskogee and Wichita Falls. CCC aims to reach 13,500 members and remove 80,000 dependents from relief rolls. Selection will come through county relief offices.
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Oklahoma City
Uncle Sam
Oklahoma
Army
Civilian Conservation Corps
Fort Sill
CCC
R. W. Jacobs
Pontotoc County Names New Excise Board Members
Pontotoc County selects J. H. Collins Ada Will Pegg Allen and S C Boswell Ada to serve on the new county excise board. Collins appointment came from the state tax commission followed by Will Pegg chosen by the county board and S C Boswell named by District Judge Tal Crawford. The board will review budgets for 1935 36 and set levies as the valuation assessments were already completed by the outgoing board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc County
J. H. Collins
Ada
P. B. Wilson Lumber Company
Will Pegg
Allen
S. C. Boswell
Cherokee Cotton Oil Company
Collins
State Tax Commission
Board of County Commissioners
Tal Crawford
Mr. Boswell
Board of Equalization of
R. W. Simpson
T. O. Dandridge
Bart Smith
Kansas Fight Against 3.2 Beer
Kansas Prohibitionists launch a fundraising drive to ban 3.2 beer in the state. Dr. John R. Golden calls for contributions as anti beer meetings draw about 350 people on the state capital steps. He vows to push the issue at a September legislative special session or to seek a new Senate via voter action.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
John R. Golden
Kansas Prohibition Emergency Committee
State Capitol
Stillwater to be farm headquarter for relief work
Stillwater Okla was named headquarters for the Oklahoma and Texas region of the federal farm resettlement and rehabilitation program. D P Trent and C P Blackwell of Oklahoma A and M college will direct the work with equal authority. Two colonization projects are under way in Bryan and Tulsa counties.
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Oklahoma City
Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma and
Texas
Federal Farm Resettlement and Rehabilitation Program
D. P. Trent
C. P. Blackwell
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Dallas
Fort Worth
College Station
Trent
Blackwell
Oklahoma
E. G. Jeffrey
Old Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
Bryan
Tulsa
Tulsa County
Oklahoma Farm Relief
W. S. Key
Works Progress
Blackwell and
Key
Gift in Jail Cell Helps Eddie Gift Ponder Plea
Eddie Gift a 35 year old Ada man faced assault with a dangerous weapon after a fight with Cleo Miller. In court Justice A W Oliver granted a 24 hour period for plea decision, placing Gift in a county jail cell to think it over.
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A. W. Oliver
Eddie Gift
Ada Negro
Eddie
Cleo Miller
Little
Harlem
Oliver
Youthful Ada Boy Faces Larceny Charge
Ada 17 year old Leonard Kennedy pleaded guilty to larceny of a domestic animal after allegedly stealing a gray horse from Ollie Davidson. Judge Tal Crawford postponed sentencing to Monday and faced the option of a suspended sentence. Kennedy was arrested near five miles west of Rofs and the horse recovered nearby.
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Tal Crawford
Leonard Kennedy
Ada Boy
Kennedy
Sherwood W. Hill
Ollie Davidson
West 12Th Street
Young Kennedy
Crawford
Hoyt Driskill
Rofs
Charley Shockley
House Rejects Roosevelt Utility Measure as Death Clause Fails
Washington July 1. The House defeated the presidents proposal to abolish unnecessary utility holding companies by 1942 by a 216 to 146 vote. The defeat ends a bitter clash and moves the bill to conference with the Senate over the death sentence provision and potential changes to the holding company eliminations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Administration
Senate
Securities Commission
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Conference
Lewis
D-Md
Warren
D-Nc
Kvale
FL Minn
Wheeler
D-Mont
Letter From the Cold North Country From Graves to Saunders
George H. Graves writes from Klondike district near Fort St. James to J. C. Saunders Ada Oklahoma about drilling test holes in Canada, winter work, air travel, gold prospects, camp life, and letters home. He details ice breakup, distances from Edmonton, equipment, crew, and daily costs and mentions Doris in Alberta and a caribou gift to locals.
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J. C. Saunders
Fitts
George H. Graves
Canada
Graves
Mr. Saunders
North Pole
Nowhere
British Columbia
J. €. Saunders
Ada
Oklahoma
Klondike
Doris
Alberta
Edmonton
57Th Parallel
Pat Adams
Skeet Randolph
Milk River
Los Angeles
Wranzell
Alaska
Oklahoma City
National Government to Spend 8.52 Billion in Fiscal Year
Washington reports the federal budget for the new fiscal year totals 8.52 billion dollars with 4.582 billion allocated to recovery and relief. President Roosevelt projects a 3.991 billion revenue, yielding an estimated 4.528 billion deficit. Public debt stands above 28.665 billion, with potential to exceed last year’s peak.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Congress
Harrison
Dmiss
Senate Finance Committee
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Calles
Arkansas
Lively
Merchants Group
U. D
County Excise Board
Otillwater
T UP
Trent and
Edmondton
Vanderhoof
Fort St. James
Tokla Lake
Here
T. B. V. Gold Ltd
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