Willard Anderson dies in Van Wocun second charge filed
Marshall Lee, facing a second degree burglary charge with prior offenses, attacked County Attorney W V Stanfield in a district court room after pleading guilty to another burglary. Lee, 32, has served 14 years in four states and was jailed on multiple counts with preliminary hearings set.
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Willard Anderson
van Wocun
Marshall Lee
W. W. Stanfield
W. V. Stanfield
Lee
Éida
Stanfield
Tal Crawford
A. W. Oliver
Isto
Olivers Court
District Court
Roy Keller
Ada
McAlester
Texas
California
Montana
Holdenville
Mrs J S Newcomb taken by death Ada resident 80
Mrs J S Newcomb 805 East Tenth Ada died at 8 45 PM Tuesday after a period of illness. She was 80 and will be buried in Republic Missouri after a funeral at Keith's Chapel. Survived by daughter Mrs Minnie Campbell of Ada and four sons R S Newcomb of Oklahoma City W A Newcomb University of Minnesota Minneapolis E H Newcomb Kansas City and W K Newcomb Spokane. Grandson Howard Newcomb of Ada. Two pastors from First Methodist and First Baptist will take part in the service.
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J. S. Newcomb
East Tenth
Keith
Republic
Ada
Newcombe
University of Minnesota At
Minneapolis
E. H. Newcomb
Kansas City
W. K. Newcomb
Spokane
Washington
Howard Newcomb
Russian Airmen Establish New Non Stop Record
Three Soviet Union air heroes who flew over the north pole to near the Mexican border set a new world long distance non stop flight record. They covered about 7 000 miles before fog forced a late landing in a pasture near San Jacinto 62 hours 5 minutes after leaving Moscow.
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March Field
Calif
Soviet Union
North Pole
Mexican
San Jacinto
Moscow
Mikhail Gromoff
Andrei Yumsheff
Sergei Danilin
Victor H. Strahn
Two Cars Collide Kills Deputy Clerk in Ada Area
Deputy county clerk Willard M. Anderson, 35, of Pontotoc county, died instantly and ten others were injured when two cars collided near the Latta school southwest of Ada on highway 12 at about 1 AM. Anderson suffered a broken neck. others include Mildred Luce with a broken leg, Lurlene Johnson with a broken nose and hand, and several with head and chest injuries. The crash left both vehicles badly damaged and victims were taken to Breco Memorial and Ada hospitals.
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Willard M. Anderson
Pontotoc County
Latta School
Ada
Highway
Anderson
D. W. McDonald
Oklahoma City
Mildred Luce
North Townsend Avenue
Lurlene Johnson
Jim Whitehead
County Welfare Office
Evanah Beene
West Sixth
Odema Fowler
Naomi Brown
Elmer
Velmer Sanders
Alvin Dickerson
McDonald
Whitehead
Elmer Sanders
Dickerson
Breco Memorial Hospital
Ada Hospital
Death of Senator Robinson Shakes Government Drive
The sudden death of Democratic Leader Robinson disrupts the administration push for a substitute court measure. He led negotiations and drafting of the proposal, and his absence weakens the Senate alliance as speculation grows on future tactics.
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Robinson
Senate
Harrison
Mississippi
Byrnes
South Carolina
Barkley
Kentucky
Britain mobilizes merchant ships as Spain crisis deepens
In London the government announced massing guns and equipment to arm merchant ships for any emergency from the Spanish civil war. War games span 150 miles of the Channel as Duff Cooper warns Britain may train mercantile marines in weapon use amid French and Italian tensions.
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London
Great Britain
Alfred Duff Cooper
Admiralty
House of Commons
France
Italy
Duff Cooper
Britain
Mercantile Marine
Senator Joe Robinson Dies Alone in Washington Home
Senate Democratic leader Senator Joe T. Robinson aged 64 died early today in his Washington apartment. Found on his bathroom floor, his death was attributed to heart disease after a week of illness. Funeral is planned in the Senate chamber with President Roosevelt as chief mourner, pending Mrs. Robinson’s approval.
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Washington
Joe T. Robinson
Roosevelt
Arkansan
Senate
Senate Chamber Tomorrow With Mr. Roosevelt
House
Robinson
Hattie W. Caraway
Arkansas
Caraway
Senator Barkley
D-Ky
Barkley
A. Magruder MacDonald
George W. Calver
Capitol
Calver
Marriage License Granted to Loyal Vanderpool and Helen Driver
A marriage license was issued Wednesday by the court clerk's office to Loyal Vanderpool 21 of Fittstown and Helen Driver of Stonewall.
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Loyal Vanderpool
Fittstown
Helen Driver
Stonewall
Vigilante suit hearing ends in Oklahoma City
Four judge district court in Oklahoma City took under advisement the state's demurrer to an injunction request. Sid White, attorney for the Oklahoma Vigilantes, sought a permanent injunction against issuing treasury notes to pay legislative appropriations, arguing the excess $10,000,000 over revenue should be trimmed.
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Oklahoma City
Sid White
Oklahoma Vigilantes
White
Treasury
C. C. Childers
Hubert Bolen
Convict given 24 hours to plead in slaying
Hiram Prather, 42, an escaped Texas convict tied to "Pete" Traxler, was ordered by District Judge Tom Pace to plead within 24 hours in the slaying of night watchman E. C. Smith of Byars Oklahoma. Smith was found shot after a hardware store robbery two weeks earlier. Edge man warned he would transfer Prather to McAlester pen if he pleads innocent as Traxler remains at large.
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Huntsville
Tex
Traxler
Oklahoma
Prather
McAlester Penitentiary
Edgeman
Presidents' average life spans at 69.9 years
The article notes that the mean life expectancy of U.S. presidents stands at 69.9 years. It highlights a historical pattern in presidential longevity and may discuss factors influencing lifespan across administrations.
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The
United States
China and Japan clash near Tientsin as rail traffic halted
The Chinese central news agency reports 700 Japanese troops fought the Laofa garrison 30 miles northwest of Tien Tsin after a day of calm. Peiping to Mukden railway traffic was suspended briefly. japanese reinforcements were rushed to the area following yesterday’s rout near Tientsin.
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Peiping
Laofa
Tien Tsin
Mukden
China
Hopei
Chahak
Tientsin
Yesteday
Farm Dispute Ends In Court Over Crop Half
A district court issued a temporary restraining order preventing Robert Leonard from taking more than his half of a farm crop in a dispute with Melvin Blansett. Blansett alleges Leonard subleased the Vaden farm three miles east of Ada as a tenant in March and has threatened with a gun.
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Robert Leonard
Melvin Blansett
Blansett
Leonard
Blancett
Ada
Vaden
Ada youth Jeff Laird stars in Little Congress pageant
Jeff Laird a Washington studying Ada youth in Capitol pageant depicts the development and future of the American Congress. He played Gov Dunmore and Huey Long in key scenes while a closing vision showed women in shorts symbolizing a century hence.
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Jeff Laird
Washington
Little Congress
American Congress
Jeff
Gov. Dunmore
Virginia
Huey Long
Congress
War deaths by disease outpaced enemy bullets by sixteen times
A historical note states that during the Spanish American War disease killed sixteen times more men than Spanish bullets. It also lists federal prisons in Atlanta Georgia McNeil's Island Washington and Fort Leavenworth Kansas. It asserts that no act by anyone under seven years old is a crime and claims Canada produces eighty eight percent of the world asbestos.
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Atlanta
McNeil’s Island
Wash
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Oklahoma Guard to Report for August Camp at Fort Sill
Adjutant General Barrett issued travel orders for 5500 Oklahoma National Guard officers and enlisted to report at Fort Sill August 7 for a two week summer encampment. All units travel by truck except the 18th Infantry under Col Louis A Ledbetter will go by rail. Governor Marland named Barrett camp commander. Maj. Gen W S Key leads the 45th Division with units from Colorado New Mexico and Arizona as well as Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma City
Charles F. Barrett
Oklahoma National Guard
Fort Sill
18Th Infantry
Louis A. Ledbetter
Wewoka
Marland
Barrett
W. S. Key
45Th
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Bill Cummings Charged With Possession After Raid
County officers raided a suspect Monday placing Bill Cummings in jail. A charge of possession of whiskey was filed and he had not been arraigned by Tuesday afternoon. Officers reported 84 pints found at the scene.
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Bill. Cummings
Fish Criticized On Tax Charges
Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson said Rep Fish should direct any further criticism of Mrs Roosevelt’s tax returns to the treasury. Fish cited a 1935 contract allowing Mrs Roosevelt to be paid for 10 broadcasts at 1 dollar each and $3,000 from the American Friends Service Committee, with Jackson noting she consulted the treasury in 1934 about the contract and likening it to a charitable benefit performance with no tax on such kindness.
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Washington
Robert Jackson
Fish
R-N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Treasury
Congressional Tax Investigating Committee
Philadelphia
Internal Revenue Bureau
Jackson
Roosevelt
Congressional Committee
Traxler Tip From Near El Reno Reported
Oklahoma County sheriff's office said three men fled toward El Reno with one resembling Roy Pete Traxler. At Minco authorities reported the car thought to hold the escaped Texas convict and Oklahoma desperado was being followed by another car with two officers aboard. The suspected vehicle was a light green Ford with no license plates.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Two Texans Held on Stolen Car Charge
P Two Texans, T. J. McNeal 39 of Kleeburg and Clifford Owens 24 of Dallas, held on $2,500 bond on federal charges of transporting a stolen car from Dallas to Law ton July 2.
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Oklahoma City
T. J. McNeal
Kleeburg
Clifford Owens
Dallas
Lawton
Hospitals Employ 300000 Nurses Nationwide
A nationwide figure shows about three hundred thousand nurses are employed across six thousand six hundred hospitals in the United States, highlighting the scale of hospital staffing levels.
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United States
No Agreement In Railroad Wage Increase Fight
Representatives of 800000 railroad workers seeking a 20 cent hourly rise met rail management officials in Washington but failed to agree. The conference will resume tomorrow after meetings in Washington and Chicago since July 3. Union members vote on a strike ballot with results to be counted in Chicago on July 26.
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Washington
Chicago
Basque Day clashes injure four in Marseille parade
In Marseille on Bastille Day, four Pi-Six and several others were wounded by revolver fire and melee eruptions between rightists and leftists during ceremonies. Police pushed crowds back to rescue the injured from trampling.
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Marseille
France
Auto Accidents In Seminole County End in Charges
Murder charges filed in Seminole County after two fatal crashes Monday and Tuesday. County Attorney Hubert Grave charged Fred Stroup, 40, Crescent, Okla., with driving a car that killed Joe Dodson, 35, near Cromwell. Forrester Konawa youth faces a similar charge after a collision that killed Scott, 80, near Konawa.
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Wewoka
Seminole County
Hubert Grave
Fred Stroup
Crescent
Oklo
Stroup
Joe Dodson
Farmer
Cromwell
M. H. Miles
Konawa
Forrest
Alleginer
Scott
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D-Mont
Joe Robinson
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