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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1936
Page
2
Oklahoma City July 17 The Democratic run off faces multiple contests as Sam Houston III stays in the race against Will Rogers Jr. and lawmakers announce withdrawals. Campaigns push last speeches in districts while petitions and canvassing unfold in county races across the state.
Oklahoma Governor E W Marland announced an application to federal officials for an immediate advance of the federal share of old age pension funds so Oklahoma can begin distribution soon. He said state relief funds will continue until sales tax funds arrive and the new statute reorganizes the system.
Herbert K. Hyde, noted for the Urschel kidnapping case, clinched the Republican nomination for the U S Senate after McKeever withdrew from the July 28 run off. Gov. Marland plans a state speaking tour to win Gore votes while Democrat Jos Lee drives a heavy campaign. Wayne Phillips signals no early endorsement. Veterans of Industry set other race alignments.
Tupelo baseball team fell 17 to 16 to the Oil Center nine in a high scoring game. Both sides totaled 15 and 14 hits respectively. Tupelo played without four regulars.
Death Valley Scotty returns to the desert with a prized mule string, claiming 1250 pound Barnum will be a great saddle mule. He notes a $4,500 15 mile cost for gear and hay, plans three weeks to train the herd, and a 7000000 in gold in rocks at Grapevine Castle, built since 1922.
Three necroes held in Ada as two others sought after a hijacking north of Ada following a hay haul. Hay drivers R.C. Morris and Homer Langley identified five suspects who robbed them of 753 dollars. Ragay, released Friday from McAlester prison, among those named. Ada police made 26 arrests over the weekend.
Ott Moore is bound over for trial in district court on a murder charge for the slaying of Gladys Huckelby on July 7. Witnesses testified at the preliminary hearing before Justice A. W. Oliver. Moore offered no testimony.
Denzel Carr the University of Hawaii linguistics professor is visiting Ada and Oklahoma City. He faces scarlet fever quarantine while traveling to Washington for affiliation with the American Association of Learned Societies and Yale fellowship. Carr's early life in Ada included work at The Ada News as a printer's devil.
The Indian bureau plans to begin operating the Thomas Rogers Oklahoma Indian act with two field men to organize and prepare loan bases for cooperatives. The $2,000,000 appropriation won’t be usable until next year, with loans aimed at individuals and associations for machinery, livestock, and materials to foster economic independence. officials say the act will help restore tribal assets and reduce landlessness.
Ada shows brisk building activity with two new residences on East Seventeenth and several brick veneer homes in South Center and Country Club areas. Larger projects include a hotel addition and Washington public grade school expansion with a wide auditorium. Meanwhile election officials Hazel Garton and an associate face charges over false returns in Sapulpa precinct two. Collins cites irregularities after Tuesday's primary.
Photographs show Landon framing himself as an angler, but observers argue fishing gimmicks do not translate to votes in November and may cost in key states.
Ten of the arrests were accounted for by two raids on poker games. Most of the remaining arrests were for fighting or drunkenness.
A. T. Watson is described as the bee king in a strange discovery at Judge Orel Busby’s former residence on South Townsend. A hive between the second floor and downstairs ceiling yielded about six square feet of honey weighing over one hundred pounds. Watson, a reputed bee psychologist, was involved as the craftsman. During extraction, he tasted honey then felt his tongue grow thick while a bee rested in his nose.
Rural school boards and teachers in Pontotoc county will gather Saturday July 18 at 1 p m in the district courtroom. R F E Riling state rural school supervisor E C Halley chief high school inspector and possibly Mr Smith transportation supervisor will attend. Discussion will cover new rural school accrediting regulations and other supervision aspects.
Local candidate Lee Dages thanks voters for support in the Tuesday primary. He notes he did not place in the run off but appreciates loyal friends. The piece mentions Leon Blum and a speculative reference to a new deal and payments to Frenchmen for not planting underground forts.
Alberta Sutton, 15, of Center dies from injuries after a sideswipe crash on a highway. Ray Hester, 14, suffered a compound leg fracture. Driver fled the scene as Pontotoc county notes 10 highway deaths for 1956, far above the previous years.
Judge John Boyce McKee1 upheld Ada Oklahoma ordinance 622 banning Sunday grocery and meat market sales. He overruled a defense demurrer, ruling city power to enact Sunday closing laws is valid if not discriminatory. Case involves R H Crouch and others, tried without a jury, with enforcement amidst a broader city ordinance campaign.
County agent J. B. Hill reports turkeys as the most effective natural control for grasshoppers with flocks reducing infestations in fields. Small damaged patches exist near corn, but no emergency is foreseen though farmers fear possible larger outbreaks next year. An alternative poison mix of cottonseed hulls grey wheat shorts and molasses by M. G. Tucker is noted.
In Sapulpa Oklahoma on July 11 two precinct officials were arrested and arraigned for making false returns. Creek County election board closed and guarded ballot boxes as County Attorney Everett Collins announced a sweeping countywide election investigation. H M Watchorn inspector and others implicated.
In Oklahoma City on July 11 candidates filed expense accounts with the state election board. Sam C. Massinzale of Cordell spent 567 dollars to obtain the Democratic nomination in the last Tuesday’s primary. Dutch Hill of Chickasha listed 54 dollars for Grady county representative No 3. H. Tom Kight of Claremore reported 94 dollars for Rogers county representative. Filing deadline is next Friday.
Kennon Mundy infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W H Mundy fractured right leg in a two car crash just north of Roff on Highway 12 at 9 30 Saturday night. Mundy the other driver suffered a broken rib and Mrs Mundy was cut and badly bruised. Also in the car were Johneece Mundy 14 Leta Milford 14 and Mary Sue Gann 18 all shocked and bruised. Other driver Melbourne Lewis held in city jail as police investigate the accident. Mundy car wrecked but neither vehicle overturned.
Mrs Ruth Bryan Owen United States minister to Denmark married Captain George Rohde a gentleman in waiting to King Christian X at James Chapel Hyde Park N Y The service attended by 70 to 80 guests included first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President Franklin D Roosevelt A wedding supper followed at Val Kill cottage with guests Otto Walsted Lady Redding and others visible in attendance.
Miss Brondell Bynum and Howard Carlton were married in a quiet ceremony Saturday evening at 8 in the home of the First Methodist pastor in Ardmore Oklahoma. The bride wore navy blue triple sheer with white trim and sweet pea corsage. The couple will live in Seminole and plan a Dallas visit before settling. Mrs. Carlton taught at Mountain View school and held degrees from Kidney College and East Central State Teachers College. Carlton works with his father at J F Carlton and Son Grocery.
In Stillwater Oklahoma on July 11 Dr F A Fenton head of entomology at Oklahoma A and M College said the federal supply of poisoned bran would be inadequate to combat the grasshopper outbreak. He proposed two substitute mixtures and noted the experiment station was testing substitutes rapidly as a new mixture of poisoned bran and cot.
The Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers association awarded $200 to each family of state officers Cal Palmer and Chris Whitson. Palmer died in Enid while arresting Lawrence De Vel, a fugitive from a Minnesota hospital for insane. Whitson was killed in Serainole during a suspected stolen car arrest.
Information from a University of Oklahoma thesis by Lewis B. Lucky shows that about half of Oklahoma school districts carry bonded debt. The study, for his PhD on county unit school systems, cites data from the state board of equalization and state department records.
Rev Father Charles E. Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest, in an interview from St Paul on July 11, predicted that Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota running on the Union party ticket will become the next president. He said John Garner will be the vice president.
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