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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1934
Page
1
San Francisco mediators and Mayor Rossi push for quick settlement of a bay region strike involving 100000 workers. Shipowners weigh mediation with 27000 Pacific coast maritime workers as police clamp down and vigilante raids spark deportation talk.
PONCA CITY July 18 Oklahoma Democratic gubernatorial nominee E W Marland told about 250 Democratic Women’s Council delegates that prohibition is not a political issue in the state He noted the GOP debate over wet and dry stances while outlining plans for committees to study taxation old age pensions education and subsistence homesteads He plans to confer with President Roosevelt in Washington after the primary to seek approval of 30 million dollars in public works for the winter
A murder charge was filed against Neal Myers, missing University of Oklahoma student, in the death of Marian Mills 29 year old campus beauty queen. The autopsy found death caused by an attempted abortion and investigators hoped Myers would be found to proceed. Hazel Brown was held as a material witness with bail set at 2500.
A convoy led by C. W. Zorn will depart Ada Friday shortly after 7 AM with 40 to 50 autos and 15 to 20 piece band. Boosters will tour Johnstone county in support of Tom D. McKeown, entertaining voters at each stop and returning via highway 12.
Thelbert Brady, exonerated a year earlier in a Arkansas bank robbery case linked to his cousin Big Boy Brady, received a leave from McAlester state prison after serving less than ten months of a five year term. Brady pleaded guilty at Newkirk following an extradition battle and an attempted Elks Club safe burglary in Blackwell. Bill Hensley, who also pleaded guilty with Brady, remains in a five year sentence. The leave enables Brady to assist his mother and sister in El Reno.
Grand River near Muskogee is at its lowest stage on record, water superintendent Walter P. Johnson said. The gauge reads 15 inches below zero as the city faces heat that doubles household water use while Muskogee still maintains a food supply of water.
Fleeing drought damaged farms, more than 850 transients crowd Fort Smith Arkansas headquarters and local housing. Officials from Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma promise aid while forecaster W C Hickman warns relief is not near as temperatures top 106 degrees and stay above 100 across the region.
H H Hanenkraft and Harry Barndollar near Ada report a new road surfacing material from Pontotoc county quarry. The mill runs four tons in six minutes and hopes for strong demand as native asphalt requires no additional treatment. Demonstrations planned on North Broadway paving patches.
In North Dakota a power struggle unfolds as Lt. Gov. Olson acts to end Langer’s martial law and call revocation, while the state supreme court rules Langer’s felony conviction bars him from governorship. W. H. Ebey confirms his candidacy for Speaker of the House if renominated, aiming to leverage institutional town backing and postprimary momentum.
The official thermometer reached 107 degrees at 3 pm marking a new summer high. In Pontotoc county persistent heat harms corn and feed crops while farmers await rainfall to aid late planting and cotton development. Boll weevils thinning and squares being stung are noted as heat persists.
Berkeley July 18. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA chief, labels the Pacific coast maritime strike as breeding general strikes that threaten government. He argues economic strangulation surpasses force and warns against civil warlike tactics that extend beyond workers’ rights. Continued on page 8.
Oklahoma City July 18 Hundreds of cattle faced starvation and death as heat and drought ravaged grazing lands. More than 600 head have been shot for water and fodder shortage, over 3,000 shipped to other areas, with growers and federal relief officers coordinating rescues and storage plans.
Sergeant William Blakesley died Monday night at 7 30 at his Ada area home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9 29 at the First Baptist Church with Dr C C Morris officiating. Burial will follow in Rosedale cemetery with National Guard and American Legion honors. Surviving are his widow, daughter, his mother in New York, and other relatives. A native of Pennsylvania, he served in the regular army, helped train the National Guard here, and was custodian of guard property. He had been in Ada about 12 years and had been in declining health for two years.
A federal mediation effort led by Father Francis J. Hass arrives to assist labor department conciliator E. H. Dunnigan and Governor Floyd B. Olson in ending the Minneapolis truck drivers strike that halted most traffic. National guardsmen stand by, with exemptions for newspaper milk and market gardeners trucks.
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