Walter Barringer Fatally Injured In Street Fight
A downtown street brawl over a check led to Walter Barringer 50 a retired cattleman dying from a basal skull fracture. Gib Palmer Broad way Buffet operator faces first degree manslaughter charges. arraigned and released on 3000 bond. Barringer funeral set for 2 pm at Criswell Funeral Home.
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Walter Barringer
Gib Palmer
South Broad
Meg. Palmer
W. L. Reed
Barringer
Criswell Funeral Home
Twelfth
Townsend
Palmer
Barranger
Ada
East Central College
Mowers advised for tame grass pastures to curb bitterweed
Farmers starting tame grass pastures should mow in July and August to prevent seed maturation. County agent J. B. Bill warns bitterweed, a major setback to dairymen, can persist on soil surface for years if not controlled. Mow for three years or plow and replant. remove plants along fences after mowing. County agents offer demonstrations for control.
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J. B. Bill
County Families Aided by Farm Security Medical Plan
The Farm Security Administration extends its medical service plan to 148 Pontotoc county families. Families pay a flat annual rate for medical protection covering treatment at home or in a hospital, with local doctors and hospitals cooperating under a board including Dr. J A R Sugg and county supervisor Dav E. Slingerland. The plan adds Pontotoc families to about 2,000 state people recently covered, among roughly 4,000 Texas residents in the program.
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Farm Security Administration
Pontotoc County
Dav E. Slingerland
Pantonic County
Slingerland
JA. R. Sugg
Health Bureau
W. K. Hopkins
Cecil Abston
Dewey Higdon
Jack Sharp
Texas
Julius No 2 Tops Oil Sand Near Francis
Julius No 2 in section 6-4-8 near Francis tops an oil sand at 1149 feet, drills into the sand six inches, oil rises 200 feet in an 8 inch casing, and the well is shut for a cementing job. An offset will be drilled east and south as companies show growing interest in a virgin county territory.
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Betty Jane Oi
Julius No. 2
Francis
McGoal
Harrington Won't Back Prevailing Wages Change
President Roosevelt stated with layman certainty that the WPA commissioner cannot unilaterally restore prevailing wages for skilled relief workers under the new relief law. He cited lack of legal interpretation and unlikely emergency changes. AFL demands Congress repeal the 130 hour month and return to prior wage standards amid a drop in labor protests.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Revorters
WPA
American Federation of Labor
F. C. Harrington
Work Project Administration
AFL
Congress
Corrigan Begins His Honeymoon Flight to Texas Border
Corpus Christi dispatch says Douglas Corrigan planned a honeymoon trip with his bride to Arkansas Pass Texas where he spent part of his boyhood. They flew here from San Antonio after marrying on the first anniversary of Corrigan's flight to Ireland. Elizabeth Marvin of San Antonio is his wife.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Douglas Corrigan
Aransas Pass
San Antonio
Corrigan
Ireland
Elizabeth Marvin
Test South Of Vanoss Started By Local Researchers
Test south of Vanoss has begun at SE SE NE of 43-18-6E. Researchers Dr. D. Brunson and J. Edgar Smith coordinate the al Hunton lime test in Fontotec county southwest of Fontotec.
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al Hunton
Vanoss
Fontotec County
D. Brunson
J. Edgar Smith
Court Rules To Curb Drinking
Oklahoma courts drive action on drunken driving. A state criminal court of appeals case upheld a 10 year penitentiary sentence for a drunken driver convicted of manslaughter. Patrol and DPS note license revocations in June lagged May, while a patrol pledge to fight drunk driving continues year round. Judge Barefoot urges the case as a warning that law and enforcement will punish intoxicated drivers who kill or injure others.
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State Criminal Court of Appeals
Oklahoma
Department of Public Safety
Oklahoma Patrol
Walter B. Johnson
May
Mr. Johnson
Contine
Bert Barefoot
Franco Celebrates Civil War Anniversary in Madrid Parade
In Madrid on July 18 thousands line Castellana Boulevard as Falangist youth and reorganized national syndicalist workers parade to mark the third anniversary of the war. The day focuses on labor and exaltation of labor over the soldier amid a heat relief.
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Madrid
Madriten¢s
Francisco Franco
Castellana Boulevard
Retiro Park
Spain
Tabor
Post-session costs for Oklahoma legislature
Oklahoma City July 18 report shows seventeen th legislature post adjournment ten weeks ago has cost the state 17 960 dollars with about a month more work expected. Fifteen house employees remain on the legislative journal including Speaker Don Welch Madison Floor Leader Murray Gibbons Oklahoma City Herbert Branar Muskogee Frank Grayson Allwood and Herbert Hope Massville. The senate payroll includes six employees, none of them senators.
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Oklahoma City
House
Legislative Journal
Don Welch
Madill
Murray Gibbons
Lahoma City
Herbert Branar
Muskogee
Frank Grayson
Alwood
Herbert Hope
Massville
Senate
Wynnewood Seeks New Highway in Oklahoma
Wynnewood seeks a new highway with a delegation urging the highway commission to finish the Marlow to Wynnewood link and to assume maintenance of the Wynnewood to state highway 18 road. Ed Mitchell led the group with State Senator Homer Paul and Rep Harold Freeman from Garvin County.
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Oklahoma City
PHA
Wynnewood
Highway Commission
Marlow
Eust
May December Honeymooners In Greenwich Village Bride Refuses School
New York lovers Carmelo Locapira aged 60 and 16 year old Tor silla faced crowds outside their barricaded Greenwich Village apartment after their wedding breakfast. Passersby witnessed a shattered window and taunts as rumors swirled about the couple's age gap and future plans to travel to Italy. Locapira told police he has no comedic plans and Tor silla will not return to public school No 3.
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New York
Carmelo Locapira
Torsilla
Greenwich Village
Italy
Locapira
Sheriff Captures Ozark Jailbreak Suspect While Fishing
Oklahoma convict Jack Russell, 39, sought in a spree of kidnappings robberies car thefts and one slaying, was captured by Sheriff Champ Crawford of Franklin County Ark after lodging at a fishing camp north of Ozark. Crawford and a deputy pretended to fish by Mulberry Creek then escorted Russell out to his car and arrested him without resistance. Russell had escaped from McAlester prison last week after seizing a guard's gun and abducting photographer R. E. Brown before Brown was later freed near Pittsburgh Kansas.
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Ozark
Ark
Jack Russell
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Wy Gore Hie
McAlester
Champ Crawford
Franklin County
Russell
Here
Crawford
Richard Hill
Mulberry Creek
Iowa
Henry Riddle
Riddle
R. E. Brown
Brown
Pittsburgh
Kas
Political activity bill rewritten to curb federal employee influence
Washington reports Senator Hatch and Rep Dempsey of New Mexico Democrats rewrote the bill to bar any official in the executive branch from influencing elections with few exceptions. The measure would ban political management by most federal offices and exclude Congress members and staff. Violations mean removal from office. The draft mirrors Senate approved principles, with Hatch arguing for broader executive branch coverage.
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Washington
Hatch
Rep
Dempsey
New Mexico
House
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Social Security Board
TVA
RFC
Congress
McNutt Aims to Unify Agencies While Eyeing Presidency
Washington reports Paul V. McNutt, new federal security administrator, plans to weld six agencies into one unit and keep quiet while doing it. Politicians read this as a push toward the presidency as McNutt and aides seek overlapping functions to trim dead wood, aware these offices touch millions of homes nationwide. The Education Office handles land funds as part of the scope.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
McNutt
Office of Education
Mother of Claude Sturdivant Dies in Oklahoma
Mrs. Sallie Sturdivant 65, mother of undersheriff Claude Sturdivant, died Monday after a long illness at 3 45 p m Friends paid final tribute in Criswell's Funeral chapel with Rev W H Nettles officiating Interment was in Rosedale cemetery Bearers included Sheriff Clyde Kaiser Deputies Jim Rogers Joe Porter Charley Shockley Walter Floyd and Clint Sturdivant Survivors include one son and sister Mix Tda Bailey of Ada Born July 27 1874 in Red River county Texas she moved from Indian Territory to Pontator and later settled here The sheriff's office closed all day in her memory.
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Sallie Sturdivant
Claude Sturdivant
Criswell
W. H. Nettles
Rosedale Cemetery
Clyde Kaiser
Jim Rogers
Joe Porter
Charley Shockley
Walter Floyd
Clint Sturdevant
Police question motorist as stolen car found in cruiser
In Philadelphia on July 18 two officers questioning a driver about a missing license learned by radio that a stolen car matched the one they were holding. The description confirmed the vehicle in custody.
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Philadelphia
Dynamite Blast Kills Youth in Montana Quarry
A 14 year old boy Wade Confer son of O M Confer superintendent was killed when a 26 ton dynamite blast misfired at Snake Butte quarry near Harlem Montana. The blast toppled granite boulders damaged 14 railroad flatcars and injured 18 people as rails and camp buildings were torn down. The victim and family links trace to Oklahoma City Vinita and former Montana state justice W H Korne way. The blast destroyed a rock wall and hurled debris across the site.
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Harlem
Mont
Wade K
Sonny
Snake Butte
Harvey Mont
O. M. Confer
Oklahoma City
Vane K. Confer
W. H. Korneway
Vinita
Montana
Tulsa
Stillwater Police Add Weather Window Duty
Stillwater police expand city service with nightly checks on vacant homes during vacations. Officers roll up car windows when rain threatens and ensure papers and circulars do not accumulate on porches, keeping houses secure while residents are away.
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Stillwater
Horace Andrews
Looney Held In Barnett Case
George Barney Looney an enrolled Indian is indicted on one charge of forging old Indian court records and offering them for sale to attorneys in the Barnett case. He is held in federal jail in Muskogee on a 5000 bond. Henry eta remains at large as Day's status unclear. Bond set by U S Commissioner Foster Brewster. he remains jailed awaiting arraignment July 27.
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Muskogee
George Barney Looney
Henrycetta
United States
Forrester Brewster
Explanation of Word Research
In Anadarko on July 18, a six year old granddaughter prompts a lighthearted lesson on research. Barbara Jo West, daughter of a former deputy warden, explains to her grandmother that researchers search once and then re search again reflecting a child’s playful take on the term.
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Anadarko
J. E. West
Barbara Jo West
McAlester State Prison
Barbara
Bodies Taken From Mine After Kentucky Blast
Rescue workers completed the removal of explosion victims from the Daving coal mine in Providence Kentucky. Coroner Guy Riley oversaw inquests at two funeral homes as relief squads ferried bodies to the surface. Nineteen victims were found Friday night, ten others were recovered yesterday, with the preliminary investigation attributing the blast to a premature shot firer discharge igniting coal dust.
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Providence
Guy Riley
Nighi
John Daniel
Kentucky
Federal Grand Jury Ordered On WPA Strikes
Federal authorities order two federal grand jury investigations into the Minneapolis WPA strike. The FBI will present findings to the grand jury, which may return indictments if warranted. The probe follows a strike that led to two deaths and involves alleged intimidation of non strikers.
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Washington
Murphy
Minneapolis
FBI
Justice Department
Grand Jury
ST. Paul
Robert C. Bell
United States
WPA Names New Operations Director at State Headquarters
W P A announces 2 W. H. Lindt as director of operations at state WPA headquarters succeeding Ray V. Lindsey. Lindt, formerly Lindsey’s assistant, will take the post as Lindsey earns leave and returns to a different role. Lindt previously worked as a contractor at Enid and has been with the WPA for several years.
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Oklahoma City
W. H. Lindt
WPA
Ray V. Lindsey
Lindsey
Ron Stephens
Stephens
Lindt
Enid
Farm Agent Figures Silage Use For Cattle
Wayne Cinnamon, assistant county agent, calculated silage needs for cows. A 500 ton trench silo can feed 50 cows for 475 days, while a dairy cow requires about 35 pounds of silage daily plus grain. French's 140 by seven by 15 foot silo is nearing completion as farmers explore green feed storage and the benefits of cotton seed meal for fattening cattle.
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Wayne Cinnamon
Cinnamon
French
Farmers Week Attendance Planned Near Stillwater
Pontotoc county farmers and their wives aim to attend all or part of the annual Farmers Week program at Oklahoma A and M college campus August 1 to 3. County agent Joe B. Hill and assistant Wayne Cinnamon with home demonstration agent Mrs. Jessie Morgan plan to go.
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Pontotoc County
Stillwater
Oklahoma’ A. and
Highway Dept Bids on 22 Projects Include Major U S 69 paving
The highway department opened bids on 22 road projects, totaling 1,083,195, about 246.91 under the 1.33 million estimate. Moran Buckner Muskogee likely won the largest contract at 153,555 to pave 9.16 miles of concrete on U S 69 in Mayes County, starting three miles north of Pryor.
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Oklahoma City
LPI_Highway department
Moran, Buckner
Muskogee
U. S. 69
Mayes County
Pryor
Exten
Adair
Plea Denied In Sasakwa Rate Case By UP Commission
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission denied a plea by 71 citizens of Sasakwa Seminole County for lower rates charged by Southwest Natural Gas. The ruling favors the gas utility with greater returns on invested amounts noted in Ada News Classified Ads.
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Adam News
Oklahoma City
the Corporation Commission
Sasakwa
Seminole County
Ada News
Time To Cull Flocks In Oklahoma Poultry Season
The period in Oklahoma farms sees flocks culled to remove non producers and make room for strong layers. Experts note a 100 eggs per year benchmark, require sound bodies, ample feed, water, and green forage. Indicators include a bright comb, clear eyes, lean backs, and lively posture.
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Oklahoma
J. B. Hill
H. G. Ware
Oklahoma A
M. College
Men Teachers In Schools Increase
Washington reports a government survey covering 1935-36 showing 266000 male teachers, about one quarter of all teachers, up from 14 percent in 1920. Latin and modern languages decline in high schools while English, math, commercial studies, science and physical education rise. Total education expenditures reach 2.65 billion dollars.
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Washington
United States
State Reduces Traffic Deaths Up To July
Oklahoma reports a 35 percent year to year drop in highway fatalities for the period through July. Through mid July there were 11 deaths in the two weeks just ended, down from 27 in the first half of July last year. Since January 1, 215 deaths occurred on state highways, versus 280 last year. Patrol notes expected July traffic rise but cites improved law enforcement and a drop in drunken driving as saving lives. Commissioner Walter B. Johnson urged strict enforcement and no favoritism.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Department of Public Safety
Oklahoma Patrol
Walter B. Johnson
Shop Picketing Ends as Butcher Shop Wins Injunction
Philadelphia July 19 AFL union had picketed a butcher shop for two months seeking a closed shop. Proprietor Samuel Flashner obtained an anti-picketing injunction yesterday. The shop employs one person. Scotland per capita chocolate consumption noted as higher than most of the United Kingdom.
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Philadelphia
AFL
Samuel Flashner
Scotland
United Kingdom
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I. Las Cummings
Britton Turner
Frank Blair
Roswell
Julius
Harrington
Highway Patrol
Franco
Badman
Federal Employment Service
National Youth Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
The
Security Administration
Montana Rock Quarry
Looney
Barnett
Highway Dept
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