Valley View Hospital opens for patients at noon Wednesday
The Valley View hospital opened at noon on Wednesday for patient reception after an informal ceremony last Sunday. Superintendent Dr Huston K Spangler noted the staff was busy integrating the new facility, built for over 300000 with Commonwealth Fund aid, as Ada civic leaders celebrate the modern hospital.
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Valley View Hospital
Huston K. Spangler
Commonwealth Fund of
New York City
Ada
Spangler
Wolfskill Rites Set For Today
Funeral services for C. J. Wolfskill 37 head of Ada Oil to be held Thursday morning at First Methodist Ada with Rev. W L Blackburn officiating. Burial at Slaton Texas. He leaves widow and two children. Wolfskill active in civic affairs as Ada Lions club member and born in California moved to Texas in 1925. He helped organize Ada Oil in 1936 and led operations thereafter.
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C. J. Wolfskill
Ada Oil Company
First Methodist Church
Ada
W. L. Blackburn
Slaton
Texas
Wolfskill
Air Company
Ada Lions Club
California
Standard Oil
Wolfskir
New Typhoid Clinic Opens in Pleasant Hill
A new typhoid clinic started Wednesday at Pleasant Hill by the City-County Health unit staff. It is the newest of several clinics aiming to reduce disease spread in Pontotoc county with six current cases—five in the county and one in Ada—isolated and traced to carriers. Dr. Glen W. McDonald, director, said no epidemic exists. The Crippled Children's commission held a crippled children’s clinic in the health unit offices Wednesday afternoon with Dr. R. L. Nowell of Oklahoma City in charge.
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Pleasant Hill
Ponto Oc County
Ada
Glen W. McDonald
Crippled Children’s Commission
Crippled Children's Clinic
R. L. Nowell
Oklahoma City
Pessimist Oather Harp Finds Mornings Hard
A quip about the misery of rising early with a night of listening to radio serials, noting a woman who keeps up with all the broadcasts has a tough day ahead.
Senate group cracks down on campaigns in Tennessee race
The Senate campaign expenditures committee warned of potential election contests in Tennessee after hearing a report from its investigator. It cited schemes to influence votes and called for probes into distribution of a political circular by the Farm Security Administration in South Dakota. Investigators were to be dispatched to Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, and California, with earlier reports from Pennsylvania and Kentucky returning for more information.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Tennessee
Senate
Sen
George L. Berry
Tom Stewart
J. Ridley Mitchell
John &. Neal
G. L. Powell
Neal
Farley
Farm Security Administration
South Dakota
Frank
FSA
Yankton
S. C
Tom Berry
Georgia
Tinais
Indiana
Mexico City President rejects U S arbitration demand
President Lazzero Cardenas indicated Mexico will reject the United States call for arbitration over expropriation of American owned farms. He said Mexico prefers indemnities without cash payments and will respond to the notes to Secretary of State Cordell next week.
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Mexico City
Lazzero Cardenas
Mexico
United States
Cardenas
Cordell
Ward Jump Costs Explored After Death Leap at Gotham Hotel
Unofficial estimates place the cost of John Ward's 17 story jump near the Gotham hotel around 100000 dollars with shops on Fifth Avenue and nearby streets largely idle as police and fire units cordon the area. The scene drew about 1000 officers and multiple ambulances. no official figure exists. John Davis led the first polar expedition in 587.
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New York
John Ward
Gotham
Viciity
Fifth Avenue
Ward
John Davis
Great Britain
RFC Will Aid Public Works By New Loans
Washington reports that RFC and PWA will split funding roles to expand public works. Jesse Jones states RFC will provide loans for revenue producing projects while PWA concentrates on outright grants. The arrangement aims to accelerate road and bridge programs through combined lending and grant support.
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RFC
Washington
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance
Roosevelt
Jones
PWA
Harold L. Tekes
Ickes
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Toll Chasges
Young Bride Found Shot in Oklahoma Cafe Slaying
Boswell Oklahoma July 27 a jury ruled Elmer Haddock 54 fatally shot his bride of less than two weeks Mrs Dale Rogers Haddock 19 before turning the pistol on himself at a small cafe he ran Police said a .38 caliber pistol was used and Haddock then killed himself Funeral arrangements awaited word on survivors with relatives thought to be in Bunch Adair County Oklahoma Also mentions a Kansas City reference to Harley Wyatt and a wasp noise unrelated to the main incident.
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Boswell
Elmer Haddock
Haddock
Dale Rogers
Bunch
Adair County
Oklahoma
Highway 99 to Replace State Highway 48 Across Oklahoma
Oklahoma highway designations shift as State Highway 48 markers become No 99 markers statewide except near the Canadian River bridge northward through Konawa to Salt Creek. No. 99 will include former S H 48 S B Kansas routes and parts of S H 50 and another Nebraska road, with S H 99 paralleling No 3 to Seminole.
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Canadian River Bridge
Konawa
Salt Creek
Oklahoma
S. B
Kansas
Nebraska
Canadian River
Seminole
Antlers
Ada
Shawnee
Pauls Valley
Chickasha
Wane Hours Bill Attacked in Oklahoma Supreme Court
The Associated Industries of Oklahoma filed a brief contending the minimum wage and maximum hours law is unconstitutional. It argues delegated legislative power to an administrative board, due process violations, and misalignment of title and subject matter across nine industry orders including laundry, dry cleaning, retail, and hospitality.
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Oklahoma City
Associated Industries of
Oklahoma
State Supreme Court
Duel Blamed For Death Of Two Men
Chicago dispatch reports a fatal duel between two men named John Smiter and John Smoter. Neighbors recall a tense living arrangement after financial strain. Both men were found dead with pistols near them, one a .22 and the other a .45, prompting police to theorize a duel ended in mutual death.
Charles Fly In Primary Kansas Senator Nomination
In Kansas July 27 to August 2 the Republican primary features Rev. Gerald B. Winrod contesting against Clyde M. Reed and others for the Senate nomination. National figures condemn Winrod as a peddler of religious and racial hatred though he denies fascist leanings. The outcome will impact the November race for the Senate seat.
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Topeka
Kas
Plains
Kansas
Gerald B. Winrod
William Allen White
Winrod
Jesse Clyde Fisher
Fighting Rages On Ebro Front Near Racquera
Fighting rages along the Ebro river boundary near Racquera as Loyalist forces push back Italian Blackshirts Moroccan regiments and other insurgent units in Gendalia. Government reports say 7,000 prisoners captured, many Italians and Moroccans, as a surprise Loyalist offense enters the streets with heavy fire.
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Racquera
Spain
Ebro
Catellonia
International Brigade
Gendala
Gendalia
Russia Opens Jap Purge in Far East Warning
Moscow dispatch reports a merciless purge of Japanese spies and conspirators in the Vladivostok region near the Manchukuo border. The action, directed by Joseph Stalin, involves the Far Eastern Maritime Province and the Red Army and Navy, said to have begun weeks ago under his personal order.
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Moscow
Russia
Vladivostok
Far East
Manchoukun
Japan
Vladivasiik
Far
Siberia
Red Army
Toseph Stalin
East Central To Graduate Large Class
East Central State Teachers College will graduate a large class of 198 Thursday morning. The commencement program and conferring of degrees will be in the college auditorium at 10 o clock. Dr. John W. Raley president of Oklahoma Baptist University will deliver the graduation address. He is known in Ada as a speaker and representative of the school he heads. The class is the largest ever to graduate from East Central. The college prepares for August registration and looks toward the fall term starting in early September.
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East Central State Teachers College
John W. Raley
Oklahoma Baptist University
Ada
East Central
State Army Leader Dies in Portland Oregon
Fi Brig Gen Joseph Patrick O Neil 74 led the 175th Brigade in the 90th division during World War I. An Oklahoma figure, he retired in 1926 and last served as senior instructor for the Oklahoma National Guard. He organized the 179th brigade at Camp Travis and commanded in France before the Rhine occupation.
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Oklahoma City
Joseph Patrick O'Neil
Oklahoma
Portland
Ore
Tulsa
Oklahoma National Guard
O'Neil
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Texas
United States
France
Hedge trial set this fall Oklahoma City inventor in forgery case
Oklahoma City inventor and patent broker Mrs Bess M Hedge faces a second degree forgery charge tied to a check linked to an embezzlement case. County Attorney Lewis R Morris said trials will be scheduled early in the autumn market. Hedge is free on bond after requesting an early trial. Lex A Collins former postal employee and credit union treasurer received a five year sentence.
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Oklahoma City
Lewis R. Morris
Bess M. Hedge
Lex A. Collins
Postal Employes Credit Union
Wee Tiven
Heide
Baby Drowns In Tub In Durant Area
Lucille Taylor three month old daughter of Mr and Mrs L T Taylor died after rolling from her bed into a tub of water at their home in Wapanucka Oklahoma about 30 miles north of here. Mrs Taylor stated she left the child alone for about 15 minutes.
Government Agencies Spent 22 Billion Since 1932 Battle
Washington dispatch reports that federal and state outlays to fight low mood and unemployment have totaled nearly 22 billion dollars since 1932. Treasury figures show 16.6 billion in emergency federal appropriations, with major shares for highway construction and relief, plus substantial spending across public works, housing, utilities, education, and Rural Resettlement programs.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
Senate
Hughes May Seek Court Battle Over County Treasurer Choice
W W Hughes named successor to resigning county treasurer Tommy Ford signaled Wednesday that he may sue to win the office. His bond was refused Wednesday afternoon. he currently serves as second deputy in the treasurer's office.
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Ww. N. Hughes
Tommy Ford
Adans Capture League Title in Canadian Valley Play
Ada Independents win the Canadian Valley league championship 9 to 6 over Holdenville Adams to secure a spot in the 1938 sandlot tournament. Tommy Hawk sparks Ada with a triple in the fifth. Ada tallies six runs on walks, errors, squeeze bunts and doubles by Nicely and Jimmy Davidson. Haldenville rallies late but falls short, collecting six runs in the eighth after six straight hits.
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Holdenville
Ada Independents
Holdenville Adams
Clothiers
Ada
Tommy Hawk
Nicely
Jimmy Davidson
Haldenville
Mrs Bilbo May Run Against Him
Jackson Mississippi July 27 Mrs Theodore G Bilbo divorced wife of United States Senator Bilbo said she was considering opposing him for the senatorial nomination in 1940 She added she had thought of running against him long before the divorce and that she could give a good talk though not much of a speaker She and the senator married 34 years separated last week with troubles dating to his governorship from 1928 to 1932
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Jackson
Miss
J-P
Theodore G. Bilbo
United States
Mississippi
Bilba
Bilbo
Holdenville merchants told to remove slot machines
Holdenville merchants received a warning from Hughes County attorney Harvey Powell that slot machines must be removed. He said operators risk wrecking the machines and facing charges if they persist, noting a recent influx of marble boards and token-based machines used to buy cigarettes.
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Holdenville
Okla
Hughes County Attorney's Office
Harvey Powell
Girl on Fifth Avenue Plunges From Ledge After Suicide Attempt
Police rescued Betty Voruriton a 24 year old Irvington New Jersey woman from a ledge of a 12 story building at Fifth avenue and 12nd street in New York City. She told officers I should have done it the first time after leaping from the ledge. The incident followed a separate leap by John Ward from the 17th floor of the Hotel Gotham nearby. Workers in the Empire State Building sighted her and alerted police.
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New York
Betty Voruriton
Irvington
N. J
Fifth Avenue
12Nd Street
John Ward
Gotham
Empire State Building
Bcige
Tobacco Men Attack AAA in Georgia and Florida
Georgia and Florida tobacco growers challenged the validity of the AAA farm marketing quotas on the eve of the 1938 sales season and obtained an injunction against the penalty practice, Valdosta Georgia reports indicate.
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Valdosta
Georgia
Florida
AAA
Bond Crisis As New Board Rejects Hughes
A tangled Pontotoc County courthouse dispute over two sets of commissioners and two treasurers prompted the new Oklahoma county board to disapprove the bond of Hughes, named treasurer by the old board. The action followed questions of authority after resignations and appointments, with County Attorney Stanfield seeking an attorney general opinion. The board, led by Elam as chairman, awaits the AG's ruling before further moves.
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Pontotoc County
Attorney General
Oklahoma City
Virgil Stanfield
Richard
Elam
Sam Tew
George Collins
John Boyce McKeel
Tew
Walter Hughes
R. J. Pallock
Grady Miller
Hughes
Tommy Ford
Stonewall
Miller
Pollock
Hall
Caldwell
Myself
Mr. Tew
Ocmissioners
Offfer
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Public Work Administration
Kansas -City
Harley Wyatt
Wyatt
Tangle
Supreme Court
Chicago
John Smoter
John Smioter
sNeighbors
Big John
Little John
Alfred Jenner
Charles Fly
Wintod
J. W. Raley
Congress
Army
Navy
WPA
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
CCC
Bureau of Public Roads
Adans
Independents
Hughes’ Bond
New Board
Stanfield
Bond
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