County Real Estate Valuation Drops 1933 Loss Hits 325000
Total county real estate value for 1933 falls to 8 524 746 from 8 850 252 in 1932 as a 20 percent valuation cut last year reduces assets. Assessments completed by Charley W. Floyd show a county loss of 325 506 with June 5 hearings for objections. personal property and township figures to follow.
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Pontotec County
Charley W. Floyd
County Equalization Board
Honiday
Floyd
Bill Bever
Allen
Chickasaw
Francis
Fitzhugh
Maxwell
Midland
Stonewall
Cithes Ada
Rott
Evn Tehecetaanee Sistet
ARENA
I Senre Machine
Annes
Mighty dynamite blast breaks ore at Leadville
In Leadville Colorado on May 25 miners used sixty tons of explosive to crack about 350 000 tons of molybdenum ore and possibly 600 000 more may cave later. The blast cost 1 590 000 dollars with dynamite alone at 15 000. Two hundred miners were laid off for safety. Spectators saw only snow movement and smoke from Bartlett mountain.
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Leadville
Colo
Climax Molybdenum Company
Bartlett Mountain
Final Report of Cotton Ginnings in Oklahoma County
Oklahoma City May 25. The final report on quantities of cotton ginned by counties as reported by the department of commerce bureau of the census on March 20, 1933 is given below. Quantities are in running bales counting round as half bales and lintners are not included.
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Oklahoma City
Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census
Oklahoma editors elect James Nance president in 1934 plans
James C. Nance state senator publisher of Walters Herald was elected president of the Oklahoma Press association, succeeding Lea M. Nichols. Nichols joins the executive committee. Claremore chosen for the 1934 meeting. New officers include Henthorne Archibald Vandement Tarman and Dyer. The executive committee features Nichols Burtis Herschberger Jackson Woods Harding.
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Durant Democrat
P. B. Vandement
Yukon
Fred Tarman
Norman Transcript
Ray Dyer
L. M. Nichols
Buff Burtis
Clinton
Chris Herschberger
Medford
James T. Jackson
Seminole
Merle Woods
el Reno
Ll. D. Harding
Pryor
McKeever and King Almost Battle in Seminole Oil Suit
Quick intervention by other attorneys prevented a physical clash between Horace G. McKeever of Champlin Refining and A. S. King of the state tax commission. The near confrontation occurred in a suit over oil stored in five Champlin tanks two miles south of Seminole, with Cimarron Valley Pipeline handling the oil.
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Champlin
McKeever
Tax Commission
Superior Court
C. Guy Cutlip
Cutlip
Champlin Company
Phillips Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
Clark Pipeline Company
Seminole
Horace G. McKeever
Champlin Refining Company
A. S. King
State Tax Commission
Champlin Tanks
Cimarron Valley Pipeline Company
Beer ruled out of Lonoke County Arkansas
Lonoke County court enjoins Bert Wilkerson and N B Whayne of England from selling beer despite witnesses including England Mayor W O Williams and Chief C W Whayne. Williams testified beer was not intoxicating and even boasted it did not affect him. England council had authorized sale by oral resolution with plans to appeal.
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Lonoka
Ark
Lonoke County
W. J. Waggoner
Bert Wilkerson
N. B. Whayne
England
W. O. Williams
C. W. Whayne
Williams
Susa Young Gates 77 Prominent LDS Writer Dies in Salt Lake
Mrs Susa Young Gates eldest surviving child of Brigham Young dies at 77 in Salt Lake City following influenza and heart complications. A longtime LDS church figure and author she penned several books including a biography of her father.
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Salt Lake City
Susa Young Gates
Brigham Young
Lion House
Latter Day Saints’ Church
Man with New Car Waits for Permission to Fish
A man who has just bought a car endures delays hoping his wife will permit a fishing trip after he endures a third scratch. The humorous line suggests domestic patience and patience before freedom to drive.
Roosevelt and Robinson Set June 10 Aim to Adjourn
US President Roosevelt and Senator Robinson of Arkansas fixed June 10 as the adjournment goal for the extra session. He will send a tariff authority resolution next week to raise or lower duties under reciprocal deals with other nations with an implied limit around 5 to 9 percent. New agreements and rates would be sent to Congress for disapproval within 60 days if desired. Robinson does not expect war debt action this session but foresees a White House message on debt payments due June 15.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robinson
Arkansas
Congress
White House
Squeeze to adjourn Congress by mid June intensifies
Washington May 27 The drive to adjourn by mid June gains pace as both houses face a bulk of bills. The House passed the industrial recovery bill 3235 to 76 and awaits Senate action on railroad reorganization and other measures while aiming to finish quickly. Major items include tax changes, tariff power for Roosevelt, oil industry regulation, and a public works control bill. The Morgan inquiry spurred a Glass reform bill and tax provisions. The Senate stalled on a six hour day tweak amid a push to pass the railroad bill.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Public Works Industrial Control
Morgan
Senate Banking Committee
Wheeler Dmont
Four Powers Agree on Ten Years Peace Plan
A quoted headline contemplates extending a decade of peace into a century of progress, suggesting bold celebration and long term goals beyond the ten year pact. The exchange hints at broader ambitions for postwar stability and development.
Brookhart Appointed Export Adviser to Boost Farm Exports
The administration named former Senator Smith W Brookhart of Iowa as a special adviser to George N Peek to explore boosting American farm exports while reports show April declines. Export data show farm products at 41 percent of prewar averages with fruit and tobacco leading gains.
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Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Brookhart
Europe
George N. Peek
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Justice Court Dismisses Burglary Case Against Blocker Burns
In a Sunday report Justice J. D. Willoughby found insufficient evidence at a preliminary hearing and ordered Cub Blocker and Haskell Burns released after charges of second degree burglary for allegedly stealing hydraulic jacks from the Santa Fe railroad. The same session freed William Turner and Charley Smith after evidence suggested conjoint robbery involving about $8.20 from S. W. Buskirk. Ben Bratcher faces second degree burglary charges for breaking into a garage at 431 West Main and stealing roughly $100 of Ralph Berry’s equipment.
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Cub Blocker
Haskell Burns
J. D. Willoughby
Blocker
Burns
Santa Fe Railroad
William Turner
Charley Smith
Willoughby
S. W. Buskirk
Charles
Ben Bratcher
West Main
Ralph Berry
State note issue to retire warrants in Oklahoma
Oklahoma will issue 8.73 million dollars in new treasury notes to retire its latest deficit and fund 1913 bond issues. State Treasurer Ray O Weems said early issuance will cover all six percent non payable warrants from 1930 1931 and 1932 with the last 1913 bond series 248100 being called October 1.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Treasury
Ray O. Weems
Weems
Presbyterians back foreign missions board amid fundatmental rift
In Columbus in May 97 the general assembly voted confidence in the Board of Foreign Missions. The decision follows strong attacks by ultra fundamentalists led by Dr J Gresham Machen who accused the board of modernist tendencies and of straddling on Pearl Buck’s resignation as missionary to China.
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Columbus
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church In
Board of Foreign Missions
J. Gresham Machen
Philadelphia
Joint Confederate Veterans Reunion Set for Chickasha
Chickasha hosts June 6 to 8 three organization reunion with a parade featuring bands drum corps and Indians from Anadarko more than 100 riders on horseback floats from civic clubs a barbecue and a pageant of progress. Mrs. B E Chaney heads the UDC with G L Butterworth and Clifton Ratliff among officers to attend.
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Anadarko
Chickasha
American Legion
Duncan
Cyril
Kiltie
Chickasha Legion Auxiliary
Oklahoma College For Women
Riverside
Bank Holdup in Renesselaer County Probes Floyd Link
Six bandits held up a Renesselaer county bank then opened fire as police closed in. Detectives Stevens and Rabe were shot. Stevens died later. The robbers fled in a blue sedan with about $2,000. Floyd was suspected but not confirmed in the alarm.
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Renesselaer
N. Y
Renesselaer County
Lee
Mass
Charles
Pretty Boy" Floyd
Oklahoma
Ohio
Floyd
Nicholas Walters
James A. Stevens
Frederick Rabe
Stevens
Albany
Bradley
Pearl Street
Rabe
Rensselaer
Phillips Proposes Major Overhaul of Oklahoma Schools
Oklahoma City May 27 Rep Leon Phillips Oakfuskee County a former teacher called for revolutionary changes to give every child an equal chance He warned the state must reorganize its archaic school system before new taxes come in His proposals include repealing the weak aid law eliminating local levies abolishing district boards and creating county boards to govern schools with local teacher selection and management He also urged a state levy by the equalization board if special taxes fail to raise enough revenue
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Oklahoma City
Leon Phillips
Oakfuskee County
Oklahoma
Phillips
State Equalization Board
Anti beer forces rally for fray in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City May 29 Anti beer forces plan a strong state organization to oppose 3.2 per cent beer in the July 11 election. Rev G Lemuel Fenn says local support is rising with precinct chairs in Tulsa Cleveland Garfield and Kay counties. He expects the drys to finance the vote by public subscription totaling about 91500.
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Oklahoma City
G. Lemuel Fenn
Prohibition
Fenn
Tulsa
Cleveland
Garfield
Kay
Oklahoma
Floyd still elusive bandit leader in Oklahoma chase
Oklahoma City notes that police in Rensselaer New York have spread a net for Charles Arthur Floyd the Pretty Boy bandit following a bank robbery attempt. Floyd has eluded capture for years and is believed to hide somewhere in the east with various reports over time.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Rensselaer
N. Y
Charles Arthur
Pretty Boy
Floyd
George Birdwell
Boley
Muskogee Sheriff On Trial In Federal Prison Food Case
Muskogee Oklahoma May 29 The ouster trial of W S Cannon the suspended sheriff accused of receiving 50 cents a day to feed federal prisoners at the county jail and not sharing profits with the county is under way in district court Cannon counsel has called a dozen eastern Oklahoma sheriffs to testify on feeding practices and a jury selection was under way
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Muskogee
W. S. Cannon
Cannon
Oklahoma
Liquid banks of old built strength beyond watered stock
A concise newsroom remark contrasts sturdy liquid banks with watered stock, implying sound financial practice and resilience as essential to enduring stability in banking.
Attempt to Kill Charges Filed in Gas Theft Shooting
Sam Shockley and Perry Simpson face assault with intent to kill charges after a nighttime shooting at S S G Heflin as he investigated suspected gasoline theft from his car. Heflin, former county superintendent of schools, is moving to Noble to become state superintendent.
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Sam Shockley
S&s G
Heflin
Noble
Oklahoma
Tupelo
Hastings Beer Bill Passed by House
The Hastings bill to permit sale of 3.2 per cent beer in Oklahoma passed the U S House and was sent to the Senate. Representative Hastings said the measure ensures legality of 3.2 beer if Oklahoma voters approve, noting prior Indian Territory restrictions. The bill legalizes manufacture sale or possession of 3.2 per cent beer in Oklahoma upon majority approval.
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Washington
Hastings
Oklahoma
House
Senate
D. Okla
Indian Territory
Congress
State of
Murray Will Not Take Witness Stand
Oklahoma City May 29 Governor Murray refused to testify before a senate committee probing alleged irregularities in the 60 million dollar school land department. Chairman Rizley reported the governor said he would not appear, stating his message to the houses contains what he wishes to say. Beckett, secretary of the school land commission, urged as first witness to provide background.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Senate
Ross Rizley
Rizley
Risley
A. L. Beckett
School Land Commission
Beckett
Resale Moratorium Attack in Court
In Oklahoma City on May 29, 777A a suit challenges county officials authority to end tax resales during economic stress. J G Harden holds 15000 Mangum Street improvement bonds and sues Greer County Treasurer Kate Gardiner to force a resale on delinquent property bid in by the county at tax sale. The district court had denied jurisdiction. A Surprise Indeed.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Mangum
J. G. Harden
Kate Gardiner
Greer County
Thieves Steal Bag With Three Rattlers and King Snake
A restaurant theft yields a small brown handbag containing three large rattlesnakes and one king snake. Dr. Charles H Mayo laments fast paced life while a speed cop agrees.
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Los Angeles
Charles H. Mayo
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