Memorial Day Week-End Death Toll Tops 300 Across Nation
Violent deaths totaled at least 372 during the four day Memorial Day week end from Saturday to Tuesday. Highway crashes caused over 205 fatalities with 85 drownings. In Oklahoma nine deaths were recorded, including a traffic dive. Notable incidents included Floyd Roberts’s three car pileup in Indianapolis. Major resorts saw no New York auto deaths despite heavy beach crowding.
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School Land Board Names Adjusters
Oklahoma City May 41 Pi Charles B Steele secretary of the school land commission announced today the board had appointed eight adjusters and two new assistants. Seven adjusters were authorized by the Legislature. Another place was left vacant by the death of John S Stone Muskogee. Two assistants were named as adjusters J M Clark and Louie Morrison Woody Hunt promoted from soil conservation to adjuster. C R Hughes McAlester and T L Smith Ardmore named to replace Clark and Morrison as assistants. Other new adjusters are Bira Long Avery A Shaw Boise City R H Bennett and Jack Barnett Oklahoma City and Frank Wooden former mayor of Tulsa. The $2000 salaries of the adjusters paid from a fund from land rentals.
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Names Britain In Propaganda Charge
Berlin reports a German official spokesman accused Britain of seeking a terrorist center in Germany and hinted at lodging a protest in London. The charge cites a Southport England speech by Labour MP Philip Noel-Baker at a Labour Party congress about feeding propaganda to illegal German publications. Foreign Office quarters called "England's egal methods."
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Rose Carina Ends Her Hunger Strike in Hospital
In Philadelphia on May 31 Mrs Rose Carina aged 43 known as the Kiss of Death woman in the east’s mass murder probe ended a nine day hunger and thirst strike after voluntary nourishment began. She faces a murder charge tied to a syndicate with many arrests in the case.
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Rose Carina
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James Kelly
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Could Happen Only In This Country Confederate Veterans Meet in Oklahoma
CHICKASHA May 31 A Oklahoma Confed erate convention heard L A Marion past state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans say northern and southern veterans returning from Gettysburg reunion felt their nation is the greatest on earth The convention closed today after officer elections Southern crosses of honor were awarded to several veterans present and not here Crosses of military service went to Watson and Joe D Rhodes The Underwood Memorial cup went to the Altmore delegation for the most perfect per capita and the Hailey Memorial cup to Oklahoma City chapter 1181 for the most perfect papers Lawton and Shawnee were cited for membership increases.
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Oklahoma City
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Cordell
Blackburn Messenger
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Joe D. Rhodes
Tulsa
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D.M. Hailey
Damage Suit Filed Over Wreck Near Ada Oklahoma
J W Cox sues Virgil Manahan in district court for 2598 damages from a October 10 1938 crash on highway 43 eight miles north of Ada. Cox alleges Manahan drove at speed and on Coxs side causing injuries and two weeks bed rest plus 2500 in damages and 398 for repairs to the pickup.
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Virgil Manahen
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Manahan
J Cox
Mother dog acts as nurse to nine rabbit orphans
Three orphaned baby rabbits found by field workers were given to Spanky a three year old fox terrier in Tulla Betty Sue Pitts fed the rabbits using a toy nursing bottle Spanky with three pups watched then gently moved each bunny from the box to her care Betty Sue reports the rabbits pups and Spanky are doing nicely
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Cole Transferred to Enid J C Penney Assistant Manager
Cole, Ada J C Penney assistant manager, is transferred to Enid to become assistant manager there. He has 11 years with the company and will leave Sunday for vacation before reporting June 19. He came to Ada from Liberal Kansas and has a wife and two children Paul Richard and Kenneth Ray. Ralph CaHail of Enid will replace him in Ada. CaHail and his two daughters will move to Ada June 19.
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Ada area residents attend summer sessions and events
Ada and Holdenville residents join relatives visiting in Ada for Memorial Day as students and teachers prepare for East Central College summer term. Oklahoma citys provide medical care while state officials discuss airline route applications and the Civil Aeronautics Authority plans hearings on new schedules.
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Ethel Reed
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Okmulgee
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Federal budget outlook shows near billion-dollar increase
Washington on May 31 reports indicate the federal government’s new fiscal year will require about $1 billion more than the current year excluding relief. The 11 regular appropriation bills total $3694,145,987 above last year with additional supplemental estimates for the army and other items pending.
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Mrs Vanderbilt Grieves Over Loss of Transatlantic Flier
Mrs Helen Vanderbilt the estranged wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr sought news from Los Angeles through a friend about Thomas H Smith a 24 year old flyer believed lost on a trans Atlantic flight. Smith acted as Vanderbilt's business representative and reportedly was her former sweetheart from Clarksburg West Virginia.
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Helen Warner Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Los Angeles
Thomas H. Smith
Smith
Auto Seizure Date Delayed to July First This Year
Oklahoma City May 31. Automobiles without license tags will not be seized until July 1 while owners face arrest since May 2 for buying plates. Tax Commissioner J. D. Dunn says the legislature extended the purchase time by 30 days from June 1. A five cent daily penalty applies to late purchases and July 1 will bring automatic license fee doubling for delinquent motorists.
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J. D. Dunn
Kay County Seeks Rehearing On Levy Authority
Fi Attorneys for the Kay County excise board filed a petition for rehearing with the state supreme court today seeking reversal of a recent decision that held the board had no authority.
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Kay County Excise Board
State Supreme Court
Girl Saves Self Three Others In Poisoning Effort
In Clinton Oklahoma a 16 year old girl Marie Watson rescued four other children from a poisoning attempt using quinine capsules given by their destitute mother. Her brother Jerry died after ingestion. The mother Ida Watson suffered a self inflicted throat wound and was taken to hospital as authorities consider charges. Sheriff Everett Stambaugh said the case was referred to the county attorney. The children received emergency treatment and are recovering. Duke Watson, the father, faced questions about motive. The incident began when the mother summoned the children and had them swallow capsules claiming quinine for malaria. In other news, wheat prices rose in Lawton as a 43 bushel load sold for sixty two cents per bushel.
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Evacuation of Millions To Leave London Mere Village If War Comes
London plans to evacuate millions if war breaks out with mass exodus from the metropolis. Half a million school children and as many mothers to be sheltered in the country, plus 2,000,000 adults possibly evacuated. Government offices to scatter, with key departments relocated out of London to protect essential services.
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Germany bans broadcasting of religious services
The German government quietly prohibits radio broadcasts of religious services and restricts Bible and tract sales. Officials say radio is a state instrument, not a church tool, amid church-state friction and subsidies cuts to Lutheran and Evangelical clergy.
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Pen's Place For Learning Wrong Pen's Place For Learning
Lawton Oklahoma May 31 A federal judge told a 19 year old thief and five others that the best path to citizenship is church right company work and paying debts The youth stole gasoline from an army tractor at Fort Sill to drive his car The judge warned others that those shot or jailed began with similar acts In Oroville California the Butte County board of supervisors who aided Norman Mason with prosthetic and living costs now seeks $168 reimbursement from his estate
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Need Workers Not Cosmetics Claim in Berlin May 31
Berlin reports a claim about labor priorities in the German capital on May 31. The article references Das Schwarze Korps, the publication linked to the black-uniformed elite guards.
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Many Indian Treaties Met Too Smart For Their Own Good
Washington on May 31 reports that unreliable treaty terms from the 19th century haunt the United States as disputes arise over land, waters, and hunting rights. Indians seek compensation while officials warn claims could top $5,000,000. Clashes with state laws and tribal guarantees emerge, from Niagara bed rights to Oregon hunting profits, California dog licenses, and a Seneca independence appeal to New York mandates.
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Lady Luck Looks Hard For Woman
In Omaha on May 31 Mrs. John Donoghue, a bookkeeper’s wife, bet on the wrong horses in the Ak-Sar-Ben daily double. She asked for No 4 in race one and No 11 in race two, both winners, netting her 759.50 from one of two daily double tickets.
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Hasty ambulance joke ends in punch line
A medical convention visitor in Durant sends a telegram asking his wife to meet him with an ambulance. She arrives with staff and a coach, only to learn it was a joke. he goes to his office afterward.
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Alfred Baker
American Medical Association
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