Bicycle Flag Day Parade Set for June 14 in Ada
The Pontotoc Area council invites Boy Scouts and Cubs with bicycles wagons or scooters to join a parade on Monday June 14 at 10 am starting in front of the College shop East Main Ada. Open to allied groups and veterans on leave. prizes for best decorated bikes wagons and scooters. Only registered Scouts may win prizes.
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Boy Scouts
Pontotoc
Eg Atoka
Johnston Counies
College
East Main
Ada
Legionnaires
Rainbow Girls
Legion Auxiliary
Ary
Ross White Dies at Home in Ada Oklahoma
Ross W. White aged 54 died at his Ada home Tuesday night after a brief illness. He was construction foreman for the Oklahoma Portland Cement Co. plant here. Survived by widow Artie Iya White, a daughter Mrs. John Flynn of Oklahoma City, three sons Roy, Dean and Ray, two sisters Mrs. W. G. Goss of Mena Arkansas and Mrs. Nellie Davis of Los Angeles, and a brother Parker White of Los Angeles. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Smith Funeral Home with a Masonic graveside service. White was born in 1889 in Mena Arkansas and moved to Ada 25 years ago after marriage in 1910.
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Ross W. White
Oklahoma Portland Cement Co
Smith Funeral Home
White
Mena
Ark
Ada
Artie Iya White
South Ash
John Flynn
Oklahoma City
Roy White
U. S. Army Foreign Service
Dean
Ray White
W. G. Goss
Nellie Davis
Los Angeles
Calif
Parker White
All-Army Show Debuts in New Guinea Jungle Tour
An all Army and Australian joint production titled Fifty-Fifty opened at a New Guinea post and will tour through the jungle. The three hour revue features a hot band, skits, specialties, and a chorus line of lip-sticked blondes, thrilling the audience of Allied troops.
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New Guinea
New Guinea Post
Soandio
Whatchamacallim
Okada Says Japan Must Destroy US and Britain
Tadahiko Okada, speaker of Japan’s house, told a mass meeting in Tokyo that Japan must utterly destroy the United States and Britain or be destroyed herself. He warned there will be no half measures and framed the war as survival of the fittest.
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Associated Press
Tadahiko Okada
House of Representatives
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Britain
Tokyo Radio
Okada
American fliers watch British shell Pantelleria from high altitudes
At a US fighter base in North Africa June 8 an American air crew watched British naval bombardment of Pantelleria while American planes escorted Flying Fortresses. Lieut. Col. Troy Keith called the view a grandstand seat at 20,000 feet as ships pounded the Italian island.
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U. S
North Africa
Pantelleria
Tunisia
Sicily
Troy Keith
San Jose
Calif
Italy
Keith
Richard E. Decker
Coffeyville
Kas
William G. Newman
Dewey
Okla
Committee Takes Up Nichols Case
A house elections committee met in executive session to consider Rep. Jack Nichols Oklahoma district contest over late transcript filing. Clark contends fraud and improper certification. Hyde acknowledges lateness but says Nichols rights were not substantially affected. Nichols plans to resign to join Transcontinental and Western Air with higher pay.
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Washington
House Elections Committee
Jack Nichols
Oklahoma
E. O. Clark
Stigler
Okla
Nichols
Herbert K. Hyde
Oklahoma City
Clark
Congress
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Right Whale and Sulphur-bottom Spout Features
The right whale's spout rises and breaks near the summit while the spout of the sulphur-bottom forms a tall thick column.
Italy flags three war years with mixed results and losses
A Rome radio broadcast marked three years since Mussolini's war entry, noting 633,251 Italian casualties and few immediate gains. It warned of a more direct southern threat and claimed Italy will endure. It cited 622,251 total Allied war-year casualties with breakdowns of killed, wounded, and missing.
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Associated Press
Rome
Mussolini
England
France
Roosevelt
Il Duce
Iiterul
Italy
Mediterranean
Kaiam
Federal Communications Commission
Tunisia
Altus Treasurer Suspended Amid Audit Findings
Altus city officials suspended City Treasurer Clyde Tribble while a final audit of his books is underway. Auditor A W Corey reported an apparent $6000 shortage. Roy Giles was seated temporarily as treasurer, with about ten days needed to complete the audit.
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Altus
Clyde Tribble
A. W. Corey
Oklahoma City
T. O. Burch
Roy Giles
Tribble
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News ads
Classified notices in Ada News emphasize higher value through vested ads boosting exposure. Businesses invest more for longer term listings, aiming to maximize response and readership impact across local markets.
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Ada News
Dam's Part In Floods Told In Washington
The House flood control committee heard testimony on the Grand river dam's role in Oklahoma and Arkansas floods last month. Engineers disagreed on flood protection, noting the dam was built as a power project with limited flood control potential without downstream dams at Markham Ferry and Fort Gibson. Governor Adkins urged action to improve flood protection consistent with the war effort.
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Washington
Cpthe
Grand River
Oklahoma
Arkansas
House
House Flood Control Committee
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
Thomas M. Robbins
Army Engineers
Markham Ferry
Fort Gibson
Fort Smith, Ark
Oirds
Robbins
Whittington
Congress
Douglas Wright
Homer Adkins
Display Flag Daily Now Flag Day Observance Today
Flag Day is June 14 and Flag Week has begun. Norman Howard Post of the American Legion asks businesses to display the flag daily through June 14 and urges all households with flags to fly the Stars and Stripes. Roosevelt calls citizens to honor all 32 United Nations flags. Treasury suggests supporting war bond sales during flag week. The flag now flies on every continent except a list of occupied sites. it has since reappeared in the Aleutians Attu Guadalcanal and in British New Guinea.
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Norman Howard Post
The
American Legion
Roosevelt
United States
United Nations
Treasury Department
Western Hemisphere
Kiska
Wake Island
Philippines
Baker Islane
Guam
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Palmyra
Aleutians
Attu
Guadalcanal
British New Guinea
Secretary Knox finds echoes of Pearl Harbor in Tokyo and Berlin
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told Naval Academy midshipmen that secret information shows Tokyo and Berlin feel like the United States did after Pearl Harbor. He said eight fronts exist and the initiative is now ours, with China and Atlantic fronts cited as ongoing victories and plans to build thousands of landing barges.
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Annapolis
Frank Knox
Tokyo
Berlin
Pearl Harbor
Naval Academy
Knox
Western Mediterranean
Eastern Mediterranean
Atlantic
South Atlantic
South Pacific
North Pacific
Russia
China
Navy
Far East
Britain
Atlantic Theater of War
Japan
United States
America
U. S
Bombers Strike Hon Gay in French Indo China
Allied bombers attacked Hon Gay 30 miles northeast of Hanoi in French Indo China, heavily damaging coal docks warehouses rail yards and power lines. Stilwell headquarters reported no interceptions and all planes returned safely as smoke rose to about 5000 feet.
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Chungking
Hongay
Haiphong
Indo-China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Tokyo
Hanoi
War food officials deny drastic cuts in animal product output
In Chicago and Washington reports, the War Food Administration and the War Meat Board assure no sweeping cuts in animal product supply and a shift toward vegetable foods. Chester C. Davis and Lt. Col. Jay L. Taylor conveyed the assurance at a joint meeting. A Department forecast predicts hogs will be leaner due to corn feed shortages. Georgia’s watermelon crop is cut to about half its normal size due to transport, labor, and fertilizer restrictions.
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Chicago
War Food Administration
War Meat Board
WFA Cattle and Beef Industry Advisory Committee
WFA
Chester C. Davis
Jay L. Taylor
Washington
Agriculture Department
Atlanta
Georgia
W. L. Cathey
State Bureau of Markets
Puerto Rico Dream Law Change Urged on Sugar Land
A witness before the Bell committee urged repealing a law that restricts corporate ownership of Puerto Rican sugar plantations to 500 acres, arguing for broader foreign or corporate ownership on the island.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Bell Congressional
Potato Spill Causes Pawtucket Street Jam
In Pawtucket Rhode Island on June 9 a vegetable truck dumped sacks of potatoes onto Main Street. Pedestrians quickly scooped up the tubers and scattered them while the driver watched.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Fox cleans fleas by water dunk and wood escape
A fox dipped in water grips a piece of wood to lure fleas onto it Then the animal releases the wood allowing fleas to flee when they cluster on the wood The tactic shows a clever use of a safe refugia to rid itself of a parasite.
WLB Orders Hearing On Coal Issues
The War Labor Board ordered a public hearing for tomorrow on unresolved coal mine wage dispute issues. Negotiations were described as farcical with a potential split by UMWA leader John L. Lewis and operators, while a joint wage conference reconvened amid stalled talks.
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Washington
War Labor Board
North
South
WLB
U.M.A
John L. Lewis
Lieut Lovin Is Prisoner After Missing Report
Mr and Mrs Jack Lovin Jr of Hondo Texas announced their son Lt Jack Lovin Jr has been confirmed as a German prisoner by the War Department. He was missing since May 17 while serving as a navigator on a bomber that participated in the raid on the Eder and Mohne dams in the Ruhr on May 15.
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Jack Lovin Jr
War Department
Lovin
Hondo
Texas
Eder
Mohne
Ruhr
Ada High School Principal to Serve with U S O
Rex O Morrison Ada high school principal for two years will serve the United Service Organizations this summer. He departed Wednesday noon for San Antonio Texas for training at a U S O center and will later direct a U S O center in the San Antonio area. Mrs Morrison and two sons will stay in Ada.
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Rex O. Morrison
Ada High School
United Service Organizations
San Antonio
Texas
U.S.O
Morrison
Oklahoma
Ada
Samuel Clyde Fullerton Dies in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City obituary notes former Miami district judge Samuel Clyde Fullerton died in a local hospital. The body was sent to Miami for funeral arrangements. he is survived by his widow, five daughters and a son.
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Oklahoma City
Samuel Clyde Fullerton
Miami
Fleet Demands Surrender of Pantelleria Face No Reply
Allied planes dropped an unconditional surrender demand on Pantelleria yesterday. With no reply, the island was bombed from the air and shelled at sea and will be subjected to bombing, bombardment and blockade. The goal is to save the garrison and population from unnecessary suffering.
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North Africa
Pantelleria
British Gun Fleet Bombards Panella Island Defenses
Allied forces in North Africa bombard Panella Island with cruisers and destroyers firing from short range while a synchronized flying fortress strike targets the fortress. Italian communique says the garrison ignored surrender demands, with leaflets signed by Lt Gen Carl A Spaatz setting a 6 pm deadline.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Pantelleria
Rome
Associated Press
Isle
Tunisia
Sicily
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Force
Congress Leaders Allowed To See World Food Plans
Democratic and Republican leaders viewed White House plans for an international relief setup aiding liberated territories. The meeting included Speaker Rayburn, Lehman, McCormack, Vice President Wallace, Hull, and Acheson, under Roosevelt’s guidance, with discussion on allied coordination and relief efforts amid ongoing World War II operations.
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Congress
Washington
White House
United Nations
Rayburn
D-Tex
Herbert H. Lehman
Roosevelt
Lehman
McCormack
Wallace
Hull
Hill
D-Ala
Senate
McNary
Oregon
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Dean Acheson
Stannard Declares U Boats Beaten as Patrols Unite
Lieut. Commander Richard S. Stannard says American and British officers and sailors are convinced the U boat threat is beaten. He notes adequate escort vessels and combined air, sea patrols make convoy work near perfect and that a detected U boat cannot live. Stannard, a VC and DSO recipient, was injured in a recent bombing but prefers sea duty to ground defense.
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London
Britain
Richard S. Stannard
Stannard
United States
England
Rent control period boosts property net income in surveys
The Office of Price Administration says surveys show net operating income for rental properties rose 9 to 17 percent since rent control began. It attributes gains to steadier rent payments and higher occupancy, offset by reduced maintenance and higher material and labor costs.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Gambling Game Prohibited at Gentry Motor Rooms
A temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Clyde Pitman bars H. C. Gentry from conducting a gambling game at his business. County Attorney Claude Hendon filed for injunction after alleging the Gentry Motor company rooms were equipped with dice tables and other paraphernalia for games of chance.
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Shawnee
Clyde Pitman
H. C. Gentry
Claude Hendon
Gentry Motor Company
Illumination of Duce Pantelleria Down Rumor
A fragment from a wartime era column recalls a grocer’s misstep and jokes about Il Duce in a playful colonial vernacular. The piece uses caricature to reflect skepticism about Axis leadership amid shortages and military strain.
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French
Hogs
Mr. Menhaden
Lewis
Lewis, O’neill Conter
Charlies O'Neill
O’neill
Appalachian
United Mine Workers
Lieut. Lovin
Rex Morrison
U.S.C
Axis
Malta
Lampedusa
Sardinia
la Spezia
Reggio Claubria
Naples
R.A.F. Desert Force
Messina
Reggio Calabria
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