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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1932
Page
12
The News argues critics misstate the act giving secured loans to business and farming. It says it relieved unemployment, saved life insurance firms and banks, and even set aside 200 million for farmers to plant this year, aiding both small and large interests.
Congress acts on hunger relief with House quick vote on a Fulmer bill using 40,000,000 bushels of farm board wheat and 500,000 bales of cotton for the destitute. Senate backs McNary resolution increasing wheat availability to 50,000,000,000 bushels.
A humorous round up of political jibes and anecdotes from 1932. Notes Barb s Mellon as a bigger figure in London than Washington, jokes about cadets at West Point, Seabury inquiry ties to Jimmy Walker, and a Princeton seniors line about hiring a football team. Includes a health bulletin pun and New Yorkers questioning Walker after a large overdraft.
A boy’s prank in Shreveport, tossing a kidnap note from a car, triggers a police search. Charles Edward Steele 14, Okmulgee faces a promised spanking after the note claimed a kidnapping in Longview Texas. The incident unfolds amid families traveling for oil field business.
Governor Murray reshapes the Oklahoma Military Academy board at Claremore with two colonels from his staff. Carl Giles of Norman replaces J B Sledge of Ada whose term expired. Clarence B Douglas of Tulsa succeeds Maj Gen Baird H Markham, Ponca City, with faculty re elected.
Governor William H Murray will push three remaining firebells measures to voters at the July 5 primary. Proclamations authorize elections on ad valorem tax revision crop reduction and unemployment relief. The measures were previously withdrawn from the December firebells election due to ballot title concerns.
Fire at the Tom McCarty Oil company warehouse on east Eighth caused extensive damage. Highly flammable gasoline and oil in the building hindered crews as flames spread over the structure. Several barrels exploded from the heat. Harrison suffered burns to the waist, and fireman Wylie Jeter described his burn as a burn not a boil on his neck. Assistant chief Vernon Younts sprained a knee during firefighting.
June 9 in Oklahoma City Ferris a Democratic National Committee man says he will push for a bone dry plank in the party platform and opposes any tinkering with prohibition laws. Pro prohibition groups say they support re election of the present Oklahoma congressional delegation.
In Chicago on June 13 14 visitors crowded Lincoln Park to view the Republican elephant Deed-a-Day. Admirers fed the animal peanuts until he suffered a stomach ache prompting a guard to be posted to protect him.
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