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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
7
The Pontotoc County Oklahoma court actions seek to settle the estate of Eastman Killercase deceased as full blood Chickasaw. Plaintiffs claim inheritance rights to the estate including part of his lands and request judicial determination of heirs and distribution. Hearing set for July 27, 1944 at Ada, Oklahoma. answer due by that date.
In Pontotoc County Oklahoma James Brown and others sue the heirs of Josephine Sealy deceased to determine heirs and share of an estate from lands in sections 14 and 22 township 1 north range 7 east and to quiet title in the estate. The hearing is set for July 21, 1944 at Ada. respondents must answer by then or the petition proceeds. Filed by Digis Pedford court clerk with deputy Jewel Ford and attorney for plaintiffs.
Oklahoma City June 14 President Joe C Scott of the state board of agriculture warned that case bearers threaten pecans and become active in southern Oklahoma about this time of year. Read the Ada News Want Adz.
Pontotoc County Oklahoma Treasurer Sam Dew announces public sale of county acquired lands on July 3 1944 starting 9 a m at the Courthouse. Bids submitted for each tract including description Sec 19 Twp 2N Range 5E with a $35 bid from R H S Bullock and cash terms subject to County Commissioners approval. Purchaser pays apportioned ad costs.
The column notes a well attended Sunday school and singing session. Various visits are listed including Glen Cole and Bill Ward from Ada, Nick Ward from Oklahoma City visiting L M Ward, Laura Issacs of Maxwell, Ann and R C Wilson with grandparents C G Workman, Marvin Wood of Ada staying with Bob Wood’s family, and Lorene Peterson visiting East Central with her parents.
Rev Weston of Ada delivered the Sunday message. Grandma Cowen returned home from Valley View hospital after amputation. Many neighbors shared Sunday visits and weekend gatherings at Stephens, Hagar, and Hog gatt homes. A telegram announced J E Adams, after fourteen months in Italy, will join his wife soon. Louise Magruder plans a visit with relatives in Idaho.
Dewitt MacKenzie reports Allied gains on the Cherbourg peninsula as front lines extend from sixty to about one hundred miles. He notes Montgomery’s aggressiveness and Rommel's clash with Rundstedt over quick reserves, concluding the Allies avoided an early German counterattack and outmaneuvered Rommel.
A 10 hour course for supervisors and managers will be offered through the local U.S. Employment Service. Robert Wood says it reduces learning time and errors and increases value to the company and individual. If organized, it will start Monday June 26 with two sessions daily.
Davenport superintendent Charles J. Page, in office for two years, plans to depart for Geary to assume a similar position.
More than 60 state high school teachers will learn to teach pre-induction driving courses at the University of Oklahoma from June 29 to July 1.
Pauls Valley appoints D. J. Loafman former Waurika high school principal of four years as new Pauls Valley high school principal effective immediately.
Hopes for a productive Roosevelt De Gaulle meeting fade as Washington doubts the Paris leadership’s push for provisional government recognition. Officials cite De Gaulle criticisms of Eisenhower policy and cooperation with exiled governments as undermining unity among Allied France. Roosevelt, seeking victory collaboration, weighs currency issues and authority behind francs issued to replace dollars.
County Agent A M Jarvis reports the state forest service moved 6037 trees into Lincoln County the largest shipment to date. The wood will be used for posts windbreaks and erosion control.
NBC reporter Stanley Richardson from London said there is indisputable evidence that German forces tortured and murdered American paratroopers during the early hours of the Normandy landings. He cited three bodies found near Carentan including a lieutenant with a slit throat, a major with multiple stab wounds, and three paratroopers bound and stacked beside a former command post wall.
Philadelphia reporters noted six men were arrested by vice squad detectives at Shibe Park during a doubleheader between the Boston Braves and the Phillies on gambling charges. A bet slip showed a $1,200 wager on the Braves to win the first game and 60 other bets totaling $6,619, with $749 in cash found on one man. Detectives seized $4,210 from five men and said the sixth acted as a lookout. All were to have hearings Wednesday.
Vice Admiral Sir Henry R. Moore will become commander-in-chief of the home fleet succeeding Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. Moore has led home fleet units that attacked the Tirpitz in Alten Fjord and took part in a Nazi convoy strike off Norway. He attended a 1943 Washington conference on U boat combat plans.
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said the army would transfer Hobart air field to the navy, for possible use with Clinton naval base in Oklahoma. The remark came in Washington on June 14.
A new intestinal illness described by Dr. Hobart A. Reimann is spreading globally. It causes loss of appetite nausea vomiting diarrhea dizziness and cramps with no deaths yet. It is infectious and possibly airborne, with several medical names including intestinal flu.
The House passed the compromise GI Bill of Rights sending it to President. Senate approved the conference compromise on unemployment education and loans with veterans benefiting from weekly unemployment, education grants, and government guarantees on private loans. Estimated cost ranges from 3 to 6.5 billion dollars based on benefits and loans.
Convicted by an army general court martial on charges including statutory rape, morals offenses, bigamy and larceny, Capt. Morrison J. Wilkinson Jr. was sentenced to 30 years in prison with hard labor. He commented that the sentence was quite severe for a slight indiscretion.
A list shows county level posts including County Attorney and Treasurer. A former China theater airman, 28, was acquitted on four morals counts and remains jailed at the air base pending higher level military review after a seven day trial lasting about a week.
Finland intends to pay the June 15 installment on its World War I debt to the United States to keep its record intact. The legation announced that about $140,000 in interest will be funded from assets in the United States once a foreign funds license is obtained. Finland has never defaulted, though some postponements were arranged, and it still owes about $9,000,000 from prior wartime obligations.
Maj Randolph Churchill, son of the British prime minister, told Rome by a Yugoslav radio broadcast that Tito and the partisans built a magnificent army from scratch and should inspire enslaved European nations. He described Bosnia as devastated, with villages burned and destroyed by the enemy without provocation.
A military wedding at Smoky Hill Army Air Field in Kansas involved a Private First Class groom and a WAC bride. The ceremony featured a sergeant best man a WAC bridesmaid a 1st lieutenant performing the rite and a technical sergeant on the organ.
A Camp Fire girl visiting President Roosevelt told him about a housewife who kept her talking while collecting salvage. The girl finally apologized, saying she was busy working for the government.
A caller asked firefighters to come quietly after reporting a fire by phone. Officials said they must use the siren by regulation, so they arrived with siren blaring despite the request.
In an interview the county judge commends local beer industry for aiding enforcement of beverage regulations. He notes licenses are granted only after confirming the applicant's good moral character and clean prohibition and gambling records, and that no Federal liquor stamp ownership is allowed.
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