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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
5
Drake McHugh pursues Randy Monaghan amid town gossip and class tension. Louise Gordon watches from above as Drake’s circle and Monaghan family clash with the cheering of Feds street and the limits of respectability.
Louise confronts her mother after a bitter accusation about Drake McHugh and a downtown girl. Mrs Gordon strikes Louise, who vows to kill her in a tense, escalating quarrel amid a broader plot on a perilous Pacific island involving Talcott, Halsey, and a looming schooner landing.
Bill Talcott, six years as branch manager for an American chemical firm on a Dutch West Indian island, leaves under suspicion of a cash shortage. Auditor Halsey successor, June Paterson, cousin of Bill’s college roommate, suspects him. MacDowell, a detective, threatens Bill as island natives menace them during an evening walk.
County Agent Curtis Floyd urges farmers in Coal County to plant the limit of possible grain crops including darso hegari kafir and atlas-sarge with a deadline of July 1. He stresses the need to boost grain as input for eggs poultry dairy beef and hogs, and notes mite and lice control methods for poultry houses.
Raymond Hamilton plans eight acres of cotton with 128 pounds per acre of 4-12-4 fertilizer and eight acres of corn plus five more acres north of the highway with 125 pounds of 4-8-6 fertilizer. He will monitor boll weevil counts and may apply molasses and calcium arsenate if counts exceed two or three per acre. Mary Mayer expects 160 acres of cowpeas and notes soil erosion reserve crops under AAA rule require 25 percent of acres in erosion resistant crops. Chigger control advice using superfine sulfur applied at day’s heat is provided by N H Grubbs of Oak Grove and a Shorthorn bull purchase is reported from Joe.
PAWHUSKA June 13. P Maj Ben Clarence Tinker one eighth Osage commander of the Hawaiian air force believed his army career ruined by not serving overseas in World War I. His father George E. Tinker 73 said the general was missing after Midway and that Tinker often felt promoted out of his outfit before overseas service. He longed to lead an attack and hoped to be there to give orders firsthand. The father notes age 54 might keep him grounded though he remains one of the best pilots in the U S army.
Cecil Murrah 23, crew member and brother of Federal Circuit Judge A P Murrah, recounted his Lexington shipboard ordeal. He stood at a gun position as the carrier burned and sank, fell 35 feet into the sea, wore a buoyant life jacket that saved him, and watched fellow crewmen assemble on life rafts before being rescued by destroyers. He was later transferred to a cruiser and transport, landing on the west coast.
In San Diego on June 13 Admiral Frederick C Sherman recounted rescuing his ten year old English springer Admiral Wags from the burning carrier Lexington after abandoning the ship in the Coral Sea. He said the dog hid during the bombardment but was found near the bridge and later saved by an orderly who placed a life jacket on him. The dog was delivered to a destroyer and later joined Sherman on the cruiser, then caught up with him after two to three days.
Orel Busby back home outlines his Democratic U S Senate nominating platform on the Ada courthouse lawn. Amid chilly winds, hundreds hear the Ada attorney and rancher pledge to back the president on measures aiding the war, urging locals to help carry his banner in the campaign.
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez of the Mayo clinic reports to the American Medical Association that most burping comes from swallowing air rather than fermentation. Nervous habit and edged nerves prompt air ingestion, especially with raised breadstuffs, and fear of heart trouble can trigger nocturnal burping until the patient is reassured.
Mexico prepared a government order to take control of 30 German owned coffee plantations along the border with Guatemala as part of a broad cleanup of axis espionage centers. The decree empowers seizure of axis nationals properties and follows Guatemala's similar action. Authorities suspect arms and war materials may be hidden on sites.
Hereford breeders in south central Oklahoma plan the annual Hereford Tour for June 22 and 23 with stops at ranches from Chickasha to Ada. The schedule lists multiple ranch visits, lunch periods, and concludes at the L P Carpenter ranch near Ada. WAR time is noted for all events.
The Sargasso Sea is a vast North Atlantic region of drifting seaweed entirely surrounded by water rather than land, creating a unique oceanic expanse.
A fragment notes carbon monoxide harms air and kills fire instantly while mentioning Shetland ponies used as animals in the Shetland Islands.
King George II of Greece told the Senate in Washington that Greece is proud to stand with the powerful American democracy. He thanked the United States for wartime aid and pledged to fight on land sea and air with the United Nations until barbaric violence is ended.
Phillips Merrill a 30 year old Pittsburgh muralist enters the army as a private while trustees hold his $1,100 William E. Cresson Memorial Traveling scholarship until peace. He will paint two murals for Will Rogers field Oklahoma City and at the air depot featuring Will Rogers with assistance from William E. Mackey. Both studied at the Barnes Foundation and Merrill at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Oklahoma City faces a Friday night tornado tragedy with 33 dead and many injured. Red Cross survey shows 73 homes demolished and 22 damaged in the southwest residential area. Government loan applications opened today under Disaster Loan Corp. co manager R D Wilbour Jr. for replacement or repair.
In Kittrell North Carolina June 15 a Sea board line streamliner the Silver Meteor was rammed by a freight train the third wreck in the Virginia division since May 6. Minutes later division superintendent H T Terrell 56 was found shot in a Raleigh railroad yard with powder burns on his tongue and two cartridges nearby. Coroner Roy M Banks said Terrell was overworked and unnerved by the wrecks.
Elvin Rhoten of Fairfax will represent Oklahoma at the Livestock Marketing school in Chicago from June 22 to July 2. A junior at Oklahoma A M college he was selected by the faculty to join 18 state college representatives. The school is run annually by the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. and held at the Chicago market. The 1939 tulip crop was used as cattle feed in Holland.
Raymond B. Howard of London Ohio told the Kiwanis International convention in Cleveland that press services and home town newspapers are guardians of Americanism and good government. He praised daily newspapers for unbiased reporting supplied by wire services and emphasized the role of news gathering associations.
The League of United Latin American Citizens charged it has conclusive evidence that past importations of foreign labor caused race hatred intolerance segregation and discrimination. A resolution protesting new imports was adopted as the 14th national assembly ended and Benjamin Osuna of Albuquerque was elected president general.
Berlin reports three prominent journalists J B Powell editor of the China Post and Mercury H G Woodhead veteran writer and an American counterpart are to face court martial on charges of espionage and disturbing the peace. The Japanese gendarmerie says they acted under protection of official organizations and helped aggravate Japan's international relations contributing to the Pacific war.
An American volunteer in the RAF, Squadron Leader W. B. Cooper of St. Petersburg, Florida, was credited with sinking two German supply ships off Den Helder using a Hudson bomber. He attacked a three-ship convoy and left one ship afloat after the blasts. A Spitfire squadron also attacked shipping in the Dieppe Le Havre area. All British planes returned safely.
German, Italian, and Japanese diplomatic representatives told Indian delegates in Bangkok that the axis seeks India’s independence with no territorial aims. The so called Indian independence conference, hosted by Japan, is attended largely by Indian nationalists from outside India or from colonies in Japanese Burma, Thailand, and Malaya.
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