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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1928
Page
7
A Court order directs the Pontotoc County Oklahoma Sheriff to sell at public auction the described real estate in Ada to satisfy a December 1927 foreclosure judgment of 121.50 principal plus interest and 150.00 attorney fees, with costs. The sale is set for July 1928 at the Ada courthouse front door with proceeds covering debts, taxes, and prior mortgage.
In Pontotoc County Oklahoma In County Court the guardian Fannie B James petitions to sell real estate of minors Mary Gwendolyn James Edna Nadine James and Georgia B James Hearing set for June 20 1928 at 4 p m. Next of kin and interested parties must appear to show cause or service will be made Publication ordered in Ada Weekly News for two weeks. TAL CRAWFORD County Judge HARRELL KERR for the Guardian. 6-27-31n
Democratic convention faces a contest with Fred E. Smith holding first ballot support near but short of the nomination. Allies expect enough pledged votes from Arkansas Indiana Kansas Mississippi Nebraska Ohio Oklahoma and Texas to push him over the 733 1 3 threshold, while rival favorites and new backers test his strength on early ballots.
In Pontotoc County District Court a case titled Continental American Life Insurance Company v W L McKinley et al seeks judgment for 5325 dollars plus 10 percent interest from 1927 and 500 dollars attorney fees, foreclosing a mortgage on the SW quarter of section 33 township 4 north range 4 east, ada Oklahoma. The Royalties Association of Oklahoma is addressed as a defendant to answer by July 19 1928.
F J McFarland administrator has filed final account and petition for distribution and discharge in Pontotoc County OK. The court sets July 62 1928 at 10 am in Ada for settlement and for interested parties to file exceptions. Harrell and Kerr attorneys for administrator seal affixed June 12 1928.
In the County Court of Pontotoc County Oklahoma the administrator G W Jones advertises creditors must present claims against the deceased with vouchers to his home near Francis Oklahoma within four months of the date of this notice or be barred. W C Duncan is attorney for the administrator. Dated June 5, 1928.
Notice of sale under a Pontotoc County Oklahoma District Court foreclosure order dated May 28 1928 on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter in section 30 township 4 north range 4 east to satisfy a tax lien judgment of 63.65 with 18 percent interest plus 25 attorney fee and 30.25 costs. Sale set for July 2 1928 at 2 pm at the south front entrance of the Ada County Court House to the highest bidder for cash without appraisement. W G Walker Sheriff Pontotoc County Oklahoma McKeown Green Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The text notes several states totaling 212 voting power remain undecided. Most are in the favorite son class except Texas which faces a unit decision between Reed of Missouri or Jones at a caucus tomorrow. Ohio and New York factions signal shifting support to the Smith camp with Indiana and Nebraska delegations likely aligned.
Five were critically injured and 35 others less seriously hurt when three cars of the Southerner passenger train derailed near Durand Kansas, 16 miles west of Iola, at 4 am. A broken rail near Owl Creek caused the wreck, several hundred feet of track torn up. Most injured were in a steel chair car that fell 15 to 20 feet, with two steel Pullman cars overturned.
Three Missouri Pacific South erner cars derailed near Durand Kansas 16 miles west of Iola at 4 a m. Thirty people were injured and brought to St. John’s hospital with fifteen in critical condition and three or four likely to die. Pullmans and a chair car overturned. rail officials suspect a broken rail. Wrecking crews from Coffeyville and Osawatomie aided, and W. Kirk hız investigated. Among the injured were conductor R M Gardner flagman Charles Kerr and numerous residents from Kansas and Arkansas.
Final returns show a 33 percent drop in women’s representation from 1924. At Houston the Democratic women hold 7 percent of voting strength. 146 women delegates and 272 alternates were chosen. Many have fractional votes, with Texas at large delegation limited to one-sixth each.
The four delegates at large were all men but most states added delegates as suggested, expanding the pool with women. Texas has 13 women delegates, New York and California 8 each, Iowa Michigan Minnesota and Pennsylvania five each, while New York leads Republican delegates with nine. Only five states send no women delegates or alternates. seven more send women alternates but no delegates.
In Rome on June 25 Natale Ceccioni head of the Italia rescue unit reports one of five men stranded off Northeast land has been rescued. In Oslo Swedish airmen from the Quest race to reach Lt Lundborg after his crash near Nobile's camp as they attempt a rescue. A Hamilton and Allen county court saga ends. Remus, once known as bootleg king, is granted freedom by the Ohio Supreme Court after a long legal battle over sanity and detention at Lima state hospital.
Lieutenant F E Lundborg reports that the five men stranded after the Northeast Land rescue are well equipped and have provisions for two months. He had previously saved General Umberto Nobile but became stranded during another rescue attempt.
The Soviet News Agency reported that claims the ice breaker Krassin signalled missing explorer Roald Amundsen are unfounded. The Krassin has not reported any contact with Amundsen.
Paris report in L Information via Moscow quotes a Moscow dispatch that the Russian icebreaker Krassin is in touch with Roald Amundsen and five companions missing in a French sea plane. The plan is to rescue them by Junkers plane from the Krassin, which sailed from Bergen toward Kings Bay Spitzbergen last week.
General Umberto Nobile, injured in the Italia dirigible crash on the polar ice cap, has a fractured shin and back contusion. A medical bulletin reports an incomplete fracture of the right shin, dislocation of the right foot, torn tendon, and heavy contusion to the lower right back with hemorrhage, with recovery expected in about 40 days.
George Remus a former bootleg king who shot his wife Imogene in Cincinnati last October was freed from the Lima Ohio state hospital for the criminal insane. The Ohio supreme court upheld a Lima Allen county court of appeals ruling granting habeas corpus and ordered Remus discharged from confinement.
In Houston a 24 year old black man Robert Powell was abducted by eight masked men and found hanging from a Westheimer Road bridge. Gov Moody ordered three Texas rangers led by Frank Hamer to Houston to investigate the lynching as city and county officials set up a probe with a $250 reward per conviction.
City commissioners report bids were opened for Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets paving from Mississippi to Francis Avenue. Frye Brothers & Chilcutt is the sole bidder at 2.07 per yard for slab, 1 for curb and gutter, 0.70 for excavation. Oak Avenue paving to Main street starts soon pending survey and curb work. Belmont Avenue bids forthcoming.
Businessmen and farmers met at the convention hall to plan a fight against the boll weevil menace. They agreed the pest is widespread and threatening, with 4,1000 bales ginned countywide last year. J E Dunn of Lightning Ridge cited his 1921 poisoning trial yielding eight and a half bales from 30 acres and pledged broader use this season.
Claremore honors Andy Payne after his trans continental marathon victory. Rotary club members compare his achievement to Charles Lindbergh, with Payne speaking at length and answering questions. His trainer notes caution, and Payne credits cornbread for his success amid questions about diet.
George Remus departed the state hospital for the criminally insane today shortly after the supreme court telephoned to W. H. Vorbau, the hospital superintendent, announcing his freedom.
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