Bank Robbers Escape Northward After Stratford Hold Up
Two men robbed the First National Bank of Stratford at 2:30 PM taking an estimated 400 to 500 dollars. A Pontiac two door sedan fled north on State Highway 18 with one robber in the car and the other inside the bank forcing victims to lie down. Miss Jessie Collette was forced to accompany the bandits but released unharmed near the town edge. Police pursued with reports of a similar car seen passing through Mill Creek earlier today.
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First National Bank of
Stratford
Miss Jessie Collette
Miss Collette
Close Gall for Admiral Byrd in Antarctic Isolation
In Little America Antarctica on June 17 Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd narrowly escaped carbon monoxide poisoning after fumes from a small tunnel engine fouled air in his hut. Byrd, in isolation for nearly three months, reported he recovered quickly after the incident.
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Little America
Antarctica
Richard E. Byrd
Here
Antarctic
Byrd
Lynchings Probe In Newton As Mob Hangs Man
A white man is jailed as investigators probe the lynching of John Griggs, 30, near Newton, Texas. Authorities say the mob of about 150 seized Griggs from officers escorting a woman alleged to have been attacked, hanged him, shot him, dragged the body behind a car, and left it paraded.
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Newton
Tex
John Griggs
Hollis Kinard
Beaumont
Griggs
Orange
Roosevelt Planned Veto of Farm Mortgage Moratorium Bill
Congressional leaders said President Roosevelt would veto the Frazier Lemke bill offering a six year moratorium on farm mortgage payments. The plan would let farmers reduce debt and keep their land with a one percent interest rate on reappraised values.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ada straw vote shows Marland leading first count
The News conducts a local straw vote in Ada as part of a nationwide effort. By 2 PM Marland led Anglin 241 to 137 with Walton 78 Burns 7 King 32 Smith 6 Newman 2 and business, professional, farmers, and laborers represented among 40 participants. Women were few and not all contacted. Results to be updated later.
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Ada
Society
Marland
Anglin
Walton
Burns
King
Smith
Newman
Staw
Final Drive Underway in Pontotoc County Campaigns
Pontotoc County readies for July 3 voting as statewide candidates push hard in the final drive. Rev Willmore Kendall spoke for Tom Anglin in Glenwood Park and Ned Looney urged support for Robert Burns. County office seekers campaign day and night while election officials plan rapid returns across the county.
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Dally
Pontotoc County
Willmore Kendall
Tulsa
Glenwood Park
Tom Anglin
Ned Looney
Oklahoma City
Robert Burns
County Election Board
Ada News
Trammell Wins Democratic Nomination in Florida Senate Runoff
In Jacksonville, Florida, Senator Park Trammell appears to have secured the Democratic nomination for a fourth U.S. Senate term after a runoff against Claude Pepper. Unofficial returns from all but 108 of Florida’s 1,288 precincts show Trammell with 96,654 votes to Pepper’s 91,016. The missing precincts were scattered statewide, including many small county boxes.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Park Trammell
United States Senate
Claude Pepper
Trammell
Pepper
Haig Denies Sabine Claim Of Auto Bidder Meeting
Norman K. Haig GM fleet sales chief called the charges false, refuting a Ford agent Sabine who testified before a House subcommittee about a proposed three way split of army motor contracts among General Motors Ford and Chrysler. Sabine said he rejected the proposition.
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Washington
Norman K. Haig
General Motors
House
Ford
Chrysler
Army Motor
R. P. Sabine
Haig
McCari
Harriman Receives Prison Term for Bank Fraud
Joseph W. Harriman former president of the Harriman National Bank and Trust was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on 16 counts of falsification of bank records and misapplication of funds. Judge John C Knox ordered confinement in the penitentiary with a stay for a possible appeal.
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New York
Joseph W. Harriman
Harriman National Bank and Trust Company
John C. Knox
Harriman
United States
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Battle near Fort Ballivian ends in contested Bolivian victory
Reports from Buenos Aires say Bolivian defenses held Fort Ballivian as Paraguayan forces led by Colonel Brizuela broke through Condado in the Pilcomayo sector. Amid heavy mortar and artillery fire both sides claimed victory with losses running into thousands. Bolivians claim a decisive repulse while Paraguayans report irreparable damage.
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Chaco Boreal
Maren
Brizuela
Condado
Pilcomayo
Europe
Canada
Canada el
Chaco
Postoffice class status changes announced nationwide
The post office department announced changes in class status and salaries for several hundred post offices. Most shifts lowered class level based on past postal receipts. eight moved from second to first class and fifty two dropped from first to second. Individual Oklahoma towns named for specific class changes.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Ada
Okla
Stillwater
Marlow
Madill, Temple
Walters
Watonga
Yale
Woman Convicted of Murder Plot in Healdsburg Case
Mrs Hazel Terman aged 34 was convicted of conspiring with an eccentric to murder her husband David W Terman a Healdsburg rancher. She received five years to life and will be sent to Tehachapi women's prison Ed Happy Williams was acquitted by reason of insanity and sent to Mendocino State hospital David R Pike a ranch hand was acquitted and Terman’s three daughters aged up to 16 remain in a detention home.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Hazel Terman
David W. Terman
Healdsburg
Tehachapi Women’s Prison
Ed “Happy” Williams
Mendocino State Hospital
David R. Pike
Greater Returns for the Amount Invested News Classified Ads
A concise ad item highlights opportunities promising higher yields for investment. The notice emphasizes prudent budgeting and potential returns, appealing to readers seeking smarter allocation of funds.
Bergdoll Abandons Hope for Pardon
Bergdoll, the American draft evader from Weinsberg Germany, said he has given up hope of a pardon from the present administration. He criticized Roosevelt for pardoning archists and Communists and argued he was merely one of the World War era draft dodgers. He had offered to surrender to a civil court but not to a military court martial.
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Weinsberg
Germany
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Bergdoll
Roosevelt
Bees hinder furniture seizure in Media dispute
In Media Pennsylvania a constable and moving crew arrived to seize Mrs Colwell McClure’s furniture by directive of her estranged husband. Mrs McClure kicked over seven prize bee hives causing the crew to retreat but the furniture was not moved.
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Media
Oil Field Happenings in Pontotoc County Drilling Deep in Hunton Limestone
Daily notes from Pontotoc County oil fields report Magnolia No 1 Lewis and Norris tests drilling through Hunton lime into Sylvan shale. Depths reach 4 928 feet at Magnolia No 1 Norris and 4 890 feet at No 1 Norris with oil shows in Hunton top. Delaney Craddock No 2 and other wells advance, swabbing in oil at several depths as crews prepare tests for Hunton production.
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Magnolia
Hunton
Sylvan
Norris
H. L. Blackstock
Lewis
Simpson Dense
Delaney
Craddock
Magnolia No
R. L. Blackstock
W. A. Delaney
J. E. Crosbie
Dawes
Governor Murray to Speak at Stonewall in County Tour
Governor William H. Murray will speak at Stonewall Saturday afternoon at 1 30 o clock joining John Murray candidate for state superintendent of public instruction on the program. This marks his fourth county speech in the campaign following Ada Roff and Allen engagements. Murray campaigns for Tom Anglin of Holdenville and emphasizes continuing his tax program and other remedial measures.
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William H. Murray
Stonewall
John Murray
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Ada
Roff and Allen
Muirray
Tom Anglin
Holdenville
Kilgore Fire Devastates Southport Petroleum Plant
A explosion and ensuing blaze at the Southport Petroleum plant near Kilgore Texas destroyed tanks and caused at least 50 000 dollars in damage. Company vice president M M Travis died and workers S T Anderson Lundy Roe and Ray J Rowe were hurt as crews battled the flames with wind spreading fuel oil across the site. Overton and Henderson fire departments aided the effort.
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Kilgore
Tex
Southport Petroleum Company
George Travis
M. M. Travis
Companes
S. T. Anderson
Lundy
Roe
Ray J. Rowe
Southport Company
East Texas
Overton
Henderson
Ickes Approves Surplus Oil Pact to Curb East Texas Output
Secretary Ickes approves an agreement with major oil companies to buy surplus gasoline stocks from east Texas refiners. The plan requires refiners to run no oil produced beyond quotas, aiming to end overproduction that floods markets with cheap gasoline. The deal, backed by industry and government, takes effect immediately.
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Washington
Ickes
East Texas
East Teaas
E. O. Thompson
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Department of Justice
Oil Administration
Triple Slaying Near McAlester Remains Unsolved
In McAlester Oklahoma a barefoot 14 year old boy, Pete Coffey, gave detectives a new lead in the triple slaying of William Gann, Hobart Watkins, and Homer Beasley near Canadian. Witnesses and suspects include Bun Riley and four men in custody. Motive remains unclear.
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Canadian
Oklo
Pete Coffey
W. J
William Gann
Gann
Coffey
Bun Riley
Riley
Ehoe
Hobart Watkins
Homer Beasley
Watkins
Beasley
Earl Joiner Dies in Texas Jail
Earl Joiner, a bank robber who boasted that prisons could not hold him, died in Liberty jail of blood poisoning from a carbuncle on his back. He had been held after being brought from Retrieve prison farm for trial on the 1932 Cleveland First National Bank robbery in which 1700 was stolen. He had pleaded guilty and received ten years in prison.
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Houston
Tex
Earl Joiner
Liberty
L. W. Hightower
Joiner
First National Bank of Cleveland
Hightower
M. C. Payne
Bank robberies case affirmed life sentence in 1932 crime
Oklahoma Court of Appeals refused to modify Kenneth Johnsons life term for the 1932 $4300 State National Bank of Marlow robbery. It noted no one was hurt despite five bandits taking two boy hostages amid a hail of bullets, calling the outcome of good fortune rather than good purpose by the robbers.
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Oklahoma City
Criminal Court of Appeals
Kenneth Johnson
State National Bank of Marlow
Johnson
Editor urges readers to number pages and space items
The editor explains why letters to the paper are trimmed due to many submissions. New writers are reminded to follow prior guidance. Each item should be separated by a blank line to prevent mixing, and pages must be numbered.
Shockley murder trial ends with quick acquittal
The Rev. L. H. Shockley, itinerant preacher, was acquitted by a jury after a 15 minute deliberation in a murder trial over alleged poison deaths four years ago of W. T. Hudgins and two other family members in Gray county Texas. The report also notes political and military items from Baton Rouge and Washington.
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Pampa
Tex
L. H. Shockley
W. T. Hudgins
Gray County
Oklahoma cotton quotas cut state crop forecast
Oklahoma's 1934 cotton output will drop more than one third from 1933 if farmers stay within the Bankhead bill quotas. The Bankhead allotment for Oklahoma is 704 355 bales, with last fall’s ginnings about 1 235 792 bales. Ginning underproduction shifts and inter county totals cause slight variations, per Kenneth D Blood, statistician.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Bankhead
Kenneth D. Blood
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Blood
Mountain Sinking Threatens Copan Corn Fields
In Honduras the 80 000 foot Erapuca mountain in the Copan zone is reported sinking alarmingly. A government notice says over 625 acres of corn on its slopes have vanished and other agriculture is being wrecked.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Erapuca
Copan
Much Accomplished On Road Program
The highway commission reports awards totaling 604.1 miles of road and street improvements under a $9 216 798 emergency appropriation for the fiscal year ending. Since September 5 1932 contracts awarded include 5.446 miles brick paving 69.11 miles concrete 127.31 miles asphalt surfacing 207.55 miles grading and drainage 169.5 miles gravel surfacing 13.45 miles caliche surfacing and 11.68 miles bituminous surfacing plus 139 bridges and five overhead crossings.
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Oklahoma City
Highway Commission
Hutchins Dies in Oklahoma City at 73
James W. S. Hutchins 73, treasurer manager of the Oklahoma National Stockyards Co., died in a hospital from complications of an infected hand. He injured it while supervising livestock unloading during a recent packing company strike. He is survived by his widow, a son Harold, and a daughter Mrs. Gladys Lahar of Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
James W. S. Hutchins
Oklahoma National Stockyards Con
Harold
Gladys Lahar
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