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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
8
Townspeople gather for Sunday services and a Lee Ponder Young People’s Union ice cream supper. The column lists visiting families from Vanoss, Oakman, Ada, and nearby areas, church activities, revival at Oakman, baptisms at Owl Creek, and social visits among residents of Galey, Union Hill, and Steedman with multiple names and addresses noted.
Old Midland reports and local social notes listing Ed Walker, Boyd Ponder, Mrs. Marie Spraggins, Lena Grace Turner, Helen Walker, Ellen Cape, W L McKinley, Goldie Phillips, Marvin Briggs, Gilmore Oliver, Earl Hodges, Accie Pona, Elizabeth Owens, Ellen Ponder, Robert Fisher, Don Albright, L L Cook, Carolyn Phillips, Marion Brewing with family. Friends and relatives visited kin across Cape Garry Corner Catton Valley and Vaness.
Local visitations mix with ball game results as residents from Chinatown Overton to Dublin Texas host and travel. Key names include Leroy Overton and J C Jones, Warren Hogue, Carl as Sales, Walter Beach, and Cliff Walston. Sunday baseball loss to Atlal stands out amid family visits and church events.
Dover New Hampshire June 28 report describes a man known only as Tift to 61 years who uses no first name. He explains his father disliked his given name Alanson and allowed him to choose a name. He says he has gotten along fine without one.
Postmaster General James A Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, concluded a tour of New England states with a smile, noting that Maine and Vermont, the only two states to vote Republican in the 1938 presidential election, appear to have been forgiven by the Democratic Party.
An old timer speaks on unemployment, noting that advances in drilling pumps and machinery replace workers. He warns the nation faces economic ruin if machines and trusts survive without fairly paying those without jobs, urged by the idea of a dole to the unemployed.
In Columbia on June 28 a homeowner reported stairs stolen weighing about 1,000 pounds. Investigation found workers had removed stairs from the wrong house, causing the confusion.
Poland reports that coast artillery near Gdynia fired on a German military plane thought to be over the Hel peninsula restricted zone. Polish circles note multiple frontier violations by German aircraft in recent weeks as Danzig authorities reinforce police and prepare for stronger security. 1,400 men and clothing entered Danzig from East Prussia, raising total to 2,400 for “free coins,” with combined war materiel smuggled in via unguarded routes. Police and military units are being boosted in Danzig as the Free City tightens controls.
NGA Service Staff Correspondent reports Britain and France may place veterans General Sir Edmund Ironside and General Marie Gustave Gamelin in supreme command if war returns. Ironside, 59, tops Britain’s regular army plan and overseas garrisons. Gamelin, 67, would lead allied forces with army, navy, and air roles. Both men bring WWI experience and modern warfare knowledge to potential combined operations.
About 46 suburban housewives angered by ongoing street dust blocked a road with cans lumber and rocks. Police moved the barricade and hauled away the barrier. An armistice followed but they warned barricades would be rebuilt if the street is not fixed by Friday. Township officials cited no funds for repairs and urged residents to proceed with their actions.
CHANDLER June 28 Dr I W Adams 57 year old physician free on 2500 bond to-day after arraignment on a charge of performing an abortion on the young wife of a Bay City old field worker Frei Albert assistant Potta watomie county attorney aided in this investigation husband sought to prevent operation and caved in County Attorney Frank aevey 2 last Thursday related the husband Went to the office saw his wife wheeled from a room under anaesthetic returned with McVay only toeing his wife gone She later was home with her mother at Sunnie The charges were filed after two Shawnee physicians examined the woman County Judge Joe Young set 5 pretinely hearing for July
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved a barter treaty with Great Britain planning the exchange of 600,000 bales of cotton for about 175 million pounds of rubber. The decision was announced from Washington on June 28.
Hollywood reports the arrest of Campbell MacDonald, 23, son of silent star Margaret Campbell, in connection with her hammer death. Police probed bloodstained clues as chemists examined hair and nails. Margaret Campbell, a 56 year old actress, had recent screen work dating to the early twenties.
Washington June 28 the senate added a 25 percent local cost share for WPA projects to the 1.735 billion relief bill passing 51 to 24 The measure sponsored by Byrnes would apply from January 7 Schwellenbach warned the requirement could make administration difficult given regional financial differences and the stalled alternative of a 500 million PWA fund proposal by Mead and Hayden
State wire reports Bill Stewart shows a slide rule and papers to claim national soda pop consumption in 1938 would supply six bottles per person. He cites total consumption at 1,474,768,864 pounds or 164,972,000 gallons across the United States. Detailed notes accompany quirky snippets from Oklahoma towns and brief local incidents.
In Springfield on June 28 P Hunter Moody and Wilbur Parrish Decatur airmen aimed to set a new world sustained flight mark for light planes. After 159 hours 42 minutes of continuous flight motor trouble forced a return to land at the municipal airport 58 hours 1 minutes shy of the 218 hour record. A second item reports Hardy Turlington of Fayetteville North Carolina surviving a dive into a pool after which doctors found a broken neck and two fractured vertebrae.
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