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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
4
An Ada Oklahoma editorial urges practical action at the Save the Soil Clinic in Oklahoma City on March 27 28. It criticizes bureaucratic waste and calls for hands on work by landowners, urging clear honest discussion and collaboration with the U S Department of Agriculture.
A Gray Lady at Lawson General Hospital in Atlanta helps a soldier with a cash check and shares that volunteers receive no pay. The article frames Gray Ladies of the Hospital and Recreation Corps as essential cheerers, performing tasks from letters to shopping, and recounts patient interactions and origins of the nickname.
President Roosevelt is expected to urge local boards to adopt a hardboiled policy on drafting fathers to shield war plants from skilled manpower drain. He may clarify a February memorandum on occupational deferments and establish protections for engineers, technicians and other key workers amid pressure from the War Production Board and War Manpower Commission.
The local ration board announces gas ration issuance for trucks begins April 1. Owners should bring certificates of war necessity to the office or mail them to avoid delays. The piece notes pilot training context, WASP training cost, and Sweetwater Texas training site.
Washington March 14 The civil service committee explores whether the WASP women pilots program should continue as thousands of experienced male pilots seek work. About 600 WASP are in service and 400 in training formed in 1942 under Mrs Nancy Harkness Love.
Seven Estonian towns Dorpat Varu Viljadi Parnu Paite Rakvere and Tapa were bombed in the last 24 hours the Scandinavian telegraph bureau said citing Uusi Suomi. The Moscow broadcast reported fires in Reval Tallinn with fires visible 150 miles away and losses including fires amid German rail targets.
Cape Gloucester New Britain report describes Marine Sergeant Philip D. Mattola of Brooklyn firing a burst from a tommy gun after a Japanese soldier allegedly cried I am shot in English. Technical Sergeant Hans R. Johansen, a Marine combat correspondent, confirms the incident.
Mrs Leola Holt Nichols a housewife two children and her mother in Savannah serves as county prosecuting attorney and aide to the county collector. She also fills the role of assistant custodian at night in the post office and provides music at funerals in a multi facet public service.
The basic family car gasoline ration drops to two gallons weekly nationwide. The West and Midwest receive a two gallons per week A card allotment starting March 22, while B ceilings on the Pacific coast fall from 460 to 400 miles monthly. OPA notes a nine percent cut in second quarter allocations and an expected daily savings of 18,000 to 20,000 barrels of gasoline.
Two Ada men appear in press service photographs this week. Jim Ross, six feet four, in a Bougainville raid group with Marines and Seabees at a Bougainville airstrip, towers above his fellows. Sgt Willard Hickey and Sgt Mark Bennett of Ponca City are shown loading 50 caliber bullets into a bomber gun before another mission over German targets.
The Senate voted 47 to 31 for the final form of the service vote measure after weeks of wrangling. The bill, which gives states control over ballot form and absent voter qualifications, now moves to the House for quick action before potential presidential review.
Oklahoma Governor Robert S. Kerr forgave all but 200 dollars of a 1000 dollar fine and costs in the State job selling case of Joe H. Smalley former Pottawatomie county legislator. Smalley and Tom Waldrop were convicted May 1940 with similar penalties. Smalley paroled March 8 1943 to raise funds and paid about 200 dollars.
C. C. McCarty formerly of Ada reports that nephew R. E. Cox Jr. of Coalgate is missing in action after a raid over Germany. Cox served as radioman on a heavy bomber based in England. his mother Mrs. R. E. Cox resides in Coalgate.
Oakland resident Arthur Jacobsen, a 24 year old Coast Guardsman, arrives on leave to find his home reduced to rubble after an army plane crash. Eight people died in the crash and his parents were unhurt, staying with an uncle. The story notes dense jungles in Panama.
London dispatch reports captured documents allegedly show Gen Draja Mihailovich forces agreeing to cooperate with Bulgaria against the Yugoslav Army of Liberation. The Free Yugoslav radio quoted a communique read to Reuters noting the pact would endure after the war.
Pfe. Fred C. Bennett, 14, member of a negro engineer unit in the United Kingdom, is returning to Georgia to finish schooling. The army says Bennett, who listed his home as Atlanta, joined at 13 claiming he was 18 and is now given an honorable discharge.
Hazelton March 14. Miss Mary McKernan OPA food price census taker reports one grocer who followed the letter of the law. His ceiling price posters were plastered high on the store ceiling where they could be easily read.
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