Rural GALEY Community News Highlights and Visits
Sunday church by Brother Dan Tyson drew a large crowd while many families shared meals and visits across Galey and nearby townships. The piece lists numerous local names, weekend gatherings, church events, forthcoming intermediate Sunday School officer elections, a spelling match, and a planned singing night with multiple households and neighbors noted for attendance.
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Edna Jamar
Erma Lee Jordan
Odie J. Hinkle
Ralph McGalliard
Alvin
Calvin Jamar
Ada Jaycees install electric signals at East Main crossing
Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce completes two year effort to place electric warning signals at the East Main street crossing of the OCA and A railroad. Signals will beacon with bell and light on both sides of the track and should be finished by April 15. Federal aid and railroad cooperation funded the project with Homer Peay and Hee M. Harwell noted for their roles.
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East Main Street
OCA
Ada
Jaycees
Frisco
North Broadway
North Mississippi
West Main
Homer Peay
Jaycee
Hee M. Harwell
Argentere
Tulsa County Republicans Endorse Tom Dewey for President
Tulsa County Republicans voted 509 strong at a banquet endorsing New York District Attorney Thomas B. Dewey as the GOP nominee for 1940. Enid attorney Harry O. Glasser urged reliance on Dewey to lead the nation out of the current troubles. The dinner honored Lincoln Saliee, Collinsville, and G. H. Shepherd, Red Fork, newly elected Tulsa county commissioners.
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Tulsa
Tulsa County
New York
Thomas B. Dewey
GOP
Dewey
Republican Party
Harry O. Glasser
Enid
Republcan
U.S
Tom Dewey
Lincoln
Saliee
Collinsville
G. H. Shepherd
Red Fork
Must Wed Jew To Get Estate Share
Adele Gay, a Chicago hospital clerk, must wed a man of the Jewish faith within a year to qualify for an inheritance estimated at 40 000 to 70 000. The stipulation appeared in her father Harris Goldman of Elgin Illinois will probated before Judge Harry C Daniels. Gay, 34, joined the Congressional church seven years ago and later legally changed her name from Goldman to Gay.
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Geneva
Ill
Adele Gay
Chicago
Harris Goldman
Elgin, al
Harry C. Daniels
Miss Gay
Congressional Church
Goldman
Gay
Durand turns out to be grandstander not real outlaw
Powell sheriff and townspeople describe Earl Durand as a flashy pretender who staged a last grandstand in the First National Bank at Powell. After cornered in the Bear Tooth mountains, Durand fled to town, shoved three bank workers forward, and killed himself when shot by a 17-year-old, ending a manhunt that left four officers dead.
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Durand
Powell
Wyo
Earl Durand
Powel
John Gawthorp
Frank Blackburn
Park County
Gawthrop
Tarzan
Tipton Cox
Cody
Earl Dueand
Jesse James
West
Blackburn
Bear Tooth Mountains
First National Bank
Put Teeth Into Laws On Loan Sharks Urge Oklahoma City
Three Oklahoma City attorneys urged a senate committee to approve a bill to curb loan sharks by supervising small lenders under the state banking department. They cited a $6,000,000 unregulated industry preying on low wage earners with high usury rates. The bill caps interest at 10 percent for loans up to $505, with a 5 percent service charge and up to $15 maximum, plus 2 percent monthly balances.
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Oklahoma City
Senate
Charles E. France
M. D. Green
James D. Fellers
Fellers
State Banking Department
France
Felix Church
Miami
Church
Divorce Petitions Filed in District Court This Week
A petition for divorce was filed in district court Wednesday by Rosemary Smith against Harold Smith. Divorce petitions were filed Tuesday by Evelyn Prater against John Prater, Taylor Bullard against Lester Bullard, and Zenabis Horn against Weldon Horn. The text also notes the airplane wing supplies 60 percent of the lift.
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Rosemary Smith
Harold Smith
Evelyn Prater
John Prater
Ada Legion backs junior baseball to boost local sandlot talent
Ada Independents manager Uke Clanton urged support for financing senior Legion baseball this summer. A fundraiser aims to raise 750 from 1-dollar tickets to buy equipment and start five to six junior teams under Ada Round-Up and Legion oversight, developing players for Ada’s sandlot clubs.
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Uke Clanton
Legion
Ada
Ucal Clanton
Legionnaires
Armory
Deadline For Driver's License Is April 1
Local officers have been notified that beginning April 1 drivers found operating without a 1939 drivers license will be arrested and prosecuted. State safety commissioner J. Mc Gentes warns licenses were available for two and a half months with a March 15 to March 31 extension not to be extended. First offense carries a $10 fine and costs, second offense $50 and costs, and third offense within eleven consecutive months carries $10 to $50 and costs plus five days in jail.
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J. Mc Gentes
State Safety Commissioner
Phillips Praised Federal Move To Dry Oklahoma Liquor
Oklahoma Governor Phillips welcomed federal action aimed at cutting off liquor at the source. Kansas City treasury official Burkett said wholesalers were warned against loading liquor destined for Oklahoma and that federal agents would pause until state permits are confirmed. Phillips expressed hope the move would hurt bootleggers and prove the dry law’s purpose.
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Oklahoma City
Phillips
Oklahoma
John T. Burkett
Kansas City
Treasury Department
Alcobol Tax Unit
Burkett
Phillips for bill on C U law grads
Oklahoma Governor Phillips proposed a bill in the senate to exempt University of Oklahoma law graduates from bar exams. He said the exemption should eventually apply medical, accounting, pharmacy, and architecture grads, with equal penalties and strengthened schooling. A rear door safety catch for sedans is being introduced by a major car maker.
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Oklahoma City
Phillips
Senate
University of Oklahoma Law School
University Medical School
Pharmacy
Aline
Clipper Ship Ends First Leg of Atlantic Flight
The Yankee Clipper completed the maiden trans Atlantic leg from Baltimore to the Azores, a 2,800 mile flight with 74 passengers and 22 crew, observers and technicians aboard. Captain Harold E. Gray called the trip the most comfortable kind of journey as Pan American prepares regular service to Europe.
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Azores
Europe
Baltimore
Pan-American Airways
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Harold E. Gray
State Powers Tax Federal Employees Salaries
The Supreme Court ruled that a state may tax federal employees salaries under the federal constitution. The decision involved New York and Utah attempting to impose income taxes on federal workers. Justice Stone delivered the New York ruling, Justice Black spoke for Utah, and Justices Butler and McReynolds dissented. The Utah case returns to state court to decide if the state law exempts the federal employee in question.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Utah
Roosevelt
Congress
Justice Stone
Justice Black
Utah Supreme Court
Butler and
McReynolds
Traveled Long Way To Get Wounded
American citizen Mike Zahratka from Mather Greene County Pennsylvania was wounded near his native village during the Slovak Hungarian war. Five miles from his goal bombs forced him to seek shelter in a roadside ditch, injuring one foot. He and Henry Clay Hoy turned back toward Budapest awaiting an end to the conflict.
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Budapest
Mike Zahratka
Mather
Greene County
Pennsylvania
Slovakia
Gatratka
Henry Clay Hoy
Man Burned To Death In Window Escape Attempt At Mission
In Darby Pennsylvania a 50 year old man Roy Spencer died trapped wedged in a window as a fire in a Delaware County mission chapel forced 270 inmates to flee. The blaze started in a boiler room and smoke caused a panic with several trampled and others leaping from second floor windows to safety. Supt J T Barnes tried to restore order by playing an organ.
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Darby
Delaware County
J. T. Barnes
Roy Spencer
Indian Federation Meeting Called For Pontotoc County
A meeting of the American Indian Federation for this area is set for Thursday March 30 at 2 p.m. ET at the county courthouse. George McLain president of the Pontotoc county unit issued the call inviting Choctaw Chickasaw and other Indians and intermarried whites to attend with delegations from other counties expected.
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American Indian Federation
George McLain
Pontotoc County
Federation
Parity payments split stalls farm relief appropriations
Washington March 27 congressional action on farm and relief funds faced a split among rural and urban lawmakers. Sabath opposed including 250 million dollars for parity payments in the agriculture bill, saying it unnecessary while urging economy on relief. Opponents hoped farm bloc dissent would jeopardize parity funding as the House aims for a 125 million compromise relief figure.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Sabath
D-11
Pea Agriculture Department
Senate
Garner
District of Columbia
Bond suit targets six brought into Oklahoma case
Six men and firms are named defendants in a civil action by the state of Oklahoma to recover twice the $77,051 bond purchases made by Mack Braly against Tommy F. Ford, former Murray County treasurer, with related embezzlement case tied to waterworks bonds. The suit seeks penalties for overdrafts in two county sinking funds.
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Oklahoma
Mack Braly
Tommy F. Ford
Ford
Ayer County
W. E
Elmer) Harber
Clyde
C. E.) Wallace
Shawnee
C. Edgar Honnald
First National Bank
Oklahoma City
American National Bank
Braly
Machado Dies in Exile From Cuba Once Ruled
Miami Beach March 29. Gerardo Machado former dictator president of Cuba died here at 47 after exile across Canada United States Dominican Republic and Europe. His rule featured vast public works profits for allies severities for opponents and a wave of coups riots and executions. He fled Nassau Montreal and Hamburg before settling in Santo Domingo in 1934.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Canada
United States
Dominican Republic
Europe
Machado
Nassau
Montreal
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
New York
Philadelphia
Santo Domingo
Puerto Plata
Hamburg
Germany
Berlin
Havana
Interlaken
Switzerland
Congress
Ada News
Bebee Extension Well Continues To Hold Interest
Oil circles track the Bebee field extension southwest as Superior Oil extends exploration. Summers No 1 in 36-5-?, NE NW NW produced last week and may spur a new development. Patsy No 4 Bates drill below surface pipe after Sunday start, offsetting Bates No 2 which yielded over 3 800 barrels daily in Hunton lime.
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Superior O
Bebee
Bates
Hunton
Chinese Guerrillas Trouble Japs Again
Shanghai dispatches report intensified Chinese guerrilla raids against Japanese forces. An attack in Chepei killed 10 Japanese sentries while another band hit the Hangchow railroad southwest of Shanghai. Dispatches described results as disastrous to the Japanese and noted ongoing fighting near Nancheng, Kiangsi, whose occupation had been admitted by defenders yesterday.
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Shanghai
Chepei
Hangchow
Shanghasi
Nancheng
Kiangsi
Thornbrough Gets Two-Year Term
James Martin Thornbrough pled guilty in three cases before District Judge Til Crawford on Monday. He faced two grand larceny charges and one count of obtaining money under false pretenses. Crawford sentenced him to two years in each case, to run concurrently. Thornbrough, a former night clerk, admitted thefts including a ring and $100 from a letter before mailing.
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James Martin Thornbrough
Til Crawford
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