Louisville Campaign Aims to Cut Living Costs Through Frugal Living
City leaders and church groups launch a drive to enlist 200,000 residents in reducing spending on non essentials. The plan urges wearing existing clothes, banking saved funds, limiting meat and sweets, and avoiding new purchases to push prices downward. Public support from Mayor George W. Smith and Rev. Dr. Charles W. Welch backs the initiative with broad civic backing.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Louisville Club
Presbyterian Minister’s Circle
Crescent Hill Forward Club
Conference of Social Workers
Charles W. Welch
Louisville Ministerial Association
Welch
Ada to Erect $100000 Garage Hotel and Apartments
Fleet Cooper plans a 100000 dollar concrete brick complex on East Main in Ada. The three story building will house a modern garage with Nash car display, drive in filling station, a confectionery, a first class rooming house on the second floor with 21 rooms, and 14 apartments on the third floor totaling 71 rooms plus the ground floor garage. Cooper, an experienced automobile man, expects to employ about 15 workers and relocate here permanently.
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East Main Street
Katy Rooming House
Bob Ford
Fleet Cooper
Cooper
Oklahoma
Nash
Ada
Fleet Cooper Garage
Texas
Healdton
Juarez Revolt Ushers in Sonora Gains in Chihuahua
Bloodless Juarez revolt leads General Arbelajo to join the uprising and Casas Grandes capitulation to cede control of most Chihuahua custom houses. Revolt plans immediate advance toward Torreon. Carranza troops at Chihuahua City largely ousted, foreigners protected, order maintained, prisoners freed.
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Associated Press
Juarez
Urbelajo
Casas Grandes
Sonora
Chihuahua
Torreon
Mexico City
Arbelajo
Carranza
Chihuahua City
Daring Flyer from Fort Sill Views Ada on Flight
A DeHaviland plane from Fort Sill piloted by Lieut. Paul T. Wagner visited Ada for an aviation recruitment tour. The 400 horsepower plane performed looping and barrel rolls above the city before landing at Barringer field. Wagner, an instructor, traveled 115 miles in 50 minutes and plans another visit with Miss Winifred Rhodus to report back. He joined the army in 1918 and has avoided injuries, aside from a past loss of control in the West. Entry into aviation requires a high school education, with terms for one or three years.
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Ada
DeHaviland
Post Field
Fort Sill
Paul T. Wagner
David Brann
Army
Emmelman
Wagner
Barringer Field
Brann
Winifred Rhodus
News Force
Matherfield
Sacramento
California
Death toll climbs in Peggs tornado disaster
At Peggs Oklahoma the tornado Sunday night left many dead and injured. As reports come in the death toll may reach 70 with 51 deaths reported overnight and six more today. Rescue teams fear many injuries will prove fatal and entire families are buried in single graves.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Peggs
Cherokee County
Poges
Prohibition Enforcement Costs Eight Million, Says Galligan
Representative Galligan told the house on May 4 that enforcement will cost eight million dollars. He said illicit stills have increased since prohibition began and that most Anti Saloon League funds go to hiring agents to locate the stills.
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Associated Press
Washington
Farm loan act litigation holds up $50 million in loans
Farm loan officials report that more than fifty million dollars in farm loans are delayed due to ongoing litigation over the validity of the farm loan act. The conference in Washington notes the legal challenge stalls funding for farmers nationwide.
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Washington
Juarez Taken by Rebels Amid Border Tensions
Washington reports relief as Juarez Mexico falls to rebels without a fight. The U S plans to bolster east coast ports with added naval units while awaiting Carranza's reply to a diplomatic rebuke over two American deaths near Mexico City. Military analysts foresee possible clashes unless defections rise.
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Associated Press
Washington
Juarez
Mexico
Carranza
Mexico City
Police Judge Remains Busy With Delinquent Cases
Claude Owens appeared in police court on a vagrancy charge and received a suspended sentence upon promising to find work. Laura Garrett was fined 9.75 for failing to appear as a witness and for pursuing a pistol theft accusation she later withdrew, with costs charged to her.
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Claude Owens
Laura Garrett
Laura
Hoover and Hiram Clash in California Primary
In San Francisco on May 4 the pivotal issue is whether California's 26 delegates to the Republican National Convention next June will back Senator Johnson or Herbert Hoover. The outcome centers on which candidacy gains pledged support.
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San Francisco
Calif
California
Johnson
Herbert Hoover
Morse Contracts Under Probe by House Committee
The House committee investigating Shipping Board expenditures held an executive session to review the C. W. Morse company contract with the board. Members did not explain the Justice Department request for a secret inquiry and denied ties to Charles Morse’s indictment by a New York federal grand jury for violation of the Shipping Act.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Justice
House Committee
C. W. Morse Company
Charles Morse
New York
Overall Campaign Sparks Bargain Sales Across Toronto
May 4 in Toronto reports display advertising announcing reduced prices on clothing and other necessities. Large department stores run bargain sales since the overall campaign began in the United States and Canada. Downtown business has fallen as dealers try to clear surplus stock.
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Associated Press
Toronto
Canada
United States
Wire administration costs during war reach millions
Washington May 4 The war time operation of the telegraph and telephone systems cost the government fourteen million five hundred sixty three dollars Postmaster General Burleson asked Congress for immediate appropriation to liquidate the federal wire administration affairs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Burleson
Congress
Federal
Battle lines form around Kiev as Dnieper struggle grows
Reports from the front say Bolshevik forces entrench in hills on the west bank of the Dnieper forming a great semicircle with Kiev behind them. The fight for possession of Kiev rages day and night along the valley and river fronts.
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Kiev
Warsaw
Dneiper
England Adopts January 1 Start of Year in 1761
England changed calendar practice to begin the year on January 1 instead of December 25 in the 1761 transition. The reform aligned the civil new year with the Gregorian dating system, affecting date reckoning and public records.
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England
Japanese Claim 660 B C Empire Founded Under Lasting Dynasty
A historic assertion claims Japan’s empire began in 660 B C under a dynasty that allegedly continues to rule. The statement ties modern legitimacy to ancient rulers and omits confirming evidence.
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B. C
Witness Against Reds Ends Life in New York
New York May 3. Tonio Tazio alias Andrea Salcedo a key witness against radicals in last June bomb plot leapt to his death from a 14th floor office building. He had confessed to aiding the plot and his name was a cover for a broader radical case. Chief Flynn said Salcedo’s real name and alias and that others arrested had confessed and would testify. The officials warned that the lives of many public men had been in danger.
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Associated Press
New York
Tonio Tazio
Department of Justice
Flynn
Andrea Salcedo
Tazio
Salcedo
Oklahoma Club to oversee Oklahoma students in Columbia session
New York May 4 The Oklahoma Club will assist Oklahoma students attending Columbia University summer session from July 6 to August 13. Oklahoma officials and professors anticipate large turnout with about 10 000 last year and higher this year. The club lists officers Miss Florence McMurtry and Miss Flora Wright and Columbia plans include diverse courses from Assyrian law to architecture and home chemistry.
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New York
Oklahoma
Columbia University
Oklahoma Club
New York City
Columbia
Florence Mce Murtry
Northeastern State Normal
Tahlequah
Okla
Flora A. Wright
Mangum
Florida
John J. Coss
Harold Jacoby
Church Union Deferred
The commission on unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church north and south reported to the general conference in Des Moines recommending referral to a special committee. Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation issued 50 million dollars in five year convertible gold notes at eight percent yield. Thirty one tons of mineral needed for 100 milligrams of radium bromide.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Commission On Unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church North and South
General Conference
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
Texas Democrats Hold Convention in Dallas
Democrats in county conventions select delegates to the state convention to be held May 25. The 1400 state delegates include more than 1200 pledged to vote full endorsement of Wilson as instructed by precinct conventions last Saturday.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Texas
San Francisco
Wilson
Navy Plans Not Complete Before War Declaration
Admiral Benson told the Senate committee that the navy prepared plans before the war declaration but they were incomplete in some respects. He said plans would have to align with allied operations if the United States did not enter the war.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
Congress
Admiral Benson
Senate
Navy
President Wilson Expected to Veto Knox Peace Resolution
Administration officials in Washington say the Knox peace resolution would be vetoed if passed by Congress. White House sources indicate the president will stick to his summer pledge against any separate peace and will not authorize final authority for a different stance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Congress
White House
Kentucky Democratic Convention Chooses Delegates and Plans
Louisville May 4 Approximately twenty five hundred Kentucky Democratic leaders gathered at the state convention to elect at large and district delegates to the national convention select a national committeeman and map strategies for the November election.
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Louisville
Associated Press
Kentucky
Fingerprint Identification Through the Ages
A concise look at how fingerprinting evolved as a method of individual identification from ancient practice to early modern systems. The note outlines historical uses, early methods, and the shift toward formalized biometric records.
Lynching Narrowly Averted at Wewoka Monday Morning
In Seminole county a lynching was nearly carried out as Barkus and Sumner Gordon, accused of wounding Charlie Vance near Sasakwa, were spirited to the penitentiary after midnight. A mob armed with intent rode into Wewoka while Vance, now recovering in Ada, remains paralyzed below the waist with a bullet still in his spine.
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Wewoka
Seminole County
McAlester
Barkus
Sumner Gordon
Charlie Vance
Sasakwa
Vance
Ada
Oil production dips in January across kerosene and fuel oil
Kerosene production fell 14 percent from December’s record, while fuel oil output declined by 67,528,930 gallons or 9 percent to 617,555,156 gallons in January.
Treasurers acquittal ends $900 embezzlement charge
In Eufaula on May 4, Cleveland v. Whitlow, McIntosh County treasurer, was acquitted after the judge sustained a demurrer and dismissed the jury. The state audit lists a larger shortage of $14,462.31, while Whitlow remained free of the $900 charge and vowed to prove his innocence on any other alleged shortages.
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Eufaula
Cleveland
Whitlow
McIntosh County
Bozart
Okmulgee
Fred Parkinson
Murdered Woman Found by Officers Near Coyote Canyon
The body of Nina Lee Delaney was found five miles north of Coyote by a search party led by Walter Andrew Watson. Deputy sheriff helped unearth the body from a gulch near a small cliff after Watson identified the ledge and location.
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Associated Press
Dixieland
Calif
Nina Lee Delaney
Walter Andrew Watson
Coyote Watson
Watson
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