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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
6
British dispatch from Belgium reports the German offensive pressing toward key channel ports as Allied air forces clash over targets in the Reich. Frontline troops endure bomb blasts and shellfire with quiet resolve amid fleeing refugees and ruined towns.
Four East Central college students completed final flight tests to become the first licensed pilots from the local Civil Aeronautics Authority training unit. The group flew to 3 000 feet performing stalls spins and spirals with precision landings including a ditch-over landing within 300 feet. One peer, William Massingale, finished part of his final test while three others passed the written exam.
Marion Jasper Butler 65 of Allen died May 14 at 10 15 am at home. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 3 30 pm from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with Rev Kimbrough of Allen officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery Ada. He is survived by his widow a son Harvey Butler of Allen a brother James J Butler of Shirley Ark and a sister Mary Bolen of Ft Worth Tex. The Masonic lodge led the service.
Mrs Amanda J Sparks 80 of Ada Route 2 died May 15 at 2 am at home. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4:30 pm from Criswell Funeral Home chapel with Dr C C Morris officiating. Burial was in Rosedale Cemetery. She is survived by four sons John R E Harve and Acie Sparks and four daughters Mrs Barrett Mrs Boiles Mrs Thomas and Mrs Lee.
Robert E. Witcher, 55, of Estancia Valley, New Mexico, died in Albuquerque on May 12. Funeral services were held at Keith Funeral Home chapel Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. with Rev. C. B. Holland officiating. Burial followed in Rosedale Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Harold Berry, San Francis...
NOWATA May 15 veteran editor P R Sherlock Holmes 58 city editor of the Nowata Star since 1910 died today after a heart attack he had been ill since October Holmes came to Oklahoma in 1909 from Lawton Michigan and was AP correspondent Funeral arrangements are pending Survivors include his widow and two sisters Mrs E P Grignon Appleton Wisconsin and Mrs I O Brock Pawhuska
President Roosevelt wins House Appropriation Committee approval for a 975.65 million WPA fund to run eight months, enabling roughly 1.95 million jobs. minority Republicans denounce the relief setup, citing incompetence graft corruption and scandalous conditions in several states.
A. B Crable stage superintendent of a public institution and state employees with rejected claims testified. Crable filed suit contending claims should be paid from appropriations not the governor’s trimmed quarterly budgets. The case centers on the governor’s power to approve and trim them under the law.
The court clerk issued licenses Wednesday to Raymond H. Hunter 31 Ada and Finnie S. Cochran 19 Ada Joy Burns Roberts 21 Ada and Cama Jo Zumbro 18 Ada.
Ada Garden club expands annual show with more displays and a nine hour schedule May 21 at the American building. The event features a Panorama of Southern Garden and Room and Garden Pilgrimage, rating seals, sections for roses cacti bulbs and rhizomes, plus decorative flower arrangements and rules bulletin.
War cuts into U S crude exports with several firms reporting declines up to ninety percent as buyers focus on self supply and barter. Texas officials warn of possible additional 15 day production shutdowns while Oklahomans face retirement of Judge Kennamer and a high profile case in Madill.
Grace Helm sued Ennis C. Helm a photographer for the Byrd Antarctic expedition and ex head of the State Travel and Tourist bureau for divorce. She says they were married 1925 and remarried after a 1939 divorce. They face arraignment on Helm's return. allegations include obtaining property under false pretenses.
May 15. Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce of the first cavalry division was captured by blue forces as tanks seized his headquarters on Leesville outskirts. Reds counterattacked after losses in a tank battle through Kisatchie forest, with Leesville threatened from east and northeast.
A fragment notes the Seventh Cavalry brigade, the army's only fully mechanized unit, moving back into a strategic position this morning. The report emphasizes its enhanced mobility and the significance of the mechanized force in current operations.
Cen trahoma May 15 Sup intendent C E Hough delivered the eighth grade commencement address at Olney Monday night He urged graduates to use talents and energies for moral and intellectual advancement of themselves and neighbors He stressed work morality and service Bryan Smith is the Olney eighth grade teacher and Robert Brashears heads the Olney school system.
Crowds of Italians in Fiume shouted Down with Yugoslavia and hurled stones at Yugoslav homes and offices across the Susak border. Demonstrations began overnight and continued into the morning with police interference absent. Throngs shouted hurrah for war and smashed windows across the frontier.
A classified ad notes higher yields for investments tied to vested funds. It highlights enhanced value through structured deposits and longer-term commitments, urging readers to review terms and compare offers. The notice emphasizes reliability and potential profit compared with shorter or riskier options.
Joe Bryan, secretary of the county election board, announced that filing blanks are available to prospective candidates. He urged candidates to obtain their papers and have them sworn in as soon as the five day filing period opens at 8 oclock on the morning of May 21.
A resolution by the Duncan American Legion post calls on the President and Congress to mobilize an army of 1,000,000 men at once. It recommends funding through a war loan bond issue and was approved last night in Duncan Okla.
Oklahoma's quarterly estimate law, challenged in the state supreme court, has saved the state 1,390,923 this fiscal year. Roger Phelps, assistant State auditor, estimated the figure. Testimony began in a suit by A. L. Crabb, state school superintendent, challenging the law used to trim departmental budgets by Governor Phillips.
Senator Josh Lee remains silent amid reports he is under consideration for the tenth circuit court of appeals. Judge Murrah potential successor A P Kennamer and other Oklahoma figures are named, with discussions on reinvestigations of commodity relief beneficiaries and political campaign critiques featuring Huff and Dennis Bushhead.
State welfare board officials believe ongoing reinvestigations can trim relief rolls. Officials led by Ernest M. Hill discuss methods to tighten eligibility and reduce improper welfare payments while maintaining aid for needy families.
Ila Huff former Helena orphanage superintendent enters Oklahoma county district five legislative contest with twelve Democratic opponents while Rep LaVerne Carleton retires. In 1938 Huff and Mable Bassett contested the commissioner of charities and corrections race with Bassett trouncing Huff by 182,994 to 133,477.
Andy Payne, state supreme court clerk, nearly filed to run for Congress at large against the Rogerses Lees Thomases and Murrays but decided at the last minute to stay out.
Norman Okla May 15 President W B Bizzel of the University of Oklahoma urged creation of a central governing board for all state supported colleges to cure the state's educational ills.
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