Notice by Publication in Pontotoc County Court
District Court notice in Pontotoc County Oklahoma names Zula Chapman Jenny Chapman Jessie Chapman and Alline Chapman as plaintiffs suing unknown heirs and others of Charles L Chapman deceased. It directs all defendants to answer by July 2 1934 or share in lands described in Section 21 and 28 Township 3 North Range 6 East with improvements and to quiet title and settle debts. The clerk is Della Bedford with deputy Dawes Harden and W C Duncan attorney. 5 17 41w
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Chapman
Chickasaw
State OF Oklahoma
Charles Ll. Chapman
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
Township 3
Range 6
Pontotoc Fair Board Auction Of Buildings And Lumber
The Pontotoc Fair Board will sell by public auction the buildings and lumber at the Fair Grounds on Monday May 21 at 2 oclock p.m. The secretary Ross Montgomery announces the sale at Hokus Pokus Grocery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontotoc Fair Boar
Ross Montgomery
The
Fair Board
Hokus-Pokus Grocery
Tulsa Oil Show Brilliants at Great Petroleum Exposition
At Tulsa a world fair of oil unfolds as the international exposition reports strong sales and optimistic demand. Executives say recovery is underway with estimates of substantial business from 12 foreign countries and plans for a key visit by Secretary Ickes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Congress
William B. Way
Ickes
Petroleum Administrative Board
Planning and Coordination Committee
Washington
Spea
Independent Petroleum Association of America
East Texas
Oklahoma
Uncle Sam moves against bootleggers with new tax unit
President Roosevelt orders a Treasury alcohol tax unit to enforce liquor laws. Arthur J. Mellott leads 1400 agents, including Captain William R. Sayles, aiming for 4000 total staffing. In six weeks, 1046 illicit still arrests, 875 stills seized, 193,884 gallons daily capacity, 46,385 gallons of mash and 144 cars confiscated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Beale
Washington
Sam
Roosevelt
Treasury
Arthur J. Mellett
Kansas City
William R. Sayles
Navy
Schleswig Holstein
Mellott
FERA Halts Grocery Orders Until Outstanding Debts Paid
FERA will stop issuing grocery orders until all outstanding orders are paid. Carl Giles says money is available and payments will proceed as fast as the auditor staff can process them. When reissued, items will follow strict regional rules with price and item limits, emphasizing staples and basic foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FERA
Carl Giles
Oklaho
Giles
One Strawberry Big Enough For One Shortcake
A giant strawberry eight and a half inches in circumference and weighing one and seven tenths ounces was grown in the garden of T H Risinger and presented to the University of Oklahoma botany department. Botanist Dr Paul B Sears explained the anomaly as fascination a rare fruit growth where stems and fruit fuse. The berry will be preserved for the department collection of rare specimens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman
May
Botany Department
University of Oklahoma
T. H. Risinger
Paul B. Sears
Department of Botany
Sears
Kallihoma Indian School Closes Second Year Milestone
Indians of the Kallihoma community marked the school’s second year with a closing ceremony under trees. Guests from Muskogee and Oklahoma City praised local effort, the building program, and the school’s growth into a community center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kallihoma Indian School
Ickes Approves Drilling Plans for 194 New Oil Pools
Secretary Ickes approved plans for developing 194 oil pools across 10 states with about 81 000 acres. Production must be limited to beneficial use with waste elimination and adherence to state quota limits. The list includes pools in Oklahoma such as Sasakwa Lucien Fitts Piggott Dewar Milam Edmond Huckaby Fish Pool Milfay Harjo Barnsdall and others with specified wells per year and acreage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ickes
Petroleum Administrative Board
Geological Survey of the Interior Department
Oklahoma
Sasakwa
Lucien
Wilcox Horizon
John Fitts
Piggott
West Konawa
Nicoma Park
Branstetter
Laffoon
Northwest
Tatums
Gregory
Simmer
Gordon
Tall Chief
Day Et al
Otoe Switch
Vineyard & Motley
Orlando
Keokuk
Oklahoma City
Lowell
West Billings
Agra
Oswego Lime Horizon
Hensley
Ripley
Manahan
Roosevelt Signs $417 Million Revenue Bill In Washington
President Roosevelt signed a $417,000,000 revenue raising bill in Washington. The measure closes loopholes and adds taxes to bolster federal revenue and adjusts depreciation rules. A future repeal of the bank check tax is set for January 1 and a coconut oil tax is eyed for reconsideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
White House
Congressional
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Philippine Islands
Wheat forecast below average signals drought impact
The U S Department of Agriculture forecast winter wheat at 361 471 000 bushels for the year down from 491 793 000 a month earlier and well below last year s 351 030 000 bushels and the 1922 31 average. May 1 crop condition stood at 70 9 percent of normal with 41 007 000 acres sown and 34 725 000 acres remaining for harvest amid 15 3 percent abandonment. Rye production was forecast at 27 906 000 bushels with a 67 8 percent condition. Multiple states reported yields and remaining acreage data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Drouth
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Oregon
California
Skelly Oil Wins Temporary Order Against Striking Union
Okemah, Okla May 11. Skelly Oil Co of Tulsa obtained a district court temporary restraining order against union officials and 26 defendants to vacate and surrender producing leases and a Earlsboro gas plant. Hearing set for May 28 to consider a permanent injunction. About 1,800 barrels of oil and 4,000,000 cubic feet of gas were shut in along with securing operations, while union leaders cited sympathy with Sinclair workers in the area. Sheriff and deputies served the order. stock representatives planned talks with Sinclair officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wewoka
Okla
Skelly Oil Company of
Tulsa
Earlsboro
Seminole
George C. Crump
International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers of America
Skelly
Sinclair
Frank Aldridge
Seminole County
George W. Stocking
Labor Policy Board
Government funded schooling for Indian children in Oklahoma
The government paid tuition for 19,674 Indian children in eastern Oklahoma public schools last year. Choctaw $62,649, Chickasaw $33,884, Creek $67,689, Seminole $11,406. It also sent 3,761 others to 14 Indian government schools. many hundreds attended denominational schools unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells
Oklahoma
Five Tribes
President Receives Million Dollar Paralyis Fund Check
A $1,003,030.08 check, formed from Roosevelt birthday party proceeds, was presented at the White House to fund infantile paralysis work. The gift to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation is split into three: $100,000 for national meritorious work, $650,000 for ongoing Warm Springs programs, and $253,030.08 for construction and contingencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Warm Springs
Georgia
In a Century Girls Will Face What After Beauty
A Massachusetts professor predicts that in about a hundred years all girls will be judged entirely by beauty and then their purpose in life may be missing. He warns society will rely on appearance rather than achievement and questions what remains for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Indian Children Given Education in Five Civilized Tribes Area
After thirty years of work by the Five Civilized Tribes school department the federal government is refining an education program for thousands of Indian wards in forty eastern Oklahoma counties. Last year the government spent over a half million dollars on schooling and paid $324,000 in tuition, with private tribal schools established to serve children born far from civilization and lacking English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kallihoma
Pontotoc County
A. M. Landman
Muskogee
Five Civilized Tribes
George Hillman
Conway C. Lambert
Indian Bureau
Frank Williams
Oklahoma City
Jack Norton
Kallihoma School
Landman
John Collier
G. c. Wells
Wiey Walker
Oklahoma
Washington
Patsy Ann Norton
John Leader
Dawes Commission
George C. Wells
Indian Education
Wells
Five Tribes
Johnson Act Shows Teeth in Debt Payment Standoff
President Roosevelt uses the Johnson act to threaten a halt on payments from debtor nations. The measure bars transactions with any country in default and adds or any part thereof, pressuring 13 nations to meet $175,000,000 due June 15 or face a Treasury blackout. Diplomatic circles report Britain may act first as envoys weigh token versus full settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
America
William Phillips
State Department
White House
Great Britain
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Zula M. Chapman
Jennie Dove Chapman
Jessie Laxton
Formerly Chapman
Alline Chapman
Plai
Della Bedford
Dawes Harden
W. C. Duncan
Porto Rico
Nancy Hall
West Tenth
B. F. Stegall
Cortland
N Y
Aler
Senate
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
Uncle Sam
Norton
Killihoma
Vicy Walker
Charles McGilberry
J. W. Huff
Coal County
McGilberry
Taos
New Mexico
Haskell Institute
Northeastern State Teachers College
Nortons
Clut
Indian Service
Dave Sams
Roy Sams
A. Weeder
A. Wolleson
Young
J. M. Durkee
Joe Engle
Pearl Martin
Cromwell
School Land
Campbel Reed
R. G. Davis
Magnolia-Reed
J. R. Ong
J. R. Witty
Palmer Wolf
Youngblood
T. P. Charleston
Jones-Christy
Chandler Pool
Skinner Sand Horizon
Crump
John
Lemke
John Lemke
Nellie Jelinek
Custer County
State
Electric Chair
Johnson
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