Oklahoma taxes overhaul moves state to cash basis
Oklahoma sweeps tax laws in a 14th legislative overhaul. Key measures raise income tax rates with exemptions, expand cigarette and sales taxes to fund school districts, and shift to ad valorem and gross receipts methods. Revisions cut car license taxes, adjust highway funding, and tighten oil and utility taxation while speeding real estate assessments.
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State Board of Equalization
Corporation Commission
General Fund
Need Purpose and Faith at East Central Teachers College
Sunday night senior week began with a baccalaureate sermon by Rev. T. B. Holcomb of Oklahoma City at East Central Teachers College. He urged graduates to pursue holy purpose and faith in God as Ezra did, noting the rarity of completing sixteen years of study and calling for untarnished trusts and talents during life.
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East Central Teachers College
T. B. Holcomb
Oklahoma City
Rev. Holcomb
Ezra
Jerusalem
Holcomb
Retailers Fight Oklahoma Sales Tax The Referendum Drive
Oklahoma City May 12 retailers association directs immediate circulation of a referendum petition to overturn the two percent general sales tax. Twelve cities back the referendum led by Muskogee Okmulgee Ada Ponca City Enid Shawnee Seminole Duncan Marlow Norman and Oklahoma City. A central petition drive for 26 000 signatures will be supervised by Phil Lisne Tulsa.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Retail Merchants Association
Bristow
Muskogee
Okmulgee
Ada
Ponca City
Enid
Shawnee
Seminole
Duncan
Marlow
Norman
Phil Lisne
Tulsa
State Association
Ed Millican
State Druggists’ Organization
Melvin Cornish
State Tax Commission
Sisney
Tom Anelin
House
Retailers Association
Springfield
Supreme Court
Murray
Vanoss man waives arraignment in stabbing case
Lonnie Walker of Vanoss waived arraignment on assault with a sharp weapon charges and bonded out for 500 awaiting district court. He is accused of cutting Eules Jones of Vanoss on the shoulder during a Sunday morning argument. Jones wore a leather jacket slashed in several places. injuries include a 14 stitch gash and a thumb cut.
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Lonnie Walker
Vanoss
Justice Court
Sherwood W. Hill
Walker
Eules Jones
Jones
Corsicana Graduate Killed Near Vernon While Hitchhiking
Gordon Carr 23 of Corsicana Texas a Trinity University graduate and former Tulsa student was killed near Vernon Texas last night while hitchhiking to Yellowstone to work. He was swept from a truck when it passed beneath a low underpass.
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Corsicana
Tex
Gordon Carr
Trinity University
Tulsa University
Vernon
Texas
Yellowstone National Park
Carr
Escaped convict and women jailed
A man arrested in Wichita Falls Texas after an attempt on Constable Bradford was identified as Allison Ivey a 1923 life term convict from Craig County Oklahoma for a banker’s slaying in Vinita Oklahoma. Ivey said his accomplice Burk got the death penalty and was executed while Hubert Mooney who had ten years for car theft escaped April 24 1933 from McAlester prison during the raid.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
C. L. Bradford
Allison Ivey
Craig County
Okla
Vinita
Sam B. Spence
Ivey
Burk
Hubert Mooney
Wewoka
McAlester
Mooney
Bill Strothers
Bradford
Floods threaten roads and rails in Oklahoma stateside
Storms flood northeastern Oklahoma with heavy rain and high waters as the Neosho and Caney rivers rise. Roads become impassable, trains marooned near Kinta, and the Verdigris, Neosho, and Arkansas rivers are forecast to reach major flood stages by Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Red River
Durant
Texas
Miami
Neosho River
U. S. Highway No. 66
U. S.S. Highway No. 73
Winita
McAlester
Muskogee
Ardmore
Ada
Okalhoma City
Caney River
Bartlesville
Grand River
Fort Gibson
Big Sallisaw
Arkansas River
Panama
Poteau
Wilburton
Sallisaw
Okay
Okla
Neosho
Arkansas
Webber Falls
Fort Smith
U. S. Weather Bureau
Escaped Oklahoma convict linked to assault to murder case
An escaped Oklahoma convict identified as Jack Smith and two women Bes sie Moore and Bertha Pope were jailed on assault to murder charges after shots were fired at Constable C L Bradford when he questioned them over a one day room rental in his home. An accomplice fled and a stolen Neosho Missouri automobile was seized.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Oklahoma
C. L. Bradford
Jack Smith
McAlester
Bessie Moore
Bertha Pope
Bradford
Smith
Neosho
Oklahoma Legion Position Explained
Oklahoma leaders in Washington say the state will not participate in the revised compensation rate adjustments. State adjutant Milt Phillips explains the national executive committee delegated the matter to the national commander and rehabilitation committee.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma American Legion
Washington
State Department
Milt Phillips
Phillips
Ada Names Appear In Unclear Local List
A fragment lists individuals including Noel Orvin Vestal Seminole Anthony Wayne Wadlington Ada Kenne Wells Okishema City Mre Laura Lakinda White Mrs 0 R Williams Thomas Farrow Wyatt Ada Helen Gladys Wryckoff Ada. No context or roles provided.
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Machelor OF Arts Degr Cae A
Roxas At
Mra. D. W
Seminole
Adelaide Cosby Andrews
Wewoka
Lillian Brooka
Ada Helen Eyre
Aliee Manes ‘A Hdwell
Ada Benjamin Od White Chaney
Ada
Lucy Baker Cole
Wewok
Maxine Antoinette Drain
Woodford
William Chester Evans
Mildred Seales Floyd
Durant
Ruth Ada Tree
Huco
Mary Goodwin Glass
Stratford
James Ponald Hester
Velma Gray Hill
Rolf Sarah Hart
Paoli
Margaret Hodgens
Ada Jowia
Viola Hedgin
Holdenville
Helen Latha Horton
Okmulgee
Vera Lucille Johnson
Ada Ree
Elizabeth Johnston
Ada Winnie Lou Jones
Ada Fula Lucas
Wetumka
Dorothy Adella Lamt
Ada Mary Vpauline Mackey
Ada Mre
Ulsa Foreman Martin
Ada Wesley A. Martin
Ada Margaret Meaders
Bonnie Hath Miller
Melvin Ray Miller
Carence W. Mullen
Alitdhes Nichols
Mirena Wilkerson Norman
Davis Lweibert Oxley
Sulphur
Chiorene Ozbirn
Lawrence Gertrude Estelle Pendergraft
Minnie Cooper Prim
Ada Fulna
Avis Tipton
Ada Elsie Irwin Tuttle
Francis Guille Supert Wallace
Dorothy Ward
Ada Ruth Wear
Ada Lucille Lois Williams
Ada William Boyd Willingham
Ada Mildred Sue Yarbrough
Pawnee
Lwis
Velma Armstrong
Ada Sue Barrett
Beatrice Roberts
Se Bentley Rose
Marjorie Dean Shepherd
Milly Lou Shirley
Ada Isaac Edward Simonda
Stonewall Lie Lee Stiger
Jwliette Pearl Smith
Ada Bhi
Stacie Swe” Mra
W. H. Ray Irvin
Thomas
Ada Grende O. Ticknor
Ana John
Noel Orvin Vestal
Anthony Wayne Wadlington
Kenne Wells
Okishema City
Laura Lakinda White
R. Williams
Ada Thomas Farrow Wyatt
Ada Helen Gladys Wryckoff
Ada adopts policy of no Sunday funerals citywide
Ada joins a regional policy banning Sunday funerals. Local ministers funeral homes and cemetery sextons cooperate to implement the rule to protect health and allow rest. The decision cites ministers busy on Sundays and the need for embalming and efficient burial practices, though exceptions exist for communicable disease deaths.
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Ada
Cotton consumption up from last April in census report
Census bureau data show April cotton use at 470,685 bales of lint and 54,731 linters, up from March 484,167 lint and 50,082 linters but above April last year. On hand, lint and linters totaled over 9.6 million bales in consuming establishments and public storage. Exports for April reached 436,450 lint and 15,275 linters. imports totaled 7,337 bales. Spindle activity in April stood at 23,416,680.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Cardus Aids Women To Overcome Pain And Weakness
An older note promotes Cardus as a remedy for women in weak health, claiming it strengthens the body and eases small symptoms as nourishment improves. It suggests avoiding temporary pills and using Cardus to support a normal course of womanly ailments.
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Cardus
Bonus Marchers Snub Government Aid In Political Standoff
A band of over 200 right wing Bonus Army members reject food and shelter from the government at Fort Hunt and vow to stay on Washington streets. Police brace for possible clashes as leaders denounce Roosevelt’s forest camp jobs and a Ways and Means push moves to block cash payments.
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Washington
Bonus Army
Fort Hunt
Emmanuel Levin
Roosevelt
House Democratic
Ways and Means Committee
Warrants Outlook Improves For Ada School District
Walter D. Grindstaff, treasurer for School District 19, expects by midsummer to begin taking up warrants held by Ada teachers. With a budget of 83,730.98, banks took 53,000 in warrants. 40,000 has been paid so far, leaving 13,000 held by banks to be cleared by July or August depending on tax collections. Income from miscellaneous sources and school land commission revenue boosts expectations, with estimates nearly doubling and a possible year-end surplus projected.
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Walter D. Grindstaff
Ada
Grindstaff
Tiad
School Land Commission
State
Train Hits Auto Killing Three in San Angelo
A Santa Fe motor train collided with an automobile at a street crossing in San Angelo Texas injuring three and killing three. The dead were Theodore O Pierce 30 his wife Clarice Pierce 25 and Gladys Clark 28. Injured include Nellie Clark with a skull fracture and Gussie Ruth Hayden 23 and a year old infant were not seriously hurt. The crash occurred near the depot with the car dragged 114 feet before the train stopped.
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San Angelo
Tex
Santa Fe
Alpine
Theodore O. Pierce
West Texas Utilities Company
Clarice Pierce
Theodore Pierce
Gladys Clark
Pierce
Gussie Ruth Hayden
Mr. and
Mrs. Pierce
Means finished kidnaping tale dismissed as figment
A federal official in Washington on May 13 called Gaston B. Means tale of his contacts with the Lindbergh baby kidnappers a figment of a weird imagination, contrasting it with Baron Munchhausen.
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Washington
Gaston B
Lindbergh
Baron Munchausen
Detroit extortion trial address lies at odd factory site
In Detroit on May 13 detectives say 2419 Grand River Avenue was cited by Gaston B Means in Washington extortion proceedings as Wellington Henderson head of the Lindbergh kidnapping plot. No Henderson in local records. no 3419 Grand River exists. the building houses Workers' Party headquarters.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Lindbergh
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Means
Charles A. Lindbergh
Norman T. Whitaker
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Whitaker
Fox
McLean
Wellington Henderson
Detroit
Hopewell
Henderson
Juarez
Mé¢xico
Max Hassel
Max Greenberg
New Jersey
Irving Fenton
Leo A. Rover
Rover
Ferton
Canadian
Grand River Avenue
Mich
Workers’ Party
Grand River
Negro Lynched by Georgia Mob Near Warenton
Warenton Georgia May 13 a mob abducted a wounded negro after a gun battle that killed a white planter Charlie English and his nephew Lamar Kinsey. Will Kinsey captured from a physician and found dead at a roadside outside the city. Sheriff George P. Hogan said the fight occurred in Englishs home and involved Kinseys as tenants.
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Warrenton
Lamar Kinsey
Will Kinsey
Charlie English
George P. Hogan
English
Ace Edmonson Recaptured After Jail Break
Sheriff Clyde Kaiser hunted 23234 miles across Oklahoma for Ace Edmonson, an escapee from the county jail. Officers traced him from Sulphur to Oklahoma City where he was arrested near Packingtown. The capture raises the rearrested count to three with four still at large.
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Clyde Kaiser
Ace Edmonson
Oklahoma City
Edmonson
Franks
Kaiser
Sulphur
Tax collections show increase for first time this year
Washington May 13 report shows May 11 treasury totals at 1.716 billion dollars since July 1, edging past the prior year's figure of 1.716 billion. Income tax receipts lag, while miscellaneous internal revenue including beer tax money after legalization rose beyond last year. No beer tax amount reported.
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Washington
Treasury
Thieves Steal Safe From First Baptist Church in McAles ter
Thieves took a church safe during the night from the First Baptist Church in McAlester. They left behind only church papers and the day’s collections remained with the church treasurer. The theft was discovered today.
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Mcalester
Oklahoma Textbook Board Plans June 19 Bid Adoptions
The state textbook commission called for bid adoption of new school books for elementary and high school grades on June 19. The board resumes review of proposed changes at its second meeting set for June 12.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Textbook Commission
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