Date With Danger in Dawn of a New York Gazette
In sleet shrouded Lower New York the Gazette newsroom races to solve the Janice French disappearance. Editor Tom Ladd, bonded to Mary Franklin, hammers city editors Crossie and Peto for clips as society thrill seeker Janice vanishes. A killer and a mystery loom over Duke and Martin as police are alerted.
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New York
New York Morning Gazette
Janice French
Tom Ladd
Gazette
Ladd
Crossie
Padraic Croswell
Crossit
The
Janice
Cressie
Tom
Peto
Pete
Crassie
Society
Mary Franklin
Rhinelander
Mary
Nick Mart
Fool K iller Is Kept Busy Death Records Reveal
Oklahoma City report details 37 traffic deaths in April with repeated acts of foolishness and fatigue. Sleepy drivers, high speeds, reckless passing, and poor road choices contributed to multiple fatalities, including head-on crashes, rollovers, and crashes into structures. The piece catalogs numerous cases of drivers and passengers losing their lives across the month.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Patrol
Huge Agriculture Bill Passes Senate With Large Increases
A Senate passed a record 1.218 billion dollar farm appropriation bill, sending it back to the House for consideration of over 338 million dollars in increases. The measure boosts farm income via direct payments and programs to reduce surpluses, including 225 million for parity payments, 500 million for soil conservation checks, and 113 million for surplus removal.
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Washington
Senate
House
Konawa Musicians Win High Honors At Regional Contest
Konawa Oklahoma Saidler and Konawa and Itta Bena Mississippi earned second division rating of excellent among class C concert bands in the National School Band Association Region seven. Bands from Smackover Arkansas Crossett Arkansas and Sacred Heart of New Orleans were rated good in class C. No band received superior first division rating. Overture Militaire by Skomika led the contest.
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Little Rock
Ark
Saidler
Konawa
Okla
Itta Bena
Miss
National School Band Association
Smackover
Crosset
Skomika
Rural Pupils Aided By Gifts Of Good Reading Material
Eager rural pupils at Centrahoma receive Sunday school papers and other reading material from First Christian and Presbyterian churches. The local council with churches and donors distributes about 5,000 pieces to girls and boys in rural schools during winter each year. William Allen White notes youths deserve worthwhile literature, urging mind renewal through reading. Readers are asked to donate good magazines at 808 East 13th Street to help others this summer.
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Centrahoma
William Allen White
Great Kansas
Ing
Ada
East 13Th Street
Theft Of Milk Bottles Putting Youth To Work
Ada police say a youth on a city jail sentence was caught with three quarts of milk after a patrolman watched a home on West Fourteenth Street. Milk thefts had totaled about five to six quarts daily over two months, with bottles used and sold. the youth denied involvement in other thefts.
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Ada
Cecil Smith
West Fourteenth Street
Smith
Mental Clock Reversed by Hypnosis in Treating Mental Disease
CHICAGO May 11 Brain specialists report hypnosis can reverse the mental clock to childhood to treat mental disease. Dr Milton H Erickson described experiments at Eloise Michigan showing patients regain childhood mind and age-appropriate performance in reading puzzles and arithmetic with age-level testing and accurate responses.
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Chicago
Jds
Milton H. Erickson
Eloise
Mich
American Psychiatric Association
Erickson
Interpreting Juvenile Misunderstandings In Mental Treatment
The speaker contrasts mental state under treatment with amnesia noting a patient reverts to childhood thinking yet retains awareness the present year lies in the future. This allows re evolution of mentality and planning.
Ruling on Beer Purchases From Out of State
Oklahoma City May 11 Licensed Oklahoma beer dealers are not liable to criminal prosecution for buying beer from out of state manufacturers or wholesalers lacking Oklahoma licenses when sale occurs outside the state. The May 11 ruling notes the new $500 license on out of state entities and says dealers have started mail or telegraph orders, with delivery F O B outside Oklahoma and forwarding to buyers. The opinion, addressed to Lewis Morris, did not settle the validity of licensing out of state producers and may await action by the tax commission.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Williamson
Lewis Morris
Sam Lattimore
Tax-Commission
Preliminary Riot Hearings Reset To May 26
A preliminary hearing for 15 men arraigned on riot charges was continued to May 26 at 10 o'clock by County Judge Hoyt Driskill. Most defendants have pleaded not guilty and two remain unarraigned. The cases involve alleged interference with a Cosden Pipeline pumping station and molestation of Mid-Continental Petroleum wells in Pontotoc county.
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Hoyt Driskill
J. D. Lydick
Cosden Pipeline Company
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Pontotoc County
Opinion Blow For Marble Board Use
Attorney General Williamson declared marble boards played for amusement only still violate the anti slot law if there is any chance to win or lose a thing of value. He noted boards have been condemned in courts nationwide as gambling equivalents, while coin operated devices like player pianos and phonographs were deemed legal.
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Oklahoma City
Williamson
Lewis R. Morris
Oklahoma County
Morris
John Doe
Simon Paré
U S Farm Exports Up For Past Year
The Agriculture Department reports 1938 U S farm exports at 82.0 million dollars, the highest since 1939, while imports of competitive farm commodities fell to 477.0 million, down 39 percent from 1937 and the lowest since 1934. Foreign demand was restrained by weak industrial activity, higher American prices, and increased foreign production of farm goods.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Legal obligations after an automobile crash and federal cases notes
The text explains drivers must stop after a crash and provide vehicle, owner, and up to five passengers’ names and addresses on request. penalties include up to one year in jail or a $500 fine. It also notes federal courts hear cases involving ambassadors, with exclusive jurisdiction for such matters.
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Congress
Konawa Students Win High Rating at National Band Contest
National Band association regional contest in Little Rock opens with eight states competing. About 3,000 expected attendees. Top honors awarded in three divisions. Violix solo rosemary Culmer Classen High Oklahoma City superior. Piano solo Joan Milburn Bristow good. Viola solo Louise Reeder Konawa good. String bass solo Jean Surber Konawa excellent.
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Little Rock
Ark
National Band Association
Violix
Rosemary Culmer
Classen High
Oklahoma City
Joan Milburn
Bristow
Okla
Louise Reeder
Konawa
Jean
Surber
Local Marriage Licenses Issued From Court Clerk
Two marriage licenses were issued Friday from the court clerk. Couples include Carl Hill 21 and Wa Byrd of Lula. James Leroy Welsh 30 and Estelle Billingsley of Stonewall. Conner Logsdon 26 of Ada and Mary Jane Royal of Seminole. Clyde Gorb er 21 and Marie Byrd of none.
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Carl Hill
Wa Byrd
Lula
James Leroy Welsh
Ada
Estelle Billingsley
Stonewall
Conner Logsdon
Mary Jane Royal
Seminole
Clyde
Gorber
Marie Byrd
Roy Harris Joins Staff Of First Baptists Ada
John Roy Harris of Seminole was elected pastor's associate and choir director at First Baptist Church of Ada. He will move about June 1. Harris previously led at Ardmore and Shawnee churches, taught seven years at Oklahoma Baptist University, and has led Seminole church for three years. He and his wife have two children, John Roy and a ten year old daughter.
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First Baptist Church
John Roy Harris
Seminole
First Baptist Church of
Ada
Harris
Oklahoma Baptist University
Ardmore
Shawnee
John i Roy Harris
FDR Backs Repeal Of Profits Tax With Revenue Guardrails
President Roosevelt voiced support for repealing the undistributed profits tax if a substitute revenue plan is found to curb tax avoidance by the wealthy. He said treasury studies would be shared with Congress, but recommendations were not guaranteed. Separately, a Senate committee advanced a wartime funding bill requiring millionaires to invest and increasing the share for the very wealthy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Senate Military Committee
Sen. Lee
Oklatoms
Templeton Held In Assault Case
Floyd J. Templeton a county government figure was arraigned in A W Oliver justice court on an assault and battery charge. He pleaded not guilty and posted a $500 bond with a May 17 hearing. Edith Bryant suffered facial injuries and Dewey Sampson testified. Templeton helped prepare Pontotoc county budget and worked as a tax ferret for the county.
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Floyd J. Templeton
Justice Court
A. W. Oliver
Templeton
Edith Bryant
Dewey Sampson
Pontotoc County
Three Indicted On Liquor Permit Law
Tulsa May 12 The northern Oklahoma federal court tests the new liquor permit law as three men face indictments. Jack Franklin and Bill Tucker of Oklahoma City are accused of importing liquor from Illinois. Oscar S Staley of Elk City is charged with bringing liquor from Arkansas. Also charged are George Henry and Belle Henry of Picher for perjury in a defense testimony in the trial of Daniel H Hallock, who was acquitted of postal theft.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
Alcohol Tax Unit
Jack Franklin
Bill Tucker
Oklahoma City
Oscar S. Staley
Elk City
Arkansas
Franklin E. Kennamer
George Henry
Belle
Picher
Daniel H. Hallock
Grain Dust Explodes In Record Chicago Blast
An explosive grain dust blast on Chicago’s south side destroyed five elevators, leveled structures, and injured 23 including 18 firefighters. Firefighting lasted over five hours with 400 men, while investigators probe eight missing men and losses exceeding 4 million dollars. Rosenbaum Brothers and Norris Grain operated the affected facilities with over 6 million bushels storage capacity.
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Chicago
102Nd Street
Calumet River
Rosenbaum Brothers Grain Company
Norris Grain Company
Rosenbaum Firm
Rosenbaum
Sturdy Cowponies Finish 100-Mile Race Record Pace
In NOWATA on May 12 rain and mud marked the final 20 miles of the 100 mile cow pony race. Charles Harris of Oologah posted the fastest leg at 1 hour AL minutes, with R L Donelson Jr of Burbank and Gladys Buck of Pawhuska close behind. Final judge scoring will determine the winner of the 150 mile test with a $250 added prize.
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Nowata
Charles Harris
Oologah
R. L. Donelson Jr
Burbank
Gladys Buck
Pawhuske
Harris
Max Ross
Pawhuska
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MEA
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Duke Mawin
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Naka
Janice Iench
Calia
Ali
Harvard
Orient
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Chesterfield
Eiver
Duke
Martin
Eh, Gunder
Lad
U. S
John
Roy Harris
First Baptists
Joe Saltis
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