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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
4
Historical masthead details for The Ada Weekly News and The Ada Evening News. Mentions editor Wm D Little and publishing cadence. Notes consolidations with Ada Weekly Democrat Pontotoc County Enterprise and Ada-Star-Democrat with dates 1910 1912 1919.
The piece honors Dr. W. Bizzell as a scholarly, morally principled leader who rejected political manipulation. It lauds his role in elevating education, reducing political pulls in appointments, and instilling a religious, ethical tone at the university. The writer asserts Oklahoma is better due to his work and character.
The column defends Jed Johnson chair of the Interior appropriations subcommittee amid claims by Drew Pearson. It quotes Cannon praising Johnson for a 23 percent cut, noting efficiency and economy. The piece contrasts Johnson’s work with the German war guilt debate and Maier’s cautions on punishment.
Pauls second missionary stay in Corinth lasted a year and a half. He met Aquila and Priscilla and worked as a tentmaker, preached first in the synagogue then to Gentiles, faced bitter opposition, and saw Crispus join the Christians. The Justus house hosted worship as persecution grew. The Corinthians faced meat offered to idols, divisions, and strife, making Pauls Epistles the most intimate portrait of the early church.
The text recounts Joe Brandt’s Chicago speech of April 5 criticizing Oklahoma’s economic practices. It highlights soil erosion from reckless oil extraction and soil mining by tramp farmers, noting Osages protected land wisely. The piece urges accepting the critique and quickly correcting abuses, especially land wastage.
A brief, poetic reflection contrasts worldly hope with transience. The lines liken hope to snow on a desert, burning briefly before vanishing, invoking the Persian poet Omar Khayyam's imagery.
A Bartlesville Examiner editorial voices strong support for draft boards remaining independent and free from political interference. It warns that political pressure could destroy the draft system and harm national unity, urging boards to resist outside influence while highlighting the dangers of dictation over who serves.
Washington reports full Russian participation in political arrangements for final drives into Nazi Europe. Allied power agreements with exiled governments of Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands grant civil authority to military commanders during war and transfer to local governments when feasible. The aim is to let occupied peoples form their own governments after order is restored.
George Ade famed American humorist dies at 78 in BRCC Indiana after a heart attack and long illness struggling with paralysis. Ade's career spanned newspapers magazines books plays and silent films, with the Purdue Ross Ade stadium honoring his work. He never married and penned essays praising bachelorhood.
Claude Lewis Lamb age 29 of Tulsa suffered a compound fracture of the left leg when his oil load overturned on U S Highway 277 at the east edge of Blanchard. The truck spilled about a third of its 400 oil cases after a bump during a pass with another truck and an approaching car.
California voters renominated U S Senator Sheridan Downey in the Democratic primary though he failed to win the Republican nomination. Downey will oppose Republican Frederick F Houser in November. Returns show Downey 229 797 to Houser 61 317 in the Democratic race with incomplete totals.
Henry E Ahlin of Boston and Ray E Loring of Vandalia Ohio forecast a postwar skeet and trapshooting boom as wartime training breeds new enthusiasts. The national skeet tournament is on hold. the Grand American Handicap will run August 23 24 25 at Vandalia with bring your own shells.
A reflective line notes that differences grow after marriage and can spoil things when partners become unlike each other. The quote suggests friction arises from ongoing change within relationships rather than initial conditions.
President Roosevelt announced a net 4.8 billion dollar cut in next fiscal year war expenditures from January estimates. Senators praised the reduction though Republicans urged more waste elimination and tighter planning.
Oklahoma Governor Kerr’s schedule shows speeches from May 17 through June 7 spanning Hershey Pennsylvania to Roswell New Mexico and San Antonio Texas. He will speak at Madill Kingston Tangier Cheyenne Perry Canton Tulsa Tahlequah and Pauls Valley, with events including a father and son banquet and a fishing day at Lake Carl Blackwell. He attends a governor’s conference in Hershey and an Interstate Oil Compact Commission meeting in Roswell before returning.
Tulsa May 17. Oklahoma highway accident tolls rose in the first four months of 1944 vs 1943. Commissioner J M Gentry warned drivers that risky pedestrians create costly wrecks. Through April 1944 deaths reached 94, injuries 1018, accidents 3964, property loss up $126 825, and 2057 commercial drivers injured in eight months ending February.
An Omaha editor wired a country correspondent for a story on a prominent man’s death and received a telegram stating details are in mail and there is no telegraph service currently available.
December 1941 saw 29 418 000 passenger cars registered in the United States according to the record. This figure reflects a wartime era surge in car ownership and production scale during the year prior to the United States entry into World War II.
Chinese forces in Henan widened the Peiping Hankow railway gap to 22 miles between Kioshan and Mingkiang and captured a third station along the line. The agency cited fierce fighting around Loyang and a second Japanese breakthrough on Monday. The Chinese vice foreign minister touted new western Yunnan offensives as a path to reopening the Burma road and aiding China’s war effort. An Air Force communique reported American fighters bombing Japanese positions in support of the Chinese sweep.
Sgt. Herbert A. Meyer Jr. of Orlando Florida earns the nickname Cisco Kid for firing from the hip during Liberator bomber missions over Woleai and Biak. Despite wounds to hands and bruised torso, he continued to fight as welds failed and gunners were slashed, then sent to sick bay.
Jacobius Jonkher, discoverer of the 726 carat Jonkher diamond, died on a Transvaal farm. The gem found in 1934 was bought for 280000 dollars by Harry Winston and later cut and sold in parts.
Capt Leonard W Cronin chaplin of the U S Army visits the East Central State college commencement as a spectator. He served in the Southwest Pacific and New Zealand and New Caledonia. His wife Mrs Cronin earns a bachelor of arts degree.
Marshal Tito's headquarters announced that Yugoslav Partisans liberated the Dalmatian port of Starigrad after fierce fighting. The communique said heavy clashes continued in the Lika sector of Croatia while Allied air power halted traffic on the Lika road where German transports moved.
The Stars and Stripes notes Capt. Jacob F. Wagner of Ft. Atkinson Wis. heard a scream from an upstairs window and delivered an eight pound baby then tended to mother and child and called a doctor. Wagner is described as a peacetime farmer.
President Roosevelt praises Oklahoma congressman Robert S. Kerr calling him Bob after a White House visit by Rep. Jed Johnson and Rep. W. E. Stigler of Oklahoma. The discussion touched on city construction and Manhattan’s weight balance with dirt removed.
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