German Maids-of-All-Work All Work For the Nazis
England faces spy scare as Germans masquerading as journalists and travelers are sent home while German maids in English houses may act as informants. An American reports a German maid who gathered wartime data, noted Nazi ties, and warned of coordinated district meetings to pay dues, after which a swastika cake appeared at a dinner party.
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London
England
Germany
Naziland
Aldershot
Woolwich
English Midlands
Nation's Crude Oil Output Gains Across Several States
The Oil and Gas Journal reports U S crude production averaged 3 440966 barrels daily for the week ended May 20, up 36610 from the prior week. Oklahoma rose 10085 to 463250. East Texas up 50 to 372348. Texas overall up 16348 to 1285335. California up 5500 to 625750.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Texas
Oil and Gas Journal
United States
East Texas
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana
California
Eastern States
Michigan
Rocky Mountain
Indian Princess To Meet Royalty
OKLAHOMA CITY May 23 Pi-Arr Oklahoma Indian princess Te Ata, a dramatic artist and daughter of the late T. B. Thompson, will appear before the king and queen of England when they visit the President and Mrs Roosevelt in Washington. She is in Oklahoma visiting her mother when selected to perform with top artists at a musicale for the royal visitors.
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Oklahoma City
England
Te Ata to Leave for Washington for Royal Presentation
Te Ata says she is not surprised by selection after Mrs Roosevelt asked six weeks ago if she could go. Confirmation arrived three weeks ago and she plans to appear before the king with a dramatization of American Indian lore including legends dances and songs. In private life she is married to Dr Clyde Fisher of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.
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Te’ Ata
Rogers Fund Supports Handicapped Oklahoma Students
A Will Rogers Memorial Fund gift of 76620 dollars was presented to OU President W B Bizzell by Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The fund will loan money to needy students at low interest. Jones urged Oklahomans to add to the fund, while Mrs. Rogers watched as Dr. Bizzell called it a historic occasion.
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Noman
University of Oklahoma
Will Rogers
W. B. Bizzell
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Will Rogers Memorial Fund
Rogers
Jones
Oklahoma
Walter Johnson Named Oklahoma Public Safety Chief
Walter Johnson became state commissioner of public safety in Oklahoma City, succeeding O M Gentry who resigned weeks ago. Governor Phillips praised his ability to straighten department affairs and Johnson promised to review personnel and reduce overhead.
Garner escapses in pajama smoke scare at hotel
Vice President Garner wearing blue and white striped pajamas was led from his Washington hotel suite by smoke from overheated air conditioning shortly before midnight.
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Garner
Washington
Washington Hotel
Bill to repay LeFlore County for lands reforestation
Washington May 23 government should pay LeFlore county Oklahoma 97381 yearly to replace tax revenue from lands acquired for reforestation. Rep Colmer (D Miss) introduced a bill to grant counties three percent of the actual purchase price of land bought under reforestation and Bankhead Jones tenancy acts, noting Oklahoma has 150923 acres cost 246041 for reforestation.
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Washington
Colmer
D-Miss
LeFlore County
Oklahoma
Bankhead-Jones
Puerto Rico
Forest Service
Gourds Easy To Grow Found To Have Many Uses
Gourd vines can yield income as shown at the Marshall county 4-H county contests with a handicraft demonstration by Oklahoma A and M extension service. Read how gourds are prepared, hollowed, sanded, painted, and finished with varnish or shellac to make bird houses, bowls, pots, baskets, and funnels for churns.
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Madiil
Marshall
Dale Ozment
Oklahoma A
Ozment
Hitchhiker Killed in Oklahoma City Ice Truck Crash
Oklahoma City May 23 Pi Officers sift clues to identify a hitchhiker killed yesterday when an ice truck crashed into a tree west of here. The body held at a funeral home was described as six feet tall, 175 pounds, with initials V M burned on the left arm and scars on the forehead and thumb. A fellow hitchhiker Charles Holland 21 Cushing lost his left leg. he joined the man and cited a Texas family near Amarillo as a possible origin.
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Oklahoma City
Here
Barry
Berry
Charles Holland
Cushing
Aharillo
Tex
Morrison Blames Axis Powers For Palestine Riots
In the House of Commons Labour minister Herbert Morrison blamed Germany and Italy for Palestinian disturbances. He said agents of Hitler and Mussolini plot violence and bombs in Jerusalem and other places, signaling a partisan charge as debate on new Palestine policy continued.
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London
Herbert Morrison
House of Commons
Germany
Italy
Palestine
Morrison
Hitler
Mussolini
Jerusalem
British rabbi accuses policy of harming Jewish world
In a London address a rabbi denounces government policy as a cynical breach of pledges to Jews and the world. He links Palestinian disturbances to actions by Germany and Italy and warns it will harm Britain’s standing with the United States, seeking American goodwill.
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Pening
London
Palestine
Germany
Italy
America
United States
Two Problems For Retail Merchants
Washington may twenty three 194? O Mahoney urged merchants to focus on solving industrial unemployment and agricultural surpluses. He warned restraints of trade by large firms harm all, while Homer W Ladd of Fort Worth noted retail sales taxes take a large share of southern state revenue and reduce consumer purchasing power.
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Washington
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
American Retail Federation
O’mahoney
Federal Monopoly Committee
Homer W. Ladd
Fort Worth
Oklahoma Supreme Court voids debt on gambling device note
Oklahoma City May 2 The Supreme Court ruled a note used as part of the purchase price for marble machines, deemed gambling devices by statute, is void. The decision reversed a Pontotoc County district court ruling awarding Hertan Hamilton judgment on the disputed cash note. The court held courts will not aid contracts contrary to law or public policy.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Pontotoc County
Hertan Hamilton
Halifax Pressed to Back Mutual Aid Pact
In Geneva on May 23 British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was reportedly ready to promote a closer mutual aid pact among Britain France and Soviet Russia at the upcoming cabinet meeting. Informants cite last minute round robin talks among the three powers for League Council sessions and note Russian resistance to deviations, French pressure and the influence of General Gamelin.
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Geneva
Viscount Halifax
Britain
France
Soviet
Russia
Lord Halifax
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Ivan Maiski
London
Georges Bonnet
Holdenville Woman Wins Damage Suit
The Oklahoma Transportation company must pay Mrs Clyde Broaddus of Holdenville $20000 damages for the death of her husband in a highway accident. The supreme court ruled the trial court had awarded $380369.50 and the appellate court had remitted excess to $20000. Broaddus, 27, was riding in a bakery truck struck by an OTC bus near Moragan Hughes County on December 27 1935.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Transportation Company
Clyde Broaddus
Holdenville
Supreme Court
la Broadbus
O. T C
Moragan
Hughes County
Dewar Man Killed At Work On Dam
Pryor May 23 A Dewar Oklahoma man Royi ineth 25 died in a hospital from a crushed skull after a five ton bucket of concrete fell on workers at the Grand River Dam project Chief engineer W R Holway described the accident as a crane and bucket dropping from above while Finch and others stood at the base of a large form being filled with cement.
Oklahoma lawmakers indicted on job selling charges
State senator Tom Waldrep and former Pottawatomic ie representative Joe H Smalley were indicted by a county grand jury on two counts. Nat Taylor, another state senator from Strong City, faces one count. Indictments allege Waldrep and Smalley accepted monthly salaries from applicants for state jobs, with payments dating back to 1937. Taylor is accused of taking a smaller sum for a horse patrolman post. Taylor appeared in court and pleaded innocent. Smalley, now in Oklahoma City, maintained innocence and blamed political persecution. Waldrep condemned the action as political persecution and claimed threats and blackmail influenced testimony. Smalley’s prior misdemeanor case relates to a $25 gratuity for promising to secure a state job. He remains free on bond while awaiting further proceedings.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County
Tom Waldrep
Shawnee
Joe H. Smalley
Pottawatomie
Nat Taylor
Strong City
Waldrop
Smailey
Justin T. Thomason
Maysville
Ark
State Tax Commission
Smalley
J. T. Smith
Southwest City
Coy Smith
State Highway Department
Taylor
Jean Cordeil
Woodward
T. B. Inman
Hammon
Inman
Roger-Mills County
Ben Arnold
Waldrep
Chad
Thomason
Smith
Sen. Waldrep
Fareed
Common Pleas Court
Marie Jeane Brown
Oklahoma Deficiency Bonds Fail To Cover Interest
Oklahoma City May 23 report shows a 194 258 dollar deficiency appropriation by the legislature to cover funds issued by former Gov Marland to replenish depleted accounts. State Auditor Crater seeks attorney general guidance on mandatory interest payment and whether principal can be paid without interest. Deficiencies sold mostly to bankers bore 4 percent interest. claims for principal and interest begin to trickle in. If interest must be paid now, funds would come from the general fund.
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Oklahoma City
Marland
CC. Childers
Frank Crater
Attorney General
Cal
John Zollimman
Jack Rorschach
Roger Phelps
Ada seeks 264000 dollar WPA street project approval
Ada officials seek a 264000 dollar blanket WPA street improvement project awaiting presidential approval. A 13000 dollar matching fund remains and sections will be developed by contractor H Moore with work starting on East Tenth Street. The plan covers asphaltic concrete surface and concrete curb, storm sewers, sidewalks, and markers across about 400 blocks with local owner contributions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
J. H. Pryor
Ada
Pryor
Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma City
Commissioner of Public Works and Properties
State Office
H. §. Moore
East Tenth Street
Phillips Replies To H. L. Mencken
Oklahoma City May 23. Governor Leon C Phillips dismisses Mencken criticism of Oklahoma as irrelevant to state interests. He cites long standing handicaps and freight rate injustices as key concerns while noting strong support for him from Oklahoma. Tulsa state Democratic chairman Paris counters Mencken’s figures as misinformed and eastern biased.
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Phillips
Oklahoma
Mencken
France
Paris
Tulsa
Democratic
Mencken Attacks Dust Bowl Relief in Maryland Editorial
Baltimore May 23 N L Mencken critic and editor says Oklahoma dust bowl residents received disproportionately more federal relief than solvent states. He cites Washington and Oklahoma paying less in federal taxes yet getting three times Maryland’s emergency grants and far more from SWA WPA and relief programs.
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Baltimore
N. L. Mencken
Oklahoma
Baltimore Sun
Mencken
Washington
Maryland
Woman Has Heart on Right Side in New Jersey
In Perth Amboy New Jersey Mary Wills, a 31 year old plant worker, was found to have a heart on the right side and other organs shifted by X-ray at the General Cable factory Sector. The heart faced backward and the stomach spleen liver and appendix were on the unusual sides.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Mary Wills
A. E. Kovarsky
General Cable
Miss Willis
Hitler debuts white dinner jacket with silver belt
Berlin May 23 Hitler used the German Italian military pact signing to unveil a new uniform style at a dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop for Count Galeazzo. He wore a white dinner jacket with a silver belt and his Iron Cross, Nazi party badge, and a World War I wound medal pinned to his chest.
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Berlin
lPi
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo
Italy
Hitler
Germany
Fuehrer
Iron Cross
Poland Indicates No Objection to Three-Power Pact
London reports quote Polish quarters saying Poland has no objection to a three power mutual aid pact with Britain and Soviet Russia and France. Col Joseph Beck conveyed Warsaw’s view to Sir Howard Kennard who relayed it to Viscount Halifax in Geneva. Approval would remove an obstacle delaying talks with Moscow.
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London
Poland
Britain
Russia
France
Joseph Beck
Howard Kennard
Warsaw
Howard
Viscount Halifax
Geneva
Moscow
From Grocer's Boy To Archbishop
A former grocer's boy became the spiritual leader of a million Catholics in the New York diocese. Francis Spellman was installed as the sixth archbishop of New York at St Patrick's Cathedral as thousands witnessed the pageantry and ceremony.
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New York
St.atrick’s Cethedral
Francis Joseph Spellman
Convict Fugitives In Desperate Case Near Boise
In Crouch Idaho on May 22 convicts escaped from Idaho state prison after obtaining a rifle and ammo from a sheep camp. Warden Meredith sent five Boise officers with two machine guns as posses increased. The four long term escapees are Cliff Doherty Lonnie Walling Raymond Curtis and Edgar Pruett.
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Crouch
Idaho
P.C. Meredith
Boise
Payette River
Meredith
Emmett Corbin
Cliff Dougherty
Lonnie Walling
Raymond Curtis
Edgar Pruett
Arkansas Rules On Importing Liquor
The state supreme court ruled liquor cannot be transported into Arkansas without a permit from the revenue commissioner. Randolph county sat fined Randolph Jones 500 dollars for transporting 50 cases into the state without a permit. The court found Arkansas conditions rather than prohibition, and said the justice of the peace overstepped authority in confiscating the alcohol.
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Little Rock
Ark
State Supreme Court
Arkansas
State Revenue Commissioner
Randolph Circuit Court
Fay Jones
Cairo
Tipton
Oklo
Pocahontas
Jones
Congress
Circuit Court
Revenue Department
Two Fugitives Of Prison Farm Slain in Arkansas
In a natural disaster aftermath two Black convicts escaped with others when a windstorm breached a stockade. Archie Goodwin and James Patterson were shot by guards after a hand to hand clash near Cummins state prison farm in Arkansas. Willie Rayford was recaptured, another fugitive surrendered.
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Little Rock
Ark
Cummins
Archie Goodwin
Deadly Spring Storm Ravages Arkansas River Valley
Four people were killed and many injured as a spring storm roared through the Arkansas river valley. Damages exceeded 1 million dollars, with towns like England and North Little Rock hit hard. Eleven prisoners were missing at Cummins state prison amid the winds.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas River
Centre
Arkansas
Cum-mings State
Ferm
Here
England
North Little Rock
Arkansas Gazette
Tucker and Cummins
Warsaw
Ind
Hoover
Indiana
Nae
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Dewar
Ada News
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Ion
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