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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1934
Page
6
Bill Cummings spent Sunday with Mrs. Kelley and Mrs. Holland's parents J. W. Mayfield. Elnora Fox and Opal Ward visited Mrs. Humphitty. Flora Henderson stayed with Vera Sawyers. Onie Kilcrease and her son Arba spent Sunday near Francis. Trillamae Thompson visited Vanda Rogers.
Wild Bill Cummings of Indianapolis wins the 5006 mile race before 135000 fans in a record 4 46 05 21 lowering the 500 mile average to 104 865 mph. Mauri Rose finishes second with 4 46 32 21, and Lou Moore places third. Prize money totals near $40,000 with first prize $20,000 as Deacon Litz and Joe Russo complete the top five.
A student recounts a late night campus incident near a college gym. She and a roommate, curious about a red light in the sky, encounter a night watchman who reveals he was flashing a flashlight to test color. The pair return quietly, later telling no one about the encounter.
A strong Sunday school crowd and good B Y P U turnout were reported with hopes for growth. Ada visitors Mrs Homer Thompson Mrs Jerf Morrison and Mrs Morgan represented Pontotoc county at the tidal region garden school in Tishomingo.
Mrs Elizabeth Ellen Cupps 87 died at the home of her son W L Cupps 13 miles west of Ada Thursday night at 8 20 o clock Funeral services were held from the home Friday at 2 30 Rev Owens of the Stonewall Holiness church officiating Burial in Five Mile cemetery Keith Funeral Chapel in charge Survivors include son W L Cupps and three daughters Mrs Minnie Wade of Francis Mrs Jessie Condren of Chillicothe Texas and Artie Cupps of Stonewall
N Beauchamp 76 died at home near Atoka Friday afternoon at 2 pm Funeral services set in Anadarko with Criswell funeral service handling body transport He was a longtime cattleman and is survived by two daughters Mrs C Raymond Cox Ada and Grace Beauchamp Anecdarko and two sons Wade and Laird Beauchamp Anadarko.
Cleta Blair of Clarita died Friday at a local hospital after noon. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon with burial in Clarita Cemetery. Criswell Funeral Home in charge. She is survived by her mother two brothers and two sisters.
May 30 Muskogee. David Fowler, regional UMWA president and member of the southwestern coal code authority, said all mines in the McAlester field closed after a warning that operators paying below NRA wages would face federal court. A few mines stayed open after wage scales were set as Fowler and Mead Johnson plan to travel to Kansas City to probe Missouri mine pay disputes.
President Roosevelt met with Secretary Hull on war debt payments and discussed a forthcoming message to Congress. London reported Britain would propose a new order. He said talks on Johnson Act debt restrictions depend on June 15 payments and awaited foreign offers. Roosevelt urged updated NRA steel code amid looming strikes and noted mediation’s gains. He announced Arthur J. Altmeyer as second assistant secretary of labor.
Sacramento report on State Treasurer Charles G Johnson and Berkeley criminologist E O Heinrich expanding inquiry into Virginia Johnson 22 found burned in a garage. Johnson disputes death by self immolation claiming Virginia would not have acted alone with motive and character cited. Rockefeller notes and Oklahoma City veteran placement officer appointment follow in separate brief items.
Henry Stephen Smith, 91, of Omaha, a Civil War era veteran listed for 69 years as an army deserter, seeks government recognition to restore his rights. He served Union and Confederate stints, deserted to avoid grumbling troops, and now after a stroke remains patient at a county hospital.
The article notes a Tennessee scholar planning meetings to discuss a drastic revision of the Socialist program for trade unionism. The labor stance aligns with Norman Thomas, the Socialist party’s leading national figure, emphasizing rights based on ownership.
Kansas mine operators withdrew their request for National Guard troops after NRA Deputy Administrator W P Ellis confirmed the code wage for the region at 4.35 per day. Deep shaft miners had previously closed strip mines in the Pittsburg area, with some demanding 4.60 and the slogan all work or no work. Operators said the dispute is settled and no marching or stopping of operations would continue.
David Bannister, a crime writer and former journalist, teams with GAINEY to uncover who killed orchestra leader Tracy King. Suspects include JULIET FRANCE, HERMAN SCURLACH, Jom PARROTT, and MELVINA HOLLISTER. Bannister finds a wedding photo suggesting a deeper link and hides a key clue before continuing the investigation.
Twenty year old Robert Cargo, convicted of the hatchet murder of A. L. Luke, a Bethany nurseryman, will be formally sentenced to death in the electric chair by District Judge Sam Hooker Friday. Cargo fled to Birmingham with Luke's automobile and claimed self defense in a drunken dispute over a motor car. The jury deliberated forty minutes. Luke was slain March 7 in his Bethany home.
Rockefeller Jr aged about 95 is en route home from Jacksonville Florida where he recently addressed an event. The reported trip follows his public appearance and continues his long public life.
A left wing faction led by Mrs Corliss Lamont circulated an appeal among delegates calling for toppling the old guard and adopting revolutionary policy. The revolutionary policy committee endorses a dictatorship of the proletariat and rejects fetish of legality, signaling a sharp rift with democratic methods.
The 146th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA approved a merger proposal with the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The United Presbyterian General Assembly meets in Oxford Ohio June 20 to 26 to consider the plan, which requires two thirds of both churches to approve before final action next year.
Sunday school drew 56 attendees and promises of higher turnout next week. The article lists visits with families including the Kifers and Hewetts, wedding bells for Vergie Eager and Claude Hewett, and social gatherings involving the Shahan, Brents, Hurley, Pruitt, Cross, and Sutton families.
Sir John Simon urges the disarmament conference to face realities during the second day at Geneva. The League council backs a proposed embargo on war materials to Paraguay and Bolivia, while Maxim Litvinoff faces criticism over a security project that would undermine disarmament efforts.
State high court upholds a 7 cent gate rate reduction for Consolidated Gas in Mangum and Granite, signaling a new phase in utility rate disputes under the Johnson bill. The decision may trigger a further reduction for Altus and direct action in the Lone Star case.
Capt George A Pond claims the airplane used by him and Lieut Cesare Sabelli on the Atlantic flight was maliciously tampered with before departure in New York. He cites three tampering types including cardboard in the oil tank a tin filler cap in the oil line and a shut off in the main feed line from the rear gas tank. He says proof exists and plans to pursue charges on return to New York.
District Judge George C Crump refused to disqualify himself in a hearing to make permanent a temporary injunction against the Seminole local of the Oil Field Workers union. The injunction bars Skelly Oil employees from interfering with work on company leases. Twenty five witnesses were scheduled for the all day hearing.
William Hope Harvey aged 83 a former liberty party presidential candidate is improving after a fall at his Monte Ne Arkansas home and broken hip treatment at Missouri Baptist hospital in St Louis hospital officials said today
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