Walker defeats Hylan ally to become New York Mayor
Gov. Al Smith backed James W. Walker who defeated Mayor Hylan in the Democratic primary and won the New York mayoralty by a large margin over Frank Waterman. Four constitutional amendments approved, backing Smith’s agenda. Walker, a semi pro baseball player and lawyer, will lead the city for four years beginning January.
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New York
al Smith
James Join Walker
Hylan
Frank D. Waterman
Walker
Waterman
Chicago
Louisville elects A. A. Will mayor amid violence claims
The Courier-Journal reports Will defeats ONeal for Louisville mayor by 2 231 amid accusations of fraud and repeaters. Election day violence included shootings across eastern Kentucky with three dead and several wounded.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal Today
A. A. Will
Joseph T. O'Neal
Kentucky
John J. Davis
Democratic Campaign Committee
Will
O'Neal
William Gilbert
Maries
Flint
Harlan
Bob Cole
Poor Fork
Bob Davidson
Line Fork
Whitesburs
New Jersey Governor Race Sees Pro-Wet Victory
New Jersey voters chose a governor who favors relaxing Prohibition. Marie Moore, commissioner of Jersey City, defeated Republican Arthur Whitney who backed strict Volstead enforcement. Moore pledged to push Congress to modify the Volstead Act to allow light wines and beers after inauguration.
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Newark
New Jersey
Marie Moore
Jersey City
Congress
Moore Yesterflay
Arthur Whitney
Menro
Detroit Mayor Race: Smith Defeats Klan Candidate
In Detroit on November 4, Mayor John W. Smith was re-elected over Klan-supported challenger Charles Bowles by about 25,000 votes. Preliminary returns from 530 of 682 precincts give Smith 126,872 to Bowles 100,406.
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Detroit
Ku Klux Klan
John W. Smith
Charles Bowles
Smith
Bowles
James J Walker Wins New York Mayor by Plurality
Complete returns show James J. Walker Democrat elected mayor of New York City by a plurality of 401 591 over Frank D Waterman.
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New York
James J. Walker
New York City
Frank D. Waterman
Newark Prophet Moves Inland Fearing End of World
Robert Reidt of Long Island, once predicting February 6, now declares the current reign of peace will end on Armistice Day. He plans to relocate about 200 miles inland to escape the expected destruction of the metropolitan area.
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Newark
N. J
Robert Reidt
Long Island
Apostle of
Enid Contractor and Woman Dead in Holdenville Hotel
L A Galledez a contractor from Enid Oklahoma and an unidentified woman were found dead in a Holdenville hotel room. A gas stove burned all night filling the room with fumes. A coroner jury ruled death by gas fumes. An envelope bearing the name Kary O Grady was found in the woman's purse, which also carried an Enid address. The woman was believed to be a bookkeeper for a plumbing firm in Enid. The couple had checked into the hotel yesterday and were not discovered until around six this morning. Galledez was a known Holdenville resident.
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Holdenville
Enid
Gallecez
Lions Indore AOABS Bond Issues Backed by Lions Club
The Lions Club Indore backs bond issues for roads and a courthouse and pledges to aid public information. It donates 36 to night schools to fight illiteracy. new member Coach Edge of the College joins, with remarks praising the road and court house measures planned for December 15. future meetings set in Aden Stonewall and Roff and a well attended session.
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Robert Wimbish
Edge
Mdge
Court House
Aden
Stonewall
Roff
Ada Legion Seeks 300 Members In Armistice Drive
Ada veterans launch annual membership drive led by Commander Gardner Braly with a 300 member goal. Ed Granger and Emmett Roach head city canvassing as Ada and Shawnee posts compete for greatest veteran total by Armistice Day. Local towns to be canvassed. banquet may be prize for loser.
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Norman Howard Post
Legion
Ada Veterans Organization
Gardner Braly
Ed Granger
Emmett Roach
Ada
Shawnee Post
Altus Girl Held for Aiding in Jail Break
Grace Wilson a 19 year old Altus girl is held for trial in United States district court on a charge of aiding in a federal jail break at Guthrie in August She is in the Oklahoma county jail in default of 3000 bond and is alleged to have smuggled a saw to her sweetheart Lee Folley who escaped.
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Oklahoma City
Grace Wilson
Altus Girl
United States District Court
Guthrie
Oklahoma County
le Girl
Lee Folley
Wholesale subpoenas in Airman Mitchell court martial case
The defense obtained a compromise allowing deposition testimony from distant witnesses while waiving cabinet members on site. Seventy officials and civilians were summoned for next week's sessions as Colonel Mitchell aims to prove that neglect crippled air services. The prosecution seeks dismissal, arguing no evidence shows intent to discredit the military.
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Washington
Navy
William Mitchell
Davis
War Department
Wilbur
Navy Department
Jardin
Agriculture Department
Everett Sanders
Coolidge
Honolulu
Reid
Mitchell
Ger
Robert L. Howze
War and Pavy
National Defense
Hearing On Sufficiency Of Initiative Petitions In Oklahoma
A hearing began today before Wiley Jones, referee of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, to consider the sufficiency of petitions proposing a law to tax gross production on an ad valorem basis. Campbell Russell, ex-chairman of the Corporation Commission, prepared and supervised petition circulation. Secretary of State R A Sneed certified valid signatures. Protestants appealed the ruling.
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Oklahoma City
Wiley Jones
State Supreme Court
Campbell Russell
State Corporation Commission
Col
R. A. Sneed
Supreme Court
Cal Sees Tax Reduction In Coolidge Plan
President Coolidge expresses hope for tax cuts exceeding 300 million dollars but says a firm cap cannot be set until the upcoming fiscal year budget is finished.
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Cal
Washington
Coolidge
Booze Scarce and Jail Now Lonesome Place
Mayor Somer Jones announced a forty percent drop in October crime from the prior year with 100 plus arrests and 66 defendants. He credits whiskey scarcity and federal prohibition efforts for the decline in Ada Pontotoc county.
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Somer Jones
Jones
Prohibition
U. S
Howard West
Pontotoc County
Hiram Jones Endorses Roads and Court House Bond Plan
Commissioner Hiram Jones of District 2 issues a clear statement backing a bond issue for road improvements and a new county court house. He favors building the court house if Pontotoc County can secure full value for roads and calls for an advisory committee of business leaders to aid bond sales and contract decisions.
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Hiram Jones
Second District
Court House
Commercial
Lions and Kiwanis Clubs
Pontotoc County
Com
Health committee secures nurse aid for Ada students
The Pontotoc Public Health Committee hires a nurse from the Oklahoma Public Health Association paid by Christmas Seals to inspect Ada school children after last spring’s physician examinations. A free tuberculosis clinic is set for Saturday November 7 in Memorial Hall Chamber of Commerce rooms with Dr. R. M. Shepard consulting local patients.
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Pontotoc Public Health Committee
Oklahoma Public Health Association
Ada
Chamber of Commerce
Memorial Hall
R. M. Shepard
Talihina
Cotton Receipts For County Show Over Ten Thousand
Government report shows Pontotoc county ginned 10 298 bales of cotton by October 18. In 1924 the total was 14 804 bales. Bryan county leads with 24 317 and Le Flore has 23 197. State totals stand at 550 403 versus 596 281 last year.
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Pontotoc County
Bryan County
le Flore
Badge of Death Firefight Ends Chapman Associate
In Muskegon Michigan a fatal shootout left gangster George W Dutch Anderson dead after wounding city detective Charles Hammond during a counterfeiting arrest. Hammond died at the station after wresting the weapon and returning fire.
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Michigan
Chapman
Muskegon
Mich
Charles Hammone
George W
Dutch" Anderson
Gerald Chapman
Anderson
Secret Service
Felice
Roy Ferris
Identification Bureau
Hammond
Colonial Cafe
Carola Ingalls
Dutch Anderson Linked to Hance Murder Case
George Dutch Anderson, killed at Muskegon, was wanted in Muncie for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hance. The Hance home near Muncie had been a rendezvous for Chapman and his gang after Hance testified at Chapman's trial for killing a New Britain police officer.
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Muncie
Ind
George
Dutch) Anderson
Muskegon
Mich
Ben Hance
Hance
Gerald Chapman
Anderson
Chapman
Democratic Women Organize League in Oklahoma City
An application for a charter of the State League of Women Democrats was filed Tuesday with the secretary of state. The charter, delivered to Mrs. Mattie Louise Brown of Ada, names headquarters in Oklahoma City and lists incorporators from Sapulpa, Ada, Ponca City, Wynnewood, Woodward, Ardmore, Edmond, and other communities.
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Oklahoma City
State League of Women Democrats
Secretary of State
Mattie Louise Brown
Ada
D. A. McDougal
Sapulpa
Democratic National Ecommitteewoman
William Ford
Julia Woodworth
Earl L. Slover
Blanche Lucas
Ponca City
M. Curt Randolph
Wynnewood
J. C. Ray
Jessie Oberlander
Woodward
Inez McMillan Lambert
Ardmore
W. Cowgill
Edmond
Antoinette Sebastian
Aged recluse builds own tomb and awaits death
Sacramento notice reports William M. Bowman a 90 year old El Dorado County pioneer has spent 18 years chiseling a tomb on a promontory. The grave carved from rock includes a coffin and a "death house" and he plans to live there until death when a white flag signals sealing.
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Sacramento
Cal
el Dorado Court
William M. Bowman
Surplus Fund Exists for Highway Contracts
Oklahoma City October 31 a surplus of 45003374 for the building of hard surfaced roads with no contracts awarded is in the hands of the state highway department. E Bee Guthrey secretary of the highway commission said the commission was overdrawn in the state treasury after a Tulsa report. The overdrawn balance stemmed from a 600000 overdrawn checking account then 900000 remained in the disbursing account to cover outstanding checks. Funds are in two accounts to earn interest while awaiting payments to contractors.
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Oklahoma City
State Highway Department
E. Bee Guthrey
Highway Commission
Tulsa
State Treasury
County approves December vote on road and court house bonds
The Ada County Commissioners passed resolutions calling an election for December 15 to issue 425000 for road bonds and 150000 for court house bonds. They also set the gasoline tax after July 1 to cover interest and sinking fund on the road bonds. Citizens from civic clubs urged the election, and the resolutions were adopted unanimously.
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Court House
Ada
Jail Break Halted by Deputies and Jailor
L. C. Davis alias title attempted to flee the county jail yesterday. Deputy Earnest Miers fired into the air to warn Davis, and Jailor Bill Condren pursued him about a hundred yards in ten seconds. Davis had been jailed after pleading guilty to defrauding hardware dealers.
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L. C. Davis
Hastile
Earnest Miers
Bill Condren
Davis
Miers
Condren
Armistice Day Observed in Ada by Local Legion
Armistice Day will be observed in Ada announced by Gardner Braly commander of the Norman Howard post American Legion. Oklahoma humorist Josh Lee war veteran will headline the program at Ada veterans event which also marks the end of the Ada Pontotoc county membership drive and a push to recruit all available men into the post.
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Ada
Gardner Braly
Norman Howard
American Legion
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Lee
University of Oklahoma
Braly
Pontotoc
Engineer Fatally Injured In Crane Accident
Robert L. Stevenson a 50 year old crane engineer for the K O G railroad was fatally injured about 9 o clock this morning when the ditcher he was operating turned over and pinned him beneath in Muskogee officials said.
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Muskogee
Robert L. Stevenson
K. O. & G. Railroad
Nature Humors a Man by Making Him Pretty
A terse remark notes that nature plays tricks on a man by endowing him with beauty, implying vanity or misfortune may follow. The line reflects a wry, observational tone about appearances and fate.
Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules 650000 Free Textbook Reimbursement Valid
The court sustains an Oklahoma County district court demurrer preventing payment of a 650000 deficiency appropriation made by the Tenth legislature to reimburse publishers who supplied books under the free textbook law. Debate centered on moral obligation versus legal debt, as the law remains in effect after a referendum petition kept it alive.
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Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
District Court of
Oklahoma County
W. A. Graham
Pryor
C. C. Childers
A. S. J. Shaw
Department of Education
Cotton Receipts Mount as Weather Warms
With fair weather cotton picking resumes in Ada. Over 100 bales arrived Saturday and weekly receipts at the yard and Cotton Growers' HQ total 648 bales. Season totals reach 5 755 bales on county scales and 5 181 by the four gins. Farmers near completion but more remains. Agent Hill notes some damage from cold weather freezing bolls.
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Ada
Agent Hill
Road hog forces man and children into ditch
T iaday's Daily reports W. M. Treadwell and his brother's children were confronted by a large truck and trailer. Facing a fatal collision option, Treadwell swerved into a ditch, injuring the two children while the car overturned.
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T Iaday
W. M
Treadwell
Steedman
Oklahoma City Livestock Market Prices Report
Livestock prices in Oklahoma City on November 4 show cattle generally steady with best 1000 pound corn fed steers at 8.50 per hundredweight. Calves and feeders down. odd cows 5.00 up, bulk 3.75 to 4.75. Heifers strong 7.50 to 8.50, heavy calves down, top 6.50. light calves top 9.00. Hogs steady to strong with top to packers 11.25 and bulk near 13.00.
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Oklahoma City
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