Soaking Rain Reverses Oklahoma Drought, Brings Flooding Totals
A Saturday rainfall broke a nine week drought across parts of the county with .28 inches before daybreak and 1.23 more through the morning, totaling 1.51 inches. Heaviest rain occurred in the east with McAlester reporting 3.40 inches. other totals included Enid 1.17 and Ponca City 1.07, aiding winter crop planting but insufficient to undo months of dryness.
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Oklahoma
Ada
Associated Press
Sanhandle
McAlester
Kinefisher
Ponca City
Enid
Norman
Oklahoma City
Elk City
Search Pushed For Bodies of Fliers in Southeast Asia
Hostile natives and monsoons hinder the search for 1,378 American fliers missing in southeast Asian jungles. An American search party with a French escort was ambushed in French Indo China on Aug 16 while seeking the remains of seven airmen. In New Britain cooperation increases as searches move to remove crash sites. graves located total 4,743 in the India Burma zone with 3,226 in Barrackport cemeteries identified.
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Edward E. Bomar Walington
War Department
Pote
Thomas B. Larkin
Barrackport
Calcutta
Jap Constitution Promulgated by Emperor Hirohito
Japan's new constitution, denying war as a state instrument and placing sovereignty in the people, was promulgated today by Emperor Hirohito. The edict marks a complete revision of imperial law, contrasting with Meiji era practices and abolishing the peers' privileged house.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Japan
Hirohito
Diet
Venezuelan interior ministry arrests nine in coup plot
Caracas report says nine individuals were arrested for plans to bomb the provisional president Romulo Vincourt’s palace and assassinate junta members during a revolutionary bid. The ministry did not identify suspects or provide further details.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Ministry of Interior
Perons
Romulo Vincourt
Bevin Seeks Peace Talks Patience for Postwar Deal
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin urged care patience and tolerance as Big Four work to write final peace treaties for Germany and four satellite states. He arrived for the four power meeting aboard the Aquitania and said all parties want peace and an end to war. Copve De Maurville backed a November treaty discussion with Germany after Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary and Finland are settled. Bevin supported Belgium and the Netherlands joining the talks to help shape Germany policy. He expected to meet James Byrnes within 36 hours as Byrnes planned to arrive tomorrow afternoon.
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John A. Parris, JR
New York
Ernest Bevin
Europe
Nazi Germany
Aquitania
United Nations
Bevin
Maurice Copve de Murville
Germany
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Belgium
Netherlands
Holland
James F. Byrnes
Couve de Maurivile
Byrnes
A M Champ Bull Sells for 4000 at Tulsa Show
The grand champion bull Prince Es cort of O A M C from Oklahoma A and M college at Stillwater was sold for 4000 to W B Hisser of Tulsa at the Southwestern Regional Angus Breeders one day show and sale. The auction featured 76 cattle with an average of 720 and eight bulls averaging 1397. The top selling female Angus Valley Lenjerica 2nd went to W H Pipkin of Springfield Missouri for 2200. Reserve grand champion bull Prince Escor t of Subeam 3rd sold to C E Ward of Highland Kansas for 2100.
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Tulsa
Okla
Prince ,Sen
O.A.M.C
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Stillwater
W.B. Hisser
Oklahoma
Angus Valley Lenjerica
W. H. Pipkin
Springfield
Prince Escort
Subeam
Fullerton Estate
Miami
Women's Auxiliary Meeting at Aldridge Hotel
The Women's Auxiliary to the Pontotoc Murray Counties Medical Society holds a regular meeting at the Aldridge hotel on Wednesday starting at 1 o'clock.
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Pontotoc-Murray Counties
RCA Victor Sets 1947 TV Sets For Sale In Major Cities
The Radio Corporation of America announced that RCA Victor television receivers will be available to the public next for the first time since pre war days. The receivers, 1947 model, will be placed on sale at stores in New York Philadelphia Chicago Newark Albany and parts of Connecticut.
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Camden
N. J
Radio Corporation of America
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Newark
Albany
Connecticut
Snowstorm Grips Colorado Wyoming With Drifts and Delays
A major snowstorm blanketed Colorado and Wyoming centering on Denver where 11 inches of snow and four foot drifts paralyzed transport and utilities. Hundreds of cars stalled, shops closed early, and highways and mountain passes were dangerous. The storm shifted into Kansas and Nebraska as two college games were postponed to tomorrow.
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Denver
Colorado
Wyoming
Berthoud Pass
Cheyenne
Wyo
Pueblo
Kansas
Nebraska
Denver Pioneers
Utah State
Rocky Mountain
Goden
Colorado College Tigers
Colorado School of Mines
Drops Citizenship To Help Germany
Max Brauer of New York renounces his American citizenship to support a new German state. He is a Hamburg Social Democrats nominee for mayor after leading in city elections. Brauer, born in Germany, was Altona mayor until Nazis ousted him and later served with Chiang Kai-Shek’s government before returning to the United States.
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Hamburg
Max Brauer
New York
Germany
Brauer
Social Democrats
Altona
France
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
American Federation of Labor
A. F of L. Brauer
United States Army Medical Corps
Doodling Diplomats Mark Paris Peace Conference Scribbles
An NEA photographer captured scribbles on blotting pads used by delegates at the Paris Peace Conference. Psychologists note tentative inferences from one day of doodles, while experts from New York University’s Testing and...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEA
New York University
Stowaway Reunion as Foster Reaches England
Kingsley Foster, a Minneapolis lawyer, landed in Southampton after stowing away on the Queen Elizabeth with no passage or passport. He reunites with his English wife Kay and their seven month old daughter Lesley Marilyn in a dramatic first sight since boarding in New York. Foster credits New York businessman Charles Guttman for aiding his shore leave and arranging return tickets at 165 dollars. A Canadian stowaway, John Kenneth Dick, also reached England after a British businessman paid his fare.
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Southampton
Kingsley Foster
Minneapolis
New York
Kay
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Lesley Marilyn
Foster
Charles Guttman
Marden
Kent
England
Guttman
John Kenneth Dick
John Boyce McKeel Returns to Korea
John Boyce McKeel leaves Ada for Oklahoma City and Seattle then sails to Korea to assist in prosecuting crimes. He has military service in Korea, speaks Japanese, knows some Korean, and has signed for a year in the Orient.
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John Boyce McKeel
Ada
Oklahoma City
Seattle
Korea
Mr. McKeel
Militar
Orient
McKeel
NYU experts on peace parley doodles reveal delegates’ focus
Doodling signals intellectual preoccupation among delegates with concentration on problems. Heavy lines mark emotional strain, light lines indicate lesser tension, while non-human content suggests superior intelligence and a focus on the common good over personal issues.
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NYU
Washington School Paving Completed in Oklahoma
Washington school benefitted by a completed street and sidewalk paving project. West Seventeenth Street extends along the south side of the school, Oak Avenue connects with Eighteenth Street, a sidewalk runs along Oak from Seventeenth to Eighteenth, and gravel covers the south campus parking strip. Principal Finis Morrison notes the need for additional sidewalks on Oak and Johnston avenues. Contractor H. S. Moore led the work.
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Washington School
Oak Avenue
Oklahoma Portland Cement Company
Finis Morrison
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
Johnston Avenue
H. S. Moore
Boyle Sums Up His Impressions of Nations of World
New York writer Hal Boyle sketches quick impressions from fifty countries on a world tour. He notes Japan as feudalism democratized by the atom and Greece as democracy’s birthplace regaining a dubious grip, with various sharp, satirical vignettes on nations and places.
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Boyle
New York
Japan
Korea
Manchuria
China
Hong Kong
Java
Bali
Siam
Hoboken
Paris
Singapore
Australia
Manila
Burma
India
Arabia
Hubby
Alladin
Palestine
Tommy Atkins
Egypt
Sphinx
Middle East
Greece
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Graustark
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Switzerland
United Nations
Germany
Denmark
Hamlet
Europe
Norway
Sweden
Belgium
Holland
France
Monte Carlo
England
Promises and Plunder Across Nations
A compact meditation on national and global greed. The text contrasts Russia and the United States as symbols of societal craving, framing a world chasing wealth while neglecting deeper needs and sustainability. It evokes a universal appetite for prosperity and the fragility of future plenty.
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Russia
United States
Silage and Silos at Coal County Park Ranch
Curtis Floyd reports on H D Binns Park er Ranch silage efforts with three trench silos 90 feet and 50 feet long, 8 feet wide, 5 feet deep. Atlas Sorko planted for silage and first-time feeding, plus silos filled at Underhill place east of Coalgate.
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Curtis Floyd
Coal County
Binns
Tom Lampkin
Lehigh
H. D. Binns
Parker Ranch
Lampkin
Coalgate
Peanuts Ready for Market as Drying Advances
Peanuts reach market readiness this week with prices $172 per ton for 70 percent good kernel quality, $10 above last year. Fred Stalder of Coalgate Milling notes grades 62 to 74 are acceptable and urges farmers to ensure sufficient dryness. Government support price enables the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase peanuts if private buyers do not.
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Fred Stalder
Coalgate Milling Company
Commodity Credit Corporation
Hegari Gains Attention on Boggy Bottom Farms
This week I toured Frank Martins field in Boggy Bottom where he shows a large hegar i crop. He notes margins from two tons of grain per acre about 80 bushels and explains he follows overflow patterns for planting. Renard Franklin of Midway is another local hegari producer.
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Frank Martin
Martin
Renard Franklin
Midway
East Central BSU group at state convention in Oklahoma City
East Central State college sent several dozen students to the Baptist Student Convention in Oklahoma City, with a 46 member bus group and others from local churches attending. A pageant on BSU work was presented by Miss Frenchie Bramwell, the BSU secretary, as the convention neared its closing morning service. East Central is noted as one of the few state schools with a full time Baptist Student secretary.
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East Central State College
Oklahoma City
First Baptist Church
Oak Avenue
Trinity
East Central Bsu
BSU
Frenchie Bramwell
East Central
Oklahoma University
Oklahoma A’ and M. College
USO Drive to Raise 3200 in Pontotoc County
Ada to start a three day campaign to raise 3200 for the USO. The drive supports entertainment and assistance for Pontotoc county men in uniform stationed worldwide. Organizers aim to finish within three days as local citizens recall strong past support.
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USO
Ada
U. S
Pontotoc County
Adans
Man in Oregon Argues with Wife Sparks Public Dispute
A man in Oregon caused a scene arguing with his wife drawing attention from neighbors. The incident mirrors similar behavior seen in other distressed husbands.
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Oregon
Cattle Grubs Cost Oklahoma Farmers Big Losses
Pontotoc County 4-H club members and fathers should inspect livestock for lice and grubs as cattle grub costs Oklahoma farmers about 42 million yearly. Effective control promises nine dollars gain per dollar spent, with detailed dust and spray methods and a 16 to 20 day reapplication schedule. Several local clubs were reorganized, bringing total to 17, with monthly meetings planned from December through the school year and summer.
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Pontotoc County
4-H Club
Oklahoma
Fitzhugh
Vaness
Pickett
Center
Union Hill
Egypt
OPA Increases Most Paints and Soap Prices
The OPA raises prices on most paints by 31 cents to 1.30 a gallon citing higher linseed oil costs freed from ceilings. Soap prices will rise or be decontrolled, with paint increases effective at manufacturers and potentially passed to consumers.
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Washington
OPA
Ada Woman Struck by Car During Heavy Rain
Ada police report Mrs. Katie Kelly 46 of 123 South Hope injured but not seriously after being hit by Lester Faulenzyme not full. car driven with windshield moisture. Mrs. Kelly and her son Calvin crossed Main Street during heavy rain near the Constant intersection. She was treated at Valley View hospital and returned home. Police note limited vision and say fault unlikely to rest solely with either party.
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Katie Kelly
South Hope
Main Street
Valley View Hospital
Dominican Chief Nephew Killed. Probe Launched
Dominican Consul Jose M. Noues rushed from Miami to Bunnell to investigate the fatal shooting of Jose Adrian Trujillo er, a 20 year old adoption nephew of President Rafael Trujillo. Sheriff Henry Wells said Deputy Miller Teeter fired in self defense after Trujillo drew a pistol at a cafe, and a coroner's jury ruled self defense.
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Bunnell
Fla
Jose M
Trujillo
New York
Miami
United States Army
Henry Wells
Miller Teeter
Teeter
Anibal Trujillo
State Department
Florida
Walter W. Walters
Todd
Garcia Funeral Home
Coalgate Halloween Parade Draws Huge Crowd and Prizes
Coalgate celebrated the seventh Halloween with a large parade and a Community building gathering. Over 300 prizes were awarded including costumes and school awards. Rodeo boosters won three prizes as participation exceeded resident counts. The event began seven years ago to entertain youth and has grown statewide.
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Coalgate
Hallowe'en
Rodeo
Gum gains foothold in Japan amid postwar market shift
American chewing gum expands in Japan as consumer interest grows, signaling a shifting global snack scene. The piece notes potential broader impact on cultural exchange and wartime nostalgia as brands enter a new market.
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Japan
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Hal Boyle
Hegaari
Martin Hegar
E. C
Baptist Student Union
Lester F. Smith
E. V. W. Jones
Truman
Army Engineer Corps
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