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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
8
Randell S. Cobb states Legionnaires will aid county election boards with draft registration. Fort Sill plans a tentative January 3 intake of about 5 000 draftees, boosting the 45th division to just over 18 000.
A Sallisaw township constable serving near here yesterday was fatally run over by a truck backing on a road project. Survivors include his widow two daughters and a son.
Oklahoma City report states George H. Packard, longtime figure in Springs home industries, will be named to a identified post on October 10, with details pending.
Mrs Wilma Williams 33 was held for district court on a charge of murdering her husband Ted Williams 37 at Henryetta on September 13. She was bound over after a preliminary hearing and pleaded innocent.
Royce H. Savage of Tulsa will take the oath at 11 am tomorrow in the federal courthouse here as judge of the court.
The northern Oklahoma federal district will be administered by Circuit Judge Alfred P. Murrah of Oklahoma City. The two were classmates at the University of Oklahoma.
Will H. Chappell of Oklahoma City was elected to a fourth term as president of the American Goat Society at the annual convention in Wichita Kansas attended by about 400 goat dairymen and breeders.
Eddie Dowell fulfilled a two year old pledge to Car Dealer N K Crawford by paying for a 1941 model with a beer case full of nickels. Dowell had saved enough nickels to purchase the vehicle, proving his quip during the earlier conversation.
Classified notice explains enhanced value for invested funds in Ada News ads. It outlines pricing changes, expected reach, and deadlines for improved visibility across the paper sections. Local merchants and individuals may adjust advertising to maximize exposure and response.
The piece argues Britain may determine the war's outcome as it withstands a severe winter crisis. It notes Germany and Italy lack resources for a prolonged conflict, predicts two main fronts the air war and the Mediterranean, and reports rising Nazi submarine activity while Gibraltar remains a focal, delayed objective. It concludes that if Britain holds and tightens the blockade, Axis strength will wane by spring guiding a possible British offensive.
An OCR fragment notes that fewer supplies, now wholly inapparent, are available. The text provides no names, dates, places, or concrete actions to verify a full item.
Forty one volunteer speakers will travel October 4 to speak in forty rural schoolhouses as part of a new Americanism club effort to sell democracy. District Judge W M Thomas says the club is open to all agreeing with democratic principles.
Two College of the City of New York instructors traced the Okies migration for a 1930s era song and story collection. They documented ballads and oral accounts from the California valleys and will present the material to the Library of Congress as part of America’s cultural documentation. One ballad follows a 27 year old Okmulgee youth warning Okies to carry money and dress well or face hardship in the desert.
The Commodity Credit corporation announced a loan program for grain sorghums to help producers hold surplus off the market. Loans run through January 31, 1941, in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas with farm structure rates from 20 to 30 cents per bushel by grade and 2 cents less for mixed sorghums. Warehouse storage rates are 7 cents less than farm storage.
Tulsa officials repurpose an abandoned detention hospital into a girls receiving home. Mrs. E H Reager, the matron, and her husband converted the $15,000, eight room building into a home for five girls using his painting and carpentry skills. He hopes to mold good citizens and believes the project will pay off in a decade.
Prime Minister Churchill lunched with King George VI at Buckingham Palace. A ceremony there conferred knighthood on Rear Admiral Sir Henry H. Harwood who commanded three British cruisers in the battle against the Graf Spee off Uruguay last December.
Queen Elizabeth and the King shelter from a siren in bomb blasted South London. The queen pauses to pet a black cat as she and the King inspect the damage during the air raid drill in the capital.
Mr and Mrs Fred Smith and Mrs Coffman return from a short stay at Claude Coffman and family in Holdenville. Mrs J H Hendrix of Konawa shopped in Ada on Tuesday. Miss Angeline Nichols of Lansing Michigan visits Miss Martha Laurice Core at 301 West Twentyeth Street.
Mrs. Pink Williams of Ardmore visited here Monday with her daughter Miss Elaine Williams and other relatives and friends.
Miss Wilma Shaw Miss Marie Huskins and Mrs. Ed Reed attend a state meeting of the Public Welfare association. Miss Virginia Womeck returns to Holdenville after visiting Miss Mildred Hall and Bill Hall at East Central State College. Mrs. E. C. Peay Jr hosts visitors in Ardmore. Mrs. W. C. Barnum and son Edward undergo tonsilectomies in Ada. Leo G. Mann conducts business in Ada. Miss Betty Sarrett Miss Joan Compton and Miss Jennie Lou Jared visit Oklahoma City. Miss Mary Belle Locust returns to relief after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Roy Harris and Miss Cecelia Antoine.
Mrs Hollaway of Stonewall visited friends and did shopping in Ada on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Fred Langley returned from a visit with her parents in Marietta and visited relatives in Ardmore. Kenneth H Lott of Okmulgee was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. Malcolm Hendrix left Wednesday for a business trip to Bakersfield California. Mr and Mrs Linden Gummer and family returned from Enid. they were joined by Mrs Bak er Dixon. Miss Fred Andrews was a business visitor in Oklahoma City. Kate June Case is receiving medical attention at Valley View hospital. Mr and Mrs W L Crowell visited in Oklahoma City Tuesday. Mrs J S Roberts of Stonewall and Mr and Mrs Leland Seay and children Rita and Jimmie returned from a two week vacation in Dallas Houston and other southern points.
Buddy Hathcock was convicted Wednesday by a district court jury of robbery with a dangerous weapon. He received a five year sentence in the state penitentiary for the crime linked to the February robbery of C. C. Gibbons, Harden City oil field worker.
Berlin reports London enduring near constant air raids with favorable October weather aiding German efforts. Targets along the Thames and in eastern cities attacked, Manchester hit, armament plant north of London and nearby airport damaged. Night fighters and lone aircraft raids cited, with Liverpool port facilities also struck. German high command notes new night raid tactics hindering British bombers.
The C. B. P. Sewing club gathered Tuesday evening at Mrs. Odis Maloy's Stonewall residence. Guests enjoyed games, a gift shower for the hostess, and refreshments served by Mrs. Maloy. Attendees included Mrs. Court Fox, Mrs. Red Crow, Mrs. J. W. McDonald, Mrs. Bill Scribner, Mrs. Barnes, Mrs. John Colbert, Mrs. I. M. Ramsey, Mrs. S. Ren, and Mrs. Harry Hokett.
Elizabeth Eu banks granddaughter of G W Edge Holdenville and Milton Irwin son of Samuel Irwin Atwood. They wed September 27 at Seminole Methodist parsonage with J C Curry officiating. Nina Ruth Branson maid of honor Milburn Bowlin best man. Bride wore winter rose wood and wine velveteen. The couple plan a home in Atwood.
Tulsa politics centers on a campaign folder claiming County Commissioner George Shepard resembles Will Rogers. Curtis Greer, the Democratic challenger, calls the claim cheap publicity, while C. R. Nixon, the Republican county chairman, says the criticism is two years too late.
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