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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
5
The department reports September cash collections of 501734, up from August 369054 and September 331771 in 1940, with a September apportionment to common schools of 139450 or 19 cents per capita, the highest in five years. Collections benefited from better farm conditions, higher product prices, and closer supervision of loan collections, rentals and servicing.
New York reports wild foxes contain about 100 times more vitamin A in their livers than ranch raised foxes on the best diets. Dr Arthur D. Holmes Francis Tripp and Frank G. Asbrook Charles E Kellogg note wild foxes forage variably, more activity and smaller sizes, while ranch foxes eat regularly and show lower vitamin A reserves. The study questions current nutrition knowledge despite published diet guides.
Oklahoma City October 13 The school land commission loan fund has grown to 2.5 million dollars, Secretary Charles B. Steele announced today.
Norman hosted the fifth district area convention as Max Fife of Blackwell, state American Legion commander, and Mrs. Edward M. Box of Oklahoma City, state auxiliary president, addressed delegates yesterday.
A brief classified notice notes investment terms offering greater returns for a specific two unit amount. The item outlines eligibility and anticipated yield for interested parties and references the Ada News as the publication source.
Berlin reports that removal of British Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden is described by official German sources as a war aim. The Fuehrer would seek peace only after Churchill and Eden are removed by the English people, not via German feelers.
Lucerne Switzerland authorities propose government supervision of circulating libraries to curb propaganda. Only librarians resident in Switzerland for at least three years would be allowed to sell books in small shops and newsstands amid a postwar influx of imported volumes.
Japanese CS ship Sardine and the 6,000-ton Paris Maru are credited with transporting an estimated 8,400 Chinese laborers in a single voyage from Tsungato China. The claim situates this as a world record for the most people carried on one ship.
A Norfolk newsman lost his glasses while swimming at Virginia Beach. A wave swept them away and three hours later another wave washed the spectacles ashore at his wife’s feet about 200 yards from the surrender point. Use News Want-ads. They pay.
Oklahoma grows face major losses from codling moth described as the state’s worst apple enemy. Experts note three to four generations yearly. early maturing varieties are advised, and researchers race to replace lead arsenate sprays with safer programs.
President Roosevelt urged congressional leaders to speed the 5.9859 billion dollar lend lease appropriation and receive assurances it would reach the senate floor early next week. Senate leaders said hearings would start tomorrow and finish quickly as parties push for prompt action to secure supplies.
Representative Nichols urges passage of HR 10 to allow the Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma to present claims before the court of claims. He says thousands of eastern Cherokees, many poor, would receive about $100 each if favorable. They seek payment for 8,000,000 acres turned over before statehood and contend the pledged amounts were not paid. The Oklahoma legislature urged Congress to grant Indians the right to pursue their claims.
A 20 year old Fort Sill soldier was held in the county jail in Holdenville today over the weekend shooting of city marshal Henderson. Henderson was shot twice in the abdomen with a shotgun and was reported near death in a Henryetta hospital. The incident occurred on the main street of Holdenville, about 22 miles northeast of the city.
General G. J. Berenschot commander in chief of the Netherlands East Indies Army is killed in a plane crash near Batavia after a conference with Britain’s Far East commander Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. Four other occupants and five native children die as the plane lands in a hut and burns. stalled engine blamed.
Harry M. Daugherty former attorney general and key Harding ally died at 81 in Belfast after congestive heart failure. The Columbus born figure helped elect Harding after a 1920 conference and led the Marion publisher's nomination campaign. A forthcoming book on political attacks and the Teapot Dome scandal era remained unfinished.
Washington reports mass production underway in a large group of government owned munitions plants worth 1.75 billion dollars. Production covers major ammunition categories and some weapons for a potential large war. The goal is to equip 4 million troops, though many plants are still under construction or awaiting contracts.
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