Allies Push Steadily On In Italian Front
Allied forces drive north of Capua and Capuan area as German troops retreat to a new mountain line anchored on Massico ridge. Fifth Army pushes across Volturno river area with towns like Pignataro Bocca Romania Dragoni etc. British Eighth Army advances on Adriatic coast capturing Petacciato and repelling counterattacks at Montecilfone. Large German destruction and civilian toll reported as retreat accelerates.
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Algiers
ASP
Volturno Valley
Massico Ridge
Mondragone
Volturno River
Vena- 0
Fifth Army
Naples
Rome
Capua
Mondragone-Venafro
Pignataro
Boccaromania
Liberi
Dragoni
Alvignano
Volturno
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Petacciato
Termoli
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montecilfone
Barnello
Vinchiaturo
Africa
Sicily
78Th
Tunisia
Centuripe
Mark W. Clark
Berlin
Methodists Open Conference in Ada at First Church
East Oklahoma Methodism hosts arrived in Ada and officially opened their annual conference held at the First Methodist church. Bishop Charles C. Selecman presides with his cabinet and conference boards occupied Tuesday and Wednesday morning with duties.
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East Oklahoma
Ada
First Methodist Church
Charles C. Selecman
Tolbert dies. Ada man S. R. Tolbert obituary noted
W H Tolbert of Stonewall received a telegram Tuesday announcing the death of his father S R Tolbert at 3 o clock Tuesday morning in Macclesfield North Carolina He was 86 born in 1857 in Nashville Tennessee He was an attorney stockman farmer and a leader in local government He married Amelia Roberts in 1877 and after her death married Sally Eagles He leaves two sons J R Tolbert of Breckenridge and W H Tolbert of Stonewall plus the late Don Tolbert a contractor and builder. The conference schedule at the Methodist meeting includes sermons addresses and elections of delegates with Governor Kerr among speakers and plans to read appointments Sunday.
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W. H. Tolbert
Stonewall
S. R. Tolbert
Macclefield
North Carolina
Ada
Nashville
Tennessee
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Texas
Amelia Roberts
Celina
Sally Eagles
J. R. Tolbert
Breckenridge
Don Tolbert
Daniel Webster Emerson Dies at 58
Dr Daniel Webster Emerson extension director of Northeastern State College Tahlequah dies in a Tulsa hospital after a five day illness. Funeral services will be held Friday in Tahlequah where Emerson had been associated with the college for 22 years.
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Tulsa
Daniel Webster Emerson
Northeastern State College
Tahlequah
Emerson
Greater returns for amount in vested
Classified ad notes higher yields for investments tied to vested Ada funds and highlights advantageous terms for savers. It outlines how reallocating assets to vested accounts can increase returns over standard options.
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Ada News
Weather update for these states shows showers and cooling
Oklahoma sees scattered showers in the southeast with cooler nights and a pause into Thursday forenoon. Missouri reports showers and thunderstorms in the east and central tonight and Thursday fore noon with cooler conditions in the west. Kansas and Nebraska expect cooler tonight and forenoon with limited changes in the east and Wednesday forenoon.
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Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Strikers Ignore WLB Return Order at Eddy Paper
At Eddy Paper in White Pigeon 220 workers stayed off the job despite a regional war labor board order to return by 9 am. The 17-day strike is described as the first union authorized under the Smith Connally act. A back-to-work vote was not held after CIO official Leonard Shaw objected. The August WLB hearing denied maintenance of membership. the company makes lend-lease shipping containers.
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White Pigeon
Mich
Regional War Labor’ Board
Eddy Paper Company
WLB
Smith-Connally
Leonard Shaw
United Paper, Novelty and Toy Workers
CIO
Expensive Kiss Lands Columbus Man in Prison
Arthur Hughes, 24, of Columbus pleaded guilty in common pleas court to entering the home of Marion Will, a 22 year old school teacher, on August 18 and kissing her. Fingerprints on the apartment window led to his identification and a life sentence in the Ohio penitentiary.
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Columbus
Arthur Hughes
Ohio
Hughes
Common Pleas
Marion Will
Miss Will
Coalgate Reaches War Fund Quota Ahead of Plans
Coalgate becomes the first city in the state to meet its National War Fund quota. Coal county set a 2865.50 target with Coalgate taking half. Fred Zweigel named county chairman and Mrs. Snyder Vogel local chair. Within two hours the town raised 1503 dollars and will continue canvassing through the drive.
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Coalgate
National War Fund
Coal County
Fred Zweigel
Snyder Vogel
Mr. Zweigel
Bombers gain air and naval losses during Pacific raids
Allied report from Southwest Pacific describes Mitchell bombers destroying 60 enemy planes and sinking two warships near Rabaul after a two hour assault. Japanese counterattacks near Finschhafen and Cape Gloucester are noted with related landings repulsed and ships damaged.
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Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Solomons
Finschhafen
MacArthur
Cape Hoskins
Cape Gloucester
Dampier Strait
Sattersberg
Rapopo
Tobera
Kavien New Ireland
Moscow Conference Begins With Satisfactory Talks Among Allies
United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov opened daily wartime and postwar talks in Moscow. The first two hour session was deemed satisfactory with no details released and no military officials attending.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
U. S
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Spiridonovka Palace
Eden
Hull
United Nations
Churchill
Russia
Washington
United States
Salvation Army Drive Under Way in Ada
Rex Morrison, Ada schools superintendent and Salvation Army board chairman, reports the local drive progressing well with sixteen groups participating and four groups at noon contributing about five hundred dollars. If early results reflect the whole effort, the funds needed for the Army’s work here will be raised.
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Rex Morrison
Ada
Salvation Army Board
Salvation Army
Mr. Morrison
Fire destroys cabs in Kansas Avenue garage blaze
Four taxicabs were destroyed and several other cars damaged in a Kansas Avenue garage fire last night. Cab driver Harry Humbert suffered severe burns to his body face and arm as the blaze started while he was fueling his cab.
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Topeka
Kansas Avenue
Harry Humbert
Army Gives Solons Private Show
A large group of house members attended a three hour War Department program in a secured congressional library auditorium. Secretary of War Stimson and Army leaders spoke on the military situation Axis strength strategic bombing Germany Far East air problems air war and logistics as lawmakers sought inside war information.
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Washington
House
Congressional Library
War Department
War Stimson
George C. Marshall
Army Chief of Staff
George B. Strong
F. A. Armstrong
Germany
Emmett O’donnell
Far East
Lawrence S. Kuter
W. D. Styer
Plant Needs 3 000 Workers at Sunflower Ordnance Factory
Maj. Charles H. Pruden Jr., commanding officer at the Sunflower Ordnance works in De Soto Kansas, announced that the plant requires 3 000 additional workers immediately. He said men and women are needed for smokeless powder production lines to meet army supply program demands and that all types of jobs are available.
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DE Soto
Kas
Charles H. Pruden Jr
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Army
Pruden
Kerr Confirms Gilmer Charge
Tulsa October 20. Gov Kerr confirmed County Attorney Dixie Gilmer's charge that he directed the tax commission to deny the grand jury access to state income tax returns. Kerr said he instructed the commission to follow the law and consult the attorney general if in doubt. Gilmer had accused the governor of obstructing the jury's inquiry into state textbook funding.
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Tulsa
Tulsa County
Grand Jury
State Supreme Court
S. J. Clendinning
State Tax Commission
C. W. King
Commission
King
Supreme Court
J. Frank Martin
Joe Dunn
Harold Carey
Income Tax Division
Grand
Robert S. Kerr
Dixie Gilmer
Tax Commission
Kerr
Tribune
Washington
Bank Deposits In Ada Reach New Highs
Ada’s two banks report total deposits of 9.038 million as of October 18. Total resources measure 9.802 million with loans totaling 1.193 million for the two institutions.
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Ada
Ada Chamber to Hear CAA Official on Aviation Future
Fred A. Farmere, CAA supervisor for the Ada Flying Service, will address the Ada Chamber of Commerce Thursday about the future of aviation. The talk aims to illuminate prospects and developments in the field.
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Fred A. Farmere
CAA
Ada Flying Service
Ada Chamber of Commerce
Butler son reported missing in Europe during war
Enid reports Second Lieutenant Kerwin O. Butler, 24, a Flying Fortress navigator stationed in England, has been missing over Europe since October 9. His twin brother, Kermit, is attending officers candidate school at Miami Beach.
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Enid
W. L. Butler
Kerwin O. Butler
England
Europe
Kermit
Miami
Plane Crash Near Coalgate Kills Perrin Field Trainer
A single motor trainer from Perrin Field Sherman Texas crashed in the Boggy river bottoms four miles northeast of Coalgate Tuesday night. The pilot was killed the name withheld until relatives are notified. The crash occurred at 9 45 o clock with the plane exploding on impact and wreckage scattered over a rough timbered area Perrin Field officials were at the scene to determine cause.
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Perrin Field
Sherman
Texas
Coalgate
Carl Portman
More Workers Into Kansas Than Leave
The U S employment service reports 9005 outside workers brought to Kansas jobs in the last year while 5459 Kansans were hired elsewhere. Wichita added 819 workers, showing broad essential activity across the state. The director says skill exchange may drive moves but prioritizes home use unless war needs require distant placement.
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Topeka
Kas
U. S. Employment Service
Kansas
E. W. Franzke
Wichita
Franzke
War Manpower Commission
Postwar Planning Discussion At Ada Junior Chamber
Tonight at 8 the Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce hosts a ladies night program in the Aldridge banquet room. The forum features W. A. Delaney Jr Orel Busby and W. D. Little discussing postwar planning and the Hatch Burton Hill Ball Senate resolution backing a United Nations aid and a permanent Allied army for world peace and rehabilitation.
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Ada Junior Chamber of Commerce
Aldridge
W. A. Delaney, Jr
Orel Busby
W. D. Little
Hatch-Burton-Hill- Ball Senate
United Nations
Shirley Temple Signs Seven Year Film Contract
Superior court approves Shirley Temple contract to appear in one picture annually for seven years. The first film pays $25,000 with 60 percent taxed, 24 percent to her parents for support, and 16 percent to a trust fund.
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Losngeles
Superior Court
Shirley Temple
Joseph W. Vickers
Nazis Rush Up More Strength
Soviet forces thrust toward the Dnieper bend pushing along the river from Pyatikhatka toward Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoi Rog. German units batter back as Hitler’s troops attempt counterattacks while Red Army presses on toward Kiev and Voshgorod.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Dnieper River
Red Army
Kremenchug
Pyatikhatka
Dneprodzerzhinsk
Zaporozhe-Melitopol
Hitler
Stalingrad
Red Star
Dnieper Elbre
Pravda
Europe
Kiev
Voshgorod
Service Buttons For Discharged Men
Washington today announced that honorably discharged service members will be authorized to wear government issued service buttons. Chairman Walsh said the joint army navy personnel board approved the lapel buttons after noting that new draft age men discharged for physical reasons often felt embarrassment not wearing uniforms.
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Washington
Walsh
D-Mass
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Joint
Army-Navy Personnel Board
Armed Services
Father of former Kansas governor Ratner dies
Harry Ratner died in Independence after a long illness. He was father of former governor Payne H. Ratner. He and his wife had moved from Parsons two years earlier. The body returned to Parsons. Survivors include widow, son, and daughter Mrs. George Von Dubell of Portsmouth Virginia, who was at his bedside.
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Independence
Kas
Harry Ratner
Payne H. Ratner
Ratner
Parsons
George von Dubell
Portsmouth
Mid-Continent opens new deep oil field in Oklahoma
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp reports a new deep oil field at its No. 1 Edgar Harris well in northern county. The well in NESE SW of 29-10N-3W west of Moore reached the Wilcox sand zone at about 8,777 feet and produced oil and gas on drill-stem test before casing was set.
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Oklahoma City
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp
Northern County
Edgar Harris
Nese
Moore
Wilcox
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