Ada man dies after running board crash near Coalgate
John L. Hyden 28 of Ada rode on a running board when his car collided with a truck at Lafayette avenue and South Broadway in south Coalgate. He died from a crushed skull as the truck caught fire. four women passengers were burned but not seriously. Hyden had worked for Madison-Wallace and previously Oklahoma Gas and Electric. Investigation ongoing. no one held.
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John L. Hyden
Coalgate
Hyden
North Hope
H. Os. Henry
Hardin City
Madison- Palace, Construction
Oikahoma City
Carl Harweil
Oklahoma City
Evelyn van Horn
Vera van Horn
Phillips
Margie Shoshe
Gate
Broadway
Yellow Transit Company
Dallas
Maines
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
Madison-Wallace
REA Power
Coss County
Davis
Fitzhugh School News Highlights Band and 4-H Activities
Fitzhugh reports emphasis on the three Rs and vocational learning under Supt. A. V. Horn. 4-H projects advance as Willis Young wins a trip to the American Royal Livestock show. The U S Marine Band visit excites students, with band performances at a basketball game. PTA meeting covers programs to aid the band and attendance, and a carnival Nov 3 plans booths, a king and queen contest, with proceeds supporting the band.
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Fitzhugh
Supt
A. V. Horn
Mrelle
Tarrant
Peay
Ogburn
Webster
Horn
Willis Young
Kansas City
Willis
Oklahoma City
U. S. Marine Band
Watson
Shawnee
Howard Enter
Benu
Pp. T. A
PTA. of
Hannum
Smith
Hart
Fitzhugh School
Fitzhugh Teams Rally in Friday Night Basketball
Athletic program lists candidates for grades three through eight and for athletic queen at high school. In Friday’s game Fitzhugh girls lost 29 to 25 to Wolf with Valerie Smith scoring 16 for Fitzhugh and Skidmore 14 for Wolf. Fitzhugh boys won 19 to 9 led by Oscar Standridge with 9 and McLacklin with 7.
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Laverne Heath
Howard Morgan
Ruth Dennis
Jack Standridge
Loretta Holkum
Junior Hatcher
Valerie Smith
Christine Barton
Monna Lou Shel
Mereline Clark
Fitzhugh
Wolf High School
Wolf
Byng
Skidmore
Oscar Standridge
McLacklin
Questions and Answers On New Wage Hour Rules
Washington outlines the second phase of the wage hour law effective Tuesday. The act raises the minimum wage to 80 cents and trims the maximum work week to 42 hours with overtime at one and a half times. It excludes learners and handicapped workers and affects about 690,000 low paid workers and 2.29 million with shorter weeks unless overtime applies.
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Washington
Paw
Question on Federal Minimum Wage and Overtime Rules
The article explains that home workers producing goods for interstate commerce must be paid 40 cents an hour with time and a half for overtime. It also notes that sales clerks in retail stores and waitresses in restaurants are not covered by the wage-hour law and thus not eligible for overtime beyond a 42 hour week.
Shanghai Americans Seek More Washington Support
A group of Shanghai Americans adopted four resolutions urging Secretary Hull to bolster U S backing for maintaining the American position in Shanghai. They telegraphed the resolutions to Washington amid growing border clashes near the international settlement, though U S authorities, while monitoring closely, deem the danger not more serious than past periods. Marines would act if Americans are endangered. Local clashes involve British and Italian defense sectors and a Japanese press issue in Banky.
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Shanghai
Hull
Washington
International Settlement
United States
Yoshiaki Miura
U. S
I Gs
Bankpy
Tired Fliers Land Claiming Record
MUNCIE Ind Oct 24 Robert A McDaniels 25 of Mun c ie and Kelvin F Baxter 33 of Richmond tired from 23 days in a little cabin monoplane claimed a light airplane record endurance flight of 535 hours 45 minutes landing at Muncie airport at 6 36 CST They surpassed 343 48 but trailed the 653 30 set by Fred and Al Keys 1935 and Clyde Schrepper Wes Carroll Long Beach Calif whose seaplane exceeds the duration.
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Muncie
Ind
Robert A. McDaniels
Kelvin F. Baxter
Richmond
Hunter
Humphrey
Moody
Decatur (II
Springfield
Allen
Fred
al Keys
Meridian
Miss
Clyde Schrepper
Wes Carroll
Long Beach
Calif
McDaniels
Baxter
Postal Hazards In Lincoln Mail Affected Insurance Claims
Lincoln postal officials investigate the disappearance of two life insurance policies and a death claim mailed to Harrison Arkansas. An open mailbox was accessed by a cow that ate most of the documents. a neighbor saw the incident but could not stop it.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Harrison
Ark
Where Are They Now Among 1920s oil brokers and wildcatters
A survey of early Mid-Continent oil operators recalls Homer Culpepper and John Calloway of Cal-Cal Oil, fatally in an auto crash after which their ventures faded. Cosden, once a Tulsa magnate who built a national empire and later reemerged. and Ed Moore of Independent Oil & Gas, a crash survivor who expanded operations in the Fitts pool with partners including Harry Wyrick, creating modern facilities and a notable midlife comeback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cal-Cal Oil Company
Homer Culpepper
Stonewall
John Celloway
Roxana Petroleum Corporation
Pontotoc
Culpepper
Callowey
Cosden Oil Company
Golden Oil Company
John Coscen
Mst
Mid
Baltimore
New York City
Cosden
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Gosden
Fort Worth
Texas
Talza
Pontotoc County
H. Moore
Ed Moore
Independent Oil & Gas Company
Moore
Delaney
Harry Wyrick
Okmulgee
Fitts Pool
Fitts
Mid-Continent
Oilman Builds Modern Hereford Ranch Near Okmulgee
An oilman, active in the oil business, is constructing a large modern ranch near Okmulgee and stock it with Hereford cattle. He reportedly spends much of his time at the ranch, indicating a shift from oil work to ranching interests.
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Okmulgee
Brothers Reunited by Wartime Trials in Weatherford
Weatherford tale recalls Jake and Dick Grause who ran away from Fairview Oklahoma in 1905. In World War I they fought in the same front sector, were wounded three times in the same places and captured the same day. They later met in Coblentz while both imprisoned by Germans.
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Weatherford
Saaz
Jake Grause
Jake
Fairview
Oklahoma
United States
Coblentz
Rhine River
Saar
Vladivostok
Wages-Hours Law Marks First Birthday With Changes
Washington notes the wage hour law’s first anniversary under new administrator Lt. Col Philip Fleming. The act raises the minimum wage from 23 to 30 cents for about 490,000 workers and cuts the maximum workweek from 44 to 42 hours for roughly 2.28 million workers. A New Orleans court stay challenges the 32.5 cent wage order affecting 175,000 textile workers.
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Washington
Philip Fleming
Congress
New Orleans
Southern Cotton Textile Manufacturers
Circuit Court of Appeals
Can Prosecute Em All Says Dies
Washington October 24 UPL Chairman Dies declared the House committee investigating un Americanism has evidence to prosecute every leader of Fascist and Communist groups in the United States. He said no leader has avoided penal laws and noted Attorney General Murphy assigned a special staff to act on the request to target Communist party and German American Bund leaders for failure to register under the alien registration law.
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Washington
UPL
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee
United States
Murphy
Communist Party
Bund
Britain Rationing Trade Of Neutrals
London October 24 reliable source says Britain uses a rationing system in trade with neutral countries to keep normal commerce with neutrals while safeguarding the blockade against Germany. The plan under a recent Russia trade accord exchanges British tin and rubber for Russian timber with shipments aligned to Russia’s peacetime needs and no supplies to Germany.
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London
Britain
Germany
Russia
Nation's Crude Oil Output Rises Across Regions
The Oil and Gas Journal reports the nation’s average crude oil output rose by 73,078 barrels daily to 3,768,625 for the week ended Oct. 21. Texas gained 57,495 to 1,514,588, while Oklahoma fell 250 to 425,100. Other increases occurred in Kansas California and the Rocky Mountain area with varied regional changes.
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Tulsa
Oil and Gas Journal
East Texas
Texas
Kansas
California
Eastern
Rocky Mountain
Oklahoma
Illinois
Louisiana
Michigan
Group Seeks Help From Scions For Western Oklahoma Relief
A group led by Ralph Hatchett will urge Oklahoma’s congressional delegation to provide drought relief for western Oklahoma. The committee seeks endorsement at a state county commissioners meeting in Oklahoma City on Thursday, following a 100-official meeting from 13 western counties yesterday.
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Hobart
Oklahoma
Ralph Hatchett
Washits
Oklahoma City
Yuesterday
Oklahoma Senator Protests Cotton Loan Rate Differential
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma protested a government plan to vary loan rates for cotton by storage location. He warned growers would be penalized if cotton stored at ports or main markets received higher rates than cotton warehoused in Oklahoma, urging local classing and warehousing until sale.
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Washington
Thomas
Three Dead After Day of Shooting in Reno Nevada
A middle aged New York City matron Mrs Lillian Hawthorne Webster her estranged husband Nils Albin Almgren Webster and Mrs Webster's traveling companion Louise Schmeltz were shot to death in what authorities call a double slaying and a self-inflicted death on a highway near Pyramid Lake. Webster's Reno attorney said he believed Webster aimed to reconcile during a Reno visit.
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Reno
Nev
New York City
Francis J. Cunningham
Lillian Hawthorne Webster
Nils Albin Almgren Webster
Webster
Albert D. Ayers
Pyramid Lake
Yes
Tragic Double Shooting Ends in Suicide In Virginia
Sheriff deputies report Webster and two women rode in a car with H. H. Forrester driving. Webster asked to be left with the women. after he walked away, pistol shots wounded him and killed the two women. The coroner suspects Webster shot a woman and then himself. The Websters wed in Manassas on January 27.
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Webster
Forrester
Ben Pariss
Cunningham
Worgen
Ayers
Websters
Manassas
Oklahoma Promotes County Consolidation Plan
Oklahoma Governor Phillips urged northeastern counties to consider consolidating to address tax losses from Grand River dam construction. He warned counties below five million in assessed valuation cannot operate effectively and emphasized citizen study of consolidation benefits without naming specific counties. Clinton cited as an example of nondependence on county seats.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Phillips
Grand River
Clinton
Outlaw Kelly Seeks Pauper’s Petition for Trial Records
Oklahoma City October 24 George R. Kelly known as Machine Gun Kelly filed a federal pauper’s petition seeking certified copies of his Urschel trial records. He lists assets of 1.72 and says he cannot afford the 5.43 cost. Judge Vaught approved sending copies at government expense for a test of his imprisonment legality at Alcatraz.
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Oklahoma City
VPI
George R
Alcatraz Penitentiary
Edgar S. Vaught
Kelly
Urschel
Track Driver Held In Injury Case
Noel Woods a 35 year old truck driver was held on 1500 bond for assault with intent to kill Charley Smith 64 after a Sunday downtown beating Smith remained in critical condition with a fractured skull broken nose and facial cuts Smith a saw mill worker had no motive reported by County Attorney Wayne Russell and Deputy Sheriff Joe Kineinikin who investigated in Wilburton Oklahoma on October 12.
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Wilburton
Oklo
Noel Woods
Charley Smith
P Smith
Wayne Russell
Joe Kine Inikin
Smith
One Baby Living Five Suffocated
Perth Amboy New Jersey October 24 a nine day old boy survived a nursery tragedy as police blamed a defective radiator valve for steam asphyxiation that killed four infants and one died after revival The lone survivor is the six day old son of Mr and Mrs Stephen Hatarick of Perth Amboy while the Abary infant from Carteret remains in good condition no other details provided
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Stephen Hatarick
Andrew Abary
Carteret
Mount Rainier Lava Layers Revealed by Geologists
Geologists describe Mount Rainier as once at about 16 000 feet altitude with steep lava layer inclination. A major explosion or series of blasts removed the summit zone, lowering it to the current level. Piscuck feathers are deemed unlucky.
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Mount Rainier
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Gumanov
Brother
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Suile Wes
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New Messing
Terday
H. H. Forrester
Lucille Hernandez
Ernest
Margaret
Earth
Outlaw Kelly
Stoke
City Water Service
Chas. A. Zorn
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