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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
1
Roosevelt squares off with a full road show across the midwest and Philadelphia, Chicago, and beyond with platform stops and speeches. Dewey replies from Minneapolis with a call for congressional control of international force authorization and a Wisconsin run before Chicago.
British and Canadian units push through the Dutch road junction and surrounding areas as German positions in Holland retreat on a widening 15 mile front. Allied gains include captures around Breskens Oostburg and advances toward Antwerp Roosendaal and Bergen Op Zoom with thousands of German prisoners taken.
Gen Douglas MacArthur reports major gains across Leyte as American forces liberate 14 towns and barrios seven miles west of Dulag, advance toward Tabontabon, seize the San Pablo airfield, and push from Palo toward Tacloban. Carrier planes provide close support amid intermittent enemy attacks.
Elizabeth Willis, longtime librarian, leaves Ada to become head librarian at Bethany Peniel College in Oklahoma. Verna Riddle assumes Ada Public Library directorship, recalling her role in founding the library in 1936 and recent posts at Wewoka.
Front line doughboys in Germany clamor for coffee powder in their K rations replacing bouillon and lemonade powder. An envelope of powdered coffee in the breakfast box is all that remains available for riflemen. Tech. Sgt William Davis of Brunswick Georgia voices the need for warmth and wakefulness on guard. Nobel Foundation recommends to Sweden that no peace prize be awarded this year. last was in 1938.
Oklahoma and Kansas forecast fair and mild. Tonight’s low temperatures range from 45 in the northwest to the lower 50s in the southeast of Oklahoma. In Kansas, lows run from 40 in the extreme west to 50 in the east, with continued mild conditions through Thursday.
Sgt Heart Bowers pictured with a group just back from combat patrol visits his Ada parents during a 21 day furlough. He spent 30 months in the South Pacific with two missions to New Guinea and a trip to Australia between. He led a rifle squad and endured tight spots while fighting Imperial Marines and Japanese infantry. He captured a few Japs for information and recalls local Pontotoc county soldiers including Audie Robinson. brothers Elbert and Louis Bowers serve while Fred Bowers is discharged.
Gurley Fowler former water superintendent faced three counts of illegal voting procurement in district court. He pleaded guilty with concurrent three year penitentiary terms, suspended by Judge Tal Crawford after a petition by 22 Pontotoc County residents. The 1942 city election involved Fowler guiding groups to multiple voting places to cast votes in several precincts. Court sessions have been delayed and resumed, with the case ongoing as other defendants awaited readiness.
J E Harris a former Ada businessman died suddenly at his Fort Worth desk on Wednesday. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 4 p m in Fort Worth with Dr C C Morris of First Baptist delivering the sermon. He operated a wallpaper and paint shop then expanded to interior decoration and later started a garment factory. Survived by his son Leon Harris and Mrs Harris, a daughter Thelma had died earlier in Ada.
Japanese snipers and artillery were active against Fifth Indian Division troops moving toward Kennedy peak along the Tiddim Fort White road. Mountbatten headquarters reported our guns harassed enemy troop movements on the road. An astronomical note followed.
The Japanese Domei agency announced a weekly page limit of 14 pages for Japanese newspapers after November 1, four fewer than the current total, a dispatch recorded by the FCC reports from San Francisco.
The Russian army crossed into Norway and captured Kirkenes after destroying military installations at the Arctic port. Evacuations followed as German and Soviet actions shifted on the Eastern Front. Argentina recalls its London attache Pablo Beretta amid shifting Allied diplomacy.
U S Third Fleet carriers strike in a three pronged action near the Philippines sinking a large Japanese carrier and crippling others. The light carrier Princeton was sunk after magazine explosion. 1,360 crew rescued. Japanese losses include battleships and destroyers. actions continue with extensive air attacks.
General Douglas MacArthur disclosed a broad Filipino resistance network that monitored Japanese activity from Panay in 1942, supplying arms and intelligence via submarines and a nationwide weather and air warning system, aiding the Philippines during World War II. The talk highlighted hundreds of thousands of agents providing precise enemy moves and installations data.
The statement urges public understanding and approval of objectives so citizens will back them and be willing to sacrifice in future years. It emphasizes democratic consent and commitment as essential for enduring policy.
A speaker mocks men over forty who boast of becoming soldiers by suggesting their night’s sleep on a pellet would reveal why they cannot serve. The tone is ironic and concerned with courage and adequacy.
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