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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
4
The Ponca City News argues for military training or structured camps for youths. It urges adaptable programs combining school credit and summer camps with real training while noting past CCC mixed results and the uncertain timing of future wars.
The piece argues that American history overemphasizes New England at the expense of the West and South and urges broader curricular coverage. It notes wartime schooling continues, stresses the value of educated citizens, and calls for price controls to curb inflation while the war ends. It reflects on Davidic themes, war, and the role of labor politics as CIO unions enter electoral activity.
Truman campaigns in Michigan Labor Day rallies urging re election of Roosevelt. He calls Roosevelt the greatest man in the White House and pledges to keep wartime plants producing, restore the 40 hour week, raise wages, and insure unemployed workers while criticizing Dewey as inexperienced.
Weston Missouri reports its finest tobacco crop in history with an estimated 7,000,000 pounds worth about 3,000,000 dollars. Growers from Platte county note strong quality of white barley tobacco, supplying cigarettes and higher priced cigars while government taxes will reach about 70 cents per stalk.
Reporter Earl Maze and Lt Philip Wagner recount Martincourt killings by German troops after an ambush of a German staff car. Germans fire on villagers, execute men, loot and burn houses. a 72 year old grandfather and others die. Beury and Robert Espange nearby also burned with dozens dead.
Henry H. Mason 51 owner of a Guthrie feed and produce company was killed when lightning struck a barn northwest of Guthrie where he was stacking straw. Mason a lifelong Guthrie resident and 20 year railroad employee was a World War I veteran and former president of the North Central Jersey association and vice president of the Logan County Poultry association.
Washington reports estimate a $90 billion loss from disposing of $105 billion in leftover war supplies. Rep Manasco says surplus could fetch only about $15 billion, with minimal value for decommissioned B-24 bombers, Norden bombsights, and naval torpedoes. He notes few buyers beyond trainer planes and a few wealthy buyers for two motor bombers.
United States crude oil production declined 24 250 barrels daily in the week ended September 2 to 4 648 800 barrels daily according to the Oil and Gas Journal. California Kansas Oklahoma East Texas and Illinois show declines while Louisiana increases and Texas stays unchanged.
Oklahoma City records show the population of state institutions under the State Board of Affairs fell by 843 in the last fiscal year from the prior year. Gains occurred in training schools for delinquent white children and the negro insane hospital, while penitentiary and reformatories saw inmate decreases.
A major earthquake centered near Malone New York and Cornwall Ontario rattled the northeast United States and parts of Canada with aftershocks felt across Virginia and Michigan. Damage in Cornwall surpassed 100000 unofficially with one injury as chimneys toppled and brick sections felled while families sought shelter outside.
In St Mihiel France on Sept 3 a crowd hears an old man praise Americans for freeing the town once more. The piece recalls Pershing’s Oak and German actions since the last war and notes a July 1 action where the 4th U S armored division defeated 3500 SS troops at Troyes. Mais Arthur West and L G Elwell led the charge from route three Stillwater Oklahoma and 113 Seneca Drive Enid Oklahoma.
A heavy night rain in Ada cooled the day with a 65 degree low after a 97 degree high. The 1.35 inch rainfall by 7 am and widespread statewide showers revived pastures and crops, with readings from 0.12 to 1.82 inches in various towns including Shawnee and Oklahoma City.
The piece explains how French farmers may claim compensation for cows damaged in war or non combat losses under US and international law. It notes conditions for payments up to 5000 dollars and the army claims office’s role in civilian damage cases related to armed forces operations. Portland report adds a separate death and revival incident of Marten Forstrom who collapsed twice.
Ada observed a very quiet Labor Day with no police calls or arrests and no fatalities in the county. State trooper reports normal traffic while school enrollment rose for the 1944 45 term and city buses ran slightly behind schedule due to crowding. Fishermen fanned out around the lake with no large catches reported. Firemen remained on standby and nothing notable occurred.
An Associated Press survey shows 245 fatalities during the Labor Day weekend, with 137 from traffic accidents and others from drownings and miscellaneous causes. California leads with 28 deaths, followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. State totals include Arkansas 2, Kansas 4, Missouri 7, Oklahoma 2.
A CBS London broadcast quoted by a New York dispatch says Canadian advance troops are about three miles from Boulogne and overrunning increasing numbers of flying bomb sites. A correspondent notes the total sites in Allied hands may be in the hundreds.
A historical note explains that five tons of iron ore coke limestone and other materials yield one ton of scrap metal, illustrating ore to salvage ratios used in early steelmaking calculations.
British naval planes bombed the German battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord and damaged at least 16 other enemy vessels in attacks on northern shipping. Nine German planes were downed, 11 British planes lost, and attacks targeted radio stations and coastal installations in Ham derfest area above the Arctic Circle.
An Oklahoma infantryman, Pfc. Glendon R. Couch of Marlow, walked into a German machine gun nest and survived, though the man behind him was killed. Couch was brought to McCloskey General Hospital with a leg wound. Other wounded Oklahomans arriving include Pvt. Nathan F. Shuler Geary, Pvt. Ernest W. Cunningham Oklahoma City, Pvt. Clifford B. Edwards Poteau, Pfc. Donald L. Fuhrman El Reno, and Pfc. La Roche Ardmore.
Governor Thomas E Dewey plans seven major speaking engagements on a western swing but will mainly use radio for campaign messaging. Dewey will join 25 Republican governors for joint radio addresses, delivered in person or by recording as time and place allow.
The Office of Price Administration announced nationwide special restrictions on oil stove rationing starting September 9. Ration certificates will be issued only to those unable to use other stoves or replacing an unusable oil burner. Previously, restrictions covered 28-state emergency oil shortage areas.
In Mexico City a national assembly of the Mexican Revolution party issued a declaration of independence from foreign capital. A national improvement program asks Mexico to gain autonomy by transforming from a country dependent on international monopolies to a self producing nation. Vicente Lombardo Toledano presented the plan to regulate foreign investments rather than exclude them.
Burt New, 74, former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and retired Washington representative of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, died in Washington today.
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