Ada Evening News history and publication details
The Ada Evening News lists its publishing history from 1901 with editor Wm. D. Little and notes consolidations with The Ada Weekly Democrat Pontotoc County Enterprise and Ada Ster Democrat, plus pricing and postal details. The notice includes office and editorial contact placeholders.
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Ada Weekly Democrat
Pontotoc County Enterprise
Ada- Ster-Democrat
Ada Evening News
Ada Weekly News
Congressman's Stand on Demobilization Speed
Congressman Boren criticizes the War and Navy Departments for lacking a plan to rapidly discharge soldiers. He calls for a fair, quick system to release eight million veterans while a smaller occupying force remains, warning that delay harms aging soldiers and urging Congress to act now.
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Army
Boren
War and Navy
War and Navy Departments
War
Navy Departments
Army and Navy
Congress
Proposed City Bond Issues For Ada Water And Airport Improvements
City commissioners plan a bond proposal for about three quarters of a million dollars to fund water distribution upgrades including a new east side water tower, storm sewers, airport hanger and admin building, and disposal plant expansion. Readers urged to consider impact and financing limits before vote.
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Ada
Cotton crop in county tiny after boll pests
The county faces its smallest cotton crop on record with only 3600 bales produced. Despite healthy plants, boll weevils and bollworms stripped the lint, leaving farmers unsure if they will attempt another season after this year's devastation.
Ada Sees Acute Housing Shortage Across City and Rural Areas
The article notes a statewide housing crisis not limited to Ada city. It stresses ongoing construction across towns and farms, with demand for town and farm homes and barns. The building trades will stay busy for years, providing many jobs.
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Ada
Japanese Premier Plea on Pearl Harbor Angers US Leaders
The plea to forget Pearl Harbor is brazen, showing a mindset the United States cannot grasp. Diplomats view the attack as a breach of honor too serious to ever fade from memory.
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Pearl Harbor
Humility and Faith of Joseph Lesson on Power and Providence
A sermon reflections on Joseph’s life from favored son to prisoner to powerful leader. It highlights integrity, unwavering faith in God, and the use of power to help others, urging readers to emulate Joseph with the era’s new atomic age power in mind.
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Joseph
God
Paul
Joseah
Pharaoh
Better Music in Films A Ada group seeks public support
The Wednesday Morning Music Club of Ada plans a McSwain theatre music show to promote higher quality film scores. They urge public backing to demonstrate the value of refined music in movies and encourage theaters to feature better music for audiences.
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Ada
McSwain Theatre
Occupation of Japan and demilitarization debate
The author questions completing an American occupation within a year if Japan is demilitarized. They advocate some ongoing control for perhaps a generation, cautioning against full country occupation and urging voluntary American forces for oversea work if feasible.
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Japan
Strikes delay auto market but supply law to prevail
The piece notes widespread strikes may hold up new cars tires and other goods while the supply and demand law is expected to reestablish wage scales and market balance as conditions settle.
From Cotton to Cattle and Crops in Ada’s Agriculture
The region shifts from cotton laden wagons toward cattle hogs hay and corn. Eroded land recovers with pasture and hay grasses and better row cropping where used. Dairying and beef cattle growth could establish a strong farm basis with small cash crops like alfalfa seed and pasture seeds.
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Ada
Strikes Close Pure Oil Refinery Plant
Port Arthur Texas workers halt production at Pure Oil Nederland plant and curtail operations at the Texas facility affecting about 5 000 employees. Gulf Oil and Texas company refineries face shutdown as CIO Oil Workers push wage demands and planned votes spread across Port Arthur Port Neches Beaumont Houston districts.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Pure Oil Company
Nederland
Texas Company
Ray Andrus
District Oil Workers Strategy Board
DIO
Gulf Oil
Gulf and Texas Company
Texas
CIO Oil Workers International Union
Port Neches
L. L. Crane
Oil Workers International Union
Houston
Andrus
Beaumont
Corpus Christi
Pure Oil
Neches Butane Products Company
Firestone
Goodrich Rubber Companies
Five Powers unlikely to advance Italian frontier talks
London reports say the Council of Allied Foreign Ministers will likely limit its current meeting to the Italian peace treaty. Balkans Dardanelles and western German border may wait for a late November or December session. Molotov comments prompt editorials on colonial trusteeship and parity among allies. Delegates expected to return home next Thursday or Friday.
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London
Council of Allied Foreign Ministers
Balkans
Dardanelles
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
China
Tripolitania
Eritrea
Telegram
Italy
Outer Mongolia
News Chronicle
Comissar
V. M. Molotov
Meteor Fragment Found Near Atoka
A 20 pound meteor fragment was unearthed on Rye Holden farm near Atoka Oklahoma after a fiery event Monday night. Frank Morris found the buried piece and a small fragment was sent to Oklahoma City University while the rest was given to Antlers High School. Residents reported a bright flash and sound extending from Clinton to Miami with rattled windows in Antlers.
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Atoka
Okla
Rye Holden Farm
Here
Oklahoma
Frank Morris
Atoka Farmer
Antlers High School
Oklahoma City University
Morris
Clinton
Miami
Oklo
Antlers
Two Weeks Hasnt Erased Memories
Col Richard Carmichael, leader of the first Superfortress crew captured by Japan, says two weeks of freedom don’t erase a year in captivity. He describes beatings and inhumane treatment, now under care aboard a Yokohama naval hospital ship and planning a homeward flight via Tinian. Col Alfred Kalberer visits. Kalberer’s wife resides in Hays, Kansas.
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Yokohama
Richard Carmichael
Tve
Austin
Texas
462Nd
Yokohama Harbor
Tokyo
Omori
Carmichael
Tinian
Col
Alfred F. Kalberer
Hollywood
Kalberer
Hays
Kas
Training Indians For Dental Work
The Indian health service is training young Indian men and women as dental assistants and technicians at Riverside California to aid dentists. The program includes fluorine treatment studies in children ages 6 to 12 across Indian reservations with untreated control groups for comparison, aiming to extend effective methods across the service if successful.
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Washington
Indian Health Service
Office of Indian Affairs
William A. Brophy
Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
Riverside
Calif
Brophy
Interior
Abe Fortas
Health Service
Indian Service
Say These Nurses Should Come Home
In an open letter Lt Stella D Metzger reports 26 St Louis nurses overseas 35 months petition President Truman to allow them to return home. They served with Washington University 21st General Hospital unit and recall carrying more patients than capacity and volunteers for Anzio. They request a chance to come home now as the war ends.
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ST. Louis
Truman
Stella D. Metzger
Washington University 21St General Hospital
Anzio
Hitler paid Ribbentrop 200000 says Neue Zeit
Berlin report claims Adolf Hitler gave Joachim von Ribbentrop two hundred thousand dollars as a reward for negotiating the 1939 non aggression pact with Russia. The Neue Zeit calls the deal the biggest sham in world history and asserts the pact cost five million lives.
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Berlin
Neue Zeit
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Russia
Christian Democratic Union
Greater returns for amount in vested Ada News Classified
A classified note reports higher returns for vested funds in Ada County. The item highlights improved yields and revised terms for investors seeking longer term gains.
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Armount
Ada News
Army Aims to Free 800,000 Men a Month by Dec 1
Army officials told senators they expect to discharge 800,000 servicemen monthly by December 1, with 71 separation centers planned by then. The hearing also covered Pearl Harbor secrecy, surplus property, standard time, and federal control of government corporations. A 10-man committee will probe Pearl Harbor.
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Senators
Max Hall
Washington
Army
Navy
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Capitol Hill
Congressional
Black Dragon Society
Senate Military Committee
Edwin C. Johnson
Dcoro
Johnson
O’mahoney
D-Wyo
Naval Inquiry Board
Senate Naval Committee
Senate
House
W. Stuart Symington
America
Whittington
RFC
HOLC
TVA
Farm Credit Agencies
Byrd-Butler
Senate Banking Committee
Sam Viney Returns to Civilian Life After Army Discharge
Corporal Sam Viney is out of the war and resumes selling supplies to counties and cities. Mrs Viney managed the business while he served. He was discharged at Camp Chaffee last Wednesday after 14 months in Italy with an aviation service squadron. The Viney home is 115 North Center.
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Cpl
Sam Viney
Former Resident Of County Dies
Mr and Mrs Vernon Younts returned from Marshall Texas after the funeral of his brother Louie Younts who died Saturday Burial was in Marshall on Sunday He formerly lived in Pontotoc county and had moved to Texas in recent years He is survived by his widow two daughters a son four brothers Vernon Joe Rex and Shirley Younts Ada and a sister Mrs Myrtle Hutftstedler Bakersfield California
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Vernon Younts
Marshall
Tex
Louie Younts
Younts
Pontotoc County
Texas
Vernon
Joe
Rex
Shirley Younts
Ada
Myrtle Hutftstedler
Bakersfield
Calif
Hitler's former aide sentenced to hang in war crimes
Prague radio reports Walter Schmitt, Hitler's former aide de camp, convicted and sentenced to hang for acts as inspector at Nazi camps Mathausen Schlossenburg Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen.
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London
Prague
Hitler
de Camp
Walter Schmitt
Mathausen Schlossenburg
Ravensbrueck
Sachsenhausen
Blum Calls for Franco Out in Spain
Leon Blum former French premier said he wants the Franco regime removed from Spain and predicted it would not last long. He argued restoring the monarchy would not fix Spain’s problems and that Britain’s labor government victory makes restoration less likely.
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London
Leon Blum
France
Spain
Britain
Ancient Greek scholars linked plants to sleep at night
Ancient Greek scholars believed plants slept at night, drawing a parallel with human rest. The idea reflected early thinking about plant life and daily cycles in classical literature.
Uncle Sam Cancels Cigarette Orders for 165 Million Packs
The United States government cancels orders for 165,135,000 packs of cigarets causing immediate disruption and industry concern as consumption and supply implications ripple through commerce.
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Uncle Sam
Williamson Return May Clear Some Political Questions
Oklahoma City dispatch notes Major Mac Q Williamson of Pauls Valley likely to return this month from Germany. His anticipated entry into politics could influence races for governor, attorney general, treasurer, and state Senate across multiple counties, with several officials reportedly weighing campaigns or retirement.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Mac Q. Williamson
Pauls Valley
Williamson
Randell S. Cobb
Jess L. Pullen
Senate
Ray C. Jones
Stillwater
Payne Creek
Jones
Corporation Commission
Payne County
Elbert
Pete) Weaver
Creek County
Orange W. Starr
Pioneer Drumright
W. B. Shibley
Bristow
British Flag Rehoisted at Tokyo Embassy
British flag was formally re hoisted over the British embassy in occupied Tokyo to mark the opening of a residence for high ranking officers. Officials stressed the move did not signal a reopening of the embassy or a resumption of normal diplomatic relations with Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Army ends contracts for 20 million gum packages
The army has terminated contracts for 20 million packages of gum, signaling a shift in procurement. The move suggests a broad change in budgeting and supply choices for soldiers and possibly civilian demand as people anticipate new chewing options.
Thomas Edward Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia
Democritus the ancient Greek philosopher known for his laughter and philosophical views is referenced alongside Thomas Edward Lawrence as famous historical figures.
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Thomas Edward Lawrence
Arabia
Democritus
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