The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 6

Atta PAGE SIX Building Teacherage To Be Erected At Hickory Hill Indian School Soon 2 WANTS COLONIES BACK drlnk on CASE NEXT old de battle Old Man Weather Takes A Hand In Poultry Business Totals 4 0 SPOTS IN STATE diluted with water was kAZC1(w 4 he said relegated much east get a Ohio Irom in the lower part but covers a good into Moundsville 100 miles coming year old World war be tried for the fa of Gladys Huckelby ex the mustached bachelor chan who a little declared the fuehrer by the confidence of tin Dallas Davis Murder Trial Set or Thursday Ray Day eatures irst Week Young Squad Making Good Record Under Matthews Have 1 1 Wins 3 Losses Rtts ield: Aida Area orge Toward ront In Importance DISTRICT COURT DOCKET CLEARED OR IRST WEEK ADA MAN IN OHIO LOOD DISTRICT some in on a back road over mountain had driven reiterated for return of her war lost 5 Pt 0 0 0 00 gh fa ''r Pf 0 1 1 3 0 peace and economic time of so called is ended" by Nazi Gsr Signifies Readiness to Work With Other Nations or Economic Progress OKLAHOMA CITY (UP) Eight nolnts which tare be come famous for teir connection with early Oklahoma history have been selected for historical mark eri by the Oklahoma Historical Markers committee Small roadside parks will be built at each site and a monu ment will be erected describing the historical event that took place there The committee wljlch selected the locations was ap pointed by Gov Marland The points chosen were: Initial point six miles west of Allen high scrappy young cage team well on the way to a comeback in ahtletlcs under the direction of Mat thews former East Central star 'chalked up their 11th victory in 14 starts this season by taking a fast game from rancis there ri day night 34 to 30 With Case forward burning the net for eight field goals to lead the way Allen couldn't be stopped Case shot at the basket 10 times and scored on eight of them' Allen is undefeated In the South Canadian conference with only a game with Coalgate left on the loop schedule Coalgate can gain a tie by defeating Allen having only a loss to Roff to mar its record Allen with Smith and Cole the only seniors on the squad has the following record to date thia sea Victories over Saint Louis Stratford Stuart twice Atwood twice Lata Milburn rancis Roff and Calvin crew lost their first two games to Hickory 24 to 22 and to Holden ville 34 to 22 and dropped an East central tournament to Byng 41 to 22 The box score: Declares Signature To Admission of War Guilt Withdrawn (rom Daily) uneral services were held Mon day afternoon at 2 o'clock at Ma dill for Roy Ratliff employed by Ed Hunter of this city and drown ed in an accident in Boggy creek in the itts oil field Saturday Ratliff who was 44 was born a Madill and his mother' Mrs Molliq Ratliff still resides there Services were held at the irst Baptist church in that city fol lowed by burial at Woodbury cemetery Ratliff is survived by his widow and mother The teamster and a companion Machatka were driving a wag on drawn by two teams and load ed with pipe across the low water bridge across Boggy on the Stahl lease The strong current flowing over the bridge caused one of the horses to lose footing and in a moment the two teams were swept from the bridge and the wagon was dragged in Machatka managed to swim ashore although handicapped by heavy clothing Ratliff disappear ed and although workmen toiled all afternoon they were unable to find his body although they suc ceeded in getting out the wagon and the bodies of the horses Seach continued during the night and about 8 Sunday morning body yas found a hundred yards downstream from the bridge under a 1 willow tree that was standing in the water Experienced Veterinarian He Resigns Government Ser 5 vice In January ADA WEEKLY NEWS ADA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY EBRUARY 4 1937 You have heard and read of the great flood in the but I am sure hard to picture of its unless you really see it I was for two weeks in Wells ton Ohio only a short distance from Portsmouth Wellston is a little town in the hills of south ern Ohio no large rivers closer than the Ohio but every little stream became a roaring torrent I left Wellston Monday morn ing trying to get to Coshocton about 100 miles awav and when I found I could not get there turned to Columbus and had driven about 250 miles when it was less than 100 miles to Colum bus direct Much of the farm land has washed aw ax Since I could not get through via car to Moundsville I left my car in Columbus and took the train to Steubenville Ohio I never knew there could be so much water I rom Newark Ohio to Coshocton what was once a little stream near the highway had become a lake three or more miles wide covering that fine Twenty Bought In November attened and Sold More Than Pay Way OB (WEB MH our Jury Convictions Six Guilty Pleas Go On Record No Acquittals Davis All surveys and geographi cal locations in Oklahoma are fig ured from this point where the In dian Meridian crosses 'the base line 1 Council grounds Antelope Hills in Roger Mills county Early day adventurers on their way to the gold fields of California camp ed at the council gfbunds In 1861 an inter tribal confer ence was held there to try and keep the Indians from taking part in the war between the states Skullyville near Spiro in Le lore county' in the Choctaw tongue jneans Here the Choctaw' Indians went to receive their money from1 the government ort Cobb Caddo county The fort was established in 1859 and later abandoned when ort Sill was built 1 ort Towson Choctaw county This fort was used by the Choc taw Indian agent from 1854 to 1859 During the war between the states it was occupied by Con federate troops Boggy Depot Atoka county In early days Boggy Depot was lo cated on the Overland Mail route between California and Smith Ark It was also the home of Gov Allen Wright who gave the name to the state Baptist Mission Adair county The first newspaper printed in Ok lahoma was published there It was Written in the Cherokee lan guage Lowest Wind Velocity Largest Icing Plant Longest Star Route REUGEES 1000 MILE LOOD IND HUMBLE BOXCAR HAVENS Dr Gump who has been headquartering in Ada for the past year and one half in govern ment service has resigned from that service and established pri vate practice as a veterinarian here A graduate of Kansas State ag ricultural school Dr Gump spent one year as a general practitioner in Pittsburg Kan thenfeptered government servicer" Three years in that service in cluded the time he has spent in and near Ada and he decided that this area with its present and future outlook was favorable for a return to private practice His office is at 511 North Mis sissippi avenue 1 He has wide acquaintance among farmers and stock men of this area through his work with' gov ernment agencies i cause greater care has been given it and only the sturdier stock has survived' i inter the weather again most farmers because of the drought were unable to raise feed for their chickens so they have culled their flocks keeping fewer chickens Many are not keeping them at all Outlook Good loyd said that many farmers will not raise chickens if they cannot raise their own feed re fusing to buy feed All of which 'leads to the fol lowing conclusions: this year poultry prices are low because of the large amount already In stor age and the ordinary spring rush In the business probably won't materialize Next year prices of poultry will be higher because less poultry is being raised now and the cost of will be lower Hence the outlook In the poultry business here is pretty good at least better than In 1(36 And as a sidelight local con sumption of eggs is good with prices for eggs higher here than In surrounding townf BB GUMPDPEIfS vetufficehek Hundreds of families found the boxcars rushed to strategic points along the 11 state flood Uns a welcome haten Like the one above in southern Illinois they palatial but they were dry No nasvi wvutu'uuuuuuuiis tuiu wa mr iin ro ugn tne uoors and windows Hera was a stove" to cook on dishestocat from food provided by the Red Cross fuel from the same source and com parative comfort until the angry waters of the Mississippi' and Ohio rivers should recede and' the homeless could return to the mud caked houses they had fled from so precipitately The smiles aren't for the camera 'Theyre real and true expressions Wyoming Has Much Unusual Old man weather with his floods droughts and cold spells has a lot to say In human affairs but his Influence extends still fur ther even upsetting to some tent the normal trends In poultry business or Instance the drought of last summer caused a large part of the poultry business to come in sooner than usual being put Into storage This Is not the usual way it happens Tony loyd of the loyd Hatchery and Produce com pany explained Usually most of the poultry comes into the poultry houses in the spring but the drought changed that Less Poultry And then the cold weather of recent weeks has done much to re duce the number of chickens in this area locks which were well fed and well housed survived all right but those which were not suffered The result la fewer flocks now than usual Thus not much poultry is be ing raised this year However loyd explained the condition of poultry is better than usual be Body of Man Drowned Satur day Recovered Sunday Burial at Madill CHEYENNE Wyo (UP) Workers on the federal writers project in Wyoming havis un earthed many unusual facts about the state during their research Most Interesting among them are The town of Lander has the distinction of having the lowest wind velocity of any region In the United States while the Sheridan district Is second The original postmaster al the Banner post office lived at the crossing of Prairie Dog creek at the foot of Massacre Hill on the Bozeman trail and used a flag as his cittlo brand which resulted in the office being named Banner Longest Mall Route The mail route established in 1873 from Rock Creek to Etclte tjsh Montana is believed to be the longest star route ever established and operated In the United States It extended 500 mile and the mall was carried In pockets of the carriers on horseback Mrs Susan Wlsslerr who was elected mspor of Dawton in 1911 la said to ibe the first woman In the nation to hold such an office It is a matter of record that wnisity Having cleared up last criminal docket on schedule with out a single acquittal Stanfield county attorney and Hoyt Driskill assistant will plunge into another full week's schedule Monday with the trial of Oil Moore who faces a charge of murder Moore 41 veteran will tai shooting 18 at her home here the after noon of July 7 1936 Moore who was said by Roy Keller police chief to have been the former husband of the Huckel by girl was arrested soon after the shooting Davis Case Another case set for trial this week which has much Interest here Is that of Dallas Davis who will be tried Thursday on a charge of murder Davis about 30 was charged wlth the fatal shooting of George Kirby 54 his brother in law fol lowing a dispute on an oil well lease near Bebee July 19 1936 Highlight of the past court term was the two trials of Ray A Day who was given two sentences totaling 65 years One Murder Trial He was tried Monday on a charge of injuring a public build ing in an attempt to break out of the county Jail the jyry recom mending a sentence of 15 years The following day he was tried for robbery with firearms as a re sult of his holdup of Lowery Lee and the jury recommended a sen tence of 50 years One murder case was tried dur ing the week James Haddock receiving a recommended sentence of 20 years for the automobile Maying of Maner our Jury Convictions The Haddock case was hard fought requiring two full days for trial as defense testimony was designed to prove that Maner's bar was parked in the center of the road near Sandy bridge west of Ada and that Haddock was not the driver of the death car Testimony of the state was that Haddock was intoxicated at time of the accident and that blood a part of Maner's shirt and a few strands of hair were found on the front 01 the car There were four jury convic tions during the week ths other being that of Carl Bridges given six months on a charge of grand larceny One Hung Jury Six pleas of guilty were made: Hitman Ables larceny of domestic animals to be sentenced ebruary 10 Morts attempted bur glary 18 months Cecil Morton larceny of domestic fowls 1 monthsf'C Crooks burglary first degree to be sentenced In June Nick Worcester larceny of an automobile to be sentenced later and A Blunt rate sec ond degree sentenced to five years There was one bond forfeiture Judge Tai Crawford ordering the bond of Sandy Holliman charged with grand larceny forfeited Tlie last case tried during ths week resulted In a hung jury that of Percy Burns charged with driving while drunk ha r'4 nounced declared ac cepts the responsibility of Ger many and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the allied and associated govern ments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them bv the aggression of Germany and her Roar of Applause There was a roar of applause The uniformed relchstag deputies black shirts and brown rose and shouted their Whistling approval they flung out their hands In the traditional nazl sa lute A few minutes before thoyl had renewed for four years the dictatorial powers of the fuehrer But even so there Was a calm er setting than last March when the chancellor tn bristling words announced remilitarization of the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles pact and the Locarno security treaty Today's slap at Versailles was a more formal requiem because Germany already had rebuilt army navy and air force and ie turned control of her Inland wat erways all violations of th peace pact In his two hour address the words were keyed io economic needs both in relation to the world and to the laborer at home At Its end the slender leader of millions turned jo his chief aide Gen Wilhelm ield Moves to Eighth in Nation in 1936 Production Old ields of County Holding Up as New Pools Expand Important Part of Reserves A The annual review number of the Oil and Gas Journal just pub lished contains in its many sum maries of 1936 repeated refer ences to the itts field references and figures that reveal how that comparatively new major field is forging toward the front in the sources of crude petrol eum Some of the interesting and re vealing information contained in the Journal is as follows: One of Leading ields Rodessa and itts fields In 1936 replaced Hobbs and Pampa in the list of 15 fields with largest pro duction for the nation the 15 having produced 46 per cent of the output in that year itts with its 19908495 bar rels moved Into eighth place In the list and with rapidly increas ing production promises to crowd closer to the lead in the next few years State Reseries Down The I estimate for Okla homa crude reserves shows a loss of 68752579 barrels during 1936 from the Jan 1 1935 estimate of 1200 000000 to the Jan 1 1936 estimate of 1131247421 barrels Total gain In reserves for the county was 324839546 barrels during the year Pontotoc county Is now one of the principal areas upholding Ok place among leading pro ducing states of the nation few new important sources having been found in 1936 in the state New Sources Needed7 New sources of crude are need EHL MOW OB MT1I Goering president! of the reich stag Goering in Tribute i The ponderous wide girthed general stepped forward amid the applause to end the session with an impassioned lyrical tribute te his leader Women wiped away tears of joy The cellor before called people came from the sat with head bowed elbows on his knees At the end he rose to return salutes and acknowledge cheers of his followers Goering in his eulogy denied that German minister" had treated with Leon Trotsky or his alleged colleagues as charged at the Moscow trial of Karl Radekand others con victed yesterday of treason 'The soviet charges Goering said so absurd that they ought to find something more land a good deal of Coshocton was under water and right where I had driven on the fine highway was eight and ten feet deep in water many homes submerged Many' places the water was whip ing around the train as we crossed Ohio many of the smaller towns as we passed saw nearly covered Any of the flood In the smaller towns would have made headlines only for the fact of the great flood on the Ohio Moundsville is only ten miles down the river from Wheeling and 30 miles from Steubenville but to get here we had to go to Washington Pa ana the and 30 The water is Pf Moundsville deal of Wheeling The weather here is clear and cool and river here la falling a little The people of the beautiful little city of Ada should be happy that God saw fit to make some places higher than this part The train that came into Colum bus yesterday morning before I left brought a train load of those who had lost all In Portsmouth and must start all over again We should pray for and help our neighbor in this great flood HUIES PICT BHMUITLEB News is in receipt of the following letter from Rev Lum Jones Ada evangelist describing sora or tne uooa scenes In It was written Jan 23 Moundsville 13 i MIRK HISTORICAL i ed was an and 1937 bids fair to set a new record The past year boomed production consumption domes tic' demand for gasoline kerosene fuel oil and gas oil and had the most wells drilled since 1929 Leads State Drilling The itts field not only is gain ing in potential is leading the state now In number of drilling wells In the week ending January 23 the field had 62 wells drilling and seven completions with Oklahoma City having 21 drilling and three completed Only fields surpassing itts in operations for the week were East Texas with 78 Lea County New Mexico with 76 Ro dessa had 49 itts field led the state in operations during 1936 except for a few weeks during the Capitol Extension boom at Okla homa City County Resenes During 1936 Pontotoc county added an estimated total of 92 490000 barrels of reserves ing 1936 an estimated total of 1990000 barrels va 1936 Production Oklahoma produced 200880705 barrels in 19362 Conservation pool produced 61805 barrelL Allen district produced 3076 287 barrels itts field produced 19908475 barrels Bebee field produced 1039835 barrels Jesse field produced 409979 barrels Daily average rose In Jesse sold by early traders at 15 a gal lon wholesale 1 Laramie has the largest natural icing plant In the United States it Ices entire trains with an aver age of two and one half minutes a car Teapot Dome further 'distin gulshed Jjy the fact that it con tributed the largest well of flush production ever drilled in 'the state Measurements of the stream that ran away from the well showed a flow of 28000 barrels a day subsided within a month tq 100 William Sloan asserts that the toll bridge across the North1 Platte river 20 miles west of yort uaraune took in 40000 in tolls during the season of 1353 A controversy resulting in twtf spots being marked the ait of the Wagon Box fight The spots are less than one fnurth nf a mllo apart but one is In John son county apd the other in onenaan county The 21 scheduled air lines oper attng in continental United srt carried 96019 flew 6639008 miles and carried 751 890 pounda of express in Noveml ber 1936 I lying at altitudes of 22600 to 25000 feet the Soil Conservation Service of the United States de partment of agriculture has been making maps of the contour of the land The planes making thepho tographa must be equipped for the altitudes with oxygen breathing apparatus up tne ladder and into boxcars on high ground went women and children while their menfolk stayed1 behind to form a human brace for the river threatened levees along the 1000 niile Ohio Mississippi flood front Often there were several families in one car the older children helping and caring for the younger With a stove pipe shoved through a hole in the side the door could be closed and ink side this southern Illinois family found warmth dry clothing and pallets hot food and safety no mat ter what happened to the Mississippi A few miles away a dozen Illinois towns were under water uiendceu many urownings had been reported 50000 were homeless there was no ing water and an epidemic threatened to add to toll of the disaster soon as the weather permits there will begin work on a build ing and teacherage for the' Indian i school at Hickory Hill which will provide enough space and equlp ment for the Indian children of that that is comparatively isolated from public schools The buildings will rise at the foot of a hill two miles north and mile west of lttstown on a 5 acre tract donated by Mamie Thom a fullblood Chickasaw In dian 1 They will be across the road from the old Hickory Hill Indian church and cemetery the church having been used for classroom apace during the past two years until the Indian Service under took the building project The structureajvill be of frame construction The school building will have two rooms well equip ped one for classes and one for other activities of various kinds They will be connected with show 'ers and other modern sanitary facilities Use Ada Water Supply A three room teacherage with sleeping porch will have hot and cold water and other modern fa cilities The school is near the big water line from Byrds Mill to Ada and will use water from the line Total cost of the project is over 310000 The project is under supervis ion of the Indian Service will use Indian labor and Dave Ed wards will be foreman in charge Two years ago a survey found17 Indian children within one half mile" of the old church but several miles by road from any public school The school was established to determine how Indians in the vic inity would respond to the oppor tunity for more convenient school ing and 'in general it a schoolwas needed The result has been convincing and the building and teacherage will be the tangible outcome Old Church Used irst Miss Nora Anderson of Con nersville was the first teacher The old church was used for classesand Indians cut logs and hauled them to a sawmill to get lumberfor a rough teacherage for her Miss Anderson however after one year went into work in an Indian school in New Mexico and James Baldridge half Chero kee of Sallisaw student at Bacone and Northeastern was selected He started in the fall of 1935 and has done excellent work both as teacher and as a worker in the community1 Hickory Hill is the second In dian school to be established in the county Kallihoma near Steed man being the first Allen Cagemen Defeat rancis By WADE WERNER BERLIN Jan 30 (J5) Adolf Hitler tore another page from the tattered Book of Ver sailles that 1 stripped Germany of her colonies and turned today to the world with a pledge of "loyal in the prob lems ot growth To a tumultous reichstag as semotea in the red draned Kroll opera house the chancel lor proclaimed that on the fourth anniversary of his rise to power rmany had regained her sov ereignty with equal rights before the world Standing before a battery of gleaming microphones that car ried his address to the nation and throughout the world he de ciarea prises manv He mand colonies but did not ask for new ones he renounced a policy isolation and cited the anti com munist pact with Japan as an example of willingness to co operate with other nations he offered pledges of neutrality to Belgium and The Netherlands and a friendly hand to rance He avowed Germany's readi ness to work with other nations for economic development but added that the nation's four year plan for self sufficiency must be continued Signature" Then brushing back the un ruly lock of hair which plunged down from his forehead fuehrer declaimed "I hereby solemnly withdraw the German signature from that (Versailles) declaration forced upon a weak government against its better knowledge the declar ation to the effect Germany was guilty of starting the World war "or the last time" the World war pact was to a back shelf (The clause which Here and there over'this area farmers are "making a go" of things despite obstacles of the most unusual weather conditions of many years and farmers' in general are judging from new fencing early winter plowing and more general use of winter pas ture crops tackling their work with more optimism than ever before Livestock Is again coming to be recognled as one of the basic divisions ot agriculture in this area An example of what is being done in livestock is that of Grover Marr with hogs In early winter On November 15 or last year he bought 20 that averaged 127 pounds i Later ho butchered two that averaged 156 pounds On Decomber'23 he aold'the remaining 18 now weighing an average of 210 pounda Although he bought Meed for the hogs the entire project net ted 390 pftfit with a total cost of 338450 counting In the two Dutcnerea bogs 4W 9 IMS 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