Sharecroppers Face Pressure In Arkansas Cotton Fields
In eastern Arkansas, sharecroppers and tenants live in hovels as AAA crop cuts and price drops strain wages. Frazier Hunt reports on union organizing, landlord coercion, and a struggle for land reform amid terror and legal battles.
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Frazier Hunt
NEA Service
the Gazette
Hunt
America
Poinsett County
Arkansas
South
Manchuria
Manchukuo
China
Mid-Southland
Tenant Farmers’ Union
AAA
City Briefs and Personal Notices Lead Week
City reads announce a 3 p.m. Wednesday board of adjustment meeting in city hall chamber. Dr Harold A Lockhart speaks at Kiwanis noon meeting at Montrose hotel on Modern Sociology as Applied to Medicine. Fly casting expert from South Bend Bait demos at Ellis park pavilion 7 p.m. Friday with Boy Scout sponsor.
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Board of Adjustment
City Council
Harold A. Lockhart
Kiwanis Club
Montrose
South Bend Bait Company
Ellis Park Pavilion
Boy Scout
Boy Scouts
Two More Dogs Poisoned Reported by Resident
Police learned of two dog poisonings from John Erceg at 2220 C Street SW on Monday evening. The notices describe separate incidents and prompt local animal welfare concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Erceg
C Street
Police report mix of dog poisonings and birth news
Erceg reports his shepherd dog poisoned Monday and neighbor J J Mit ralsky’s chow poisoned Sunday. Patrolman Frank Novak supplied cigars at police HQ Tuesday for his fourth son Theodore born July 28 at Mercy hospital. A mislisted address for Grant Jennings led to a knee injury incident. Rotary Eleventh district meeting in Independence featured W H D Lester of the justice department at Backbone state park.
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Erceg
J. J. Mitralsky
C Street
Frank Novak
Mercy Hospital
Theodore
Independence
Rotary
Eleventh District
W. H. D. Lester
Department of Justice
the Backbone State Park
Lester
Rotary youth movement praised as crime prevention tool
The speech lauds state and local peace officers solving crimes and educating the public. He commends Rotary youth movement and compares it to the Boy Scouts as key to keeping young men from crime. The British government approves two experimental planes to test stratosphere altitude and distance records.
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Rotary
Boy Scouts
Sir Ministry of Great Britain
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H. L. Mitchell
Clay East
Ward Rodgers
Arkansas Supreme Court
Poinsett
Mississippi
Memphis
Preacher Rodgers
C. T. Carpenter
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Union
Africa
Lature
Dyess Colony
TRAD
Seliom and Company
Palm UE
Hotel Roosevelt
1St Ave. and
2Nd St. E
Alaska
Now &c
Navy Bean
B. So
Kellogg
PEG
Fancy Freestone Elberta
Buehler Bros
Chore Boys
Epe
Folger’s Coffee
del Monte
Byers
Monte
Fc Opt
Sunkist _ LEMONS
Ile
California
Bskt. Calif
Michigan
Elberta
Freestone
Swift
Japan
Rinso
Welch's
Grant Jennings
Grande Avenue SE
Bever Avenue SE
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