Red Cross Leader Sent to Gnats Infested Mississippi Arkansas Region
The Red Cross dispatched disaster representative 2 P Krickfill to investigate buffalo gnats in Mississippi Arkansas area. Reports from Mississippian counties describe the pest killing livestock, delaying farming, and driving fishers away. Authorities note repeated invasions since 1884 and locals employ smudges and sprays to protect mules cattle and horses.
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Red Cross
Washington
P. Krickfill
Mississ
Delia
Arkansas
Mississippi
National Organization of the Red Cross
Messakes
Sarge Tossen
College Athlete Becomes Pro Boxer Dixon From Boston College
Johnny Dixon once star of the Boston College football basketball and baseball teams in the 1930 season has signed to become a professional boxer. Listed at six feet four and a half inches and 210 pounds he is said to possess a powerful punch though he has yet to fight professionally.
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Boston
Hunk Anderson to Coach Notre Dame
Hunk Anderson will carry on for Rockne at Notre Dame after Rockne. Anderson, a former Notre Dame player and Rockne aide, was named by Rev Dr Charles L O Donnell to lead football next year without the head coach title. Jack Chevigny, a former star back, will assist as junior coach.
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Jack Chevigny
Chevigny
Fire at Hope Lumber Co Causes Minor Loss
A fire swept the bailer room of Hope Lumber Co early Saturday morning but was extinguished with slight damage. Fire Chief Em bree estimated losses under $100, with the blaze believed to have started in loose shayrays in the engine race.
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Hope Lumber Company
Embree
Hope and Blevins Vote Is Canvassed
Hampstead county towns Hope and Blevins voted Democratic ticket with light turnout. Hope had 151 ballots across four wards. Blevins sum reached 27. Mayors, recorders, treasurers, and aldermen for both towns listed.
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Hope
City of
Blevins
Hampstead County
Teket
Brummnett
D. B. Thorpe
WoHnison
Mie Lowy
Bleions Cash
Thriss Ty
John P. We
A. A. Gentry
Fred Webb
J. W. Harper
Don Smith
R. L. Gosnell
Luther Garner
Roy Stephenson
W. A. Lewis
Thea P. Witt
Charles Taylor
Ira Halliburton
Beauchimy
PH. Stephens
P. E. Stephens
C. W. Leverette
J. J. Foster
Elvin Bruce
Cyrus Honea
Coy Cummings
Charles Evans Hughes Reaches 69th Birthday Victory
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reaches his 69th year with a quiet public life. He marked the day by continuing official duties and planning a simple family dinner as his sole celebration.
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Charles E. Hughes
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Church Suppers Hurt Restaurant Business in Corning
Local restaurant owners tell the Chamber of Commerce that church dinners lure patrons away with $1 quarter dinners. They claim church suppers steal customers by offering donated meat and dessert, hurting business at nearby eateries.
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Corning
U.P
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City Likely to Host 12th National Basketball Tourney
Kansas City is virtually certain to host the 12th national ALASU basketball tournament next year. Dr J A Riley of the Kansas City Athletic Club notes the meet has longtime roots here and drew about 35,000 fans over six days. He will submit Kansas City's bid at the November ALUL meeting in Miami Florida.
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Kansas City
UPI
Sail
J. A. Riley
Kansas City Athletic Club
Aley
Miami
Homecoming Day set for May 10 in Washington Arkansas
A Hempstead County notice announces Washington Homecoming on Mother's Day Sunday May 10 with a basket dinner and all day program at the Baptist church grounds. An executive committee led by Mrs J W Butler and Mrs J A Wilson lists subcommittees for decorations meals publicity and tables and names numerous local organizers and volunteers.
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Washington
Hempsteademnry
Arkansas
Baptist Church
J. W. Butler
J. A. Willson
Mary Catts
Meier quits golf to take up horseback riding
Salem Oregon Governor Julius L. Meier has given up golfing to pursue horseback riding, signaling a shift in leisure activities for the state’s chief executive.
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Salem
Ore
W.R
Julius L. Meier
New State Laws Editors Note on Securities Regulation
This twentieth note explains Act No 109 granting Blue Sky Division at the Arkansas Railroad Commission power to regulate securities sales, require information, hold investigations, and raise license fees for brokers to 23 dollars and salesmen to 10 dollars. Violations incur fines up to 1000 dollars and up to one year imprisonment. a $9,000 bond is required on conviction to be licensed.
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Blue Sky Division
Arkansas Railroad Commission
Creed Caldwell
Pine Bluff
Prize For Letter Won By L Padgitt
Lykins Padgitt of Heampstead County 4-H club earned $5 and honorable mention from International Harvester for a prize contest letter. He previously won a free Chicago trip and attended the 4-H club national convention after participating in the 1930 4-H contests. He and other winners toured McCormick Harvester and International Tractor Works.
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Lykins Padgitt
Heampstead County
International Harvester Company
Padgitt
Fox
Hownese
Lewisville
Chicago
Harvester Company
Wong
McCormick Harvester
International Tractor Works
Two Accused of Killing Farmer Near Parkin
Justice Wil Crook held Herman Hogan and B E Moody for first degree murder in a Parkin preliminary hearing. They are charged with killing Jack Davis on a farm north of Parkin Wednesday night. Moody admitted the killing saying self defense against an attack by Davis who he said was armed. Investigators say weapons were placed after the murder and Davis was not shot where found. Mrs Davis denied any motive tied to alleged relations with Moody.
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Clenents
Cooper
Davis
Moody
Jealousy Blamed in Fatal Shooting
Wynne. B. Moody, 38, charged with the murder of Dick Davies, 40, who was shot dead. A preliminary hearing is set for Friday. Davies died from a chest wound after a night altercation prompted by jealousy over Moody's wife, with Moody surrendering after the shooting.
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Davies
Kungtinns
Captain Ira Eaker Sets Transcontinental Speed Flight Pace
Captain Ira Eaker Army test pilot landed in Wichita Kansas after a six hour three minute twenty second flight from Burbank California to New York City. He aimed for five hours to Wichita but nearly matched Captain Frank Hawks west to east record. The crew refused further leg of the dash to New York. The current cross country record stands at 12 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds.
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Wichita
Kan
Ira Eaker
Central Lime
Burbank Cali
New York City
Eyker
Frank Hawks
New York
Farm Board Backs Elevator Project in Stuttgart
In Stuttgart the Federal Farm Board will loan 6 percent of the funds to build a rice elevator if farmers sign contracts to support it. Paul W. Daniels reports the board’s promise, following talks with the Arkansas chamber, to aid the 500000 bushel facility. The American Rice Growers Co operative Association plans further elevators in Texas and Louisiana to ease market pressure during threshing season.
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Stuttgart
Federal Farm Board
Washington, D. C
Paul W. Daniels
Arkansas
American Rice Growers Co-operative Association
Daniels
Texas
Carl Williams
Farm Board
Stuttgart, Trade
Chamber of Commerce
Louisiana
Association
Speaker of House buried Saturday
A sealed casket containing the body of Speaker Nicholas Longworth lay at the Rockwood family home Saturday. Funeral services and interment were set for 2 o clock Saturday afternoon. The government special train from Aiken arrived at 7 Saturday morning plus President Hoover and party to attend. Services were to be held at the Episcopal church by Bishop Hobson with interment in the family cemetery.
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Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Bockwood
Aiken
D. C
Hoover
Episcopal Church
Kelly Wise Hobson
Mississippi Banks Reopen Saturday
Three important banks resumed operations after a temporary suspension in Mississippi. Banks named include Merchants and Farmers Bank of Lexington and Starkville and the Peoples Bank of Cul Na City. They held deposits totaling about $2.6 million under state banking supervision.
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Jackson, Miss
Love
Merchants and Farmers Bank of
Lexington
Starkville
Cul- Naa City
Timundi
Vink Pe Voiskippi
Pecan Marketing Group to Convene in Jackson Mississippi
State and federal agriculture officials will join the National Pecan Marketing Association program in Jackson on April 1 and 15. Hi G Lucan of Brownwood Texas serves as president of the association formed last fall. Speakers include J S Knox of Parouetteville Arkansas, marketing specialist for Arkansas. The group counts about 3,000 pecan producers from Arkansas Alabama Georgia Texas Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina Oklahoma and Florida.
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Jackson, Miss
National Pecan Marketing Association
Hi. G. Lucan
Brownwood
Texas
J. S. Knox
Paouetteville
Ark
Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Florida
Latta Tulsa World editor dies at 58
A Latta, 58, longtime editor of the Tulsa World and former editor of an oil and gas journal, died Saturday in Tulsa of pneumonia. He is survived by a widow and nine children.
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A. Latta
Tulsa World
Tulsa
Okla
Wulan World
Latta
Boy Injured in Fall in Huntington Hotel Window
LITTLE ROCK A seven floor fall in Huntington West Virginia from a hotel caused multiple fractures to C B Beardsley Jr two year old son of Mr and Mrs C B Beardsley formerly of Little Rock The child leaned against a window screen to watch a passing train and the screen gave way The boy and the screen fell seven floors The grandfather Claude Sharpe vice president of Scott Moyer Commission Co informed that the boy is recovering The Beardsleys had moved to support the father's new Buick territory career from Little Rock to Memphis and then to the present district.
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Little Rock
Huntington
W. Va
B. Beardsley
Cc. B. Beardsley Jr
Claude Sharpe
Scott-Mayer Commission Co
Beardsley
Buick Motor Company
Lite Rok
Pew
Old Little Rock Motor Car Company
Madison-Smith Cadillac Co
Memphis
Tean
Ring Found Embedded in Potato in Kansas Field
Winona Frost of Jewell county, while digging potatoes in autumn, lost a precious ring. After weeks of searching, her mother, while peeling a potato, discovered the ring half embedded inside.
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Courtland
Kan—ti
Winona Frost
Jewell County
Little Things Cause Household Troubles
Mary and Falvnny miss a school day after a failed maid and unfinished chores spark a day of turmoil. A home economist Miss Garrett gathers women stories to guide the Saenger theatre event in April, focusing on patience tact and self-sacrifice in daily life.
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Mary
Falvnny
Brides Club
Mixy
Ecopomisn
Sd Tegtinee
Saenger Theatre
Garrett
M Garrett
State Highway Bid In Eight County Concrete Pavement Project
Bids were invited for the eight county highway project linking a miles of concrete pavement and gravel surface. The largest project of the spring involves Donaldson county with bids announced. Completion aims to create inlet and outlet connections along the highway paths east and west of the tree marked site.
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Donaldson
Murfressbory Murfreesboro High District Meet Preview
Murfressbory Murfreesboro High eyes a strong district showdown at District No 10 with few events entered by senior division athletes. The Friday and Saturday meet, culminating April 17 18, is the year’s top high school athletic event in the area as Murfreesboro seeks district honors after Friday’s individual events.
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Murfreesboro High
Pike County
Fresboro
M Freesboro
Missouri Plans Highway Program 1931 stretchsroad buildout
Jefferson City plans a 1931 Missouri highway program with over 3000 miles of new roads. Secretary BE Garner announces a split of work across secondary and primary systems including 698 miles graded earth 933 gravel 356 concrete surfacing and 1454 earth 1204 gravel 481 concrete on the total. Supplemental work includes 581 miles graded earth and 593 miles gravel surfacing with 14 miles of relief roads 23 miles on the 300 mile system and 22 miles of park connections.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
State Highway Department
BE. E. Garner
State Highway Commission
Baby bunny shortage hits Easter trade in Whitewater
Whitewater Wisconsin reports a shortage of baby rabbits as S. E. Williamson and C. W. Hawes cannot meet a Chicago store demand for 1 000 baby bunnies for the Easter market, producing only about 400 rabbits.
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Whitewater
Wis
S. E. Williamson
C. W. Hawes
Chicago
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L. Padgitt
New Harvester Co
Herman Hogan
B. E. Moody
Parkin
Jack Davies
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