Young Journalists urged to stay out of big towns
Arkansas college journalists attended Magnolia A M College student press association events. Fred Sims opened with welcome remarks, Henry Humphrey urged youths to seek work in smaller towns, praising regional papers and recounting his Mexico City stint. A H Washburn spoke on democracy's collapse and press lessons amid a weekend program.
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Arkansas
Magnolia A. M
Amaeansas College Press Association
al Jeas
Fred Sims
Henderson State Teach
the Oracle
Neesiding
C. A. Overstreet
Magnolia A. A& M
Robert Parker
Arkansas “Polytechnics
Arka-Tech
Thomphrey
Henry Humphrey
Texarkana Gazette
Humphrey
Mexico City
New York Herald
United States
Southwest
A. H. Washbury
Hope Stir
Europe
Fred Press
Robert Walz
Ashdomn Soda Ad
Paint A & M
Iony Mr. Washburn
America
Jain
Government would unite credit agencies for pump priming plan
Bruce Catton outlines a proposed consolidation of U S lending agencies to create a massive credit‑creating wall of finance. The plan groups RFC HOLC FHA and others into a single body with up to about 10 billion in unused lending capacity, enabling a large loan program without expanding the annual debt limit. The proposal, still unsettled, envisions a postwar economic recovery through credit rather than direct spending.
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Ruce Catton
Ashington
REC
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Disaster Loan Corporation
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
Lona
RFC
HOLC
FHA
Elertfe Farm and Home Authority
AFC
Harry Hopkins
Senate
Jesse Jones
Roosevelt
Treasury Department
Treasury
College Paper Awards for 1938 29 in Magnolia A M
Best college papers of the 1938 29 school year announced at Magnolia A M college Saturday morning. Weekly division awards go to Russellville Polytechnic Atka Ech first, Harding college Searcy Bison second, Henderson State Oracle third. Bi weekly division sees State Teachers college Echo first, Little Rock Junior college Chatter second, College of the Ozarks Mountain Eagle third.
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Asyuards
Magnolia A. & M. College
Satur
Ware
Russellville Polytechnic
Atka‘ech
Harding College
Searcy
Bison
Henderson State Oracle
State Teachers College Echo
Little Rock Junior College Chatter
College of the Ozarks Mountain Eagle
Hot Springs
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Fort, Smith
Rix Stadium
el Dorado
James O'Cain
Trailor Pence
Fort Smith
L. A. Vaught
J. C. Linder
Easy Street
Lieut
L. E. Biles
Michigan
Bob Makovsky
Oklahoma A
M.college
Alvin Edgar
Town State
College
Makovsky
Edger
Hope and
Texarkana
Magnolia
Prescott
Stamps
Mary Evelyn Whitforth
Hope
Francis Forehand
Thomas Gillespie
Mary Jo Hamilton
Clas
Ashdown
de Queen
Billy Edwards
Dorothy Lee Endlam
Cornet
Wallace van Sickte
Sam Jamieson
Clinton ‘Parker, Jr
Byron Yarbrough
Gordon
Grady Ja Cochran
Texarkany
Tassoon
Rest of the world and democracy under pressure
The piece argues that a g man’s release from jail signals newsworthy shifts in governance. It emphasizes economic resources, industry, self-reliance, and a majority-guided but minority-protecting constitutional framework as keys to orderly government. notes continued discussion on page four.
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Europe
Cranium Cracker Word Pair Quiz on Page Two
A playful word puzzle asks readers to label given word pairs as synonyms or antonyms. It lists pairs like efface expunge recant abjure turbid clear propagale disseminate heinous venial and invites scoring for correct judgments. The tone imitates a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper feature with quirky quizzes.
Softball League Opens Monday With Nine Teams Entered
The Hope Softball league will open Monday at Fair Port with two games and a 48 piece high school band. Nine teams have entered with a possible tenth. Opening ceremonies start at 1:15. Bruner-Ivory A versus Alton CCC Camp A at 2:90. Leo Robins hosts Ozan. Commissioner Brasher drafts schedule. Mayor Atkins to bat. Roy Anderson to pitch. Unique Cafe may join.
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Hope
Fair Port
Bil Brasher
Brasher
Hope High School
Fir Park
Roy Anderson
W. S. Atkins
Bruner-Ivory
Alton Camp
Leo Robins Towet
Ozan
Sre
Bruner-lyory
Handle Co
Leo Robins
Mind Your Manners Quiz Answers
A breakfast etiquette snippet presents five questions on dining manners with answers. It asks about wiping the napkin on the silver, pushing back the plate, drinking with food in the mouth, dual behavior, using a handkerchief, and bacon at breakfast. The provided key answers are 1 No, 2 No, 3 No, 4 No, 5 No, with guidance on handling distractions.
Agri Students Visit Arkansas Farm Station
About 1 500 students attended three days of special study at the University of Arkansas Hitsas erott truck branch experiment station. G W Ware said the closing session that the 185 acre farm and campus laboratories were toured by groups including 25 vocational instructors from South Arkansas. The event marked the largest delegation of vocational students in Arkansas, with earlier days drawing hundreds of negro youths from two counties and Hempstead county high school students.
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University ‘of Ark- Hitsas Erott
G. W. Ware
Future Farmers of America
South Arkansas
C. J. Seymour
Arkansas
J. C. Barnatt
James Harris
Hope
Hempstead County
Froim
College of Agriculture
Sybil D. Gates
Extension Service
Fred Delzell
C. R. Pin
Social Security Tax Hike Stopped by Committee
Washington chairman Doughton announced the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to retain the current Social Security tax rate of 1 percent for both employers and workers for three years. The move would cut about 825 million dollars in tax burden during that period, avoiding the automatic rise to 1.5 percent on January 1. The decision followed consideration of the Social Security Board’s revision recommendations.
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Washington
Doughton
Dem. N. Col
House
Ways and Means
Social Security Board
Easy Road Emphasized in Revival Sermon at First Baptist
Rev Garrett at First Baptist urged listeners to choose the narrow road to eternal life, contrasting it with the broad way of destruction. He warned against following others into sin and urged personal commitment to Christ during revival services and Sunday baptism planned by Pastor Hamilton.
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Broadway
RE. P. J. Garrett
First Baptist Church
Willian R. Hamilton
Gnarrett
Earnings Increase in 1939 for 179 Large Firms
For the quarter ended in March, 179 large corporations reported earnings of 259,628,000 dollars, up 78 percent from a year earlier. Automakers led gains with 65,014,000, led by General Motors and Chrysler, while steel firms turned a profit of 12,651,000 against a 2,272,000 deficit in 1938. Oil earnings slipped to 4,485,000 from 9,309,000. finance and heavy machinery firms also declined. New Jersey reduced traffic deaths in 1938 to 885 from 4,278 in 1937.
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New York
Associated Press
General Motors
Chrysler
A Thought Without Home Quotes on Wandering Dwellers
A fragmented quotation from Schiller contrasts a homebound mind with a traveler seeking change, noting weariness and distance from the hearth as a philosophical reflection on restlessness and exile.
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Schiller
Slattery Dies National Grocer Leader at Pneumonia
Joseph J. Slattery, nationally known grocery chain executive and president of Black & White Foods, died at his Little Rock home from pneumonia. A Memphis native, he reorganized Black & White here in 1935, earlier worked with Behr & Co of Memphis, helped form Cole McIntyre Norphlect Wholesale in Memphis, served as executive VP of Piggly Wiggly there, and was once associated in Cincinnati with Kroger President A H Morrill.
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Little Rock
Joseph J. Slattery
Black & White Food Maris
Memphis
Black & White
Behr & Co
Cole, McIntyre & Norphlect Wholesale Grocery Co
Piggly- Wiggly Corporation
Cincinnati
A. H. Morsill
Kroger Grocery & Baking Co
Soviet Plane Down on Canadian Island
A Soviet airliner en route from Moscow to New York forced a landing Friday night on Miscousland Island near the New Brunswick coast. Pilot Gen Vladimir Kokkinaki and Maj Mikhail Gorilenko survived, one injured with possible rib fracture, in a marshy site above nine pm. The other crewman was unhurt as locals aided by bringing food and keeping curious residents at bay.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Moscow
New York
Miscousland
New Brunswick
Vladimir Kokkinaki
Mikhail Gorilenko
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Bay Chasseur
Shipingun
Lawrence Vibert
Vibert
Profitable Turkeys Also Make Crops Pay in McCook Neb
Max Amann, farm boy near McCook Nebraska, wrote an essay and won turkey points. The growing turkeys ate grasshoppers that infested the Amanns alfalfa acreage, yielding a $1,680 return on the alfalfa seed crop. while neighboring farmers with turkeys absent saw little more than grasshopper damage. The Amanns later sold most of the turkeys for additional profit.
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McCook
Max Amann
Wade
Max
Amann
British Effort to Conclude Pact to Stop Dictate
Britain accelerates moves to bring Russia into the Anglo French front after Hitler speech as Berlin Xi seeks clearer acceptance of fuehrer aims on colonies and armaments. Paris says France and Romania in accord on plans, while Britain rejects any new naval pact. Poland vows not to yield territory, insists negotiations over Danzig possible but Germany blocks talks.
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Atlantic
Black Sea
Spain
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Romania
Hitler
Mussolini
London
Eng
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Fuehrer
Accor
Paris
France
Bet
Asi
Georges France
Hac
Britain
Bi Foreign Office
Foreign Office
Camberlain
Germany
John ‘Simon
Reich
Europe
Poland
Warsaw
Danzig
Polish Corris
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Texas- Mann
College Press
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H. Washburn
Ahly
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Atkins
North Caroline
van Sickle
Kinser, Whitworth
Barr of Hope
Julion
Rome-Berlin
BELG
Switz
East
Lexusell
Anean
AVIA
Raf Miles
Rumania
Bucharest
Turkey
Agri
Social Security
House Committee
Dr. Garrett
New Jersey
Kroger Company
Canadian Island
Stul.u
New. Orleans
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