Collier's Writer Praises Hot Springs City
Collier's writer Walter Davenport lauds Hot Springs Arkansas as a hub for visitors, noting a gambling clique led by William Jacobs and mayor Leo McLaughlin. The piece, “Sun Takes a Hot Bath,” ridicules government spending elsewhere while praising the town's tolerance of vice under the banner of neighbors’ rights. Continued on Page Two.
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Hot Springs
Walter Divenport
Collier's Magazines
Hope
Arkansas
Mr. Davenport
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Detroit
Los Angeles
Davenport
Collier's
Leo P. McLaughin
William Jacobs
McLaughin
McLoughlin
McLaughlin
Diamond Joe
Iron Mountain
Holt Springs
Fatal bombing trial in Birmingham involving Bridges and co-defendants
In Birmingham, testimony details the July 10 bombing of the Pure Mil plant. R A Bridges faces murder charges linked to two deaths from the blast as co-defendants Gilpin Eldridge McCord and two Huffman residents await trials. Gilpin recounts Bridges tying a dynamite pack to a car and lighting the fuse before leaping from the vehicle.
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Birmingham
Ala
Burge Gilpin
Pure Mil Company
R.A. Bridges
Delce
Bridges
Bilpin
Eldridge McCord
Mabel Cline
Mildred Chambers
Huffman
Gilpin
White Leads in Mississippi Governor Primary Tally
Mississippi returns show Hugh White ahead in the gubernatorial race with 6 001 votes from 178 precincts and Mike Conner close behind at 4 800. George T Mitchell, allied with Governor Bilbo, trails in the four corner contest as Democrats tally 7 000 candidates statewide.
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Wes
Letin AH Trorion
Hugh White
Columbia
Mike Conner
Althugh White
Conner
Bilbo
Mitchell
Dennie Murphree
Mississippi
Accidental Shot Causes Death Near Dussett Tex
Coy Burden aged 25 was fatally injured while fishing near his Dussett home when a shotgun discharged accidentally as he attempted to shoot a crane. He died from loss of blood after being treated at Bassett and Texarkana hospitals. He left a wife and one daughter.
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Texarkana
Burden
Dussett
Tex
Here
Bassett
Texarkana Hospital
Camden Considers City Run Utilities Plan
Mayor G. R. Haynie urged municipal ownership of water, light, and gas utilities at Tuesday night council, criticizing high local charges. He proposed a budget system and a "re Wrenchment" policy as part of broader city reforms.
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Camden
G. R. Haynie
Hayala
Faulkner County Officers Wounded In Peach Theft Shootout
In Conway Arkansas two Faulkner County sheriff deputies were wounded and Major Harrell, 59, was killed when officers tried to arrest him at his Mayflower farm for alleged peach theft. Also wounded were LeRoy Harrell and LeRoy’s wife, while 14 year old James Williams was injured.
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Conway
Ark
Faulkner County
Mayflower
Elmer Matchet
Ed Hathaway
Major Harrel
James Williams
LeRoy Harrell
Major
LeRoy
Third Street Resolution Passed By Council
Maj. R. B. Stanford, district state highway engineer, outlined the highway department plan for Third street as Route No. 67 through Hope. The council then approved a resolution urged by the State Highway Department and the U S Bureau of Public Roads, pledging not to install stop signs against through traffic or set unreasonable speed limits.
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R. B. Stanford
Highway Department
Third Street
No. 67
Hope
State
Hghway Department
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Hobbies Theme at B and P W Club Program
The Hope Business and Professional Women’s Club hosted a hobbies themed evening at the Barlow Hotel. Miss Maude Lipscomb presented, with tables arranged in a U and decorated with mini Japanese gardens and hobby horse place cards. Dr. Etta Champlin discussed unusual hobbies including a Lookout Mountain silver fox farm and orphanage ideals, while Mrs. Ralph Routon urged music education and appreciation in schools to cultivate citizenship and beauty.
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Hope Business & Professional Women's Club
Maude Lipscomb
Barlow
Etta Champlin
Lookout Mountain
Denver
Colorado
Ralph Routon
Grand Old Man of Tennessee Dies in Happy Valley
JOHNSON CITY Tenn Alfred A Taylor Tennessee’s grand old man is fading at 83 from a kidney ailment. The Republican winner of 1886 and three-term U S congressman helped run the famous War of the Roses campaign with his brother Bob, a Democrat. Alf loved fox hunting fiddling and watermelons, and hung a painting of his famed hound Limber in the governor’s office.
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Alf” Taylor
Bob
Tennessee
Johnson City
Tenn
Happy Valley
Unaka Mountains
Alfred A. Taylor
Nteen
Happy
Alfred Alexander Taylor
Robert
Alf
Alfold
Orin
York
Lancaster
United States
Lajor
Congress
Knight of the
Uncle Alf
Fox Hunter
Sage
Hal Clements
Internal Revenue
Republican State Executive Committee
Taylor
Clements
Christopher Columbus Collins
Recover 19 Bodies After Bus Tragedy in Georgetown
Georgetown South Carolina reports 23 dead after a bus carrying picnickers sank when it struck a drawbridge. Most victims were Black. owner Warren Newton and his son among survivors. Coroner's inquest finds accidental drowning as the verdict.
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Georgetown
S. C
Drawbridge
Warren Newton
Olin
Capil
Thi City
Jerome Frazier
Oklahoma Woman Dies Here Monday
Mrs. Charles E. Mason of Hugo Oklahoma died at her parents home in this city at 2 o'clock Monday morning after a two week illness. She is survived by her parents three brothers and three sisters Lawrence Alvin Thomas Hamner Mrs Willie Betts Mrs Tommy Watsah and Miss Lorien Hamner. Funeral services and burial were conducted Monday afternoon by Rev. W. R. Anderson with burial in Rose Hill cemetery.
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Charles E. Mason
Hugo
Oklahoma
T. D. Hamner
Lawrence
Alvin
Thomas Hamner
Willie Betts
Tommy Watsah
Lorien Hamner
W. R. Anderson
Rose Hill
Gandhi regrets sectarian riot in Bombay
In Bombay a riot between rival Muslim and Hindu groups injured about 30 people. Mahatma Gandhi expressed keen regret Tuesday over the violence as sponsors of his settlement plan were attacked on Monday night and a meeting to approve the nationalist congress action became a tumultuous scene.
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Bombay
India
Syas
Mahatma M. K. Gandhi
Congress
Escaped Prisoner To Be Returned
Texarkana sheriff Turquette left Tuesday for Fort Worth to extradite Dorsey Head wanted on an automobile theft charge. Head allegedly stole a car from an East Broad street merchant about a month ago, was captured in Dallas and brought back for a Municipal Court hearing, then escaped from the crowded courtroom. Fort Worth officers arrested him Sunday.
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Texarkana
Turquette
Fort Worth
Dorsey Head
Head
East Broad Street
Dallas
Tom Mix Drives Effort to Find Missing Texarkana Girl
Mystery deepens over Mildred Blade a 15 year old Texarkana girl who vanished from home last Thursday. Joe Balche her father and Tom Mix aide alerted the search which covers two states. Mix sent private detectives from Billings Montana as authorities pursue clues while a note from Mildred on her typewriter raises questions about authorship amid sightings near a tourist camp and a snake bite suffered by her mother during the hunt.
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Texarkana
Arch
Mildred Blade
Joe Balehe
Tom Mix
Mix
Billings
Mont
Mildred
Here
Former Congressman Dies at Leavenworth
Daniel Rev Anthony, longtime representative in Kansas first district until 1929, died Tuesday at Hilltop camp near Leavenworth. He would have been sixty one on August 22.
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Leavenworth
Gan
Daniel Rev Anthony
Congress
Kansas
Frank Tint
Hilltop Camp
Lindberghs Land Safely From 1100 Mile Hop
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh completed an 1100 mile flight from Baker Lake to Akalvik arriving at 3 05 am Pacific time on Wednesday. The voyage spanned Mackenzie river stations to Edmonton and Point Barrow with a planned meeting with a Coast Guard cutter altered by its limited range near Icy Cape.
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Aklavik
Northwest Territories
Canada
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pacific
Baker Lake
Mackenzie River
Edmonton
Alberta
Point Barrow
Alaska
Coast Guard
Icy Cape
Lindbergh
Miners Walk Out at Denning Over New Coal Scale
About 150 miners quit work at the Denning mine when ordered to load only lump coal under a new scale. The pay cut, claimed to be 50 percent due to slack coal, prompted a mass walkout. Lessee J. W. Steward and traveling superintendent Roy Milligan were in Denning with no negotiations underway. Steward defended the change as necessary for market needs.
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J. W. Steward
Roy Milligan
Western Coal and Milling Company
Denning
Steward
Black River Tragedy Claims 13-Year-Old Drowning Victim
Ernest Dunnahey, 13, drowned while swimming in Black River near Elgin on Tuesday afternoon. His elder brother and a third boy attempted to rescue him, securing holds before failing. The body was recovered around 6 p.m., about 30 feet from where he vanished. The boy resided with his mother at Amazon and was visiting an aunt near Elgin.
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Uckerman
Ernest Dunnahey
Black River
Elgin
Amazon
Jasper Mitchell
New Ford Model Report at Detroit
The Detroit News notes Ford Motor Company plans a temporary roster reduction as it works on an improved model due in September. A company official said at least 9,000 workers will remain employed during the current month, while manufacturing will pause in August to a skeleton crew. Eleven of thirty six plants nationwide are expected to keep operating.
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Detroit News
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Marked Tree Bulletin Details Landers Drainage Returns
A. H. Landers of Poinsett County reports marked gains in drainage returns over a four year period totaling 154000 dollars, highlighting agricultural improvements and fiscal impact for Marked Tree and surrounding areas.
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Ark
A. H. Landers
Poinsett
Alfalfa Bill Threat Proves Effective Oil Shutdown
Oklahoma City reports that East Texas producers offered to supply refineries, prompting a 10 to 15 cent per barrel drop and the shutdown of several wells. 'Alfalfa Bill' asserted a dollar a barrel price, leading to the closure of Murray and other fields. National guardsmen set military zones around stripper wells to enforce the stoppage despite operators planning a court appeal.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Texas
East Texas
Okla
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress Faces Debate On Relief
The piece outlines looming U S relief debates as the next Congress nears, with calls for a federal relief fund possibly reaching 100 million dollars. Senators Watson Fletcher Couzens weigh insurance pensions and federal construction plans amid a federal employment program set to roll out and a Wagner backed insurance bill under Senate review.
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Marguerite Young Washington
Watson
Indiana
Senate
Dole
Fletcher
Florida
Couzens
Michigan
Wagner
New York
D. H. Sawyer
Army man Frost charged in 1924 Texarkana slaying
Fragments report United States Army personnel Frost at Paxton Texarkana area charged in connection with the 1924 slaying of George Yeater at Chanute Field. Relatives recall his interest in army life and note his father J. E. Boyd of Arkansas.
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United
States Army
Nute
Bante
George Leater
Chanute Field
I Yeater
Frost
Charles Sherwood
Wyas
Texarkana
Paxton
George
Nashville Election Question Sparks County Judge Ruling
In Nashville, County Judge M. Z. chaired a Tuesday session to decide if petition signatures validating a move of the county seat from Nashville to Dierks were genuine. Judge Chesshir presided over the proceedings and required further proof to establish validity.
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Nashville
Howar
Dierks
M. Z
Chesshir
Negessary
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