Smith of Virginia Steady Voice in House
Bruce Catton profiles Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia as a quiet, influential member widely respected for guiding investigations and legislation. The piece notes his constitutional cautions, selective support for New Deal measures, long local service, and devotion to his Alexandria farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Howard Worth Smith
Virginia
Congress
Smith
National Labor Relations
Labor Board
Mary Norton
New Jersey
House
Newton
Hans
Hose
Carter Glass
Alexandria
William E. Dodd, Jr
Germany
Alexandria Dd
Broad Ruo
Fauquier County
Refunding Bill Signed and Litigation Begun in Arkansas
State Senator Joe Kinsey announced a $140,000,000 highway bond refunding act would be circulated with petitions led by a new organization in Little Rock. Governor Bailey signed the bill and a nearby court case seeks to test refinancing while the Supreme Court prepares to hear the appeal quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Joe Kinsey
Magnet Cove
Mandiy
Richasey
Sen Toy
Bailey
Arkansas Supreme Court
State Boar of Finance
Barley
C. Tl. Ryan
Herman Eb, McKastle
Stile Welfare
Kean
Pulaski Chancery Court
State Board of Finance
Dodge
Supreme Court
Tatters
Stark Deliberat Ling
Guvernor
Uney
Yuesday
Wedeusday
34 Hope Citizens Visit World Fair
Thirty four residents and former residents of Hope visited the Ala Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair last week. The list includes John G Dowd Mes J A Henry Mes TR King and many other named attendees from Hope Arkansas and Shreveport Louisiana along with New York City visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ala
New York
McNeill
Peggy McNeill
Lutie Allen
Bessie Green
M George Green
Mabel Hithridge
Myx. J. 1
Willi Jovie Dikly
Mary Delia Ch
Stave Carrigan
Beryl Henry
Harriet Stary
Opa Garney
Naomi Turner
Evin Does O'Neil
David O'Neil
Hope
Ark
G. L. Aye
Reading through the noise of a strange yearbook style ramble
A fragmented recap mentions Michigan Governor Dick Insey and a Charlotte campaign against high life, with scattered names including Stanley Baldwin and British officials. It touches on anti disarmament discussion, a college party disaster, and a farm boy accident in Ohio, all muddled in a single noisy snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Insey
Michigan
Mielt
Two Hope Boys in Accident on No 67
Dean Parsons and Elwood Smith of Hope were slightly injured when their car struck a bridge four miles south of Fulton on highway 67. Parsons said a car in front pulled off then unexpectedly reentered the road causing him to veer left and hit the bridge. Smith was knocked unconscious and treated at Josephine hospital. both suffered minor cuts and bruises. the other driver fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Parsons
Elwood Smith
Hope
Fulton
Highway
Parsons
Smith
Josephine Hospital
Heaviness
Johnson Swope in Lead in Kentucky Gubernatorial Race
Louisville Ky fPiLieutenant Governor Keen Johnson Democrat and Circuit Judge King Swope Republican held leads in Kentucky gubernatorial nominations as ballot counting resumed Monday after a Sunday legal recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
fPi
Keen Johnson
King Swope
Kentucky
State Utilities Commission opens hearing on Second Hope Line
The State Utilities Commission began hearings on the Louisiana Nevada Transit Company request to build a natural gas pipeline from north Louisiana to Hope and Okay Arkansas. The line would supply Ideal Cement at Okay Hope Brick and the Hope Water and Light plant. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company opposes it, citing a 14.5 cent per thousand cubic feet rate versus 20 cents proposed. The panel expects at least a two day hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
State Utilities Commission
Louisiana-Nevada ‘Transit Company
Louisiana
Hope
Okay
Ark
Ideal Cement Company
Hope Brick Company
Hope Water & Light Plant
Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Vom- Tamy
Arkansas
Louisiana-Nevada Company
Dixie Davis Marries His Follies Flame in Nyack
New York police judge officiated over the marriage of Dixie Davis and Hope Dare, with two detectives as witnesses. The couple, using the legal names Julius Davis and Julia Ricker, wed in Nyack Rockland County after a three year course of arrests and brief jail leaves. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey’s office protected Davis during the ceremony, which followed a February 2, 1904 Philadelphia arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dixie Davis
Hope Dare
Davis
Philadelphia
Hatch Law Not to Apply to Convention Delegates
An official said the Justice Department generally believes the Hatch law would not bar federal employees from serving as voting delegates at the Young Democrats national convention in Pittsburgh. The statement awaits a formal ruling after an actual case. officials think participation does not involve seeking office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Department
Roosevelt
Young Democrats
Federal Probe of Gangland Opens in Major Cities
The nationwide crackdown on organized crime began with a 500000 word crime development document presented to a federal grand jury. Thirty police were assigned to guard witnesses during the sweeping probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
N. Y
New York
Helis No Stranger to Courts in Hot Oil Probe
The second of three articles on Louisiana oil king Bill Helis covers 1947 court battles over a rights lease in Iberia Parish. Helis won a key ruling though appeals argued a well could not produce 4,000 barrels daily through a three-eighths inch choke. The piece notes his broader legal troubles and political donations while detailing his Greece-based operations and Lincoln Oil Co. activities in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Ward
Iberia Parish
Louisiana
Helis
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
George Catros
Memphis, Tenn
New Orleans
Bolivar
Heria Parish
Catros
Unat
Cotras
Cotros
Melis
Jim Farley
Scotland
Whitley
Leith
West Snoney
William “Red” Smith
Mne Voiium
Helis Oil Properties
Lincoln Oil Co
Whitney National Bank
Bi Helis
Greece
Red
Smit
Bill
Lincoln Orl Cn
Abraham Lincoln
Two-Week Docket of Citys Court
Hope Municipal court lists a long docket of pleas of guilty across offenses. City docket participants include Fred Scott on gaming, A B Finn for drunkenness, Brown for petit larceny, Bruce Wilkins and Simimne Arnold for drunkenness, plus many others in traffic, gaming, or disorder offenses with fines from one to twenty five dollars and various bonds. Continued on page four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Scott
A. B. Finn
Brown
Bruce Wilkins
O. D. Green
Grant Maldraw
Dockel Fraisley
Distribing the Peace
Milton Williams
Jasper Stuart
Jasper Start
James McCaster
Howard Turner
Elbert
Washington
James Coleman
O. Ree
Leonard Roseberry
Jaliz Schults
Harvey Lester
John Williams
Will G
AFL Consents to Auto Plant Vote
An official of the APL United Auto Workers announced Monday that the union consented to a National Labor Relations Board poll of Packard Motor Car Company employees and would not contest elections ordered for Chrysler, Briggs Manufacturing, and Motor Products plants. The move likely averts a CIO-VAW strike at Packard, authorized Sunday by the Packard local.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Apl-United Auto Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Packard Motor Car Company
Chrysler Corporation
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Motor Products Commpany
Packard
Packsard
Mind Your Manners Quiz on Social Etiquette
This column tests correct social usage with questions about congratulations after engagements and discussing salaries rents or loans. It explores proper manners for conversations with friends about personal matters and how to respond to news of marriages and engagements.
British charge deliberate Japanese raid on Ichang
Shanghai reports Britain accuses Japan of a premeditated Sunday air attack near Ichang that destroyed two river steamers Chia Wo and Kiang Wa, killed four crew, injured five, and damaged Asiatic Petroleum property. Rear Admiral Hall lodged protest with Admiral Oikawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Ichang
Asiatic Petroleum Company
Adiral Koshira Oikawa
Sitanghal
Hina
Yangtze River
Dapanone Cay
North
For Aieris Cay
Aval
Asaitia Petroleum Company
Tehang
Nilea
Hankow
Hall
Britain
Yanglee River
Oikawa
Chia Wo
Kiang Wa
Iz Fon Wessel
Jardime, Matheson & Co
Lianow
Chungking
Frapner
Petroleum Company
Former Louisiana Governor Held in Hot Oil Probe
Former Louisiana governor Richard W. Leche and hotelier Seymour Weiss were indicted by a federal grand jury in New Orleans on charges of violating the Connally hot oil act. They allegedly received 67000 dollars each in a 1936 37 scheme shipping Louisiana oil through Texas to Italy and other countries. Weiss faces an additional indictment for evading 1936 income taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Richard W. Leche
Seymour Weiss
Freeman Bur~ford
Dallas
Texas
East Texas Refining Company
Louisiana
Italy
Weiss
Congress Quits in Stormy Dispute
Washington reports the sixty sixth Congress adjourned after a fierce clash between New Deal supporters and Democratic critics. Senator Pepper of Florida condemned the “cold heartlessness” of rivals who oppose Roosevelt and risk the nation. The session ended with heated exchanges eclipsing seven months of quarrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Pepper
Fla
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
New Dismissals Ordered on WPA
Washington WPA officials ordered state administrators to resume dismissals of workers on relief rolls after 18 months of continuous employment. Col. F. C. Harrington, WPA commissioner, telegraphed that dismissals should begin before August 31 and continue after, with veterans exempted after August 31 if their service exceeded 18 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
WPA
Col
F. C. Harrington
Congress
Harrington
Gwar
Cotton Market Opens And Closes In New Orleans
New Orleans cotton market opened Monday at 9.47 and closed at 0.07 dollars. Spot cotton closed quietly with price movements centered around middling and lower bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bruce Catton
Measkle
Trormer
Bulletin
Arkansas State
State Commission
Second Hope
of Schulta
Kid
Hatch
U. S
Man of
Leche
Viend
Appeeal
Roland Brown
Marie Helis
Atttractive Oiling
Bill Wells
Hsis
Hope Municipal Court
Allene Cirico
Iquory
C. V. Williams
AFL
CIO
Heny
Lbi
England
Danzig
Warsaw
Danvig
Edward Snugly-Addy
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!