France on Trial as Lessons in Governing by Business
Our Daily Bread cautions that France’s planned treason trials expose the danger of political leaders confusing governance with divine right. It argues the real fault lies with the French people who abdicated responsibility, stressing that sound management and fair play secure nations while misrule risks conquest. The column cites Huxley on the impartial chessboard of fate.
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France
Germany
Huxley
Election Officers to Be Chosen Friday Morning
Hempstead county Democratic Central Committee chairman W S Atkins announces a Friday 10 am meeting at Hope City Hall to select election judges and clerks for the August 13 election. He stresses impartiality and eligibility rules, inviting all candidates to attend and object only if a judge or clerk is biased.
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Hope
Hempstead County
Democratic Central
Comitte
Atkins
Hempstead
Democratic Central Committee
Old Courthouse Washington Hosts Hempstead Races Stump
The Hempstead county Courthouse lawn in historic Washington hosted the thirteenth stump tour stop for the No. 2 Hempstead county representative race. Candidates Weisenberger and Bearden delivered new material as Arch Delaney presided. Weisenberger highlighted Army service at Camp Robinson teaching Americanism and Citizenship while Bearden accused Carlson allyship and a 25 percent fund collection. Weisenberger reaffirmed loyalty to the Democratic ticket of Roosevelt and Wallace.
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J.T. Bowden JR
Hempstead County Court House
Washington
Arch P. Delanvy
Ce Brothers
Beaumont
Texas
Paul
Larry
Charles
Mancho- Ho
Thiads
Arthur Keel
Hempstead
Bob Keel
Weisenberger
Mgr. Bearden
United States Army
Robinson
Arkansas
America
Bearden
Louis Carleson
Republican Party
Weisen
Carlson
My. W Weisenberger
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wg Henry A. Wallace
Pelld
Clark
Walbot Feild, Jr
Word plural quirks trivia from Cranium Crackers
Five irregular plural prompts challenge readers with classic forms. Matrix yields matrices, erratum becomes errata, moose stays moose, seraph becomes seraphim, and munsien appears as an unlikely old plural form for munition-related terms.
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Matrix
Erratum
Moose
Munsien
German high command claims 34 British planes shot down
Berlin reports 34 Allied aircraft destroyed and 55 000-ton ships sunk in a Thursday action. It adds a tanker of 8000 tons and two steamers totaling 9 000 tons were sunk by speedboats Wednesday night. In Britain July air raids killed 258 civilians and seriously injured 321, with cities paralyzed by shelling.
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Bergin
High Ccommand
London
Britain
Bryson and Mitchell Clash in Nevada State Race
Bryson and Mitchell spar in a Nevada County double header as candidates for state senator spoke at Sutton and Falcon. Edward Bryson attacked opponents while Edward and Lawrence Mitchell argued for their campaigns. Other candidates and local officials also spoke amid a larger crowd.
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Bryson
Mitchell
Nevada
DY Wayne Jarvis
Nevada County
Sutton
Oren Harri
Congress
Falcon
Edward Bryson
Lawrence Mitchell
Esch
Ed Cottingham
Curtis Ward
John Jarvis
R. L. Vandiver
Barton Saunders
Sherk
Hodie Butter
Budk Young
Brad Dewoody
Jesse Baker
Carl Mitchell
J. C. Wondal Circuit
Gwen Waters
Jesse Stockton
Leslie Buchanan
Representative
Ex-Leaders of France Face Trial by Nazi Labor Court
Milton Bronner reports that a fascist puppet regime plans a mass trial of prominent French statesmen in Rio with a Nazi model court. Former premiers Blum Daladier Reynaud and ministers Gamelin Cot Chambrépète Campinchi Delbos face charges of unpreparedness and resistance to the Fuehrer as political tides shift in occupied France.
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Milton Bronner
NEA Service
Rio
Laon Blumm
Edouard, Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Army
Gustave Gamelin
Cesar Campinichi
Yvon del' Hos
Pierre Cot
Guy ’i Chambrepe
Felain
France
Fuehrer
Willy Sigificant
Gamelin
Washington
House
Senate
Leon Blum
Alsace
Paris
Blum
Popular Front
Daladier
Amy Fall Guy
Joffre
Marne
Syria
Air
Guy la Chambre
Petain
Cesar Campinchi
Delbos
Rephan Flies to New York Tuesday
Rephan, owner of Rephan's Department Store in Hot Springs, departed Little Rock at 10 40 a m aboard American Airways Jiner for New York. He arrived at 9 p m local time after the flight.
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Rephan
Hot Springs
New York
American Airways
Little Rock
Football Squad to Meet on Monday at Hope High
Coaches Fay Hammons and Bill Brasher announced that all boys interested in playing football this year are asked to meet in the high school gymnasium Monday morning at 7 30. Prospects are slim as the team will be about 20 pounds lighter and about two years younger than last year. The schedule includes Haynesville La September 13 and North Little Rock November 22 on a two year contract with Pine Bluff and other open dates.
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Fay Hammons
Bill Brasher
Hammons
Haynesville
Hope
el Dorado
Gtober H—Hope
Jonesboro
Nashville
Russellville
Blytheville
Prescott
Mape
North Little Rock
Pine Bluff
House Asks Court for an Acquittal
Fort Smith based report states Joy House a Little Rock attorney facing liquor conspiracy charges saw a mistrial last Tuesday when a federal jury hung. Thursday the defense filed a motion in federal court seeking a judgement of acquittal arguing the hung verdict was radically inconsistent with acquittals for two co defendants. A date for the hearing has not been set.
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Fort Smith
Joy House
Little Rock
Federal District Court
Nou
Pied Piper to Blame? Local oddities in Goss Missouri
In Goss Missouri a 30 person town shows 15 residents over 165 years old. The note blends humorous exaggeration with quirky facts about population age and distant Alaska winters. A whimsical local snapshot appears as a light regional item.
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Goss
Mary Sue Piercy Crowned 1940 Peach Queen in Nashville
In Nashville on Wednesday the annual Nash ville Highland peach festival crowned Miss Mary Sue Piercy of Ashdown as Queen Elberta. The 17 year old beauty was greeted by four former queens as deputy state revenue commissioner Butler Toland, recently acquitted in federal court, returned home to Little Rock and visited Nashville briefly, drawing crowds on Main Street.
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Nashville
Mary Sue Piercy
Ashdown
Slender
Regal
Elberta
Main Street
Butler Toland
Fort Smith
Z. M. McCarroll
Toland
Little Rock
Ort Smith
Humble Child Echoes in Kingdom Teachings
A Bible verse fragment from Matthew 18 4 urges humility by stating that whoever humbles himself as this child is the greatest in heaven's kingdom. The line sustains the moral instruction on meekness and childlike faith.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Johnson Confers on Hope Gas Lines
L. Carter Johnson, Hope traffic manager and vate consultant, traveled to Shreveport on instruction from the Hope Gas Consumers Committee to meet Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co and gather data on local distribution fines and costs within Hope. At a Life Rock hearing on August 1 the company agreed to provide the data. Committee members at the meeting were Albert Graves, E. P. Young, Syd McMath, and Alex H. Washburn. Senator James H. Pilkinton was in Washington, D. C.
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L. Carter Johnson
Hope
Shreveport
Hope Gas Consumers Committee
Accounting Department of Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
City of
Arkansas Department of Public Utilities
Life Rock
Consumers Committee
Mr. Johnson
Albert Graves
E. P. Young
Syd McMath
Alex H.washburn
James H. Pilkinton
Washington, D. C
Farley Resigns Postmaster General Position
President Roosevelt accepted with real regret the resignation of James Farley as Postmaster General effective August 31, two weeks after Farley left his role as national chairman for the Democratic party. Also noted, more than 20 species of prehistoric fossils were taken from the Miami Texas quarry.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
James Farley
Farley
Democratic Party
Miami, Tex
1940 Cotton Crop Forecast for Arkansas Acreage
Washington forecast that Arkansas will produce about 1,315,000 bales of cotton in 1940 based on crop conditions. The Agriculture Department projected a yield of 72 percent of normal, about 176 pounds per acre, with 2,000,000 acres in cultivation.
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Arkansas
Washington
Greeson Withdraws From Seventh District Race
LITTLE ROCK A Wednesday withdrawal by M W Greeson Prescott leaves a two man race for Congress in Arkansas Seventh District between Prosecuting Attorney Oren Harris El Dorado and Congressman Wade Kitchens May The August 13 ballot will include the two remaining candidates despite Beloj taylor secretary of the Democratic state committee noting July 6 deadline for withdrawals to prevent late contesting adjustments The preferential primary law will send a two candidate ballot to the second election and prevent last minute withdrawals from triggering a second primary
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M. W. Gree Frescott
Arka
Congress
Little "Rock
Kitchens
Magnolia
Incuumben
Oren Harris
el Dorado
Harris J
Grecson
Little Rock
None Injured in Truck Accident at Elm and Second
A truck loaded with wood driven by Frank Lee of Blevins veered onto the curb to avoid an approaching car, struck a parked vehicle near Citizens Bank, narrowly missing the bank window. The truck remained undamaged, the parked car’s headlight and fender were damaged, and police praised Lee while seeking the other car. Walking radios used by Brighton police get a 10 mile receiving radius.
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Frank Lee
Negra
Blevins
Elm
Second Streets
Lee
Elm Street
Citizens Bank
Brighton
England
Cotton Prices Open Higher in New York Trade
Dec cotton opened at 3.29 cents and closed at 9.3 cents with middling quality noted. Market data shows price movement amid steady futures activity and ongoing supply concerns impacting textile demand.
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New York
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Summons County Central Committee
Old Courthouse
DeAnn
Bingen
Radical
von Delbos
Paul “Reynaud
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Insect
Alaska
Swan Lake
Sitka
Peach Queen
Johnson
Hope Gas
Yiel
Greeson
Harris
Kitch
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