Editorial on labor laws and cotton plan sparks debate
The piece discusses Hope Basket Company labor practices, NRA codes, and sweatshop concerns. It surveys state wage rules, piecework, and consumer pricing pressure. It presents a Hope resident’s plan to stabilize cotton markets by halving bales, issuing currency against warehouse receipts, and taxing excess ginned cotton. The author invites reader opinion on the proposal.
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State Labor Department
Hope
Hope Basket. Company
NRA
Hope Basket Company
Basket Company
KKK
Cuban Army Declares Resignation Demand as Machado Regime Falls
Havana reports detail a bloodless coup as army units seize key posts and demand President Gerardo Machado abdicate within 24 hours. Captain Mario Torres Menier announced the move, with officers from Cabana fortress, Castillo de la Fuerza, Camp Columbia, and other depots pledging support. Provisional leadership names Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, former U.S. ambassador, as interim head amid nationwide communications cuts and public celebrations.
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Havana
Cuba
Machado
Regim
Tial
Secret Lice
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
United States
Uberant
Associated Press
Havane
Gerardo Machado
Thig ‘Tale
Republic
Mario Torres Menier
Aviation Corps
Liberal Party
Sumner Welles
Army
Navy
Cabana Fortress
Patricio de Cardenas
Cabane
Castillo de la Fuerza
Anny
Camp Columbia
Dragones Barracks
Islames
Cabana
U. S
Alberto Herrera
America
Herrera
Havily
Columbia
Alonso Gramage
Treasury
Torres Meinier
Delta
Sanguily
Erasmo Delgado
Utility Companies and Construction Signed Under NRA
Washington reports that workers in electric light and power, telephone, canning, and construction joined NRA wage and hour oversight under modified presidential reemployment agreements. The move expands Blue Eagle coverage, with 150000 new jobs projected and 64 temporary agreements active. Johnson outlined intra state limits but cited public opinion as leverage to extend NRA protections. The article notes four more codes approved for drug, cheese, boot and shoe, and cotton batting sectors, while other developments include pending leather industry codes, oil production controls, trucking code disputes, and women’s earnings gains under the cotton textile code.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh §. Johnson
Lrd
Johnson
Blue Eagle
Roosevelt
Tanners Council of America
Women's Bureau of the Labor Department
Federal Trade Commission
Cleaners Consider NRA Regulations Meeting At Prescott
Cleaners from five towns met in Prescott Ark to discuss hour and wage plans under the National Recovery Act. Towns represented included Hope Malvern Arkadelphia Gordon and Prescott. Fourteen cleaners attended. no plan was decided as they await the state code announcement per a local cleaner.
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Prescot
Ark
Hope
Malvern
Arkadelphia
Gordon
Prescott
Legislature Convenes Monday In Special Session
State lawmakers begin a broad extraordinary session at 10 am to consider at least 18 bills. Governor Futrell aims to pass a Mother Hubbard bill aligning Arkansas laws with the national recovery act and enable state and local governments to borrow from federal programs. Other measures cover home mortgage relief, bank deposit insurance, Civilian Conservation Corps funding, and park development with a $4900 transfer to the State Park Commission.
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Little. Rock
General Assembly
Mother Hubbard
Govvernor Futrell
Steagall Banking
State Forestry Commission
Civilian Conservation Corps
Commission
Ate
Kansas
State Park Commission
Futrell
Habeas Corpus Sought for Dr Sara Dean in Jackson Mississippi
In Greenwood Mississippi Dr Sara Ruth Dean faces murder charges in the death of Dr John Preston Kennedy. Attorneys secured a writ of habeas corpus returnable in Cleveland to require state show cause for her continued confinement. Eminent physicians claim her health is endangered by incarceration. Dean, a pediatric specialist, was moved from jail for a closed conference with her lawyers as reporters were kept back.
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Dean
Kennedy
Jackson
London Papers Like Roosevelt New Deal
London editors praise Roosevelt and the New Deal while leery of Hitler. The Times, Morning Post, Daily Heart, Daily Express note leadership, bold policy, and wartime stakes, contrasting American vigor with British caution as Roosevelt’s program faces uncertain outcomes.
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London
Roosevelt
New Deal
Eng
Franklin Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
the Thunderer
The
Times
White House
Morning Post
America
Daily Express
Guernsey Kiwanis Tourists Welcomed by Community
One of the year’s largest crowds greeted the Kiwanis club Friday night at the Guernsey Schoolhouse. C G Hays welcomed visitors, John Ridghill’s string band entertained, and Rev. Geo F X Strassner led community singing. Kiwanis members gave short talks on the season’s final tour, with Wayne England as chair and G T Cross urging strong citizenship.
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Kiwanis Club
Guernsey
C. G. Hays
Guernsey Scho Board
John Ridghill
Geo. F. X. Strassner
Wayne England
W. S. Atkins
Hempstead
Nevada County
Hove
Atkins
G.T. Cross
Jett P. Cox
G. Hays
Tirus
Nellie
Ricdgdill
Bund
Betts Graveyard Work Day Aims to Beautify Site
Community leaders invite neighbors to help beautify Betts graveyard next Tuesday. They had hoped for an early July date, but the plan remains to place the grounds in good condition with local volunteers.
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Betts
Rail Wreck Fatal Three Die At Salisbury Also Gunmen Killings Kansas City
In Salisbury Maine a northbound Pennsylvania train derailed after rails were tampered with killing an engineman and an unidentified Black man while five others were injured, one critically. In Kansas City three nightclub figures were shot dead during a gunfight halted by Sheriff Thomas Bush. two attackers died in a car and the third died later.
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Salisbury, My
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
Kansas City
Thomas Bush
Ferris J. Anton
Sam Hogg
Gua Fasone
Triceratops Guide and Death Gulch Tale in Hope Star
The Hope Star comic feature mentions a triceratops as Alley Oop’s ancestral chum with a three horned skull and heavy neck shield. It notes scientists’ view of the extinct dinosaur and its combat role while a Yellowstone Death Gulch ravine area is described for historic animal deaths from natural gas.
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W. T. Hamlin
New Hope Star
Hamlin
Alley Oop
Yellowstone Park
Arkansas observers weigh length of upcoming special session
In Little Rock opinion polls the length of the forthcoming special legislative session is debated with guesses from 28 to 35 days. Past specials ran 31 days in 1932 and 15 days in 1931. Governor Futrell predicts no more than two weeks and warns veto of any excess over $10,000.
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Little Rock
Harvey Parnell
Mrs Roosevelt Visits Abingdon For Old Home Festival
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt rode Saturday to White Top mountain for an Abingdon folk festival. It marks her first visit to the town where her father worked in childhood, atop the Blue Ridge near Marion.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Old Home
Marion
Blue Ridge Mountains
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White Top Mountain
Abingdon
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Alex. H. Washbur
Flapper
Fanny
Gladys
Leeeliteeh
England
Germany
Milton Bronner
NEA Secures
Uernsey
Hope Civic Club
Pennsylvania
Rhino Alley Oop
Terror of Comic Page
Tech
Ole Three Hovns
Virginia
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