William R Atkins Freed After Eight Months In Penitentiary
William R. Atkins former Bank of McCaskill cashier who was sentenced to two years for receiving deposits in an insolvent bank was freed Tuesday by the State Parole Board among 49 clemency orders. Atkins had entered the penitentiary December 18, 1931 and served eight months of his term after pleas of guilty to grand larceny and embezzlement.
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William R. Atkins
Bank of McCaskill
State
State Parole Board
Emmet Crain
Ouachita County
Crain
Atkins
Hempstead
Bush
Goveror
Lawrence E. Wilson
George R. Haynie
Wilson
Hope Star
Millard Alford
Fishing Party for Garrett Whiteside Heads North
Garrett Whiteside secretary to Senator Hattie Caraway will be entertained by Hempstead County men on a camping and fishing trip on Little River near Ashdown. The four travelers are Lloyd Spencer Bob Gosnell George Wiley and Jim Wilson who is named chef. Whiteside's home is Washington D C and he formerly lived in Nashville. They will depart Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.
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Garrett Whiteside
Hattie H. Caraway
Hempstead County
Little River
Ashdown
Mr. Whiteside
Lloyd Spencer
Bob Gosnell
Hope
George Wiley
Guernsey
Jim Wilson
Columbus
Washington, D. C
Nashville
Chinese youth helps out then steals from store
In Albuquerque at the Fremont grocery Lynn Hung remained after hours to help workers prepare for the week. When the staff left, he stayed to clean up and, the next morning, proprietor Edward Gaw discovered a theft of 121 dollars by the youth.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Lynn Hung
Fremont
Lynn
Edward Gaw
Pastor Indicted In Wife's Death
The Rev. S. A. Berrie aged 51, an unfrocked Presbyterian minister, was indicted in Muskogee Oklahoma after a grand jury probed the mysterious death of his first wife last March. Exhumation showed poisoning. His second wife, linked to him before the first wife’s death, was questioned and released as a victim of circumstances. He founded Bethel Tabernacle in Muskogee after leaving the Cherokee Presbytery for alleged false doctrines.
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S. A. Berrie
Muskoegee
Okla
Berrie
Bethel Tabernacle
Muskogee
Cherokee Presbytery
Negro Identified In Natchez Death
Mississippi officers identified the dead man in Chicago as the suspected slayer of Janet Merril, an aristocrat shot in her Natchez home on August 4. George Pearls, killed by officers at Fine Bluff Arkansas while resisting arrest, was sent to Chicago. Richard Dane and Olivia Dockery, eccentric neighbors, were released on recog nizance after ten days on murder charges.
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Natches, Miss
Mississippi
Chicago
Janet Merril
George Pearls
Fine Bluff
Ark
Richard Dane
Olivia Dockery
Bride insists on in person groom for second marriage
MIAMI Fla. Sarah Fort Montgomery first wed by proxy Sept 12 1929 to George Joseph McLaughlin of Curityba Brazil. After four years of distance she divorced him and married Adolf Rahm of Miami in the same registration office with the groom present.
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Miami
Fla
Sarah Fort Montgomery
Miss Montgomery
George Joseph McLaughlin
Curityba
Brazil
McLaughlin
Adolf Rahm
Carl Holmer
Siamese Princes Visit Chestnut Hill Academy Students
Prince Chirifaci aged 14 and Prince Chakrabandhu aged 15 of Siam are at Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia as entertaining royalty. They are at the Siamese legation in Washington and will return for the fall term.
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Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill Academy
Frince Chirifaci
Prince Chakrabandhu
Siam
Washington
Atkins Barred From Ward Four By County Convention
A Hempstead county convention barred W S Atkins Hope from serving as committeeman from Ward Four under a rule that disqualifies officers or candidates from county central posts. The meeting certified August 9 primary returns and elected delegates to state and federal conventions. The seating decision may affect Atkins’s chairmanship, with a new county central committee to decide.
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Hempstead
Washington
W. S. Atkins
Hope
Atkins
Steve Carrigan
County Central Committee
H. S. Dudley
Rocky Mound
N. R. Lewis
Union
Brooks Shults
Fulton
O. A. Graves
John Kent
Luke F. Monroe
G. E. Gentry
McCaskill
A. A. Gentry
Brooks ‘Shults
Jim Wilson
C. G. Hays
Monroe Samuels
S. F. Leslie
Ed Collins
Hugh Garner
Ed Yelvin
Giles Gibson
Lon McLarty
Thompson Evans
Calvin Cassidy
S. H. Dudley
G. S. Crews
Sidney Stone
Lee Holt
E. S. Greening
Missing Boy Found After Shoplifting Impersonation
Boston police traced a three week missing 16 year old Frank Operaiz when a department store flagged a fashionably dressed girl for a theft. Officers searched the suspect who refused, revealing the youth in male disguise. Police say the incident ends with Frank returning home.
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Boston
Frank Operaiz
Frank
Treasure hunting game irritates state capitol grounds keeper
Grant Bowen, a landscape gardener at the Utah state capitol grounds in Salt Lake City, complains that visiting youths have dug up flowers shrubs and grass to bury a treasure, ruining the grounds and causing headaches for staff. He notes they blamed dogs before the activity was understood.
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Salt Lake City
Grant Bowen
State Capitol
Bowen
Interstate Commerce hearings open on cotton rate suspensions
Washington bulletin says the Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings Tuesday on proposed railroad rate suspensions to meet truck competition for the coming season. Little Rock bulletin reports Blake Treece of Searcy county testified to officers Tuesday that he witnessed Leland Henley fire the rifle bullet at Marshall several days ago, fatally wounding W. W. Findley former sheriff of Searcy county.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Little Rock
Blake Treece
Searcy County
Leland Henley
Marshall
W. W. Findley
Cotton Carryover Report Shows U S Supply and Use
The Bureau of the Census reports the cotton year ending July 31 had a supply of 23,170,000 bales with consumption at 4,869,000 bales. Carry-over stood at 9,682,000 bales, while the prior year’s supply was 18,314,000 and consumption 5,263,000. Exports this year totaled 8,706,000 versus 6,757,000 last year.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of the Census
Hitler the Paper Hanger Turned German Leader
A portrait of Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, who trained as a woodworker and wallpaper hanger in Munich. He rose as a political leader who preaches militant mobilization and strong will, yet uses emotion and charm to sway advisers and crowds. He survived World War I as a decorated veteran.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Munich
Hitler
Post Office Clerk Foils $500 Overpayment Plot
Glen E. Steel a Schenectady postal clerk paid $500 too much to depositor Mrs Ursula Urba. He fled by plane to Newark then Hoboken and boarded the Mauretania to recover the funds. He retrieved the $500 before departure.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Glen E. Steel
Ursula Urba
Newark
N. J
Hoboken
Walker Denies He Had Private Deal
ALBANY N J Mayor James J Walker of New York City denied knowledge of special accounts kept by Russell T Sherwood missing accountant who Samuel Seabury said handled nearly a million dollars for the mayor The Hofstadter investigating committee pressed for his removal Seabury sought Sherwood who eluded process servers and was found in Mexico City on honeymoon before promising to appear Walker accused of contempt for shielding Sherwood while Seabury argued the mayor shared a safe deposit box with him The mayor refused to comment on the matter
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Albany
N. J
James J. Walker
New York City
Russell T. Sherwood
Samuel Seabury
Walker
Roosevelt
Hofstadter
Seabury
Hofstadter Committee
Sherwood
Europe
Atlantic City
Judge Seabury
Mexico City
Mexico
Supreme Court
New York
Jimmy Walker
N. Y
Franklin Roosevelt
Mayor Jimmie Walker Prominent Broadway Figure
A portrait of Jimmie Walker as a stylish, late-running NYC mayor famed for a dazzling wardrobe. The piece notes his 40 suits 200 canes and lavish nightlife allure as he governs a city spending $600 million yearly.
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Broadway
New York
Jimmie Walker
Girls Injured in Wreck Improve After Saturday Crash
Miss Dorothy Arnett and Miss Rosa Lee Aula were the most seriously hurt among six in a Hope Resston road automobile crash at 10 oclock Saturday night. By Tuesday Arnett showed improvement after concussion and was sent home from Julia Chester hospital. Auld of Rosston with chest injuries a fractured nose and collar bone remained in hospital.
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Dorothy Arnett
Rosa Lee Aula
Hope-Resston Road
Miss Arnett
Julia Chester Hospital
Emmet
Miss Auld
Rosston
England and Hicks Named Local Aetna Agents
Announcement by Gordon H. Campbell and W. A. Pate names Waye E. England and Frank Hicks as local agents for Aetna Life Insurance. Offices will be at 205 First National Bank building in Hope.
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Waye E. England
Frank Hicks
Hope
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Gordon H. Campbell
Little Rock
W. A. Pate
Texarkana
England
Oil Found in Old Water Well on Pittsburgh Farm
Six years after a water well was drilled on J. Henry Forrest and J. A. Patterson’s farm in Pittsburgh, the well ceased to yield water and instead flowed oil. Foreseeable output is about one barrel per day, worth two to three dollars daily.
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Pittsburgh
J. Henry Forrest
J. A. Patterson
Forrest
W C T U Convention Segregates Prohibition Critics
In Seattle the 58th annual W C T U convention reaffirms support for prohibition. President Ella A Boole attacks the Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform as social climbers and insists the anti prohibition lobby lacks organization and staying power. She argues violations of the law, not the law itself, drive evils and claims liquor consumption is down since prohibition began.
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W.C.T. U
NEA
Seattle
Wash
Carrie Nation
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Ella A. Boole
Brooklyn
N. Y
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Organization For Prohibition Reform
Women’s Organization For Prohibition Reform
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Organization Against Prohibition
Lindberghs Welcome Second Baby Son in New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife celebrate the birth of a second son at 6 30 Tuesday morning in the Dwight W. Morrow home. The mother and child are reported in good health with Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother present after her return from Europe.
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Dwight W. Morrow
Mrs. Morrow
To Ordain Brother as New Minister
The ordination will take place Wednesday night at Rose Hill Christian church in Texarkana where Homer Goff will be ordained into the Christian ministry by his brother the Rev. Fred Goff of Fredericktown Missouri who is visiting his parents in Hope.
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Texarkana
Fred Goff
Fredericktown
Hope
T. H. Goff
Rose Hill Christian Church
Homer Goff
Mr. Goff
Christian Church
Missouri
No Equal Match Ends with Rock Attack in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis an 84 year old man Olin Seals reportedly threw a rock at his 86 year old uncle George Seals after a quarrel over attentions to a niece. The rock struck and broke the uncle's leg.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Olin Seals
George Seals
Olin
Dan’s Cupid Unites Memphis Bride and Manila Doctor
Mrs. Nannie M. Pope of Memphis wed Dr. Carlos A. Santos of Manila after a romance that began in New York. The couple plans to reside in Chicago.
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Memphis
Tenn
Nannie M. Pope
Carlos A. Santos
Manila
P. L
New York
Secretary Fires Reed as Comptroller Under Gov Parnell
Governor Parnell dismissed Reed from office effective September 1 after a meeting with Reed and secretary Guy Freeling. Reed, comptroller since January 1927, was noted for backing a county audit law later extended to all counties. Griffin Smith of Marianna was appointed to replace Reed.
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Parnell
Griffin Smith
Marianna
J. M. Futrell
Reed
Martineau
Guy Freeling
Freeling
Hoover Indicates Fighting Campaign Moves In 1932 Row
President Hoover shifts from a defensive stance to an offensive campaign, attacking Democratic proposals on tariffs inflation and prohibition. The speech marks a change from 1928 when Hoover downplayed the Democratic Party. Republicans aim to frame the opposition as unstable while promoting a confident, proactive message.
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Byron Price
Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
Smith
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Flapper
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Gladys Parkere
Lone
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Ward Four
Central Committee
Bulletins
Aide
Mr. Sherwood
Hicks
Aetna
Lindberghs
Englewood
Charles A. Lindbergh
Fred M. and
This City
Governor
Marianna Man
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