Cotton Loans To Be Mandatory At 8 1/4 Cents For 1939
Washington officials said late Monday that cotton loans would be mandatory if the spot price dips to about 8.25 cents per pound, with a 27.5 million acre target for 1939 and a revised payment plan likely between 1.0 and 4.0 cents per pound based on farm yields and allotments. The program would keep acreage near 27.5 million, with county committee determinations on eligibility and possible premiums for higher quality cotton.
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Washington
Fatin
AAA
Jonas
Gicmals
Woffan
Cotter Sarry
Premiums for Hempstead County Fair Catalog Published
The Hempstead County Fair catalog lists more than 4000 dollars in cash premiums for livestock crops foods clothing household arts home improvement and 4 H club work. Fifteen hundred catalogs printed and distributed by county and home demonstration agents for September 2024 events at the Pair Parl.
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Hempstead
Pair Parl
E Fair
Testing Dynamite Ends Dodge Heir Life in Accident
An Ontario tragedy unfolds as Daniel G Dodge, 21, heir to a Michigan fortune, drowns in Georgian Bay after an explosion aboard a speedboat near Little Current. Eta Gervin recalls a dynamite mishap at a summer camp eight years prior. Lloyd Bryant and Frank Valiquette were injured, others escaped unharmed.
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Daniel G. Dodge
Michigan
Dower
Miss Gervin
Bryant
Frank Valianette
Valiquette
Dodge
Rail Strike Halts 20 000 Commuters to Chicago
Twenty thousand commuters were cut off from travel to Chicago as a railway strike shut down service along Lake Michigan. Workers along the Lake Michigan shore branches walked out after a wage cut vote, suspending trains on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee line.
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Chicago
North Lake Shore
Wallergan
Wee Electric
Utter Peti Ryice Tuesei
Lake Michigan
Chivago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad
Hope Soil Conservation District Meeting Set Aug 26
A public hearing at 2 p m in Hope discusses forming a Soil Conservation District for lands in Terre Rouge Borlean Creole watersheds across Hempstead Lafayette and Nevada counties. All landowners in those counties may attend and voice support or opposition as the district promises to boost farm land values shorten life of Camp Alton and expand local Soil Conservation services.
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Hempstead
Sail Conservation District
Terre Rouge
Layette
Nevada
Camp Alton
Hope
Sope
Lone
Soil Conservation Office
Arkansas Power & Light wins line extension approval
The State Utilities Commission on Tuesday granted Arkansas Power & Light Co. authority to extend rural electrification lines 37 miles in LaFayette and Columbia counties. The project will serve 173 customers and connect with existing services across more than a dozen communities in the two counties.
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Little Rock
State Utilities Commission
Arkansas Power & Light Co
LaFayrte
Columbia Counties
Anesthetist Dawkins Claims Redheads Tarnish Speech
Dr Dawkins told the British Media Association conference that redheads can be made unconscious in eight seconds, slower than fair-haired by sixteen seconds and slower than dark-haired by six seconds, suggesting a claimed resistance to anesthesia.
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Cr. M. Dawkins
British Medien Association
Arkansas Centennial Ad Campaign Praises State Parks
President Roosevelt urged advertising Arkansas to boost tourism noting the Quachita mountains and Mount Magazine as premier features. Arkansas Centennial Commission plans statewide ads aiming to lift annual tourist revenue to 50 to 75 million, with a Newark World's Fair sales center already underway at 125 thousand dollars.
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Roosevelt
Quachita Mountains
Mount Magazine
United States
Arkansas
Incvoiie
Col. Palawer
Arkansas Centennial Cotensissiug
Florida
California
Arkansas Cellennial Commissaon
Kidnaper Pair Is Taken by Men Near Effie Minnesota
FBI announces arrest of Otis Jones Meredith and John Couch near Effie Minnesota for kidnapping Miss Peggy Gross and Daniel Cox Fahey Jr of St. Louis. Fahey's car recovered. Meredith wounded in capture gunfight. Both men former Missouri penitentiary inmates.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Federal Aureacy
FBI
Otis Jones Meredith
John Couch
Effie
Peggy Gross
Daniel Cox Fahey, Jr
St. Louis
Spring Hill Cake Walk Set For Thursday Night
A cake walk will be held at Spring Hill High School Thursday night August 18 starting at 7 30. String music will accompany the event sponsored by the Spring Hill Athletic Association to raise funds for team equipment. Everyone is invited to attend.
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Spring Hill High School
Spring Hill
Cranium Crackers Missing Links Puzzle
The series presents four incomplete clues. Clues include a foreign minister named Col. Joseph Beck, a thing opposite windward, Sally Clark linked as V's sister in law, the capital of Muatiagua, and a ballade conclusion described as galled. Answers appear on the Classified Page.
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Col
Joseph Beck
Windward
Sally Clark
Muatiagua
Mexico Divisions Grow Over Cardenas Regime in 1940
In Mexico a rift widens between radical and conservative factions as the oil expropriation dispute and press censorship debates intensify. Two deputies expelled from the PRM form a Constitutional Democratic Front opposed to both Communism and Fascism, backed by Iturbe and Col. Sierra. Labor unions threaten boycotts and strikes to curb press, while conservative papers attack censorship. President Cardenas faces pressure from unions and army factions as Mexico ponders the 1940 presidential question. the Cedillo revolt gains highlight as Cedillo is found in San Luis Potosi hills, accusing Cardenas of communist influence. The plug remains for a possible Democratic Front nominating a candidate other than the president.
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Willis Thornton
NEA Service
Mexico
Patie de la Revolucion Mexicana
Ramon F.turbe
Bolivar Sierra
Iturbe
Confederation of Mexican Workers
C, T
el Popular
Lombardo Toledano
Cardenas
United States
Francisco Mujica
Defense
Manuel Avila Comanco
Gok
Cerdenas
Cedillo
San Luis Potosi Hills
Cedilla
Gonzalo Bautista
Coldest August 15 on record in Yellowstone Park
Mammoth Hot Springs registered 33 degrees as the coolest August 15 in Yellowstone history. An unofficial Tower Falls reading was 27 degrees. Drivers encountered snow in the park and fell on many mountain peaks, with several motorists reporting snowstorms on park roads.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Mammoth Hotprings
Tower Falls
Park
2000 Injured in Air Bombardment in Hankow
In Hankow the number of casualties rose with an estimated 100 killed and 2,000 injured as Japanese air raiders struck the densely built districts of Hanyang and Wuchang. Shanghai officials condemned Japanese terrorism in the Internal Settlement, while the Hansa wrecked after colliding with Tungwo. Loyalists counterattacked in Hendaye reaching a railway tunnel near Almaden's mercury mines.
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Hankow
China
Hanyang
Wuchang
Shanghai
Tungwo
Woosung
Hendaye
Jose Miaja
Almaden
Spain
Red Agents Busy on U S Workers and Labor Clash
Washington reports that John P Frey of the AFL says CIO will purge communistic elements and has begun a campaign to remove Communist members. A House committee hearing sparked a dispute over focusing on federal departments.
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Red
U. S
Washington
John P. Frey
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Frey
House Committee
House
Mind Your Manners What Would You Do Quiz
A vintage etiquette quiz from 1938 asks if a woman should glance at the check, whether guests should introduce, Dutch treat, meeting outside a theatre, and offering to meet a man. It advises letting the hostess lead and that offering to split or pay is optional to save a man's pride.
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Wai
NEA Service, Inc
Four Pursued in Huntsville Shootout as Two Slain
In Huntsville Texas two men were slain and two captured while four others fled. Investigators report the group, described as a hoe gang, was marching with work tools and brandished dirks before escaping. Authorities pursue remaining suspects.
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Huntsville
Texas
Convicts stab guard at Eastham Prison Farm
Eight prisoners stabbed Guard John Greer at Eastham Prison Farm No 2 and fled into the woods. Two of the escapees were killed by a posse, two more captured near the Trinity river bottoms, while four remained at large pursued by searchers.
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Huntsville
Texas
Eastham
Trinity River
Dirks
John Greer
Eastham Prison Farm No. 2
Greer
Leave Is Granted Officer J. Atkins
Arkansas State Police Superintendent Gray Albright announced Patrolman Jack Atkins of Texarkana has been granted a 90-day leave of absence effective Monday. Atkins requested the leave to tend to his ill father in Camden, and another officer will be assigned to Texarkana later this week.
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Little Rock
Gray Albright
Arkansas State Police
Jack Atkins
Texarkana
Atkins
Camden
Albright
Roosevelt Praises Social Security Architects in Maryland Race
President Roosevelt lauded the "legislative fathers" of the Social Security act during a radio address marking its third anniversary. He singled out David J. Lewis of Maryland, campaigning to unseat Senator Milard Tydings, and urged Congress to broaden the act. Lewis spoke to Maryland voters after the president’s remarks as other officials noted the program’s aims.
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Washington i
Roosevelt
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Milard Tydings
Congress
Lewis
Tydings
Social Security
Senator Wagner
Perkins
Josephine Roche
Treasury
Cotton price moves in New Orleans market
New Orleans cot ton opened Tuesday at 8.25 and closed at 892 33. Spot cotton closed 10 points higher with middling at 8.38.
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New Orleans
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Columbia
General Iturbe
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Yellowstone
J. Atkins
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