City to Purchase Equipment for a Testing Station
City council approved an ordinance to spend over 2000 dollars for equipment to set up an automobile testing station in Hope. A semi annual car inspection rule was adopted, with safety standards and a city test site. A 25 mph speed limit was established and a 500 dollar loan to Hope High School stadium committee raised total stadium debt to 4000 dollars. WPA contributed 17000 dollars. Last sand and gravel delivery for stadium was completed and concrete work on box seats to begin next day.
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Hope
Board of Public Affairs
Little Rock
Garland School
Uhe Hope Boys Band
Hope High School
WPA
No Sales Tax Defeats Maine Pension Measure
In Portland Maine voters rejected a proposed one per cent retail sales tax that would fund pensions for about 3700 elderly residents. The special referendum, carried 2 to 1 against, with 120000 turnout from 632 precincts reporting Kon 39005 against 80745. Governor Barrows said no further pension payments can be made.
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Portland
Maine
Lewis @. Barrows
What Would You Do If Your Wife Is Riding Front Seat
In a dilemma among three adults, the guide advises prioritizing comfort and etiquette. The wife may be seated in front if it’s more comfortable or safer, especially for an older guest, otherwise three in the front may be acceptable. The response notes the situation is awkward when the husband assumes the third seat.
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Stari
Bulent
NEA
Prescott Grocer in Arson Denial
Prescott grocer CC Murvey denies arson charges in the burning of Harvey’s peaches store in Prescott. John Cole, a Black man, allegedly confessed to officers that he saturated the store with kerosene and started the blaze last Saturday. Harvey posted $1,500 bail and claims he did not hire Cole, though he knew him from Bluff City.
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CC. Murvey
Prescott
John Coly
Arsin
Harvey
Peacery
Mr. Harvey
Brock Bright
John Cole
Huving
Bluff City
Japanese Invade Whaling Trade In Osaka News
A report from Osaka describes Japan expanding its whaling fleet with the sister ship to the Dai Torin Bie, the Vaisean Ponare Vaya. The vessel, worth over 4 million dollars, will carry 40 800-ton whaling lanks and measure 654 feet in length with a 67 foot draft. Construction uses steel frames comparable to Japan's National Parliament, and the ship will be prepared for potential wartime conversion. A snowy owl captured near London is noted in the same dispatch.
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Osaka
Jayne
Japan
Dil
Jupan
Mew National Parliam Menk
Prospecting Boom in Platinum Alaska Captured by Ernie Pyle
NEA Service special correspondent Ernie Pyle chronicles Platinum Alaska a remote mining camp in Alaska’s far southwest where crews rush to extract gold. He notes harsh winters hard work wages from 5 to 15 dollars a day and a budding boom town with tents cabins twin stores and two new houses. The piece describes rugged landscape scarce amenities and a mobile population fuelled by placer digging season from May to October.
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Ernie Pyle
Nea Servier
Guid
Alaska
Cnme
Gun News Bay
Airphine
Boluga Mountain
Undea
le Smetie
Bering Sea
AbeeYou
Marerath- Tully
Serape
Platinian
Toodhouse
Tupel Rai
Ncd
Platinia
Hart
State and County Employees Organize in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas State Federation of Labor and American Federation of Labor affiliate organize Little Rock Pulaski County and state employees into a labor group. M Thackery executive secretary says support from American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees and civil service laws aid in building efficient personnel and morale among civil service workers.
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American Federation of Labor
Thackery
National Federation of Government Employes
Two Escape Plots Fail at Tucker State Prison
Tucker State Farm witnesses two escape plots by seven convicts. Officers uncovered the first plot July 17 when warden George Higgins failed to return home due to an accident. A second plan faltered when a furloughed inmate attempted to arm his accomplices. officials pursued the felon as officers investigated.
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Reed
Meehan to Come Keynote at Southwest Arkansas Meeting
Attorney Bert B. Larey of Texarkan a will keynote the southwest Arkansas mass meeting on Thursday at Hope city hall to oppose Governor Bailey as U S Senate candidate. Al Meehan Stuttgart attorney and Miller campaign manager has accepted to attend. speakers include local and visiting officials outlining campaign aims and political corruption claims in Hempstead County.
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Bert B. Larey
Texarkana
Southwest Arkansas
Hope City Hall
Joe T. Robinson
Larey
Bailey
U.S. Senate
Carl Bailey
King
Arkansas
U. S. Senate
Albert Graves
Steve Carrigan
John P. Vesey
Harry J. Lemley
L. F. Higgason
W. W. Tompkins
Nevada County
W. C. Rogers
Sevier
Dmeocratic Central Committee
Polk
Montgomery
Lafayette
Police lineup reveals slayings and trunk shipment attempt
Joseph Ogden, 36, confessed at police headquarters to killing his roommate Oliver George Sinceal, 25, an ex convict, then placing the nude body in a trunk and trying to ship it by railroad express to Memphis Tennessee.
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New York
Joseph Ogden
Oliver George Sinceal
Memphis
Tenn
McIntyre of Famous Minstrel Team Dies in Southampton
James McIntyre, age 64, died Wednesday from uremia poisoning, ending the long McIntyre and Heath minstrel partnership. The duo was a renowned vaudeville act in the past era. The article notes era remarks on inventions and royal language as context.
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McIntyre
Southampton
James McIntyre
McIntyre & Heath
G Men to Probe Nazi Training Camps Nationwide
Attorney General Cummings stated on Wednesday he directed the FBI to examine Nazi military training camps across the nation to assess possible federal law violations.
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Washington
Cummings
Bureau of Investigation
G Men
Roosevelt Battles Tories in Roanoke Island Speech
President Roosevelt, at the 350th anniversary celebration of the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island, argued democracy and majority rule as safeguards of liberty, opposing the idea that salvation lies in power held by a select class. He criticized the Liberty League and warned against vesting supreme power in a single group.
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Mantec
Roanoke Island
N. C
Roosevelt
Liberty League
Tenancy Financing Adopted by House
The House approved the final major appropriation bill after raising it by 20 million dollars to fund a federal farm tenancy program. The 98.88 million package, passed without a record vote, directs money to farm purchase loans and converting Western dust bowls into pasture. Strong debate followed with lawmakers skeptical about the program’s scope and cost, while advocates urged aid for homeless farmers.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Starnes Dem
Alaj
Farm State
Kineri
Dem
Congress
McFarlane
Dem. Tex
Woodrum
Jones
Rem. Tex
Agriculture Committee
Four Die and Ten Injured in Naval Boiler Blast
Four men were killed and ten injured when a steam explosion occurred aboard the destroyer Cass at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The incident was reported by the commandant's office.
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Philadelphia
Cass
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Cotton New Orleans Market Opening and Closing Notes
The New Orleans cotton market opened Wednesday at 10.32 and closed at 10.12 with steady IB points. Spatvollan remained steady, while Hower showed mistilling at 1.21.
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NEW
Orleans
Cote i Ton
Spatvollan
Chinese Fire Flares Refugee Evacuation Aboard Liner McKinley
Chinese snipers fired on a tender carrying 294 refugees to the liner President McKinley near Shanghai, forcing passengers to lie prone. Japanese planes and warships bombarded Chinese positions around Shanghai as night aerial artillery raged over Pootung and Hunglao airdrome, with volleys of shells and machine-gun fire lighting the sky.
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Sitanghay
China
McKinley
Shanghai
Hunglao
Whangpoo River
Black Confirmed for Justice Seat
Senators vote 63 16 confirms Hugo L Black to the Supreme Court. Alabama congressmen say Governor Graves may appoint wife Mrs Bixie Graves as temporary Senate successor. she may take oath in Washington Thursday.
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Washington
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Bixie Graves
Senate
Hugo Black
Supreme Court
Black
Hugo L. Black
Adams
Andrews
Ashhurst
Bankhead
Barkley
Berry
Bilbo
Bone
Brown
Michigan
New Hampshire
Burkley
Bulow
Burns
Caraway
Chavez
Clark Connally
Dieterich
Doughey
Eilender
George
Gillette
Green
Guffey
Harrison
Hatch
Herring
Hitchcock
Holt
Hughes
Johnson
Colorado
Lee
Lewis
Logan
Lonergan
McAdoo
McGill
McKeller
Minton
Moore
Murray
Neely
Overton
Pepper
Pittman
Pope
Bradcliffe
Reynolds
Schwarz
Schwellenbach
Sheppard
Smathers
Thomas
Oklahoma
Utah
Truman
van Neys
Wagner
Capper
Frazier
Nye
Lundeen and
Shipstead
Dem
Hayden
Ari
Vandenberg
Rep
Mich
Tydings
Duffy
Wis
Gibson
McNary
Singing School Closes with Concert at Hinton Friday
Homer Odom's singing school plans a closing concert at 3 o'clock Friday night in Hinton featuring Jim Taylor and the Stamps quartets. The public is invited.
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Hinton
Homer Odom
Jim Taylor
Stamps
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