Unemployment Is Next Job Tackled By Alfalfa Bill
MEMPHIS reports a conference led by Governor W H Murray of Oklahoma moved to form a permanent unemployment relief organization across the Mississippi Valley. The plan calls for each state governor to appoint a five member commission and urges federal and state workers to donate 15 percent of their salaries to aid the jobless. A September meeting was urged for further talks. In Monte Ne Arkansas delegates prepared for a third party convention with William Harvey as a key organizer to revise monetary policy and nominate presidential candidates, drawing about 300 attendees.
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Memphis
Mississippi Valley
W. H
Alfalfa Bil) Murray
Oklahoma
Murray
Monte NE
Ark
William H
Harvey Mondey
Wife shoots husband in Pine Bluff. condition unchanged
G. J. Tucker, 21, was shot by his wife Mca. Fern Tucker, 117, at his mother‑in‑law’s home Friday night. He lies paralyzed from the waist due to a 28 caliber bullet, with doctors expressing little hope of recovery. Mrs. Tucker, recently married in February while still in high school, says he threatened to strike her with a whisky bottle. She posted bond of $500.
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Pine Bluff
G. J. Tucker
Mca
Fern Tucker
Tucker
M. Kelly
Youth Robbing a Gas Station Caught
Batesville scene as Allion Hellin 22 of Mount Pleasant is caught entering the Lone Oak station on Highway 9 by owner Tulsia Thomas and family. Three pistols and a razor were taken in the break in. Hellin was startled by a crash of glass and confronted near the broken window.
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Batesville
Alliaon Hellin
Mount Pleasant
Here
Lone Oak
Highway No. #9
Tulsia Thomas
Thomas
Hyves
Launching of Biggest Dirigible Is Deferred
Akron reports indicate the 785 foot Navy dirigible Akron has passed airworthiness tests and will not launch this week as planned. Goodyear Zeppelin officials say the delay is for minor structural strengthening and not due to major issues, while crowds gathered to watch test walks along the dock.
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Akron
Ohio
Navy
Navy Department
Goodyear-Zeppelin
Theoong
Goodyear-Zeppeliy Corporation
Yital Gensy Ucion
Local man with five pre-1850 coins on display
Local resident Guy A. Linaker showed The Star five coins dating before 1850 drawn from a collection of about 40. The pieces include a 1825 half cent and four one cent coins dated 1628, 1828, 1830 and 1831, copper problems with Liberty heads. Linaker also owns a silver 3-cent piece, described as a genuine curiosity of early American coinage.
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Guy A. Linaker
Star
Tom Tate
St. Joe
Ark
St. Jose
Linaker
Joe
Jackson
Oil in Sight For Kansas as Prices Move Upward
In a midcontinent effort to push down oil prices to one dollar per barrel, Gov. Woodring signaled possible action by the Kansas Public Service Commission and noted discussions with a major purchaser. Oklahoma and Texas governors have declared martial law to enforce shutdowns in oil regions. Ritz-Canton order and Raymond pool wells may be kept out of production. Refiners quoted motor gasoline at 5 to 6 cents per gallon in some shipments as prices edge higher.
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Topeka
Kan
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Kansas’'Public Service ‘Commission
Texas
Oklahoma
W. A
Murray
Ritz Canton
Kangas Commission
Raymond Pool
Ritz-Canton
United States
Sheep Tail Remembers Former Starvation Days
Washington dispatch reports Karakul sheep in captivity retain a thrifty fat reserve in their tails. The S shaped fat storage evolved on Rus sian steppes during lean periods. Even well fed sheep develop tail fat as a reserve when grass becomes scarce.
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Washington
Department of State
Milan
Aly
Tragic Life of Youth Ends From Bullet Wound
MEMPHIS. Albert Heard 21, a student, died Saturday night at a coal hospital from a bullet wound below the heart. He shot himself while seated between two friends in a wagon. His parents died when he was 10. He lost his left arm in an accident and was badly burned in a Holly Springs explosion last year, spending seven months in hospital. Friends told police he said nothing before or after firing.
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Memphis
Albert Heard
Heard
Holly Springs
Miss
McRaes To Open Hardware Store In City
K. G. McRae and Dorsey McRae have purchased the stock of the former K. G. McRae Hardware and will open for business next week at Second and Main under McRae Hardware Company. They bought the stock from John Barlow, who bid it in two weeks ago and took possession Monday morning. The store is being overhauled and stock rearranged and repriced with additional stock to complete broken assortments. Dorsey McRae is returning to active business with a firm that has operated hardware stores in this city for 41 years.
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K. G. McRae
Dorsey McRae
K. G. McRae Hardware Company
McRae Hardware Company
Monsday
John Barlow
Second
Dorsey“ MyRae
Bla B
Hardeware
Jury Discharged In Trial of Clark
In Los Angeles a jury discharged after 68 hours of deliberation failed by one vote to acquit David H Clark former deputy district attorney charged with murdering two politicians Herbert Spencer editor of a political magazine and Charles Crawford wealthy real estate man He faces retrial for the Spencer murder claim Jefferson Davis juror recalled long ballot stalemate and Clark maintained self defense story tied to a May conference when Crawford and Spencer allegedly tried to kill him in a bid to ruin a friend Police Chief Noy Steckel was mentioned in Clark’s defense speech.
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Los Angeles
David H. Lerk
Clark
Herbert Spencer
Charles Crawford
Spence
Spencer
Jefferson Davis
William
Davis
Crawford and
Noy Steckel
Election of Evans as Teacher Head Is Boomed
An organization to sponsor the election of Dr. A. W. Evans head of the educational department at Texas Technological College as president of the Texas State Teachers Association was formed Saturday at Lubbock. The annual convention will be held in November at Amarillo. Q. C. Southall of Seminole presided and Bruce Shulkey of Olney was the principal speaker.
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Lubbock
Tex
A. W. Evans
Texas Technological College
Texas State Teachers' Association
Amarilo
Q. C. Southall
Seminole
Bruce Shulkey
Olney
Stroke of Apoplexy Fatal to Arkansas Man
New Orleans report states Henry Williams of Pine Bluff Arkansas died Saturday afternoon from a stroke of apoplexy. He had arrived Friday with friends on a pleasure trip. He was taken to Touraine Infirmaries after the attack where he died. body to be returned home for burial
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New Orleans
Henry &. Willians
Pine Bluié
Ark
Toure Infinmarys
Lindberghs Face Suspicion as Flight Delayed
The Lindberghs, Charles and Anne, arrived in Nemuro after five days of rough air travel from Kamchatka, saying they still plan to fly to China and Tokyo. Japanese agency reports raised suspicion about routes near prohibited areas, but officials did not take the chatter seriously. The couple, acting as semi official U.S. representatives, faced fines for photographing forts while en route to Tokyo.
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Aulletinnemaro
Charles A. Lindbergh
Tere Wafely
Kurile Islands
Lindbergh
China
Tokyo
Japan
Rengo
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Nemura
Lindberghs
Aediene Ameri
Gan
Siberia
Pangborn
Herndon
United States
El Dorado Plant Damaged By Fire
A fire at the Union Asphalt Company plant in El Dorado spread from a flareup as asphalt was being loaded into barrels. A large still and the plant were badly damaged, with the loading dock, a large quantity of asphalt and three box cars destroyed. The plant produced asphalt materials for highway construction.
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el Dorado
Union Asphalt Company
Man Injured in Wreck In Arkansas Robbed
Beebe Ark Raymond Pulling 28 of Little Rock suffered serious injuries when his truck ran off the road early Saturday. He was robbed of a small sum of mercy tourlets removed from the wreck and he was taken to a Little Rock hospital.
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Beebe, Ark
Raymond Pulling
Little Rock
Here
Tourlets
Buckner Neighbor Undergoes Operation at Josephine Hospital
Pints Neighbors of Buckner Arkansas underwent an operation at Josephine hospital Monday afternoon.
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Pints Neighbors
Buckner, Ark
Josephine Hospital
Washerwomen of Camden Escape Occupation Tax
Camden Arkansas washerwomen avoid an occupation tax proposal after a brief council discussion. A list of white women who wash for hire was presented to the tax committee, with aldermen defending the workers. The measure was tabled without a vote.
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Camden
Ark
Refugees, river flood drownings and more in Shanghai bulletin
SHANGHAI China refugees numbered over 1600 housed in boats along the river across the Yangtze area report says some drowned due to fresh breaks in the river dyke. In New York Treasury Secretary Mellon suffered a fragmentary flashlight-related injury while returning from Europe. In Minneapolis Mrs Getchell killed her husband and two children then herself in a family tragedy linked to a mental disturbance.
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Shanghal
Chine
Hankow
Incks
Mucharig
Angel
Heer
Woman At Mena Dies in Car Crash
Mrs. Julia Maloney of Mena Arkansas died from injuries after a car accident near Hugo Oklahoma. The wife of former Polk County tax assessor J T Maloney, she reportedly appeared uninjured at first but died six hours later from probable internal injuries. She was riding with Roy Maloney of Lawler Oklahoma.
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Amena
Ark
Julia Maloney
Polk County
J. T. Maloney
West Hugo
Oklahoma
Five Arrested in A Fatal Gunplay
Five men were jailed in Columbia County after the fatal shooting of Dick Porter of El Dorado. Porter, driving a car with H. H. Summerville, Jack Woolsey, and Hashes Howard, was ordered to stop and shot in the head. The suspects named are Alfred and Albert Pyle, Hughey Howard, Courtney White, and Bala White. An inquest returned death at the hands of unknown persons, with a grand jury to investigate. Porter's body was taken to El Dorado for burial.
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Magnolia
Conection
Dick Porter
el Dorado
Columbia County
Union County
Alfred
Albert Pyle
William Pyte
Hughey Howard
Courtney
Bala White
Zortar
H. H. Summerville
Jack Woolsey
Hashes Howard
Porter
Fincher
Summerville
Woolsey
Coronal
Parsons
Noteen
Erand
J. J. Kirby Visits in City Over Week End
J. J. Kirby Jr a former Hope man spent Friday night and Saturday visiting friends in the city on his way from Jackson Mississippi to a sales conference in Austin Texas. He recently left Southern Ice & Utilities Co to become director of advertising and sales promotion for Southern United Ice Co in Jackson. Kirby oversees a territory spanning all of Mississippi and parts of Louisiana and Alabama.
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J. J. Kirby, Jr
Jackson
Miss
Austin
Texas
Kirby
Southern Ice & Utilities Co
Southern United Ice Co
Mr. Kirby
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Visits Brother Here Albert Pickell Visits Brother in Texas
Albert Pickell of Fayetteville stops Monday en route to visit his brother Dr FW Pickell at Josephine Hog.
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Albert Pickell
Fayetteville
Xas
FW. Fivkell
Josephine Hog
Vera Walker Funeral Draws Large Turnout in Hope
Vera Walker, 18, died in a Hope Fulton highway crash. A thousand mourners attended her burial at Water Creek churchyard as her mother, Mrs. H. H. Walker, 38, showed signs of improvement after the same crash. Algernon Keith, the other driver, was jailed in Little Rock awaiting charges.
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Ladt Tusaday
Hope- Fulton
Water Creek
Misa Vera Walker
E. E. Austin
Little Rock
Até
Miss Walker
New York Gunman Wounded and Arrested in Brooklyn
Leonardi, shot in the abdomen, was detained Monday as a suspect in the on the spot murder in Brooklyn's slaughter house district Sunday night. Initial reports listed him as one of three men. police later charged him with murder after witness accounts. He was with five gunmen during the incident.
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New York
Murray
Leonardi
Anthony Feerarl
Brooklyn
Slaughter-House
Playing "Post Office" Leads Two to Altar
In Pikesville and Virgie Kentucky the post masters, Mrs. Fannie Runyon Williams of Pikeville and Col Guy Hamilton of Virgie, wed and depart for a honeymoon trip to the north and east after the ceremony.
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Pikesville
Pikeville
Virgie
Fannie Runyon Williams
Guy Hamilton
Cave dwellers of Shansi Province in northern China
Modern Life notes a primitive cave people in Shansi, China. An estimated 1 in hundreds of miles away from cities, they live in sandstone cliffs. In the U.S. report, decayed teeth are linked to vitamin deficiency and maternal breast milk provides essential vitamins for children's teeth.
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Peiping
Shansi
China
Cathay
Washington
India
United States
U. S
Cotton Market Delivers Wide Drops Amid Weak Demand
In mid August 1945 the cotton market showed wide price fluctuations with spot demand indifferent for prompt and later shipments. December futures closed near 6.30 cents, the lowest in years. New Orleans and New York exchanges reported record lows earlier in November 1898, while weekly sales from ten markets totaled 30,489 bales versus 118,365 a year prior. Domestic consumption for the season ending July 31 stood at 5.1 million bales, with July stocks around 1 million and total U.S. stocks at 6.4 million. World carryovers were estimated near 8.7 to 9.9 million bales, the highest figures on record.
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Memphis
U.s.'Départment Agericulture
New York Cotton Exchange
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Bureau of the Census
United States
New Orleans
Lumber Center Quiet As Forests Are Gone
Fellston Michigan witnesses the closing of the Pelisten saw mill once a major two-story plant in northern Michigan. The mill’s shutdown signals the end of a lumber center era as forests vanish and work halts.
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Lumber Center
Fellston
Mich
Michigan
Pelisten
Announcement of the Maderaor 5 made
Announcement notes the Maderaor 5 made sa Sineue White, where A for.
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Columbia Co
J. J. Kirby
Vera Walker
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