Arkansas Delegation Wins War Dept Support for Camp McRae Plan
War Department officials assured Arkansas leaders Thursday that a Citizens Military Training Camp will be established at Camp McRae next year. Secretary Hurley and General Summerall expressed agreement with the plan, arranging an afternoon talk with Payne to confirm the move toward a training camp staffed by officers, ROTC, and CMT cadets.
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Washington, D. C
Arkansas
Camp McRae
War Department
Camp Mewe
C. M.C
Hurley
Payne
General Summerall
Camp Meltac
Ar Department
Comitee
Cal
Thn
Pordyce
Equonsing
Oklahoma
H. F. Fredeaut
Camp Meftae
Blake E Williams
Charles L. Garrett
Secretary Hurley Tours Drouth Area
Secretary Hurley begins a three week trip by air and boat to survey drought zones from Minnesota to the Mississippi Valley. He plans to return by September 18 for a crucial Washington conference, with tentative stops announced as the journey proceeds. An invitation to visit Little Rock, Arkansas was extended, itinerary to be set en route.
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Washington
Aug
Hurley
Tury
Minnesota
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Little Rock
Arksansas
Pine Bluff Coroner Jury Report on Vick
A coroner jury in Pine Bluff concluded Vick, 35, of Stay City, died from a shotgun wound inflicted by an unknown person. His body was found in a car on a highway shoulder near Pine Bluff with a fired shell and a pistol on the seat. he had left home about 1 o'clock that night to fill a tire at Star City.
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Tine Bluff
Vpi
Wormers
Ise
Huustety
M. Vick
Stay City
Vick
A. S. Rutherford
C. R. Pate
Star City
Hope Melons at Hope State Hospital Piney Watermelons
A telegram from D L Paisley, state hospital steward in Little Rock, announced the contract for 580 water melons to be delivered to the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases at Little Rock. The daily serving of watermelon to about 400 patients and employees was planned for noon. Lowthorp spoke to the Hope Rotary Club on hempstead county’s melon industry and rising land values, noting an 80 pound melon grown in Hempstead seed and a Greenville connection spawning a growers club and a large prize drive.
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D. L. Paisley
State Hospital
Little Rock
Peisley
City
Hope
Star
CG. S. Lothrup
Hope Rotary Club
Hempstead County
Barlow
Lowthorp
Hope Gent
Greenville
South Carolina
Dreuth Advisory Group Will Meet in Little Rock
Ed McCorkle of the Arkansas Press Association will attend the first session of the State Drought Advisory Committee in Little Rock on Monday September 1 He will travel from Hope Sunday night to participate in the opening of the conference at the Democrat Printing Lithographing Co building By then it is expected that a majority of counties will have completed questionnaires showing drought damage assessment
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Ed McCorkle
Auluvnsns Press Association
State Dreuth Advisory Committee
Litle Rock
Drouth Relief Committee
McCorkle
Hope
Rarest Stamp in World Costs Collector 32500
Utica New York Aust 24 The world s rarest stamp a one cent issue from British Guiana dated 1856 owned by Arthur Hind of Utica cost 50 sixty years later a German count acquired the collection and was seized by the French sale netted 300009 and Hind bought the Guiana stamp
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Utica
Aus
Arthur Hind
British Guiana
Benvined
Wat
Hird
Hand of Death Stayed By Delicate Operation
Houston Texas August 24 UPI A drum operation saved Thorn ton Buss a Black truck driver after he was stabbed near the heart by a Black woman Tuesday night robbed of 60 and left in a ruin Arteries near the heart were severed but doctors repaired the arteries at Jefferson Davis hospital and the man survived on Wednesday
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Houston
Tex
UPI
Thornton Buss
Darwin
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Thanes Gre
Peace Justices Reelected in Bear Creek Township Near DeQueen
Justices of the peace in Bear Creek township were re-elected naming George L. Irving Frank Jones and J H McLaughlin Irving serves his fourteenth year as peace justice in the area near DeQueen August newspaper brief notes re-election of local magistrates.
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Dequeen
Bear Creek Township
George L. Irving
Frank Jones
J. H. McLaughlin
Irving
Red Cross Plans For Local Relief In Drought Hit Arkansas
Little Rock Aug 28 The Red Cross discussed phase to prevent suffering of drought stricken families and moved machinery toward this end. Albert Lyons assistant Mid-West director returned from St Louis while Me Evans held talks with national officers. Red Cross will aid local relief but not dole out wholesale aid. most cases are handled through county chapters. Temporary quarters for relief work have been established.
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Little Rock
Albert Lyons
Mid-West
Red Cross
Sohn
St. Louis
Evans
State Breuth Committee
Ehpters
Food Blamed For School Poisoning In Lonoke
Police said food caused the Lonoke school poisoning incident after a group of students fell ill. Loree Tilson described eating a bread fragment that tasted bitter before symptoms appeared. Investigators corrected earlier reports, confirming only five girls were poisoned and noting milder symptoms among others.
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Lonoke
Loree Tilson
Armed Posse Sues for Alleged Killer of Officers
An armed posse searched forests near Manicola for Ray Southerland, 61, alleged moonshiner accused of shooting four officers. Oscar Dooley died of wounds, Deputy Sanders killed, and others wounded. Southerland fled. his son Baude, 20, was found and arrested. The elder is believed wounded. pursuit continued after a liquor-running ambush.
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Eugene
Ore
Manicola
Ray Southerland
Army Bush
Oscar Dooley
Sanders
Southerland
Baude Southerland
Dooley
John Carlisle
Young Southerland
Pearly
Lee Brown
Rodney Reach
Woman Kills Two For Liquor Making in Washington
PORT ORCHARD Wash Aug 23 A double slaying linked to liquor manufacture was reported by Deputy Sheriff A D Careless. Julia Lee Christianson 46 admitted ambushing her husband G L Christianson and John Higbar in a woodshed and claimed she killed them to end their liquor operation. Officers found 102 patties of whisky at the scene. the men were shot to death Tuesday. The woman 27 years younger than her husband said she hired Higbar to prevent him from naming her.
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Port Orchard
Wash
A. D
Shen
Julia Lee Christianson
G. L. Christianson
John Higbar
Migbar
John P. Forrester 81 Dies in Waldron Bank Leader
John P. Forrester Sr. 81 longtime banker and director of Arkansas Western Ry, died at his Waldron home after about two weeks illness. A Georgia-born native who moved to Arkansas as a child, he served as president of the Bank of Waldron for many years.
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Wadron
F. Forrester, Sr
Bank of Waldron
Arkansas Western Rislyond
Mr. Forrester
Wiater
Arkansas
Georgia
Hoover Confers With Mine Union Leader
President Hoover met for nearly an hour with John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers of America, but no announcement followed. Lewis refused to discuss the visit, and White House officials offered no comment.
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Washington
Hoover
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
White House
Another Drouth Meeting Planned
Washington heavy drought relief effort expands as Secretary Hyde confirms upcoming calls to state drouth committee chairmen to coordinate relief. Banking officials propose intermediary credit corporations to extend sample credit to farmers in drought struck areas, with Red Cross backing as a safety net.
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Washington
Drouth
Hyde
Naonal
Drouth Stvicken
Distrees
Red Cross
Highway No 24 Work Progress Amid Drought Claims
In Nashville area updates show rapid progress on Highway No 24 east to Blevins with grading near Betton and extensive graveling from McCaskill. Local labor drives construction, using over 100 teams at McCaskill to employ unemployed farmers while bridge work advances despite drought. Plans unfold for Mine Creek bridge and a seven mile gap on Highway 27 with local crews. completion hoped by October.
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Nashville
J.D. Hamilton
Blevins
Ing
Betton
McCaskill
Highway Department
No. 24
Geo. W. Nickels
Mine Creek
Saline
Truck Driver Injured Hopes for Recovery in Fort Smith
Gene Franklin, a one day truck driver for Hunt 1: Goods, was injured when his truck overturned on the Spire highway yesterday. He suffered a broken back and chest injuries but was reported improved and may recover.
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Fort Smith
Gene Franklin
The
Hunt
Goods Company
Governors Rally Behind Buy-a-Bale Drive in Texas
Governor Moody urges all Southern state governors to back a national Buy-a-Bale action. He petitions President Hoover to issue a call supporting the movement to aid hay for drought-stricken farmers in the region.
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Arne Hoover
Austin
Tex
Aux
Moody ‘Whuesday
Hoover
Sweet Home Revival In Progress This Week
Revival meeting at Sweet Home ongoing this week between Blevins and Prescott with large crowds. Brother Stewart of Texarkana is preaching powerfully. First three evenings cover How to study the Bible. Friday night focuses on Pauls Charge to Timothy. Saturday night slated for Prayer.
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Sweet Home
Blevins
Prescott
Stewart
Texarkana
Pauls
Timothy
Cazart challenges Parnell to debate over amendment No. 20
Lieutenant Governor Lee Cazart issues a letter challenging Governor Parnell to joint debates on proposed amendment No. 20. He criticizes the highway commission election in seven districts. Governor Nairn at Bentonville Rotary expresses disapproval, arguing the amendment would politicize the Highway Commission and that salaries do not justify campaign costs.
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Little Rock
Lee Cazart
Parnell
Cazart
Highway Commission
Bentonville Rotary Enuuly
Nairn
State Highway Commission
Federal Auditors Check Flood Loss Near Little Rock
Federal auditors under R. G. Trone and E. Coons, sent by the comptroller general's department, are auditing vouchers from the Arkansas state highway department for flood repairs to roads washed away in 1927. About 1,800,000 dollars was spent on rebuilding flood damaged sections. auditors seek reimbursement from Washington.
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Little Rock
State Highway Department
R. G. Trone
E. ¥. Coons
Comptroller General's Department
Washington
Ask Winter Work on New Highways
LITGH LOCK Aug 29. Continuation of the road and bridge construction program as far into one winter as possible to give employment to the ship-less-stricken farmers of the plate was asked of the highway commission at their monthly meeting here. Delegates from the counties of Leard Fulton Sharp Lee Montgomery Mississippi and Perry appeared before the commission and asked for full-time activities in their section of the state. The meeting is expected to continue until late July. Fifteen bids for low,000 barrels of cement were received by the commission from bidders both in and out of the state.
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Litgh Lock
Plate
Leard
Fulton
Sharp, Lee
Montgomery
Mississippi
Perry
Joliy
Commission
Salesman Killed as Wife Is Hurt in Arkansas Crash
MEMPHIS, Aug. 23. H. R. B. Mills, 35, of Memphis, was killed and his wife fatally injured when their car struck a bridge railing near Wilson, Arkansas, early today. Mills was a salesman for a St. Louis refrigeration company. his wife was a passenger and was hospitalized here.
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Memphis
Aug
H. RB. Milly
Wilson
Arkansas
Mills
apst.Louis Refrigeration Company
Workmen Cut Noise In Building In Wilmington
In Wilmington Delaware an addition to the Dupont office building is rising with minimal noise. Structural steel is welded, concrete is mixed at a control plant and hauled in, and the only audible sound comes from nailing lumber forms. Nearby occupants barely notice construction underway unless they see it.
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Wilmington
Del
Dupont
Contol
Reaty
Wholesale Co. Moves From Hope to Texarkana
TEXARKANA Aug 20 Closing of the Hope branch of the America Company of Arkansas wholesale grocer and removal of the stock to Texarkana was announced Thursday. Texarkana officials say Harvey Betts, manager of the Rope brand, will move his family here. The change cited failure to obtain a satisfactory lease on Hope property and to better serve Hope territory. A storage system in Texarkana's overlouse was completed, and moving stocks of fruits, vegetables and other produce will be carried locally.
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Texarkana
Hope
America Company of Arkansas
Hlarvey Betts
E. R. Sain
Texarkann
Four Small Boys Found Tending Liquor Stills
Deputy sheriff Vin Mewell reported capturing two stills in the hills near Tri attended by ten boys aged from seven to nine. The oldest boy was beating a drum for the others to dance when McGraw approached the plant.
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Bluefield
Aus
Sherif Vin Mewell
Tri
McGraw
Farmers discuss rain drought and crop prospects at Kiwanis meet
Eleven farmers and local residents gathered at the Kiwanis Club event near Hotel Barlow to hear farmer Oscar Brint discuss drought impacts. He warned crops face losses from dry conditions and urged storing corn for fall rains. A Hill Road gravel project and oil well funding were proposed, with farmers eyeing winter crop plans as Hempstead county growers report feed shortages and uncertain yields.
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Kiwanis Club
Barlow
Spring Hill
Oscar Brint
Spring HS
Sre
Hempstead
Trains Collide Injuring 18 Near San Luis Obispo
Eighteen persons were injured, one possibly fatally, when Southern Pacific trains the Lark and Padre collided at 2 am near San Luis Obispo. The Lark northbound from Los Angeles overtook the Padre blocked by a broken pipe repair. An observation car was telescoped, and Thomas Leon of Southern Pacific Palman is in critical condition with internal injuries.
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EAN
Camden Paper Mill Improves Water Plant
Camden Aug 29 improvements have been made at the International Paper mill water plant in Cullendale. New equipment was installed and the plant upgraded. Dr B P Powell city health officer says the water is free from contamination and safe for drinking after recent tests. Water comes from many deep wells and 7 509 000 gallons are used daily, about eight times the city’s daily consumption.
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Camden
International Paper Company
I Cullendale
B. ¥. Powell
Powell
Camdea Conusmirs i
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U.S
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Hope Melons
Jewell
Hamm, Lindsey
Dreuth Advisory Group
Ea Ee
Drouth Aid
John P. Forrester
Waldron
Pres. of Mine Union
State Committee
Arthur M. Hyde
Henry MM. Robinson
Los Angeles
Dawes Reparations Commission
Melvin A. Traynor
Chicago
Illinois Bankers’ Association
Clyde Hendricks
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Bank
J. H. Stanley
Bankers’ Association of Arkansas
Elmer Stout
Indiana State Bankers’ Association
Myron A. Limbecker
Kansas Bankers’ Association
Emporia
Kansas
Nicholas Dasher
Louisville Trust Co
Kentucky
W. D. Hass
Alejandria
Morton Prentis
First National Bank
Baltimore
Columbus
Ohio
James H. Rader
Citizens’ Bank
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Virginia
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Federal Auditors
U. S
Harvey Betts
Kiwanis
Camden Paper Mill
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