FANNY SAYS: War Fears, Dictators, and Astrologers
The column reflects on 20 years since a great war sparked by a central European crisis and notes Europe avoided new conflict this summer. It cites dictatorships, the logic of mobilization, and the risk when suppressing democratic rights. It also mentions a New Jersey astrologer predicting disaster on August 18, which proved unfounded.
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Europe
Tammany
Musgolinis
Hitlers
Pilsudskiy
Inquiry Behind General Strike Row to Be Made
Washington moved to order a neutral inquiry into the cotton textile strike as hopes of averting a walkout faded. Lloyd Garrison of the Supreme Court of Labor proposed a three member panel to study issues impartially and suggest a solution while union leaders warned of escalating action unless employers meet demands. President Roosevelt’s intervention prospects waned as workers across mills from Maine to Alabama faced wage disruption impacting planters and suppliers, with the broader labor movement watching a potential watershed moment in capital labor relations.
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Washington
Lloyd Garrison
Tha Tional
Supreme Court” of Labor
Disput
Sai
Garrico
George
Sloan
America
Garrison
Labor Department
NRA
Committee of Investigation
Labor Board
Roosevelt
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers Strike Committee
Maine
Alabama
Labor Unio
County Salary Act Proposed for Hempstead County
A county wide meeting at City Hall Saturday aims to draft a salary act placing all Hempstead county officers on salaries to cut costs. County Judge H M Stephens formed a 15 member committee to set salaries and gather signatures for a petition to place the measure on the November ballot.
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Hempstead
City Hall
H. M. Stephens
Briday
Eleetorg
Air Circus At Local Landing Field Sunday
Spectators invited to a Sunday air circus at the local landing field with parachute jumps air battle and thrilling stunts by the Daring Are Flying Circus. Gene Lee will perform a wall crash and racing plank act with admission proceeds aiding local scout groups and other charities.
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Hope Hoy Scouts
Gene Lee
Pye Vireus
New York Magistrate Confuses Corn Whiskey in Court
Magistrate Hue lia Capshaw born in Tessen ingested whiskey in Morrison court and declared it corn whiskey after a reviewing clerk noted the order. Detrei ve Joseph Renan offered the pint as evidence against John Wain, 60, accused of operating a still in a flat. The judge questioned the legality and the bail bond for relatives was set at $500 pending examinations.
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New York
Huelia Capshaw
Tenessen
Morrison
Walter
Joseph Renan
John Wain
Capshaw
Emon
Reinites
Hspwr
Williams
Velie Helel Iy Schwader
Esamiralions
P.O. Employees to Observe Labor Day
The post office will be closed on Monday September 3 in observance of Labor Day. General delivery, shop, and parcel post windows will open from 1 to 6. Money orders and savings deposits can be made. City gardens will provide one delivery in the forenoon. There will be no rural delivery service. Wash Hutson has accepted a position with Robert LuGrong & Co.
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Wash Hutson
Robert LuGrong
Hendrix Concedes Assessor Post in Hempstead Race
The Hempstead county Democratic Central Committee met at city hall Friday afternoon to hear results and petitions. Dewey Hendrix conceded the tax assessor seat to Mrs Isabelle Onstead as a compromise with the deputy tax assessor. A request for a Stephenson precinct recount was defeated 20 to 10. Oscar Humphrey's bid for state auditor also faced a recount petition, rejected 28 to 2, as Hempstead’s official results awaited absentee totals Saturday.
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Stephenson School
Democratic Central Committee
Dewey Hendrix
Isabelle Onstead
Star
Marty Lemley
Tibnan B. Parks
Stephenson
Curtis Cannon
Wade Kitchens
Tilmar
Parka
Oscar Humphrey
Hempstead
Hempstead County
Expedite Farm Relief Plan Regional Conferences Planned
Washington representatives from states were invited to attend regional conferences to speed a farm relief program aiding 80,000 destitute farm families. Arkansas will join the Houston Texas event on September 7. Lawrence Westbrook said 5,000 to 7,000 Arkansas families need relief as they are rehabilitated on government leased farms through year’s end.
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Washington
States
Tn E
MERA
Arkansas
Houston
Texas
Lawrence Westbrook
Senator Long To Move With Caution In State Inquiry
Senator Long plans a tempered approach to probing city officials in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, weighing where hearings should be held. Govionor Mion may deploy state police for the legislative committee, as unrest grows over Long's authoritarian leadership in the state.
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Thies
Long
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Sto
Jefferson’ Parish
Q. K. Mion
Tene
Beton Rouge
Walvisles
Frig Country
Allwither
Yeason
Haldaie
Baton Htouge
Lung
New Deal's Gravest Strike Threat Dutcher Article
Rodney Dutcher explains how NRA wage cuts and the 25 percent work-hour curtailment spurred a textile workers strike threat. He details stretchouts, pay reductions from $20 to $15 weekly and larger cuts for lower earners, plus union and employer tensions amid rising complaints and delayed federal mediation.
Rail wreck in Manchukuo kills five in Harbin line
Yokyo dispatch reports bandits wrecked a Chinese railway train between Harbin and Hsinklog, killing five Japanese passengers and seriously injuring ten others. Guards repulsed over a hundred attackers. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer staff member John W. Johansen and two others were kidnapped after the wreck. In Tennessee a hotel guest identified as Miss Mary Sam Bruce fatally shot J C Shelton, then killed herself.
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Yokyo
Japan
Renfo
Warbin
Harbin
Hsinklog
Manelikuo
John W. Johansen
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Motion Precture Company
Morristown
Tenn
Mary Sam Bruce
Nashville
Lebanon
J. C. Shelton
Hamblen National Bank
Great Throng Hears Secretary Wallace
More than 12,000 farmers heard Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace speak at the ninth annual field day of the cotton branch experiment station of the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture. He urged support for the Bankhead act and warned of a potential movement to repeal the cotton processing tax, while predicting a future program to boost per acre cotton yields through breeding and fertilization.
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Marianna
Henry A. Wallace
Cotton Branch
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture
Wallace
Speed Pilots Race Progress Amid Breakdowns and Delays
The trans continental National Air Race saw Col Roscoe Turner withdraw after a broken gas line 15 minutes after start. Pilots from Burbank to New York reported good progress with stops planned in Goodland Lansing Albuquerque and Cleveland while John Worthern Pine Bluff and Lee Gehlbach New York pursued spread routes.
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Burbank
Valef
John Worthern
Pine Bluff
Arka
Ascene Purner
Calif
Col
Roscoe Turner
West
Cal. Turner
Lee Gehlbach
New York
Col. Turner
Terye
Douglas Davis
Atlanta
CIA
Gehlbach
Cleveland
Davis
Goodland
Kan
Lansing
Chicago
Worthern
Albuquerque
N. M
Ontario
Provine Club Health Department
Auto Crash Kills One and Wounds Six Near Nashville
Mrs. J. M. Courtney of El Dorado Arkansas was brought to a Nashville hospital in critical condition after a crash near the city. Neal Stringfellow was killed and six others, including five school children riding with Stringfellow, were injured. Mrs Courtney's husband and their 11 year old daughter Elizabeth along with Charlotte Chamberlain escaped unharmed.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. M. Courtney
el Dorado
Act
Neal Stringfellow
Stringfellow
Kitchens Parker Still Out in Front
Charley Parker of Camden held a 6000 vote lead over Oscar Humphrey in the state auditor race as county committees began certifying results. With 3743 of 2032 precincts reported and about 5000 absentee ballots outstanding, official tabulation is required to declare a winner. Wade Kitchens of Magnelia led by 872 votes over a congressman in the district race with only one precinct reporting.
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Little Rock
County Central Committees
Charley Parker
Camden
Oscar Humphrey
Wade Kitchens
Magnelia
The
Dobbie Huie Appointed Brinkley Football Coach
Hubert Dolson Huie, a Henderson State Teachers College graduate and former all state halfback, is named director of athletics and coach at Brinkley High School. He will move with Mrs Huie to Brinkley Monday after teaching duties and faculty appointment are finalized.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
Hubert Dolson House
Henderson State ‘Teachers College
Brinkley
Huie
Muie
Henderson
Arkadelphia High
Douglas Executed in Arizona Gas Chamber
Doomed Louis Sprague Douglas, a former New York taxi driver, was executed in Florence Arizona for the murder of Ralph Hart. He walked into the gas chamber calmly and was pronounced dead eight minutes after the gas was turned on.
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Florence, Ariz
Louis Sprague Douglas
New York
Arizona
Ralph Hart
Cotton futures edge higher with mixed October to May tones
New York cotton markets closed with October at 11.60, up 50 cents per bale from yesterday. October high 14.18 and low 13.13. December 13.28 29, January 13.32, March 13.32 35, May 13.38. New York spots 13.35, sales 2,500. Little Rock Produce lists hens heavy breeds at per tb to Ye Hens and Leghorn per unit, broilers per Ib 13 to 14 cents, Springs per lb, Roosters 4 cents, eggs candled per dozen 20 to 21 cents.
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New York
Little Rock
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