Money Cheapest Commodity of All as Interest Drops
U S drops to 2(4%) all time low for government bond rates in 1936 as corporations refinish debts and banks hold ample reserves. Landis hails the change, noting a reversed market with rising issues, refugees from Europe pouring funds, and widespread bond refinancing driving long term borrowing.
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Associated Press
New York
Landis
James M. Landis
Securities Exchange Commission
Europe
America
Federal Reserve System
Nike
Reserve Board
Jongerm
Industrals
TVA
Earthquake Toll May Reach 1300 in San Vicente
SAN SALVADOR reports extensive damage after a Saturday night quake. Rescue workers search debris in San Vicente while officials estimate uncertain death toll and relief efforts continue under Interior Minister Calderon. Unconfirmed reports place San Vicente deaths around 1,300 with several nearby towns partly destroyed.
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FEI
Alonso Fialas
Devel
San Vicente
San Vieente
A Memory To Buy A Box Of Silver Rope For A Tree
A poem from Geneva Rogers dated December 21 1936 Hope Arkansas envisions a Christmas memory. It describes preparing gifts for a child including toys a teddy bear and a candy cane. The speaker plans a warm scene by the fire with Santa Claus.
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Santa Claus
You
Sea strike talks stall amid labor unrest on coast
Harry Lundeberg leader of the Sailors Union of the Pacific said a decision on ending the walkout may be postponed as 26,000 automobile and glass workers already face deadlocked strikes. A resumption with ship owners was hinted but not set.
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Harry Lundeberg
Saileors Union of the Pacific
Shine
Turned Brown By Brown Turner
Nashville Tenn with wheat prices at seven year highs cotton selling enough to cover the joking and tobacco setting an all time record farmers face Department of Agriculture concerns about reduced fishing and farming activity. glass makers may quit work. beer sold in tin cans tastes bitter.
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Nashville
Tenn
Department of Agriculture
Arkansas River Plantations Stand Out in WPA Study
The Works Progress Administration report covers 648 plantations in seven Southeast states. Arkansas river valley units produced nearly three times the regional average income, with higher acreage and net income though housing quality and sanitation lagged. Whites and Negroes show stark dwelling value gaps, and several dwellings lack sanitary facilities.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
Arkansas River
Southeastern
Arkansas
Arkansas River Valley
Red River
Centennial Fund Balance in Arkansas Commission queried
Assistant Attorney General J. Hugh Wharton will decide if the legislature can appropriate the estimated 4010 million dollar balance remaining for the Arkansas Centennial Commission. Representative Lyle Brown of Arkadelphia, chair of the house budget committee, asked Gailey to clarify the commission's finances and activities.
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Little Nock
Geeral J. Hugh Wharton
Arkansas Centennial Commission
Lyle Brown
Arkadelphia
House
Gailey
Christmas Service Wednesday Night at Gospel Tabernacle
The annual Christmas program at the Gospel Tabernacle on North Main will start at 7:30 PM Wednesday. Children bring white gifts to fill baskets for distribution by the young people, followed by a children's program and a play titled When Christmas Comes. The event invites public attendance. Local service volunteers in Muskegon distribute white canes with red tips to aid the blind, aiding recognition and access.
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Ot the Gospel Tabernacle
Tabernacle
North Main
Veharch
Muskogue
Oklo
Géedfelons Fund
Ara
Bailey completes State Corporation Commission lineup
Governor Breet Bailey announced a reorganized State Corporation Commission naming W. H. Childers to succeed himself and former State Senator M. J. Shuster to replace Commissioner J. C. Pinnix, completing the commission slate.
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Little Rock
Breet Bailey
State Corporation Commission
W.H. Childers
M. J. Shuster
Comn
J. C. Pinnix
Thought Hut Po sytter Quotation Trims Silence Over Authority
A fragmentary quotation from a religious text references a woman not to teach nor usurp authority, but to be in silence. The line echoes a directive attributed to Timothy chapter two verse twelve, framed as a moral instruction within a devotional context.
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Hut Po Sytter
High Officialdom Mocked by Gridiron Jesters at Roosevelts Dinner
Washington coverage notes the Gridiron Club dinner where President Roosevelt and Alf Landon attended. The satire lampooned national figures including Browder and Stalin, with elaborate stage scenes and political humor reflecting the era.
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Washington
Organization of Washington
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Huried Ag
Landon
Norman Tham
Earl Browder
Supreme Court
Goodfellows Short of Quota by $2.26 in Hempstead County
The Hempstead county Goodfellows drive, led by Rev. A. Hammond and sponsored by the county American Legion post, reported $297.24 of a $300 goal with final totals due Wednesday. Donations can be left at The Star office for Christmas gifts for needy Hope and Hempstead county families.
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Goodfellows
A. Hammond
Arch Moore
Hope and Hempstead County
Hempstead County
Lloyd Spencer
Lod
J.M. Lee
G. L. Logan Cleve
Andres Dale Jones
HS Weaver
T. L. McDonald
A. J
Willard Jones Floyd Crank
A. B. Spraggin
B. R. Hamm
Clyde Syxton
WPA
L. Bracy
Wreckage Found Of Northwest Airliner In Idaho
Salt Lake City report confirms wreckage sighted from the air of a Northwest Airlines transport missing since Friday in north Idaho wilds. Lieutenant Bryan Cooper said both pilots Joe Livermore and Arthur A. Haid are dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam, visiting Salt Lake City, followed up on a hunch about the Western Air Express ship missing since Tuesday en route from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. no trace was sighted by the searchers along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake.
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Salt Lake City
Western Air Express
Los Angeles
Great Salt Lakes
Orders Overwhelm Textile Industry Year End Report
The cotton trade closes with unfilled orders and brisk activity, keeping looms in steady use for an estimated ten to twelve weeks. Cotton goods prices rose across divisions, with firm quotations and rising demand for prompt deliveries, while other market sectors also posted gains.
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Bernard S. O'Ilara
Associated Press
New York
Edward Not a Man of Honor Bishop Asserts Abdication Silence
York England The Archbishop of York defends his silence on King Edward VIII abdication and implies the monarch’s decision would not have been made by a man of honor.
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Edward
Bishop Ascerts
York
Eng
Canterbury
Tulsa Sportsman Dies In Midnight Crash
Louis Francis, 32, a Tulsa sportsperson, was killed instantly when his car crashed off a highway north of Mena, Arkansas, around midnight Monday. The event was reported Thursday.
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Tulsa
Louis Francis
Mena
Mena, Ark
Okla
Here
Not Even a Judge Knew About Law
Supreme Court Justice Willis Vint Devanter and Rev. ZeBirney T. Phillips, Senate chaplain, were spotted duck hunting at Deep Hole Point Club near Occoquan Virginia. A game warden charged them for duck hunting without a $1 revenue stamp, a law Devanter claimed to know nothing about. Phillips defended his companion, praising the justice as a fine outdoorsman.
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Supreme Court
Willis Vint Devanter
ZeBirney T. Phillips
Senate
Deep Hole Point Club
Occoquan
Eclergyman
Ijustice
Uewardyn
Vary Devanter
Phillips
Ecomanion
Spot Cotton Closes Steady With Mild Decline in New Orleans
Cotton prices in New Orleans moved Tuesday with the July contract at 12.06 and 11.99 at close. Spot cotton finished steady, seven points lower, with middling grade at 12.51.
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New Orleans
Hempstead Farmer Bags 4-Point Buck Near Delight Ark
J. E. McWilliams bagged a 4 point buck Monday morning 12 miles north of Delight Arkansas while hunting with J. K. Sale Riley Lewallen and a Hope resident. The group jumped a doe but could not harvest it due to deer protection laws. McWilliams lives in the Shower Springs area southeast of Hope.
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J. E. McWilliams
Delight
Ark
McWilliams
Shower Springs
Hope
Foreign Capital to Be Segregated
The Treasury announced a broad control plan to sterilize gold imports and domestic gold acquisitions by using inactive accounts and Treasury bill sales. Chair Marriner Eccles and Secretary Morgenthau emphasized that inflows would be removed from the money market and outflows funded by bill retirements, aiming to curb excess bank reserves and credit expansion.
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Washington—I
United States
Treasury
Marriner v. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Morgenthau
Gregur
Peppesa
Hearing in Grover's Case Again Postponed
In Hot Springs Arkansas the hearing for E E Grover a 46 year old chir practitioner accused of burning his wife to death was postponed for 24 hours. Prosecutors said they needed more time to secure witnesses.
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Grover
Hot Springs
Ark
Ugully
E. E. Grover
Soviet China Japan war tensions rise as naval moves, Madrid aerial attack report
Fragmented text notes Soviet Sino Japanese friction. Moscow wary as Russian workers mobilize to guard shipping. Madrid reports Fascist air strike amid protests by Socialist pilots. Mentions Loyang and Sianfu and Marshal Chan’s rebel forces, suggesting looming conflict with Japan.
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Iteria
Loyang
Homen
Ted
Eee
di Sianfu
Chan
Japan
Pentecostal Church Christmas Program Slated Tuesday
The Sunday school department of the Pentecostal church sponsors a Christmas program Tuesday evening beginning at Tas p. The pastor is away and will return from Shreveport to lead regular Sunday services. Friday night service conduct gifted by L. J. Callee in the interim.
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The
Pentecostal Church
Tasp
Hatte
L. J. Callee
Shreveport
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