Thorn Proposes Arkansas Tax Plan to Aid Schools
After conferences Representative Harvey Thorn of Poinsett county announced petitions will be circulated to initiate a 3 percent tax on utilities income to finance school districts. The plan targets electric, gas, telegraph, telephone, water, and pipe-line firms with exemptions for municipally owned systems. Provisions include monthly reports, prohibition on rate increases to shift costs, and penalties for officers. Public vote expected next November.
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Little Rock
Harvey ‘Thorn
Poinsett
Taft, Legislauve
House
Senate
Thorn
Wat
Ately
State Board of Educaton
Arkansas Railroad Commission
Four Bank Robbers Believed Trapped Near Crossville
Crossville Alabama bank robbed by four men of about $1000. They locked two employees and eight customers in the vault while they searched for funds. Three robbers entered with shotguns and a pistol. the fourth guarded outside. After forcing release the vault hostages were freed half an hour later and pursuers followed the bandits toward Attala.
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Crossville
Ala
Wvirst Bank
Here
C. B. King
Attala
Leper Missionary From Arkansas Serves Korea Four Decades
Dr. R M Wilson of Columbus Hempstead county has lived in Korea twenty four years as medical missionary. He directs the Biederwolf Leper Colony under the Southern Presbyterian Mission while J Kelly Unger of West Point Miss oversees education and sanitation. Wilson began after witnessing the mistreatment of lepers and learned Korea has about one leper per thousand. He and colleagues sought funds to build a home and hospital for the afflicted as they watched thousands suffer homeless.
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Biederwolf Leper Colony
Seonchun
Korea
R. M. Wilson
Arkansas
Arkansas Gazette
Columbus
Hempstead County
Coonchun
Japan
Wilson
Biederwolf
Sard
Southern Presbyterian Mission
J. Kelly Unger
West Point
Miss
Soonchun Mission
Pennsylvania
Forsythe
Kwangju
Hutson Bound Over For April Grand Jury On Robbery Charge
Jesse Hutson was bound over to the April grand jury on a robbery charge connected to the hi jacking of Faye Negim. At a Hope Municipal Court preliminary hearing Negim identified Hutson as the man who on Christmas night robbed him of $37.50 at his doorstep. Negim testified and reaffirmed his identification. Hutson waived the hearing and the bond was set at $500.
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Jesse Hutson
Faye Negim
Hope Municipal Court
Negim
Huston
John Vesey
Husson
Hutson
Dillard to Attend Hope’s New Negro High School Dedication
Dr. J H Dillard head of Jeanes and Slater foundations, a famed white educator, will be honored at Hope’s negro high school dedication on Shover street next Monday January 4. His foundations aided $4 000 toward construction while Dillard has long led white South efforts to improve negro schooling. He will attend a luncheon with city officials and businessmen before the afternoon program.
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Hope
Shover Street
South
J. H. Dillard
Jeanes
Tulane University
New Orleans
Dillard
Nor. Dillard
Dissatisfaction Among Republicans Is Voiced
Washington dispatch quotes Senator Norriy of Nebraska reacting to Charles D. Hilles remarks. He says Hoover supporters may purge dissidents, leaving few Republicans to bear the party’s burden.
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Washington
Charles D. Hilles
New York
Norriy
Nebraska
Milles
Hoover
Kipling Observes His 66th Birthday at Home
Kipling marked his 66th birthday quietly at Batemans, near Burwash, Essex. Messages of goodwill arrived from friends and colleagues as admirers sent greetings to the celebrated writer.
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Kipling
Burwash
Essex
Rudyard Kipling
Gandhi Civil Disobedience Talks Prompt Government Openness
Bombay telegraph reveals Viceroy Willingdon signaled Gandhi that renewed civil disobedience would meet government openness. Reports quote Gandhi adviser indicating a reply from the leader is forthcoming amid tensions in India.
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Bombay
India
Lord Willingdon
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Youths Sought in Beating of Mena Officer Harris
Five youths including Rex Vaughan and George Reeves are charged with assaulting Officer Hill Harris in Mena, after he tried to arrest Vaughan in a cafe. Harris suffered three broken ribs, scalp wounds, and possible internal injuries. attackers fled in a car and fired the revolver as they left.
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Mena
Ark
Hill Harris
Rex Vaughan
Harris
Vaughan
George Reeves
J. D. Burk
Ernest Harper
Jess Hall
Thene
Waldron
Train wreck attempt charged Detroit man
TTEVILLE Ark in a Frisco railroad tie incident near Greenwood. Clarence Bunck of Detroit admitted helping two others place a tie to derail a train several days ago. Buck Bunck was arrested by Rogers while his accomplices escaped. Authorities say the attempt was discovered in time and wreckers were not harmed.
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Tteville
Ark
Stin
Clarence ‘Kinch
Detroit
Greenland
Buck
Rogers
Ffleers
Bunck
Nice Sar- Ja
Repeal Favored in Early Returns of Finnish Elections
HELSINGFORS Finland with 57 percent of local votes counted in the prohibition referendum shows a strong repeal tilt. By 4 pm 132000 votes counted about 82 percent favor repeal, with 60 percent of repeal votes from women and only a small share for modification. Public reaction centers on a possible national front against prohibition.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Milestone Insurance Man Dies After Prescott Crash
M E Milestone forty Texarkana insurance man died at 2 15 am Wednesday in a Prescott hospital from injuries suffered six weeks earlier in an automobile accident near Prescott. He will be buried in Mason cemetery after services at First Methodist and Congregational churches. Survived by wife daughter and three sisters. He came to Texarkana from New York City fifteen years ago and worked for Missouri Pacific and later Aetna Insurance.
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Texarkana
M. E. Milestone
Prescott
East Unders
Laurel Streets
F. A. Buddin
F. E. Maddox
Congregational Church
Masonic Cemetery
Milestone
Max Matz
Bluefield
W. Va
J. Milestone
St. Louis
Leo Walfert
Little Rock
Mr. Milestone
Auto Licenses Due Friday in Hope Area
Sheriff John L. Wilson reported from Hope that only 22 auto license applications had been received as the new year began. Officers stationed at Washington courthouse and Hope city hall expect business to rise Friday, the first day police liens must be filed.
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John L. Wilson
Hope City
Washington
Hope High School Graduates Through the Years in Hope
A historic 1888 Hope High School graduation program shows eight graduates at Murray's Opera House. By 1931 the school, now in a fine public building, graduated forty seven. The 1888 list includes Georgie Meek Lena Trossett Katie Jones Mattie Alexander Effie Anderson Katie Jamison R L Saner D M Wood.
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June Hope High School
Murray
Opera House
Hope
W. A. Alford
Hope Route 4
Waiter Leaps To Death From Train
Louis Xedis, a Washington Heights waiter, died after leaping from a speeding New York Central express near Rensselaer last Monday. Investigators concluded the death resulted from delusions of persecution and a panic over imagined pursuers. Police traced him after he left New York for Yonkers seeking protection before boarding to Utica.
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Rensselaer
Louis Condon
New York Central
J. C. Sharkey
Louis Xedis
Washington Heights
New York City
Xedis
New York
Yonkers
Utica
Marsher
Wounding of Arkansas Youth Is Investigated
Mulberry Ark officers investigated the shooting of Miller Francis, 22, wounded in the leg and brought to a doctor’s office Tuesday night. Francis said he and a companion, Ernest Meadows, were involved. two men and two women from Altus transported him. Details unclear.
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Mulberry
Ark
New York 1932 model described by Ziegfeld
Florenz Ziegfeld of Follies fame described the 1932 model American girl as blonde. She stands five feet nothing, weighs 118 pounds, with fuller curves and less streamlined appearance than last year. He comments on free wheeling and fuel consumption in contemporary fashion talk.
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New York
Florenz Ziegfeld
Follies Fame
Leap Year Marriage Licenses Record in Hempstead County
County Clerk Arthur C. Anderson notes Leap Year shows no special advantage in marriages. Eight-year figures flag 1924 260 licenses and 1925 345 as peaks, with 1927 311 and 1931 253. 1942 may see better business amid lower living costs and a popular love song.
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Arthur C. Anderson
Washington
Hempstead
Anderson
Seap
Farmer Held In Mercy Murder Case In West Virginia
Wayne West Virginia farmer Smith Webb was arrested after his mentally deficient daughter Maude died in December from a poison linked to beetles. Webb claimed innocence and suspected accidental poisoning. Investigators found a rough grave and a homemade coffin, but physicians later reported she died from a different chemical.
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Wayne
W. Va
Simith Webb
Maude
Webb
First Snow Falls in State in Fayetteville
Fayetteville records the first snow of the season on the last day of the year. The temperature plummeted from 80 to 38 degrees as the light snowfall touched the area.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Boy Scout Meeting Set Friday Night at Fair Park
A Boy Scout meeting is scheduled for Friday night at Fair Park beginning at 7 30. The announcement is by Scout Henry Haynes.
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Boy Scout Organization
Fair Park
Eae Henry Haynes
Storm Toll Mounts After Tornado Strikes Monticello Area
A tornado near Monticello wrecked homes and killed several, including Mrs Anse E Yant and a two year old, with others injured. Affected families faced destruction as floods worsened the already strained region. Black residents Hattie and Nannie Lee and a child were also reported dead. Roads and rivers surged as heavy rains caused new rises, prompting evacuations and mounting losses.
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Jackson
Wath Tee Sons
Anse E
Eve
Paul Brown
Hattie
Nannie Lee
Glendora
Pastor Accuses Rail Head in Suit in Chicago
In Chicago William 3 Storey president of the Santa Fe railroad and his wife Laura were sued for 200000 by Rev Ulysses Grant Warren a Congregational minister who says the Storeys caused the alienation of his wife Edith Warren also seeks divorce in Reno Nevada and claims letters urged her to leave her husband The Buffalo federal case was dismissed for improper service and the new suit seeks trial at an early date
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Chicago
William 3. Storey
Santa Fe Railroad
Laura
Ulysses Grant Warren
Corning
N.Y
Wilam B. Gemmill
Buffalo
N. Y
Warren
Storeys
Storey
William T. Alden
Post Office Closure On New Year's Day
The local post office will be closed Friday in observance of New Year's Day. City carriers at au marae Teas will be ae.
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Au Marae Teas
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Cleveland
Cesare Grandenigo
William Cameron Forbes
State Department
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William Wellman
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