Ex-convict arrest tied to Eden slaying near Little Rock
In Little Rock on February 5 Frank Young said a be on ex conv Vict was arrested today and two women are being questioned by county officials in the alleged slaying of John W. Eden Jr. whose body was found on railroad right of way near here last Saturday. Three companions rode with him returning to Little Rock after a failed gas run and a man is being sought. The women deny involvement while one mentioned a terrible girl. A gasoline stop near the Conway highway was reported with a man in stained clothing seeking fuel.
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Little Rock
Frank Young
John W. Eden
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Young
E. J. McKinley, Jr
al Hia
Conway
Little Rock-Conway
Condemned Dad Could Get Visit From Son in Michigan
In SANSING Michigan February 5 1930s Jan R Howell 20 may be released from state prison to visit his father W Bill Howell 63 who faces electrocution in Arkansas for carrying concealed weapons. Arkansas Representative Harney McGehee asks Governor Green to grant clemency noting the Howell children need support. The elder Howell is at Van Buren Arkansas awaiting execution while the judge who sentenced him had no objection to leniency.
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Sansing
Mich
R. Howell
Midhieavy
Jackson
Bill) Howell
Little Rock
Harney McGehee
Crawford County
Ark
Aiterney
Howell
Green
William
Representative McGehee
Hin Th
Detroit
Elenanes
van Buren
Pioneer Woman on Barren Pampas Farms in Primitive Style
Fay out and south Florida picturing a pioneer woman in a desolate Everglades area. Mrs John Dees has tilled a standing field of golden rice for 28 years with her two sons nearby. They harvest by hand and supplement with wild fish. The scene highlights rugged self sufficiency in a harsh environment.
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Pampas
Font Myers
Fla
Fay
South Florida
Pictirie
Dohi Dees
Evergiades
Buffalo Calves Fund College Education Plan
Youths Harry and Paul Griffith of Edmond Kansas seek to finance their college education by feeding buffalo calves for market. They have grown the calves from 300 to 800 pounds through careful feeding and hope the market favors buffalo meat. If successful, they plan to raise more to fund studies at Kansas State Agricultural College.
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Edmond
Kus
Harry
Paul Griffith
Paul
Kansas State Agricultural College
Ohio Co-Eds Tend House To Master Home Tricks
Ohio University students take charge of a house near campus described with a fur nave and a sink to be cleaned by a budger. The co-eds must live there for nine semesters and maintain the property as part of their studies in evoluities and psychology.
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Ohio
Athens
Pipkins
Ohio University
Slayer to Get Second Sanity Hearing in Van Buren
In Charleston February 14 a second sanity hearing for 28 year old Slayer Howell Crawford County is scheduled by Circuit Judge K O Kineennan. Warden Todhunter says he has not been informed but would transport Howell to Van Buren if ordered. The prior hearing ended with a hung jury and was the first such proceeding in years.
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Charleston
W. H
Howell
Crawford County
van Buren
K. 0. Kineannan
Crawfurd
S. L. Todhunter
Store Sticks Up Girls To Promote Its Sales
Bublin Feb 5 Free lipsticks and face powder to shoppers in a store promo. A front member explains the idea is to help women look their best not to dress like chorus girls. Each girl gets powder and lipstick to encourage purchases during winter sales.
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Bublin
Hero
Front
Expenditures For 1930 Reach 10 Billion Dollars
NEW YORK Feb 3 Securities offerings in 1930 will exceed those of 1929 if projected governmental, oil, industrial expenditures are carried out. Total construction work planned for 1930 is estimated at 10,000,000,000. New security offerings will fall short of this figure by about 60 hundred thousand according to banking statistics. Foreign bond issues in 1930 were less than one third of total new securities.
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New York
Inala
Missing Aviators Abandoned Search Ends
Moscow dispatch reports the government ends the search for aviators Carl Ber Biglsan and Biv Borland missing since November in eastern Siberia. Authorities acknowledge likely death and terminate further salvage efforts.
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Moscow
U.S
Fel
Acetic Commission
Sev- Ins
Carl Ber Biglsan
Biv Borland
Amerivus
Misang
Siberia
List Sevembur
Pauper Dr Chamness Dies After A Life Of Charity
Clarendon Fab 4 An aged tuberculosis victim lived on local charity while a once wealthy Texas physician, Dr B C Chamness, 63, who studied at Baylor and other universities, died at Roc in Monroe county after seven years there. He had kept his past hidden and earned a meager living practicing medicine before his illness confined him.
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Clarendon
Fab
Baylor
Texas
B. C. Chamness
Roc
Monroe County
Chamnes
Coeds Warned by Athens Council Over Rides
Athens Georgia February 5 The city council enforces a new ordinance banning solicitation for rides in automobiles within city limits. Violations carry a $25 fine and any gesture or speech to an autoist for a ride is illegal.
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Athens
Second Hearing for Texas Slayer in Texarkana Case
In Texarkana on February 5 a change of venue petition was filed in the murder case of Kader Barfield, 27, charged with killing Ray Pabner in Boston Tex after a fight in a Texarkana apartment. Barfield was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 25 years. a new trial was requested by the criminal court of appeals. Barfield contends self defense, claiming Palmer advanced with a gut and Palmer’s matter was shot during a struggle.
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Texarkana
Kader Barfield
Ray Pabner
Vial
Boston
Tex
Palmer
Texas
Barfield
Criminal Court of Appeals
Gelf
Chamber of Commerce sets plans for airport move and rail yard removal
Hone Chamber directors met at Hotel Barlow with J W Y Foster presiding. They discussed obtaining a government approved airport for Hope, lobbying to remove local railroad yards from the business district, and reviving an anti tick campaign for dairy interests. A committee led by Barney Hamm will pursue a lease with option to buy the landing field and visit Memphis compress company officials to make the case.
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Hope
Fluncheon
Hone Chamber of Commerce
Barlow
J. W. Y. Foster, Sr
Ralph Routon
Louisville-Dallas
Barney Humm
Little Rock
Texarkana
Memphis
Hamm
Ch @ Spragins
Tek Prosgram
Hope Banks
Foster
Hampstead County
Lick
G. A. Graves
Chamber
Mary Buechley
Lec
Ralph Houten
Roy Anderson
Parole Consideration For Explorer Cook In March
Washington February 5 The Federal Parole Board recommended parole for Frederic A Cook the polar explorer serving four to ten years for defrauding the mails in a petroleum stock scheme If the board is approved by the attorney general and president Hoover the parole could take effect March 5 Cook’s case centers on mail fraud charges connected with his petroleum stock promotions
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Washington
Dortov Drederick A. Cook
Artic Explorer
Lesvenworth Pennnientiary
Federal
Parel Board
Cleneral Mitchells
Hoover
Cook
Bankers Warned Against Queensland Lightning Rod Game
CHICAGO bankers warned against a Queensland style lightning rod game described as a confidence trick by critics. The speech cited fraud risks where small initial bets lure savers, then escalate to heavy losses as victims chase illusory profits through high stakes gambles.
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le Bankers
Qld
Chicago
Confidere Games
Savinas
Spechition
Garmies
Divaks
Ciirentories
Luxury living for CBS chief Paley on Park Avenue
New York Feb 5 Willian S Paley 27 year old president of CBS enjoys a six room Park Avenue apartment. It features chromatic lighting enabling cocktails from bed and radio access to lights and books. An aluminum staircase piano concealed in wall silver balcony wardrobe space for 100 shirts and 100 neckties.
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New York
Willian’. S. Paley
Columbia Broadcasting System
Park Avenue House
Exels
Gurdon Slayer To Be Tried Today
ARKADELPHIA Feb 5 Trial of IG. D. Rushing Arkadelphia jeweler on a first degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of David Hodges at Gurdon Sept 22 1929 is slated for Wednesday in Clark county circuit court. Hodges a jeweler here died after a late Saturday shooting following an old business grudge. Rushing was captured in Arkadelphia shortly after the incident. The case is among several sensational criminal trials noted as liquor-law cases proceed elsewhere with guilty verdicts and suspended sentences reported.
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Arkadelphia
IG. D. Rushing
David Hodges
Gurdon
Clark County
Hodges
Gordon
Prescott
tWe
Rushing
Will Jordan
Waller
Everett Oliver
More Can Openers Used Quiz Shows CHICAGO
More housewives are using can openers than ever before and families buy about three times as much on credit as cash, per National Retail Credit Association. The report notes twelve cents of every dollar on retail purchases in 1829 went to grocers and delicatessen. department stores led with fifteen cents. Drug stores four cents. restaurants seven. hardware two. electrical stores a half cent. book and stationery one-half. Open book credit rose to 15 billion dollars countrywide in an average Friday period. To save consumers $100 yearly, the association launches a 7 million dollar advertising campaign to educate on credit and timely bill paying.
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Chicago
National
Deiivatessen
Rrug
Cotton Costs Rise As Land Values Decrease
STILLWATER Okla Feb To erosion the bell weevil and other damaging factors to land in Oklahoma cotton belt is aturih and a rise of injuries annually in costs of producing in the Sooner state. Decreasing soil fertility in recent years adds about 24000000 yearly to costs of raising the state's 1200000 bales of cotton. Oklahoma farmer now spends about 20 more to raise a bale than two decades ago. Lands raising the West cotton per acre yield greatest profits and lowest production costs per pound.
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Stillwater
Okla
Oklabactor
C. P. Blackwell
Oklahoma A. & M College
Oklahoma
Father of 3 Is Killed by Train at Crossing
Dewey Bowden, 31, father of three, was killed when he stepped in front of a Sun nyland Frisco passenger train near Jonesboro. The 50 mph train dragged him over 300 yards before stopping. Bowden had a history of mental illness and had just been released from a state hospital. Relatives think a despair-driven act followed a deterioration in his condition. He left home to seek work in Truman earlier, after his stay. Clyde Houston and B. C. Hirst witnessed Bowden stopping his car by the tracks and stepping onto the rails as the train whistle blew.
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Jonesboro
Dewey Bowden
Bowden
Truman
State Hospital
Clyde Houston
B. C. Hirst
Ouachita Rises Above Flood Stage After Rain
Heavy rain near Arkadelphia drenched the area with over two inches, as recorded by the government rainfall gauge. The Ouachita River rose to 15 feet, two feet above flood stage, threatening to flood the state highway approaching Arkadelphia from the southeast.
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Ouachita
Arkadelphia
W .K. Brown
Ouachita River
Arkadelthia
Charities Merge With Red Cross
A merger plan unites Associated Charities with the local Red Cross chapter at Hope City Trail. The group will operate under Red Cross weight, with local personnel managed by Associated Charities and fundraising in the Red Cross name, pending regional approval in St Louis. A United appeal to city and county governments for relief funds may follow.
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Associated Charities
American Red Cross
Hope City Trail
Francis A. Buddin
The
Red Cross
St. Louis
W. A. Bower
Mercer
Consolidated Group
Pacific Coast Leading Department Store Sales
Federal Reserve data show November department store sales up 6.2 percent in the Pacific coast reserve district led by San Francisco. The Richmond district rose 4.45 percent, followed by Kansas City Minneapolis Dallas and New York. Decreases occurred in Atlanta 5.4 percent and in Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland St. Louis and Boston.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve
San Francisco
Richmond
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Dallas
New York
Atlanta
Chicago
Philadelphia
Cleveland
St. Louis
Boston
Missionary Dr Wilson to Lecture on Korea at First Methodist
A class program at the First Presbyterian Church features Dr Wilson, Missionary to Korea, lecturing on Korea during the evening service. Attendance credits available to regular class members who attend tonight's service.
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Korea
Wilson
Kures
Istondanes
Clase
January motor fatalities drop to ten in Arkansas
Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce reports ten deaths in motor accidents during January, down from higher totals in prior months. The report notes weather like snow sleet and cold reduced traffic, with December and earlier months showing higher fatalities. one late January death occurred in El Dorado.
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Little Rock
Arkansans
Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce
el Dorado
C. C. Perkins
President Hoover to Visit Taft This Afternoon
President Hoover will visit former Supreme Court Justice Taft this afternoon after physicians reported his condition improved. The White House said Taft could leave his bed and sit in a chair, with Mrs. Hoover likely accompanying the president.
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Washington
Hoover
The
Supreme Court
Taft
Visi Taft
White House
Driver Freed in Death of Ashdown Man
A coroner s jury in Bossier exonerised D D Norman a Shreveport laundry truck driver held for the death of John Ed Lagke former Ashdown Ark mayor who was run down three miles south of Shreveport last Wednesday night Norman testified he was blinded by an approaching car eyewitnesses including Mrs Locke and her mother Mrs Julia Hicks testified they feared they did not witness the tragedy
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Shreveport
Bossier Putish
D. D. Norman
John Ed Lagke
Ashdown
Ark
Here
Norman
Luecke
Nor
Wea
Inaugural Mexican Districts Watch New Presidency
Fragmentary notes indicate a focus on the inaugural events or formation of districts linked to a new presidency in Mexico. The readable parts mention more than 40 entities entering districts and the participation of Mexican officials in early steps toward the new administration.
Detriot robbers strike Union Telegraph office fearless heist
A ten-member gang robs the Union Telegraph center in Detroit, overpowering a woman trap and forcing eight women employees and customers into separate rooms. They disable the alarm, guard the area, and fail to open the safe while grabbing cash from several drawers totaling about $3,000. The crew escaped with the money as customers fled.
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Detroit
Gobl
Thi
Meéi
Doctor Stops Shaving Until Oil Is Found
Helena Montana February 5 a gusher comes in on the Porcupine dome in Rosebud County Doctor Neil Cotton of Forsyth Montana vows to let his whiskers grow until oil is found He says he will trim to a Van Dyke once the well comes in or is dry The discovery of oil trace prompts the change ending years of a long beard.
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Helena Mont
Rosebud County
Neil Cotten
Forsyth
Mont
Cotten
Dr. Cotton
van Dyke
Wild Hay King Ships 4000 Carloads Annually
Lamar Missouri report on George W Schweiner who runs the world’s largest individual wild prairie hay producer. His 4000 carloads a year totaling over a million bales go to buyers nationwide. He owns or controls more than 20 sections of hay land and stores much of the year’s production in 80 storehouses.
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Lamar
George W. Schweiner
Seiweiner
Sehreines
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