Local firms pledge full 100 percent to Red Cross fund
Success is in sight as reports show ongoing completion of the $1,000 emergency goal for Red Cross and United Charities. A long list of Hope area businesses and institutions signaled 100 percent subscriptions, including State Experiment Farm, hardware firms, grocery stores, banks, hotels, utilities, drug stores, and many others.
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Red Cross
United Charities
State Experiment Farm
K. G. McRae Hardware Co
R. V. Stephenson Grocery
Hope Furniture Co
City Bakery
Ivory Handle Co
Hoye Hardware Co
John P. Cox Drug Co
John S
Gibson Drug Co
White & Co
W. P. Singleton
Diffie Hardware Co
Briant & Co
J. A. Henry & Son
Union Compress & Warehouse
Cea
J. K. Sales
Cecil Weaver
United Charities Drive
Toame
Alex. HL Washburn
J J. K. Sales
Devil Weaver
Robert Wilson
L. Carter Johnon
M. Smyth
C. C. Spragins
P. Cox
Robert Hugenin
Geo W Ware
Smyth
Mr Spragins
Homer Pige
Carter Johnson
Ekolon Compress & Warehouse Co
Lyle Moore
Kyler
Franklin
Nave
Arkateas Machine & Specialty % Co
P. O'Neal
Raymond Newnan
Ernest Graham
Fred Thornberg
Oo M
BR. Pietehe
D. E. Ross
Rive
Ray Ervin Muprow
Joe Johnson
Glenlee van Ness
Hope
Smith
Will Tyree
W. E. Smith
Lon Wil Hodge
Nat Daniels
Fan Crawford
Ike Goodmen
Jou Witherspoon
O c Robinson
Mabr
Pearson
Warrisoe
Grant
Divenport
P. Finer Dove Hicks
Osc
Witsot
Arthur Brown
Witherspoon
Hotvler
Fred Moss
T. We Duluthy
W. Dirksen
Doe Turner Q
M. Powell
Stewart
Ton
Vote to Be Taken On College Name
Conway reports on Hendrix College name change opposition. Jim Montgomery of the College Profile mailed student parents a poll while the college paper supports retaining Hendry after the Galloway Hendrix merger. Students, city business leaders, and alumni reportedly oppose the change in near unanimous fashion.
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Conway
Hendrix College
Jim Montgomery
Hendry
Galloway
Hendrix
Robbers Seize Mail Sacks at Union Station
W. H. Moran, a thief of the secret service, said Thursday three bandits beat a mail clerk at Union station early morning and stole registered mail pouches. He believed they had “gotten a Holl brick,” noting reports show half of notes from a New York Federal Reserve bank to the treasury were missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wastiington
W. H. Moran
Secret Service
Union Station
Moran
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury
Pine Bluff Negro Shot By Policeman
Pine Bluff resident Dave Pitts worth, an African American detainee from a jail escape attempt, was shot and killed early Thursday by Marion Davis, night chief of police. He had been arrested by Mayor Holderness days earlier on shoplifting charges.
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Pine Bluff
Dave Pittsworth
Igre
Memory of Lincoln Held in Washington
In Washington Senator Smoot of Utah and Vice President Curtis spoke on Abraham Lincoln. Curtis denounced biographers who would ruin memories of victims, while Smoot rejected critics who attack the Lincoln memory as vain and unproductive.
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Washington
Abraham Gincol
Smoot
Utah
Curtis
Smtout
Lincoln
Amuriena
Veterans relief plan headed to Ways and Means Committee
Bulletin notes the House Ways and Means Committee will consider a veterans relief plan to aid borrowers with increased loan payments. The plan was revised in morning sessions to impose a 25 percent ban on the face value of Ute certificates. Democratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson warned the Senate that failure to pass the $20 million compromise relief proposal would be charged as inefficiency.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Joseph T. Robinson
Senate
War veteran wins $8050 suit in Arkansas federal court
Willis N Hairston, a World War I veteran claiming total disability from colitis, won an $8050 verdict on a war risk insurance claim in Arkansas federal court. The trial was the second after the original jury disagreed. Hairston cites an attack at Camp Pike as the cause and says he has been disabled since May 20, 1919, with ongoing medical care and veterans bureau hospital treatment in Houston. Trial also covered McCoy’s similar case seeking total and permanent disability from tuberculosis, with procedural questions about authority to render judgment.
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Texarkana
Arkansas
Willis N. Hairston
Hairston
Camp Pike
Little Trock
Veterans’ Bureau Hospital
Houston
T. J. McCoy
McCoy
Frank A. Youmans
James A. Winn
Veterans' Bureau
Little Rock
Winn
Charles B. Logan
Vse Culumin Brothers
Arkansas to Have Veterans Hospital
Washington reports a $600000 appropriation for a northwest Arkansas veterans hospital with a 400 bed general facility planned. The Fuller bill seeks eventual $1600000 in federal funding, with Northwest Arkansas towns vying for the site as the House Veterans Committee has endorsed the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arkansas
Congress
General Hospital
House
Veterans’ Ganmittee
Claude A. Fuller
Income Tax Agent To Arrive Monday
federal income tax collector will reach Hope next Monday February 16 and stay through Tuesday 17 to help Hempstead county taxpayers with federal returns. Agent R A Smith will operate from temporary HQs likely at city hall or Hotel Barlow serving LaFayette March 2 Stamps March 3 and Lewisville March 3. George Plymale will serve Howard county from Nashville for one day February 19. Deputy collectors are tasked to aid taxpayers with filing by March 15 1931 with returns required for those earning over 5000 or net incomes above 1500 single or 3500 married with or without dependents.
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Hope
R. A Smith
City Hall
Barlow
Howard County
George ¥. Plymale
Nashville
A. J. Russell
Federal Collector of Internal Revenue
Arkansas
United States
Collector of Internal Revenue
Little Rock
Cigarette Stamp Rule Issued By Arkansas Revenue
Arkansas revenue issues order requiring cigarette stamps to be affixed to the original container or a compliant wrapper. If cellophane covers the outer wrap, it must be removed and the stamp canceled. noncompliance may lead to seizure and forfeiture. Date and signer: February 11, 1931, Commissioner David A. Gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Revenue
Little Rock
David A. Gates
Commissioner of Revenue
Cmass
House Fights Over School Millage Tax
In Little Rock a dispute erupts in the House over a 1.8 mill tax for schools. Henderson State Teachers College supporters seek apportionment to fund maintenance by cutting other districts by up to twenty thousand dollars. Representative Johnson advocates millage redistribution. The session pauses for memory of late Governor Thomas C. McRae.
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Little Rock
Henderson State Teachers College
Johnson
Johnson County
Henderson
Thomas C. McRae
Poultry From South Dakota to Aid Arkansas Drouth Area
Dr. D E Cleveland unofficial ambassador from South Dakota surveyed drouth conditions in Arkansas and announced 20 carloads of food are available. Red Cross accepted the offer and part of the 29 car shipment is en route including four cars of poultry. The plan is to stock farms with poultry and distribute 11 chickens per family in the hardest hit area. The supplies include 1000 army shirts 1000 suits of underwear butter eggs breakfast foods and other edibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
South Dakota
D. E. Cleveland
Red Cross
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Montana
South
Cleveland
Cam
WNAX
Yankton
McRae Honored By Legislature
Former Governor Thomas C. McRae, who died in 1929 at his Prescott home, is to be honored in a Friday memorial in Arkansas’s legislature. A 2 p.m. joint session will pay tribute with veteran lawmakers among those attending the service. He served two terms as governor and remained a respected Democratic leader in state politics.
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Little Rock
Thomas C. McRae
McRae
Democratic Party
Arkansas
Prescott
Chickenbone Kills Woman in Portland Tragedy
Mrs. Catherine McGrath, 71, died in Portland after a chicken bone became lodged in her throat and punctured a blood vessel, investigators say.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Catherine McGrath
Egg Battle Planned to Reduce Surplus
Californias TRULOCK 4-Rotery and Exchange Club men plan an egg battle Friday to cut a local egg surplus and stabilize the poultry industry. Dressed in armor and carrying baskets of eggs, they will hurl the missiles until about 100 cases are a fragrant memory. The winning club will challenge service club teams from Modesto Merced and other towns. The events are sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
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Trulock
Cal
Modesto
Merced
Chamber of Commerce
Basketball Fans See Plenty Action at Local Armory
Local crowds enjoyed a night of five Wednesday games with solid scores as Spring Hill teams defeated Emmet and Piney Grove while Guernsey topped Patmos. Friday promises a bigger headliner with DeQueen and Mineral Springs visiting Columbus for boys and girls clashes.
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Columbus Boys
DeQueen Boys
Columbus Girls
Mineral Springs
DeQueen- Columbus
Spring Hill
Piney Grove
Emmet
Guernsey
Falls Off Bridge Fatality In Fort Smith
John Wilson aged 20 son of Mr and Mrs James H Wilson Fort Smith residents died Wednesday night from injuries after falling about 11 60 feet from the Garrison avenue bridge to a sandbar where the Arkansas and Poteau river join Four girls witnessed the accident Fire Dept crew retrieved the body after a half hour rescue Wilson died en route to hospital He is survived by his parents two brothers James H Wilson Jr and Richard Wilson
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Fort Smith
John Wilson
James H. Wilson
Garrison Avenue
Arkansas and Poteau River
Wilson
Wilson Coffee Company
Joe Limberg
Warner Sartain
James H. Wilson, Jr
Richard Wilson
Believe Negro Slayer in Arkansas
A wounded man, possibly the Slayer of Byron J. Gordon, a Monroe Louisiana railway officer, is hunted in Drew county Arkansas. He claimed to be William Moody and said he was shot in the hip by a Monroe officer. He stayed at a Negro home near Monticello before the trail went cold.
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Monticello
Ark
Byron J. Gordon
Monroe
Drew County
Carterdale
Here
Charles Ingram
William Moody
Ingram
Index Bridge Bill Sparks House Fight Over Funds
Texarkana report notes Red River district tolls from the Index Bridge may fund a bond retirement plan. Attys examine legality as Waldrop Butler supporters push to use toll revenue to aid crops and retire bonds by 1938 with 5.5 percent interest. Commissioners seek full cancellation after reducing holdings. tolls may end or cut after debt cleared.
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Red River
Repre Waldrop
Texarkana
Sons of the Waldrop-Butler
House
Th.ree
Ned ‘A. Stewai
Hous
Louis Josephs
Authorities Seek To Identify Man In Woods Near Memphis
Memphis authorities seek to identify a neatly dressed man found beaten to death and secretly buried in woods Wednesday night. Berney Fnesbure of Hot Springs recalls a possible Ed Parnell acquaintance from a Johnson City Veterans Hospital visit, noting the victim had a mustache like his friend. The decedent, about fifty to sixty, was found by two Black hunters. a letter to Harry Michael of Memphis spurred questioning of Flensburg, who reportedly was with a stranger recently.
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Memphis
Johnson City
Tenn
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Berney Fnesbure
Ed. Parnell
Veterans Hospital
Frensburg
Harry Michael
Flensburg
Michael
Pope Pius Opens Vatican Radio Station Across Ocean
Pope Pius spoke in Latin to inaugurate a new radio station at Vatican City. The Latin address was broadcast to New York where listeners heard most of his remarks. Marquis Marcel, who helped resist the short wave station’s constriction, introduced the pope.
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New York
Pope Pius
Vatican City
Marquis Marcoul
Vatloan
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Arkansas Machine & Specialty Co
Hope Heading Co
Hope Water & Light Plant
J.C. Penney & Co
Briant's
First National Bank
Hope Brick Works
M. System
Hupe Confectionery
Moreland
Nelson-Huckins Laundry Co
Famous
J. A. Brady Jewelry Co
Railway Express
Okay Barbershop Y. RR
Billingsley & Co
Schoelker
Theo P, Witt & Co
Darwin
Hope Retail Lumber Co
Coleman's Garage
Young Chevrolet Co
Hope Auto Co
Olin Anderson
Lee B. Ewing
George Sandefur
Frank Hicks
Edna Jones
J.D. Brown
D. B. Phillips
R. H. Barr
John W. Owen
Jy Loo
Jim Hornaday
Frank Hutchins
Mitchell Cole
Jonas Benton
Henry Munn
Mose Yorger
Cll Barfield
Julius Archie
Kill Burns
John P. Cox
Robvrt Maguenin
Jason Hephan
Guy
Bennie Benton
MW. Hogue
Ward & Son
Connie Greenlee
Buck Shell
Herbert Stuckey
Mc. Penney & Co
Pearl
Monts
Cora Ture
Forrest Ruggles
Albert Stonequist
Scott Sores
Julia Maher
Pauline Britt
Wright Massey Ah
Maleo's Saenger ‘Theatre
Elliott Johnson
C. C. Reed
O. L. Bowden
Ges
W. Robison
Logan Bailey Co
C. Stuart
Henry Hite
Johnnie McCabe
Alien Armstrong
C. Foster
Philip Poster
Clyde Coffer
Mae Jimison
Ceni
Joyce Beard
Theresa Urban
Banrentine L
Callie Keene
Middlebrooks
Grovery Haven Rider
Pete Shields
Glen Hollis
Evelyn Lewis
L. Cc Burr & Co
MM. M. “Smyth
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Garnet Martin i Ray Cumbie
Michigan
Helena
Benton Harbor
Mich
Senator Smoot
Bulletins
R. A. Smith
Thos. C. McRae
Drouth
Elves
Chickenbone
Egg Battle
Patmos
Uergs
Ft. Smith
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W. He Cruce
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