Fragmentary Tale of Legislative Letters and Appointments
Disjointed OCR notes describe a legislative session with debates over expulsions and gubernatorial appointments. It mentions senatorial Bailey, Nelson, and a constitutional amendment related to membership, ten-day deadlines, and indictments. Bankers Association names are noted in connection with a commissioner appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodson
Senate
Nelson
Bailey
Milar
Bankers Association
Sale of Insurance Concerns Assailed In Tenn. Law Suit
In Nashville, Inter-Southern Life Insurance of Louisville filed petitions in U S District Court to set aside two contracts with Caldwell & Co Nashville. One contract involved purchase of Home Life Home Fire and Home Residence Insurance Companies of Little Rock and a repurchase agreement. The suit alleges unfair advantage to Caldwell & Co and claims failure to substitute clean assets for questionable ones. Also seeks return of stock and waivers of cash and securities valued at over a million dollars. J J Morrison of Home Life issued a statement saying he does not know the suit’s purpose and recounting recent stock transfers and Keystone Holding Company purchase terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Inter- Southern Life Insurance Company
Louisville
United States District Court
Caldwell & Co
IntersSouthern
Home Life, Home Fire
Home Resident
Little Rock
Ark
Inter-Southern
Kanwicky
Arkansas
A. B. Banks & Co
J. K. Riffel
Vann M. Howell & Co
Howe Companies
J James J. Harrison
A. B. Banks
James J. Harrison
Banks, Harrison and Banks Company
Howell Company
Cadwell & Co
J. J. Morrison
Home Life Insurance Company
Inter-Southern Insurance Company
A. B. Banks and Associates
C. G. Arnett
Yale Library Believed to Be World's Largest
New Haven Conn Yale University library now totals 1 983 438 volumes and is regarded as the largest university library. Books were housed in Sterling Memorial Library towering over campus structures. Among 61 407 volumes added last year is the James Camp Williams copy of the Tricitus opera printed at Venice in 1473.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Interesting Results of Experiment Station Digest
The Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station outlines extensive horticultural trials across truck crops, fruits, and field crops. It lists numerous fertilizer tests, varieties, planting methods, and pest control efforts, inviting visits to study ongoing experiments under Assistant Director George W. Ware.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fruit and Truck Branch
Bermuda
Building Storage Plant For Poultry In Hope
A poultry storage and dressing plant is being erected in Hope by W. M. Duckett who has shipped poultry from here in recent months. The plant will be near the Southern Grain and Produce Co and will stock a variety of poultry for immediate on‑site dressing. Customers may select a live fowl and have it killed and dressed while they wait.
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Hope
W. M. Duckett
Southern Grain and Produce Co
Hall Meets Hall at Hot Springs Hotel
In Hot Springs Arkansas a mix up at a hotel over two guests both named Wendell Hall caused clerks to double assign rooms. One Wendell Hall from Chicago, famed radio composer known as Red Headed Music Maker, arrived first and was checked in before the Detroit based Wendell Hall associated with Fisher Body. After a brief confusion the two men met and became friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Wendell Hall
Wendell WY. Hall
Fisher Body Company
Detroit
Chicago
Radio Fame
Lalice
Eudora Farmer Plenn Streetman Ends Life At Home
Eudora resident Plenn Streetman aged 45 a farmer died by suicide at his home on Wednesday night He shot himself in the head with a pistol at 6 died at 9 30 He left no note He is survived by his wife two sons Plenn in the United States Navy stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and Howard daughters Mrs Laura Turple of Lake Village and Marion Streetman of Eudora two sisters Mrs Edyar Caln of Eudora and one by Louisiana
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Eudora
Plenn
Farmer
Song
United States Navy
Panama Canal Zone
Howard
Laura Turple
Lake Village
Marion
Arkansas Farmers Get Federal Seed Loans In 1940s Drive
State farmers total 6 663 receiving seed loan funds from the Federal government via Memphis office. By Feb 21, 6 863 Arkansas farmers had checks advanced on 1100 loans processed Tuesday. Total first installment amount reached 434 233.07 with two more installments planned later. Faulkner County leads in loan requests, with 543 farmers seeking 101 499. Counties Grant Miller Conway Van Buren Ouachita Nevada Calhoun Columbia noted for substantial funds. Little Rock Extension staff seven men aiding at Memphis office to expedite approvals.
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Rock
Arkansas
Farmers Seed Loan Office
Memphis
T. Roy Reid
Agricultural Extension Service Office
Reidaig
Faulkner
Grant
Miller
Conway
van Buren
Ouachita
Nevada
Calhoun
Columbia
Reid
Little Rock
One Negro Killed During Farm Fight
Four negroes repairing a irrigation dence on the E. G. Robertson farm eight miles southeast of Dumas became involved in a quarrel. Turner returned with a shotgun and opened fire, killing Osa Lee Halston and wounding Wash Turner and Carter Harvey. Turner was arrested and held to the Grand Jury after pleading guilty at a preliminary hearing. The Louisiana Firemen's Association voted to establish a state fire college at Baton Rouge with courses in firefighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dumas
E. G. Robertson
Osa Lee Halston
Wash Turner
Carter Harvey
Clarence Logan
Halston
Turner
Bob Hagood
Joe Breedlove
Louisiana Firemen’s Association
Baton Rouge
Local Men Injured In Auto Accident Near Henderson Texas
Two Hope men Leo Robins and Charles Crosnoe were injured in a late Wednesday auto wreck near Henderson Texas. Five others died and one was injured as a collision involving a truck occurred ten miles south on the Nacogdoches highway. Robins and Crosnoe were hospitalized with painful wounds but not seriously hurt. Crosnoe bruises and abrasions while Robins had a bad lacerated ear. The truck was driven by Clifford Lubby of Brekenridge. the other seriously injured included Leo Robins of Hope Ark and T Price of Shreveport. Wallace and Ward of Timpson were killed. The injured were in a Henderson hospital last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Leo Robins
Charles Crosnoe
Henderson
Texas
Henderson Hospital
Crusnoe
Robins
Shreveport Times
Tom Wallace
W. C. Ward
Timpson
Ark
T. Price
Craswell Street
Shreveport
Here
Necogdoches Highway
Frice
Ward
Wallace
Clifford Lubby
Brekenridge
Fiji hurricane kills over 180 in Ba and Sigatoka
Wellington reports from Suva that more than 180 people are dead in Fiji’s Ba and Sigatoka districts after a severe cyclone and floods. The storm, which hit days ago, also knocked a train from rails at Lauitoka and destroyed the Nadi lighthouse.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Sigatoka
Fiji Islands
Suva
Lauitoka
Nadi
Hospital Measure Rejected By House
Washington report notes the House rejected a measure to authorize 20,877,000 for veterans hospitals and declined to instruct conferees to accept Senate changes in the Rogers hospital bill. The debate grew acrimonious as Democrats questioned the voting basis and power shift to the Veterans Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
White House
Senate
Rogers Hospital
Uhe
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Iiines
Buffalo Woman Runs Female Detective Network
In Buffalo a lone private women’s detective organization flourishes led by Miss Adelaide Jennings. She operates a chain of detective agencies across the area, making Buffalo a noted hub for female sleuths in the United States.
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Buffalo. N
Buffalo
United States
Adelaide Jennings
Fire destroys Bragg house at Hope Heading Co plant
A fire of undetermined origin discovered by a night watchman about 11 p m Wednesday night damaged the Bragg house of the Hope Heading Company on North Main street. Loss is estimated at about 2000 by L B Ewing local manager. The building housed the flag plant used in barrel manufacturing and stored material from Glencoe New York. Officials say operations won’t halt as two more carloads of material are kept in Hope. The Hope Heading Company ranks as a major plant in the Southwest.
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Hope Heading Company
North Main Street
L. B. Ewing
Giencoc
New York
Hope
Southwest
Farmer Ends His Life With Pistol in Magnolia area
MAGNOLIA W. Bridges, 5%, was found dead in the yard of his Box Springs home nine miles from Magnolia. A 42 caliber automatic pistol fired from the left temple. Coroner's jury ruled death by own action due to ill health. He had influenza recently and had long health problems. Survived by his wife, two young daughters, parents Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bridges, and Mrs Ben L Owen and Mrs Austin Marlor.
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Magnolia
W. S. Bridges
Box Springs
Bridges
W. L. Bridges
Ben L Owen
Austin Marlor
Romig Given Full Charge Burr Store
Romig, recently training for managership at the L. C. Burr store, was placed in full charge Thursday after John Swader’s promotion. Swader leaves for Spencer to run Burr operations across Iowa Minnesota and Missouri. Romig has lived in Hope five years and previously served as assistant manager at the J. C. Penney store. D. W. Andres of Hope, a local high school graduate, has joined the firm.
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C. BE. Romig
L. C. Burr
John Swader
Snade l
Spencer
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
Romig
Hope
McNeger
J.C. Penney
D. W. Andres
Hoover veto override set by House on veterans bill
Washington headlines report President Hoover vetoed the Veterans Loan Relief bill and the House moved to override the veto. In Arkansas census figures less than ten percent of families own radios, with about 40,248 households reported. In Jackson, masked bandits robbed the Merchants Bank and Trust Co. on State Street and fled with an undetermined sum.
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Washington
Hoover
House
Arkansas
Jackson
State Street
Merchants Bank &Trust Company
No Trace Found of Bank Bandits
TEXARKANA Two youths failed in an attempt to hold up the Guaranty Bond State Bank at Redwater on Tuesday. A 100 man posse hunted the area Wednesday, but the bandits remained at large, with officers suspecting a Timpson, Texas, robbery link. The bank cashier and teller faced guns as the men fled after a locked door blocked access to the money cages. Eura Langston frustrated the robbery by retreating to a filing room. Four suspects were detained Tuesday night but released. another youth was held Wednesday and released. The pursuit continued as the search narrowed to a clump of weeds.
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Texarkana
Guaranty Bond State Bank
Redwater
Timpson
Texas
Bowie County
Leon Missildine
New Boston
Missildine
R. W. Hanks
Eura Langston
Miss Langston
Hanks
Bank Robbers Hold Hastings National Bank
Hastings Neb three robbers bound and gagged thirteen employees and escaped with 7000.00 in cash Wednesday at Hastings National Bank in Hastings Nebraska.
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Hastings, Neb
Hastings National Bank
Kiwanis Delegates Named at Luncheon in Hope
Kiwanis club named two delegates and three alternates for the Kiwanis International Convention to be held in Miami the first week of May. President J.W. Herndon and ex-secretary Parks Fisher were chosen delegates. alternates are Jesse Harbin Paul Lewis and John P. Cox. John Snader received a club farewell before leaving Friday for Spencer Iowa. E G Coop guest, Arthur McAnnish of Little Rock Kiwanis attended and offered tips for sustaining meeting interest. Jud Neighbors presided in Herndon’s absence. Cox led the program.
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Miami
J.W. ‘Herndon
Parks Fisher
Jesse Harbin
Paul Lewis
John P. Cox
John Snader
Spencer
Iowa
E. G. Coop
Arthur McAnnish
Little Rock
Kiwanis Club
Jud Neighbors
R. V. Herndon
Exclusive Club Raided by Philadelphia Officers
Philadelphia police raided the Manufacturers Club, a top city institution, led by Major Leimler Schofield personal directed operation. Officers discovered between five and eight hundred quarts of Scotch rye champagne and other liquors stored behind the bar in members lockers. Schofield resigned his membership afterward, saying enforcement would target both major and minor violators.
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Philadelphia
Manufacturers Club
Leimler Schofield
Public Safety
Schofield
Fisherman Slain and Partner Charged in Cardwell Missouri
In Cardwell Missouri following a hearing Wednesday Bill Goodwin aged 50 was held to the Grand Jury for the slaying of Joh Hardy aged 65 a fisherman late Monday Funeral services for Hardy were held today at Cardwell Goodwin is jailed at Kennett Missouri The two had lived near the St Francis river motive unknown Eye witness Mike Murray said Goodwin entered a house four miles south of the river bridge Missouri about 5 50 pm Monday wielding a 44 40 pistol and began shooting Hardy reportedly had an invalid wife in St Louis.
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Cardwell
Moo
Bill Goodwin
Joh Hardy
Hardy
Goodwin
Kennett, Mo
Arkansas
St. Francis River
Mike Murray
Missowi
St. Louis
Two men accused in Jonesboro robbery spree
Si erfson and Ollie Davis aged about 40 are jailed in Jonesboro on charges of two robberies in the Cash area. They allegedly beat Hollingsworth, stole $10 and a pistol, and threatened to burn the couple before locking them inside. A third man is sought as others prepare to face justice in Cash and Paragould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonesboro
Sierfson
Ollie’ Davis
Alley
Hollingsworth
Houston John
Greenpounty
Wilsson
Paragould
Wilson
Lynn Waldron
Greene County
Davis
Robertson
Justice Court
Youths Serving Out Fines Escape Jail
Conway youths Tom Richmond and Winfred Ledbetter escaped from the county jail Wednesday night after failing to pay fines totaling over 600 dollars. They sawed two bars of a window and lowered themselves to the ground by a rope blanket. The charges stemmed from a wild automobile ride and a run in with officers Saturday. Gomond was fined 336.25 dollars and Ledbetter 253.90 dollars.
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Conway
Tom Richmond
Winfred Ledbetter
Gomond
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Harrison
Yale
George W. Ware
Hall
Tex
Rogers
Buffalo Woman
Glenn Curtiss Airport
Henry White
Arrow
Burr Store
Bulletins
Timpson, Texas
Kiwanis
Florida
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