Former President Noon on Thursday Coolidge Was Small-Town Lawyer
Northampton Mass AP Calvin Coolidge former president of United States was found dead at his home by his wife Thursday noon. Death attributed to heart disease. Mrs Coolidge发现 the body when she returned from a shopping trip. He would have turned 46? next July 4. He had complained of illness for two or three weeks but did not see a doctor in the past month.
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Mass
Calvin
Coolidge
Congress
John W. Davis
Massachusetts
New Herald-Tribune
Downtown Hope Gunfight Leaves Two Injured
In Hope on Thursday afternoon 60 year old J. W. Lewis was critically wounded by a shot from Will Dodson’s pistol during a quarrel over mule business near K G McRae Hardware. John Robinson was wounded in the left leg by a stray bullet. Dodson fired three shots and surrendered to Constable Will Porter.
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Hope
J. W. Lewis
Smill
Dodson
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Robinson
A. A. Anderson
Patmos
Will Porter
Doon
Julia Chester Hospital
Taylor Quits Bank Department Post
Walter E. Taylor resigned from the State Bank Department on Wednesday night under a new administration. Futrell will take office January 10 and appoint Marion Wasson as bank commissioner. Sam J. Wilson also resigned from the State Highway Commission amid planned removals.
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State Highway Commission
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el Dorado
Highway Commission
Justin Matthews
John T. Burkett
Camden
Dwight H. Blackwood
Commission
J. L. Williams
Osceola
John S. Parks
Bank Taylor
Wasson
Hendrix College
Gentry
Ark
Fayetteville
McElroy Bank & Trust Co
County Judge Charles Mitchell Elected Arkansas County Judges Leader
Little Rock bulletin reports County Judge Charles Mitchell of Poinsett County was elected president of the Arkansas County Judges association on Thursday. He succeeds J. G. Ragsdale of Union County.
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Little Rock
Charles Mitchell
Poinsett County
Arkansas County Judges Association
J. G. Ragsdale
Union County
Prohi Repeal Up to Legislatures
The senate judiciary subcommittee on repeal of the prohibition amendment plans to report the repeal resolution to legislatures with federal protection for dry states and authority for Congress to act against the return of the saloon. Labor Urges 5 Day Week. The AF of L president William Green urges using strikes to push a five day week and six hour day in all industries at the senate hearing on the Black bill.
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Senate
Blaine
Wisconsin
Congress
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Senate Judiciary
Indick
Tee
Ouachita College reorganizes departments after holidays
Ouachita College in Arkadelphia reopens after holidays with remodels on the third floor for physics and biology and a planned move of the chemistry department there. The English department gains acting head Richard C. Pettigrew of Duke University after President Johnson’s appendicitis surgery.
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Ark
Ouachita College
North Central Association of Colleges
Richard C. Pettigrew
Duke University
Charles D. Johnson
Pettigrew
State Postpones Car Tag Purchase Awaiting Tax Cut
Arkansas motorists delay paying the 1933 automobile license tax as the legislature prepares to consider a proposed 50 percent cut led by Hendrix Rowell and Governor-elect Futrell. The move threatens bond payments and state highway funds, with opposition citing pledged revenues. The legislature opens January 9 and an extension on the tax is anticipated.
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J. M. Futrell
Hendrix Rowell
Jefferson County
Futrell
Dwight H. Blackwood
State Highway Commission
Battle Ends in Shanhaikwan Capture. 3000 Civilians Reported Killed
Refugees arriving in Peiping said three days of fighting left 3000 Chinese civilians dead and the city captured by Japanese forces. Artillery wrecked homes and bodies lay in streets as about 1000 refugees reached safety. an estimated 100000 people fled south from Shanhaikwan.
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Peiping
China
Shanhaikwan
Hundreds Flee in St. Francis Valley Floods
Scores of families escaped rising floodwaters as four levee breaks along the St. Francis River unleashed high water across about 40 000 acres of Missouri lowlands. A second breach near Kennett Mo. struck without warning. guards aided evacuations. No deaths but livestock losses occurred. another crevasse threatened 35 square miles in Arkansas.
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Tenn
St. Francis River
Missouri
Arkansas
Kennett, Mo
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State Line
Bertig
Ark
Shoes to Boot Mixup Solved by Ad Notice
A University of Utah coed found her car with shoe samples tucked in the rear and a salesman's mislaid haul. The next day the girl’s father planned to use the car and discovered shoe boxes. An advertisement in a newspaper uncovered the full mixup and solved the mystery.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
University of Utah
Norwood Denies Cap Fox Capitol Interview Fee Report
At issue is an 1800 dollar payment to Texarkana attorney Ben Shaver for filing Arkansas Bank & Trust Co deposits claim after Hope bank closure. Norwood would not confirm or deny the claim fee, and state records on the transaction were unavailable. Officials cited lack of records and no connection with the liquidating agent or banking department. The Hope Star report also mentioned Comptroller Griffin Smith planning to question attorneys who received fees in such cases. Smith was out of town and could not confirm.
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Hal L. Norwood
Hope Star
Ben Shaver
Texarkana
Arkansas Bank & Trust Co
Hope
Capitol
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W. S. Atkins
State Banking Department
Griffin Smith
Smith
Norwood
Co-Operative Idea Helps Girls Share Life at UA Co-Op
Fayetteville Arkansas report describes a 13 girl student co Op housing with a house mother, sharing meals and chores to hold living costs to ten dollars monthly. The group, aided by the 4 H club, keeps a weekly duties chart, and reports strong academics and nine counties represented. In Houston Texas J E Cammack suffers a fractured skull after leaning from a moving car.
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Ark
Arkansas
University of Arkansas
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College of Agriculture
College of Education
College of Arts and Sciences
Proposal to End Gin Marriage in New York
New York advocates a uniform national marriage and divorce law to curb hasty gin marriages and secret weddings. It would limit marriages by requiring a two week waiting period and public posting of license applications, while easing divorce and limiting alimony jail terms. The plan targets reforming alimony enforcement and protecting prospective spouses from unsuitable matches.
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John Pette
New York
Theodore E. Apstein
National Divorce Reform League
America
United States
League
Assemblyman
Browness
New York City
John Pottet
Head of Colgate Company Is Dead
Gilbert Colgate, 74, former Colgate president and chairman, died in his sleep. The Colgate company was founded by his father Samuel Colgate, a leading Baptist figure, and became a global soap and toilet article maker. Colgate University bears the founder's name after 1890 endowment.
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American Trace Society
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Colgate University
Madison University
Would Merge Union Courts in One Judge
A resolution adopted at a mass meeting in El Dorado Arkansas proposes unifying two chancellors and two circuit judges into a single judge for the district. The plan calls for a salary matching workload and a year round court schedule if needed.
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EL Dorado, Ark
Citizens Herp
Calvin Coolidge A Portrait Of The 30th U S President
The article traces Calvin Coolidge born 1872 in Plymouth Vermont through his legal education at Amherst College and Northampton practice. It covers his rise in state politics 1912 15 his 1919 Boston strike intervention governing 1923 oath following Harding death and subsequent scandals and policies including tax cuts debt reduction and his 1924 re election bid with Davis. It notes his retirement to Northampton and later roles and writings.
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