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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
3
Lar Wat founder and director of Barr's Kid dies at age 72 in Westernay. Authorities note his creation drew nationwide attention and sparked several park initiatives across the United States.
Washington January 30. House Naval Committee leaders push a bill to bar foreigners from the atomic test site and to permit destruction of ships for the Bikini Atoll blast. Chairman Vinson seeks legal secrecy over technical details while Blandy heads test schedule with observers limited to distant seats. Grant supports the secrecy push as Byrnes notes UN Atomic Energy Commission will observe.
Lt Gen Low awarded Certificates of Commendation to outstanding civilian and military personnel of the Ordnance Department for service during the War. Major D R Pickard presented the civilian certificates to those at Southwestern Proving Ground on January 28, with some recipients still employed and others not. The list includes Abernathy Armitage Blackwood Brack Sehend Mort on Se nd etc.
A Grand Rapids pastor, Dorsey Siple, confessed to poisoning his daughter Dorothy. The probe into his family affairs expands toward Dixon after his admission to Kent County prosecutors. Authorities consider murder charges and possible exhumation of the elder daughter’s will as they review earlier deaths and testimony from church members.
A garbled report states authorities ordered exhumation to determine if Jin died by poisoning. It mentions Lion Oil boosts pay and a statement by Col. Py Barton, president, about a 3300 monthly figure and a 2 AO-hour week warm effect, with several unreadable typos.
A confused note discusses proper behavior as a house guest and whether to bring a gift. It contrasts the wrong approach of not giving a gift with the right approach of bringing a gift to the child, while acknowledging limits on affordability and social pressure.
Chicago January 31 police studied a greasy paper scrap in a cardboard box found containing an adult human ear. Investigators compare handwriting with the ransom note and seek the author of both amid theories the killer could be a physician student butcher or embalmer. Parts of Suzanne Degnan's body were found in sewer basins.
In Jackson on January 30 the Mississippi black market liquor tax provoked heated arguments for and against repeal. Sen. William Me of Bentonia led the discussion as the measure faced a Senate floor vote. Church groups condemned the tax for encouraging violations, while the Senate Finance Committee favored keeping it for roughly three quarters of a million dollars in annual revenue. A minority report urged repeal.
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Mrs Churchill were slated to be joined in Miami by their daughter Mrs Sarah Oliver. Oliver would accompany the family to Havana to meet the Cuban government, while Churchill attended horse races at Miami's Hialeah track with Gen Henry H Arnold amid a 15,000 strong crowd.
Yellville report says Ben Riddles, 37, of Peel was found guilty by a Marian county circuit jury of second degree murder for the Nov. 20 shooting death of Walter Ashmead near Peel. He received a ten year penitentiary sentence after a jury deliberation that lasted all afternoon. Trial began Monday. Also note that the article credits the Soldiers Home in Washington as the nation’s largest, founded in 1st.
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