Collier's Weekly Flags Legislature Arkansas Article
Clark County subject Walter Davenport profiles Arkansas politics in Collier's Weekly. Davenport quotes Joe Bob Stone in Clark County, notes lawmakers' failures and a skewed financial system funding highways, a strained public school network, and Confederate pensions, with Davenport promising a broader Arkansas political history.
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Arkansas
Walter Davenport
Collier's Weekly
Collier
America
Tr. Davenport
Joe Bob Stone
Rone
Charlie Brough
Charlie
Davenport
Joe Bab Stone
Highway Commission
Engineer Given Long Prison Term
Clark W. Parker, born in a Michigan log cabin, and his son Wyman were sentenced in Federal Court to five years on each of eleven mail fraud counts and two years on a conspiracy count. All terms run concurrently and total fines reach $11,000. The case stems from the sale of Automation Royalties Corporation stock.
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New York
Clark W. Parker
Michigan
Wyman
Automation Royalties Corporation
Boll Weevil found in parts of North Arkansas
In Fayetteville Arkansas Dwight Isely of the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture said boll weevil infestations have appeared in some localities heavy enough to threaten later crop injury if weather stays favorable. He noted these infestations are lighter this year than last and that in some places they were exterminated by hot dry conditions.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Colton
Dwight Isely
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture
Isely
Action in Fall Case Again Postponed
Justice Bailey of the District of Columbia supreme court postponed the Fall case to Thursday. government counsel planned to ask for immediate execution of Albert T. Fall's one year prison term, but other cases caused the delay.
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Washington
Justice Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Albert T. Fall
Bailey
Youth Confesses Brutal Murder in Monroe Case
Dawson W. Crowson an 18 year old confessed to police Tuesday that he shot and killed Castles a 60 year old merchant he was staying with for the night and then set fire to Castles store after Castles had refused to lend him $5 to buy a sweetheart candy box. Neighbors found the dead man in the burning shop.
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Monroe
Dawson W. Crowson
Ca Castles
Castic
Castle
Texarkana Pleads Guilty in Morgue Slaying Case
Texarkana Texas side district court heard Lester Cooper plead guilty to murder in the April killing of Paul Hunter at an undertaker's establishment. Cooper, 22, received a five year suspended sentence after juries failed to agree in two prior trials. Witnesses said the banter escalated from a fist fight to a fatal shooting as Hunter embalmed a body.
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Texarkana
Texas
Cour
Boston
Lester Coroper
Klling
Paul Hunter
Wiedertaking
Cooper
Hunter
Fife
Franklin County Crops Benefited by Rain
In Franklin County crops were helped by a one inch rainfall Monday. Farmers say the rain will boost feed crops and improve prospects for the year, marking one of the best yields anticipated in this section.
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Franklin County
Mt, Vernon
Cotton Acreage Report Influence On July Market
Memphis based weather and market summary covers period June 27 to July 3 noting fair activity with prices near June levels. Demand for spot cotton from domestic and foreign buyers was fair, with most trading hand to mouth. Reports indicate interest in 7 2 to 11 16 inch white middling cotton. acreage estimates pending the July 9 government release.
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Memphis
U. 5
Dept. Agriculure
Ard
Weather Bureau
Sothern
Texas
Georgia
Carolinas
South Carolina
Cities Service at Old Lewis Station
Cities Service gasoline will be sold at the former Lewis Motor Company site at Third and Walnut streets. Snow Williams will manage, offering Loreco gasoline, Kwikmater and Hearsehale products, Acme tires and tubes. The station will specialize in greasing washing polishing and servicing electric systems of all makes of automobiles.
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PLA
Lewis Motor Company
Third
Walnut Streets
Snow Willams
Hope, Snan
Williams
Loreco
Kowlmater
Acme
Hot Springs Artist to Leave Soon for Denver
Hot Springs Arkansas artist Joel Caph Reay will leave July 15 for Denver Cheyenne and nearby areas where her nature studies paintings will be shown in the western division exhibitions. The local painter, noted for originality and natural ability, will exhibit in Denver Cheyenne and Lake County venues.
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Hot Springs
Denver
Ark
Joel Caph Reay
Cheyenne
Keay
New Planetoid Reported by Japan Observatory
KYOTA Japan observatory announced a new planetoid discovery claiming a diameter of eleven thousand miles and a distance of 180000 miles from Earth. Pasadena Cal observes Dr W S Adams doubted the report noting it unlikely such a large body could have escaped prior detection.
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Japan Observatory
Kyota
Japan
Kayote
Pasadena
Calif
W. S Adams
Mount Wilson Observatory
Action On County Seat Case Delayed
Nashville Arkansas news item reports 1600 signers petition to move Howard county seat from Nashville to Dierks. County Judge M Z Cheshir delays ruling until August 3 to verify signatures and voter qualifications. Petition filed Friday after five months of effort. If approved, Dierks residents pledge to finance a $50,000 courthouse.
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Howard County
Nashville
Howard
Dierks
M. Z. Cheszir
Moratorium Prospects Improve Business Mood Worldwide
The commerce department reports improved business sentiment as debt moratorium prospects lift outlooks. Notable gains appear in Europe with continued positive signals from South America and Asia across the past two weeks.
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Washington
Commerce Department
South America
Asia
Ileana Princess Charming in The Star Portrait
Charles Stephenson Smith of The Associated Press profiles Ileana a charming Romanian princess known since childhood in a feature that frames European royalty and intrigue. The piece notes her democratic and likable nature and her silence on politics while situating her among prominent European leaders and situations featured regularly in The Star.
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Nesna
Romania
Car‘tien
Charles Stephenson Smith
Associated Press Foreign Retuke
Star
Farmer Claims He Killed Prohi Agent
COLLINS Miss William Fairley 28 Covington county farmer pleaded guilty Monday to first degree murder in the Everett death case. He entered the plea before Judge Edgar Lane after a grand jury indictment linked him with his uncle Guy Fairley. The plea carries a possible life term. some lawyers question its acceptance without a jury. Proceedings were deferred for later action. Everett was killed on the Collins to Jackson highway route as he rode along. Fairley had been jailed at Yazoo City.
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Mississippi
Tudge Lane
Everett
Diamond Gangster Slain in Brooklyn Beer War
Charles Entratta, associate of Jack Legs Diamond, was shot to death in a Brooklyn bottling works private office amid a Brooklyn beer war tied to Chicago gangster Al Capone. Identified as Charles Green, he had a prior acquittal for a July 1928 double murder at the Hotsy Totsy Club in Manhattan.
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New York
Charles Entratta
Jack
Entratta
Charles Green
Manhattan
World Traveler Retires To Island on Little River
LEPANTO Ark a life of adventure ends on a two acre island in Little River near here for James Percy 80 year old globe trotter. He rode tramp steamers and square riggers mined for gold in Australia herded sheep in Argentina fought under Custer in the Little Big Horn battle 1873. Now he tends a garden raises chickens and bees and enjoys solitude preferring to sell honey in town to buy supplies. He sailed from Portland Maine to Buenos Aires spent ten months in South America before returning to sea. He built his house in 1910 after the island was deeded to him for a mort years by Sam Mundy.
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Lepanto
Ark
Little River
James Percy
Globe
Australia
Custer
South Carolina
Dad
Boston
Great Northern
Little Big Horn
Maine
Portland
Buenos Aires
South America
Paris
Sam Mundy
War Debts Pact Anticipated and Wall Street Tumbles
Wall Street traders reacted to anticipated war debts relief with subdued action. Early gains from moratorium news gave way to profit taking as stocks fell sharply, some slipping from a morning high of up to $3 to losses of $2 to $10 per share. The cotton market firmed briefly by about $1 per bale but closed around 75 cents lower.
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Wall Street
Tourist Fatally Injured As Wreck Near Naples Texas
TEXARKANA One person was killed and two seriously hurt when a tourist car collided with a milk truck near Naples about 60 miles southwest of here on Monday. Four others were injured, including Mrs J N Brown, who suffered fractures and internal injuries. The 6 month old baby escaped unharmed. Driver J R Megenson of DeKalb Texas was badly battered. Both vehicles were demolished.
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Texarkana
Naples
Here
J.N. Brown
Memphis
Dallas
Brown
Mra Zeck Brown
Atoka
Tenn
Kate Terry
J. N. Brown
J. R. Megenson
DeKalb
Texas
Helena Will Erect De Soto Monument
A nine ton Arkansas granite block, quarried in the Ozarks, will be set up in Helena as a monument to Hernando De Soto. Gifted to the James Bate chapter of the D A R by W Stephenson, the block rests on a railroad siding awaiting site determination for the marker. A bronze table will recount De Soto’s expedition and cross into Arkansas near Westover Ferry Jaoding.
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Helena
Ark
Arkansas
Ozark
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi River
James Bate
D. A R
W. Stephenson
Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad
de Soto
Westover
Jaoding
Meteor Crashes Through Hotel Window in Greenville
A small meteor weighing about an ounce struck an eight story hotel window in Greenville South Carolina early Sunday. It bored a hole in the window screen and glass, landed on the floor, and burned a hole in the carpet. The room was unoccupied at the time.
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Greenville. S. C
Southeast Arkansas Harvests Record Blackberry Crop
In Dumas Arkansas a record harvest of wild blackberries and plums is under way by local farmers and Black residents. Prices range from 25 to 28 cents per gallon at the market.
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Arkansas
Dumas. Ark
Neady
German Baby Named Hoover in Berlin Suburb Birth
In a Berlin suburb a baby was named Hoover on Tuesday in a gesture tied to the moratorium plan and the American president. If the child had been a girl, Mellona was the proposed name for Secretary Mellon.
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Berlin
Hoover
Germany
Mellona
Mellon
U S Film Concerns Scored in Canada
Ottawa report charges American film firms formed a combine to restrain Canada’s film industry. The commission led by Peter White cites Famous Players Canadian, Paramount Publix, 10 subsidiaries, 18 U S distributors, and the Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada as principals. It says the combine throttled exhibitors and forced unfavorable contracts.
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Ottawa
Ont
Combine Investigations Act
Canada
Peter White
K. C
Gideon D. Robertson
White
Combine
Famous Players Canadian Corporation, Ltd
Paramount Publix Corporation
Batesville Woman Hurt in Car Wreck
Batesville Miss Lucille Turnstell, 20, of Batesville, is listed in serious condition after riding on a running board when a truck skidded on loose gravel near Locust Grove. The vehicle swerved, she fell off, suffering a broken collarbone and deep wounds. doctors expect recovery.
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Batesville
Lucille Turnstell
Locust Grove
Here
Paysmairs
Debt accord boosts global markets after U S pledge
A terse wartime proclamation from Washington highlights gratitude for sacrifices and debt relief. Markets worldwide rallied as Paris London Berlin and New York showed stock gains on the announced agreement.
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Washington
Pri
Paris
London
Berlin
New York
Drowning at Fourth of July Fishing Trip Near Batesville
William Price, 43, a tenant farmer, dove from a small row boat on the White River near Russell Ferry nine miles from Batesville during a Fourth of July outing with his wife and five children. He aimed to frighten the children but disappeared and was later found drowned. Survived by his wife, several children, his father in Lake City, and three brothers. two brothers reside in Oklahoma.
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Batesville
White River
William Pri
Russell Ferry
Baterville
Childre Price
M. M. Rutherford
W. C. McPherson
McPherson
Frice
Price
Price Ia
Lake City
Oklahoma
Singing School Scheduled For Hinton Next Week
H E Upchurch renowned music director and singing school teacher will begin a singing school at Hinton three miles east of Patmos on Monday July 13, according to notices received by The Star. Upchurch a Waldo native now living in Hempstead County aims for large attendance from the Hinton community and urges all to attend.
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H. E. Upchurch
Hinton
Patmos
Sdvices
The
Star
Upchurch
Waldo
Columbia County
Hempstead
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