Preliminary Trig. of John Hartsfield and Fatal Accident Coverage
Preliminary hearing for John Hartsfield set for Thursday after a vehicle collision in which Mrs Lum Vines was killed and her daughter injured. Hartsfield alighted from an old model car in front of a barbershop, fled through stores and alleys with officers in pursuit. The funeral service for Mrs. Vines was held Sunday at Ebenezer Cemetery. Mrs. Vines is reported resting in Julia Chester Hospital, with updates from hospital staff.
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Lum Vines
Hartsfield
Ster
Homer
Burke
Hartsfiel
Tom
Ebenezer Cemetery
Neaar
Vines
Julia Chester Pital
Nevada Grand Jury investigates two county murders
Nevada County circuit court opened July session with Judge Dex Bush presiding. Two murder cases will be examined by the grand jury, including the fatal shooting of Mrs Fells Phillips near Falcon and a later killing involving Millret dehe. Trials are slated for the second week, with testimony detailing conflicting accounts from Obe McCoy and Ben McCoy and a separate deputy sheriff incident surrounding Roy Daniels.
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Ott
Ark
Nevada Jury Circuit Court
Dex Bush
Bush
Cour
Fells Phillips
Falcon
McCoy
Ben McCoy
Obe
Phillips
Obe McCoy
Vouthern
Ben
Bin
Daniels
Jobe
Daiels
Aniele
Daniel
Roy Daniels
Sherries
Hempstead County Visitor Reports Varied Florida Weather
Floridan Reports Drops Good Here Floridan Reports Drops Good Here W. RB Hamiter former Hempstead county man in the produce business at Palmetto Florida has arrived home for a two or three week vacation. He visited his parents Mr and Mrs Joh A Haister of Parig. Hamister drove overland to Florida Arkansas and noted the community suffers from a severe drought while Hempstead county farms appear comparatively well off with crops better than since he left Florida and far above those in Louisiana which he passed through. He said it is the rainy season in Florida with almost daily showers but the southern states outside the coast face drought alike.
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Hempstead Younty
Palmetto
Fla
Hamiter
Joh A. Haister
Pariag
Hamister
Florida
Arkansas
Louisiana
Hempstead
Saturday Street Murder Editorial
A Hempstead county woman is killed in a Main street traffic crash and a driver flees, sparking a crowd and threats. The editorial urges strict punishment, strict stop sign adherence, and notes Hope’s stop sign system provides pedestrian safety, while stressing courts must act to deter deadly driving and mob pressure.
Elks Sponsor Dance On July 25 At North Elm
Talbot Field secretary of the local Elks Club says the dance will be at the Elks home on North Elm street on the night of July 25. The Delaixe Nighthawks orchestra from Shreveport will finish the music for the occasion. Many locals have reservations and the event is billed as a top season affair. The club also announces a second stop at the Fifth Annual Watermelon Festival on August 7.
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Talbot Feild
Elks Club
North Elm Street
Delaixe Nighthawks
Shreveport
The
Elks
Baptist Minister Slain By Burglar In Dallas
Charles B. Maxson a 33 year old ordained Baptist minister and Dallas salesman was shot by a prowler in his Oak Cliff home early Sunday. He died about an hour later. Mrs Maxson woke to the intruder and shouted. neighbors aided but the assailant escaped toward the Fort Worth pike. Maxson, ordained in 1925, had served rural churches near Marshall and studied at the Baptist College of Marshall.
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Dallas
Texas
Charles
Maxson
Oak Cliff
Fort Worth Pike
Baptist
Hell
Marshall
Baptist College of Marshall
Truck Crops Suffer From Heat at Horatio
Horatio reports severe heat and drought reducing cantaloupe yields to about 15 percent of normal. No rain for seven weeks, temperatures rising above 95 degrees for three days. Local agencies estimate would have produced 2000 baskets of cantaloupes this season.
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Horato
Detectives hunt for noted killer in Michigan search
Grand Rapids Michigan July 14 fifteen Chicago detectives aided by Michigan state police and sheriffs officers hunted the Jakes district of Newaygo county for Fred Burke a notorious Chicago gangster. Led by Lieutenant John MacCunnis and Sergeant Thomas Lamie the group left Chicago at 4 am after learning Burke might be in Newaygo county Burke had been living in Newaygo county for three months with two young women described as blonde and had made frequent trips to Chicago A claim that he was in Michigan followed Mrs Thomas Bonner widow of a man slain in Chicago identifying Burke as her husband killer
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Chicago
Michigan
Jakes
Newaygo County
Here
Fred Burke
John MacCunnis
Thomas Lamie
Burke
Newayga County
Newaydo County
Thomas Bonner
Skeletons Found Under Seminary in Cuenca Dungeon Mystery
About 200 skeletons believed to date from the 1st century were shown to thousands in the underground dungeon of Cuenca's Santa Clara seminary. Officials described scenes of death and described some mummified bodies with ropes around necks and waists. A woman’s mummy was bound to a rack. a hatch admitted victims into a 14 by 15 foot chamber. The discovery, during seminary repairs, rekindled interest in a centuries old site.
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Cuenca
Spain
Santa Clara Seminary
Rear Admiral dies at Naval Hospital in San Diego
Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, a notable figure in America's sea forces, died at the naval hospital in San Diego after a brief illness on Sunday.
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Naval Hospital
San Diego
Cal
Ashley Herman Robertson
America
Eleven Deaths Reported In State From Heat Week End
A statewide toll of ten heat prostrations and one drowning death was recorded for the week end. Other fatalities include Hot Springs diver Joe Kearns, 22, who died after hitting a rock, Pocahontas priest Rev. Joseph Frausheim, 53, Little Rock deaths from fainting, and several heat related losses across Stuttgart Paragould Blytheville and Kinsett. Thermometers hit 86 at noon and 109% in Kinsett, with many cases of prostration citywide.
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Little Rock
Joe Kearns
Joseph Frausheim
Pocahontas
Mattie Trout
Mary Jane McCowan
Stuttgart
Henry Wrenn
Hernan’ Elis
Robert Thornton
Paragould
Paragould Country Club
Scotland
D. E. Kinsey
Blytheville
Harry Frain
Jonesboro
Clarendon
Thomas McCormick
Kinsett Hotel
Kinsett
Malvern Football Schedule Is Given
Malvern high school football leant announces an eleven game fall schedule with a Thanksgiving game at Arkadelphia. Nonleague games include Batesville Fordyce Murfreesboro Gordon Hope Warren Nashville Bauxite Prescott Magnolia. Season opener at Malvern September 19 and other games listed at home or away locations.
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Arkadelphia
Batesville
Boro
Gordon
Hope
Warren
Nashville
Prescott
Magnolia
Garland County Republicans Plan Historic Nominations
Garland County Republicans consider nominating a full county ticket for the first time in 75 years. The Democratic primary has long been treated as the election. The convention will be July 26 to appoint caucus delegates for the state meeting in Little Rock on August 1.
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HO Springs
Garland County
Little Hock
Supreme Court affirms murder sentences in Arkansas
In Little Rock on July 14 the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the sentences of Eddie Long and Willie Joe Davis, both negroes, for the murder of North Little Rock Alderman John W. Reed during an attempted hold-up of a fitting station and grocery store. The court also sustained two voluntary manslaughter verdicts for Mrs Elmer Jones of Baxter county and Mary Biggstaff of Pike county. The court adjourned until September 15 for summer vacations.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Eddie Long
Willie Joe Davis
John W. Reed
North Little Rock
Elmer Jones
Baxter County
Maynard
Jones
King Maynard
Mary Biggstaff
Pike County
Homer Parker
Supreme Court
Antil
Henderson-Brown endowment suit ends in abandonment ruling
Judge C Johnson in Clark Chancery Court ruled the Henderson-Brown College endowment trust failed and the college abandoned, granting J S Cargile judgment for 5000 dollars. The decision affects about 150000 dollars in total endowments from many benefactors.
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Little Rock
Ark
Henderson- Brown College
Arkadelphia
C. ©. Johnson
J. S. Cargile
Clark Chancery Court
Cargile
JH. C. Couch
W. C. Ribenack
W. E. Barkland
Hendrix College
Conway
Methodist Church
Henderson-Brown
Two Farmers Injured in Disastrous Fire in Charlotte Store
In Charlotte on July 14 a massive fire at Belk Brothers department store in the downtown heart of the business district left two farmers injured and fourteen others overcome by smoke as firefighters battled a blaze estimated at 250000.
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Charlotte
N. C
Belk Brothers Department Store
Sunays
Sixteen Pound Cabbage on Display at Benton
A six pound cabbage with 25 inch circumference was shown in Benton as part of a shipment to the Little Rock work market last week. Miss Vera McCollum, a demonstration ager, reports the odd produce item discovered amid 8 and 10 pound heads in the consignment.
Yachting Party Lost In Squall Near Boston
Six of seven passengers, members of a yachting party, are missing after a squall overturned their craft. Barden Gardeau, 22, was found clinging to wreckage. a young woman's body was also recovered. In Hot Springs, a Clarence Saunders store safe was robbed of 1600 dollars last night, entrance gained by breaking a rear glass door. investigators say pros opened the safe without breaking the door.
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Boston
Barden Gardeau
Hot Springs
Clarence Saunders
Corn Situation Critical In Hempstead County
The corn situation in Hempstead county is critical per county agent Lynn Smith. The corn should be cut for forage as winter feed will be scarce. After removal, a late fall feed crop might be planted with peas in the middles, weather and moisture will determine success, and forage stored in shelter is most valuable when properly cured.
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Hempstead
Lynn Smith
50 Faint As Mine Victims Are Buried
HAUSDORF Germany July 14 More than 600 swooned 19 victims of the coal mine disaster near Neurode were laid to rest Sunday with elaborate ceremonies. The disaster is believed to have claimed about 152 lives 104 bodies recovered. Over 20 000 mourners attended including government representatives and workmen's delegations. Funeral ovations by clergy were delivered Singing of the dirge Down There is Peace was interrupted by cries of anguish. At least 50 persons fainted and received first aid. Coffins were taken to the cemetery by motor trucks draped with black crepe. Mourners followed in motor buses led by miners bands.
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Hausdorf
Germany
Neurode
Brigadier General Smither Dies After Illness
Lawrenceville Indiana July 14 Brigadier General Henry Carpenter Smither veteran of three wars and former chief coordinator of the United States budget bureau died at the Olney sanitarium early Sunday from complications after two major operations He was 56 years old.
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Lawrenceville
Henry Carpenter Smither
United States Budget Bureau
Olney Saniatrium
Attacks Perre Over Tobacco Levy By Brooks Hays
ARKADELPHIA July 14 Brooks Hays gubernatorial candidate accuses Governor Parnell of using schools for political profit. He disputes Parnell writing the cigar and cigarette tax law and says it was passed in 1924 as a smoke screen during special sessions with McRae's income tax program.
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Parnell
Brooks Hays
Senate
Harvey Parnell
Hays
McRae
Two Burn to Death In Airplane Crash Near Elmira
Two licensed air pilots from Elmira were killed in a Sunday crash at Newton Battlefield State Park. The dead are Theodor Holbert and Walter Arnold, both associated with the Elmira Flying Club. Arnold, a vice president and father of five, was married. Holbert was the only son of a local dairyman near the crash site on the farm.
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Elm’ra
Woir
Newton Battlefield
State Park
Theodor Holbert
Walter Arnold
Arnold
Holbert
Elmira
Faulkner County Farmers Ship Irish Potatoes
Faulkner County farmers shipped Irish potatoes with four dozen cars reported from Conway and Faulkner counties. The season earned about $16,500, as announced by the county agent. Thirty three cars sold at one dollar per bushel and the remainder at 30 cents per bushel. Potatoes came from Faulkner, Conway, Cleburne, Pulaski, and Van Buren counties.
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Conway
Ivis
Faulkner
Cleburne
Pulaski
van Buren
Roy W Berry Promoted to Frisco Agent Role in Tulsa
Roy W Berry, longtime Frisco city agent and Hempstead county native, has been promoted to freight and passenger agent for the Frisco with headquarters in Tulsa. He began with the Frisco line in Hope and has served in various posts along the way.
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Roy W. Berry
Frisco
Hempstead County
Tulsa
Mr. Berry
Slain Girl Is Found Burned In Basement Furnace
James M. Mitchel, a coworker at the same firm as the murdered Miss Marc Donsl3, allegedly confessed after the body of the young woman was found badly burned in a basement furnace. The victim, missing a day, was attacked with an iron line and her payroll stash partially recovered near the furnace. Authorities report Mitchell confessed to assault and murder.
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Taden Phere
MonQeoneld
Relph M. Inessain
Mitchell
Marc
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Moonshiners Surprised by Officers in Hot Springs
Hot Springs reports an alcohol raid as prohibition officers moved in on a moonshine operation. Officers arrested beverage manufacturers after interrupting a still. A moonshiner joked about Dave Brown, a known prohibition figure, while the raid occurred.
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Aswo
Dave Brown
Brown
Dave
Viha Beverage
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