Roosevelt Letter Demands Passage of Court Measure
President Roosevelt responded firmly to calls to drop his court reform plan after Senator Robinson's death. He urged Congress to pass the legislation this session, warning reform is essential to economic security and social betterment. He noted minority blocks could delay ratification in many states. Wheeler urged pursuing constitutional means instead.
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Roosevelt
Robinson
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress of the
United States
Barkley
Kentucky
Wheeler LD. Monte
Wheeler
Montana
Arkansas and national briefs highlight appointments and politics
Little Rock reports Commander BK and Upton named department adjutant for Arkansas Veterans of Foreign Wars. Labor Relations Board accuses Republic Steel of unfair labor practices before and during recent strike. Dr. W B Grayson names Stanley H Carpenter entomologist for state malaria control. Senator Byrnes withdraws from Democratic leader race after Senator Robinson's funeral.
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Little Rock
Camden
Arkansas Veterany of Foreign Wars
Bk, & Upton
the Rock
Washington
Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Corporation
W. B. Grayson
Stanley H. Carpenter
Harding College
Cmtaria Control Unit
State Department
Singing Group to Meet at New Hope Church
T M Rowe president of the Hempstead County Singing Convention announced Friday that new officers would be elected when the group meets Sunday at New Hope church on Hope Belving road. A musical program will consume most of the day with several quartets and outstanding singers invited. He urged the public to bring song books and basket lunches. A large crowd is expected. besides officer elections other business is to come before the convention.
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T. M Rowe
Hempstead County
New Hope Church
Hope-Bleving Road
Arkansas Artillery to Move to Florida
The 206th coast artillery of the Arkansas National Guard under Colonel Elgin C. Robertson will mobilize on July 18 and move overland to Fort Barrancay near Pensacola Florida for 18 days of field training and target practice. The Newport Company left on Thursday to prepare the fort for the repait.
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Marianna
Ark
Elgin C. Robertson
206Th Coast Artillery
Arkansas Ational Guard
Fort Barrancay
Pensacola
Fla
Newport Company
MIND Your MANNERS Answers for Social Notes
How to craft formal notes questions from 1937 NEA Service. Guidance covers use of notepaper versus cards, stationery borders, dating notes, placement of date, and whether to type or handwrite. Includes bride’s etiquette for wedding thank yous and signatures in one or both names.
Guernsey Summer School Enrollment Rises
Guernsey school enrollment for the summer session shows an increase from the end of last semester. Principal Hugh Bristow reports a five percent gain in grammar grades and urges parents with children aged six by December 1 to enroll now or risk missing entry later in the year.
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Guernsey
Hugh B-Bristow
Bristow
Preacher Admits He Killed Woman in Missouri Case
Merrill Johnston Pike County states attorney reports Rev. C. B. Newton confessed in a county jail to striking Mrs. Dennis Kelly, 45, with a hammer after a scuffle in a car near Paris Missouri. He says he dragged her to the Mark Twain bridge over the Mississippi at Hannibal and pushed her over.
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Pittsburgh
Merrill Johnston
Pike County
BE Newton
Dennis Kelly
Mississippi River
Paris
Kelly
State Crop Yield Four Percent Higher in Arkansas
The federal-state crop reporting service says Arkansas acreage of principal crops planted this season rose four percent from last year’s harvested figure. Corn yield is estimated at 40,640,000 bushels or 20 per acre versus 21,540,000 last year. Wheat output is about 1,500,000 bushels, down from 595,000 last year, and oats total 3,000,000 bushels, slightly below 3,075,000 last year.
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Little Rock
Ark
Fedieval-State Cros Reporting Service
Arkangan
Nation's Leaders Pay Respects to Senator Robinson
Washington mourned Democratic leader Joseph T. Robinson with a state funeral in the Senate chamber led by President Roosevelt. The body traveled to Little Rock for burial as government officials consider a September 14 special election to fill the vacancy. Arkansas Governor Bailey proclaimed a 20 day mourning period with flags at half mast as tributes pour in from foreign governments. Judge Samuel A. Bratton, longtime associate of Robinson, called the death a national calamity while en route to Little Rock for services.
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Washington
B Byrnes
South Carolina
Priday
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Joseph T. Robinson
Little Rocke Il
State Department
Michael MacWhite
Little Rock
Bailey
Arkansas Democrat
State Democratic Committee
Ark
Carl E. Bailey
Senate Chamber
State Military Department
State Police
Albuquerque
N. M—P
U. 5
Samuel A. Bratton
Little, Rock
Judge Bratton
United States Supreme Court
U S to Sell Brazil Up to Sixty Million in Gold
Washington reports that the United States will sell Brazil as much as 60 million dollars in gold from its hoard to help Brazil set up a central bank and stabilize currency relations. Secretary Hull and Brazil’s finance minister Arthur de Souza Costa also announced an understanding to shield the Brazilian-American trade treaty from outside subsidized competition.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
Hull
Arthur de Souza Costa
Cub Scouts of Hope Plan Picnic with Leaders Attending
Cub Scouts of Hope schedule a picnic next Tuesday at 7:30 pm at Fair park, meeting at the Presbyterian church at 7 pm. Open to boys ages 11 and up who wish to join the Cub Pack. all supplies provided. They will meet the new Cub Master Will Ed Waller and welcome leaders from Texarkana.
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Presbyterian
Presbyterian Church
Fair Park
Will Ed
Waller
Texarkana
Lamkin Named New County Agent for Hempstead and Miller
Fayetteville Ark Friday University of Arkansas College of Agriculture announced Clarence M Lamkin formerly of Hot Spring county has been appointed assistant county agent for Hempstead and Miller counties. He will maintain offices in Hope and Texarkana and was previously with the agricultural conservation office in Hot Spring county.
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Fayetteville
Ark
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture
Clarence M. Lamkin
Hot Sping County
Hempstead
Miller Counties
Two Planes Begin Atlantic Flights
Two flying boats initiate trans Atlantic survey flights from Shannon and Botwood. The Pan American Clipper II starts westward survey to Rotwood Newfoundland at 7 25 p.m. local time, while Imperial Airways Caledonia leaves Botwood for Foynes Ireland at 3 25 p.m. CST, aiming to meet Pan American mid Atlantic.
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Foynes
Trish Free State
River Shannon
North Atlantic
Rotwood
Newfoundland
Caledonia
Botwood
Imperial Airways
Ireland
Pan Amaritan Airways
mid-Atlantic
Suspect Held in 9-Year-Old Murder Case
FOCANONTASArk sheriff headed to Exeter California to return Fred Gage on a first degree murder charge tied to the 9 year old ambush slaying of Eli Shoemaker Ravenden Springs bachelor. Gage was arrested in California last Friday at Thompson’s request. Japanese and Chinese reports mention fortifications as peace negotiations unfold at Tientsin. A Congressman's wife article notes wives’ activities during sessions. Madrid bombed suburb airdromes as government army advances in Spain in its eighth day of the offensive.
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Focanontas
Ark
John T. ‘Hone
Exeter
Calif
Fred Gage
Eli Shoemaker
Ravenden Springs
Gage
California
Thompson
Peiping
China
Tientsin
Madrid
Spain
Umpires Injured in Crash in Texas
Three Texas League umpires Frank Coe Aley Welsh and Tony DeFate were injured when their car collided with a woman’s vehicle. The driver accused them of driving like three blind mice, asking if they could see where they were going.
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Ballas
Texas
NBA
Texas League
Frank Coe
Aley Welsh
Tony DeFate
Peach crop in Nashville area at half normal yield
Spring freezes cut shipments but Reuters reports the Nashville region will harvest about 50 percent of normal peach production. Roy Sellers says heavy shipments start next week and a temporary bureau field office will give growers daily market reports. In De Queen Arkansas a Riberta peach carload from Sevier County sold at 2.00 per bushel for first grade and 1.50 for second grade FOB at the car. Growers expect the 1937 crop to be slightly better than half normal despite Easter freezes.
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Little Rock
Nashville
Roy Sellers
Bureau of Agricultural Economics W
DE Queen
Ark
Sevier County
Ike Staton
North China conflict death toll rises to twenty
Japanese officials reported 20 dead and 60 wounded in North China after clashes with Chinese forces. The Associated Press notes ongoing hostilities and casualty figures as the conflict continues.
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North China
Associated Press
North
China
Navy Nearing End of Fruitless Earhart Hunt
In Honolulu fifteen hundred sailors and three squadrons on the Lexington scoured the South Seas near Howland Island for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan. After 13 days and three and a half hours of effort the fleet returned empty handed amid rain squalls and heat, with sharks and whales sighted.
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Honolulu
South Seas
Amelia Earhart
Frederick J. Noonan
Lexington
Howland Island
Miss Earhart
Noonan
Howland
New Guinea
Equator
Aviatrix
Amelia
Seattle
Gene Dennis
South Sea
Miss Dennis
J. von Herberg
George Palmer Putnam
Columbia County Man Dies of Pneumonia
MAGNOLIA Ark. W L Jameson 72 longtime Columbia county official and former Magnolia Journal editor died after pneumonia two days into a two month illness. He served as county clerk collector deputy sheriff and justice of the peace and was secretary of the county democratic central committee. Funeral services set for Friday at First Baptist Church. Surviving are widow four sons and one sister.
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Magnolia
Ark
W. L. Jameson
Columbia County
Magnolia Journal
Democratic Central Committee
Jameson
First Baptist Church
Poe
Loans Made by Little Rock Bank Report
A June report from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Little Rock shows Hope Federal Savings and Loan Association contributing to state loan activity with 199 loans totaling $303,382. Refinancing and repair loans led Arkansas with 83 loans worth $100,505, while overall lending across five states reached 1,62 loans totaling $3,583,606 for all purposes.
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Federal Home Loan Bank of
Little Rock
Hope Federal Savings and Loan, Association
Little” Rock Bank
Arkansas
B. H. Wooten
Little Rock Bank
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Junction City Youth Appointed to U.S. Naval Academy
Washington representative Wade H. Kitchens of Magnolia, Ark, announced the appointment of David H. Jackson of Junction City, Ark, to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Jackson must report for examinations on July 21. Leo da Vinci is noted only as a historical aside with plans and a flying machine reference.
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Washington
Wade H. Kitchens
Magnolia
Ark
David H. Jackson
Junction City
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Jackson
Leonardo da Vinci
Cotton opens in New Orleans at 34 cents and closes lower
New Orleans cotton market opened Friday at 34 cents and finished at 12.02 cents a pound with a 7 point drop from the middling price of 12.37 cents. Market activity showed modest decline as traders closed positions and noted slight volatility in the late session.
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New Orleans
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