Huey P Long Enters Arkansas Senate Campaign
Huey P Long plans to campaign for Hattie Caraway in Arkansas with dates arranged by Marvin Purvis. A Little Rock conference is set after Caraway and Purvis meet, as seven candidates contend in a race already stirred by debates over cash bonuses and Prohibition repeal.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Flans
Caraway
Marvin Purvis
Hot Springs
Ark
Purvis
Little Rock
Hattie W. Caraway
G. L. Bodenhamer
el Dorado
American Legion
Charles H. Brough
Jonesboro
William G. Hutton
William F. Kirby
Arkansas Supreme Court
United States
America
Thaddeus Caraway
Melbourne M. Martin
Vincent M. Miles
Fort Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. J. H. Weaver Dead in Hope Family Resident 30 Years
Mrs. J. H. Weaver aged 68 wife of the county coroner and resident of Hope for over 30 years died at a Little Rock hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the family residence on South Main Street Wednesday at 3 PM with Dr. J. L. Cannon officiating. Burial follows in Rose Hill cemetery. She leaves her husband Dr. J. H. Weaver of Hope two sons Dr. R. E. Weaver of Longview Texas and Cecil Weaver of Hope a daughter Mrs. E. L. Griffith of Hope one brother R. B. Tidwell and five grandchildren.
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J. H. Weaver
Hope
Little Rock
South Main Street
J. L. Cannon
First Methodist Church
Rose Hill
R. E. Weaver
Longview
Texas
Cecil Weaver
E. L. Griffith
R. B. Tidwell
U. S. Plans 300 Million Road Fund for States
President Hoover is expected to sign a $300 million emergency relief loan bill. Governors will apply for funds to aid highways and state projects, including Arkansas seeking $2.75 million for road work and $350,000 to complete the state insane asylum. Destitution relief use not stated.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Arkansas
Nine state candidates to speak at Hope rally
Nine candidates will address an all day rally in Hope on Thursday July 21 sponsored by the Hope Chamber of Commerce. Speakers include three for governor two for US Senate and others for state offices with sessions from 9 30 a m to 6 p m on the Oglesby school campus.
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Hope
United States
Oglesby School
Southwest
Arkansas
Hope Chamber
Hope Building Material Company
Joe R. Floyd
Chamber of Commerce
Magnolia A. & M
Magnolia
Stamps
A. B. Priddy
S. Marcus Bone
Yom J. Terral
Senate
Vincent M. Miles
William F. Kirby
Congress
Wade Kitchens
Boyd Cypert
W. A. (Lon) Cravens
Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture
Luther Ellison
Futrell to Speak Here Next Week
Chancellor J Marion Futrell of Paragould candidate for governor will tour Arkansas early next week with stump speeches. He appears at Prescott at 10 a m Tuesday July 26 Emmet at 2 p m and Hope at 8 p m Tuesday night. Wednesday July 27 he speaks at Washington at 16 a m Lewisville at 2 p m and Stamps at 8 p m.
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J. Marion Futrell
Paragould
Arkansas
Prescott
Emmet
Hope
Washington
Lewisville
Stamps
Soviets Aim to Melt Hail With Rockets
Soviet meteorologists fire two foot long missiles up to 3,500 feet to disrupt air currents and melt hail into rain or snow before it harms crops. The effort seeks to prevent hail damage by altering moisture congealing.
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Leningrad
High Point Mills Hit by Widespread Strike
The High Point strike shut down nearly all manufacturing plants except two, affecting about 6,000 workers as hosiery workers walked out. An estimated 100 plants idle, with roving unemployed bands shutting off power and marching between plants in High Point and Thomasville. Police stood by with tear gas but took no action. High Point, population 36,745, is a major furniture producer and hosts a large furniture exhibit building drawing buyers worldwide.
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High Point
N. C
Thomasville
America
Grand Rapids
Mich
Hudspeth Guilty Is Given Respite
A. T. Hudspeth, former head of a nine-bank Northwest Arkansas chain, pleaded guilty in circuit court to receiving deposits in a bank he knew was insolvent. Judge J. F. Koone postponed sentencing to the January term to allow him to arrange personal affairs.
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Harrison
A. T. Hudspeth
Northwest
Arkansas
J. F. Koone
Hudspeth
Hitler Says France Won't Embrace Disarmament
In a Munich interview Adolf Hitler argues Germany must break from postwar diplomacy to win freedom from restrictions. He claims France kept arms and that past treaties and plans were illusions, citing Versailles Dawes Young Locarno and Ruhr events as failures.
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Munich
Germany
Adolf Hitler
National Socialists
Hitler
Ruhr
Dawes and Young
Rathenau
Stresemann
Curtius
Bruening
France
League of Nations
Locarno
Mystery Persists In Roadway Death Near Hope
A coroner's jury ruled the death of an unidentified white man six miles northwest of Hope on the Washington road as due to causes unknown to the jury. He had stopped at the Eubanks home for water and food, rested under a shade tree, and was found dead Sunday morning in weeds. The body is at Hope Furniture undertaking parlors.
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Hope
Washington Road
B. L. Eubanks
Hope Furniture Company
States ban hitchhiking across nine jurisdictions
Connecticut Delaware Maine Minnesota New Jersey New York Oregon Wisconsin and the District of Columbia have laws banning hitchhiking in their jurisdictions. The measures seek to curb unsafe roadside solicitations and pedestrian to vehicle interactions.
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Connecticut
Delaware
Maine
Minnesota
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
How She Danced Libby's Cue in Tobacco Fortune
In Cincinnati, a tobacco king in North Carolina produced a vast fortune. Estimates range from 50 million to 100 million dollars as millions of cigarettes were rolled and sold, fueling a high stake business tale.
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Libby
Cincinnati
Oho
Tobacco
King
North Carolina
Libby Holman Rise From Hughes High To Broadway Fame
A slice of Libby Holman’s early life traces her from Hughes High School in Cincinnati to the University of Cincinnati where she excelled in acting and club life. The piece notes her later Broadway breakthrough as a torch singer and her connection to the lawton Reynolds family through early romance and tragedy.
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Winston-Salem
Libby Herman Reynolds
Norfolk & Western Depot
Clare
Ohio
Cincinnati
Libby
Arrow
Alfred Holman, Jr
Smith Reynolds
Grand Opera House
Libby Holman
Hughes High School
Elizabeth
Hughes
University of Cincinnati
Violet
Woman's League
Mummers Dramatic Society
History Club
Intercless
Europe’s shoe king Thomas Bata dies in plane crash
Prague reports Thomas Bata, Europe’s famed shoe magnate, perished in a plane crash. Born 1876 in Zlin, he built mass production and a vast retail network across Europe and Asia, with Bata factories employing about 20,000 and producing 135,000 pairs daily. He was 56 and described as Europe’s greatest industrial mind.
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Milton Bronner
NEA Service
Prague
Thomas Bata
Europe
Henry Ford
Asia
India
China
Malay States
Chicago
Zlin
Bata
America
Vienna
Lonoke Candidate Withdraws From Campaign Tuesday
Charles A Walls of Lonoke withdraws from the governor race reducing candidates to ten. He criticizes the use of learned chancellors to manage campaigns and notes three candidates have such help. Remaining names include Blackwood Terral Futrell Bone Johnston Priddy Heber Springs Coupee Wilson Caudle and Woodrow. Lieutenant governor race trims to six with Hutte illness prompting exit of Hutte and earlier Canon.
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Little Rock
Charles A. Walls
Lonoke
Dwight H. Blackwood
State Highway Commission
Tom J. Terral
Walls
Blackwood
Terral
J. M. Futrell
R. M. Mann
Futrell
S. Marcus Bone
Batesville
Dan W. Johnston
Clarksville
Ann Priddy
Russellville
Howard Heber Springs
W. P. Coupee Peas Wilson
Leonard &. Caudle
Greenwood
Arley Woodrow
Mena
Freed Hutte
England
Hutte
Senate
Curtis Cannon
Hope
Lee Cazort
Paul Grabiel
Joe W. Kimzey
Magnet
R. F. Milwee
Brinkley
J. Rosser Venable
Lawrence E. Wilson
Camden
Appeal Filed Over Hope Star Tax List Judgment
Hempstead County seeks Arkansas Supreme Court review of a 1211.50 tax list publication judgment against the county. The Hope Star and its attorneys argued the case was nonjury statutory and should be judge-decided, while the county contended it was a contract jury issue.
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Hempstead
Carrigan & Monroe
Arkansas Supreme Court
Hope ‘Star
Star Publishing Company
L. F. Higgason
Washburn
Higgason
Arthur C. Andreson
New Superintendent Introduced to Hope Businessmen
O. L. Young named new division superintendent of the Frisco with offices in Fort Smith and was presented to Hope business leaders Monday by Hope railroad agent G. H. Turner. Young traveled with A. P. Langrain from St. Louis and C. O. McCain of Fort Smith, division freight and passenger agent.
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O. L. Young
Frisco
Fort Smith
Hope
G. H. Turner
Mr. Young
A. P. Langrain
St. Louis
C. O. McCain
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Louis P. Lochner
Carolina Tobacco
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