Bruce Catton Says WPA Prevailing Wage Change Debated
Washington observers note leaders of major labor groups failed to mobilize during hearings on the WPA ruling, leaving the prevailing wage section vulnerable. The bill would end the prevailing wage and set a 10 hour month for relief workers, with hearings spurring limited organized opposition and broad industry indifference. The 30 day payless holiday and wage differentials between north and south loom as major post passage effects, while labor leaders delayed protests.
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Washington
Dibardre
Gine
Pout
Senate
Harrington
WPA
House
Prorest
CLIO
WEA
Congress
Cnminute
WPA Liw
Avade
Hortiom
Arkansas Senate Opens Bonds Hearings in Public Session
Arkansas Senate launches public hearings on highway bonds led by Governor Bailey's program. Invitations go to lawmakers and ex-governors to testify as witnesses, with a possible executive session for questions. Moody's reports show bond interest rates and state issuance details, noting relatively low rates for nonhighway bonds and overall indebtedness.
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Arkansas Senate
Mittob Rock
Jtiles
Senate
Isupkurs Ain
Col FL Barton
EP Derwle
W. A. McDonant
Ackoiisas Bartasaellion Presilent
Hat Cravernor Baile
Vows to Perform This Cp Reveals Silent Resolve
A fragmentary note hints at a vow or plan to undertake a secret act. The language suggests inner resolve and a sense of urgency, with imagery of a gale behind the speaker. Specific details are unclear due to the garbled text.
First WPA Strike Dismissals Hit Twelve Thousand Plus
The Attorney General ordered a federal grand jury probe into the Minneapolis WRA Spike situation as WPA workers face mass dismissals for five day absences in protest of new relief rules. Col Harrington reported 82,582 dismissed, with 26,45 still absent, while Workers Alliance vows to retire unless the five day ban is lifted and demonstrations against the 130 hour month surge nationwide.
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Waitington
Murphy
Minneapolis
WRA
PRI
Wallington
Col. F. C. Harrington
WPA
Wutcher
Manediay
Workers Alliance
Heat Wave Grips the South and Forest Fire Hampered
A heat wave spread across the South on Wednesday while the Great Lakes region enjoyed cooler, wet weather. Heat intensified forest fire activity in Yellowstone National Park, with wind and smoke affecting firefighting efforts. Overnight showers were reported in parts of Alabama and the Northwest.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Yellowstone National Park
Alabama
Louisiana Nevada Transit Wins Certificate to Build Gas Line
The Federal Power Commission issued a limited certificate to the Louisiana Nevada Transit company authorizing construction and operation of gas transport facilities from Cotton Valley field in Webster Parish Louisiana to Hope Arkansas and Okolona Oklahoma. The line is limited to wholesale gas at not more than 10 cents per thousand cubic feet and service to specified industrial users. The Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company now serves the three customers and intervenor status was taken by its rival. The ruling requires price limits and notes potential service at lower rates if requested by neighboring towns. The Hope Municipal Water and Light Plant may see substantial savings if contract terms favored by the municipality are maintained. The decision references a 1909 resolution and projected savings of about 75,000 dollars over ten years, with ongoing fuel-rate reductions tied to expanding distribution.
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Washington
Hope
Hope Municipal, Water and
Arkansas Louisa Natural Gas Company
Toga
Fulton, McNeb
Bradley
Ark
Louisiana-Nevada Company
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
Arkansas Louisning Gas Company
Tossalkichie Nevada Concern
Magnoalis, Steephens
Waldo
Louisiana-Nevada Transit Company
Vale
Yuya Moves Six Miles Across Town in Missouri
Springfield area note reports in terse form about Radicul, Missouri where a move shifts the post office about six miles. Quoted lines reference Mrs. Jennings as former postmaster and Mrith Cox explaining the old and new post office locations. The fragmentary piece ends noting the change and identity of the postmaster.
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Springfield
Radical
Stone
Canine Birthday Party Inspires Muted Evansville Tale
Nine year old Kathryer Aan Nolan hosted a pet party for her water spaniel Chiea in Evansville Indiana. Neighbors watched as dogs gathered at a sand laden yard to play with gates and games while owners served hot dogs and bones.
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Evansville
Ind
Kathryer
Nolan
Chiea
Our Modern Farmers and Students Earn High Marks
A jumble of phrases notes that University of Oklahoma students earned straight A grades in the spring semester. It references farm workers and an experiential farm setting with a dial charge mechanism and tireware safety, though details are unclear due to garbled text.
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E. Straight
Tsuniversity of Oklahoma
Hope Citizens Urged to Honor Soil Service Chief Next Tuesday
The Hope Chamber of Commerce urges residents to attend a camp event honoring H H Kennett, Chief of the Soil Conservation Service, noting Hempstead county has seen more than a million dollars paid to enrollees, supervisors, merchants and property owners over five years. The program highlights local spending by camp workers and participants, with 37 supervisors and many locals benefiting from farm reclamation work.
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Hope
CCC
H. H. Kennett
Soil Conservation Service of
United States
Hempstead County
Hempstead
Soil Conservation
Soil Conservation Service
Arch Andres Dies at Home in Dallas
Arch Andres 67 formerly of Hope died suddenly of a heart attack while seated by a radio in Dallas. Survived by widow a Hope sister of Mrs Ela Bright five sons and a daughter five brothers and two sisters. Funeral services planned in Dallas with burial in Hope.
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Arch Andres
Calhai
Hope
Ela Bright
Julia
Milton
George
Cleve Andres
Francis Andres
Sutton
Ister
Rule Lee
Vernon
Dallas
Mind Your Manners Quiz Answers Version rrr
A fragmented quiz on social etiquette with garbled questions and answers. The readable line hints at answers involving forks street clubs and polite dining, but the text is mostly incoherent and lists stray phrases without clear context or complete facts.
20 Are Arrested in Danzig Roundup
Police in Danzig announced on Wednesday the arrest of 20 Marxian Socialists suspected of ties to a hostile foreign power. They allegedly stored explosives and planned to blow up bridges, with charges of treason expected. The foreign power was not named.
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Free City
Danzig
Stewarts Visit State Exhibit at New York World's Fair
Among Arkansas visitors at the Arkansas Exhibit during the World’s Fair week were Mr and Mrs J B Stewart of Hope. A singing program is set for Friday night July 21 at Fair View church three miles south of Spring Hill with the Hope Quarter and other musical groups expected to perform. The public is invited.
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Arkansas
J. B. Stewart
Hope
Fair View
Fair View Community
Spring Hill
Fair View Church
Vileu
Cotton News in New Orleans Opens and Closes Quietly
New Orleans reports October vote opening at 8.68 and closing at 3.78. Spot cotton finished quiet with a five point drop, middling price at 9.15.
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New Orleans
Spot Cotton
Arkansas Letter Carriers Convention Heads to Hope
Representatives from every county will attend the 4th annual Rural Letter Carriers convention and the 14th annual Ladies Auxiliary meeting in Hope, beginning Thursday, July 20, with tours, a fish fry, and a concert. Key speakers include S A Kemp, A Judson Pryor, Wade Kitchens, and L M Walker. events run through Sunday with memorial service, banquets, theater, and officer elections.
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Arkansas
Arkansas Rural Letter Carriers' Association
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Hope
Experiment Station
City Hall
Hope High School
Hope and Hempstead County
S. A. Kemp
Hot Springs
Barlow Hotel
City Auditorium
W. S. Atkins
Robert Wilson
Civic Organizations of
A. Judson Pryor
Tex Larkana
Wade H. Kitchens
Congress
7Th Congressional District
L. M. Walker
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Capital Hotel
Barlow
Charlie Evans
Little Rock
L. L. Moneywiy
Washington, D. C
Saenger
Saunday
Chamber of Commerce
Magnolia
L. L. Moneyway
Washington
DB. C
Yree M. Piney
Bentonville
Ark
L. W. Walker
Waukainis
Oha
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
J. J. Mart
Waldo
Tih
Wylie J. Roberts
Conway
Wid
W. W. Wilson
Mulberry
Crop Insurance Would Have Helped Says Bilbo
Senator Bilbo a Democrat said on Wednesday that federal crop insurance would have spared cotton farmers from starvation by preventing massive government expenditures. The piece notes a line about Hudson Bay being described as a sea.
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Bilbo
Washington
Billo
Refugee Committee Invited to Meet in Washington
President Roosevelt invited the three nation inter governmental committee on refugees to meet at the White House Washington to discuss finding homes for refugees from central Europe.
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London
Eng
V/P
Roosevelt
Inter-Governmental Committee On Refugees
White House
Washington
Europe
Restore Peace to Harlan Coal Field
The Harlan county soft coal dispute in Kentucky ended Wednesday after settlement by the county operators association and the United Mine Workers. Conciliation chief John R. Stellman announced the agreement, which followed a deadlock and used a Labor Department formulated approach “on behalf of the people of America.”
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Knoxville
Tenn
Harlan County
Kentucky
County Soft Coal Operators Association
United Mine Workers
John R. Stellman
A. S. Department of Labor
People of America
Oklahoma Wins Custody Of Russell In Kidnapping Case
Ozark Ark reports Oklahoma authorities secured custody of Jack Russell 39 an escaped McAlester convict. Russell handed to Warden Jess Dunn after a night in jail and will be taken to Muskogee for arm re arming on federal kidnapping charges against E C Brown McAlester photographer.
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Ozark
Ark
Oklahoma
Jack Russell
McAlester
Russell
Jess Dunn
Muskogee
E. C. Brown
Hope Wins 2 From Texarkana Softball Doubleheader
Hope Bruner-Ivory and Leo Robins teams beat Green Castle of Texarkana in a Tuesday doubleheader. Bruner won 13 10 in game one without DI Fountain and Tank Ramsey on injured list. Robins won 14 1 in game two as Sommerville pitched a no hitter.
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Bruner-Ivory
Leo Robins
Green Castle
Texarkana
Bruner
Rabins
di Fountain
Tank Ramsey
Clifford Russell
Blackie Elliott
Lowe
Rateres
Ivory Lowe
Russell
Robins
Wink
Bill Sommerville
Cup
Sommerville
Burr
Coop
Erro
Secrest
Texarkansa
Powell
Beory
Hope High School Band Practice Set For Thursday
J T Luck, student director, announced the band will assemble at Oglesby School Thursday at nine. All members urged to attend as Thomas Cannon directs practice during his absence at a musical school in Chicago.
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J. T. Luck
the Hope High School
Bard
Oglesby Schuuil We Oy
Liuwk
Thomas Cannon
Chicaga
Former Sheriff Held on Bond in Bearden Case
Former Hempstead county sheriff Jim Bearden was arrested at 10 a.m. in Hope on a warrant charging embezzlement while sheriff in 1938 and posted a $2,000 bond for October circuit court. His son Reginald Bearden faces a separate warrant and possible arson charge in Clark county. Grand jury returned joint indictments for $1,374 in county funds misused, with additional indictments against Wallace Johnson and Monk Walton for criminal offenses. Sid John and James Coffee were rounded up on assault charges and placed on bond for October court.
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Jim Bearden
Hope
Hempstead
Bearden
C. E. Baker
Reginald Bearden
Hempstead County
Reginald
Los Angeles
California
Clark County
Gordon
Bakery
Larson
Baker
Wallace Johnson
Monk Walton
Johnston
Walton
Kim Bearden
Sid
John
James Coffee
Coverey Allen
Capital Stock Tax Deadline Extended
LITTLE ROCK Home, M. Adkins, Collector of Internal Revenue, announced the deadline for filing capital stock tax returns for the year ended June 30, 1939, and paying the tax has been extended to August 31. The Revenue Act of 1939 amended the tax law and was not approved until near July, delaying form availability and filing. Forms should reach the office within days and be mailed promptly, with expectations of reduced tax burdens for many corporations in his district. Diamond Slats area reports over 200 wrecks in shallow waters extending ten miles from Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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Little Rock
M. Adkins
Internal Revenue
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Tee Shitty
Tangastaianteiiy
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Idee
Ploems
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Bowery
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New Gas Company
Cotton Valley
Yuya
R. B. Bowen
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Bransas City
Frank Newsatt
Callaway County
Arnel
Walitly
Teuely
Bes
Chamberlain
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Germany
Poland
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