Reading of a World War era recovery letter prompt
A reader letter discusses rising prices and wage cuts under NRA measures, detailing personal hardship with flour, meat, rent, and family expenses. The writer, R. H. Walker, argues for America first and questions how a family can survive on the current wages, while praising Roosevelt’s broader financial stabilizing steps. The column continues on Page Threes.
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DITOR
NRA
Ot Fort
Penton
Stewart
Navy
U. S
Paul Jones
Toddes
America
R. H. Walker
Mr. Walker
United States
Roosevelt
World’s Largest Balloon Aims at Record 15 Miles
Major Kepner reported the stratosphere balloon reached 40 200 feet and leveled off as three airmen prepare for a 15 mile ascent. The craft took off from Rapid City on Saturday morning in a National Geographic Society and Army Air Corps expedition to study upper air conditions.
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Chicago
Kepner
Ainsworth
Nebr
Rapid City
S. D
William Kepner
Gondala
Albert Stevens
Orvil Anderson
National Geographic Society
United States Army Air Corps
Yoon
William E Kepner
Albert W. Stevens
Fort Meade
Black Hills
Orville A. Anderson
Stevens
W. E. Kepner
A. W. Stevens
South Dakota
O. A. Anderson
Gottdola
Reporters Serve Fifth Day in Jail for Defying Judge
In Danville Kentucky an elderly judge and two young reporters, Jacl Durham and Wesley Carty, continue an endurance contest refusing to answer questions from Judge Harlan. Each day adds a new charge of attempted containment as the reporters uphold press confidences despite fines and jail time.
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Danville. Ky
Harlan
Jacl Durham
Wesley Carty
Tse
J. Sterling Towles
Uren
Mons
Ney
Iback
Luke Lea Jr Paroled After Illness Past Conviction
Luke Lea Jr 26 of Nashville Tennessee won parole from Governor Ehringhaus effective Saturday. He began prison May 10 after a 193L conspiracy conviction tied to the Central Bank and Trust Company of Asheville. Lea Sr once US senator accompanied him. Lea Jr endured radium treatment in New York for a tumorous growth.
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Raleigh
Luke Learr
Nashville
Tenn
North Carolina
Gaveyner Ehringhaus
Luke Lew Sr
United States
Central Bank Aid Trust Company
Asheville
Lea
New York
City Rally Delayed to Saturday in Hope
A county and district candidates rally set for Friday night at Hope city hall was postponed to Saturday night. Speakers will address voters from the lawn of First Baptist church using loudspeakers. The move avoids conflicting with the Friday night stage play College Matrimony at the city hall auditorium. W S Atkins, candidate for Congress from the Seventh District, will speak at Patmos next Tuesday.
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Hope City Hall
First Baptist Church
City Hall
W.S. Atkins
Wil
Patmos Nert
Johnson May Take Greaf Case on Air
AGUA CALIENTE Mexico. Gen Hugh S Johnson NRA head says government will use power to stop L Grift Bros of Baltimore from using Blue Eagle insignia in garments. Baltimore district court bars NRA from lifting emblem. Johnson says if techs keep Blue Eagle, will explain on air.
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Agua Caliente
Mexico
L Grift & Bros
Baltimore
Hugh S. Johnsson
NRA
General Johnson
Washington
Federal
Fim
United States
M Becky Suffers Stroke Apoplexy
M Becky was found early Saturday in a dazed condition at his automobile junk yard west of the city on Highway 67. He was taken to Josephine hospital where physicians described his condition as serious. He apparently suffered a light stroke of apoplexy after injuries attributed to a fall rather than an attempted robbery.
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Sanders E. Clay
Representative Towers
Harlan
Clay
Durham
Carty
Chenault Huguely
Tim Carty
M. Becky
Highway
Josephine Hospital
Becky
College Matrimony to be staged at city hall Friday
The three act comedy College Matrimony will be staged Friday night at city hall auditorium under the Christian Endeavor of First Christian church. Geneva Higginson plays the title role with Fern Gainer as a freshman and Mrs Frank Russell as the domineering dean. Harriet Pritchard Jewell Garrett and others fill student roles while Josephine Saree and Mertin Coop portray campus figures. About 75 people are in the cast with Miss H Story as chorus accompanist and numbers by town girls in costume.
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City Hall Auditorium
Geneva Higgasin
Pla
Christiian Endeavor
First Christian Church
Opal Copeland
Arkadelphia
Fern Gainer
Frank Russell
Harriet Pritchard
Jewell Garrett
Dale Carlton
Hendrix Spraggins
Cutlud
Inez Taylor
Josephine Saree
Mertin Coop
Italy Moves Troops North to Support Austrian Border
Italy concentrates 48,000 troops on the Austrian border amid reports of fighting in Carinthia and Vienna. Rome signals readiness to intervene if internal conditions justify action, while Austrian Nazis and Heimwehr clash and Dollfuss’s death prompts national mourning.
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Associated Press
Rome
Styria
Carinthia
Vienna
Bief
Englebert Dollfuss
Austria
Italy
Mussolini
Fulvio Sugich
Franz von Papen
Heimwehr
Foreign Office
Liaken
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Geremany
Hitler
Germany
Munich
Convicts injured as water tank collapses at Tucker Farm
At Camp No 3 Arkansas seven convicts were injured when a 2000 gallon water tank collapsed onto the kitchen where about a dozen were preparing dinner. Three seriously hurt, yard man warned others to clear. Supt Todhunter blamed faulty construction. In Dallas, Texas a Democratic primary draws many voters with Allred McDonald Hunter Small leading for governor and Connally ahead of Bailey in early returns.
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Tucker Farm
Ark
Camp No. 3
Palmer
Crittenden County
Michel Bartell
Craighead
Matthew Hufford
Randolph
Erdiie Delozier
Union
Todhunttz
Dallas
Texas
James ¥. Allred
C. C. McDonald
Tom Hunter
Clint Small
Tom Connally
Joseph Weldon Bailey
Senate Post
21 Day Drouth Is Broken in Hempstead County
A 21 day drouth in Hempstead County ended early Saturday with .2 inch of rain, easing heat and helping fruits, truck crops, and cotton. The rainfall was widespread, lowering temperatures and relieving a three week heat wave, though not enough to fully restore crop conditions.
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Hempstead
Little Rock
Arkansas
Roach
Weather Bureau
Nashville
Peach Orchard
Rogers
Bentonville
Fayetteville
Brinkley
Booneville
Missouri Pacific Lines
Benton
Poplar Bluff
Texarkana
Conway
Marshall
Searcy County
Bowie County
Texas
Milter County
Cass County
Sevier County
Dillinger Case Three Figures Nabbed by U S Agents
Federal agents held three figures linked to the Dillinger case as they pressed a sweep for associates of the outlaw. The development followed the detention of Polly Hamilton Keele, described as the final sweetheart connected to Dillinger.
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Polly Hamilton Keele
Chicago
Dillinger
Polly
Hamilton Keele
Land dispute ends in fatal Hawthorne shooting near Hope
Malin Hawthorne is charged with murder for the Friday afternoon shooting of Irvin Burns, 23, near the Hawthorne home ten miles south of Hope. Burns, wounded with a shotgun, died late Friday at Julia Chester hospital after an earlier encounter at a political meeting and with Hawthorne’s wife. Hawthorne surrendered, claiming self defense, and deputies found no pistol on Burns. Funeral services were held Saturday at Old Sardis cemetery. Burns left a widow and four children from his later marriages.
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Malin Hawthorne
Irvin Burns
Hawthorne
Here
Burns
Jutta
Chester Hospital
Hathorne
Spring Hill
Hope Furniture Company
Ambuelante Broug
Julia Chester
Tnegphalasi
Allen Shipp
L. C. Betts
Betts
Awthorne
Old Sardis
Hope
Trace Robbery to Baby-Face Nelson
Henderson Kentucky news reports that Justice Department agents and local officers believe George Baby Face Nelson drove the car used by four bandits who robbed Farmers Bank and Trust Company of thirty four thousand three hundred twenty seven dollars. Bank employees and a filling station operator who saw a tire buyer compared photos to one robber, while the abandoned car linked to John BR Foxx of Chicago was found near Henderson.
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Henderson
George
Baby Face
Nelson
Farmers Bank and Trust Company
Department of Justice
Adair County
Henderson Friday
John BR
Foxx
Chicago
Cotton Markets See Mixed Moves on Saturday Trading
Cotton markets opened in New York with October at 12.85, rose to 12.94, then closed at 12.53, up 35 cents from last year. December 1.04, January 13.08, March 13.29. Meantime Arkansas market listings show poultry and egg prices for Little Rock Produce, including heavy hens, Leghorn hens, broilers per pound, and roosters, with sporadic candied egg quotes.
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New York
Little Rock
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