Work Relief Headed for Collapse Says Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton argues the federal relief system faces collapse as WPA funding and policies push work relief back toward direct relief. He notes long certified workers, wage differentials, local funding burdens, and staff cuts threaten projects and may trigger congressional shifts next January.
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Washington
Howard Hunter
WPA
WEA
Middle Wast
WIA
Chicago
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Los Angles
San Francisco
St. Louis
Philadephia
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FHA Cuts Interest Rate on Building Homes to 41 Pet
Washington officials announced a reduction in maximum FHA insured mortgage rates effective Tuesday. The top rate for insured single family loans drops from 5.5 to 4 percent, while large scale venture loans fall from 4.4 to 4 percent. FHA Administrator Stewart McDonald called the terms the most favorable yet offered. The move is not retroactive to existing mortgages. With new rates, homes can be bought with as little as 10 percent down and monthly payments around 23.20 per thousand borrowed. Jones praised the measure as spurring new home building and easier ownership.
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Stewart McDonald
FHA
Cruery” Mey
Jesse Danes
Jon
McDonald
Federal National Mortgage Association
RPC Mortgage Company
United States
The
Housing Administration
Hausizig
Jones
Legislature Gears to End Midweek on Bond Refunding Bill
Lieutenant Governor Bailey predicted final senate action on Governor Bailey’s 140 million state highway bond refunding measure by Tuesday or Wednesday as lawmakers press for speedy adjournment. The bill, approved 88 to 12 by the house last week, faces 23 amendments and could conclude by midweek if the senate agrees. Speaker Bransford and Bailey expect swift passage once the measure returns from the senate, with adjournment likely by week’s end.
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Little Bock
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Bailey
Bob Bailey
Trusselsville
Wers Desday
House
John Bransford
Fifteen Players to Compete in Fair Park Tennis Tourney
About 15 players are expected to vie for first place at the Fair Park tennis tournament Tuesday. Promising matches are billed to reach a high point as competitors prepare for potential upsets and decisive rounds.
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Fair Park
Cranium Crackers Cranium Crackers
A fragmented quiz item asks who won the PGA gull championship and who teased Hitler by Mussolini, where an outbreak occurred in a WPA strike killing a police witness and two others, who led a well known Webster Massachusetts group, the name of a Coast Guard mercy plane, and where Gov Dickinson claimed to have seen a high five prompting a warting statement to mothers.
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Hitler
Mussoltind
Webster
Mass
Coast Guard Mercy
Atlantic
Gov. Dickinson
Mighiguin
J S Wilson Sr Dies in Columbus at 95
J S Wilson Sr a Hempstead county pioneer merchant died at his Columbus home at 2 45 pm Monday age 95 Funeral plans were not announced He is survived by his widow four sons and a daughter all reside in the county except Dr Manton Wilson a medical missionary in Korea The Star’s Centennial Edition of 1936 recalled his role during the 1932 Bank of Columbus panic when he personally borrowed to pay depositors He long rode a horse on farm tours and at 92 ran a turkey ranch He criticized wartime cotton debt and urged living within means Born October 3 1843 near Tupelo Miss He came to Columbus in 1856 joined Hempstead Rifles in 1861 and later farmed and traded in mobile before returning to Columbus to co run the family store Continued on Page Three
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Mmerchant
Columbus
Korea
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Joe Wid
Charles Wilson
R. E. Jackson
Mope High Schuel
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Star
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Ile
Okolona
Miss
Tupelo
Hempstead Rifles
Jett
Alabama
Columaus
Mobile
Ala
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Calan Hus
W. ¥. Foster
Hope
21 Future Farmers Visit Alton Camp
Gerald Regenya reports on a Soil Conservation Service Field Day held July 26 attended by about 126 people. Among the participants were 21 Future Farmers of America members from Laneburg Central High School in Arkansas. Speakers included Waldo Frazier of the Farm Bureau, R. E. Short of Brinkley and H. M. Thompson of Little Rock.
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Gerald Regenya
4. H. Bennett
Washington, D. C
Soil Conservation Service
United States Department of Agriculture
S.C. S
FLA
Laneburg Central High School
Waldo Frazier
Arkan Farm Bureau Federation
Little Rock
R. E. Short
Brinkley
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
H. %. Thompson
Little Ruck
Immortal Longings and the Heart for God in Trench
A concise note cites Trench’s view that only God can satisfy immortal longings and that the heart is made for Him, asserting that earthly joys cannot fully fit or fulfill the soul.
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God
Trench
Mineral Wells Western Stage Coach Welcomed in Hope
Hope Star reports Mineral Wells Texas stage coach heading to the New York World’s Fair spent a night in Hope on July 27. Officials including Mayor Atkins and Postmaster Kaufman greeted the party at Lucp’s Tourist Camp before a downtown program and a post office stop. The coach, traveling miles a day, is slated to reach New York by September 5. Local girls joined the moment, with riders and townsfolk photographed beside the stage coach.
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Hope Star
Mineral Wells
Texas
Hope
Western Corporation
Lucp
W. S. Atkins
Comerce
B. L. Kaufman
Hope Post Office
Bud the Hope Girls
Robert M. Wilson
J. H. Weaver
Haefner
Turkey
Mary Ann Lile
Marian Smith
Claudia Whitworth
Selen Bowden
Indirect Attack Holds Up British French Pact
Reports from London indicate Prime Minister Chamberlain cited the definition of indirect aggression as the main snag in finalizing the British French Russian mutual assistance treaty. Britain and France planned to send military missions to Moscow for staff talks, with the U.S. Military Review noting large scale war games planned in the near term. In Shanghai, anti British tensions rose as Britons faced warnings and authorities urged removal of British goods and missionaries amid protests over Japanese territorial moves.
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Eng
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
France
Moscow
Shanghai
China
Tiensin
Tsinan
Shangtung Province
Tsangchow
Hopeh
Pieping
Mfhienee
Industry Called in Racket Probe
New York prosecutors broadened a grand jury inquiry to trace hideaway funds of gangster Louis Lepke Buchalter. Subpoenas targeted garment and bakery industry officials to bring books and records for scrutiny, seeking evidence of any payments to Lepke as investigators tighten a nationwide manhunt.
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Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Thomas E. Dewey
United States
Dewey
Lepke
Bob Burns to star in Our Leading Citizen world premiere in Van Buren
Van Buren Arkansas to host a world premiere of Our Leading Citizen featuring Bob Burns and a Paramount backed presentation. A CBS broadcast from 6 to 8 30 pm will accompany the local show with stars from Morrywood and officials attending. Fort Smith nearby as a suburb, with crowds expected.
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Arkansas
Paramount Pictures
A. Lightman
Mateos Theatrehead
Bob Barns
Pas Pipe
Robin the Burns
Arkansas River
Fort Smith
Baconks
Crawford County
Morrywood
Bob Burns
Sismoovie
CBS Brostleret
Seine Pierre
American Woman Reported Held in Nazi Political Prison
United States consulate general asked German secret police if Mrs Franz Lem, a German citizen born in New Orleans, is confined in Dachau on charges of anti Nazi propaganda as claimed by her husband. Lem said his wife formerly Lili Harrison lived in New Orleans.
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Lili Harrison
New Orleans
No Cotton Loans at Present Price
Washington reports that the government will withhold any advancement of its loan program for 1939 as long as home prices remain above current levels. Loans will be held in reserve by officials as price-boosting measures should quotations begin to drop.
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Washington
Fedarad
Colon
Some People Have the Best Ideas
A quirky account describes Brayton J s alarm clock idea adapted to an electric fan to beat heat wakefulness. The piece notes Miller cafe operator uses the contraption for a cooler mornings wake up and references Mill and a 1939 Isle of American farm product value of 2.1 billion dollars, down from 4 percent from 1908.
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Jen
Miller
M—Raymond Millis
Isle of American
Twenty two Scouts Leave on Week's Camp
Twenty two Boy Scouts from Hope and Washington troops depart Monday for a week's stay at Camp Pioneer near Mena. Tommy Brumfield leads the group with Scout executives visiting during the camp.
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Hope
Washington
Pioneer
Mena
Tommy Brumfield
Grand Jury Urges LSU Board Members to Quit
In Baton Rouge the parish grand jury urged the LSU board of supervisors to resign all members serving under former president Dr James M Smith as indicted. The report to district court Monday called for immediate stepping down of the regime's appointees.
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Baton Rouge, la
Baton Rouge Parish
District Court
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
James M. Smith
Vice President Garner Plans Front Page Presidential Campaign
Washington reports close friends say Vice President John N. Garner intends a front page campaign for the Democratic nomination but will not appear publicly before the party convention next summer. In another item, Republicans push to sharply cut Export-Import Bank authorization in the stalled Senate financing measure. Taft cites Jesse Jones saying 125 million suffices. bank previously had 106 million.
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Washington
John N. Garner
Garner
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Jesse Jones
Italians See U. S. Giving Britain Aid
Rome editor Virginia Gayda of La Voce d Italia claims a British American plan behind U S denunciations of the 1911 commercial treaty. He cites a coordinated Washington London maneuver exposing US Britain rubber cotton swap as prelude to war reserves. The June 23 agreement traded 600000 bales of American cotton for about 175 million pounds of British rubber.
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Italy
Virginia Gayde
United States
Hull
Great Britain
France
Gayda
la Voce d'Italia
Washington
London
Roosevelt
Japan
Former Arkansan Seeks Senatorship in Florida Race
Toa C Hopper a well known Arkansan who married a Hope girl and served as Arkansas Secretary of State 1921 25 now moves to Lakeland Florida and seeks the United States Senate seat this summer Hopper was reared at Mt Ida in Montgomery county married Ida Middlebrooks daughter of Mrs Mary Middlebrooks and sister of Alva and Miss Lillis Middlebrooks Citizens Play Theyre Policemen BAR HARBOR Maine This summer resort has a small police force but residents formed Public Reserves who bought uniforms and equipment and aided police in traffic duties during peak season.
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Toa C. Hopper
Arkansan
Hope
Twoferms
Arkansas
Lakeland
Fla
United Blates
Florida
Mr. Hopper
Mt. Ida
Montgomery County
Ida Middlebrooks
Mary Middlebooke
Alva
Lillis Middlebrooks
Bar Harbor, Mc
Cotton prices open and close higher in New Orleans
Cotton in New Orleans opened Monday at 9.03 and closed at 9.17. Spot cotton closed quiet with a rise of 10 points to 9.45, reflecting a modest uptick in price.
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Kiangsi Yond
Lepke Buchalter
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Ira C. Hopper
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