Excursion Death Toll Reported At 423 At Loire Sunk Steamer
From St Nazaire to Nantes and surrounding areas officials and divers hunted for victims after the excursion steamer St Philibert capsized near Nelimouller island. About 100 bodies were sighted drifting among wreckage while the official death toll hovered around 423 with 61 bodies recovered by Monday night and 426 passengers noted as having left Notrmoutier Island on the return trip. Relatives gathered at the wharves awaiting word as search crews scoured the Loire area for more bodies and potential survivors.
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ST. Nazaire
Feathe
St. Philibert
Loire River
Nantes
France
Point St. Gildae
St. Phiilbert
Nelimouller Island
Notrmoutier Island
Al Capone Facing Hearing Tuesday
Chicago dispatch reports Capone heads to a Tuesday hearing as federal indictments accuse him of liquor law and income tax violations. Prosecutors seek prison for the famed gangland leader amid speculation on his plea.
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al Capone
Chicago
United States
Capone
Buch Conject
Lindbergh Receives Honorary Master of Science Degree
PRINCETON NEW JERSEY Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was awarded an Honorary Master of Science degree at Princeton University Tuessay as 446 members of the class of 1031 graduated. Six other honorary degrees were conferred including Frank B. Kellogg Willa Cather and Newton D. Baker.
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Princeton
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Princeton University
Tuessay
Frank B. Kellogg
Strte
Coolidge
Willa Cather
Newton D. Baker
Wilson
El Dorado Well Fire Ignited by Lightning
A Sun day lightning strike set an air storage tank near El Dorado Ark ablaze and still burning Monday. Firemen expect no danger to nearby tanks if wind stays low as Gulf Oil officials estimate damage around 60014 dollars and about fifty thousand barrels of oil stored in the tank.
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EL Dorado, Ark
Here
Gulf O7
Three Men Escape Uninjured After Ambulance Crash
Three men riding in an ambulance en route to Midwat hospital at Texarkane escaped injury when the vehicle skidded in loose gravel and overturned north of the Index bridge Monday morning. The patient, George Coleman, suffering kidney stones, was being taken for examination. Also aboard were Eunice Dudy, his nephew, and Jim Lattimer, Nashville undertaker, driver of the ambulance. Coleman is a retired hardware merchant from Nashville.
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Texarkonn
Index Bridge
George Coleman
Eunice Dudy
Jim Lattimer
Nashville, Arne
Coleman
Midwat
Texarkane
Nashville
Harding Praised by His Followers at Marion Tomb
Marion Ohio reports a memorial tomb dedication for Warren G Harding with President Hoover and Calvin Coolidge praising his leadership and calm during tough times. Hoover recalled the Alaskan trip and described Harding as kind yet betrayed by trusted men, whose actions fractured the nation and his presidency.
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Marion
Ohio
Warrett G. Harding
United States
Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Harding
Hoov
Warren G. Harding
Mr. Harding
Warren Harding
Negro Taken From Jail By White Men
HUNTSVILLE Ala Two white men forcibly released Thomas Jasper a black farm laborer convicted earlier by a local court of disturbing a white girl from the city jail. They gained entry by filing a lock and abducted him as officers feared a lynching and searched for his body.
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Huntsville
Ala
Thomas Jasper
Magnolia grocer J C Wyrick dies of heart attack
J C Wyrick 65 longtime Magnolia Wholesale Grocery manager and local magnolia family member died at 9 30 pm Monday from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife two sons and a daughter Dr Walker Wyrick of Texarkana J C Jr and Caroline. three sisters Mrs R D Keith Miss Agnes and Miss Eddie Wyrick, all of Magnolia. He was known to Hope merchants through his firm’s interests.
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Magnolia
J. C. Wyrick
Magnolia Wholesale Grocery Company
Walker Wyrick
Texarkana
J. C. Jr
Caroline
R. D. Keith
Agnes
Eddie Wyrick
Jonesboro Woman Suffers Broken Arm
JONESBORO Ark Mrs Jas Craig broke her right arm and dislocated her shoulder when she struck at a snake with a club. The blow twisted the snake and she fell in the mishap.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Jas. Craig
Guard Executives To Visit Hope On Armory Site Talk
Arkansas National Guard officers Brig Gen E L Compere Col Hi L McAlister and Lieut Col Charles S Garrett will visit Hope Tuesday to view tentative armory sites and meet with the city council and aldermen. A dozen properties including airport land have been offered. authorities reportedly favor a central city location for the armory with a $2.09 appropriation to finance construction.
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Arkansas National Guard
Hope
Ae Papl
Mack Duffie
National Guard
Little Rock
Military Department
E. L'Compere
Hi. L. McAlister
153Rd Infantry
Charles S. Garrett
Press Congress To Convene In Mexico
Newspaper editors from across the country plan to depart in August for Mexico City for the first regional meeting of the Press Congress of the World. About two hundred journalists from Central and South America and the West Indies are expected to attend to discuss using the press to foster international understanding. The event marks the first sectional conference since the congress began at the San Francisco Exposition in 1915, with prior meetings in Honolulu and Geneva. Governors of 48 states were asked to name eight delegates and stateless associations to appoint 10 representatives.
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ST. Louis
Mexico City
Press Congress of the World
Frank L. Martin
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Central
South America
West Indies
Honolulu
Geneva
Youth Drowns In St. Francis River Near Brown's Ferry
Ronald Eastman, 18, son of BE Eastman of Malden and formerly of Popular Bluff, drowned in the St Francis River near Brown's Ferry while a crowd of about 100 swam at the beach. His head struck a jog during a dive and he appeared to lose consciousness. The body was recovered soon afterward.
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Popular Bluff
Ronald Eastman
G. Eastman
Malden
St. Francia
Brown's Ferry
Beac
Hastman
Francis Dawson Transferred to Shreveport Office
Francis W. Dawson who has represented Ogilvie Wholesale Hardware of Shreveport for years has been moved to the Shreveport home office. He made Hope his headquarters until the transfer on Saturday. Perry K. Keith will succeed him in the local territory as part of a realignment of sales team.
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Francis W. Dawson
Ogilvie Wholesale Hardware Company of
Shreveport
Dawson
Perry K. Keiih
Ouxilvie Company
Sules Teres Lan Bess
Mapping Itinerary of Giant Airship
The giant German seaplane DO-X is expected to arrive at Rio de Janeiro on June 20, per the Condor syndicate. Its new furniture installation will be completed in a few days. It will fly to Bahia on June 17 and Victoria on June 19, where it will be open to the public. The length of its stay here remains undetermined. The itinerary is tentative pending arrival in Pernambuco of Maurice Dornier and Chief Construction Engineer Berner of Dornier.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Condor Syndicate
Bahia
Victoria
Pernambuco
Maurice Dornier
Berner
Dornier Convern
American Legion Rodeo to Be Held in Prescott
Prescott readers learn the American Legion plans a rodeo on July 4 the state’s first of its kind. Events include steer riding wild cow milking calf and goat tipping steer bulldogging mule racing and bronco riding with first second and third prizes. A street parade opens at 2 p m with ample parking. Committee heads are Joe Maher W A Brummell and A H Honea.
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Prescott
American Legion
Secon
Tennessee Bank Robbed of $5,000 in Dresden
Two unidentified men held up Conroy Rawls, the Peoples Bank book keeper, when he opened the bank on Tuesday. They forced him to access the vault and escaped with $5,000. No injuries reported. Local authorities launched a search for the suspects.
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Dresden
Conroy Rawls
The
Peoples Bank
Bullet and Hammer Injure Boy in Arkansas Incident
In Springdale Arkansas a boy named Howard Porter was badly wounded when he struck a pistol cartridge with a hammer. The cartridge exploded, injuring him severely. the incident occurred during play with a hammer and a gun component.
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Springdale
Ark
Howard Porter
Lightning Strikes Arkansas Farm Family Killing Head of Household
LHAMBURG Ark. A lightning strike during a rainstorm fatally strikes Charley Slocum 49 as his family suffers injuries. Kennon 21 is seriously ill while Jack 12 sustains minor burns and Mrs Slocum endures a severe shock. The barn burns in the incident as members sought shelter.
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Lhamburg
Ark
Charley Slocum
Ghred
Kennon
Jack
Sas
Mine Boss Killed In Gas Explosion At Fort Smith
James H. Wilkinson aged 40 8 fire boss in Mine No 14 Fort Smith killed by gas explosion Monday while preparing for entry shift Four feet from mouth of mine body burned by rescue crew arrived just before noon to investigate Huntington Southwestern Coal Company operates Mine No 14 with owners Robert Boyde Ben Hull and W T Graham Fort Smith natives say Wilkinson born in England in Lincolnshire lived in Huntington about 20 years
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Smith
James H. Wilkinson
Mitte
Mr. Wilkins
England
Lincolnshire
Huntington
Memphis Bandits Arrested in Bank Robbery Case
Three men identified among the robbers who held up a Planters National Bank branch in Memphis Tennessee on May 4 and escaped with 20 000 were held in jail in Dallas Texas Tuesday awaiting extradition to Tennessee. Names not disclosed yet and arrests occurred Monday night and Tuesday morning.
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Dallas
Tex
Planters National Bank
Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Vote on Gas Hike Will Be Required
TEXARKANA Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Texarkana city council must grant a referendum on the new gas rate schedule. The court upheld a mandamus action by B. Carter and other Miller County residents to force a special election after the council refused a public vote on the compromise tariff.
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Texarkana
Arkansas Supreme Court
Texarkana (Ark
Nust
Southern Cities Distributing Company
Supreme Court
Kevit
Dexter Bush
Carter
Miller County
Way Council
Incrés
Jefferson County Boys Plant Soy Bean Acreage
In Pine Bluff Ark three boys in Jefferson county plant and tend a soybean acreage. The effort is supported by E McCrizat, an instructor, and the boys undertake cultivation as a local agricultural activity.
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Jefferson County Boys
Ark
Jefferson County
McCrizat
Two bandits held by police in Little Rock robbery
Patterson and Hendrix, store officials from Hope, testified that two men held in Little Rock after Sunday ambush were not the Patterson's department store robbers who struck in Hope last Saturday night. Authorities traced a northward escape route via Nashville and DeQueen toward the Oklahoma line, a path often used by suspects, as deputies and local officers searched for the actual thieves who had stolen between four and five hundred dollars.
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Little Rock
Patterson
Hope
M.' Patterson
Dewey’ 'Hendrix
Hendrix
Clarence Beker
Nashville
DeQueen
Oklahoma Line
Mail Planes Begin Journey Over City
Residents of Hope and central Hempstead County glimpse mid day air travel as two tri motor mail planes cross the city. The American Airways ship from Fort Worth to Louisville is due at 12 55 pm, with a second westbound flight from Texarkana scheduled about 2 15 pm. Both craft passed about 2000 feet above amid post-storm haze, Tuesday’s pilots following the timetable.
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Hope
Hempstead County
American Airways
Tie
Texarkana
Fort Worth
Louisville
Amother
Gordon
Malvern
Ying
Order Woman Cleared in Death of Arkansan
In Cabot Arkansas on Monday Assistant Prosecutor Joe Melton ordered charges dismissed against Mrs Buford Huddleston 86 in the death of Lea A Edwards 60 a Cabot merchant The autopsy after exhumation showed natural causes The prosecutor said Edwards bruise on the head came from a fall and Huddleston said she was with him at the time of death
Texarkana Lions hear judge on Arkansas school plan
Judge Dexter Bush warned against overreaching school authorities while addressing Texarkana Lions on Arkansas public schools. He blamed consolidation for eroding community schools and called for state support to maintain high schools and county upkeep for grade schools.
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Texarkana
Arkansas
Woman Found Dead by San Jacinto River Near Houston
Houston authorities report 95 year old Lady A Patterson, manager at a local furniture firm, found dead along the San Jacinto River banks about three quarters of a mile south of the Houston Besument highway at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Officials suspect murder and plan an autopsy by county health officer Ernest Weight to determine cause of death. inquest by Justice J E Flowers awaits medical findings.
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Houston
Lady A. Patterson
Houston Furniture
San Jacinto
Houston-Besument
Ernest Weight
J. E. Flowers
Goose Creek
Health clinic to be conducted in Bodcaw Miss Nevada nurse to hold free typhoid inoculation
Miss Darryn Thomas, Nevada county health nurse, will conduct a free typhoid inoculation clinic at Bodcaw on Monday June 22 as she visits community centers in Nevada county. The event invites all who care to come for the shots.
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Darryn Thomas
Nevada County
Bodusw
Miss Thomas
Heavy Rain Sweeps Arkansas With Prolonged Downpour
Heavy rain drenched Arkansas from Monday night into Tuesday, lasting about 13 hours with over an inch likely. Federal weather observer N P O Neal logged around 0.48 inch by 9:40 Tuesday morning and warned of more rainfall from additional storms Tuesday night into Wednesday.
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Arkansas
N. P. O'Neal
Federal Weather Porter
Child Kicked By Horse May Die
Paragould Delma White seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs L T White living four miles west of Marmaduke is in critical condition after a horse kicked her in the forehead while she tried to move the animal from a popcorn patch. Skull fractured brain injured operation performed pieces of bone and brain removed. She was brought to Little Rock after first aid from Dr C H Clapton of Martinduke.
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Paragould
Delma White
Mra. L. T. White
Marmaduke
C. H. Clapton
Martinduke
Little Rock
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Mexico
St. Francis River
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Bronx
New York City
Grace A. Martin
Galveston
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Rio
de Janeiro
Prescott Group
Tennessee Bank
Hamburg
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Arkansan
Advocates
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