Southern editor condemns mob violence in light of regional history
The piece argues lynching and hooded mob violence are unacceptable today, noting Northern coverage inflates such events while Southern editors face federal pressure. It recalls Arkansas oil boom turmoil, praising Sheriff Perry Nelson's decisive actions in El Dorado and urging local officials to uphold due process and protect law and order.
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Judge Lynch
Rand
Georgia
Alabama
Ue South
Arkansas
el Dorado
Ira Hudson
Lumber Mman
Chamber of, Commerce
Union County
Perry Nelson
Perry
Uolon Circuit Court
State of Arkansas
Thein Cvime
Yates
University to Offer Degree in Journalism
Fayetteville June 17 The University of Arkansas will offer a bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1950. The Arkansas Press Association seminar heard the plan and noted a Special Committee coordinated with the university to create the required journalism curriculum. Trustees approved a $60,000 printing plant for the Arkansas Traveler and other student publications, a recommendation of the press association.
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Arkansas Press Association
Potay
Tthe University
Arkansas Traveler
The
Press Association
Arkansas Weather: Fair skies and scattered storms
Forecast for Arkansas calls for fair conditions this afternoon and tonight. Saturday will be partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in western areas. Temperatures remain steady with little change through the period.
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Arkansas
Five States Pass Low Mood-Style Relief Measures
Associated Press report from Washington notes rising unemployment and swelling relief rolls spurring five states to enact low mood style relief laws and revive work relief projects, while an AP survey finds no national emergency and suggests relief systems largely hold.
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Associated Press
Washington
A. P
Truman
BLS
Council of Economic Advisers
Edwin G. Nourse
Nourse
Ohio
Minnesota
Iowa
Kansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Colorado
Idaho
California
Work Relief
Dayton
Metropolitlan
American Municipal Association
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Maine
Oregon
Arkansas
Two New Polio Cases Reported in Arkansas
In Arkansas two new polio cases raised the year total to 49, the highest for the period. State Health Officer T T Ross said the situation is not as alarming as it appears, noting adequate records over the past decade and earlier onset this year. Cases came from Ashley and Jackson counties. Mississippi county saw three new cases, part of a week total of seven, with twelve cases in the county since January.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
T. T. Rogs
Ross
Health Department
Pate
Ashley
Jackson
Mississippi County
Wrong Number Brings Another Number
Chester police arrest a 46 year old homeless man who claimed he had a home and gave an address that proved to be invalid. At magistrate R Robinson Lowry he asked for the address and the defendant replied it was just dust and an address. He received a sentence of days.
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Chester
Jay
John McCafferty
Texarkana Slayer Given Life Sentence
Clarence J. Hawkins, 24, of Texarkana Texas, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the fatal February stabbing of Bonnie Joan Shellon in a Texarkana hotel room. Convicted yesterday by a Bowie county jury after the state sought the death penalty.
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Boston
Texas
Clarence J. Hawkins
Texarkana
Tex
Bonnie Joan Shellon
Bowie County
Wealthy executive shoots friend after jealousy over ex wife
Chicago June 17 UP Carl A Moore 50 a wealthy executive shot and seriously wounded his friend Robert E McCall 41 during a gin party in Beverly Hills after McCall allegedly brandished a butcher knife and boasted of past contracts Moore claimed self defense firing a .32 pistol from a mantle McCall wounded in the abdomen as police piece together the motive Moore and his ex wife Florence divorced February Moore's property settlement was 26000 and McCall previously married into the Fairbanks Morse family line
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Chicago
Carl i A. Moore
Robert E. McCall
McCall
Moore
Florence
Beverly Hills
South Side
Saipan
John Long
Moores
Fairbanks, Morse and Co
Barbara Morse
Fairbanks, Morse
New York
Mantle
Mall
Lecture Series Starts Sunday on S Main
A Sunday evening talk titled Peace or Pieces will open at the Bible Auditorium on South Main at 1h Street. The program aims to lift up the cross of Christ and encourage Bible study with George Warden of Hot Springs, Arkansas, providing congregational singing and Salovox piano and singing selections.
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Europe
Bible Auditorium
South Main
United Nations
George Warden
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Little Buck
Ark
American Bible Institute For
Louisiana
Oil Pipelines to Expand 29,000 Miles by 1951 End
The article notes that moving a barrel of crude oil 1400 miles costs only a nickel in electricity. By the end of 1951 Wood's pipeline facilities for distribution of oil and petroleum gas will grow by 29,000 miles, signaling a major expansion in pipeline capacity and reach.
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Niles
Atomic Group Again Raked By Senator
Senator Hickenlooper attacked the Atomic Energy Commission for proceeding with a $10 million natural gas pipe line project to its Oak Ridge Tennessee plant. AEC commissioner Sumner Pike defended the move saying switching to natural gas saves about $1.25 million yearly, and coal work stoppages justify the alternative. The issue arose amid charges of mismanagement under AEC Chairman David Lilienthal, who urged FBI checks on a magazine article alleging security breaches.
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Washington
Senator Hickenhooper
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Sumner Pike
AEC
Oak Ridge
Pike
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
Hickenlooper
David EB
Lilenthal
Regular singing service at Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
The Garrett Memorial Baptist Church will hold a regular monthly singing service at 2 p.m. Sunday. The public is invited.
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Garrett Memorial Baptist Church
Brutal Sex Murder Echoes Black Dahlia Case in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a 21 year old hairdresser and mother Mrs Louise Coulter Springer was found garroted and mutilated in her husband’s sports convertible on the near south side. Coroner tentatively cites strangulation and rape. Husband Laurence Springer reported her disappearance Monday night and the car’s location near the tarpaulin covered body recalls the Black Dahlia murder. Police note similarities to the 1947 Elizabeth Short case.
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Los Angeles
Antether
Louise Coulter Springer
Black Dahlia
Ben Brown
Elizabeth Short
A Soldier Reflects on Battlefield Foxholes and Memory
A veteran recounts visiting European battlefield foxholes with 47 war correspondents on a U S tour. He notes how the earth now swallows paths once etched by war and stresses not to revisit alone. The piece urges caution with spouses and suggests contacting the American Graves Registration to arrange visits to permanent overseas cemeteries.
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New York
Europe
American Overseas Airines
Iather
Jaws
Min
Belgium
Treaty Felbson
Paris
American
1A. G. Roc
Loyal to U.S. Miss Coplon Testifies in Espionage Trial
Judith Coplon testified she has always been loyal to the United States and denied being a Communist or passing government secrets. She described her work with the Justice Department Foreign Agents Registration section and Amtorg matter, touched on a secret FBI report, and said her telephone may have been tapped.
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Karl R. Bauman
Washington
UPI
Judith Coplon
United States
Charles
Lustice Department
Archibald
Palmer
Miss Coplon
Valentine A. Gubitchev
New York
Justice Department
Gubilchey
Foreign Agents Registration Section
Aneorg
FBI
Miss Copton
Michael
Willlam E. Foley
Gbant
Miss Coplin
Uiloney
Raymond P Whearly
Cutrate Prices Banished in City Liquor Stores
Revenue Commissioner Dean Marley issued a new regulation banning discount sales in liquor stores. It prohibits selling cigarettes, beer, or other items below the established area price to avoid inducements, aligning with the Wharton act.
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Three Nees
Vung
Dean Marley
WHS
Wrecked Plane Bodies Found Near Dierks
Two Texans, T. C. Elkins of Elko Products and his nephew Ben Ferguson, vanished May 29 after taking off from Hot Springs for Texas. Wreckage and bodies found in a rugged Quachita Valley near Dierks Arkansas. Searchers aided by Leon Garrison and Audrey Sermons. reward offered by Elkins family.
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Ark
Texas
M. A
Masier Jaid
Leon Garrison
Audrey Sermons
Elkins
Arthur Hicks
Howard County
Charles Tyler
Craft
Tyler
Hicks
Mosier
Suck Gap
Et Elkins
Ferguson
Dierks
Athens, Ark
Fragmentary 1940s European and Korean political notes
Disjointed clipping covers church state in Czechoslovakia, Beran and archbishop figures, an open conference with ministers, a US Senate subcommittee on wartime death penalties for Germans, the Malmedy massacre case, and South Korea's president asserting independence from American guarantees.
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Cantik Mumist
Czechoslovakia
Ith Beran
Beran
Hang Jment
Josef-Cardi
Ashous
Archia
Yloplesis
Enereta
Cqnfi
Senata Sing
Prigoi
Malmedy
Belin
Seoul
Rhee
United States
Trematt
Black man Pays Full Penalty for Rape Case at Tucker Prison Farm
Tucker Prison Farm records detail the June execution of Mizell Palmer, 25, who was strapped to the electric chair at 2:02 a.m. and died at 5:04 a.m. after being convicted of raping a white woman during a confrontation near Little Rock. Co-defendant Charles Hamm received life imprisonment. Governor McMath had refused to intervene, maintaining the sentence as upheld by the state Supreme Court.
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Tucker
Arkansas Electric
Mizell Palmer
Little Rock
sNew
Les Charles Hamm
Palmer
Supreme Court
McMath
Hamm
May State Police report Hempstead County accidents and thefts
Arkansas State Police investigated four major automobile accidents in Hempstead County in May with no fatalities in the county though Hope district recorded three fatal accidents. Six stolen automobiles were recovered in the district with Set. Mosier and Patrolman Ward each recovering one in Hempstead County.
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Arkansas State Police
Hempstead
Hope District
Set
Mosier
Ward
Holly Grove Plans Children Day Program Sunday
Holly Grove community schedules a Sunday June 19 Children’s Day program with morning services a ground ceremony and singing on the grounds. The event at Holly Grove, twelve miles north of Hope, invites public participation.
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Holly Grove
Nner
Hope
First Movie Theater Opens in Los Angeles in 1902
A fragment notes the Electric Theatre in Los Angeles as the first motion picture theater. It claims opening on April 2, 1902, with admission around 10 cents and a show lasting about an hour, commanded by a father figure.
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Electric Theater
Los Angeles
Calif
Commaning
Toutois
Johnny Cox Injured in Highway No 4 Motorcycle Crash
Johnny Cox son of Mr and Mrs Charles Cox was seriously hurt in a pre noon motorcycle accident near Municipal Airport on Highway No 4. Marvin Toney driver of a log truck for Gunter Lumber Co was uninjured. Cox was thrown from the bike and suffered severe cuts and bruises as witnesses saw the collision and attempted to help.
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Johnny Cox
Charles Cox
Municipal
Marvin Toney
Negro Dey
Gunter Lumber Co
Tom Ed Hays
Thomas Hays
Young Cox
Local Black man jailed for two robberies
City police said Harold F. Sparks Station in N. He last February and broke Jack Cannon's Negr Hazel Street last week from a jukebox. The suspect is a local Black man arrested in connection with two robberies.
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Harold
Bing Sparks
Jack Cannon
Hazel
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Alex. H. Washburn
S. Main
San Angelo
Audenthal
West
Singing Service
U.S
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