Italy Plays Own Hand In Rhineland Crisis
Russia supported France in punishing Germany with sanctions and possibly military action after the Rhineland violation. Locarno powers debated a 24 hour ultimatum to Hitler. Italy refused immediate sanctions, seeking Ethiopian dispute settlement first. Rumors abroad claimed Greece massing troops on the Bulgarian frontier to counter a Bulgarian threat, which officials denied.
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London
End
Russia
France
Germany
Rhineland
Locarno
League
Hitler
Italy
Eng
Athens
Greece
Bulgaria
Cotton Payments Resume for Producers in Arkansas
W E Mountcastle Hempstead county agent says price adjustment work resumes and aims to complete payments before the new Germ program. Eligible producers receive payments to cover the gap between the average cotton price on designated markets and the base. Certificates must be filed by April 1 with sale date, buyer signature required. Applications audited in Little Rock Extension Service office. Checks issued from Little Rock district office and sent to county agents for distribution.
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W. E. Mountcastle
Hempstead
Little Rock
Extension Service
Federal
Ccmbity
FHA to Run Loan Clinic in Hope Area Next Week
Federal Housing Agency will import loans for the Hope area due to local lending gaps. A clinic will open next week with services from several out-of-town lenders, including an evaluator from Little Rock. The event starts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hotel Barlow, with clinic sessions Wednesday and Thursday.
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Federal Housing Agency
Hope Area
Federal Housing Administration
Joh H. Page
FHA
Hope Rotary Club
Rlaw
Mann Defends Tax Receipt In Incal Election Contention
W H Mann Hope Ward Four protests contest of February 18 liquor election. He says he holds a valid poll tax receipt signed by Sheriff Bearden and has never voted without one. Mann asserts he has held the receipt since he was 21 and is now 45, denying the contest allegations.
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W. M. Mann
Hope Ward Four
Star Friday
Mann
Temperature Drop Averts Major Flood Across North America
Drop in temperatures slowed rising rivers in flood-stricken sections of the northeastern United States and Canada. Officials counted 10 dead and millions in property damage. Five prisoners remained on a small Hudson island for two days while hundreds fled from New Faylind hams.
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Associated Press
United States
Canada
Hudson River
New Faylindhams
Assessors and Clerks Sue for Back Pay in Arkansas
In Little Rock the state comptroller was advised that county assessors and clerks may recover back salaries based on a Supreme Court division opinion dated March 2. Three assessors notified the Attorney General that the opinion supports the reduction of salaries offset by 1903 legislation.
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Little Rock
General Pad
Bes Uel
Clerks Way Illenspl
Special Supreme Aocourt
Atchavy Genera Bailey
Redler Supreme War
Areso
Regislaliory
W Morney
Young Negro Confesses to Spiking Missouri Pacific Tracks
Emmet, Arkansas, 12 year old L. J. Hawthorne confessed Thursday night to placing railroad spikes on Missouri Pacific tracks near Emmet on two separate occasions. Spikes were found on three occasions in the last month, latest Tuesday. A motor car carrying General Superintendent W. E. Lamb and Superintendent H. Roll was struck but caused no damage. Homer Burke, special agent, led the investigation with local officers.
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L. J. Hawthorne
Emmet
Burke
My. Burke
Missouri-Pacific
Little Rock
Allen
Shipper Hope
Earl May
Nevida County
Fish Season to Close Saturday in Arkansas
Litt le Rock batch: Ghady McCall secretary of the State Game and Fish Commission reminds anglers that the closed season on game fishing begins at midnight Saturday and will remain closed until midnight May 15.
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Little Rock
Ghady McCall
Blasts Cause 31 Deaths at Sea and Land
San Francisco reports Friday explosions at sea and land killing 31. A sand steamer MMeurchigivite sank with eight lost. a Fireworks factory blast on Puyi island injured many, including 27 Chinese workers.
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San Francisco
Calastadia
Red Sea
China
Puiya Island
Kite Contest at Hope Airport Draws Youths
The Hope Rotary Club hosts a Sunday kite contest at Hope Airport for youths ages 3 to 14. Entries start about 1 30 p m with two age groups 3 to 12 and 12 to 14. Ten prizes will be awarded for categories including best homemade kite largest kite smallest kite and the longest flight. Preliminary flying will precede the main event with field judges and a prize committee named.
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The
Hope Rotary Club
Hope
Albert Graves
Nick Jewell
Aubrey Albritton
R. R. Morris
Fred.Gni AY
Earl Harrison
Frank Stanley
Robert Wilson
Lyman Armstrong
Frank Ward
Travis Steele
Hope Wins First Round in Arkansas Tournament
Hope defeated Rogers 45 to 38 in Jonesboro on Friday to advance to face Willmren. Reese of Hope led scoring with 12 points in the game.
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Hope
Reese High Man
Rogers
Jonesboro
Ark
Wiuren
Reese
Alabama House Pushes Repeal And Tax Referendum
Alabama House votes postpone indefinitely the 3 percent general sales tax referendum and approves a prohibition repeal referendum without a record vote. The repeal plan would allow package whisky sales at licensed clubs and open beer and wine sale, overseen by a beverage commissioner, with final disposition requiring official action.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama House
House
Aduny
Heavy Donations Reported to GOP in Early Year
Reports filed with the house show large contributions to the Republican National Committee in the first two months of the year. Democrats and the American Liberty League received far smaller totals, with figures indicating a sharp donor tilt toward the GOP.
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Washington
House
Republican
Democrats
Amriean Liberty
Ani
Liberty League
Spring seed demand pushes retail trades to high
New York reports active buying for spring seeds boosts retail trade volume to its highest level since the year began. Dun and Bradstreet releases a weekly summary of business additions. Oklahoma City criminal court of appeal upholds Phil Kennamer's 25 year manslaughter conviction for the Tulsa killing of John Gorrell last Thanksgiving. Manchester jury convicts Dr Buck Ruxton of wife murder and sentences him to hang for throttling, dismembering, and disposing of her body in the Devil's Beef-Tub near the Scottish border.
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NEW York—(P
Dun & Bradstreet
Tnr
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeal
Phil Kennamer
John Gorrell
Tulsa
Manchester
Eng
Buck Ruxton
Jonesy Raybe
Eight Hope men named on local liquor black list
Police posted a list in package liquor stores and beer halls of eight Hope men with three public drunkenness convictions in the last year. Proprietors face fines from 50 to 300 dollars for first offenses and possible license loss on a second offense. Names on the list include Dock Keith, Henry Games, Sella Atkins, Harry Keith, Dallas Somers, O J Johnson, Dan Flxaughter, and Carl Strong.
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Hope
Efa
John .Ridghill
Cor
Falliquor
Governor Favors Tax Referendum Amendment Endorsement
Governor Fu trell endorses a constitutional amendment to ban tax increases without a vote of the people. He says taxpayers should decide when taxes are imposed and that in hard times it is easy to hold elections by the people.
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Little Rock
Futrell
Corporate Surplus Tax Plan Under Consideration
Washington lawmakers signaled Friday they will draft a proposal on undistributed corporate earnings to raise about 620 million dollars. A rate starting at 15 percent on the first 5 percent of undivided net income could rise to 55 percent on larger undistributed profits, with cushion reserves unaffected under revision.
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Washington
House Ward and Means
Administra
Father of G W Keith Dies at Magnolia
W W Keith 91 father of George W Keith of Hope died at his home in Magnolia on Friday. He was among oldest residents of Columbia County. Survived by four sons four daughters and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Sharia cemetery south of Stains at 1 pm Saturday.
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W. W. Keith
George W. Keith
Hope
Magnolia
Dain
Columbia County
Tle
Fou
Idles
Mountain Woman Named Most Dangerous Criminal in U S
New York reports that J Edgar Hoover ranks a Missouri born woman called Mother Barker as the era's most dangerous criminal brain. He describes her influence over sons in the Barker Karpis gang and details her early life in Ozarks reinforced by churchgoing, family control, and escalating bank robberies and kidnappings.
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New York
America
Decclares
J. Edgar Hoover
American
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
Mother Barker
Barker-Karpis
Barker
Ozarks
Ozark Mountains
Springfield
Arrie Clark
Missouri
Kate
George Barker
Aurora
Kate Barker
Presbyterian Church
Herman
Lloyd
Arthur
Freddie
George
Aii
Peru
Nevada Liquor Referendum Contest Enters Second Hearing Day
The Nevada county liquor referendum contest entered its second day before Circuit Judge Dexter Bush in Prescott. Testimony continued as of 2:30 p.m. The December election favored prohibitionists by 48 votes. Bratton and others filed the suit against Dr. J. L. Cannon. Attorneys Curtis Cannon and George Steele represent Bratton. Allegations include missing poll tax receipts for 180 dry voters and improper funding deposits, crowded boxes at Prescott East Side, Bodcan and Willisville, outside voters acting as officials, and a judge serving at Emmet box.
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Dexter Bush
Prescott
Nevada
A. T. Bratton
Prescott Liquor Reader
J. L. Cannon
Curtis, Cannon of Hope
George Steele
Nashville
Bratton
Prescott East Side
Bodean
Willisville
Bodcan
J. K. Prescott
Emmet
Soremon
Two Arrested in Hope Chicken Theft Ring
City police traced 30 missing chickens across four locations over Wednesday and Thursday night. Frank Davis and Leo Anderson admit stealing six birds Thursday from Jim Edwards and selling them to T. P. Beard's poultry store. Police, led by Officers John Turney and Hugh Bearden, connect the pair to earlier raids on R. Oliver’s and private hen houses of Mrs. Leon Williams and Irvin Urrey while probing a city-wide theft ring.
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Hope
Frank Davis
Leo Anderson
Jim Edwards
T. P. Beard
R. Oliver
Leon Williams
Irvin Urrey
Davis and
Anderson
John Turney
Hugh Bearden
Public to Inspect WPA Sewing Jobs in March Days
Mrs. Dot Kennan state director of the division of women's and professional projects announces state project days on Tuesday and Wednesday March 24 and 25. The public may visit the local sewing room to inspect work done by 800 women across 23 sewing room projects in District No. 7 Hope. Garments have been turned over to the County Welfare Board for distribution to those unable to work.
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Dot Kennan
Division of Women's and Professional Projects
Ollie Sandifer
Hope
Prescott Physician Dies by Apparent Suicide
Dr Chastain 68 was found dead by his wife in Prescott after a heart attack claim misreported by local papers. Clifton Clayborn shot himself with a 38 caliber revolver and died two hours later in Hemipstead county. Survived by widow four sons Bob Chast, Graham. a daughter. three brothers and a sister. Funeral services planned at a Prescott church with Masonic lodge participation.
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Clifton
Clayton
Enoch
Lee
Arizona
Emily Toine
Clifton Clayborn
Jer
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Hemipstead
Chastain
Dr. Chi
Bob
Chast
Prescott
Graham
Church of
J. F. Queen
Chat
DeAnn
Masonic Lodge
Catt
Cerem
WPA Classes Call for New Students
WPA general education classes at 423 West under Mrs Whitehurst seek new members now. A membership drive aims to recruit from Hope and surrounding areas with March 24 and 25 designated as project visitation days as directors visit Little Rock. About 90 000 pupils are expected to attend WPA adult classes statewide next week.
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WPA
West
Whitehurst
Little Rock
Hawaiians Originated in U S Asserted by Captain
Honolulu report quotes Capt. Eric de Bisschop a French scientist recently shipwrecked in Hawaii claiming Native Hawaiians were residents of the American continent He contests the prevailing view that Polynesians migrated from Southeast Asia citing Pacific winds and currents as evidence supporting west to east migration could not have occurred during historic times He is a member of the French Geographic Society and bases his theory on two and a half years of Pacific voyaging and observations.
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Eric de Bisschop
Hawaii
Pacific
Asia
Capt
de Bissehop
French Geographic Society
Molokai
Malaysia
South Pacific
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Arkansas Drug Associations
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