Labor and Retail Store Competition Regulated by Law
Arkansas lawmakers enacted new measures to curb unfair trade and regulate competition. The Chris Act targets price cutting and advertising to prevent predatory practices, while unemployment insurance funds bolster worker benefits and a strengthened labor department enforces health and safety standards. The legislation expands inspections, sets mine bonding, and shifts mine inspector appointments to the governor, with broader wage and hour rules and stricter penalties for violations.
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Arkansas General Assembly
ED L. Campbell
Little Rock
General Assembly
Enicked
Emt
State Labor Department
Akkansas
Atte
Warner
Labor Department
Department of Education
Toowill
Anoither
Absalom’s Mercy Verse Echoes on Justice
An archaic line imagines mercy shaping law and land with civic duty. The text suggests that true justice requires balance, urging a populace to enact fair judgment now, despite the misgivings of rulers and clashing interests.
Turned Brown By Brown Turner
ATLANTA, Gap-Over or Warn Springs. Roosevelt eases days, toys with lawyers and counts, laughing when lines diverge. He hints at a last term, hinting farmers may elect Henry Wallace. Wallace is a farmer.
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Atlanta
Gap-Over
Warn Springs
Roosevelt
Henry Washive
Wallace
Scouts to Claim Orie of Every Four By 1942
A. W. Stubbeman told Hope Rotary club at a Friday luncheon in Hotel Barlow that by 1942 one in four males coming of age will be a Scout. Six troop members spoke on Boy Scout ideals. attendees included Dr. E. P. Young and Rev. W. A. Hammond, with Dr. A. C. Kolb visiting.
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A. W. Stubbeman
Hope Rotary Club
Hotel Barlow
Gus Bernier
Dr. E. P. Young
Ahan Los Segnar
Will Orion, Jr
Bobby Reynerson
Edward Lester
J. K. Sale
W. A. Hammond
Rotary Boys Work Committee
Hammond
A. C. Kolb
State Hospital
Ineal Rotary Club
Biday
Judge John I Moore Dies at 81 in Helena
Judge John J. Moore of Helena died at his home Thursday night after two years of ill health. He served as temporary Governor of Arkansas and was 81 years old. The obituary notes his long public service and a late-life illness.
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John I. Moore
Helena
Ark
John J. Moore
Arkansas
Only Retired Judge to Speak Monday on Court Plan
Senator Robinson announced that John Hessin Clarke, the only living retired supreme court justice, would discuss the president’s court reorganization program in a radio address Monday night. The remark followed William Draper Lewis’s testimony calling the proposals conservative.
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Washington
Robinson
Arkansas
John Hessin Clarke
Supreme Court
Senate
William Draper Lewis
American Law Ini
Order for Arrest Issued on Strikers
A 1-Circuit Judge Allan Campbell ordered writs of attachment to arrest 6,000 sit-down strikers occupying eight Chrysler plants for 12 days. Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox said he would attempt ejection if more deputies or National Guardsmen arrive. Apple Valley, Georgia, noted in error as a peach section.
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Detroit
Mich
Allan Campbell
Chrysler Corporation
Thomas C. Wilcox
Steikerk
Toll of East Texas Disaster Among History’s Worst
A warped compilation by the Associated Press lists numerous catastrophic fires and explosions from 1817 to 1946, citing theater, factory, mine, and chemical plant disasters. It names locations such as Chicago, St. Petersburg, Columbus, Halifax, Santiago, and more, with deaths ranging from dozens to thousands and a focus on the scale of loss.
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East Texas
Associated Press
Iroquois
Chicago
St. Petersburg
Russia
Ohio
Columbus
Halifax
Santiago
Chile
Cleveland
Etiniv
Varajevo
Yugoslavia
Port la Liberstad
Sylvidon
Alsdorf
Germany
Wool
Lawrence
Mass
Ring Theater
Vienna
Dom
Conway
Theater
Brooklyn
Ithoede
Boyerton
Triangle
New York
Overait
Romaire
Five
San Francisco
Mayra
Tug Ngo
Rte Ister
France
Boston
England
Mather
Birmingham
Casaster
Dawson
N. M
Sereghenyde
Wales
S. Marre
Castle
New Jersey
Oper Camique
Paris
Rumaniet
Pittsburgh
Jacobs Creek
Mouvaah
W. Va
Morgan
N. J
Jamuary
Keigkerbocker
Washington
Seafield
Richmond
S. S
Slocuw
East River
N.Y
Baltimore
Naval Arsenal
Chaciiiuck
Nyt
Amelia Earhart to Resume World Flight Leg
Amelia Earhart and her crew prepared for the next leg of a 27 mile world flight from Honolulu Hawaii to a distant island. They expected to depart late Friday, aiming for the 1,432 mile stretch to the next target site.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Huwaii
Amelia Earhart
Collusion Charge in Simpson Case Quashed
London England The presiding judge in the Wallis Simpson divorce case dismissed a collusion charge, clearing the way for her marriage to Edward Windsor. Auburn Alabama The Alabama State Farm Bureau reports a statewide cotton improvement program has restored prewar quality and grades.
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Simpson
London
Eng
Wallis Simpson
Edward of Windsor
Auburn
Ala
Alabama State Firm Bureau
Nie Siatas
Italy to Boycott British Coronation
Premier Benito Mussolini announced in a Daily Mail interview that Italy will boycott King George VI's coronation on May 12 because Britain invited Emmerson Attlee or leaders from Britain. The interview framed the move as a diplomatic protest and aligned with Italy's stance against the British government.
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London
Eng
Italy
George VI
Henrie Mussolini
The
Daily Mail
Reybold Heads L A Engineers In Arkansas Division
Lt Col Eugene Reybold named division engineer of the new Arkansas River engineering division with headquarters at Little Rock. He is currently district engineer at Memphis. Concord Neb residents celebrate a long fireless run since October 1932 and plan a spring celebration to raise funds for a new track.
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Eugene Reybold
L. A. Engineers
Washington
Army Engineers
Arkatis
Foat
Little Rock
Reybold
Memphis
Concord
Neb
New London School Disaster Blows Up Texas Town
A gas explosion wrecked the New London Consolidated School in East Texas. At least hundreds of students and teachers were killed or missing as chaos halted relief work. Martial law was declared, National Guard deployed, and Red Cross workers rushed to assist as authorities began a formal inquiry.
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New London
Texas
Texas Hghway
Walter Elliott
Austin
Luhlen Elliott
J Ordens
Allred
Roosevelt
Albert Evans
Red Cross
Little Rock
W. C. Shaw
Shaw
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Orie
Weatherford
GkJi
Reuben Weatheraby
Supreme Bench
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Chrysler
Apple Valley
Georgia
U.S
Tyler Courier-Times
NEA
Mussolini
Moro
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