Air travel safer than auto on long record since 1927
Fortune magazine analysis shows commercial air travel, when best years are compared to worst auto years, is safer than automobiles and buses. From 1927 to 1937, 846 accidents occurred with 325 deaths, 131 crew fatalities, and 194 passenger deaths. Railroads remain the safest overall, with the best rate of passenger miles per death.
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NEA Service Inn
TWA
Pittsburgh
Aid Ache
Fortune Magazine
United States
U.S
They Air Lines
Fortune
Bronson
Atlanta
Thought and saith within all these Uings for thee
A biblical quotation from St. Matthew 4:9 extols worldly power offered in exchange for worship. The brief line emphasizes temptation and allegiance, framing a scene of authority challenged by faith.
Hempstead to Ship 75 Cars Radishes During 37 Season
Hempstead county buyers estimate about 75 carloads of radishes will be shipped this season. Henry Watkins & Son of Hope have shipped five carloads from Emmet with 35 workers, expecting 40 or 45 more from Emmet. First carload left Hope Monday night. Blevins area will handle about one carload, with H. M. Stephens as principal shipper. Crop damages from a freeze and hail are noted, and market price has fallen from 1 dollar net to 60 to 80 cents per bushel due to cold weather.
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Hempstead
Henry Watkins & Son of
Hope
Emmet
Watkins
Monts Seed Store
McWilliams & Strickland
Blevins
M. L. Nelson
Henrypstead
DeAnn
New Suspect in Mattson Case Emerges in Tucumcari
Sheriff Fred White says Vern Charlton of Washington state is held in the Mattson kidnap slaying investigation. DOJ agent Alex Street reported Charlton matched a description by White, including a dimple on the chin. Charlton, who gave Seattle as his address, was arrested by White after a Saturday arrest. officials caution ongoing inquiries.
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Tucumcari
N. M
Fred White
Vern Charlton
Washington State
Charles Matiyan
Alex Street
Department of Justice
Sherif Fred White
Quay County
Mattison
Seattle
Shereff White
Street
Washington
Alleged British Agent Expelled From Ethiopia
Rome reports Mohammed Adi, head of Ethiopia's largest chain store group, was expelled from the country by Italian Viceroy Graziani on charges of spying for British intelligence.
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Rome
Italy
Giornale D'Italia
Mohammed Adi
Ethiopia
Rodolfo Graziani
Judges Named for Hope City Election Amid Opponents Unopposed
Election board announces the list of election judges and clerks for the Hope general election on Tuesday April with Democratic nominees unopposed in all wards. Names include Ward 1 judges Dave Finley W E Bryant R L Byers and clerks J M Phillips sheriff. Ward 2 judges Alex Davis Sitch Davenport F Y Trimble clerks W F Garner sheriff. Ward 3 judges T R Bryant Roy Johnson John Anders clerks Tom Billingsley sheriff. Ward 4 judges Louis Breed Webb Laseter Sr J F Gorin clerks Chas Hanson Sr sheriff Rattlesnakes remark recalls new fangs in two weeks. Paris Exposition opens in May with $45 1000000 expenditure.
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Election Board
Dave Finley
W. E. Bryant
R. L. Byers
Leon Carrington
Lloyd Coop
J. M. Phillips
Alex Davis
Sitch Davenport
F. Y. Trimble
L. F. Higgason
B. L. Katfman
Mind Your Manners Mind Your Manners
A reader asks etiquette questions about church attire and titles for clergy. The column replies cases include bareheaded women, doctor titles for ordained ministers, addressing clergy, late seating, and interrupting at public performances, with guidance on handling unfamiliar services and respecting church rules.
Carter Glass Attacks Roosevelt Court Plan in Radio Address
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia denounces Roosevelt court legislation as an abominable bid to replace representative government with autocracy. In his first major radio address since 1932, Glass warned that no threat to democracy rivals the plan to pack the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Glass
Dem. Va
Roosevelt
Republic
Washington campaigner attacks Roosevelt court plan
Raymond B. Stevens of New Hampshire resigns from the Tariff Commission to advocate for Roosevelt's supreme court reorganization. The 79-year-old Democrat, former secretary of the Treasury under Wilson, denounces party loyalty in opposing the plan and calls it an outrageous attack on constitutional morality a threat to independence of the Supreme Court.
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F. D. Washington
Raymond B. Stevens
New Hampshire
Tariff Commission
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Glass
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
Pittanos
Congressman Fuller Demands Trust Probe
Congressman Claude A Fuller of Eureka Springs Ark denounced the whisky and bottle trusts in the House and urged an investigation of the distillers and their associates.
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Congressman Fuller
Washington
Claude A. Fuller
Eureka Springs
Ark
Liquor Regulation Measure Vetoed in Arkansas
General Bailey vetoed the Nichols Bill aimed at restricting liquor advertising. He opposed amendments that made the bill unfair yet supported the original tighter approach, noting the revised version would allow liquor advertising in newspapers and retain local option provisions.
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Bailey
Little Rock
Nichols
Reapportionment Plan Incomplete In Arkansas Senate
Little Rock The State Board of Apportionment failed to reach agreement on five senate reapportionment plans. The board will meet again to finalize a plan under the 1939 amendment and 1937 act, with a final report due to the secretary of state and potential court review if contested. Governors Bailey, Attorney General Hall, and Secretary Hall sit on the board.
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Little Rock
State Board of Apportionment
Senate
Julian Hogan
Eeach
Hembree to be brought back for murder case in Hempstead
Judge Dexter Bush opens the April term in Washington facing the heaviest Hempstead county docket in years. Hiram Hembree, 36, indicted for the Van Derryberry slaying, is to be returned for observation after pleading insanity. Bailey Jones and N. P. O Neal suit highlight major civil matters in the docket.
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Hempstead County
Dexter Bush
Washington
Jim Bearden
Hiram Hembree
van Derryberry, Sr
DeAnn
Hembree
Arkansas State Hospital
Derryberry
Hope Street
Haywood Phillips
Bailey Jones
Catherine Phillips
Jones
Hope Municipal
Daisy Johnson
A. ©. Reece
Clyde Reece
Amon McKinley
Sid Jones
Ed Kneiff
Clarence Jones
Jack Cobb
Willie Brown
Bill Blakely
Fannie Blakely
Barton Bohannon
Phillip Jackson
Hom Er Whatley
Tom Martin
Wilf Carter
Ben Mitchell
Hester Witherspoon
Roy Johnson
R. L. Gomell
Tom Gorham
Matthew Reaves
J. H. Sewell
W. L. McCutcheon
Jack Howard
Fred Moore
Eunice Williams
Nathan Logan
William Cannon
Eddie Lee Muldrow
Wilsie Linton
Bryant Biggers
Horace Benson
Tom Gaines
Ira Walker
L. L. Middlebrooks
Frson
Albert Nelson
Otho Cox
N. W. Page
Sherman Roberts
Martin Guthrie
Zach Cornelius
Evans Barnes
Willie Mitchell
N. P. O'Neal Tt
Jett Williams
Texarkana Pastor Speaks to Hope Kiwanis Club
The Rev. Tom Wilbanks of Pine Street Presbyterian Texarkana was keynote speaker at the Hope Kiwanis luncheon at Naw Capital hotel. He spoke on Kiwanis club uplift for Hope and Texarkana. Attendees included J. E. Stuart and Dr. R. R. Kirkpatrick of the Texarkana Kiwanis. Kirkpatrick won and donated a $1 prize to the club treasury. John P. Cox arranged the program.
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Tom Wilbanks
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Texarkins
Hope Kiwanis Club
Ihe
Naw Capital Hotel
Kiwanis
Hope
Texarkana
J. E. Stuart
Texarkana Kiwanis Club
R. R. Kirkpatrick
Gould Frier
Dick Porter
Turned Brown By Brown Turner.
In Longview Texas a school board, after much haggling, lets a teacher keep her job amid arrangements for a husband. The piece notes hungry husbands pose dangers and that many Texans are content with the U.S. Constitution even if not read.
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Longview
Texas
Mississippi
United States
Refinery Employee Dies After Blast at Waterloo Plant
Leroy Fairchild, 26, of Waterloo, Arkansas, died at home after injuries from a blast at Berry Asphalt’s refinery. He fell from a 40 foot gallery near a boiler when a furnace door blew open, breaking both legs and fracturing his skull. Funeral set for 3 p.m. at Mt. Olive cemetery near Rosston. survived by widow, parents, and siblings.
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Leroy Fairchild
Waterloo
Mt. Olive
Ark
Fairchild
Berry Asphalt Company
Nevada County
Mt. Olive Cemetery
Rosston
Insurgents curb anti Rome spirit in Spain front
BAYONNE reports widespread executions ordered throughout insurgent held Spain to quell discontent with Italian influence. In Madrid a sally toward the capital was repulsed as government troops press on several fronts. Government forces advance on Alcaracejos and Villanueva Delduque while insurgents near Alcara cejos face mounting pressure.
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Bayonne
Spain
Franco
Madrid
Aravaca
Navalperal de Pinares
el Escorial
Guadalajara
Alcaracejos
Villanueva Delduque
Alcaracejoy
Youth Arrested in Murder of Mary Ellen Babcock
Buffalo police said 18 year old Thomas Smith admitted killing Mary Ellen Babcock, whose knife and blunt force death was found near a field on February 6. The arrest followed his action while walking home from church, near the crime scene, as announced by Police Commissioner James W. Higgins.
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Buffalo
N. Y
James W. Higgins
Thomas Smith
Mary Ellen Babcock
Methodist Men Evans To Address At Church Dinner
The Methodist Men of the Church meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the dining room. Charles Evans of Little Rock will be guest speaker and a dinner will be served. A Monday note misstated that Mr Evans would speak before the Presbyterian Men.
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Charles Evans
Little Rock
Evans
State Ready to Enforce 1915 Arkansas Minimum Wage Law
Arkansas officials push to activate the 1915 minimum wage law for women after a Supreme Court ruling. Labor Commissioner Ed McKinley plans to seek an attorney general opinion and cites the old act, which sets hours limits and a wage floor of 1.25 dollars per day for experienced female workers and one dollar for inexperienced workers, with certificates to show experience.
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Little Rock
Ed McKinley
United States Supreme Court
Arkansas
Eye
Gentieeral
Jack Holt
U.S. Supreme Court
Washington
Latundry
Fed
Jobs and Seekers Brought Together in Southwest Arkansas
The National Re-Employment Service of the U S Department of Labor links unemployed workers with jobs in southwest Arkansas. An invitation to employers and job seekers appears in today’s Star. Temple Cotton Oil Co sponsors the ad, Hope district office at 104% South Main Street near Missouri Pacific depot. Employers may call for workers. job seekers may register and be connected to openings, per G T Cross.
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National Re-Employment Service
U. S. Department of Labor
Arkansas
Star
Temple Cotton Oil Co
Hope District
G. T. Cross
South Main Street
Missouri Pacific
Cross
No Further Loss in Peach Harvest
North west Arkansas orchardists said crops damaged by cold Sunday night showed no further loss Monday night. Snow fell at Fayetteville and Rogers Tuesday. Fingerprints found on ancient Chinese documents used as signatures.
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Fayetteville
Rogers, Ark
Fort Smith
Ark
Northwest Arkansas
Rogers
Cotton Market Opens and Closes Steady in New Orleans
New Orleans cotton opens Tuesday at 14 21 and closes at 14 41 2. Spot cotton finishes steady up 48 points with middling at 15.00.
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New Orleans
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Mattson
Man
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New Mexico
Mr. Black
Rev. Black
Lonk
My. Black
NEA Service, Inc
Carter Glass
Dixie
Virginian
State Hospital
Brown Turner
U. S. Supreme Court
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