Filing cabinets and bureaucracy in a weary nation
A Washington official, Jess Larson of the General Services Administration, criticizes excessive paperwork and rising cabinet usage. He notes a million cubic feet archived since 1835, with strikes and daily headlines reflecting national fatigue and concern over bureaucratic growth.
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Washington
Jess Larson
General Services Administration
Larson
Capital
National Archives
America
Cornelius Nominated for Rotary District Governor
Delegates from the Hope Rotary club nominate Terrell Cornelius as candidate for Governor of Rotary District 201. The Hot Springs convention May 14 to 16 will decide the district’s next leader. Cornelius, 56, longtime Rotarian and civic worker, holds a 25 year perfect attendance and has served as city alderman and Legion official.
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Hope Rotary Club
Hope
Terrell Cornelius
Rotary International
Hot Springs
Cornelius
Tre States Association For Crippled Adults
First Baptist Church
Pika Fraternity
University of Arkansas
Hope High School
American Legion
Whitefield
Minor Vehicle Collision at Walnut and Second Streets
A car driven by Joe Prater of Blevins Route One collided with a Merritt vehicle driven by Mrs. J Z Merritt of Hope at Walnut and Second Streets yesterday. Minor damage reported to the Merritt car. George Clinton became the first vice president to die in office, an event dated to the Madison administration in 1812.
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Joe Prater
Blevins
J. Z. Merritt
Hope
Walnut
Second Streets
Merritt
George Clinton
Madison
Arkansas Weather Forecast With Showers Likely
A weather forecast for Arkansas indicates showers tonight and Wednesday. The heaviest rain is expected in the eastern and northern areas with warmer temperatures overnight into Wednesday.
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Arkansas
Defense Budget Clash Sparks Push for More Military Funding
Washington on May 2 reports debates on a 9 billion dollar package budget financing over 40 federal agencies for the new fiscal year. Defense funds are being expanded, with amendments adding about 30 million to the military department, surpassing the President’s request. A navy modernization program of 350 thousand dollars was approved, largely to be funded from next year’s allocations.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Defense
Appropriations Committee
Military Department
House Armed Services Committee
Reds Ousted From Town in Wisconsin
Mosinee Wisconsin May 2 Up The Stars and Stripes flew as villagers ended a mock Red dictatorship crowds cheered as the Russian banner fell and US colors rose The mayor Ralph Kronenwetter was removed jailed and said critically ill after the rally which featured banners banners burned and a high school band playing the Star Spangled Banner Commander Charles L Larson of the Wisconsin American Legion called the display a mild demonstration of totalitarianism
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Mosinee
Wis
Stars and Stripes
Ralph Kronenwetter
Mosinec
Wausau
Kronenwetter
Red Star of Russia
Charles L. Larson
Wisconsin American Legion
Anthony Named to Board of Association
George Benjamin of the Keep Arkansas Green association and the Arkansas Safety Council spoke at the Hope Rotary club meeting. He named Graydon Anthony to the State board of Governors of the Keep Arkansas Green Association and discussed the Safety Council campaign. A plan to elect Terrell Cornelius as Rotary International district 201 governor was noted for the Hot Springs convention May 14–16. A May 5 meeting will show a Razorbacks football practice film with local players.
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George Benjamin
Keep Arkansas Green Association
Arkansas Safety Council
Kincheon
Hope Rotary Club
Benjamin
Earnest O'Neal
C. A. Armitage
Graydon Anthony
United States
Terrell Cornelius
Rotary International
Hot Springs
Three Held in Fire Attack Over Cotton Gin Revenge
Mississipp County sheriff says three members of a Leadville Arkansas family Cordis E Decker his wife Fannie and their 17 year old son admitted starting the February fire that destroyed the Boynton gin four miles north of Leachville The motive named is revenge The Deckers are sharecroppers on land owned by the B C Land Company which ran the gin State charges against all three expected within a day or two
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Blytheville
Wiliam Berryman
Mississipp County
Leadville
Ark
Berryman
Cordis E. Decker
Fannie
Boynton
Leachville
B.C. Land Co
Berryman Sala
John Maragon Given a Jail Sentence
Washington May 2 John J Maragon once on friendly terms at the White House gets a sentence today for lying criminally to senate investigators. Maragon was convicted last Wednesday on two charges of perjuring himself about his bank accounts and jobs. Federal Judge Jennings Bailey could give him as little as eight months to two years or as much as 40 months to 10 years on each count. The maximum penalty seldom is imposed. His attorney Irvin Goldstein said he would ask for probation and would appeal within days. Now 87 he came to this country as a Greek immigrant, rose from Kansas City shoeshine to Washington circles that included presidential military aide Harry Vaughan.
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Washington
John J .Maragon
White House
Senate
Maragon
Jennings Bailey
Irvin Goldstein
Kansas City
Harry Vaughan
Nationalists Round Up Reds in Formosa
Nationalists in Tainei Formosa arrested 1,284 persons Sunday on Formosa’s main island. East coast centers and Pescadores report rising totals. 212 seized at Kaohsiung and 118 arrested in Taipei. About 81,000 took part in a midnight census. Communique accuses Soviet air forces of aiding Chinese Communists. Yungtai shelling at Kanmen, Yuhwan island. guerrilla actions kill or wound Reds as they target Communist lines.
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Tainei
Formosa
Pescadores Islands
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Russia
Far East
Soviet Russia
Yungtai
Kanmen
Yuhwan Island
Shanghai
Jinwo House
Yohwan
O Dwyer to Meet With Students Over Riots
Mayor William O Dwyer will meet a student delegation at City Hall to discuss causes of four days of disturbances at New York high schools. Teachers salary and extracurricular curtailment demands prompted protests. Nin e student leaders were invited amid warnings of an outlaw demonstration. Attendance returned to normal as up to 23 000 students joined last week’s protests highlight pay demands.
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New York
William O'Dwyer
City Hall
Little Change in Chrysler Strike Talks
Detroit May 2 Negotiators in the Chrysler company strike at the start of its 98th day showed exhaustion during a five hour recess at 4 am EST. Management and CIO United Auto Workers had logged around 62 hours in continuous sessions since Saturday afternoon. Officials offered no timetable for resuming talks as Federal Mediator Marvin Sconyers issued a brief, unclear remark. Chrysler blamed wording on contract clauses while the UAW cited remaining unresolved issues, though a $100 monthly pension plan had been almost settled.
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Detroit
Chrysler Company
Marthon
CIO
United Auto
Marvin Sconyers
Scongers
Howver
Chrysler
UAW
Local Student Wins Art Honors in Arkansas Contest
Linda Rae Hatbert, sixth grade at Brookwood school, had a finger painting selected by the AAUW for a traveling exhibit sponsored this summer by the association. Her work was one of three from Hope schools shown at the AEA event in Little Rock in March, alongside Tommy Polk and Ellen Barr. The state art contest spans grades 1 through 12 to promote Art in Arkansas.
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Sophia Sue Harper
Hope Schools
Bigelow Robinson
Museum of Pine Arts
Little Rock
Linda Rae Hatbert
AAUW
Linda Rae
Brookwood School
AEA
Tormmy Polk
Paisley School
Ellen Barr
Garland
Arkansas
Warmer Weather Brings Rain Over Arkansas
A general rainfall spread across Arkansas as warm air returned. Texarkana reported 3.54 inches in the past 24 hours, with Pine Bluff at 2.47 and Little Rock at 1.51. Temperatures mostly in the mid to upper 60s, with Gilbert recording a low of 44.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Texarkana
Pine Bluff
Gilbert
Bradley Seeks Continuance of Draft Law Extension
General Omar N. Bradley urged Congress to keep the draft law alive as it nears its June 4 expiry. He cited world conditions and Baltic incidents, while Vinson proposed a two year extension with Congress deciding inductions or industry seizures. Disney is noted as producing Steamboat Willie in 1928.
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Washington
Omar N. Bradley
Congress
Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Armed Services
Bradley
Vinson
D-Ga
Defense Department
Symington
National Security Resources Board
Johnson
Acherson
Dying Douglas Fir Wins Silent Dignity in Forest Fall
A narrator recalls watching two ancient Douglas firs felled in a coastal mountain lumber camp. Thrown into the scene are workers paid for the job, the tools and methods used, and a meditation on the contrast between the dignified death of trees and human suffering.
Lattimore Denies McCarthy Charges Under Oath
Owen Lattimore testified that charges he is a Communist or linked to Russia have no evidence to support them. He labeled Senator McCarthy as a bad policy risk and criticized his background. He rebutted Budenz and Freda Utley, calling them liars and questioning their credibility and political alignments.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Russia
Lattimore
Freda Utley
Yeasterday
Utley
Kansas City Studies Rackets in Liquor Establishments
Kansas City officials studied stopping gambling and racketeering in liquor venues. A proposed ordinance would empower the liquor control director to suspend or revoke licenses without notice or hearing, aiming after a federal grand jury report detailing a $14,500,001 a year operation centered in Kansas City.
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Kansas Lily
Federal Grand Jury
Kansas City
Fred
Johnson
Isabel Goulding
Last Chance Tavern
Charles Binaggio
Charles Gargotlaimel
East Germans Demonstrate In East Berlin Ahead Of May Day Parade
Berlin reports outline East Germany Communist youth groups staging a dress rehearsal of agitation along Unter Den Linden. FDJ members simulate crowds and debates to praise the Soviet Union and the National Front while denouncing Western powers. Authorities warn uniforms may be banned in West Berlin.
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Berlin
East Germany
Whitsunday
East Berlin
Free German
FDJ
Stooges
Unter den Linden
Brandenburg Gate
FDI
National Front
Socialist Unity (Communist) Party
FDS
Soviet Union
Hitler
West Berlin
Bartender ‘Glad’ He Stabbed His Wife to Death
Oakland police arrested Walter T. DeYoung a 54 year old unemployed bartender on murder charges after he admitted killing his wife Claire Marie DeYoung. He told officers he was glad the act ended her nagging about his unemployment. He asked his landlady to care for his cocker spaniel Amber.
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Oakland
Calif
Walter T. DeYoung
Claire Marie
DeYoung
Jessie Harrison
Amber
Pact Nations to Spend More on Defense
Washington officials predict Atlantic nations will boost defense spending after reviewing the master plan. Acheson is ready to press quick action at the May 15 London council, urging higher European contributions as the United States shoulders about 72 percent of last year’s $0.147 billion collective defense outlay. President Truman plans a second year military aid totaling $1.147 billion, with unlikely increases next year.
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Washington
Orth Atlantic
Acheson
London
Wll
Bookmaking Chief Target of Probers
Washington May 2 Senate probes into Kansas City gambling links focus on Continental Press service as the main distributor of racing news to bookies in an $8,500,000 yearly business. Grand jury notes connect Continental to Standard News Service, with officials denying wrongdoing amid slaying ties and informer allegations.
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Washington
Kansas City
Continental Press Service
Cleveland
Senate Commerce
Standard News Service
McFarland
Continental
Thomas J. Kelly
Chicago
Continelal
Kelly
Joseph Lebit
Charles Binuggio
Charles Gargotta
Urg
Gargotta
Bodeaw Alumni to Host Fourth Annual Banquet
Jim Camp, program chairman, announced the fourth annual Bodeaw Alumni Banquet to be held at the school gymnasium on Saturday May 6 at 6 p.m. All former graduates are invited.
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Bodeaw School
Jim Camp
Protgram
Deficit Duet Stalin Scare Warns Nour
Washington May 6 Nourse from the White House warned against piling up deficits and the Stalin scare as a greater unity menace than the past. He predicted the nation cannot wage and bluff prolonged warfare amid broader economic and military concerns.
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Washington
Nourse
White House
Doe
States Chamber of Gol
Anthony C
McAulif
Tony Nourse
Council of Economi
Nonstandard OCR Snippet Sparks Debate on Communism Roles
An unreadable text fragment discusses whether a political movement should be constitutional and the Communist party’s course. It questions potential benefits, occupation chief views, and if peaceful means can counter antisocial aims while noting a lack of imminent power danger.
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Tokyo
Rais Isame
Communist Party
Rainfall Totals Shaping Up for May Record
Weather notes show 31.37 inches of rain already this year with May adding 3.67 inches in two days. The year nears the 33-year average. forecasts expect totals near the 50-inch mark as experiments track rainfall through May.
Missionaries to Be at Pentecost Tonight at Church
A church event invites missionaries to attend Pentecost evening services tonight at the local Pentecostal church. Mia will coordinate a brief outreach segment following the main program. Attendance is encouraged for community members and visitors.
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Penteca
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