Wallace R. Rogers Resigns as Pastor of Baptist Church
The Rev Wallace R. Rogers has tendered his resignation as pastor of First Baptist Church, Hope, after four years. He plans to assume duties as pastor at First Baptist Church in Vicksburg, Mississippi, starting late June. Rogers, educated at Tennessee and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, previously led Booneville and Hope congregations and helped build Hope’s new Sunday school plant. The church will appoint a pulpit committee to select a successor.
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Wallace R. Rogers
First Baptist Church
Vicksburg
Missad
University of Tennessee
Southern Baptist Theological Seeminary
Louisville
Rogers
Arhagas
Booneville
Boone
Baptist’ Church
Orther
C. FP
Rowton
Aywers
Smith Prepares Defend Himself For Judicial Nomination
Arkansas state comptroller Griffin Smith gathers evidence to address questions about his eligibility to run for the chief justice nomination. He cites supreme court rulings affirming his law practice since taking office on September 1, 192. Opponents had filed a challenge a week earlier, prompting committee chair J. D. Head of Texarkana to call a meeting to resolve the issue.
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Little Rock
Griffin
Smith
State Democratic Committee
Jiy
Ehict
Supreme Court
Preferential Primary Planned in Saline County
Saline county Democratic Committee votes to hold a preferential primary before the August ballot. On July 24, officers said more than two candidates will be included and a late torn for the primary was nearly unanimous with only three committee members opposing.
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Lenton
Saline County
Democratig Cemumittee
Pen Captain and Wife Are Killed
Louisiana penitentiary captain N J Hines and his wife were killed in a double shooting blamed on escaping convict Wilfred Lindsly a life term inmate. Lindsly fled after killing Hines and attacked Mrs Hines in the tub before escaping toward the Tuniga hills prompting a statewide posse and bloodhound search.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Penitentiary
Ientlh
R. L. Himes
N. J. Hines
Wilfred Lindsly
Lindsly
Himels
Himel
Cam
Tate
Mississippi
Angola
Louisiana-Mississippi
Hime
Mississippi River
Tesgas
Hine
Tuniga
Americans Held by Rebel Band Near Ethiopian Border
A small group of foreigners including American missionaries was reported besieged by 4,400 Ethiopian rebels at Salo in western Ethiopia near the Sudan border. The rebel leader, a chieftain claiming vallega province, heads deserters from Emperor Haile Selassie’s disbanded forces. British authorities noted the native governor of Seio fled and Italian troops are three days distant. If relief arrives, lives and goods may be saved. Salo lies about 27 miles west of Addis Ababa and 30 miles south of Gambela, near treaty areas with Sudan.
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Khartoum
Salo
Ethiopia
Sudan
Chattain
Iing
Vallega Provines
Harry Selassie
Seio
Addis Ababa
Gambela
Garmbely
Methodists Adjourn Meet Power to Call Special Session
The United Methodist Protestant church assembly adjourned in High Point North Carolina and empowered its Executive Committee to call a special session if needed. The move follows provision for a union with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South pending annual conference approval.
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High Point
N. C
i/Pi
Three Lawyers to Get 100 Million Fee in Reynolds Estate
In Forsyth County Superior Court Judge Wilson Warlick awarded over 1 million dollars to lawyers Benet Polikalf William Graves and Wallace McClenen for representing the infant son of Libby Holman Reynolds in settling the Smith Reynolds estate. The child Christopher Sint Reynolds currently six years old will receive about 7 million under a family agreement. A federal death tax claim delays final settlement. The U S House Public Lands Committee meanwhile approved the McClellan bill increasing penalties for false oaths to obtain free dental care at Hoy Springs reservation in Arkansas.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Christopher Sint Reynolds
Ire Benet
Spa Ghe
Washington
House Public Lands Committee
McClellan
Hoy Springs Reservation
Arkansas
Fiorenza to Die in Electric Chair for Tule Murder
New York jurors convict John Fiorenza, 24, upholsterer’s apprentice, of first degree murder in the Good Friday bathtub slaying of Nancy Evans Titterton. Judge Charles Nott Jr. set the execution for June as the eight day trial ends in a death verdict after 19 hours of deliberation.
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New York
John Fiorenza
Nancy Evans Titterton
Weary
Haggard
General Sessions Court
Charles Nott, Jr
Fiorenza
Nancy Evans
Titterton
Young Farmer Is Flogged to Death Near Wake Forest
Wake County officers reported evidence that Nucks Clifton, a young farmer, was hanged between two fence posts near a liquor still and killed by sticks. His mangled body was found on a public road near Wake Forest. Suspects William Wadford, Oscar Gill, and Dalphus Fort were arrested and held without bond. An autopsy by Coroner L. M. Waring suggested the body had been moved from a nearby still site and dumped on the roadside six miles away. The brother Thomas Clifton found the corpse.
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Raleigh
N. C
Wake County
Nucks Clifton
Wake Forest
William Wadford
Oscar Gill
Dalphus Fort
L. M. Waring
Gill
Thomas Clifton
Woman Attacked by Night Prowler at Fayetteville Hospital
Mrs. Mayhell West Deutsch, a Fayetteville City hospital nurse, was assaulted near hospital grounds as she returned from the uptown business district. A chief of police noted an arrest but she doubted the suspect. The attack followed a similar assault on Mrs. James Brown last Saturday. The assailant was described as about 17, with blond curly hair, five feet six inches tall.
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Payetteville
Ark
Mayhell West
Deutsch
Fayetteville City Hospital
Deuiseh
Deuts
Final June 20 date to sign up for farm program
Hempstead county farmers must file a work sheet with the county office by June 20 to be eligible for soil conservation payments. More than 1500 have already filed. those who do not file risk missing payments for practices they already follow. County agent W. E. Mountcastle notes many locals already qualify or only need slight changes.
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W. E. Mountcastle
Hemmstead County
Hempstead
Revenue Agent Held Up and Robbed in Two Thefts
In Arkansas, a state revenue officer Shelby reported a late night robbery when two young men forced him from his state car at gunpoint near Pine Bluff highway between Sweet Home and Wrightsville. They fled after driving him to a side road, while a similar duo robbed Brannon liquor store Rose City, taking $15. a customer had $300, two robbers used a matching car and fled toward Memphis on Highway 70.
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Little Rock
State Revenue Office
Shelby
Pine Bluff
Sweet Home
Wrightsville
Brannon
Rose City
S. C. Lyons
Highway 70
Memphis
Lyons
Highway Board Lets Contracts In Arkansas
The state highway commission awarded contracts totaling $498 466.05 on 15 highway and grade crossing elimination projects in Arkansas, placing over 75 percent of the WPA highway aid program under contract. Some projects were not bid due to lack of federal funds and bids were not received for two graveling assignments. the readings will be readvertised. Howard county saw 2.1 miles of bituminous surfacing on Mineral Springs city correction, state highway 2, awarded to A C Kennedy of Little Rock for 14,516.33.
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Little Hock
State Highway Commission
Arkansas
Congress
Cleveland
Lincoln
Jefferson
Monticello- Winchester
Drew County
van Buren-Kibler
Crawford County
Howard County
Mineral Springs City Correction
A. C. Kennedy
Little Ruck
It Happened a Hundred Years Ago a Gunshot in the Tavern
The Star’s Centennial Edition revisits historic taverns along stage coach routes. It features three old taverns in Washington and Nashville and the Blevins tavern in Hempstead county, with photos of Ed ward Cross's grave site, the nest of a 100-year-old stage road, and a bullet hole in a tavern plank linked to a traveler who died suddenly after a possible quarrel or accident.
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Star
Graflex
Washington
Augustus H. Garland
Albert Pike
Nashville
Hempstead County
Blevins
Edward Cross
Wiley Duckett
Traditio
Stage Road
Crucial Vote On Tax Bill Near Turmoil In Senate Finance Committee
Washington reports say the Senate Finance Committee postponed a pivotal vote on the tax bill amid White House pressure for higher taxes on undistributed corporate profits. Debate centers on a flat 18 percent tax on corporate income plus a seven percent levy on undistributed earnings and taxation of dividends.
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Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
Robison
Arkansas
White House
Democrats
Morgenthau
Herman Oliphant
Treasury General
Ad Immissiation
Clark Com. Mo
King
Utah
Six Negroes Nabbed in Liquor Raids
Six negroes arrested in a weekend liquor raid sweep led by state revenue agents under Commissioner Earl Wiseman. Those held include Ed Tolliver of Hope, Queen Tinney Smith of Red Lake near Fulton, Craig Simms, George Poindexter, and Bet Mitchell of Hope, charged with selling untaxed liquor with a minimum $50 fine. Alice Straughter, a negro woman, is charged with possession of illegal liquor. Preliminary hearings set for Monday before Municipal Judge W. K. Lemley.
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State Revenue
Earl Wiseman
Little Rock
Ed Tolliver
Hope
Queen ‘Tinney | Smith
Red Lake
Fulton
Craig Simms
George Poindexter
Bet Mitchell
Alice Straughter
W. K. Lemley
Black Legion Probed as G Men Seek Congressional Action
Detroit report notes a 7A congressional probe to expose the Black Legion and related groups. Rep Dickstein calls for a seven member committee while Prosecutor McCrea seeks Justice Department aid amid letters alleging cross border kidnappings and murders. Investigations point to Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, Pennsylvania and New York activity with concerns extending to Chicago and New York.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Dickstein
D-Ny
Duncan C. McCrea
Cummings
Department of Justice
House
Black Shirts
Christian Party
ABC Legion of
New York
Robert Edward Edmonson
McCrea
Chicago
Brotherhood
Michigan
Qhis
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Governor Futrell Faces Labor Strike Call in South
Memphis report outlines a push by Southern Farmers Union to organize a general strike across Arkansas counties. H. L. Mitchell announces the call after a vote at a meeting of strike leaders from several counties. The piece notes protests by cotton workers seeking better pay on federal relief rolls and lists widespread labor actions across the country, including Remington plant strikes and taxi drivers in Dallas.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southe Farmers Union
Arkansas
H. L. Mitchellretary
St. Francis
Cross
Tenden
Associated
Calmale
Syracuse
N. Y
Remington
Rolland B. Marvin
New York
Connecticut
Dallas
Tesdays
Lewiston
Cambridge
Mass
Vera Pont
Pierre DuPon
G Burroughs
Coolidge
Seattle
Chicago
International Seamen's Union
Barbers Union
Sik
F. H. LaGuardia
Panama Pacific Line
Six killed in Logansport bound train collision near Calumet City
Suburban Calumet City saw a Logansport local railroad train strike an automobile killing six people including two children and three women along with a man. The crash disrupted service and prompted inquiries into the incident.
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Logansport
Pennsylvania Railroad
Calumet City
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