Arkansas Bank & Trust Co Suspends Payments Five Days
The Arkansas Bank & Trust Co of Hope suspends payment on checks for five days under Section 717, noting no run but public concern after Caldwell & Co and American Exchange Trust Co events. Deposits were reported at 455,983.49 with loans of 691,311.61. capital 100,000 with surplus 50,000 and profits 16,107.51. Public reaction remained largely calm as the board prepared a full statement clarifying the suspension and plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas Bank & Trust Co
Hope
Banking House
Crawford & Moses Didest
Caldwell &, Co
American Exchange Trust Co
Little Rock
Allsctors
The
Caldwell
Slreins of Hope
Caldwell & Co
Nater Southern Investment House
Nashville
Arkansas
iouth Dies After Automobile Wreck
Blytheville Ark Hubert Craane 19 of Leachville died Sunday at a hospital from injuries suffered Saturday in an auto mobile accident. The crash occurred a mile south of Leadville 28 miles west of Blytheville when Craane’s car struck a wagon. His brother and two young women in the car were uninjured except for minor cuts and bruises. Craane’s skull was fractured by a piece of the wagon tongue that went through the windshield. Despite a two inch head wound he lived several hours after arrival. He was at the wheel when the ambulance arrived and was conscious for hours. The youth was passing another vehicle when he struck the wagon. A mule was killed and both vehicles damaged badly.
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Blytheville
Ark
Hubert Craane
Leachville
Leadville
Here
Croate
Lack of Appreciation Hasn't Affected Her Work
Gloucester England reports Mrs. Ethel Ms. Stith has provided first aid to 400 injured people over eight years. Only eight returned to thank her. She helps at a dangerous S shaped highway curve where three accidents occur monthly, tending victims and preparing bandages until medical help arrives.
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Gloucester
Eng
Ethel Ms. Stith
Smith
Mix
Arkansas Bank and Trust suspends payments five days
The Arkansas Bank and Trust Co a local Hope and Hempstead county institution suspended payment of checks drawn on deposits for five days as an emergency measure. The action, authorized by law, followed public concern after Caldwell and Co investment bankers failed in Nashville and amid runs on Arkansas banks. Bank president A B Banks and associates repurchased Caldwell and Co interests in the American Exchange, which also suspended for five days, and officials stressed solvent status and an orderly pay out upon reopening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yne
Arkansas Bank & Trust Co
Arkansas Bant & Trust Co
Crawford & Moses Digest
Arkansas
Caldwell & Co
Nashville
Tenn
A. B. Banks
American Bank
Little Rock
vbri+ vera
American Exchange
Banks
Caldwell and Co
Hope and Hempstead County
Heoott
10000 Reward For Lost Hunter Near Crocker Pond
A $10000 reward was offered by friends and relatives for information on the recovery of Mitchell B. Kaufman a Boston manufacturer who disappeared on a hunting trip near Crocker Pond. J J Sindler announced the reward after a drained brook and pond search failed to reveal his body. Kaufman was last seen near the pond and a large woodsmen search has continued without clue.
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Jackman
Mitchell B. Kaufman
Boston
J. J. Sindler
Kaulman
Kaufman
Crocker Pond
Dornier DO X Transatlantic Flight Delayed by Weather
Claude Dornier said weather could delay the DO X transatlantic attempt until spring, though engine performance remains satisfactory. He noted a decision on the Lisbon leg would come from Lisbon, with Bordeaux observations and a planned flight to Lisbon, then difficult legs to the Azores and Bermuda in winter conditions. French experts warned the winter flight could be hazardous due to engine performance and darkness.
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Bordeaux
France
Claude Dornier
Lisbon
Darnier
Baas
Vendee
Girone
Dornier
Horta
Azores
Bermuda
Hand-painted Cake Plate Sparks Home Craft Talk
Susie Simp and Wille Wop boast about hand-painted decor pieces. The exchange highlights a new cake plate from Susie and a claim that their entire house is covered in hand-painted surfaces.
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Susie Simp
Wille Wop
Notre Dame Star Saboldi Withdraws From University
Bulletins from SOUTH BEND IND report Notre Dame star fullback Joseph Saboldi has withdrawn from the university. The school statement said Saboldi has withdrawn. Report says the action followed a secret May 1929 marriage to Audrey Koehler of South Bend. Saboldi later sought a divorce.
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South Bend
Ind
Joe Saboldi
Notre Dame University
Joseph Saboldi
Notre Dame
Tis
Audrey Koehler
Saholdi
Bobby Jones Quits Golf Competition
New York reports the ace of golf champions Herbert T. Jones announces retirement from competition saying he has no more worlds to conquer. The decision was disclosed by U S Golf Association vice president Givough Ramsay and notes a November 17 contract with Warner Brothers to make twelve educational one reel films.
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New York
Hebert T. Jones
Canaan
Givough
Herbert H. Ramsay
U. S. Golf Association
Jones
Witl
Warner Brothers
Stray Buffalo Bullies Peaceful Herd in Oklahoma Field
In ALYTUS Oklahoma near WRKCN a stray buffalo bull startled a herd. Coker Javier chased the animal away as the frightened bovines huddled in a corner, horns showing brass rings from a private herd. The rogue bull repeatedly charged then retreated, risking harm to the calm herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alytus
Coker Javier
Price Gattle
Cocker
Aged Woman Hurt as Windstorm Rocks Battlefield Area
Mrs. John H. Yocum, 69, was badly hurt when a violent wind and rainstorm struck Battlefield three and a half miles southwest of Spring Hill and eleven miles from Hope Saturday afternoon. Her home collapsed, she received head and facial injuries, and physicians treated her at Battlefield. A church was blown down and several other buildings damaged or destroyed in the community while awnings and windows were smashed in Hope's business district.
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John H. Yocum
Battlefield
Spring, Hill
Hope
Man Electrocuted for Child Murder in Bellefonte
BELLEFONTE Pa A farm hand Harry Coon was executed in the electric chair at Rockview penitentiary for the murder of six year old Mildred Cass daughter of H D Case a farmer near Coudersport in Potter County Testimony said Coon beat and stabbed the child and then disposed of her body claiming she reprimanded him and he vowed to get even with the elder man if required to kill one of his children
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Bellefonte
Harry Cane Qeyear
Rockview Penitentiary
Mildred Cass
Coon
Mildred
H. D. Case
Coudersport
Fotter
Coon Beal
Cass
Hold Up Suspect Held In Memphis
Memphis police announce the arrest of Frank Wilkins, a $5,000 wanted man linked to payroll robberies in Ohio. A second suspect, George Best, 27, was held in a rooming house here after two holdups reportedly netted substantial sums.
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Memphis
Frank Wilkins
Inemyrati
Ohio
Willit
George Best
U. S. Soap Production Rises in 1929
United States soap production in 1929 rose 65 percent from 1927, with factory shipments totaling $258,815,408. The number of soap firms increased 7 percent to 274 establishments, employing 14,051 workers and paying $18,620,687 in wages.
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Washington
U.21
United States
Bureau of Census
Arkansas merchant found shot to death in office
LePanto Arkansas Sunday coroner's jury ruled the death of T S Guy 33 a self inflicted gunshot wound though the body showed a bullet wound in the head Guy a merchant who came to Lepanto about nine years ago from Bracksvilly Mississippi had been in poor health and his death was attributed to oil injury noted as flight in garbled text.
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Lepanto
Ark
T. S. Guy
Witty Goods
Fran Bracksvilly
Miss
Fligtoil
Gay
Spanish Strikers Quiet In Madrid After Strike
After a three day general strike Madrid returned to normal on Monday with workers milling about but no disorders reported. Trouble persisted in Barcelonia though subsiding. metal workers and printers were expected to join the action, duration unknown.
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Madrid
Barcelonia
Abuse of Gas Taxes Menace to Road Building
Washington report quotes Y P Henry president of the American Automobile Association calling out abuse of gasoline taxes. He claims war levy pyramiding and diversion to non road uses weakens tax structure, citing seashells and fish hatcheries as funded projects. He notes Missouri limits gas tax via amendment as a potential model for all states.
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Washington
U.A
Y. P. Henry
Ameriwin Automobile Association
Henry
Missouri
India Seen as Great Market For U S Autos
DEFROIT Wes Indies will by vie of the fastest growing in the world for American eye te cars with the coming of political peace. Anant Acharya, engineer of the Department of Public Works of Bombay, visiting Detroit with a delegation to the Sixth International Road Congress, said India’s car consumption is growing 25 percent yearly despite political troubles.
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Balebeil Anant Acharya
Department of Public Works of
Bombay
Mr. Acharya
Detroit
India
Famous Lion Toto Dies at London Zoo
London reports the famous lion Toto, once a visitor favorite allowing petting, has died. Officials say the renowned attraction, long a symbol of the zoo, ends its era with Toto’s passing.
Hempstead County Among Top Ten Cotton Producers
Hempstead County ranks among Arkansas top ten cotton counties, reporting 53 percent of last year’s ginnings as of November 1. The Department of Commerce data show Hempstead 24,174 bales, with other leading counties including Jefferson, Desha, Crittenden, and Phillips posting higher totals and substantial gains over the prior year.
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Hempstead
Arkansas
East Arkansas
Department of Commerce
Chiot
Crittenden
Desha
Hempste
Jefferson
Londke
Mississippi
Phillips
Poinsett
Ashley
Columbia
Faulkner
Jackson
Wok
Lincoln
ALSTT
Three Arrested on Charge of Murder in Berryville
In Berryville Arkansas three men Franz Johnson Jack Franklin and Jay Hamby were arrested after the shotgun slaying of Dick Hull 65 of Keel Creek Saturday night. Hull was killed when a parked car fired a volley of shots as he answered a horn call. Police tied the shooting to a long standing feud between the Hull and Johnson families and found a wrecked Plymouth Vel similar to Hambys car on the highway nearby. The trio faces preliminary hearings Monday as investigators pursue the feud angle.
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Berryville
Ark
Dick Hull
Keel Creek
Franz Johnson
Hull
Jack Franklin
Jay Hamby
Aogain
Wisconsinites Prepare for Beer Return and Grain Advances
Wisconsin farmers hailed two developments as brewers prepared to manufacture legalized beer and the agronomy department reported progress in high yielding grains. A smooth bearded White barley was bred with similar traits to Challey but without harvest-time barbs. New wheat and oats varieties and a pedigreed white rye were also produced, meeting millers’ strict specs.
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Madison, Wis
U.P
Wisconsin
University Agronemy Department
Agronomy Department
Doctor Finds Radium Needle Hidden In Patient Nose
A patient in Chester England carried a radium needle worth 5000 pounds for hours before police stopped him. Doctors removed the needle and warned of possible serious injury from prolonged insertion.
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Chester, Eng
Independent banks suspend amid federal action
In Little Rock Walter E Taylor Arkansas state banking commissioner announced three additional suspensions unconnected to the A B Banks group. The banks are People Bank of Mc Rae Bank of Branch and the State Bank of Fouke The Merchants Planters Bank of Humphrey belonging to the A B Banks group has been turned over for liquidation to Jim Fog.
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Little Rock
A. B. Banks & Co. Banking Group
Mr. Banks
Walter E. Taylor
State Banking Commissionay
People Bank For
McRae
Bank ‘of Branch
State Bank of
Fouke
Layior
Merchants & Planters Bank of
Humphrey
A. B. Banks Group
Jim Fog
Aged Civil War Veteran John J Flowers Dies in Arkansas
John J Flowers Civil War veteran and Hempstead County resident dies at his daughter Mrs J W Andersons home eight miles south of Hope. He moved to Arkansas from Teawmesteps June sie 1% and lived near Spring Hill most of his years. He fathered ten children eight survive including Jin Will Flowers and several daughters. There are 53 grandchildren and 68 great grandchildren. Funeral and burial set for Tuesday at Massadonig Cemetery on the Patmas road.
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Hempstead County
J. W. Anderson
Hope Monday
Mr. Flowers
Har County
Arkansas
John J.flowers
Spring Hill
Jin
Will Flowers
J. W. Crank
G. W. Batt
W. O. Allen
5. B. Valentine
W. A. Calhoun
Maseedonig Cemetery
Hope
Patmas Road
El Dorado Robbery Suspects Held After Bank Heist Inquiry
Four in custody including three men and one woman were arrested on vagrancy warrants in Silver City New Mexico. They are suspects in an El Dorado Arkansas bank robbery. A posse led by Sheriff John F St John arrested them after a room search. Cash and weapons were found and authorities say about 10010 was extorted. One man is an ex serviceman linked to FortBoygard.
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Silver City
Harmen
el Dorado
Ark
Tourists Wonder About Nelsons Column Figures
Thousands of American visitors to Trafalgar Square studied Nelsons Column. The Nelson statue stands 17 feet 4 inches tall with a cocked hat width of 3 feet 9.5 inches. The admiralty sword measures 7 feet 9 inches. The three blocks stone statue and base weigh 16 tons. The distance from hat to base is 1681.2 feet.
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London
U.fi
America
Trafalgar Square
Nelson
Calunya
Major Arkansas banks close amid statewide curtailment
The Bank of Fordy and Caldwell and Co among numerous Arkansas financial firms suspend operations as state authorities shutter a majority of smaller banks. A.B. Banks leads the Bank change effort with five remaining banks in stalemate while others anticipate reopenings. Athens Exchange of Little Rock shuts temporarily under state law.
Fire destroys Haynesville Warehouse loses 150 bales cotton
A large Haynesville fire on Saturday destroyed the Haynesville Warehouse Company building and about 150 bales of cotton, causing around 535,000 in damage. Fire units from Homer Minden and Magnolia brought the blaze under control after a fierce wind spread flames toward nearby structures. The warehouse contained 150 bales of cotton at the time.
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Haynesville
Haynesville Warehouse Company
Homer
Minden
Magnolia
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