Hoover Addresses Bankers Amid Cleveland Unrest
President Hoover spoke before 15,000 bankers in Cleveland Public Hall on world business conditions and credit policy as police battled about 600 Communists nearby. He urged banks and the Federal Reserve to maintain low interest credit to restore prosperity and called government cooperation essential. The crowd cheered as violence erupted in the street, with a fireman injured and bombs thrown during the disturbance.
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Herbert Hoover
Cleveland
Amerie Bankers Association
Federal Reserve System
Bath
United States
Urone
Brazil
Colombia
Chile
Peru
Mexico
Australia
India
China
Canada
Cuba
Juv
East India
Europe
Rotarians Tour Lemleys Indian Relics Museum
Hope Rotary members visited the Lemleys Indian relics museum in Edgewood Street after a lunch at Hotel Barlow. Harry Lemley spoke for 15 minutes on origins and manufacture of stone points pipes and earthenware dating up to 4000 years. Guests included Russell Mobley and Roy Anderson.
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Harry and
Kendall Lemley
America
Harry Lemley
Hotel Barlow
Edgewood Street
Lemley
Lemleys
Arkansas
Southwest
J. P. Buffie
Mr. Lemley
Rusell Mobley
Nashville Hosts Regional Teachers Short Course Next Week
More than four hundred teachers from Howard Sevier Pike Little River Hempstead Polk and Miller counties will attend the University of Arkansas Short Course for teachers in Nashville Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. State Superintendent C M Hirst will discuss school law equalizing fund and income tax law. Directors of regional school districts are urged to attend.
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Nashville
Howard
Sevier
Pike
Little River
Hempstead Polk
Miller
University of Arkansas
C. M. Hirst
Etlire
Roof Thatching Revived In English Villages
London reports that thatching, a historic England craft, is seeing renewed interest as villagers revive straw roofing. The revival improves fire and pest resistance but faces skilled apprentice shortages and difficulties sourcing dried straw. An elder thatcher notes women once drew the straw and did the work well, while men now perform it with too few workers.
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London
England
Femauy
Ben
Iie
Guethyteher
Unclear charges raised for Alshow James Canon
Bulletin reports Alshow James Canon remains unaware of charges allegedly filed by four church members. In Rome, the 2-year-old Princess Giovenna, daughter of Balgeria's King of Joy and King Boris, is betrothed with a forthcoming marriage announcement.
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Washington
Alshow James Canon
Rome
Giovenna
Joy
Boris
Balgeria
Winston Cobb Wins Essay Contest Trip to National Dairy Show
Winston Cobb of Hope Route One has won a trip to the National Dairy Show in St Louis for submitting the best essay on dairying. About 35 4 H club members statewide entered the contest, with state club leader W Jernigan promising transportation funds to cover Winston's trip.
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Hope
Lynn L. Smith
Winston Cobb
Gad
Willis Cobb
Route One
St. Louis
W. J. Jernigan
Smith
Lynn
Winston
Tom
President Hoover Back Home Today
President Hoover returned to Washington from Cleveland where he addressed the American Bankers Association. He will remain in Washington until Sunday night then travel to Boston for two speeches on Monday including at the American Lennon National Convention. He plans to speak at a Federal Labor meeting and later attend a Kings Mountains Battlefield address in South California for the 15th anniversary ceremony.
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Washington
Hoover
Cleveland
Ohio
American Bankers Association
United State
Vipover
Boston
Kings Mountains Battlefield
South Caofina
Bute
Train Passes Over Body But He Escapes Injury
In San Francisco on October 3, a five year old boy Herbert Brandt wandered onto a railroad track as a train approached. The engineer braked hard but the locomotive rolled over him, then stopped. Herbert sat up laughing and unharmed, reportedly watching the wheels spin beneath him.
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San Francisco
Herbert Brandt
Bay
Red Cross Seeks Local Funds For Seed Program
Hempstead county Red Cross faces a county wide appeal next week as more than half of the initial one thousand dollars allotted for fall planting seed has already been spent. Miss Marie Verniere says national funds are nearly exhausted and local support is required to continue aid. Committee chairman Harley White notes four hundred plus dollars remain and 72 families have seed requests totaling 435 dollars, with about 100 more needing help. A plan from C. C. Sprisins and bankers group is awaited.
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National Red Cross
Hempstead Countty
Star
Marie Verniere
Little Rock
Hope
The
Harley White
Red. Cross
White
C. C. Sprisins
Qlan
Finance Committee
Focal Bankers
Red Cross
Suspects in Bank Robbery Arrested
EL DORADO October report says two men tied to a Farmerville state bank robbery are in custody. Horace Nash, 50, recovering from appendicitis in EL Dorado Hospital, and Mag Eskew, 28, arrested in Alexandria after release, with extradition papers honored for Nash.
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EL Dorado
Farmerville
Horsee Nash
Lawson Farmer
EL Dorado Hospital
Mag Eskew
Nash Faro
Alexandria
George Reynolds
Eskew
Farmersville
Workmen Cut Bee Tree In Clearing Vacant Lot
Workmen cleared a vacant lot and encountered a bee tree. A test structure by John Gaither revealed the hive in the site. The crew cut the tree after a strike caused damage to the top, and a hollow branch was removed.
Little River County Singing Convention Notice
ASHDOWN ARKANSAS Little River County Singing convention meets on the second Sunday in October Hicks near Wilton three miles southwest of town everyone invited to attend and participate in a great day of singing and fellowship
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Ashdown
Little River County
Hicks
Woeluler
Wilton
Doctor KidnapedReleased Today
Detroit news reports Dr Francis McPhail of High lands Park was kidnapped while answering a call. He was freed today after police observed him being released from a vacant house. A guard named Brank Zablino was arrested. The elder McPhail had begun arrangements to pay ransom.
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Detroit
Francis McPhail
Highlands Park
McPhail
Brank Zablino
Malcolm McPhail
Francis
Yansam
New Flashlight System Planned for Nashville Office
H W Shep herd district manager of Southwestern Bell visits Nashville to announce a new flashlight system and plant upgrade. The project aims to be completed by November 15 with a modern exchange, underground lines on Main Street, and faster, easier operator work. The West Hempstead and Fourth building will handle greater service and can be enlarged as needed.
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Nashville
H. W. Shepherd
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
West Hempstead
Fourth
Telephone Exchange
Clarksville Bank Closes For Reorganization
Clarksville's Farmers National Bank, the town's sole bank, shut its doors for reorganization after a run overnight. President R. A. Morgan said reopening timing was unknown. vice president R. Q. Poynter and cashier Ernest King were named officials. Two other Clarksville banks had previously closed.
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Clarksville
Farmers National Bank
R. A. Morgan
R. Q. Poynter
Ernest King
Markets Edge Higher on New York Exchange Amid Thin Volume
Market activity showed gains with the New York Exchange up seven points from Wednesday’s close. The market opened at 10.63, two points above prior close, aided by advances from Ware and Green. The index traded around 10.88 before settling lower at 10.68, with Wednesday’s finish at 10.61. Railroad and wagons led early volume with modest totals reported.
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Vottyn
New York Exchange
de Ware
Gree
Watermelon Grower Harkness Attracts National Attention
W W Harkness, Clark county farmer famed for offering to raise the largest watermelons, addressed local farmers on October 3 in Gordon. He says visitors from every state have toured his patch to see and buy his melons, and he plans to grow even larger melons next year.
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Gurdon
W. W. Harkness
Clark
Harkness
Miller County Jail Escapes Captured
Texarkana reports Sheriff Fleet McGee returned from Minden Louisiana with J. W. Bennett, one of five prisoners who escaped from the Arkansas side county jail Monday night. Bennett was captured at relatives near Minden. the other four remain at large. Bennett and two others were convicted of highway robbery near Garland City with three year sentences. they would have been sent to the penitentiary next week. The remaining two, awaiting an automobile theft charge, fled.
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Texarkana
Fleet McGee
Minden
J. W. Bennett
Arkansas Side
Bennett
Garland City
Hatton Man Freed of Murder Charges
Charles Strawn of Hatton had murder charges in the slaying of Forney Cook dismissed after a preliminary hearing. Eight witnesses testified before Justice of the Peace C. H. Smith, with the state’s strongest evidence noting Cook was last seen alive at Strawn’s home and found dead near Hatton railroad tracks days later.
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Mena
Imurder
Charles’ Strawn
Forney
Cook
C. H. Smith
Justice, of the
Surfers
Strawn
Hatton
Prince of Wales to Attend Haig Statue Unveiling
The Prince of Wales will attend the unveiling of a monument to late Field-Marshal Earl Haig in Montreuil sur Mer France. The statue by sculptor Paul Landowski marks the northern France town once headquarters of the British General Staff and follows Landowski’s recent bust of Sun Yat Sen for Nanking.
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Montreuil-Sur-Mer
France
Prince of Wales
Earl Haig
Paul Landowski
Sun Yat Sen
Nanking
Sir Walter Scott Goblet Seen at Glamis Castle
A massive silver-gilded goblet once used by Sir Walter Scott is drawing interest at Glamis Castle in Scotland. The cup, emblematic of the Bowes-Lyon family and Earls of Strathmore, was reportedly emptied to toast the Earl’s health in past years.
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Clamis Castle
Scotland
Walter Scott
Bowes-Lyon
Hen lays egg daily in man's frying pan in Durham
In Wingate Durham October 3 UP reports a hen owned by Robert Southern of New Row has laid an egg every day for weeks. The hen awakens between 7 and 8 o clock each morning, walks through the kitchen into the pantry, and steps onto a skillet left on the floor for her.
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Wingate
Durham
Robert Southern
New Row
Murphy News Agency Opens in Arkadelphia
Murphy opens the Murphy News Agency at Arkadelphia in Stewart's Drug Store. He moved from Hone and bought the Arkadelphia News Stand from N. D. Hollis. Previously he worked with Montgomery Ward & Co. in the area.
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Murphy News Agency
Arkadelphia
H. C. Murphy
Hone
Arkadelphia News
N. D. Hollis
Stewart's Drug
Camden Man Killed By Hit and Run Driver
Camden police report Charley Morgan a 63 year old man died from injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver on South Aram Street. He was taken to a hospital with chest trauma and severe injuries. Local investigators seek witnesses and the responsible motorist.
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Camden
Charley Morgan
Paisten
South Aram Street
Escaped Convict Gerald Dykes Sought After Prison Break
In Lansing on October 3, UP reports guards from the Kansas state prison hunted the surrounding countryside for Gerald Dykes an insane escapee whose companion was wounded and captured with a bed slat improvised weapon. Dykes fled and was believed hiding along the Missouri river banks near here.
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Lansing
Ken
Kansas ‘State
Gerald Dykes
Thomas
Missouri River
Here
Hot Springs Pair Near Record Mark
Hot Springs on October 3 reports Ernie Hill and Clifford Hamp aboard motor boat KTHS on Lake Catherine nearing a world non stop motorboat endurance record. The current record stands at 552 hours set by Atlanta sportsmen. the pair has been on the water 23 days amid wind and dense fog, with their engine reportedly functioning perfectly as they approach the mark.
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Hot Springs
Ernie Hill
Clifford’ Hamp
Lake Catherine
Atlanta
Georgia
Hill
Hamp
London Moves to Ban Horse Drawn Vehicles in Rush Hours
London announces plans to ban horse drawn vehicles and delivery vans during peak traffic periods under a new Road Traffic Act framework. Traffic commissioners will regulate ramcars omnibuses taxis and motor coaches in areas, aiming to ease congestion and improve signals adherence amid complaints.
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London
Dobbin
Herbert Morrison
Aged man accused in evangelist murder at son’s home
Report describes an early county case where a 12 year veteran of the Holistic revival was shot dead by an elderly man at the son’s residence in Mill near Judsonia. Sheriff’s station to bury the victim after the fatal evening shooting.
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Evangelist
Son's
Orn
Judsonia
Miller's
Miller
Paragould Plane Arrival After Crash In Arkansas Tour
A damaged plane landed near Paragould as a aviatrix named Mae Haizlip and her party continued toward Little Rock. They had stopped in Augusta for lunch during a six day statewide tour, after a prior crash in Jin a. The aircraft, lent by Commandalee Co, had minor damage and no serious injuries were reported.
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Paragould
Haizlip
Jina
Little Rock
Arkansas Aly
St. Louis
Commandalee Co
Rock
Augusta
Fternoon
Henderson Poster to Be Shown at State Fair
Miss Ru Littlejohn a Henderson State College sophomore has completed a large beaverboard poster four feet wide six feet tall for exhibit at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock next week. The poster shows a red heart background with four campus photographs including the famous Pines. The motto Henderson is The School With Heart in I. President J P Wolack photographed with the poster at the fair grounds where it will be mounted.
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Arkadelphia
Ru Littlejohn
Henderson State College
Little Rock
Henderson
J. P. Wolack
Little Rock Physicians Sued For 100000 Dollars
Mrs. Sue Britts, superintendent of St. Luke hospital, sues physicians Robert Caldwell and R. J. Cabot for 100000 in damages claiming negligence led to the loss of sight in her left eye after a 1927 operation and a foreign object lodged in her eye. The suit was filed in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Robert Caldwell
RB. J. Cabot
Sue Brits
St. Luke Hospital
Britt
Mississippi Girl Held For Death of Father
Charleston Mississippi Qet Sa ye Pi auanite Sullivan charged with Monday night murder of her father. A preliminary hearing occurred before Justice J W Toundtree of Phillips. She was bound over on a $1,000 bond.
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Mississippi
Charleston
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