Hoover Opens Campaign Tour in His Home State of Iowa
President Hoover enters Iowa for a Des Moines stop to deliver a campaign speech as Mrs. Hoover greets crowds. The visit recalls his West Branch boyhood and his 1932 campaign strategy balanced against rising farmer discontent. A later Washington note cites only 10 745 registered U S aircraft, most built in the past 3½ years.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Hoover
West Branch
Washington
United States
U. S. Department of Commerce
Toll Bridge Capons Are Doubled In Price
Arkansas toll ticket books at Fulton and Garland bridges rise to 5.00 for 10 tickets, despite a 50 cent per toll rate. W A McCartney Sr. notes state highway plans and bridge earnings for 10 toll structures totalling 7,559,234 with varied net profits and percentages.
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Texarkana
Highways and Bridges
State Highway Commission
Fulton
Harvey Farnell
Highway Commission
McCartney
Hope Men Hurt as Car Strikes Horse
A Sunday night crash on Highway 67 about 12 miles north of Prescott left a horse dead and five young people injured. Olaf Luck of Hope drove a Chevrolet coach when the vehicle struck the stray horse, overturned, and caught fire. Eleanor Epperson Lucille Parker Louise Lavins and Ray Luck suffered varying injuries, with Ray aiding others before fleeing the burning car.
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Gordon
Clark County
Olaf Luck
Luck
Ray Luck
Judge Bush Denounces Taxpayers League in Grand Jury Charge
Washington October term opens with Judge Dexter Bush presiding. Grand jury convened Tuesday to hear 35 civil and 63 criminal cases next week. Bush rebuked Hempstead County Taxpayers association for promises of official work under legal fees, warning of prosecution for violations.
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Washington
Willie Harris
Dexter Bush
Bush
Hempstead County Taxpayers Association
Washington physicist scales hair strength by color
Clement H. Brown, a Washington physicist, reports that the average hair on a girl's head possesses about one half the tensile strength of steel. He notes brown hair stretches easiest while red hair proves hardest to elongate.
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Washington
Clement H. Brown
Southern Counties Left Out of Road Work
The Arkansas State Highway Commission split three to two approving a list of federal road projects after a three hour session. North Arkansas would receive 85 percent of the 4.2 million dollars allotted, while South Arkansas members Wilson and Burkett vow to seek reapportionment to address perceived bias.
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Little Rock
North Arkansas
State Highway Commission
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Sam L. Wilson
John T. Burkett
South Arkansas
Arkansas
Dwight H. Blackwood
John S. Parks
Fort Smith
Lan Williams
Osceola
State Highway Department
Commission
Federal Road Bureau
Wilson
Burkett
Fertilizer Patent Announced By Arkansas Firm
Hope hosts May and Whitten Implement Company run by Vernon Whit ten and C. C. May. The firm introduces a new patent force feeder fertilizer distributor with damp fertilizer free feeding via an auger and inclined wall. Demonstrations are offered at Arkansas Machine Specialty Company where it is manufactured.
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Arkansas
Hope
Vernon H. Whitten
C. C. May
Bodcaw
May & Whitten
Arkansas Machine Specialty Company
Flora Cotton Appointed Hempstead County Public Health Nurse
Miss Flora Cotton of the State Board of Health arrived in Hope to become Hempstead county's new public health nurse. She previously held the post in Logan county at Faris and served as vice president of the Business & Professional Women's club. She was accompanied by Dr. Gordon Hastings of the state board who returned to Little Rock.
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Flora Cotton
State Board of Health
Hope
Hempstead County
Logan County
Faris
Business & Professional Women’s Club
Twelve golf clubs invited to Hope district tournament
Hope hosts a Sunday October 9 district golf tournament inviting twelve Southwest Arkansas clubs led by Sidney R. Stanford of the Hope club. The aim is to form the Southwest Arkansas Golfers association with invitations sent to Lewisville Stamps Arkadelphia Little River DeQueen Prescott Magnolia Camden Nashville DeQueen El Dorado United Commercial Travelers Texarkana Fordyce.
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Arkansas
Hope
Sidney R. Stanford
The
Hope Club
Stanford
Southwest Arkansas Golfers Association
Lewisville
Stamps
Arkadelphia
Little River
DeQueen
Prescott
Magnolia
Camden
Nashville
el Dorado
United Commercial Travelers
Texarkana
Fordyce
Mexico and Pepe Reach Final Breach
President Rodriguez ordered Monsignor Ruiz y Flores expelled from Mexico, stating the papal legate had lost citizenship by serving a foreign government. The Chamber of Deputies denounced him as a pernicious foreigner in a Monday night resolution. The dispute follows a Vatican encyclical criticized by Mexico as anti reformist.
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Mexico
City
Rodriguez
Monsignor Ruiz Y Flores
Chamber of Deputies
Mexican Chamber of Deputies
Flores
Vatican
Tornado Hits Area Around Pine Bluff
A Tuesday tornado, near the Trulock plantation seven miles north of Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed three tenant houses and 15 cotton houses, and damaged several farm buildings, according to noon reports.
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Fine Bluff
Ark
Trulock Plantation
Here
European tariff shift key to world prosperity says economists
European economists argue that lifting war debts and disarmament alone will not restore prosperity. they urge discussion of tariffs at the London conference. They cite Britain turning to protectionism, the Ottawa pact within the empire, and the Stresa talks aiming to reduce prohibitions and tariffs to balance industrial and agricultural needs.
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London
Europe
America
Hoover
British Empire
United States
Ottawa
Great Britain
Britain
Dominion
Danube
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Austria
Stresa Conference
Hope Police Catch Coon on the Lighted Streets
Patrol officers chased a live coon through the city streets near the post office and a drugstore, aided by a police whistle. The animal was forced into a tub, then covered with pasteboard and placed in a chicken coop behind Middlebrooks' grocery.
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Hope
Frank Ward
Gene Live Coon
Coon
Mr. Turner
Mr. Coon
Middlebrooks’ Grocery
Cotton Up Six Points In Trading Tuesday
Cotton edged higher on Tuesday gaining six points to a 30 cent base gain. December contracts closed at 7.68 after peaking at 7.26 for the day, showing a mid session rally before fading.
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Tusday
Legion Will Meet Thursday in Blevins Post
The Leslie Hundleston American Legion post in Blevins will meet Thursday night at 1001 to install officers and start a new season. State and district officials are expected, with neighboring posts invited to send delegations. J. L. Stringer, retiring commander, notes a program by the entertainment committee Friends of the Legion and invites members and families to attend.
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Leslie Hundleston
American Legion
Blevins
Legion
Pos
J. L. Stringer
Friends of the Legion
Stringer
New Jersey to Build Emergency Airports Under Relief Funds
New Jersey will use unemployment relief funds for constructing a series of emergency airports statewide, announced by State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson.
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New Brunswick
N. J
New Jersey
Gill Robb Wilson
Roosevelt Smith Forces Opposed by Tammany Leader
Albany tense Democratic state convention sees John H. McCooney and Tammany Hall oppose Governor Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith backed Lehman. Wagner led compromise tickets aim to nominate Lehman with Smith backing. Smith expected to place Lehman at nomination, deepening the deadlock amid New York electoral stakes.
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Roosevelt-Smith
Tammany
Albany
John H. McCocey
Brooklyn
United States
Robert F. Wagner
Herbert H. Lehman
Tammany Hall
Alfred E. Smith
Roosevelt
Lehman
Smith
Leh
John E. Curry
James J. Walker
New York City
Mr. Smith
John H. McCooney
Manhattan
New York
McCooney
Indictment Sought Against Insull Brothers in Utilities Debacle
Prosecutors asked the Cook County Grand Jury for indictments against Samuel Insull Sr and his brother Martin over the Insull utilities debacle. State's Attorney John Swanson said the action began after the brothers failed to return to the United States for questioning voluntarily.
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Chicago
Cook County Grand Jury
Samuel Insull
Martin
Insull Utilities
John Swanson
United States
Prize Quilt Display by Hope B and P W Club
The Hope Business and Professional Women's Club displays a handmade quilt at Haynes department store. It uses Arkansas made fabrics from Magnolia cotton mill and will be given away at a later date.
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Hope Business & Professional Women's Club
Haynes Department
Magnolia
Hope Surgeon Called to Longview on Case
Dr. L. M. Lile returned home from Longview Texas Tuesday morning after being summoned Monday night to perform a major operation in that city. He was called there on a case by Dr. W. M. Garner formerly of Hope.
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L. M. Lile
Longview
Texas
Texas City
W. M. Garner
Hope
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