House Adjoins Session After Vote On Audit Bill
The Arkansas House passed the senate highway audit bill granting virtual grand jury powers to the Highway Audit Commission in a 44 to 40 vote and refused to extend the special session for temporary school relief, adopting a concurrent resolution for adjournment at 10 o clock Thursday. The action comes as debate over schools and highway oversight ends with no additional session time granted.
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Little Rockp
House
Senate
State Highway Audit Commission
Highway Department
Highway Commission
Highote Board
Ting
Thome Innet
Long-Cyr Feud Threatens Louisiana Road Work and Bond Sale
Huey P. Long vowed to defend the governorship against Paul Cyr while officials warned the Cyr dispute may delay a $5 million highway bond sale on November 2 and postpone highway orders. Allen warned the political feud could push work into January if bonds fail. Long kept governing, appointing Lester Hughes to the Second Circuit and announcing candidate qualifications.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Paul N. Cyr
Cyr
Shreveperot
Long
United States Senate
Shreveport
Dr. Cyr
Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Highway Commission
Allan
Ernor
Senate
Lester Hughes
Natchitoches
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Louisiana
R. D. Webb
Japan insists on assurances before withdrawing troops from Manchuria
Geneva reports Japan repeats it cannot pull troops from Manchuria until China guarantees protection. Clarksville notes Congressman Henry Ragan injured in an automobile accident when a mule leaped in front of his car near the town. he suffered facial cuts and possible leg injury.
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Geneva
Japan
Manchuria
China
Clarksville
Henrisill Ragan
Edison Funeral Set Amid Large West Orange Turnout
Thomas A Edison will be buried Wednesday at Glenmont Orange after a service by Rev Stephen J Herben. Henry Ford Harvey Firestone and Mrs Edison attended the viewing at the laboratory library where the bronze coffin lay. The burial at Rosedale Cemetery marks the 52nd anniversary of his lamp invention. A large crowd filled the library during the public viewing.
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West Orange
N. J
Henry Ford
Harvey, Firestone
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Hoover
Washington
Charles Bdison
Glenmont
Stephen J. Herben
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Orange
Rosedale Cemetery
Library of the Laboratory
Thomas Watkins Named Defendant in Two Suits
MEMPHIS. Thomas Watkins, president of the Memphis Baseball Association, was named defendant in two circuit court suits seeking 90000 damages after a collision between his automobile and the car of Mrs. Arthur L. Walker on the night of September 10. Mrs. Walker seeks 5000 for bodily injuries and automobile damages and a cousin, Miss Kate Scanlon, was a passenger.
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Memphis
Thomas BR. Wat ‘Isins
Memphis Baseball Association
Watkins’ Auromobile
Arthur L. Walker
Four Injured as Rock Island Passengers Collide
In Belleville Arkansas a westbound Rock Island train No 111 collided with eastbound No 42 as it took a siding. The crash tipped the locomotive of No 111. An engineer and fireman were injured along with a dining car worker and a porter. None seriously hurt.
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Danville, Ark
Rock Island
Belleville
Here
Wednesay
Three Wedding Party Members Die in Highway Crash
Three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured in a Tuesday night automobile crash on Highway No. 9 about 14 miles north of Benton. The dead were Marion Baskins, 20, driver. Miss Vets Baskins, 20, sister of Marion. and Miss Lois Allison, 18. Miss Leila Allison, 20, sister of Lois, was seriously hurt but improving. Baskins’ car, a small coupe with a rumble seat, left the road during a sharp curve at high speed and overturned several times. Inquests were held by J. P. Sims, Saline County coroner, who ruled it an unavoidable accident.
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Benton
Marion
Vets
Baskins
Lois
Allison
Leila Allison
Perryville
Hot Springs
Miss Allison
Miss Baskins
W. C. Carilssa
Baskink
Sims Undertaking
Basking
William
Billis") Basking
Casa
Ferry County
J. W. Allison
Morriston
J. P. Sims
Saline County
Employment Gain Shown Last Month
A small but welcome rise in employment reported Tuesday offers fresh encouragement to federal relief officials pursuing funds to ease cold weather distress. Meanwhile the unemployment relief organization set up by President Kouver turned down the farm board’s offer to supply wheat and cotton at current quotations, saying such purchases were outside the group’s remit.
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Washington
Kouver
Farm Board
Bribery Probe Ends As House Reports Guilt Claims
LITTLE ROCK The house committee urged action after reviewing witnesses who testified substantial direct evidence against Hearley Fiser of Morriston and C H Hoffman of Russellville. They alleged the pair offered $50 bribes to vote for adjourning the special session without approving a highway audit bill. Both accused men are free on bond of 3000.
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Little Rock
House
State Highway Department
Hearley Fiser
Morriston
C. H. Hoffman
Russellville
J. WcDanley
G. M. Permenter
4-H Achievement Day Planned by Howard County Club
Arrangements are in place for a 4-H Achievement Day on November 7 in Howard County. All 4-H members are urged to attend the program. A local jewelry firm loaned a radio for members to listen to the national 4-H club program broadcast from Washington.
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Nashville
Ack
Howard County
Washington
Attorney General rules cotton weighing fees capped at 10 cents
In Little Rock the attorney general ruled that weighing cotton may not exceed 10 cents per bale, with public weighers in towns limited to five cents in Oct Jan and 10 cents otherwise. The opinion, prepared for Craighead County, notes some private weighers charge up to 25 cents per bale and adds a ruling that weighing after dark is legal. The note also says school districts cannot insure policies through mutual companies and countersigning warrants for such policies is questioned.
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Little Rock
Smith
W. W. Milwee
Horatio
John H. Caldwell
J. J. Yarbrough
Craighead County
Former Editor Visits Relatives in Mena Ark
Fred J. Smith city treasurer of Russell Kansas is visiting relatives in Mena after eight years. He formerly edited the Mena Star and served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Mena
Ark
Fred J. Smith
Russell
Kan
Chamber of Commerce
Little Town of Catton Resumes Old Importance
El Dorado’s Calton river port, long a cotton hub, nears peak season with Alphin Thompson shipments from New Orleans. About 10 000 bales have moved downstream, and 60 000 bales are expected before season end as trucks haul 20 bales each on routes from Texarkana to the Louisiana line amid a busy, sprawling warehouse scene.
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EL Dorado
Calton
Ouachita River
Alphin-Thompson Cotton Company
El-Dorade
River Front
New Orleans
Crescent City
J. H. Alpin
Cotton
Hampton
Calion
Hampspan
Camden-Monticello
Texarkana
Hope
Sheridan
Pine Bluff
Star City
Warren
Louisiana Line
Arkansas House Passes Senate Highway Audit Bill
Without a dissenting vote the Arkansas House approved the compromise highway audit measure by 91 to 0 sealing the end of a long deadlock. Supporters hailed the bill as the best possible outcome from the conference committee work. Dr. Morgan Smith of Pulaski County voiced guarded approval noting its imperfections yet calling it the best attainable.
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Senate
House
Morgan Smith
Pulaski County
Bank of Emerson Robbery Suspects Arrested
Union county deputies held Oscar Chandler in El Dorado and J B Ray in Smackover after the Bank of Emerson was robbed. The bandits severed wires, broke the front door and hauled away a $1100 cafe safe in a truck. A lookout posted remains for several other men as a posse hunts in the oil field area.
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EL Dohado
Emerson
Herd
Oscar Chandler
J. B
Fat
Ray
Union County
C. B. Fincher
Columbia County
Bank of
Fincher
John Harmon
Magnolia Highway
Pincher
el Dorado
J. B. Ray
Smackover
Emerson Bank
Chandier
South Arkansas
Author Arrives Hint of Collapse in Wells View
H. G. Wells, novelist and historian, predicts civilization “probably will collapse.” The renowned author, arriving in New York from England, appears genial yet pessimistic as he comments on the fate of society.
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H. G. Wells
New York
England
Dark Moment As Tribute to Edison Lights
Washington reports President Hoover proposed a nationwide one minute darkness tribute to Thomas Alva Edison as the world’s lamps. The public ceremony aims to unite 120 million people in a living picture while Hoover would not attend the funeral. Lights would go out at 7 p.m. Pacific time and vary by zone.
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Washington
Hoover
Thomas
Alva Edison
Mahter
Edison
White House
Hollywood
Vnto
Masked Men Stop Church Services At New Hope Church
At New Hope church eight miles southeast of Melbourne a group of about 20 masked and robed men surrounded the building on Sunday night. The leader entered, took the pulpit, and forced school teacher E. E. Reid to read a letter to the audience after threatening him with a pistol.
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Melborne
New Hope Church
Here
E. E. Reid
Reid
Municipal gravel road project faces new restrictions
Readable fragments show a dispute over 20 acres and municipal property use for a gravel section near a city highway. The document mentions restrictions on refuse and paving, with dust and impractical conditions noted as tourists rise along the west side.
Bond Issue Defeated in Union County Vote
Union county voters in a special election overwhelmingly rejected a $300,000 bond issue to refinance $417,500 in courthouse debt. El Dorado precincts split 474 against and 218 for the plan as overall results stood 1999 to 449 against with 11 precincts missing. County officials warn tax cuts this year leave funds tight for health, farm and home services, pauper relief, and tuberculosis sanatorium support.
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EL Dorado
Union County
Tupada
Dorado
J. G. Ragsdale' Sa
Booneville
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