Invisible Government and Dr Dawson’s School Lobby
The piece denounces Dr. Dawson head of the school lobby for backing Amendment No. 21 and tax hikes. It argues teachers officials and state bureaus inflate public spending while business suffers and warns the public about hidden motives and current economic strain. It frames Dawson as detached from real business needs and asserts taxpayers will resist a large tax increase.
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Dawson
Little Rock
Dr. Dawson
School Lobby to Back Amendment No 21 in Arkansas
HOT SPRINGS The Arkansas Education Association adopted a report backing Amendment No 21, denouncing Amendments 19 and 22. The group urged all county superintendents and teachers to distribute supportive literature and work hard for the amendment. Dr. H A Dawson, the new president, vowed a militant administration and highlighted unity and commitment to expanding quality public schooling with state financial backing. He criticized opponents as demagogic and stressed keeping children first in government policy. Brabham answers McComb in Warren.
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Hot Springs
Arkansas Education Association
Ways and Means Committee
Hee
Arkansas
Brabham
McComb
Warren
H. A. Dawson
The
Arkansas Educational Association
William McComb
Ques
Stolen Unlocked Model A Ford From Saenger Block
A 1930 Model A Ford Tudor coach owned by Mrs Martha Stroud Jones was stolen from in front of the Saenger theater in Hope Sunday night before 1 o clock. The green car bore state license 21 273 and Hope city license 244 with motor number 2992 523. The theft occurred while the key was left in the ignition and police were notified immediately.
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Martha Stroud Jones
Saenger Theater
Proposals for Nov 8 Initiative Acts and Constitutional Amendments
A summary of three November measures: Initiative Act No 1 proposes a 1 percent general sales tax on most transactions excluding farm products and certain items. Initiative Act No 2 seeks to restore a Republican minority on the three member election board. Initiative Act No 3 calls for four year terms for certain state officials and a formal budget system, with related constitutional amendments noted.
Proposed amendments outline tax cuts and school funding measures
The document details Constitutional Amendments 19 through 23 proposing a half mill state property tax, a 1 percent sales tax, bond consent by two thirds for highway projects, protection of common school funds with a $6 per capita minimum, homestead and town lot exemptions, and a split legislative session with a four year term for state officials including a non re election governor.
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General Assembly
Okla Kan Trucks Use Two Auto Licenses
Coffeyville Kansas reports that delivery cars trucks and other commercial vehicles operating in Coffeyville and South Coffeyville Oklahoma must display both Kansas and Oklahoma license plates due to a tag war. Reciprocity talks failed leading to multiple arrests and fines for tag violations.
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Coffeyville
Kas
Okla
Here
Kansas
Oklahoma
Paris subway stations to get showers and bike garages
The Paris transit plan installs showers baths and bicycle garages for factory workers at Montreuil Sevres and Vincennes suburban stations as part of an industrial district program.
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Paris
Paris Subway
Montreuil
Sevres
Vincennes
Cotton Sells Off 6 Points Monday
December cotton fell six points or 30 cents a bale on Monday trading, closing at 6.10. A next ginning report is due at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The week saw a modest price drift lower with demand quiet for spot cotton and inquiries focused on immediate shipments.
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N. Y
Memfhis
Department Agriculture
Phantom President at Saenger with Cohan and Durante
One of the year’s top films plays the Saenger for a last week. The Phantom President stars George M. Cohan and the late-night persona of Durante. The plot follows a banker-nominated president and a lookalike campaign manager as political theater. Durante delivers pivotal humor in scenes with silk hats and a radio broadcast, including his line about a low mood being a dent.
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Schnozzle
Accident on No 67 Not Fatal, Gurdon Reports
Gurdon undertakers stated no one was seriously hurt in a Sunday night automobile accident at Caney Bridge one mile north of Gurdon. Rumor linked two Arkadelphia youths to the crash, but names could not be learned and the report could not be confirmed.
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Arkadelphia
Gurdon
Hope Star
Caney Bridge
Fingerprints May Give Robbery Clue
A man sought by officers Monday for the robbery of White & Co store at Fulton Friday night. merchandise valued at $60 taken from a store window, mainly men's apparel. Fingerprints were taken by Wallace Nelson of the Texarkana police department.
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White & Co
Fulton
Wallace Nelson
Texarkana
West Third Street to Be Concreted by State Next Month
State highway plans concrete paving on West Third street from Washington to the Hope line as part of the No. 67 project from Texarkana to Little Rock. The work, funded under federal aid, will close the sole remaining gap between city and state paving, with similar concrete efforts in Texarkana Emmet Prescott and Arkadelphia. Weeds and right of way work along No. 67 in Hempstead county have begun by the Hope district office using federal relief labor.
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Texarkana
Little Rock
West Third Street
Washington
Hope Corporation
The
Star
Emmet
East Third Street
State Concrete
State Highway Department
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Prescott
Arkadelphia
Hope District
Highway Department
Federal Relief Committee
Hempstead County
Negro Desperado Sought in Murder
City and county officers pursue J. P. Jackson 27 after the ambush slay ing of a 24 year old woman, wife of Lary Dixon, at her mother Mary Johnsons home near DeAnn. Jackson, a Hope resident with prior penitentiary terms, is described as about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds with a medium dark complexion.
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J. P. Jackson
Lary Dixon
Jackson
Mary Johnson
DeAnn
Hope
C. E. Baker
Four power talk stalls disarmament plan in Europe
London reports Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon says deadlock persists as France and Germany still dispute a meeting place for the proposed four power emergency disarmament conference. In Washington the Reconstruction Finance Corporation notes loan activity through September 30 totals over 1.016 billion dollars to banks and related institutions with 853 million authorized to 973 banks. In Little Rock the State Note Board’s injunction appeal regarding highway contractor payments is moved to November 14.
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London
Eng
John Simon
France
Germany
Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Little Rock
State Note Board
Pulaski Chancery Court
Supreme Court
Berrie Faces Trial Over Wife Murder at Muskogee
County Attorney Oldham branded Rev S A Berrie as lacking decent faculties during closing, in a Muskogee trial for wife murder. He criticized alleged intimacies with a young Sunday school teacher later married, while the defendant showed nerves beside his wife as three verdicts remain possible: death, life, or acquittal.
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Muskogee
Okla
S. A. Berrie
Phi] Oldham
Bernie
Oldham
Investment Banks Back Tax on Beer for Revenue
WHIE SULPHUR SPRINGS Va. The Investment Bankers association tax committee told the convention that a federal beer tax up to 40 cents a gallon could bring the government up to 750 million dollars in additional revenue.
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Whie Sulphur Springs
Investment Bankers Association Convention
Federal Taxation Committee
Family Is Killed by Insane Youth in Huntington
Samuel W. Patterson, wealthy coal operator, his wife, and son Thomas 27 a university graduate were found dead in their home Monday. Coroner says the youth under treatment for a mental disorder shot his mother and father and slashed his own wrists.
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Huntington
W. Va
Samuel W. Fatterson
Thomas
Machines Have Stepped Up Man's Production 75 Times Within 100 Years
New York report from Technocracy at Columbia University shows per capita energy use rising 75 fold since 1840, with two thirds of the increase since 1900. Howard Scott warns rapid invention outpaces social adaptation, risking economic distress and potential collapse without new control methods.
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Columbia University
New York
United States
Technocracy
Howard Scott
Scott
Israel
Egypt
Greece
Rome
England
Tomorrow's Star debuts Bobcat school section
The Star announces a revival of a school page named the Bobcat to run weekly in the city edition on Tuesdays and rural mail edition on Wednesdays. It will be written and edited by Hope High School students with Luther Hollaman as editor in chief and Diane Fritz as assistant editor.
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The
Star
Bobcat
Hope High School
Luther Hollaman
Diane Fritz
Frances Eason
Margaret Bell
Home Rule Suit to Supreme Court in Arkansas
The Arkansas Supreme Court hears an appeal from Union County to invalidate a local salary law initiative. Plaintiff B S Dozier seeks to block the measure which would cut salaries for county officers from 5000 to 2700 and cap deputy salaries to 75 to 150 and limit deputies. The case hinges on whether citizens can initiate the ordinance before the November election.
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Little Rock
Union County
Arkansas Supreme Court
Union Chancery Court
B. S. Dozier
Supreme Court
J. G. Ragsdale
County Election Board
Supreme Court denies Leas Davis appeal in bank misap pliance case
The high court refused to review the North Carolina conviction of Luke Leas Nashville publisher Luke Leas Jr and banker Wallace B Davis for conspiring to misapply bank funds. In Los Angeles Mrs Alice Henry, 78, suffers 135 wounds from suspected self inflicted torture over more than a day, per Dr Edgar Spears.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Luke Leas
Nashville
Tenn
Luke, Jr
Wallace B. Davis
Foreer
Asheville
N. C
North Carolina
Los Angeles
Alice Henry
Edgar Spears
New Jersey Man Held on Suspicion Sought Vengeance
A Newark area child was abducted and found at a farmhouse after an all night woods chase. The girl, bruised and frightened, identified neighbor Morris Morris as her abductor, who had earlier tried to cash a parents’ store check. Police investigated the scene and ensured medical care for the girl.
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New Jersey
Eugene Rt
Morris
Judge Deals With Drunkenness Cases In City Court
A crowded municipal court session before Judge A A Gentry saw multiple defendants plea guilty to drunkenness and disturbing the peace with fines ranging from 5 to 50 dollars plus costs. Hazel Guthrie testified against her father Martin Guthrie who admitted guilt to two charges.
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A. A. Gentry
Martin Guthrie
Hazel Guthrie
Allie Davis
Hazel
Guthrie
Charley Gilbert
John Tufteller
Courteny Hightower
T. Tufteller
Cane Aganst
Sam Price
Withness
Gentry
W. F. Newsome
R. B. Stuart
P. J. Gates
Wylie Fairchilds
S. E. Stuart
Jimmy Sampson
LeRoy Muldrow
Coosts
Arthur Pennington
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West Virginia
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Associated Press
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