Rumor of liquor agents visiting Hope factories sparks crackdown
A Hope reporter confirms two of six local liquor stores have sent collectors to plants on payday. The Star warns Williams and Porterfield stores to cease outside soliciting or risk license cancellation, as Arkansas liquor taxes support public funds and the law must be enforced.
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Hope
Plantahe
Hope Liquor
Bruner-Tvory
J. J. Williams & Sons
Hope Heading Company
Hope Brick Company
Hope Basket Company
The
Star
Arkansas
Williams
Walnut Street
Porterfield
Secon Street
Futrell
Wiseman
Co operatives Face Collapse Without Government Aid
Testimony before a senate subcommittee reveals six of fourteen directors of the American Cotton Co-operative Association also manage member associations and draw salaries from ACCA. E F Creekmore, the association’s general manager, warns withdrawal of government support would leave only 2 million in capital and surplus, crippling operations and risking a “death blow” to the cooperative which handles about 12 percent of U.S. cotton.
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Mempins
Tenn
American Colton Co-operative Association
ACCA
E. F. Creekmore
New Orleans
Ananager
Senator McKéller
U. Ay
Memphis
E. F. Creekmace
American Cotton Co-operative Association
Creekmore
Senate
Col’lon
Puri Board
Central Bank
McKellar
Tennessee
Bankhead
Democrit
Alabama
Townsend
Delaaware
Iter
Lewis’ Urswune
Crevkmmare
Allies Plan Joint Land and Air War Effort
British and French forces draft full war time cooperation plan in the Mediterranean. Britain to consult League members on sanctions terms while Mussolini pushes resistance and mobilizes in Ethiopia amid escalating conflict.
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Ethiopia
Paris
France
Mediterranean
League's 36 nation boycott pledges widen Italy sanctions
Geneva report says seven more countries joined the League of Nations boycott against Italy, bringing total pledges to 36 for buying nothing from Italy and barring key Italian exports. The drive aims to pressure Mussolini over Ethiopia, with arms embargo and financial sanctions expanding as more nations pledge. London reports Anglo-French talks on a peace plan failing, as Eden and Hoare prepare for Geneva moves to enforce sanctions against Italy.
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Ethiopia
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China
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Fremier Mussalini
Teague of Nations
League Committee of 52
London
Elgoing
Eden
Suimael Hoare
House of Commons
Haile Selassie
Youths death linked to troubled romance in Louisiana
Police tie the death of Yupene Jouban, a Louisiana youth, to a self harm act following a jilting in a tale of love and disappointment. He was found on the First Presbyterian church lawn with slashed throat and wrists. torn letters in his overcoat were recovered. He lies in Josephine hospital awaiting release and return home to DeRidder. Elder brother J M Jouban arrived from Belridder to tend him and spoke of a failed romance and money left for a New York trip.
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Louisiana
Shreveport
Jouban
Noted Aviatrix Visits Hope During Arkansas Tour
Noted aviator Louise Thaden, visiting Hope by train, stops to meet Miss Beryl Henry, city superintendent of schools. Both women from Bentonville, Ark, Thaden supervises airway marker installation for a federal program to create a nationwide road sign system for pilots. She heads to San Antonio to obtain a new ship after losing one in a Kansas accident. Dolores Thaden previously visited Hope in the summer of 1981.
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My. Louise McPhereidge Thaden
Arkansas
Hope
Beryl Henry
Thaden
Beary
Bentonville, Ark
Thader
Federal Department of Coromerve
San Antonio
Texas
Kanssas
Miss Henry
Reward posted for arrest of Edwards Negro in Lamb slaying
Reward of 100 posted for information leading to the arrest of Sandy Edwards a 63 year old negro sought in the axe slaying of Cross Lamb 35 white farmer found beaten to death in northern Hempstead county. Sheriff Bearden announced a further 50 reward total. The suspect last seen near Nashville wearing a blue suit brown hat tan shoes and heavy mustache. He is described as about 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 42 pounds with two scars over the right eye. No trace yet after sheriff’s westward search failed to locate him.
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Sandy Edwards
Cross Lamb
Hempstead
Jim Bearden
Lamb
Howard County
Bearden
State
Tran Ouachita County
LaFayette County
Nashville
Ark
C. A. Dildy
Crosk
Mississippi approves higher state homestead exemption
Governor Connor urged fast action in a joint session to repeal burdensome tax rules. House then passed the senate bill 14 to 3, raising homestead exemption from state property taxes from 1000 to 2500 dollars and land exemptions from 40 to 160 acres.
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Jackson
Miss
Conner
House
Senate
Case of Meningitis Reported in Nevada
Nevada reports a case of spinal meningitis in Reno area with Dr. A B Dickey as county health officer initiating quarantine for patient and close contacts. Dr W B Grayson, state health official, confirms action and notes ongoing observation of potential exposures.
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Little Rock
W. B. Graynon
Date
A. B. Dickey
Dickey
Grayson
Convicted Axchie Barnes gets life for 40 cent holdup
Blytheville Arkansas reports Axchie Barnes, 24, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 40 cent holdup and murder of 16 year old C A Martin, a tux taxi driver. His father Frank Barnes and brother Bill had been electrocuted for the earlier case.
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Blytheville
Ark
Axchie Barnes
C. A. Martin
Tux Tury
Frank Barnes
Bill
Auto Dealers Win First Tax Round
In Little Rock Chancellor Frank Dodge ruled that new automobiles escape the 2 percent sales tax when the state license fee on a car exceeds the tax levy. The state said it would appeal to the supreme court while Dodge ordered dealers to continue paying the tax into the Pulaski chancery registry pending the court action.
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Little Rock
Frank Dodge
Te Supreme Court
Dodge
Pulaski Chancery Registry
Supreme Court
Hammons Sees Threat of Letdown Before Smackover Clash
Smackover High School, riding a six game win streak, will test Coach Foy Hammons and Hope Bobcats Friday night. Hammons warns players not to overestimate the foe after Nashville win, citing Smackover’s veteran lineup and three scouting reports. A five car fan caravan and 50 member band will travel to Hope for the game.
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Hammons
Nashville
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Rimentor
King
Priges
Hope Say
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Ark
Smackover
Buckaroox
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Hope
el Dovedo
Camden
Emackover
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Four Motor Bomber Crashes at Wright Field
A new four engine bomber from Boeing crashed on takeoff at Wright Field in Dayton causing five injuries. Major EB P Hill, chief of the firing division, and Boeing chief pilot Leslie Power were seriously hurt. Lieutenant Ronald Putt, John Cutting, test observer, and Wright Field attache Mark Googler suffered minor injuries.
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Dayton
Ohio
Boeing
Wright Field
Eb, P. Hill
Leslie Power
Chie
Boeing Aircraft Company
Ronald Putt
John Cutting
Mark Googler
Tax Land Titles Held Up Two Years Opinion
Arkansas Attorney General Carl E. Bailey ruled that a 1995 law did not repeal the two year redemption period for lands sold to the state for non payment of taxes. He said lands to be sold next Monday cannot be certified to the state land commissioner until two years later.
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Little Rock
Carl E. Bailey
Bailey
Mrs Geo Schooley Stricken Suddenly Dies at Home
Mrs George W Schooley 58 a longtime Hempstead county resident died suddenly at 7 pm Tuesday at her home north of Hope on the Blegins highway death due to heart disease Surviving her husband six sons Earl Vernon Carroll William Frank Edward all of Hope three daughters Mrs Walker Chambless Emmet Mrs H L Hartsfield Downey California and Miss Isabelle Schooley at Hope Funeral services may be held Thursday at 1 a m with Rev Wallace R Rogers First Baptist pastor in charge arrangements pending arrival of relatives Active pallbearers Claude Routon Claude Taylor B R Hamm Perry Moses A C Erwin Jim Bowden Honor pallbearers Claude McCorkle Hellen McCorkie Clive McCorkie Cecil McCorkie Thomas McKee David McKee Ivan Bright Aubrey Cox
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George W. Schooley
Hempstead County
Hope
Blegins
Earl
Vernon
Carroll
William
Frank
Edward
Walker Chambless
Emmet
H. L. Hartsfield
Downey
Calif
Isabelle Schooley
Thomas McKee
David McKee
Ivan Bright
Aubrey Cox
State to Observe Rogers Birthday
Governor Futrell issued a proclamation designating next Monday as Will Rogers Day to honor the famed humorist philosopher and actor born in Oklahoma. The statement notes Rogers achieved world renown despite a brief life and urges citizens to study his virtues and emulate them in daily life.
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Little Rock
Futrell
Will Rogers
Alaska
Commonwealth
Avis
Negro Driver Strikes Couple in Laurel Street Runaway
Mr and Mrs Powell White, 68 and 65, were struck by a negro driver on Laurel Street as they walked home from church near Harris grocery. Mrs White sustained serious injuries to head face and hands with internal injuries. The driver, believed to be named Ragan, fled on foot. Police searched Hempstead and Nevada until Wednesday noon but found no trace. Mrs Martha Godwin and Mrs John Griffin accompanied the couple and were knocked by the car. An ambulance took the injured to the hospital.
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Hopewell
North City
Wera
Laurel Street
White
Slim’ Chan
Ju Chester “Hospital
Ragan
Poli
Emmet
Hempstead
Vada
Stuttgart Merchants Sue Over 2 Percent Sales Tax
A group of Stuttgart merchants filed suit in Pulaski County Chancery Court to stop the 2 per cent sales tax, arguing it is unconstitutional and that Revenue Commissioner Wiseman oversteps by threatening warrants. The filing names W. S. Albright and multiple local businesses as plaintiffs. The state counters that issues were settled by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Inland Paris trains sailors to a merchant marine training school opened 125 miles from the sea, with eighty cadets daily commuting by subway to a Seinen vessel.
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Stuttgart
Pulaski Chancery Court
Earl R. Wiseman
W. 5. Albright
Hartz-Thorell Supply Company
Independent Oil Company
Menees Bros
Fred Wilcox
Duncan Furneiture Company
Stuttgart Co-operative Buyers Association
McCollum Equipment Company
C. M. Brwin
Wiseman
Arkansas
Revenue Department
Paris
Subway
Seine
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