Bootleggers Turn From Liquor to Enter New Rackets
Bruce Catton discusses how the NRA era spawns industrial bootlegging and racketeering as legitimate businesses tighten codes. A Doakes hair tonic case illustrates this shift, with fake products, coercion, and stolen goods flooding the market while reformers push for planned economy and Strong government actions. General Hugh S. Johnson may resign as recovery administrator as success broadens governmental reach.
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Croakes
Heart Attack Fatal for Missouri Pacific Worker Here
W. K. Butcher a 50-year-old railroad car inspector from Missouri Pacific died here Friday afternoon from heart disease after arriving by Hope Furniture ambulance to Josephine hospital. He collapsed near Southern Ice and Utilities while accompanied by railroad colleagues C. Chaney and J. A. Boyett, who were nearby when he fell.
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W. K. Butcher
Missouri Pacific
Butcher
Sbort
Hot Springs
J. A. Easter
Hope Furniture Company
Josephine
Farley predicts repeal will aid recovery and budgets
Postmaster General Farley, at the dedication of a federal building in Kansas City, asserts repeal of prohibition is assured and will bring about 800 million dollars in new federal revenues. He says it will help balance the budget, reduce deficits, lower operating costs, and enable gradual tax relief.
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Kansas City
Postminster
Farley
Pink Boll Worm Infests Hempstead County Cotton
Hempstead county faces cotton losses from a Texas pink boll worm invasion. Farmer W E Dolly Hatsfield, living 11 miles southwest of Hope, reported infected bolls and army worms two weeks after the outbreak. About two thirds of Hatsfield’s crop has been destroyed. northern Hempstead county reports are unavailable.
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Hempstead
W.e.dolly Hatsfield
Hope
Hatsfield
NRA Forces May Be Reorganized
A general reorganization of the National Recovery Administration was indicated by Hugh S. Johnson after Dudley Cates resigned as assistant administrator for industry. Johnson said he would appoint a “cream” organization from months of experience. Other NRA moves included price fixing talks for oil, a new approach by labor advisers to the auto code, and plans to bring coal and asphalt under codes next week. Cates’ departure follows prior internal disputes including Professor William F. Jyburn’s resignation after clashes with Johnson and Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chair of the board.
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Board of Governors
The
Petroleum World
Ickes
Labor Advisory Board
Automobile Code
William F. Jyburn
Chicago University
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Tropical Storm Threatens Cuban Coast and Distressed Freighter
A tropical storm brewed along Cuba's northern shore pulling the British freighter Josephine Gray toward distress calls for aid. A second disturbance was reported near Puerto Rico as the storm moved slightly north and west at 17 miles per hour. The piece also briefly notes the owl eye placement.
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Fila
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Cayo Bahia del Cadiz
Havana
Josephine Gray
Do Your Part The Blue Eagle drive begins in Hope
Friday the city joined a nationwide NRA campaign under the Blue Eagle, with 126,000,000 Americans urged to sign pledges and display Blue Eagle stickers. House to house canvasses start, led by PTA groups and local clubs, to enlist consumers in supporting NRA standards and re employment efforts.
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NRA
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
United Action
United States
America
Parent-Teachers Association
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American Legion Auxiliary
J. R. Henry
Bates Moved to Oklahoma Jail in Urschel Kidnap Case
Albert L. Bates, indicted as a principal in the Charles F. Urschel kidnapping, arrived in Oklahoma City by airplane from Denver. He was handcuffed and guarded by federal operatives, while the Urschels identified him at the airport. Bates, 39, was escorted to the county jail as photographers documented the scene.
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Albert L. Bates
Charles F. Urschel
Denver
Bates
Urschel
Urschels
George
Albert
Val Zimmer
Department of Justice
John R. Dowd
Charles A. Patton
United States
Gene Savard
Pasture Meet At Experiment Farm Near Hope
The University of Arkansas Pruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station hosts a pasture meeting near Hope on Friday September 8 at 2 p m Assistant director G W Ware and livestock specialist M W Muldrow will discuss pasture and livestock development planting care and utilization of adapted pasture plants Different grasses and clovers will be identified seed samples displayed and demonstrations made Visitors may inspect station pastures on poor hill sides and see purebred Hereford cattle weighed in after five months on the test plot The informal meeting under the station trees offers practical answers to questions about pasture management and abandonment adjustments.
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University of Arkansas Pruit and Truck Branch
Hope
G. W. Ware
M. W. Muldrow
J. L. Wright
Ad J. W. Sargeant
Tiger Woman Called Blond Tigress Faces Murder Sentence
Chicago press report says Eleanor Jarman known as the blond tigress was convicted of murder in the slaying of Gustave Hoch a 71 year old haberdasher. Her alleged lover George Dale was sentenced to death in the electric chair and Leo Minnei received a 19 year term. Jarman testified denying involvement and is mother of two.
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Chicago
Eleanor Jarman
Gustave Hoch
Minneci
France Builds Up Powerful Defense
Premier Daladier told the cabinet of France's strengthened fortifications along the German frontier. A 125 mile defensive line of steel and concrete trenches and dugouts cost 1000000 dollars. He called the system adequate to block an invasion if attempted while Nazi followers met at Nurnberg, Germany.
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Paris
France
Daladier
Hitler
Nurnberg
Germany
Germany ready for another war in air and land
A Strasbourg newspaper preview for Saturday asserts Germany could be ready for renewed war within a year. It alleges German industry has operated at full capacity since May 1 and could produce poison gas in six weeks, machine guns in three months, rifles and machine guns in six months, and heavy artillery in ten months.
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Strassbourg
France
Germany
Indictments in Miss Precker killing near Dallas
Dallas authorities arrest Thurman and Burkley two Black men after a late night murder near Mesquite. Miss Kath Precker, 17, was found brutalized in a field. suspects confessed after officers traced their movements from a parked car to a farmhouse and city hall. A heavy guard formed as news of the arrests spread.
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Dallas
Tex
Thurman
Burkl Groes
Kath
Aes Prince
Carver
Miss Prince
Radio 5
Blunt Burkley
Mesquite
Three Robbers Suspected in Farm Beating Fatalities
Bernard Weldon a 41 year old farmer died Friday from a brutal beating by three robbers Tuesday night. His sister and a nearby resident, Mrs Mary Schraecher, died from injuries after similar assaults in a neighboring county. Suspects Henry Shelby John Aften and Harold Peckinpaugh remained under heavy guard as crowds gathered outside Crawford county jail.
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Newton
Mary Schraecher
Henry Shelby
John Aften
Harold Peckinpaugh
Post Office to Close Monday for Labor Day
Post office to be closed Monday September 4 in observance of Labor Day. General delivery and stamp windows open from 9 to 3 p.m. City carriers complete one forenoon delivery. Rural delivery and money order postal savings services not available.
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