Southwest Arkansas highway plan discussion heats up
The piece argues Hope and Prescott should press the state highway commission for paving Nos. 82 and 29 to link El Dorado, Texarkana, Shreveport, and the Louisiana line. It notes conflicting interests among cities, benefits to Texarkana, and the need for a joint approach to secure funding and routing.
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el Dorado
State Highway Commission
North Arkansas
Hope
State Commission
Prescott
Texarkana
Southwest
Arkansas
Dorado
Texarkans
Lewisville
Stamps
Walda
Buckner
Magnolia
Arkadelphia
Hot Springs
Lewis Villa
Bradley
Shreveport
Exarkana
Highway Department
el Darido
Farm Ownership Aided by Pressure Against Landlords
Stockholm reports a new royal commission touring Swedish agricultural districts to improve tenant farmer protections and owner farmer benefits. It notes Sweden's history of widespread small holdings, strong tenancy laws since 1909, and measures to curb industrial land concentration while urging sale of farms to tenant owners.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Europe
Peasi
Land
United States
Ecomepanies
300 Soviet Troops Reported Executed
Berlin report claims 300 Soviet officers and men were executed after a mutiny near Rjasait about 60 miles from Moscow. The dispatch says the executions were ordered by the OGPU with garrison troops rushing to the scene by air and artillery to quell the uprising.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Voolkischer Bedbachter
Macselay
Warsaw
Rijasait
Moscow
OG Pus
State Political Department
Socert
O. G. Plu
Salu, Chanevllor
Extra Phone Charge Cut Reduces Arkansas Rates
Little Rock utilities official announces a September 15 reduction by Southwestern Bell Telephone, saving Arkansas subscribers about 25,250 dollars annually. The five cent monthly charge for French type telephones in use 25 months or more is eliminated. Conference rates drop from six to eight dollars for five way connections and from fifteen to five dollars for W way hook ups. Adjustable receiving sets for deaf persons will be offered at two dollars and fifteen cents monthly.
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Little Rock
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Arkansas
T. G. Seal
Department of Public Utilities
S. R. Morgan Held in Bail of 5000 Dollars
LITTLE ROCK British report notes Commissioner Charles Jacobson kept utilities operator S. R. Morgan in 5000 dollars bail on a federal conspiracy to intimidate a government witness. Morgan must appear next January in Fort Smith federal court regarding an alleged attempt to bomb a car driven by Little Rock attorney D. D. Panich.
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Little Rock
Charles Jacobson
S. R. Morgan
Morgan
Fort Smith
D. D. Panich
Star Will Discontinue Comic Tabloid and Expand Daily
The Star announces the six-page daily edition returning to the prewar base after Saturday. It will drop the weekend colored comic tabloid after Sept 12 while adding two full pages of nation pictures each week and retaining all daily comic features. Advertising deadlines shift to 11 am for the daily issue starting Sept 14 in Hope territory.
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The
Star
Nations
Hope Territory
Prescott Football Opens Season With New Coach At Helm
Prescott Ark 1936 football schedule shows 11 game slate under new coach Rayburn Smith from Arkadelphia. Equipment issue at 2 pm Tuesday. practice starts Wednesday afternoon. Season opener Sept 18 at home against Malvern. Schedule includes Texarkana El Dorado Camden and Nashville games with a new field at Nashville. Also Nashville field project and a separate note on Wheat grain longevity debunks tomb sprouting claim.
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Prescott
Ark
Curly Wolves
Malvern High School
Rayburn Smith
Arkddelphia
Smith
Henderson State Teachers College
Malvyern
Texarkana
el Dorado
Camden
Arkadelphia
Hope
Benton
DeQuech Heve
Nashville
Lester Bradley
DeQueen
Russellville
Ashdown
Horatio
Mother Shoots 3, Commits death by own action
Four members of the Studdard family were found dead in their Carbon Hill home after a mother killed her husband and two children before taking her own life. Marcus Studdard, 32, Mary 30, Kathleen 6 and Shirley 5 months were identified by Sheriff H. G. Mitchell.
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Carbon Hill
Ala
Marcus Studdard
Mary
Kathleen
Shirley
H. G. Mitchell
Bodies of Metz brothers retrieved from shaft
Rescue workers recovered the bodies of Freddie Ernest and Harry Metz after a deadly monoxide gas incident in Falton Missouri. The trio died while attempting to save their brother and father-in-law, with search teams locating them at the bottom of a shaft.
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Falton. Mo
Metz
Freddie
Ernest
Harry
Louisiana convict fugitive killed by police
Baton Rouge officials said John Guillory, 39, a fugitive convict, was shot to death in Rayne Louisiana while resisting arrest. The report notes the incident occurred Tuesday as authorities pursued him. The rest of the text includes unrelated lines about advertising art.
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John Guillory
Rayne
Baton Rouge
Atkins Re elected Chairman Hempstead County Central Committee
W S Atkins was re elected chairman of the Hempstead County Democratic Central committee at a re organization meeting in Hope city hall. Lyman Eley was elected secretary, succeeding John Barrow who did not seek renomination. Atkins defended the group against charges of machine control and lack of qualifications noting state law and township director issues. A subcommittee backed Bill Hood for road overseer of Redland township by two votes. Continued on page three.
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Leonard Ellis W
Atkins
Hempstead
W.S. Atkins
Hempstead County
Democratic Central Committee
Arkansas
Hope
John Barrow
Democratic Committee
Oran Township
Democratic Central
Sefile
Bill Hood
Redland Township
Bill Hile
Turned Brown By Brown Turner
NORRIS Tenn Special This TVA dam is huge and needs two days to survey even with spectacles Many people want to save the United States but seem to pursue selfish goals The country could use a rainy day or several Russia seeks to move Trotans from Norway but cannot decide where to send him He remains homeless and will face new taxes wherever he goes
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Norris
Tenn
TVA
United States
Russia
Norway
Trotans
Nore
Chapman Spirited Away From Mob
Two Arkansas convicts escaped from a bank holdup and were captured in Atlanta Texas. Charles Chapman was wounded in the shoulder and with Q H Lindsey. A third suspect Buddy Sadler is believed to be involved. Officers moved the pair to Marshall jail for safety amid fears of trouble.
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Atlanta
Texas
Arkansas
Marshall
Charles Chapman
Q. H. Lindsey
Buddy Sadler
Chapman
Lindsey
Mosley
Cass County
Utah Bids Farewell to George H Dern at Capitol Rotunda
Mourning throngs gathered at the Utah capitol to honor George Henry Dern, a miner, legislator, governor, and Secretary of War. Beginning at 10 a.m., a steady procession of area residents, including women and children, filed past Dern's casket in the rotunda.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
George Henry Dern
Utah Capitol
Griffithsville Bank Cashier Found Dead
B F Grissom aged 54 was found shot to death Tuesday inside the Bank of Griffithsville where he served as cashier and book keeper for 35 years. Coroner Joe Collison conducts the investigation.
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Griffithsville
Ark
B. F. Grissom
Joe Collison
Bombing of Madrid Hospital and U.S. ship attack reported
Reports from Madrid and Burgos recount a hospital bombing amid Spain's civil war with hundreds dead or wounded. The United States contemplates withdrawing ships as the State Department orders protests over the attack on the destroyer Kane and seeks end to rescue missions in Spanish waters.
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Madrid
Spain
Burgos
Copyrightiated Press
Pilari
U.S. Washington
Ami
Kane
Washington
United States
Minight
Hull
United States Naval
Coast Guard
Hia
Roosevelt
Drouth
State Department
Seville
Contmnand
Department
Black Legion Denounced to Jury in Detroit Trial
Oakland County grand jury labeled the Black Legion a terrorist faction with political aims far beyond its membership. The report accompanied 12 defendants' trial for the Black Legion execution of Charles A. Poole. In Oklahoma, heat records may be delayed as a tree shading the official thermometer in Okemah lowers readings by about ten degrees.
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Hope
Fruit and Truck Branch
Detroit
Mich
UPI
Oakland County
Black Legion
Hartwick
Charles A. Poole
Okemah
Okla
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Avex
H. Washburn
the Daily Record
Elmer W. Peterson
Associated Press
U. S
Hope Star
Alabama
Louisiana
County Central Committee
Lyman Eley
Akkins
Brown Turner
Secy
Dern
State Capitol
Griffithsville Bank
Organized Labor
Willis Thorton
Ed Gunder
Asai
American Federation of Labor
Ms Nuceugs
Unio
Knights of Libor
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
Knights
Bron Molders’ Union
Stove Founders’ Association
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
Carnegie Mills
Homestead
Pinkerton
NEADS
Tabor
Wew Point
BOM
Iate
Bing
Hospi i
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