Tragic End to Jean Harlow’s Director Husband
Hollywood drama unfolds as Paul Bern, aged 41, shoots himself after leaving a farewell note professing love for Jean Harlow. The piece traces Harlow’s turbulent early life from Kansas City to stardom and Bern’s troubled history with other actresses, framing the event as a stark real life parallel to his films.
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Dan Thomas
Hollywood
Jean Harlow
Paul Bern
Hollywood Canyon
Bern
Cowl
New York
East Side
Barbara la Marr
Mabel Normand
William Desmond Taylor
Oaly
Kansas City
Jean
Berns Brother Arrives as Harlow Inquest Opens
Henry Bern of New Rochelle arrives by air to learn why Paul Bern killed himself. Jean Harlow remains ill and will not attend the inquest. Coroner and studio officials say a private autopsy noted a physical condition possibly linked to the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Henry Bern
New Rochelle
N. Y
Paul
Jean Harlow
Miss Harlow
Bern
Calif
Paul Bern
Frank Nance
New York
Nance
Edward B. Jones
Honolulu
Canyon
Harlow
Louis B. Mayer
Mayer
Striking Farmers Remain on Duty Near Sioux City
Sioux City dispatch reports farm holiday strikers stayed on duty along Highway 75 near James Iowa to bar livestock or grain trucks. Other routes into the city were empty as pickets pledged to stay until the governor's conference Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
James
Iowa
Venizelos and Cabinet Resign in Greece Crisis
Premier Venizelos resigned with his cabinet in Athens amid rising ant Royalist tension. President Zaimis will require him to stay as head of government. The dispute followed a Venizelos speech attacking the Royalist family.
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Athens
Greece
Venizelos
Ziannis
Two Robberies Reported Here Early Thursday
Sheriff John L. Wilson's deputies and city police hunted a group after two Hope robberies overnight. Lion Oil station lost tires and motor oil worth about 150 to 200 dollars. Southern Grain & Produce on South Louisiana street reported sugar lard and flour stolen with loss about 30 to 40 dollars. Police suspect the same party used a truck. clues scarce as officers were thinned Thursday.
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John L. Wilson
Hope
Lion Oil Company
Southern Grain & Produce Company
South Louisiana
Southern Grain
Pelice
Crops Loan Man Stationed Here
J. A. Bell of the Crop Production Loan and Farmer's Seed Loan office in Memphis Tennessee will be at Hope City Hall each Thursday for the next weeks to collect payments on 1931 and 1932 loans. He serves Hempstead and Nevada counties and will also be at Prescott Court House each Wednesday to receive payments and discuss loan matters with borrowers.
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J. A. Bell
Crop Production Loan and Farmer's Seed Loan Office
Memphis
Endurance Plane Forced to Land Near Fontana
The Spirit of 76, an endurance plane, was forced to land near Fontana California at 2 AM Thursday due to a broken oil line after flying 96 hours. Pilots John Shealy and Fred Murillo aimed to beat the 647 hour endurance refueling record set by Forest O Brine and Dale Jackson in St Louis.
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Fontana
Calif
Twenty Hurt as Pier Upset on Krotz Bridge
In Opelousas Louisiana twenty workers were injured and two missing when a pier on the Krotz bridge across the Atchafalaya river toppled into the treacherous stream. The thirty men were exposed as the span casing failed and the pier gave way. The injured were transported to a local hospital for treatment.
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Opelousas
Krotz
Atchafalaya
Fire Destroys Mouser Home Near Spring Hill
A. L. Mouser's house and contents were lost in a Thursday 10 o'clock blaze south of Spring Hill. Neighbor C. L. Walkup carried the sick Mouser couple from the flames, saving their lives as the kitchen stove sparked the fire.
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A. L. Mouser
Spring Hill
C. L. Walkup
Mousers
Roosevelt to Launch Westward Campaign Tour This Month
Gov Franklin D Roosevelt will travel by special train with family on a 21 day swing through 20 states starting September 12 and ending October 5. He plans 18 city stops covering 8 000 miles. North and South Dakota Texas Nevada Oklahoma Minnesota will not be visited. He will begin with a speech at Topeka Kansas after crossing New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois and Missouri.
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Walter T. Brown
Albany
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
West
Empire State
White House
Himeslf
Charles Evans Hughes
Alfred E. Smith
Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
James M. Cox
John W. Davis
Hoover
Cox
Roosevelt
Mississippi River
Hughes
Mississippi
Nevada
North
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Texas
Minnesota
Northwest
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Missouri
Topeka
Kansas
Democratic State Central Committee clears Fleming question
At Hot Springs the Democratic panels dismissed a challenge to Charles Fleming’s democracy as representative of St. Francis county two years ago. Chancellor C E Johnson urged support for Futrell as governor advocating reforms including curbing legislature funds, school funding balance, highway reorganization, debt relief, and cutting government costs. He pressed unity behind the national ticket and repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment despite personal views.
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Hot Springs
Charles Fleming
St. Francis County
Democratic State Central Committee
Fleming
C. E. Johnson
Texarkana
J. M. Futrell
Paragould
Arkansas
Futrell
Johnson
Highway Department
United
Cotton crop forecast for 1932 shows Arkansas output
Washington reports the 1932 U S Department of Agriculture forecast at 11,310,000 bales. Arkansas is projected to produce 1,045,000 bales from 3,324,000 acres with growing conditions at 54 percent normal. Prior to September 1 this year Arkansas had 865 bales versus 232 last year.
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Arkansas
Washington
Department of Agriculture
October cotton closes lower on New York market
October cotton ends Thursday at 7.88 a net loss of 104 points from 8.92 Wednesday. Prices rose to 9.14 before the close then slipped 100 points after the government bureau estimate and again edged lower. October finished at 8.05, down 104 points from Wednesday. Cotton seed rises to 11 a ton for small lots and 13 for carload shipments, up 3 a ton or about 45c per bale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Government Bureau
Police Search Arson Suspects In Ivey Home Fire
Local police investigated a Thursday morning fire at the George Ivey residence at Fourth and Hazel streets. Firemen found traces of oil in a front corner. the 2:45 am blaze caused about 4100 in damage, insured. No arrests reported yet.
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George Ivey
Fourth
Hazel Streets
Change in Saenger Theater Management in Hope
A new manager takes over Marco's Saenger theater in Hope. S. E. Coffin, formerly with the Majestic in Stuttgart, succeeds Brian Clapp who returns to the Little Rock home office. Coffin begins duties Sunday. Clapp departs this weekend.
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Marco’s Saenger Theater
Brian Clapp
Clapp
S. E. Coffin
Hope
Stuttgart
Majestic Theater
Coffin
Old Queen Theater
Little Rock
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Laredo
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Fanny
Jo Nea
Geany
Parsee
Saenger
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