Montaigne and a Modern Call for Reform
Editor William Feather endorses a Montaigne anthology edited by Marvin Lowenthal. The piece recalls the 16th century thinker who valued dissent over accord and urges reform in modern times, noting Americans’ early discovery era and contemporary examples to prompt blunt self-scrutiny.
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William Feather
Im 4 Portal
Freestays
Marvin Lowenthal
Michel de Montaigne
America
Montaizgne
Theo
Portugal Crushes Mutiny Near Lisbon in Naval Revolt
Portuguese gun batteries silenced two mutinous warships in the Tagus harbor near Lisbon. Rebels were chained after the ships were towed to shore. Indications point to potential Spanish civil war links amid suppressed details.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Associated Press
Tagus River
Oxygen Capacity Cold Preventative
Dr. Arthur Locke of Western Pennsylvania Hospital described a fitness rating method to predict winter cold risk at the American Chemical Society meeting. Using oxygen metabolism during cycling, subjects were rated from 0.5 to 1.0 based on oxygen use per minute per square meter of face surface, linked to cold incidence data showing higher fit individuals had fewer colds and pneumonia cases.
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Pittsburgh
American Chemical Society
Arthur Locke
Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Leelke
Locketts
Witter
French Workmen Battle Radicals at Ferrand Prefecture
Two thousand rightist workers seized the prefecture grounds while thousands of striking leftists besieged the building in Ferrand France on Tuesday night European time. The clash marked intense street fighting with both sides facing off under tense conditions.
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Clarmont
Ferrand
France
Perfecture
Hope High Football Under Floodlights Tuesday Night
Hope High School supporters will watch the football team in a 7:45 pm scrimmage under stadium lights. Coach Hammons says fans will receive explanations of new rules and regulations. The public is invited with no admission charge ahead of Friday’s opener against Ashdown High School. A Tuesday afternoon drill is also planned.
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Hope High School
Hammons
Leon
Ashdown High School
Ellington Funeral at 5 P.M. Wednesday in Atlanta
Funeral services for B. F. Ellington, former Washington man who died in New York of heart disease, will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Atlanta Texas. The body arrives from New York Wednesday morning. Mr and Mrs Ellington moved from Washington Hempstead County to Atlanta about five years ago. He is survived by his widow and son, plus his mother, father, and a sister, all of Atlanta.
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B. F. Ellington
Washington
New York
Atlanta
Texas
Ellington
Hempstead County
Double Holiday Accidents Claim 304 Lives Across Nation
National injuries rose during Labor Day week with at least 304 deaths. Highway crashes caused 207 fatalities. eastern rail announcements marked a surge in travel. Early reports list 287 U S deaths over the three day weekend, including 10 auto riders in an Allegheny County air crash and multiple drownings and train incidents. Census data show 5, thousand mobile fatalities in 35 weeks, up from 1935.
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Associated Press
Eastern Railroad
United States
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
National Safety Council
Hae
Michigan
Isillechk
Fremont
Abaa
Mieh
Warren
Census Bureau
Bamboo Bracelets in Paris Fashion Display
In Paris a bamboo bracelet feature by Robert Piguet pairs natural bamboo coils with a brown sports dress. A belt clasp blends bamboo with metal, while rhinestone bird accents decorate coats and jackets from various houses.
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Paris
Robert Piguet
Robert Taylor rises as Hollywood idol in three part series
NEA correspondent Paul Harrison profiles Robert Taylor as the new screen heartthrob, comparing him to Rudolph Valentino. Details on his rise from Nebraska youth to $2,500 weekly fame, studio support from Louis B Mayer, and fans that flood the letters, with Taylor admitting humility and curiosity about his appeal.
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Rudolph Valentino
Robert
Tylor
Hollywood
Taylor
Paul Harrison
NEA
Mollywood
Spangler
Arlington Brugh
Sparkelor Arlington Brugh
Robert Taylor
Louis B. Mayer
Ruth Brugh
Spangter Brogh
Tinebes
Ivy
Hultywand
Singere
Ninute
Liquor Contest Postponed Again in Hempstead County
The Hempstead county liquor election contest suit brought by Hempstead citizens against 12 county roprietors was postponed to September 22 in county court at Washington. Circuit Judge Dexter Bush could not attend to advise County Judge H M Stephens on legal prints delaying the hearing.
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Hempstead
Washington
Dexter Bush
H. M. Stephens
PDP
O'Neal
Hope Negroes Run By Truck Injury At Pine Bluff
Robert Beavis Hope resin was seriously injured at Pine Bluff when he fell from a watermelon tent he rode on and was run over by a truck. He was taken to United Links hospital where doctors reported a crushed pelvis. The Mouser cemetery at Rocky Mound will be cleaned Thursday September 10 and all interested are urged to bring tools. Work will continue all day.
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Robert Beavis
Hope Resin
Pine Bluff
Sie
Bragit
Unites Links Hospital
Rocky Mound
Turned Brown By Brown Turner
Nashville report notes business improvement in recent months with hitch-hikers offering to buy gaso line shares. Steam shovels see less demand and turnip greens crop appears bumper. Predictions suggest more appeals from Roosevelt and Lindon may urge voters to stay indoors or drive carefully during upcoming holidays.
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Nashville
Tenn
Roosevelt
Lindon
Indiana Publisher Praises Our Roads
Indiana publisher Peter Auber of the Osgood Journal visited The Star office en route to the Texas Centennial and praised southern roads. He plans a two week vacation in the South and previously found Arkansas favorable. He hopes to see Hempstead County glass watermelons and photographs of large fruit.
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Aykensis
Peter Auber
Osgood
Ind
Star
Texas
Arkansas
Indiana
Holzer
South
Hempstead County
Garda Band May Attend New York World Fair
A Dublin detachment of the Garda with its renowned band could go to the 1939 World Fair in New York if a suggestion by Grover Whalen New York police commissioner proves feasible.
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Dublin
Dublin Metropolitan Garda
New York
Grover Whalen
Sunshine Express Wrecked One Dead
The Missouri Pacific's northbound Sunshine Special crashed into a stalled auto and derailed about southwest of Little Rock early Tuesday. One white man is dead and four others injured as 200 plus passengers evacuated. Engineer John L. Kenney credited Fireman John Kelley, 40, with saving his life by crawling back into the overturned locomotive to pull him to safety amid scalding water.
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Little Rock
Missouri Pavific
Here
Cails
John L. Kenney
John Kelley
Kelley
Kelinny
Hitler claims restored sovereignty at Nazi rally in Nurnberg
In Nurnberg Germany Hitler addressed a cheering Nazi crowd claiming Germany has regained its sovereignty during the fourth annual Nazi Party convention he founded over a decade ago. Meanwhile in Nanking China Confucius, celebrated for his 2,488th birthday, was escorted by 72 devoted followers during travels and royal court stays.
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Nurnberg
Germany
Adit
Hitler
National
Sotcialist Party
Nanking
China
Confucius
Arkansas Crop Condition Report September Ist
The Department of Agriculture announced seed production and condition figures for Arkansas as of September 1. Estimated production this year reached 11,121,000 bales, down from 12,481,000 last year, with Arkansas crop condition listed at 52 percent and actual production around 917,000 bales.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of the
Censis
Arkansas
Carnival Nets $300 for Band Auxiliary Meeting
The Auxiliary of Hope Boys sponsored shows at the old Garlan grounds and a picnic dinner at Fair. Mayor Bert Graves Miss Beryl Rand Crumpler and Rover spoke on cooperation and band loyalty as Mrs Leon Bundy presided.
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Hope Boys
Old Garlan
Fair
Bert Graves
Beryl
Rand Crumpler
Rover
Leon Bundy
Young Frenchman wins $20000 Thompson Trophy race
Lieut Michel Detroyat of France easily wins the 150 mile Thompson Trophy race at the national air meet in Los Angeles with a speed of 264.201 mph. Earl Ortman of Los Angeles finishes second nine miles behind on the last lap, Roger Don Ray of Alhambra, Cal., is third, and Harold Neumann fourth. Detroyat says his plane was built solely for racing by Renault and denies French government funding, and notes his aim is not to beat the land speed record immediately.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Michel Detroyat
Charles
Ine Lime
Earl Ortman
Deroyat
Renault Company
Air Ministry
Candran-Reult Company
Detrayat
Iur
Howard Hughes
Hollywood
Rene Ravover
Hughes
Detroyal
Plan Science Bureau At Maully
A science bureau for the Philippines patterned after the Melion Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh is a key point in President Quezon’s program. Private industry will be invited to use the bureau, and the executive has asked the United States government to assign a leading scientist to this task.
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Manila
P. 1
Stiepee
Philippines
Melion Institute of Industrial Research
Pittsburgh
Commonwealth
Manuck L. Quezon
United States
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