Frost Industries to raise wages across Arkansas plants
Wage hikes of 10 to 20 percent are announced for Union Saw Mill at Huttig and 14 Frost subsidiaries across Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri and Illinois. Union Saw Mill employs about 5,000 workers. boosts reflect anticipated demand and past part time reductions. F W Scott, Frost president and head of the Arkansas state chamber of commerce, cites eight hour six day shifts at Huttig. Headquarters are in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Little Rock
Ark
Union Saw Mill Company
Huttig
Frost Industries, Inc
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Missouri
Ilinois
F. W. Scott
Frost Industries
Scott
State Chamber of Commerce
The
Shreveport, la
Austria sets stamp sale limits for 1933 World Show
Austria will issue International Stamp Exhibition stamps at Vienna for 1933. Each buyer may purchase at most two stamps, each with a face value of eight cents but sold for 16 cents to benefit charity. Total 60,000 ordinary paper and 40,000 fibre paper stamps, with one of each kind allowed per collector.
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Austria
Vienna
Stop Chills and Fever Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Ad
Malaria causes alternating chills and fever and harms health if unchecked. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic promises to destroy infection in the blood with quinine and build up blood with iron. It has long been advertised as relief for malaria and a general tonic for all ages. Safe for children, pleasant to take, available at stores.
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Grove
Young Student Injured Diving in River
Ross Banister, youngest son of deputy sheriff W. H. Banister, was seriously injured Sunday afternoon while diving into the Oua chita River near South Grand Street. His head struck a log, slicing his scalp open from front to back. ten stitches were needed. He was rescued by companions, treated by a physician, and returned home.
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Ross Banister
W. H. Banister
Ouachita River
South Grand Street
Political Feud Flare At Mrs Roosevelt Breakfast
A dispute during a breakfast for Mrs. Roosevelt arose as uninvited guests, including Ferguson, confronted questions from reporters. Carter defended the event as his design and expense, while guests listed included Amon Carter, Ben Critz, C. R. Smith and relatives of Mrs Roosevelt. Robert Pool piloted the Dallas to Tucson flight with the party.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Amon G. Carter
Ben Critz
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
C. R. Smith
American Airways
Dorothy Smith
Lawrence Waterbury, Jr
Tyler
Roosevelt
Robert Pool
Dallas
Dallas, Accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt
Specil
Tucson
Ariz
Wreck Victim Found After Fire. Identified as White Man
Coroner and Dr Mengis report a wreck victim found with clothing items including three shirts one khaki labeled Pierce Warranted. The body was given to an undertaker after an inquest. A jaw bone and skull fragment were located post fire, with unclear linkage to the victim. A hobo claimed several died. Kentucky sowing shows 50 pounds of Korean lespedera in 1924 versus 4,500,000 pounds this spring.
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Kentucky
Hell Below to Open at Paramount for Three Days
Paramount presents Hell Below a Metro Goldwyn Mayer submarine drama filmed with the U S Navy. Robert Montgomery leads a cast including Walter Huston Madge Evans Jimmy Durante Eugene Pallette and Robert Young with Pearl Harbor locationshoots. Capitol runs Sailor's Luck with James Dunn Sally Eilers Raoul Walsh directs a light Navy romance comedy.
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Paramount
Paramount Theater
Astor Theater
New York
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United States Navy
Edward Ellsberg
Robert Montgomery
Walter Huston
Madge Evans
Jimmy Durante
Eugene Pallette
Robert Young
Edwin Styles
John Lee Mahin
David Newell
Sterling Holloway
Charles Irwin
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Jack Conway
the Capitol
James Dunn
Sally Eilers
Fox Film
Dunn
Miss Eilers
Sammy Cohen
Frank Moran
Victor Jory
Ester Muir
Will Stanton
Curley Wright
Jerry Mandy
Lucien Littlefield
Buster Phelps
Frank Atkinson
New Orleans Named 1935 Convention City by Editors
In Indianapolis on June 5 the National Editorial Association voted unanimously to designate New Orleans as its 1935 convention city breaking years of precedent. Isaac Chapman of Bastrop urged a definite Louisiana anniversary gathering and was chosen chairman of the credentials committee by Justice Creamer, the association president.
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Indianapolis
Ind
National Editorial Association
New Orleans
California
Isaac Chapman
Bastrop
Louisiana Press Association
Louisiana
Chapman
Justice Creamer
Senate finance panel adopts Harrison tax plan for public works
The Senate Finance Committee on Monday approved the Harrison tax program to fund the 3.3 billion dollar public works project in the industrial recovery bill. It rolls back house increases on small income tax rates.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Washington approves steel contract for New Orleans project
The War Department announced Monday that contract 18 for structural steel work at New Orleans has been approved. John T. Hill of Baltimore is the contractor, with a bid of 11,954 dollars.
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Washington
War Department
John T. Hill
Baltimore
New Orleans
Radio Monopoly Called Danger Increases Audience
The piece argues that two large chains control most clear channels in the United States. It claims the government has gratuitously given a valuable public asset to private capital and the Federal Radio Commission has created a monopoly that blocks other agencies from using it.
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United States
Federal Radio Commission
Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts Return From Farmerville Memorial
Members of Rodney J. Hobbs Post VFW returned Sunday night from Farmerville where Rev. Tom Roberts delivered the memorial message. The post will soon hold an open meeting to present Purple Heart decorations to veterans. The auxiliary plans dances at North Third Street clubrooms to aid relief funds, starting Friday evening. Preparations are under way to move the post drum and bugle corps to the department encampment in New Iberia June 23 to 25.
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Rodney J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Farmerville
Tom Roberts
The
Baptist Church
Hobbs Post
Order of Purple Heart
North Third Street
New Iberia
Woman Loses Leg In Streetcar Accident in New Orleans
Miss Leona Hebert, 21, was pinned under the front truck of a street car on Canal street for about 25 minutes yesterday. She was in critical condition at a hospital Monday as physicians amputated her left leg and considered removing the right. The incident occurred on Canal street.
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New Orleans
Leona Hebert
Canal Street
Address at Ouachita Parish Junior College Graduation
A 1928-29 commencement program at Ouachita Parish Junior College in Conway Arkansas featured President and Mrs. Colvert, celebrants praising graduates and urging faith in self, fellow man, vocation, community, and God. The ceremony included a coronation march, a baccalaureate address by Charles H. Brough, musical performances, diploma awards, and benediction.
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Colvert
Central College
Conway
Ark
Commonwealth
Greece
Rome
England
France
Germany
Italy
United States
Roosevelt
Eugene Field
Quachita Parish
F. K. Hirsch
Louisiana
Leena Jessie Gray Worthington
George Bolton
Charles H. Brough Hindowu
Bemberg
Nellie Breard
P. V. Blanchard
T. O. Brown
Frisbie
the Prophet
Meyerbeer Ouachita ‘Parish Junior College
Mechanic Fatally Hurt East of Lake Charles
J C Higginbotham a 44 year old auto mechanic from Beaumont Texas was killed when his automobile overturned six miles east of Lake Charles yesterday. He was fatally injured in the crash during a journey referenced in the report.
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Lake Charles
J. C. Higginbotham
Beaumont
Texas
20 Persons Die in Dixie Mishaps
Weekend accidents across the South claim twenty lives. Automobiles cause ten deaths, four drownings, three burnings, one air plane crash, one railway mishap, and one seashore accident. Victims span South Carolina to Alabama with multiple named individuals and tragic incidents including drownings near Lenoir City Tennessee and a home fire in McKenzie Tennessee. A traffic fatality in Gainesville Georgia and an air mail crash in Virginia are noted along with a Tuscaloosa train accident. Betty Ann George is listed among the fatalities.
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Atlanta
South
South Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas
Georgia
North Carolina
Louisiana
Mississippi
Virginia
Florida
Alabama
Sarah Long
Marjorie Long
Elberta Shealy
Ernest Koon
Lexington
S. C
Columbia
Douglas Rutland
George Miller
Lenoir City
Tenn
J. Monroe Barksdale
McKenzie
Clyde Ramson
Cedarville
Ark
Jimmie Skelton
Conway
Andrew Patton
Gainesville
Henry Grady Cain
W. L. Jamieson
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Betty Ann George
Multiple Fatalities Reported Across States In Car Crashes And Drownings
A report lists several deaths in the region including Dennis Corcoran who died in a car crash near Daytona Beach Florida, Herold Stephenson age 2 burned at McComb Mississippi, Dewey Williams killed when a car struck a tree in Asheville North Carolina, and Samuel P Bowman of Greensboro North Carolina killed when his vehicle ran off a highway.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Dennis Corcoran
McDonoughville
Herold Stephenson
McComb
Miss
Asheville
N. C
Dewey Williams
Samuel P. Bowman
Greensboro
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