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Last week Charles X. Williams, cashier of the Citizens Bank of Booneville, Ark., was fired. He was fired not by the bank but by State Banking Commissioner Marion Wasson acting under the authority of Arkansas' new law for strengthening its banking system. Cause of Cashier Williams' discharge was negligence: keeping too much cash on hand...
...flood of war floated the Ark of U. S. Steel Corp. high up on a figurative Mount Ararat where in three months time Steel breathed $97,000,000 worth of the pure air of profit. Never since has Steel reached any such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep...
...Yellowstone was established in 1872. Hot Springs, Ark. became a national preserve 30 years earlier...
From then on the trails of both parties converged and became bloody. A dead nightwatchman surrounded by cartridge shells bore evidence that the second band had passed through Chetopa, Kans. after leaving Pleasanton. When the Wood car was swapped for another next day at Siloam Springs, Ark., a gunfight with peace officers took place. One convict group marched into the Bank of Chelsea (Okla.), ran out with $2,500 in cash under a barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer...
University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark...