sentences:  On September 10, 1931, Governor Harvey Parnell authorized the Arkansas National Guard to be deployed in Jonesboro to quell the Church War, a clash between the followers of Joe Jeffers and Dow H. Heard, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro.Jeffers' supporters also attacked the mayor and police chief, resulting in front-page coverage of the incident in "The New York Times".The Jonesboro Lynching of 1881 took place at midnight on March 12.