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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1931
Page
5
Over 500 students teachers and visitors attended the District 10 Literary and Athletic Track meet in Hope Friday and Saturday. Finals for literary events were held Saturday morning and track finals at the fair park Saturday afternoon with results and medal and cup awards planned for 7:30 PM at the city hall.
NEW YORK. About twenty suspects tied to a professional gang were rounded up in Newark and Patterson New Jersey and New York City. The group, alleged to terrorize the New Jersey metro area, faced charges including murder robbery arson and counterfeiting. Leader Eugene Campo and several associates were implicated in the murder of Eugene Lynch and other hold ups with Campo naming Selena Knock as a key figure. Other arrests followed in Staten Island and Shenandoah Pennsylvania as the probe widened.
The steam ship Cefalu reached quarantine at the Mississippi mouth carrying 30 refugees and the bodies of Captain Perley of the USMC and William L. Selser of Standard Fruit. They died in fighting near Hawdewn between groups in Nicaragua. The vessel was to dock in New Orleans around 5 AM.
Young People To Present Program by the Young People’s Society at First Pregypterian Church 6:45 pm Sunday features speaker Jennet Blackwell on How Can Churches Work Together scripture Acts 2 36 42 47 with song A Witness for Jesus and a sentence prayer. Other talks include The Kin's Business by leader Winston Cobb Co operation the Hope of Protestantism Genevive Dodd Unity Through the Federation of Churches Frances Sue Williams discussion led by Lykins Paggett and song Blest Be the Tie That Binds.
Secretary Doak announced a complete reorganization of the United States Employment Service. It will be divided into seven divisions covering building and trades, mining and quarrying, manufacturing, transportation, clothing, mercantile and marine seamen, with veterans service national in scope and expanded fair employment service. The service will open at least one employment bureau in each state and in the District of Columbia to cooperate with local and state authorities in pairing jobless workers with employers.
The first strawberries of the season were shipped Thursday by Mrs. A. T. Jackson of South Main street Hope. She grows the Excelsior variety and has earned a reputation for delivering the first berries to market in the area for several years.
Governor Parnell demands two corrections from The Star on front page editorials about clemency records. He says a bulletin board in the governor’s office existed for furloughs and that all clemency is filed with the secretary of state, with a separate furlough file kept in executive offices. The Star admits it misquoted AP and erred in reporting AP dialogue and the Atkins furlough controversy.
In Cass County district court at Linden Texas Mrs. Elmer Walker 30 was found guilty of robbery with firearms in the November theft of the Richey Mater company at Atinta. Her husband pleaded guilty to the same charge. The couple received five and seven year prison terms respectively from Judge George W. Johnson.
Editor notes explain Act No 158 detailing a pension program for blind and indigent residents aged 21 or older with up to 25 dollars monthly. Applications require approval by a chancellor or circuit judge, administered by the State Confederate Pension Board, and revenue estimates suggest funding around 15 dollars monthly per recipient. act to take effect in September after passage in the General Assembly.
Star Co operatives join merchants for cooking school at Flour Swanee’s Best M System. Participating firms include Saedelle Wessen Oil, Marton’s Salt, Godchaux Sugar, Folger’s Coffee, Southern Creamery Butter, Estate Gas Ranges, Southern Ice, Meats Moore Bros, Ward & Son Beauty Aids, Ladies’ Specialty Shop Corsets, Montgomery Ward cooking utensils, Reed Kouton House Dresses, Chevrolet auto, City Bakery Blue Ribbon Bread and more.
WALNUT RIDGE Ark A J Casper known as Uncle Jake, longtime blacksmith, has added two gasoline pumps in front of his shop, a Lynn landmark 24 miles away. He vows to keep his smithy and anvil ready, insisting horses will always need shoes and plows sharpened while Arkansas hills stand.
The Oklahoma Court of Appeals on Saturday affirmed a 49 year prison sentence for Jeff D Harv an undercover prohibition agent, and Jey W W Thompson a federal prohibition agent, in the 1929 killings of James A Harris and Oscar Louwery near Tecumseh. The case relates to a war on James A Harris farm.
Richard Grant and Kei at Lassy from Chicago travel 6000 miles by canoe. They followed the Mississippi Gulf coast Florida and up to Savannah then plan to reach New York for a canoeing course in May before returning home via the Hudson River.
Mr. A R Simmons, a farmer near Hope on the Centerville highway, displayed an unusually queer colored egg at his office Thursday. The egg, shaped like an ordinary egg, was said to have been laid by a White Rock hen and featured two distinct brown rings around its circumference. Simmons noted the hen is seven or eight years old and has been a good layer throughout her life.
KV. M. Cordell, 55, an accountant from El Dorado, Arkansas, collapsed on a Longview street at noon Friday. Heart disease is believed to have caused his death. Survivors include his widow and several children of 416 Oak Street, El Dorado. The body will be sent there for burial after a two day visit in Longview while collecting a business debt.
Porst Cobb Oklahoma resident Tennis Barris, 22, died from injuries after a fall while trying to board a moving Missouri Pacific freight train in Van Buren. His right leg was severed in the accident, authorities said.
A caravan of about 200 cars en route to Hot Springs for the Broadway of America Association national convention will be met near Hope Sunday afternoon by a city business committee and escorted through town. Cars expected by 4 pm, with a brief program at city hall if the motorcade stops. The convention begins Monday and Tuesday at Hot Springs. The group left San Diego and picked up cars along the route. The association promotes travel along a transcontinental route from New York to San Diego.
The Loreco sales force of Louisiana Oil Refining Co in Southwest Arkansas held a banquet in Hope at Hotel Barlow. J P Corniel of Little Rock presided, with F Wilkans and LS Fehlman from Little Rock, and S E Bundy of Hope. Local Loreco station owners P A Lewis C W Wellborn B L Wellborn L Fr Bundy and P H Cofield attended, along with Nashville managers W Westbrock and M Floyd, W A McLaughlin, and T C Floyd. Gordon and Prescott representatives also joined the event.
Tyler Texas C E Upchurch part owner of an oil well here died Saturday The death is the second fatality from a fire Friday at the companys oil tank J W Smith 35 off field worker died Friday night Kilgore area now totals six fatalities from Friday Orange Va President and Mrs Hoover arrived at Rapidan Camp after a motor trip from Washington Scotland Neck NC Robert House 28 Earl Bennett 22 farmers drowned in Roanoke River when a small boat capsized bodies recovered shortly after the tragedy
Four society women in Baltimore were robbed of jewels worth $50,000 as they returned from the opera. Two masked youths armed with a pistol took a $20,000 necklace among the loot. Victims included Miss Peggy Chew Stewart and Mr and Mrs Wilbur Miller with daughters Nancy Grace and Edith. Mr Miller is a chemical manufacturer.
Elliott Johnson, manager, announced Saenger theater matinees shift to 4 p m due to The Star free Cooking School from 1 30 to 3 30 each afternoon. The 4 p m run starts Monday April 20 and ends Friday April 24. This Saturday night features The Bat Whispers at 9 15 p m, with Sunday matinee to follow. Monday and Tuesday present Trader Horn, a 14 reel epic of the African jungle.
Bald Knob constable Willis Hobbs about 33 was killed by a prowler at the railroad yards Friday night. Deputy John Pollard and Hobbs confronted two suspects, one about 40 with a mustache, who fired before fleeing. A manhunt was issued for the two armed negroes as details of the incident emerged.
The Star presents Miss Rada Sue Garrett in a Memphis Co Appeal cooking school at the Saenger Theatre. Six thousand capacity over five performances with free admission. Garrett demonstrates kitchen techniques, menus, and budgeting for club women and brides to be, with lectures continuing in Nashville and Syracuse previously.
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