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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1935
Page
3
A reader from Fulton, Ark, typifies rural anger at road policy, accusing editor of bias and calling for gravel roads over concrete. The editor defends editorial stance, notes past tax shifts for road funding, and asserts a public safety aim, urging compliance with Hempstead stock laws and consideration of public funding for fencing.
Nevada county to conduct tuberculin testing for jowlteum valves under law. C D Stubbs and H Still announce dates across townships including Sanders Rosston and Prescott. Tests are compulsory with multiple sites and times from April 28 to May 12, featuring listed inspectors and locations to ensure compliance.
Governor Fu trell learned that the Public Works Administration approved the loan to finish the new state hospital at Benson. Deputy admin Fleming telegrammed he was satisfied conditions were met and funds would be advanced promptly. With the contract set, construction could speed up once the requisition for funds is prepared by the construction committee.
PRESCOTT Ark At an adjourned term of Nevada county circuit court Caleb Young a Negro aged pleaded guilty to assault to kill Pomp Whitesides a watchman at the local FERA office last January and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary Whitesides has recovered Dewey Hampton 10 a Negro pleaded guilty to firing on Deputy Sheriff Horace Hale when the officer attempted to arrest him last winter and was sentenced to one to five years in the Negro Boys Industrial School Jack and Dick Martin and Ray Hendricks Prescott mechanics were discharged when Prosecuting Attorney Ned Stewart dismissed indictments charging them with robbing the J M Stripling Sons warehouse here two years ago State witnesses failed to appear at the last two terms of court
The Associated Press report shows the Ways and Means Committee discusses a revision to the NRA extension bill limiting it to interstate business. Some Democratic members favor striking the interstate scope. Rep Sam Hill notes possible committee meeting later this week to decide timing.
Fred Blink, a midlife farmer, was executed at the state penitentiary on Tuesday for the murder of John Hampton and four others with a shotgun near Fulton last September. The case highlighted a deadly spree in a rural area, with Blink identified as the killer in multiple homicides.
Arkansas House Speaker Harve Thorn on Tuesday said a million dollar loan for refunding state indebtedness could remove the need for a sales tax. He plans to press Washington for support, seeking a solution to fund schools without new tax.
Washington UP The Bankhead bill to create from 500000 to 3000000 tenant farmers independent farm owners survived a Senate test.
A county wide landscaping meeting will be held at the Frain and Truck Branch Experiment Station on Friday April 26 from 2 40 to 3 p m under the Hope Garden Club. The program features Mrs K G McRae G W Ware and L A Henry with demonstrations on plant growing cultivation pruning spraying and disease control. Nevada County plant identification contest prizes will go to those identifying the most shrubs. The event is open to the public and all interested observers are urged to attend.
A father Preacher Walker and his son Arlis Walker were arrested near Centerville on charges of stealing chickens. The son confessed implicating his father who allegedly disposed of the birds. Officers Reginald Bearden and R. O. Robins led the investigation after complaints by Mao and Emma Campbell. A Sunday raid on Carl Reese’s Hope Rosston road coop and a break in at A C Monts Rocky Mound smokehouse yielded missing chickens and meat.
A Japanese destroyer carries doctors and supplies toward quake struck Formosa where 250000 homeless lack water as destruction of pipelines and reservoirs devastates a 2000 square mile area. Death toll rises to 3150 with injured and inaccessible districts delaying reports while relief from Japan and foreign sources pours in.
EDGEWATER PARK MISS Henry Steagall chairman of the banking and currency committee told Louisiana Bankers Association at their annual convention that there will be no inflation He predicted President Roosevelt would be renominated and urged restoration of independent community banks as the backbone of the economy saying they failed only as the country failed and criticizing larger institutions.
Major Hoople writes on the coming race between Dreadnaught and McNulty's nag. He recalls Man o War vs Sir Barton in 1920 at Kenilworth Park Windsor Ontario, notes track speed, prize money, and a $350 bet by Jake. He prefers Dreadnaught and plans to join the Owls Club engagement.
ALAMEDA CALIF. Pan American Clipper accelerates toward completion of the first California Hawaii round trip test flight. The plane rose easily at Honolulu, then climbed to 500 feet over Ford Island as 3,000 gallons of gasoline fueled its four engines. Sirens drew residents to watch the big white ship pass.
Chevrolet Motor Company officials shut the Toledo plant on Tuesday, laying off 2,340 workers as United Automobile Workers members walked out over a disputed shop agreement. The strike follows the company’s rejection of the union’s demand for concessions.
California lawmakers weighed options on taxing the film industry amid warnings from producers. Assemblyman Frank LaVin urged a feature film tax measure, while Republican Geoffrey Murphy signaled hesitation and would not press the matter.
Hempstead County farms totaled 5,280 on January 1 this year, up from 4,781 in 1930, a 104 percent increase. The figures were released by Okey E. Westfall of Camden, supervisor of the 1935 farm census, in a press note to The Star. officials say figures are preliminary and may be corrected.
A mid-gallon capacity still with three barrels of mash was found a mile and a half south of the L and IA water bank and destroyed Sunday by Sheriff Jin Beardyns forces. The operation had been watched for two days and nights. Deputies Reginald Bearden R O Robins and Hugh Bearden led the raid.
President Roosevelt endorsed a tripling of Civilian Conservation Corps forces to fight soil erosion. The White House announced plans to unfold the full administrative setup of the work relief program, with the president supervising a division of responsibility among agencies.
The American Legion rejected compromise proposals and urged full cash payment of veterans bonuses. An organization spokesman before the Senate Finance Committee pressed for the enactment of the Legion bill over Harrison or Patman plans. Secretary Morgenthau noted any present bonus would require extra expenditures and taxes.
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