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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1936
Page
4
A reader notes Milwaukee and Evanston as models of safe cities while discussing clipping from the Columbus Dispatch. The piece praises Boy Scout leadership courses, woodcraft, and ethical teaching as vital to community strength and crime prevention, urging support for local scout troops and training programs.
The Arkansas Educational Association replies to critics of the state sales tax in a Pine Bluff Graphic letter printed in The Star. The group defends tax measures, explains postage, stationery and salary changes tied to funding, and asserts support for better teachers and resources amid public school concerns.
Five persons were killed and three others seriously injured in a two-truck and car collision on the New Orleans Baton Rouge highway near Lutcher Louisiana. There were no witnesses to the fatal crash and the vehicles burned.
Labor leaders quietly plan a wage increase campaign across industry after the tax bill becomes law. They argue that corporate surplus taxed under the new system will go to dividends rather than wages and press for using those funds to raise employee pay.
The Helio army paused operations near Sasa Baneh as tropical rains turned ground to mud. Northern columns pushed toward Addis Ababa along the imperial highway while Ethiopian troops, weary and undernourished, streamed into the capital from the north. Refugees crowded a camp outside Addis Ababa as soldiers awaited word on Haile Selassie's next move.
Brooklyn cab driver Harry Weiss, 28, held on 50000 bail on kidnapping and assault charges tied to disbarred New Jersey attorney Paul H. Wendell. Weiss implicated Gov. Harald G. Hoffman in the Lindbergh case, claiming connections to a supposed confession and a staged abduction in a widening scandal.
In Darmstadt Germany Nazi officials demanded a father rename his boy Lenin born in 1928. The father refused and the official then erased the name from records claiming a Bolshivik name was not admissible in the Reich.
Milwaukee's strict enforcement paired with traffic education and engineering has made it the safest large city in the nation. Five years of steady effort reduced the per capita traffic death rate to 10.8, with 65 fatalities in the latest year. Police crackdowns and a public, non-flashy safety campaign keep violators in court and deter future violations.
Complete returns from Tuesday's Massachusetts Republican presidential primary show Landon with 76 71 thousand votes, Hoover 7 214, Borah 43 142, Knox Ling 2 117, and Vandenberg 2 117. Landon leads as the results are tallied statewide.
William Hicks age 17 son of Mr and Mrs T F Hicks died Wednesday at his Washington Route Two home from heart disease. Funeral services at 2 p m Thursday at the family residence with burial in Westmoreland cemetery. Survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters.
Chester PA two men robbed the Express Agency on Wednesday, stealing a bag of 2,500 dollars consigned to the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia. The cashier Roy Tinney was knocked to the floor as the robbers escaped with the money. In Chengtu China 210 convicts released to fight a fire returned to their cells after quelling the blaze.
LITTLE ROCK reports Sheriff L B Branch defended Minnie Rose Jenkins claiming she had regular medical care while facing charges of poisoning three of her four children. Defense had argued she needed medical attention. In Alabama tear gas was used to disperse a courthouse crowd after Walter Miller, a black man, pleaded innocence in a murder assault case. In New York Mrs Anna Sage, the woman in red who lured Dillinger, sailed home aboard the President Harding to her homeland.
The Arkansas Democrat reported that Ed F. McDonald may announce a gubernatorial candidacy within 24 hours. McDonald’s supporters booked rooms in Little Rock for campaign activities, signaling a formal bid.
Dr G E Cannon has returned from Hot Springs where he attended a fracture clinic of the American College of Surgeons held with the state medical meeting. The clinic trained officers and others in care for accident injuries until a doctor or hospital could be reached.
The second baseball game of the season will be played at 3:40 p.m. Thursday between Atlanta Texas and the Williams Lumberjacks. Proceeds go to the Hope Boys band uniform fund after expenses. Band members will parade through downtown and play at intervals. Manager Lloyd Coop said Blackie Elliott would start against Avanta and announced lineup changes with Messer moving to third base and Coop out due to injuries.
Police in Budapest announced simultaneous raids across districts uncovering a Nazi plot to stage some pursuit around May 1. Eighteen Hungarian Nazi leaders were arrested, including deputy Zoltan Buszocmeny, national movement chief.
The finance committee considers a tax on corporations to raise funds for relief costs and overhaul the system. The major feature is the tax proposal, with the secretary set to testify before the Senate at the first public hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The meeting notes from the Parent-Teachers association report a training course for scout leaders. Scout Exec Robert Elliott invites all men interested in scout leadership to attend the session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the high school.
Bett Harris, a jailed African American, was shot twice during an attempted escape at the city jail. Doctors reported possible liver infection risk. outcome to be decided within 48 hours at Josephine hospital. Fannie Hill, shot in Saratoga, returned home after treatment. Vincent Hopkins remains hospitalized with two bullet wounds.
In Pennsylvania Roosevelt led with 138,916 votes to Breckinridge’s 13,499 as 1,385 of 7,933 districts reported. Borah ran unopposed in the Republican preferentials with about 54,020. Bosey Pene Jr. won the Republican nomination in the Fourth district, defeating George W. Edmonds and facing J. Burrwood Daly in the general election.
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