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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1934
Page
4
A Hope audience hears charges about the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases amid a gubernatorial campaign. The piece notes the asylum’s baseball team and free movie shows, disputes retirement of amusements, and questions a Kingsland burial money claim. Hospital officials deny wrongdoing and invite precise accusations for investigation.
Arkansas endures another day of extreme heat with 100 plus temperatures while storms wreck buildings and uproot trees in Pike county. Two injured when a school collapsed near Ashdown. Heavy rain in Glenwood and other towns adds to distress as the heat toll rises nationally with dozens of deaths reported.
The Star published list omitted previously is now confirmed. Centerville Box judges are Charles Sanders Carl Richards Tom Greghorn with clerks D M Collier G A Linaker. sheriff Bud Allen. Ozan Box judges Wilbur Jones J W Gist Karl King. clerks J Green W C Lewis. sheriff Sam Carrigan.
Berlin reports Chancellor Adolf Hitler ordered amnesty for thousands of political prisoners and those with minor offenses. The move, linked to the August plebiscite, frees detainees with limited sentences and no prior record, including insults to Hitler, as a first step to boost public support though exact numbers remain undetermined.
Babe Ruth told reporters in a Boston hotel room before Friday's Yankees vs Red Sox game that he would definitely be through as a regular player at season's end. He expressed a desire to stay in baseball as a manager and perhaps pinch hit on weekends while hoping to finish the year with the Yankees and reach the World Series.
Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher addressed the Illinois GOP at a Springfield convention on the hotest day in history. He attacked Democratic policies, criticized the NRA and AAA, and warned against unchecked spending while urging farmers’ interests be guarded and government finances reevaluated. Fletcher urged a tougher stance on crop controls and federal programs, arguing for sound economic practices.
Broadway of America and Hope plan a joint goodwill program on KTHS Hat Springs next Monday from 6:00 to 6:36 PM. Gus Bernier and Mrs. Ralph Routon organize acts with Albert Graves giving a civic address. Watermelon will be served. Tom Nobles extended the invitation. program features violin, piano, duets, talk, dramatic reading, and vocal pieces by local artists.
OSSINING N Y Mrs Ana Antonio a 29 year old mother sat to death in Sing Sing electric chair after claiming innocence of a $ 5 000 life insurance murder of her husband. She declared she had nothing on her conscience and prayed with a priest as matrons watched. Governor Lehman defended equal punishment by sex saying justice must be definite and certain. A day earlier officials noted the long sentences for other related cases.
Former President Herbert Hoover marked his 60th birthday with a simple celebration at his Palo Alto residence. In Washington, Hugh S Johnson told NRA workers that a Blue Eagle staff reduction is needed. In Little Rock Ole Pack, 33, a department store tea room manager, was found dead from self-inflicted poison. coroner C Aday ruled suicide. The War Department announced $160,000 for locks and dams on the Ouachita River between Arkansas and Louisiana.
Hempstead county candidates wrap up their speaking tour with an all day Saenger theater rally on Monday. W S Atkins candidate for congress in the Seventh Arkansas district will close the night with a speech. The day runs 10 am to 6 pm with parades by Stamps and Hope bands at 6 pm.
Final arrangements by manager Swanke name five judges to count last week and prior weeks votes. Jurors include Roy Anderson, C. C. Lewis, Geo. W. Robison & Co., Mrs. Frank Hicks, Walter Caereon, and the Saenger manager. The winner receives a Hollywood trip, hat from L. C. Burr Co, and pumps from Geo. W. Robison. Ballot box to be locked Saturday night and counted Sunday afternoon.
Rotarians and Kiwanians of Hope host a joint fish fry and meeting at Fair Park Friday at 6 30 pm. The stag event expects about 25 members from each club with fish coffee cornbread and pickles. Terrel Cornelius and Sid Bundy note the refreshment contingency.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration plans to abandon its crop reduction program in 1935, a decision seen as temporary. Grain prices rose to their highest since 1930 as buyers and futures trading accelerated, signaling a renewed bull market. Officials acknowledge political risks if reductions persist amid lower supplies and forecast another drought year could require full use of all acres.
New Orleans officials reveal Mrs. Carl Fisher of Jefferson Parish, former first vice president of the Louisiana Democratic Association Women’s Division, testified before a federal grand jury investigating income taxes amid Huey P. Long era political strife. Fisher is related to the Fisher faction and acted as an attaché to the Levee Board. Her disclosure followed testimony by Mike Moss, longtime Long ally, who arrived from Arizona with federal investigators.
MEMPHIS Tenn. With the death of Mrs Viola Halstead here Friday the death toll from a Thursday train automobile collision rose to eight. Barney Waterbury was the sole survivor of a party en route to Wolf River Beach when their car was struck by a Louisville and Nashville train.
New York October cotton fell 19 points on Friday to close 1363-64, a 9 percent drop per bale. December closed at 13.76, January 13.81, March 13.92, while New York spats at 13.75 amid scattered market quotes. The report lists produce items such as hens, roosters, broilers and eggs with uncertain prices and weights.
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