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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1938
Page
4
Barcelona suffered its heaviest insurgent air raid in months with estimates of around 20 killed and 100 wounded. Dispatches cite three dawn waves of planes as a prelude to a major campaign to end the war before winter. In Zurich, reports say Negrin and the insurgent envoy in London may have met, though Swiss officials doubt it.
John J. O'Connor, Democrat of New York, denounces the Roosevelt purge as an attack on Congress and a step toward dictatorship. He urges the nation to resist, calls the effort the unabsolvable sin, and warns that concentrating power in the executive would abolish legislative independence. He notes the president’s rhetoric and stresses representative accountability to the people.
LITTLE ROCK Garland and Perry counties officials and many citizens urged clemency for Draper, a 29 year old Perry county farmer once sentenced to die for the slaying of Tom Menser. The State Parole Board recommended clemency and Governor Bailey granted a full pardon. Roy House, who died in the electric chair in 1936, confessed before execution that he alone was responsible for the crime.
Paul Criss world champion wood chopper cut a 12 inch log in half with eight strokes and shaved a man with the same axe Tuesday at Okolona at Forest Festival events in Unit Six of the Arkansas Forestry Commission. DeGray defeated Arkadelphia 8 to 2 in a baseball game as part of the festival.
A guide asks if high school emblem wear is appropriate for college entrants and outlines etiquette for rushees and hosts. It covers asking for recommendations, inviting sorority members to parties, making good impressions, and handling party-date requests with options to accept, decline, or provide no explanation.
Senator Miller is slated to attend soil conservation public meetings in Prescott Experiment Station and Lewisville on August 26. The event centers on forming Terre Rouge and Bodenw Creek Watershed District to fund and supervise soil improvement with federal aid, without new taxes, and with a nationwide referendum for landowners to approve district formation. If not organized, CCC camp and Hope Soil Conservation work face reductions and closure.
Grand Rapids report states Otis J Meredith 21 of St Louis died from gunshot wounds after fleeing officers who sought to question him about the kidnapping of Mirs Peagy Gross and Daniel C Fahey. Article notes 489 new Kansas oil wells completed in early 1938 with potential production around 621,333 barrels daily.
A brief quotation noting that among God’s attributes equality remains but shines brighter than justice, attributed to Cervantes, highlighting a reflective religious/philosophical sentiment.
William stars in a three part series by Philip Godsell on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Officers track a Yukon murder ring hooking gold miners, with O'Brien and accomplices luring victims for their dust. The pursuit spans Dawson to Seattle and Idaho routes, ending with a trail of clues and arrests.
Rome reports Premier Mussolini flew to Pantelleria Island, Italy's Mediterranean stronghold near Malta, returning after a 70 mile round trip at 180 mph. The move aims to showcase Italy's strength as Britain’s shipping lifeline and France and Britain relations strain over Spain. La Tribuna called Pantelleria a potent symbol of indomitable Mediterranean power and Fascist press hailed the flight as Mussolini’s longest and a display of Italy’s greatness.
LITTLE ROCK James L Bland secretary to Governor Bailey announced the appointment by the State Board of Conservation of J Alton Sims employed by the Speard In the Shuler and Miller county oil fields as assistant state conservation agent Sims succeeds Lee J Timberlake of Texarkana
Witness Alvin L. Halpern testified Friday to a house committee on un American activities alleging Representatives O Connell of Montana and Bernard of Minnesota gave a regular communistic salute after addressing hundreds of youths in Spain. He said the congressmen spoke at the Pillars hospital dedication in Benicasim while he served with the Spanish Loyalist army.
Edgar B. Dunlap, aide to Senator Walter F. George, was fired as Georgia lawyer for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation at the request of FC general counsel Claude B. Mamitton Jr. His resignation follows friction over Dunlap's campaigning for George and pressure from New Dealer Lawrence Camp.
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the Washington county seat removal election contest must be tried in Hope. E F McFaddin told the Rotary club that about 1,000 votes are involved with 400 in Hope and 600 outside. He and colleagues have worked two weeks without pay and urge each citizen to donate time, a car, and help contacting voters as the contest opens Monday at Hope city hall with Circuit Judge Dexter Bush presiding.
Baltimore reports judge sentences Barbara Bird, wife of Charles Bird, to 30 days for being an accessory to one of her husband’s seven holdups in recent weeks. The case ties her to the Midwest desperado.
In Spring Grove Iowa a petrified bone found 25 feet deep in a Bravel pit has been identified by geologists as a mastodon fragment from the prehistoric era about 100000 years old.
Cranton Crackers presents a garbled quiz item with multiple incomplete phrases. The first asks Gulliver's first name, another notes Finland's capital, a film star death in Paris, a geometry term, and a misheard regional phrase.
London protests the Gestapo arrest of Captain Thomas Kendrick, British passport officer in Vienna, at the German Swiss border. Sir Neville Henderson sought a full, speedy explanation as Kendrick and his wife prepared to vacation journey. Kendrick’s wife could return to Vienna. Meanwhile in Prague Premier Hodza outlined options to placate Sudeten German autonomy demands.
Two men were electrocuted at the state penitentiary in Huntsville Texas Colan H Morgan of El Paso was the first to die after being convicted of killing his wife with a soda bottle during a card game Jesse Polance was the second man executed also for murder during a holdup involving a bus driver.
In New York, Joseph Ison testified in the James J. Hines conspiracy case that funds given to the Dutch Schultz mob were going to the Jimmy Hines club. Julius Williams, returned to jail as a material witness after repudiating a sworn statement linking Hines to the policy syndicate head, amid four days of testimony and claims of threats from a Dewey aide.
The New Orleans cotton market opened Friday at 32 dollars and closed at 42 dollars, with quiet trading and a nine point spread. The middling grade 837 is noted in the day’s closing report.
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