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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1934
Page
4
An excerpted local column extols the Hope library as a vital community hub. It highlights volunteer support, membership drives, and the library’s role during unemployment, urging readers to join and gift memberships. Also listed are upcoming events and visits from residents and guests.
Official approval of a perpetual endowment program for Ouachita College was announced. The plan aims to retire obligations, grow the endowment, and steadily improve the campus, with leaders including Cornelius Caper and J. Lou Porter coordinating from Arkadelphia and Parkin.
The article details Plymouths 1935 redesign with sloped windshield, moved motor, forward rear seat, lower floor for headroom, and new 82 horsepower engine with extended cooling. It notes a front window ventilation system, removal of automatic clutch and freewheeling, and a synchro mesh transmission promising improved performance. In other items, a long illness ends with return home, and local society notes list D A R and Woman’s Missionary Society meetings with officer installations and hostesses.
Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of state, urged creating a federal institute for criminology and law administration training. He argued for clear support for training and research, whether as a degree granting academy or by coordinating existing units, to combat sentimentalism and delays in the justice system. He criticized bail, appellate delays, and the weak system that lets convicted criminals be released on appeal.
Erickson, 63, showed little reaction to tests and is serving life for murdering his wife. Schmidt faces an offense against a young girl. The tubercular serum and bacilli are given to two other convicts and may be extended to additional prisoners.
Winter sun is weak for children and vitamin D is needed to prevent rickets and build bones. Calcium phosphorus and vitamin A are highlighted with McKyesan’s or Cop Liver Om products and cod liver oil. The ad urges regular use to reduce colds and boost vitality, promising better growth and resistance.
City property tax rates rose in 217 large U.S. cities by an average 26 cents on the 1933 to 1934 comparison, with 105 cities higher and 81 lower. Valuations fell 64 percent since 1933, guiding Righter’s view that taxes may yield steadier local government despite higher rates.
Chicago reports farm incomes rising with four staples wheat hogs cotton showing steep gains. Prices averaged 154 percent higher than two years ago and 51 percent higher than one year earlier, underscoring a major factor in the harvest outlook.
About 12 men volunteered for the tests. Physicians at the National Jewish hospital tested the serum on animals before asking Governor Johnson last spring if they could administer it to 10 convicts. Doctors said it was solely a preventive and not a cure for tuberculosis.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economies forecasts cash farm income to total about 6 billion dollars in 1934, up from 4.303 billion in 1932, aided by sharp gains in Chicago futures for wheat corn and cotton. Despite crop losses farmers may still see about 240 million more in cash value from reduced yields, says Nat C. Murray.
Washington report notes calls at the National Crime Conference opening led by Attorney General Cummings for harsher action against crooked lawyers in criminal cases. President Roosevelt was slated to keynote. proposals include abolition of private lawyers in criminal cages and a system of state defense. The Negro Godfe llaws club said it would canvass for funds to aid needy Black children at Christmas, with a committee coordinating donations of money, food, and clothing to identified families.
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