16 Feb 1931
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1931
Page
1
The Star outlines municipal power plant measures to develop local resources and improve sanitary conditions in back yards. A Chamber of Commerce program aims to build an all weather road yearly, reducing economic burdens and promoting practical agricultural benefits. The cooperative movement and county grants are highlighted as crucial to Hempstead County’s development efforts.
As the session heads into its final month, proposals to raise taxes and fund education and road work dominate the scene. Supporters push for gasoline, cigarette, sales, and electric taxes to fund textbooks and bonds while Star opposes all measures, arguing higher taxes burden citizens and sacrifice sound finance. Critics warn such taxes, tied to perpetual bonds and local utilities, would linger for a generation, risking fiscal restraint and prudent governance.
In Chicago a brutal mayoral race unfolds with insults from both candidates. Mayor Big Bill Thompson brands challenger Judge John H. Lyle as nutty and a charlatan, while Lyle retorts the mayor is a blustering fool. The quarrel highlights a City Hall culture of loud rhetoric over thoughtful policy.
Washington report notes Major General Smethey Butler of the Marines may run for the Senate in Pennsylvania in 1932 against Senator James J. Davis, with Governor Gifford Pinchot as a potential backer. Pinchot offered a cabinet post in Harrisburg which Butler declined, amid rivalries between Pinchot and Davis supporters. The piece compares Hoover and Butler as prominent Quakers, and discusses Mussolini criticism and Navy court martial decisions surrounding Butler.
In New Britain Connecticut a court heard testimony blaming a crime on influence from a film. The defendant Mierezjewski described how a moving picture inspired his actions.
A miscellany of items includes orange berets forecast for men s spring wear, Chaplin set to act pantomime in a new sound picture, and notes on the Wickersham report promising strong winter sales. A California horse swallows a $500 diamond and a domestic dispute ending with a shot leads to a $10 fine for the man involved.
A police dog named Aldor saved six occupants including two children from a two family house blaze in Syracuse New York but succumbed to asphyxiation after becoming trapped. The heroic dog died during the effort as residents escaped to safety.
An advertisement-style notice claims Adlerika relieves stomach gas in ten minutes by cleaning both upper and lower bowels. It features a dramatic wife claim about scaring her husband at night and urges readers to choose Adlerika for a real cleansing, referencing a John 5. Gibson drug company.
Names of residents and visitors appear including Capt. W. H. White of Precott and W. Y. Foster visiting Mamiptiis, Dan Harkness from Fulton, A. Wise returning from San Angelo and Colorado, Texas, and Hope. W. My Corneling, manager of Hope Candridge and Furniture Co, on a Memphis business trip. Dry Frank Mueller geologist in Hope four weeks studying local strata. W. E. Porterfield from Little Rock in town. Charles Shiver and Mrs. Shiver in Little Rock for Shrine Minstrels. Mrs. George Spragins in Little Rock brief stay. Leta Moses celebrated a birthday. Mrs. Gladine Bennett Morris returns from business school in Paling, Texas.
A local campaign in Buffalo New York launches the Household Helper Employment Plan to place unemployed women in jobs, modeled after a national Man A Block effort. The plan has Mayor Charles A. Roesch's endorsement and aims to create work for women through household helper assignments.
Lovely women praise a new face cream by exclusive French process. MELLO GLO lasts longer, pre vents large pores, leaves skin smooth and fine, blends with any complexion for a fresh youthful bloom. No irritation or dry, and never flaky. John P. Cox Drug Co. and Geo. W Robison Department Store Ady.
In La Rochelle, France, film and theatre creators protest new mayor Loonee Vieljeux who has styled himself censor of all cinemas and playhouses. He claims to require his approval director Hening to sign off on every play and film before showing. An appeal has been made to the government.
Paris report says Gaston Doumergue plans a final voyage before his term ends in June. He will sail from Toulon in April on a modern French cruiser with ministers, passing Sardinia to Tunis for five days. The trip follows a heated Franco Italian dispute over colonial rights.
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