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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1933
Page
2
The plan urges applying municipal power plant revenues to Hope's social resources and streets and alleys sanitation. It backs the Chamber of Commerce and a county program for all weather roads. It calls for state highway progress, tax reform, and a budget based government.
A reflective piece recalls Samuel Insull and family profiting 25 million dollars from a paper deal in the 1920s boom era. It argues such get rich quick tricks harmed the economy and warns against repeating them after the stock crash and today. The author urges restraint until a new era of genuine prosperity returns.
The article blasts a U S customs order to ban photographs of Michelangelo frescoes in the Sistine Chapel as obscene. It credits Assistant Solicitor Brewer with reversing the move and saving face for inspectors who faced widespread mockery for the blunder.
The piece argues for continued protection around the president and president-elect, noting the inevitability of risks from deluded attackers. It emphasizes the need for vigilant security measures, citing recent events in Miami as justification for safeguards.
Quote from T Taketomi in Washington swears a U S of Asia would include Japan China Manchuria. Also a crime writer Coe condemns police as corrupt after many city department contacts.
Twenty five years ago Dick Hamm was shaking hands with his Hope friends Saturday. P. C. Stephens of Blevins was in town Monday. John Finley was in from his Bois d'Arc plantation today.
Coulter Lipscomb left yesterday for a visit to his sister Mrs. Allen Garri son at Brownstown. Miss Frances Reed has gone to Tex arkana for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Randolph Crutchfield and son Charles will leave tomorrow for Houston Texas. R L Broach Jr a student in the Little Rock school of Pharmacy is spending a few days with homefolks here.
Former Vice President Charles G. Dawes testified to the Senate stock market committee that his Chicago bank loaned about 12 million dollars to Insull, a key exposure preceding the fall of a vast financial empire. The testimony outlined a dramatic sequence of high finance linked to Insull’s empire.
Janet and her fiancé Rolf celebrate her birthday with a dinner at home and a later theater outing. Rolf hints at news but delays sharing it, leaving Janet unsure and anxious about tomorrow when an old friend may keep him away. Mollie Lambert visits next door with a cold as Janet worries over the unspoken reveal.
Witnesses describe the Insull utility group’s downfall after a secret New York bankers meeting. General Electric’s Owen D Young explains 2 million in loans to Insull and the 9 million loan moved to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The testimony covers collateral, standstill efforts, and bank concerns over Insull’s solvency.
Akron reports Paul W. Litchfield, rubber magnate and Zeppelin head, predicts a 36 hour airship link between Los Angeles and Honolulu. He also foresees a six day service to the Philippine Islands and a possible later span to Japan and China with ties to major American steamship lines in the Pacific.
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