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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
4
Senator Robinson questioned the Supreme Court wage and hour issues and hinted at a possible court berth. President Roosevelt reiterated a 60 year age limit for federal posts, likely blocking Robinson’s path to the Supreme Court. The policy means a New Deal influence over federal judges for years.
A short aphorism attributed to Willis argues that no temptation can excuse sin, presenting a moral reflection on restraint and accountability.
Paragould Arkansas report shows the Arkansas Baptist convention racing to finish a debt relief campaign before a flood threat isolates the area The drive was only 31800 short of its 1 million dollar goal and note holders offered 30 cents on the dollar reducing the remaining debt to 450000 The convention extended the campaign briefly and elected Rev Edgar Williams as state director of Sunday school work Telegraph Messenger boys in Oklahoma City received white rain capes for safety.
The Kiwanis Club installed officers Tuesday at the Capitol Hotel with a Ladies Night program led by RB V Herndon. Carroll Thibault administered the ceremony. Rev Bert Webb gave the invocation. Leo Tauer hosted the program. dinner followed as members and guests enjoyed songs and contests.
The council adopted a motion to require parallel parking on Second Street near the L and A tracks. Trucks are banned from parking there. Sections will be painted as weather allows to ease traffic. A sidewalk project from Ritchie Grocer to Pine Street was sent to committee. The meeting was led by Alderman Kenneth G. Hamilton in Mayor Graves absence.
MEMPHIS Tenn floods threaten the Mississippi levee system as engineers bolster defenses amid record high stages. Heavy rains close four highways and flood areas in Arkansas, with refugee tents in short supply and rainfall pushing January totals toward a decade high.
NASHVILLE Tenn Now that we've decided to build a few battleships to discourage any nation from having a nation this country would be as easy to take as Ethiopia was We might figure in an ark or so just in case it keeps on raining in the Middle West We've got to save our horses and mules to make a crop this year so the boll weevils and grasshoppers will have something to play with and with President Roosevelt all fixed up for the next four years and so many people going off relief about all the New Dealers have to worry about this week is the rise in automobile tire prices That means when you have a crash it will cost more.
LITTLE ROCK The house approved 92 to 6 a Coffelt Saline county resolution to submit a constitutional amendment in 1938 to abolish the poll tax for voting. The measure would let the legislature levy a per capita tax not over one dollar on each person over 21, replacing lost revenue. Taylor Clarksville introduced a senate bill to tax life, accident and health insurance companies at 2 percent gross premium. Civil Service Favored LITTLE ROCK The senate special civil service committee backed the state civil service bill and sent it to the senate with a recommendation to pass without amendment. Some members want to strike a sub-section guaranteeing continued state employment until laid off for inefficiency. Featherstone Murfreesboro offered, then withdrew, an amendment to remove it. Continues on page three.
In Hempstead circuit court at Washington on Thursday the sheriff was ordered to investigate reports that L. L. Middlebrooks, of Patmos, fled to Louisiana to tend to a sick child after failing to appear for his arson trial. Judge Dexter Bush deferred sentences for three co defendants, Bailey Springs, Woodard Breed and Joe Lowthorp, all of Hope, and Herman Cooper, a Hope resident, pleaded guilty to murder.
Cotton trading in New Orleans opened Thursday at 12.39 and closed at 12.39 40. Spot cotton finished steady two points higher with middling at 13.00.
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