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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1933
Page
3
Editorial examines the cotton acreage reduction plan with expected cash and debt relief for Hempstead county farmers before mid-summer. It questions poll tax voting for the July 18 special election and cites state law on the 18th amendment repeal. Also notes East Third Street improvements and recent chug hole repairs near the Bennett highway.
The third in a four part NEA dispatch details how the return of legal beer affects central states Indiana Ohio Wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois. Indiana reports thriving beer traffic tax revenues and 718 licensed brewers employees rising payroll and expansions. Ohio issues over 12 000 permits and collects about 1 329 150 in fees plus a 50 000 barrel tax with new breweries opening and more jobs. Wisconsin celebrates with Armistice Day style celebrations and Milwaukee breweries flood markets while tax income tops 500 000 in two months. Illinois battles defective law and Chicago racketeering as lawmakers tighten provisions and seek to curb loopholes. The report notes diminished bootlegging and rising industry employment across the region.
Pine Bluff Ark. Bill Carr arrives home from Pennsylvania to a commemorative album honoring his 1932 Los Angeles Olympic participation. The German Olympic club hosted the gift featuring Carr’s 400 meter run, presented while he recovered from broken ankles in a Philadelphia hospital, ending his big track career.
Washington reports a 30 cent per bushel wheat tax to go into effect at midnight. Bread prices are expected to rise nationwide next week as the levy funds cash benefits to farmers for reducing wheat acreage in 1934 and 1935. Secretary Ickes proposes regional public works directors to disburse federal advances, replacing per-state administrators with 10 to 12 regional directors and state advisory boards.
Editor N P O Neal vows no injunction against the drys while warning the public that wets will not obey the law. He cites a forthcoming list of bootleggers and saloon activity, urging readers to recall past harms and to scrutinize church petitions backing anti prohibition efforts.
Little Rock case involves Q. E. Tapley holding old road district bonds and security held by the district bank. Governor Furrell and the state bond refunding board are named in the suit challenging act 17 of 1939, which groups highway obligations into one class for new two percent bonds. The chancery court upheld the refunding act, and Tapley has appealed to the state supreme court before the summer recess.
Washington signals strong White House push to repeal the 18th Amendment with Postmaster General Farley urging Governor Laffoon to include a repeal convention in a Kentucky special session. He argues 37 to 40 states are likely to vote this year and predicts ratification if Kentucky acts now. Continued on page three.
Jimmy Mattern escaped unharmed after a forced landing in the Siberian wastes during his solo world flight. Fragmentary reports from the northern Pacific rim via Moscow and San Francisco, relayed by the Coast Guard ship Northland, cite engine trouble and a demolished ship in one dispatch but a continued flight after engine replacement in another. A rescue expedition planned to reach Anadyr to pick up Mattern after delays at Terrace, British Columbia.
Talbot Feild a well known local insurance agent and former lumber employer has a temporary appointment in constructing Mt. Nebo State Park in northern Arkansas He will serve as a cultural foreman in charge of timber selection His brother W Terry Petit won the post of park superintendent The assignment requires an engineer and Feild will leave Hope for Mt Nebo next week
Marked Tree Pi Tom Flake a 32 year old truck driver for a Fort Smith and North Little Rock auto accessories firm was killed when his machine collided with an ice truck near here on Saturday. The other driver Harry Barnes of Jonesboro was slightly injured.
The 18th Amendment advocacy tour arrives in Arkansas with Sergeant Alvin G. York to speak at Oglesby school yard in Hope at 4 PM on Monday July 10. Accompanying York are Dr E O Heath and Miss Lurline Moody with chaperone Mrs L H Bradley. The itinerary lists multiple Arkansas cities from July 8 to 12 including Forrest City Helena Wynne Jonesboro Paragould Walnut Ridge Newport Batesville Little Rock Hot Springs Malvern Arkadelphia Prescott Hope Texarkana Camden El Dorado Warren Monticello Pine Bluff Conway Morristown Russellville Clarksville Ozark Fort Smith.
Kempstead county holds its annual singing event at Union Grove church on July 16. Union Grove lies three and a half miles east of Blevins and one mile south of Highway 24. Basket luncheon will be served. The public is invited.
Hempstead voters will decide three items on July 18, while Act 78 is delayed until November 1944 due to Secretary of State certification rules. The ballot will include the election of a chief justice, a Sixth district chancellor, and the repeal or retention of the 18th federal amendment.
Murfreesboro Arkansas dedicates a 90,000 bridge across the Little Missouri two miles south of town. More than 4,100 attendees heard Lieut. Gov. Lee Cazort propose the name. The platform used timbers from the first bridge and the structure spans 666 1/2 feet along Highway 27.
Washington reports indicate a government program to reduce cotton acreage by up to 30 percent aims to lower production across 16 states. President Roosevelt supports extended contract signings, with payments and options on government held cotton to be offered to growers, targeting at least a 3 million bale reduction.
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