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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1934
Page
4
Margaret Marshall returns from Texas trip while many residents visit relatives in Oklahoma City Little Rock and Malvern. Funeral for G Morton Milburn held in Little Rock with interment in Fayetteville. Numerous social visits noted including house guests from Louisville and Dallas and a bridal breakfast in honor of Mrs. Brouch. A newborn boy joins the Russell family at Julia Chester Hospital.
Clyde Henley, wounded in a St Joe shooting, suspects his fugitive cousin Leland Henley fled Arkansas after a Tucker farm furlough. A cryptic postcard to Governor Futrell from Youngstown Ohio prompted a police appeal. The Barnett Henley feud intensified after a bush battle and a killing in Marshall Arkansas.
Washington reports the Farm Administration plans to abandon the proposed marketing agreement for cotton ginners after repeated talks failed to sway their demand for minimum ginning charges. Dozens of hearings across the belt yielded little concession as ginners seek guarantees for costs, while officials argue farmers receive no production cost guarantees. Proposed maximum charges varied by state from 35 to 40 cents per hundredweight or hundredweight depending on region.
Mrs. B. M. Vestal aged 68, formerly of Hope, died at her Los Angeles home after an illness of several months. Survived by husband three sons Jon Vestal of Fine Bluff Lloyd Vestal of Port Arthur Grady Vestal of La Habra and daughter Mrs Dale Viar of Lamesa and sister Mrs Eugene Simpson of Rosston. Funeral and burial will be in Los Angeles.
Washington report on the baking industry moving under NRA code with 25 000 bakeries affected and wage hours and trade rules. Hugh S Johnson cites keen competition and many establishments limiting price harms while Karl Hauels named to study costs and prices amid potential price effects.
A film column discusses John Boles and Margaret in a wartime romance, the shock of unrecognized marriage, and a child, with notes on Timmy Cagney and Joan Blondell in He Was Her Man. It surveys how unmarried love on screen might warp youth morals and cites Norma Shearer and critics in Chicago.
In Baton Rouge a factional House showdown over outsiders led Representative Bauer to invoke a rule restricting non-members. Huey P Long faced distance from the rail as Gov. Allen observed and Ellender ordered guards to curb disruptions during debate on a bill altering election by the New Orleans Board of Supervisors of Elections.
Principal Richard Milburn of Hope High School left Sunday for Fayetteville to attend the funeral there Tuesday of his father G. Morton Milburn 64 who died in New Orleans Saturday night of a heart attack. Milburn is survived by his wife Rebecca Milburn four sons Bryant Milburn of Fort Leavenworth Kan J B Milburn of Little Rock Frank Milburn of Gravette and Richard Milburn of Hope one daughter Mrs Frank Kramer of Hattiesburg Miss and one sister Mrs Herbert Montague of St Louis.
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