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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1932
Page
1
The state returns show hempstead county's second quarter gas tax share at 2724.24 and a yearly total near 10896.96 as the county judges face a general decline after the tax increases. Local returns rely on county area population and registrations with no special cut.
Hempstead county youths ages 15 to 20 must file 1500 word essays by Friday July 15. Essays must be bailed and postmarked before midnight to compete for a $50 Kiwanis prize and eight merchandise awards. winners to be announced next week.
Reports from Sao Paulo say Pedro de Toledo has resigned as head of Sao Paulo’s federal government and been installed as leader of the revolutionary government. The federal structure was overthrown after a rebellion by two regiments of the state militia with added support from more units.
The U S Bureau of Internal Revenue collected 443 839 544 98 in liquor taxes in 1918 before prohibition. The Prohibition Bureau budget for 1932 33 is expected to run 11 369 500 for salaries expenses and local enforcement costs.
Hempstead coroner Dr J H Weaver said Melton Freeman a 35 year old Black man was killed by a shotgun wound from an unknown assailant while sitting on his front porch Sunday morning. An inquest was held and a verdict returned.
An editor's note previews the second of four prohibition history stories. The piece frames bootlegging as a rising big business in the federal ban era and links the topic to the then recent Republican and Democratic conventions.
The article notes states with their own prohibition laws knew the terms bootlegger and speakeasy well before 1920. It was after January 16, 1920, when the 18th Amendment took effect, that these words entered the national vocabulary.
O L Bodenhamer former national commander of the American Legion spoke in El Dorado for his United States Senate bid. Four thousand townspeople attended the Monday night gathering as Bodenhamer outlined a 1 billion dollar government cost reduction and criticized Congress for unemployment and high spending. The event featured pledges of victories in nearby counties and remarks tying past and current party principles to the Stuttgart address.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald told parliament that Lausanne was not an ultimatum to America and that negotiators did not seek a gentlemen's agreement to delay Lausanne until debts were scaled down. The article lists global war debts, repayments, and interest rates for Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Russia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and others, noting Cuba and Liberia fully paid.
Hempstead county Singing Association holds a quarterly meeting Sunday July 17 at the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Farm three miles east of Hope. Leading singers from adjoining counties are expected to attend and the event will last all day with a noon picnic. Public invited.
Federal Judge John E. Martineau told the Little Rock Young Business Men's association that Arkansas highway funding, begun in 1927, is fundamentally sound and fair. The governor argued roads are a public utility like water or power, funded by users, with bonds representing utility stocks and taxes acting as a toll for road wear. He urged completing main highways to boost tourism and warned against a pay as you go approach.
The Wagner unemployment relief bill wins Senate Banking Committee approval and heads for Senate debate. House prep continues to redraft the measure to suit administration proposals after the veto of the original bill. In other business, rules postponed a Treasury and Federal Reserve probe until December. A separate effort to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment failed as beer resolution was defeated.
Paris Premier Herriot secured a decisive victory as the Chamber of Deputies passed the government finance bill 385 to 201. The win followed an all night session and an amendment from Socialists seeking to end the annual reservist training period.
Dr. Donald S. Wees led an expedition into northeastern Paraguay to study tribes and reported discovering white Indians with blond hair among the local populations during his jungle survey in South America.
Arkansas State Senator Fletcher McElhannon of Arkadelphia has withdrawn from the Seventh district congressional race. In a letter he cites lack of time energy and funds and says he will complete his senatorial term. His exit leaves Tilman B. Parks opposed by Wade Kitchens of Magnolia and Dr. W A Craig of Euroda and El Dorado.
Floyd Eugene Thompson rose from school master to a seat on the Illinois Supreme Court and was elected grand exalted ruler of the grand lodge of Elks. He is a brother of Emory A. Thompson, Fulton County farmer and candidate for representative.
Relief workers distributed food clothing and beds along Paint and Armstrong creeks as state police searched for the dead. Authorities believe 18 may have drowned with 25 others missing and four bodies recovered.
Libby Reynolds a Broadway blues singer and law graduate was exonerated in the death of her husband Smith Reynolds heir to the R. J. Reynolds tobacco fortune. The case revealed a complex sequence of arguments and witness testimonies as Walker, a 19-year-old crony, was released pending further inquiry into the shooting at the Reynolds estate in Winston-Salem North Carolina.
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