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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1931
Page
3
A distinct earthquake rattled New Madrid area Saturday morning at about 8:52. No injuries or serious damage reported. Longtime residents say it was the strongest in years. New Madrid lies near an active quake region with a history of severe shocks 15 years ago leveled buildings and altered the countryside.
Five directors from each of six counties will attend a meeting in Little Rock to discuss the school financial problem and advise the legislative commission. Dr. Howard A. Dawson of the state education department expects delegates from the remaining counties soon. Dates are not set but may fall late July or early August. The commission has held three meetings to gauge sentiment and aims to resume work after the directors meet. If economies aren’t found, most of Arkansas schools may not last beyond five to six months next term.
Jonesboro report states H E Lawhead died from burns suffered in a Sunday crash that also killed two 16 year old local girls Elizabeth Osborn and Ruby Hinson. Lawhead, Jersey City native, was thrown clear and survived briefly but died at St Bernard's hospital. He had been in Jonesboro months, served in World War I, and left a wife and child.
The New York Sun reports DOJ aided by New York police uncovered and checked a plot against Cuban President Gerardo Machado. The plot, attributed to a distinguished Cuban exile now in New York, named as Dr Blanca, was investigated after the plotter's identity was disclosed. In other items, robbers in Baton Rouge stole 70 dollars from a Louisiana Refining Company warehouse after dressing in worker uniforms. Michigan congressman Bird J Vincent died Saturday aboard the Army Transport Henderson returning from Honolulu.
ARKADELPHIA Ark There are 1 01 criminal and 102 civil cases already docketed for the July term of Clark county circuit court which will begin here Monday morning July 27 The civil docket will be started in the first week while the criminal docket comes in the second week There were no murder cases on the docket but three negroes are jailed awaiting the grand jury on charges in connection with the death of another negro at Curtis in June If proven it would be the county 1st murder in two years Twenty four of the criminal cases are liquor law violations grand larceny 11 burglary seven forgery four disturbing the peace three drunkenness and gaming three stealing hogs three driving auto while intoxicated two seduction two false pretense two embezzlement two and one each for stealing a bull writing a bad check vagrancy horse theft carrying concealed weapon assault and battery receiving stolen property and profanity
Ralph Henderson, 25, shot and killed neighbor John Avey, 37, three miles east of Greenbrier, after Avery allegedly threatened him with a rock during a dispute over drinking and family trouble. Henderson surrendered to Sheriff Noel Webb in Conway and will be charged with murder. Avery left a wife and three children.
Four men died and three were injured when a westbound local passenger train collided with four box cars blown from a siding by high wind near Horace Kansas. Victims were asleep in a sidetracked car. crew and passengers escaped serious injury. a severe wind and rain swept the freight cars from a switch, sending them racing east and striking the local engine about a mile from town.
Pine Bluff Arkansas report states former Jefferson County official W M Philpot shot state conservation employee and former congressman Cheater W Taylor on his porch over reconciliation talks. Taylor died at a Little Rock hospital. Philpot was declared insane and sent to the state hospital for nervous diseases. Mrs Rosalie Gresham intervened as Philpot turned the pistol on himself, slashing his wrist before being restrained.
Moscow reports Joseph Stall, virtual ruler of New Russia, works about 18 hours daily across three secretary shifts. Clerical staff rotate and are not allowed to stay beyond six hours. He is hailed as a hardest worker, driving the five year plan and inspiring mass enthusiasm. He starts before dawn and ends well after midnight, rejecting advice to rest.
MEMPHIS physicians say nine year old Mattie Sue McAfee of Vandale Ark died at a Memphis hospital after drinking contaminated water. Her sister Alina, twelve, is seriously ill and the mother Mrs Mack McAfee is slightly ill. The family had visited near Crawfordsville Ark and drank water from a shallow well not used for safetime.
State education official Howard A Dawson warns about depleted district treasuries in Arkansas with about five eighths of the 2,200 districts at risk. Many schools may run four months or less unless teachers work unpaid for one or two months.
Heber Springs man Lonnie Burns aged about 40 drowned in the Little Red river near Lockhard's while saving his daughter Iva 16 and a niece from drowning. The three waded into deep water. Burns rescued the girls but could not swim himself. His body was recovered shortly after.
Six year old Leo M. Davis died after running into the path of a truck on the Little Rock highway at the Benton edge. Nate Ginsberg of Pine Bluff drove the truck and was exonerated by the Saline county coroner after an investigation. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Davis, was survived by several brothers and a sister.
Little Rock Lieut. Gov. Lawrence E. B. Wilson ends a three day stay in the governor's office this week and returns to Camden. Governor Parnell will come back Monday from New York with state officials who sold 15 million dollars in highway bonds to Halsey Stuart & Company. Acting Governor Wilson was called away on business in Camden on Friday and Saturday.
McRae Hardware, a longtime Texarkana firm at Second and Main, filed for involuntary bankruptcy led by creditors Burnham Farr and Bush Caldwell. Referee Gustavus G. Pope granted the petition, with John Vesey named receiver. The bankrupted store closed for inventory and may not reopen. First creditors meeting set for July 28 in Texarkana. Established more than 40 years ago, the firm has occupied its present location for 37 years.
A campaign to promote home canning of Arkansas peaches was launched by the Arkansas Peach Growers Bureau. President Clem F. Wallace heads the group, and about $4,000 was raised. Twenty five thousand posters urging home canning have been printed and distributed to grocers in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, and Arkansas. The posters note plentiful peaches, lower prices, and superior canning quality this year.
New York stockbroker and war aviator James Goodwin Hall left Roosevelt Field at 4 38 Saturday morning in a nonstop attempt to beat Captain Frank Hawks record. He planned a brief refuel in Havana before returning to New York. Hawks set the 1400 mile nonstop mark in 9 hours 21 minutes last November.
Three men led by William Flowers and Roy Sane ders were arrested in Ellington after a bank holdup. About $1,100 in loot was found in a car spare tire. A third suspect with Tennessee plates evaded capture and may be hiding in Reynolds County hills. Flowers had prior exoneration in 1926 for a St. Louis killing.
Clarence Mackay chairman of Postal Telegraph and Cable firms wed Annie Case concert soprano and former Metropolitan Opera member at Saint Marys Catholic Church Roslyn Long Island. Bride 42 groom 57. Mackay deeply involved in music as director of Metropolitan Opera Company and Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York.
In Johnson City Tennessee a wind storm toppled trees sheltering a crowd at a road dedication program. Two people were killed and eight injured. Governor Norton and other officials had departed. Victims included Mrs. George Hughes of Kingsport and Johnson City merchant John Hamilton.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa an 18 year old J H Pack of Lowe City was shot through the heart and Miss Rose Zoller of Cedar Rapids was seriously wounded when a robber accosted them in a city park. The gunman fled after Pack resisted the holdup by striking him with a bottle.
Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign Minister Julius Curti s of Germany arrived in Paris on Saturday for talks with world powers. They discuss extending financial aid to Germany, Bruening saying the issue affects not only Germany but the whole of Europe amidst the current crisis.
AMITY Ark two men Jim Hagin and Oshie Dickerson accused of firing on two officers and warning others to keep out of Chalybeate valley were captured asleep on farms near Arkadelphia. Dickerson faced a warrant and gun charges. weapons were seized before awakening. Hagin slept in another house on the same Jim Hagin farm.
Jefferson Ohio reports a Pioneer Young Communists of America camp for 60 youths aged between 5 and 16 was disbanded by Sheriff C H Blanche after a Thursday visit found attendees reciting communist propaganda. Two supervisors were to send children home and cancel further camp arrangements.
Punctured and garbled OCR reports a case involving Jones in Yellville with alleged shooting and a drunkenness charge. Statements describe a constable and a proposed signal during an incident, with later claims of a quarrel and a gunshot to a left elbow.
Piggot Arkansas report from John Terry's Garr Last farm describes planting stumpy rows of wheat, raising a herd through winter, marketing grain, and turning 170 hogs on ripe grain to create self feeding stock. Prospects look good for profit and mineral supplementation from the crop.
Horatio, Ark area reports the sale of the Horatio Times by G. W. Prize after six years. A. Tyball, once of Beaver Oklahoma, is named as the new owner of the publication. Mr. Priggy will continue to live in Horatio. The deal involves the lower section of the Sarle area near Beaver.
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