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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
3
The piece argues that America's distrust of military rule roots in colonial ideals and civil law governance. It notes dictators supported by armies have ousted civilian authorities across Europe, citing Lithuania as an example of repeated military seizures since 1929 and again in 1934.
Viola Ima, a 23 year old from New York, heads a plan to organize a national youth congress. The August conference will involve 500 delegates from diverse groups, aiming to create practical jobs and youth leadership.
In the South during January–May 1934 contracts for engineering, building and construction rose 136 percent from a year earlier, totaling $234,716,000 versus $99,277,000 in 1933. Road work led with $98,776,400, followed by industrial and engineering at $69,907,000 and public buildings at $51,262,000.
The home economics department at Hope High School will host an open house and silver tea on Monday, June 11, from 4 to 6 pm. The event showcases the department’s accomplishments from the past year and aims to replace items lost in the recent cottage robbery.
Baltic exile leader Augustine Waldermaras, once dictator of Lithuania, returns by plane to Kaunas and seizes premiership after a nocturnal military coup. Army reportedly controls the situation though civil authorities resist. Waldermaras, a famed Baltic firebrand, previously ruled with Antanas Smetona from 1926 to 1929 and was a notable League of Nations figure demanding Vilna’s restoration to Lithuania.
Milton Bronner notes fascism’s spread from Latvia to Bulgaria and its reach into free nations. He cites laws banning political uniforms, highlighting Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as examples, with Denmark enforcing prohibitions on meeting attire and badges.
Washington and New York report Gen Hugh S Johnson after two hours of discussions with the Iron and Steel Institute in New York as he urges a compromise to avert a 100000 steel worker strike. Johnson says institute did not reject his proposals and will consider them while noting factional risk Thursday.
The University of Arkansas College of Agriculture announces Farm Visiting Day on Friday June 29. G W Ware assistant director says visitors will tour three miles of experimental plots and hear talks on fruit truck and field crops inclding pasture development sweet potato production and crops like cotton corn and legumes. Afternoon events in the amphitheater will cover further agricultural topics.
In Springfield Massachusetts Joseph Insull, a quiet retired brother of Samuel Insull, declines to discuss the Insull fortune collapse. He says he was only a private citizen, not involved in the utilities failure, and lives with his wife Edith in a Colonial brick house. He once worked with General Electric in Pittsfield and lost small speculative gains in 1928 29.
Government relief efforts continue as drouth grips the nation with about 30 states affected. Optimistic rainfall reports arrive from the Weather Bureau while 75 000 Arkansas acres pledge pasture to aid stricken cattle. University of Arkansas outlines pasture use and rural counties offer grazing as FERA coordinates stock movements and relief.
Nine southwest Arkansas residents graduated as University of Arkansas seniors in Fayetteville this week. Names include Ernest Cecil Dean Lewisville Royce Weiserberger in arts, John J. McClarkin Jr Prescott Harold Pranklin O’Keefe Ralston in science, Velma Alford Nashville Madec Ethel Poll McNeil in home economics, Ray H.B. Wattmore Foreman in agriculture, Lowell D. Gibbons Texarkana, Luther Jay Atkinson Foreman, James Ansel McIntosh Hope in business administration.
Madrid reports guards surrounding President Niceto Alcala Zamora s home amid fears of an assassination plot. A bloody strike outbreak across Spain, following the assassination of General Fernando Berenguer, triggers widespread unrest and casualties. The government orders the entire civil guard to hunt the slayers.
Four persons died and a fifth was critically injured when their car plummeted into a 30 foot embankment after hitting a barrier at street end, tumbling onto railroad tracks below. Roosevelt signs corporate bankruptcy bill to aid distressed firms. London says no to Barthou disarmament proposals. Arkansas Democratic Women's era holds one day meeting with 200 attending. Mrs Santa Davis Fitzhugh speakers.
The Arkansas Paw- Finding Tribunal reported a 9 percent rate reduction for Stuttgart electric users, far short of the 20 percent sought by the city. The tribunal says it lacks authority to set rates, sending findings to the Arkansas Corporation Commission for filing with Stuttgart officials. Hamilton Moses, AP&L attorney, said the company will resist and seek a reopening in court if denied. The tribunal noted AP&L earned 6700 dollars excess earnings last year on about 65000 dollars in operating revenue amid numerous rate inquiries across the 200 towns served.
President Roosevelt sent nominations for district attorney Fred A. Isgrig and eastern district marshal Virgil C. Pettie to the Senate. Confirmation was expected soon. Both have been frequent nominees, with four year terms and plans for selecting assistants after confirmation.
Brooks Hays the Arkansas churchman and Baptist Sunday school leader will lecture to the Young Men's Bible class at 9:45 Sunday morning in the First Methodist church auditorium. All adult Sunday school classes and the public are invited to attend.
LITTLE ROCK. Tetanus and ptomaine poisoning caused the deaths of two young boys in Pulaski county within four hours Wednesday. William Ward Jennings, 8, died at 2:30 a.m. from tetanus after stepping on a splinter days earlier. Ernest Dugger, 13, died earlier from ptomaine poisoning. his illness followed a splinter incident with unclear progression. Authorities noted the injuries did not seem serious at first and doctors were summoned as illness developed.
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