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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1932
Page
3
Government officials and newspapers quote Moore saying he felt powerless to intervene in the Bergh baby kidnapping matter unless state police requested action. The remarks reflect political pressure and questions about state jurisdiction in the case surfaced amid ongoing coverage.
The Arkansas feud within the state administration deepens over an alleged $80 000 over payment on the Hot Springs Arkadelphia project. Commission chairman Dwight H Blackwood asserts all commissioners knew of the contracts and approved them except Sam Wilson, while Justin Matthews J S Parks and Siri Wilson defend their stance amid accusations of non competitive deals with Mogan Construction Company.
U S Department of Agriculture report covers the week Feb 27 to Mar 4. Spot markets show demand across grades, with average middling price at 6.72 cents and weekly sales totaling 116,147 bales. Weather favored outside cotton operations. dry belt conditions helped, while exports to Mar 4 reached about 6 million bales this season. World production projected at 27.3 million, with the United States accounting for 62 percent. India’s output noted but details truncated.
Paris reports Aristide Briand former French Foreign Minister and co author of the Kellogg Briand pact died at 69 Monday afternoon. Briand had held the Foreign Minister post so long it became his own office and served as premier a dozen times. His health weakened this last year and he resigned from the cabinet in January.
At the Saenger theater manager E W Hecht will give away a real live baby during Monday night’s show at 9 o clock. The winner must keep the baby as they wish. Family night offers admission for fifty cents per family. The feature is The Unexpected Father starring Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts.
Washington report on the Ways and Means Committee completing a revenue bill aiming to raise over one billion dollars to cover deficits. It proposes a 2.25 percent manufacturers sales tax, higher personal and corporate income taxes, estate and gift taxes, and various excise levies to fund federal operations.
The municipal court postponed its daily session from Monday morning to 2:30 in the afternoon. Many attorneys attended, and several were present at Hempstead Chancey Court in Washington where C. B. Johnson presided.
The April term opens Monday morning April 4 at the county courthouse with a heavy docket. Grand jurors include Gus Holt Homer Smith Sidney Stone J. M. Rhodes Hayna Hutchinson P. C. Stephens D. M. Cltty Ford Hanna W. M. Dillard W. R. Orton Jett Black Pat Dut John Dawson W. A. Formby Carl Reese T. M. Ward Fred Lascher J. T. Stuart Lester Webb John Wilson B. A. Barrow. Petit jurors include L. Bearden Buck Green Dan Harkness L. N. Garner J. T. Bowden H. F. Stophs Jerry Turner Roy Reed John Guffin Merk Jackson Webb Laseter Frank Hicks J. D. Beckworth E. N. Bacon Otis McKnight R. Gorham N. R. Lewis Horace White Tow Wardlow C. Cook Alvin Williams Floyd Porterfield Jack Kent Arthur Crowell B L Chandler M. H. Montgomery J. Porte Niel Marion Nesbit Eugene Hall G. W. McKnight.
Authorities near Lockhart Texas sought to identify a man found dead on State Highway 29 two miles south of town Sunday night. The Mexican national is believed struck by an automobile, with investigators working to confirm his identity and the circumstances of the crash.
Jonesboro bulletin reports Mrs. Hattie Caraway, junior senator, rebukes claims she will not run to succeed herself. She says no such statement has been made and that any comment remains her prerogative to issue when she chooses. In Washington the Wilson bill to curb federal funds transfers between levee projects advances in committee. Little Rock court action outlines bond authority for military nurse board to issue 400000 in bonds for Arkansas project plans amid political contention.
County election results show the 18 mill tax approved in most districts with returns in from all but four. Re-elected without opposition to the County Board of Education were Mondey, K. MW. Stephens, Blevins, and J. C. Golingon. List of districts and millage rates follows with names and 18 mill figures across Clow, Oak Grove, Nolan, Libory Hill, Stephenson, Koy Grove, Evening Shade, Walnut Grove, Shilosit, Oakland, Harmony, Centerville, Chestnut Hill, Walker, Thagorene, Wesley Grove, Dan McPaddie and others.
The Retail Merchants association will elect officers at its annual meeting at New Capital Hotel Monday night at seven. Dinner will be served and a program and annual election will follow. members are urged to attend.
National Guards announced a spring basketball event at the Armory in the city on Tuesday night starting at 8 o clock. The Springz team and the Jotal National Guards are billed to compete, and a Columbus dependants versus Spring Hill pendants game is also promised, with both teams having shown strong form this season.
A brief local weather note reports the first snow flurry of the season falling Monday afternoon in Hope. The light fall reached northern areas but did not amount to heavy snowfall.
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