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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1933
Page
1
The piece argues a coming inflation program in 1933 led by new currency and gold suspension. It predicts higher prices for groceries and farm goods, wage rises, and debt relief for property owners, with a later return to the gold standard and a potential market rebound after a temporary panic. It warns money makers to watch for the switch back to gold as business leaders decide inflation has run its course.
W Kendall Lemley was appointed municipal judge to fill the unexpired term of A A Gentry who left to become state insurance commissioner. Lemley also announced as a candidate for the full term at the April 4 city election. The council ordered a referendum on the new state civil service law for city firemen and policemen to be voted April 4.
NEW YORK shows boxing focus on modern managers rushing fighters to big money. Benny Leonard laments youngsters crowned too soon, saying gradual buildup builds skill, heart, and readiness for top level competition.
Evansville Indiana Gilbert Higgins, a salesman, reported his car stalled on Newburk Road. While checking, two men in another car halted him and robbed him, taking his billfold containing $100 and a $10 check.
In Berlin the former imperial flag was hoisted over the city hall for the first time since 1918 as postwar republican colors disappeared. Public buildings under Hermann Goering showed the Nazi swastika, and imperial flags appeared in many locales while republican colors were taboo.
Chancellor Dollfuss moved Austria into authoritarian rule after asking President Miklas to dismiss the cabinet. The president refused and urged firmness, prompting decrees to control the press and ban political meetings. Demonstrations were forbidden as the government pledges ruthless order.
Hempstead county federal loan office announces 1933 crop loan applications are due soon. Local committee handles approval with a three member county panel in Hope and township committees across 11 townships.
Cleveland Ohio Patrolman Michael Powers 27 among 85 graduates at West High delivered the class oration on Rackets. He served as chief executive officer of the class and plans further education after quitting high school at 16 to help siblings. one sibling became a Rhodes scholar.
The Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A reduces the 1933 34 budget by 21 percent. Executive committee approves a total appropriation of 2 800 000 dollars to fund missions, about one fifth less than the current year.
Hope Star issued one dollar scrip to cover Tuesday payroll after a weekend banking suspension. The paper notes scrip can be redeemed in advertising, job printing, or subscriptions for past or new accounts. Payroll was previously paid in cash on February 28 despite banking restrictions.
Hope School District No. 1-A voters approve an 18 mill tax with 93 of 101 ballots in favor. Joe Floyd and Charles Harrell are elected directors for three years. The district is the only one in Hempstead County voting Tuesday due to a new state law reducing county school boards and superintendents.
Hollywood union leaders and producers prepared to confer after producers threatened to halt film studio activities unless all employees accept drastic pay cuts for eight weeks. Studios would stay open during negotiations pending a possible settlement.
Ohio State University economists report a four year study across eight townships showing rural areas have 5 percent more children under 15 and twice as many people 65 and older per 1000 than cities. Of every 100 farm boys, 41 stay to farm, typically from the most successful farming families.
In Pittsburgh Morgan Hayman trusted a woman in gypsy garb who promised to cure his ill wife. He handed her $220 in a bag under his wife's pillow before they prayed. The time passed and the money disappeared, replaced by only paper.
Chevrolet announces a companion model named the Standard Six to be shown nationwide on Saturday. About 15 000 units prepared for dealers, aimed at fleet and private buyers seeking low first cost and economical operation, with a wheelbase shorter than the Master Six. Knudsen says the line will open new markets and may account for about a quarter of 1933 production.
In Vancouver British Columbia a poor inventor of a vibration measuring machine for girders halted work after realizing he needed long hair. He appealed to the public to find a long haired woman who would spare a tress, noting most women he knows currently wear bobbed or shingled styles.
About 250 men from Sioux City Iowa came to Clinton to homestead land but most spread out across Van Buren County to inspect hill land deemed unsuitable for farming. Few have funds to sustain themselves while awaiting harvest, and local merchants question the trip's financing.
In Little Rock the colonization project to settle unemployed workers from Sioux City Iowa on government lands in western Van Buren county faced opposition from local interests. The plan aimed to establish homesteads for many people on federal lands.
The administration's emergency bank bill, already passed by the house, was approved by the senate and sent to the governor. It grants the state bank commissioner broad powers in emergencies. With adjournment near, the senate also sent back the general county salary reduction bill with amendments for swift action. A poll tax payment deadline bill set June 15 passed the senate. House and senate also debated appropriations for constitutional departments via joint conference.
Washington reports the Bureau of Prohibition will focus on liquor supply sources and leave speakeasies to states due to budget cuts in the next fiscal year. Director Woodcock said no funds remain to buy evidence against speakeasies.
Cheyenne Chief A. A. Sanders jailed a young man for five days to cure his memory lapse after he disposed of rings found in a woman's purse. On day two his memory returned and the rings were returned to the owner.
The Every Man's Bible class will gather Thursday night at 7 30 at the Christian church. All members are urged to attend.
Arkansas banks reopen after February 27 closure with deposits redeemable under federal embargo on gold. Treasury plans currency issuance replacing scrip and clearing house certificates as Roosevelt gathers leaders for emergency banking actions.
Ambitious Hen in Evansville Indiana reportedly fears losing its head its owner Mrs Harry Halvorsen says the hen lays an eight inch circumference egg and shows unusual behavior as it works to produce the egg.
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