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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1934
Page
3
The piece criticizes lawmakers backing silver legislation while speculating in silver stocks. It argues Congress may push radical action, but Roosevelt and Morgenthau will likely prevent it. The editorial claims the public distrusts monetary moves yet holds faith in the president to protect currency stability against selfish interests.
Speaker Rainey and the silver bloc moved to force a Monday test vote on two silver bills, Dies and Feisinger, with a two thirds requirement. The Dies bill would pay 25 percent above world price for silver imported against exports. Feisinger would mandate purchases up to 1.5 billion ounces on a graduated plan.
In a tense scene Representative Kennedy switched his vote from aye to no to alter a 190 to 184 outcome on veterans pay and independent office supply. Speaker Rainey then ordered a recapitulation which flipped the result, sending the measure to conference to resolve Senate and House differences on federal pay restoration and veterans legislation.
In Little Rock a pistol duel near a filling station left George P. Anderson wounded in the right thigh after he challenged two holdup men who, with a lookout, fled. Miss Rose Reith, uninjured, witnessed the attempted robbery as Anderson protected her purse. Police searched hospitals for the wounded robber. An early report noted eighty two percent of used cars on the road today are over two years old with an average value of 255 dollars.
Ten Hempstead county farmers attended the Kiwanis dinner at Hotel Barlow as the club announced a series of goodwill visits to neighboring community centers starting Friday night March 30. A $50 cash first prize essay contest for Hempstead youths was unveiled with proceeds from merchants and club members. The tentative schedule lists Spring Hill March 30 and additional stops through May 25 including Patmos, Shower Springs, Rocky Mound, Pine Grove, DeAnn, Guernsey, Ozan, and Saratoga.
Sumner Sewill a Bath Maine banker announced he has asked shareowners in three leading aircraft companies to form an Air Transport Stockholders Committee to seek a hearing on the cancelation of air mail contracts. He said two companies replied while letters to the postmaster general and the president remained unanswered.
Washington Colonel Eddie Rickenbacker urged a Senate committee to create a presidential board to oversee airline operations. The Army will resume air mail transport on nine routes at 12:01 Monday after a week of suspension ordered by the president. Samuel Insull, after a 75 hour escape aboard the freighter Mailois, was returned to Greece and told to depart within 24 hours amid U S warrants.
A five day truce between auto industry workers and unions formed Friday after NRA mediation. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday to review Hugh S Johnson recovery plan aimed at averting a strike, with potential plant closures if unsatisfied. Knudsen indicated rejection of an election plan and possible conciliation board. The committee includes Alvan Macauley Alfred P Sloan Jr and Walter Chrysler.
Fort Smith Ark A circuit court jury Friday found Earl Decker guilty of permitting a prisoner to escape at Tucker prison farm and sentenced him to ten years The trial followed harsh criticism of the state prison system by Prosecuting Attorney Harrell Harper as Decker transferred prisoners from the county jail to the penitentiary allegedly staging a drunken party resulting in an escape bid by prisoner B R Bullard a convicted forger
Marina Yurlova, a young Cossack war veteran, recounts volunteering to blow up a bridge and surviving grave wounds. She rejects war as vanity and now pursues dancing in America, hoping to spark an art movement while keeping her extraordinary wartime exploits private.
El Dorado officials and local authorities deny involvement in authorizing a 10 day furlough for Ouachita County inmate John Rogers of Stephens Bank robbery fame. The furlough ran February 12 to 22 and Rogers vanished, with Mahony the only named petitioner.
Fragmentary quotes discuss law, justice, and progress. References include Hofmain and Terence, with commentary on strict laws and their potential injustices. The text hints at legal development and efficiency gains from reducing garnish in processing.
Charles Makley, the second Dillinger gang member, was convicted without mercy and sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of Sheriff Jess Lorber. Henry Freypont received a similar verdict last week as the trigger man in the October 12 sheriff slaying. a third gang member faces trial Monday.
Mormnton, Ark. More than 200 of about 4500 spindles at the Morrilton cotton mill are in operation due to rising orders. Owner C. We Hoke says the mill now produces white and drillers thread, with additional lines expected in the coming months. About 25 people are employed at present.
Barhyn, field inspector for the Crop Production Loan Office in Memphis, announced Saturday the Hempstead county law committee for the 1934 emergency towns would consist of Ralph Buuton Roy Anderson Brant J. Hill of Hope Herbert Stephens of Blevins and H C Murphy of Odin.
A Tennessee family of four and the wife's sister died in a Saturday upstairs apartment fire in MEMPHIS. Earl Hammond, 27, his wife, and two children plus Kitty Kay, the wife's sister, perished after being trapped. Fire believed to have started from a gas heater. victims died almost instantly from burns or suffocation.
Income tax collections in Arkansas are projected to double this year under the current rate. From January through March 1934, receipts totaled 28,674.28, up from 7,306.97 in the prior year, with 976 returns filed for 1933 and 25.7 percent showing tax liability.
Earl Joiner, wanted in several Texas bank robberies, was captured by a sheriff's posse at a farm house ten miles from here about daylight Saturday. Believed to be one of leaders of the Angola, Louisiana prison break last year, he had been captured earlier in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and returned to Louisiana where he attempted another escape. His wife was with him when captured.
Clara Lay of Webb City pleads guilty to smuggling a loaded pistol into the state penitentiary for her convict son Melle Martin. Both mother and son received five-year terms. The weapon, loaded with six rounds, was found under a washbasin late Monday.
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