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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1936
Page
4
The Walsh labor bill, backed by AFL, aims to regulate hours and wages for firms selling to the government, with potential constitutional support and strong passage prospects. Tugwell’s Rural Resettlement program advances cheap housing, pleasing homeowners while drawing ire from real estate promoters and radicals.
About 00 farmers from 25 counties attended the University of Arkansas truck branch experiment station spring visiting day. Dr Taft Butler urged production control and cooperative marketing to stabilize prices, citing 25 years of price fluctuations. Sectional meetings followed with horticulturists and extension staff discussing cantaloupe trials and soil lime effects on yields.
Pendleton a noted Southwestern desperado escapes Carter county jail with an 18 year old WPA worker Delbert Davis by sawing through a window. Davis is captured blocks away after crossing a railway track. Pendleton remains at large. Davis held in connection with earlier robbery and a fatal clubbing case is mentioned.
Commissioner of Education W E Phipps released figures showing Hempstead county schools receiving 18 358 for seven months, with Hope 4 557 06, Bie 1 625 16, and Washington 1 Commissioner's note says 51 74 per enumerated child and that yearly sales tax apportionment should exceed the original 2 00 estimate, based on July 1 1935 to March 1 1836 collections.
Three people died by suicide in Tulsa within hours, two by bullet, one by poison. Carter Temple Davis Jr., 18, shot himself in his car after a photo of his former wife and a note were found. Thomas Richmond, 54, a Walter Dee department employee, shot himself at home, found by his daughter. W E Dowd, 58, owner of a supply firm, swallowed poison and died after five hours. Authorities investigate cause and timing.
President Roosevelt urged farmers to join the New Deal 440 million dollar farm program to cut output of cash crops. He expected to sign the bill Friday as AAA details were to be released. Overproduction could wreck prices and harm farm ads if growers do not participate. Alton CCC camp retention rumors were confirmed by a telegram from Congressman Parks. other camps had been abandoned while Alton remains a long term Soil Erosion Service facility.
An all fiddlers contest at Patmos Saturday night offers 12 awards. The program starts at 8 p.m. Prizes include Best Quartet, Best comical reading, Best vocal duet, Youngest fiddler, Best yodeler, Best comical song, Best tap dancer, Oldest fiddler, and fanciest fiddler.
El Dorado Arkansas petitions circulate along Highway 92 to urge surface from Lake Village to El Dorado and resurfacing from Garland City to Union County line. Secretary Robert P Hall of the Highway Association says petitions aim to surface unpaved sections between Lake Village and Texarkana, seeking 30000 signatures.
Alma Arkansas Thursday night a University of Arkansas student died in a car collision on U S highway 67 near a bridge. John Lee Nast about 20 Lonoke Arkansas was killed instantly with skull fractured. Pinky Squires from Rockford Michigan a shoe company employee suffered a bruised right ankle and other injuries. The accident involved four young men, with one killed and others injured, at Fork Sindith Hospital.
London reports indicate the four remaining Locarno powers agree to join a military alliance if Hitler rejects proposals to reestablish European security. A proposed super League of Nations would address postwar European questions as part of a broader conference. The British cabinet backs a four power plan for international security and economic conference to discuss Adolf Hitler's peace proposals with France signaling approval of the multi power framework.
BLOOMINGDALE IND April Wood Carter assistant cashier and an unidentified bandit were slain in a gunfight during a bank holdup. The robbers, hidden inside the bank, ambushed Carter as he arrived for work. Washington April rail management and labor representatives met to break the deadlock in negotiations on methods to protect employer coordination projects.
Mrs. R. E. Gentry, 60, a former Hempstead County resident, died Friday in Denver Colorado. Born in Hempstead County she moved to Denver in 1900. Survivors include her husband, a son Willian of Denver, and four brothers B. J. Drake T. J. Drake of Palacios L. C. Drake of Denver and A. F. Drake of Little Rock. Burial will be in Denver Monday.
The stroke of major floods leaves 136 known dead and 200000 homeless across New England and the Ohio valley. Damage nears 300 million dollars as rivers rise and communities struggle with destitution and panic. Police guard Massachusetts cities from vandalism while Washington plans up to 400 million dollars in aid and disaster prevention measures.
Washington reports the House Ways and Means Subcommittee tentatively favors a 22.5 percent tax on the net income of corporations limited in paying out dividends due to state federal or contractual rules. Corporations in this category would not face the tax on undistributed profits.
BASSETT Ark Friday fire destroyed six buildings at a plantation cabin injuring and killing multiple people. Authorities valued the loss, searched for victims, and pursued theories while firemen suspected sabotaged hydrants. Victims named include Edgar Meeks and his wife, Green and relatives with Green's wife saved by a rescuer.
New York briefing says New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz visited Dr. John F. Condon at his Bronx home on Thursday. Wilentz offered no commitment on whether Condon will confer with Governor Harold Hoffman about Hauptmann case aspects and Condon’s Flemington testimony. Condon, a retired educator, was a principal prosecution witness in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial and recently returned from a Panama cruise. Hoffman, who once reprieved Hauptmann, seeks to discuss case phases with Condon.
Carthel Robbins of Stuttgart, district governor for the 2nd Arkansas district of Rotary International, paid his official visit to the Hope Rotary Club at Hotel Barlow. Introduced by E. F. McFaddin, Robbins gave a humorous and inspirational address delivering the district’s annual Rotary message. After the meeting, President Roy Anderson conferred with local directors and committee heads.
Rain and hail hit the region as February ends, with the weather bureau offering cautious notes for the coming of spring. Forecasters warned temperatures may still vary despite expectations, as residents brace for lingering wintry conditions.
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