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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1933
Page
1
Washington reports attorney general Homer Cummings pledges aggressive investigation of banking irregularities and income tax frauds with no six year limit, promising speed in prosecutions as the crash year looms. Officials note gaps in statute of limitations may affect action.
Thomas W. Lamont of J P Morgan & Co and Ferdinand attorney attended a Senate committee inquiry into private banking. Pecora declined to name specific houses but described Morgan and Kuhn Loeb as within the investigated class and noted other firms as price makers.
The McCaskill School District principal DeJarnett was freed after a venue change to Hope City Court. The case involved allegations that DeJarnett struck Mildred Curry with a board, while witnesses testified regarding the bruise and the paddle claim. Prosecutors and defense presented conflicting accounts as the jury verdict was set aside on venue grounds.
Sacramento reports that Governor James Rolph Jr. declined comment on a Superior Court decision granting Thomas J. Mooney a new trial on an unused indictment tied to the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco. Judge Louis H. Ward ordered the trial for the San Quentin prisoner.
Mrs Virgil Powerb ox and family lost their home to a Sunday night fire in Salem Arkansas. In Clarksville a shooting left a youth wounded by a friend at his Hartman home last Wednesday. In Calico Rock Arthur Smart 60 was found dead from a shotgun head wound on his son’s front porch after relatives were away.
Sheriff John L. Wilson will drop Stuart Monroe from his county office role effective April 1. Monroe, longtime courthouse employee and brother of Luke F. Monroe, said he was told of the change by a letter from Sheriff Wilson. Possible successors include Frank May and Giles Gibson as deputy.
Purchase of the Texarkana Gazette and evening News by Texarkana men led by C. E. Palmer and including C. M. Conway, J. A. McDermott, and Henry Humphrey will take effect March 31. D. W. Stevick of Champaign IL will sell after seven years ownership.
Roosevelt jokes with reporters at a busy White House day as officials shuffle in. The farm bill debate centers on optional provisions and Congress eyes the cost of office cuspidors and possible beer sales in government buildings.
Beginning of a major new novel titled Big Time appears in The American Weekly distributed with Chicago Herald and Examiner. The advertisement highlights themes of wealth, status, and power set against love in a sweeping narrative.
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that sheriff fees for feeding prisoners may not exceed $5,000 annually, striking down Act 81 of 1931 as unconstitutional and applying only to Pulaski county. The decision reverses the Pulaski circuit court and includes a remand. The court also upholds the conviction of Roy Hooper for accessory after the Horatio Bank robbery, noting Hooper aided the robbery and shared loot.
President Roosevelt and his advisors push plans to revive prosperity through inflationary tactics and farm aid. They expect recovery by June 1 as brewing and related industries expand, with a $400 million industrial boost tied to beer resurgence.
In Philadelphia Dr Blanchard of Swarthmore College defines a blush as a sidetracked thought. He says when something embarrassing occurs the mind diverts the thought to the subconscious and blood rushes to the face turning it red.
Houston police pursue two black suspects after they allegedly shot to death William W Porch 25 and attacked his companion Adele Torian 24. The pair, members of prominent local families, were in a car when the assailants approached from both sides. Porch was killed and Torian was seized then released after being driven some distance. She called for help from a farm house.
Cotton prices declined slightly as spot demand remained limited to immediate shipments. Weather interruptions slowed spring farm work from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic states, with continued weak forward shipping interest and ongoing ginning data for 1932 showing 72,700,000 running bales produced.
The report outlines a 15 percent cut in federal loan charges and a 23 percent drop in living costs since 1928. A new forestry bill would authorize up to 250000 men to work in national forests, with Senate committees handling emergency relief construction and related vet legislation.
President Roosevelt informed Congress that he will abolish the Federal Farm Board and related credit agencies and replace them with the Farm Credit Bureau. The new body will consolidate existing agencies to create uniform agricultural credit and achieve substantial economies. Morgenthau Jr. is expected to head the unit following a late Monday conference.
Shirley Crank of Garland surrendered to Sheriff John L. Wilson and Sheriff R. W. Turquette after being sought in the First National Bank robbery here last month. He posted $2,500 bonds in both Hempstead and Miller counties through attorney Ned Stewart. Crank is charged with harboring the bandits and is believed to have helped drive the getaway car amid police gunfire.
In Benton Illinois John Ward of the West Frankfort relief committee was shot and killed and two United Mine Workers members Elmer Donaldson and Clarence Cooper, both from Eldorado Illinois, were wounded in a Monday gunfight.
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