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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1930
Page
6
A fragmented local column mentions wreaths for the living, social visits, hospital updates, bridge club entertaining, and family travel. It notes cemetery association meetings, visits in Fulton and Washington, a hospitalization update for Genevieve Hastings, and anti tick dipping by Orange County officials. Montana’s death rate is contrasted with 1928 figures.
New York May 1 United Press confirms from no trustworthy source reports that a child will be born to Mrs Charles A Lindbergh within six weeks. Lindbergh, then in Panama, will return in ample time for the birth. Readers suspect she stays at the Morrow home in Englewood New Jersey.
Colonel Moorman will inspect Ouachita College cadets in Arkadelphia starting Thursday with field drills, tactical problems, and a battalion review. He addresses chapel exercises Friday and inspects sophomores and freshmen. Corps instructors Captain Potts and Sergeant Maurel assisted. Moorman to Fayetteville after visit.
Frederick William Wise cites Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas as the standout American participant at the London Naval Conference. The article notes his strong influence, nickname the man with the veto, and his push for liberal treatment of American journalists, suggesting he could be the 1932 Democratic presidential favorite.
A fragmented field report notes a lay of water pipe and a fire hydrant work order with a $5,225 cost. It references ENid and Bi Dorada with a deadline set for June 15 and mentions swollen or swell conditions impacting the project.
Miss Marie Cronin of Bartlett Texas rose from local painter to railroad president. Her Paris Salon works earned honors at Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts while she operates the Bartlett Western, a 25 mile line carrying cotton and bulk goods with five motor cars. She plans to pursue law and study in Texas, while hoping the railroad joins a larger system and Paris remains a distant dream.
Frank Goldberg a 19 year old transcontinental flyer arrived in El Paso after a forced night landing on a desert east of the city due to darkness. He reported striking a telephone pole injuring a wing but continued to El Paso where his plane is being repaired before resuming to Tucson Arizona at noon.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh completed a partial leg of his return flight to New York landing at a field in Ponta Cabezas, after leaving Cristobal at 7 58 a m. The 345 mile stretch took four hours and two minutes, as he prepared to continue toward Cuba and Miami before resuming his trip to New York.
In San Diego on May 1 Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane soared 8 hours 13 minutes with a motorless craft, within close range of the official American glider endurance record. Barstow plans another flight with a barograph if winds permit. The official world mark remains 9 hours 5 minutes 32.25 seconds set by Hawley Bowlus over Point Loma.
Pine Bluff reports at least one prisoner from the area in the Columbia state prison. Lawrence Mitchell, a life-termer born and raised in Pine Bluff, requests help from Judge W B Sorrells by letter urging action and asking relatives be notified. Mitchell’s father Wesley Mitchell was a longtime local figure. forebears were slaves of Jack Marks. Some relatives now live in Rison.
A daughter named Claudia, now 44, was kept chained in a damp cellar by her parents Peter Semionov and his wife for 17 years. Police uncovered the abuse in Gorofovez. The parents were tried and expelled from local lists, with the daughter moved to a sanatorium after years of isolation.
Kansas City reports four cases showing improvement from sodium thiosulfate treatment for suspected Jamaica ginger caused metal poisoning misdiagnosed as paralysis. Dr. D M Powell notes one patient regained use of limbs and three others improved. doctors expect official results on Jamaica ginger samples.
MENA May 1 Fourteen contractors from Louisiana Texas Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma and Arkansas submitted bids for improvements to the municipal waterworks. The Board of Public Affairs and waterworks commissioners awarded three contracts to Chicago Bridge and Iron Works Dallas Texas for a steel storage tank at 6400 dollars and Sherman Machine and Tron company Oklahoma City for additional work.
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