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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1934
Page
3
Augh H Washe cites G Bonney on reporters pressuring prisoners in Chicago. He urges restoring reverence for state courts by appointing judges and routing juries on state circuits, arguing federal courts better insulated from popular passions.
NEA Service reports on the nationwide hunt for John Dillinger and his gang. Rewards rise to thousands dead or alive as Justice Department officials, led by Joseph B. Keenan, pursue the outlaws across multiple states. The piece details Dillinger’s background, prison history, and alleged crimes, with mentions of associates and trials shaping the pursuit.
LITTLE ROCK No opponent for Governor Futrell had filed by noon Tuesday as the deadline neared at midnight. A conference held here Monday led to further talks and preparations for next steps in the gubernatorial contest.
Monticello Arkansas A&M students accuse President Frank Horsfall of religious rhetoric during chapel and allege payroll and fee-account irregularities. Judge Patrick Henry presides as classes pause. State Comptroller Griffin Smith leads an audit with a probe broader than the chapel charge.
In San Pedro California a riot at a stockade housing striking longshoremen injured 21 and killed one. The clash erupted during a coast-wide walkout protesting wages and hours and union recognition, with several injured potentially facing death.
LITTLE ROCK son of Senator W. H. Abington of Bedie wed here Tuesday. WILLIAMSBURG Ky nineteen bus passengers injured seriously when it plunged down a embankment near here Tuesday.
Roosevelt asked Congress for 1.322 billion dollars to taper emergency recovery spending for the next fiscal year. Core fund totals include 940 million for general relief and public works, 100 million for roads, 40 million for Navy, 48 million for TVA, and 35 million for public buildings, boosting debt to a then record 31.834 billion. Banks expected to shoulder more credit load for the recovery drive. Roosevelt also signed the Johnson bill barring federal courts from challenging state utility rate decisions and ordered Norman H. Davis back to Geneva for the world disarmament conference reconvening May 2.
The Senate passed a bill to aid business access funding, authorizing 530 million dollars from RFC and Federal Reserve credit. It creates a 280 million dollar Fed Reserve paper rediscount fund and a 250 million dollar revolving RFC fund for direct loans. Borrowers apply to RFC regional offices or, if denied bank credit, to the Fed district bank. The measure requires five year credit from borrowers’ banks before rediscount. The bill faced anti politics amendments and debate led by Senator Black with a later motion to reconsider.
Hope's Trade Day on May 24 features a doll contest for girls and a dog contest for boys. A parade through the business district will showcase entrants vying for prizes from local merchants, including cash, doll-buggy awards, dolls, flour sacks, theater passes, collars, and bicycle kit prizes.
Tuesday polls in Pennsylvania and New Jersey shape the political map as Reed battles Pinchot for the Republican Senate nomination while Guffey, Morr a vie for the Democratic bid in Pennsylvania. New Jersey leans toward Kea versus Blauvelt with Moore unopposed for the Democratic nod.
Six year old Jané Robles, kidnapped April 25, was found alive in a desert hole, chained and sunburned, 94 miles from Tucson. She was returned to her mother without ransom after an uncle and County Attorney Clarence Houston traced a ransom note to Chicago. The child, exhausted but mentally alert, called for her mother as she was carried from the hole.
Los Angeles police say a stakeout of a Har vard Avenue apartment led to the arrest of Jimmy Kirke and two women Loretta Woody and Joan Burke. They freed kidnapped Beverly Hills millionaire William E F Get tle after a raid on a Cresenta Street house where Roy Williams, a guard, was found with the victim tied to a bed.
Plans to enlarge the newly organized Hope town band to 50 pieces will be discussed Tuesday night by L Crumpler at a meeting of two groups of musicians to be held in a hall over Briones drug store on West Second street. The first group will meet with Mr Crumpler at 7. The second group, with numbers of the old Hope community band, will gather at the hall. Parents of band members are urged to attend these meetings. Anyone else interested in Mr Crumpler's two organizations may attend.
Los Angeles authorities say Jimmy Kirk, called the brains of the plot to extort sixty thousand dollars, confessed that Larry Kerrigan acted as guard and Roy Williams as companion in kidnapping William F Gettle. Gettle was rescued Monday night in a La Crescenta hideout after a police raid, with two women held briefly and all captors captured or fleeing. The victim appeared unharmed and was reunited with his wife and four children as police pursued leads.
Market listings show New York Cotton July and New Orleans Cotton July bids with highs lows and closes. Chicago grain sections report Wheat July Carn oats and related quotes along with stock quotations for major firms and local livestock prices including hens ducks eggs and turkeys per pound and per dozen.
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