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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1930
Page
5
A fragmented Queenstown page item shows dialogue between Pamela Mamela and a mother about Roger the dog and a doll’s supper. The exchange hints at mischief and domestic scene without full context.
Poem lines describe life and hope while Miss Venceit Jordan visits from Pratt Valley Oklahoma and Pattie Lerman visits from Fort Wayne Oklahoma. The column lists numerous local social calls including relatives traveling to Little Rock Crossett and Nashville and note on gatherings such as a gas company picnic in Shreveport and a Holden wedding anniversary.
The undersigned will auction to the highest bidder on Saturday May 31 1930 at 10 pm at J A Henry & Son garage Hope Arkansas Hempstead County a 1928 Pontiac coupe Motor No 414068 to satisfy storage charges of 96.50. The car is held for Mrs Fr S Lyle and or W BE Page Motor Company of Durham NC and or Guia] Motors Acceptance Corporation of Little Rock AR, with possible interests by the latter two parties.
A New York City trip to attend the bed site of her son Vaughan was noted as his condition showed improvement this morning. The First Baptist Church W.A. held its regular meeting last evening in the Sunday school rooms with eight members and three guests. Hostesses Elizabeth Raves and Ginnig Van Ness served a two course dinner. Maude Lipscomb led an inspiring devotional assisted by Evelyn Lewis and Glennis Van Ness.
Berlin reports a German prediction that rocket planes could cross the Atlantic in six to eight hours. Dr. Paul Heylandt says future craft may fly at 40,000 feet using liquid oxygen and fuel, with two compact rocket motors and no propeller, enabling ocean crossing with ample fuel and oxygen carried onboard.
The Peagine creek bridge washed out on Sunday with a gap near the high way crash site near Black Bois d Arc causing temporary traffic suspension. Families visit and mourn, noting Mrs Hatfield and children, infant burial, and neighbors in Hope and Melrose area recounting the bridge disaster and rural traffic disruption. Local residents report mule losses from a train, and a Saturday school meeting is noted along with family gatherings at Hope.
Texarkana May 20 A romance between 36 year old R B Carney and 22 year old Inez Erwin ends in federal court with six months for conspiracy to violate the Mann Act. They enter guilty pleas, were placed on probation, and sent back to Hope with their families while the man awaits transfer to jail. A letter to the couple’s parents sparked the arrest after a cross country chase from Hope to Doniphan and beyond.
The Arkansas American Legion department tops the nation in 1990 quota membership, reporting 140 percent of its goal. Telegraph from National Headquarters to Hugh W. Wicker, department adjutant, notes current membership at 10,278. The item ends with a garbled pickup line fragment.
In federal court Judge John K. Muar titeaus fined two defendants and placed one on probation for six months after pleas of guilty in the final of the famous women bootlegger cases. Mrs Caledonia Barns 60 of Hempstead county received 51 dollars, Mrs A G Halter was given six months sentence but probation with warning, Martha Hall a colored woman was fined 25 dollars for selling two bottles of beer and a half pint of whisky to a government agent. Original 14 women arrested last July saw two sentenced to three months in jail, six on probation, four fined, one suspended, and another killed awaiting sentence.
Buffalo May 20. Trial of Cayuga Indian woman Lila Jamerson for first degree murder in the slaying of Clothilde Marchand wife of artist Henri Marchand was postponed indefinitely awaiting ruling by Supreme Court Justice Samuel J Harris. Jamerson previously miscarried when she collapsed in court and was sent to a hospital after a mistrial declared by County Judge F Bret Thorn as defense attorneys pressed for action.
District Attorney Guy Moore argues the trial termination was legal but Justice Harris is expected to rule that the mistrial declaration was illegal because the defendant was not in court and not sufficiently ill to halt the trial. A second trial was moved to today before County Judge George H. Rowe, who adjourned to allow Harris to decide early in the week.
The exchange centers on a brief two week period in Paris with remarks about interactions with French girls. The dialogue implies speculation about personal conduct during that trip.
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