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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1935
Page
4
A Lamar Missouri report shows a truck driver fined 17.50 for not carrying a match to light his flare, prompting a Arkansas style call for stricter highway enforcement. The piece argues deadly weekend crashes justify stern, uniform penalties and vigilant patrols nationwide.
El Dorado ready as Carl Dalrymple's Wildcats and Fay Hammons' Hope Bobcats travel to Rowland Field for the first full-strength clash of the season. J C Chadwick returns for the Wildcats while Hope relies on Cargile a rangy versatile back. The game promises a tough defensive battle with both teams projecting strong performances.
Washington officials led by Cully A. Cobb depart for Memphis to hear the 1936 cotton adjustment program details. The session will draft Next year plans and set acreage reductions, with debate over carry-over targets and a possible tax impact on cotton spinners. Officials seek a program not far from 1935, amid production estimates near 11.46 million bales and a carry-over around 9 million.
Fifty-seven delegates to the annual Arkansas Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention in Russellville heard Eleanor Neill of Batesville review the group’s achievements and future plans at the opening session. The event featured Youths’ Night and a world peace program. A panel led by C. B. Nelson of Little Rock discussed the youth branch. The convention would close Friday night with a address by national president Ida B. Wise Smith.
The Soil Conservation Service opened temporary offices in the old Arkansas Bank & Trust Co. building in Hempstead, with HL Thatcher in charge. Staff includes W. W. Thalintann, Evelyn Lewis, and McMahon, all transferred from other projects. five men start Friday with more to follow. The program aims to use relief labor to recruit 125 workers, focus on farm plans to reduce soil erosion through terracing and winter cover crops, and secure permanent quarters by October.
LITTLE ROCK on the eve of a called meeting to nominate three district judges Purkins announced resignation from the Democratic State Central Committee. He cited his candidacy for the tenth district judge seat as the reason for stepping down.
Announcement made here states Wayne H. England of Hope will be district manager of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. England will maintain an office at 20 First National Bank building. His territory covers several southwest Arkansas counties. He has six years in insurance, previously representing the Actna company in Hope.
Los Angeles detective Harry Dean, shown with makeup, imitates Mae West to expose a bizarre extortion scheme. The case involves a plan to acid-burp the blond actress if she paid $1000 to blackmailers. A shotgut squad arrested a radio cafe worker linked to the suspect, while five threatening notes addressed to the actress surface amid inquiries by the attorney’s office.
Two men face sentence after guilty verdicts in the death of Mrs. James Ferguson Best formerly Roberta Williamson. H G Allen 40 of Dubach and Hubert Nattin 19 were found guilty on criminal assault and manslaughter charges in a case linked to a March 28 attack on a woman traveling from Hope Arkansas to Longview Texas along the Homer Minion highway. The extreme penalty was recommended for Allen.
Seven leading firms warned they would not insure PWA projects in Clark County Ark prompting alarm among Arkansas residents over potential loss of a $246000 project. Assistant United States Engineer Alexander Allaire and Architect Frankart of Little Rock were notified. Continued on page eight.
About a0 storage operators, farmers and county agents from seven southwest Arkansas counties met in Hope city hall to discuss farm meat curing and cold storage problems and possibilities. Frank R. Stanley and M. W. Muldraw organized the event with University of Arkansas and USDA experts leading demonstrations on meat cutting and curing.
The Hope Boys band auxiliary will sponsor tickets for the Arkadelphia football game next Tuesday night with half of proceeds after expenses going to fund new band uniforms. Tickets go on sale Friday afternoon at Garney's Pressing on Division Street. A Giants autographed baseball will reward the top seller. The uniform fund reached 618.67 as reports continued Friday.
Albert Evans assistant national director of disaster relief spoke at Hope Rotary about Red Cross response during the dust bowl. He outlined dust-protectors for school children and home dustproofing, noting reduced dust pneumonia deaths. Also noted Evans’s long service history and current role directing disaster relief for seventeen Midwestern states.
J W Black a Hope building contractor was injured Thursday afternoon after falling from a scaffold about three to four feet high while at work. He was taken to Julia Chester hospital where surgery for a ruptured groin was performed Thursday night. His condition Friday was reported as improved though uncertain. Separately a Sydney report notes the federal government subsidizing small passenger and freight air service over eleven routes in Australia at an estimated annual expense of 600000.
Houston Texas area longshoremen with the International Longshoremen's Association stage a strike. More than 3,000 dock workers refuse to return to work until operators sign a contract with the ILA in New Orleans and include Lake Charles in the district agreement.
Geneva report says Britain halted an planned American radio broadcast by Mussolini aide Baron Aloisi over Ethiopian policy. The UK Post Office refused to relay the message, cutting off the Alpha to US hookup with CBS.
Jackson county received 2263 dollars from the state welfare fund for relief of unemployable citizens, but about half of the allotment has been spent on salaries and local administration by the Jackson County Welfare Board. Governor Futrell was informed as the report from State Comptroller Griffin Smith was submitted.
The League of Nations considers an embargo on arms to Italy to punish the Ethiopian war, with Britain signaling possible munitions ships to Addis Ababa. Italy vows to stay in the League, seeking a peacekeeping revision, as Ethiopian leaders warn of force if foreign ministers fail.
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