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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1931
Page
3
Stuart announces a no Idleness policy in Hone banning idle men black or white. Vagrants and those with no visible means will be required to work in cotton fields or farming or leave the county. Policy aims to curb idle cotton pickers bootleggers and petty thieves with notices posted at pool halls and gathering spots.
Fall planted oats outperform spring varieties though winter kill risk exists says G W Ware assistant director at University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station The station has 600 bushels of Ferguson's Red Rust Proof seed oat from this year and offers trade for ear corn at 0.75 bushel per bushel Farmers may exchange two to twenty five bushels per farm to receive seed oats for fall sowing with guidance on planting rate and timing to optimize stands before late October.
An October 1 tally reports Hempstead county ginnings at 9,483 bales, surpassing last year's total. Willi Brummer, U S Department of Commerce official counter, notes 5,483 bales ginned in the county by October 1 this year, with September 1 figures showing 5,550 bales for the same date last year. The count reflects round bales counted as half bales in the official totals.
A Hope Star report notes the Bransford audit bill gains support in Arkansas House with recommendations from the Highway Audit Commission. Dispatches say the bill faced Senate obstruction via three amendments from Dwight H. Blackwood aligned with the Highway Commission. The Star editorial urged Hempstead County lawmakers to back the bill despite opposition, while a mass meeting on the topic was called off in Little Rock as chambers of commerce clarified sponsorship and reconvening plans.
Sam Hooker of Nashville dried 900 pounds of cotton in a single day in a 1903 contest on Holt Brothers land now Lemley Brothers property near Hope. Will Compton placed second with 770 pounds while Sam Gray, then of Jaka Jones but now in Hope, won third with 650 pounds. Lee A. Holt earned a consolation prize of 600 pounds as the Big Belt Green Seed crop boosted yields in a season averaging about 1.25 bales per acre.
Berlin reports Chancellor Bruening outlined a comprehensive government program at the Reichstag opening. He spoke an hour as Communists heckled with hisses and cries of dictatorship and inflation. Opposition NSDAP members withheld until after the declaration. The plan includes international continuation and measures to stabilize industry.
Funeral services for Antoine Walton a longtime McRae Hardware Company porter who died Saturday afternoon were held Sunday at Donn Hill cemetery. Walton served the firm for 20 years and was regarded as a trustworthy valued employee. The funeral drew a large crowd of friends and colleagues.
In Chicago the 1927 profits of an alleged Capone gambling house were $150,000. Fred Ries, a former cashier, testified Capone was a frequent visitor and entered the private area. Profits were turned over to Jack Guarik, described by Capone as his financial secretary.
A buffalo in the Siloam Springs herd has died. The animal, about 11 years old, was gifted by the government and will be mounted for display in the city hall. The loss leaves nine buffalo, with three already moved to the Little Rock zoo.
Friends of C F Onstead former Hempstead County tax assessor report he is seriously ill at Josephing Hospital after being confined to his room for weeks. He was taken there Tuesday morning.
Washington report: Algernon Keith known as Doc pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the August death of Vera Walker of Hope after an auto collision on Fulton road. Judge Dexter Bush will hear the case next Monday for sentencing. Tenor of the note includes 16 individuals sentenced to penitentiary or industrial schools and three murder trials postponed to April.
Hope High Bobcats prep for the Malvern Leopards game at Malvern on Friday October 16 after losses to Camden and Little Rock earlier in the season. The squad plans lineup changes for injury relief and position shifts as they aim to rebound on the road with fans traveling to support.
Nashville News reports the 4500 acre Nashville Peach Orchard, including peaches gypses and pecans, was sold at foreclosure for 35000 to Edgar L. Roy of St. Louis for the benefit of first mortgage bondholders. The first mortgage was about 75000, with other liens wiped out. Guy Phillips of Mississippi Valley Trust Company bid and said the orchard would be kept as a single-unit operation. The sale also covered buildings power equipment and personal property. A separate foreclosure sale of A M O Quinn Elberta orchard yielded 6000 to benefit Insolvent Planters Bank and Trust Company.
The first rain in Southwest Arkansas since late summer broke over Hempstead county Tuesday afternoon after 2. An overcast sky Monday hinted at the storm and the Federsl Weather Bureau issued a rain and colder outlook for Tuesday at noon.
Mrs C Pounds 27 wife of the Danville Democrat editor and publisher was fatally injured when she jumped into the Fourche river and struck her head on a rock Monday. The report notes the tragedy as a fatal river accident near Danville. The piece also mentions the League of Nations council hearing and Akron, Ohio speed trials, reflecting a multi-item bulletin.
Governor Bilbo signed the Roberts Sillers cotton acreage reduction bill aimed at cutting Mississippi cotton acreage by 50 percent next year. The measure becomes operative if states growing 75 percent of the American cotton adopt similar legislation.
Lizton Indiana bandits severed roads isolating the town from communication early Tuesday. They wrecked the State Bank building with about a dozen blasts of nitroglycerine and shot up the lawn before escaping with over $2,000 in currency and negotiable securities totaling about $1,800.
A Lamar County farmer plans to beat the cotton acreage reduction law by planting 30 acres of 100 in peas, 30 acres in cotton, and 40 acres in corn and other crops. He proposes alternate row interplanting of peas and cotton, arguing most Lamar farms can maintain yield and soil health this way, though he notes black land may not support the scheme.
Little Rock based hospitals including Arkansas Children's Hospital and Baptist State Hospital join 2,158 institutions in the United States and Canada on the American College of Surgeons approved list after a survey. The college noted high standards despite economic stress and a rise in patient numbers, with many Arkansas facilities listed in cities from El Dorado to Texarkana and Helena to North Little Rock.
A Moscow newspaper ridicules President Hoover's new plans to address the economic dislocation. The piece argues the redeemer aims to save himself after the debt moratorium's failure, suggesting the new plan seeks to safeguard American capital.
John Diola of San Jose California arrived to aid the investigation into the death of his brother George Diola 54 whose body was found near the area September 1 The California man said robbery appeared to be the motive after visiting the scene and speaking with officers He noted George Diola a well known olive and hot satesman of Los Angeles had been away from home about eight months visiting relatives in Kansas City and Hastings Hastings die Hudson NW
A July meeting led by James C. Adams of Dallas and Nathan Adams of the Farm Board outlined a plan where bankers would finance and withhold about 7,000,000 bales of cotton. Appointments were made for state buyin g associations in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama, with North and South Carolina to be named later. The magnitude echoes a 1914 action that kept cotton from sinking below six cents a pound.
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