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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1933
Page
3
The Star urges the School Board to publish a financial statement showing the growing schools debt over 30 years and the share of tax funds for debt service versus teaching. It asks citizens to pay delinquent taxes promptly to support education and government operations, stressing patriotic duty.
Arkansas banks slated for reopening under a federal plan to thaw frozen deposits. State official Marion Wasson expects about 2 million dollars available to restart closed banks, with 51 banks targeted for reorganization by January 1. Remaining assets include 6 million in restricted banks and about 21 million in closed banks under active negotiations. In Washington, President Roosevelt reviewed steps to release 1 billion dollars in frozen assets with Comptroller O Connor, who joins the new Deposit Liquidation Board to oversee loans on bank assets.
Jonesboro Baptist Tabernacle tensions ease after a joint Sunday service led by faction leaders. Composed of eight members from each side, a committee was named to negotiate a buyout of church interests. Crowley faction seeks itemized church indebtedness before next meeting. outcome pending.
The Mid-West Utilities company of Prescott has purchased the Emmet telephone exchange from R. L. Martindale. Emmet lines will be operated from Prescott with no local office. New equipment and lines were installed recently and the Emmet Prescott line is in operation, said Lee Lemmerhart, manager at Prescott.
Federal agents joined Chicago police and local authorities in hunting William Walton Hall, a Kent College law student and Freeport heir valued at $200,000, who vanished Friday night. Hall received two letters ordering him to flee with $5,000 in escrow for his wife, Julia, who later received a message to await further instructions. Federal agents from Melvin Purvis’s Bureau assisted in tracing the ransom plot and pursuing the extractionists across Illinois towns Forest Park and Freeport.
Mrs Maggie Williams, 48, died at her home in the Jakajones community Sunday afternoon after a long illness at 6 40. Funeral and burial will be at Holly Grove Monday at 3 30. Survived by three grandchildren Faye Dareson of Oklahoma Nora Pike and Gladys Hartsfield of Hope.
The Associated Press reports that two days after Germany withdrew from the world disarmament conference and from the League of Nations, ominous tensions rise across Europe as Hitler makes a defiant move challenging international limits and signaling a perilous shift in the international order.
President Roosevelt called for redoubling efforts to end the disarmament stalemate as Geneva delegates paused to gauge negotiations. Arthur Henderson urged continued work and warned against another barbaric conflict, while Berlin plans for November 12 threaten Nazi domination in Reichstag ballots. France backs Davis against adjournment and Vienna students protest with Swastikas as Austrian police crack down.
The Senate banking inquiry will summon Albert Henry Wiggin, former Chase National president, as Ferdinand Pecora prepares to grill him. Pecora aims to expose banking practices rivaling those of J. P. Morgan and Charles Mitchell, highlighting Chase National activities from security dealers to call loans and foreign bond flotation. He seeks a thorough reckoning in the pro-low mood era and weighs his stance ahead of a possible district attorney run.
BISMARCK North Dakota governor William Langer said he would issue a proclamation late Monday declaring an embargo on spring wheat shipments from the state. The move aims to raise prices and draw attention to farmers' plight, authorized by a 1983 act adopted when prices fell below production cost.
Cotton ginnings in Hempstead County as of October 1 totaled 8560 bales, down from 11670 bales on the same date last year. Special government reporter W He Bster of Washington noted the figures Monday. A Pie Supper at Oakland is planned for Friday night with Oakland school receiving a larger portion of the proceeds.
In El Dorado Arkansas the Lafayette County wildcat George Harper No 2 on Boocan Lumber tract near Buelner shows a 1198 foot core depth with promising oil sand. Harper, a former major league baseball figure, shifts to oil prospecting as a second well in the area builds potential.
A Hempstead county grand jury session will be called Tuesday at Washington to hear charges against Andrew N Panco arrested on attempted bank fraud with stolen travelers cheques. His wife Estella Mayhew Panco was arrested Sunday at Hot Springs after officers found 200 in money orders tied to a Kansas robbery. The outbreak linked $1900 in travelers cheques taken at Hutchinson Kansas with the Pancos and a suspect named Fancs. The couple’s ties to a Caddo Trust Co robbery in Ida La are noted. Mrs Panco, formerly of Texarkana, says she knew nothing of her husband’s alleged illegal business. Chief Baker released her for further questioning in Hope.
The State Liquor Monopoly would form a special branch of state government with plenary powers over regulatory and commercial tasks. It would operate free from routine department controls, funded by its own finances, and audited by the state comptroller, while remaining subject to governor appointments and board-approved budgets.
A. J. Kent of Patmos tells The Star that the bear hunting trip led by his brother J. H. Kent to Las Vegas, Nevada is not yet fully reported. He recalls a past invitation where cooks failed on bear meat and indigestion followed. Mrs. A. J. Kent will join to handle cooking, and they will depart early this week.
Senator Joe T. Robinson warned a crisis endangers the disarmament cause after Germany withdrew from the disarmament conference and the League of Nations. He said the United States will strive for peace, but fears a clash between two major European powers could result from Hitler's actions.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation announced from Washington DC that 2 451 foreclosures on urban homes worth 6 991 006 were prevented during the week ending October 6. Total foreclosures avoided since start: 17 957, dollar volume 48 753 061.00. State branches approved 7 129 loan applications totaling 18 795 272.00. National total to October 6: 63 816 applications, 174 880 468.00, up 12.6% from September 30. Arkansas approvals: 142 loans totaling 50 986 with reduction, 120 without. Rejections: 21 before appraisal, 5 after. Withdrawals: 5. Bond exchanges closed: 3 loans 20 283. Foreclosures averted: 4.
Legions of Hempstead county are asked to attend a district meeting at Texarkana Tuesday night October 17 by Dewey Hendrix post commander. This substitutes the second October meeting and Commander Kelly Twelfth district has called the conference to discuss matters before posts in his jurisdiction. Several local Legionnaires are expected to attend.
June Brashear, accused in the February First National heist that left $24,000 with three bandits, faces circuit court in Ashington for a Wednesday morning trial. Brashear may plead guilty or fight, officials cautious. He was ill with malaria in a Prescott jail cell when transfer planned.
Federal probe into United Air Lines disaster at Chesterton Indiana that killed seven shifts to a search for a man who carried a brown package onto the Newark bound flight. Melvin H. Purvis heads Chicago bureau inquiry as Cleveland and Newark offices cooperate. Officials suspect an explosion aboard may have caused the crash. The porter described a passenger leaving the plane at Cleveland.
New York December cotton futures dipped below nine cents for the first time in weeks, closing down 40 points as New Orleans markets also weakened. Stocks sagged with declines of one to four points per share, while openings were weak and day highs trailed prior closes.
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