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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1933
Page
3
Bruce Catton surveys rapid milestones in policy and culture as Uncle Sam contemplates near‑future control of banking, the RFC’s potential billion‑dollar stake, and a harsh verdict on the current system. He contrasts Chinese genealogies with American pride and notes the nation’s sweeping, near unanimous tilt on issues from prohibition to politics and a dream of faster air mail service.
Senator Bankhead said the cotton convention committee pressed a plan to remove half of the cotton still in farmers hands from the market. The committee abandoned its fight on the processing tax while Roosevelt said he would receive the delegation Thursday. Secretary Wallace told grain dealers he favors controlled inflation, warned against price fixing without production control, and predicted strong agricultural policy actions by Congress this winter. Roosevelt plans to push the navy buildup to treaty limits despite rumors of curtailment.
Ashdown High School gridmen meet the Bobcats in the season opener at the high school athletic field Friday night at eight. Ashdown touts a strong squad with 10 lettermen returning, while the Bobcats seek better offense and defense after last week's All-Star test. Line changes include Drake at tackle and Holly at center, with Turner ill and Chamberlain out for disciplinary reasons. Officials named are O Daniel, Dalrymple, Methvin and Wallace Cook.
Superintendent Miss Beryl Henry announced a tentative opening for Hope public schools on October 2 with a final decision expected early next week. State Relief Commission has not acted on the Hope School Board’s federal aid request to operate another term, while funds shortfalls push plans to use paper warrants or tax money with tuition for high school students as last resorts.
Washington reports a tentative October 1 start for a nationwide buy now movement to support grace production and sales costs under the recovery program. President Roosevelt signs executive codes for transit, gasoline pumps, oil bureaus, textiles and other industries, while AFL leader William Green cites unions and corporate schemes affecting employees.
R Wallace Moore, a former Virginia congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee member, was named by President Roosevelt to be assistant secretary of state succeeding Raymond Moley. Moore, allied with Cordell Hull in the House, may see duties beyond debt talks, as Moley’s role on war debt issues remains uncertain.
Dr L J Kosminsky of Texarkana accepted an invitation to address Hempstead county Legionnaires at the first outpost meeting of the season in Washington Thursday night. He is president of the Arkansas Medical Society and a former Arkansas American Legion State Commander. The Washington gathering marks county outpost resumption with Mack Parsons arranging, John Rideghill's string band to entertain.
The first suspect in the $900 Lewisville bank robbery was arrested near Patmos but released after bank officials did not identify him as a gang member. A Hempstead county man, thought to drive the getaway car, remained at large as officers hunted him in Nevada and Fatmas. The car was abandoned after the noon robbery. a woman reports a gun protruding from the suspect's shirt on a visit to Will Plumley. Sheriffs and the prosecuting attorney toured the state penitentiary seeking usable leads, but details were not released.
A baffling aviation fact notes violent electrical storms occur at high altitudes yet show no observable indications from the ground. The paradox challenges pilots and researchers seeking to understand upper atmospheric phenomena and storm detection limits.
Early returns show New Mexico voting three to one for repealing the state dry law and abolishing its bone dry statute. Idaho precincts counted 15,500 for repeal to 10,356 against, as Boise precincts indicated a similar trend toward repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.
Bernt Balchen, American aviator, who vanished after leaving a ship to reach a hospital for an appendicitis operation, reappeared at Volks hospital by noon Wednesday. He was to have surgery that afternoon while Sir Hubert Wilkins accompanied him toward Byrd’s Antarctic expedition.
The Hempstead County Equalization Board finished Monday with personal property assessments raised by 7250. Chair A. H. Wade praised Assessor John W. Ridghill for equitable results, noting no individuals requested personal property reductions and that real estate totals would offset reductions on the books.
In Clarksdale Mississippi and across the Delta gins raised cottonseed prices to an average of 22 dollars per ton from 14 dollars as competition grew. Merchants in Juleville Drew and Gilmer funded 16000 dollars to push seed prices up, with Gilmer gins leading the rise. The initial spike reached 25 dollars a ton before leveling off, boosting farmer returns to about 15 dollars per bale of cottonseed oil.
The New York cotton market fell on Wednesday with October futures closing at 9.88, down $4 points or $195 for a 4 bale lot, erasing most of the gains from the prior two days. Early Wednesday touched Tuesday’s 1.27 level before a session-wide slump ensued. Cotton seed at Temple Cotton Oil Co rose to 912.4 a ton for wagon loads and 14,010 a ton in carrot quantities, up about $2.0 a ton.
Hope Melon seeds to aid children at the Arkansas Children's Home and Hospital. Superintendent Dr. Christian plans to sell 1000 to 1500 seeds at five cents each, fund a crutch and brace fund, and reward the largest melon with a cash prize. The plan, suggested by J. M. Brashear, started with a 110-pound Hope melon bought in Hope.
LITTLE ROCK A 22-year-old Helen Spence Eaton, praised as comely, hid in an attic at the state prison farm for women in Jacksonvill, missing since Monday and believed to have escaped for a second time in a week. She had not eaten since midday Monday. Superintendant Mrs. Brockman found her during a farm search as authorities vow close monitoring after Eaton’s second escape attempt. She confessed to killings tied to past crimes and parolees.
Oklahoma City reports that Joseph B. Keen an, assistant attorney leading the national fight on crime, faces threats from George Kelly and others tied to the Urschel kidnaping case. Fingerprint leads linked Keenan to a confrontation with gang figures as legal action intensifies. The government traced a machine gun to Kathryn Kelly via a Birmingham dealer and a Fort Worth arms seller, tying the weapon to the Chicago area crime ring connected to Harvey Bailey. Urschel testified, then was excused, as prosecutors seek to prove the defendants’ roles in the high profile abduction and ransom plot.
Two men, Will Cooper and Alton Cooper of Grady, Ark, were found on the highway near Redfield with Will dead and Alton wounded. Authorities suspect a motorist they tried to rob caused the attack.
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