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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1932
Page
1
Ticket sales progress for a fall banquet at Hotel Barlow 7 30 p m Tuesday featuring J E editor of Southern Agriculturist as principal speaker. Event sponsored by Kiwanis Bus Professional Women clubs with civic club members handling sales led by R Floyd and others.
Eddie Dowling auctioned a world champion watermelon after a Pal Theater show in New York. The 166 pound fruit went to raise funds for the Democratic No. 1 Committee, with profits to be announced after final totals.
Three utility firms won early federal court rulings to block rate cuts. Judge Martineau issued temporary injunctions for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co and Southwestern Gas & Electric Co to halt reductions tied to a Little Rock finance order, while an ordinance mandating a state-level cut was voided for lack of 30 days' notice by the city council.
Baseball closes the 1932 season with the Cubs at .584 and 90 64 in the National League and the Yankees at .695 with 107 47 in the American League. Dizzy Dean tops the year with 191 strikeouts as Chattanooga leads the Dixie Series race in the Southern Association.
The long missing Ambrose Small, Toronto theater magnate, vanished December 2 1919 after selling his Canadian theater chain for 1 750 000 and placing a 1 000 000 down payment. Aides faced bond theft charges, and a suspected affair looms as investigators note a 13 year disappearance with a 50 000 reward.
A hearing for R. J. Brooks charged with reckless driving in a noon accident on East Avenue B was continued to next week in municipal court on a motion by attorney W. S. Atkins. Phil Sutton of Sutton suffered an injured back. no charge was filed against Martin Guthrie who rode with Brooks when the Chevrolet struck a Ford truck, causing a rollover and injuries to one of three occupants. The police had previously misidentified Brooks as D A Ward.
Hempstead County gins report 7 182 bales ginned year to date versus 2 011 bales last year as cotton prices rose Monday. Trading shows December futures 7 48 to 7 60 with a 5 25 cent gain from Friday. William Brummett, the government cotton agent, provided the tabulations.
U S Department of Agriculture notes the cotton market in Memphis from Sept 17 to 23 was active with Sept 23 quotations about 23 points higher than Sept 16. Demand ranged from fair to good and spot transactions were sizable as producers marketed winnings amid weather-driven quality declines in the western belt.
Paragould Arkansas reports Senator DuVal L Purkins of Warren was named by Governor elect J M Futrell as private secretary upon taking office next January. The appointment is Futrell's first announced as incoming governor.
A merger unites White and Studebaker forming a 161 million dollar auto group. Studebaker origins trace to five brothers who began in South Bend 1852, later achieving 117 million dollar sales in 1928 with mills in South Bend Detroit and Buffalo. White began with sewing machines and steamers, entering autos in 1900.
Nearly a thousand swallows sheltered in a factory chimney stack at the Ayre Lord Tile plant in Little Rock were gassed and died when a furnace was lit for steam Monday. Firemen found the flock in the 115 foot stack after rain drove them inside Sunday night.
Democrats of Arkansas Seventh district schedule a Wednesday rally in Texarkana to raise funds for the presidential campaign. Senator Joe T. Robinson and Brooks Hays will attend with Robinson speaking Wednesday night. The meeting also backs the Roosevelt Garner Campaign Fund drive and names Hempstead county chairman Alex H. Washburn.
W A Bolding 55 died at his Columbus home Saturday afternoon. Funeral services were held Sunday at 10 with Rev. Wiles of the Baptist church officiating. He is survived by his widow two daughters Mrs Horace Ellen Columbus and Mrs Press McKinney Overton Texas four sisters Fannie Collins Mineral Springs S H Hall Fort Worth Roden Dallas and Laura Barrett Crosbyton Texas and four brothers J M Bolding Columbus J A Little Rock R A Sherman and A B Bonham Texas.
Fort Smith Ark. Irving C. Neale speaker of the 1931 and later special sessions of the legislature was reported slightly improved but still in very critical condition at noon Monday. He suffers from acute Brights disease and influenza contributed to his illness during the 1932 spring session.
Gandhi ends a six day death fast in Poona after London accepts most of the compromise on Indian privileges. He reads the document carefully as his wife assists him to eat Musambi. Gandhi’s life and struggle for independence span years in India and abroad.
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