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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1932
Page
1
A powerful hurricane struck San Juan with an estimated 40 fatalities and hundreds injured and left thousands homeless. The storm reached near 120 miles per hour before midnight, causing extensive property damage and forcing women and children to seek shelter in churches and schools.
Camden faces Hope Friday in a battle between evenly matched teams. Coach Sam Coleman plans lineup tweaks and extra practice under lights to sharpen the backfield and fix weaknesses shown in last week’s Haynesville defeat. The Camden squad lists players across positions and weighs in at about 149 to 193 pounds per starter.
Texarkana dispatch reports Ed Green a Miller County farmer died in a hospital from bullet wounds after a Monday night gun fight with his stepson Jesse Plant 25 at the family home near Garland City Plant surrendered and was charged with murder. Green was 60.
A box supper to aid the DeAnn boys and girls basketball teams will be held at DeAnn school Saturday night October 1. The public is invited to attend.
Washington bulletin reports President Hoover names Representative Charles Crisp of Georgia to the Tariff Commission to fill the vacancy created by the death of Lincoln Dixon. In Havana Cuba, Clemente Vazquez Bello, president of the Cuban senate and head of the National Liberal party, is assassinated at the Havana Country Club on Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Lida McCollum of Prescott sister of the late Circuit Judge J. H. McCollum of Hope was buried at Rose Hill cemetery at 10 oclock Tuesday. The service was led by Rev. B. F. Roebuck assisted by Dr. J. L. Cannon. She died Monday afternoon at the Magnolia home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davis and was aunt to Mrs. J. L. Davis and Mrs. D. M. Davis of Magnolia.
In Worcester Massachusetts the home of Judge Webster Thayer 74 who presided over the Sacco Vanzetti case was destroyed by a dynamite bomb early Tuesday injuring his wife and a maid. The blast toppled a rear garage and shook nearby homes. A neighbor reported an automobile parked before the house minutes prior to the explosion. Mrs Thayer’s condition was not serious and the maid was treated for cuts and bruises. Judge Thayer walked from the damaged residence unaided.
Conway Ark William Bundy son of Mr and Mrs Leon Bundy of Hope has been elected secretary treasurer of the Hendrix College Dramatic Club Bundy a Hendrix sophomore will help stage short plays in the college chapel and perform engagements in nearby towns under sponsor Mrs Susan Dowdy head of the speech arts department
The Dorothy Arnold case, a New York heiress who vanished December 12, 1910, remains unsolved after 22 years. Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn announced the disappearance after a monthlong search, Miss Arnold last seen leaving Grentano's on Fifth Avenue. She planned a lunch with her mother at the Waldorf Astoria and was reported missing mid December.
News dispatches report more than 100 dead and at least 150 injured after an earthquake hit the Chalcidice region and nearby Stratonikion and Lerissos villages. Khalkis on Euboea is noted as a historic maritime center.
A U S Navy balloon landing at the Polish Latvian frontier won the James Gordon Bennett cup race that started in Basel Switzerland. The distance covered was about 1000 meters or nearly 950 miles, as reported from Warsaw.
In Liverpool, England, Lord May or bought a one and a half pound potato displayed in a shop. He planted it in his garden three seasons ago and has since harvested 300 pounds of potatoes from it and its progeny.
The piece notes Democrats aim to win both congressional chambers in November despite a presidential race, with parties predicting shifts in Senate seats across states and a fierce House contest as all 435 seats are up for grabs. It highlights key battlegrounds and the high stakes for party leadership.
The Hope Basket Company's plant in the southwest city quarter seeks several extra hands including women workers. Plant manager G. J. MacGregor announced ongoing near capacity operations and a resumed purchase of gum blocks and logs per today’s Star advertisement.
The Hope chamber of commerce announces a Tuesday banquet at Hotel Barlow for 7 30 p m with J E Stanford farm editor of the Southern Agriculturist to speak on The Relation of Agriculture to Community Progress. Sponsored by the Chamber Rotary Kiwanis and BPW clubs, about thirty Hempstead county farmers are invited as guests for talks and musical selections.
Cotton prices slipped on Tuesday as December contracts fell five points, 25 cents per bale, closing at 7.43.
C A Osborne of White county received a two month furlough after being sentenced to two years for the death of Jack Valentine following a dispute. Also furloughed were Ben Keating of Union and John J Dety of Carroll county both serving two years for forgery and uttering.
A $20,000 federal relief loan to Hope and Hempstead County will fund employment and destitution relief. Registration begins Sept 28 with a committee network led by J. P. Duffie. Applicants must register locally and provide two references. Funds will support city and county public work at set wages and be repaid from Arkansas' highway aid allotment.
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