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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1939
Page
4
Fragmented society column recounts a May event at the Pines with a pie supper and a birthday party. Attendees include Mr and Mrs Bundy, J. D. Coffman, Miss Mavis Baker, and Miss Bette de Cullins. Local speeches feature Mrs Leon Bundy and a demonstration on property rights.
The standings show mixed team names and player mentions such as Kostas Nepemes Iverson and Robison Verner Ivory, with scattered notes about venues like Texarkana and Memphis. Several matchups are listed for Thursday and Friday nights with teams including Beamer Ivory against Texarkana and clubs in Memphis and Nashville, followed by Tuesday results featuring Birmingham at Atta and Nashville at Knoxville.
Fragmentary text lists several MLB or league matchups and venues with teams like Cleveland Detroit New York Chicago Philadelphia and a note about Tuesday games. The readable fragments are inconsistent and do not provide clear results or dates.
Pine's swimming program reports continued classes with students tested under Red Cross instructors. Several beginners earned certificates, including Keith Cassidy and others from Prescott and Tope, while intermediate and senior exams produced additional recognitions.
Abrogation of the Japanese trade treaty may cut U S cotton exports to Japan risking 800,000 bales annually. Everett Ru Cook of the Cotton Rosenrott Foundation cites disrupted conditions and possible embargoes as key risks. Cash-on-arrival shipments and insurance gaps loom without policy change.
Bruce Catton discusses wartime trade policy and neutrality in 1917, noting how export credits and American shipping could affect relations with belligerents. He cites Commerce Department data showing large U S purchases by England and France in metals, beef, wheat, and other goods, and outlines how trade patterns followed or anticipated wartime needs while diplomacy framed delivery risks.
Linda faces a charged scene with Jimmy Cope as military life, romance, and looming marriage press on. Mareia, Marcia, and the cadets observe tensions while Linda weighs an unspoken fear and a risky future with Jimmy.
Final voting for Hope's Leading Citizen ends Tuesday night at 4 40 with three polling places open until 8 30. Three judges count the votes and the winner will be announced in The Star on Wednesday. Judges are M M Smyth, Thompson Evans and Ton Wardlaw.
The Free City of Danzig warns it may ignore treaty provisions as Polish customs block margarine firm shipments, triggering a fresh clash over trade within the Polish customs system. A German paper calls the Polish move the start of destroying the Five State’s legal basis.
Lieutenant Governor Bailey admonished the senate about a controversial bill and the potential emergency clause. Senator Roy Milum pressed questions on previous emergencies, prompting Bailey to promise a final vote would reflect concerns over a matter affecting about 2 billion people and 140 million dollars.
A discussion highlights how wartime disruptions to American commerce, including bel ligerents actions and ship torpedoings, reveal gaps in current laws that could permit repeats unless addressed.
The accounts committee decided Tuesday to ask the house to appropriate $30,000 for the forthcoming investigation of the Watsons Labor Relations Board.
The Star corrects an error caused by initials confusion. Ira C. Hopper of Lakeland Florida, a U S Senate candidate, did not marry Miss Ira Middlebrooks of Hope. The husband in fact is D C Hopper of Pittsburgh with Duquesne Light. The Florida candidate was born in Caddo Gap Alabama and married to a Hot Springs girl before moving to Florida.
At First Presbyterian Church last Sunday the congregation installed six new officers elected weeks earlier. Ruling Elders H Bull Vineyard and I L Pilkinton. Deacons RB Bowen Joe J Wade Jus H Nelson and E Cooper. James H Pilkinton, absent, will be ordained as deacon later. Only Cooper and Nelson were newly ordained. others had served in other congregations. This strengthens the Hope Presbyterian session and deacon board.
A British authority on child development claims no child is born truthful and that truthfulness must be acquired through virtue and education. He asserts honesty is a teachable trait, not an innate gift.
Budapest reports the Hungarian News Agency that Romanian artillery formed on the left bank of the Tisza near Yecsa after a Hungarian frontier guard was wounded by a Romanian guardsman at Testa. In Kansas and Utah demographic figures follow, noting life expectancy years for males and females in Utah.
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