24 Aug 1940
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1940
Page
1
The notice explains that tributes cards or memorials should be directed to the appropriate publications and warns readers about responsibility safeguards for unsolicited manuscripts including burial programs and memorial materials. It emphasizes safekeeping and return policies for such items.
A Washington discussion describes the National Defense Advisory Committee and allied agencies as the nation mobilizes civilian effort. It notes political pressure from senators and industry, while praising figures like Henderson and Elliott for bipartisan sacrifice and cooperation beyond party lines.
The Star lists candidates authorized for Hempstead County Democratic primary on Tuesday August 13. For County Judge FREDA LUCK John L. Wilson. For County Treasurer NEWT PENTECOST and MRS GLADINE B MORRIS. For Circuit Clerk P Pinkey Byers and Elmer Brown. For Representative No. 7 Talbot Feild Jr Hugh D Clark No. 2 Jim Bearden Royce Weisberger.
Ralph Crutchfield spent today at Nashville. Miss Ethel Arnold visits Jin Morriston. Miss Mary Kathrine Steele of Mena is guest of Mrs Emma Greene. Mrs Colonel Baughman visits Hot Springs. Mrs J F Giles of Spring Hill La weekend guest of Mrs Soun Gibson. Mrs D T Paisley leaves for Tulsa six weeks. Mrs Claude R McCorkle of Texarkana visits aunt Mrs John P Cox. Miss Doris Owen of Conway returns home from visit with Mrs DuVal Perkins.
WEA Special Correspondent Ruth Farrar surveys athletic superstition noting players’ quirks before games. Dr. B A Cartwright collects habits from hockey to gridiron athletes, revealing rituals like hats on beds and left skate first for luck.
A jumble of crossword style clues with answers spanning mythic themes and common terms. Entries include references to Adam and Eve, moral concepts, measurements, and abbreviations, suggesting a mixed puzzle page with horizontal and vertical hints.
A synthesis of beliefs from football to baseball and beyond shows athletes taping coins for luck, avoiding photo sessions before games, not stepping on lines, tipping hay wagons, and decorating dugouts with black cloth. Navy midshipmen bless games with salutes and rail at blinds left up.
The questions list river boundaries in the United States. Connecuticut river separates Vermont from New Hampshire. Delaware River forms part of the boundary between Pennsylvania and its neighbors New York and New Jersey. Red River forms part of Texas and Oklahoma. Columbia River forms boundary between Washington and Oregon. Wabash River lies along the Illinois Indiana border.
Ruth Millet summarizes English writer Jan Struther who created Mrs Miniver. Struther believes international mindedness must grow from bottom up, starting with mothers who share home life across lands. She envisions a future when women lead with understanding beyond wartime aims.
Fragmentary passage notes two British children in America taught to be polite. It mentions Americans offering to other British children and compares the Yangtze and Amazon rivers by length.
In Half Moon Arkansas Raymond Spen plans a distinctive cotton gin under construction. The facility will be a streamlined concrete building with a white exterior and landscaped grounds, promising a departure from typical utilitarian gins in the belt.
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