Auction sale planned for insolvent bank assets
W S Atkins, Arkansas Bank & Trust Co. liquidator, announces a December 7 public auction of remaining real estate assets. He cites orderly liquidation under the State Banking Department, notes substantial depositor recovery and urges interested parties to contact the department’s selling agents in the bank building for sale details.
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W. S. Atkins
Arkansas Bank & Trust Co
Mope
State Banking Department
Actling
Atkins
Atkli
Chancery Court
Deadline Set for Bids on Hope Fire Station Project
The bid deadline for the Hope fire station construction is moved to 2 p.m. December 16 from December 18. Sealed proposals must be delivered to Mayor Albert Graves's office. A legal notice about the matter is printed elsewhere in The Star.
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New Hope
Albert Graves
The
Star
A Thought Childhood Visits a Man in Memory
A reflective line from Mrs. Jameson notes that childhood thoughts revisit a man in later life, implying lingering influences of youth on adult perspective and memory.
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Mrs. Jameson
Cranium Crackers Puzzle Notes and Answers
A quirky items note lists true false statements about history and biology. It asks which claims are true, including the Jukes family, queen bees stingers, Berlin as the Eternal City, goldfish origins, and jumping beans, with answers promised on the next page.
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Berlin
Eakin and Cole to Head Razorbacks
Ray Eakin and Ray Cole were elected co captains of the 1948 Arkansas Razorbacks football squad at a team banquet. Eakin from Marianna and Cole from Ranger Texas are key backfield players. Also named were 23 varsity letter wearers across seniors juniors and sophomores with Lloyd Woodell as captain and other named players from several cities.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Ray Eakin
Ray Cole
Razorback
University of Arkansas
John C. Putrall
Eakin
Kr. Marianna
Cole
Ranger
Texas
Dr. Futrall
Dean J. S
Waterman
The
Athletic Council
Fred C. Thomson
Boyd Cypert
Lloyd Woodell
Wooodell
Fordyce
Worrest Larimore
Rogers
Frank Mosley
Sam Barker
Little Rock
W. B. Owen
Alvin
Randall Stallings
McAlister
Okla
Bob Stout
Marion Fletcher
Hamburg
Ralph Atwood
el Dorado
Lloyd Lyton
Walter Hamberg
Lonoke
Neil Martin
Texarkana
Zack Smith
Frederick
Dudley Mays
Wilfred Thorpe
Joy Scalet
Hartford
Maurice Britt
Howard Hickey
Clarksville
John Freiberger
Point
Bill Southerland
Pendleton
Jan Carter
Hazen
Saul Singer
Brooklyn
N. Yi
Milton Simington
Dierks
A. J. Yates
Bentonville
Y E M A to Lead Goodfellow Drive in Hope This Year
The Young Business Men's association Y E M A elects W B Atkins new president and votes to sponsor the Goodfellow membership campaign in Hope this year Plans for city and county projects to start in January were also discussed with a December 8 meeting at Hot City Hall to form plans and appoint committees for the drive Future sponsors include the American Legion and Ministerial Alliance with other groups invited to attend
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Young Business Men's Association
W. 8. Atkins
Goodfellow
Soodfellow Movement
Atkins
Hot City Hall
American Legion Post
Hope Ministerial Alliance
American Legion and Ministerial Alliance
Governor Bailey Guests at Presidential Party in Warm Springs
Governor Carl Bailey of Arkansas attended a holiday party with Georgia Governor Rivers and White House aides including Ambassador Bullitt, Harry Hopkins, and Dr. Ross McIntire in Warm Springs Georgia after a Atlanta visit. The article notes chewing gum production from the Sapala tree latex in Contra America.
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Warm Springs
Carl Bailey
Arkansas
Atlanta
el. D. Rivers
Georgia
White House
Ambassador Bullitt
Harry Hopkins
Ross McIntire
Contra America
Mind Your Manners Quiz from Social Etiquette Guide
A quick etiquette quiz reviews proper table manners. Questions cover stirring coffee, elbow on the table, napkin use before sipping water, handling a seat request in a crowded restaurant, and reactions to Dutch treat meals. Answers emphasize courtesy, avoiding rudeness, and avoiding financial awkwardness.
Maxim First Flight Claim Shrouded In Photo Proof
Photographs from Sir Hiram Maxim’s estate in England are cited as evidence he flew a steam powered machine in 1894, predating the Wright brothers. E W Roberts of Cincinnati recalls the test run on a July afternoon, the craft crashing after brief lift and a splintering fall.
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NEA
Cincinnati
Hiram Stevens Maxim
E. W. Roberts
Dayton
Wright Brothers
Maxim
Roberts
Wright
Kitty Hawk
Hiram
Maximhen
Ander
Strike Leaders in France Lose Jobs
Paris reports Premier Daladier pardons none of the thwarted general strike leaders and orders public service chiefs discharged. Thousands in the prewar industry are dismissed for joining the movement, while sympathy walkouts flare. Government says up to 70,000 workers were dismissed, with critics alleging far more. The move strains relations with Leftist parties as Daladier seeks to press his economic mobilization plan.
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Paris
France
Daladier
Socialist Party
People's Front
Cooter Outlines Social Security Enactment
Texarkana official John H. Cooter told Hope Rotary Club the Social Security law arose from an exhaustive study by a special committee with industrialists and labor representatives. He said it was not pushed by the executive department and was adopted by Congress largely as drafted. He noted old-age insurance is the federal government’s sole division and highlighted rising old age demographics and improved reports. Guests included Rev Kenneth L. Spore and Hal Moore Jr with Wayne C. Fletcher joining the club.
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Mr. Eastman
John H. Cooter
Social Security Administration
Texarkana
Hope Rotary Club
Hotel Barlow
Congress
Executive Department
Cooter
United States
Mr. Cooter
Kenneth L. Spore
First Methodist Church of
Hove
Wayne C. Fletcher
Hal Moore, Jr
Christmas Buying Pushes Sales Up Across Nation
New York report from Dun & Bradstreet notes this week that retail shopping at distribution centers rose about 2 to 3 percent above last week as cold weather spurs Christmas buying. Nationally, sales compared with a year ago varied, with leading cities showing gains up to eight percent and declines up to six percent.
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New York
Reading
Dun & Brandstreet
Cotton opens higher on Friday in New Orleans market
The New Orleans cotton market opened at 8.77 cents and closed at 3.64. Spot cotton finished four points above, with middling at 8.49 as trading concluded.
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New Orleans
Cotton
Spot Cotta
Cotton Council Proposed in Arkansas
Representatives of five major Arkansas cotton lines met in North Little Rock to discuss forming an Arkansas cotton council. Harold A. Young of North Little Rock chaired the gathering as speakers outlined freight rates, shrinking foreign markets, and low prices as the main challenges for cotton producers, ginners, warehousemen, merchants, and seed crushers.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas Cotton Council
Harold A. Young
North Little Rock
National Cotton Council
23 Identified Dead in Bus Disaster
Salt Lake City Utah reports the nation’s worst school bus train collision. Twenty three victims identified after a bus carrying students was struck by a fast freight train near here. Sixteen youths were injured, three critically, with one mangled body still unidentified.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Postpone Trial in Baking Deaths
Philadelphia officials report the Pennsylvania Supreme Court postponed the opening of former Deputy Warden Frank Craven’s trial for at least two weeks to give his attorney time to interview convicts who survived the punishment cell incident last August. Other defendants’ trials are also expected to be deferred from next Tuesday.
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Philadelphia
Peninsylvania Supreme Court
Frank Craven
Floods Drown 72 on North Border of Turkey
Seventy two people drowned as floods swept the region north of the Syrian border. Thousands of homes were wrecked and refugees displaced. In Shanghai 400 child refugees were transferred to Chekiang province beginning life anew.
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Turkey
Istanbul
Shangai
Chekisng
Fisher Body Plant Closed by Strike
The Fisher Body plant in Flint Michigan section No 1 closed at midday Friday as CIO Unit led Automobile Workers members walked out for a wage dispute in the press and metal departments. Officials reported 3454 to 438 vote for the strike.
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Flint, Mich
Fisher Body Company
CIO Unit
Automobile Workers Union
UAW
Kidnapped Girl Freed After Ransom Confusion
Mary Brown, 18, returned to her Oxon Hill home Thursday night in a hysterical state after a 30 hour disappearance. Her sister Lucy, 15, said two foreign looking men offered a ride before abducting her, but police say details await her questioning.
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Oxon Hill
William D. Brown
Mary Brown
Mary
Washington
Brown
Lucy Brown
Thiem
Lucy
Grid Squad Guests of Williams at Theater
Twenty three members of the Hope High School football team were guests of Jr Williams Thursday night to see Service DeLuxe at the Saenger theater. Coaches Hammons and Brasher also attended.
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Hope High School
Jr. Williams
Saenger Theater
Hammons Wid Brasher
Fascists Demand Share of French in Africa
ROME Italian editor Virginio Gayda warns France Italy is ready to march if needed to defend Tunisian interests linked to Libya. Tunis covers 48,300 square miles and 2,159,708 people, with Carthaginian history and French rule since 1575. SHANGHAI Chinese forces recapture Lintsing in western Shantung amid guerrilla actions against Japanese posts near Nantings.
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Rome
Italy
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
France
Gayda
Tunisia
Libya
Tunis
Mediterranean Sea
Carthage
Shanghai
China
Lintsing
Shantung Province
Nantsin
Farm Act Vote Clarified for Cotton Quotas referendum
County Agricultural Agent outlines how the 1939 cotton marketing quotas work and how farmer stakes are determined. Quotas apply when the total supply exceeds normal by seven percent and require a two thirds producer vote. Individual quotas equal the greater of the farm’s normal production or its acreage allotment plus on hand cotton from a previous crop not penalized in 1938.
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Oliver L. Adams
Hempstead
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Y.E.M.A
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Hope
Bailey
Wrights
England
U.S
Cotton Council
L. A
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CIO
Grid Squad
Williams
Africa
Adams
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