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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
8
A group of Finns living in the United States sailed from New York to Helsinki to join Finnish forces against Russia. Reports state the travelers, many never before in Finland, intend to help defend the country as the Russian attacks continue along the northern front.
In Nouman Oklahoma the athletic director Tom Stidham announced the Sooners had been invited to play in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year’s Day. Players voted unanimously to accept after consulting university leaders and the Big Six conference.
Vatican dispatch reports Pope calls clergy to disciplined service and moral firmness. He exhorts church leaders to uphold doctrine, resist excess, and maintain unity amid global tensions and shifting moral standards.
A fragmented OCR style passage lists numerous peculiar names and nicknames such as Henry the Dain, Willie the Fated, Oodoh the Bepust, and Philip the Tall. The garbled text appears as a misread roster or index with scattered place names and descriptors, lacking coherent events or context.
Fire Marshal Guy Williams attributed a sequence of barn blazes in eastern Arkansas over the past year largely to incendiary acts by dissatisfied tenant farmers. The series, reported from Little Rock, points to tenant disputes as the principal motive behind the fires.
A PTA Father's Night program is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hope High School auditorium. Master of Ceremonies J. H. Jones, a band concert, and Our Schools by MW Ber y Henry are listed along with community singing led by BE Py Young. The invitation emphasizes there will be no surprises for attending fathers and invites all PTA and Hope Schools supporters to attend.
The Arkansas Baptist convention voted Wednesday night to launch a state wide campaign to raise 15040 for Ouachita College at Arkadelphia. Funds will pay 74000 debt and 76000 chapel and music conservatory. Council urged pastors to cooperate so the chapel could be ready by September 1940.
Oscar Orel and Clifton Boullysvill among men to be ordained deacons at Baptist Church service Friday. Ministers attending include Rev EB Janus Rev Fau Byers Magnolia Rev DS Silvey Rev C Sallie Rev My Reeves Hope Rev WL Kaptan Nashville and Rev HH Stingley Washington. Public invited to the service at Tabernacle Garrett Memorial Baptist Church.
A fragment notes Cotton New York on December 4 opening Thursday at 116 gin unused. Middling staple price 10.03. The terse line mentions AY TNG8 G but lacks full context or clear entities beyond cot ton and price.
The Democratic city primary ballots for December 12 list ward by ward judges alternate judges clerks and sheriffs. Officials named include L Carter Johnson MM BE Luck J M Harbin Casey McRae L M Boswell BR Hani and many others across wards with multiple clerks and alternates.
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas attorney Johnn K Bill appealed to the state Supreme Court on Thursday a Benton County chancery ruling restraining him from interfering with Southwestern Distilled Products Sulphur Springs liquor rectifying plant operations The appeal seeks to settle the tax rate on liquor handed by the plant The prior chancery ruling issued in Bentonville November 2 set the tax at five cents per gallon.
The verse asks about the sleeper on Mary’s lap and the angels at the scene. It notes that carols grew from folk songs and dances, cites Greensleeves as the melody from 1580, and credits William C. Dix with writing the words in the 1680s.
A girl once living in squalor near a river in an Arkansas town was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis after an X-ray funded by Christmas Seals. She spent 15 months in a tuberculosis sanitarium and returned home to recover, becoming a popular student and class president.
The Arkansas Baptist state convention adopted a 120000 budget for the year, up from last year by 1800. A new 4400 retirement provision was added for ministers, and lay leader W A Jackson urged churches to maintain monthly contributions to the cooperative program, described as democratic and voluntary across churches for distribution to denominational work.
George Jenkinson, 70, formerly of Detroit, was convicted of first degree murder in El Dorado Circuit Court for the killing of Wade Hopkins, a local merchant. The jury, after 1 hour 20 minutes deliberation, fixed life imprisonment despite defense claims of a mental blackout and persecution.
A Wednesday night theft attempt near 420 North in Elbert was foiled as a passerby alerted police. Officers credited the quick actions of residents and an unidentified individual with preventing the loss of a vehicle amid a confrontation with shrubbery and debris at the scene.
Hollywood profile of Ilona Massey, a Hungarian discovered by Mayer, highlighted as the standout from his European talent roundup. The piece notes her potential alongside Garbo and Dietrich, discusses her films Balalaika and Rosalie, and quotes studio executive Billy Grady praising the find.
A report to City Treasurer Charles Reynerson from Police Chief Sweeney Copeland shows a sharp rise in municipal fine collections. For eight months from April 1 to December 1, 1938 and 1939, fines increased about $100 monthly, with totals of $1,084.00 for 1938 and $1,? for 1939, per figures attached.
Employers are urged to use the Hope office of the Arkansas State Employment Service for holiday staffing. Manager Jota F. Peterson said many firms will hire additional personnel for temporary seasonal posts and that the service can save time by matching best suited, trained workers to open positions. Unemployed workers should register at once to receive work. The service can supply workers for clerical and other job classifications. One line about Jupiter’s moons is included but not relevant.
Ludie Heard, 28, reported as the last of several suspects in a cotton theft from T. D. Anderson of Fulton, was arrested in Dallas and returned to Hempstead County. State Policeman Harold Posterfield placed Heard in custody after indictments were issued by the July grand jury. other suspects were released on bond and three are to be tried at the January circuit court term.
A German envoy in the United States was murdered in Brooklyn. Police report the body found at a residence after an apparent assault. Neighbors recall a man living with Engelberg. investigation continues with authorities questioning residents and reviewing security footage.
A garbled OCR fragment presents. It references Samuel 17 and a dialogue involving David and a thought or aunt. The readable text is incomplete and lacks a coherent narrative or identifiable news event.
Turkish newspapers charge Germany with trying to spark a Turkish Russian war and say Ankara may demand recall of Ambassador Franz von Papen after circulars bearing the German embassy watermark reprinted a Moscow Pravda attack on Turkish press. Dutch ship Tajapapeh torpedoed in English Channel. 34 of 68 aboard rescued. British planes intercept German fliers over Firth of Forth. no landings or bombings reported.
Mrs John A Wade 85 died at her home near Blevins after a brief illness. A Brownstown Texas native she moved to Arkansas as a child and with husband John Wade marked their 57th anniversary in 1938. Survived by husband eight children fifteen grandchildren six great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at Marlbrook Church with ministers from Blevins officiating. burial in Mulbrook Cemetery.
LAS Texas reports Southkind Paper Mills owner BL Kurth says machinery is prepared and the pope machine will begin turning December 19 to January 1. Test runs target rapid full production with experts forecasting Jasper grades and a quick move into commercial output if trials succeed.
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