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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1939
Page
7
In Ploy Elm Creek Nebraska boys hunt rattlesnakes for anant tle excitement. They drown snakes with cold water then chill them to force them out of holes. Rattlers are collected, some killed, and kept or used for back of their herds.
Preston Grover Washington reviews legal clashes around Fritz Kuhn and the German American Bund. The Dies Committee probes their aims while Kuhn faces charges tied to Bund funds. The piece notes jurors, judges, and public opinion shaping the case and compares it with other controversial figures like Earl Browder.
A scattered discussion links Browder and other alleged communists to waves of public unease. The piece notes Browder’s legal status as a Communist and possible passport issues, Bridges’s deportation questions as a labor figure, and contrasts Capone’s era with a broader call to action amid mass sentiment that action was needed.
AF Feature Service reports Wisconsin inquired if Washington would assume liability for a salesman’s car damaged by a wild deer on a public highway. Assistant Attorney General Browder Brown replied that the state aims to keep highways safe for motorists and pedestrians including deer, noting no incident reported yet and deferring further action pending game warden investigation.
Paris reports that out of work mayors in France have no unemployment insurance. The Ormesson municipal board ruled that being mayor is a public privilege not a profession. Communist Mayor Gauthier and party members ousted during Lalande's drive faced aid denial.
A trap door spider that nests in trees was discovered in the Belgian Congo. It hollows a groove in the bark to build and camouflage its structure, a habit overlooked until recently.
A note mentions a person who faced income tax chicanery charges and served a term in Alcatraz, a rare fate among tax dodgers, underscoring a harsh precedent in the case.
In Hopkingville Kentucky Judge Hunter Wood rules two car wrecks at a street intersection show civil damage issues not criminal recklessness or carelessness. Each driver demanded an arrest, but the court states police courts are not collecting agencies, limiting the case to civil damages. Christmas is noted as a Christian festival since the fourth century.
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