City Observes Christmas Week End Amid Closures
City prepares Christmas observance with Sunday church services and Monday business suspensions. Post office and banks halt, extras deliver packages. Charity drives fund nearly 500 dollars for the needy as local groups announce final distributions. First Baptist and First Methodist plan Cantata and Christmas sermons with a full Sunday program.
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Goodfellows
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Girlfellows
L. J. Nichols
L. A. Foster
A. W. Cobb
A.D. Thompson
Christmas Day Church Schedule At Two City Pews
First Presbyterian Church Led by Rev Thomas Brewster merges Sunday school and morning service at 10 o clock with 9 45 roll calls and 1 00 oclock closing. Mid week service 7 30. Gospel Tabernacle combines Sunday school with morning worship and ends about 14 15 to allow Christmas observance. Special music by Ruel Oliver and visiting musicians planned. Christus Day services urged.
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Gert Webly
Ruel Oliver
Tabernacle Orchestra
Pan American Nations Reach a Final Agreement
41 Western hemisphere republics end two weeks of talks in Lima with a unanimous decision to defend continental solidarity against foreign intervention. Argentina’s draft urged no explicit outside aggression. U S diplomats balanced views to produce a majority declaration.
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United States
Argentina
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Cordell Hull
Hull
False and true statements mixed on page teaser
A reader quiz lists five statements about presidents symbols and history. It claims Ohio is the mother of Presidents, the cornucopia symbolizes scarcity, Ribald is a South American patriot, the Crimean War is known for the Charge of the Light Brigade, and a pygmalion is an Australian aborigine, with answers on Page Tho.
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Light Brigade
Unity Baptist Church Sunday Schedule Announcement
Unity Baptist Church invites all to Sunday School at 10 a.m. and a morning sermon at 11 a.m. Eli B.S. will preach. An Easy Young Peoples Service follows at 6 30 p.m. with another preaching at 7 13 p.m. Prayer service is Wednesday evening at 7 30. Attend and worship with us, first chance to attend Sunday service this year.
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First Baptist Citurcil Willians
Hamilton
Hirst Baptist Church
W. R. Mamilton
First Baptist Church
Sander
F. L. Padgitt
Eli
B.S
Easy Young Peoples
Christ, Our Example and Christmas Lesson at Church
Church of Christ led by J A Copeland invites all to Sunday morning Bible lessons from 10:30 to 12 and evening services at 7:40. Morning topic Should Christians Celebrate Christmas and evening topic Christ Our Example. Public welcome.
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Christ
Daladier Victory in Chamber of Deputies Upsets France
Paris reports Premier Daladier won a smashing victory as the Chamber of Deputies approved the 1,749,537,440 budget and government decree laws by 866 to 209. Daladier immediately signaled resignation talks linked to Laval-Mazarin Tunisia accord amid new political shifts.
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Tunisia
Thought on Deliverance From Fear by Witherspaun
A fragmentary note contends with fear and deliverance, invoking Galukat and thought on relief. The piece hints at a larger discussion or column continuing in Page Three.
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Galukat
Mane Witherspaun
'38 Business Marked by Steady Upswing Says John T. Flynn
John T. Flynn analyzes the prior year in a three part review noting the 1934-38 recovery, the February 1938 upswing, and how production outpaced payrolls and employment while investment and building lagged, with a cautious outlook for 1939.
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Jom T. Flynn
Enrther
Mrs M Smith 28 Dies Buried Friday in Hope
Mrs Muselle Smith 28 died after a lengthy illness on Thursday morning. Funeral services set for 3 o'clock Friday at Forrest Hill Methodist with burial in Hill Cemetery. Survived by six sisters and five brothers, all of Hope and Hupe, including Mrs Joe Mooy Mrs J G Mandy Mrs J A Allen Mrs Sid Skinner Mrs Bonnie Gibbons Mrs Vernie Goynes and Mrs Aileen Collier.
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Smith
Hupe
Kenneth Lemley Named a West Point Corporal
Kenneth Lemley of Hope Arkansas was promoted to corporal in the Corps of Cadets at West Point on December 2 per special orders by Brigadier General Jay Benefiel, superintendent. Lemley, son of Harvey J. Lumley, entered the Military Academy in 19b after attending Magnolia A M High School and Marion Institute, New Mexico.
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Hope Ark
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Jay Benefliet
Military Academy
Harvey J. Lumley
Sea Edgewood St. Hope
Haitie W. Carraway
Magnolia A. & M. High School
Magnolia, Ark
Marion Institute
Marion, Alehim
Huskey Returns From AAA Session As State Officials Convene
H H Huskey came home from a meeting of the Southern Division of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration. Attendees included representatives from Arkansas Louisiana Alabama Texas Mississippi Georgia South Carolina Florida and other state officials. Huskey said the conference was instructive and harmonious with work advancing 1939 program aims and beneficial associations among committee members and officials.
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Cotton Prices Open Slightly Higher in New Orleans
New Orleans cotton market opened Friday with futures at 42 and settled around 44 while spot sales remained quiet. Traders reported mild activity in spices and locally traded cotton, with prices showing little movement amid early trading.
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Jmiuary Eittott
Spelcola
Confederate Home Expansion Is Hit
Governor Carly E Bailey said Arkansas faces a painful problem as lawmakers consider extending the Confederate home. The state can keep the facility open seven more years only if the law allowing admission of veterans daughters is amended. The home now cares for 148 residents, 181 of whom are not Confederate veterans.
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Carly E. Bailey
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Bailey
Offer Utility Tax to Boost Pensions
Arkansas lawmaker Dan W Johnston proposes a state utility tax to raise revenue to fund $30 a month pensions for indigent elderly. The plan would use matched federal and state contributions to supplement existing Social Security benefits, aiming to boost cash assistance for seniors. Local opponents accuse the measure of overreach and point to disputed governance.
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Dan W. Johnston
Clarksville
Arkin Awe
Jane Ori
Dohtatne
Chasexnon Bailey
Registiers Wertle
Gideh Oxeentete Cotten Tony
Lunisinna Vilesas
Child of County Agent Dies Here
Olivia Adkos, daughter of the county agent and Mrs Oliver Lo a Adams, died after a brief illness of about ten days. Her body was shipped to Berryville Arkansas, her former home, for burial.
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Oliver Lo A Adams
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Bytdals
Relief funding and transportation board reforms in wartime plan
A Virginia appropriation proposal draws sharp critique as relief policy shifts back to states while a new transportation board is proposed to rate all transport modes. The plan also calls for rate making reforms by the Interstate Commerce Commission and a unified rule across rail, road, and other carriers. President Roosevelt named Harry L Hopkins to succeed D C Roper as Secretary of War Production, with Colonel Harrington succeeding Hopkins as War Plans administrator and Aubrey Williams moving to head the National Youth Administration.
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