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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
4
A December column reflects on Christmas as more than festive sights, recalling family warmth and memories. It lists numerous holiday visits in Hope, Arkansas, with relatives from Dallas, Houston, Texarkana, and elsewhere, plus local gatherings and a Cotillion club party at the Hope Country Club, and notes choir practice and family travel.
May Robson stars in a Saenger theater feature cataloging wealth happiness and a life altered by a Tuesday yard accident. The film follows an aging heiress whose mood and perspective shift after an unconscious period in a basement flat barber shop and later a chain of dramatic and comic events with Frankie Darro and a supporting cast.
Washington dispatch notes that the 1936 congressional session will be heavily consumed by budget bills and overhauls to tax law and farm programs. With debates on AAA reversal, new neutrality acts, the Townsend plan, and a busy campaign year ahead, leaders foresee extended sessions and potential stopgap legislation into June.
A brief quip records a domestic exchange where a husband’s telegram plan becomes a joke about bringing the mother, and the wife confirms the message was aimed at arranging a visit. The dialogue hinges on miscommunication and social etiquette in a domestic setting.
The article reflects on 1928 to 1933 U.S. economic collapse, bank losses, and a shift from laissez faire to New Deal intervention. It notes four major changes: government relief, central economic control, government funding for distressed industries, and a new consensus behind federal action amid rising business recovery and political realignments. It also warns of looming policy battles over pensions, farm debt, and inflation, ahead of a presidential election year.
Texarkana police arrested four men, three of them Black, after a scantily clad unidentified white man was found slain in the railroad yard near Hill Street. Coroner Witcher reported a deep gash on the throat and robbery suspected. The case involves W V Huff of Little Rock, once a transient teacher in Greenville, and ties to events in Greenville as authorities investigate the grisly killing.
PARIS Premier Laval told his cabinet that France would refrain from any military or naval move toward Italy unless provocation occurred. Details of future policy to contain war and the Abyssinian conflict were not yet decided, according to sources in the Chamber lobbies.
Paris Tenn. three WPA workers were killed instantly when a truck headed to a farm to market road project was struck by a Louisville and Nashville passenger train. The dead are Jim Snyder Bor Dorhis Owen and Carl Collier. Three others riding on the track were injured.
Hospital notes report Julia Chester Henry Grey of Hope Heading Company lost the middle finger in an accident at the heading plant Thursday morning. Mrs Dorsey McRae Sr had an operation Wednesday afternoon at Julia Chester hospital. Richard Arnald of DeAnn is ill with pneumonia in the hospital. Mrs G F Miles remains a patient, to be released home Thursday. Paris Phillips is improving after a major operation. P A Dulin Sr is noted as improved Thursday.
Cadet Kenneth Mc Rae Lemley of 320 South Edgewood Avenue Hope Ark is among 28 Marion Institute cadets on the November dean's list by Major J H Baer dean. Criteria include 85 average with no grade below 80 and upper 15 percent for those in special prep tracks.
Fragmentary dispatches from Southern Szechuan show an earthquake on December 18 that levelled villages in CHENGTU region. The disaster may claim thousands, with remoteness hindering full assessment. Lolo tribesmen suffer heavily as mountain villages and forts were pitched from their foundations into valleys.
Rufus Steel, who shaped university writing and journalism, began with a 1927 Miami stint and became associate professor of English two years later. He joined the Monitor editorial board last June and is survived by his wife Mira, a sister in Berkeley, and a brother in New York City.
Spring Hill mourns Mrs Latlie Cason buried after funeral last Thursday. Sam Prather and family from Smackover spent the week with kin and returned home with Harry Prather. John Yocom and Kilgore family visit for the holidays. Ralph Smith and Swan Garner wed at the Foley home with J P Foley officiating. Gladys Johnson and Dudley Huckabee return from Magnolia for the holidays.
Waterbury Vermont reports a deadly blaze at a CCC camp officers quarters early Thursday. Capt Roland D Potter of Northfield former Norwich coach Capt Edwin W Boothby of Watertown Major Lennard Bushey of Concord were among the casualties.
In Little Rock a fraternity dance ended early as a man shot himself to death. Dorothy Bell, 19, was wounded in the left arm by a bullet fired through her heart. Coroner Aday led the investigation amid a scene of shock as a mother reflected on future plans and choices.
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