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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1939
Page
3
An earthquake struck northern Anatolia near Antara causing extensive destruction. Widespread damage reported with communications down. officials warned of a major catastrophe. Government and relief agencies rushed aid as fears of aftershocks persisted and thousands fled towns for open fields.
Al Jolson the famed singer was divorced from his third wife Sluby Keeler in Los Angeles. Keeler testified he called her stupid and kept her up all night arguing. She described his rages and required inflicting social duties while he retired to bed. They married September 21 1928 in Port Chester New York and separated last October. An adopted son Al Jolson Jr four will stay with Keeler under a court out of court property settlement of 400 a month if she remains single and 50 000 if she remarries.
Tokyo reports Premier Nobuyuke Abe received resolutions signed by 250 of the 463 members of the Japanese House of Representatives asking the cabinet to seriously consider whether it should remain in power. The document cites hazy responsibility in conduct of affairs and urges retirement.
New York cotton for March opened at 10.88 and closed at 10.90 with middling quality priced at 11.26. Market data reflects a slight rise in the session as traders assessed supply and demand conditions in futures trading.
S. Greening, secretary treasurer, says Hope Federal Savings & Loan Association distributed a 24 percent ninth semiannual dividend totaling 2300 to stockholders. Organized in 1984, the group has paid July and December dividends. assets are 101,234.54. Paul E. Priant presides, with J. P. Duffie as VP and ER. S. Greening as secretary treasurer. Board members include D. F. Wiggins, Albert Graves, W. M. Ramsey, and N. T. Jewel.
Henry L. Doherty head of Cities Service died in Temple University Hospital at 61 from bronchial pneumonia. He built Cities Service from an office boy to a multibillion asset holder, after founding the firm in 1919 in Columbus, Ohio.
President Hoogevelt approved 24 United States Housing Authority contracts totaling 47.9 million dollars for four slums clearance and low rent housing projects in 12 states and two territories. Officials called it the largest single loan list for the agency.
Sheriff G W Looney of Mountain View Arkansas sought a mysterious bomber after a dynamite blast struck the front of his home on Tuesday. The device exploded on the porch by a bedroom where the sheriff and his wife slept. Debris struck the sheriff causing a minor cut while Mrs Looney escaped unharmed. The sheriff voiced no motive and said he had no clues. Damage was put at 300 to 400 dollars.
The Rev James F Brewer pastor of First Baptist Augusta Ark will speak at the mid week service of First Baptist Hope Wednesday night at 730 pm The Brewer family visits Mrs Higgas ons parents in Hope during the week A Watch Night service will be held next Sunday night from 9 pm to 1010 pm Visitors are invited to both services.
A 1930s column argues Congress must end gold purchasing and stabilize the dollar, restore railroad credit, and renounce further railroad loans. It urges a swift, honest reorganization of railways and a firm utility plan to revive long term investment amid widespread bankruptcy.
Milburn of Hope is elected president of the $1,000,000 Pine Bluff District Metropolitan Life Insurance Company club at the annual meeting held at Hotel Pines. Oscar D. Burroughs of Prescott named vice president and William H. McLeod of Camden elected secretary treasurer. Spencer H. Brown district manager opened an all day session urging tighter scrutiny of existing accounts for 1940.
Washington notes show Martin Dies and the Roosevelt administration distrust each other as Dies probes for subversive elements. Funding struggles, lack of department help, and celebrity accusations like Shirley Temple mark the controversial inquiry into alleged Communist influence in politics and media ahead of elections.
In northern Finland Soviet forces reportedly mass four new offensives while Finnish troops 115 miles north of Lake Ladoga near Lieksa attempt to cut Russia's Murmansk railroad. Deserters and wounded fill woods east of Kemijärvi as Tampere bombed, one dead and one injured from raids on munitions center.
Jesse Stratton 24 Hampton WPA worker was found Wednesday in a nearly submerged car that had plunged into a water filled bar pit a quarter mile west of Hampton. He appeared trapped inside the vehicle and had drowned.
The body of Mrs. Maude Maaz 60 former Hope resident who died Sunday at her San Antonio home arrived in Hope Tuesday night for funeral and burial services Thursday at 2 o'clock at Herndon-Cornelius Funeral Home. The Rev Kenneth Sport Methodist pastor will officiate with burial in Rose Hill cemetery. Her life included time in Hope Waco and San Antonio leaving surviving husband four brothers John S Cornelius M M Cornelius George Cornelius of Hope R EF Cornelius of Bodewaywa two sisters Mrs Sterling Boswell and Mrs Etla Bray both of Hope.
Dr Lee Valletree Parmley 47, organizer of the crippled children division at the State Welfare Department, died shortly before midnight Tuesday after a period of illness. A specialist in traumatic surgery, Parmley had been admitted to a hospital early last week as his condition deteriorated. Production of the new British museum catalog lists 2 00040 titles with a projected total around 1 000 900 dollars.
Snowstorms race east from Missouri and Iowa leaving nine to eighteen inches over the Dust Bowl. Ohio to be hit by nightfall as New England records bitter cold with 23 below on Mount Washington. Michigan fails to dip below 20 degrees for December 26, while ski events in the Wasatch Mountains are postponed due to sparse snow.
Columbus will host Ashdown in a Friday December 29 game at 7:30 in the new high school gym. Ashdown brings two former college stars plus several ex high school standouts. Columbus has a 3 win season and will rely on Deibert Race Caldwell Olen Delaney Marcus Caldwell R. C. Delaney Dan McJunkins Andrew Caldwell James Otis Johnson and others as they face Herbert Parker's Ashdown squad seeking an upset. The Columbus Athletic Association sponsors the event and district buses will transport fans. lights have just become available for the first time this season.
A dated social etiquette quiz asks if dating a note by Wednesday is correct versus December 28, and whether City should appear on an envelope. It also questions closing a bread and butter note with Yours very truly and ending a fête with I must close and get to work. For gifts keepers, the best practice is to notebook gifts with sender details rather than memory.
A fragmentary note cites Acts Arab phrasing about forgiveness of sins preached through a man. The text references a religious message and fellowship, with no clear place or date. Names and contexts are unclear, presenting a terse excerpt rather than a full report.
A Tuesday night crash on Highway 67 near Linle's Tourist Court left Roy Logan and a Hope resident identified as Mr. York with serious injuries. Mr. York, in Josephine hospital, was improving by Wednesday noon. Logan later recovered at home after brain concussion and facial cuts. Police investigated. York was eastbound toward Hope, Logan westbound in the ice truck owned by D. L. Dillard.
The Christmas three day period saw 678 deaths nationwide with 438 from traffic crashes, 51 from burns, and 52 from gunshots and stabbings. Illinois led with 64 deaths, California 58, New York 42, and several other states reported varying counts across the holiday.
Five sentences contain one misspelled word each. The corrected spellings are: diptheria to diphtheria, assasin to assassin, fimed to fined, einervating to enervating, presumtion to presumption. The text notes a parasitic condition and a snow covered abyss, with an instruction to find errors.
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