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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
4
Washington reports say the administration’s little business conference adjourned amid loud protests after approving nine committee reports. The session saw two dissenters ejected before adjournment while urging a public address. The meeting also discussed a plan to spur private credit to aid government finance.
Three pouches of United States mail were damaged at midnight when a kerosene lamp fell from the Missouri Pacific train car switching at the Hope Nashville yard. Firefighters confined the blaze to the pouches, destroyed letters due to fire and water, but most mail was salvageable and will be reworked or reissued with trust copies for subscribers.
Bruce B. Caulder, 48, of Lonoke, died suddenly in Colorado Springs where he had spent recent years seeking health. A former Hope resident, he worked in Lanake Real Estate and Abstract, led the Arkansas Land Title Association, and held roles in the Lanake Methodist Church, Kiwanians, Masons, and Shriners. Survived by wife Salle Reidford Caulder, parents, a brother, and two children. Burial details pending. funeral arrangements to be announced.
Washington report says United Mine Workers convention as a grand jury indicted William Green on treason charges after he signed a charter with the Progressive Miners of America. The union directs a hearing and possible expulsion if guilty, amid internal disputes over trials and leadership. Also notes U S ships with greater tonnage than Manhattan and Washington.
The groundhog at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, predicts six more weeks of winter. Rival lodgers in the Lehigh Valley echo the forecast as sunshine fails to erase the shadow, signaling cold weather ahead.
Fred Rauch plotted a fake death to conceal his escape and insurance aims. Mrs Rauch identified a corpse as her husband, aided by clothes and pockets. Barber Ian Jenkins saw Rauch enter a car, later the police proved the body was not Rauch, unraveling the ruse.
Mrs. Lester May, about 28 3, of Patmos near Hope, was hospitalized with a bullet wound to the left lung believed to be from a .22 rifle. Deputies investigated but offered no immediate statement as a moonshine raid at West Wheeler’s home yielded four gallons of untaxed liquor and Wheeler was jailed, with Officer Ward assisting.
A regional meeting of the Aransas Municipal League will be held in Hope at 0 a. m next Tuesday. Mayor Albert Graves announced that city and town officials from Hempstead Nevada Miller Little River Sevier Howard Pike and Clark counties are invited. William D. Hopson of Little Rock will attend. The league aims to draft a city official manual and discuss municipal questions to guide legislative action.
The weather wave last week blessed Arkansas fruit crops with mild temperatures and good prospects. Harsh cold did little damage to crops, but exposed livestock suffered from the lower temperatures. Temperatures reached 63 degrees at Portland and dropped to Bentonville. Long engagements are the rule with young English couples.
The passage muses whether a thought anomaly is a sensible act beyond spectator understanding and seen by some as against nature, considered by others as divine or ordained. It frames perception as key to judging such a phenomenon.
Senator Wagner urged a Senate vote on the anti lynching bill blocked for a month, defending its constitutionality and urging action. Bilbo and Southern lawmakers pressed shelving the measure as debates on race and voting rights intensified in Washington.
Arkansas Supreme Court members could retire at 70 after ten years of service under a proposed constitutional amendment being prepared for the November ballot. The measure would make retirement pay permanent and optional with a $40 annual fee, aiming to end legislative acts keeping the system. Former Justice Carrall D. Wood is the sole retired member, with past six years seeing three salary appropriations up to 7500 dollars.
The South's growing pulpwood industry risks overexploitation of pines as the new Southern Kraft pulp mill at Springhill La will need about 2 508 cords daily. Ferdinand A Silcox warns timber owners face a crossroad as forest resources may be drained if exploitation continues, prompting debate on regional consequences in south Arkansas.
Japan marked a vast area east of Central China as a new war zone and urged Americans and other foreigners to leave. A Tokyo embassy spokesman in Shanghai warned many points within the zone would be bombed and asked the marking of tall foreign properties to shield them from aerial attacks. Meanwhile in Spain, insurgent planes bombed an American ambulance and food truck train near Perpignan, killing three and injuring twelve, as the first cabinet prepared for a two thirds republican control.
Nathan Falk TL a traveling salesman who knew more small town merchants than any other man in Arkansas died at his Little Rock home. He came from New York at 20 and entered hat business with his brother. He traveled for the company in 1887, continued active until illness. He had worked for a dry goods firm 25 years. A charter member of the Travelers Protective Association, he left a widow a son and a daughter. Funeral arrangements were pending.
A tall girl in a brown coat and bonnet arrives at Oliver Dart's door in London after a long sea journey and coach ride from Bournemouth. Polly Chelsey declares she is the great-niece of Mister Oliver Dart and requests entry, then orders her trunk from the gig driver.
An Agricultural Program note from acting director J W Duggan stresses that cotton producers who did not sign a 1937 work sheet must sign now. Clifford L Smith says sign for all land planted since 1933 or planned for 1938 to receive subsidy payments and to update cotton base and production for 65 percent subsidy calculations and 1938 allotments.
Newt Bundy of Hope has leased the Loreco Service Station at Third and Walnut streets. He will actively manage the station, handle all Loreco products, maintain automobile accessories, and operate a garage. Bundy invites friends to call on him.
Hope High School Library will sponsor an amateur night in the high school auditorium Friday evening at urchin time. Admission is 15 or 25 cents with proceeds for new reading material. Students are asked to register before Friday noon. Also notes a statistic about England having 173 blind persons per 1000 inhabitants.
In New Orleans on Thursday March cotton settled near 8.58 cents per pound, closing steady with a four point uptick while nearby contracts traded around 8.55. The market reflected light buying as oil prices and demand offered slight support within the spot market.
Two U S Navy patrol bombers collided in a rain squall near the Southern California coast killing seven of fourteen aboard. One plane, designated 11-P3, exploded in flames. the other, 11-P4, crashed into the sea. Lieutenant Elmer Glenn Cooper, commanding officer of 11-P3, a Monticello Arkansas native and USNA graduate of 1927, is mourned by his widow and young son. A second report notes Italian seaplane losses near Natal, Brazil, with Captain Enrico Comani and Captain Mario Viola among the four dead and others injured, as an aerial collision and fire swept a German rescue craft.
James H K Pilkinton Hempstead county attorney and Hope high school civics instructor will address Hempstead County School Masters club at Capital Hotel Monday February 7 at 730 pm The club includes men teachers from county schools with A B Wetherington as president Elmer Brown vice president and Jimmy Jones coordinating reservations for all county schools to hear the talk on What the Parent Yeagher organization can mean to the Youth of Arkansas Principals urged to advise numbers by Saturday night
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