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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1937
Page
4
NEA Service reports a national poll on a presidential plan with 333,417 votes from 41 states. Overall opposition runs about 66 percent, nearly two to one against the president, strongest in smaller cities while larger cities show more mixed results.
Moscow dispatch reports a revised Soviet general order instructs the army to meet the enemy on his own territory in the event of war. The directive emphasizes offensive action and territorial engagement by Soviet forces.
A cold wave struck Thursday night with temperatures down to 30 degrees or below needed to kill buds only, sparing fruit trees. A staff member from the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment station reported Friday that blooms and buds survived as chilling rain began after midnight and continued into Friday afternoon.
A new organization named the Men of the Church was formed at a Thursday supper in First Methodist Church Magnolia to foster fellowship among church men. Officers elected were Hoy Anderson president J W Lee vice president A B Patten secretary Edwin Stewart treasurer The group meets the fourth Tuesday each month with programs on membership and fellowship led by Syd McMath.
Early morning gas attack by deputies expelled 61 sit-down strikers from Fansteel metal plant facilities in Waukegan. Strikers had occupied two buildings since February 17 and fled after tear and knockout gas was used for about an hour. Deputies mobilized and the plant president rejected Gov Horner’s proposed settlement terms.
Olin M Perryman 66 farmer living south of Hope on Spring Hill road died at home Thursday. He moved to Hempstead county in 1935 from Milford Texas. Funeral services were to be held Friday from the Church of Christ. Burial to Milford Texas. Survived by widow five sons Elvis of Christiania Tenn Jessie of Milford Johnnie Bardeville Elvis Perry Hope four daughters Elvie Loveless Dallas Melva Ronnie Gean Kicheleen Perryman Hope brother Neal Perryman sister Bettie Shipp Texas.
Washington D C John S Farnsworth a former naval lieutenant commander was sentenced Friday to four to twelve years in prison for conspiring to sell naval secrets to Japan.
A 1937 NEA Q and A on etiquette covers answering invitations to tea, the third person as the inviter, how to address responses when multiple hostesses appear, and using telephone for informal invitations. It also asks how to handle a last minute cancellation and proper envelope addressing for wedding notices.
Revenue Agent Ed Van Sickle said Monday, March 1, would be the last day to purchase state auto mobil license tags without penalty. City Treasurer Charles Reynerson announced Monday is final day to buy city tags without penalty. Purchase price is 2.50 for the year. After Monday a penalty of 1 or more will be assessed. About 300 city tags had been sold Friday, leaving about 500 to be sold. Van Sickle noted a substantial recent rise in state tag sales but most remain to come. He urged owners to buy tags now to avoid rush.
The Senate passed the Summers bill allowing Supreme Court members to retire voluntarily in full pay at age 78 by a 76 to 4 vote. The measure followed a brief debate amid concerns about retirements. President Roosevelt announced a nationwide radio address for March 9 to discuss court proposals.
Two State Hospital guards McCray and Hickson faced a jury in Little Rock after patients testified they beat Edmundson on January 2 fifteen hours before Edmondson’s death. Witnesses said McCray spoke of giving Edmondson a working over as the case proceeded.
A. C. Irwin warned that unless work starts by Tuesday the $16,000 WPA project to open Walnut Street from Third to the high school will be cancelled. A blocked right of way and local opposition threaten to stop graveling drainage and paving planned from Third Street to the high school. Community share around $2,800 may be raised, with city machinery contributing much of it, to save the project. Completion by June 1 is required to avoid loss of federal funds.
Labor dispute flares as Fisher body factory and Chevrolet plant shut in Lanesville Wisconsin. About 2700 workers idle amid friction between white and non white employees. Fire hazards reported with inflammable material and a furnace, risk of ignition at high temperatures if not oxygenated.
Saratoga High School senior boys basketball opens district 10 action at Lewisville, defeating Lewisville 38 to 24. Finals set for Saturday night with other Hempstead county teams eliminated. Ashdown, Patmos, Village, Bright Star, Mineral Springs, Texarkana, Magnolia, Fouke, Walkerville, Center Paint and Stamps Yellowjackets noted in results and upsets.
The Rev. Marion A. Boggs, Presbyterian pastor of Hot Springs, gave an inspiration message at the Hope Rotary club birthday program in Hotel Barlow. The event marked anniversaries of Rotary International and the local club with former charter members and current officers in attendance. Ed McCorkle serves as club president. Boggs was introduced by the Rev. Thomas Brewster.
Knox County civic chatter questions Anti-Saloon League moves to bar girls from serving in taverns. The writer jokes about prohibitions leading to more laws and higher taxes, noting editors aren’t responsible for readers’ or papers’ statements.
Hope aims to hold two sunrise services in the new Hope Stadium on Easter Sunday March 28. The Hope Ministerial Alliance sponsors the event and has called a meeting at Hope City Hall 7:30 PM Monday March 1 with at least three delegates from each local church. The city council endorsed the plan in a recent resolution and the WPA funded stadium work is nearly complete east of Hope High School.
Sheriff Jim Bearden hunted suspects after two Garland City mercantile stores were robbed Wednesday night. Loot valued in the hundreds included two dozen women’s dresses, five dozen hose, two lamps, and various clothing. The Dobson store and the Jess Smith grocery, run by Tilman Johnson, have both been entered multiple times recently, with a slot machine and a radio taken at the Smith establishment.
NEW YORK. Karvey C. Couch, Arkansas shippad and utility operator, was elected Thursday as chairman of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. Executive Committee, succeeding Kenneth D. Steere who remains chairman of the board. Couch noted his new role would not alter his stake in the Louisiana Arkansas railway, and that his brother C. P. Couch is president of the L. & A. Railroad.
In a Friday move the House reversed course on a budget bill to appropriate 11,800 dollars annually for maintenance of the Arkansas Civil Service Commission, failing to pass as required by seven votes. Senate action included a separate bill funding tax relief with one million dollars yearly for the biennium from the state sales tax. Local appointments and anti prohibition measures also feature in this edition.
New Orleans cotton opened Friday at 12.68 and closed steady around 27a. Spor cotton prices remained unchanged as traders watched market signals and trading activity in the early session.
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