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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1940
Page
3
Former treasury secretary Wallace testifies before Congress as hearings begin. Lawmakers question policy impacts and fiscal strategies amid ongoing debates over government spending and economic stabilization measures.
An appropriations committee discusses allocating funds for farm parity and deficiency needs. It considers 60 million for parity payments and 90.069 million for deficiency supply, while adjusting presidential estimates to 274 million. Debate centers on farm benefits, parity payments, and potential Republican opposition amid economic pressure.
Welles spent about an hour with Mussolini on Monday, discussing European issues for President Roosevelt’s peace mission. The talks with Foreign Minister Ciano followed by further dialogue with Sumner Welles aimed to shape the itinerary including Berlin, Paris, and London.
A brief note states the Finnish Relief Fund was increased to 123 dollars and 50 cents. The amount, tied to donations received on Monday, references Nora Carrigan and a BAND pair, with mentions of Mr. and Mrs. T McDavitt and a 500 dollar figure.
Magnolia Ark Patmos junior basketball team won the district title Saturday night defeating Guernsey 29 to 5. The district included Bright Star Magnolia Centra Village Calhoun Taylor Walkerville Stamps Kirby Yorks Chapel Milner and McNeil with officials selecting an all district team.
The state Democratic committee will meet in Little Rock on March 15 to announce the apportionment of 705 delegates to the next state convention. Secretary Beloit Taylor said the plan will yield the largest number of delegates in state history, with 605 chosen in 1938. Counties receive one delegate per 400 votes or fraction cast in the 1948 primary, with Clark 5, Columbia 7, Hempstead 11, Howard 7, Lafayette 4, Little River 6, Miller 15, Nevada 7, Pike 5, Polk 6, and Searcy 5 among listed allocations.
A Little Rock suit seeks to block collection of two percent Arkansas sales tax on interstate mail order merchandise. Hollis and Company challenge the 1937 act as revived by 1949 amendment and contend it violates constitutional limits on reviving laws by reference. If upheld, the tax would become inoperative. Bee experts are developing disease resistant bees.
Highway 24 will be closed to heavy traffic for several days for bridge repairs between Prescott and Chichester. Passenger traffic may travel. officials advise routing by way of Rosston. Prescott traffic can detour via Highway 19.
Readers are asked to match cities to latitudinal lines in a playful geography challenge. The page lists options such as New York Vienna Naples Warsaw London and others like Seattle Copenhagen Moscow Jerusalem and Hong Kong, inviting puzzle solvers to pick the closest city to each line. Ageers on Page Two 4.
May cotton opened around 90 points and uluscel at 104 92. Middling cotton listed as low as Leeds high days.
Hope High Schonl basketball team champions of the Arkansas high school conference host Prescott in a homecoming game at 7 45 p m Monday night Two junior and senior varsity contests precede the main game with admission 10 and 25 cents The Wolves boast 25 4 and the Bobcats 10 2 records and will be honored on their home floor amid loyal support and a band performance
Patmos defeated Blevins 38 to 28 to claim the Hempstead county senior boys title at Blevins Saturday night. A.B. Wetherington reported the tournament was among the most successful in recent years and trophies went to Patmos the winner and to Blevins the runnerup. All county selections included Rockwell Guernsey Reaves Moses Caldwell Yancy Nowlin.
Pat Easter and Matthew Webb pled guilty to drunkenness charges before Municipal Judge W K Lemley. Easter fined 50 dollars and Webb 25. Five defendants forfeited 10 dollar bonds for drunkenness: A G Phillips, Robert McClare, Sam Scott, Johnny Jamison, J S Blackared. Robert Cooper fined 4 dollars for disturbing the peace. A Ohason entered a plea of quits to drunkenness and Wasfied Sh
The ruling discusses the 1935 36 period and a request by Cook for a grand jury probe into his administration after misconduct calculations. It states the petitioners act in seeking the investigation contributed to the outcome and notes the court’s conclusion about responsibility.
The State Department volume of Robert Lansing papers shows General John Pershing rejected an early 1918 armistice. He urged a move to complete victory and unconditional surrender, arguing Allied strength rose as German morale fell.
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