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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1940
Page
5
The article discusses a proposed plan to stabilize annual income for painters, with a longer guaranteed year and higher wage for night work. It cites city variations, contracts, and potential extensions to other cities as councils consider adopting the plan to ease overtime and maintain steady pay.
Large privately owned buildings face impracticality for new construction as many as a million workers could be affected. Hormel Packing Co in Austin Minnesota and Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati have adopted the system. President Roosevelt proposed it for autos but union opposition blocked it. Ward supports the movement but says current conditions make it impractical until construction is secure for large building trades. A Kentucky mayor finally received a private office after years sharing with other officials. Kibitzers at pinec h le games are diminishing.
Bruce Catton reports hearings by the House Naval Affairs Committee on two reform plans by Vinson of Georgia and Maas of Minnesota seeking a central professional authority for the Navy. The current system, with nine bureaus led by rear admirals and little top control, is blamed for top heavy destroyers and misaligned design decisions.
Washington observers say a Roosevelt third-term bid would risk alienating Congress and the Democratic convention while shaping foreign policy. Critics note that a public decision during session could inflame old political animosities and invite Republican charges of dictatorship. Representative Dies’s anti-Fascist crusade is drawing big crowds as he presses investigations.
Giovanni Martini, Italian born in Lugano, died in Lugano aged 87 as Switzerland’s oldest pensioned railroad worker. He began in 1872 with labor gangs, helped push the St Gothard tunnel through the Alps from 1874 to 1880, and rose to engineer of locomotives pulling trains through Gothard’s steep grades, honored in Swiss and Italian obituaries.
In Ventura California Dr Charles E Stuart a dental amateur pack enthusiast talks long with the radio operator aboard Admiral Byrd s snow cruiser in the antarctic The Byrdship acquaintance Felix L Serrand formerly exchanged chats with his Ero Grunt in a noted reunion of old friends
Charles A Haynes Company a new department store at 114-16 Malin street will open mid March. Son of a pioneer Hope merchant, he returns after year and a half in merchandising in the East to offer high quality merchandise at low prices. Remodeling is done, stock unpacked, and F J Smith will be assistant manager. Jerome Ker, once a New York song plugger, is noted among the staff.
Thirty eight first year Republicans meet each Wednesday at the Army Navy club for dinners where New Deal executives lecture on government operation. They endure an hour of questions and, as an election year, Congress will mail out one thousand dollars in free mailings versus the usual sum. Rep Woodrum of Virginia often arrives by 7:30 am after a walk along Pennsylvania Avenue. Senator Connally notes the Foreign Relations Committee’s cautious handling of the Japanese embargo, saying they “fired a few blanks and fell back.”
Fashion notes praise spring woolen frocks in sheer light fabrics with matching jackets or contrasting pieces. New twill weaves dominate, navy with white accents leads, while grey and neutral tones remain favored in early season outfits.
The piece cites Barbs challenging American views onOriental policy and notes William Dudley Pelley’s Washington arrest worries. It mentions Fritz Kuhn and Earl Browder visions, a Milwaukee cruiser finding four hale in the Atlantic, Henry L. Stimson’s height estimate, and a distant reference to historic figures near the time of State Department affairs.
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