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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
3
Governor Lee charged Thursday that petition filings to refer the 1939 workmen's compensation law to a vote would suspend it until public approval. He warned the measure would cause a major loss to industry about 1 million dollars in liability premium rates.
The excerpt details the S-5 submarine accident with Captain Cookes serving on the staff of the fleet commander. It describes a valve issue during a dive, flooding of the bow, the stern lifting, and the sub sinking with no apparent escape hatches remaining above water.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a reliable malaria remedy. It touts tasteless quinidine and iron, claiming relief from chills and fever and a build up of strength, urging readers to buy the large size for value.
ROSCOE FLEMING reports Frank G. Arnold, Nebraska Taxpayers League president, leads a crusade against public waste. He notes Nebraska avoided new taxes, cites audits exposing small item expenditures, and argues citizen scrutiny can curb local spending. Arnold says public officials fear transparency.
Washington reports the department ordered the release of Dean Russell a self styled head man of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Russell was taken into custody at Detroit as the British king and queen crossed the Canadian border into the United States.
In Glenwood on Wednesday Harry Hagene Sevier aged 14 died from a gun accident while three other boys aged 9 12 and 11 were with him at a neighbor’s home. He picked up a 22 caliber rifle and the weapon discharged striking him in the chest. The group had returned from swimming the Caddo river and planned to hunt birds before the tragedy.
A feature recounts how American settlers and buffalo provided clothing shelter food and tools for the plains tribes. It notes buffalo numbers once near 60 million dwindling due to Indian slaughter and later immigrant demand for meat for railroad workers. The exhibit shows an 1898 Trans Miss stamp of an Indian hunting a buffalo.
Arkansas congressmen learned of presidential approval for two WPA road projects in Ellis County. One would provide 153000 dollars federal aid to Boone County road work, the other 23000 dollars for Highway 02 improvements in Benton County near Canerton. In the marshal race at Little Rock, Pettie is favored by Caraway, Graves by Miller, with Roosevelt’s choice likely decisive.
An exhibition special train from Missouri Pacific Lines will stop in Hope for an hour and a half from 11:05 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on June 15 as part of a 2800 mile west and southwest tour. The air conditioned train includes a locomotive, baggage, grill coach, deluxe coach, diner lounge and Pullman car with staff from passenger traffic and related departments on hand to explain railroad operations to visitors.
Senator Miller as chair of the judiciary subcommittee that would review the nomination could oppose Mrs. Caraway's selection during the senate confirmation process.
The Weather Bureau says rains fell generally across the eastern two thirds of the nation last week, boosting crop prospects especially in the northern Great Plains spring wheat belt. It notes widespread, beneficial rainfall in spring wheat states and that winter wheat harvests are beginning in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
The Arkansas State Baptist Convention will meet in Camden on December 5, announced after the Executive Committee meeting at Arkadelphia. A committee led by R. E. Sheelton of First Baptist Camden extended the invitation. Key factors included the new municipal auditorium seating 2,500, the first Camden hosting since 1833.
Foothill Studio will be included in Notre Dame’s new athletic offices as a projection room for studying football films, intended for coaches and players. The facility expands the program's training resources on campus.
The Reverend J. W. E. Airey, chaplain of the National Frontiersmen's Association, shows a necklace crafted from human finger bones for Major Garidon W. Taille, better known as Pawnee Bill, highlighting a stark relic in a historic collection.
An old promotional notice urges readers to buy Nash's C. L. Tonic as a remedy for malaria biliousness and fatigue. It promises quick work without missing work, a money back guarantee, and wide use across the South, with delivery through Gibson Drug Co in Hope.
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