03 Mar 1948
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1948
Page
1
The piece weighs America’s stance on disarmament and peace versus a strong defense as World War II fears unfold. It cites General Eisenhower and warns against politics, urging Americans to face the facts beyond petty crusades and vote-driven leadership.
The item details a land boundary description as continued from page one, specifying the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter in Section 27. It notes a northwest-to-southeast traversal, a mile along the western line, and an eastern return within Section 27, indicating a survey or plat action by the council.
Press notes Thurmond favors non specific alternatives to Truman with Marshall as a possibility while Southern governors press to withdraw civil rights. Senate action pushes FEPC style relief and a White House emergency fund faces GOP efforts to cut. A Southerners meeting yields no firm strategy and annexation talk closes with Hope Arkansas officials listing steps and dates.
A UPI tally shows violent deaths in Arkansas during February at ninety, with traffic crashes leading at thirty. Fires from exploding stoves killed six, and eight died in a coal mine explosion near Glenwood. A gas explosion in Pocahontas leveled buildings, and several drownings, asphyxiations, and crashes claimed many more lives across the state.
Attendance swells at the Hope Gospel Tabernacle revival titled March to God in March led by Evangelist Clarence Smith. He preached from Genesis 3 15 on God’s faithful promises and Christ’s first and second comings, urging all to join nightly 7 30 services for personal spiritual seeking and blessing.
Market reports from Chicago outline receipts and price shifts across poultry, meat, and grain. Poultry prices were mostly unchanged with minor rises, live fowl up one cent per pound, and stockyard cattle and hog futures showing mixed gains amid active trade. grain ended with wheat down while corn and oats mixed. cotton futures fluctuated on thin offers and short-covering buying.
Hope Star of Hope Arkansas catalogs publication details dated 1899, listing editors C E Palmer H Washburn and Paul Jones, along with staff roles and address at 212 214 South Walnut Street Hope. It notes Associated Press membership and republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
The Vatican decreed Catholics may vote only for candidates who defend church rights, a global rule echoed by Pope Pius XII. Cardials Spellman and McGuigan cited to support the ban on Communist or extreme left candidates, while Cardinal Schuster warned that voting for Communists is gravely illicit. The matter follows a pastoral letter urging priestly complicance and prompts discussion among political parties on electoral truce.
Cotton futures were irregular with long liquidation and hedge selling offsetting trade buying and short covering. Closing prices ranged broadly with May and Oct contracts posting highs and lows. overall values finished near previous levels amidst mixed activity.
Mrs. Johnston seeks a court ruling that James E. Folsom and she were lawfully intermarried by common law and that their son is legitimate. She alleges they lived as man and wife in Alabama Tennessee Kentucky and Florida and that Folsom introduced her as the next first lady of Alabama. The suit notes the child was born in Nashville on April 17 1940 and later resided in Michigan and Florida before the 1945 campaign.
The Paganini Quartet, touring 160 cities in the United States and Canada, collects stamps as a hobby. Violinists Henri Temianka and Gustave Rosseels, violist Robert Courte, and cellist Robert Maas, all Belgians, have pursued stamp collecting since childhood despite world tours, war interruptions, and heavy teaching loads.
Temianka who served as an interpreteur with the OWI met Robert Maas in New York in 1845. They discussed forming a quartet and immediately thought of Courie and Rasseels, former colleagues at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music, amid offers for their stamps and violas.
Hempstead and Nevada county veterans who served in World War II are urged to consider enlistment in the Army’s Infantry Regimental Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division now stationed at Fort Benning Georgia. The new program allows prior service men meeting qualifications to join at an appropriate grade for a minimum three year term and to serve with the famed unit that earned 31 days of combat across North Africa Sicily Italy France and Germany. The 7th Infantry Regiment, organized in 1789, forms part of this historic division. Only veterans with prior service are eligible.
A May 32 1945 entry invites men with World War III service to join a distinguished unit. Preference goes to those who served with units attached to the 4th Division at any time in WWII. The 7th RCT details its strength and subunits, while the 8th Division known as the Marne Division recalls its WWI heroism. The 3rd Division’s WWII campaigns and honors are noted. Local recruitment talks and details are at City Hall Recruiting Station.
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