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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1938
Page
4
The column blends religious services and society circles with scattered travel notes. It lists church group meetings at First Baptist, First Methodist, St Mary’s Episcopal, and other circles including WMS and auxiliary activities. Weekend visitors in Hot Springs and Baylor University connections are noted among local residents.
The navy’s slowest heavy armed patrol bombers are discussed alongside cruiser and battleship air complements. Each fleet’s ships carry scouting and observation planes, while aircraft carriers host hundreds of combat observation and light aircraft.
Rev Thos Brewster presides with Sunday school at 9:65 morning service at 11.65 and evening service at 7. Weekend young people meeting and monthly executive head meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary in the afternoon. Circles meet Monday afternoon, midweek prayer Wednesday at 1:30. You are invited to attend these services.
The ev. and Mrs. Harold G. Jolie and Rev. Jamiel Walsh, pastor, will assist in the services at the Church of the Nazareyn Sunday night.
The Rotary club highlights its Youth Work through support of Boy Scout Troop 5 in Hope. It praises the program for fostering tolerance, citizenship, and character, noting troop achievements and leaders in academics and sports.
Fragmentary wartime notes describe bomber carriers as limited beyond 300 miles from base, highly vulnerable to attack, with Navy intervention complicating pursuit. A proposed tactic imagines a vast 30,000 square mile search area to locate and engage the enemy while the army avoids combat.
The article portrays a clash between army and navy over anti-air defenses and tactics. It notes enemy observation units on air missions, few combat planes aloft, and slow launches. It discusses AA fire at 10 000 to 12 000 feet and a Navy retort about battleships and submarines. An Air Corps idea of gas blankets to exploit ship ventilation is mentioned, with a Navy reply coming soon.
The Rialto presents Sonja Henie in a glitzy musical Happy Landing with Don Ameche Irene Dunne and crowd favorites. Stand-In screens at the New theater starring Leslie Howard Joan Blondell Humphrey Bogart and others with Wanger and Garnett behind the scenes in a United Artists release.
Two bandits robbed a Danville bank aided by masked armed men. FBI entered the case as deputies from Yell county and state police pursued them from Hot Springs toward Hollis. The patrons and employees were bound and tied, the vault opened, and cash vanished. Prisoners escaped after a half hour. the incident marked a first for Danville.
Foreign demand for American bicycles is increasing with last year’s exports valued by SPLU, surpassing the prior year SOLbO0. Mexico remains the leading market, shaping sympathetic trade trends and regional demand dynamics.
In Russellville Arkansas a six member jury after reaching a verdict demanded payment before entry. Foreman J Poynter told the judge that the jurors would enter the verdict once paid, signaling an unprecedented move in local civil case procedure.
Daisy Dorothy Heard daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Richavis Heard of Grady was pledged by Kappa Delta at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge. A Hope High School graduate class of 1937 she is a sophomore in Teacher's College. in high school she was in Quill and Serell and attended Magnolia Agricultural and Mechanical College before arriving at LSU.
Hope advances to the district nine basketball finals after Saturday’s quarterfinal round at Prescott. Winners will meet Saturday night for the championship as teams Sparkman, Tinsman, Bodeau, Bearden, Parker’s Chapel, Camden, Union, Prescott, Amity, Harmony Grove, Carthage, Okolona, Smackover, Arkadelphia, and Lucas Bayou posted results.
J. M. Smallwood, a lawyer for the plaintiff, paid the jurors but the panel ruled against his client. Poynter noted that the veniremen have been speaking too much in Justice Court, signaling tensions in the proceedings.
The text mentions the eldest son of French kings called the Doupttin le. It also states divorce under Moslem law requires mutual consent. A 1259 song “Dixie” is cited as used by Confederates as a war song.
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