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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1940
Page
2
Sikes struggles as Allen and others clash during a chaotic moment in the game. Amid beer and excitement, Bob’s left hook and a wild pitch sequence spark a row. The crowd roars as players exchange blows and misplayed plays escalate the fracas.
SHUILLE Tenn and Temple announce Ray Morrison will leave Vanderbilt after five years to take a head football coach position at Temple University for a $60,000 contract. Morrison, famed for SMU and Southern Methodist ties, previously held a $10,000 deal and guided teams in the Southwestern Conference.
In Fayetteville the University of Atkarsad athletic staff awarded nine varsity letters to basketball players. Capt. John Adams led the squad, with Adams Jr. and RC Pitts sharing honors for the free throw trophy. Seven freshmen received numerals: Gordon Carpenter, Robert Hones, Colton Jones, G Nichols, Noble Robbins, Bill Watkins, and Clayton Wynne.
The February meetings of Washington Centerville and Harmony Home Demonstration clubs are recorded. Members discussed councils, demonstrations on home gardens meat preservation and canning, and elected leaders. A new Harmony group was formed and the Shower Springs club held a February session with songs prayers and talks on home gardens and farming outlook.
Warmack hosts poems popcorn balls at Belton meeting. Nine members and one visitor attend as the group discusses gardens chickens and flowers. Plans form to quilt a bride’s quilt and next meeting is with Mrs Lestie in March.
A February 4 bowling results note reflects sharp differences in the GOP committee report. The text suggests party lines influence interpretations as Democrats or Republicans are cited as shaping conclusions.
Bruce Catton writes that Massachusetts Congressman Joe Martin grows more prominent as a potential convention dark horse. Despite denying candidacy, Martin keeps sway through unofficial support from loyal Republican lawmakers while Sharpe runs to avoid delegates. If party leaders falter, Martin could loom near the 1960 nominee race as floor leader and insider favorite.
Sheriff and ex-officio collector for Hempstead County Arkansas distrains personal property of R V McGinnis to pay 1938 taxes. Items include two twin Power Projectors and a Burch Electric popcorn machine. Sale set for March 16 1940 at New Theatre Hope Arkansas between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. at public auction for cash to highest bidder.
George Ross writes from Miami about Havana’s annual carnival on Prado Street. He notes police barriers for congo dancing, mentions German diplomat rumors, theater owner William Brandt’s vaudeville experiments, and chilly weather welcoming visitors from Los Angeles while Havana cigars circulate among guests.
In Congress, leadership of the opposition, once weak, becomes formidable as it routs the stranger Democrats with disciplined, effective action. It marks a long-awaited display of skilled leadership in the capital.
The essay argues that during the Spanish-American War avoidable deaths from disease highlighted failures in preparation. It critiques chief of staff claims that Americans never defeat an army and notes most people learn history from textbooks. It warns that ignorance of armed and civic preparation risks national disaster without constant citizen vigilance.
West front activity intensifies with German raids between the Rhine and Moselle and prisoner captures in the Vosges. French dispatches note signs of slowing after patrol clashes while Allied air forces claim seven victories, with British and French crews each claiming two German planes and one more possibly downed.
The French said they met German patrol action with an ambush in the Wissenbourgs on the eastern bank of the front where the German squad was trapped and several taken prisoner. They also repulsed an assault on forward posts in the Nied river sector near the center of the front.
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