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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
3
A fragmentary report notes a fire at the Millet county hall and a burning barn owned by W. Ay Steviet near Doddeidge. The incident followed an earlier confrontation with Oscee David and two auto mechanics. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
On opening day children aged four to twelve are urged to join the Saenger Theatre Kids Club. From 1 to 2 pm there is a stage show by grammar school children and community singing led by Auntie Blossom. At 2 pm the regular program includes a cartoon and a new serial. Admission remains 10 cents. A kiddies parade starts at 12:30 with mothers bringing pots and pans to shout that the club is on the map. Each attending child gets a present.
From page one a note shows committees act under instructions to hold loan amounts to the minimum required for actual borrower needs. Borrowers are advised these loans must be paid in full. The wording emphasizes repayment obligation and prudence in lending.
Magnolia Ark April 1 hosts Women’s Christian Temperance Union district meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Local union serves complimentary lunch in church parlors. Principal speaker Thomas Q Harrigan of Washington DC represents the Council for the Prevention of War. Members from Texarkana Prescott Hope Arkadelphia DeQueen Nashville and other poles in the district expected to attend all day event.
Dewey Pilgreen, 35, injured in Malvern when returning with 2250 in gold near the Missouri Pacific depot. He crawled to a neighbor's home for help after a freight train struck him, his right hand mangled and two fingers amputated. The money, taken from a First National bank sack, vanished as he regained consciousness. Local woman Mrs. Nelson turned the sack over to authorities after finding it.
Washington senate foreign relations committee, amid a dispute on the revised protocol for American adherence to the world court, called Secretary Stimson to provide his views next week. Senators Fittman and Lewis offered resolutions as new complications challenge the advisory opinion path without the Senate consent.
The U S Army tests a 15 ton tank with an average speed of 21 mph and the ability to climb slopes up to 20 degrees. It mounts two 47 millimeter guns and a 0 caliber machine gun, reflecting early armored vehicle development.
William Mills filed for divorce claiming his wife forced him to fend for himself at meals, saying she told him to get his own meals in the kitchen when he asked for food.
Gainesville reports Florida will meet Davidson College at Davidson in the opener then tackle Presbyterian College at Clifton South Carolina and finish with Vanderbilt on May 7. Joe Hall, noted Florida track star and football ace, will compete in six events including shot put javelin and hurdles as part of the spring schedule.
Seventeen fishermen adrift over four hours on a massive ice floe in Lake Erie were rescued by coast guardsmen Wednesday. The guardsmen pushed boats through three quarters of a mile of ice filled water and rowed a quarter mile through open water to reach the edge of the drifting floe.
In Los Angeles J C Brubaker wrestled a gunman while changing a flat tire. The robber ordered money, but Brubaker kept calm and hummed a tune, and the attacker finally fled after noting there was no point in continuing the ruse. Also Illinois posted a record low birth rate in 1031 at 15.4 per thousand, with a death rate of 11.1.
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