Local Scout Program Seeks Support in Hempstead County
Hempstead County is urged to back the Boy Scouts as headlined by W. H. McMullin, Texarkana chief executive, at the Hope Rotary Club. He notes high local Scout enrollment, cites costs of about 6.50 per year per boy, and highlights expansion efforts in Hope and Prescott with Rotary connections. Present were George W. Ware, Mayor Albert Graves, troop No. 58 members Bill Orton Harry Segnar and Edward Lester, plus Robert Elliott and Kraft Phenix Cheese Corp. installer Frank Kraft and George Beionen.
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Hempstead
Tex-Ark
W. H. McMullin
Texarkana
Hope Rotary Club
Hotel Barlow
McMullin
Hove
Prescott
MecMullin
George W. Ware
Albert Graves
Rotary Club
Hope
Bill Orton
Harry Segnar
Edward Lester
Robert Elliott
Mr. McMullin
Frank Kraft
Kraft Phenix Cheese Corporation
George Beionen
Major Portion of U S Trade Half Way to 1929 Level
The Associated Press reports a tentative recovery in the U S economy with weather improving retail trade up about 12 percent from a year ago. Industrial activity sits mid between 1929 highs and 1932 lows as factory employment rebounded roughly half its drop, while Wall Street and corporate earnings indices show notable gains but overall recovery remains uneven and cautious.
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U.S
Ion
Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
Finnicial
New York
Din & Bradstreet
America
Serovliy
Associated’ Press
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statisies
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Standard Statistics Co
Graduation to Be Held at Columbus High School
Graduation exercises at Columbus High School occur Friday night May 8 in the auditorium with Rev Fred Harrison of Hope delivering the address. The program lists processional invocation salutatory valedictory and diplomas, plus a senior class play Miss Adventure next Tuesday with a large cast and several student roles.
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Columbus High School
Columbus School
Fred . Harrison of
Hope
J. C. Williams
Lorena Smith
Willie Madge Calhoun
Fred R. Har
J. E. McGuire
Oliver Blackwood
Texas Goats Play Children's Game
In San Angelo Texas a scene of goats balancing on rocks and looping cliffs unfolds as children imitate their animal bands. Observers note goats engaging in multiple games while others slide along parked cars and rest atop structures amid pecan borders and desert trees.
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San Angelo
Texas
Supreme Court Criticized By Arkansas Bar President
Hot Springs Arkansas Pi Cothiin, president, assailed the validation of New Deal registration before the American Bar Association convention. He warned the people may be influenced to recoil against the Supreme Court wielding broad power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. Henry B. Armistead of Little Rock urged reform of legal practices by laymen and lawyers.
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Hot Springs
Ark
C. T. Cothiin
American Bar Association
Ychel
Supreme Court
Henry B. Armistead
Little Rock
Bar
Arkansas Bar Attends Convention in Hot Springs
Attendees at the Arkansas Bar association annual convention in Hot Springs include Hope lawyers Harry J. Lemiey W. S. Atkins Albert Groves Luke F. Monroe and Steve Carrigan. Boyle G. Clark of Columbia Missouri addresses the Little Rock Junior Bar Association outlining Missouri Bar actions to regulate the profession and raise standards.
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The
Arkansas Bar Association
Hot Springs
Hope
Harry J. Lemiey
W. S. Atkins
Albert Groves
Luke F. Monroe
Steve Carrigan
Ton
Little Rock Junior Bar Association
Boyle G
Clark
Columbia
Missouri Bar Association
Missouri
Missouri Supreme Court
Supreme Court
House Land Senate
Iar
Nhe
Supreme Cour
Legislaturs
Mustache collector in Yugoslavia buys shaving bargains
George Terzich, recently returned from the United States, funds a mustache hobby in Starts Mustache Hobby SNBOBRAN. He negotiates with barbers over prices that range from 10 dinars to 2000 dinars for various mustache styles and has no relatives or use for his money in town. Underground canals extend over 400 miles beneath Hamburg and Munich.
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Snbobran
Yugoslavia
George Terzich
United States
Terzich
Yutsa Gavranski
Seventeen Girls Leave for Petit Jean Camp
Seventeen girls headed April 27 to Camp Little America on Petit Jean Mountain near Morriston. The party, organized by the National Youth Administration, will stay eight weeks with river training and courses in home economics, hygiene, dramatics, and outdoor activities. The trip was made by a Hope club and church auxiliaries bus.
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Jeff Hope
Little America
Petit Jean Mountain
Morriston
Nevada
Clark Counties
National Youth Administration
WPA
Public Welfare
Resettlement Administration
Hope Business and Professional Women’s Club
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
Manchukuo Signs Nazi Trade Pact
Tokio reports Manchoukuo signed its first pact with an Occidental power. The commercial treaty with Germany, signed at the Tokyo foreign office, commitments include large German purchases of Manchukuoan soy beans and Manchukuoan buys of German machinery and industrial goods. The document was signed by Otto Kiep and Hsieh Chieh Shih.
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Tokio
Japan
Manchoukuo
Germany
Toko
Manchoulkue
Otto Kiep
German Oriental Economic Mission
Hsieh Chieh Shih
Manchouguo
China
Fools Would Try to Escape Says U S Reformatory Guard
Guard at the federal reformatory in Chillicothe explains that discipline and work programs keep first offenders in check. Captain A. LeBrash, veteran guard, oversees inmates guided by psychiatric studies and trade training. The facility, built largely by inmates, handles the federal offenders headed toward Alcatraz. Continued on page three.
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U. S
William AL Pinkerton
Chillicothe
Ohin
Guarrnotade
Federal Prison Service
Rnitims
A. LE. la Brash
Lenvinworth
Kansas
Federal Industrial Reformatory
Luria
Alcatraz
Governor Denies Clemency in Roy House Case
Hot Springs Ark Governor Futrell said he has no intention of commuting the death sentence of Roy House unless new evidence warrants action He denied receiving any petition for clemency The youth was convicted of killing Tom Menser an elderly recluse near Hot Springs last year
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Hot Springs
Ark
Futrell
Roy House
Tom Menser
Here
Candidates Agree to Ban Road Signs
LITTLE ROCK Arkansas road sign ban campaign gains momentum at a meeting of the Arkansas Roadside Council in Shurshay. Governors candidates Carl B Bailey and Lee Cazort pledge cooperation with the plan, along with Harvey G Combs Crip Hall George W Neil and Ed F McDonald.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas Roadside Council
Shurshay
Carl B. Bailey
Harvey G. Combs
C. G. (Crip) Hall
Lee Cazort
Ed F. McDonald
George W. Neil
Broyles Norfleet
Forrest City
Revival to Open at First Christian Church
A two week revival will be conducted at First Christian Church by evangelists and gospel singers the Fife brothers. The Wife brothers have appeared on radio broadcasts and come to Hope from Kansas City to California. Engagement announced by Lloyd Copd. Public invited. meetings begin Sunday morning.
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Fife Brothers
Wife Brothers
Hope En Pute
Kansas City
California
Lioyd Codp
Oak Kills Guardian in Hungary Widow Fights Tree
Widow Zafir opposed authorities cutting a centuries old oak near her cottage for years. Village workers finally felled the tree to prevent danger. The tree broke and fell on Zafir, killing her instantly. She was buried in a coffin fashioned from the ancient oak.
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Gebe
Hungary
Zafir
County Officials Deplore Lynching of Lepanto Negro
A mob lynched a young Black man in Lepanto on Wednesday after an alleged attempt to attack a white woman. Sheriffs and prosecutors planned to report findings, calling the act deplorable, as discussions of new state laws and church-led anti mob education intensified in Atlanta.
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Churches In Action
Atlanta
R. B. Eleazer
Commission On Inter-Racial Cooperation
Jessie Daniel Ames
Scouting Class Expanded in Hope Details Enrollments Begin
New members joined the Scout Leadership training at Hope High School led by Scout Executive Robert Elliott and Rev Thomas Brewster. A Friday session at 7 pm will feature several members in scout shorts. a group photo is planned. A hike is set for Tuesday May 5 and the PTA will not provide dinner. Citizens in Hope area interested in scouting are urged to attend.
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Robert Elliott
Thomas Brewster
P.T. A
Hope
Compensation Act Backed by Unions in Arkansas
The Arkansas Federation of Labor urged a constitutional amendment to empower the legislature to pass adequate workmen’s compensation laws, endorsed by the Arkansas Conference of Social Work. H. M. Thackrey warned of a deceptive rival petition claiming to aid women’s compensation laws, urging support for the federation’s enabling act and noting labor bears the whole initiation cost.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Federation of Labor
Arkansas Conference of Social Work
H. M. Thackrey
Labac
Midwest Tornado Rips Iowa Minnesota Leaving Dead and Wounded
Spirit Lake Iowa reports three dead and ninety injured as a tornado tears through northwest Iowa and southern Minnesota causing heavy property damage and widespread destruction.
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Twister
Iowa
Minnesota
Spirit Lake
President Roosevelt Aims For Pure Food Law And Subsidy Bill
Washington reports Friday that President Roosevelt hopes Congress will pass a new pure food and drug act and a direct ship subsidy before adjournment. Also noted are business opposition to the administration tax bill before the Senate finance committee, a German plane crash in Nuremberg Bavaria killing 11, and a Michigan bank robbery netting $40,000 as four robbers used machine guns.
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Washington
Moosevelt
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Detroit
Mich
National Bank of Detroit
Fitzwater Test Held Up Local Plan For Deeper Oil Hunt
Plans announced by P A Dulin Sr and Foy Hammons to push the Fitzwater oil test nine miles south of Hope, with potential 4,000 feet depth, aim to secure leases and operating funds from Hempstead county citizens. Trust designation given to Dulin, with Hammons overseeing expenditures, while test crews and shared materials from Fitzwater are arranged. Citizens’ canvass to raise remaining funds, emphasizes the project is a cooperative, not a profit scheme, to reach a producer.
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Fitzwater No
Lafferty
Hope
P. A.’ Dalin Sr
Foy Hammons
Bulin
Hammons
P. A. Dulin,Sr
Hempstead
Dulin
Fitzwater
Myr. Dulin
Ethiopians rally for peace amid Mussolini war news
The report notes mass gatherings in Addis Ababa and other cities as Ethiopians push for civilian support for Straits to sustain defense. Selassie urged provisions for a prolonged crisis while Italy reports mobilization and casualties rise in East Africa.
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Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
Africa
Ha Two Sides
Zioncheck Fined After Court Appearance in Alexandria
Repra Zioncheck failed to appear in court and was fined 66 dollars for driving and disorderly conduct. Judge James R. Duncan forfeited a 2 dollar bond. Zioncheck faced arrest if stormy behavior continued in Alexandria. Earlier reports noted personal ties in Texarkana.
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Alexandria
Zioncheck
Congress
James R. Duncan
Alexandr
Texarkana
Wasson Declines Run for Governor in Arkansas History
Marion Wasson announces he will not seek the governorship, saying he cannot be elected and would not want the office. Appointed state bank commissioner in 1933, Wasson remained in public service amid banking crises and highway funding debates. Attorney General Carl E. Bailey has begun campaign work from New Capital hotel headquarters as other candidates file pledges and ballots.
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Marion Wasson
Thurelay
Wasson
Nok
Sega
Esi
Futrell
Fayetteville
Carl E. Bailey
New Capital Hotel
Markham
Louisiana Streets
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