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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1938
Page
4
Missouri Pacific reports a sharp drop in net income for the first quarter, with operating income falling to 648,510 from 2,814,285 a year earlier and far below 1930 levels. The piece discusses rail industry strain since last summer, debates over government involvement, and calls for consolidation or potential national operation to stabilize freight and highway competition.
Hope plans to install field lights at Fair Park to allow night games for the two Commercial and City leagues. A Friday meeting at Earl W. Erion's office will discuss funding, with $75 pledged and more fundraising needed. Unique Cafe won the opener 32 to 11 over Moore Hawthorne in a five inning Commercial League game.
Buckner Arkansas preparations are underway to set casing on the Stand and Oil company of Louisiana well No. 1 at Waters, about a quarter mile west of the Standard McKean discovery site and nearly a mile east of Buckner’s edge. The well reportedly reached 7194 feet in the Permian formation, with casing operations anticipated after a test. A man named Ceres was lowered to about three feet Thursday morning amid the proceedings.
A reader asks to identify a single wrong word in each sentence from a mixed puzzle page. The items involve hotel, wallby, temperature, siratems, George Sand, and burns with odd spellings, highlighting typographical errors and miswritten terms across three example challenges.
The State Board of Education called a Thursday session to raise about 380000 for the permanent school fund. It urged the State Debt Board to issue bonds to cover the debt and suggested pursuing a test case at the Supreme Court to decide if bond sales are permissible without a general election. Enactment of Amendment 20 restricts state bond issuance without voter approval.
Three Arkansas representatives Driver Fuller and Kitchens declined to sign the petition to force House consideration of the revised wage and hour bill. The petition reached the 24 signers needed and surpassed it, enabling the House to consider the measure by May 23. McClellan Terry and Cravens could not be reached for comment. The House appropriations subcommittee approved provisions limiting Roosevelt relief spending within the massive spending-lending bill.
In Birmingham a quarrel over unifying the Southern Methodist with the North and Protestant branches surfaces. A civil court test is planned by opposing laymen after a 434 to 26 General Conference vote, with 30,000 Southern members pledged to secede if unification proceeds.
A compact proverb style line stating that the narrow soul lacks the godlike glory of forgiving and that every believer is a miracle of God, attributed to Rowe and Bailey.
Texarkana report details a Miller county marriage license issued January 22 1915 to Perry Hudson and Cordie Vickers found in a Prescott area meadow. H M McCain delivered the find to Hope Star and J N Philyaw confirms the license drifted from a March storm, awaiting retrieval in Hope.
The Hope Boys band, directed by Thom Cannan, will perform Friday at 6 45 PM as part of National Music Week. The program includes Semper Fidelis, Wanderers Call, My Hero, In a Persian Market, and Ketelbey, with a note on a selective contest piece and a finale featuring a four trombone and 100 numbers, promising 1 000 changes of combination.
Lieutenant Governor Bob Bailey filed his corrupt practices pledge for re election. Others filing pledges included RK Mason of Camden for state senate from the 16th district T J Jones of Ashdown for state senate from the Gih district C EB Yingling of Searcy for circuit judge in the 1st judicial district.
Dr Samuel G Bayee of Little Rock conducted an autopsy Thursday night on GC C Van Dalsen who was shot Tuesday afternoon by England planter and merchant Duncan Gibson. The autopsy at Wilson funeral home aimed to determine bullet paths. Gibson claims self defense after Van Dalsen attacked him. Gibson freed on $5000 bond while testimony from Dr Boyce is anticipated.
Arkansas Attorney General Holt ruled that the civil service law does not prohibit state employees from joining or serving on committees of the Arkansas Women’s Democratic club.
Washington aim is quick senate passage of emergency railroad aid. Senate Banking Chair Wagner Dew says no opposition. bill would let the Reconstruction Finance Corp loan funds for railroads to buy equipment and sustain maintenance, with 75 percent of advances used to rehire laid off workers. RF C and ICC certification rules would be suspended to June 30, 1939, with focus on value received if loans are not fully recoverable.
Heber L Hicks, 40, of Cincinnati, the alleged brains of a plot to gain about 150000 dollars, was executed in the electric chair at the Michigan City state prison. The other three slayers of Harry R Miller were electrocuted last summer.
Henderson College Symphony Orchestra performs Sunday afternoon at 3 30 in City Hall Auditorium. Sponsored by the Friday Music Club of Hope the event is free to the public. Selections include Intermezzo from In a Persian Market by Ketelbey, Caliph and Market themes, and a vocal solo Holy City.
Paris and London warned Hitler against violence in Czecho-Slovakia and urged Prague to make concessions to the Nazi minority as Western powers sought to deter a German Italian pact.
Huntsville, Ala. Roscoe Young, 18, and Henderson Young, 17, tegro brothers, died in the Texas electric chair Friday for robbery and rape.
Pi May cotton opened Friday at 41 dollars and closed at 8.75 bid with 8.78 asked. Spot cotton market closed quiet with a 13 pole rise and noting Willing BBB supplier status.
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