DeQueen's 14 Years of Monthly Trade Days Inspires Local Plan
Our Daily Bread notes Hope's Junior Chamber of Commerce should invite a DeQueen promoter to explain how that town has run an ongoing monthly Trade Day program since 1927. The piece argues retail trade defines a city’s progress and praises DeQueen as a free ad for Hope, urging a proven, sustained promotion model.
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Hope
Chamber of Commerce
DeQueen
Memphis
de- Queen
May Complete Contest Case Here Monday
The Hempstead county judge election contest proceedings continued Friday with most witnesses heard and a possible completion by next Monday. Fred A Luck Incumbent witnesses will be heard again while the court weighed poll tax receipts and examined illegal vote lists. Judge Dexter Bush reserved ruling on accepting the receipts.
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Hempstead
John Lt. Wilson
Fred A. Luck
Luck
Dexter Bush
Schools to Aid Cleanup Drive Initiative Gains Local Support
Plans for a Clean-up Paint-up Fix-up campaign drew enthusiastic responses from several hundred High School pupils as Mr Bowen of the Chamber of Commerce explained the program. Teachers at Brookwood School will have upper grade pupils circulate score cards, and spore cards will be left at Lewis Grocery for colored school children. The Chamber offers a prize of five for the colored school child who secures the most promises to undertake improvements.
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Bowen
The
Chamber of Commerce
Brookwood School
Lewis Grocery
East Third Street
Local Man to Get Army Commission
Zelun Henry Holly of Hope will receive his commission as second lieutenant in the U S Army at a May 2 ceremony marking four years of ROTC training and military work.
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Fayetteville
Zelun Henry Holly of
Hope
U. S Army
Instrument makers sacrifice for national defense effort
A Sperry Long Island Plant crew of skilled instrument makers works 60 hours weekly to meet defense needs. Union leader Frank Craig says 100 percent behind the effort as workers give up vacations. three months of long days have left them exhausted yet satisfied by contributing to security. Carl G. Swebilius, a blue eyed Swede, built a 1d-acre New Haven factory turning out 50 caliber machine guns in record time, again amid calls of sacrifice and patriotic duty.
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Long Island
Sperry Corporation
Frank Craig
United Instrument Workers
Taq Yy
Carl G. Swebitius
New Haven
Swebilius
Tou Sanyt
Ulleone
Gus Swebilius
First Night Games in Lynn Mark Early Night Baseball Effort
A 1923 report records Lynn Massachusetts winning the first successful night baseball game. Earlier attempts, including Fort Wayne Indiana in 183d, faced inadequate lighting on night play.
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Lynn
Mass
Fort Wayne
British Fleet Cuts Off Nazi Heavy Supplies
Allied forces report the fall of Crete battle as British airlift and naval action halt heavy German supplies. Fierce fighting centers on Malemi near Candia, with British gains overshadowed by Candia’s occupation and sea landings repelled by naval gunfire and Stuka raids. Survivors are being picked up as Axis convoys suffer heavy losses.
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Associated Press
Breraft
Crete
Isin
Malemi
Cimed
Hitler
Canes
Horne
Candia
Retimo
Canea
Winston Churchill
Cairo
Middle East Command
Mediterranean
Britain
Virginia Gayda
Creta
London
Culra
Perry Business School to Open Local Branch in Hope
Marguerite Brumley, field superintendent for the Perry business system, outlined plans to open a local Perry branch from the Brunswick home office. The program requires 15 to 20 initial students, accepts only high school graduates, and uses self-sustaining classes with on-site equipment and instructors. The expansion aims to meet rising demand for trained office workers amid national business growth.
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Perry Business Schools
Brunswick
Hope Rotary Club
Marguerite Brumley
Perry
Miss Brumley
Thomas Brewster
Linus Walker
Club
WPA
George Peck
Arkadelphia
Foy Hammons
Hope
Senior Class Play Friday at High School Auditorium
The senior class presents its annual three act romantic comedy The Wild Cats Boy in the high school auditorium Friday night at eight. Eddie must meet a will condition by remaining in bed at eight nightly for three months, with a large prize if he succeeds. Cast includes Claudia Agee, Maxie Fuller, KE Wall, Polly Tolleson, Nancy Hill, Thomas Gonlon, Iva Yoram, Thomas Kinser, Wilton Jewell, Mary Etta Presley, James H. Ward, Jack Hendrix, and others. A California family tale closes this item.
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High Scook
Eddie
Claudia Agee
Anne
Maxie Fuller
Della
KE. B. Wall
Danny Murphy
Polly Tolleson
Judy
Nancy Hill
Pat Gilden
Mary Wilson
Eve Martin
Thomas Gonlon
Iva Yoram
Jake Peters
Thomas Kinser
Chuck Bentley
Wilton Jewell
Uncle Seth
Mary Etta Presely
Prue
James H. Ward
Prout
Jack Hendrix
Mose
Darky
Evening carrier service in Fulton started by Star
Star announces new same afternoon delivery in Fulton beginning Friday May 23 with city delivery in Hope. Fulton becomes the ninth town to receive afternoon papers, joining East Prescott Emmet South Lewisville Stamps Bradley North Washington Ozan Nashville and West Fulton.
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Star
Fulton
Hope
Ster
Prescott
Emmet
Lewisville
Stamps
Bradley
Washington
Ozan
Nashville
Vichy Freighters Run Blockade With Goods Transhipped at Martinique
British blockade evaded by Vichy vessels carrying goods via Martinique and Casablanca to Marseille. From Henry Noble Hall’s exclusive NEA Service article, details show large consignments including oil, rubber, metals, sugar, and foodstuffs moved through Gibraltar and North African ports, with 75 to 80 percent requisitioned by German and Italian commissions on arrival.
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Martinique
Vincennes
Halifax
Paut
United States
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Martique
Bearn
Gulf
Martinque
Atlantic
Africa
Dakar
Casablanca
Straits of Gibraltar
Talian Aristice
Mediterranean
Eng
Moreland Urges Melon Juice Industry Booster Letter
A 194L Hope Arkansas reader, C Moreland, writes after reading a The Star article on canned melon juice. He recounts past inquiries to Washington about melon and grape juice, notes his four year effort in pickle business, and proposes developing melon products for farmers and community revenue.
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Star
Washington
Moreland
Hope, Ark
A Thought From Matthew On Endurance And Salvation
A brief devotional note cites Matthew 24 15 stating those who endure to the end shall be saved. It echoes reverent testing of faith and perseverance under trial.
Urges Force to Stop Strikes
Washington D C chairman Emory S Land of the Maritime Commission urged the senate defense investigating committee to use U S forces to break a machinists strike tying up five shipbuilding plants in the San Francisco area He said the government should enforce the right to continue work on ships seen as a critical need in the world today.
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Washington
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
U. S
San Francisco
Land
A F Purtle Succumbs Here
Andrew F. Purtle, 45, a World War II veteran, died at his home late Thursday. Funeral services will be at Gospel Tabernacle at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. Bert Webb of Springfield officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, Centerville. Survived by widow Dora Billingsley of Houston, two daughters Alice Jean and Dora Louise, and son Calvin Purtle, all of Hope. Pallbearers: Guy E. Bange, Foster Young, Bernice Bragley, Charles Prince, Clayton Pettit, R. Bruner.
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Andrew F. Purtle
Gospel Tabernacle
Bert Webb
Springfield
Forest Hill Cemetery
Centerville
Dora Billingsley
Houston
Alice Jean
Dora Louise
Calvin Purtle
Hope
Guy E. Bange
Foster Young
Bernice Bragley
Charles Prince
Clayton Pettit
R. Bruner
Desertions hit Damascus as commander killed and frontline clashes erupt
Reports say a Damascus area commander and about 200 volunteers deserted to British frontier guards leaving fighting casualties on both sides. French authorities claim the commander Col. Coll was killed or wounded and said munitions were supplied to Nazis for Iraq. In Europe, Vice Premier Jean Davlan stated Hitler asked France for its fleet but France will never surrender it. Britain asserts Nazi supply routes via Vichy France and its possessions, while the United States authorized seizure of the tanker Sheherazade to prevent cargo transfer to Germany.
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Damascus
Syria
Coll
Iraq
Vichy
Adi Jean Davlan
Adolf Hitler
France
Hitler
Germany
London
Britain
Ministry of Comic Warfare
Seizur
United States
Fren
C10 Wins Ford Factory Vote In Detroit Plants
The C LO United Automobile Workers won collective bargaining rights in Ford Motor Company plants at River Rouge and Lincoln, after employee elections held Thursday night. The union announced plans to seek contract negotiations.
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Detroit
C LO
United Automobile Workers
Fo Motor Company
Lincoln
Thiday
National Labor
Nursery Questions From Classic Rhymes
In this quiz style note readers answer five questions drawn from familiar nursery rhymes. Tom’s motive and his father’s occupation, the laugher at the moon jump, the black sheep’s wealth, Little Jack Horner’s behavior, and the child who lived in a shoe with the strange house are the targets.
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Tom
Wao
Jack Horner
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