Nevada 4-H Girl State Champion Rebecca Daniel
Rebecca Daniel of Nevada county wins the 1933 4-H Club Girl State Championship on a statewide radio broadcast. She completed 25 demonstrations in food, clothing, yard work, and cotton growing, valued her homegrown products at 1504.57 with a 1209.60 net profit, and has led 70 girls to join 4-H. She will represent Arkansas at national 4-H Camp in Washington, D C, next June.
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Little Rock
Rebecca Daniel
Nevada County
W. J. Jernigan
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture
Miss Daniel
Arkansas
American Youth Foundation
Camp Miniwanes
Michigan
Roy Parnell
Woodruff County
Luella Freeman
Monroe County
Joe Boyd Henderson
Jefferson County
Washington, D. C
Hempstead Quorum Considers 1939 Budget At Hope
Hempstead county court at Hope city hall studied the 1939 budget amid reports of county officials. A $500 request for premiums to be awarded at next year’s county fair was discussed, with officials noting the fair may offer $1,000 to $1,500 in cash prizes. The court reported 1938 expenses exceeded budget by $1,990.36 and reviewed road, welfare, and courthouse finances. Members attending and absent listed.
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Hempstead
Hope City Hall
RP. Bowen
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Bowen
Richy
The
Pence
W. B. Lafferty
J. P. Baker
Mr. Baker
Meapstead County
WPA
Sooo Utilities
Cranium Quiz On Government Facts Then Oddities
A quirky two page teaser presents a mix of true and false statements about the U S White House a drowning surface phenomenon and a note on presidential salary taxes with page two promising more questions and answers.
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White House
U.S
Achievement Day Attended by Hempstead 4-H Club Members
Two hundred fifty 4-H club boys and girls from nine Hempstead county clubs gathered at Hope city hall for the Annual 4-H Achievement Day. Jack Lafferty presided as president, ceremonies featured club rituals, group singing, and roll call. Lottie Boyce won County Champion Girl. Darwin Jones named County Champion Boy.
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Melyn Bullington
Oliver L. Adams
Hempstead
Hope
Jack Lafferty
Elmer Brown
Patmos
Lottie Boyer
Guernsey
Darwin Jones
Melya Bullington
Kenneth
Bates
Frances Huett
Paimos Club
Municipal Court to Be Convened Tuesday
Hope municipal court will convene Tuesday after Monday’s session was canceled due to Hempstead quorum court meetings. Jurors and municipal cases will be heard as scheduled.
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Municipal Court
Hope
Hempstead
4.2 Inch Rain in Hope Reading of 38 Freeze Coming
A deluge swept southwest Arkansas over the weekend with 4.2 inches of rain at the Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station, a 1938 record except for one July day, as temperatures fell to 38 degrees Monday night and 39 Tuesday morning. Snow followed in the northwest, with Rogers reporting 31. Uncertain weather threatened to affect Tuesday's general election turnout.
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Arkansas
Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
Little Rock
Rogers
Associated Press
Jew shoots Nazi officials in Paris
Paris report states 17-year-old Polish Jew Herschel Grynsapan shot Ernst von Ruth, 32, a secretary at the German embassy, gravely wounding him. Embassy attaches captured the assailant and handed him to French police. HungaryBudapest reports ongoing sentiment for territorial revision as occupation stirs national pride and calls it partial justice.
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Paris
France
Herschel Grynsapan
Germany
Ernst von Ruth
Frence Police
Hungary
Business Improving Says Secy Perkins in Toronto
Secretary Perkins said in Toronto on Monday that business in the United States had taken a decided turn for the better and that indications pointed to a continued upswing.
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Toronto
Canada
Perkins
Heller
United States
J C Shiver 71 Buried Sunday Hope Resident
J C Shiver 71 died at his home in Hope after a decade of ill health. Born in Michigan he moved to Hempstead County at age seven. Funeral services were held at 3 30 Sunday from the family home with Rev W R Hamilton, burial in Rose Hill cemetery. Surviving are widow three sons a brother and a sister.
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J.C. Shiver
Hope
East Avenue C
Mr. Shiver
Michigan
Hempstead County
Walter Shiver
W. R. Hamilton
First Baphist Church
Rose Hill Cemetery
Shiver
Frank
Harry W. Shiver
Ernést Shiver
Magnolia
Charles
Little Rock
F. I. Church
Texurkana
Clo Wins Court Battle in Jersey City
In Newark New Jersey federal judge Willan Clark granted an injunction allowing CTO and allied groups to hold street meetings in Jersey City while others may do so. The ruling ends a lengthy dispute with Mayor Frank Hague but stops short of granting absolute street meeting rights.
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Newark
N. J
Willan Clark
CTO
Jersey City
Frank Hague
$45 000 Judgment Held Valid by Supreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a $45,000 personal injury judgment awarded to James Fits. Berald of Dallas against Perkins Oil company of Delaware and C. H. Caldwell, West Memphis plant superintendent. The ruling may be the largest single personal injury decree in the court's history. Fitzgerald lost both arms in a tot tonseed conveyor.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court
James Fits. Berald
Dallas
Perkins Oil Company
Delaware
C.H. Caldwell
West Memphis
Fitzgerald
Serial Lovers Aweigh in Naval Battle Wagon Night
Judy Alcott stands on the deck of a battle wagon under starlit skies as a naval lieutenant watches, torn by jealousy over her closeness to Dwight Campbell. She defends her feelings and faces tension with Jack Hunley as the night unfolds and a piano note drifts from the wardroom.
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Judy Alcott
Dwight Campbell
Jack Hunley
Twenty Years Since Armistice Review of a World in Flux
Willis Thornton surveys two decades since Armistice, noting three million dead in wars, the Leagues drift, and democracy on the defensive. He traces insecurity, force as measure of power, shifting public morality, and a Europe reshaped by Versailles.
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Willis Thornton
NEA
League of Nations
Planders Fields
United
Clergy Call For Yes On Act No 1 On Tuesday Vote
The Hope Ministerial Alliance urges voters to support Act No 1 in the upcoming election. It argues the measure equalizes local option petitions with other local statutes, counters liquor interests charges, and promotes fair democracy and Christian citizenship in Hempstead County, Arkansas. The letter is signed by Vernon A. Hammond, secretary, dated November 7, 1938.
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the Star
Arkansas Beer
Hempstead County
Hope Ministerial Alliance
Vernon A. Hammond
Hope, Ark
Hempstead County Voters Face Statewide Referenda and Courthouse Measure
Hempstead county residents will vote Tuesday in the general election on 11 statewide referendum questions and on the construction of a new county courthouse funded by taxes. The courthouse question appears twice on the ballot, first to authorize construction and again to authorize the tax.
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Hempstead County
Voting on tax questions and state referenda in Hope area
The Hope voters face local tax questions to fund a courthouse and county projects with a 55 percent county share and 45 percent federal grant. Polls open at 7 am and elections cover Ward One to Four sites plus Country Box 5 and County Lumber. Statewide amendments No 24 to 32 and Act No 8 plus Initiated Act No 1 appear on ballot with a push for high turnout amid forecasts of rain and snow.
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Arkansas Bank, & Trust Co
Frisca Depot
Hope City Hall
Hempsteads
County Lumber Company
Hope Committee
PWA
Labor Board Aide Accused as Red by Witness
Washington hearing into un American activities heard J B Matthews say David Saposs chief economist of the Labor Relations Board authored a textbook used in a workers school in New York The witness said Saposs was not a Communist but Mrs Shpuss was
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Washington
House
David Saposs
Labor Relations Board
New Werk
J. B. Matthews
Saposs
Communist Party
Shpuss
Cotton Opens Lower and Closes Higher in New Orleans
In New Orleans December cotton opened Monday at 8.55 and closed at 8.59. Spot cotton closed steady to unchanged with middling at 8.68.
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New Orleans
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