Bobcats Visit Prescott In Last Home Game Friday
Hope High School prepares for a Friday night clash with Prescott's Curley Waves in the final home game. Key players face injuries, including guard Jimmy Taylor, while Norman Green returns from malaria and Charles Ray Baker sees action in drills. Curley Wolves have scouted the Bobcats and expect a weight matchup. junior team also plays Prescott second-stringers Thursday at 3:30 with 5 and 1 cent admission.
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Hope High School
Prescott
Curley
Jimmy Taylor
Blythevilly
Bobby Ellen
Dean Parsons
Norman Green
Green
Charles Ray Baker
Mons
Bill Brasher
Nashville
Curly Wolves
Bobcats
Notre Dame
Prescott High School
Hamnows Stadium
Arkansas Election Returns Show Big Defeats on Repeal Proposals
Slow AP tallies from Arkansas after Tuesday's general election indicate Roosevelt-backed repeal of the poll tax and a refunding constitutional amendment face decisive losses. Also failing are amendments on workmen compensation, tax exemptions for new industries, bar regulation, and abolishing special elections, while several other measures inch toward passage.
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Little Rock
Associated Press
Admiusieatum
Supreme Court
Postoffice Closed Friday Observing Armistice Day
The Hope postoffice will be closed all day Friday November 11 in observance of Armistice Day. No city or rural delivery and no window service. Incoming mail will be priced in box outgoing mail will be dispatched as usual. Armistice Day designated by Congress as a legal holiday and Hope banks will also observe the holiday.
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Hope Postoffice
Congress
Goth Hope
Felton Girl Expected to Plead Guilty in Car Transport Case
Bernice Felin of Rockford HL is set to plead guilty in federal court in Little Rock to transporting a stolen car across state lines. District Attorney Fred Isgrig said she will plead before Judge Hartsill Ragan in a weekend session, related to the Brockelhurst case and the slayings tied to a crime tour in which three men were killed.
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Little Rock
Ark
Bernice Felin
Rockford
Lester Brockelhurnt
Fred Isgrig
Hartsill Ragan
Fort Smith
Couch
Brockelhurst
Victor A. Gates
Lonelke
Fellox
Lonoke County
Gates
Arkansas
New York State
Satterfield Beats Overman in LA
LITTLE ROCK Mayor Overman’s bid for a third term nomination failed as voters backed challenger J. W. Satterfield Jr. with about 2,775 to 1,233 as 13 of 23 precincts reported late counts, Overman conceding before 9 PM and urging unity.
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Little Rock
Overman
J. W. Satterfield, Jr
Satterfield
Mayer
Sattafield
Labor Clause Put Into Rail Merger
The Interstate Commerce Commission overrode a dissent to insert labor protective provisions in the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway merger with Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas Railway. It requires retained workers not to face wage cuts for five years, offers compensation to dismissed employees by service length, and guarantees pay for relocations. The piece notes a parallel about Michelangelo viewing art in marble as ideas waiting to be freed.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co
Contal
Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas Railway Co
Hempstead County Voters Back Building Tax for Courthouse
A tabulation from 24 of 84 precincts shows Hempstead county voters favor the building tax for a new county courthouse by 1,505 to 343, with 1,542 for construction and 210 against. Amendments and acts results follow from 22 precincts, including scores for Chancery Probate, Pollax, Workmen's Compensation, Bond Refunding, Education Board, Bar Regulation, Special Elections, Local Option, and Bridge Districts.
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Associated Press
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Carayay
Atkinson
Hey
MuNutt
Colu
Dehineery
Education Board
Hempstead County
Hempstead
Six Die in Fighting at Kentucky Polls
Six people killed and three dying after election day violence across Kentucky counties Harlan Bell Owsley and Todd with victims Odell Sizemore Sherman Howard Clarace Cooper Albert McIntosh Robert Parrihs amid multiple hospital injuries as Rutgers and Princeton universities first played football in the United States.
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Kentucky
Harlan County
Bell
Owsley
Todd Counties
Harlan
Odell Sizemore
Willie Wynn
Sherman Howard
Bell County
Clarace Cooper
Greasy Creek
Owsley County
Albert McIntosh
Sebastian
Todd County
Robert Parrihs
Fairview
Tor
Rutgers
Princeton
United States
26 Is Coldest for Season Thus Far
The article notes southwest Arkansas recorded a new coldest reading of 26 degrees Tuesday before daylight and 28 degrees Wednesday morning at the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station. By 7 AM Wednesday the temperature hovered near 10 degrees, reflecting persistently cold winter weather.
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Arkansas
Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
Justice Smith to Broadcast Speech on Red Cross enroll
Chief Justice Griffin Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court will appeal for Red Cross enrollment in a 5:00 to 5:15 pm broadcast from KLRA on Friday November 1. He outlines Red Cross service this past year to soldiers, veterans families and communities, as enrollment begins Armistice Day and runs to Thanksgiving. Col Heber L. McAlister chairs Arkansas roll call. state expects a liberal response.
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Ark
Red Cross
Arkansas
Griffin Smith
Arkansas Supreme Court
KLRA
Heber L. McAlister
Conwi
Roll Wall
McAlister
Cotton opens in New Orleans at 6.65 and closes 8.66
In New Orleans on Wednesday December cotton opened at 6.65 and closed at 8.66. Spot cotton finished steady with middling price reported at .78.
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New Orleans
Policy of Nations Is to Put Off War Gain Time for Arms
Policy of Nations Is to Put Off War, Gain Time for Arms. In a five part NEA series Willis Thornton examines how a century after Armistice Day 1918 world leaders moved away from peace as a lasting policy. He traces optimism after 1918 and the faded hope in the Fourteen Points open diplomacy and a general association of nations. The piece notes the decline of effective peace machinery and the emergence of a realist approach as nations seek time to arm and prepare for future conflicts.
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Brazil
Chile
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Wilson
Europe
General Association of Nations
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Germany
Russia
Japan
Waly
League
Mrs J B Collier Buried After Pneumonia Death
Mrs J B Collier, 66, died at her home on Washington highway near Hope Sunday night after a brief illness with pneumonia. Born July 6, 1874 in Oak Grove, she lived in Hempstead county and belonged to Oak Grove Methodist church since age 12. Funeral at Oak Grove Methodist Church Tuesday at 2 PM officiated by Rev Stonevipher of Magnolia. She leaves husband J S Collier, three sons Lloyd Royce and Edd Callie, a daughter Mrs Dale C Rogers, two granddaughters all of Hope, a brother John Woodul of Shreveport and a sister Mrs Annie Erwin of Hope.
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Lloyd, Royce
Edd Callie
Dale C. Rogers
All of Hope
John, Woodul
Shreveport
Annie Erwin
A Thought The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of forgiving
A compact reflection titled by Rowe on forgiveness, contrasting narrow souls with the expansive grace of letting grievances go. It contemplates moral freedom and the dignity found in mercy.
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True or false brain teaser from Cranium Cracker page
A short quiz lists five statements with true or false prompts. Statements include white horses color, John Marshall as first chief justice of the United States, polar bears tolerating heat, beavers using tails as trowels, and Hoover as first president born west of the Mississippi, with answers promised on page two.
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Virginia
Herbert Hoover
Mississippi River
Gas regulator cuts city power for 15 minutes
A jammed gas pressure regulator cut fuel at the municipal Water & Light Plant at 9 o'clock Tuesday night, forcing a 15-minute citywide electric service suspension. Manager Arch Moore said the main switch prevented total steam loss and boiler cooling, and once the gas valve was repaired by Arkansas Louisiana Gas, steam levels rose and electric service was restored within about two minutes.
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Municipal Water & Light
Arch Moore
Residential Area Will Be Canvassed for 606 Members
Hope town plans a roll call drive to reach 606 memberships for the national organization. Chapter Chairman Mrs. Kline Snyder and Miss Hattie Ann Feilds join roll call chairman Mr. Weisenberger to canvass all residential districts. Ward captains lead efforts with volunteers from public minded citizens to solicit membership for the Red Cross.
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Town of Hope
Kline Snyder
Hattie Ann Feilds
Weisenberger
Roll Call
Finley Ward
J. C. Carlson
L. W. Young
A. J. Neighbors
W. G. Allison
German Envoy Succumbs After Embassy Shooting Incident
Ernest von Rath, secretary at the German embassy, died from gunshot wounds sustained Monday when shot by a Polish Jew. The incident occurred at the German delegation in Paris, prompting international outcry and heightened tensions.
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France
Ernest von Rath
New Deal Battered: Senate and House Losses Across States
The Associated Press reports severe reverses for Democrats as Republicans gain in major centers and farm regions. Gains chalked up in Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the West. In New York, Lehman leads Dewey while Wagner is re-elected. Across California and Michigan Republicans score key victories as Democrats lose ground in about a dozen states. House seats flip heavily to GOP as GOP Senate gains increase momentum toward 1946.
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Taft
Bulkley
Asa
New York State
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Lehman
Wagner
Mead
Copeland
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
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