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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1930
Page
5
A jumble of social notes details weekend visits from Texarkana to Little Rock and Nashville to Texarkana. Families host relatives, clubs plan food sales and a soup kitchen drive, library meetings set weekend child programs, and a theater crowd visits from several towns.
Hot Springs Arkansas police report a phosphorus bomb exploded in the Princess theatre injuring Patrolman Charles Robbing and Fireman John Haynes who was burned while inspecting the device. Two Arkadelphia projection operators and two girls were arrested in connection with the bombing at about 9 15 p m. Haynes received serious burns to hands and body and was treated at Leo N Levi hospital.
Two phosphorus bombs exploded or found at the Princess and Central theatres, causing alarms as Cecil Williams and Smyer Foyner both Arkadelphia projection workers were arrested at the Capitol hotel with Misses Christine Halsell and Christine Myers. The Princess has suffered a prior attack and is owned by Sidney M. Nutt.
Police guarded Cliff Temple Baptist Church and parsonage in Dallas after Rev. Wallace Bassett received a three page letter signed hungry man threatening bombing unless the deacons raise 2500 dollars at Sunday services. The note blamed Pastor Bassett for Hoover’s election and unemployment.
In a four handed pinochle game Louis Swanner of Sappington Mo. held a 1700 trump hand and previously had hands of 1500 and 1600 in spades. A separate note quotes a warden asking a new convict what work he wants and the inmate replying traveling salesman.
Pupils of Miss Virginia Fitzsimmons and Mr. Horace Kennedy at Guernsey school seven miles west of Hope on the Fulton highway present a Thanksgiving program November 26 at 7 45 pm. Roles include Mrs Furkins Margaret Hicks Dora Geneva Franks Uncle Joseph and Lee Brosius. The program features a chorus a song The First Thanksgiving a flapper dance and a St Louis Blues chorus with solo by Mr Kennedy. Usher staff includes Nellie Hays Wallace McIver Johnny Thompson Opal Wise. No admission charge and all are invited.
Hastings Nebraska United Press international reports two worn millstones claimed to have traveled from the Mayflower to America and later used in a Philadelphia mill. They ground meal for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and remained in service into the Civil War before being acquired by the McConnell family of Kearney and donated to Hastings Museum.
A Missouri woman, Mrs James Spencer, left her husband after three days of marriage seeking a divorce. The unemployed spouse testified, lamenting he had to buy ribbon for his wife at noon. The exchange reveals tensions and a glimpse of social norms around jobs and marriage.
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