Championship Tilt at Pine Bluff Now Only a Week Away
Hope High School's 1939 football team, led by Bobby Ellen who scored 49 points, defeated Benton 33 to 0 to set up the Arkansas high school championship game against Pine Bluff on November 30 at Pine Bluff. Governor Bailey and state official Z. M. McCarroll witnessed the win as Moore starred at back for Benton with a 63-yard punt and key gains.
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Leonard Ellis
Hope High
Altick
Bobby Ellen
Bobcats
Hilen
Kins
Itul
Robert Hutson
Pine Blufface
Foy Tummons
Ellen
Moore
Brill
White Ellen
Lope
Panther
Arkansas
Ife
Moura
Peety
Red
Gness
Fullbach Due Bason
Hope
Wishlors
Cine
Benton
Kane
Ben
Basor
Enen
Eason
Ken
Titan
Hauds
Basa
Biker
Mason
Mien
Panthers
Vieline Sox
Pice
Bundy
Baker
Ling
Amend-Vun
J.D. Jones
Basu
Elen
Aleason
Uhro
Quimby
Crawford
Fans Decide on Hope Pine Bluff Special Train
Hope High School athletic committee asks fans to buy $2.75 round trip tickets for a potential chartered train to the November 30 championship game with Pine Bluff. A $559 railroad guarantee requires 200 adult tickets. receipts collected by Monday decide if the plan proceeds.
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Hope High School
Hope
Pine Bluff
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Arkansas
Zebras Edge GM A 14 to 7 In Air Victory
Pine Bluff Zebras, led by Robert Hutson, defeated Georgia Military Academy 14 to 7 at Suburban East Point. TheArkansas team used a potent aerial attack with several long completions and a trick play regimen to overcome GM A’s ground defense. Meroney left early with an injury, and Hart replaced him at right half as Pine Bluff pulled away in the second half.
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Atlanta
Robert Hudson
Pine Bluff
Ark
Georgia Military Academy
East Point
Pine
Harris
G. M.A
Arkansan
Lanford
Smeal
Tite
Hutson
Tecile
Zcras
Arkansas
Tigard Bain
Sum Janey
G. MM. A
ALG. M. A
Tor
Mutton
G.M. A
Lyst
Tetsu
Aneier
Meroney
Pine Blut
King
Gileup
Hart
China Trade Route Severed by Japs
Hong Kong dispatch says Japanese forces entered Nanning the capital of Kwangsi province, after an artillery and air bombardment. Japanese troops air dived into the city, damaging the outskirts as they severed the key supply route from French Indo China.
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Hongkong
Nanning
Kwangsi Province
Eternoon
Indo-China
Little Rock Boys Arrested In Hope
Three Little Rock youths were arrested in Hope on Thursday tied to a stolen automobile case. Chief Copeland announced the arrests and said the suspects admitted hiding the car in Lille Ruel and were en route to Florida when stopped. Detectives from Little Rock took them back for charges. Officers Ship Ward and Morton assisted in the stop.
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Little Rock Boys
Hope
Butte Roul
Te Little Hoek
Lille
Fame
Copeland
Lille Ruel
Flordia
Ship
Ward
Morton
Announcements Must Be Signed By Senders
The Stay notes that unsigned announcements cannot be published. Signatures are required for weddings engagements births and deaths and are forwarded to the InumeReMedt before use. Un signed items are rejected even if the omission was an oversight.
Arkansas Governors Push Against Merit System Plan
Governor Bailey insists Arkansas departments will comply with Social Security Board merit rules though he calls the plan misguided. He cites misinterpretation and resents federal control while Congressmen and Senator Miller attend a capitol briefing with Regional Social Security Board officials. The discussion centers on establishing merit systems for Welfare, Health, and Unemployment divisions by January 1, 1940.
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Little Rock
Bailey Child
Welfare Department
Health Department
Capitol
Regional Social Security Board
Ed McDonald
United States
John KE. Milley
Searcy
Wade Kitchens
Magnolia
Bailey
Social Security Board
State Welfare Department
State Employment Service
McDonald
Unemployment’ Compensation Division
Miller
Local Security Board
Suilhorn
Mo. McNutt
Paul Vo McNutt
Federal Security
Staton
Arkansas Cons Sressional
Fry
McNutt
Roosevelt weighs new tax forecast for defense financing
In a warm Springs report President Roosevelt said a special tax to fund national defense is under consideration. The plan could add up to two and a half billion dollars in the next fiscal year, with expenditures likely surpassing one billion but not reaching two and a half. He emphasized trimming other costs where possible.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Daisy Heard Models in Glamorous Nights at LSU
Daisy Dorothy Heard daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Heard of 220 Grady Street Hope is one of the models in Glamorous Nights a combined musical venue and style show at Louisiana State University Miss Heard a junior in education is a member of Kappa Celts social sorority The northern rookery of pelicans is on Royal Shoals in Penlico Sound North Carolina.
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Daisy Dorothy Heard
Joseph BR. Heard
Grady Street
Hope
Louisiana State University
Miss Heard
Kappa Celts
Cotton NEW YORK Market Opens and Closes Higher
New York cotton trading opened Friday at 65 and closed at 65.75 to 65.75. Middling spot price quoted at 9.94. The report notes modest gains in early session trading and a steady close, reflecting ongoing market activity.
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New York
J. Fitzsimmons Dies Here Friday
Joby Fitzsimmons, 78, longtime Hope devotion business figure, died at 3 a.m. Friday. Funeral will be at 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Herndon Cornelius Funeral Home on South Main. Survived by widow, one son Burton of Beawnont Texas, a daughter Mrs Henry Hicks of Hope, and three grandchildren. Active pallbearers listed. numerous honorary pallbearers named.
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Joby Fitzsimmons
Hope
Herndon Cornelius Funeral Home
South Main Street
Burton
Beawnont
Texas
Henry Hicks
Joe Floyd
E. G. Coop
C. &. Lowthor
Fragmentary Gospel Verse Remnant Notes Love for Enemies
A damaged line references Christ teachings on loving enemies blessing those who curse and praying for persecutors. The fragment cites a gospel passage and includes garbled names resembling Matthew. The text carries devotional sentiment without complete quotation.
Cranium Crackers Cranium Crackers Fantais Americans
A scrambled list of famous Americans with mixed descriptors for William Brewster John Fiske and others. The page asks to select the description that best fits each person including roles like general physicist historian writer clergy explorer and railway executive.
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Americas
William Brewster
Pilgrim
Juventon
Walliam
Ooslitosian
John Fiske
Fod Sen Caplainy GO Dias Anitisa
Dolay Ericsion
Exploreny
Jay Gaunt
Vtitury
Liberty of Speech and Press Vital at Rotary Speech
Tayne Weisenberger Hempstead county representative spoke at Hope Rotary noting free speech for Communists and Bund members while condemned liquor advertising He urged public disclosure of views to sustain democracy and cited the First Amendment Guests included Ted Van Pelt Oliver Williams and W O Washburn.
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Tayne Weisenberger
Hempstead
Hope Rotary Club
Motel Barlow
Bund
Russia
Germany
Weisenberger
William Wray
United States
Ted van Pelt
Prescott
Winter Games Cancelled in Partenkirchen
Berlin reports the winter Olympic events scheduled for Garmisch Partenkirchen are canceled. Reich sports leader Hang von Tschanmer Osten announced the decision on Friday, citing unspecified reasons and delaying the planned winter sports program.
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Berlin
Germany
Gurmisch-Partenkirchen
Hang von Tschanmer Osten
Reich Sports Teacer
Belfast Cruiser Damaged Believed From Sub Torpedo Attack
Berlin reports corroboration of a submarine attack on the British cruiser Belfast in the Firth of Forth with heavy damage but no full details. Private sources in New York suggest damage could have been caused by a mine. the submarine reportedly escaped.
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Berlin
Germany
High Command
Belfast
Firth of Forth
The
New York Times
Associated Press
New York
Christmas Seal Sales Campaign Details
The Tuberculosis Christmas Seals Committee met at City Hall to outline a drive. Fifty thousand seals arrive for immediate distribution as the national drive begins on Thanksgiving Day with a town drive in Hope on December 4 and a school drive on December 11. Nine thousand Hempstead County students are expected to sell seals, while Rockwell Kent designs the 1939 seal with an angel and a blue background and the theme Protect Your Home from Tuberculosis.
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H. C. Kyler
National Committee
Hope
Hempstead
Bill Stroud
Washington
van Huys
Rockwell Kent
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Fayers
China
Indo- China
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Morida
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Social Security
Hull
House
Committee On UN
Daisy Dorothy
L.S.A
Royal Shoals
Penlico Sound
N.C
Cologne
Tidal Basin
Potomac Park
J. Fitzsimmons
Hope Man
Rotary
Britain
London
Eng
Mangalore
Richard Henry Stevens
Sigismund Payne Best
Hague
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Het Colk
Netherlands Army
Lieut. Klop
Venice Frontier
Seret
Sliedrecht
Don, Eng
Shetland Islands
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