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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1937
Page
4
An out of town football date to Camden prompts cautions to Hope fans. Officials urge good conduct, sobriety, and restraint to avoid repeat incidents on the special train ride and at the Camden stadium. The piece recalls prior clashes and a rough night in Shreveport, urging lasting sportsmanship.
The Treasury reports Social Security funds borrowed by the federal government totaling billions. Special Treasury obligations are issued to the reserve fund to back old age and unemployment benefits, with a projected rise in obligations this fiscal year to cover anticipated deficits. Investors may see impacts on borrowing and investment as funds shift from security holders to pay benefits, while the Treasury plans repayments from the reserve as balances grow. The arrangement separates reserve obligations from general tax revenues, aiming to finance ongoing benefits.
News details United States Steel directors voting Tuesday to issue a common dividend payable December 20 to stock record holders as of November 29. The article notes the dividend timing, record date, and mentions executive changes and corporate background surrounding the steel firm’s leadership.
Miss Mary Gausse Blackwood, a student at Okay school, received a dried West African monkey skin from Geoffrey Ke Asure in the Gold Coast. The exchange arose from a school project after Okay students wrote to foreigners and Asare replied with a wristwatch and camera in exchange for the skin.
A damaged report from Magnolia Arkansas notes 432 barrels per day at Buckner Well after initial tests. The well reportedly flowed for about three hours before pressures increased, with attempts to gauge daily output and depth tests planned for nearby wells.
Joby Jamismny a negro, held by police on Wednesday for possessing legal whisky. Officers raided Jamimen's home Tuesday afternoon, finding three gallons. City officers Chief John Ridecliff, Laugh Bearden, Claude Stewart, and Deputy Sheriff RO Robins conducted the raid. Dumsen will be given a hearing in municipal court next Monday. China is a worn temperate land.
United States Marines authorized to open fire in self defense as Japanese forces press along the Shanghai front. China evacuates Chapel and Kiangwan while retreating Chinese troops fight to hold the lines. Japanese air and naval actions intensify amid heavy fighting around the International Settlement and key crossings.
Ed VanSickle announces the city Democratic primary will be held Tuesday November 30. Nominations will be for one alderman per ward, a city attorney and city clerk. Precincts listed and fees set: clerk $20, attorney $20, alderman $5. Filing with City Clerk T R Billingstey due by midnight October a.
The Hope High School football team and coaches will attend a banquet and pep talk Thursday at the high school cafeteria. Sponsored by the Young Business Men's Association, tickets are on sale via association members. Leo Robins to serve as master of ceremonies and speakers include John P. Cox and Mayor Albert Graves. The event begins at 7 30 p.m. Also, 600 fans plan a special train trip to Camden for the Hope Camden game as C C Thomas issues highway guidance on routes 67 24 and nearby roadwork Around two miles of the Hane Rosston Camden road are under construction and road graveling continues south of Junction 53 and 25th.
Leopold McLaglen, 49, brother of Victor McLaglen, was jailed in Los Angeles on suspicion of soliciting crime and suborning perjury. He denied attempting to shake down millionaire Philip Chancellor for a $50000 salary bonus. The report trails into unrelated notes about Chinese paintings on silk.
A fragment from Burke contemplates how possession of power reveals true character. The short remark questions certainty in discerning a person’s real traits, suggesting power exposes core nature rather than masking it.
Police Chief John W Ridghill said H Q Pritchard of Hope was arrested and released on bond after an accident Tuesday at Third and Pine streets that injured 13 year old Alice Jean Webb daughter of Mr and Mrs Everett N Webb. Pritchard posted bond on a charge of failing to stop claiming he did not see the girl who was knocked to the pavement by his car. Webb girl received medical attention at Josephine hospital later home. She had a deep scalp wound cuts and bruises but is not believed seriously hurt.
Questions test correct usage of social grace with answers: sending flowers to a guest speaker is courteous. wear no more than three gardenias for a woman in the evening. it is suitable for a man to send flowers to an ill man. a couple may host a reception to celebrate a silver wedding. covering a piano top with vases and photos is not in good taste. If funds are tight, best to send nothing rather than overextend. do not buy two or three expensive blooms or most of one variety.
A Wabash passenger train collided with a stalled freight eight miles west of Danville. Three trainmen were killed and eight others injured. Also reports Duke of Windsor plans to visit America as an independent observer. Interstate Commerce Commission approves Louisiana & Northwest Railroad reorganization effective Jan 1, 1928.
Benton election announced new Arkansas Peace Officers and Sheriffs Association leaders. BE Rumsey of Woodruff County named president with J E Bearden first vice president, Exarl Scoggin second vice president, and W C Craig secretary treasurer. Hope to host 1948 meeting with speaker Edgar Roover of Washington DC. Burnside infant death reported. funeral at Macedonia cemetery for Mary Belle King Burnside.
Washington reports labor peace talks recessed until November 4 after both sides rejected the other's plan. CIO negotiator Harvey Freming said the pause is not a permanent disagreement as AFL urged dissolution of the CIO. AFL proposed dissolving CIO and reuniting unions, with terms to end the civil war and bring CIO unions into the Federation. Observers expect Lewis to reject the AFL bid.
A set of mixed trivia questions on geography ships in the Bolivian navy vehicle fires language housing and counting problems. It asks about Great Lakes largest smallest deepest shallowest one word meaning apartment and level and a logic puzzle about Jones buying cans of fruit vegetables and beans with a final question on the difference in quantities.
Jewell Long seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Monroe Long of near McCaskill in Hempstead county Arkansas died Sunday while being treated with elixir of sulfanilamide for a streptococcus infection. Dr J B Gentry exhumed the body Tuesday and sent viscera to pathologist Dr M J Kilbury for examination. Authorities note the elixir caused several deaths nationwide and recall of the medicine followed.
Over 150 attend a Tuesday night training course at First Baptist church Nashville Arkansas with 140 plus Sunday school teachers and workers. Rev Frank W Patterson speaks on Obligations of the Sunday School Teacher using chalk talk and object sermons. Sessions continue Wednesday through Friday at 7 p.m with flexible start times.
In New Orleans on Wednesday December cotton opened at 819 and closed at 829 20. Spot cotton closed steady to two points lower at middling 8.20 with quiet trading overall.
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