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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1938
Page
4
A New York NEA service feature outlines modern Halloween ideas with a progressive party plan. Hostesses share tasks to simplify decorating and menu distribution, suggesting pumpkin and apple setups, divided duties, and themed games to keep guests entertained across houses.
The race centers on Governor George H. Earle and U S Senator James J. Davis as Republicans seek to reclaim a long-held Pennsylvania political stronghold. Labor unions split with AFL endorsing Davis or backing Earle and Jones, while Democrats highlight graft allegations and campaign ethics. James, a former labor secretary and district attorney, campaigns for governor against James, a red-haired vigorous candidate with coal mining roots, in a high-stakes fight seen as pivotal for 1930s politics. Tomorrow: Michigan.
Syd McMath, assistant cashier at First National Bank, announced Thursday as a candidate for alderman from Ward Four, subject to the city democratic primary on November 30. A Hope resident for 22 years, he seeks the post for the first time and pledges to perform duties in a businesslike manner.
A playful classified item asks readers to sort statements as true or false. It notes New Yorkers spend more per day than residents of any other American city, Sequoia trees are the oldest living things, and other claims about health, birth age counting, and cuckoo weight, inviting reader judgment.
Texarkana was chosen as the Ark ansas Synod site for the annual three day meeting ending with plans announced for October 17 19. The Synod urged broader study of marriage and divorce while reporting a $50 000 debt reduction for Arkansas College Batesville and an evangelistic campaign plan for Presbyterian churches in the state.
Arkansas Louisiana Gas launches odorizing of natural gas in Hope and Springhill to detect leaks. Calodorant scent added to gas will not affect heating value and is designed to warn of leaks, with company covering equipment costs for customers. Local manager J Ky Eale urges cooperation and calls for reporting odor of leaks to the utility.
A government exhibit in the German spy trial disappeared on resumed proceedings, a book with photocopies of eight letters. The copies, prepared under British Intelligence, relate to Guenther Gustav Rumrich, ex U.S. Army sergeant who pleaded guilty and testified. The letters were sent to a German agent identified as Sanders in care of Jessie Jordan in Dundee, Scotland.
A fragment urges teaching to feel another's wet emotions to hide fault, seeking mercy toward others and toward self. The lines frame mercy as a practice, prompting reflective empathy and restraint in judgment within a moral context.
MARSEILLE France premier Daladier told a radical socialist congress he expects Germany and France to reach an understanding. France reportedly would drop mutual assistance pacts with Soviet Russia to pursue a German accord. New British naval chief Earl Stanhope named First Lord of the Admiralty, succeeding Duff Cooper who resigned due to distrust of Chamberlain's foreign policy.
Sixteen Hope Fire Department members will receive diplomas from the University of Arkansas Extension Service as graduates of a four day training school completed Wednesday night. Carl S. Smalley of Van Buren, supervisor of training schools, says Hope’s class is the seventh perfect class in Arkansas. Recognitions include Fire Chief J. K. Sale, James A. Embree, William A. ...
A compact etiquette quiz on proper phone manners asks who should initiate calls, dining-hour interruptions, and how to identify callers. It corrects common practices by stating: avoid asking Who is this, avoid calling at meal times, say This is Mary Brown for a married woman, and say This is Mrs. Smith when a wife calls a husband’s office, ending with guidance on who should end a call.
Local No. 699 of the United Brick & Clay Workers of America hosted Frank Kiger general organizer and international vice-president at a Wednesday meeting attended by about 60 members. J E Cooper local 602 Malvern and Wizard Anderson and William Hutchens spoke brief notes. Eugene Curtis of the Labor Department is due in Hope Saturday to help with local problems and the AFL mass meeting at city hall has been postponed one week.
President Roosevelt, in an Oval Office radio address, condemns nations that suppress liberty and persecute Jews. He warns the United States will protect the Western Hemisphere and urges concrete disarmament talks before any foreign threat or coercion.
Hollywood report states Lyle Talbot's burns from a heroic rescue will not end his acting career. Doctors at Cedars of Lebanon hospital say he will likely return to the screen in a few months. Franklin D. Parker, the boyhood friend saved, remains hospitalized with burns and shock but is recovering.
Grace Goldstein testified she lived with gangster Alvin Karpis in 1935 36 denying any conspiracy to harbor him. Judge Trimble directed verdicts of not guilty for Stover Dyer and Loftis reducing defendants to four. Remaining defendants include former police officials and Karpis associates as the trial progressed in Little Rock federal court.
An Arkansas delegation urged WPA officials on Thursday to speed action on $300,000 loans and grants for improvements at State Teachers College in Conway and Magnolia A. and M. College for a similar amount. The group included Magnolia A. and M. College President C. A. Overstreet.
The United States issued a note to Japan demanding an end to interference with American rights in China and a halt to discriminatory controls. It listed three specific demands to stop discriminatory measures, end monopolies harming American trade, and cease interference in American property rights in China. In Shanghai, Japanese forces press toward Hankow, Canton, and Wuhan, aiming to scatter retreating Chinese troops and seize rail lines, with formal entry expected November 3.
Newark N J The CIO and allied groups won a federal court order restraining Mayor Frank Hague and Jersey City officials from barring members from public parks and from distributing leaflets and materials to speak in public venues.
A Halloween carnival will be held in the new high school auditorium at Columbus on Monday evening October 31. Candidates for the carnival queen and king include Martha Griffin with James Caldwell, Marjorie Downs with Richard Lively, and Elizabeth Thompson with Marvin Cunningham. Everyone is invited to attend.
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