Watermelon Week Staged in Hope Sept 4 to 10
Hope hosts Watermelon Week from September 4 through 10 with events including pet and decorated bicycle parades, a watermelon window display contest with a 5 prize, and a carnival by Miller Amusement Shows from Shreveport. Prizes include 5 for best display, 2.40 for largest fruit, and 5 and 2.50 for bicycle parade winners. Kids and local residents may participate. parades start at First Baptist church led by the Hope Boys band.
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Young Dushless Men's Association of Hope
Hope
Hope Auto Company
First Baptist Church
Hope Boys
Hone Boys
Shreveport
Hope woman killed in train auto collision at Emmet
Jessie Yerger 18, widow of Dr. Johny P. Yerger, died after a northbound freight train struck her car at a rail crossing near Emmet depot about 10:30 am Thursday. She was driving to WPA adult school, survived by three daughters and her mother, car demolished, body held at Hicks Funeral Home.
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Jessie Yerger
Hope
Emmet
Yerger
Johny P. Yerger
Prescot
Julia Chester Hospital
WPA
Hicks Funeral Home
Lucille
Johnnie Evelyn
Gwendolyn
New Officers Named by First Baptist Church
J T Bowden was elected general superintendent of the Sunday school and Lawson E Glover named training union director at the First Baptist Church annual officer election held Wednesday night. Officers will assume duties October 1.
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J.T. Bowden
Sunay School
Lawson E. Glover
First Baptist Church
Fedgar Thrash
J. T. Bowden
Henry Faynes
C. F. Routon
Ut In
F. L. Padgitt
A. C. Kolb
Faye King
Royce Smith
Weaver Collins
Hervey Holt
Ginver
D. Cook
Marianna Hutson
Autrey McAdams
JT Luele
Wechyreh
Employment Office Provides 310 Jobs Report
The Arkansas State Employment Service filled 2491 job openings in July with 83 percent to private employers. Director D Palmer Patterson reported 2068 private placements: 1281 to men, 1709 to white individuals, and 949 to applicants under 25. Continued on page three.
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Arkansas State Employment Service
D. Palmer Patterson
Patterson
Profit or loss on two horse trades worth $250 each
A man bought two horses and sold both for 250 dollars each. He earned 25 percent on the first sale and 2 percent on the second. Determine total gain or loss from the combined transactions.
Jobs Open Here for 100 Truck Drivers Sevier County
The Hope office of the U S Employment Service has openings for 100 truck drivers and 30 truck owner operators on a rowed contract job in Sevier county. Interested operators with hydraulic dump truck gravel haul experience should contact the Hope Employment Office over Jack's News Stand.
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Hope
U. S
Mellon Fortune Reduced to 36 Million on Death
Andrew Mellon’s vast fortune, once over 200 million, has been reduced to 36.5 million upon his death. Gifts largely explain the decline with about 2 million in real estate expected to escape inheritance tax. Pennsylvania has collected 2.2 million with further potential, while most gifts went to descendants and the A W Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. The art collection, valued at 50 million, has been given to the nation. The art will be housed in a 15 million building now under construction in Washington.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Pennsylvania
R. B. Mellon
Mellon
Paul
Ailsa
David R. E. Bruce
New York
A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
Sales, Gas Taxes Drop Heavily for August
Arkansas revenue figures show August tax receipts at 1.596 million dollars, down from 1.895 million for the same month last year. Revenue Commissioner Z. M. McCarroll cites a general national mood and worse business conditions, with gasoline and sales taxes expected to rebound if conditions improve. toll removals on state bridges may have affected collections.
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Little Rock
Z. M. McCarroll
Arkansas
McCarroll
Newt E. Shulfield
Revenue Department
Purge politics loom after South Carolina victory and California loss
President Roosevelt peers at an using the ax on foes, as Senator Bili son D. Smith trounces McAdoo in California and sweeps South Carolina. Roosevelt had backed Johnston, not Smith, yet advisers urge decisive action against congress members opposing his policies amid the primary returns. Early totals show Smith 172,098, Johnston 138,467, with Edgar Brown also seeking renomination.
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Washington
Bilison D. Smith
South Carolina
William G. McAdoo
California
Roosevelt
Congress
Smith
Glin D. Johnston
Edgar Brown
Johnston
Brown
Mind Your Manners Social Etiquette Quiz 1938
A 1938 NEA Service etiquette piece asks five questions on proper dance floor conduct. It answers: unattached men should see an unescorted girl home. men should dance at least once with a girl who entertained him. tea dances run from 4 to 6 or 7. at a dinner dance the man should stand when his partner rises to dance with another. do not pressure a partner on technique. Best action is to introduce another willing dancer or excuse oneself politely.
McAdoo Loses Bid as Pension Scrip Plan Fails
In California primary politics Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt ally, concedes defeat in renomination after his Liberal pension scrip scheme collapses. Downey wins renomination for governor in a sweep, aiding Culbert Olson. Merriam and Riley secure Republican nominations as McAdoo cautions the plan would ruin California while praising Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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San Francisco
William Gibbs McAdoo
Roosevelt
Sheridan Downey
California
Culbert L. Olson
Downey
McAdoo
MccAdoo
Los Angeles
Frank F. Merriam
Ray L. Riley
Devel
Merriam
George Hatfield
Riley
Bancroftt
Roosevelt Bower
Lucrcia del Valle Grady
Science Replaces Whipping in Michigan Penitentiary Discipline
Jackson Michigan recounts how the State Prison of Southern Michigan abandoned torture blocks and brutal cell punishments in favor of disciplined reform. Warden Moore uses toplocking and solitary confinement to shape behavior, turning a harsh facility into a modern, hopeful institution.
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Willis Thornton
NEA
Jackson
Mich
Michigan
State Insane Asylum
Osborne Association
American Prison Association
St. Paul
Jackson Institution
House of Hope
Joel R. Moore
Moore
Typhoon Hits Japan Killing Dozens and Wrecking Coast
A 75 mile per hour typhoon devastated Tokyo and Yokohama on Thursday. At least 34 killed and many missing, with widespread property damage and 150 homeless in Tokyo. Ships driven aground and a village near Maebashi wiped out, though most residents believed to have escaped.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yokohama
Maebashi
Revival Meeting to Close Here Sunday
The revival at the First Pentecostal Shive will end Sunday night with Pastor Rev. L. J. Nichols announcing the close. The three week event has been a success, setting new highs in Sunday school and church memberships. Evangelist Nugent will speak Sunday night on the Mark of the Beast.
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L. J. Nichols
Evangelist Nugent
Bewhiskered 1870s clubs wore padded pants and stiff blouses
The first big league teams wore thickly padded pants neckties and stiff-hosen blouses as part of retro baseball dress.
Cotton opens and closes steady in New Orleans market
New Orleans spot cotton opened Thursday at 8.29 cents and closed steady with an up change at 8.27 cents. The closing quote shows slight movement amid cautious trading. Cotton futures and spot prices reflected a balanced demand, with traders watching global supply signals.
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New Orleans
Hitler Calls His Generals to Talk at Berchtesgaden
At Berchtesgaden Hitler summoned Field Marshal Goering and several generals to confer with Konrad Henlein leader of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten Germans. The meeting aims to decide acceptance or rejection of Prague's latest autonomy proposals, amid Italy's anti Jewish decree and looming labor unrest in France.
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Hitler
Sudeten
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Reichsfuehrer
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Konrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Fuehrer
Praha
Italy
Associated Press
Europe
Batesgaden
Bavaria
Uni
United States
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Libya
Aegesn Isles
Italian East Africa
Quebec Avalanche Kills Four and Hurts Dozens
A rain driven avalanche destroyed a crowded four story apartment block in a Quebec suburb killing four people and injuring about 12. One boy was buried under the wreckage while eight other deaths occurred in the same storm. A Portneuf family of six drowned when their home was swept away by the flood. Two people died in a washout derailment of a Montreal Quebec passenger train.
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Quebec
Canada
Portneuf
Legion and Auxiliary to Hold Joint Meeting in Hope
The American Legion and Auxiliary Posts of Hempstead county will meet Thursday at Hope city hall starting at 6 p m. State Commander B A Brooks and State Adjutant Bert Presson with other officials will attend, and a large attendance is urged.
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American Legion
Hempstead County
Hope City Hall
B. A. Brooks
Bert Presson
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G. T. Cross
Hope Manage
Sevier
NEA Service, Inc
M'Adoo
Benatar
State Prison
Southern
Michigan Model
Philadelphia County Prison
Richard Andree
Loplock
France
Paris
Quebec Avalanche
Hurts
Legion, Auxiliary
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