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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1932
Page
2
C E Palmer serves as President and Alex H Washburn as Editor and Publisher of the Hope Arkansas newspaper. The notice cites mail matter post office classification under the act of March 3 1897.
The Star's Platform calls applying power plant revenues to city improvements and sanitary upgrades. It outlines county highway funding to cut dirt roads yearly and support for scientific agricultural programs and farmer cooperatives. State highway progress and tax reform through a budget system are urged to improve government efficiency.
Italy moves to purify its language banning English terms and foreign phrases. Benito Mussolini pushes Italian alternatives like tassi for taxi and frittata for omelette while criminalizing English sounding imports and a French introduced smoking for dinner jacket.
Vera Caspary argues modern women are not as good sports as their grandmothers though they engage in country club activities and high achieving roles. She says openly declaring virtue undermines true sporting spirit and contrasts with past marriages kept squarely intact. The piece notes the debate on modern marriage and female autonomy.
An editorial urges tighter limits on widows pensions for aging veterans and argues Congress should set a firm end dates for World War I widow benefits. It notes long-running payouts to Mexican War widows despite no living veterans from that era and warns taxpayers bear the burden if action is not taken.
The Manila cathedral, central to trade and faith since the 16th century, with eight chapels and a silver altar, survived fires and earthquakes to witness Manila harbor and the yearly galleon to Mexico. It remains the islands’ principal church and a landmark of Christianized Manila.
BERLIN the largest land plane in the world at Tempelhof Airdrome for Berlin to London service will soon take to the air. The D-2500 carries 26 passengers plus seven crew, with four motors housed in its wing. It spans 147 feet, is 75 feet long, weighs 51 000 pounds, and cruises at 112 mph. It includes six cabins a dining car a kitchen and two lavatories.
British forces in Egypt test huge Vickers Napier aircraft for troop transport. So far they have moved a full squad with gear from Cairo to nearby locations on these short flights.
A claim that Damascus in Syria is the world’s oldest continuously inhabited city draws scholarly debate and discussion among historians and archaeologists. Researchers note long habitation since ancient times while others cite competing origins for early urban centers.
NEA Service Sports Writer CHICAGO Four games have been won this year by an arm that has pitched more baseballs than any other flipper currently doing business in the big leagues. It is a long, skinny and left handed arm. At the top end it is attached to the six foot six inch frame of the man known as Eppa Rixey, Cincinnati Reds veteran. This is his 20th season, all in the National League.
Four United States navy fliers died when their plane fell 400 feet near the fleet air base in Canal Zone. Engine failure prompted an attempted forced landing, but the craft nose-dived into the water.
Ford Hovey of Omaha Nebraska was appointed head of the agricultural credit organization of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He has long ties to the Stockyards National Bank of South Omaha and is expected to direct a loan program for livestock feeders as the first work of the new unit.
A brief note quotes Sydney Bulletin on language use describing “superfluous” terms as unnecessary such as the contraction in “Will yer have a drink?” The exchange frames casual speech as inefficient or redundant.
Mrs. Smith jokes about sobriety in a humorous exchange noting a judge once kept her husband from drinking. The line plays on the idea of a moral authority outside a clergyman as the only successful temperance influence.
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