Hope factory report warns collectors and liquor enforcement
A Hope factory says collectors hassled workers over liquor sales near licensed premises. The Star threatens to submit the case to Revenues if complaints persist. The piece also reflects on Quebec travel, paper mills, and shifts in newsprint sourcing from Canada to the American South amid rising prices and new pine-based white paper plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Commissioner of Revenues
Canada
Toronto
Quebec
Montreal
Star
Great St. Lawrence
Daily
Great North Country
Three Rivers
Vox
Mexico
Aleg
Tom'n Pop
Harthorn United States
Daily Press
Savannah
Gu. de
Charles Herry
Pinn
Noy
Cotton futures open in New Orleans on Friday
In New Orleans cotton futures started Friday at 9.29 and rose to 9.16. Market activity noted tentative trading as traders priced in early gains while a selling pressure developed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Enumeration for Hope Is Increased by School District
Hope Special School District reported no summer rise in school age children, with total enumeration at 3,008 including 1,644 white and 1,364 Negro. Superintendent Beryl Henry noted state per capita tax gains, as the Hope School Board met Thursday night to elect teachers and approve a plumbing contract for Yerger High School at 245 dollars.
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Hope Special School
Beryl Henry
Hope School Board
Harry Segnare
New Plumbing
Yerger High School
Japs Driven Back by Chinese Sortie
Shanghai fighting shifts to the city as Chinese forces launch a bold counteroffensive against Japanese units. Chinese artillery and machine gun nests hit ships and transports, eight Japanese transports flee downstream, shells strike the International Settlement and French concession, a Marine barracks shell fails to explode, and French authorities warn of evacuation hostilities for refugees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Japan
United States Marine
Marine
Whangpoo River
Traffic Signals and Safe Turning Procedures
State traffic law prohibits overloaded vehicles and excessive front seat occupants obstructing the driver's view. It requires yielding to safe movements on highways with audible signals and specifies left turn, right turn, and stop signals using hand and arm positions during the last ten feet before turning.
Hope Schools to Open New Term on Monday
Hope public schools set to open Monday September 20 1937 with teachers meetings this week. Free textbooks for grades 1-8. high school uses prior texts. Rural bus routes arranged September 16 to enroll pupils. Vaccination reminders and extensive staff list included for several Hope area schools and Yerger and Rosenwald facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Schools
Public Schools of
Food Contest Winners at Middlebrook’s Grocery
Winners named including Mrs. Last Mindiy and Mrs. John Britt in a local food contest. Free Saenger passes offered by Middlebrook's Grocery. Turn to page 4 for this week's Pailtest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Taylor
John Britt
W. E. Jones
Lester Mullins
Mona Mat
Middlebrook
Slow Driver Fined for 8 MPH Highway Journey
SAN JOSH Calif AIt cost Harry A Dunlap 19 a dollar to drive eight miles an hour along the highway but he said it was worth it He told the judge I was driving a young Tidy home Officers testified Dunlaps driving nearly caused several accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Josh
Calif—A
Harry A. Dunlap
Dunlap
British naval reinforcements chase pirate submarines
Britain sharpens its Mediterranean push to curb pirate submarines off Spain. France backs a League of Nations council approach as tensions rise over Italian actions in the crisis. Havock and Woodford incidents fuel public pressure while crews report oil slicks and possible submarine loss near Béniárdal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eng
Britain
Mediterranean
Europe
Geneva
Spain
Buns
Great Britain
France
League of Nations Council
Italy
Havock
Woodford
Spanish
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
John Simon
Chamberkain
Mussolini
Unders
Woodsjord
Beni¢arlo
Romania
Percy Walker
Hope to open Bendix auto test station Oct 1
Hope's new Bendix auto testing station will be ready by October 1 in the old exhibit building at Fairpark. Each vehicle must be tested twice yearly. a red approval sticker is issued for passers and a warning sticker for failures with a five day repair window. About 30 states already operate such tests and a federal law may eventually require testing.
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Hope
Albert Graves
Fairpark
Hempstead County
Arkansas
Little Rock
el Dorado
Bendix
555
Hempstead
Texan Executed in Tucker's Chair
Thomas J. Hutto, 56, formerly of Dallas, was executed at Tucker Prison Farm by electric chair for the July 21 slaying of El Dorado night patrolman James A. Yocum. Hutto offered a prayer for forgiveness as the sentence was carried out after a gun battle following a $360 drugstore holdup.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Thomas J. Hutto
Dallas
el Dorado
Hutto
James A. Yocum
Mind Your Manners Answers for Business Letter Etiquette
Answers cover letterhead taste, spacing, enclosures, and addressing business correspondents. For a firm use Gentlemen as salutation, Yes spacing rules apply, clip enclosures to the back, and avoid discussing personal troubles in formal business letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Johnson
NEA Service, Inc
Terracing Project to Erect 700 Miles in Southwest Arkansas
Hope Soil Conservation Service and CCC Camps plan about 700 miles of broad base terraces in Hope, Friendship, and Magnolia Arkansas to curb erosion. Cooperating farmers harvest early and prepare outlets in advance. The program protects roughly 18 000 acres with strip cropping and contour cultivation plus winter cover crops. Visitors are welcome to inspect the coordinated erosion control efforts across participating farms.
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Arkansas
Hopa
Hope Soil Conservation Project
CCC
Nevada County
Co-Operative Soil Conservation Association
Postoffice and Banks Observe Labor Day Holiday
Postoffice will observe Labor Day with no rural delivery and one morning city delivery in Hope. Stamp and general-delivery windows open 9 am to 11 am. Money-order window closed all day. City offices, Citizens Bank, and First National Bank also closed.
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Hope Postoffice
Robert M. Wilson
City of Hope
Gam
Tol Pam
Citizens
First National Banks
Officials Tighten Farm Commodities Trading Oversight
Washington officials announced a sweeping move by the Commodity Exchange Administration to curb price manipulation in corn wheat cotton and other farm commodities. The order requires 900 registered commission houses to report commodity accounts controlled by anyone other than the owner to prevent speculative drives during harvest and loan period. Senator Tom Connally said the cotton loan program should be active by September 13 and farmers can secure cash from local bankers meanwhile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commodity Exchange Administration
Commission
Tom Connally
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
Connally
Mir. Jones
Hartkera
Intereal
Wshy
Rain Threatens Damage to Cotton in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK. Rain threatens to reduce cotton grade and color after heavy weeklong rain. J H K Thatcher of Roland, State Plant Board member, estimates losses around 1 250 000 dollars as cotton is pounded out of bales and stained. He warns growers to protect seed for next year from excess moisture. Some say extended soaking lowers grade more than brief downpours. Scattered thundershowers expected in northwest Arkansas Friday.
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Little Rock
J. H. K. Thatcher
Roland
State Plant Board
Balis
Thatcher
Arkansas
Sheriff Bans Kangaroo Courts At La Porte Jail
LA PORTE Ind. Sheriff Jor Wolf moves to end improvised kangaroo courts inside the La Porte jail bull pens where inmates preside as judges and fines are paid with cigarettes candy or personal belongings. New prisoners face charges for breaking into jail and are fined through odd jobs or play before fellow inmates.
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LA Porte
Ind
Jor Wolf
la Parte
Wolf
Wolf's
Playie EU
2 Killed Near Here by Grocery Truck
Texarkana report says Willie Fielding 30 and Ivy Catchall 31 died instantly when struck by a grocery truck on a highway north of Texarkana. Prosecuting Attorney Ned Stewart ordered the driver Russell H. McElroy 42 of Little Rock held on a manslaughter charge.
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Texarkana
Willie Fielding
Ivy Catchall
Ned Stewart
Russell H. McElroy
Little Rock
Fulton School to Open for Fall Term on Sept 13
Fulton School will open for the fall term on Monday September 13, it was announced Friday. The Fulton faculty includes Principal J. J. Lieblong and teachers Mrs Bertha Newbeern, Mrs A C Whitehurst, Miss Mary Jett Orion, Miss Lenora Wilson, Miss Cora Abbott.
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Fulton School
Fulton
J. J. Lieblong
Bertha Newbeern
A. C. Whitehurst
Mary Jett Orion
Lenora Wilson
Cora Abbott
Springfield gun battle leaves three dead at Crystal Lake
A Springfield policeman Patria Martin Randolph, Deputy Sheriff Edward Furry, and a bandit were killed in a Friday gun battle at Crystal Lake, 15 miles southwest of Springfield, after a robbery at a case proprietor involving 4287 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ohio
Crystal Lake
Patria Martin Randolph
Edward Furry
Brewsters Homeward Bound From New Orleans Postcard
A postcard from Rev. Thomas Brewster to The Star, mailed in New Orleans and received Friday, announced he and Mrs. Brewster would be home before Sunday. Wildlife abundance in early America prompted few protection laws, with colonies adopting game laws by the Revolution and the first federal gate law in 1796.
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Thomas Brewster
The
Star
New Orleans
Mrs. Brewster
United States
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Jewst
Canadia Piper
Evers
Jntermitional Power & Pier Coy
Tiscal
Lindon
Abieriay
Norway
Kinkaid
Asan Afa Shurers
Gallen
Spring Hill
Department
South
Paisley School
Geo. M. Green
Helen Betts
Ellen Carrigan
Bessie Green
D.e. Sandhin
Theo P. Witt
Oglesby
Howard Byers
Mabel Ethridge
Mamie B. Holt
Pansy Wimberly
Nullan Wylie
Brookwood
B. C. Hyatt
Luke Allen
Kelly Bryant
Winnie Lee Floyd
L. Renfro
Haddie Taylor
Hope Jo Sr
J. Jones
Foy H. Hammons
Jackson
Fracrs McMillan
William A. Dean
Lawrence W. Martin
FLL
Parlgitt, Jr
LeRoy Alison
Pawa Benjamin
Mary Billingsley
Irma Dewi
Gula Garland
Mildred McCance
Dorsey McRae
Mina M. Milburn
Sarah Gb, Payton
Roy Stephenson
Yerger
Myrtle Yerger
James Harris
E. N. Glover
T. A. Hamilton
Theodore Edwards
Naomi Yerger
Emma W. Walker
Ella Yerger
Georgia Yerger
Mary Tellington
Hinma Cooper
Daa Glover
Lavine Harris
Mary Lee Jones
Alfaretti Walkey
Rosenwald
Lula Benson
Irene Hamilton
Magnes Chapel
Mildred Wright
Melrose
Luther A. Clark
Ethel Bixzell
Miss Bory
Howard M. Threlkelu
Auilly
Fair Park
Tucker
Conservation Office
Hope Soil Conservation Service
Friendship
Magnolia
Durfees
L. A. Driver
J. I. Lieblong
Brewsters
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