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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
4
The Sikeston Herald lists Clint H. Dexman as Publisher and Ward Denman as Assistant. It notes publication every Thursday at 119 West Malone Avenue Sikeston Missouri with the telephone listed as 99.
The notice sets yearly subscription at $1.50 for Scott and adjoining counties and $2.00 elsewhere. Terms are strictly in advance. Entered as second class matter March 9, 1908, at Sikeston Missouri post office under the act of Congress of March 3 1879.
The second annual National Letter-Writing Week will be observed October 1 to 7. Absent from home are urged to write to parents and husbands away from home to send a letter of love and support. Citizens are asked to write letters of cheer to shut-ins and neglected elders. Plan now to write one or more letters to lift spirits. The note calls for encouraging youth and discourages war-time trading and bicycle safety concerns for families in Sikeston.
Professor W. T. Doherty of State College Cape Girardeau told Sikeston Kiwanis and city officials that Europe’s war stems from England France and Russia not Hitler. He blamed England for arming Germany and allowing Mussolini to advance, questioned democracy’s vitality and praised American progress with Lincoln era reforms as a living democracy.
Sikeston residents urged to volunteer in the Red Cross program. Women are asked to join in sewing, making bandages, and preparing items for emergencies, drawing on a strong prior record of service.
The Herald notes no link between an attempted cotton pickers strike earlier this week and the several gin fires of the past two days. It attributes the blazes to unusually hot weather, saying cotton and cotton seed are highly flammable, especially this past week.
About two hundred mothers at a St Louis gathering adopted chain letters to promote American neutrality. They pledged to write to Senators and Congressmen urging passage of the neutrality act and to urge friends out of state to do the same. They opposed sending sons to foreign battlefields, but would urge their sons to fight if the country were invaded.
The article argues the 1930s world teetered on global catastrophe as nations breached or ignored Kellog Briand Pact and Nine Power Treaty. It recounts Japan's seizure of Mukden, Italy's attack on Ethiopia, Rhineland remilitarization, and the spread of Axis powers. It singles out League of Nations inaction and U S efforts with Britain, warning that great powers’ delays imperil civilization.
Twenty years ago Union elected a president and officers on a Wednesday afternoon. The Sikeston Baptist church reported all building debts paid with no dedication plans yet. An aeroplane belonging to Lyle and Bill Malone sustained further damage at Ste Genevieve after a Poplar Bluff crash. The Herald will sponsor a yo-yo contest for boys on September 21. The International Shoe factory employs 682 workers this week, a record high. School elections named officers for the senior and junior classes, while the sophomore class elected its slate. Five years ago in 1934, Bank of Sikeston prepared to move to a new corner location with open house planned. Morley’s Neighbor Day queen Mary Lou Ford was named. Last year in 1988, Neville Chamberlin met Hitler to seek peace over Sudeten demands. About 500 bales of cotton have been ginned by Sikeston gins to date, with rain delaying more.
Sikeston public school students will be dismissed at noon while heat persists. Sup t R A Harper announced this afternoon that today marks the second half day for Sikeston High School and the third for grade schools as hot weather continues.
Washington begins to regain calm after war hysteria with focus on neutrality. Republicans and conservative Democrats weigh unity with Roosevelt while avoiding shifts that push domestic issues aside. They seek real neutrality, oppose expanding wartime powers, resist New Deal overreach, and want a united approach without partisan turmoil.
Walter Lippmann argues for a coalition style advisory group for President Roosevelt to share responsibility with opposing leaders. He names Herbert Hoover, Vice President Garner, and Senators Vandenberg and Taft as potential members, suggesting this could strengthen unity if America widens its wartime leadership.
J. H. Holtzhouser, 84, a Malden Civil War veteran, died Sunday at his son's home in Malden. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon conducted by Rev. Cecil McConnell of the General Baptist church.
A Wakefield Massachusetts policy bars pupils and parents from giving gifts to teachers to avoid accusations of favoritism and hurt feelings among children who cannot afford presents. The school committee implemented the rule, citing equity concerns, according to Associated Press.
The map of Dunklin county will be inscribed in the rotunda floor of a new Kennett courthouse nearing completion. About 9 feet by 5 feet, it will display townships highways and principal towns. Colored stone will form the map designed by a Memphis contractor with county court approval.
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