Hope Star (Newspaper) - July 26, 1941, Hope, Arkansas WorldWide News Coverage Given Impartially by Associated Press Hope VOLUME 42 NUMBER 243 Star The Weather Fair to cloudy Saturday night con cloudy in the west portion Saturday night and Staf of 1899 Consolidated January JULY 1941 Roosevelt Calls Out Fili f Enterprise Assn Associated Press PRICE 5c COPY V Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor WASHBURN No Excuse for This Incredible in this day and age is the statement by one of the world s largest life insurance companies that cases were reported in the United States last year Once the worlds greatest epidemic smallpox has for prac tical purposes been extinguished and it exists today only in remote areas where a handful of people remain ignorant Obstinate and Not a single case of smallpox was reported last year in an area embracing onequarter of the American the insur ance company report points This area included the New Eng land the Middle Atlantic and Maryland and the District of Columbia of the South The South fares well in the smallpox report for The large majority of smallpox cases reported were concentrated in the North Central area and in some of the Western the report More than 00 cases were reported in both Min and Colorado com ing next with 250 The disheartening thing about med ical sciences battle with disease is that after unselfish men have found an like vacci nation they face a second fight in persuading poor stupid humanity to enforce The most liberal of men must in prove intolerant on this ques People who defy the vaccina tion laws should be put in For when an Absolute is available its use is Other objectors fall ill and expect the rest of us to take care of them during an illness which is pure stupidity and K By WILLIS THORNTON An OldFashioned Phrase The Japanese minister to Australia have received a thorough education in Ihc curious mental processes that pass for think ing in Queried on Japanese Tatsuo Kawai replied that he disliked the word drive which Americans persisted in applying to that impetus which has sent the Jap anese legions into North Coastal and That so popular with Ameri isnt applicable to the Japanese he he was slightly annoyed by a question as to whether Japan con templated territorial expansion to ward the Netherlands Ter expansion is an ed he so it It at the virtue of being clear and well under In Ihe 13th when ev ery major nation in the world was grabbing off every of weakly de fended territory it could find lying around everybody knew what territorial expansion It meant thai real estate had been grabbed by somebody and that thereafter it belonged to the win Thai was It was a crude and it was a crude phrase that was used to des cribe But it had at least a certain straightforward Not so much can of the terms used to describe the same thing these The fashion has and an Defense Council Is Organized for Hempstead Tolbot to Head Civilian Organization Officials of the Arkansas Defense Council in a meeting here Friday af with Mayor Albert organized a defense coun and appointed Talbot as Officials present were Henry and president and secre tary of the state organization which is a branch of the Office of Civilian headed by La of New branches organizations are di by the Office of Emergency Management recently set up by Presi dent to look after civic seeds of the country caused by the emergency and particularly sections which have defense Special government funds are avail this work which or ery phase of civic As an ex ample the Hope area will have to Processes pass for think f construct possibly two new school to take care of increased enrollment caused by the Southwest ern Proving There are spcc for emergencies of that ial funds Feild said Saturday that the council was still in a process of n nyJ organization and that plans had been no definite Local committees already working and other committees will be appoint ed All the work of the different groups will be under the direction of Hen Conscripted When Gas Fails LONDON Bartholomews Hospital received the gift of a set of suggested when the chickens were hatched they should be sent the nurses country home to pro vide eggs for the The eggs were put in a gas bator in the pathological Then bombs cut off the gas The eggs were in danger of going A resourceful hospital official ap witli a hen in Ihe sidecar of motorcycle and the newcomer pro to hatch out the Continued on page four Evacuee From Robinson Tells Her Own Story Asserts She Didnt Get a Shake in Federal Court Editors Note The following Open Forum Idler addressed to The Star is printed simply the ObvioUsly the charges made in this letter arc one fam ilys and we are unable either to verify or contradict the But because both sides must be heard in a democracy we are publishing thin regard less how it conflicts with this pa pers policy of loyally supporting the present of Editor The Star I been read ing articles in the Arkansas Gazette and wonder how got the Little Rock papers to publish anything about the plight of the people who arc be ing run out of their for De fense around Edi tors Note Local Hope news is re written by special correspondents for the something this newspaper has nothing to do with other than originating the local pub And the reason I say that is be cause When they were putting GOO families out of their homes in Feb ruary for Camp Robinson the Little Rock papers did not even publish any thing on the peoples It was all for the And we wrote to outside newspapers for the Daily Memphis Com Appeal and Denver Chicago papers took our story up after we made it as in one place in your art icle you it Is impossible to move so many into It But how about our We were not offered tents but Just move We did of course We had Continued on Page Four CRANIUM CRACKERS Summer Reading Theres nothing like curling up with a good book these warm summer taking a dp in the lake or Next best tiling might be gelling out pencil and paper lo answer these ques tions about books and What two American states men have just opened libraries bearing their and where is each located What do Archibald Mac Leish and Andrew Carnegie have to do with libraries Good Bridge of San Luis and The Yearling are all Prize Who wrote and when Who are the only two au thors to have been awarded both Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for lit Louis Cronin and John Steinbeck all have writ ten new What arc their titles Answers on Comic Pago Forces White Family Photographed on Way Out of Proving Along Washington Highway Japan Starts Occupation Military Mission in IndoChina French IndoChina Japan began occupying newly ed bases in southern IndoChina Saturday with the arrival of army and naval officers by plane and the appearance of the first column of military trucks rolling in from bases in north commander of Japanese military stepped from the French civilian trans port plane with 3 Japanese naval and military aides while an escort of three Japanese bombers swooped on the Saigon modernized Realism LACUNA as 14 student life guards lined up on the beach for Captain Roll Beck was interrupted by a call for help from two men far out in the While the tyros looked Beck and an assistant pulled them to shore and revived Mosquitoes fast for several days after each full Star Photo Draft Calls 9 Hempstead Youths to Report for Service August 11 Nine Hope and Hempstead county youths have been notified by the local draft board to report to Camp Robinson August where they will be inducted into the army un der the compulsory military Selectees and alternates follow 1750 Robert William 1818 Eston Floyd 2171 Terry Minor 2186 Allen Lane 2228 Johnnie Carl 2233 Leroy Lewis 2304 William 2337 Utho Tommy 2345 James Warren Alternate 2394 Jim 2472 Tommie By Remote Control The Joseph pastor of the Bisbee Community solved the prob lem of preaching regularly to his congregation while taking a months He recorded four one to be broadcast each Sunday from a Bisbee radio A receiving set was in the Bitten By Snake Chokes It To Death try a rattlesnake to John was forced to do just that when a reptile bit him on a finger and wouldnt let Unable to shake the snake Morey grabbed it by the neck with his free hand and choked it until it went limp and fell to the After opening the bitten finger with a knife to induce free he went to a Soviet Military Mission in Will Confer Satur day With Sumner Marshall WASHINGTON The acting secretary of Sumner will confer Saturday with a Soviet military mission was said to have ar rived in New York by plane and will fly to Washington immediately to confer with Welles and George army chief of The mission has come to the United States to the question of securing supplies for Russia Lear to Will Occupy the Prescott American Legion Hut PRESCOTT Maneuver head quarters for the Second Army of which Lieutenant General Ben Lear is will be official ly opened in Prescott August ac cording to an announcement releas ed Friday through officers who are already stationed engaged in preparatory measures for the estab Among the officers here is Major Leland Assistant ters who is now located in an office at the new Armory Lieutenant Colonel headquarters Commandant and Provost has already in spected the Prescott location but is not expected to arrive for the dura tion of the maneuvers until next Establishment of headquarters is rapidly taking form according to a statement by Major head quarters will open with at least 210 men and range from that number to 300 while the war games are in progress in this City Park area will be given over to quarters and the mess hall with Military Forces to Enter Army Service Japan Strikes Back By Freezing All United British Credits HYDE Roose velt called into the armed service of the United States Saturday all of the organized military forces of the Phil There was no immediate official ex planation of the step but it was re garded as an indication of the United states displeasure at the Japanese southward move in the The action followed the freezing of Japanese credits in this country in quick reply to the Japanese occupa tion of French Army Commanders The Philippine forces are to be placed under American officers with the rank of a general who will desig nate the time when individual units and personnel shall be taken into the American armed All the naval units are to be under the commandant of the 16th S naval As commander and chief of the army and naval forces President Roosevelt issued the order under granted him by the and Philip pine Reports from the White House said General George the army chief of probably would ex plain the calling out of pine forces at press conference at noon Continued on Page Four By the Associated Press Striking back swiftly in the new economical war Japan ordered the freezing of securities the entire empire and prepared ilar retaliation against the were that Japan would the freezing bf but would take over Shanghais fam ous international settlement complete where are American sources at Shanghai said Japan probably would occupy the settlement also French conces sions and the principal the The French concessions and the in settlement will likely be yielded without sources The first is under the administra tion of the Vichy government whose capitulation to the Japanese plan of joint defense of the French followed by economic countersteps of Britain and America against Settlement Undefended The international settlement is vir tually undefended and indefensive against the thousands of Japanese who already are in Japanese controlled parts of the A garrison of the 4th regiment of the Marine and lightly armed volunteers are sta The volunteers merely policed the Japan was held likely to take over the 3rd power area through the Tokio Nanking government for China which has long threatened to abolish foreign Britain and the United States in they still had many trumps Continued on Page Four Part of 6 Descendants of Ousted From Carrigan Estate in Hope Star 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