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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1948
Page
11
Senator Overton of Louisiana opposed extending the federal reclamation act to include Arkansas. He said the bill is broader than a move to extend the law to Arkansas and warned it might stretch the act beyond its current scope.
Senators Fulbright and McClellan, both Arkansas Democrats, introduced a bill to address a growing water problem in the Grand Prairie area of south-central Arkansas. The measure would permit use of reclamation bureau techniques to reclaim and utilize drainage water, amid past opposition from Overton to expanding Interior Department jurisdiction over drainage areas.
Former Army Colonel Jack Durant, serving a 14 year sentence for theft of the Hes sian crown jewels, filed a habeas corpus petition in U S District Court arguing army court martial lacked jurisdiction. Government attorneys sought to return his wife Kathleen Nash Durant to prison on similar grounds as Richmond court weighs reversing a prior ruling freeing her.
Argentine Senate Foreign Relations head Dr. Diego Luis Molinari said the Colombia uprising was obvious by March 30 as the Pan American conference opened. He blamed the Communist Comintern for ordering the Jorge Gaitan assassination to derail Bogota talks, noting multiple attacks and property arsons as tensions rose ahead of the meeting. Molinari, in New Orleans for radio remarks, planned to visit Washington and New York to discuss the situation.
An Interior Department analysis notes the reclamation act mainly covers 17 western arid states. The Pulbright McClellan bill, backed by Krug and the Senate Public Lands Committee, urges a broader drainage irrigation approach east of the White River and in the St Frannig basin. Estimates suggest 500000 to 1000000 acres could be developed, with additional irrigation along the Ac river and a large prairie area of 649000 acres under HM gtop requiring supplemental MuLTGM.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports coal production inching toward normal as about 75 percent of capacity returns in several regions. Many United Mine Workers back at work while others demand court-contempt issues against UMW Chief John L. Lewis be resolved and local union votes conclude.
Miss Mary Dixon, home demonstration agent, cites abundant foods led by cauliflower, celery and lettuce with jams and marmalades. The list includes eggs, oranges, apples and grapefruit, plus dried fruits, poultry, frozen fish, honey, nuts and peanut butter. Processed items are canned grapefruit juice, juice segments, tomato juice, green peas and canned pumpkin. Note warns about wartime synthetic flavors from phosphogene gas once used in World War I.
Molinari and Argentine officials warned of Communist disruption in Bogota ahead of the Pan American conference. Chalked slogans denounced the meeting as a Communist threat. Peron directed Argentina to push an anti Communist push from Canada to Argentina and Marshall. Molinari named Chile and Brazil as next risk points.
The item lists spring farming advice including applying nitrate fertilizers, shearing sheep in April, checking dairy herd, preparing seedbeds for corn, weed control, planning a home meat supply, laying out irrigation furrows, giving sows green pasture, removing vents, working ground after plowing, and planting novelty gourds for craft use next winter.
Jewish sources report Dr. Naim Yassky, director of Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, was among 35 Jews killed when a hospital-bound convoy was ambushed. Eleven vehicles involved. Yassky shot three times. wife survived. British troops recovered bodies. seven Arabs dead, three wounded. сах
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