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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1940
Page
3
The provided OCR dense text appears as a cluttered stream of numbers and fragments from a Hempstead County vote record. It includes scattered figures and partial phrases with no clear events or names readable, suggesting a damaged page with election data and codified tallies not recoverable into a coherent report.
A CBS official noted three top radio programs in the last decade drew the most listeners without sponsorship from advertisers and were built by newspaper reports. The King Edward abdication romance led in audience draw, with Roosevelt’s dagger speech and Schmeling fight also ranking highly, per the Arkansas Press association.
Hitler warned the world that the British Isles are under complete blockade with Germany not responsible for neutral vessels. Nazi bombers aimed at Britain's harbors airports and factories as daylight raids resumed. London suburbs and the Thames area suffered, while Britain claimed German losses and retaliated with attacks on a Leipzig synthetic oil plant.
Five questions probe the four major party nominees for president and vice president. It asks about a father who held the same cabinet post as his son, hobby farms, absence at convention selections, a nominee who once governed a state, and requests full names, with answers on Page Two.
Jerome Smith of Ozan Arkansas named by Secretary Wallace to Hempstead County Tenant Purchase Advisory Committee. Members include Hugh Garner Route 1 Hope and James Otis Johnson Sr Columbus. Committee reviews loan eligibility and farms for families. 1940 41 plan aims to assist 14 families. Sparks FSA supervisor says applications for loans are being accepted now.
The December cotton market opened at 9.19 and closed at 9.15 in New York. Middling spot finished at 3.01, down 1.0 from the prior session.
President Roosevelt named Nelson A Rockefeller Jr to coordinate commercial and cultural relations among the American republics. Press secretary Stephen Early said Rockefeller would be "another $1 a year man" serving the Council of National Relations, with details continued on page four.
Memphis mother Lillie Mae Wilkinson describes eased access to cotton goods this year after prior shortages for her five daughters and son. Grant McGee reports the NEA Service from Memphis Tennessee detailing consumer experiences under the Cofton Stamp plan and its impact on local shoppers.
The Arkansas Forestry Commission unveiled a new five horsepower two cylinder plow to reduce ground fire damage. Unit 9, covering Columbia Lafayette Hempstead Nevada and Guachita counties, will use the 1000 pound device to turn furrows a mile per hour, cutting labor from ten men to one operator. The plow’s design aims to speed fire breaks and save forests, with trials at Ozan Lumber and Southern Kraft Paper and interest from Oklahoma officials and Crossett Lumber Company.
In Richmond Virginia Justice Eben C Folkes heard a reckless driving case and fined the defendant ten dollars plus costs and revoked his driving permit for six months, despite the defendant lacking a permit in the state. A court attache objected noting the absence of a permit. The judge quipped to try obtaining one, then moved to the next case.
Ford Motor Company will produce 4000 air cooled aviation engines for the United States government. The engines follow Pratt & Whitney design, with William Knudsen of the National Defense Council overseeing the contract. Ford will also continue work on a Ford liquid cooled 12 cylinder 1500 horsepower engine with existing blueprints.
A New London man mailed a one cent stamp to a Dunn five and ten cent store a year ago and is honest. The Dunn store manager in town learns of the return and another manager also finds the stamp payment and wants to repay one stamp. The two stores aim to mirror the honesty of the New London man.
At Wilson North Carolina Miss Tassie Fleming was preparing for photographers during the North Carolina Tobacco Exposition and Festival when she found her cured tobacco exhibit skint and riddled by moths, a hit last year.
Jim Wilson broke 40 of 50 at the Wilson skeet club in Columbus. W. K. Lemley of Hope took second with 49 targets, while George Wiley of Guernsey and Frank Johnson of Hope tied for third with 47 as scores follow.
Rotarians from Hope Ashdown Nashville Texarkana DeQueen Stamps Prescott Magnolia gathered at Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station to discuss forming a Lafayette county unit in Lewisville. Lyman Armstrong led the event with E F McFaddin and George Ware directing, barbecue chicken and watermelon served.
In Arkansas, Speaker John M. Bransford withdrew from the lieutenant governor race, leaving Bob Bailey unopposed in the August 27 runoff. In the Seventh district primary, Oren Harris defeated Wade Kitchens by about 2000 votes, official tallies noting Harris 19,870 versus Kitchens. Official Hempstead County results showed little change from unofficial figures.
Portugal under Salazar shifts away from a strongly pro-British stance. The regime maintains nominal allegiance to Britain while courting Germany, Italy, and Spain. German influence grows as Salazar’s policies push education toward German language and reforms that complicate Anglo relations.
Elwood Indiana reports President Roosevelt courting war policy while Wendell Willkie formally accepts the Republican nomination. Willkie endorses selective service as necessary for manpower and defends his stance against Roosevelt's foreign policy. He vows to return to American principles to defeat Hitler on American terms.
Paula Clark reports from Nassau on the appointment of the Duke of Windsor as governor of the Bahamas. The ceremony will see him sworn in before a council chamber audience, with three advisers from London. The piece notes sponge fishermen shifting to farming, historic prosperity waves from piracy to prohibition, and local nightlife in Nassau with a steady colonial tempo.
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