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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1940
Page
3
The narrator recalls wartime Britain with sandbags and barbed wire trenches, a seaplane sighting, camouflaged airfields, and soldiers patrolling from Dover to London. Barricades, gas masks, and red double deckers mark a country adapting to invasion fears amid fog and upheaval.
In Dayton a baked plastic aerobile that both rolls like a car and flies like an airplane may enter production in a few months. The craft would use eight or 120 horsepower air cooled motors, has passed air tunnel tests, and aims to produce up to 100 units per month within eight months once an experimental license is granted by the Commerce Department.
The piece describes ad hoc water tanks for firefighting, Buckingham Palace security with sandbags and khaki uniforms, Churchill’s changing public perception, and daily air raids. It notes higher taxes, rationing, blackouts, and casualty lists while claiming English resolve outlasts weather and early warnings.
Natives in New Guinea feed their rehickens a seed that causes eggs to swell many times their normal size after ten days in the steamy mangrove swamp.
Bruce Catton surveys enlistment figures for 1940 showing Kentucky and Texas leading in military readiness, with southern states more bellicose than northern ones. Ohio and Nevada report only 2 percent enlistments. Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York top the state totals, while rural areas show higher rates due to farm life and army allure. Wool production rises to 380 million pounds offset by greater domestic demand and reduced imports. Jacob Thorkelson’s extended remarks fill the Congressional Record amid a renomination defeat.
Ruth Millett reports on Italian officials banning petting as frivolous amid war tensions. She notes couples seeking carriage rides and blackout era restrictions confuse youth about romance and marriage duties, questioning enforcement and effectiveness. A light aside mentions England’s Midlands midsummer sport of shouting die chutists.
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