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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1941
Page
4
Mayor Albert Graves urges all citizens to set clocks one hour ahead this Sunday night for Daylight Saving Time. The piece stresses orderly adjustment, notes transportation and rail operations, and comments on peace proposals and salt diplomacy amid wartime debates.
Dispatches from Moscow report Leningrad still besieged as Soviet forces recount heavy fighting on the outer defenses. A Soviet bulletin cites major front activity near Novgorod and Kingisep with German and Finnish columns advancing from the north. Nazi headquarters claim high Soviet casualties and widespread destruction as German and allied forces push deeper into enemy territory.
A British note seeking the expulsion of Nazi influence in Iran prompted a formal reply. The response emphasized Britain's stance, with sources noting collaboration with Russia and indications of potential actions if Iran defied allied demands. The date and specifics remain undisclosed.
Comic page asks about famous nicknames in boxing, tennis, and boxing. It queries Bonny the boxer and his boxing role, Pinky the tennis star, Porky the Mui star, Slapsie Maxie the Summer champ and his current living, Whizze the football player defeated by Marines for severe blindness, Skinnnin Barming and Sweetwater Lou and their fields.
The first bale of cotton for the year was ginned Thursday in the Canal neighborhood of La Fayette County. It weighed 57 pounds, brought 16 cents per pound middling, and 48 cents per pound at another sale. Ginned by Bayou Gin Co. Bradley Ark. was the buyer, purchased by M. Hamner.
U S Senator Lloyd Spencer said the War Department would pay government costs to remove all cemeteries on the Southwestern Praying Ground reservation, whether public or private. He cited telegrams from Washington claiming removal would be at government expense but noted officials had not settled the matter. Date and place: August 32, 1941, Washington, D C.
Wrothy Jie Whitmore surrendered to county officers after allegedly killing his wife last Tuesday afternoon near Clow. Deputy Sheriff Von Middlebrooks said Whitmore would be charged with first degree murder and held in the county jail. The case recalls the era of statehood when five states joined the Union.
Mayor Albert Graves issued a proclamation Friday noon to start Daylight Saving Time in Hope at 9 p.m. Sunday August 24. Houses will set clocks forward one hour, civilian and military populations will share the same time schedule. The move follows a request from South Western Proving Ground commandant and support from downtown business leaders urging Colonel Cabell to enable two daylight shifts at the project.
Army uses new Douglas dive bombers in coordinated dawn assaults along a 36 mile front in Southwest Arkansas. The squadron, praised for potential to outmatch the German Stukas, executed real attacks with ground forces amid wooded terrain.
Hyde Park reports President Roosevelt issued an executive order formalizing the selective service extension to 18 months for selectees reservists national guardsmen and enlisted army personnel. The order allows release after 12 months when defense interests permit and transfers to reserves after one year of service.
The Agriculture Department reports a sharp drop in corn output across 14 major producing states. Today's forecast is 1,883,172,000 bushels, down from August 1 projection of 1,937,776,000. Last year produced 3,840,992,000 bushels.
A religious quotation from Matthew 16 8 emphasizes spiritual freedom and personal insight, echoing the call to think independently. The fragment reflects a Methodist era tone often found in devotional or propogation era texts.
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