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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1942
Page
3
Our Daily Bread notes a tale from an Imperial Type Metal piece where a leather merchant’s son subjects shoes to severe abuse. The father asks the maker to use strongest thread and finest workmanship, yet the boy destroys the shoes in five weeks, testing durability.
Senator Taft predicted Congress would pass this fall a bill to lower the draft age to 18 and a few years, with a Tiger schedule for inductions. He urged establishing a uniform national system of inductions, prioritizing single men and using state pools to equalize quotas, shifting away from county boards.
Joseph C. Grew, ex U S ambassador to Tokyo, says Japan can be crushed only by a sweeping offensive war ending in total defeat. He warns Americans face a powerful fighting machine whose morale resists defeat, cites atrocities against POWs and missionaries as the ugly side of Japanese brutality and cruelty.
An open competitive examination to fill the postmaster position at Blevins was announced today by W J First of Prescott, local secretary of the U S Civil Service Board of Examiners. Applications may be obtained from the Blevins post office or the U S Civil Service Commission, Washington, D C and must be filed in Washington before the close of business on September 30, 1942. The Blevins post office job carries a salary of $1 400 a year.
Little Rock reports Representative Clyde Ellis of Bentonville listed campaign expenses of 5981 for a US Senate nomination bid. The breakdown includes 3016 advertising 1240 printing 1322.60 postage 225 filing fee and 178 miscellaneous. Other expense statements show figures for J T Beck Shaver Wynne lieutenant governor Floyd Barham Forrest City prosecuting attorney A L Hutchins Forrest City Chancellor Igh reus Fietz Jonesboro second district prosecutor with only the filing fee. The note adds an unrelated line about the apple tree growing rapidly.
Approximately 35 farm leaders from Hempstead County met at the courthouse at 10 am to organize a Parity Booster Campaign for fair farm product prices. Thomas F. Dotson of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation outlined parity goals, noting widespread county activity and farmer support for parity despite consumer price pressures. The meeting announced district and county sessions, with several local leaders named and plans for five follow up meetings across Blevins, Leek Caskill, Ingen, Sipraga, and Russell Roads on September 1.
Lorain Ohio August 31 Admiral Ernest J King warned the war would be long and said Americans would gain momentum in about a year. He spoke at a luncheon in his honor and outlined challenges in simultaneous fronts while stressing the need for more tools and seasoned efforts. Census figures show 583,321 residents in mental institutions nationwide.
Chinese forces push toward Nanchang held by Japanese for over two years as reinvigorated South China drive presses toward Canton and Kunlun. Sunpyang, Liangkiatu, Lel Tan, and other locations report heavy fighting as Chinese retake rail lines and bases in Chekiang and Kiangsi regions.
Paterson New Jersey Aug 31 Work stoppages hit two Wright Aeronautical plants as 560 workers at the Fair Lawn facility failed to report for the day shift and mid morning across East Paterson a department walked out. Cyril D Savage president of the Wright Aeronautical Employer Association said 100 to 200 men did not report in Fair Lawn.
Pvt. Victor H. Cobb of Co A 34th Signal Training Bn purchases 2500 dollars in defense bonds as part of supporting the war effort. The ceremony is witnessed by Lt. Col. William Linn and Capt. Obie S. Mucting with L Tarwater handling the sale at the camp post office.
Funeral services were held for Phil Lip Barr 27 a Southwestern Proving Ground employee electrocuted by a high tension wire on the reservation. Burial followed at Rose Hill cemetery. Survived by a widow a son his father R H Barr Hone and a sister Mrs Joe Cole San Antonio Texas.
A British Mediterranean Fleet destroyer column bombarded Rommel s supply base south of El Daba after predawn firing. The raid, delivering about 1 000 high explosive shells in 42 minutes, caused widespread destruction to depots and repair shops while Italian and German counterattacks with Stukas and shore batteries tested the fleet s defenses. The correspondent, Larry Allen, recounts close brushes with dive bombers, harrowing moments, and limited casualties before the ships withdrew under continued air and sea fire.
An Associated Press tally shows the Atlantic war claiming 450 Allied and neutral merchant ships and over 3,000 seamen since the war began, with 1,760 crew and passengers still missing. August sunkings fell to nine victims, while June was the worst month with ten sinkings. British planes and Allied escorts guarded coastal lanes as Axis raiders were engaged along North and South Atlantic routes.
Wartime feature notes the South Pacific as a theater where bombers and pilots perform a grim show for Melanesian and Solomons natives. It portrays friendly native alliances and Japanese setbacks, with U S Army Air Forces Marines and Navy officers praising native cooperation.
Four violent deaths were reported in Arkansas over the weekend. Paul Moffitt Jr., 13, of Lake City hid in bushes and imitated a panther scream. His brother James, 15, fired and killed him. L C Dillard, 20, near Tru main, drowned while swimming in Hatchecoon ditch. Erbun P. Barker, 44, died in Batesville hospital from injuries after falling 40 feet from a crane he operated at a nearby quarry. he lived at Bono. An unidentified man, about 24 to 30, was found shot in the head off a road west of Mount Ida.
Allied forces under General MacArthur report Australian and American operations mauling Japanese invaders at Milne Bay New Guinea. Clowes led ground troops to drive enemy from a north Milne Bay peninsula as heavy supplies and tanks were abandoned. In China and Burma, Chinese advances push toward key rail lines and bases while U S bombers strike targets in Indo China Lashio and Myitkyina. Pacific theater actions mount as Japanese efforts falter on multiple fronts.
Arkansas revenue figures released by Revenue Commissioner Joe Hardin show August receipts at 2,804,183, up from July’s 2,515,047 and August 1941’s 2,441,587. Liquor taxes reached 396,081.80, beer 184,054, cigarettes 244,003, and gasoline 1,074,402, with traders stockpiling ahead of anticipated restrictions.
Local resident Billy Monts was released from the hospital after suffering a severe hip injury when he was struck by an automobile on Highway 67 east of Hope last week. He was severely injured in the incident near his home and has now recovered sufficiently to leave the facility.
Harvest crew members chase a bear in an Oregon apple orchard then return to the combine as a rattlesnake clings to a tractor. all they want are apples. In Stockton a bicyclist breaks an arm signaling left through a car window. Kansas City firefighters battle smoke at Armour’s Packing Plant and force entry with hose and axes.
German forces pressed toward Stalingrad and Moscow while the Soviet Red Army held lines in the Don Volga corridor. Field dispatches report tank battles, air raids on Berlin and eastern Germany, and renewed combat near Rzhev, with Soviet counterattacks expanding in the Caucasus and overrun villages recaptured amid heavy fighting and artillery exchanges.
Washington Aug 31 The Senate Finance committee voted 11 to 8 to retain most House corporate tax rates in the new revenue bill including a 90 percent excess profits levy and a 45 percent combined rate on normal and surtax income. The panel rejected a 40 percent cut and debated a treasury proposal to cap taxes at 80 percent of next excess profits tax income, with chair George saying it would raise about 30 million dollars in corporate receipts by reducing the flat excess profits tax and raising the exemption from 10,000 to 5,000 for some corporations.
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