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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1942
Page
4
A defense of conserving oil resources urges action to preserve Arkansas older fields. C E Palmer of El Dorado argues for a re pressuring program, tying national security to oil reserves during wartime. A US Army dispatch notes an Air Force assignment and a wartime anecdote follows.
Washington reports US forces on Guadalcanal seized three light artillery pieces six machine guns and killed 51 enemy soldiers. An Army patrol wiped out 11 Japanese and captured a 70 mm gun while a Marine patrol killed 28 and took two guns. Another Marine unit captured six machine guns and 14 Japanese deaths were reported. Army aircraft conducted four strikes on enemy positions.
McDavitt, Hempstead County Bationing Board chair, reports instructions from State Director Mall guiding non-highway gasoline users. Applicants can obtain fuel via OPA Form R-555 at any station or sign a simple sheet with serial number and fuel type and amount if Form T8455 is unavailable. station operators will accept the statement in place of the official form.
New York motorists face gasoline rationing and wartime habits. Dealers nationwide urge strict adherence, avoid joyriding, and consider bus tokens and car clubs. Some Atlantic states report bootleg gasoline and stolen coupons, with many operators burned by postdated or illicit coupons. Continued on Page Two.
Texarkana—A circuit court jury convicted Tracy H. Ford, 28, of Dierks, a magazine salesman, of first degree murder in the slaying of 16 year old W. B. Lynne of Nacogdoches. Vestal Maxwell, 30, of Hope, co defendant, will be tried in March as the current term’s jury panel was exhausted. Lynne’s battered body was found in an alley behind a Texarkana hotel near the third floor room Ford and Maxwell occupied. Maxwell pleaded innocent.
Senator elect John L McClellan and Mrs McClellan will depart Camden mid December for Washington to be sworn in January. Halph Matthews will be secretary with assistants Miss Marjorie Nicholson, Mrs David Baker, and Mrs Biber among others. The couple plan Christmas with relatives in Le Noir North Carolina before arriving in Washington around December 30.
In Lampoy California a magistrate’s rehab plan to use work mining celite backfired as mine operators reported twenty men pulled for work drifted away within days, escaping jail substitutes.
London dispatch reports Premier Mussolini delivering his longest wartime speech, exhausted and coughing as he urged Italians to hate enemy gossip. He argued Italy bore blame for war, vowed German aid, and defended actions while criticizing Churchill’s strategy. He claimed Italy’s 30 months cost 94,182 dead and 232,700 prisoners across forces, noted bombings and evacuations, and insisted France and Britain would not break Italy’s resolve.
Bulletin reports Italians executed on November 27 for sabotage plans after landing in Sicily last October by a British submarine. Other items note MacKenzie King in New York, Sikorski meeting Roosevelt, Mary Churchill commissioned, King decorates Yank, Soviet designer Perlovsky dies, Norwegian and British sailors freed at Oran, and German-reinforced Libya movement near El Agheila.
President Roosevelt reorganized the governments petroleum administration but kept Harold L Ickes as head. The order text was not released yet and it remains unclear whether Ickes will oversee gasoline and fuel oil rationing. The new title is Petroleum Administration for War.
A Bristol Virginia study shows 38 stations warn they may close if rationing coupons in Virginia are not raised or Tennessee adjusted. Drivers now get three gallons in Virginia but can cross into Tennessee for four. Separate reports note a Florida incident and local barbecue humor. A San Diego council weighs rail and jewelry guidance.
New York December 2 Navy Secretary Knox told the National Association of Manufacturers that Japanese casualties since Pearl Harbor are estimated far higher than American losses and that the U S Navy is larger and more powerful than before the attack He cited production records and said private companies and government yards are building ships at record pace He warned of more losses at sea in the Atlantic and projected higher taxes and more shortages in 1943.
In San Diego a two winged troop transport glider completed successful test flights. The aircraft is designed to distribute weight for twenty occupants along the fuselage. Officials report the tests indicate promise for future military airlift applications despite field erosion and weather-related losses in other areas.
Soviet forces recaptured Yuzhnaya hill dominating southern Stalingrad and pushed 2 to 5 miles from the city as Red Star reported. North of the city Kurgan hill had been retaken earlier by Maj. Gen. Rodinizev’s troops amid a two day battle that saw seven Nazi counterattacks and heavy artillery, tank and infantry action.
Editor C. E. Palmer argues Arkansas could unlock vast oil of older fields through seaandivy style recovery. He cites Shuler field in Union County where gas repressuring extended life by 10 to 15 years and added 17 million barrels, with profits outweighing costs as wartime prospects boost conservation. (Continued on Page Three)
Allied and axis forces clash around Tunis and Bizerte as American P-38s and British Spitfires engage German planes. Allied headquarters say a major counterattack was repulsed north of Tebourba while air and ground actions continue across Tunisia and nearby Libya with heavy losses on both sides.
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