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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1945
Page
1
Alex H. Washburn Hull Stamps appears in a brief catalog or notice style entry. The fragment suggests a publication line or listing related to stamps or a stamp collection linked to Hull Streets, with limited context and no narrative detail.
The piece argues that U S aid to Britain is tied to preventing wider conflict, citing Cordell Hull’s view that early funding could avert future wars. It warns naïve views of isolation and stresses England’s ally role, with implications of shared risk and costs. The column also previews Rudolf Hess’s insanity claim and recounts Hess’s trial context against Nazi leaders. It ends with a short local note about a cousin connection in Trinidad.
In a broad search spanning inland marshes near Melbourne to the Bahamas, navy responders chased fresh clues after flares and a large fire were seen early today. Reports from an Eastern Air Lines pilot and coast guard vessels spurred rapid deployments as the hunt for 27 missing airmen intensified amid fog and shifting sightings.
At Nuremberg war crimes trial German records show bad weather delayed the invasion of the Low Countries and France from November 1939 to May 1940. Officials alleged Hitler’s forces waited for favorable weather while disguising their preparations. Evidence reveals naval orders used British flags to mask operations for Norway and Denmark and a crash recovered plane carried parachute invasion plans.
Cpl. Bert Moore, stationed in Fort Scott, Kansas, found his portrait hanging in a camera shop in Osaka. The photo was taken in the United States as it shows civilian shoes and glasses he has not worn since leaving the country over a year ago. He has no knowledge of the picture’s being taken.
War Department documentary to be shown free at the Rialto theater at 10 o clock Monday morning. Manager Remmel Young announced the event dated December 10. The War Department urges all citizens to view the picture and E E Moses of I A T S E notes projectionists union providing its time gratis.
Washington December 8 The Hope Ark army proving ground will be classified three ways on disposal as surplus Rep Harris says Acquisition of the proving ground airport and operating machinery by Hope city De contamination by the War Department of a 20000 acre danger zone later to be disposed of by Farm Credit Administration Farm Credit to handle about 25000 additional acres RFC to dispose of industrial lands and facilities within the proving ground for possible re enterprises Harris was told the proving ground is in process of being certified to the Surplus Property card Next a Surplus Property Board committee will study the property to decide disposal authorities RFC will not dispose of the danger area with unexploded ammunition still in the ground
The 1940 to 1945 period saw Arkansas farms gain 3.4 acres on average but fall in number and total acreage. The state had 216,674 farms covering 18,004,542 acres in 1940 and 206,527 farms with 17,761,582 acres in 1945. The average farm size rose from 83.3 to 86.1 acres. The nationwide trend mirrored a small rise in average farm size despite fewer farms and a net increase in total acreage.
Tokyo reports trials of suspected Japanese war criminals will start next month. Former Premier Hideki Tojo among the 363 arrested to be tried before a court likely to include representatives from Britain, China, the Soviet Union and the United States. Allies say justice will follow Anglo-Saxon standards with suspects innocent until proven guilty. Also, Lt Gen Hiroshi Oshima, former ambassador to Germany, arrived back in Japan with about 1,500 repatriates aboard a recent U.S. voyage.
Fourteen Yale and Towne manufacturing executives returned home to hot baths after four days as boiler room stokers in the strike-bound Stamford plant. They filed out through picket lines opened to admit replacement supervisors, as the union revoked its blockade after Governor Baldwin warned of state police. Thirty other executives who kept the furnaces running were barred from reentering during lunch Monday.
A westbound C-47 crashed in a snowstorm one mile west of Billings killing fifteen Army Air Corps men including the pilot and co pilot. Eight injured were hospitalized, six escaped death, and the plane bound for Seattle. Names withheld pending next of kin notices. An investigation will follow by Army Air Forces and Northwest Airlines officials.
Washington reports unseasonal gains in construction activity as the White House moves to guarantee small homes a share in the boom. President Truman backs price controls on real estate to curb inflation, citing a Bureau of Labor Statistics surge showing October housing activity rising after controls lapsed. Continued on Page Four.
Names such as Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and John W. Bricker of Ohio lead GOP chatter as the Republican National Committee prepares to act on party policy. The interims platform faces scrutiny from a Resolutions Committee led by Rep. Carroll Reece, with support and opposition on possible additions. Mention of Dewey and Green ties the discussion to potential 1948 tickets as Stassen and Bricker draw favorable mentions from some Republicans. Governors Dewey and Green are among names in the mix, while committee members proceed with speeches at a major event tonight.
Tokyo dispatch describes a duck hunting ritual at a 27 acre imperial preserve 20 miles from Tokyo where only invitational hunts occur. Hunters use bamboo nets while guided by attendants, moving through hedge channels to net mallards teals and other ducks for a collective bag after a ceremonial, quiet hunt.
Senator Brewster pressed Gen. Marshall on whether a stop gap with Japan could have averted Pearl Harbor and war in the Pacific. Marshall testified that Japan might not have attacked if their timing had shifted to January 1942, and revealed how cryptographic work and code breaking aided U.S. operations, including OSS actions in Portugal altering Japanese codes.
Charles A. Armitage, administrative aide to Southwestern Proving Ground chiefs, gave a Pearl Harbor day speech at Hope Rotary Club. He recalled lessons from December 7, 1941, blaming four prewar views for U.S. unpreparedness and stressing the role of industry, research, and leadership in modern victory.
Chicago December 8 Carroll Morrow of Fort Smith and Oliver L Adams of Hope received the Distinguished Service Award at the 30th annual National County Agricultural Agents Association meeting. Morrow, a county agent since 1934, guided live-at-home, cotton, and dairy programs. Adams, over ten years in Boone and Hempstead counties, boosted hybrid corn acreage by over 50 percent in Hempstead and led 75 hybrid corn demonstrations. He also aided 300 miles of rural electric lines by public utilities.
The OPA announced that grandfather clocks and 200 other items will lose price controls on December 12. Hearing aids and accessories will also have price controls suspended, except for batteries. The list includes household items, hardware, sporting goods, furniture, and miscellaneous goods like life saving equipment.
The Weather Bureau forecast a pleasant weekend with rising temperatures across Arkansas. By Sunday temperatures should rise further, while Monday and Tuesday bring cooler air and light precipitation. Last night marked the warmest of the week statewide, with Harrison at minus 31 degrees as the coldest reported reading. The Army operated more than 900 post exchange outlets in the Pacific.
The United States Britain and Russia plan a December 15 Moscow meeting of foreign secretaries to exchange views on atomic energy control and address current concerns. Byrnes will depart early next week to join Bevin and Molotov as talks on Europe and Asia unfold. The talks mark the first Anglo American ministerial meeting since London and aim for quarterly sessions.
Diplomats report that the foreign ministers of Britain, the United States, and Russia plan a December 15 meeting in Moscow to discuss atomic energy controls. The discussions are seen as a pledge to cooperate for world leadership and possibly place bomb control with the United Nations when it can responsibly assume such power. The decision to meet is viewed as implying confidence in reaching basic agreements on the bomb and other topics.
Southern governors gathered in New Orleans to discuss Dixie problems with leader Governor Robert S. Kerr warning that the south must industrialize or face population decline. Kerr urged diversification beyond agriculture while Kentucky Governor Simeon Willis, the conference’s lone Republican, responded to welcomes from New Orleans Mayor Maestri and Louisiana Governor Davis.
Mrs. Mary Middlebrooks aged 81 died this morning at her home on South Main Street. A Arkansas native who moved to Hope in 1901, she married George D. Middlebrooks in 1882. She was a member of First Christian church for over 40 years and is survived by five daughters and one son. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Portland officials report a new electronic rat trap that shocks rats until they rush into an execution chamber, where the creature meets its end, a development sparking laughter among park authorities led by Commissioner Fred Peterson.
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