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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1942
Page
5
A wartime Christmas salutes sacrifice and denial on the home front. Hempstead county has sixteen hundred men in arms, touching every family as families endure wartime separations and curtailments. The piece honors living soldiers and hopes for peace and return. It also notes Lidice's atrocity and ongoing war news from Europe in brief.
Washington reports a draft plan for sweeping federal labor reform including suspending the 40 hour week rule and creating a wartime labor board. The measure would strip executive power, place authority with a new board including MU, AFL, NAM, U S Chamber, and the public, and revive the Hobbs bill to subject unions to anti trust and racketeering laws.
Senate minority leader McNary predicts Republicans and Democratic advocates of economy will unite in the next Congress to combat waste and bureaucracy. He says GOP majorities in the House and Senate will push for reduced government spending while backing war prosecutions, with Democratic support on key issues.
The Bureau of Mines reports 4 to 5 million additional tons of bauxite in Arkansas since last May, with nearly 3 million tons classified as marketable grades A and B for alumina production. Surveys cover Pulaski and Saline counties, with 800 holes drilled and plans to expand in Saline. Progress in processing lower grades and stockpiling Grade B aid wartime alumina goals. Arkansas researchers BE Gardner and J Thoenen oversee the effort from Little Rock.
The federal crop reporting service estimated that 24 major Arkansas crops in 1942 were worth 282,423,000 dollars, up from 235,192,000 the previous year. Statistician Stuart L Bryan attributed the rise mainly to higher prices for most products, with some gain from increased production despite a harvested acreage of 6,059,000 versus 6,566,800 in 1941.
A United States Air Force communique reports four motored American bombers hit Rangoon in daylight raids twice on Sunday and once yesterday, smashing airfields and docks while causing many direct hits on tracks and rolling stock in central Burma. No bombers were lost and two Japanese fighters attempted interception, with one probably shot down.
Washington reports the War Department announced a contract with Andrew J. Higgins of New Orleans to build a large number of cargo carrying airplanes for the Army on a cost plus fixed fee basis. Total outlay expected to exceed 5 million dollars. Details on quantity and aircraft performance were not disclosed.
British carrier aircraft launched a night strike from the Bay of Bengal against Sabang on We island near Sumatra, hitting military targets perhaps fuel stores. Land-based planes attacked Akyab in Burma as Japanese defenses were alerted. Calcutta suffered alarm as raids continued. All British aircraft reportedly returned safely.
Hannibal Missouri authorities pass a city law prohibiting sirens except during air raids. Emergency police and fire vehicles must rely on bells for alerting the public until the end of the war. The measure aims to limit noise, with sirens silenced except in raids.
Twenty two people die when two boulders, over 100 tons total, plunge onto a yellow Ohio River motor coach near Aliquippa Pennsylvania as it travels a treacherous curve. Only three passengers escape, two seriously injured. Bus driver Dymptro Karapan swerves to avoid the debris but rocks crash down from a 100 foot high perch, blocking the road and trapping passengers. Rescue crews, including police and volunteers, work under danger of further rock falls as a 29 foot rock teeters nearby.
Agriculture Department reports the 1942 spring and fall pig crops total 104,734,000 head, up 24 percent from 1941. Fall crop 43,721,000 head versus 45,400,000 last year, spring at 61,013,000 after prior 101,016,000 combined. Farmers urged to raise 16 percent more pigs next year.
A jumble of clippings reports expert oyster bluffer Mason spotting pearls by shell bumps in Philadelphia, a hoaxing U S soldier check scam in Elkhart, wild game dinners for sailors in Seattle, and Omaha police radio tuning limits amid tavern crowds. The mix sketches quirky fame, small crimes, and local political pushback across cities.
London dispatch reports two Axis warships and eight merchant vessels sunk or damaged along Mediterranean routes to North Africa. Allied losses included one sunk ship and several damaged supply ships, while patrols and planes tightened the Tunisian and Libyan fronts and pursued Rommel’s forces toward Tripoli.
O Neal today sent a cable greeting to his son Captain Norths y Neal, a prisoner of war in the Philippine Islands. Arrangements through the International Red Cross will deliver messages to interned Americans on Christmas Day, with notices to the Hope Chamber of Commerce by the American Red Cross.
The Labor Department reports Arkansas industrial pay rose from 19.1 to 21.4 dollars per week in 12 months. Biggest increases occurred in brick and tile, compress and allied industries, feed grain and fertilizer, and furniture manufacturing.
Paragould native Donald Eugene Barron 21, gunner's mate third class, was killed in action. Barron enlisted June 11 1940 and his father George Barron lives in St. Louis. Mrs Nora Bray Barron was notified by the Navy late yesterday.
Longview Texas oil man Rogers Lacy offered the government 25 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily to ease the eastern fuel shortage. He proposed delivering gas via the Norris City Illinois pipeline to Harold Ickes, stating his Cass County Texas well could supply the amount and that the gas could be delivered free if Washington accepts.
British Eighth Army presses Rommel toward Tripoli drawing on its full strength. Montgomery avoids thinning the line as Panzer forces retreat, possibly leaving Tripoli to fall after delaying actions in Wadis Gulches. Axis risks a Dunkirk-like stand as limited combat continues near El Agheila.
Moscow reports the Middle Don offensive closed to 132 miles from Rostov as Soviet units push toward the Rostov Moscow rail line northeast of Millerovo. Russian commanders claim more than 2,300 prisoners in the week and capture of multiple towns along a long, straight front.
By popular request theater manager Mark Cadle has built a hitching rack in front of his motion picture house in Hiawatha Kansas marking a return of horse stabling facilities and adding amenities for patrons.
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