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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1943
Page
4
The piece recalls a pint sized newsboy and jokes about the numerous official cards an able bodied male American with a car must carry to avoid trouble. It lists eight required items including Selective Service, driver license, automobile ownership license, city license, and ration books. The tone is humorously critique of bureaucratic obligations.
Major General Alexander Patch reports Guadalcanal has been taken completely and no Japanese organized forces remain. Admiral Halsey’s staff confirms last resistance ended yesterday afternoon. Estimates claim 30,000 to 50,000 Japanese losses and more than 1,100 enemy aircraft shot down.
The Rotary Club of Hope marks its 25th birthday tonight at Hotel Barlow with a Ladies Night and Silver Anniversary dinner program. Carshell Robbins of Stuttgart will speak as district governor and newly elected president of the American Laundermen's Association at the Kansas City convention. Club President Bil Wray will emcee. Ted Jones will sing and there will be group singing, quizzes and stunts. Hope Rotary was chartered February 10 1918, the 182nd club in the world, with about 5,500 clubs now. Ed McCorkle remains a charter member. original officers from February 10 1918 included Josge N. Riley president Robert W. Emerson vice-president Lee Giles secretary George H. Brannan treasurer Sidney B. Henry sergeant-at-arms. The item closes with a political remark about the United States inspiring oppressed Europeans and forging arms for victory.
New Delhi reports US bombers hit Mingaladon air base near Rangoon leaving it ablaze with bomb craters. Blenheims and Wellingtons hit Sagaing river jetty and rail yard, Magyichaung supply base near Akyab damaged. no American losses. RAF also damaged Thazi junction railway targets and river vessels along Chindwin and Irrawaddy.
Washington dispatch outlines a looming clash over farm price policy as James Byrnes signals readiness to defend parity schemes. Administration favors ceilings and floors with subsidy payments to cover extra costs, while four major farm groups and some congressmen push for higher prices and freer returns. The National Farmers Union backs the administration stance, highlighting tenant and small operator interests.
A set of brief clippings reports a Lowell mass rationing dilemma about shoe coupons for a one legged man, a USO show measles scare at Fort Devens, a philatelic postage mishap in Wilmington Delaware, a mother fainting at Guadalcanal news reels in Kansas City, and Reno Nevada bureaucratic red tape loosened by wartime dye shortages with lavender tints.
Vice President Wallace defended postwar ideas against Rep. Clare Boothe Luce who called them globaloney. He asserted the Republican party supports freedom of the seas and air after the war and urged American control of air in both commercial and military channels. Luce warned Britain would push to strengthen its international system and urged the United States to do the same.
Gandhi, Indian leader, starts a 21 day fast at the Aga Khan's palace in Poona after India’s government refuses his release. He vows only fruit juice and water, as All India watches closely amid security. This marks his seventh major political fast, though not to death this time.
Prohibition supporters in the House won a tense 18 to 73 roll call against tabling the Leasure liquor repeal bill. Rep. Elbert A Leasure of White County aimed for final passage after lunch, with the dry faction pressing for roll calls and amendments.
In Richmond Missouri Beverly Profitt three months old sleeps in the same tiny bed that rocked her great grandfather Judge J W Smithley. The cradle has endured nine years of hand rocking without a break, a family heirloom kept in use through generations.
Women in the Territorial Service take on repairing faulty ammunition returned from army units worldwide. The seven women have already saved the country hundreds of thousands of pounds through their work, a task never before undertaken by women.
British Eighth Army resumes advance into Tunisia toward a knocking out blow on Rommel’s Africa Corps as Allied bombers disrupt Axis communications. Alexander says Axis forces east of the frontier are eliminated and Montgomery’s troops push forward amid weather and air raids. Allied planes strike Kairouan and Palermo while flying fortresses hit targets on the Italian mainland and Calabria.
In Little Rock on February 10 the Senate refused to demand an accounting of the Arkansas Medical Society's receipts and expenditures for the past two years and details of payments to Helena attorney Peter A. Desich described as a society lobbyist. The measure failed 12 to 18 after objections that it would set a dangerous precedent. separate notes report Dr Alan Cazorl defending the University of Arkansas medical school against charges of slander and noting 80 percent of students are reserve officers in the Army or Navy, with calls for national unity.
Navy recruitment chief Paul MacLain announces intent to enlist 100 Waves designated Arkansas Travelers. Selected women age 20 to 36 with no children under 18, two years of high school or business school, and three character references will report for a three month training in Hunter College New York City before a banquet in Little Rock. College women may earn commissions. date of enlistment targets ages 20 to 49 with a two year college degree and two years business experience. For full details contact the Local Naval Recruiting Station Texarkana or Hope Star.
Eight miners were killed and two injured in a Wisconsin mine disaster at Shallsbury. Two men trapped at the Mulcahy mine were killed while repairing shoring, and six rescuers from nearby diggings died when a second tunnel collapse occurred. A jury ruled the tragedy an unavoidable accident. Sheriff Homer L. Curry cited an ongoing search at the lead mine as beams gave way, trapping the initial victims.
Voters in ward four yesterday rejected continued liquor sales 7 to 44. Nelson Winery, a notable Arkansas firm, operates in Ward Four as balloting concluded amid a sometimes foggy ballot count. report notes local official observers and delays in tabulation.
Sgt Fred Formby, a gunner-photographer with the 435th squadron of the 19th bomb group, has flown over 50 missions in Java New Guinea the Solomons and the Coral Sea. The Arkansas native, among the war veterans, is stationed at a major bomber base to teach future pilots bombardiers gunners navigators and specialists. He plans to return overseas after a brief rest, saying Killing Japs soon becomes a game when an enemy plane is shot down.
The Navy reported multiple air strikes from February 6 to 8 against Japanese forces in the North Pacific and Solomons. Liberator and B-25 raids hit Kiska, North Head, and surrounding areas in the Aleutians. Airacobra fighters sank an enemy barge near Harper Bay, while Marauder bombers, escorted by Lightning and P-38, bombed Kolumbangara and Munda in New Georgia, starting large fires with unclear damage reports.
Moscow dispatches report Red Army thrusts from Belgorod toward Kharkov and Rostov as German defenses tighten. Russians recapture Belgorod and Shebekino, while Kursk Belgorod gains push north and south amid heavy snow and tank counterattacks near Rostov and Kharkov.
In Daytona Beach Florida three hunters joined 79 year old Rev Frank Gee on a hunting trip. The retired Episcopal minister used three shells and bagged a squirrel with each shot while others fired many times for each catch.
E B Toney, age 66, brother of Jefferson county Representative H K Toney, died in Waco Texas late yesterday. Relatives in the area were notified today.
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