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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1942
Page
3
The passage comments on congressional pensions as a minor issue during wartime, arguing long-term service might better secure independence from special interests. It urges repealing the plan, emphasizes conservation, defense bonds, and coordinated public effort, and ends noting continued discussion on page four.
Admiral Thos C Hart relived as chief of Allied naval forces in the Western Pacific due to illness. Vice Admiral C E L Helfrich of the Royal Netherlands Navy named as his successor and acting commander of combined naval forces in the ABDA area. Helfrich, 55, Java-born and a Den Helder graduate, becomes the youngest admiral in Dutch history after a long Indies service.
A reader quiz asks five questions about famous sacrifices in wartime and literature. It covers Abraham and faith, wartime shortages, royal sacrifices, a Dickens novel hero, and Edward VII. Answers appear on the comic page.
Andrew Neal, 23, paroled felon from a Missouri reformatory, was arrested at his home nine miles south of Hope by Hempstead and La Fayette county officers after a 6:30 am shooting at Stamps liquor store. Neal, wounded in hand and shoulder, was linked to a car stolen in Plain Dealing and used in the Stamps incident. A 16 year old girl, Margaret Stroud, was also arrested for investigation.
Raymond Urban Now has been promoted to staff sergeant. He is assigned to the 39th materiel squadron at the 28th Air Base, Barksdale Field, Louisiana, with his wife Mrs. BR. Urban of Hope noted in the announcement.
By noon Wednesday about 142 people had signed up for Hempstead county Civilian Defense posts. Assignments listed include nurses aid 1 percent first aid 27 auxiliary police 21 air wardens 21 firemen 16 medical forces 6 reserve squads 3 firewatchers 20 decontamination squad 1 Scoutmasters 3 staff corps 1 mechanics 1 emergency food and housing 8. Civilian Defense office in city hall open 7 to 9 Wednesday night for registrations.
Kenneth Kinard led all four wards to win the El Dorado Democratic primary for city attorney with 647 votes. He is a University of Arkansas Law School graduate and brother of Mrs. E. P. Young and Lloyd Kinard of Tape. A separate 1999 German wage estimate places the average worker at 5 hours per day earning $8 per hour.
Washington announces that rationing of retreaded tires will start February 19 with no crude rubber likely available for retreading in February and possibly March. The program uses camelback rubber and will be overseen by tire rationing boards. crude rubber allocations will be set by the War Production Board to determine how much retreading or regapping can be done.
Hope's Home Construction company headed by George W. Peck and Vincent Foster is building nine four and five room houses on Walker Street in Brookwood Addition. The firm, organized late last year and financed by local capital, operates under FHA titles and aims to supply attractive permanent homes at reasonable prices, with full design, construction, financing, titles, inspection, and insurance handled for buyers.
Owners of navy amen photographers in the county urged to contact The Star office at 218 14 South Walnut Street to arrange return of their pictures. Those unable to call will have images emailed back to minimize creasing during handling.
The Kansas City Southern Flying Crow passenger train collided head on with a five car freight train near Ashdown while southbound to Texarkana. The freight locomotive derailed and overturned but passenger cars remained on track. Injured include two soldiers Fred Dottai and Ovey Trabon and two unnamed Black passengers taken to a Texarkana hospital. several others treated in Ashdown.
LITTLE ROCK Highway construction by 1942 will be restricted to state and defense related routes unless federal regulations are changed. Governor Adkins said the road program cannot be normal with new construction money used to match federal funds. He cited 1.75 million of 2.5 million for new construction in 1941 refunding Law for matching, remainder for survey and planning. Census shows Oklahoma population decline from 1930 to 1940.
Imperial Tokyo asserted Japanese troops entered the Singapore city area at 8 a.m. local time as British, Australian, and Indian defenders mounted a stubborn counterattack. Dispatches described near-constant air raids, naval evacuations, and heavy fighting as Singapore’s defenses strained under overwhelming Japanese assault.
Washington reports movement of enemy troops indicating an early attack, with fighting across Batan peninsula easing and intermittent artillery exchanges between US fortifications near Manila Bay and Japanese batteries at Cavite. The war department says six of seven enemy planes shot down Tuesday were downed by US fighters over Cavite province, in a major air battle. one American plane is missing.
Rev. Leland Clegg of Camden will preach at First Methodist Church at Tada'eluck tonight with D Mouzen Mann of Southern Methodist University also speaking. Miss Dureth Rae Hutchinson of Magnolia and Hendrix College will sing. visitors from Emmet Prescott Gordon Blevins Waterloo Spring Hill Fulton Washington and other places plan to attend. the public is invited.
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