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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1941
Page
3
A girl knocked down by a bicycle rider on the sidewalk in Hope prompts a strong call for action. The piece urges enforcing a sidewalk bicycle ban in the downtown shopping district as a police offense and trading center safeguard. It argues youths should respect the city’s rules to protect Hope as a regional shopping hub.
Theodore Andruca reports from a Nea Special Correspondent on German troop movements into Arad and Timisoara as a strategic push toward the bread basket of Banat. He notes the area’s wheat, wine and fruit crops and cites the aim to alleviate food shortages while aligning forces toward the Balkans.
Paragould court records say Bryant Rogers, 40, a farmer from near Luichville, was found dead Thursday in a city jail cell. The coroner ruled the death as self-inflicted. Rogers had been jailed on a Willie claims charge.
Brief necrology lists five influential figures from 1910. It names a veteran Idaho senator and U S senator general of Canada, a famed American correspondent in Europe who died in an engagement, a former prime minister of Great Britain, and a prominent Russian revolutionary exile who was killed.
Louisiana ends its controversial one percent sales tax at midnight January first. About 70 million aluminum and brass tokens issued for the tax are now obsolete, with the revenue department weighing use of the perforated disks still on hand. Officials plan to redeem tokens at face value for cash, and a revolving fund in Russellville holds the disks. Separately, Mount Waialeale in Hawaii records an annual rainfall of 473 inches, based on official measurements.
Final plans for a patriotic farewell program for Company A 15ird Infantry National Guard set for Thursday at Hope city hall. The Hope High School Band opens with a concert and Duval L. Parkins of Warren will give the principal address. Various veterans groups participate with a roster of Company A officers and enlisted men listed for the ceremony.
Dublin reports invading aircraft within 60 miles of the capital, bombing Curragh of Kildare and Drogheda. Bremen is pounded by RAF for hours with 20,000 incendiaries and explosives, damaging the Fischer arplane factory and refinery. London responds with further raids on German ports.
Col Allen Furnage commanded U S Marines in Peiping presents three demands to Japanese commander Lt Gen Hayao Tada after five Marines were arrested in a cabaret fracas. The asks call for apology for unlawful arrest and force, measures to prevent repeats, and punishment for those responsible. Japanese side refused to discuss and did not close the incident.
The December report shows Washington Branehy Library circulating 886 books and 56 magazines with 41 new borrowers. Blevins Branch circulated 588 books and 315 new borrowers. Fulton 460 books and 23 magazines with 20 new borrowers. Spring Hill 1855 books and 40 magazines with 24 new borrowers. Hope Headquarters 1842 books and 103 magazines with 18 new borrowers. Countywide totals: 862 books and 232 magazines with 28 new borrowers. Barge Dweller Mrs Margaret Lown has lived on a bridgeport harbor barge for 30 years without land.
Lieut. Thusman E. Dawson of Russellville has taken command at the CCC Camp near Hope succeeding Lieut. Jack G. Cornett now in the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Dawson previously served with CCC Co. 3783 at Camp Shiioh near Russellville. He and Mrs. Dawson and their son live at the McRae apartments Edgewood and Third streets. One of the hardest things about making money just is making it first.
A damaged text quotes Genesis 1 11 or 4 11 style wording about earth bringing forth grass and fruit trees. The fragment mentions seed bearing and self propagating fruit as described in ancient scripture.
Representative Royce Weisenberger has drafted five new bills on auto licensing and old-age pensions for introduction in the General Assembly opening this month. The plan includes ending December license payments and returning to January February due dates, and boosting old-age pension revenue by one million dollars.
Soldiers at the national guard cavalry armory practice with two machine guns. They fire into bales of hay as a lull follows and a kitten wanders from the hay, paces briefly and then leaves calmly.
Plans arrive amid reports of Italian and German co operation in the air war over the Mediterranean. British forces may push on from Bardia toward Gazala as the RAF conducts bombings targeting airfields and grounded planes in Libya.
C C Lewis, a well known former Hope man, is named general manager of the Charles A. Haynes Company effective January 1. He has 25 years in merchandising and will continue his Prescott department store, with joint management of both stores and expanded stock and departments. Nationally branded goods will be featured at the remodeled 114 South Main Street location.
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