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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1943
Page
3
Government directs all oil companies to discontinue retail gasoline credit cards as of January 1943 except for operators with T ration stickers and government cars. The move signals wartime mobilization and shifts bookkeeping to coupon counting.
Little Rock January 4 The supreme court, after a holiday recess, advanced for submission January 15 the Revenue Department challenge to a 1941 law granting a tax exemption on gasoline imported into Arkansas. The action seeks relief from a Pulaski chancery court decree blocking 6.5 cents per gallon state tax on gas from Santa Fe Transportation. Justice Ben E. Carter RR Robbins and Ed W. McFaddin sat with the court for the first time after being sworn in last May.
British bombers hit Ruhr targets while U S heavy bombers struck the St Nazaire submarine base. Several American planes reported lost and German reports say damage to Ruhr towns. The raid on St Nazaire allegedly caused fires in shipbuilding and repair facilities at the base.
Major Charles F. Miller of the Army Salvage Department announces a salvage program to bring captured German and Japanese metals back to the United States. Specially trained work battalions at front lines will recover scrap for shipyards. The plan aims to boost America’s steel supply for 1943 despite scarce shipping space.
Washington faces a wartime mandate as the 78th Congress convenes to marshal manpower money and material for victory. Major issues include tax policy pay as you go budgeting rationing labor reform and postwar planning with intense pressure on government spending and authority.
The White Book released by Secretary Hull reveals Japan plotted a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and sought to bind President Roosevelt to Japanese aims through high seas talks. It traces Nomura and Konoye efforts to arrange a meeting aboard a Japanese ship and to shape U.S. policy before the conflict intensified.
Eight Japanese destroyers were located off Guadalcanal and attacked by US motor torpedo boats. One destroyer sustained a confirmed torpedo hit and three possible hits affected two others. American aircraft also bombed torpedo boats causing slight damage.
Prosecutor Paul Jon announced first degree murder charges against Henry Thompson, 44, a Black ex convict, for a serious incident involving Mrs. Harry Velelo on December 23 and her body found in a well.
A mosaic of brief vignettes from wartime America. Pianist Dave Gordon encounters Abe Lubin at Camp Butner while traveling to entertain troops. A neighbor records a street melee in Smithbury, and Deputy Horn plans court action for disorderly conduct. Mrs Millevick repeatedly pays taxes on time in Albany, and Brooklyn’s Frenchy Bordagaray ejects customers from a booth during Christmas festivities with Santa, Candy, and kittens nearby.
Dr. J. G. Martindale leaves Hempstead County after 14 years of medical practice to join the U S Army Air Forces Medical Corps reporting in Miami. He has served as medical examiner for the local draft board with unpaid effort and received a Roosevelt era honor. As Red Cross coordinator he built a 700 person first aid network and led civilian defense medical units in Hempstead County.
About 56,302 pounds of food valued at 6166 dollars and 87 cents were distributed to 4,936 school children across 23 Hempstead County schools in November, per a State Public Welfare Department letter to Judge Fred A Luck. There are 14,000 individual plevs in a light tank.
Russian forces push west and northwest from Mozdok driving German troops back along the Terek river. The recapture of Mozdok and nearby Mulgobel signals a major Caucasus victory with further villages reported as seized. Prokhaldnenski rail junction looms as next objective.
Washington senators heard Police Administrator Henderson condemn gasoline bootlegging and lament he had not been tougher enforcing rationing. He blamed public indifference and urged harsher action, noting officials had warned of strict fuel limits and conversion of air burners to coal.
Little Rock police issued a pick up order for Joel Carson, 32, a Cummins farm prisoner who did not return from a Christmas furlough. Carson was sentenced to the electric chair for killing a guard at the State hospital on May 1, 1938, but Governor Bailey commuted it to life imprisonment. Governor Adkins granted a furlough on the recommendation of prison officials.
Allied headquarters in Australia report Buna mission fell and the Buna area is cleared except for a pocket at Sanananda point. About 850 Japanese were killed in mopping up after Buna’s capture. Allied air strikes hit Rabaul, Gasmata, Madang, and Lae destroying ships, harbor facilities, and airfields.
Allied HQ reports heavy Axis tank thrust against French positions near Foudok southeast of Gabes met by a counterattack aided by U S anti tank units. U S bombs and P 38s struck tanks near Medjez El Bab and Sousse while RAF reports two Axis bombers destroyed at Boni port.
A Navy report on two Pacific battles last fall credits an unidentified battleship under Capt. Thomas Leigh Geich with repelling air attacks and destroying Japanese ships. The assessments claim battleships can endure heavy strikes and strike back effectively at night, shaping views on future night engagements and fleet usage.
The page announces the launch of a new serialized story titled Starting Today Ame Murderer Chapter One, slated as Page 3 content for the newspaper's public section, indicating a dramatic opening to draw readers.
The USS Feto, first submarine built in the Great Lakes, passed St. Louis en route to the Gulf of Mexico for final sea outfitting. It floated in a drydock towed by a tug, with high Illinois River water delaying the Morris, Ml, and a Coast Guard escort ensuring safe passage to Memphis Tennessee within hours.
Navy Department notified Mr and Mrs B W Szymanski of Pulaski County that their son Edward Robert 23 was killed in action in the Pacific on November 13. The elder Szymanski is a veteran member of the Pulaski 4 Lurie Court. The article notes the first oranges in England were brought from Spain in 1290.
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