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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1943
Page
4
A 17 room stone mansion once valued at 150000 faces demolition to save taxes, sparking debate on modern Americans and a system that will tear down a historic palace built before income tax. Mayors and the Art Museum refuse to preserve it, heirs see no use, while public needs shift as times change.
Allied and Japanese patrols probed swampy fronts as Allied forces regroup for an assault on Sanananda. American troops repelled a Japanese patrol near Tarakena, killing one and wounding another, while heavy artillery and air bombardment targeted Sanananda point.
Selective Service announces February draft call will include men for Navy Coast Guard Marines and Army but be only slightly larger than January. Inductions to be centralized via a single office while non Army services may use reserves to meet February needs amid a light cutoff.
In ancient Rome bakers were known as pistares or pounders for pounding grain with a pestle. The term origin ties to the pounding method. The text also notes old spellings of coffee around 1638 and English variations such as hhaoua coffe eau phe and houpdiy.
Gov Adkins long range plan for improving the state penitentiary as a correctional institution will get further study at the February penal and parole board meeting. A four member committee will report on the governor’s recommendations and help develop the program including segregation of first offenders and new educational and vocational training. The board also approved plans to use 95 000 of the prison cash surplus to pay off remaining debt on prison lands, securing 7 000 acres at Cummins and a large acre at Tucker, unencumbered.
President Roosevelt told Congress the United Nations would gain a substantial advance in 1943, powered by US production. He cited Stalingrad defense and Soviet counteroffensive as pivotal, and urged unity to sustain war gains toward Berlin Rome and Tokyo. Heavy Capitol security surrounded the event as he outlined wartime aims and a postwar vision of freedom from want and fear.
Stockholm reports General Walther Nehring was superseded by General Von Arnim as commander in chief of Axis forces in Tunisia. German sources dispute the switch, while Nehring remains favored by Hitler and Rommel. Berlin notes confirm nothing firm. Dagens Nyheter says Nazi party calls up Brow shirt followers for winter drills. Schwarze Korps urges higher war effort and warns against fast victory.
A Senate committee report calls for drastic reorganization of war production and manpower agencies under a central War Mobilization director. It highlights a lack of balance in war production, warns of shortfalls, and envisions a single economic general staff answer. Americans consume 222 pounds wheat and 168.8 pounds milk per capita yearly.
Lieut. Col. Boyd D. Buzz Wagner, famed early World War II ace and destroyer of many Japanese warplanes, was found dead in the wreckage of his P-40 near Eglin Field Florida after a five week search. Brig. Gen. Gardner confirmed the crash likely the result of bad weather while Wagner had departed from Eglin Field on Nov 29 for Maxwell Field and Nashville. His family from Johns town Pa had held out hope, and comrades recall his credited actions against Japanese aircraft early in the war including multiple dives on enemy shipping.
Five crew members died when a medium bomber crashed near Greenville South Carolina while one is seriously injured and another missing. Pilot Second Lt William M Putman 22 of Houston was listed as missing after the wreck. Co Pilot Second Lt Ralph Ry Nored 22 of Poteau Oklahoma also perished.
Allied Headquarters in North Africa announced that German forces recaptured Jebel Azzaq and the ground British had retaken 15 miles west of Mateur. In the front near Bizerte the positions changed hands twice in two days with dawn British gains undone by a German counterattack. US bombers struck Kairouan for the fourth straight day, while Nazi parachutists were dropped with a native guide in Algeria behind Allied lines near Constantine and Setif. the guide was executed after a court martial. RAF aircraft claimed three German planes shot down over the Tunisian battle area.
London reports a British war office statement listing 10000 prisoners of war in Japan, including about 5000 Americans. Red Cross reps in Tokyo visited camps and found conditions comparatively satisfactory though tropical diseases and scarce medicines affect care. Prisoners endure a Japan diet of rice with limited bread fish and vegetables while work runs eight hours daily at docks and factories near Woosung Shanghai about 1500 Americans.
London January 7 The German radio reported a submarine traveled about 90 miles up the Mississippi River within a few miles of New Orleans in an attempt to destroy a bridge. The broadcast claimed the sub was detected and forced back to the Gulf of Mexico. No independent confirmation was available.
Washington reports two new strikes on Japanese airfields in the Solomons and a possible hit on a transport. U S aircraft bombed Kahili near Bougainville and Munda on New Georgia. Also, two Japanese vessels in Aleutian waters were sunk or damaged. Further, a cargo ship near Kaika was set afire and later sunk. Rabaul shipping concentrations have increased.
Oregon farmer faced rationing denial for boots to cross a river for horse work. Board demanded a bridge. later the man was deemed a bridge builder and received boats for the project.
Russian forces pushed 75 miles from Rostov toward the Caucasus, breaking a German line along the Don and capturing towns such as Mtsyatinsk and Kargalsko as they press toward Nalchik and Mineralnye Vody. The Soviet communique tallies Axis dead and captured at 339,150 through January 4, with ongoing efforts to trap German forces in the Middle Don and Kalmyk steppe.
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