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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1941
Page
4
Our Daily Bread notes Hempstead County loses thousands of acres to the Southwestern Proving Ground condemnation. The piece urges faster highways from Blevins toward Nashville and improved roads to connect Hope with outlying farms, arguing modern roads shrink distance and spur land clearance.
AP reports Soviet armies claim a smashing victory over German invasion forces in a bold northern White Russia battle. Berlin claims gains along the Baltic sector while Moscow says Germans fail to break the eastern front as fighting continues. Helsinki is bombed by Russian warplanes in pre-dawn raid causing fires and destruction.
Willis Thornton argues that American strength comes from its diverse population. He condemns dominant ethnic coercion and urges equal opportunity in military and defense industries for all Americans including Jews Catholics and minorities. He stresses loyalty from varied peoples and the duty to defend the nation together.
In Ottawa Kas a cat named Earlin Bur gert's pet crawled into a dust blower used for shoe repair machinery. The operator started the blower unintentionally killing the cat. The owner mourns the loss and notes the cat had more lives.
A Memphis doorway sign declares no strawberries today and compliments the yard. The piece notes census figures placing Los Angeles at 496,292 in 1940, up from 1,238,048 a decade earlier, marking it as the fifth largest U.S. city.
In Berlin a German spokesman said U S troops occupy Iceland and are now in the war. He warned the occupation signals moves toward wider hostilities and cited Roosevelt remarks on the Azores and Cape Verde. London reports Churchill welcomed U S action and proposed joint sea patrols as a defense for Iceland.
Vichy announced that Gen Henri Dentz, French commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, asked Britain for an immediate armistice and silent weapons to end the daily bloodshed. Churchill told the House that Dentz sought terms for an armistice and urged speedy negotiations while fighting continues.
SAYRE Oklahoma tale reports a tired husband unable to sleep until he takes pills from a box. He then sleeps soundly. His wife’s reaction to the pills leads to a bizarre exchange about a pear button collection. The column ends with a satirical remark about a belief on a woman’s proper age.
At CAMP LEE a breakfast delay arose as Private Boleslaus Chester Szac hogluchowicz appeared on the roll call. A former New York florist of Polish descent he explained his name was Szachogluchowicz after his grandfather shortened it to Szewiecz, but he has restored it to Szachogluchowicz. A sergeant nicknamed Smitty greeted him.
Hope attorney Royce Weisenberger notified Governor Adkins Wednesday of his resignation as Hempstead county representative on a legal commission with the War Department related to the $15,000,000 munitions Proving Ground north of Hope. He had been in the constructing quartermaster’s office and will be assigned to clearing tiles near the Proving Ground area. He served Hempstead in the 1934 and 1941 General Assemblies.
Marshal Petain outlined a new constitution favoring an authoritarian hierarchic state. He proposed replacing universal male suffrage with a system where rights derive from duties. Authority would come from families and communities, forming a pyramid led by selected service advisers and top chiefs.
Monroe Webb, employee of Williams Lumber Co. of Emmet, suffered a broken neck in a woods accident near Blevins last Monday. Hospital attendants report he is doing as well as could be expected.
A humorous music quiz lists five questions about swing era tunes. It asks who is a swoose per a song, the hut sut song’s odd sense, the tale in My Sister and I, which Stephen Foster girl has a daughter in song, and the common link among Moon Over Burma South of Pago Pago and Penny Serenade. Answers on Cenny age.
Washington Congressman Kilday called on Lt Gen Lear to explain his mass punishment of 330 soldiers from the 35th division for whistling at girls on a golf course near Memphis. He considered introducing a resolution to investigate Lear and argued the discipline could reflect personal resentment.
Hempstead county Home Demonstration Club members contribute cotton garments for preschool children as part of the Hands Across the Sea program under the Red Cross county drive. At the June 18 county council meeting in Columbus, 215 garments were turned in by clubs including Hickory Shade and Washington. Garments will be sent to England. more clubs are expected to participate by August 1.
Edward F McFaddin prominent attorney and Hope Rotary Club member chosen for Rotary International 1942 Convention Committee in Chicago. He will help supervise Toronto convention plans after Denver attendance. McFaddin has served as Rotary director district governor and club president. The piece notes high expected attendance and broader costs for events.
The Quartermasters Corps real estate division announced a list of farms in the Southwestern Proving Ground area as fully appraised enabling immediate abandonment. Negotiators will contact farmers to set prices. A new daily list will follow with names including Trimble, Wurzbach, Harris, Carrigan, Allen, and others detailing estates and individuals connected to the properties.
Hope Junior Chamber of Commerce met in city hall to discuss joining the Southwestern Proving Ground in advancing clocks for Daylight Saving Time next Monday July 14. The mayor and city council have not acted pending merchant and citizen debate. A special committee was authorized to confer with Proving Ground officials and study proposed working hours of personnel.
The UK engineers detachment was ordered to move from CAMP ROBINSON to Prescott Arkansas where the Second Army maneuvers would establish headquarters. Fresco, 16 miles northeast of Hope, was initially considered but rejected to avoid impeding munitions proving ground construction. A rumor also circulated that Prescott would host the maneuvers. A related note explains bouchee as a pastry shell filled with creamed meat or fish.
Proving Ground officials plan to publish a daily list of farms where appraisals are finished and crops may be abandoned, allowing farmers to seek new homes without penalties. The boundary area for construction runs from Washington to Urrey’s store on the Blevins Hope highway, south to the new cut road. A mass community meeting at Lee Garland’s grove will discuss human needs for those to be removed. Officials say relocation committees will assess how many families must move and what aid is needed, with temporary housing possible and a housing survey under way. The Callahan company of Dallas is expected to set up offices at Hope high school Wednesday afternoon, after which construction may begin, with a peak labor need near 4,000.
A devotional line referencing Matthew 7 14 urging the narrow path to life with Bartow as a guiding route in a nineteenth century style printed note.
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