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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1941
Page
4
Community editorials argue against a full company commissary on the Southwestern Proving Ground reservation, noting trade, jobs, and local stores. The piece urges Hope to seek clear official statements while criticizing the puppet show in France and Petain's power.
Sixteen Hempstead area farmers and families received help moving household goods and farm implements as Army trucks operated under First Lieut. Melvin Amen from the 10th Quartermaster regiment of the 35th Division. Trucks moved headquarters along the Hope Blevins highway and to the Mope Washington route, with relocation offices set for registration.
MDOS at Lee Garland's Lieut Melvin Allen in charge of 20 Army trucks moving farmers from Southwestern Proving Ground announced late Tuesday that headquarters would remain at the Lee Garland farm Hope-proving highways and would not move to the Hope Washington highway as previously announced. The list of names appears in the fragment and includes residents from Holdrege Cambridge Bertrand Omaha and Omaha areas. (Continued on Page Three)
A charity ice cream supper hosted by the Women's Missionary Society of Fulton Methodist Church is set for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Jean's Café on Highway 55. Public invitation extended. Football teams of Texas Christian University are nicknamed the Horned Frogs.
President Roosevelt plans to seek price-control authority from Congress in a Wednesday message after a conference with congressional leaders. Senate Majority Leader Barkley said the message will address price fixing as part of the broader wartime legislative program. The Senate also tentatively approved a plan to freeze government loan stocks of wheat and cotton for the war duration, with potential surplus sales or grants to England under lease lend terms.
Rumors circulated in Mape Tuesday that the 54rd Infantry of the 8hth division stationed at Camp Robinson will leave Friday morning for Alaska. The unit includes Company A with Hope and Hempstead county guardsmen. The infantry is composed of Arkansas men. Local parents say their sons notified them by telephone Tuesday. Guardsmen just returned this week from a short leave after maneuvers in Tennessee.
A set of historical questions on sea tragedies and wartime maritime losses. It asks which U S ship first sank in World War I, classifies ships lost to war versus nature, identifies submarine losses by three nations, notes two battleships Britain and Germany lost with few survivors, and asks for the last ship sunk in World War II as answered on the comic page.
The commandant of Southwestern Proving Ground spoke to the Hope Kiwanis at noon Tuesday. He outlined the plant’s purpose to test shells, guns, flares, and bombs under varied conditions to standardize charges. He noted seven shell components, potential tests from 6 inch to 22 mm guns, and bombs likely from 2000 to 4000 pounds. He said residents nearby would hear tests but have nothing to fear. He predicted war with Japan within three months and stressed teamwork to defeat Germany. He added fall is the season for shared neighbor tools.
The real estate division of the Quartermasters Corps has appraised 48 farms within the Southwestern Proving Ground reservation and sent vacate notices with August 9 as the deadline. Negotiators will contact landowners to agree on prices. Names include Clara Briant, Nora Williams Pike, J P Parson Est and Carroll Parsons, John Caldwell, Ross Barton, Paul Dudney, S L Churchwell, John Ross, John Hartsfield, Sam Hartsfield, Mary F. Cannon, B A Hartsfield, and many others listed.
Fourteen senators in a bloc vowed organized opposition to a bill granting the president power to keep citizen soldiers in uniform beyond one year. Senator Wheeler of Montana said they would deliver speeches but not filibuster. The measure, claiming national interest, heads to Senate consideration starting Wednesday as the administration expects broad support later in the week.
Increased police activity in Hope leads Chief F W Haynie to announce the addition of Lynn Harrel of Fulton to the local force Harrel is known in Hope from his high school football star status and later all state selections at Henderson College Health Violation The police served a warrant on Ralph Newton owner of the Roosevelt Hotel charging him with violating city health ordinance 547 on garbage disposal Youth Found Cris Cook year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Cook was found by police about 3 o'clock Monday after a search that began at 9 am Mrs Cook reported the missing boy and police located him wandering in the northwest section of the city Nevada Youth Arrested J D Baker 17 of Prescott was arrested here over the weekend and handed to Nevada county authorities to face a bicycle theft charge
Several seaside regions in Blackpool are rationing summer holidays to avoid monopolizing accommodations for war workers on short leave. The measure limits bookings to a fortnight. A Tennessee tailor shop sign remains reading A. Johanson, Tailor, Greenville.
Violence over a milk price dispute on a barricaded road in Little Rock left Elvis Milton Smith 22 of North Little Rock dead, while A D Brown 33 surrendered claiming participation in the exchange of gunfire. Brown alleged he refused to join the price hike and had been assaulted for not raising milk prices as Pulaski County dairymen pushed a 12 to 14 cent rise.
Ninety two year old Justa Rodriguez de Tuzzini of Mataojo de San Carlos says she has 163 direct descendants including eight sons four grandchildren 90 great grandchildren and one great great granddaughter. Every hour 1142 persons are seriously injured in the United States.
German U boats intensified Atlantic attacks with 19 British ships totaling about 116500 tons sunk in a trans Atlantic convoy raid. Berlin officials claim an escort destroyer was sunk. Russian front reports speak of huge battles as Red Army counter attacks roll across multiple sectors. Germans claim encirclements near Smolensk and heavy advances toward Kiev and Leningrad front actions.
In Paragould Arkansas two men died in a hospital Tuesday after a car wreck late Monday when it left the highway and overturned during a police pursuit eight miles north of Paragould. The deceased are Stanford Russell 40 of Flint Michigan driver and Jess Dowdy 51 of Madison Indiana. Several others were injured and listed in various conditions including Nolen Clayton 40 of White Oak Green County deputy, Logan Dowdy 58 of White Oak, Herschel Russell 16 of Flint and Tile Dowdy 16 son of Logan Dowdy.
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