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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1941
Page
4
Chesterfield Navy Week and Chesterfield Army Week announced for July with Liggett & Myers Tobacco quảng campaign. Community events feature Fred Waring performances and decorative displays as residents Mary Lemley Irene Hamby and Miss Daisy Heard attend a reception at Manning Street home.
A collage of crossword clues on common garden amphibian and vertical hints accompanies a Chesterfield cigarette radio campaign note. It highlights Glen Miller Moonlight Serenade broadcasts and ties newsprint and radio ads to celebrities like Dorothy McGuire Meri Oberon and Robert Allen within a national defense themed push.
Social calendar items list bridge parties and social gatherings for Miss Julia Lemley and Miss Elizabeth Chreen across late June. Dates include June 2 and June 24 with hosts Louise Hanegan and Julia Lemley, plus a June 25 brides event hosted by Mrs Larry Lemley. Also noted are a Business and Professional Women’s club benefit auction and church class social at First Methodist Sunny School.
Miss Julia Lemley, bride elect of Fred Ellis of Fort Smith, was honored at Senator and Mrs. Lloyd Spencer’s home with a nine-table contract card party and a lush bridal motif. Guests included Mrs. Terrell Cornelius and Miss Mary Hughe, who distributed silver gifts as Lemley received a silver basket. A Sunday breakfast at the Barlow followed, with corsages marking each guest and further gifts for the honoree.
Personal mentions list Mr and Mrs George W Robison returning from a Rotary meeting in Denver Calu. Mr and Mrs Syd McMath and son sailing to Memphis. several Dallas and Texarkana visitors. births noted for Claude Johnson’s son born June 19. Frances Cunningham visiting Lenora Beales. many weekend hosts in Dale Jas Dennison and surrounding towns. multiple relatives returning from Henderson State Teachers Work Shop and Little Rock trips. visits to San Diego and Arkadelphia. Ellen Carrigan and others spending weekends in the city.
Officials declined comment on garbled reports of a secret understanding between London and Moscow. No evidence of a formal alliance or war aid for Red forces emerged. Left wing politicians hailed the outbreak of war as a boon for the Allies, while authoritative sources said Britain preferred German targets to be met by others, and warned against any compromise with Hitler.
Director Compere outlines new Selective Service rules allowing two addresses on registration cards one for residence and one for mailing. Registrants may designate their residence without registrar interference and update mailing addresses as they move. The system aims to improve the first registration where only one address space existed.
LITTLE ROCK 71 budget of 1 802 000 for the university and extension service was approved by the board of trustees who abolished the athletic business manager position. A W Gobnny Porter was named assistant director in charge of athletics and head of the news bureau, replacing Boyd Cypert. The board also elevated J F Rains to extension economist, reappointed Connie Bonsinger for a 25th term, and named Earl C Barber northeast Arkansas district agent succeeding Claude Bird.
Britain announced on Monday that its forces captured Jimma in southwest Ethiopia with about 5 00 prisoners, including 11 generals. The surrender came four days after Jimma, a remaining resistance center, fell to British troops, with corps, division, and brigade commanders among the captives.
Senator Pat Harrison, president pro tempore and Finance Committee chair, dies at 6:35 a.m. in Emergency hospital after a battle following an intestinal obstruction operation. The 30-year veteran of Congress had rallied briefly before failing again. Dr. Sterling Ruffin announced his death.
Director Campere asserted that moving a registrant between local boards for classification examination or induction does not alter the original board’s jurisdiction. He stressed transfers do not disturb the initial board’s authority and remain within local jurisdiction.
Large crowds fill the Hope Gospel Tabernacle as Rev J E Hamill reports the revival begun with evangelist Le Roy Sanders of Jefferson City Missouri. Sanders predicts world war woes and urges Christian hope in Jesus Christ while outlining the Tribulation. The Sanders Brothers conduct the two week series through July 6 with nightly 8 pm services and special music nights led by Raymond Sanders.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday issued a writ of prohibition to stop Circuit Judge J F Gautney from hearing a $45,000 personal injury suit against Terminal Oil Company of Oscola. The court ordered the case transferred to Pulaski or Mississippi counties where the plaintiffs reside and where the alleged injuries occurred.
The RAF reported a seventh straight day of air operations over northern France with seven German fighter planes destroyed, bringing the last three days total to 64. At the bedside of Senator Harrison were his wife Mary Edwina Meinnis and son Pat Jr, along with other family members. President Roosevelt mourned the loss as a national sorrow. The family declined a state funeral. the body lay in state in the Senate chamber from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday, with Gulfport as the funeral site planned for Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. A special train would depart Washington at 4 a.m. Tuesday for Mississippi, where the entire delegation would attend.
The report says two British fighters were accompanied by Blenheim bombers as two RAF planes went missing during the 18th straight night of raids on Wilhelmshaven and northwest Germany. Britain claims 90 German planes were downed in a Channel and France battle, strengthening air superiority in northern Europe.
Paul Block, 63, longtime advertising salesman turned publisher, died Sunday at his Waldorf Astoria Tower residence. Head of Paul Block & Associates, he led national advertising for 16 papers and served as publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Blade and Toledo Times, among other titles, during a 25 year career begun in 1916. He previously ran the New York Evening Mail and the Newark Star-Eagle, later leading the Brooklyn Standard-Union, Los Angeles Express, Detroit Journal, Duluth Herald, Memphis News-Scimitar, Lancaster New Era and Milwaukee Sentinel.
Washington reports the federal government ordered immediate steps to prevent any departure of Italian nationals from the United States. The Justice and Treasury departments issued instructions to immigration, border patrols, and customs to enforce the June 14 executive order regulating foreign exchange and property.
Guy E Basye will address the Hope Chamber of Commerce Tuesday at noon in Hotel Barlow. The talk on industry and Americanism is expected to draw around one hundred attendees. Also appearing will be Sanders Brothers from Jefferson City Missouri conducting revival services at the Hi Pel Tabernacle following the speech.
Cairo reports indicate a Axis raid on Alexandria early Monday caused twenty deaths and about sixty injuries with considerable damage. authorities acknowledge ongoing investigations and security responses as the incident unfolds.
More than ten union brethren formed a band and played for nearly an hour at Seattle’s railroad station as musicians honored J YORK and the American Federation convention send-off.
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