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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1942
Page
4
Our Daily Bread editorial defends closing stores on Independence Day during war. It urges observance of Freedom's Day as vital, condemns gossip as dangerous, and notes the paper suspends publication only three holidays a year. Continued on Page Two.
About 1,000 Yellow Truck and Coach workers walked out at the Pontiac plant over wage disputes amid a blackout. Army officials and CIO leaders urged a quick return to work as Col. Ray M. Hare warned the War Department is concerned. R. J. Thomas condemned the walkout as unauthorized and a breach of wartime pledges. Police reported limited access for few employees with no violence.
Dr A M Parang, president, announces University of Arkansas wartime program shaping training for all armed forces and defense production. Sen Lloyd Spencer urges farmers to use favorable prices to pay debts, noting U S output now exceeds Axis, with 150 tanks daily and 5000 planes monthly by July. The visit at Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station highlights Victory Program, public service, and campus activities to support the home front.
Governor Adkins designated next Tuesday as the fifth registration day for men ages 18 to 20 in Arkansas. About 39,000 are expected to register. those who turn 20 since Dec 31, 1941 may be called immediately, others when they reach 20. Registration runs 7 am to 9 pm at local boards.
In Buenos Aires protests over German torpedo sinks deepen as the River Cero and Rio Tercera are blamed on Nazi actions. Officials demand satisfaction, reparations, and a pledge of respect for the Argentine flag amid demonstrations and arrests of stone throwers and demonstrators.
President Roosevelt released May 1942 production figures showing the United States built nearly 4,000 aircraft and over 1,500 tanks in the month, with additional artillery and thousands more weapons including machine guns, while warning against overconfidence and noting raw materials shortages. Russian officials participated in Anglo American strategy talks alongside Churchill and Hull, with detailed surveys and joint military, naval, and air discussions continuing.
William R. Mattison Jr., 24, son of Mr and Mrs William R Mattison Route 2 Rosston Arkansas, has been promoted to staff sergeant at Midland Army Flying School the largest bombardier training school in the United States Army Air Forces The British Honduras do not touch the Pacific Ocean.
London observers predict rapid creation of a unified command to coordinate American British and Canadian forces against Europe. They cite Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's arrival as signaling a shift from planning to active preparation for using Allied armies in Britain.
Moscow challenged Tokyo's claim that a U S submarine torpedoed a Soviet merchantman and blamed a Japanese undersea raider. Survivors said two Japanese submarines surfaced after the Angastrol sank off the Japanese coast on May 1. China reported Chiang Kai-shek's forces moving near Nancheng as Allied air strikes hit Japanese bases at Rabaul Salamaua and Dili.
Washington June 26 AP tribute was paid in the House this week to Lieut General Somervell for his work supplying the nation’s military forces. Somervell, chief of the service of supply, is remembered as a Memphis district engineer and a former special assistant to the president of the Mississippi River commission. Born in Little Rock Arkansas he faced unprecedented problems yet is praised as an abler man for the job.
New York The American Museum of Natural History planned to display a skull of Rhinoceros sondaircus sought for years in Java and Malaya. Discovered in the museum attic after more than 70 years of being unrecognized, the fossil will join the collection as Dutch East Indies collapse altered access.
London reports a massive RAF assault on Bremen with more than 1000 bombers, supported by American Hudson bombers and Navoc fighter-bombers. The raid caused fires and widespread destruction, with 52 planes missing, marking a record loss ratio as RAF targeted wartime U boat bases and air fields in northern Germany.
Moscow dispatches describe a major German drive in Ukraine pushing toward Kupyansk and the Oskol river. Soviet forces fall back slowly to hold a continuous front while repelling aerial and ground assaults. Sevastopol operations show heavy Axis pressure, with aerial and artillery bombardment and Soviet counterattacks. multiple German tanks and trucks are reported destroyed in forest and coastal engagements.
A Santa Fe passenger train carrying 42 Army Air Corps cadets plunged into a wash after a bridge fire near Parker on the California border. Engineer E. J. Murray of Parker and Fireman D. L. Bentz of Needles were killed, with many cadets reportedly injured. FBI and Southern California defense command opened sabotage investigations. ambulances and investigators rushed from Indio and nearby communities.
Engineer Lloyd L. Jordan described a 24 inch diameter pipeline 550 miles long from Longview Texas to Norris City Illinois. The line will pass south of Texarkana and Hope and deliver 200000 to 350000 barrels per day. Booster stations will be built along the line to relieve gasol ine restricted regions in the North and East.
Comptroller M. B. McLeod announced Arkansas tax revenues for the first 11 months of this fiscal year rose by 4.48 million dollars from the previous year. June 1 deposits totaled 38.20 million versus 33.73 million last year, with total general taxes at 21.73 million compared to 18.16 million. Highway revenues increased from 15.57 million to 16.47 million.
London reports British submarines have sunk two large supply ships and one medium tonnage vessel in the Mediterranean. The admiralty statement came as the United States lists 15 telephones per 100 people in the population data.
The Hempstead county scrap rubber drive reports 129,582 pounds of old tires and rubber sold to filling stations in two weeks. Sid Bundy, Hope, chairman of the Arkansas Oil Dealers association, released the figures noting stations pay one cent per pound, except for battery cases and ure-beads.
Four field artillery regiments of the 33rd Division pass through Hope Saturday on the move from Camp Forrest Tennessee to Fort Sill Oklahoma for maneuvers. A state police convoy accompanies the troops. They depart Little Rock early Saturday and the rear guard clears the capital around noon. Regiments include the 112nd 123rd 124th 210th and the 3rd battalion of the 130 Infantry.
Two clerk auditors were appointed by Selective Service Director E. L. Compere to organize a uniform records system for Arkansas 94 local boards and the government appeal board. A. R. Winton of Piggott and Thomas F. Bledsoe of Hot Springs will serve as auditors.
The Star announces notice rules requiring notice in the composing room 24 hours before publication for Alt advertising. Regular advertisers were informed months ago, but the notice repeats for campaign managers before the primary elections. Management may demand a 48 hour advertising deadline during wartime. The Star handles extensive telegraph news daily and prioritizes wartime news over advertising.
Cairo reports German field marshal Erwin Rommel driving about 100 miles into Egypt as the Axis push toward the Matruh line. The British Eighth Army resists with mobile units and tanks, while Rommel hacks through Libyan and Egyptian terrain, leveraging captured matériel and strained supply routes from Tobruk toward Benghazi.
David Louis Williams aged 13, a junior high pupil, drowned at Fair Park pool in Little Rock last night. Pool manager Leroy Scott said over an hour of artificial respiration failed to revive him after he was found 12 feet underwater.
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