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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1940
Page
3
Hope merchants are urged to plan with the Chamber of Commerce for a strict closing on the Fourth. The editor stresses the national significance of Independence Day and urges full observance, noting past debates when the date fell on a Saturday and business hours were questioned.
About 1,100 attended the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station Visiting Day. Governor Bailey, University of Arkansas President Fulbright, and College of Agriculture Dean Horlacher spoke on farming, land grant value, flood control, and state dependence on farmers, noting farmers’ central role in the economy.
A comic page features questions on music and musicians. It asks for three great Bs in music, who wrote Stars and Stripes Forever, the composer of Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, three WWI era songs, and the difference between canista and a cappella.
Enlistments in the United States Army at the Texarkana recruiting station include Hope men assigned to the Quartermaster Corps at the Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs. Charles William Arnett and Roy Beck Jr are named as enlistees, sons of local residents Lemuel Arnett and Roy Beck, with addresses given in Hope.
War clouds darken southeastern Europe as Romania, after yielding to a Russian ultimatum, rushes 2,000,000 troops to the Hungarian frontier while Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey mobilize or prepare for action. Separate reports indicate business circles weighing a possible early peace in Europe and a Hitler proposal to England under consideration.
A brief excerpt presents a biblical marriage verse stating that what God has joined together should not be separated, emphasizing sacred union and unity between spouses.
Mr and Mrs H O Kyler of Hope visiting Texas received word via the State Department in Washington that Mrs Roel Gast and family residents of Holland have been located and are safe and sound.
Lt. Royce Weisenberger of Infantry Reserves ordered to three week active duty July 1 21. He requests county residents interested in enlisting contact Robert Wilson Postmaster Hope. Texarkana recruiting officer says white men may file papers before noon daily to be sent out after medical and reference checks. colored vacancies are filled.
In Richmond Virginia the Arkansas Diamond Corporation stockholders meeting was postponed to July 2 due to a four member quorum failure. Topics on the agenda include an option for selling the Pike County Arkansas diamond fields. A stray line about a hippopotamus follows the main text.
At the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia Wendell Willkie surged to the nomination for president on the fifth ballot, with Indiana utilities executive Charles McNary from Oregon named as vice president hopeful on the first ballot and other frontrunners like Gov. John Bricker and Hanford MacNider fading from contention as the party coalesced around Willkie. The convention resumed amid high excitement as Willkie edged past Dewey and Taft, leading to rapid shifts in support and culminating in his secure bid.
President Roosevelt indicated that higher appropriations would be sought for the Army to place large orders for defense equipment. In Hong Kong a decision on removing about 1000 American citizens may come Saturday as British authorities hold ships ready to evacuate women and children if needed. British stance appears to resist Japan's demand to close a route used to ship arms to China.
Mrs. C. B. Foster, president, announced a picnic at Bradford Camp on the Little Missouri River, north of Blevins, July 4. The program begins at 10 o'clock with speeches by county candidates, several quartets, and many singers. Public invited.
Henry C. Dixon, a Hempstead County farmer near Clow, saw his two year old residence and most of the household goods destroyed by a blaze Wednesday morning at about four o clock. A smokehouse with about 300 pounds of meat and other supplies also burned. The cause is unknown and damages are estimated at 1000 dollars.
Governor Harold Stassen forecast Charles McNary as Willkie’s running mate at the 1940 convention. Highlights from the platform outline Americanism, preparedness, national defense, a free economy, and aid to those in need. It pledges jobs, local unemployment relief, security for the aged, fair labor rights, agricultural fairness, tariff protection, sound money, public credit conservation, merit-based government jobs, equality of opportunity, and no third term. The document criticizes the New Deal as unprepared for defense and argues for continued aid to liberty seekers.
Soviet ultimatum and advance into Besarabia and Bucovina surprise Germany as legations accuse Britain of aiding Russia. Germany vows to prevent Russian control of the Danube mouth and northern Bucovina. British air raids on the Netherlands kill civilians as Churchill’s war aims are pressed.
Spring Hill will host a Sunday night singing at the local school with several quartets and soloists slated to perform. A singing school, led by Earl Upchurch, will run from Monday morning July 1, with public invitation extended to all residents.
In New York October cotton futures opened and closed at 9.20 cents per pound with middling price noted as speck.
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