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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1941
Page
2
Miss Claude Fletcher urged families to grow and preserve food to support national defense, stressing healthy eating, conserving tin, and filling pantries with canned goods, meat, poultry, and root crops. Extension agent Allen adds gardens sustain year round, reducing town trips and aiding farm resilience.
Miss Mary laude Fletcher notes mulching with oat wheat or rice straw pine needles or leaves protects vegetables during July and August by reducing evaporation and weeds. Earl J Allen says mulch acts as a sponge, stores moisture, and supports crops like tomatoes beans corn eggplant okra peppers and late potatoes.
Hollywood profile of Fortunio Bonanova, the Spaniard famed as actor, director and musician who worked with Welles and in Bonanova’s films. The piece notes his career in Europe Spain and France, his New York debut, film work in The Immaculate Wife, and his roles with Katharine Cornell. It also covers 20th Fox filming at Lockheed, and technical challenges of dubbing plane noise.
A dense word puzzle listing horizontal and vertical clues with mixed abbreviations and partial phrases referencing presidents, numbers, animals, and objects. The grid hints include numerous errors and garbled entries, suggesting a complex, edited crossword-style challenge from a vintage page.
Fort Knox reports rapid expansion of the Armored Force Tank School training 480 officers and 4,846 enlisted men as it prepares to scale up to 75,000 specialists. Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee ordered Col. S. G. Henry to establish the school last July, with classes expanding from a bare setup to fully equipped shops and diverse departments in a few months.
A change to the minimum acreage rule in the ID4L Triple A farm program raises the required share of soil conserving and erosion resisting crops to at least 26 percent of farm crop land in B area counties. The updated handbook lists eligible crops and uses, including hogged off peanuts and soybeans, broadening prior qualifications.
The article notes rapid growth of armored forces with a Tank School capacity targeted at 22,000 tank crews per year. Enlisted men dominate the first student body as graduations shift them into instructors. Replacement center draftees will fill future classes, expanding divisions across Fort Knox Fort Benning Camp Polk and Pine Camp as plans anticipate doubling divisions next winter.
A Washington report laments talk of joyless Sundays and defense failures, accusing gossip and slow mobilization of undermining public morale. It questions White House and Congress for delaying support, noting echoed concerns over national readiness and the need to mobilize production for defense.
In a tense clash on a New York street, Angus and Adoreen foil the Broccoli racketeers led by Castaloni. A firefight ends as Inspector Callahan arrives, arrests are made, and Angus is offered a police career while Adoreen agrees to marry him. The couple heads off with security doubts behind them.
A recount of how U S defense programs faced delays as factories rebuilt or new plants sprang up to produce tanks, aircraft, and ships. It notes missteps and rumors, with Rock Island Arsenal cited for hull ports and Detroit for assembly, while 1690 plants and hundreds of thousands of workers were mobilized across sectors.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry signals recognition of Croatia soon as war complicates diplomacy. A stray satirical passage mentions vacation detours and aluminum scrapping by Uncle Liu. A German consulate joke adds whimsy with a polite line about a hat.
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