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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1942
Page
5
From Ozark Ark comes word of a man who escaped Texas prison, lived straight for 33 years, then returned to jail after a quarrel led his wife to report him. He aided a robbery, was recaptured, and the Texas governor may pardon him. The piece muses on punishment, reform, and social laws.
The Arkansas Supreme Court voided firemen pension tax titles in Little Rock and other cities that exceeded the five mill limit before 1830, voiding tax sales 1923–1927 except 1926. The ruling also addressed a 1941 land tax act and retroactivity to decrees, and upheld a 1942 murder rape case where the court affirmed a death sentence with potential modification to life imprisonment.
Allied Airmen launched their most prolonged attack on Japanese bases at Lae and Sala Maua on the New Guinea northeast coast, harassing enemy troops for hours. MacArthur's HQ called it a light, prolonged raid and a spokesman said it was the strongest attack in the area. A night strike on Tulagi wharf areas in the Solomons was also announced with few details.
A strong earthquake struck Santiago at 2:35 a.m. EWT causing suspended communications and toppled electric lines in the downtown area with no serious damage reported. Tremors extended to northern and southern Chile. thirty people were injured from falling masonry and a panic rush to the streets. The note ends with a stray line about the Spanish word sale meaning out it goes.
By S. Burton Heath Tobruk has fallen. Germans threaten Suez Canal. General Mannheim's Nazi drive wedges into Sevastopol defenses. Despite Midway success, Japan presses in Aleutians gaining two points. Continued on Page Two.
Washington June 29 AP the House Appropriations Committee sent to the floor a 1.81 billion dollar supply bill to fund the War Program for the next fiscal year starting July 1. It would push total national defense funding since June 1940 toward about 228 billion, with most funds—1.369 billion—going to the War Shipping Administration. The Office of Price Administration faces a 75 million cut amid controversy as committee restricts transfers from other appropriations.
Chungking reports that Japanese plans to seize Tungsten fields in Kiangsi have failed. Chinese pilots under American volunteers sunk two Japanese warships in Yangtao and inflicted losses on eastern Kiangsi forces. Fighting continues near Tsungfa, northeast of Canton, with Japanese advances stalled along the Kwangsung northward push.
Washington reported the Navy said United States bombers attacked Wake Island on June 27, damaging the airfield and shore installations. The communique noted favorable weather aided a formation assault, with one bomber sustaining minor damage but all planes returning safely. Wake Island lies 2,000 nautical miles west of Pearl Harbor and about 1,000 miles southwest of Midway.
Mrs C L Ifonger faced a five foot snake at her back door then fled to the tool shed where she seized a long handled hoe. She then cleared a rat nest in the outhouse and disposed of the snake before eradicating the rats. Final score One dead snake and thirteen dead rats.
Three more small merchant ships, a Norwegian, a Yugoslavian, and an American, have been sunk in the Atlantic, the Navy announced today, bringing the unofficial AP toll to 323 since Pearl Harbor. The Norwegian vessel went down May 14 off the northern coast of South America, with two lost from 33 crew. Survivors were picked up 25 miles away by the Yugoslav ship, sunk the next day with two of 41 crew lost. Survivors from both ships have reached the United States.
Washington June 20 AP technical experts draft a $5.9 billion tax bill as four major fights loom in the House Ways and Means Committee. War on consumption tax postwar credits for corporations withholding plan and postal rate hikes spark debate while lawmakers weigh a possible 5 percent sales tax. Proposals forecast to surface again before final passage with Senate review slated after a House recess.
The Office of Price Administration set a maximum price of 1.48 dollars per barrel for crude petroleum of 40 degrees gravity and above, effective July 2, from pools in University Field, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Also notes that 20 percent of Costa Rica’s national budget funds schools which are free and compulsory.
In New York Magistrate John Mason faces 50 Negro defendants charged with disorderly conduct after noisy dance halls in Queens. one defendant notes not all were invited. The court suspends sentence. In North Carolina a thief steals a bedspread from John Cotten, then moves a floor lamp to reach Cotten’s trousers. In Los Angeles a robber posing as a police officer steals a driver’s license and cash from A. Hankins, later traced by a real officer. Hankins returns home to find his cat stolen.
German forces press a fresh offensive from Kursk toward Voronezh, aiming to sever the southern rail link as Soviet defenders counter in Kharkov and Sevastopol. Dispatches note heavy battles, with German gains limited and renewed Russian counterattacks noted in the frontline reports.
Washington AP reports New York state will purchase $171,596,000 in war bonds in July, over one sixth of the national $1 billion quota. July marks the first billion dollar month as quotas rise nationwide. Illinois has the second largest, Nevada the smallest. Some state quotas are Arkansas 5,079,000 Iowa 18,000,000 Kansas 8,073,000 Missouri 27,827,000 Oklahoma 8,855,000. Mississippi's quota was withheld and $37,000,000 remains unallocated.
Barney Chambers, Hempstead county assistant agent for 11 months, resigned last week and left for Chanute Field to serve as a student instructor. He had previously come to Hope from Nevada county to take the post.
Washington report by AP notes Donald M. Nelson testifying to a House subcommittee that war production targets for shipping tanks planes and ships will be met though consumer needs look bleak. He cited steel plate shortages and logistics as key challenges ahead of 1942 munitions goals while stressing food clothing and basic supplies should be adequate.
The final rubber drive in Hope will be led by Boy Scouts under Scoutmasters S. E. McGregor Hendrix Spragina and Clyde Coffee. Citizens urged to search premises for scrap rubber and place on front doors by 7 pm Tuesday. Proceeds fund the Boy Scout program. alternate drop off at filling stations Wednesday morning.
Geo W Robison and Bill Wray, outgoing and incoming Hope Rotary Club presidents, returned Sunday from Toronto where the Rotary International annual conference was held. E F Mc Faddin also attended from Hope and returned earlier. Attendance was reported between 7000 and 8000 from 54 countries speaking 22 languages.
Attorney General Jack Holt, candidate for the United States Senate, criticized his opponents for lack of foresight and duty in a campaign speech here last Saturday. He denounced as mercenary two opponents’ votes on a pension to congressmen and mocked D. D. Terry’s claim of being present for the war bill. Holt framed the race around winning the war and safeguarding peace, with Mayor Albert Graves of Hope introducing him.
Percy Huffman 42 of Eureka Springs died from gasoline ignition after a backfiring truck while working on the Arkansas Louisiana Gas pipeline. He died at Prescott after the weekend accident, the only fatality from motor vehicles reported. Edward Riley 17 of Hector died Saturday from injuries after his horse fell on him Friday. Salvador does not touch the Atlantic Ocean.
The Star announces that all advertising copy must be in the composing room 24 hours before publication. Commercial and classified advertisers were notified months ago, but the notice is repeated to inform political campaign managers before the primary elections. The management may require a 48 hour deadline under war conditions.
Axis claims Matruh fallen and British lines retreating toward a farther east line. Reports from London Berlin and Rome vary, with Cairo RAF saying Axis by-passed defenses but facing stiff resistance from British troops, air and armor. The fall would shift the fighting toward Tobruk and Alexandria as Rommel presses operations.
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