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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
4
Daisy Dorothy Heard lists editor contact options and phone availability between 8 a m and 4 p m for personal communications.
Social calendar notes a third birthday fete for Miss Tretty Jean Wilver hosted by Mrs. M. F. Wilver at 615 East Second Street. Festivities featured patriotic decorations, games, and an embossed birthday cake with ice cream. Attendees included Naomi Launer Nanette Williams Samy Woodford and others.
Hope area residents and guests gathered for the internment after a funeral service at First Presbyterian Church. Attendees included numerous families from Bastrop Texarkana Springhill Baton Rouge Shreveport and Little Rock. Hospital updates note recoveries and new births among local residents and visitors.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Lou Skinner age 78 of Nevada county were held at Forrest Hill Church at 2 30 Saturday afternoon with Rev Elbert O'Steen presiding. She is survived by her husband John W Skinner six children Mrs Will Porter Mrs Madison Hamm C L and B C Skinner of Bodean Mrs Henry Boyett and J P Skinner of Hope.
The FBI announced the arrest of a second man in a wartime espionage case. Erwin Marry de Spretter, 68, a non citizen, met with Lehmitz and supplied observations on New York harbor shipping. He received $100 and faces charges under the wartime espionage act alongside Lehmitz, who admitted sending information to the Nazi system.
Washington reports heavy air and sea attacks across the Pacific as naval bombers hit Japanese bases from Kiska to the Solomons. Submarine crews sink six Japanese vessels and damage three, with a destroyer and mine layer sunk or disabled during Pacific operations.
Private Harald N. Fischer of New York says soldiers of the last war were better at checkers than today's troops. He toured Army camps teaching in uniform and later became a pro who won the national championship three times. Fischer notes he can beat 22 checkers and five chess players at once, hopping between boards like a lunch counter waitress. He asserts the untrained player makes one move at a time while pros foresee 10 to 15 moves ahead.
Kathy admits killing Derek Grady after revealing her black coat with a bullet hole as evidence. Shaw presses for details while George Baker offers bribes to bury the affair. Kathy finalizes her confession and laments her engagement ring.
Rene Ryerson narrates a domestic rupture as Kathy is jailed for murder and George Baker hires a top criminal lawyer. The narrator describes watching George, Mattison, and Walter depart with Shaw taking Kathy away, then waking to bad news and arranging a visit to Kathy, while reflecting on personal responsibility. The scene ends with a teaser for the continuation.
Marvin Jones resigns as president of the federal reserve bank at St Louis amid a public dispute over President Roosevelts subsidy program. Davis expresses willingness to resume duties, noting he hoped to discuss the entire problem with the president. The tension involves Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and the food administration setup.
June operations saw United States bombers hit Japanese positions at Kiska and Little Kiska. On June 27 Ventura and Mitchell aircraft struck the main camp and north head area with all planes returning. June 28 combined Mitchell and Ventura raids targeted Kiska and Little Kiska with weather hampering full observation, but hits were reported on Little Kiska houses. Little Kiska is treated as part of the island for tactical purposes.
In Kentucky most miners returned to work while western Pennsylvania saw slow gains, and scattered walkouts persisted in Alabama. Roughly half of Pennsylvania’s 200,000 miners were working with about 100,000 idle, and Alabama pits added 4,000 idled workers. Ohio ended all stoppages as about 30,000 were idle yesterday. Arkansas’ ten day work stoppage in coal mines appeared ended as UMW members began returning to the Paris field.
Camp Polk officers report the army post handles mail for a city of 1.5 million and forwards about 30 000 letters monthly worldwide yet returns an average of only six letters per day to senders.
Lt. Bobby Grayson, USC football star and former Navy pre flight instructor at Morago, California, is slated for active duty in the Pacific theater. The move follows his recent service where he contributed as a back field figure for the university.
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