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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1943
Page
3
Editor Alex H Washburn notes the House vote to strike out Roosevelts 25 000 wartime salary limit, arguing executive orders lack authority and risk arbitrary pay caps. He recalls James Pierpont Morgans death and links to private banking, wartime profits, and GM, warning about government overreach.
London dispatch reports a large RAF attack on Essen with heavy bombing and fires. The raid, described as possibly the heaviest yet on the munitions center, followed by USAAF heavy bombers crossing the channel toward the continent.
In Arkansas a regional OPA price order took effect today with revised retail and wholesale prices. Retail ceilings of 15 cents per quart allow $2.75 per hundredweight for four per cent butterfat versus $3.40 previously. Fourteen and a half cent retail pens permit $4.55, while 14 cent selling areas see $4.95 and 12 3-2 cent areas $2.95.
A Kentucky university bulletin notes the economic value of dead livestock under wartime rationing. It states a dead horse could yield fat for 73 anti aircraft shells, dead sheep 15 shells, a 100 pound pig 50 shells, a cow 80 shells, and a small calf five shells. Special collectors collect carcasses from farms.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrives in Washington to meet President Roosevelt and discuss a framework for United Nations conferences on war issues. He brings William Strang to join talks with Hull and other officials. Discussions may include Soviet and Chinese representatives as potential participants.
A list of donors to the county Red Cross drive. Notable contributors include Hope Hardware Company, Hall Brothers Cleaners, Hotel Barlow, Dr L M Lile, Mrs Edwin Hawkins, Miss Marjorie Snider, Mr and Mrs John P Vesey, Mrs A M Key, Mrs W J Hutchison, Dr and Mrs Thomas Brewster, and the Gilye eyes family. Amounts range from small donations to 16.00 dollars, with several five dollar contributions and a 400 entry for Aulanita Gentry.
Palm Beach Florida reports that modern science and Seminole Indian medicine lore may unite to ease wartime shortages of quinine. Expeditions in the Everglades test quinine-like plants under Dr Alfred Lansing while Institutum Divi Thomae scientists led by Dr George Sperti study traditional Seminole remedies for potential wartime medical use.
The Norwegian Telegraph Agency reports a pound of tea, previously unavailable in Norway for a year, sold for 200 dollars in Norwegian currency. Six young men were fined and sentenced to three to six months in jail for selling the tea at this price.
Washington March 13 Signs of a split within the administration over farm price policy surfaced as the OPA ordered the sub parity price ceiling on corn kept in force. Byrnes directed the policy while Wickard argued the ceiling might be unnecessary to protect livestock dairy and parity programs. Farm leaders want ceilings not below parity and Congress moved a Bankhead bill to curb sub parity.
Londonderry recipe shared by Rhoads of San Francisco, a Navy baker at the U. S. naval base, aims at feeding troops but is floated to American housewives. Directions call for ten pounds of sugar and seven and a half pounds of bird, plus salt, cream, flour, baking powder, milk, and a cinnamon lemon topping. The method details mixing and layering steps for a large loaf or cake.
At Topeka Kansas dairy the manager notes higher fiber turnover amid war pressures. For months, older draught horses have been teaching new women drivers the rules, turning a staff shortage into on the job training and experience.
The Midway field in Lafayette county remains the most active with several tests ongoing. W. G. Ray Drilling’s War nock-Lecroy No. 1 near Bradley was abandoned at 6826 feet due to salt water. Nearby firms Arkansas Fuel Oil, Barnsdall Oil, and Southwood Oil push drilling and perforations in Lizenia Creek No. 2, Millard F. Creek No. 2, and Hodnett No. SE NE sections, while Tidewater and Ohio Oil report perforations and replants, and Garner No. 1 nears re completion.
Allied bombers struck Sousse and Tunis targeting docks and railway yards while ships and barges were sunk. Ground operations in the Mareth line region continued amid heavy losses for Rommel as Allied forces press toward final Tunisian victory.
Washington reports six Arkansans listed by the War Department as United States soldiers held prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines. The names include Pyt J C Atkinson of Ki 1 El D arade, Ple Qple L daggers, Eugene Jernigan of Ferguson Ple, Quentin A Lawrence of Russellville, Norman Leftin of Locksburg, and Thomas S Jones with families or next of kin. The note mentions next of kin details for several, including Atkinson, Jernigan, Jones, Lawrence, and Leftin. A separate line estimates 15 million tons of feed needed this year to back U.S. chicken output of eight billion dozen eggs.
The weather department at the University of Arkansas Experiment Station reports 5.03 inches of rain in the past three days. Readings are verified each morning at 7 o'clock, noting county totals and impacts on local conditions.
Algiers reports Marshal Petain suffered a stroke days ago and lies in critical condition in a hospital near Vichy. The illness was kept secret from the French public as authorities may reveal.
An Army heavy bomber crashed eight miles northwest of Sheridan in a wooded area late yesterday killing all aboard. Air Force officers from Little Rock stated the number of dead and identities would be announced today by the home base, which was not disclosed. The wreckage spread over a 100 yard area and a board headed by Capt. E P Asmus investigated after arriving about an hour later.
J P Morgan of New York financier and head of the House of Morgan died at 3 15 am in Boca Grande Florida while staying at the Gasparilla Inn He suffered a heart ailment and had been ill since February 25 on a train en route to Florida His son and two daughters were at his bedside and a funeral train would carry his body to New York later today
London dispatch reports Red Army defenders repelling German attacks west of Kharkov while Germans push toward the city. Soviet communique claims 36 German tanks and over 100 trucks destroyed in two days and thousands killed. Vyazma fell after fierce fighting with Germans evacuating and destroying the town. Russians captured several towns west of Vyazma. German forces retreated along fortified lines amid heavy losses and plunder. Civilian and cultural sites in Vyazma were looted and demolished by German troops.
Record tax receipts occurred in major districts as the March 15 deadline approached, with New York Chicago Los Angeles Seattle and many others showing strong filings. In Cleveland war workers adopted a tone under me while Portland Oregon saw filings lag behind 1941 levels. Chicago saw a $7.5 million quarterly corporate tax payment and a heavy post office stream as residents rushed to file.
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