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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1943
Page
4
A congressional joint committee reports minimal progress in reducing nonessential government driving in 1942. It notes 1942 figures show 18,953 government passenger cars in use and 66,010,310 miles in four months, with no real decline in nonessential trips despite energy pressures. The piece questions who authored the editorial and urges decisive action to prompt a showdown.
Union efforts intensify as Gen Henri Giraud invites Gen Charles de Gaulle to unity among Fighting French forces. Reports say Bergert and Ribaud left posts, Hogues remains key. de Gaulle to act quickly with Giraud to unite against the Axis. Public sessions in London set to decide next steps.
United press dispatch from Stockholm reports martial law has been imposed in the German city of Essen following a night raid on the Krupp armament works last Friday. The German newspaper Essen Nation Zeitung cites the action and details from the raid.
Washington March 1 The housewife’s total food ration points for April will match March 480 across blue stamps 13 22 and A B C. An overlap week makes both March and April stamps valid. March 33 is last day for blue stamps. new cans series available March 25 to April 80. OPA urges budgeting to use remaining ration points.
Washington March 16. The Pacific war report says Dauntless dive bombers with Wildcat escort struck Japanese positions at Vila and Munda in the Central Solomons during the evening of March 1. Results not reported. all U S planes returned. This was the 93rd raid of the campaign begun November 28 against the enemy airbase at Taula.
Allied air forces blasted two troop laden transports in a three ship convoy bound for Daba near Doebn in the Aroe Islands north of Darwin. Long range fighters supported the bombers as heavy casualties were inflicted on the decks. Darwin suffered a large Japanese air raid while Ora Bay near New Guinea saw limited damage with casualties.
An Arkansan, Francis Anthony Makliteh of Little Rock, is named among Navy casualties. The report notes 1 dead and 34 missing, contributing to a grand total of 6,741 dead 4,012 wounded and 33,077 missing from December 7 1941 onward. His wife is Mrs Helen Marguevine Mukliteh.
A Japanese Red Cross report published today lists US soldier Pvt. Raymond T. Hearing of Arkansas as dead in the Philippines. Details on unit, fate, and date are unclear in the fragmented dispatch.
Senator Ball introduces postwar international police force as only practical means to curb war. He argues balance of power, imperialism, and treaties have failed and an organization of peace loving nations with authority is needed. Continued on page three.
Allied HQ reports British First Army advancing in the Sedjenane area in northern Tunisia without resistance and occupying a wooded ridge. French forces with American guns repel enemy armor between Gafsa and Metlaoui as the air war intensifies over Tunisia.
In Haute Savoie near Lake Geneva German led police and troops scour hills and valleys for thousands of French youths who defied conscription. insurgents said to number at least 3,000 aided by former French officers. reports say some youths surrender or are sent to Germany. Lower morale and unrest spread as authorities warn deserters will be sent abroad.
Washington reports that American British and Canadian high commands have reached complete agreement on defeating the Axis submarine menace in the Atlantic. The conference chaired by Admiral Ernest J. King produced a coordinated policy for protecting Allied shipping and employing escort vessels, anti-submarine craft and aircraft. The announcements arrive as Churchill notes continued Allied cooperation amid calls for a unified command.
Funeral services for J. P. Morgan were held at St George’s Protestant Episcopal Church in Stuyvesant Place. The 75-year-old financier died Saturday in Florida. He lay in a plain black coffin amid about 20 floral pieces, with friends asked to send none. The church was crowded with 1,500 including John D. Rockefeller Jr., John W. Davis, and Thomas W. Lamont, vice chairman of J. P. Morgan and Company.
Prime Minister Churchill faced questions in the House of Commons about his son Randolph who praised Marcel Peyrouton and defended Army letters seen as supporting French officials in North Africa. He said the letter violated no regulations, expressed a debatable view, and did not require senior officer review. He affirmed Allied U boat efforts and rejected Smuts’s Allied general staff proposal.
Hollywood report states Mickey Rooney was rejected after a full medical exam at the Los Angeles induction center. Lt. Col. Bailey confirmed the rejection, citing no specific physique reason, while Rooney said he is unhappy about the outcome after voluntary submission and prior reports of high blood pressure and heart flutter from his mother.
Soviet forces press west from Vyazma toward Smolensk as they establish a strong position east of Kharkov after claiming recapture of a Ukraine city. Reports note new spearheads west of Vyazma, a bold push from Kholm-Zhirkovsky toward the Dnieper, and continued Soviet advances as German defenses focus on the Kharkov-Belgorod area.
First Lieutenant Harrell H. Rule, son of Rev E C Rule of Pine Bluff, reported missing over the Pacific near Everett Washington after his Lockheed Lightning collided with a bomber. Rule, a Kelly Field graduate commissioned April 30 1942, was married that day to Betty Jo Campbell and served as squadron leader in the 6th Fighter Squadron at Paine Field.
Lyle M. Webb, former advertising manager for the Hope Star, will graduate as a radio operator from the Naval Radio Training School in San Francisco on March 26 and then be assigned to a ship. Webb has recently served as advertising manager of the Valdosta Times and an information manager for the Suffolk News-Herald before enlisting in the Navy in Los Angeles.
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