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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1942
Page
4
Distressing notes from the Hope Front report a local painter suffered a broken rib during a first aid drill in a Civilian Defense course at Hope City Hall. The five night program, run by local council instructors, trains citizens in essential wartime first aid as hundreds have enrolled.
RAF pilot officer Mark Bennett from Little Rock piloted a Hudson plane that bombed two enemy vessels off the Norwegian coast. One large supply ship ran ashore and caught fire, another was set ablaze as it left Ålesund. Bennett credited with the missions as a recent broadcast told his family. He trained at Adams Field and Little Rock Junior College before joining RAF Coastal Command.
A literary and musical Founder’s Day program honors the late Henry C. Yerger at Yerger High School on Friday May 15 at 3 40 pm. Faculty student body and authorities host the event with Rev J L Crossley as guest speaker.
Washington report on the U S Information Center in Fifteenth and Pennsylvania opening with over 4000 questions answered. A government employee quips World War II will seem a fair, hot day compared to the new heat policy that may dismiss workers at a set temperature. Continued on page five.
Washington reports French warships at Martinique are immobilized in a joint move by French and American officials. The aircraft carrier Beams and two cruisers are among ships affected as talks continue on a broader solution for French Caribbean possessions. The United States says it is not seeking French merchant ships and is negotiating directly with Admiral Georges Robert as the Caribbean issue unfolds.
A German submarine that sank two freighters in the St. Lawrence River early this week was reported Thursday to have trailed one of the ships for miles before firing a torpedo. Survivors hinted a third vessel may have been sunk. The Archbishop of York holds the title Drimate of England and ranks after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England.
Secretary Morgenthau urged a minimum tax of several dollars for anyone filing an income tax return. He noted many who must file pay no tax under current law due to exemptions. He said constitutional questions would be studied and Congress could enact it, possibly calling it an excise tax to pass legal muster.
Bids for a federal grant funded project to add four rooms to Brookwood elementary in Hope Arkansas and two rooms to Shover elementary to serve 80 more Negro students will open at 10 a m May 28 in the Hope school superintendent’s office. George J Harley, FWA regional engineer, notes the work costs about 43000 dollars with A N McAninch of Little Rock as architect. War worker influx drives enrollment and emergency welfare legislation has advanced in state legislatures. Panama Canal Zone occupation began May 4 1904.
Oil and Gas filings dated May 12 1942 list royalty deeds and lease transfers involving R. S. Randolph wife to R. H. Evans properties in section 10 township 15 range 24 with 31 78 acres, and 813 acres in the EM of NW of See 10 15 24. Transfers show Mrs Guy Ellis to C B Waddle assignments, and multiple O and G leases filed or assigned to M E Wakefield and Walter Keith across sections 2 5 8 9 12 14 28 32 33 of townships 12 13 14 and 15 in range 22, plus related filings by Louise Garrett and Lion Oil Refining Co. includes dates from April to May 1942.
Hempstead county draft board names W A Lewis as chairman replacing H B Barr who resigned. Dy Richards becomes secretary and O L Bawden joins as third member. By May 18 about 28 county men will be drafted for Camp Robinson Little Rock with many already enlisted, listing names and addresses across Hope Pine Bluff Waco Houston Los Angeles and Fulton. Also notes 1940s India jute production at 12,262,450 bales.
Mrs. Joe Eason, Hempstead County Rationing Board secretary, reports 30 017 War Ration Books issued and 31 628 total applications filed. 1 611 applicants did not receive books. Guidance issued on five pounds of sugar per family for home canning and process for those without books. Applications may be made within the next year, with emphasis on emergency canning needs this week.
A Washington telegram from Senator Lloyd Spencer reports the War Production Board approved priority rating for construction of the Hope waterworks project docket ark 8-128. An A-2 rating was granted and WPB believes this will secure delivery of needed materials. Certificate to be mailed. United States takes half of India exports shellac.
Washington officials signal possible widening of gasoline rationing if rubber use changes policy. Ickes says no current need to broaden areas from a petroleum view. A 1500 mile Texas to New York Philadelphia pipeline is the sure eastern relief, with steel for the line to be requested from the War Production Board. Congressional chatter hints at nationwide transport rationing by July 1.
An earthquake in Guayaquil, Ecuador killed several people and injured many, mainly patients in a three and a story clinic. Rescue teams, soldiers, and police cordoned off areas as ambulances ferried the wounded and city power was briefly cut, heightening panic.
Dr. Paul L. Hammond of Bradley Arkansas was sentenced to two years in prison by Judge Harry Lemsey after a jury found him guilty on one of seven narcotics indictments. He was released on bond until May 21 and acquitted on five counts with one dismissed. A separate injury suit before Judge Lemley seeks 50 900 in damages from Leroy Smith over a collision involving a Louisiana and Arkansas Railway truck. The government awarded 131 18 in a separate nonpayment case against Mary Ellis and Leonard Ellis. An account notes Malia island has deep underground passages and air raid shelters cut 100 feet into solid rock.
Soviet dispatches claim Russians hold one line and smash the German first defense near Kharkov while pressing toward key Nazi bases at Smolensk and in the Kerch peninsula. Vichy radio notes large Allied style aerial bombardments against German forces in Staraya Russa and Novgorod as Germans claim victory in Kerch and Romanian sources say Kerch city captured.
Chinese forces report damaged bridges across Paoshan as Japanese columns push north from the Burma road threatening Tengyuehon and advancing into Yuan province beyond Lungling, with Pangshan located 180 miles inside Yunnan.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted about 2 to 1 to cut individual income tax exemptions to 500 for single filers and 1200 for married filers to fund war efforts. The move lowers current levels and aims to bring millions of new taxpayers into the system while retaining the earned income credit.
The report notes 1.2 inches of rain overnight at 1 am Thursday and a rise to 1 inch by 2:45 pm Thursday. The earlier 1.9 inches of rain to 2:45 Thursday is also recorded by the station.
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