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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1940
Page
2
A group surrounding Taft debates campaign messaging in a closed room. Dewey’s Nebraska lead prompts cautious optimism as Taft aides trim press-release estimates and insist on no outright claims while noting two instructed delegates in North Carolina.
Hampstead County Library expands its reference shelves with World Book Encyclopedia set and Harvard Classics along with The American and History of Nations series. Other additions include World Almanac and Book of Facts 1940, Merriam Webster dictionary, Child Craft volumes, and 33 popular magazines plus major newspapers, boosting access to serious reference works for patrons.
Attendants tracked down a disturbance at a Portland Oregon sanatorium where patients opposed to the treatment threatened to drink. A recalcitrant patient was cornered as friends fastened liquor bottles to a radio ground wire and were hauled in.
Larry and Pete Barnes discuss Bentley's push for a canyon gate. Bentley, a Bentleman rancher from the Circle Cross, arrives with orders and wealth, aiming to influence Colonel Miles. The Old Man resists, while Bentley uses air travel and a personal field to project power amid ranch tensions.
Pete Barnes and Colonel Harris clash with Mike Bentley over a canyon gate on the ranch. Monica Miles defuses tension as talk turns to Bentley’s power, past accident, and cattle rustling fears. Lesky probes Miss Miles and Bentley files. To be continued.
Washington writer analyzes CIO chief John L Lewis as a political player aiming to bolster labor influence. He argues Lewis seeks collective bargaining leverage, targets youth and farmers, and could shape Roosevelt policy, with multiple unions and youth groups backing or resisting a third-party bid.
In Tulsa a young wife, riding with her husband, waits as he tinkers with the car. He leaves for a bus after shrugging, while she walks home in a nightgown and slippers. The vignette captures a plain dawn moment in an unchivalrous age.
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