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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1941
Page
3
Two day total rises as Wednesday sessions conclude with partial readings and scattered notes from the Experion event at the Arkansas branch. Names and exact figures remain uncertain due to fragmented OCR. Further details are awaited in forthcoming issues.
Ruth Taylor of Hope High School leads an annual home economics class on Clothing Construction. The cottage program runs the week beginning June 2 with daily afternoon sessions. Participants will learn sewing skills and complete projects in hours.
Legal notice announces annual stockholders meeting of Hope Oil Company to be held at the Trust Co Building in Hope. The notice, issued by secretary C. M. Walker, warns Glenn Slaughter to appear and answer the plaintiff’s complaint in Hempstead Chancery Court within thirty days.
President Roosevelt said the neutrality act does not hamper the sea freedom policy and that U S flag ships will stay from British and belligerent ports. He described updated convoy tactics, noted steel shortages, and warned that continued strikes could trigger action though not as a threat.
Chancery Judge Frank Dodge tentatively ruled Thursday that vetoes by Senate President pro tem Willis B. Smith of Texarkana against two house bills were valid. The bills sought to regulate the initiative and referendum and to raise sheriff fees across 26 counties.
Greek Prime Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos, speaking from London, said German bombers destroyed the Crete cities of Canea Candia and Retimo leaving not one stone standing. He alleged civilians were ruthlessly machine-gunned while raging fires completed the destruction.
The British cruiser HMS York, 8 250 tons, bombed at Suda Bay during the Crete defense, is declared a total loss by the admiralty. About 600 crew aboard, two dead and five injured reported.
The admiralty announced that the battleship Bismarck was sunk after a final blow from German planes. One destroyer went down with the loss of an officer and 45 men, while more than 100 officers and men from the Bismarck were rescued.
Prescott High School to hold commencement on June 6 with 42 seniors to receive diplomas. Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. E P J Garrett at First Methodist Church on June 1 with 11:00 a.m. service. Valedictory by Wallace Ledbetter. salutatory by Betty Teete. Honor students include Helen Hale Nina Scott Dorothy Wortham Feegy Barger Edna Waters Georganna Rix Maud McDaniel Ash Lee Stockton.
The American Federation of Labor ordered all affiliates to refrain from striking against defense industries until mediation options are exhausted. It urged international unions to discipline locals who strike before government agencies can mediate and pledged similar action against federal unions that do so. The statement in Washington referenced President Roosevelt urging use of conciliation machinery to prevent defense production stoppages.
In Bern Swiss bees allegedly smuggled honey from German occupied Alsace after France’s collapse. With farms abandoned, bees crossed the Rhine to fetch French nectar, returning without duties. The report links a bent line of wine trade to these bee incursions.
Twenty three junior and senior agricultural students from the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture will tour the state to study farming areas and action agencies. Four arrive in Hope on June 6 accompanied by staff members Orville J. Hal and Philip L. Kelly. They will observe cotton on truck farms near Hope, visit the Proll and Truck Branch Experiment Station, and spend the night with lodging arranged by George W. Ware. They arrive in Hope at 34% on June 6 and depart at 7 the next morning.
Fort Townsend, Wash. The Cassel School, run at an arbital cost of 1300 dollars for the Cassel family in western Jefferson county, will close this summer as an economy measure. Seven young members of the family reside in the remote backwoods corner.
A disrupted school story recounts a long isolation with an old teacher’s influence on a student named Cassel. Viola transfers to another school as the lone teacher faces years of scrutiny while a six mile canoe route and a river crossing impede outside access during floods.
The French government announced a formal protest to the U S State Department over British warplane bombing of Sfax in French North Africa. The attack damaged two Italian vessels, set a French steamer ablaze, hit harbor installations and caused casualties among French and native workers.
Vilviable Chanberry scientists report cranberry contains trilolic acid an emulsifying agent worth eighty dollars per ounce. The finding highlights a potentially valuable natural extract, signaling future industrial uses and economic interest in cranberry chemistry.
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