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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1942
Page
5
Burton Heath argues that American industry bears costs to win the war and urges full federal planning. He critiques wage freezes, labor mobility, and slow Washington action, warning that half measures threaten essential civilian production and overall victory.
Washington reports heavy Allied blows in ground and air actions across the South Pacific. MacArthur says Japanese forces forced from main positions on Guadalcanal while Australian flanking cut off retreat. New Guinea fighting, Buna airfield defense, and aerial strikes extend to the Aleutians with multiple Japanese planes destroyed and ships damaged.
North Little Rock police say a man arrested yesterday admitted he drove the car involved in Dr. P L A Ritchie Jr death. The physician fell to the pavement when a car on its running board started, swiping the parked car driven by the Ritchies. The suspect, a Little Rock resident, is held without formal charge.
Soviet dispatches report a sharp reduction in German air attacks over the Stalingrad front. Pravda notes only about 200 flights in 24 hours, down from 1,500 to 2,000 daily, with raids aimed at Russian communications and limited damage. Winter tightens its grip as Volga ice and cold winds worsen front conditions.
The Senate defense investigating committee urged raising the standard work week to 48 hours with overtime paid in government bonds redeemable after the war. It called for directing employers’ hiring and suspending strict 40 hour limits in nonwar industries to ease civilian shortages. The report faulted War Manpower Commission and urged voluntary cooperation once a coherent policy is set.
Former Army Captain Charles C. Head, now retired, closes his grocery and runs a one man Navy recruiting effort in Phoenix. He uses enlistment posters and his car to visit families, starting with his son Charles and aided by two grandsons already in sea service.
The American Legion thanks merchants and professionals who closed their shops for the Patriotic Armistice Celebration. The note mentions reasonable deposits not over five cents may be charged by dry cleaners for rewiring hangers as ruled by the OPA, with no more wire hangers being produced.
Major General Mark W. Clark led a covert staff to French North Africa to gather critical military information weeks before the American occupation. Eisenhower and Clark praised the mission, noting arrests and escapes as maps vanished and police clashed, with Clark losing 18,000 francs and their clothes before reaching safety in North Africa and London eight days later.
In Greeks Colorado farmers say towns should place wooden hitching posts for horse teams. With more farmers hauling into town in wagons jeans and boots, locals note the lack of hitching facilities and the need for someone to hold or lead horses during visits.
British communique reports long range RAF fighters hit El Aouina airfield in Tunis destroying one German plane and damaging ten more. Stated Junkers 87, Junkers 52s, Focke Wulf 200s, and a Fieseler Storch were among the destroyed. Also notes U.S. and Allied air actions across Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia as Rommel's forces retreat.
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Griffin Smith rode a motorbike to the state capitol and declared he quit worrying about gas rations. He claimed his bike could go a hundred miles on a gallon of bus fuel and said that would suffice during rationing. He noted support from Mrs. Snaith Wisbot and teased questions about insurance.
Allied forces in the Western Mediterranean press toward Tunisia from the west with the British first army and American units under Eisenhower joining in a large combined operation. The Tunisian campaign sees air battles underway as German Italian defenses rush to battle positions while Allied naval units secure ports to speed up the advance.
President Roosevelt issues a proclamation calling Americans to observe Thanksgiving and New Year’s as days of prayer. He quotes Psalm 93 and Psalm 23 and urges faith and courage to continue work in national emergency across armed forces, service members, factories, farms, mines, and public life.
Senator Pepper of Florida failed to send the teenage draft bill back to conference for removing a deferral for essential agricultural workers. He argued the manpower program was muddled, opposed the farm labor provision, and vowed to vote against the conference report as conferees had eliminated a training amendment before 18.
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