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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1941
Page
3
The rise of an Army dominated cabinet in Japan last week sharpens Pacific tensions and fuels talk that a U S war would start in the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. Japan's sea power and the balance of British American ocean control shape the potential clash seen as a naval issue.
The body of Lt. Thomas Vasco Bright 25 Hope football great who died in an airplane crash near Bakersfield California Thursday October 16 will arrive in Hope at 5 37 Tuesday morning by train relatives announced here Monday Lt. Aldrich of Gainesville Texas a classmate will accompany the body to Ione Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church at 1 o clock Wednesday morning Burial will follow at Rose Memorial Cemetery He is survived by his mother Mrs Mvry Bright a younger brother Raymond and a sister Mary Elizabeth all of Hope pallbearers include Freeman Stone Hugh Reese Woodrow Parsons Roy Taylor G V Keith and Edward Aslin Honorary pallbearers include Miss Beryl Henry Jimmy Jones Fay Hammans Mrs Erin Dean and many others
Riya Pao of Blevins a truck driver for 4 Standard Material Co subcontractor lost his arm Saturday when the truck overturned near Bleving while en route to the Southwestern Proving Ground Poe hauling gravel to the Proving Ground was taken to a hospital where his arm was amputated Proving Ground officials denied a claim that a Black man was killed in an accident on the reservation last Saturday
Washington reports Secretary Hult called the torpedoing of the destroyer Kearny another in a series of incidents. The attack occurred Monday with 11 missing from U S forces. Details remain limited as officials assess the event and its implications for military operations.
A. E. Stonequist, manager of J. C. Ponies company, attended his mother Mrs. Al Stonequist’s funeral in Osage City Kansas. Mrs. Stonequist, 64, died last Tuesday after a long illness. Services were from the Methodist church with Rev Harbour officiating. She had been in frail health for some time and a visit by her son occurred earlier in the fall.
In this envisioned piece a great country holds vast gold hoards and faces a postwar world. The proposal suggests distributing $250,000,000 in gold to other nations to establish a stable exchange with the United States. D. Stewart Iglehart of Grace Line cites gold-based Latin American trade as a path to postwar prosperity.
In Little Rock, the state failed to collect 300000 in liquor taxes from Southwestern Distilled Products Inc. after the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that the Sulphur Springs plant operated as an export rather than a wholesale outlet, reversing the Benton Circuit Court division.
Anthony and Son are constructing a permanent sawmill south of Hope on Highway 29, to begin operations early next year with about 80 workers on one shift. The plant, owned by J. W. Anthony of Murfreesboro and Graydon Anthony of McCaskill, sits on a mid-size plot between the Lewisville highway and the Arkansas Railway, with plans to grow its own timber and operate mills in Murfreesboro, McCaskill, and Hot Springs. The Hope mill will use a moved planer from McCaskill and new machinery, including a modern siding and kiln, cutting timber in Hempstead, Nevada, and Lafayette counties, flanked by railroad and state highway access, and housing for workers will total 30 units, 20 for whites and 10 for colored employees.
Pon Billingly of the Civil Aeronautic Administration will speak at the Hope Kiwanis Club noon luncheon at Hotel Henry. The committee on arrangements has not chosen a permanent meeting place, with a definite announcement expected Tuesday. About ten or twelve guests from the Hope Aviation Club will attend, invited by Dr. Jim McKenzie who will introduce Billingly. The program committee promises one of the year’s best events and aims for full attendance.
London readers are told Britain cannot mount a continental invasion due to military weakness. Generals and Whitehall claim only six divisions could land in France against 20 to 30 German divisions. RAF efforts fail without land and sea support, and Berlin raids show limits of two-engine bombers. The piece notes fuel, pilot shortages, and strategic constraints as winter 1940-41 ends, with continuation hinted on page four.
A series titled S-T-R-TeC H Your Dollars offers budget guidance for both families and single people facing higher living costs. The piece notes budgeting is essential for balance, with a fictional career girl living on 1400 a year as an example of planning a prudent daily watch over finances.
Canberra reports completion of negotiations to form a united Pacific front including Britain, the United States, China, Netherlands East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Prime Minister John Curtin warns cooperation will be substantial but cautions about possible extension of the war to the Far East and notes no change in the Pacific situation as Japan-US talks continue.
Lt Col D C Cabell, commanding officer of the Southwestern Proving Growth, is named among 185 regular Army officers promoted from lieutenant colonel to the temporary rank of colonel in War Department orders announced in Washington over the weekend.
Halloween mood invades the page with witches bold omens yet readers are told there are five questions. Questions cover origins of superstitions about U3 being unlucky, best wedding day, walking under a ladder, horseshoe and bell tone, and the three on a match superstition with answers on the Cowie Page.
The case of Charles Vaughn a Hope Negro seeking 13500 damages from Jake Mollie and Lorene Moore and other locals for alleged assault was heard in circuit court Monday. Vaughn testified he was beaten after refusing wage terms at a cleaning shop owned by the Moores. The defense offered a cross claim and noted Vaughn had been acquitted on a canal charge. Police testimony and later witnesses covered the incident and related actions at the station. Reopening of public schools shows declines in pupil registration nationwide.
The drive aims to raise 900 dollars for the Boy Scout annual budget with a breakfast at the Roosevelt hotel for canvassers. Linus Walker chairs the finance committee joined by K J Caplinger Jr Dewey Hendrix and Royce Weisenberger. District officials include Ruy Basye F C Crow and Roy Anderson.
A fragment notes that nicotinic acid derived from tobacco is used in enriching white JOU. The text preserves a biblical quotation and discusses chemical use in an unspecified process. Further details are unclear due to damaged source material.
The Associated Press reports German forces claim advances near Moscow as two Red Army groups are said encircled. Stalin urges Moscovites to aid the Red Army and crack down on spies while fighting continues on approaches to the city.
The Southwestern Proving Ground receives wire fabric for an eight foot nonclimbable fence surrounding the reservation. Posts set in concrete support top arms and barbed wire. Inside lies a gravel patrol road and flood gates that auto open at high water. With 74 of 120 facilities under construction, progress ranges from 5 to 98 percent complete and internal roads are now usable.
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