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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1944
Page
6
Seventy acres of black land, three miles north of Fulton, with a good house and water available. Burns present. Price twenty dollars per acre. Inquiries to R. L. Lewallen at the old Coca-Cola Building. 20-31.
The item lists past events: commissioner K M Landis announced 1944 MLB spring training in the North. It notes Minnesota led AP football poll with Texas and Michigan behind. It recalls Carl Hubbell signing with the Giants at an estimated $15,000 salary.
The War Department announces a temporary promotion from Captain to Major for Haskell Tyndall Dickinson age 45 of Little Rock. William Franklin Moody Jr of Little Rock rises from First Lieutenant to Captain, and Francis Llewellyn Morris of Clarksville advances from Second Lieutenant to First Lieutenant. Also a safety note warns labeling oxalic acid as a poison to keep it from children.
The Texarkana Razorbacks bring a 3 2 record to Hope to face the Bobcats on Friday October 20. Texarkana has beaten Malvern Nashville and Camden and lost to Nashville North Little Rock. Hope aims to defend against a strong passing attack and improve goa ls inside the red zone as the 8 pm kickoff nears.
American heavy bombers attacked Mainz Ludwigshafen and Mannheim with 700 fighters in a daylight strike. Night raids targeted unidentified western German objectives, Hannover and other rail centers. One bomber was reported lost and U S air losses included 19 heavy bombers and 23 fighters.
Pfc. Eddie Gayeski of the air field band produced a war bond variety show titled Strike Up The Band at Pocatello Army Air Base Idaho. The show drew strong crowds and ended with Eddie purchasing a $1000 war bond, the largest single buy by an enlisted man at the field.
New York reports quote from Gene Tunney on boxing psychology. Saint Thomas fight scene referenced with Melio Bettina and a fiddler. Camp Ellis updates include Sgt Buck Erickson feature and Army winning mindset. Chalky Wright fight payout news ties to Willie Pep contract. Oneida high school kicker Kenny Iyenaga scores from deep, and a gasoline firm buys many football broadcast rights prompting announcer training.
Service Dept. private first class Frank Crespi, once the Cardinals shortstop, who broke his leg last summer in a GI baseball game, competed in a hospital corridor wheelchair race in Topeka Kansas and crashed into a wall, re injuring his leg.
Hollywood profile traces Gregory Peck’s arrival at MGM and future contracts with 20th Century Fox, Selznick, and RKO. Notes his Californian roots, medical study, stage to screen path, and early life events including marriage, home, and first child. Also reviews The Merry Monahans highlighting Donald O’Connor Peggy Ryan and Jack Oakie.
AP drama critic notes the film starts slow but improves after ten minutes. A tale of a young soldier who marries after a brief courtship, returning home to find his wife unrecognizable and their relationship tested by near tragedy.
The Nazi garrison on Santorin island surrendered to the British cruiser Ajax. Allied command said Aegean air and sea operations damaged enemy carriers and shipping around Volos, Volos area, and the Sporades. A German armored vessel with 200 infantry was sunk by HMS Argonaut. Termagant destroyed a Siebel ferry loaded with enemy equipment. Survivors were rescued.
Mayor Maj. Harry Cain, Tacoma on leave, is in the Army. He bet four neighboring mayors that Tacoma would out-collect their cities in a paper drive. The city did not win the contest.
The Liberty Bell cracked as it tolled for the death of John Marshall, the United States first chief justice, marking a historic moment in the nation's legal history.
Washington observers weigh Willkie's sudden death and its impact on the 1940 campaign. While some associates hinted at Dewey backing and others at Roosevelt, most agree the Willkie following dissolves and future GOP dynamics hinge on world peace positions.
Kansas City reports Veterans of Foreign Wars executives warn the Allied high crimes committee may not advocate harsh enough penalties for war gangsters after the war. Jean A. Brunner of Forest Hills, commander in chief, says distrust of lenient treatment persists and calls for reform lessons from the last war.
Registration rolls reached all time highs in Detroit Grand Rapids Flint and Owosso as election deadline neared. The counts were incomplete but marked a strong surge in Michigan before the November general election. The report also notes nationwide safety patrols guarding school crossings and other 1944 statistics.
Sports columnist Orlo Robertson offers weekly gridiron picks including Navy over Georgia Tech and Ohio State over Great Lakes, with multiple college and service-team matchups, plus additional ally selections across several games and teams.
A quirky claim notes that many in the southwest speak three languages including a “tri bal tongue” along with English and Spanish. It also states backbones of sharks are used as walking sticks in some contexts.
The Hope High School Band and the Texarkana High School band from Class B schools will perform a joint marching demonstration and massed maneuver tonight at the Hope-Texarkana football game. Each band has sixty members with twelve drum majorettes, directed by Raymond Brannon and Thomas Lavin respectively.
British troops have captured the Japanese base at Tiddim in western Burma as Allied forces move against remaining Japanese positions. The advance follows weeks of pursuit after the retreating Japanese forces from Imphal, with details on the garrison’s fate not immediately released.
The note urges bringing children’s measured sizes when shopping for clothes and trying them on. It also states that Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro are equidistant from New York City.
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