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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1944
Page
3
The Cosmopolitan Club will hold its Tuesday gathering on October 24 at 7 45 p m at the home of Mrs Lawrence Martin with Mrs Joe Black and Mrs Hamilton Hannegan as associate hostesses.
Miss Fletcher, EF Dorado agent and former Hempstead official, visited Hope for a hamburger party at the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station. Several service members and relatives arrived or departed, including Sgt. O W Powey Reeves fresh from New Guinea and awaiting reassignment, Apprentice Seaman James T West on a 10 day stay, and Lt. Lawrence Purifoy recently returned from overseas. Local residents traveled to Little Rock for meetings and cared for Mrs L C Turner convalescing after burns at St Vincents infirmary.
1st Lt Ed Jack McCabe arrived in Hope on Sunday for a brief visit with his mother Mrs E J McCabe. Lt McCabe was joined in Little Rock by his wife on Friday and will depart Wednesday to return to camp at Sullivan Kansas.
Sgt Wallis F Monroe of Hope Arkansas reports to the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No 2 in Miami Beach Florida for about two weeks of rest and recreation before reassignment. He is a B 17 Flying Fortress engineer who flew 30 missions in the European theater and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. He is the son of Mrs M G Monroe of Hope Arkansas.
September dates introduce blue stamps G-5 H-5 J-5 K-5 L-5 while all blue stamps from Ration Book 4 remain valid indefinitely. September 3 marks the red stamps E-8 F-8 and G-8 in Book TV with red stamps in Book IV also valid indefinitely A-% through Z-8 and A-5 through D-5.
The notice lists multiple rationing dates and coupon validity. First day for Airplane Stamp No 1 Book 3 on November 1 1942 and Airplane Stamp No 2 Book 3 on May 1 1943. Sugar stamps 340 31 32 Book IV valid indefinitely for five pounds. stamp 33 War Ration Book 4 good for five pounds indefinitely. Gasoline coupons fast day A 12 June 22 good for two gallons. B 3 B 4 C 3 C 4 valid for five gallons each. Last day for No 12 coupon in A gasoline books is September 21.
Washington insiders discuss likely moves of Donald Nelson Leon Henderson and James Byrnes as postwar reconversion and unemployment extensions loom. A New York educated government worker passes literacy tests. the Forest Service plots hush hush reforestation with timber interests watching. Capt Henry W Brown, a 30 kill flying ace, is highlighted as a federal war hero with past Agriculture ties.
Hal Kern notes Oriental scales as the oldest, while Charles Freeman edits footsteps in snow from a 20th Century-Fox sound library priced at one dollar per foot. Freeman describes Bergman and Peck on snow, wind drowning real sounds, studio pricing differences, and a shift from artificial to authentic effects. The piece cites Sonja Henie at Sun Valley and Jennifer Jones with Robert Walker in Since You Eat Away, urging that thunderstorms remain timeless.
Flashes of Life Out Cincinnati Oct 23 reports a tobacconist sign listing items and a lighthearted note about being out of town. Lost in Suwanee Georgia two year old Billy Wheeler is found safe in a pine thicket with two kittens after night search. Money Back taxicab dispute in Indianapolis ends with a dime refund. Roswell campaign crossfire as Miles and Dillon joke about swapping votes at breakfast. Camp Crowder notes a drafted sergeant asked for a copy of his discharge and the army suggests mailing one.
A veteran look at film sound work reveals Frankie the Voice produces a glissando that lands a quarter tone off the standard scale. Vanguard staff tested decibel ranges and found Sinatra-like voices scarce in the U.S. They chose a female voice for the background and noted how glissando slides carry a distinct, nontraditional pitch.
A private first class stationed at Sedalia army air field sleeps in pajamas bearing master sergeant stripes. Barrack mates tease him, but he defends the dream habit with a shrug, saying I can dream, can't I.
In the day’s top games, Notre Dame defeated Illinois 47 to 0 while Army routed Yale 39 to 7. The results highlighted a dominant performance by Notre Dame and a strong showing by Army in a compelling football slate.
In Durban South Africa whale meat was released on the market and five tons were bought by housewives on the first day. Families expressed approval of the product.
Sigrid Schultz reports on Nazi plans to win the peace through fifth column tactics and infiltration across the Americas. She quotes Gen Franz Halder on WWI failures and outlines Germany’s covert campaigns, propaganda trojan horses, and the threat of a long war hidden within peace.
Mrs. L. C. Turner of 1003 Cumberland Street Little Rock and former Hope resident was admitted to St. Vincent's Infirmary with third degree burns suffered at her home.
The Hempstead County Livestock Show featured a record turnout with 115 birds. Judges included T A Mancosco of the Arkansas Livestock Sanitary Board. Grand Champion went to Pinch Boyd’s Rhode Island Red trio, while L D Stringer’s Single Comb English White Leghorn took best hen. The Brown couple from Spring Hill won best pullet.
Quality Black Australorps shown by Mrs C P Zimmerly and A G Zimmerly. Dark Cornish by Kingsley Blackman and T A Cornelius. White Rhode Island Reds by L E Brown Hope Rt 1. New Hampshire Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks also featured. Junior department saw Herman Aaron 4 H exhibiting Champion White Rock trio with Buff Orpingtons winning best young trio for Ann Atchley Shower Springs. Other notable entries listed.
In ongoing operations, bomber raids on Visayan islands sank three small freighters and likely four more. Mindanao faced 94 tons of explosives causing fires at Cagayan port, with no opposition reported. Fighters strafed a Sayre highway convoy on Mindanao and bombers hit inland barracks and float planes. night reconnaissance also targeted Balikpapan and Borneo oil centers.
Reported by German accounts that the Red Army was forming a large pincer maneuver aimed at the strategic city of Insterburg, about 50 miles east of the area discussed. The Russians continued their East Prussian offensive with significant momentum on the ground.
From Debrecen Nyregyhaza bases Russian forces push through the Tokaj wine region capturing four towns. Moscow reports 2000 German deaths out of 3000 Nazis slain and several thousand captured during the day in Hungary.
Richard Bennett, longtime stage actor and film character actor known for witty putdowns of critics, died at 72 in a Los Angeles hospital after a long battle with heart attacks. His daughters Constance and Joan Bennett were at his bedside. Barbara was en route from New York. He was born May 2, 1872, in Deacon Mills Indiana and rose from a Logansport tailor’s apprentice to vaudeville before film and stage fame. He was married to Grena Bennett and later Adrienne Morrison.
Three daughters and later a prominent agent on Broadway connected to Aimee Raisch of San Francisco, daughter of a paving magnate.
French authorities expand purges as collaboration cases shift from military tribunals to civil courts with judge and jury, including women for the first time. In four days, Paris area alone reports about 2,000 new charges amid a nation unsettled by shortages and political strife.
A large security crackdown arrests 10,000 individuals with hundreds more detained daily as authorities expand operations. Officials say the effort targets suspected criminals and disrupts ongoing criminal networks.
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