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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
7
A home milk care guide stresses cooling and handling. EVAN W. WRAY outlines steps including a 45 degree fridge, delivering milk promptly, keeping it covered, and returning bottles, with notes on contamination risks and the need for Health Department guidance.
Ford Motor Company president announced preliminary work on an 11 million dollar plant in Detroit to produce Pratt and Whitney 2800 horsepower double Wasp aircraft engines for an army order. The project aims to employ 10,000 workers, with full operation six to eight months after construction begins and a delivery goal of 15 engines per day. Chrysler officials joined groundbreaking for a separate 20 million dollar ordnance plant to make tanks.
The article notes domestic bauxite is limited while alumina deposits are inexhaustible and abundant in the Tennessee Valley. It states most bauxite used by Aluminum Company comes from British and Dutch Guianas, with large domestic deposits in Arkansas under private control. An experimental plant at Muscle Shoals is producing alumina at one ton per day.
A reading on Americanism urges inclusion of immigrants and their descendants beyond Anglo-Saxon lines. It argues against racism and nationalism, promoting freedom and a universal human culture. The piece previews Mary Roberts Rinehart's next article in the series.
President Roosevelt faced a long applause and a late start as he defended a controversial fence and deviated from his manuscript. He joked about distinguishing political speech from history and apologized for timing, while addressing teamsters and radio broadcast arrangements.
Conferees settle on a one billion dollar first year cost and extend the draft measure. Senator Thomas proposes age limit fixes while the draft industry section borrows language from the 1917 draft ban. Senator Austin suggests safety boards and the House approves a rental takeover for noncooperation, with penalties up to three years and fifty thousand dollars.
In Logansport and Walton two women named Boyer gave birth to boys the same day at St. Joseph's hospital. The two families are not related.
Mexico City reports the chamber of deputies declared Manuel Avila Camacho president-elect after ruling he won the July 7 election. General Joaquin Almazan stood as the opposition candidate in the disputed race.
Hope Chamber of Commerce board of directors and El Deredo’s Oren Harris will be Rotary Club luncheon guests Friday. Rev. C W Barnes will serve as principal speaker.
Rushville dispatch notes Wendell Willkie branding Roosevelt’s handling of foreign affairs as clumsy. He warns the United States cannot prevail under such leadership and says he felt encouraged about the election outcome after hearing Roosevelt’s Wednesday night address before a conference with Republican leaders in Indianapolis.
A reader's etiquette quiz answers questions on proper hotel register signatures for married and single women and men traveling with family. It notes that a host should greet all guests, and adds a Memphis, Tennessee record: the nation’s largest inland cotton market moved 3,619,579 bales last year.
Conferees require a presidential finding of immediate public danger before seizure of plants by War or Navy, with U S responsibility to pay just compensation if owners dispute the amount. Also provisions for court condemnation and delays in student military training enactments.
Britain launched repeated air strikes against Germany as London defenders repelled a major Nazi wave. Berlin reports say St Pauls Cathedral faced a buried explosive delay bomb threat while Berlin Hamburg Bremen were hit by incendiaries. Casualties were low with 14 dead and 40 injured.
The Hope Fire Department reported two blazes late Wednesday. An old barn near the Fulton highway burned to the ground. A separate fire in a flue at a South Laurel street home was quickly extinguished after a call to the department.
Berlin authorities accuse British airmen of dropping Colorado potato bugs into potato fields in Germany Luxembourg and Belgium to ruin staple crops in the region. British raids off the French coast and on German-held territories also engage military targets from Berlin to London.
Large crowds at the University of Arkansas participate in livestock judging with Dr. L A Cline assisting the state veterinary department. Ninety seven head judged by M W Muldrow from Little Rock. Registered Herefords lead with 43 from Cornelisu Fulton Biorseth Hope Goodbar Prescott Wertz. Red Poles shown by Wilson Columbus Sommerville Hope. Poland China hogs shown by Ferry Moses and Bill Ramsey. Male colts shown by Sommerville Stephens Whatley Key Wilson Bonds Robinson. All livestock and poultry exhibit Thursday night and Friday except colts. Attendants in charge ready to answer questions.
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