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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1940
Page
3
Editor Alex Washburn recalls Edgar Harris and Mrs. Roosevelt dictating columns in about 20 minutes. The piece muses on writing speed, dictation, and the quirks of journalism history, including Arthur Brisbane and a noisy dictaphone, ending with a metaphor about rushing versus danger.
London endured five hours and 42 minutes of warnings as German planes attacked the city in the morning and again in the afternoon. Dover streets faced long range shells injuring 11 as German forces pressed along the French and Belgian coasts amid reports of troop carriers and continued air activity.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Hull calls Wendel Willkie grossly ignorant of recent history for blaming President Roosevelt over the Munich celebration of Czecho Slovakia. Hull cites policy disputes and defends Roosevelt in the debate set for Monday.
The Hope Public Schools opened for the 1940-41 term with registration activities Monday and a faculty meeting scheduling. Enrollment totals show rises across high and elementary divisions, with the grand total near fourteen hundred. Principal J. H. Jones leads the Hope Junior-Senior High School along with science, English, math, and social studies staff, while Miss Ruth Taylor and Mrs. Irma Dean head home economics and geography.
The item asks five questions about recent headlines: an effigy hanged in Washington for supporting conscription, a U.S. ambassador warned as perilous as France a year earlier, a large city mayor named civilian representative by Roosevelt for U S Canadian defense, a prominent jurist vacationing who watched flames burn his farm, and the successor named to Henry A Wallace as secretary of agriculture.
A local photo by L Carter-Johnson on East Second Street shows cheerful schoolchildren and a soap-box derby car dubbed by spectators. The Star enlarged a 20 year old Kodak neg featuring Echols Locke at the wheel and Alfred Marsaoni as pusher.
Bend Goodlett, 81, prominent local farmer, died at his home after a long illness. Born in Ousch ita county near Camden, he lived in St Paul for 47 years, served as a Methodist church steward and ex member of the county Democratic Central Committee. Survived by his wife, a brother Ed Goodlett of Oxon, and sister Mrs. Mary Fox of San Antonio, Texas. Funeral services were held at the church.
A Guernsey school auditorium entertainment financed by a small admission fee will be held Wednesday at 8 o clock. Proceeds go to the sponsoring Guernsey church. The Virgin Islands consist of St Thomas St John St Croix and several smaller islands.
In Greenleaf Wisconsin Dr Glen Frank 53 longtime Republican program chair and his son Glenn Frank Jr 21 were killed when their car with loud speakers and signs overturned at an intersection. Frank a noted evangelist lecturer writer editor and former University of Wisconsin president had recently entered politics.
A fragmentary report notes President Roosevelt would sign peacetime conscription into law in Washington at 4 pm CST Monday. It mentions 16,500,000 men aged 21 to 35 required to register for military service and references expected proclamations and executive orders. Officials named include Secretary of War Stimson, Chairman Sheppard, and Army Chief of Staff Marshall.
Fort Smith Ark United States Judge Heartsill Ragon aged 56 died suddenly at his home Sunday from a heart attack. The senior federal judge in the Western District of Arkansas, he had been mentioned recently for appointment to the Fight. Funeral services are planned for Wednesday at Fort Smith Press Ferian Church with burial in Fort Smith.
The report shows opening at 4.26 and closing at 9.2 with middling spot around 9.81. Market activity appears modest with unclear specifics and few named entities beyond the New York reference.
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