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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1940
Page
3
A former soldier argues to replace The Star Spangled Banner with Irving Berlin’s God Bless America. He highlights Berlin’s Jewish heritage and rise from poverty, praising the song’s fit as a national anthem and noting its late public release and enduring popularity.
British fighters and ground gunners repelled a large German air assault east of London in a major engagement over the Thames Estuary. The RAF hit Ostend harbors and Zeebrugge ships while Britain experiments with a new defense method. German raids reached into Scotland and caused damage to a British steamer. An American air officer, Col. Charles Sweeney, was noted in London as part of a broader air defense development.
Miss Celia Hughes county health nurse and Miss Mary Sullivan district nursing consultant spoke at the Hope Kiwanis Club weekly lunch at Hotel Barlow. Hughes outlined Hempstead county programs and Sullivan said the state nursing department aims to form county advisory boards to improve program functioning. The Rev. Carl W. Barnes was a guest.
G F Goldwyn reports a seventeen foot tomato vine on his Spring Hill farm still bearing fruit. The Burgess Triple Crop Climbing Tomato vine has fed the Goldwyn family for over two months and is open for inspection by locals including Oscar Fenwick who will attest to the vine’s claim. Also notes Lake Ladoga ice begins to form in October with walls up to sixty feet possible, and Yellowstone National Park contains over 100 geysers and 4000 hot springs.
A puzzle page lists five groups of entertainers each containing four figures. In every group one name is out of place. readers are challenged to identify the odd member in each set.
City council at Hope City Hall on Tuesday with Aldermen Nolen Young Brown Williams Spears Garner and McMath present. McMath presided in Mayor Atkins absence as the Arkansas-Nevada Transit Co. pledged natural gas supply to the Water and Light Plant by September 21, aligning with the plant’s gas contract deadline.
A brief item notes a Spartanburg woman who enrolled in the recent Democratic primary and submitted a one word resignation in the blank space marked Mother. The unclear OCR reads as a political notice or tally from local party records.
Farm Security Administration Supervisor W. M. Sparks announced a shift from annual tenancy to longer leases for ten ant farm families in Hempstead County. He cited high moving costs of about 50 dollars per move and losses to landowners, communities, and tenants. The FSA promotes flexible one to five year leases to rehabilitate families and sustain land fertility, urging tenants to secure longer agreements despite the region’s one crop system.
Gladys Hasty Carroll reflects on the American way of life through a symbolic bowl representing freedom. She argues the bowl’s preserving requires sacrifice and united resolve, warning that losing it would yield only factory-made substitutes. The piece frames national identity as a shared, living heritage.
Washington report surveys four months since Roosevelt called for defense on May 16. It outlines a growing national program with a 1.2 million army, 35,000 planes, a sizable navy, and major war contracts totaling billions. It notes current manpower, planned conscription, and early aircraft and ship orders.
The Sample Room on Louisiana Street near the L and A Depot was robbed early Tuesday. Police said the thief entered through the front door and broke the lock key, a stolen employee key. Two shotguns, ladies underwear, two leather coats, and a jacket were taken. no arrests yet.
C R Milburn local representative of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company left Wednesday for Kansas City to attend the 1940 100000 club meeting. He is the only southwest Arkansas representative in the Pine Bluff District who qualified for the gathering.
The Woodmen of the World camp 128 will hold a meeting Thursday night at the Woodmen hall on South Main street. A large class from Mope Nashville and Saratoga will be initiated and refreshments will be served.
Cotton futures in New York on December 4 opened at 9.33 and closed at 9.34 with middling spot quotes recorded.
Homer M. Adkins accepted the Democratic nomination for governor promising a conservative program focused on education and agriculture. He opposed a Wildlife Association plan for a new Game and Fish Commission and supported pension amendments for firemen and policemen. He favored selling highway bonds by public sale with bids, and warned against Bailey’s refunding act. Knox elected Democratic State Committee chair. FBI holds over 11 million fingerprint sets in Washington.
In Little Rock reports the Democrat notes possible temporary or permanent moves for Judge Lemley of Hope to Fort Smith or Searcy. The piece discusses the roving judgeship, the Eastern District seat, and potential appointments by Senator or governor elect. It mentions Judge Ragon and the Eighth Circuit, with Vincent Miles as a possible solicitor and a new vacancy in Arkansas.
The Greenville Mississippi dedication of the Ben G Humphreys Bridge links Chicot county Arkansas and Washington county Mississippi with a 2.25 mile toll span. The $4.497 million concrete and steel bridge, 24 feet wide with sidewalks, honors the late congressman who promoted flood control. Dignitaries from Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee and Louisiana attended in a sun drenched ceremony at the toll house.
Mrs H M Olsen has returned from Dallas Texas where she purchased winter merchandise for the Ladies Specialty Shop.
A quotation from Deuteronomy 28 7 declares the Lord will cause enemies who rise against you to be smitten before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven days.
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