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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
6
A garbled 1938 NSW record cites erroneous medical claims about whisky accelerating blood flow and venom spread. The fragment mentions a last congue with figures near 1,380 mates and 1,356,000 featules, but the text is incoherent and uncertain.
Philadelphia readers confront a Berlin radio mystery as Lady Thin Haw Haw looms as a German propaganda symbol. Citizens wonder if she is Constance Drexel, former Philadelphia Ledger reporter, and whether Drexel truly spoke German or French and had a German radio job. Weigle, Drexel’s former apartment superintendent, asserts the voice is not Drexel and notes she left Philadelphia in 1939 after writing from abroad.
A Philadelphia context describes letters praising German made movies signed Constancy Drexel or Constance Drexel. The figure, unrelated to the local Drexels, originated from New York and studied in Paris. During World War I she worked with Red Cross and later engaged with suffrage and Versailles treaty circles. Berlin radio aired her remarks targeting the U S with German propaganda efforts.
Washington column notes a British view amid WWII bombings. A letter from English friends to President Roosevelt reflects on London's resilience while ignoring the bombed city in favor of storms reaching Charleston. Also covers Senate Pages’ decorous conduct at Speaker Bankhead’s funeral and Harry Hopkins’s return to private life with plans for writings and lectures.
A historical sketch profiles Brig. Gen. Sherman Mills as the new G2 and assistant chief of staff, detailing Miles’s career from Washington DC birth in 1982 to service in Cuba and Romania. It notes his lineage, including father Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, and cites his wartime roles with the 1st Army Corps and Meuse Argonne offensive.
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