Victory Gardens Pressure Daily Life Across Towns
Our town notes show stores closing midweek to aid Victory Garden efforts. Merchants groups and chambers of commerce vote to close Wednesday afternoons to allow workers time for gardening and Red Cross tasks. One resident plans to plant several acres free of rent while a Southwestern Proving Ground soldier named Liberty Bend McLlain is mentioned.
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Victory Gardens
America
Il Dorado Daily News
Ted Cross
Dorsey McRae
Star
Southwestern Proving Ground
Liberty Bend McLlain
Ite Way
House Leaders Eye Tax Compromise Meeting
Washington April 2. Internal dissension on tax abatement spans both parties as Democratic and Republican leaders seek a middle ground. Doughten of North Carolina and Knutson of Minnesota reportedly journeying to quiet spots in Dixie to discuss a pay as you go plan. Coughton after a Democratic meeting refused to reopen tax committees for new considerations, widening the party schism.
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Washington
Capitol
Doughten
D-Nc
Ways and Means
Rep
Knutson
Minn
Dixie
Douglan
Furil
North Carolina
Florida
Coughton
Taxrami
McCormack
2 - Mass
GOP Charges FDR Already Nominated for Fourth Term
Washington reports Republican leaders charge that President Roosevelt is already chosen by New Deal leaders for a fourth term and that their campaign is under way. Senators Taft and Austin dispute a short campaign while Walker’s proposal draws Democratic support amid debate over primary timing and party strategy. The piece also notes remarks about continued long conventions and early campaigning dynamics.
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Washington
Can
Roosevelt
Frank Walker
Harrison Spanier
G.O.P. National Committee
New Deal
Congressional Republicans
Walker
National Committee
White House
Spanier
Taft R-Chio
Spangler
Guffey
D-Py
Taft
Austin R-Ve
Lueng
P-H1
Minois
Unwed Mother Admits Killing Three Children
Denver report states Bernice Williams, 23, admitted drowning her three newborns and hiding their bodies in a hope chest, saying they were children of sin. She described unattended births from 1941 to 1942, self-performed deliveries, and the containment of bodies in a chest in an apartment basement.
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Denver
James BE
Childers
Bernice Wiliams
Pratt restaurant urges customers to stay home on Sunday
Syiman Burgess, advertising in Pratt Kansas papers, asks patrons to avoid dining at his restaurant Sunday due to staffing shortages. He notes his establishment is the only one open that day and cites inability to handle crowds.
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Pratt, Kas
Syiman Burgess
Russians Retake 3 Points Start Push in North
Soviet forces report capturing three more villages near Novorossisk while a broader front from Leningrad to the Black Sea endures a grim, muddy spring. German losses and Soviet air duels mark ongoing combat as Red Army advances north of the Caucasus and presses against Kerch strait defenses.
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Associated Press
Red
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Novorossisl
Germany
Kerchstrait
Leningrad
Lake Ladogi
Berlin
Indio
Tress
Lake la Doga
Kuban
Cauressus
Gaing
Red Army
Amistasevyskaya
Sudenst
Bely
Donets
Kharkov
Sevsk
Bevsk
Arkansans Listed as Jap Prisoners in Army List
Washington April 2 The Army released a list of 338 United States soldiers prisoners of war held by Japan. Thirteen Arkansans are named including Vernon B Bumpass of Pine Bluff Frank W Buller of Little Rock Dall Catterlin of Newport Gayle Chandler of Little Rock Franklin Gullins of Monette Luther Marrester of Stuttgart Charles Grave of Johnson Die Hond of Mountainburg Charles Grave Sr. and others.
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Washington
Arkansans
Army
United States
Pyt
Vernon B. Bumpass
Mes May Bumpass
Pullen
Pine Bluff
Frank W. Buller
Dock Buller
West Markham
Little Rock
Dall Cattertin
Maggie Catterlin
Newport
Gayle O M. Chandler
Roh
Chantler
Lookout
Little Hook
Franklin A. Gullins
Viola Culling
Monette
Luther A.arrester
Rebecca Marrester
Stuttgart
Charles F. Grave
Johnson
Americans Blast 5 Jap Warships Near Solomon Islands
U S bombers hit five Japanese destroyers southwest of Kolombangara while fighters clashed with 30 to 40 Zeros northwest of Guadalcanal. Sixteen enemy planes were shot down. six U S planes fell with two pilots rescued. Additional attacks on Kiska in the Aleutians reported.
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Washington
Kolombangara
Navy
Solomon Island
United States
Guadalcanal
Kiska
Aleutians
North Pacific
Navy Department
South Pacific
Kolombangare Island
Suavanal Plantation
Rekata Bay
Kolombangara Island
Solomons
Munda
Hitler Orders Rommel to Fight to the Death in Tunisia
London reports quote Hitler pressing Rommel to delay Allied advance in North Africa by a last-ditch defense. Observers cite potential move to name Rommel commander for Southern Europe defenses from the Italian coast to Spain, with mixed confirmation on his role and the fate of Axis forces.
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James M. Long
London
Sardinia
Dunkerque
Tunisia
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Jurgen von Arnim
Pfield Marshalwin Rommel
Africa
North Africa
Wessel
Bern
Hitler Alread
Rommel
Halta
Italy
Karl Doeni
London Daily Mail
Mussolini
Probe Death of Expectant Mother and Uncle in Nebraska
Authorities investigate motive in the fatal shooting of 15 year old expectant mother Chloe Connolly and the subsequent suicide of her uncle Orvin McLaughlin northwest of Sidney. The baby was found in the farm home shared with McLaughlin and the grandmother Melatuhtin Ellanora McLoughlin. A posse of 40 searched the rugged Hacky Hill country after a 65 year old Bert Gibson guided them to the hidden rock ledge where McLaughlin killed himself with a shotgun. County Attorney Kepler planned to question Melatuhtin’s notices before deciding on jurors. no witnesses to the shootings were reported. Connally’s husband served with a paratroop unit at Fort Benning. The case resembles a prohibition era bootlegging hideaway description once used by bootleggers.
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Sidney
Neb
Wom
Chloe Connolly
Para Ir
Bert Gibson
Youn
Orvin McLaughlin
KR. J. Kepler
McLaughlin
Connelly
Hacky Hill
Kepler
Gibson
Noo Matever
Melatuhtin
Ellanora McLoughlin
Mopping Up in Tunisia Slows Allied Forces
Allied forces progress in Tunisia slow as British First Army advances north of Gibes and Sedjenane while Americans push in the central sector. Patton’s US troops conduct action with no details, air forces maintain pressure despite mine fields and bad weather, bombing El Maoun and La Fauconnerie as Rommel’s front weakens ahead of another push.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
First Army
Sedjenane
Bernard Montgomery
Gubes
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Montgomery
Oudres
Gibes
United States
George S. Patton, Jr
Algiers
Patton
el Guetar
K. A. N. Anderson
Bizerte
Mateur
EL Maon
Sius
Western Desert Air Force
EL Alamein
Boston
la Fauconnerie Air Field
Stax
Boston Banalyors
Rommel
Eb Djens
Sfax
Sousse
Bizerne
Luianu
RAF Eggs and Free Food import allow civilians Germany
London reports say German front occupied areas permit civilians and troops to bring food and goods into Germany duty free without age limits. The policy, extended to civilians after soldiers, suggests Nazi fears over long term control and uses private import to ease Reich shortages. A garbled line mentions clothing items and a distant reference to a Yleman and 100 yards of material.
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London
Germany
Reich
Carl Bailey Named Lawyer for Trainmen
Little Rock reports Carl E Bailey was named state legislative representative of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, succeeding B McCarroll who resigned to return to railroading. Bailey, a former brakeman, will keep his law practice and other interests. McCarroll had held the post for three years after W D Jackson’s death and had 27 years seniority as a Missouri Pacific conductor.
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Little Tock
Carl E. Bailey
Brotherhood of Railway Trainman
B. McCarroll
Little Rock
McCarroll
Bailey
J. K. Thorne
van Buren
W. D. Jackson
Missouri Pacific Lines
Missing Pigs Remain Puzzle to Stockyards
The Chicago stock yards faced a puzzling shortage of market pigs as hog prices hit peaks unseen since 1920. Officials cited strong demand from military and lend lease needs, high consumer demand, and potential black market siphoning. total receipts last month ran far above a year earlier, while producers held back sows to boost next year’s supplies. Experts estimated 1947 meat production targets would require large hog herds, with rations likely reducing consumption later this year.
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Chicago
United States
Department of Argellulture
Hope Students on Honor Roll at A U Fayetteville
A total of 1 4 students at the University of Arkansas made the honor roll for the first semester. Names listed include William Orton from the College of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Kinser from the College of Education, and William Horace Fewell from the School of Law. The announcement came at the annual honor day service held March 36.
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
William Orton
College of Arts and Sciences
Thomas Kinser
College of Education
William Horace Fewell
School of Law
More Baseball Candidates at William and Mary
Williamsburg Va. College counts 83 prospects for the William and Mary baseball team the largest turnout in recent years per coach Ruber McCray. The slice notes not all athletes have left school for armed forces or defense work.
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Williamsburg
R.n.ruber McCray
William and Mary
Roosevelt vetoes Bankhead farm price bill inflationary danger
President Roosevelt vetoed the Bankhead measure to raise farm parity by excluding payments from parity calculations. He warned the bill would be inflationary, raise costs for consumers and military needs, and threaten stabilization efforts critical to victory in World War II. He urged Congress to reject the bill and uphold the stabilization program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Seimnens
Kresga
Congress
Deaf Mutes Join Production Battle
A group of sixty deaf mutes joins the production effort to support the war, assisting Jeep part assembly, lathe operation, and bullet core inspection for Wit weapons and other war jobs. Joseph W. Frazier, president, says physically handicapped workers prove capable as production soldiers, with praise from production experts. Water is transported to New York City via eighteen miles of tyre.
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Toledo
Upis
Wiity - Overland
Joseph W. Frazier
Tyre
New York City
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