River floods threaten Fulton as new dam protection rises
A history of Arkansas recounts the river rising twelve feet overnight and a pioneer surviving by climbing a tree. The current flood hits Fulton with record water and 40 foot levee protection now in place, while Miller County shows two weak spots near Buzzard's Bluff. The Denison dam tests flood control as March rainfall records loom, and officials urge more flood control and land reclamation projects. Joe Black, in the Navy, reports crossing an ocean, contrasting with Grassy Jake's imagined vastness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Itv
Fulton
Miller County
Buzzard's Bluff
Dennison
Dennison Development
America
Red River
Hempstead County
T. J. Logan
The
Star This
Miller ‘County
Buzzard’s Bluff
Index
Little Missouri River
Prescott
Gordon
Little Rock
Hope
Nashville
Murfreesboro
Hot Springs
District Three
State Highway Department
Hope-Columbus
Blevins
Ozan Creek
Missouri Pacific
Boughton
Little Missouri
Texas
Nazi Strength on West Front Cut Two Thirds
Allied forces tighten grip on Germany as American First and Ninth Armies trap 21 divisions in the Ruhr reducing German west strength by two thirds. British Second Army advances toward northern ports near Münster and Osnabrück while pursuing the Rhine valley and Ruhr waterway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Long
Paris
Ruhr
Holland
Ninth
Rhine
Germany
Kassel
Fulda
Berlin
Lengerich
Muenster
Hamburg
Lenegerich
Bremen
Dortmunndems
Reisenbeck
Sir Miles $. Dempsey
Teutoburg Forest
Bielefeld
Rheine
Osnabrueck
Hannover
Paderborn
Siegen
Marshal Montgomery
21St Army
Westphalian
Enschede
Red Cross War Fund Reaches 74.6 Percent of Quota
Weekend gifts push Hempstead county total to 13043.03 or 74.6 percent of the 17500 quota. Donors include Crow Training School area contributions totaling 41.61 from Clow St Peter St Luke Yancy and Clow and rural funders led by John H. Trotter and Leo Compton with 1 and 10 dollars respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross War Fund
Hempstead
Crow Training School
Clow
St. Peter
St. Luke
Yancy
John H. Trotter
Leo Compton
Byrnes Resigns as War Mobilization Chief. Vinson Named Successor
President Roosevelt accepted James F. Byrnes resignation as director of war mobilization and conversion and named Fred M. Vinson to succeed him once Senate approval is secured. Byrnes will remain until Vinson qualifies. Vinson, a former federal judge and Kentucky representative, previously led stabilization efforts. Byrnes plans rest at Spartanburg NC after transition.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Fred M.ningen
Byrnes
Vinson
Senate
Vin‘son
Kentucky
Atheartfelt
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Spartanburg
North Carolina
Okinawa Is Vital as Tokyo Warns of War Turning Point
United Press reports a frank Yomiuri Hochi editorial in Tokyo declaring Okinawa’s loss would doom Japan’s war effort. The piece says the Pacific strategy hinges on Okinawa and that losing it would collapse Japan’s vanguard forces, while rival papers push propaganda and cautious optimism.
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United Press
Tokyo
Yomiuri Hochi
Okinawa
Tokyo Radio
San Francisco
Pacific
Japan
Asahi Shimbun
Mainichi Shimbun
Correspondent Joins Bronc on 87th Bomb Mission
In a Philippines base briefing the crew readied for a 9000 foot, 165 mile an hour raid. Capt Ever Wood, Capt Paul G Glanville lead the Boise Brone with Associated Press along for a Jolly Rogers mission. The bomber, 4 tons of explosives aboard, lifted off in a four plane diamond, targeting a Japanese held town fortified by nip guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Hampson
Philippines
Ever Wood
Trinidad
Colo
Associated Press
Jolly Rogers
Pacific
Liberator Boise
Brone
Paul G. Glanville
Oakland
Calif
Glanville
Atrocities Upon Manila Civilians Ordered by Jap High Command
The piece summarizes Allied-reported Japanese orders and diaries tied to Manila atrocities during fighting. It lists captured documents from the 14th Corps, including orders that civilians be killed or disposed of, and a diary noting mass killings and burnings. The material suggests these acts followed official battle orders rather than isolated actions.
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Manila
Jap High Command
U.S
Associated’ Press
Fred Hampson
Nipponsese
U. S.army
14Th Corps
Kobayashi
Intramuros
Akatsuki
Guerril
Wysiter
Officials named for Hope city election April 3
City voters see announced officials for the municipal general election to be held Tuesday April 3. Ward 1 judges are Logan Bailey W F Garner Elbert Burke with alternates T H Buller J C Broyles clerks J C Carlton J A Embree sheriff F E Taylor. Ward 2 judges Jack Brown B W Edwards J M Campbell alternates Paul Cobb Eugene Cox clerks R L Cain Leo Compton sheriff G W McDowell. Ward 3 judges H B Barr T R Bryant R H Martindale alternates Robert LaGrone B L Rettig clerks N T Jewell Harry Moore sheriff L V Hill. Ward 4 judges Dale Jones Elbert Jones T H Thompson alternates W C Griffin W Compton clerks H B Wolff F R Johnson sheriff A W Cobb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Logan Bailey
W. F. Garner
Elbert Burke
T. H. Buller
J. C. Broyles
J. C. Carlton
J. A. Embree
Sheriff
F. E. Taylor
Jack Brown
B. W. Edwards
J. M. Campbell
Paul Cobb
W. C. Griffin
W. Compton
H. B. Wolff
F. R. Johnson
A.W. Cobb
Manpower Bill Headed for Defeat by Senate Opposition
Washington April 2 funding and war mobilizer Byrnes sparked a split within the administration as Sen. Edwin Co Johnson Colp joined opposition to the compromise manpower bill. With Johnson voting against it and Byrnes' reconversion report extending control, the conference measure appears doomed before final Senate vote likely late today or tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Drury Washington
Senate
Edwin Co. Johnson
Johnson
James F. Byrnes
Congress
House
Byrnes
Convictions for Contempt Are Upheld
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled three Stone county men guilty of contempt for a political campaign circular supporting Rep. Lonnie Ackerman. The language calling a court “corrupt and rotten” was deemed offensive and contemptuous. Lancaster, Ticer, and Trevathan were fined totaling $225. the ruling affirmed the Stone circuit court.
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Little Rock
State Supreme Court
Stone County
Lonnie Ackerman
High Court
Stone Circuit Court
Bryan Lancaster
Edwin Ticer
Ackerman
Jared B. Trevathan
Mountain View
Jack Williamson
Jackie Williamson
Williamson
Lancaster
Trevathan
Americans Overrun Okinawa As Tokyo Threat Grows
Tens of thousands of American invasion troops overran villages in southern Okinawa and pressed toward Naha as radio towers near the capital loomed. Marines and troops of the 10th Army stormed ashore from a 1,400-ship armada, capturing airfields and advancing across the waist of the island toward Nakagusuku Bay. American and Japanese claims clashed over the fighting, with high command calling for decisive victory as bases from which to invade Japan proper formed a strategic objective. Continued aerial and naval support accompanied the ground advance as invasion momentum continued into the second day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Tremaine
Guam
Okinawa
Japan
Naha
Nahav
10Th Army
Nakagusuku Bay
Tokyo
Kushu
China
Chester W. Nimitz
Richmond Kelley Turner
Yangtze River
Kerama Islands
Andrew D. Bruce
77Th Army
Civilians cope as war rolls on in Germany
Hal Boyle reports civilians try to act normally as the war intrudes their lives. Farmwives wash and fetch husbands for dinner while farmers keep plowing and milking. Officers surrender with white flags, prisoners march behind barbed wire, and a paratrooper survives mines nicknamed Betsy, taking a hard kiss from Betty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
Germany
Maj
James A. Alexander
Jackson, Miss
Limburg
Montabaur
Soviet push nears Bratislava and Vienna area
Russian forces press west across Austria near Neudorf and Bratislava as Tolbukhin advances from the east and Malinovsky drives toward the Danube. Vienna’s outer defenses tighten while Glogau is reported captured after a seven week siege, with 8000 German troops taken.
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Eddy. Gilmore
Moscow
Ussian
Neudorff
Messerschmi Aessembly
Wiene
Austria
Islava
Colu
Schutz
Bratislav
Szenc
Na’ R
Tolbukhin
Malinovsky
Danube
Bratislava
Vienna
Wit Neustadt
Stalin
Glogau
Breslau
Rust
Wienestdt
Dorf
Crump Resigns as Tennessee Democratic Leader. Walters Named
Nashville reports Edward H. Crump resigned today as national Democratic committeeman from Tennessee. Herbert Walters of Morristown was elected to succeed him, with Frank Hobbs named to the committee of the 4th district. Crump had led Tennessee politics for 33 years and Kenneth McKellar previously held the post. Health concerns were cited as a possible factor.
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Nashville
Tenn
Edward H. Crump
Memphis
Tennessee
Herbert 5. Walters
Morristown
Walters
New Post
Frank Hobbs
Ne Crump
Shelby County
Chiic
Kenneth 2. McKellar
Battle” Creeks
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Gresty Lake
Joe Black
Grassy Jake
Joe
Jaké
James Thrasher
Robert Murphy
Hitler
United States
Britain
Russia
Pinen Czecho
Grubenau
NEA Telemap
West Front
Red Cross
C. P. Jones
Webb
C. ‘Ball
Earl Robins
H. E. Robins
Dickey Moore
Cdl
Amanda Stewart
Albert Stewart
J. C. Taylor
Rush Jones
Juanita Jones
M. G. Crane
L. J. Robins
A. L. Christian
Bertie Norwood
Maud Gilmore
Kosice Smith
John B. Robins
Jennie Citty
Elmore Hartness
C. O. Robins
Bettie Fletcher
Lena Hill
Gilbert Smith
Cleber Stuart
J. F. Stuart
Anna & Ella Fontaine
H. O. Stuart
S. S. Robins
A. J. Alford
A. L. Williams
A. T. Graves
G. B. Stuart
W. F. Burke
John Green
Guy Green
Mitchell Conway
Pearl Scoggins
Iva Graves
Mazhine Staggers
C. V. Hines
Elizabeth Munn
Kent Nelson
Saline
Aluminum
Bert A. George
Benton
George
Chicago Bridge Tron Company
Second Infantry
William H. Duncan
Henriett
Duncan
Betty
Pvt
Edward Maynard
Detroit
Mich
Maynard
Abo
Carinthia
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