Tax Freedom Day idea and global economic debate
Alorida man Dallas Hostetler proposes a new holiday Tax Freedom Day to mark earnings after taxes from year start to April 23. The note contrasts this with Wall Street Journal cautions, rising life insurance sales, and debates on persuasion versus compulsion in economics amid Yangtze crisis coverage and British indemnity issues.
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Dallas Hostetler
Hostetler
Florida Retailers Association
Wall Street Journal
Paintings to Be Shown at Brookwood
Brookwood school auditorium hosts a Fine Art Prints exhibit from Monday to Friday each afternoon until 4 30 with admission of 10 cents for children and 35 cents for adults to fund school picture purchases. The show features 183 colored reproductions from masters such as Gainsborough Da Vinci Raphael and Van Dyck along with works by Foster Innes Duryeneck and Wiegand.
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Brookwood School
Gainsborough
da Vinci
Marilin
van Dyck
Raphael
Ben Foster
George Innes
Frank Duryeneck
Harry Vincent
Robert Wesley Amici
Gustave Wiegand
Hope Baseball Team to Play at Gordon
Hope's Legion Merchant team plans a trip to Guetlon for a 2:30 p.m. game. Manager Clyde Zinn announced all men should meet at Thirelane Malu corner at 12:30. Players listed include Reaves Townsend Anderson White Ross Paylor Ditherd Schicnley Bell D. Ross Gough Stanford Flauglerty D. Parson J. Houldis MekKec.
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Hope
Legion-Merchant
Sethe
Guetlon
Clyde Zinn
Thirelane Malu
Reaves
Townsend
Anderson
White
Ross
Paylor
Ditherd
Schicnley
Bell
D. Ross
Gough
Stanford
Flauglerty
D. Parson
J. Houldis
MekKec
Arkansas Postmasters Report on Historic and Existing Post Offices
J C Bellville, Arkansas finance chief, tells postmasters Arkansas has twenty one post offices from 1831 still in operation. He cites two early sites gone, Davidsonville and Arkansas Post. In 1836 a list of operating offices includes Batesville, Benton, Conway, Dardanelle, Fort Smith, Helena, Hot Springs, Little Rock, Pine Bluff, Pocahontas, Van Buren and others. Fire in North Arkansas prompts urgent forestry measures as crews fight fires aided by forest green-up.
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Little Hoek
Arkansas
J. C. Bellville
Little Stock Post Office
Bellville
Davidsonville
Randolph County
Arkansas Post
Desha County
Batesville
Benton
Can “Hui
Clinton
Conway
Dardanche
Des Are
Eagleton
Fayetteville
Fort Smith
Grand Lake
Helena
Hot Springs
Lee's Creek
Litle Rock
Malvern
Marian
Pine Birth
Pocahontas
Strawberry
Sulphur Rock
van Buren
Lite Rock
Jonge
Taxloy Forestry Afferala
Saher
Missouri
Health Program Opposition Mounting in Congress
President Truman’s national health insurance plan faces rough reception in Congress as critics warn of nationalized medicine while supporters push broader aid to medical schools hospitals and public health. Tax details affect workers employers and the self employed with estimates of annual costs between four and six billion dollars.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Woas
Friends of the
Capitol
Acthw
J. Altmeyer
Senate
Murry
Art Exhibit to Show at McCaskill
Traveling section of the Fourth Annual Arkansas Artists exhibition will be in McCaskill from April 25 to 29 at McCaskill school. Works include prize winners from the State show and Helen Bittick's October Ruin in the Foothills of Hempstead. Exhibit opens April 23, with a final program on April 26, doors at 6 30 p.m. program at 8 p.m. Admission 15 and 10 cents. proceeds fund purchase of original Arkansas art. Special invitation to schoolchildren garden clubs and PTA.
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Arkansas
McCaskill
P. ‘Tt
Helen Bittick
Qetober
Hempstead
McCaskill School
Royal School
Wiginal Arka Art
Lo Wie MacCaskill School
Woman Drowns Baby After Quarrel Over Husband
In Blackstone Massachusetts a 29 year old mother Cecilia Derosier confessed after a quarrel with her husband George 32 that she drowned her infant son Richard Derosier and tossed him into Harris pond. Police recovered the body after dragging with state troopers and volunteers, aided by Chief Emidee Lesage. The mother faces murder charges while the husband was released.
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Blackstone
Mass
Harris Pond
Richard Derpsier
North Smithlistd
R. 1
Cecilia
Edger Gelinas
Whit Jnsville
Tye
Woonsocket, R. I
George
Emidee Lesage
Isae
Werman
Nation enjoys mild temperatures across the country
Weather across the nation showed mild conditions with warm readings near the 90 degree mark in southern deserts. Phoenix reported high temperatures while other areas saw light rain and the Pacific Northwest experienced clearing skies after a storm.
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Chicago
California
Arizona
India
Calif
Yung
Aviz
Phoenix
Lairy Lanay
Washington Sland
First Negro to Enter University of Arkansas Dies
Springfield notices reveal Silas W. Mint, the first Black student at the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville, died yesterday. The report notes he entered midterm and references trustees and admission plans, reflecting early integration debates.
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University of Arkansas
Springfield
Arkansas
Silas
Mint Uw
Wilbersity's Law
Fayette Vili
British Lawyer Delivers Verbal Spanking at Peace Congress
Paris April 23 delegates at the Communist led world congress for peace rose to wild cheers after British lawyer Harvey Moore condemned war in China and urged respect for individual freedoms. Chairman J G Crowther announced the Democratic Chinese forces had liberated Nanking as Moore pressed for peace and elections amid protests and muted applause.
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Paris
cre-Wat News
China
World Congress For Peace
Harvey Moore
J. G. Crowther
Moore
Nanking
Crowther
International Organization of Democratic Lawyers
Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Porterfield Dies at Home in Patmos
Berry Porterfield, 48, a Hempstead County native, died at his Patmos home. He is survived by a brother, Lem Porterfield of Spring Hill. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at New Hope by Rev. D. O. Silvey and Rev. Howard White. Burial will be in Macedonia.
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Berry Porterfield
Hempstead
Patmos
Porterfield
Spring Hill
New Hope
D. O. Silvey
Howard White
Macedonia
West Memphis Mayor Opposes Move Of KTHS Station
West Memphis on April 20 reports Mayor P M Dacus opposing a plan to relocate radio station KTHS from Holy Springs to West Memphis. He said the Arkansas station would not cover Arkansas fully and would mississippi and Tennessee regions.
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West Memphis
P.M. Dacus
KTHS
Holy Springs
Arkansas
Dacus
Mississippi
Tennessee
Producers urged to market Arkansas cotton debt
Arkansas producers owing money on the 1943 cotton crop were urged to consider marketing before the July 31 maturity. C. C. Milles, chair of the state committee of the production and marketing administration, announced that remaining loaned cotton would be pooled and sold for producers. About 4.4 million bales had loans outstanding as of March 17 in Arkansas.
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Mittle Rock
Am —Ae Ansas
For Element
C. C.milles
Production Sud Marketing Administration
WU. S. Department of Agriquiuure A
Vop
Inlea Oanug
Joan
Uber
Arkansas
Willey
Murder gun test under way in Atlanta link to Garris slaying
Atlanta crime doctor Herman Tones arrived with a bullet from Grover Pulley’s pistol in Clinton and planned a microscopic comparison to determine if the weapon killed Metropolitan Opera tenor John Garris. Police held Pulley as the investigation centers on whether he was involved.
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Atlanta
Herman Tones
Clinton
D. C
Metropolitan Opera
Tehor John Garris
Grover Pulley
Jones
Pultey
Chnton
Jor Jones
Woman wounded in Kansas City home after snoring dispute
A 61 year old woman was wounded at an ally in her home early today after an argument with her husband. County Attorney Harold Harding quoted the husband saying the dispute began over his snoring.
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Kansas City
Kas
Shusband
Harold Harding
Dollars to Doughnuts More Doughnuts Than Dollars Were Made in Pyramid Craze
New York writer HAL BOYLE reports on the Pyramid Club craze of the era. Despite many entrants losing money, the doughnut industry benefited with increased sales and a few clubs claiming large profits, while most participants got only a doughnut and coffee. The piece surveys responses from doughnut shops, coffee houses, and observers across the United States and abroad.
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New York
United States
America
Mr. Sugarman
Andy
Pyramid
Jasls & Weole
Impact
de Aspiria
Feypt
John Dull
Pyramid Club
Rimia
California
Columbus
Manhattan
Real Il
Florida
Nest Work
Allies Offer Western German Self Rule Amid Berlin Cold War Stakes
Washington reports the United States Britain and France pressed a broader self governing framework for Western Germany to spark a Bonn drafted constitution and a federal state. Ambassador Murphy led talks with Social Democratic leaders in Bonn as Moscow looming influence heightens urgency. French foreign policy hints at a split German state but no firm plan.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Robert D. Murphy
Germany Social Democratic Party
Bonn
Russia
Germany
Schu
Paris
Avery Retains Montgomery Ward Held
Sewell Avery kept his grip on Montgomery Ward and company, assured of re election as director as nominations closed. Voting will take an hour or more, with directors meeting later. Ward's faced resignations among top management but posted solid financials under Avery, while Massachusetts Investors Trust abstained from voting.
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Chicago
Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Avery
Ward's
Ward
Massachusetts Investors Trust
Philip &. Charl
City National Bank and Trust Company of
David A. Crawford
Pullman Incorporated
Donald R. McLennan, Jr
Marsh and McLennan, Incorporated
Chicago Insurance Brokers
McLennan
New York
P. P. Morgan and Company
Flower Show Winners Announced by City Garden Clubs
A city federation flower show yielded top prizes for Finest roses and arrangement to Mrs. A B Patton and Mrs A A Halbert. Original arrangement went to Bride's table by Mrs Fonzie Moses, Mrs Malcolm Porterfield, and Mrs B L Hettig. Miscellaneous prize to Mrs K G McRae. airplane arrangement by Lather Hollaman Jr. and L Kellig won first in the men’s division. Royce Weisenberger’s Indian paint brush in a German war shelf took second. Special mention went to pansies by Lloyd Coop and yoses by Fintey Ward. new peace rose shown by Mrs I Cornton and Mrs Thelma Moore. Tea followed judging, on a table arranged by Mrs Arch Maare.
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City Federation of Garden Clubs
A. B. Patton
Fiestris
A. A. Halbert
Fonzie Moses
Malcolm Porterfield
8. L. Hettig
K. G. McRae
Lather Hollaman, Jr
L. &. Kellig
Royce Weisenberger
Lloyd Coop
Fintey Ward
I. Cornton
Thelma Moore
Serume Smith
Arch Maare
Arkansas Weather Forecast Looks Cloudy With Mixed Signals
Cloudy conditions expected this afternoon in Arkansas with uncertain notes of pegasants Sunday and possible warm spells. Tonight chances of varying temperatures and lingering overcast skies observed through the period.
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Arkansas
Law and Order Ceases in Nanking Amid Anarchy
Chang Kuo-sin reports Nanking sinks into anarchy as Nationalist forces withdraw before Communist entry. Water and power cut, looters roam, police demobilized, and city awaits the march of troops. Air and rail disruptions deepen isolation. diplomats and reporters remain as foreigners depart or stay.
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Rdltor
Wanking
United Press
Chang Kuo-sin
Nanking
Thei
Li Tsung-jen
45Th Army
Air Force
Minln
Shanghai
Ned Stewart Escapes Injury in Auto Wreck
Texarkana attorney Ned Stewart escaped injury when his car swerved into water after a side swipe a few miles west of Hope on Highway 67. He was returning to Texarkana from Hope where he was attending circuit court.
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Hope
Texarkana
Ned Steward
Nationalists Destroy Station Near Nanking Walls
Nationalist forces blew up the station just outside Nanking walls as Red troops breached the capital. Chinese government and Communist factions maneuver amid chaos with battles along the Yangtze and across key rail hubs.
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Seymour -Topring
Nanking
Aban
Mames
Sigttumphant Reds
Ge' Ian Chairmian
Tze
Chinklan
Ang
Changchow
San Francisco
Shanghai
Standen
Ho Yig-chin
Yangtze
Election to Highlight Jaycee Meet in Little Rock
Arkansas Jaycees highlight state convention in Little Rock with nominations for state president Wi Nicholson of Osceola and outgoing district leaders Dan Noell and Yeoman Ye plus candidates Dozier Bridges Epif Jane and others. A luncheon and barn dance preceded speeches urging anti communism and support for free enterprise from William M. Herd of Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Toca
Sion
Arkansas
Merce
Wi Nicholson
Osceola
Althougers
Gr Dozier
Bridges
Manila
Era Epif
Harrison
Paul Jane
Dan Noell
William M. Herd
Junip Ber
Camden Texas Officials Discuss Eastman Plan and Jobs
In Camden Texas Governor McMath held talks with local officials about Eastman plans and subsidiary entities. The discussions touched on plastics and job creation with multiple parties present.
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Camden
Texas
Little Rock
Apell
Ernor McMath
Jel Ant
Eastman Plans
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New Holiday Life Insurance
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Ior
England
Yangtae
Brookwood
Arkansas News
Taft
Ohio
Smith
Elbert D. Thomas
Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
Kins Book
Robert E. Sherwood
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Book Manufacturers’ Institute
Red
B. Porterfield
Hal Boyle
Montgomery Ward
Israel
Aubrey S.’ Eban
I Lake Success
N.Y
Ned Stewart
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