County and City Finance Tense in Hope Area
Our Daily Bread reports Hempstead County faces money shortages and may press the City of Hope to cover owed electric bills for the municipal water plant. The piece notes a boom at the Southwestern Proving Ground bringing in new residents and businesses, with a suggestion to audit all businesses since January and issue notices to prevents departures without paying debts, amid tax reassessment from large farmland losses.
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City of Hope
Rovernment
Helpself
Southwestern
Proving Ground
Hope
Mempstead
New Industries Predicted by Gov Adkins Arkansas
Governor Homer Adkins Menday presented a public report on Arkansas defense industry authorizations totaling 250 million dollars. He praised state departments and civic groups for aiding the industrial sales campaign and noted wartime duties dominating his administration during the current emergency. The governor highlighted two large aluminum plants as key to future peacetime manufacturing growth and stressed Arkansas as a national defense and economic asset.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Homer Adkins Menday
State Defense Council
Chambers of Commerce
Pan
Washington
Ray
Hitler
Russia
Alaine Pepart
T Blaze
Aluminum Indus
Office of Production Management
Aluminum Company of America
Willing Resolve to Guard American Freedom
Willis Thornton argues that only determined citizens will keep freedom amid global crisis. He cites executive decisions in U.S. history, urges resilience against tyranny, and warns against surrendering liberty in exchange for security. He asserts Americans love freedom and will not let it be taken.
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United States
Wendell Willkie
Maximilian
Mexico
Congress
Lincoln
Negro Private Watkins Fined in Assault Charge
Private Danis L. Watkins of Company A Band Engineers, Camp Robinson, a lone Black soldier among 100 trainees, was fined 25 dollars and costs for an assault after allegedly grabbing a white girl by the arm and pulling her hair as she passed with her parents at an intersection during a social at a local church. Officers said the soldier was drinking.
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Danis L. Watkins
Co. A
Camp Robinson
Avley Hall
Benton
Hall
Watkins
Four-H Club Members Head to State Rally in Arkansas
Thirty-two Hempstead county 4-H boys and girls depart at 8 o clock Monday for the state rally at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. The group travels by bus, camps on campus, and joins about 500 others for contests in dairy judging bread judging clothing and food preservation with local leaders and committee members guiding activities.
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Hempstead County
Mapest
Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Robert Garrett
Shower Springs
Hempstead
de Queen
Fort Smith
Little Reel
Hot Springs
Experiment Station
University
Billy Rider
Patmos
James Ratcliff
State
Dinah
London
Seyayua
Clifford Cox
David Edwards
Blevins
Olin Moses
McCaskill
Billy Schmitt
Washington
J. D. Duke
Hope
Georgia Ruth Dudney
Maurteen Hulsey
Irent Morton
Margaret Schmitt
Bernice Salesberry
Glyn Black
Francis Huett
Mary Dale Harris
Finis Collins
Gordon Butler
Wayne Huckabee
Springhill
J.D. Duke
Eva Schmitt
Georgia
Ruth Dudney
Maurdeen Hulsey
Gladene Morton
Irene Morton
Alone Burke
DeAnn
Pauline Samuels
Borni Salesberry
Glynn Black
Francis Tilett
Mary Dale Hollis
Med Patinos
Margaret Daniel
Pautine Samuels
Tne
Arlene Burke
DeAm
Mileree Manning
Evulys Rhodes
Lieutenant Branch Named Battalion Surgeon in California Unit
First Lieutenant James W. Branch of Hope has been appointed battalion surgeon of the 7th Tank Battalion Fort Ord California, effective July 17, as announced to The Star. The item notes standard meal service in England including breakfast lunch dinner high tea and supper.
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James W. Branch
Hope
T7th Tank Battalion
Forf
England
War name geography quiz in Europe and World War I
The page quizzically surveys European geography and WWI hotspots. It asks where rivers Prip, Dnieper, and Dniester flow, locations of Minsk Pinsk Dyinsk and Omsk in Russia, and the positions of Bucharest Budapest Brest-Litovsk including its WWI roles. It also asks about White Russia and its White Sea naming origin.
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Europe
Poland
Russia
Prug Deut
Dnieper
Dniester
Minsk
Pinsk
Dyinsk
Omsk
Bucharest
Budapest
Brest- Litovsk
Army Trucks Leave for Camp Robinson
Capt. Melvin Amen leads 48 enlisted men and 200 trucks from the 10th Quartermaster Regiment to move farmers from the Proving Ground oven. They returned Monday to Camp Robinson after serving since July 26. Amen earned his captain’s commission while in Hope.
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Melvin Amen
10Th Quartermaster Regiment
Proving Ground
Camp Robinson
Amen
Hope
Dr Pipkin LSU Dean Dies in New Orleans Hotel
Dr Charles Wooten Pipkin age 41 dean of Louisiana State University graduate school and a leading political science figure died in a New Orleans hotel on Monday. He joined LSU in 1925 and became dean in 1931. He is survived by two brothers and three sisters.
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New Orleans
Charles Wooten Pipkin
Louisiana State University Graduate School
Pipkin
LSU
John G. Pipkin
Edgar Malone Pipkin
Helena
H. M. Qwen
Little Rock
Ella Pipkin Crooker
Arkadelphia
E. P. Lindsey
Pine Butt
Typhoon Strikes Guam Damaging Marine Post and Crops
A typhoon swept past Guam causing extensive damage to the U S Marine post and crops. The storm center was ten miles east of the island with ten feet of water in the low section and communications disrupted. About 500 people sheltered in the parish house.
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Guam
U. S. Marine Post
Revival Meeting Draws Large Crowds in Weather
Interest in the revival at the First Pentensial church grows as Rev W P Graves announces savings and schedules. Despite bad weather a large crowd attended sessions held nightly at 8 o clock this week under the conduct of the ward from Dallas Texas.
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W. P. Graves
Dallas
Texas
Australia Warns Japan in Far East Defense Stand
New York reported that Australian Prime Minister Percy Spender warned Japan that Australia is determined and ready to defend its interests in the Far East. He stressed Australia will not surrender at the point of a gun and will guard its duties and responsibilities, amid concerns over Japanese basing in French Indochina.
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New York
i/P
British Broadcasting Company
Australia
Percy C. Spender
Sydney
Japan
Far East
Spender
Indo-China
Negro Arrested Here on Robbery Charge
Police announced the arrest of Curtis Knox, charged with robbing Roosevelt Neal of 3.75 dollars and several articles. Knox was released to county officers with bond set at 230 dollars. No further details on the incident are provided.
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Curtis Knox
Roosevelt Neal
Knox
Nazis Close On Kiev In 44 Day Soviet Struggle
Nazi forces push toward Kiev as both sides report heavy casualties and prisoners in a sprawling 44 day battle. Russian counterclaims hinge on tank losses near N,N northwest front. Mussolini signals clash of worlds while Britain debates a northern front possibly in Finland as Tobruk battle continues.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Smolensk
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Leningrad
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Washington
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Mantua
Finland
Britain
Goteborg
Sweden
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Libya
North Africa
Suez Canal
Forest Fete at Bradley Aug 13
The Arkansas Forestry Commission announces the annual Forest Festival for Protection Unit Nine will be at Bradley in Lafayette county on Wednesday August 13. An afternoon program from 2:00 p.m. features contests with prizes and a free picture show. A 6:40 p.m. evening program includes music singing prize awards speaking and more. Activities include leg chopping sawing nail driving shoe kicking dog calling husband calling and sack races plus an exhibition by Peter McLaren America s Champion Axeman. Attendees are urged to bring basket lunches and stay for the night entertainment.
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Arkansas Forestry Commission
Forest Festival For Protection Unit Nine
Bradley
Lilayette County
Peter McLaren
America
Thoughtful remark on divine impartiality
A fragment reflects Peter stating that God shows no favoritism. The line echoes Acts chapter ten verse thirty four, noting universal accessibility of divine favor beyond human distinctions.
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Peter
Carpenters Establish Local Office for Prov ing Ground Work
L B Sheppard of the A F L carpenters local announces offices in the old Arkansas Bank building Hope. The union will recruit Hempstead county workers at an initial $10 fee for Proving Ground construction with outsiders charged $50. Local preference favors Hempstead residents who qualify, with about 500 carpenters needed and potential out-of-area calls if supply falls short.
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L. B. Sheppard
Ite Rock A. F. of
L. Carpenters and Joiners
Arkansas Bank & Trust Co
Hope Police Department
A. F. of L
Proving Ground
Little Rock
Hempstead County
Sheppard
Sheppara
Guernsey Bonds Sell Over Par at 1% Above Par
At a 10 o'clock Monday meeting in the Office of the Hempstead County Supervisor, Guernsey school refunded 16000 in bonds sold 1% above par by Satterfield Brothers & Co. of Little Rock. Citizens National Bank of Hope bought them. Bonds bear 3 3/4 percent interest. Most proceeds refund existing debt, remainder funds new buildings and a 12 grade negro high school with transportation. Superintendent Eugene Woodill of Hope notes improved district plant and class B rating.
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Hempstead
Guernsey
Satterfield Brothers & Co
Little Rock
Citizens National Bank of Hope
Arkansas
Satterfield Brothers
Hope
Eugene Woodill
Ways and Means opposes tax bill revenue rise plan
Washington A Ways and Means committee on Monday rejected any move to raise compensating revenue if the House drops the provision requiring all married couples to file joint income tax returns. Roosevelt criticized the provision, and its elimination would cut the bill’s impact.
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Washington
Ways and Means
House
Roosevelt
Britain mobilizes over half a million carrier pigeons
Great Britain has assembled an air force of more than 500000 carrier pigeons for emergency communications. The mobilization aims to ensure rapid message delivery in case of disruption to other channels.
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Pige Air Force
Great Britain
Warspite Sighted in Gulf of Siam Amid Far East Tension
British forces reportedly sighting the 30,600-ton battleship Warspite in the Gulf of Siam, signaling a possible counter to Japan’s advances toward French Indochina and Singapore. Japan cancels U S departures stranding about 600 Americans, while Japan contemplates economic mobilization.
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Siam
Japan
Singapore
Burma
Associated Press
Warspite
Gulf of Siam
Indo- China
Far East
U. S
Britain
Royal Navy
Suez
United States
Japan Times and Advertiser
Japanese Foreign Office
San Francisco
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Seattle
Heianmaru
Honolulu
Hull Returns to Washington
Secretary of State Hull, after a two month absence, urged unity and effort to liberate victims of barbarism. He called for increased military preparation for defense where it is most effective during a Washington press conference.
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Washington
Hull
Experts Wrong on Russian War
Washington column notes the failure of many experts to predict the Russian-German war outcome. One unnamed analyst diverged, suggesting a different course. The piece hints at a continuation on page two.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Department of Government
United States
Germany
Russia
Volge
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