Hope Airport and Frisco Airline Plans in War Echoes
The letter urges Hope Arkansas to secure a civilian airport after WW II, noting $12,000 land condemnation due to SPG interference. It cites Frisco airline ambitions Tulsa to St Louis and Muskogee routes and argues air service will surge with postwar carriers. It warns Hope risks isolation if action is delayed. Major General Norman T. Kirk critiques modern schooling during wartime.
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Frisco Transportation Company
Guthern
Frisco
Tulsa
Okla
Tribune
St. Louis
Fort Worth
Muskogee
Oklahoma
American
Hope
Southwestern Proving Ground
City of
SPG
Russians Tighten Stranglehold on Kharkov
Soviet forces push closer to Kharkov from the northeast while severing the Poltava Kharkov railway line. The Bryansk drive advances through more villages near Orel as German counterattacks and bombardments continue, with reports of heavy losses and ongoing battles in multiple fronts.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Poltava - Kharkov
CBS
Bryansk
Red Star
Red Army
Orel
Karachev
Belgorod
Nazi
High Command
Transocean
Vyazma
Smolensk
Berlin
Forts Follow Up RAF Raids on German Targets
Allied air forces raid industrial targets in Germany across the Rhine while RAF Mosquitos strike Bonn and other Rhineland sites. Bomber and fighter counters report heavy clashes above clouds as German defenses say they intercepted the formations. In Britain, incendiaries hit a southwest coast town with casualties and damage. two neighboring towns suffer minor effects.
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London
U. S
Eighth Army Air Force
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Amerian
Boon
Cologne
Rhine
French
Bonn
Beeoven
Britain
Kassel
Letrait
France
Air Ministry
RAF
Wartime stamp updates outline validity dates and allotments
The notice lists Book 2 red stamps T and U valid to August 31 for meat cheese and processed foods. Blue stamps N P and Q expire August 7 for processed fruits and vegetables. R S T remain valid to September 20. Sugar Book 1 stamp 13 valid 5 pounds through August 15. stamps 15 16 for 5 pounds for canning. Shoes Book 1 stamp 18 valid through October 31. Coffee remains nonrationed. Gasoline coupons vary by region with different gallon allowances. Fuel oil period 5 coupons valid through September 30 and new period 1 coupons valid to January 3, 1944 at 10 gallons per unit.
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East
Justice Reed Joins Arkansas Industrial Tour
Associate Justice Stanley Reed of the U S Supreme Court joined Arkansas' industrial tour at a luncheon in Arkadelphia. Vacationing in Hot Springs, he led the group including seven members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation and local officials past the barium and titanium plant and the Jones Mill aluminum plant on Lake Catherine.
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Arkadelphia
Stanley Reed
Supreme Court of the United States
Arkansas
Hot Springs
Malvern
Jones Mill
Lake Catherine
First National Park Hot Springs in Arkansas
Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas was the first U.S. National Park, set aside in 1832 by an Act of Congress.
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First National Park
Hot Springs National Park
Arkansas
U.S
Congress
Drafting Days Move Could Shift Men to War Production
Washington reports a forthcoming War Manpower Commission action to redirect draft calls toward vital war production. The plan may broaden the nondeferrable list and grant occupational deferments, giving eligible men an incentive to switch from nonessential work. Senator Davis urges removing Selective Service from WMC control and bars fathers from induction until all other eligible men serve.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
WMC
Davis
R-Pa
Congress
Atkins Son Kills Himself After Love Affair, Wife Wounded
Little Rock reportsJohn A Atkins 38 a member of a prominent south Arkansas family died by his own hand after a long love affair with Mrs Arch Pickens 36 wife of a Little Rock caterer who was critically wounded in a car shooting Atkins father Will S Atkins questioned the self inflicted death and state police and coroner investigated while Mrs Pickens fought for life at University hospital Authorities said Atkins was a timekeeper at a Bauxite cafeteria and leaves a widow and several relatives in Hope and Lake Village with funeral plans set for tomorrow
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Little Rock
O. N. Martin
John Atkins
South Arkansas
Arch Pickens
University Hospital
John A. Atkins
Atkins
Pickens
Will S. Atkins
Hope
Pulaski County
Howard Dishough
Marion
Bauxite
Saidi
Steve Atkins
Alma Atkins
Ruth
Martha Anne Atkins
All of Hope
Wilma Darby
San Bruno
Calif
Margaret Crain
Lake Village
Tench kept on European counters up to a day then returned to river
Report notes storekeepers in Europe keep tench on counters for up to 24 hours. If unsold, the fish are returned to the river and swim away alive. The article states only Antarctica and Greenland lack legally established time zones.
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Antarctica
Greenland
Churchill Crosses From Canada to U S
Prime Minister Winston Churchill crossed to the American side of Niagara Falls after a Canadian side visit. He toured gardens and whirlpools with daughter Mary Churchill and a large party before boarding a special six car train. Local officials greeted him on both sides of the border.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Churchill
Great Britain
Falls
Mary Churchill
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Ont
C. E. Constantine
Military District No. 2
Toronto
George R. Ingalls
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Niagara Falls Parks Commission
Niagara River
Queenstown Heights
Public Pays Less for Food in June July
Washington reports lower city living costs in late June and early July for the first time since Pearl Harbor. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins notes retail food prices fell 2 percent from mid June to mid July, easing overall living costs by 0.8 percent despite small rises in clothing.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Bureau of Labor Statistics Index
Office of Price Administration
Victory Gardners
OPA
Labor
Return of Machines Seized in Raid Challenged
R Muncrief of Hot Springs sues in Pulaski Circuit Court over two teletype printers seized in a state police raid on August 7. He seeks return of the machines valued at $500 each, $100 weekly damages, and a ruling that the search warrant and involved authority were unconstitutional and violated free press rights.
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Little Rock
R. Muncrief
Hot Springs
Pulaski
Gray Albright
C. P. Atkinson
Justice of the Peace
Floyd Leroy Hurst
Adkins
Hurst
Guy E. Williams
Williams
Muncrief
Grover Owens
Munehkef
Albright
Atkinson
Salt production in the United States in 1942
In 1942 the United States produced 27 billion pounds of salt. About 20 percent was used for food seasoning and 80 percent for industrial purposes.
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United States
Oldest U.S. Person Named James Wilson From Vidalia
The United States Census Bureau lists James Walter Wilson of Vidalia Georgia as the oldest living American at 117 years old. The claim identifies a single individual and a precise age from official records.
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United States
James Walter Wilson
Vidalia, Ga
German evacuation gains pace from Sicily to mainland
Berlin confirms a major German disengagement from Sicily with troops and equipment evacuated across the Messina Strait. British Eighth Army reports light enemy resistance on the east coast as Germans withdraw toward Italy, while a German commentator calls the move a systematic disengagement to prevent further operations on the mainland.
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Noland Norgaard
Eighth Army
Sicily
Messina Strait
Italy
Messina
Berlin
London
Ludwig Sertorius
Reuters
Americans Establish Sicily Bridgehead After Coastal Landing
Allied forces pierce German coastal defenses near Cape Orlando and Nazo river 40 miles west of Messina. American infantry fight ashore at dawn, repelling counterattacks as warships and air power pound beach targets. British Eighth Army advances toward Taormina with towns along Etna falling to Allied control.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Sicily
Cape Orlando
San Agata Cesaro
Nazo
Messina
Rome
Randazzo
Cesaro
Eighth Army
Bronte
Prajola
Zafferana Etna
Mt. Etna
New York
Catania
Taormina
Riposto
Seventh Army
San Marco Td' Alunzio
San Agata
Associated Press
Tenacious Japs Cling to Positions in New Georgia Fight
Allied forces press on in northern New Georgia as Japanese troops cling to foxholes and tree-top positions around Munda and Bairoko. U S infantry and Marines overran Munda airstrip, while encirclement tightens near Bairoko. Naval air raids sink and damage several ships near New Ireland.
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Southwest Pacific
New Georgia
Munda
Bairoko Harbor
Kula Gulf
Bairoko
U. S
Rice Anchorage
United States
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
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Alex. H. Washburn
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Norman T. Kirk
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Wire Story
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Stefano
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Son Fratello
Cope Covale
Roce
Cape of Milazzo
Milazzo
Barcellona
San Terese di
Riva
Jtaormine
Nirosto
Acireale
Reggio Calebria
Ialy
Lonian Sea
NEA Service
Leiepnor
W.S. Atkins
Canada
Bulletins
Europe
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