Third War Loan Drive urged for Arkansas September
Federal War Finance Committee notes hardship on farms since 1914-15 and urges Arkansans to participate in the Third War Loan Drive September 9-30. Mentions national debt projection, sour gas conversion near LaFayette and Columbia counties, Magnolia plant, and a 135 mile gas pipeline feeding war industries.
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Federal War Finance Committee For
Arkansas
Europe
LaFayette
Columbia Counties
The
Petroleum Engineer
Dallas
Texas
Frank H. Love
Magnolia
Columbia
Dorcheat Macedonia
American Warships Shell Italian Mainland for First Time
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports American warships shelling Gioia Tauro and Palmi on the Italian mainland for the first time. The strikes targeted bridges and power plants while bombers attacked roads and railways to disrupt German and Italian retreat routes. Casualties and specifics remain unconfirmed as ongoing ground exchanges continue across the Strait of Messina.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Gioia Tauro
Palmi
Italy
United States
U. S
Seventh
Sicily
Gulf of Gioia
Messina
Angitola
Ponte di Staletti
Middle East
Mediterranan
Zante
Melos
Syros
Cairo
Mother of Hope Woman Succumbs in Texas
Mrs. James Ball of Montgomery City Texas mother of Mrs J L Myers formerly of Hope now living in Texarkana died yesterday funeral set for tomorrow
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James Ball
Montgomery City
Texas
J. L. Myers
Hope
Texarkana
Wartime ration stamp validity details update
Ration calendar lists Book 2 red stamps T U through August 31 for meat and cheese. Book 2 blue stamps N P Q expire August 7, R and T valid through September 20. Sugar Book 1 stamp 13 through August 15. stamps 15 and 16 5 pounds each for canning. Shoes Book 1 stamp 18 through October 31. Gasoline and fuel oil allotments updated with regional variations and new season coupons through 1944. Coffee remains unrestricted.
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East
Raiders Cross Channel to Attack Nazis
Allied air forces launched a daylight assault across the English Channel with bombers and fighters for over two hours. RAF fighter-bombers attacked targets in France and the low countries destroying a patrol boat off Ostend, bombing Poix airport, and damaging eight locomotives. One raider listed as missing amid weather grounded bombers overnight. German radio claimed one Allied plane was shot down over the North Sea.
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London
English Channel
Axis
Strait of Dover
RAF
France
Low Countries
Ostend
Poix
Germany
Associated Press
North Sea
Nationwide Rationing of Domestic Stoves Begins
Washington reports that nationwide rationing of new domestic cooking and heating stoves will start August 24. The program replaces coal and wood stove rationing in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Consumers need a certificate from their War Price and Rationing Board, and dealers must obtain coupons from purchasers starting August 24. OPA says the move ensures distribution to those in most need.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
District of Columbia
War Price and Rationing Board
OPA
Nazi Escape Rail in Danger of Being Cut Off
Soviet forces press toward Kharkov as Zmyev falls after a decisive assault killing 1,200 German troops. Red Army gains threaten the Kharkov Lozovaya line and Lozovaya Slavyansk feeder routes, widening the Donets basin advance with intensified street fighting near Kharkov.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Ukraine
Zmyev
Donets
Red Army
Bryansk
Spas Demensk
Beryezovka
Malinka
Associated Press
Izyum
Ludwig Sertorius
Lozovaya
Dnieper
Ozovaya
Slavyansk
Nazis Claim Allied Sicilian Losses Big
The German high command asserted that about one third of Allied troops in Sicily were killed or wounded with many captured while Eisenhower's forces suffered heavy material and shipping losses. The Nazi broadcast claimed 383 Allied tanks and 652 planes destroyed or captured and 61 transports sunk among other vessels, without Allied confirmation.
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Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Berlin
Germans Mass Troops for Northern Italy Invasion
London reports Germans are moving several divisions from France and Germany into northern Italy in strength, aiming to fight to hold the northern end of the country. Allied broadcasts urge patriots in occupied Europe to prepare for invasion and coordinate preparations for liberation operations.
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London
Italy
France
Germany
Toulon
Europe
Sicily
Naples
Spezia
Bologna
Rimini
United Nations Radio
Algiers
BBC
Navy Chief Petty Officer Spragins Promoted
Stuart Spragins, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Spragins, has been promoted from storekeeper first class to chief petty officer per Navy confirmation. He is stationed in Algeria on the Mediterranean and recently spoke to the Hope Rotary club. He wrote home that the promotion lets him "eat out of a china plate" rather than "standing in line with a tin pan."
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Stuart Spragins
C. C. Spragins
Navy
Spragins
Hope Rotary Club
Algeria
Mediterranean
Temperature Falls 31 Degrees Overnight
The mercury fell from 91 degrees to 60 degrees last night cooling sleepers for the second straight night. Cool winds followed two months of the hottest weather this section has seen since 1934. The season’s record high reached 109 degrees last Monday.
Parental Letter from WWII Tail Gunner in Arab Front
Staff Sergeant Howard W. Honea of Blevins writes from a Middle East air base describing farm country, Arab transport work, and rabbit hunting between missions. He notes visiting Constantine Algiers and Casablanca, meeting General Rickenbacker, and flying with Crew 34 aboard the Timber fighting German planes with a Flying Fortress, while sending warm family regards.
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Howard W. Honea
H. H. Honea
Blevins
Middle East
Constantine
Algiers
Casablanca
Johnnie
Edd Chamlee
Walton Bonds
Gerrys
Williams declines ruling on gambling cases in Hot Springs
Attorney General Guy E. Williams refused to rule on Justice of the Peace Floyd L. Hurst authority to issue seizure warrants and hear gambling cases saying the matter is in litigation and beyond the point where an opinion would be called for. He cited a long standing rule against advising on cases already before court and noted suits in Pulaski county seek to determine Hurst power. He stated the law supports his prior position that misdemeanor jurisdiction lies elsewhere and that the issue now rests with the courts. First steel rails produced in the United States by Chicago mills in May 1865.
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Little Rock
Guy E. Williams
Justice of the Peace
Floyd L. Hurst
Hot Springs
Williams
Hurst
Arkansas
Adkins
Spa
Pulaski
Jethro Wood Inventor of Modern Plow Made Potatoes
Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern steel plow, began his early testing by shaping first models from potatoes, according to the surviving notes of his early experiments.
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Jethro Wood
Italian Peace Mission Said in Madrid
Reports from Bern indicate new Italian peace demonstrations and a Swiss note that an Italian diplomatic mission may open peace negotiations in Lisbon under Vatican initiative. Broadcasts describe pressure for a second Allied front and massing forces in the Mediterranean.
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Bern
Italy
Lisbon
Portugal
Vatican
Frontier
Pietro Badoglio
Sicily
Europe
London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Mediterranean
European
Axis
Major development looms in Italy amid censorship
Stockholm reports delayed word of a major development in Italy with censorship blocking details. London speculation pointed to a possible fall of Marshal Badoglio's government after his address to Italians. Reports also mention German and Italian friction as German forces move northward.
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Stockholm
Rome
Italy
London
Pietro Badoglio
Badoglio
Sicily
First of 1000 WACs at Hot Springs
The War Department announced the first group of Women’s Army Corps to enroll at the Army-Navy Hospital School in Hot Springs Arkansas. Beginning September 10 up to 45 women will train as X ray technicians in a three month course. Initial selection includes 100 WACs for medical and surgical technician training of two months.
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Washington
Army - Navy
Hot Springs
Ark
War Department
Four Grass Fires in City Yesterday
The Hope Fire Department put out four grass fires here yesterday before damage occurred. The department warned residents to take extreme caution when burning trash, noting the fires originated yesterday.
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The
Hope
Americans halt Japanese landing at Vella Lavella in moonlit action
Admiral Halsey said American forces crushed a sea borne Japanese attempt to land on Vella Lavella island. Most barges were sunk with few Japanese reaching shore, while three enemy destroyers were damaged and one likely sunk. Ground action on Vella Lavella had not begun.
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Pacific Islands
Tokyo
Paramushiru
Kuriles
Kiska
Aleutians
Wake
New Georgia
Munda
Bairoko
Vila
Truk
Rabaul
New Britain
MacArthur
Bougainville
Shortland J
Associated Press
William F. Halsey
Vella Lavella Island
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Vella Gulf
New Guinea
Salamaua
Roosevelt Ridge
Tambu Bay
Goodview Ridge
Mt. Tambu
Air blows stagger Japanese in New Guinea campaign
Allied air and sea actions near Wewak and Salaamaua cripple Japanese strength. Bombers and fighters reduced Wewak from 225 planes to about 10, with over 1,500 Japanese killed. Sala maua and surrounding coasts saw heavy bombing. barges and small vessels were destroyed as Allied forces press toward Salamaua.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
New Guinea
South Pacific
Wewak
Salamaua
Salamua
New Britain
New Guinea- New Britain
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Alex. H. Washburn
Pacifc Ocean
Miles
Rabaul Area
Pacific Ocean
Teisle Anchorege
Nujima Oo
New Hanover
Qravieng
NEW Sritain
Merkus
Ines
Kahili
Shortland Ay
Honea
A. H. Wade
FSA
Hempstead County
Blevins High School
Mom
Howard
P.S
Ole Crew 34
Gen. Rickenbacker
Chicago
Madrid
Vella Lavella
Pacific
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