Cost of living debate across farm and industry states
A civic club luncheon discussion contrasts agrarian and industrial perspectives on rising living costs. The piece cites Secretary Wickard’s proposal to adjust parity, Farm Bureau opposition, and Arkansas farmer views, arguing East versus West sectional pressures shaping policy and inflation control debates.
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Astern
Congress
America
Wickard
Farm Bureau Federation
Waldo Frasier
Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Arkansas
Lenn Senderson
House
Department of Agriculture
National Treasury
Senate panel eyed postwar tax rebates for corporations
Washington August 25 Democrat Barkley said the Senate Finance committee favored revising the House tax bill to provide for postwar corporation rebates. The panel discussed plans to soften the 50 percent excess profits tax with a 10 percent rebate after the war to aid plant conversion and employment. Chairman George noted focus on business taxes before finalizing individual rate changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Barkley
Todtay
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
George
D-Ga
Jehovah Group Fined $50 Each for Literature Peddling
Five Jehovah’s Witnesses were fined $50 each by Judge W J Lem Jey for peddling literature inside Hope city limits without a license. The group included Evelyn Berry Hazel Urim Edna Waterfall Bo Pittman and George Cant ley. They were arrested after two weeks of police surveillance for distributing literature unmolested until they began selling within the city. McFaddin prosecuted. Curvigen and Edwards defended. All filed appeals. only one defendant had posted bond earlier today.
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W. J. Lem Jey
Hope City
Evelyn Berry
Hazel Urim
Edna Waterfall
Bo Pittman
W Nepre
George Cantley
Spid
Elhie
Elf. McFaddin
Jeye Curvigen
George EF. Edwards
Texurkana
Jones Describes Hope High Vocational Guidance Plan
Hope High School principal J WW Jones outlined a school launched vocational guidance program to train students for defense work. He cited growing defense employment from six million in 1941 to 38 million by mid 1944 and proposed students spend part of the day learning their chosen trade while attending school. Visitors included Tom Drake, Earl Martindale, and A E Stonequist was welcomed as a new member.
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J. WW. Jones
Hope High School
Kiwanis Club
Jones
Jin Embree
Earl Martindale
Tom Drake
A. E. Stonequist
Brazil seizes Axis ships and banks as nonbelligerent aid aids war effort
Brazil acts against Axis within its borders as Argentina Chile Peru Paraguay and Bolivia grant nonbelligerent status. Brazil seizes 17 Axis ships and closes three Axis banks totaling about 35 million dollars. U boats are hunted off the coast and a tanker Louisiana is sunk. President Vargas mobilizes and public shows support while Argentina wary of shipping routes.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Peru
Pareaguay
Bolivia
South Atlantic
Getulio Vargas
Julio Prestes
Leet
Vargas
United States
Straits of Magellen
Enrique Ruiz Gulnazu
Buenos Aires
Nazis Drive on Stalingrad Near Don Front
Europe by Eddy Gilmore reports that more than a million Nazi troops and heavy armor concentrate on the Don river ahead of Stalingrad within 40 miles, with aerial bombardment and parachute drops targeting Soviet lines. Pravda and Soviet officials note German advances, counterattacks, and heavy losses for the Axis while Stalin urges final defeat this year.
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Europe
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Russia
Stalingrad
Caspian Sea
Katelnikovski
Don River
Don
Caucasus
Red Army
Comsomar Pravda
Young Communist Organization
Rei
Pravda
Communist Party
Crete
Soviet Information Bureau
Kretskaya
Prokhladnenski
Grozny
Information Bureau
Constanly
Pravdi
Stockholm
Reuters
The
Cly
Caucasus Mountains
Mount Elborus
London
Donelben
Klelskaya
Northern Caucasus
Kuban
Yaroslavsky
Iiver
Central Caucasus
Prokhladneski
Kulaisi
Black Sea
Batum
Ordzhornikidze
Prakhhiadnenski
Tiflis
Asone
21 000 Jews Escape Hitler Only to Be Caught in Orient
Shanghai report details 4 000 Jewish refugees in the Whangpoo tenements. Aid from Joint Refugee Relief Committee dwindles as wartime restrictions bite. Laura Margolis and Manuel Siegel press for funds while Red Cross aid vanishes. Japanese indifference toward the refugees persists amid hunger and exposure.
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Hitler
Morris J. Harris
James BD. White
Shanghai
Gripsholm
Joint
New York
American Red Cross
Miss Margolis
Goebbels
Chinese Forces Press Japanese in Chekiang Kiangsi Areas
Chinese forces drive the Japanese from Lishui and advance toward Nanchang and Chuchslen in Chekiang, with Linchwan recaptured in Kiangsi. The high command reports great losses for Japan and urges a UN offensive as Tokyo shifts forces to defend other theaters.
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Chungking
Lishui
Japan
Chekiang Province
Revape Ture
Tengpu
Kiangsi
Linehwan
United Nations
China
Tin
Ta Kung Puo
Japdese
Chekiapy
Siberia
India
Australia
Linchwan
Fuchow
Kiangs Province
Nanchang
Chuchslen
Chekiang
Jushang
Diplomatic Exchange Ship Gripsholm Brings 1451 Americans Home
Jersey City August 25 1451 Americans repatriated from Japan and the Orient arrived aboard the Gripsholm the first neutral passenger ship to enter New York harbor since the war began Diplomatic officials farmers missionaries and journalists were among those aboard with 246 American diplomatic and consular officials noted at the pier The voyage began June 18 from New York and included exchanges at Lourenco Marques and Rio de Janeiro before returning to the United States
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Robert OK
Jersey City
N. J
Tokyo
Joseph C. Grew
Gripsholm
Japan
Orient
America
Grew
Ewt
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Gripsheim
New York
State and Justice Departments
Army
Navy
Caihen Mission Society
Foreign Mission Society of St. Dominic
The
Yokohama
Shanghai
War Policy Board Proposed to Direct Civil War Effort
Roosevelt weighs a Rosenman plan for a five to nine member sabre board to control production transport and civilian war work while avoiding military strategy. The plan would be appointed by executive order and include Nelson Henderson Wallace Jones and possibly Garuch and Hopkins. The board would centralize policy making for the civilian war effort reducing presidential workload.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Samuel I. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Rosenman
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Leon Henderson
Wallace
Commerce Jones
Bernard M. Garuch
War Industries Board
Harry Hopkins
Unity Baptist Church Revival in Progress
An old time revival is in progress at the Unity Baptist Church with Rev. D. M. Ingran of Poyen Ark and Rev. 2 W. Swafford of Malvern conducting nightly services for two weeks. The public is invited.
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Tthe Parly Baptist Church
D. M. Ingran
Poyen, Ark
Five New Polio Cases in Arkansas Reported
The Health Department announced five new infantile paralysis cases, raising 1942 total to 98. The batch includes a four year old boy from Paragould and two cases from Poinsett county, each listed as Little River and Woodville counties.
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Little Rock
Health Department
Paragould
Poinsett County
Little River
Woodvult
Flashes of Life and Odd Local Notes
A collection of brief snippets from AP style dispatches. A Riverbend burglar hid $102.66 in ashes in a kitchen stove, leaving only 66 cents salvaged. Marcus Koch joins the army with a humorous clockmaking note. In Boise a team and fans chased homeruns over the wall, while Idaho prison inmates play on a Gowen Field club. In Topeka collectors gathered 33,000 pounds of salvaged material to beat the Japs, including a bear trap.
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Associated Press
Russellville
R.dt. Bradt
Boise
Idaho
Gowen Field Club
Idaho Prison Outlaws
State Penitentiary
Topeka
Kas
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Alex. H. Washburn
Justice For the
Jehovah Group
Axis
U.S
Considers War Policy Board
Pacific
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
Tui
United States Army
Aleutians
Geour
Unity Baptist Church
New Orleans
Marcus Koch
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