Stop sign urged at Hazel Second street intersection
Our Daily Bread notes City of Hope should install a stop sign at the Hazel and Second street corner to manage growing traffic to and from the Southwestern Proving Ground. It also calls for a rule at Hotel and Second streets, warning that drivers cannot rely on universal right-of-way rules at congested corners.
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City of Hope
Hazel
Second Street
Proving Ground
South Walnut Street
Hotel
Mom
Japanese Still Delay Answer to U S Note
Tokyo reports say President Roosevelt asked Tokyo questions about Japan’s moves into French Indo China but Japan withholds details. Washington says no reply yet to the American note and that a general settlement hinges on Japan accepting non aggression terms.
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U. S
Tokyo
Wise
Roosevelt
Japan
Unce
Wells
Indo-China
St Khwest
Pacific
Singapore
Misa
Washington
State Hall
Christmas Season Opens With Fireworks and Band Concert
The Christmas season opens Thursday, December 11, in Hope with fireworks and a band concert at city hall from 7 to 8 p.m. The south side area will be roped off. parking is restricted to viewers. The Hope High School band will perform Christmas and patriotic selections under Band Director Thomas Cannon.
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Hupebiigg
City Hall
Ade
Thomas
Volunteer Campaign Call Urges Public Support
The message urges citizens to join a voluntary campaign led by Talbot Feild Jr, county chairman, and Rev J E Hamill, city chairman. They emphasize affordable aid and collective effort to aid holiday mail distribution and community help.
Sergeant Raymond Urban Home Visit in Kentucky
Sergeant Raymond Urban son of Mrs R Urban of Hope arrived for a 10 day furlough to spend time with his mother. He is with the 39th Squadron 28th Airbase Group stationed at Bowman Field Louisville. The piece notes the cost of living across the country rose 1.5 percent from October 1941 to October 1946.
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Raymond Urban
R. 3. Urban of Hope
Urban
Ron
Bowman Field
Louisville
Bill to Give AAA Benefits to P G Farmers
A bill in the U S Senate by Senator Lloyd Spencer and House support by Corigeessman Oren Harris would provide for payment of disputed AAA benefits to farmers evacuated from the Southwestern Proving Ground reservation. Hempstead County Farm Bureau disclosed the proposal Wednesday.
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United States
Senate
Lloyd Spencer
House of Representatives
Corigeessman
Hempstead County Cotton Allotment Safe From Loss
An August Associated Press report from Washington, later verified by a Hope Chamber of Commerce letter to Congressman Oren Harris, notes that Hempstead county will not lose its cotton acreage allotment due to land acquired for national defense needs. The AAA official’s ruling states that such land removed from farming is released and may be used to adjust 1942 allotments for farms whose 1941 cotton production qualifies.
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Associated Press
Washington
the Star
Hempstead County
Southwestern Proving Ground
Oren Harris
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Morris
T. W. Duggan
Southern Division
AAA
Hempstead Farm Bureau letter discusses Spencer bill appeal
In a Prescott route six letter to Mrs. H H Huskey the Hempstead County Farm Bureau secretary forwards a copy of Senator Spencer s bill. The draft amends the 1942 Department of Agriculture appropriation proviso to pay landowners sharecroppers and tenants for participation in agricultural conservation programs with protections tied to defense program requisitions. Continued on Page Six.
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HH. Huskey
Prescott
Hempstead County Farm Bureau
Spencer
Senate
House
Harris
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Adkins Dinner Reservations Going Rapidly
Tables are rapidly being reserved for the Governors Banquet at the Southwestern Proving Ground cafeteria on December 5. Twenty seven tables for ten and seventeen tables for five have been reserved. seven more are taken. Single seats can be bought at First National Bank Chamber of Commerce and Citizens National Bank. The program honors Gay Homer W. Adkins with Gov. address after welcome remarks and a series of brief talks on municipal and business benefits from defense projects.
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Southwestern Proving Ground
First National Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Citizens National Bank
Terrell Cornelius
Albert Graves
George Robison
Record Police Report Heard
Hope city council heard the largest police activity report in Hope history for a month. Chief F. W. Haynie reported 345 arrests including 117 for drunkenness and 170 for minor traffic violations. The council approved a rebuilt posting and bookkeeping machine for Water & Light and discussed radio equipment for police cars. The note on St Patricks Cathedral in New York follows a line about Cologne.
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Hope
F. W. Haynie
Water & Light Plant
Water & Light Committee
Statce Police Department
St. Patricks’ Cathedral
New York
Cathedral of
Cologne
Local Boys Now Serving in United States Navy
Local photos show Fred Thomason son of Mr and Mrs J G Thomason Hope enlisted February 1940 now first class aboard the U S S Degatur The Star publishes Navy recruiting photos and offers information by mail or at the office to interested local boys as part of the nationwide campaign.
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United States Navy
Fred Thomason
J. G. Thomason
Hope
U.S
Star
Navy
Oliver F. Gilliam
Jess W. Gilliam
USS
Procyon
San Francisco
A. F B. Simmons
A. F. Simmons
Washington
Annapolis
Dale Franklin McKinney
Avery McKinney
Thope
Honolulu
Hawaii
Thomas Eunice Bowden
James F. Bowden
Pearl Harbor
Lewis
Elder Barrett
L. I. Barrett
A.mlm. School
Barrack
Naval Air Station
Jacksonville
Fla
Confesses to Terrorist Plot in Yugoslavia Conspiracy Case
Antonio Skuka, a 25 year old resident of Prieste with a Slovene accent, repeated a 150 page confession describing a vast plot with Communists and Terrorists to overthrow Fascist rule in Italy. He denied knowledge of factory bombings at Piacenza and Bologna last year. Authorities connect the blast, which killed and injured many, to an alleged band of 60 prisoners tied to a 1948 Mussolini assassination attempt.
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Prieste
Maly
Antonio Skuka
Yugoslavia
Italy
Skuka
Piacenza
Bologna
Mussolini
Negro Jailed on Charge of Burglary
A local Negro, Calvin Forbes, arrested last Saturday night for shoplifting, was released to the Hempstead County sheriff Wednesday and formally charged with burglary and grand larceny. He was arrested by city police. A system of underground water pipes feeds the Royal Palms lining Biscayne Boulevard in Miami.
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Calvin Forbes
Hempstead
Royal Palms
Biscayne Boulevard
Miami
Missouri State Trooper Dies After Shootout Near Festus
Missouri State Trooper Fred Walker 82 died at Barnes hospital after being shot Tuesday near Festus. Two youths, George King 18 and Norman Yollan 20, were arrested near Perryville after fleeing in a stolen patrol car. Troopers C F Bosch and W E Maxey plus Perry County sheriff deputies made the capture. The Marines have various nicknames including Webfoot Soldiers and Leathernecks.
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ST. Louis
Fred Walker
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Festus
Barnes Hospital
Perryville
Missouri
George King
Norman Yollan
Centralia
C. F. Bosch
W. EB. Maxey
Perry County
Standstill on Libyan Front In Desert War Reports
Cairo reports British forces have halted the Libyan front to regroup for a new phase against Axis positions at Rezegh Bir el Hamed and Zaavran. Patrols and air actions continue as both sides probe for weaknesses while Tobruk garrison holds its gains near Ed Duda. British sources remain confident the Axis will be defeated.
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Cairo
Libya
Rezegh
Bir el Hamed
Zaavran
Tobruk
Erwin Rimmel
Tobruk Gartiso
Ed Duda
Salam
Halfaya ’ Pass
Sidi Gmar
Nazis Fall Back on Rostov and Moscow Fronts
London dispatch reports German troops retreating from Taganrog toward Mariupol and pulling back about 36 miles in three days on the Rostov front. Soviet lines claim gains near Moscow and Ukraine, with heavy German casualties and tanks, while Leningrad action yields several German losses.
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Rostov
Moscow
London
Reuters
Kutibyshev
Taganrog
Mariupol
Haganrog
Associated Press
Ukraine
Mose
Russia
G. Heinz Guerian
Reyer
Adolf
Ler
Imeaine Lct
The
Red
Gert von Rundstédt
Mander
Hitler
Opel
Marshall von Kleist
Sea of Azov
Leningrad
Prescott Holds City Election Victory for City Recorder
J A Yancey incumbent defeated Lloyd Cummings 202 to 191 votes in the City Democratic Preferential Primary for re nomination as City Recorder. Yancey has served since 1988 and earlier from 1934. Cummings, manager for Western Union Telegraph Co., sought public office for first time.
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Prescott
J. A. Yancey
Lloyd Cummings
City Recorder
Recorder
West East
Cummings
Yancey
Western Union Telegraph Co
Cranium Crackers Lucky Seven Quiz Questions
A puzzle page invites readers to answer seven questions about seven related topics. Questions cover the seven segments, author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom and its subject, dates and belligerents of the Seven Years War, timing of the Seven Weeks' War, and naming as many of the original seven wonders as possible.
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Humber
Conmile
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Creditanstalt
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Brazil
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P.G
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Adkins
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