Americans Share Credit With British in Egypt Fight
A wartime feature highlights close American and British air force cooperation in the Western Desert. It credits Royal Air Force and African Air Force crews for teaching U S fighters desert tricks, notes joint efforts in sinking ships, and details sortie counts and damages across heavy, medium, and fighter-bomber units while stressing mutual credit and cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Eighth Army
Mediterranean
Isish
Anz
Pathe
Is. J
Agabe
Eone
Ibyan
Jill
Hur Conningham
Royal Air Force
Western Desert
William
Britain
United States
Oth' African Air Force
Cornel Bi Whitney
U.S
America
Bernard Montgomery
el Jamein
Gryhans
el Aghella
Rommel
Africa Corps
Libya
Africa
Crete
Greece
Tobruk
Bengasi
el Alamein
el Agheila
Sith
A7th
U.S Army Air Forces Statistician
Jsun
Market Report from St Louis and Chicago Markets
Market reportage covers National Stockyards hogs and cattle with steady to higher bids, note hogs at 12.55 to 13.77 and cattle prices across steers, heifers, cows, and stockers. Chicago wheat and corn futures rally with December contracts near 1.28 and 0.87, while New York stocks edge higher on industrials and unions seeking wage boosts. cotton closes with modest gains and various futures prices across months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis Livestock National Stockyards
Ill
S. Dept
Chicago
New York
Valor of Few Saves Lives of Companions
Washington report details acts of bravery by American seamen during October and November as merchant ships were sunk. It notes 135 dead or missing, a six-ship survivor group, a daylight torpedoing off South America, and a crew that patched a lifeboat while eight days at sea. Seaman Mills of Detroit aided a shattered lifeboat. another unidentified seaman manned the boat davits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Passengr
South America
Frederick J. Mills
Detroit
South American
United Nations
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Polling Places Open for Hempstead Cotton Referendum
Hempstead County voters will choose on the cotton marketing quota referendum this Saturday December 12. Triple A chairman Earl N Martindale says 33 ballot boxes will be available county wide up from 21 in prior referenda to ease wartime voting. Polling hours run 8 am to 5 pm at designated sites including Hope Courthouse Shaver Springs Patmos Hinton and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Earl N. Martindale
Triple-A
Martindale
Hempstead County
Houpe Mont’s Seed Store
Hope Courthouse
Shaver Springs
Rateft Store
Patmos
Hinton
Stephenson's School
Battle Field
Springhill
Roy's Place
Fulton
McNab
Call a Doctor (Continued From Page One)
A call for action to expand secondary oil and gas recovery in thirteen Arkansas stripper fields. The piece urges state legislature to shield industry from federal antitrust actions and to place pools under state control while appealing to Washington for better oil prices. It notes the potential economic and wartime benefits of funded recovery efforts and highlights prior successes in other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sion
Petroleum and Natural Gas
T. H. Barton
Lion Oil Company
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentuck
Illnois
Michigan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Texas
Union County
Shuter
Arid
Oil and Gas Commission
Washington
Sean Henderson
National
Jap Attempt Continues Amid Pacific Bombardment Reports
Allied dispatches describe a Japanese attempt near Buna where a hospital unit was bombed twice on December 7 leaving seven dead and thirty wounded. American bombers hit the leading destroyer amid attacks as the fleet moved south from New Britain, with one ship enveloped in flames and uncertain fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buna Are
New Britain
New Ireland
Dstroyer
Victory Heels New Trademark Striped on Fou Gardes
A report lists towns Saratoga Columbus Cross Roads Washington Ozan and others along with H. E. Nolens Victory Heels. The new rubber heel, branded Vo. for Victory, will be striped and made from serup rubber, noting local regions like Belton DeAnn and Rocky Mound in the description.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Columbus
Cross Roads
Washington
Ozan
Goodlett State
Sardis
Union Church
Bingen
Tokia
Belton
McCaskill
Blevins
Sweet Home
Wallaceburg
DeAnn
Rocky Mound
Bairds Chapel
Piney Grove
Friendship
Guernsey
H. E. Nolen's
Victory
Arkansas Timber Stocks Grow Despite Cuts and Fire
Arkansas timber experts report 36.49 billion board feet of merchantable pine and hardwood in south and east forests as of January 1 1939 with pine and hardwood split near equally. Growth exceeded removals by 174.4 million board feet in 1938 aided by fire protection and silvicultural management. About 12.3 million of 22 million acres are protected or intensively managed, with growth rates varying by species and site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
East
Arkatsas
Arkansas
U.S. Forest Service
Lang
C. FL Korstian
Duke University School of Forestry
Korstian
Planes Said and Darlan Status Debate Reappears
Planes Said as shipping the issue resurfaced in Parliament with Lord Elibank announcing plans to seek assurance that Admiral Jean Darlan in North Africa would relinquish his position and that the government would cease collaboration with the former Vichy official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Darlan
House of Lords
Lord Elibank
Nortfrica
North Africa
U S and Japan plan further nationals exchange
Berlin reports that the United States and Japan are negotiating another exchange of nationals. Japanese spokesman Tomokazu Hori said details on timing and location would not be announced. The first exchange separated U S civilians held in Japan and Japanese-occupied areas by sending Japanese held in the United States to Portuguese East Africa. About 2,000 U S civilians still remain in Japan, China, and other areas under Japanese control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Tomokazu Hori
Transocean
Fromm
Tokyo
Hori
America
Lourenco Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Japan
U. S
China
Capitol Holiday Schedule At Little Rock
The state capitol will close from December 24 to December 28 for Christmas holidays with skeleton staff. The vital statistics bureau and motor vehicle license division will operate with limited staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Thasay Noen
Vital Statistics Bureau
Indiana Congressman Schulte Wins After Barbershop Fight
Rep William Schulte of Indiana, a 52 year old Democrat in his final term, dispatched an intruder in a Capitol barber shop after a confrontation. The assailant, Rudy Nies of Islip Terrace, New York, faced a murder warrant in the death of Emma Gesine Nies, with police linking the case to a New York slaying while Schulte recovered from a forehead injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
William Theodore Schulte
Isem Duck
Indiana
Capitol
Schutte
Long Island
Schulte
Ga¢Khowledge
Tuberculosis X-Ray Clinic in Hempstead County
The Arkansas State Health Department will hold a Tuberculosis X Ray Clinic in Hempstead County on January 14th and 15th under the direction of A C Curtis Director of Tuberculosis Control. The Hempstead County Health Office in the courthouse basement will furnish further information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas State Health Department
By. A. C. Curtis
Hempstead
Grandmother of Hope Woman Dies Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. A. Anderson, Hempstead and Nevada county resident for over 30 years, were held in Kansas City Saturday. Survivors include Mrs. Cherlottee Yates of Litt Reel, Mrs. Vernon Ernst of Kansas City, Mrs. Ludie Pinkett of Decatur, a son Grover Whillen of Idabel, Oklahoma, and granddaughter Mrs. Silas Easterling of Hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Anderson
Hempstead
Nevada
Kansas City
Stunday
Cherlottee Yates
Litt Reel
Vernon Ernst
Ludie Pinkett
Decatur, III
Grover Whillen
Idabel
Okla
Silas Easterling
Hope
Nazis Using Training Planes at Stalingrad
Moscow dispatch says Germany uses mail planes and training ships to reinforce at Stalingrad. Red Star claims downed Junkers transports and Hamburg starplane sightings signal transport shortages. Russians counter with tank and motorized assaults and long range artillery bombardment inside the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Cassidy
Moscow
Germany
Stalingrad
Red Star
Red Air Force
Hamburg
Naezig
Stangradd
Red Army
Procedure of Appeal for Truck Owners
An appeal procedure for farm truck operators to obtain additional mileage and gasoline allowances on Certificates of War Necessity was outlined by the Office of Defense Transportation and USDA War Board. Operators file with the County Farm Transportation Committee, estimating required mileage and fuel for 1943, noting a 25 percent 1942 mileage reduction unless explained. Committees study applications and set 1943 mileage, minimum average load, and quarterly gasoline needs. ODT will accept these recommendations, with possible requests for extra information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Defuse Transportation
Usda War Board
Earl N. Martindale
Hempstead County Farm Transportation Committee
Eugene F. Davis
Division of Motor, Transport
ODT
County Farms Transportation Committee
Usda War Board Office
County Farm Transportation Committee
Farm Transportation Committees
Davis
Transportation Committees
350 000 Rail Workers Seek Pay Increase
Chicago December 1 representatives of 350000 railroad operating employees announced they would seek a 30 percent wage rise or a minimum of $3 a day from the nation’s carriers. Alvaney Johnston president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers said higher pay was needed to cover added duties longer hours and rising living costs amid a manpower shortage and pay disparities with other industries. The unions aim to have their demands ratified locally then presented to carriers for nationwide action under the National Railway Labor Act machinery including a presidentially appointed fact finding panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvaney Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Johnston
Lorge
Presiduat
Forest Lands Put Up for Public Sale
Acting on Governor Adkins recommendation Land Commissioner Bush Binley halted deeds to the U S Forest Service for about 10 000 acres of state forest lands and threw the property open to public sale in Little Rock on December 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Adkins
Bush Binley
U. S. Forest Service
Transportation appeals to curtail mileage urged by official
ODT requests additional information and directs appeal forms to the Little Rock office in the Wallace Building rather than the State War Board. Mr Davis urged transportation committees to review appeals with the aim of curtailing all mileage, emphasizing efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ODT
Little Rock
Wallace
State War Board
Transportation Committees
Davis
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Egypt
Market Report
American Telephone
Truntsactions
International Paper
Faeama AH Eis
Beauiligt Sun
Raleigh
Colley
Fred G. Smith
Monagarie
Albert Pick
Adolph
Seine Wea Service
Telephoto
New Jersey
Philadelphia Navy Yard
U. S. S. Belleau Wood
New York Shipbuilding Corp
Camden
N. J
Thomas Holcomb
Washington, D. C
Holcomb
Studebaker
Archer Motor Company
East Third Street Hope, Arkansas
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