Free Men Are Fighting Inside War Chronicle Book Review
Our Daily Bread notes Oliver Gramling's Free Men Are Fighting a World War II year-by-year account from AP dispatches. The reviewer highlights personalization of correspondents, a town reference to Hope Arkansas, and the book’s framing as a history of the first three years of World War No. 2 with 65 AP reporters profiled.
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Oliver Gramling
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
New York
Associated Press
Gramling
Roosevelt
Africa
Russia
New Zealand
Australia
Pacific
China
Seven Seas
Telegraph
Europe
Asia
America
Reramel Young
Sagnger Theater
Keesler Field
Mississippi
Pugh Moore
Litle Rock
Kansas City
National Trunk
New York City
African Battle Moves Steadily Toward Climax
American forces arrived at Dakar reinforcing Allied bases in Africa as the war nears a climax. In Tunisia Allied action continued with 900 prisoners taken. Rommel’s retreat in Libya persisted. Dakar’s arrival marked a strategic expansion, with U.S. units including air, supply and technician groups, joined by Allied French forces.
Kiwanis Club to Install New Officers for 1943
Hope Kiwanis Club will install nine officers at Hotel Henry Monday night at 7 30. Edwin Hawking will be president with Ed Thrash as vice president and B J McMahon as secretary treasurer. Vice directors include Ched Hall Cecil Dennis Herbert Burns Charles Tarpley G T Cross A W Stubbeman W A Mudgett Henry Haynes. A program led by G T Cross features Rev J E Harris retired president and stunts directed by Franklin Horton plus a musical act Thomas Lawa and the Kiwanis choir.
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Hope Kiwanis Club
Hotel Henry
Edwin Hawking
Ed Thrash
B. J. McMahon
Vhce
Ched Hall
Cecil Dennis
Herbert Burns
Charles W.tarpley
G. T. Cross
A. W. Stubbeman
W. A. Mudgett
Henry
Call for Workers at Pratt Kansas
The U S Employment Service in Hope Arkansas issues an immediate call for laborers for defense construction in Pratt Kansas. Wage is 60 cents per hour with time and a half on Saturdays Sundays and holidays. Transportation will be furnished. trucks depart the Employment Office at 10 o'clock on Saturday December 26. Interested laborers should report ready to leave on the trucks.
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U. S. Employment Service
Hope
Arkansas
Pratt
Kansas
Star Will Observe Holiday on Friday
The Star will observe the Christmas holiday Friday with the plant closed for the day. Publication resumes Saturday afternoon in the city and Sunday morning in the main edition as the newspaper suspends during three holidays annually: Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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The
Star
Mai
Christmas Peace Shared With Service Men Abroad
President Roosevelt’s wartime Christmas message opens a somber holiday as home front thoughts focus on the million-plus Americans in uniform. Tanks guns and ships halt in wartime plants while troops abroad and at Henderson Field mark Christmas with turkey and letters from Santa, Red Cross aid, and exchanges with Britain.
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Edward Himas
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Pacific
North Africa
Donald M. Nelson
Salomons
Somehwere
Henderson Aire Field
Amercian
Navy
Santa
Red Cross
England
RAF Fighters Pound Burma In Raid Over Rathedaung
RAF fighters blasted Japanese targets along the Mayu river at Rathedaung and attacked the Magwe airfield and Yenangyaung refinery as Wellington bombers carried out night strikes. British communiques said no RAF losses.
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New Delhi
Burma
Rathedaung
Mayu
Magwe
Yenangyaung
Alynab
Alehang-Yow
Bay of Bengal
Alt Magwe
Ayub
Bengal
Asemi
Chitta- Hong
Desperate Japanese Holdouts At Buna Reported
Allied forces in Australia report Japanese troops around Buna New Guinea in desperate straits after their fortifications were breached MacArthur’s communiqué says many hundreds of enemy dead buried as Allied air and sea power deny reinforcements. Airstrikes target Buna Cape Endaiadere and Cape Gloucester while U S and Australian troops press the advance. Brig General Waldron and Generals Byers and MacNider wounded in action praised for valor and expected to recover.
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Australia
Buna
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Buna Village
Cape Endaiadere
Cape Samananda
Eomunist
S¢C
Lion
Cape Cloucester
New Brittan
Jacquinto Bay
Albert W. Waldron
Rochester
N. Y
Buna Dee
MacArthur
Ation
James Boerman
Madison
Wis
Waldron
Brgl
Clovis E. Byers
Columbus
Ohio
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
Iowa
Spikesman
Pope says church will not take sides in war
In a Christmas broadcast from Vatican City Pope Pius XII states the church will not take sides in conflict but warns against political subordination to national states and atheistic forces. He condemns Communism and National Socialism, urging a return to faith and moral reforms as steps toward peace.
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Associated Press
London
Pius Ixx
Vatican City
Bern
Switzerland
Poe
Colege of
Landing of U S Troops in Dakar Is Announced
Dakar dispatch reports United States troops have arrived in Dakar French West Africa with a special Army Navy mission led by Vice Admiral William Glassford. The operation aims to fit airports and harbor facilities into Allied plans, support air ferrying and supply to the North African front, and combat Axis submarines. Americans work with French allies amid largely welcoming scenes, while a few residents show restraint.
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Associated Press
London
Afri Acan
Dakar
North Africa
Tunisia
Mediex-El - Bab Fateway
Tunis
Bizerte
Mediterranean
Cairo
Talian
Naples
Lampedusa
Stelly
Joseph Morton
William Glassofrd
Mortori
Henri Honore Giraud
French West Africa
United States
Army
Navy
William Glassford
Service of Supply
Inen
Admiral Glassford
A. Frank Kibler
Cyrus A. 5S. Smith
J. C. Holmes
Hugh E. Haye
John W. Harris
Ralph K. James
L. Allen Morris
James C. Blythe
Nazis Convict Two For Papen Bomb Plot
Anata Turkey December 24 Two Russians and two Turks were convicted for the second time of complicity in the failed February 1841 attempt to kill German ambassador Franz von Papen with a bomb. Canadian Canberra December 24 The 938 ton Corvette Armidale sunk by Japanese bombers about 250 miles NW of Darwin early December. two officers and 38 men lost. London December 24 German radio says Fuhrer Yuletide celebrated in Munich beer cellar attended by Hitler's Old Guard. whether Hitler attended not stated. Canberra December 24 Prime Minister Curtin sends Christmas message to Australian troops urging delivery to Tojo next year with bullets bombs and shells. Ankara December 23 Balkan sources report rising Romanian discontent with Ion Antonescu government risking dangerous stage. Tokyo December 24 Imperial Diet opens 81st session focusing on wartime legislation per Domei news agency.
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Anata
Turkey
Franz von Papen
Canberra
Armidale
Darwin
Fuehrer
Yuletide
London
Munich
Hitler
Australia
John Curtin
Hideki Tojo
Extra Gas Under Ration Order For Necessary Trips
Special rations may be issued when no adequate transport exists for essential travel such as doctor visits or bona fide changes of residence due to employment. Do not seek for sick relative care trips. Apply only if eligible, except extreme emergencies. T. S. McDavitt, Hempstead War Price Board chairman, appealed. U.S. aircraft production expected to hit four billion dollars for planes engines and propellers.
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T. S. McDavitt
Hempstead County War Price & Rationing Board
Hope Aerial Gunner Back From Pacific With Three Jap Zeroes
Staff Sergeant Fred Formby Jr returns to his parents in Arkansas after a year in the southwestern Pacific as an aerial gunner and photographer. He claims three Japanese zeros and recounts service in New Guinea, Java, the Coral Sea, and the Solomon Islands aboard a Flying Fortress. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Dutch government in exile decoration.
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Hope
Pacific
Fred Formby, Jr
Fred Formby
South Pine Street
Army Air Force
Formby
Australia
Java
New Guinea
Coral
Solomon Islands
Hamilton Field
California
Marin College
San Francisco
States
Douglas MacArthur
Queen Wilhemina
Netherlands
Dutch East Indies
Jups
M. Horgan
Missouri
Chester H. Budz
Massachusetts
Frank P. Bostrom
Maine
Bostrom
General MacArthur
Russians Press Southward in Caucasus Drive near Millerovo
Soviet forces pushed toward Millerovo and Rostov on Don as they hit German lines along the Millerovo to Rostov corridor. Red Army claimed advances of up to 18 miles daily, with heavy blows to German units and airfields. casualties and captures reported across multiple sectors, including 1,000 prisoners in one division and 30 tanks destroyed.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Pressia
Steppes
Fev
Millerovo
Rostov
Stalingrad
Pravda
Communit Party
Donet
Kotelnikovski
Okthovoi Rog
Miller
Low Kamensk
Voloshina
Gisshinsk
Bervomaiskole
Sulgisky
Volos
Millerovo- Moro Jitovgrad
Divisi
Red Star
Ingrad
Mjge Communalque
Stalo
King Kash Co Moves Fre Elm to Second Street
King Kash Furniture announces a move from South Elm to the vacant Second Street location by Burr. The change, intended to widen stock capacity and improve handling, will be effective around the second of January.
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King Kash Co
Elm Street
King Kash Furniture
Second Street
Burr
Thin Hope
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Kiwanis Club
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Maiko
Paul Hs Bue
LCHIK
Yshey
Baki
Amrusman
Iran
Inea Telemap
U. S
United
Liberia
Nebraska
Morton
Cleveland
Bulletins
Ankara
Tokyo
Imperial Diet
Japan
Domei
U. 5
Caucasus
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