Air mail lines reach smaller cities. airports justified locally
A Tennessee firm seeks a permit to establish an air mail pickup route serving Helena, Jonesboro, and Paragould in eastern Arkansas. The piece argues cities must provide airports before passenger services, noting governments share initial airport costs while operators bear higher ongoing plane and operation costs, all to bring rapid air travel to the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Arkansas
Helena
Jonesboro
Paragould
Hope
Will Grant No New Limit on British Aid
Washington leaders announce a Democratic decision to oppose Republican amendments restricting aid to Britain under the lend-lease bill. Speaker Rayburn and Foreign Affairs Committee chair Bloom said they would fight proposals to cap credits and would not remove Dirksen’s amendment preserving congressional power to terminate the program.
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Washington
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Rayburn
Rep
Eaton
Britain
Bloom
Dirksen
Sparrow
Congress
Japs Strike at Supply Line Near Waichaw
Hong Kong news reports Japanese forces nearing the Tehang Kong-Chungking route within 19 miles of Waichaw as Chinese troops rush reinforcements. Heavy fighting continues, refugees flee toward safety, and bombing sorties with parachute-faring support target Chinese positions overnight.
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Hongkong
China
Theangkong-Chungking
Waichaw
Shayuchung
L A Seeks to Buy Gas Lines in Little Rock
Little Rock officials and other cities consider authorizing purchase of gas distribution systems within their limits and issuing revenue bonds to pay for the properties. City Attorney Cooper Jacowiy to draft a proposed purchase plan. Act 324 of 1935 allows municipal utility purchases but lacks bond issuance provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Cooper Jacowiy
Gulley
Henry Denham
Arkansas Louisiana Gay Company
National Scout Week Plans Highlighted by Presidential Broadcast
Scout Week runs February 7 to 13 with a nationwide broadcast on February 9 at 6 40 p m CST as President Roosevelt joins Scout leaders in the event. A Court of Honor at Oglesby School Monday will award Merit Badges and Certificates. Church services, a center window display, and decorations are planned to promote scouting in Hope.
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Boy Scouts of America
Hope Scouts
Oglesby School
Chas. A. | Haynes Company
Boy Scouts
Wings Bold Stroud
Roosevelt
Walter Ww
Jams E. West
National Broadcasting Company
Red Network
Columbian Broadcasting Company
Mutual Broadcasting System
Christian Church
Oglesby
J. B. Hamill
Tabernacle
FL Me.Faddin
Albert Graves
R. P. Bowen
George Ware—Siar
Life and Eagles
Bury Blodgett
Patmos PTA to Present Comedy Friday Night
Patmos PTA will present the comedy Lying Feathers Friday at 7 30 in the high school auditorium admission 10 and 15 cents. The event invites all and promises humor from a Pepperland style production.
Weisenberger Urges Big Vote for Refunding Program
A 1941 citizen letter urges Hope voters to back Governor Adkins refunding bonds No. 4 of 1942 and the Refunding Board to fund highway bonds. The author stresses the sacred duty to turnout on February 15 and support contracts for paving roads and raising district bonds, citing local interest and county state progress.
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Btar
Sen. Pilkinton
Mr. Feild
Chamber of Commerce
National Guard Armory
Hope
Adkins
Citizens Committee
Royce Weisenberger
Little Rock
Ark
Welfare Bills Filed in Senate for Welfare and State Aims
In Little Rock the Admin dropped six bills into the Senate hopper before the weekend recess. Major measure by Taylor of Clarksville would have the social security board direct a merit system in the welfare department. Other bills increase geologist duties, bar state employees from political activity or party membership aimed at overthrow, extend the 1947 teachers retirement act to 1,000 and cover local school board clerical and admin staff, and state department and teachers for the blind and deaf. A Barham bill seeks removal of a $1 delinquent poll tax penalty, Mason proposes flood control dam on Ouachita river, Spencer cracks down on plumbing in cities over 10,000, and Bratton’s bill creates a fireman board for Paragould Power & Light Plant.
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Little Rock
Welfare Department
Senate
Taylor
Clarksville
Social Security Board
Offige
Baker
Newport
Pilkinton
Hope
Sheppard
Russellville
Shaw
Poinsett
Gibson
Carroll
State Department
Barham
Sebastian
Mason
Camden
Ouachita River
Spencer
Craighead
Bratton
Paragould
Paragould Power & Light Plant
Boy in Pueblo stole truck to flee state school
In Pueblo Judge Robert Glover heard testimony about a US-year-old boy formerly at the state industrial school for boys who wanted to return so badly that he stole a truck and drove away. The judge sentenced him to 60 days in the county jail matron's quarters.
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Pueblo
Colo
Robert Glover
State Industrial School
Practically on a Party Line in Macon Paint Store
Jimmy King installed a telephone in his paint shop and soon complained that only radio programs could be heard. An engineer traced the line to a network wire carrying programs to local Station WBML.
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Macon
Jimmy King
Telephone Company
WBML
Rain Fails to Halt Greeks Advance in Albania
Greek forces seized positions north of the Trebegsins range amid heavy fighting despite rain. British sources report RAF bombers struck Italian positions west of Tepeleni, targeting military stores wooden huts and motor transport concentrations.
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Athens
Trebegsins
Tepeleni
Draft Gets 12 County Men for Camp Robinson
Twelve volunteers from Hampstead County depart Thursday for Camp Robinson to enter military service under the draft law. The quota for Thursday raises Hampstead County’s total called to 12, including three Black and nine white volunteers who have all passed physicals. Names listed include William Lester Hobbs, Giles Glasgow, Carlton Folsom, Charles Hipp, Earl Watts, Grady Owen, Alvis Hogue, Ernest Hughes, Cecil Lamb, Elmer White, Hubert Stewart, and Charles Briant. Also noted is that over 99 percent of U S sulfur comes from six operations in Louisiana and Texas.
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Little Rock
Southern Aviation to seek Memphis to Cairo airmail permit
Nashville Tenn Friday the Southern Aviation corporation announced it would apply to the Civil Aeronautics board for a permit to operate a pickup airmail route between Memphis and Cairo Illinois The tentative line covers Arkansas with 21 points including Helena Jonesboro Paragould and would serve each city twice daily.
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Nashville
Germans Claim 2 British Ships Sunk by Submarine Attack
Berlin reports a German submarine sank two armored merchant ships totaling 12 000 tons and a Nazi speedboat sent a British coastal steamer to the bottom of the English east coast. Combat planes conducted a harassment raid on Malta and, despite bad weather, carried out armed reconnaissance of the sea around England including mining British ports.
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Berlin
High Command
Ed Priday
Malta
Mediterranean
England
Capital Events in Washington and Inauguration Spotlight
Washington headlines focus on Congress opening the budget and the inauguration. Questions tease the 1942 budget figures and personnel roles, asking who administered the oath, who is the senate whip, and the party of the majority leaders. Answers promised on the comic page.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Last Italian Base in East Falls to British Libya drive
British forces captured Benghazi in eastern Libya as part of a fast campaign described in released communiques. The capture included the key coastal road junction south of Benghazi and a thrust from the inland direction aided by Australian troops, with over 3,500 Italian prisoners reported in Eritrea as the wider front developed.
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Cairo
Aay
Libya
Thali
Bengasi
Italy
Ben Cast
Bengasir
Xing
Eritrea
Derng
Gasipoe
Agardat-Batentu
French Deny Port to Nazis
The French government denies reports that France plans to allow Germany to use the naval base at Bizerte and rejects any negotiation for cession. No landing of German troops or Libyan operations are authorized.
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Vichy
Maxima’.Weygan
Francé
Germany
Bizerete
Tunisid
Bizerne
Libya
Arkansas admin bills target state employee politics
LITTLE ROCK Gov Adkins announced a package of administration bills to the legislature including a prohibition on state employees joining political parties or organizations aimed at overthrowing government. Other measures shift welfare accounts to state funds, expand Racing Commission membership, raise the welfare commissioner's salary, and terminate the Six-Year Centennial Commission.
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Little Rock
Adkins
State Racing Commission
Thoughtful Maxim on Self Help and Divine Aid
A brief medieval aphorism attributed to Herbert counsels personal effort aided by faith. It frames self-reliance as a path blessed by divine assistance, urging individuals to strive while trusting in God for support.
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