War Loan winners praised by Hope Star readers in state
Hope Star notes top presentation in Sixth War Loan drive with Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times and Stuttgart Daily Leader. Hempstead County exceeds E Bond quota and raises about 2400 for Boy Scouts. Also reprints Nazi Das Schwarze Korps claim that no Germans are innocent and cautions about surrender terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Star
Arkansas
Treasury Department
Fayetteville
Northwest Arkansas Times
Stuttgart Daily Leader & Arkansawyer
Syd McMath
Hempstead County
Hempstead
YMCA
All Boys
Church
Cathport
Knights of Columt
Boy Scouts
Hope
Heinrich Himmler
OWI
Germany
Gestapo
Attorney General to Seek KTHS Retention in State
Attorney General Guy E. Williams said he will intervene in the FCC filing to transfer Radio Station KTHS in Hot Springs to Memphis. He acted on a concurrent legislative resolution adopted earlier this week.
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Little Rock
Guy E. Williams
Federal Communications Commission
KTHS
Hot Springs
Memphis
Williams
Parole Granted to Tom Twine in Serach for Parole Board
Little Rock reports Tom Twine, sentenced July 17 1941 in Jefferson county to ten years for second degree murder, was paroled yesterday along with six other state penitentiary inmates by the state parole board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Tom Twine
Jefferson County
State Penitentiary
State Parole Board
Italians Lose Colonies and Trieste Armistice Terms Revealed
A February report notes a congressional source saying the Italian armistice terms would require ceding colonies, Pantelleria to Britain, and possibly Trieste to Yugoslavia. The terms, signed Sept 3 1943, were kept secret amid disputes over harsh financial obligations and wider Allied concessions.
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Riley C. Moore
Washington
UPI
Italy
Mediterranean
Pantelleria
Great Britain
Trieste
Yugoslavia
White House
State Department
War Department
Finland
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Ivanoe Bonami
Roosevelt
Germany
United Press
Thetalian
Bonomi
Armando Rossini
Sicily
Allied Air Services
Britain
Gibraltar
Malta
Corprus
Robot Bombs Again Fall on England
German V weapon attacks on southern England caused more casualties and damage in the 24 hours ending at dawn today the air ministry announced.
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England
London
Air Ministry
Gertrude Farney Acquitted in Convict Slaying
Fort Smith on February 8 a circuit court jury acquitted Mrs Gertrude Farney of first degree murder in the death of Fred Piper an escaped Michigan convict Her husband Charley Farne faces a prison term on a second degree murder conviction based on related events at the same trial
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Fort Smith
Gertrude Farney
Fred Piper
Michigan
Charley Farne
The Rocket Is Infantryman Sunday Punch
The piece describes rocket use in World War II as a transformative weapon for infantry, aircraft, and landing craft. It outlines three-stage rocket tactics for invasion, notes rocket roles alongside naval gunfire, and highlights how rockets amplified damage across theaters from Europe to the Pacific.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Washington
Berlin
Tokyo
Army
Navy
Luftwaffe
Moscow
Stalingrad
el Alemein
Kasserine
Normandy
Pacific
Pacific Islands
Tarawa
New U S Fighter Plane Tests by Army With Nose Elevators
Manila battle reports describe heavy fighting along the Pasig River as U S forces advance in Manila with 7 076 Japanese and 48 000 total enemy losses on Luzon. The Ascender prototype tests in New York feature a forward nose elevator and a tailless pushers design aiming to higher speed and maneuverability.
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U.S
Army
Fred Hampson
Manila
Pasig
Luzon
Orient
Santo Tomas University
Cavalry
Escolta
U. S. 11Th Airborne
Nichols Airfield
Pasay
Manila Bay
Corregidor
Great Harbor
Batman
U. S. 38Th Division
Associated Press
James Hutcheson
Army and Navy Club
High Commissioner
Santo Tomas
Douglas MacArthur
Russell Brines
New York
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Curtiss-Wright
Army Air Forces
Enabling Act Introduced on Work Bill in Arkansas
A Senate bill proposes a $500 to $5,000 fine for violations of the new freedom to work amendment banning the closed union shop in Arkansas. Sponsored by Senator W. K. Oldham with co authors Lawrie Moore and Elrod the measure targets renewals of contracts while preserving existing ones. It declares state policy supporting both organized labor to bargain collectively and unorganized labor to bargain individually.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Senate
W. K. Oldham
Prairie
Oldham
Donald J. Lawrie
West Memphis
John S. Moore
Helena
Russell Elrod
Siloam Springs
First Army Breaks Through Siegfried Line on Oder Front
Russian forces push to widen bridgeheads across the Oder east of Berlin and drive to sever the Frankfurt Berlin road. Soviet assault across four bridgeheads threatens to flank and possibly reach within 30 miles of Berlin amid heavy fighting near Fuerstenberg and Guestrin.
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Robert Musel
London
Moscow
Oder
Berlin
Frankfurt- Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Fuerstenberg
Frankfurt
Goeritz
Kuestrin
Zhukov
Frankfurt-Berlin
United Press
Henry Shapiro
Red Army
Kueéstrin
Allied forces breach Siegfried Line and advance toward Roer dams
First Army troops broke the double Siegfried line near the Roer and captured Schmidt northwest of the dams. Third Army advances near Pruem as American units push deeper into the West Wall. Patton fortifies 24 mile front while Hodges’ force nears the Roer dams and threatened flooding.
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James M. Long
Paris
First Army
Bloody Schmidt
Roer River
Third Army
Pruem
Roer
Eifel
78Th
Schmidt
Kommerscheidt
Earl M. Miner
Bridgeport
Conn
Schwammenauer
Syste
Germany
cross-Rhine
Strasbourg
Rhineardone Canal
Neaf Brisach
Vosges
Colmar
Medic Digs Foxhole Under Fire to Save Wounded Buddies
Sgt Ellery M. Andrews of Litchfield Minnesota crawled to two trapped wounded under heavy German fire and dug a foxhole using TNT, sheltering them until the area was retaken. He dragged others to an aid station while bullets hissed overhead, then calmly called it a day. The report also notes Nazi discipline attempts against frostbite casualties.
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Hal Boyle
Germany
Ellery M. Andrews
Litchfield
Minn
Andrews
Red Cross
Big Three Plan Outlined for Europe Survey
The Big Three Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin pursue joint military and diplomatic plans for Europe. They discuss continued Allied occupation of Germany, postwar governance, and the creation of a world peace organization. A forthcoming communique will summarize aims and methods.
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John M. Hghtower
Washington
Europe
United States
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Black Sea
Crimea
Germany
London
Moscow
White House
Nazi Germany
Mediterranean
World Organization
Yugoslavia
Poland
Italy
Greece
European Advisory Commission
Grass Fire in Ward Three Prompted Hope Fire Dept
A grass fire in Ward Three was reported to Hope's Fire Department early this afternoon with no property loss. The article notes carrots are descendants of Queen Anne's lace, a common countryside weed.
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Ward Three
Hope
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