Road District Ghost New Tax on Industry
The Arkansas County Judges association drafts a bill to authorize forming improvement districts to fund road construction by taxing farmers’ land. Critics warn it repeats 1915 mistakes, decoupling debt from local control and shifting cost to landowners while the state bears the burden in hard times. A separate Senate use tax proposal would tax out of state goods but risks harming industry and new plant investment. The piece also critiques luxury book collections sold as culture and notes how sets, subscriptions, and door sales spur consumer pressures.
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Arkansas County Judges Association
Martineau
Arkansas Senate
House
Arkansas
James Thrasher
Little Rock
Fred W. Mahle
Arkansas County
Congress
Arkansas Boys Industrial School
Merle B. Smith
Jefferson
Senate
Non-Transfer Bill Passes House 78-0 in Arkansas
The Arkansas House approved the budget committee and Laney administration compromise to restrict funds transfers on appropriations. The 78-0 vote enacts a rule banning transfers between items without a hearing before the fiscal control board, with fines and removal for unauthorized moves.
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House
Little Rock
Budget Committee
Laney
Yanks Cross River and Enter Manila in War Push
American infantry crossed the Pasig River in amphibious tanks toward Manila docks as fires raged in Intramuros. Gen MacArthur announced the 37th Infantry and 11th Airborne were clearing south Manila, with heavy Jap resistance around Nichols Field and continued artillery duels as tanks and troops press the central Luzon advance.
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Manila
U. S
Pasig
Intramuros
George Thomas Forster
NBC
37Th Infantry Division
Robert S. Beightler
Columbus, O
Nichols Field
MacArthur
Second Armored Division
Luzon
Munoz
Rizal
Lupao
Edwin D. Patrick
Ruiduso
N. M
Charles L. Mullins
Los Angeles
Tupavo
Wounded GI Escapes as Nazis Booby Trap Him with Mine
Pvt. William H. Edwards of Hayti Mo describes how German soldiers wired a land mine to him after looting his cigarettes while he lay wounded in the Haergen forest. He endured a full day and night on the improvised trap before two fellow soldiers freed him.
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McCloskey General Hospital
4Th Infantry Division
Haertgen Forest
Edwards
Missouri
Wallace’s Confirmation Bogs Down in House Debate
Washington February 9 Legisl ation to insure Henry A Wallace’s confirmation as commerce secretary stalled in the House Rules Committee after a noisy session marked by charges of horse trading The panel did not decide whether to send to the floor the Senate bill divorcing the RFC from the Commerce Department prior to a Senate vote on Wallace’s nomination Rep Cox D Ga asserted a horse trade with the Senate and White House then March 1 target London Bank of England notes forged by Germans during occupation reach Britain some circulating some destroyed Fire of London 1666 destroyed 13000 homes and 87 churches in four days
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
George Bill
RFC
Commerce Department
Wallace
Commerce
Rep. Cox
Rules
White House
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
London
Bank of England
Europe
France
Belgium
Holland
Britain
Reds Narrow Escape Route From Breslau
British and American readers are told of a major Soviet drive toward Breslau and Stettin as Korsun moves to encircle Poland’s Silesian cities. Zhukov’s heavy artillery shields the Oder while Konev’s forces push toward Liegnitz and Breslau, threatening a large pocket across Pomerania.
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Breslau
Kurtsch
Moscow
Konev
Liegnitz
Saxony
Stettin
Reetz
Bernstein
Sammenthin
Baltic
Associated Press
Reuters
Berlin
Oder
Kuestrin
Wriezen
Zaekerick
Zellin
Allied German Front Breakthroughs Roar Across Reich
Canadian First Army spearheads a major push into Germany near the Reichswald, Kleve and the Rhine as American and French forces close on strategic targets. British Canadian troops advance into the Reichswald while German towns fall and prisoners surrender. Eisenhower's western front offensive gathers momentum with multiple river and city objectives within reach.
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James M. Long
Paris
First Army
Germany
Siegfried Line
Ruhr
Kleve
Reichswald
London
Reuters
Reichswald Forest
Schwammenauer
Roer
Cologne
Third Army
Pruem
Reich
Strasbourg
Upper Rhine
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Canadian First Army
Reichwald
Rhine
North Sea
Kleven
Duisbug
Silesia
U. S
Saarland
Schmidt
Dusseldorf
Henry Crerar
Nijmegen- Kleve
Reichswalk
Nijmegen-Venlo
Kranenberg
Fighting Near Belgium Sends sergeant to Fireproof Match Challenge
HAL BOYLE reports from the 83rd Infantry Division in Belgium on narrow escapes and comic dangers at the front. A sergeant’s pocket matches caught fire from flying metal, the hottest fight he endured. A captured Hitler car now plows snow to deliver mail, while soldiers endure shellfire and gear shortages.
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Hal Boyle
Belgium
Big Push Across Europe Presses Toward Germany
Two United Press war correspondents report Eisenhower’s winter offensive across Holland to the Alps. Allied attack aims to shatter German forces before summer in coordination with Soviet operations, breaching the Siegfried Line, while German oil shortages and declining morale threaten their war effort.
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United Press
Western Front
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Paris
Boyd D. Lewis
J. Edward Murray
Holland
Alps
Germany
Red Army
Karl von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Berlin
Ruhr
Rhineland
Silesia
Europe
Bavarian Alps
Navy reports Arkansans killed and missing in action
The Navy Department disclosed two Arkansans killed in action one wounded and one missing. Killed were Seaman 2c Horace Edward Butler Rosston and Seaman 2c William Davis Thomas Decatur. Also Seaman 2c Gerald Fay Lairmore Fort Smith wounded and Gunner's Mate 3c John Ruben Williford Cabot missing.
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Washington
Navy Department
Arkansans
Seaman
Horace Edward Butler
Rosston
William Davis Thomas
Decatur
Gerald Fay Lairamore
Fort Smith
John Ruben Williford
Cabot
Department Called Out by Two More Grass Fires Today
Hope Fire Department was called out by two more grass fires today, one on South Walnut street behind the Julia Chester hospital, the other on the west side of town on old Highway 67. No damage was reported. New Guinea, if placed with one end at New York City, would reach to the state of Colorado.
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London
Schroeter
Koenigsberg
Oder
Berlin
Stettin
East Prussia
Schwedt
Breslau
Bydgoszcz
Bromberg
Poznan
Paris
Heinrich Himmler
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Ankara
Gestapo
Himmler
Germany
Black Forest
Thurigia
Bavaria
Tirol
Austria
James F. King
Silesian
Gregory Zhukov
Ivan Konez
Malisch
Parchwitz
Liegnitz
Hope
South Walnut Street
Julia Chester Hospital
New Guinea
New York City
Colorado
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Paul van Dalsem
Perry
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Fiscal Control Board
H. A. Northcutt
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J. L. Erwin
Deshas
Northcutt
Y. R. Royal
Drew
U.S
Army
Curtiss-Wright Corp
St. Louis
Manila Docks
Teltow
Miles
Bernou
Zossen
Eberswalde
Freienwolde
Fuerstenwolde
Storken
Krentz
Seelow
Barwalde
Alt Schaumberg
Tiepitz
Rreipzig
Beyersdort
Landsberg
Drossen
Ghlommer
Kunersdorft
Schwerin
Ziebingen
Schwiebus
aAlthough
Oder River
NEA Telemap
Reds
Adolf Hitler
329Th
Refuehrer
Bern Moffa
Uncle Sam
Tude
Paul Kent
Long Isilland
N. Y
Bihain
Horace Butler
Navy
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