Stabilization plan aims to protect services and cut debt
The governor proposes a stabilization package to maintain current services at higher standards, guarantee payment of maturities on state debt, and retire debt within four years excluding highway debt. It seeks tax relief, preserved balances, simpler financing, and a stabilized state financial structure. France seeks a role in postwar policing and argues for inclusion in Big Three decisions.
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Arkansas
Laney
James Thrasher
France
Britain
Germany
de Gaulle
Hitler
Third Reich
Senate Defeats Parole Bill Sequences 14 to 12
The Arkansas Senate rejected the administration backed measure to separate parole from the state police and create a parole board under the penitentiary system. The 12 ayes and 14 noes ended the bid to transfer parole, probation and pardon duties to a new board. Senator Milum pledged a possible reconsideration.
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Little Rock
Senate
State Parole Department
State Police Department
State Penitentiary Board
Roy Milum
Harrison
Parole Board
G. W. Lockadoo
Arkadelphia
Heartsill Ragan
Fort Smith
Police Department
Arkansas seeks centralized clemency records and parole reform
A 1945 Arkansas legislative push would centralize pardons, paroles and clemency files under a new penitentiary board. Proposals include governor limits on clemency near leaving office, a unified board, and pre pardon publication. Senate, House actions noted, with further votes awaited.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Laney
State Police Department
Penitentiary Board
Heartsill Ragon
Sebastian County
House
Senate
John W. Cloer
Springdale
Secretary of State
Walter W. Raney
McCrory
Caravan Labor Recruitment Tour Heads to Prescott
A U S Army Navy and U S Employment Service caravan seeks war plant labor and clerical workers. The display includes an Army jeep a Navy sound truck and wounded soldiers with motion pictures and talks. After Nashville the caravan visits Prescott Thursday and Rialto Theater Monday February 19 for two shows. Applicants for typist and stenographic jobs apply to the Hope U S Employment Service office for examinations and appointments.
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Army
Navy
U.S. Employment Service
Hope
Ar Army
Nashville
Prescott
Rialto Theater
Hope Office
Russia Likely to Join War Against Japan After Hitler's Fall
Washington dispatches report that experts expect Russia to join the Pacific war once Germany falls, potentially shortening the war by a year. Analysts cite Siberian manpower, rail links, and base access as strategic gains for an American victory over Japan.
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Russia
Japan
Germany
Sandor
China
Europe
United States
Siberia
Kwantung Army
Manchuria
Korea
U. S
They Took German Pillbox Not as Book Said It Was
Pfc. William R. Forpanek and fellow U. S. 76th Division soldiers describe storming a German pillbox across the Sauer River on February 14. They detail scarce gear, improvised tactics, German tanks, accurate 88s, and the lifesaving work of medics as they pulled wounded from foxholes and mines.
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Robert W. Richards
U. S
Sauer River
William R. Forpanek
Chicago
Forpanek
William
Pvt
Walter Kudzia
Lawrence
Mass
United States
States
Pfc
Frank A. Lawrence
Portsmouth
Angelo Raffo
Quincy
Lieutenant Held in Death of His Wife
Lt. Samuel C. Epes, 27, is under guard at a military hospital awaiting transfer to civilian authorities on a murder warrant in the death of his wife whose body he buried in a foxhole. He slashed his wrists in a suicide bid and was weak from blood loss as authorities gain clues to motive.
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Columbia
S. C
Samuel C. Epes
Epps
Richland County
Epes
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta
Roosevelt Reported on Way to Paris and Italy Trip
Continental dispatches indicate relaxations of Italian armistice terms and a possible Roosevelt inquiry into French civilian relief. Paris reports say he had not yet reached France, with Marseille noted as a short stop on the return from the Crimea conference.
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Associated Press
London
Roosevelt
Paris
France
Marseille
Italy
Edward Kennedy
White House
Washington
OWI
Elmer Davis
Vatican City
Marshall Praises Men in Italy Front Line Victory
General George C. Marshall made a surprise three day tour of the Fifth Army sector in Italy praising troops for immobilizing large German forces and preventing reinforcements to eastern and western fronts. He noted about 27 German divisions in Italy and stressed unity across services supporting infantry, armor and air power.
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Sid Feder
Fifth Army
Italy
George C. Marshall
Italian
Marshal
U. S. Army
Fifth
Marshall
Death Valley
Grmany
U. S
Red Armies Near Berlin After Neisse Breakthrough
Berlin reports Russian forces backed by American and British air power crossed the Neisse river around Forst and pressed toward Berlin and Dresden. Mossed advances claim Ko nev and Zhukov’s forces join near the capital as British and American bombers renew heavy strikes on Dresden and Cottbus.
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London
UPI
Berlin
Neisse River
Forst
Dresden
Red Army
Cottbus
U. S
Canadians breach Rhine floodlines threaten Ruhr munitions advance
Canadians pressed along the Rhine valley opposite Emmerich as they moved to the west bank with amphibious tanks behind the Siegfried Line. British Empire troops repelled German counterattacks near Goch and Cakar while the offensive overran 120 square miles of German territory. The Rhine breached by dykes left eight foot flood waters, with the Allied push nearing the Cologne plain as American and British forces eyed joining the offense.
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Howard Cowan
Paris
Rhine
Emmerich
Ruhr
Klove
Goch
Cakar
Kessel
God
Wide
Germany
Cologne
Montgomery
Rhineland
Walther von Model
Siegfried Line
West Wall
Eisenhower
First Infantry Commander's Artillery Ties With Foot Soldiers
HAL BOYLE profiles Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus, commander of the 1st Infantry Division in Germany. A veteran artilleryman known for close cooperation between infantry and artillery, Andrus led the division since 1942 campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany. He favors 105 mm guns though his preferred piece is the 155 mm howitzer. He values massed artillery, has a plain manner, and spends his downtime with Mark Twain, puzzles, and chess while riding daily among frontline positions.
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Hal Boyle
Germany
Clift Andrus
North
Africa
Tunisia
Sicily
France
Belgium
Andrus
Pfc
Lawrence Herman
Allentown
Naval Attack on Corregidor May Be Next
American forces storm the Intramuros in Manila as warplanes hammer Corregidor to clear the way for a sea landing. In Bataan, 40th Division advances west of Fort Stotsenburg while seizing supplies and defeating entrenched Japanese forces.
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William B. Dickinson
Manila
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Tokyo
Bataan
Intramuros
U. S. First Cavalry
Jerel Shipgate
Fort McKinley
Nichols Field
First Cavalry
Nielson Field
Harrison Park
Olongapo-Dinalupihan
Abucay
Douglas MacArthur
40Th Division
Fort Stotsenburg
Lewis Yet to Be Admitted by the AFL
AFL executive council to decide if John St. Lewis and the United Mine Workers may rejoin the federation and if Lewis will gain a leadership role. President Green says the verdict hinges on Lewis’s response to a final AFL declaration after a decade long separation.
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Lewis
The
AFL
Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
John St. Lewis
United Mine Workers
William Green
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