Rep Thompson defends Workmen's Comp in Supreme Court clipping
A clipping from Our Daily Bread shows Rep Emory A. Thompson defending House Bill 136 to substitute for jury trials in Workmen's Compensation cases. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled appeals from state civil service decisions go to circuit judges, leaving legislative action distinct. Thompson criticizes hurried wartime legislature and calls for maintaining the existing compensation law.
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Arkansas Sureme Court
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The
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van Buren Civil Service Commission
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Little Rock
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RAF Returns to Bomb Lorient and Nazi Bases
RAF bombers hit Lorient on the French coast in a concentrated raid, losing only two aircraft. Fighter commands ranged over northwest Germany targeting communications. Lorient, a key U boat base, has endured over 680 prior attacks. American bombers also attacked St Nazaire. German raids on South Wales caused casualties. Allied evening operations included shooting down several enemy planes and disrupting rail lines and trains.
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Royal Air Force
Lorient
French
Air Ministry
Fighter Command
Germany
RAF
alumin@ristyy
France
Atlantic
St. Nazaire
South Wals
Air and
M Home Security
Britain
House Opposes Raising State Appropriations in 1943 45
Arkansas House rejects increasing any appropriation for the 1943 45 biennium while citing a tax surplus to retain funds for postwar readjustment. A resolution by Rep. Eugene Coffelt and J. L. Erwin passed without dissent or debate. The body also forms a committee to review the 3600 a year timber inspector’s duties, deeming the post unnecessary.
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Lillie Rock
House
Eugene Coffelt
Benton County
J. L. Erwin
Desha
Loase
J. L. Linder
Philips
Buy a Bomber Plan of Legion in Effect
The American Legion Buy-a-Bomber Campaign is under way this week led by Olie Olsen commander of the local Legion post. Report blanks are distributed to regional volunteers to record War Bond purchases this week.
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Joval Legion Post
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Manpower draft debate hinges on fundamental facts
S Burton Heath argues against the Austin Wadsworth draft bill, outlining six core points. He notes national manpower shortages, wasteful labor practices, potential government inaction on removing obstructions, and the threat of McNutt using the draft as a tool to shift workers into essential roles. He weighs administrative compulsion versus democratic, representative action and calls for careful scrutiny of the bill.
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Paul McNutt
Selective Service Net
Congress
Leaders Urge Boycott of Black Meat Markets
Chicago February reports Thomas E Wilson of Wilson and Co urges a consumer boycott of illegal meat markets as a necessary step to curb a growing black market. He warns it threatens supplies for the armed forces and outlines price marks 10 to 15 cents above legal ceilings. Wilson expects federal enforcement to reduce illegal activity.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Wilson
Wilson
Wilson and Co
Nine Killed in Bus Truck Crash Near Dardanelle
A fatal two-vehicle collision on a one way bridge west of Dardanelle killed mathematics teacher Willie R. Carter and fourteen children aged 10 to 19. Fifteen others, including bus driver Earl Ward and truck driver Richard Miller, were injured. responders and police investigated as residents aided at the scene.
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Willie R. Carter
Dardanelle Consolidated School
Buford Branch
Rebecca Holland
Merritt Banks
Lloyd Farmer
Edith Pearl Looper
Wilton Full
Charlene Berry
Adele Rollins
Hhe
Earl Ward
Richard Miller
Arinor
Miller
Woman Kidnapped But Is Unharmed
Three escapees from the state prison farm remain at large after a dramatic break last Saturday. A woman who was kidnapped was released unharmed near her home as authorities, led by Acting Governor Dennis Mure, deployed state guards across North Mississippi to aid the manhunt. Earth Alexander and family have been guarded while the fugitives hid in a rural Clarksdale area home.
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Dennis Murehree
Mississippi
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Librty
Thearehman State
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Clarksdale
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Russia rs Take Kharkov Push Nazis Westward
Moscow reports Red Army victories as Kharkov falls after fierce street fighting. Units push west of the Donets basin while Soviet forces cut deep into German lines, destroying tanks and infantry, threatening Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk districts.
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Moscow
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Associated Press
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Stalingrad
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Thane
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Dnieperopetrovsk
U S Planes in Two Attacks on Jap Bases
Washington reports two bombing raids against Japanese positions in the Shortland Islands area of the Solomons. The Navy communique notes one plane failed to return in Ballale operations and a Liberator escort mission at Kahili on Bougainville also lost a aircraft.
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Shortland Islands
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Navy
South Pacific
U. S
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U S
Qvetun
Kahili
Bougainville Island
Allied Planes Bomb Timor and Mubo in New Guinea
Allied air forces followed two days of wide scale strikes in the Southwest Pacific with smaller attacks on Nimro and New Guinea positions. On the ground Japanese forces in the Wa Mubo sector withdrew slowly as Australian patrols killed 17 enemy troops. The BBC broadcast noted Allies pushing the Japanese back to within two and a half miles of Mubo, about 12 miles from Salamaua.
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Southwest Pacific
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New Guinea
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CBS
Congress May Cancel Part of Year's Tax
Washington February 17 The House Ways and Means committee moved toward a pay as you go system amid talk of cancelling a substantial portion of the year’s federal income taxes. Chairman Doughton reportedly suggested abating about half of 1942 taxes to switch 40 million taxpayers to current payments, potentially erasing around 6.5 billion dollars of government assets. The idea drew support from some committee members despite earlier opposition to full cancellation of 1942 taxes.
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Francis-‘M. LE
Washington
House ‘Ways and Means
Doughton
DNC
Beardsley Tun
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hope Voters to Cast Ballots in Single Race
Hope voters will go to the polls tomorrow February 18 to cast ballots for mayor. Incumbent Albert Graves faces challenger W B Atkins and JE P Young, a local dealer. Alderman races have no opposition in Wards 1 2 3 and 4 with polling places noted.
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Hope
Albert Graves
W. 8. Atkins
JE. P. Young
Hope City
Stempstead
Hope City Hall
Scrap Meeting Set at Hempstead County Courthouse
A telegram from Wallace Cowan announces Hempstead County Salvage Committee will meet at Hope on Monday February 22 at 10 30 am. Aubrey Albritton calls the meeting to launch the Army scrap gathering campaign with Captain Clinkscale of the United States Army attending.
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Star Today
Wallace Cowan
Little Rock
State Scrap Salvage Committee
Aubrey Albritton
Hempstead
Hope
Hempstead County
Clinkscale
United States Army
British Subs Sink Six Axis Vessels In Med Front
London reports three British submarines roving the central Mediterranean destroyed six Axis ships and damaged several more. One sub shelled a railway station in northern Sicily. Rommel’s counteroffensive near Sbeitla and Bouzid pressured Allied lines as reports note German and Italian forces driving toward the Mareth line with heavy losses on both sides.
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Mediterranean
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Tunisia
Sicily
Italy
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Norrica
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Sbeitla
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Thea
Rommel
Libya
Reuters
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Nardo L. Montgomery
Mareth Line
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Nisia
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Mars
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Gandhi improves amid fast in New Delhi report
Meo handas K. Gandhi aged Indian leader remains in the eighth day of a two day fast to protest confinement by British authorities. Government bulletin says he had a better day yesterday. The report notes Gandhi’s condition.
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Gandhi
New Delhi
Meohandas K. Gandhi
Senate Begins Work on Budget Matters
Little Rock reports the Arkansas Senate moved quickly on 18 appropriation bills for state schools and colleges after a brief opening. Bills to raise Pine Bluff city judge and clerk salaries to 3000 a year passed, and a revenue bill allowing state lands to be used with private property for drilling under federal rules also advanced. An odd note cites estimated declines in American motor vehicle use.
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Senate
Fine Bluff
Jefferson County
Pine Bluff
House
States — Oil and Gas
Food Rationing Form Published for Public Use
The Star prints a home filling rationing application form for consumer use and submission to the rationing board between February 22 and 27. The consumer declaration must be filed with the board.
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