Income Tax Series to Start Monday in The Star
The Star will publish a daily series from the Internal Revenue Bureau explaining the new Income Tax Law. Starting Monday, readers will learn how the tax is computed and which deductions apply, with example figures showing tax changes for different incomes. The issue also previews non fiction, a mystery, and a new cartoon beginning that day.
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Star
Internal Revenue Bureau
Associated Press
NEA Service
the Gremlins
U S Bombers Launch Heavy Raids on Japanese Isles
U S air forces in the Pacific opened the new year with heavy attacks on Japanese bases. Liberator B-24s escorted by P-47s struck ships in Kiska harbor near Guadalcanal. one Zero shot down, near hit on a small ship, no U S losses. Dauntless dive bombers hit Kokumbono near Guadalcanal where Japanese headquarters are believed located. B-26 Marauders escorted by P-39s, P-40s, and P-38s bombed Munda on New Georgia. no damage reported.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Solomon Islands
Guadalcanal
Kiska Harbor
Atta
U.S
South Pacific
Dauntless’ Civie
Douglas Sedi
Kokumbono
Munda
New Georgia
No Official Gauge on New Midway Well Stamps Ark
Southwood Oil Company added another producer in the Midway field in Lafayette county bringing total oilers to 30. Nedwett No. 7 CSW NIE in section 18-15-24 shows potential around 15 barrels per hour on quarter inch choke once gauge is available. Top oil saturation at 0311 feet, extending to 11420 feet. Barnsdall Oil and Huntel Company await drilling dates. Grace No. 1 and Stamps Land No. 1 wells planned in nearby sections. depth at week end under 500 feet.
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Stamps
Ark
Southwood Oil Company
Midway
Lifayette County
Hodnett No. & C
Barnsdall Oil Company
Midway Field
Barnsdall
Lafayette County
Jing St
Miller County
Huntel Company
Stamps Land
Nevada County
Williams Farm Near Guernsey Sells for 50000
The Williams farm near Guernsey, about 1500 acres of farmland and timberland from Hope to Guernsey, was sold to R D Franklin and John B Matthews of Hope for 50000. Approximately half the land is cultivated, the rest hardwood and pine timber sold to Bruce Lumber Co of Little Rock and Gunter Lumber Co of Hope. Culling of hardwood timber has already begun. New owners plan improvements on the farm.
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Garkett Williams
Hope
Guernsey
R. DO
Franklin
John 8. Matthews
Floyd Porterfield
Bruce Lumber Co
Little Rock
Gunter Lumber Co
New County Officials Take Oath of Office
Three new county officials took oath yesterday and deputy appointments were announced. County Clerk Lea Ray, Sheriff Claude Sutton, and Tax Assessor C Cook received oaths from Frank J. Hill. Ray named Arthur C. Anderson deputy clerk, Hill appointed Crit Stuart jailer, and Cook appointed Isabelle Onstead deputy assessor.
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Frank J. Hill
Lea Ray
Sheriff Hill
C. Cook
Claude Sutton
Crit Stuart
Ray
Arthur C. Anderson
Spring Hill
Anderson
Isabelle Onstead
Onstead
NEA Leader to Speak at Arkansas Press Meeting
Ed F Ables president of the National Editorial Association will address the Arkansas Press Association mid winter meeting in Little Rock January 8 9 The program also features State Selective Service Director EL Campere and an APA Board meeting at 10 a m Friday morning The item notes Nevada recorded the highest accidental death rate in 1929 with 29 deaths per 100 000 people.
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Little Rock
Ed F. Ables
National Editorial Association
Arkansas Press Association
APA
Roy Elliott
Fordyce
Ables
Lawrence
Selective Service
EL. Campere
APA Board of Directors
Nevada
One Arkansan Named in Army Casualty List
Washington reports 407 American army casualties with Private Marvin Mayhan listed as killed in action in Africa. His sister Hazel Mayhan of Swifton, Jackson County, is his nearest kin. The list covers multiple theaters and includes personnel from 42 states plus DC and Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Arkansan
Tle
Marvin Mayhan
Africa
Kit
Hazel Mayhan
Swifton
Jackson County
Noday
South Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Germany
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
New Pastor Installed at Hope Gospel Tabernacle
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Gaston are named new pastors at Hope Gospel Tabernacle and will lead their first services Sunday. He studied at Central Bible Institute and has preached across Missouri California and Texas with a radio ministry in Dallas and Port Arthur. Mrs. Gaston sings and plays instruments. The couple has two children Carolyn Ruth and Bobby and will reside at the church parsonage 107 West Ave C.
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Paul R. Gaston
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Adkins Drafts Bill to Change Board Setups
Governor Adkins proposes a bill to abolish all boards governing state charitable, penal and correctional institutions and colleges and create new boards within four days after the legislature convenes. The aim is to align terms with Amendment 3 and prevent gubernatorial tampering while requiring Senate approval of original appointments. The measure freezes current incumbents’ terms until replaced and mandates staggered expirations next year. The note also mentions a regional conflict and a death attributed to Welderites.
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Little Rock
Jun
Adkins
Jan i
Senate
Givall
Anid
Japs of Buna Isolated in Two Sectors
Allied tanks and infantry artillery split Japanese positions on the Buna front into two sectors and a small pocket near East Giropa point. A combined west and southwest assault with tank support and heavy artillery targeted bunkered areas amid jungle terrain. A Liberator aircraft also engaged a submarine near Rabaul on December 31.
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William F. Boni
New Guinea
Buna Front
Giropa Point
Heruin
Buna Government Station
MacArthur
Rabaul
Germans Claim Sinking of 5 Allied Vessels
Berlin reports German warships and U boats damaged several Allied cruisers sunk a destroyer and torpedoed four merchantmen near Bear Island December 31. The communique says Germans also lost a destroyer. British and German actions in northern waters were reportedly ongoing with no independent confirmation.
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Berlin
Arctic
Bear Island
Spitzbergen
Norway
Mad Dog Shot on South Main Street
A mad dog shot on South Main Street last week after biting several people. The State Health Department confirmed the animal tested positive, and residents were warned to keep their dogs restrained.
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Mad Dog
South Main Street
State Health Department
Hoarding Can Only Be Done by Uncle Sam
Washington reports patriotic hoarding by the government to assure food supplies. Officials describe stockpiling as government purchases exceeding current needs during peak production, with warehousing and cold storage run by the army navy and agriculture department. Plans call for massive emergency reserves of fats oils and meats to cover seasonal shortfalls and unforeseen needs.
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Ovida
Martin Washington
Uncle Sam
Whiskers
Army
Navy
Agriculture Department
Hull
Batesville Dairies Resume Deliveries After OPA Price Move
Two dairies Mack Farms and Stipes halted deliveries yesterday to protest the 12 cents per quart price ceiling. An OPA executive assured them adjustments would be speeded, and deliveries resumed today on a temporary basis.
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Batesville
Dan
OPA
Mack Farms
Stipes Dairies
Flashes of Life and Odd News Snippets
A police incident in Little Rock ends with a youth safety ride but a girl friend causes a break in the squad car window. Marie Hart, a New York strip dancer, suffers a broken ankle while visiting family. A mysterious girl appears at a doorstep with a half pound of coffee for the sick woman. In St Charles a juvenile program reports many inmates released for Christmas. In Abilene a WWI shell fragment wounds a 14 year old.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Kansas City
Marie Hart
New York
Marie
Rommel Fails to Make Stand in Flight to Tunisia
British forces pressed the pursuit across Libya as Rommel retreated west of Wadi Bei El Chebir. Eighth Army vanguards drove back Axis motorized units near the Wadi while Allied air power continued to hit supply lines. A Fighting French force under Brig. Gen. LeClerc moved northward from Southern Libya, with Tunisian action ongoing and preparations for a decisive north Africa showdown.
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Associated Press
London
Libya
Rommel
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Cairo
Eighth Army
Wadi
Tripoli
Tripolitania
Tunisia
Africa
Morocco Radio Today
Don Whitehead
Jacques LeClerc
North Africa
Two U.S. Pilots Buried With Honors in China
First Lieutenant Robert Mooney of Kansas City Missouri and First Lieutenant Roland Hill of Margaritaville New York were buried with military honors at an American air base cemetery in western Yunnan after dying in combat with Japanese forces. Mooney, credited with three confirmed air victories, downed a Zero during a head-on attack on nine bombers before his plane was crippled. he died from injuries after bailing out. Hill, a bomber navigator, was fatally wounded by anti aircraft fire during a low level attack on Menginao, western Yunnan, with a machine gun bullet hitting him in the lower groin area.
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J. Reilly O'Sullivan
U. S. Army Air Force
Chia
Dec
Robert Monaney
Kansas City
Roland Hill
Mooney
Hill
Yunnan
Menginao
Hint
Mascot of Air Base Ends Hungry Strike
Walnut Ridge January 2 The Walnut Ridge Air Base mascot Ark a Mt le white splotched brown dog ended a hunger strike after Corp Raymond M Hederman returned from furlough The dog leaped into his arms and licked his hands and face, snapping at others before Hederman’s reappearance.
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Walnut Ridge
Avis
Walnut Ridge Air Base
Corp
Raymond M. Hederman
Chicago
Hederman
Ark
Heroic Engineer Dies Saving Three Trainmen in Crash
A. L. Snyder of Canton Ohio perished in a head on collision of two Pennsylvania freight trains near New Philadelphia Ohio. Snyder pushed three crewmen from the cab before the wreck, acting pilot William Keith of Navarre Ohio testified. Keith sustained a broken hip and ankle.
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New Philaaelphia
Ohio
A. L. Snyder
Canton
Pennsylvania
Wheeling
Lake Erie
William Keith
Navarre
Snyder
Keith
Hempstead County Men Receive Draft Notices for January Induction
Ninety seven Hempstead residents plus four transfers, living in Hempstead but drafted by other boards, have received notices and will be inducted January 12. The list names Marion Dail Clayton, Joseph Benjamin Biddle, Harvey Carl Allen, Elery Elwin Harris, Imon Adey Harris, Harland Lucious Marton, Curtis Frankling Daugherty, and many others among Hempstead County’s draft entrants.
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Hempstead
Armed Service
Marion Dail Clayton
Joseph Benjamin Biddle
Harvey Carl Allen
Elery Elwin Harris
Imon Adey Harris
Harland Lucious Marton
Curtis Frankling Daugherty
Thomas Dalton Boyce
Reeder
Virgil Campbell
Eddie Lee Byrom
Roy Willard Hodges
Elmer Brimmage
Clinton William Ri
Rupert Clyde Hern
Bll Walters
Reed James Tarter
George Grady Jester
Orval
Wesley Foster
Burl Hunt
Paris Winfred Anderson
Otis Kensworthy Walden
Lloyd Edson Seonard
Ruel
Frank Mullins
Edgar Duel Swafford
George Raine Young
Arthur Eldridge Jones
Cecil David Hicks
Wilson Alexander Skinner
Grivls
Barney Rider
Frank Edward Smith
Aseo
Sherwood Askew
Clyde Lester
Giles Clark Hatfield
Frederick Earl Hern
George Washington Griffin
Chester William Hunt
Carl Edward Rowe
James Guy Wardlaw
Paul Otto Proft
J. T. Rogers
Gilbert Thomas Bundy
James Richard Long
Glen Mitchell Williams
James Aubrey Collier
Marvin Orville Honea
Wayne S. Boyette
Chase L. Stephens
Cletus Reed Norvell
Lester Robinson Shaver
Olis Delmar Sisson
Clifford Cleveland Smith
George Thomas House
Truman Steele Perkison
Glen Austin Tice
Clayton Faddie
Russians Break Nazi Hold At Velikie Luki Rallying Front
Moscow reports Velikie Luki fell after a brutal siege as Soviet forces push a salient toward Leningrad and Semiensk. The advance threatens German lines from the Baltic to the Caucasus with Elista and other Kalmyk towns also reported captured. Speeds a new Moscow Riga railfront leverage amid broader winter offensive.
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Henry G. Cassidy
Moscow
Véliki Luki
Baltic Sea
Caucasu
Velikie Luki
Hikovskaya
Kotenikovski
Th Don
Obj
Elista
Kalmyek
Easta
Kalmyck
Stalingrad-Kotelniskovski
Caucasus
Chikola
Nalchik
Kazhedo
Saldun
Terek Riy
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NEA
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St. Charles, DL
Wilaiis Training School
Abilene
Tex
John Sublett
China
Air Base
Smolensk
Europe
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