Flood Control Debates Reach State Board Meeting
Washington AP note reports Oklahoma congressman Albert facing the board of engineers January 20 to oppose Millwood reservoir. discussion includes Little River plans and the shift to multiple small dams, with impacts suggested for flood control and recreation funding amid tax concerns and rumors about Stalin and global politics.
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Washington
Albert
Oklahoma
Board of Armyneers
Millwood
Little River
Fulton
Centre Woods
Little Rivers
Arkansas
McCurtain County
Hed River
Oklahomas
Chamber of Commerce highway pledge supports Blevins road
Twenty years ago the chamber of commerce highway committee led by WLOY Foster and A A Gentry pledged aid to Judge Jol L Wilson and urged the construction of the Blevins road. Seviers guests praised J D Barlow's hotels and meals. A L Betts announced mayoral candidacy and Frederick Webb sought re election. Tire prices as low as 3 65 and spring coats and shoes advertised up to 408.
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Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
Wloy
Foster
A. A. Gentry
Jol L. Wilson
Cele Blevins Road
Tyre
Seviers
J. D. Barlow
A. L Betts
Frederick Webb
Agre l Corder
Mun
Glen Walker Declares Candidacy for City Attorney
Glen Walker a Hempstead County native and University of Arkansas Law School graduate announces for City Attorney in Hope's February 1 preferential primary. A WWII military law instructor and former Trial Judge Advocate at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, he also served as Claims and Litigation Officer for the War Department's Cleveland Ordnance District. He pledges impartial service free of local interests and says public support will be on that basis.
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Len Walker
Mr. Walker
Hempstead County
University of Arkansas School of Law
Walker
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Maryland
War Department
Cleveland Ordnance District
Cleveland
Ohio
Bill Jones Tied to Major Texas Oil Find
Plymouth Oil Company announced the discovery of a west Texas field in Upton County. Bill Jones, ex Hope citizen, holds a senior role with Benedum & Trees units Miawatha Oil and formerly led Benedum & Trees operations in Waterloo Nevada County. He now resides in San Antonio and may play a key part in offshore Texas drilling rights over 200000 acres.
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Plymouth Oil Company
West Texas
Upton County
Hope
Plymouth
Benedum& Trees
Bill Jones
Hope Citizen
Zane
Mr. Jones
Benedum & Trees
Waterloo
Nevada County
San Antonio
Texas
Miawatha Oil Company
Jones
New Upton County
Sheriffs Seek Habitual Criminal Law Review
The Arkansas Sheriffs Association urged the 1949 legislature to enact a habitual criminal law imposing life sentences for felons with three offenses. The group also backed reporting gunshot wounds, higher automobile registration fees, expanded officer training, and firearm destruction laws. W. E. Davis became president, succeeding Leon J. Brown. new and reappointed officers were named, with several advancing roles and lifetime memberships.
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Mut Springs
Arkansas Sheriffs Association
W. E. Davis
Miller County
Leon J. Brown
Craighead County
H. K. McKenzie
Monroe counMay
J. G. Brown
Garland County
Association
Custom
Cecil Goodwin
Crimenden County
LG. Bray
Howard Clayton
Desha County
Leon Brown
Five Charged With Receiving Stolen Money
Five people named in a Federal Grand Jury indictment charged with receiving and concealing part of the loot from the Seymour bank robbery. Emma Halcomb of Marshfield is accused of $30, Flora Filbeck $40, Wilbur Clark $135, James Castcel $75, and James Robinson $3. Petty, known as Duke, pleaded guilty to several bank robbery charges and was sentenced to 25 years.
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Kansas City
Louis A. Petty
Seymour
Emma Margaret Halcomb
Marshfield
Petty
Flora Mat Filbeck
Wilbur Frank Clark
James Castecl
James Robinson
Ozarks
Duke
Senators Appeal for Support of Recovery Plan
Senators Hazen and Smith urged Congress to set aside party differences and back a European recovery program. They pressed for a nonpolitical compromise on Truman’s plan, with a proposed 15 month aid package totaling about 6.4 billion dollars. Continued on Page Two.
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Jack Bell
Washington
IPI
Congress
Hazen
Smith
Hatch
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Marshall
House
Republican
Democratic
Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Europe
New Mexico
Fulbright Backed On Universal Military Training View
Little Rock January 9 Senator Fulbright of Arkansas voiced support for legislation to implement President Truman s universal military training plan. He called compulsory training a dire necessity but later doubted the length of the training period preferring a stronger standing army and said he would favor science and research over military prep. He predicted a modified National Science Foundation bill and urged tax relief for lower brackets, favors altered corporation taxes, supports federal aid to education with state control, and backs a 60 to 65 cent minimum wage rather than 75 cents.
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Little Rock
Fulbright
Arkansas
Truman
National Science Foundation
Murder Trial in Hot Springs Goes to Jury
In Hot Springs on January 9, the trial of 41 year old Watter Hild for murder was set to go to the jury after the state rested its case. Defense witnesses claimed mental instability and the defendant pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Mrs. Hild, estranged, was shot to death last August 2 at a cafe where she worked.
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Hot Springs
Watter Hild
Hild
Joe
Junior
Atom
Robbins Denies Poisoning Wife In Strychnine Case
Russellville dispatch says Lennie A. Robbing a 49 year old Clinton widower, denies guilt in the strychnine death of Mrs Helen Roberts, a 43 year old Little Rock widow. An autopsy by Van Buren County Coroner H J Hall found Mrs Sue Dudley Robbins died of strychnine poisoning New Year’s Eve, four hours after returning from their Abilene honeymoon. A bottle of poison was found at the Scotland, Arkansas home. Investigators question Robbins overnight as officers expand inquiry into source of purchase. Mrs Roberts told how she met Robbins in a Little Rock electrical store where she worked clerking and he bought an electric iron.
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Russellville
Jan
Lennie A. Robbing
Clinton
Ark
Texas
Robbins
Dardanelle
Helen Roberts
Little Rock
van Buren County
H. J. Hall
Sue Dudley Robbins
Abilene
Tex
Scotland
Hall
Doyce Casinger
Roberts
Republicans Use Same Old Strategy In 1948 Race
The piece outlines a familiar Republican approach in 1948, attacking the New Deal and Roosevelt while praising or opposing Truman proposals. It notes Senator Taft’s radio critique of Truman’s ideas, echoing Governor Dewey’s line a day earlier, showing coordinated opposition to the Roosevelt era.
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Washington
San
Yuman
Roosevelt
Truman
Taft
Ohio
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Tomorrow's Future Promises Odd Predictions and Humor
A humorous look at future forecasts from crystal balls to 21st century fashion. The piece parodies optimistic predictions by advertisers and designers, imagining flying clothes, self controlling outfits, and gadgets, while Americans prefer the familiar gritty present. It contrasts fanciful visions with everyday life and a wary mood toward change.
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New York
Reyes
Advertising Club of
Faraway
Widow Tells of Relations With Robbins
An attractive 48 year old widow, Mrs Helen Roberts of Little Rock, told police that Bonnie Ambrose Robbins was making love to her while strangers lowered the body of his wife into the grave. She described a year of courtship before Robbins married 54 year old Mrs Sue Dudley Robbins in Texas on Christmas Day. Roberts recalled dates, a promised marriage, and a later, abrupt wedding in Arkansas after a sudden death. She said Robbins pretended the Texas wife was not his wife and offered to marry her, then fled. She offered to help clear up the case and denied knowing of the Texas marriage until questioned by state police.
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Russellville
Bonnie Ambrose Robbins
Helen Roberts
Little Rock
Robbins
Sue Dudley Robbins
Texas
Mrs. Roberts
Clinton, Ark
Dudley
Dardanette
Mys
Toberly
Pin
Barly
Tourist Court
Arkansas
Roberts
Dardanelle
VEW Scrap Paper Drive to Collect Sunday
The semi monthly VFW scrap paper drive will be held Sunday January 1 between 2 and 4 pm Residents are asked to place strap paper magazines and cardboard boxes on porches or curbs for pickup by collectors Local cooperation is appreciated.
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VFW
Airport Featured in Arkansas Airman Magazine
The current Arkansas Aviation issue highlights Hope Municipal Airport with a photo of the hangar and details on its size and facilities, noting its role in local aviation offerings.
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Arkansas
Airman Magazine
Cwrent
Alvian, & Magazine
Hope Municipal
Norman Man Faces Rape Charges
Mt. Ida January 9 Deputy Prosecutor John Freeman filed an assault with intent to rape charge against John Hamilton 55 year old Norman Ark laborer. The information accuses Hamilton of attempted rape of his eight year old daughter. Hot Springs Judge Clyde H. Brown ordered Hamilton sent to state hospital at Little Rock for a mental examination.
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Mt. Ida
John Freeman
John Hamilton
Norman
Ark
Freeman
Hamilton
Hot Springs
Clyde H. Brown
Hamilto
State Hospital
Little Rock
Explosives Bound for Holy Land Seized in New Jersey
A tip led to the seizure of 57 tons of explosives in Monmouth County and Wall Township near Asbury Park, linked to a Palestine bound shipment of TNT. Nine men were arrested, including Charles Lowy, held on charges of storing explosives without a permit. The cache, believed to include cyclonite, was traced to a Romulus New York depot and a New York City address.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Monmouth County
J. Victor Carton
Jersey City
Wall Township
Seneca
Romulus
N. Y
Charles Lowy
Lowy
Justice of the Peace
Fred Quinn
Freehold
Ausbry Park
Carton
Eon Bay
Iit
Foundry Associates, Inc
East 42Nd St
New York City
New York
Picatinny Arsenal
Lake Denmark
Shoebox Bomb injures three in Jerusalem
A crude shoebox bomb exploded on an Arab bus in Jerusalem injuring two Arabs and a British policeman. Passengers hurled the box away as smoke appeared, a blast creating a sidewalk crater and shattered shop windows. The incident sparked Jerusalem's first general alarm in six weeks amid escalating Jewish Arab tensions over partition. A Jewess was later shot in no man's land between Arab and Jewish areas, raising casualties in the Holy Land crisis.
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Jerusalem
Jerusaem
Holy Land
Jaffa
Tel Aviv
United Nations
El Dorado Newsman Recovers From Heart Attack
El Dorado January 9 Charles Goslee night news editor of the El Dorado Daily News is recuperating in El Dorado hospital after a heart attack suffered last night. Goslee, a veteran Arkansas newsman, had previously worked in Hot Springs with newspapers there.
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EL Dorado
Charles Gosiee
el Dorado Daily News
EL Derady Hospital
Lienday Night- Goslee
Arkansas
Hot Springs
Stassen Links White House insiders to profits in war trades
Washington reports that Javi Stassen told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that insiders in the administration profited about 4000 by trading in commodities during the war. He named Edwin W. Pauley and Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham as figures who did not fully disclose trading, urging further investigation into alleged profiteering.
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Washington
Javi
Uphi E. Stassen
Ahw
Stassen
Senate
Edwin W. Pauley
Army Royall
le Stassen
Fawley
Stasen
Prescrit National Administration
Pauley
Nam
Wallace H. Graham
Ralph Davis
Four bandits rob New Orleans bank in early hours
Four bandits forced entry at a mid city branch of the National Bank of New Orleans. They escorted staff to separate rooms, forced opening of money buses, and escaped in a parked car after taking wallets. One employee received head injuries. manager George Picou absent. Police seek details.
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New. Orleans
Porte
Thie Brenia National Bank
Joseph L. Thomas
Porter
Hymel Amueédo
Amuedo
Amucdo
G. C. Bi
Thaning
Cits
George W. Picou
Perm
Bin
Holi
New Orleans
Group Inspire Fair Park Tour by civic groups leans on Fair Park
Twenty representatives from Pre Cell civic organizations led by the Chamber of Commerce toured Fair Park this morning. Coach Nolan Toliett Thomas and CG A Armitage accompanied them. They studied facilities, spent time visiting the swimming pag and other areas noting 95 percent completion.
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Chamber of Commerce
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