Our Daily Bread in 1943 Paralysis Campaign Urges Help
Governor Homer M. Adkins appeals for Arkansas infantile paralysis relief pledges as 142 state cases are noted. John H. Greene leads the state chapter from Hempstead County with Roosevelt’s birth month dedication, urging contributions to the Hempstead county drive via Terrell Cornelius in Hope.
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Arkansas
Homer M. Adkins
Arkansas State Chapter
Adkins
Hempstead
Arkansas State
John H. Greene
Little Rock
Roosevelt
Terrell Cornelius
23 Nazi Planes Shot Down Over Tunisia Friday
Allied air forces battled Axis planes in Tunisia with day and night combat. The big engagement saw 28 German and Italian planes shot down, including seven during a daylight strike on airfields and seven more from a coastal attack on transports. The LaFayette unit claimed its first enemy planes, and Algiers reported alerts with no damage.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Marshal Rommmel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Rommel
Tripoli
Sirege
Gubes
Algiers
LaFayette Escadrille
Pfighting
Rem- Mel
Paper Missing Call Star by 6 30
Subscribers who fail to get their paper are asked to call The Star, phone 768, not later than 6:30 oclock. Special delivery of missed copies will be made between 5:30 and 6:30 and after 6:40 complaints will be received for attention the following day.
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The
Star
No Klondike Brawls The OWI Upholds Troop Conduct
The Office of War Information commends its observers for debunking rumors that American troops in ramp are rumhounds or tossts. OWI findings from firsthand reports conclude drinking among troops is not extensive, light beer in post exchanges aids sobriety, and the Army remains orderly as a cross section of civilian America. Continued on Page Two.
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Klondike
Office of War Information
Ramp
OWL
America
Midway Oil Field Drilling Delayed by Wet Terrain and Scramble for Operations
In Lafayette county Midway field, Southwood Oil Company remains sole operator with over a dozen locations awaiting drilling orders. Hodwelt No. 1 tests at below 1500 feet in section 18-15-23 amid heavy clearing and makeshift roads. West of Midway, Barnsdall spudded a wildcat Grace No. 1 in Miller county, while Hunt Oil’s Stamps Land No. 1 NW NW in Nevada county nears depth 5263 feet before fishing. Existing war-utility shifts in Detroit machinery usage and Red Cross ships with Clara Barton noted.
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Stamps
Ark
Speeviag
Hope Star
Southwood Oil Company
New Midway
Lafayette County
Southwood
Midway
Thie
Barnsdall Oil Company
Millers County
Hunt Oil Company
Stamps Land
CNW
Nevada County
Buckner
New Milk Price Ceiling Set by OPA in Six-State Area
The OPA announced a new milk price ceiling system covering Texas Oklahoma Missouri Louisiana Arkansas and Kansas effective Monday replacing the March 1 1942 levels. Two zones with three classes set regional wholesale and retail prices by city and size, aiming to ease dairy supply balance and curb cattle slaughter while allowing discounts below max in some cases. Government officials cited previous imbalances and regional price disparities as reasons for the reform.
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Dallas
Tex
OPA
Sean Henderson
Texas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Louisiana
Arkansas
Kansas
Max McCullough
McCullough
GPA
Ollahmoa
Striking Miners Add 3800 To Wildcat Walkout In Pa
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania about 3800 miners joined an 18 day old wildcat strike despite a War Labor Board ultimatum ordering 10000 to 17000 others to return to work. insurgent locals of the United Mine Workers adopted a resolution demanding a 50 cent monthly dues cut by January 15. WLB warned it would mobilize powers to resume production and might seek presidential seizure of mines to avert a broader coal shortage. Spokesmen avoided naming strikers, saying only members can decide whether to heed the order.
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Wilkes-Barre
Srike
Wildcat
Pennsylvania
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
UMW
Roosevelt
WLB
Allies Break Through Japanese Lines In New Guinea
Allied ground forces have broken through near Sanapund on the Papua peninsula and killed 152 Japanese attempting to halt the advance. Quantities of arms and equipment were captured as remnants of a once large force press for a clear Papua. A separate raid near Mubo destroyed a Japanese HQ post, a radio station, and supply dumps, according to the Allied communique.
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Australia
Jata
Papua
New Guinea
Sanapund
Gue
Bulletin
Sanananda
Buna
Flashes of Life and Oddities Across United States
A collection of brief items: a Rochester audience claps early amid a pleasure ban. an Alaskan outpost chaplain volunteers as a longshoreman to load ships and pays expenses via the University of Oregon. a patient at Mt Sinai to face years of recovery after a rare infant appendectomy performed on a three day old, per Dr Mannheimer. Chicago’s Medinah Club faces a Ford truck mishap on the pool deck as aviation cadets count rises past 750.
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Old Hand
Joseph M. Applegate
Cureu Boulevard
Christina
Los Angeles
University of Oregon
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Herman Magnus
Stephen Mannheimer
Mannheimer
Mistrial Bid Sought Over Flynn Case Jury Remarks
Prosecution seeks mistrial in Errol Flynn statutory rape case citing affidavits from three women on the venire who heard two jurors express bias. Hearing set for next Monday as defense plans to resist. Flynn faces charges tied to Betty Hansen and a 1947 yacht trip involving two teenage girls.
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Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Venire
Jerry Giesler
Flynn
Harriet R. Ponder
Elaine Forbes
Miss Forbes
Bet Air House
Betty Hansen
Sireeco
Peggy Ja Rue Sutterlee
Rice Owls Fall to Razorbacks in Opener of Nogame Series
Fayetteville reports Rice's Owls were routed by Arkansas Razorbacks 62 to 85 in the opener of a two game series that ends tonight. Rice must improve substantially to contend for the Southwest title, as they did last season.
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Fayetteville
Rice
Owls
Arkkansas Razorbacks
Razorbacks
Republicans Fight Over Leadership In Arkansas House
In the 1943 Arkansas legislature two Republicans clash over minority leadership. Custar R. Ham claims seniority and chairs the rules committee, while Curtis R. Swaim contends Ham’s seat was voided. The battle, marked by GOP deadlock, continues as Democrats watch.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
House
Custar R. Ham
Newton County
Curtis R. Swaim
Madison County
ULL
Ham
Swaim
Hina
Swami
Power Pool offers line to deliver Arkansas aluminum plant power
At a Federal Power Commission hearing in Little Rock on January 16, C Hamilton Moses of Arkansas Power and Light testified the Southwest Power Pool proposed building a transmission line from Grand River dam to Lake Catherine to supply the aluminum plant without profit. The Ark La Electric Cooperative Inc. had been authorized to build a parallel high voltage line to Lake Catherine, linking to government dam generators, despite pool opposition.
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Little Rock
Southwest
Grand River Dam
Lake Catherine
Arkansas Power
Federal Power Commission
C. Hamilton Moses
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Moses
FPC
Ark - la Electric Cooperative Inc
Lorient Hit Again by Big RAF Bombers
London reports Lorient, a German submarine base in western France, was heavily attacked last night by British bombers. Western Germany targets and rail lines in France, Holland, and Belgium were hit. two bombers did not return. The raid, the 59th on Lorient, featured bright moonlight and large fires in the dock area.
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London
Lorient
Fance
Air Ministry
Germany
France
Holland
Belgium
U. S
British Isles
England
Hazebrouck
Ypres
Air Ministryews Service
Experts Called to Cap Wild Gas Well
Houston fighters move to cap the Tidewater Associated Oil Mack No. 1 well near Magnolia as the State Oil and Gas Commission enforces precautions for fire and hydrogen sulfide. Evacuations were ordered, masks worn, and all fires within four miles extinguished while ventilation and gas salvage efforts proceed.
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Magnolia
Houston
Tex
Tidewater Associated Oil Company
State Oil and Gas Commission
Last Natural Barrier Push Against Rostov Near Donets Barrier
Russian forces pressed toward Rostov from the Don and Donets frontiers as they enclose the Manych region southeast of Rostov. Soviet dispatches claim gains along the Don and Donets, with targets including Glubokaya Shakhtinsky Litvinovka and Blagodarnoye. Morphing advances threaten the city’s last natural barrier, amid winter hardness and renewed German resistance.
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Henry C
Cassidy
Moscow
Red Arm
Donets
Kamensk
Rostov
Caucasus
Don
Borodinov
Polseluiov
K. Amensk
Moscow-Rastov
Millera
Information Bureau
Sal Manych
Manych
Northe
Pos
Kalmyck
Elista
Salsk
Rosivo
Mos
Ales
Glubokaya
Rostov-Mocow
Kamensk Shakhtinsky
Litvinovka
Middleon
Coe Diadin
Sltvinovka
Nogutskoye
Mineralynye Vody
Bekeshevaskaya
Baku-Rostov
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Yermenko
Stalingrad
Vatutin
Yeremenko
Constantin Hokossovsky
Lower Don
Yostov
North Caucasus
London
Soviet Monitor
Northern
Red Army
Velitie Liki
Greman
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Reds
Alex. H. Washburn
Tunisia
Wlomobile
By S. Burton Heath
Detroit Automobile Industries
Pearl Harbor
Clara Barton
Red Cross
Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Philharmonic
Chicago
Larry Bell
Med@inah
Walter Schlueter
Bell
Avialion
U.S
Eir SO
NEA
War Production Board
Parker
Younley
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