Social and Personal News Roundup Wednesday to Thursday
Local clubs and church groups hold gatherings across the community from a Jett B Graves Sunday School dinner to Choral Club rehearsals at Mrs Garrett Story home and Volunteer Nurses Aide meetings at City Hall. Lane groups and garden clubs meet at homes for social hours and planned hospital beautification efforts.
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Jett B. Graves
Barlow
Garrett Story
Chamber of Commerce
Order of the Twastern Star
Masonic Mall
Lime Garden Club
Malcolm Porterfield
City Hall
First Baptist Sunday School
Coming and Going After to visit with Mr. and Mrs
Mrs Elsie Ward has returned to her Camden home while Mrs Ralph Routon and Mrs J S McDavitt travel to St Louis. They will be joined there by Pvt William Routon from Scott Field for a pending reunion or visit.
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BW. Edwards
Elsie &d Wards
Camden
Ralph Routon
J. S. McDavitt
St. Louis
Pvt
William Routon
Scatt Field
Shaver Admits Nickname Confusion in Beck Moniker
Lt. Guy James Levesque Shaver explains reporters and public spell his name as Beck, a nickname misheard from childhood. He traces origins to Jim Levesque and early mispronunciations, noting many variations from Buck to West before Beck stuck in print.
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Little Rock
Jun
Guy James Levesque Shaver
Wa Yie
Fim
Shaver
Beck
Bex
Jim Levesque
Cross County
Local Social Notes From Prescott and Nearby Towns
Mrs. William Johnson returns home in Prescott with Leo Robins for the week. Mrs. Frank Malone of Sherman visits relatives. The Robins travel to Little Rock for the day. L. H. Rials of Texarkana guest of EB. B. S. Kanklin. Mrs. V. F. Williams departs for Atlanta after 18 months here. Mac McCormick and E. S. Franklin host El Dorado visitors. Venecil Pritehint hospitalized after major operation. Twin sons Ronald Theron and Donald Clyde born to Theron Bright and Noel Huckabee at Josephine hospital.
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William Johnson
Prescott
Leo Robins
Little Rock
L. H. Rials
Texarkana
Kanklin
Theron Bright
Noel Huckabee
Lewisville
Josephine Hospital
Ronald Theron
Donald Clyde
Arthur Haden Dies at Home Near Blevins
Hempstead county resident Arthur Haden died yesterday at his home on the Royston Farm near Blevins. Funeral services were to be held at 2 40 p m today at Sardis. He is survived by his wife and several children. The rest of the text describes World War II air actions and troop movements, including Allied air squadrons pounding Rommel's retreating army, British parachutists behind lines, and airfield attacks around Tripoli and Castel Benito with ships and harbor raids noted.
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Arhur Haden
Hempstead
Royston
Blevins
Sardis
Tripoli
Tarhuna
Romimel
Eighth Army
Berlin
Rommel
Haerass
Castel Benito
Sicily
Sousse
Tunisia
Germans Make Continued Advance Toward Tripoli
The Eighth Army swept Axis forces from Tarhuna to the Algerian border, taking prisoners, guns, and vehicles as it pressed west toward Tripoli. General Montgomery’s northern wing moved forward and closed in on Homs along the coastal road by evening.
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Tarhuna
Tripoli
Eighth Army
Genrral
Bernard L. Montgomery
8Th Army
Ak Ziiten
Homs
Read
Fred West
Ms Whirlwinds
Cynthia Merriwether
Henry Prentiss
Merriwether
Shaver Sticks to Bex Despite Beck Preference
The passage notes a dispute over name spelling as Shaver insists on Bex while others use Beck, and his official stationery remains printed with Bex, highlighting a small friction over personal branding.
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Shaver
I Am a Murderer Chapter IV Polo Feud and Fractured Pride
Henry Prentiss dominates polo. Cynthia Merriwether rebukes his fouls and bravado. A tense ride home cools tempers as Prentiss contemplates the fallout and a possible change in his game and attitude.
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Captain Pugh
Henry Prentiss
Cynthia
Hank
Pretty
Gaylark
Mike
Hin
Madge Bellamy shoots at lumber exec in San Francisco
San Francisco Jan 20 Madge Bellamy known as a film star became the central figure in a real life drama after firing three shots at A Stanwood Murphy a prominent lumber company executive. She told police Inspector Frank Lucey the shooting followed revelations ofMurphy marrying another woman. Murphy escaped unharmed and Bellamy was jailed awaiting bail.
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Richard Cushig
San Francisco
Madge Bellamy
Silantums
Pacific Union Club
Nob Hill
Frank Lucey
A. Stanwood Murphy
Murphy
June Alma
New York
Baltimore
Inspector Lucey
Miss Bellamy
Standers
City
Margaret Philpot
Jake Ehrlich
Palm Springs
Calif
Reds Push To Enclose Forces In Donets River Area
Red troops pushed toward Belaya Kaliva on the north bank of the Donets as Stalingrad region forces advance from Voronezh and the Don bend. They encircled a force between Kamenka and Rossosh, bounded by the Don and the Moscow Rostov line. Since last Wednesday 52,000 prisoners were taken, including 27,300 Hungarians and 22,000 Italians, plus 2,500 Germans.
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Belaya Kaliva
Donets
Stalingrad - Likheya
Voronezh Front
Don Bend
Kamenka
Rossosh
Don River
Moscow - Rostov
Flynn nomination test sparks nationwide Senate hearing
Washington January 20 the Senate Foreign Relations committee heard witnesses for and against Edward J Flynn’s nomination as minister to Australia. Flynn, former Democratic national chairman, spoke in his own defense as a public clamor for admission rose. Meanwhile officials tracked strikers’ response to Roosevelt’s coal field ultimatum and the OPA drive against a scattered meat black market.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
OPA
Third Daughter for Princess of Netherlands
Ottawa reports Crown Princess Juliana born a third daughter weighing seven pounds twelve ounces in a Canada declared extra territorial hospital suite. The event makes the child the first Dutch royal born outside the Netherlands and the first European royal born in North America. Prince Bernhard and Queen Wilhelmina are involved. Beatrix and Irene follow in line of succession.
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Ottawa
Juliana
the Netherland
Canada
Holland
Theroyal House of Orange
Netherlands
North America
Prince Bernhard
London
Wilhelmina
Beatrix
Irene
Rickenbacker to Be Baseball Speaker
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker will be the principal speaker at the New York Baseball Writers' dinner on February 7, announced yesterday. The famed automobile racer and World War I ace recently survived drifting at sea for nearly three weeks after his plane forcefully ditched while on an Army mission.
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New York
Eddie Rickenbacker
New York Baseball Writers
Rickenbacker
Pacific Ocean
Army
Congress battles over labor, sugar, and rail wage disputes
Senators aired a string of disputes as Democrats dodged a party split by backing a vote to keep an American labor congressman from a major committee. Bridges accused Flynn of past misconduct while Flynn called the charges false as hearings proceeded in the Senate, with state department officials also set to testify.
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Congress
Senate
Flynn
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
State Department
Bridges
Bronx County
New York
Dutch Schultz
Lake Mahopac
N. Y
New York City
Schoolboy Friend of U S Troops Stirs Franco American Bond
AP Features recounts a French Moroccan schoolboy who drafted a warm letter to American soldiers in Africa, praising their aid, sharing admiring notes on life with U.S. troops, and offering basic English phrases for practical use. The piece highlights morale and cross Allied friendship during wartime.
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Harold V. Boyle
Caskablanca
Africa
Everett J. Gordon
N Street
Washington, D. C
America
Rink
Champange
France
New York
Dr. Tathan Huberman
Hart Street
Brooklin
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