Hempstead County Fair Plan Backers Seek City Aid
James Thrasher reflects on rebuilding Hempstead County Fair at Fair Park with an exhibit hall and livestock building. He argues city should cover major costs as fair uses city property, while county shares part to support regional district footing and annual autumn gathering for county and city residents. He muses on civic ambition and continuity of a storied district fair revived since 1929–33.
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Hempstead County
Fair Park
Fred Luck
City of Hope
Southwest Arkansas
Fairpark
Hempstead
Hope
Flying Aces Share Pilot Tips for Young Flyers in Richmond
In Richmond Virginia Lt Tony Porowski and Lt Herbert Holtmeijer both veterans of over 80 European combat missions share essential instrument guidance for cadets. They advise trusting instruments, oiling bearings, avoiding giving enemy a target by not pointing at friendly planes, not panicking, conserving fuel on long missions, and staying low to reach targets efficiently.
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Richmond
Army
Tony Porowski
Herbert Holtmeijer
Durable Peace Goal and War Work Draft Fights
Washington district coverage reports House Military Affairs Committee aims to finish a war work or fight bill by Monday with amendments. The measure shifts to civilian penalties, authorizes Byrnes to designate essential industries, and seeks farm labor deferral safeguards. Roosevelt begins a fourth term pledging durable peace and total victory while delivering a brief inaugural address.
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Dean W. Dittmer
Washington
House
Paul Kilday
Tex
Kilday
John J. Sparkman
Ala
James F. Byrnes
Lewis B. Hershey
William Lemke
N. D
House Agriculture Committee
Hershey
Lemke
Byrnes
Marvin Jones
Jones
Paul Stewart
Okla
Arthur Winstead
Miss
Winstead
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Harry Truman
Missour
Rememer
Mexico–United States plan for three million acres reclamation
The Mexican-American Commission for Economic Cooperation estimates the United States will spend about 118 million dollars on materials and equipment for long range irrigation, power and industrial developments in coming years. The report urges reclamation of three million acres of Mexican land.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Heroic destroyer sunk by Japanese planes and dog Butch
Survivors recount the Mahan sinking at Ormoc Bay on December 7, 1944 during Leyte operations. A dockside dog named Butch, aboard since birth, rode life rafts with sailors, shared meals, and reportedly befriended the captain, becoming a symbol of morale amid the battle.
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U. S
Butch
Bob Geiger
Pacific
Ulithi Harbor
Mahan
Ormoc Bay
Leyte
Plutch
Hayward
Bill
C. R
Bob" Harmon
Los Angeles
L. A. Warner
Upland
Calif
E. G. Campbell
Roland Frenchie Thibault
East Hampton
Mass
Hollandia
Promotion Elevates Maj. A. Pate Jr. to Lieut. Colonel
Maj. A. Pate Jr. receives promotion to lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps in England. Commissioned in July 1942, he trained at Carlisle Barracks Camp White Camp Adair Camp Bowie and Fort McPherson. A 1941 graduate of the University of Arkansas Medical School he interned at University Hospital. His wife and son Virgil A. Pate II reside with her parents in Texarkana.
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Virgil A. Pate Jr
V. A. Pate
Hot Springs
Army Medical Corps
England
Pate
Carlisle Baracks
Camp White
Camp Adair
Ore
Camp Bowie
Texas
Fort McPherson
University of Arkansas Medical School
University Hospital
Virgil A. Patell
J. W. Dolarhide
Texarkana
Payroll Theft Case Shocks Augusta Man
In Augusta a man who recently cashed a duplicate payroll check for 13.95 using a four leaf receipt discovered the alteration. Officials investigate the incident as a payroll fraud case and warn of further checks being forged.
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Nice
Augusta, Me
Reds Driving to Cut Off East Prussia
The Russians push toward East Prussia and threaten Berlin as 3,000,000 Red Army troops battle along an 80 mile front. Kepno nears the frontier, Gilgenburg and Neidenburg are reported in East Prussia, while Rokossovsky’s Second White Russian Army advances toward the Baltic coast. Continuous fighting and possible Kremlin victory notices mark the drive.
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Associated Press
London
East Prussia
Gulf of Danzig
Junkers
Berlin
Moscow
Kremlin
Ivan Konev
Kepno
Kemper
Wielun
Krakow
Volkssturm
Upper Silesian
Breslau
German Silesia
Warsaw
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Gilgenburg
Tannenburg
von Hindenburg
Masurian Lakes
Neidenburg
Ghorzelle
Gregory K. Zhukov
Vistula
Warta
Warthe
Nazis Launch New Offensive Through Alsace
American Seventh Army repelled a savage assault on Maginot Line defenses in Alsace near Strasbourg as German reserves poured across the Rhine. Snowbound Western Front and stiff Allied counter moves slowed Ardennes and Roer drives while German armor concentrated north of Strasbourg and near Hagenau forest. American air forces bombed enemy armor around Bischwiller and Drusenheim, destroying tanks and barges, as fighting raged along Hatten and Sessenheim under harsh winter conditions.
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Boyd Lewis
Paris
Seventh Army
Alsace
France
Rhine
Ardennes
Roer River
Strasbourg
Aginot Line
Hagenau Forest
Merican First
Third Army
Siegfried Line
Second Army
Aachen
Roer
Hatten
Bitche
Sessenheim
Bischwiller
Les Enheim
U. S
First Tactical Air Force
Drusenheim
First Army
Grinding Winter Battle of Belgian Bulge Tests Grit
HAL BOYLE reports from the First Army in Belgium on January 17 detailing how extreme cold and deep snow assay World War II soldiers. The piece highlights frozen wounds, halted tanks, icy roads, supply delays, and improvised fixes like wool bootlets and warm rations, noting veterans adapt quickly as ideas spread across divisions.
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Hal Boyle
Belgium
von Rundstedt
Ardennes
Belgian Bulge
30Th Infantry Division
Branner Purdue
Fayetteville
Ark
83Rd Division
Yanks 25 Miles From Clark Field In Luzon Advance
American armored columns pushed 50 miles inland toward Manila and reached within 25 miles of Clark Field as Sixth Army neared Tarlac. Reconnaissance hinted at a southward landing south of Manila while a new Agno River bridge eased supply moves. Western patrols topped Ambales range and scouted Dasol Bay as forces eye the Bataan coast.
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William B. Dickinson
MacArthur
Luzon
Manila
Clark Field
Sixth Army
Tarlac
Comei
FCC
Agno River
Ambales
Dasol Bay
Bataan
Lingayen Gulf
Eee
Homer T Glanton Killed in European War Theater
Sgt Homer T Glanton 33 of Emmet Route One was killed in action in the European theater December 25 The War Department notified his parents He enlisted December 1940 and trained at Camp Robinson and Camp Rucker He went overseas last November Survived by four brothers Grady L W T Arthur and Tommy and a sister Minnie Lee Also uncle of Sgt Fred A Glanton now in France
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Homer T. Glanton
T. A. Glanton
Emmet
War Department
Sgt. Glanton
Camp Robinson
Camp Rucker
Alabama
W. T
Benton
Ark
Grady L
Hot Springs
Arthur
Tommy
Minnie Lee Glanton
Texarkana
Sgt
Fred A. Glanton
France
Miss Lucille Ruggles Named National Fund Drive Pin-Up
Miss Lucille Ruggles of Shower Springs daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Ruggles has been chosen as the national pin-up girl for the Infantile Paralysis Foundation fund campaign Gov Ben Laney announced in a Little Rock radio address Miss Ruggles a Hope High School 1940 honor graduate was struck by infantile paralysis the following summer and her eloquence and appearance in a wheelchair drew national attention to the 1945 drive.
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Lucille Ruggles
W. B. Ruggles
Shower Springs
National Foundation For
Ben Laney
Little Rock
Ruggles
Hope High School
Laney
Wesley Myers Receives Naval Citation and Promotion
Mrs Margaret Myers of Hope is notified that her husband Wesley Eugene Myers earned a presidential citation for South Pacific action and was promoted from coxswain to boatswain's mate 2vC. He trained in San Diego and at Terminal Island California, and is assigned to an LCI ship. Mrs Myers is daughter of Mr and Mrs C V Holiman of 307 Ferguson Street.
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Margaret Myers
Hope
Wesley Eugene Myers
South Pacific
2Vc
Myers
San Diego
Naval Air Station
Terminal, Island
Calif
LCI
C. V. Holiman
Ferguson Street
Marines Consider Suing Japs for Copycat Tactics
In the Pacific theater Marines boast about countering Japanese copycat moves with humor and bravado. A combat correspondent notes quotes from Marines about copyrighting tactics and planning action if a World Court challenge arises.
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Pacific
Pete Zurlinder
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Nash
Stueart Grocer Company
James Thrasher
Opa
National Association of Tobacco Distributors
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Roe
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Pravda
Ehrenburg
Santiago
Cape Bolinao
Bolinac
San Roques
Bani
Infanta
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Ali Pay
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San Antonio
Sampaloc PT
Bagad Bataan
Agloloni
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Philippines
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Pasay
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Nielson
Luzon Island
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Crux
Kapalong
FDR
Ernie Aamale
China
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Tokyo
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Japan
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Durham
N. C
Missouri
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Martin
Jewett
A. Pate, Jr
Reds
Europe
T. Homer Tlanton
U.S
Wesley Myers
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