McKamie Gas Cleaning Plant Opens Near Stamps
Major industry advance for the region as McKamie Gas Cleaning Company starts a sour gas treating plant in the McKamie field eight miles south of Stamps. The $1 million facility will process up to 40 million cubic feet daily with by products including natural gasoline butane isobutane and hydrogen sulfide. Utilities contracts link Arkansas Power & Light and Arkansas Louisiana Gas to fuel plants and aluminum production, while hydrogen sulfide by product targets Southern Acid & Sulphur Company. This fast moving project signals a growing power chemical sector south of the area.
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Arkansas
McKamie Gas Cleaning Company
McKamie
Stamps
McKamie Company
Carter Ol Company
Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
Southern Acid & Sulphur Co
North
Little Rock
McKami
Unis
Prentiss Brown Takes Charge of OPA Challenges Ahead
Prentiss M. Brown, 53, former Michigan senator, assumes leadership of the OPA to win consumer support for gradual price rise controls and rationing aid. He seeks a $20 million deficiency appropriation, new transportation subsidies, and possibly a top staff shakeup. He plans to petition Congress for funds and keep Henderson’s advisory circle as he guides the agency through impairment and policy questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
Brown
Congress
Michhgian
Leon Henderson
James Bymids
Ienderson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Colsegues
Clyde
D-Jawar
Frank Elfuol
D-Mich
Judge Frees Madge Bellamy on $500 Bond
In San Francisco on January 21 Madge Bellamy the silent film star was released on $500 bail after a judge granted a week before the arraignment a continuance in the assault with a deadly weapon case. Bellamy said she fired at A Stanwood Murphy to scare him after he jilted her for June Alamy. Police say she claimed three shots were fired but missed. Murphy, a lumber company executive, had recently married in Baltimore to June Alamy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Madge Bellamy
Salemnry
A. Stanwood Murphy
Chester Mortis
Murphy
Pacific Union
Frank Lucey
Mid-South Offers Crop and Stock Loans in Hempstead
John J. Barrow of the Memphis Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office says Hempstead county farmers are applying for Emergency Crop and Feed Loans to finance 1943 crops. Loans up to 400 dollars at 4 percent, available to owners or tenants with land, stock, and equipment, with first lien on crops or livestock as security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Barrow
Memphis
Hempstead
Mid-South Cotton Office
Ape
Barrow
Strike Ends as Most Miners Return to Work
Wilkes-Barre January 21 The Pennsylvania wildcat coal strike appears ended as most miners return to jobs before a Roosevelt back-to-work deadline. About 3,000 idle remain in four locals with planned meetings. unions at Glen Alden Lehigh Valley Coal and Payne Coal sources reported resumed activity amid no disorder and government danger of troops.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Stikers
Woodward
Ifuberan Lenece
Glen Alden Company
Perspeet-Heney
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
David Cummings
United Mine Workers’ Lance Colliery
Exeter Colliery
Lehigh Valley Company
McClellan Presses Milk Price Ceilings Revision
Senator McClellan urged immediate raises in Arkansas dairy price ceilings and warned the Office of Price Administration of responsibility for any blunder. He telegraphed Clarence Nichols in Dallas, saying the situation in Lillie Rock, Pine Bluff, Jonesboro, Fordyce, Camden and nearby towns is critical. He cited pressure from producers and consumers who fear price ceilings will devastate the dairy industry and asked for an investigation of Arkansas ceilings.
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Washington
McClallan
D-Ark
Arkansas
Clarence Nichols
OPA
Dallas
Texas
Lillie Rock
Pine Bluff
Jonesboro
Fordyce
Camden
British Drive in Libya And Axis Gains in Tunisia
British Eighth Army with a Fighting French desert column pushed Rommel’s rear guard within about 35 miles of Tripoli as Axis withdrawals showed disorganization. In Tunisia, German forces gained a seven mile thrust southwest of Pont du Fahs while Allied air forces bombed and supported French troops.
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Associated Press
London
Eighth Army
Rommel
Nefuse Ridge
Tripoli
Tarhuna
Touwn
Hons
Cairo
Bermud
Montgomery
Rommide
Pont du Fahs
Ruo Arada
North Africa
Tunisia
Pont du Fhay
le Clerc
Jacques le Clerc
North
Africa
Africa Corps
Mediterranean
Tunisian
Aegean Sea
Mussolini
Sicily
Flashes of Life in War Era Snippets Across US Cities
A collection of brief, humorous clippings from wartime life. Green haired recruit jokes in Fort Jackson. a Newport News sergeant and Private Adlin Harwood comment on hair dyes. Hartford closes municipal buildings on weekends to save fuel while baths stay open. Pennsylvania’s governor moves into a residence with items marked ME for executive. A stray sheep notice in Weir, Oklahoma leads to prank calls. Rear Admiral Eliot Buckmaster identified at a blood donation center. Dallas county board of records faces relocation due to inefficiency and humorous complaints about staff.
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Associated Press
Fort Jackson
5. C
Pvt
Adlin Harwood
Asheville
N. C
Karwood
Jap Destroyer Bombed by U.S. Naval Planes
The Navy reports a Japanese destroyer off Bougainville was bombed by U S planes and eight enemy aircraft were shot down in the Shortland island area. Early January actions included bombardment of Munda on New Georgia and a B 17 strike at Cape Friendship with carrier and escort support.
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Tunisia
Sicily
Washington
Navy
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Shortland Island
South Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Island
Cape Friendship
Easter
United States
35 Killed in Crash of U. S. Army Transport
Washington reports the loss of a contracted Army transport plane with 26 passengers and nine crew aboard near the Dutch Guiana coast on January 15. Major General Harold L. George announced partial identifications, listing several named officers and officials among the dead or missing.
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U. S. Army
Washington
Army
Dutch Guiana
South America
Harold L. George
Air Transport Command
Eric M. Knight
Plasnat Valley
William Hodson
New York
State Department
P. E. Foxworth
Federal Bureau of Investigation
D. Herfeld
FBI
James W. Seeger
Albert L. Seeman
Henryson
Dr. S. 8
Russell A. Baughman
Robert M. Stofler
Ellis M. Roberts
Carl A. Matlee
Charles 8. Shively
Caraway to Promote Cotton Plan for Postwar Use
Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas plans a campaign to make the nation more cotton conscious. She argues the U S has lost its cotton monopoly and calls for expanding cotton use in war and postwar life, noting Egypt Brazil and India now rival U S production. She aims to involve war and other departments to boost demand and export potential.
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Washington
Hattie W. Caraway
United States
Egypt
Brazil
India
Araway
Arkansas
Ex Hope Boy Wins Army Promotion
Winfred Dobbs of 218 South Broad way Albuquerque New Mexico has been promoted from corporal to sergeant. He is stationed at a growing technical school training air mechanics who keep Uncle Sam's planes flying worldwide.
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Winfred Dobbs
South Broadway
Alburquerque
New Mexico
Cpl
Set
Uncle Sam
Vincent Foster Receives Call to Active Duty
Vincent W Foster a lieutenant gunner in the U S Naval Reserve has been ordered to report for temporary duty at the Naval Training School Naval Air Station Quonset Point Rhode Island February 23 The former Hope Arkansas businessman and past president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce there studied at Texas A and M College and Baylor University.
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New Orleans
Vincent W. Foster
U.S. Naval Reserve
Naval Training School
Naval Air Station
Quonset Point
Rhodesland
Office of Public Relations
Eighth Naval District
Foster
South Elms Street
Hope
Comerce
Texas A. Whd
Sour Gas Plant to Be Finished in June
The Mc Kamie Gas Cleaning Company's $1,500,000 gas desulphurization plant, located south of here, is slated for completion late June or July. It will be the first in the state to use about 500 billion cubic feet of sour gas reserves for industry, processing 30 million cubic feet daily into 25 million cubic feet of sweet gas, 25,000 gallons of natural gasoline, two million cubic feet of hydrogen sulphide, and smaller amounts of butane and iso-butane.
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McKamie Gas Cleaning Company
Here
R. A. Howe
McKamie Field
Howe
Little Missouri Bridge Opens to Traffic in 1942 WPA Era
Rand Commissioners met January 18 1942 with Judge Fred Lucke presiding. WPA funds supported county road work including Shower Springs Bodcaw road gravel surfacing and a completed bridge across the Turkle Missouri River with co sponsors Pike Clark counties. Cash balances and rental revenue boosted county road program as 12 467 cubic yards gravel used 144 wooden culverts replaced by concrete tile and 291 bridges rebuilt.
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Rand
Fred Lucke
Judge Luck
Commission
WPA
Shower Springs
Bodcaw Road
Spring Hill Dooley Ferry
Turkle Missouri River
Pike, and Clark Counties
Judge Lueck
Gordon Prescott
Ban on Use of Statehouse in Campaigns Proposed
Little Rock Jan 21 Proposes to ban statehouse insignia from campaign use. Rep Nelson Cox says amendment to Rep Marshall M Little bill would ban political use of state employe assets and public offices. Cox cites 1942 senatorial race abuses by Adkins administration and Jack Holt campaign literature. Eleven thousand American Indians live in Wisconsin. A railroad test car detects aid marks faults in the tack.
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Little Rock
Nelson Cox
Guachita
U. S
John L. Mertellan
Marshall M. Little
M. Little
Cox
Adkins
Jack Holt
McClelan
Advance to clamp on Rostov presses Russians westward
Soviet troops push toward Rostov and Kharkov in a broad winter offensive. Red Army forces move along rail lines and rivers across Ukraine, with aims to seal off Axis positions near Rostov, Kharkov, and Voroshilovgrad as German defenses resist along Manych and near Lake Ladoga.
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Henry C. Gassidy
Moscow
Manych
Salsk
Rostov
Strem
Tche Don
Falls
Isseh
Ifield
Red Star
Kharkov
Donets
Voroshilov- Brod
Maikop
Caucasus
Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
Wer
Lake Ilmen
Ukraine
Ura Éayva
Byelokuraknia
Byelovedsk
Voroshilov Rrad
Syoiet
Monitor
London
Danilovka
Gorodische
Bolshaya - Ghernigovka
Mir- Yakinskaya
Chebotovka
Voroshilovgrad
Millerove
Sea of Azov
Rsotov
Don Valley
Caucasius
Proletarskaya
Manych Waerway
Board Lists Possible Draft Delinquents
A local Selective Service board in Hempstead County lists several possible delinquents believed to be delinquent due to error ignorance or indifference. Named individuals include George Eli White George Wildian Turner Rey Frank Emanuel Jones and Sued Ware all identified by race and status.
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Selective Service Board
Hempstead County
George Eli
George Wildiand Turner
Rey Frank
Emanuel Jones
Sued Ware
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Reds
Alex. H. Washburn
By S. Burton Heath
Berausta
Mr. Henderson
Henderson
Ite
Perkins
National Industrial Conference Board
Prentiss Brown
Judge Frees
Mid-South
McClellan
Libya
Hartford
Conn
Thomas J. Spellacy
Raymond A. Baldwin
Clarrisburg
Edward Marius
Wairview
Okla
C. L. Moser
Kansas
Craig
Noa
Buckmaster
Eliot Buckmaster
Yorktown
Pacific
County Hall of Records
Commissioners Court
U.S
Jfurty
Hope Boy
Vincent Foster
Little Missouri Bridge
Wisconsin
Europe
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