Commonwealths of Nations seen shaping postwar world
The piece argues postwar governance will favor Commonwealth structures with Britain leading new coalitions. It cites Queen Wilhelmina’s plan for a Netherlands empire reorganization including Indonesia, Curacao, and Surinam, and predicts India and other former colonies may seek commonwealth status. It notes possible U.S. and territorial ties and contemplates France’s colonies after Hitler’s conquest.
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Netherlands
Indonesia
Netherlands East Indies
Curacao
Surinam
India
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Great Britain
United States
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Nations
Hitler
France
Early Test Vote On Flynn Hearing Nears End
Washington sees a final witness as the Flynn confirmation hearing heads toward an early Senate vote. Mayor LaGuardia testifies over accusations about city material use in a New York estate courtyard. The administration seeks to pace testimony for a swift decision on Roosevelt’s nomination to Australia.
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Associated Press
Washington
Edward J. Flynn
Australia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
New York
Flyn
Connally D-Text
Roosevelt
Flynn
Senate
House
Wickard
Ways and Means Committee
Coughtan
D-Nc
Treasury
Norwegians urge parents to keep children from youth service
A Norwegian underground movement circulates leaflets urging parents to keep children out of the Nasjonal Samling youth service modeled on the Hitler Youth. Leaflets warn that children enrolled in the Vidkun Quisling organization would be taught to spy in their own homes. Hay is noted as the cheapest milk producing seed for dairy cows.
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Stockhulma
Nasjonal Samling
Hitler
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Nazis Take Schools for Troops in Norway
Stockholm reports German requisition of schools and other buildings for troops in Norway. Forty house troops are in Osfjord towns including Moss, Fredrikstad, Halden, Askim, and Skjeberg, with soldiers increasing since Christmas. Fredrikstad and Halden lie on the Oslofjord’s east shore near Oslo.
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Stockholm
Norway
Ocsfald
Mast
Fredrikstad
Halden
Askim
Skjeberg
Oslofjord
Oslo
Search Starts for Plane With 19 Aboard
In San Francisco on June 23 a major sea and air hunt began for a four engine Naval transport seaplane missing near the bay with 19 aboard. The Navy reported a crew of nine and ten officers as passengers. Weather and fog hindered a landing. no radio contact since yesterday morning. A wide search by surface ships and aircraft under the Western Sea Frontier was ordered, with inland efforts by Army units toward the Sierra Nevada foothills. A second Navy plane from Winslow to San Pedro was overdue with three officers, three enlisted men, and cargo aboard.
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San Francisco
Jun
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Naval Transport Service
Washington
John W. Greenslade
Western Sea Frontier
Army
Sierra Nevada
Admiral Greenslade
Winslow
Ariz
San Pedro
Calif
MacArthur Day Set for Next Tuesday in Arkansas
Little Rock Jan. 22 The House approved a Senate resolution proclaiming next Tuesday General MacArthur Day in Arkansas to honor the Little Rock born World War II hero. The resolution calls for special services before a joint legislature session at 11 a.m. The item also notes a canal linking the Neva and Volkhov rivers in Russia has been operating for 300 years.
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Little Rock
House
Senate
MacArthur
Arkansas
Neva
Volkhov
Russi
Fragments Capture Orchestrated War-Era Vignettes
Readable scraps describe a Denver car fire near Lund home. Kansas City pork price confusions. Oakland hitchhiking signs guiding travelers. Topeka sailor sworn in for Navy duty. Jameson traveler notes war regulations curbing sugar ration visits. Farmer Sandy’s long distance humor. Fort Crook soldiers reducing meals to feed battle dines.
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Jameson
Clarence Sandy
Gallatin
Fort Crook
Neb
Wwe
Russians Capture Saisk in Drive Toward Rostov
Soviet troops broke German defenses along the Manych waterway and seized the railroad center and air base of Saisk, about 100 miles southeast of Rostov. They reported advances toward Voroshilovgrad and Kharkov, with Konstantinovskaya taken and many towns in the region captured as the front widened along the Don and Sal river valleys.
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Henry G
Cassidy
Moscow
Germa
Manych
Sailsk
Rostov
Caucasus
High Command Command
Berlin
Don
Stalingrad
Sussse
Red Army
Ukraiian
Voroshilovgrad
Kharkov
Konstantinovskaya
Don River
Donets
Sal River
Kaemensky
London
Salsk
Novy Yegorlik
Government dumps 235 million bushels of wheat on market
Washington reports the government sold 235,000,000 bushels of wheat to curb price gains toward parity. Prices added 23 cents to the grower price with 85 percent parity guiding sales. The move supports war foods policy while continuing feed sales limited to 129,000,000 bushels this fiscal year.
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Washinggton
Mass Funeral in London for four children and teachers
Four children and four teachers who perished in a daylight raid on a London school will be remembered at mass funeral services next Wednesday. The city mourns as residents recount the loss and honor the victims in prayers and ceremonies.
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London
Famed Educator of Arkansas Dies
Waco Texas January 23 F W M Briscoe 63 head of Baylor University French department from 1919 to retirement seven years ago and former French and German teacher at Arkansas died yesterday Born Center Point Kentucky Briscoe graduated Ouachita College Arkadelphia Ark 1906 He taught French and German at Clinton College Kentucky and at Ouachita before heading the German department of the University of Arkansas Funeral services will be held there this afternoon.
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Waco
Tex
J— W. M Briscoe
Baylor University
Arkansas
Yesteray
Center Point
Ack
Briscoe
Ouachita College
Arkadelphia
Ark
Clinton College
Ouachita
University of Arkansas
Allied Bombers in Sweeping Raids on Nazis
Allied air offensives over western Germany target the Ruhr region including Duesseldorf Essen Duisburg Cologne and Frankfurt with civilian casualties and property damage reported. German retaliation strikes hit northern eastern and southern England, while airfields and oil targets in France and Belgium were attacked. several German fighters were destroyed and losses listed for both sides.
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London
Germany
Ruhr
Duesseldorf
Essen
Duisburg
Cologne
Frankfurt
Berlin
England
France
Belgium
Ghent
Cherbourg
Terneuzen
Maupertus
Abbeville
St. Omer
Telegraph Priorities Set After February Fifteenth
Washington reports the Board of War Communications will assign telegraph and radio priorities starting February 15. War Navy and State department messages receive first call, with US urgent OP priority rules for domestic and international traffic and a general priority tag for urgent dangers or natural disasters.
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Washington
Board of War Communications
War
Navy
State Departments
State
War and Navy
War and Navy Departments
Charlie Evans to Address Hope Rotary Club Event
Charlie Evans, Arkansas humorist, will speak at Hope Rotary club's birthday and Ladies Night program at Hotel Barlow on February 10 celebrating the club's 25th anniversary. The announcement came at today’s club luncheon by President Bill Wray. Alex H. Washburn reviewed the news exchange struggle from Barriers Down by Kent Cooper. Old guests included Riley Lewallen and Paul Jones of Hope, with eleven Indian officials and four British members present.
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Charlie Evans
Arkansas
Hope Rotary Club
Barlow
Bill Wray
Alex. H. Washburn
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Riley Lewallen
Paul Jones
Hope
British Take Possession of Tripoli Today
London reports the Eighth Army seized Tripoli at 5 a.m. after overcoming Rommel’s rear guards. Axis evacuation acknowledged by Rome and Berlin. Britain and American air power bolster the advance toward Tunisia, with Tripoli’s harbor and Castel Benito airport aiding supply and bomber operations.
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Wall London
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Mussolini
Churchill
Erwin Rommel
Berlin
Tunisia
Rommel
Mareth Line
Montgomery
el Aeizia
London
Libya
Tripolitania
Gabes
Mediterranean Sea
Unis
Sicily
Castel Benitto
Ald
Italy
Vou 4Rnim
Adkins Asks OPA to Revise Milk Prices in Arkansas
Governor Adkins urged OPA Administrator Brown and Dallas price officer Nichols to hold hearings in Little Rock and other localities with farmers and dairymen to seek relief as many dairy herds were being sold and deliveries discontinued due to current price ceilings. Since then regional ceilings have been revised.
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Site Rock
Adkins
OPA
Arkansas
Prensist Brown
Regions
Clarence Nichols
Dallas
Little Rock
Adkits
Allied Merchant Ship Losses Reach 600
The United Nations announced the western Atlantic toll at 600 merchant ships since Pearl Harbor. A medium British ship and a Polish vessel were torpedoed and sank in December off South America. Three Polish crewmen were killed. 32 Britons survived in lifeboats and were later rescued.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Atlantic
South America
Ten Japanese Killed for Every American Soldier
Major General Alexander Patch assumes Guadalcanal command as General Vandegrift reports heavy Japanese losses in the Solomons. Vandegrift notes American tolls remain high, with many enemy ships sunk while attempting landings.
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Charles McMutry
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Solomons
A. Vandergsrift
U. S. Marine Corps
Vandegrift
William F. Halsey
Alexander Patch
Allies Kill 2100 in Sanananda Sector Alone
Allied forces in New Guinea reported wiping out the last pockets of Japanese resistance in the Sanananda sector by yesterday afternoon. US troops counted about 898 Japanese killed in the area to date, with heavy mortar and artillery fire coordinating a final sweep near Soputa track.
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Vern Haugland
New Guinea
Gons
Papua
Sananani
BSB
Sanand
Tokyo
ogEhe
Eugene
Ore
Robert
Hamilton
Bozeman
Mont
Ed Ream
Billings
Jo Boyd
Reams
Peter Passini
Farington
Rabau New Britain
Rabaul
Lae
Sulmana
Madang
Arafura
Coast Guard Cutter Natsek Declared Presumed Lost
The Navy announced the presumed loss of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, overdue in the North Atlantic for weeks with about 30 crew aboard. Lieut. W. I. G. Thomas Sargeant La Farge, a noted artist’s descendant, commanded the 116.9 foot 225 ton vessel built by Snow Shipbuilding in 1941.
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Washington
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
Navy
Atlantic
U. S. Coast Guard
South Pacific
U.S
Guadalcanal
WI. G. Thomas Sargeant la Farge
Coast Guard Reserve
John la Farge
Buneel la Farge
Lieut. la Farge
Newfoundland
Novamada
Dawiy Coast Guard
Snow Shipbuilding Corporation
Rockland
Hope Boy to Get Wings February 16
Clifford E. Whatley and Merritt G. Garner will receive their Air Corps Wings February 16 at Brooks Field Texas. Whatley is son of Mr and Mrs D C Whatley of Hope and Garner is son of Mr and Mrs M G Garner of Bradle.
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Hope Boy
Clifford E. Whatley
D. C. Whatley
Hope
Merritt G. Garner
M. G. Garner
Bradle
Brooks Pield
Texas
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J. Edgar Hoover
Hope Star
By S. Burton Heath
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Lund
Mrs. Lund
Kansas City
Oakland
San Francisco Bay Area
Topeka
Kas
Gale Thompson
Saisk
U. S
Nazis
Telegraph
Weer
Sanananda Sector
Wortd
Lunas
J Said
Helsingfors, Pinta
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