Oil Roads and Roads to Riches Echoed in Arkansas History
Our Daily Bread notes parallels between El Dorado oil field development and today’s need for road links to prospective towns like Lewisville Hype Prescott. It urges early construction along the L and A railway toward Baker, laFayette county, and highlights Barnsdall’s impact, with notes on county and emergency road efforts and a caution about overextending historical parallels.
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Arkansas
Dorado
Barnsdall
el Dorado
Camden
Lewisville
Hype
Prescott
Roy Anderson
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Terrell Cornelius
Patmos
LaFayette County
Baker
LaFayette
Hempstead
American Army Forces Land in Northern Ireland
Secretary of War Stimson announced the arrival of U S army forces in northern Ireland under Maj Gen Russel P Hartle. Details on units designations ports of embarkation sailing dates and force size were withheld. Hartle 52 formerly commanded the 34th Infantry Division at Camp Caliburne Maryland is among the youngest officers to be promoted to major general and has service in France the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Northern Ireland
Stimson
Russel P. Hartle
Britain
U. S. Army
U. S
Hartle
34Th Infantry Division
Camp Caliburne
France
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Fets
Chewsville
Maryland
University of Maryland
Hempstead County Boys Earn Army Promotions at Camp Murray
Army promotion list honors Hempstead county soldiers including Fred A. Glanton Lonnie Tullis James C Gaines and Cecil Smith. Corporals Gaines and Smith rise to sergeant and corporal respectively as they move through ranks at Camp Murray Washington.
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Army
Hempstead County
Camp Murray
Washington
Fred A. Glanton
Lonnie Tullis
James C. Gaines
Cecil Smith
Columbus
Van
Cranium Crackers U. S. Territorial History Quiz
A student quiz asks about how the United States acquired Alaska and the Virgin Islands, compares costs, and inquires if the Hawaiian Islands were gained after the Spanish American War. It covers Midway Wake Guam annexations, Swains Island in 1825, and the duration of the Canal Zone under the Panama treaty. Answers on Comle Poge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
U.S
Alaska
Virgin Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Spain
Midway
Wake
Guam
Swains Island
Canal Zone
Panama
Hope water works project awaits final action in Washington
Final approval under the National Defense program grants Hope $65,000 for a deep well and pump, a concrete surface reservoir, and extensions to distribution. The $45,000 grant and $20,000 loan will start immediately to boost summer water supply as city authorities note population growth.
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Hope Municipal
Washington
Hattie W. Caraway
Oren Harris
Lloyd Spencer
Caraway
Albert Graves
Harris
Star
Graves
Hope
Julia Chester Hospital
Kansas City
Homer Pigg Former D C Secretary Dies in Fort Smith
MENA William Homer Pigg 57, former Polk county superintendent of schools, died Friday at Fort Smith and was buried here Saturday. A Missouri native, he led local schools from 1941 to 1918, later served 12 years as Hope Chamber of Commerce secretary, helping with Hope watermelon festivals, worked with the Federal Land Bank and Gibson Land and Credit Company. Survived by wife, mother Mrs. Mahala Pigg of Mena, three brothers Levi H. Pigg, Samuel Pigg, Oscar Pigg, and sister Mrs. Ella Farley, all of Mena or nearby.
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MENA
William Homer Pigg
Polk County
Fort Smith
Missouri
Pigg
Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Federal Land Bank of
St. Louis
Gibson Land and Credit Company
Springfield
Mahala Pigg
Levi H. and
Samuel P
Muskogee
Okla
Oscar Pigg
Ella Farley
U S Ship Sunk Off East Coast 22 Feared Lost
NORFOLK Va An Axis submarine attacked the American carrier Venore off the North Carolina coast. 22 crewmen are unaccounted for, 21 were rescued Sunday night. The 8016 ton ship owned by Ore Steamship Co was torpedoed and sank early Saturday. One shell hit midship on the port side then another struck the port side. Three lifeboats were launched with survivors rescued hours later. This marked the sixth sinking by submarines on the Atlantic seaboard in two weeks.
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Norfork
Venore
North Carolina
Fifth District Naval Post
Norfort
The
Ore Steamship Company
Atlantic Seaboard
March of Dimes Theater Campaign in Arkansas
The Saenger and Rialto cinemas have collected 125 dollars toward a 24 dollar quota in the national March of Dimes theater drive aiding infantile paralysis. M A Lightman of Malco Theaters Inc. chairs Arkansas efforts. Boy Scouts collect twice daily. Terrell Cornelius leads Hempstead county campaign ahead of Roosevelt's birthday observance.
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Saenger
Rialto
National Theater
Remmel Oung
M. A. Lightman
Malco Theaters, Inc
Arkansas
Boy Scouts
Femafe
Clark Gable
Terrell Cornelius
General Hempstead County
Paralysis Relief Fund
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Miss Betty Rakes Joins Western Union Staff
Miss Betty June Rakes of Bentonville Arkansas joins the Hope Western Union staff this weekend, replacing Raymond Hayton. Rakes formerly served as relief manager for the telegraph company at Bentonville and will assume duties soon, per Hope Western Union manager Dale Wilson.
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Betty June Rakes
Bentonville
Ark
Hope
Western Union
Telegraph
Raymond Hayton
Montoela
Air Corps
Dale Wilson
Daily Drilling Report for S Arkansas MeKamie and Nearby Wells
Daily drilling report covering multiple 160 acre, 80 acre, 40 acre spacing sites. Includes Wells: Hanes No. 2 at 297 Elev., Badeaw Nos. 9 and 10 at Atlantic, Warnock-Brewer No. 1 at Loc. C-St2 SW, Brewer-Warmele No. 4 at McAlester, Davis B-1 at Atlantic, Stager No. 1 at J.W. Love, Dodson Est R. U. Area Fuel Oil Car Bond No. 4, Bond No. 1 spdg, Pinewoods B-1, Jeffus No. 1 at McAlester.
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MeKamie
Carter
Hanes
Sauck
Atlantic
Badeaw
rBadeaw
Macedonia
Warnock-Brewer
McAlester
Eloy
Midway
Barnsdall
Dodson
R. U
Roberts
Pinewoods
Jeffus
Orig
Report on Pearl Harbor attack and lend-lease policy debate
The Roberts Commission report critical of Pearl Harbor defense is cited by senators who had questioned lend-lease as US defense needs. It blames Lt Gen Short and Adm Kimmel for dereliction of duty and calls for unified command and stronger defenses, while noting prior warnings from Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States Defense
Roberts Commission
Pearl Arbor
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Walsh
Demi
Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Stimson
Knox
Hawaii
Pacific
Atlantic
Army
Air Corps
Roosevelt
Walter C. Short
Husband E. Kimmel
Hawaiiatu
Axis in Threat to Bengasi
Axis forces in North Africa pushed a forceful reconquest into a full offensive, driving British troops back about 40 miles to Zouiet Msus and 144 miles from Tram El Ageila. The Axis claimed heavy losses for the British with 234 tanks and 158 guns destroyed or captured, while reinforcing units arrived at Tripoli despite British bombing. a Rome spokesman noted confusion over the British retreat as German Italian forces press onward. A late note mentions a Frenchman, Leon Leott, recording sound in 1855, predating Edison.
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Pres Bengisi
North Africa
Zouiet Msus
Tram el Ageila
Bengali
Rome
Axis
Tripoli
Japs Engaged in New Britain
Melbourne reports Australians fight in New Britain and New Guinea as Japanese landing forces push toward the Australian mainland. Civilian evacuations extend along the coast while militia deploy in jungle warfare. Navy divers reach depths beyond 500 feet as defenses harden.
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Melbourne
Australia
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
New Britain
New Island
Florida Island
Army
Francis Forde
Madang
Tulagi
Solomons
Lae
Vetonia
Rabaul
Fear Kayig
Battle in Straits of Macassar Halts Invasion Efforts
U S and Dutch forces report a running battle with Japanese invasion fleets in the Straits of Macassar. By now at least nine transports and one destroyer are sunk and five transports and a cruiser damaged. Dutch air strikes began the action, with U S naval forces joining the next day. The fighting marks the heaviest losses for Japan since their December offensive in the southwest Pacific.
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Associated Press
U. S
Straits of
Macassar
Java
Southwest Pacific
Netherlands East Indies
Japan
Soerabaja
Washington
U.S
Pacific
Ex-Resident of Hope Succumbs
Mrs. Charles Bell 70 a former Hope resident died at a Marlin Texas hospital after a long illness Funeral plans were not complete Mon burial in Hose Hill cemetery She was born in Conway county Arkansas and lived in Hope about 25 years Survived by daughter Mrs Clay Doyle of Reagan Texas a sister Mrs Robert Bridewell of Hope and a brother A T Green Black out paint on exterior window glass is more effective for full blackout than interior paint causing reflective glare.
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Napoleon
Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Niemen
Baltic
Black Sea
Leningrad
Grande Armee
Smolensk
Paris
Charles Bell
Marlin
Texas
Hope
Hose Hill
Conway County
Arkansas
Bell
Clay Doyle
Reagen
Robert Bridewell
A. T. Green
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Rede Javan Ga Pezb
NEA
Alex. H. Washburn
Sey Willis Thornton
North Ireland
War Department
Federal Works
Little Rock
Lester M. Marx
Federal Works Agency
Division of Defense Public Works
Homer Pigg
D. C
East Coast
March of Dimes For
Miss Betty Rakes
Daily Drilling Report of
S. Arkansas
ARK. Oil & Gas Commission
Holly
Davis
Big Creek
J.W. Love
William A. Bishop
United States Navy
Bengasi
Leon Leott
Thomas Edison
New Orleans
New York
U. S. Navy
Macassar Straits
Marlin, Texas
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