Government reports high savings rate on War Bonds
Treasury statement released December 10 and circulated January 15 shows 16 percent of Baby Bonds issued March 1 1935 to April 10 1941 have been cashed. From 1941 Series E F and G bonds, nearly 97 percent remain held as savings with less than 2 percent redeemed. The note praises American restraint and urges continued savings rather than spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Acne
Arkansas War Savings Staff
America
Jeffers Defies Clearances On Rubber Policy Remarks
Rubber Director William Jeffers says he will speak his mind on rubber production to help rolling output despite warnings from OWI Chief Elmer Davis that such public remarks contravene Roosevelt orders. The clash centers on rubber plant delays and priority rulings amid war needs.
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Washington
William Jeffers
Army
Navy
Jeffers
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Roosevelt
Davis
Pearl Harbor
House Starts Hearing on Tax Payment Plan
Washington Jan. 2. House committee hearings begin Tuesday on pay as you go tax plans separating the subject from the general tax problem to place many income tax payers on current collection for part of 1943. Chairman Doughton announced the Ways and Means panel will meet tomorrow to consider his bill raising the national debt limit from 125 to 210 billion dollars. Doughton and Senator George urged that pay as you go would not drop the March 18 return filing deadline under existing laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee
Doughton
Ways and Means
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Flynn Denies Charges of Second Accuser
In Los Angeles on January 28 Errol Flynn denied from the witness stand charges that he had intimate relations with Betty Hansen, a second accuser. He also denied improper conduct with Peggy La Rue Satterlee, the other complainant in the statutory rape case. Flynn described his first meeting at a dinner party and said the upstairs bedroom did not occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Errol Flynn
Betty Hansen
Actac
Brundle
Peggy la Rue Satterlee
Flynt
Miss Hansen
Pred Melki
Price Ceiling on Crude Oil In State Washington
The Office of Price Administration set higher ceiling prices today for crude oil at receiving tanks in several pools including Texas Louisiana Kentucky and Arkansas. Producers and buyers indicate no resale price increase requests. In Arkansas the Mekami La Fayette Dorcheut MacEdonai and Big Creek pools rise to 1.25 a barrel for sour distillate. In Louisiana LaSalle Parish pools Olla Little Creek South Olla rise to 1.35 for 40 API gravity+. Australia faces rail gauge issues disrupting passenger service in cold weather.
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Washington
Texas
Louisiana
Kentucky
Arkansas
OPA
Mekamie Pool
Laafette County
Dorcheut
MacEdonai
Big Creek
Columbia County
Olla
Little Creek
South Olla Pools
LaSalle Parish
West to Retire As Chief Scout Executive
New York June 26 Walter H Head president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced that Dr James B West will relinquish his post as chief Scout executive to become chief Scout on February 1 He will be succeeded by Dr Elbert K Fretwell professor of education at Teachers College Columbia University West has led the organization for 32 years and Fretwell has 25 years of voluntary Scout involvement
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter H. Head
National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
James B. West
Elbert K. Fretwell
Teachers College
Columbia University
West
Chis
Fretwell
Scout Movement
Negro Cook Is Held for Train Murder in Albany
Albany Oregon January 28 A dining car cook Robert Folkes 20 Los Angeles was charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Navy bride Martha Virginia James 21 aboard a California bound Southern Pacific West Coast Limited. Detectives said Folkes admitted stabbing her in berth 13 after a man on the train offered him 1000 dollars to kill her. Ensign Richard F P James was not aboard the train.
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Albany
Ore
Harlow Weinvick
Justice Court
Robert Forkas
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
West Coast Limited
Weinrick
Folkes
Martha Virginia Tames
Norflak
Richard FP. James
Sleepey
Verne Rasmussen
Mrs. James
Rasmussen
Falkes
Falkse
James
Myrs
James Husband
Ensign James
U S Casualties Listed in Tunisia Total 1258
Secretary of War Stimson announced American casualties in Tunisia total 1,258 dead wounded and missing. He cited 226 missing presumed prisoners, 32 killed 209 missing and reported battlefield losses of two soldiers and two tanks. He highlighted Allied air successes and strategic gains in multiple theaters.
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William F. Frye
Washington
Tunnisia
Stimson
Central
Tunisia
United States
Russia
Stalingrad
Red Army
Marshall Erwin Ramimel
Triporitain
Trip
Rommel
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Lui Stimson
Turkisia
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Smith Accuses House Member of Accepting Bribe in Labor Bill
Jefferson county Rep Merle B. Smith accuses an unnamed House member of taking a bribe related to a labor dispute bill. He warns that some lawmakers and organized labor may face trouble if the issue continues. The accusation was entered in the journal after a personal privilege point. The House Labor Committee had recommended against the bill amid public input. The session also defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to change county quorum courts to elected tax levies, while approving a segregation measure for first offenders and mandatory prison health exams. The Budget Committee filed its first bill of the session, to be sent to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock
v/Pj
Merle B. Smith
Jefferson
County
Snath
Smith
Eli Letlar Benton
Journal
House Labor Committee
House
C. H. Herndon
Montgomery
Sam
Joe Foster Lonoke
Senate
Manor
Date Set for Bus Line Hearing in Little Rock Fordyce Route
The Corporation Commission schedules a hearing February 23 on Southwestern Greyhound Lines Inc. to operate buses between Little Rock and Fordyce. The route faced two years of court contest after Eagle Transportation won a three year permit, with Missouri Pacific opposing. A Supreme Court ruling allows Greyhound, now owning Eagle, to apply for a new permit if conditions changed.
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Little Rock
Corporation Commission
Southwestern Greyhound Lines Inc
Fordyce
Eagle Transportation Company
Missouri Pacific Transportation Company
Supreme Court
Grayhound Lines
Eagle
Hitler to relinquish direct command of German army
Radio Morse quoted a Swedish paper saying Hitler would temporarily cede operational control to the general staff. The staff allegedly drafted a plan to withdraw to a new line from Kursk to Kharkov and from Dnieperopetrov to Sevastopol, a move critics say comes too late to alter the war’s course.
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New York
Radio Morae
U. S. Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Adolf Hitler
Marne
Prange
Empire
NYA Derglight Allehanda
Hitler
General Staff
Kursk
Kharkov
Dnieperopetrov- Ask
Sevastopol
Crimea
Tojo Proclaims Victory as Japan Prepares for Global Domination
Premier Hideki Tojo told the nation that Japan has secured the path to victory through recent military successes and expanded bases and resources. He criticized the United States and Britain for wealth ambitions and warned they face shortages in vital war materials. He framed Japan’s war aims as seeking real world peace with allies sharing the goal, contrasting it with Anglo American imperialism.
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Associated Press
Hideki Tojo
Japan
United States
Britain
Taiyo Radio
Associated Buress
Toja
Tokyo
Permier
Tojo
Brit
Southwest Pacific
Nazis Claim U S Begins Big Push in Tunisia
Axis reports cited by Vichy and Berlin claimed an American offensive aimed at splitting Rommel and Jurgen von Arnim’s forces in central Tunisia. Allied air forces conducted heavy bombing from Tunisia to Italy, with raids on Sicily and southern Italy and attacks on Bizerte and Tunisian fronts. Reports noted Raids around Maknassy near the Gulf of Gabes and continued patrol actions as rain limited ground fighting.
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Associated Press
London
Marshal Rommel
Jurgen Vor Arnim
Tunisia
Italy
United States
Tebessa
Algeria
Tunis
Berlin
Gulf of Gabes
Rommel
Eighth Army
Contac
Sabratha
Tripoli
Tripolitania
Cairo
Ninth U. S. Air Force
Tinian
Middle East
Aly
Oes 'Phe
Sicily
Rome
Bizerte
U. S
Maknassy
Rommel and von Arnim
University to Be Utilized by Army for Training
Fayetteville January 28 The University of Arkansas will be used by the Army to its capacity for specialized military training. Rep Fulbright said responsible sources assured him the university will take all engineering students it can accommodate. Remaining facilities will train aviation cadets and probably pre medical students with contracts to be issued soon and training to begin in March.
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas Times
the Times
Fulbright
D-Ark
War Council Held by Allied Military Chiefs
Allied leaders including Dwight Eisenhower George Marshall Ernest King H Arnold and John Dill met in North Africa for a 48 hour conference. They signaled a Mediterranean offensives aimed at uniting Allied forces under a coordinated command to push toward Europe. Other attendees included Alexander Somervell Tsmya Harriman Mountbatten and Pound. The Bizere harbor lake is described as fifty miles long and deep enough for the largest battleships.
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Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Britain
America
United Nations
Europe
Dwgiht
D. Eisenhower
Mied
Casablanca
Roosevelt
Churchill
Z Dwight
Eisenhower
United States
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
Navy
H.h.arnold
Army Air Forces
John Dill
Joint Staff
Washington
Dudley Pound
Fort Sea Lord
Harald Alexander
Chie
Middle East
Louis Mountbatten
Commandos
Roosevelt Churchill
Alexander
Mediterranean
Tunisia
B.B. Somervell
U.S. Army Services of Supply
Sir Hastings . Tsmya
W. Averell Harriman
U. S
England
Russian advance in Caucasus tightens Maikop ring
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet forces capture Apsheronskaya and Neftegorsk in the western Caucasus as part of a broader push toward Maikop. The Red Army advances threaten Axis positions along the Voronezh and Rostov fronts with renewed strikes near Stalingrad and claims of heavy German losses.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Toda
Hitler
Maiko
Voronezh
Communi
Meee Pravda
Sigrad
Red Army
Jaman
Wasim Sais Ohabeer
Volga
Sicily
Caucasus
Apsher
Ronskaya
Neftegorsk
Iin
Maikop
Rostov
London
Calsus
Vorongzeh
Stalingrad I
Concmand
Flashes and Frivolities At Daily Court and City Events
A jumble of brief notes records a Seattle court delay over soup hunger, a Gallatin poultry shower honoring Rev and Mrs Atsins, a burglar alarm in Lake City, Chicago theater chatter about Lady in the Dark, Sears Roebuck catalog quip, and a tax consultant mix up with Carter Harrison reflecting on income tax procedures.
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Chicago
Gertrude Lawrence
Sears- Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Favors Bill to Crack Down on Labor Leaders
Washington Jaen July 28 House Judiciary Committee approved legislation to penalize union leaders with heavy fines and up to years imprisonment under the 1943 anti racketeering act for interfering with interstate commerce. The bill, introduced by Hobbs of Alabama, targets union practices blocking shipments during wartime. the vote was split with Lane of Massachusetts and Celler of New York opposing.
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Washington
Jaen
House
Judiciary Committee
Lane
Maghusetts
Celler
New Yor
Hep. Hobbs
Hobbs
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Alex. H. Washburn
OWI
Flynn
Australia
Africa
Caplin
Cortes
Mexico
U.S
Bizere
Eddy Gilmore
Tuapse
Black Sea
Seattle
Wash
William Needmyer
Chester A. Batchelor
Needinger
Gallatin, Mo
Lelan Atsins
Lake City
S.J. Samuel
Louis
Wx Conesultant
Iman
Harrison
Carter Harrison
iMr
Chivusa
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