Fayetteville overreaches on Allen camp raid claim
A Washington correspondence confirms the War Department had no use for the Allen CCC camp at Hope Arkansas, and transfer to Fayetteville is spurious. The author argues colleges have vacant housing and warns Hope residents not to be swayed by Fayetteville rhetoric or university motives.
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Wille
Hope‘s
Alton CCC
Camp
Ans
Washington
D. C
Terre Cornelius
American Legion
A. Stephens
Civilian Conservation Corps
War Department
Regwar
CCC
ASCS
Ul Hope
Hempstead County
Arkansas
Hope
Terrell Qarnelus
Regnar Army
Allencamp
Fayetteville
Allen Camp
Allon Camp
Atlantic alliance strengthened during Casablanca talks and Brazil visit
United States and Brazil pledge mutual effort to keep Atlantic coast safe and to deter Axis threats. Roosevelt and Vargas discuss war strategy aboard a destroyer near Natal and in Brazil, stressing unity with Churchill after Casablanca. They warn West Africa coast and Dakar must never be vulnerable to blockade or invasion again.
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Wealington
United States
Raz
West Africa
Churchill
Casablanca
Morocca
Roosevelt
Vargas
Natal
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Wim
al- Maintia Ocedi
Americas
Hey
Caribbean
South Atlantic
Liberia
Iice
White House
Bargas
Uvier Join
Casabhinea
Hitler With His Troops Delayed Speech Across Berlin
London reports British Mosquito bombers attacked Berlin delaying Adolf Hitler's anniversary address as Goering promised final victory. The raid aimed to disrupt the speech at Berlin's air ministry building while Goering asserted Nazi resolve and hinted at a spring offensive, with radio broadcast muffled noises heard in London.
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Associated Press
London
Acoss
Germany
Berlin
Herman Goering
Adolf Hitler
RAF
Goering
Fuehrer
Air Ministry
Britain
Eenter
Stalingrad
Marshal Goering
Bane
London Radio
Second Oil Pipeline to Be Finished Sept. 1
Burt E. Hull, head of war emergency pipelines, said the second oil pipeline to the east will start near Houston or Port Arthur, Texas and end at Seymour Road. Construction begins in April with completion planned for September 1. The line will parallel the Big Inch, using the same route, from Longview Texas to Norris City Illinois, then through Ely Dorado Arkansas to Little Rock. The new line will be 20 inches in diameter, smaller than the first 24 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Burt E. Hull
War Emergency Pipelines
Houston
Port Arthur
Texas
Seymour, Rd
Norris City
Longview
Tex
Ely Dorado
Ark
Celebrities to Help Celebrate FDR's Birthday
Washington, Jun. 80 Celebrities join Mrs Roosevelt to celebrate Prescient Roosevelt's sixty first birthday and raise funds to wipe out infantile paralysis. A White House luncheon hosted guests with a Mayflower hotel banquet slated, then simultaneous birthday pulls at eight Washington hotels. Notables include Roy Rogers, Loretta Young, James Cagney, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, and many others arriving to entertain and aid service men at the stage door canteen.
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Washington
Jun
Roosevelt
Roy Rogers
Lynn Bari
Roddy McDowell
Loretta Young
Laraine Day
Robert Young
James Cagney
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Anita Louise
Janet Blair
Bert Lyte
Dennis Morgan
Bonita Granville
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Harp Marx
al Jolson
Marjorie Lawrence
Lawrence Tibbett
Lucy Monroe
Cond Thisbault
Jack Benny
Mary Livingston
He Hotel
Give Em the Works Is Halsey Motto of a War Hero
Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr is praised as a bold Pacific commander by Admiral Wil ly L. Calhoun. The Floridian native spent 35 days in the South Pacific facing heavy fighting and storms.
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Halsey
St. Auwusting
Fra
South Pacific
Aanevica
Billy’ Halsey
Flashes of Life and Local Oddities Across Towns
A misdirected shipment to a Jugal store sent two right shoes instead of a pair. a one legged man bought both as the proprietor prepared returns. In Albion, N Y, union church weddings mark a near-century milestone with Rev. Edward George noting no reason for the long waltz. In Moline, Illinois, the Miller family welcomes twin girls as eighth daughter and tenth son, ages 26 and under, with three sons in the Army and Lublingt at Rock Island arsenal.
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Associated Press
Albion
Jugal
Malone
N. Y
Union Church
Edward George
Jong Walt
Chester Miller
Silvis
Fayetteville Claim Sparks Camp Ownership Dispute
Fayetteville asserts U S Engineers would move CCC camp buildings to the University of Arkansas campus for military trainees while Hope holds that Allen camp had already passed to Hope and Hempstead county. Congressman Harris notes Hope legion post and county govern, ment claim, with dispute over title and transfer timing.
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University of Arkansas
Payetteville
Harding
Afton CCC
U. S. Engineers
Allen
Hope
Joh P. Vesey
Terrell Cornelius
American Legion Post
Oren Harris
Washington
Focal Legion Post
Hempstead
Fred Luck
Office of Civilian Defense
OCD
Harris
Fayetteville
Allen Camp
Civilian Conservation Corps
W. A. Stephens
CCC
Vesey
Cornelius
Legion Post
Regular
ASC-1
Hempstead County
Arkansas
American Legion
Aston
University of Arkasas
Newsman Wins Army Air Medal in Middle East Raid
War correspondent Henry Gorrell of United Press received the Army Air Medal for extreme gallantry under fire during a raid on Navarino Bay in the Greek Peloponnesus. He helped save wounded gunner Marman Frost of Miami by applying a tourniquet and nursing him for hours, illustrating the press role in wartime.
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Marman Frost
Miami
Fla
Civilion
Gorrell
Hope Soldier Dines with French Foreign Legion in North Africa
Corporal Harrell W. Collier writes his parents about a Christmas dinner with the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. He says the French are swell to the soldiers and notes riding taxis in town, sightseeing, and reports of aerial battles hinted in papers. He signs from 208 South Laurel Street and mentions Baker.
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Hope
Legion In
North Africa
Harrell W
Bud) Collier
J. A. Collier
South Laurel Street
French Legion
Amus
Baker
Norh Africa
Uvat
British 8th Army Crosses into Tunisia Pursuing Rommel
British forward elements of the Eighth Army crossed into Tunisia in patrols yesterday, the British communique said, advancing in the central sector south of the coast. Ground fighting had little report beyond minor actions as air operations were limited by bad weather. Rome reported reconnaissance moves in western Tripolitania and Axis forces consolidating positions in Tunisia. The Axis claimed successful attacks sinking Allied ships near Algiers Bougie and Messina bombing damage elsewhere.
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Cairo
Eighth Army
Tunisia
Zuara
Tripoli
Rome Radio
High Command
Tripolitania
Bone
Algeria
Algiers
Bougie
Sially
Messina
Hitler Fears Red Peril for the Germans
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler marking the tenth anniversary of his rise to power by urging Germans to win the war or be enslaved by Bolsheviks. Goebbels read the proclamation at the Sports Palace amid RAF bombing and Geering’s speech warning of Bolshevism to spur further sacrifices.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Paul Joseph Goebbles
Hitler
Herman Geering
RAF
Berlin
Geering
Goebbels
Germany
Hiller
Europe
Boebbels
Japs Chased Further in New Guinea
Allied forces under MacArthur pressed the advance in New Guinea after destroying a 15 000 strong Japanese pocket at Papua and driving patrols around Salamua 140 miles northwest of Sanaa. Japanese attacks near Mubo were repulsed and Horii the amphibious operations commander was confirmed dead. Allied air power dominated the southwest Pacific as British planes hit Burma 50 miles northwest of Kyab with patrols active 100 miles within the crown colony.
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Associated Press
Japan
Germany
Presh
Papua
Macarthur
Salamaua
Sanaanda Point
New Guinea
Mubo
Burma
Parols
Kyab
Bay of Bengal
Crowat
Widow of General Wood Dies in New York Night
Louise Wood 72 widow of General Leonard Wood died Friday night at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of a heart ailment. She will be buried Monday in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband and her son Captain Leonard Wood Jr.
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New York
Louise Wood
Leonard Wood
Harkness
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Arlington National Cemetery
Gneral
Philippines
Leonard Wood, Jr
Reds Grip Part By A Vast Soviet Drive In War News
Moscow reports captured Kastornoye serves as a base for a powerful Red Army that has smashed through defenses on a 44 mile front. The drive presses toward Kursk Belgorod and Kharkov with Soviet forces within 65 miles of Kursk and 31 miles of the main axis. The bulletin cites heavy Axis losses, captures, and a near complete encirclement in the Voronezh region while also noting advances in the Caucasus and near Rostov and Stalingrad. The report includes claims of mass prisoner captures and German retreat attempts amid restructuring of Nazi defense lines.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Kastornoye
Voronezh
Devel
Kursk
Belg
Kharkov
Golikay
Tha Tor
Caucasus
Rai
Kroptokin
London
Stalingrad
Sians
Tikhoretsk
Kropotkins
Dri
Stalingi
Kropotkin
Rostov
Daily
Ca Jtul
Adolf Hitler
Sixth Army
Hitler
Friedrich Paulus
Enroll New Business Class at Hope High School
Hope High School Vocational Department announces enrollments for a new business class and evening adult courses. About 65 adults completed Short Hand and Typing training in three months via the Adult Vocational Evening School. Enrollment opens Monday night February 1, 1948 at 7 p.m. at the high school. Courses include Auxiliary and Volunteer Fire Training taught by City Fire Chief J A Embree, with sessions at the central fire station twice weekly. A Taxation course will teach income tax returns and information on the Victory tax, with a qualified instructor. For more information contact the high school at phone 167. The department aims to benefit the community and urges participation.
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Vocational Department of Hope High School
James H. Jones
J A. Embree
Central Fire Station
Vocational Department of Hope Public Schools
Broken Lock Mystery Looms in Flynn Trial Recess
Los Angeles Jan 30 a third week end recess in actor Errol Flynn's statutory rape trial leaves a mystery over whether the Blue Bedroom lock was tampered with evidence from police chemist Leland Jones shows screws loosened and file like scratches while witnesses detail a possible entry click Betty Hansen testifies Flynn and she were in the room and a door could not be opened by another witness the defense argues the latch was faulty and jammed for over a year court to hear locksmith testimony next.
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Los Angeles
Fa — Geteen
Errol Flyon
Leland Jones
Bel-Air
Betty Hansen
Flynn
Betty
Jones
Thomas W. Cochran
C. D. Pope
Robert W. Bowling
J P Byers Re elected President of Arkansas Clerks Group
J P Byers of Hempstead County was re elected president and secretary treasurer of the Arkansas Clerks and Users Association at the organization's annual meeting this week. The longtime circuit clerk led the body in discussions on county records modernization and clerk duties statewide.
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J. P., Byers
Hempstead County
Treas
The
Arkansas Clerks and , Users Association
Orgation
This We
Little Rock
Staff Sergeant Carl Bryant Jr Promoted at Camp Cookie
Fulton native Carl Bryant Jr. has been promoted to staff sergeant while serving at Camp Cookie in California. He has served since 1942 and is recognized for his ongoing commitment to duty.
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Carl Bryant, Fulton
Carl $. Bryant, Jr
Fpult
Geant
Camp Cookie
Calif
Bryant Des
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Copenhagen
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