Arkansas Hall 2 Per Cent Tax Aids Schools Then Diverts Funds
An Arkansas piece argues the 2 per cent sales tax promised to support public schools and welfare has been diverted to local governments. It accuses lawmakers of misusing $1.12 million in 1943-44 and questions raising the tax to 3 per cent. The author calls for removing politicians from the fund and prioritizing teachers’ salaries.
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Arkansas
Hall
Public Schools
State Revenue Department
Little Rock
Wallace Dropped as FDR Must Decide Wallace Wallace In Rethink On 1944 VP Nominee
Democratic circles report President Roosevelt may defer the 1944 vice presidential choice to the convention while signaling Wallace as his preferred candidate. Wallace travels to Washington to meet Roosevelt as party lines form around Wallace amid Virginia’s move to instruct delegates against him. Delegates total 1,176 with 589 needed to nominate. Roosevelt pledges 552 and 408 claimed for Ely. 213 uninstructed or unclaimed.
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Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Washington
China
Russia
Chicago
South
Virginia
Seattle
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
John L Autrey of Columbus Made a Full Colonel
Lt Col John L Autrey of Camp Crowder Mo was promoted to full colonel by the War Department during a Columbus family reunion. He is the son of the late Dr James R Autrey and Lizzie Simms Autrey, born and raised in Columbus, recently returned from service in Australia and New Guinea.
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John L. Autrey
Autrey
Camp Crowder
Columbus
War Department
Col. Autrey
James R. Autrey
Lizzie Simms Autrey
Australia
New Guinea
98 Degrees for Hope on Sunday
The Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station logged an official high of 98 degrees and a low of 73 on Sunday. The season’s high remains 99, noted two weeks earlier. The eastern band of Cherokees holds 64 000 acres in the Great Smokies of North Carolina.
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Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
Great Smokies
North Carolina
Hempstead County Surpasses War Loan Quota
Hempstead County completes the Fifth War Loan with $793000 raised, 122 percent of its $650000 quota. County Chairman C C Spra Wins reports the final total after closing hours, following a two day holiday when the county was still short by over $200000. The county’s success tops state at 111 percent and national drive went over the top early Saturday.
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Hempstead
C. C. Spra
Record heat blankets Arkansas with 105 at Conway
July heat gripped the state with temperatures over 100 degrees. Conway hit 105 while Little Rock Dardanelle Pine Bluff and Searcy logged 102. Readings of 101 appeared in Brinkley Newport Portland Prescott and Stuttgart as Wilson saw 1.30 inches of rain. Magellan discovery noted at end.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Conway
Weather Bureau
Wilson
Dardanelle
Pine Bluff
Searcy
Brinkley
Newport
Portland
Prescott
Stuttgart
Soviet Edict Tightens Divorce Rules Stirs Nation
Moscow reports a sweeping Supreme Soviet decree tightening divorce access while boosting aid for large families. It requires court petitions and personal appearances, with potential costs from 500 to 2,000 rubles, and introduces incentives including up to 5,000 rubles at an 11th child and 300 rubles monthly for large families.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Russia
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Beveridge
Supreme Court upholds hospital bid rejection in Benton unit repairs
Arkansas Supreme Court rules the state hospital board acted in good faith in denying Peterson and MacFayden's bid of 63 000 for Benton unit repairs as defective due to original construction by William Peterson. The contract is awarded to G. W. May and Company with a 82.23 difference. The ruling reverses Pulaski chancery court and allows immediate mandate.
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Little Rock
State Hospital Board of Control
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Peterson & MacFayden
Benton
G. W. May and Company
Pulaski Chancery Court
Peterson and MacFayden
William Peterson
May
Revised hempstead stump tour dates listed
The tentative speaking engagements for the Hempstead stump tour have been revised. The updated schedule includes Bingen on July 12, Blevins on July 13, Fulton on July 14, Spring Hill on July 15, Patmos on July 18, Ozan on July 20, and Hope on July 21.
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Hempstead
Bingen
Blevins
Fulton
Spring Hill
Patmos
Ozan
Hope
Buttons clipped from Oklahoma law officers’ uniforms
A Kalamazoo woman told Oklahoma City officials she is collecting buttons from law enforcement uniforms. She requested buttons from an Oklahoma state patrol uniform and from a city police officer.
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Oklahoma City
J. M. Gentry
Kalamazoo, Mich
Okahoma
Salary aid increases for teachers' fund in Arkansas
Education Commissioner Ralph B Jones announced that 945,673 dollars were paid in 943-44 from the state teachers salary fund as aid to 703 school districts, representing nearly a tenfold increase over aid allocated the previous year in Little Rock on July 10.
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Little Rock
Ralph B Jones
Gandhi Proposes Hindu Muslim States Split in India
Mohandas K. Gandhi proposes partition of India into Hindu and Muslim states to win Moslem support for independence from Britain. He sent the plan to Jinnah via Rajagopalachari, who said the Moslem league would consider it if Gandhi presents directly.
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Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Jeger
Gandi
Mahomed Ali Jinnah
All-India Moslem League
Chakravarthi Rajago-Palachari
all-India Congress
Jinnah
Rajago- Palachari
Gandhi
Stafford Cripps
Rajagopalachari
Mr. Gandhi
Congress Party
Fulbright Speech Planned For Hope Tonight
Radio stations wire leased lines for two Hope events. At 9 p.m. J. W. Fulbright will address an outdoor crowd from the north steps of Hope City Hall about his U.S. Senate campaign. Earlier at 8:30 p.m. Uncle Mac and the Stamps Baxter Quartet perform at Hempstead County Courthouse for Col. T. H. Barten's senate bid.
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Hope
J. W
Bill) Fulbright
Northwest Arkansas
United States Senate
Hope City Hall
City Hall
Mac
Leonia Board Member Threatens Resignation Over Pay Raise
Floyd M. Fernald a Leonia New Jersey board member and district clerk warned he would resign if the board increased his $1 080 salary by 200 a year as finance committee chair he pressed to keep expenditures within the budget.
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Leonia
N. J
Floyd M. Fernald
Board of Education
Arkansas Legion welcomes national commander on Arkansas visit
Little Rock hosts Warren H. Atherton national commander from Stockton California for his first official Arkansas visit. State American Legion Commander Harry Miller of El Dorado and all past Little Rock post commanders form a reception committee for Atherton during his July 10 to 17 visit.
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Little Rock
American Legion
Harry Miller
el Dorado
Warren H. Atherton
Stockton
Calif
Arkansas
Cotton dominates fiber consumption in world markets
WPB reports global figures showing cotton use far exceeds wool or rayon with about six times as much cotton as other fibers. Silk share is about twenty five times smaller than cotton, highlighting cotton’s lead in textile demand.
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WPB
Red Army advances near Wilno and Kaunas up to 100 miles from Germany
Soviet forces less than 100 miles from East Prussia push toward Wilno and Kaunas while severing the Daugavpils to Kaunas rail line. Baltic front troops seize Draja near the Latvian border and Braslov nearby as fighting rages in Wilno where defenders barricade center.
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Red Army
East Prussia
Wilno
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Kaunas
Lithuania
Baltic Front
Draja
Lativan
Braslov
Moscow
Berlin
Walter Plato
Kaunas-Daugavpils
Otena
Tilsit
Riga
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Pskov-Narva
Estonia
Baltics
Germany
Latvia
Stockholm
Aftontindningen
Adolf Hitler
Lotzen
Rastenburg
Rominten
Saipan Victory Opens Route to Tokyo for US Forces
Allied forces completed the capture of Saipan after taking Noemfoor, with MacArthur’s troops advancing from New Guinea. Journalists report heavy Japanese losses and widespread civilian surrender as U.S. airpower positions grow to strike Japan and the Philippines from Saipan and nearby islands.
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U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Philippines
Saipan
Noemfoor Ilands
Western Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Noemfoor
New Guinea
Associated Press
Rembert James
Purple Heart Awarded Posthumously to Pvt Fred H Cook Jr
Mr and Mrs Fred H Cook of 521 South Hervey street received from the War Department a Purple Heart for their son Pvt Fred H Cook Jr who was lost in a transport torpedoing in the Mediterranean theater this Spring.
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Fred H. Cook
Hervey Street
War Department
H. Cook, Jr
Mediterranean
Foreign maids restricted before bringing servants to England
Government rule requires proving no British woman can fill the position before an employer can import a foreign maid-servant to England. This labor ministry policy checks local labor availability prior to foreign recruitment.
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England
Ministry of Labor
Germans Labor to Keep Transport Rolling Under Bombs
Madrid dispatch describes frantic German efforts to sustain railway movement amid Allied bombings and sabotage. Reports cite railwaymen praised for risking lives, diversions of vehicles, and widespread disruptions across German and occupied networks.
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Europe
Berlin
Volkischer Boebachter
France
Normandy
Germany
Montgomery Flanks Nazis in Normandy Front Drive Near Caen
Allied forces led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery push east of the Odon bridgehead capturing Brette-Ville Sur Odon Eterville Maltot and Hill 12 as a flanking movement tightens around Caen. American troops under Lt Gen Omar Bradley advance from the Vire bridgehead taking Sainteny and pushing toward Periers to threaten the Cherbourg peninsula exits.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Bernard L. Montgomery
Orne
Caen
Normandy
Odon
Fauborg de Vaucelles
Brette-Ville-Sur Odon
Eterville
Maltot
Hill 12
Orne River
Montgomery
Cherbourg
Vire
St. Jean de Haye
Omar N._ Bradley
Sainteny
Carentan
Periers
Lessay
la Hay d Pais
Lisay
la Haye
Fauborg de Vaucettes
Odon River
Key Hill 12
Esquay
Nelson Defies Military on Reconversion Plans
Washington July 10 Chairman Donald M Nelsons allies in the War Production Board expect he will override military objections and sign orders for limited civilian goods production He will not water down the program allowing reconversion while war continues to divert men machines and material to munitions Associates say it may take ten days to two weeks for Nelson to resume duty as he recovers from pneumonia The military opposition became public when the joint chiefs of staff released a letter signed by
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Sterlin F. Green
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelsor
Nelson
Joint Army and Navy Chiefs of Staff
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