Arkansas Sales Tax Drops Amid War Times
State Revenue Commissioner Joe Hardin reports 28,500 business houses filing Arkansas sales tax, down 1,000 from last October or 3.4 percent, mainly due to war rationing and merchandising revaluations affecting filling stations and small businesses. He warns of a continued decline until the war ends, noting press workload shifts as newspapers accelerate war coverage and require earlier submissions for non-spot news and event notices.
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Joe Hardin
Arkansas
Horrdin
Canadian Troop Movements Stir Customs Confusion
By S. Burton Heath a report notes the perplexing stance of customs officials as Canadian troops rushing westward to aid in repelling threats encounter opaque rules, reflecting bureaucratic friction during wartime mobilization.
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Bureau Tralic
Largest Tax Bill in History Goes to House Today
Washington July 16 The largest tax bill in the nations history a 6 143 100 000 wartime measure carrying heavy net income and corporation levies went before the House today for general debate An effort to recommit with higher excess profits rates and lower normal tax rates was anticipated but unlikely to prevail after 18 weeks of committee work The bill would raise corporate taxes to 10 126 500 000 and individual taxes to 7 051 100 000 plus new excise taxes on liquor beer wires tobacco train fares freight and express shipments and pari mutuel bets adding hundreds of millions more to the total"}
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Ihutson
Fon
Rules Committee
Kerr Receives Congratulations After Primary Victory
Oklahoma City July 16 Kerr leads Democratic governor race official canvass shows Kerr 143,108 with Smith 131,234 and Douglass 93,717. Opponent Douglas offers support. Smith silent. Stewart leads Democrat race for congress in third district over Cartwright 29,618 to 28,310.
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Oklahoma City
Robert
Kerr
Judge Trunk Douglass
Gomer Smith
Smith
Douglass
State Election Board
J Paul Stewart
Antlers
Wilburn Cartwright
Stewart
Cartwright
89 Jap War Ships Sunk
The Japanese navy has lost eight fighting ships since Pearl Harbor, with AP reporting further warship losses from official U S and Allied announcements. A Walsh committee tally estimates Japan's fleet at about 260 fighting craft, listing sunk ships by class and construction status across battleships aircraft carriers cruisers destroyers and submarines.
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Associated Press
Pearl Marbor
U.S. Army
Navy
General MacArthur
Australia
U. S
Reuben James
North Atlantic
Cahirman Walsh
Naval
Walsh
Chinese Report Re Occupation of Tsingtein
Chungking reports re occupation of Tsingtein in Chekiang with 400 to 600 Japanese killed or wounded, Japanese retreat toward Wenchow, and Chinese claim of attacking Japanese barracks at Sinyang. Dispatches cite Chinese gains at Hsiaoyi in Central Shansi with over 2,000 Japanese killed or wounded while Japanese artillery and reinforcements exchange heavy fire.
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Chungking
Tsingtein
Chekiang Province
Wenchow
Ysingtien
Sinyang
Han
Hsiaoyi
Shansi
Employment in U S Hits Peak
Washington reports total U S employment rising to a June peak of 63,900,000 with a May to June gain of 1,700,000. Manpower Chairman McNutt cites 12,500,000 workers in war production. Unemployment up 200,000 to 2,800,000 as 1,900,000 join the civilian labor force. Total labor force reaches 56,100,000.
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Washington
United States
Works Projects Administration
WPA
Paul V. McNutt
Jie
Child Mortality Rising Across War-Torn Europe
The British famine relief committee reports a sharp rise in infant and child mortality in Nazi-occupied and war-devastated Europe. It cites Poland and France with severely reduced rations and rising deaths among children, plus widespread scurvy and infections. Belgium shows malnutrition and inadequate meals for many schoolchildren, while overall conditions echo years after World War I.
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London
Europe
British Famine Relief Committee
Besgium
France
Paris
Poland
Capital Family Admits Profiteering on War Contracts
Washington July 16 A Washington family of four admitted before the House Naval committee that it earned 613,798 in 1941 by obtaining Navy war contracts for eleven manufacturers on a commission basis. Chairman Vinson said renegotiating contracts could recapture commissions and save millions, as the committee probes war broker activities.
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Capital Family
Washington
House Naval Committee
Mangnuson
d-Wash
William Scramgeour
Scrimgeour
Magnuson
Scrimegour
Maxwell
C. Bailey Scrimegour
Maxwell Scrimgeour
Navy Department
Vinson
D-Ga
House
Naval
Quiry
Department of Justice
Army
Navy
Thomas Hinkel
William Scrimgeour and Sons
Hinkel
A. P. Bicirley
F. B. Olcott
F. C. Nichols
Pavy Department
Steel Workers to Get Raise in Little Steel Mills
The War Labor Board is set to announce a 44 cent daily raise for 157,000 workers at Bethlehem Republic Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, with broader implications for about 660,000 steel workers and potentially 400,000 auto plant workers. Philip Murray led the CIO United steelworkers in a five month fight for a $1 day rise, while four labor members dissented. The ruling includes union security, company checkoff of dues, and a minimum wage guarantee, signaling widespread impact across durable goods industries.
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CIO United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Bethlehem Republic
Inland Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Ame
Pittsburgh
Murray
WLB
Little Steel
Late Copy Policy At The Star
The Star reiterates that notices of events and non urgent news must arrive the day before publication. Advertising and telegraph news are handled from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Club church and subscriber notices should be in the office the day prior, with Society as an exception received by noon.
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Helena
Arkansas
The
Helena World
Hope Star
Telegraph
Daily Live
Star
Society
Guard Traps Nazi Spies On Long Island Landing
Washington reports a military commission hearings on Nazi saboteurs with documents read in evidence. A 21 year old Coast Guard sailor Cullen set the FBI on the saboteurs after their submarine landings. One prisoner’s lengthy statement was read to the court as the case proceeds.
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Washington
Military Commission
FBI
Long Island
John
Miitary Commission
George John Dash
War draft age eyed at 18 for 18 to 20 year olds
Secretary of War Stimson said the Axis victory would require drafting young married men and youths aged 18 to 20. He noted that the War department has repeatedly found it necessary to call up both classes and suggested lowering the draft age to 18, while advising young men not to change their immediate plans.
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Washington
Stimson
War Department
Stimgon
Vichy Protests U.S. Mission to Aid Free French
Vichy protests in Washington over U S military liaison with General De Gaulle. Paris rejects moving nine French ships from Alexandria, and presses for keeping ships under French control per armistice terms. The U S states the mission aims to aid Free French forces, not recognize De Gaulle’s group.
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Vichy
U.S
Washington
Charles de Gaulle
France
Alexandria
Rene Godfroy
United States Department of State
Harold R. Stark
Charles L. Bolte
London
Fight Gaulle
United States
de Gaulle
Ine
State Department
Roosevelt
Suez Canal
U. S
Martinique
French West Indian Island
Adolf Hitler
Funeral service for Dr Weaver in Hempstead
Funeral for Dr J H Weaver 84 Hempstead’s oldest practicing physician will be at First Methodist church Friday afternoon at o’clock Burial in Rose Hill cemetery Survived by son Cecil Weaver of Hope and daughter Mrs I L Griffith of Houston Active pallbearers E P Young Charles Taylor Seeva Gibson Dale Jones C Cook Fred Luck Honorary pallbearers Hempstead County Medical Society and Whitfield M Usville Lodge
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J. H. Weaver
Hempstead
First Methodist Church
Rose Hill
Ile
Cecil Weaver
Hope
I. L. Griffith
Houston
Texas
E. P. Young
Charles Taylor
Seeva Gibson
Dale Jones
C. Cook
Fred Luck
The
Hempstead County Medical Society
Whitfield Miusnille Lodge
Hope Police Station Opens August First
Hope will get a new state police radio station by August 1 with antenna installation set to begin July 21. The Hope transmitter is already at state headquarters, making it the first of four authorized stations to go on air, ahead of Forrest City Clarksville and Warren. Other stations operate in Little Rock Newport and El Dorado.
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Little Rock
Hope
Gray Albright
Albright
Forrest City
Clarksville
Warren
Newport
el Dorado
Nurse Course Opens Monday for Volunteer Aides
Elizabeth Woolson R N is named instructor for an 80 hour Nurse's Aide course. The program, organized by the Red Cross and Office of Civilian Defense, starts at 8 am Monday July 20 at Julia Chester Hospital and seeks American women aged 18 to 50 to train for hospital and clinic duties.
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Elizabeth Woolson
R. N
Red Cross
John Vesey
Office of Civilian Defense
Three Indicted on Charges of Rape in Little Rock
Three white men including two Little Rock police officers suspended from duty were indicted by a grand jury for raping a 19 year old Negro girl. The defendants L Mullenax Dan Ellard and C B Eddie Jr pleaded not guilty and were jailed without bail. A July 27 circuit court trial date was set after the judge commended the grand jury for their courage.
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Little Rock
Gus Faulk
Mullenax
Dan W. Ellard
Police
C. B. Eddie, Jr
Sam Robinson
Flashes of Life from Across The Nation
In San Francisco a Marine major laments a government ban on his father's breakfast: mangoes infected with Med-Herrya can fract fly. Major James Roosevelt, son of the president, is greeted by curious onlookers. Nearby, Lemhi county politics in Salmon, Idaho show no candidates. Kaiser shipyard workers report bond signs, noting wages and wartime pay differences.
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Associated Press
Tsk
Tski
San Francisco
Marine Corps
Tropics
James Roosevelt
Russian pushes threaten Caucasus oil region
The Allied press notes German offensives in the Caucasus with new divisions moved from Belgium and echoes of a looming second front. Amid Egyptian back-and-forths, Vichy tensions rise as US talks with de Gaulle’s forces intensify while Africa trails Russia in priority.
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Clyde A
Farnsworts Associated Press
Caucasus
Voronezh
Don River
Germany
United States
Europe
Belgium
France
Howev
Egypt
Ter
Washiton
Fance
Disclousere
Vichy
U. S
Alexandria
Harold R. Starke
Charles L. Bolte
London
Charles de Gaull
de Gaullist Combe
Stark and Bolte
Batt
Roosvelt
Africa
Russia
Graf
West Viginia
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By S. Burton Heath
Pacific
Joseph A. Loftus
War Labor Board
Dr. Weaver
Vancouver
Wash
Kaiser Shipyard
Bataan
Gers’mans
Throy
Stalingrad
Volga
Bouchar
North Caucasian
Millerovo
Rigry
Millerove
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