Parachute reports near Hyde Park spook residents
Reports of six parachutes seen near Kent Roosevelt's Hyde Park sparked fear before dawn. Authorities urged calm as investigators questioned the sightings, speculating balloons or religious holiday lanterns may be involved. Clyde Swendson of Hollow Farms reported a lone parachutist near Fox Hollow Farms, while state police tracked a teletype alert from Dutchess County officials.
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Hyde Park
Clyde Swendson
Hollow Farms
Jacob Astor II
Roose-' Intry
Swendson
Fox Hollow Farms
Dutchess County
Douglas Crapser
Prescott Man Wreck Victim
Doss Wren 35 of Prescott is dead after a collision between two travel trucks half a mile west of Magnolia. Van Buren Cox 33 of Waldo is critically injured with a skull fracture and crushed left leg. doctors say he has a slim chance. Wren left a wife, three children, his mother, and four brothers. Funeral set for Harmony church Sunday at 3 p.m.
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Prescott
van Buren Cox
Waldo
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Magnolia Hospital
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When
D. F. Jones Construction Company
Little Rock
Highway 79
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Oscar
Floyd
Willard
Edgar Wren
Sutton
Harmony Church
Auction set for Barrymore dog and eight pups
Hollywood reports a cherished Afghan hound named Viola and her eight puppies will be sold. Viola belonged to the late actor John Barrymore who left the dog to his Japanese gardener Mark Nishimura, now unable to care for her. Executors will open bids Tuesday.
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John Barrymore
Barrymore
Viola
Mark Nishimura
Mark
Earl Moss
First Day Night Air Raid Alert Reaches London
London endured its first daylight air raid alert since March 16 when a single enemy raid approached within 15 to 20 miles of the capital. The alert and all clear followed within about thirty minutes with no incidents reported on March 16 either.
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London
Veteran Canner James P Harris Dies at 82
Prairie Grove reports the death of 82 year old James P Harris a longtime veteran canner and secretary of the Ozark canners association. He died at his home leaving a wife and two daughters Phoebe of Pocahontas and Anne of Shreveport. Funeral plans were not announced. A separate note mentions the German liner Drottningholm carrying about 800 Axis nationals on the high seas bound for Tothenburg Sweden.
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James P. Harris
The
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Phoebe
Pocahontas
Anne
Shreveport
New York
Drottninghelm
Tothenburg
Sweden
Prescott News Inducts 21 Colored Men into Army
Twenty one color ed men depart on July 23 for Camp Robinson to be inducted. Names include F. T. Brown Samuel Bailey Orland Ingram Fred Williams Shelton Willis Central Hays Henry McKillion Willie Curry Eddie Walker Carlton Kirby and others.
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Samuel Bailey
Orland Ingram
Fred Williams
Shelton Willis
Central
To Let Contract on Garland Bridge Job
The Arkansas highway department announced bids to be received until July 30 for three access roads to air schools and five other construction projects. The work covers 35 miles of concrete paving and two concrete bridges between Blytheville and Chamber School, plus 1 8 and 7 miles of blacktop surfacing from Helena and Walnut Ridge to air schools. Another project involves bank protection on OS B2 at Garland City bridge. Additional sites are in Columbia, Cleveland, Crittenden St Francis, Prairie and Lawrence counties.
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Red River
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Crittenden-St. Francis
Prairie and
Lawrence Counties
Three More Added to McClellan Group
Little Rock born July 17 adds A Priddy Russellville Lamarsh Jiamson Monticello Ned Stew art Texarkana to McClellan for Benale advisory committee bringing total to six. John McClellan announced Clyde T. Ellis announced Mrs H B Ingram Conway would be assistant director of the campaign women division.
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A. Priddy
Russellville
Lamarsh- Jiamson
Monticello
Ned Stewart
Texarkana
John McClellan
Clyde T. Ellis
H. B. Ingram
Conway
Bomb Raids Report on Jap Held Aleutian Islands
Navy brief on Aleutians warfare notes 66 bombs dropped on Kiska shore installations. American losses total 44 killed and 49 injured with one civilian dead. Northwestern ship burned in Dutch Harbor attack. Additional details outline June 3 attack force composition and June 4 counterstrikes.
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Aleutians
Kiska
Dutch Harbor
Fort Mears
Fort Glenn
Umnak
Northwestern
Army
Midway
United States
Coast Guard
Dutch Harbor Battle Repeats at Fort Glenn Attack
Allied forces repelled a second assault on Dutch Harbor and Fort Mears as nine enemy fighters attacked Fort Glenn. Two were shot down, seven withdrew without damage. In Chungking, a tenth day of heat with water scarcity from power plant repairs worsened conditions.
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Dutch Harbor
Fort Mears
Fort Glenn
Chungking
The first spar torpedo of the Civil War described
The early torpedo known as the spar torpedo was a long ram carrying a bomb at its tip, used in the American Civil War.
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Whitaker
Poindexter Whitaker
2. Orford
Horace McKen
Crawford
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