Our Daily Bread A defense plant for Hempstead county split by opinion
The 15 million dollar Southwestern Proving Ground in Hempstead county sparked mixed reactions as residents weigh benefits of industrialization against dislocation and government dealings. The piece urges suspending judgment until full facts emerge, noting public memory of contested land use and Senator Lloyd Spencer's modest involvement while praising the project’s potential impact.
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Southwestern Proving Ground
Hempstead County
Lloyd Spencer
Fh Gold
Wies
Hope and Hempstead County
Spencer
Senator Spencer
Proving Ground
Hempstead
Caraway
Adkins
Arkansas
Hell A
Washington
Great Achievements By WILLIS THORNTON
Axis powers have really achieved notable moves in the war effort as reporters outline strategic advances and shifting balances of power. Continued discussion on Page Six.
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Willis Thornton
Longer Service Question Up to Congress
President Roosevelt urged Congress to authorize a national emergency and extend service for draftees reserves and national guards. He warned German aggression brings Nazi domination closer to the Western Hemisphere and called for maintaining army strength without disorganization. He proposed removing the 900000 ceiling on in service numbers and left term lengths to Congress. The decision rests entirely with Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
Congress
British Began Heavy Air Raids
London reports the RAF will launch the heaviest raids in history against Germany in the next three months. British bombers with fighter escorts kept up a non stop offensive. Night raids reportedly hit an industrial site in northern France and the Rhineland. The sources say attacks will target German industry and surpass the Coventry bombing in scale.
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London
RAF
Germany
Channel
Rhineland
War Dept agrees to frozen crop values and salvage option
Senator Lloyd Spencer and colleagues met George Fuller of the War Department in Washington to set fixed prices for cotton 16 cents a pound cottonseed 40 a ton and corn 75 cents per bushel. They will allow removal of improvements at salvage value about 10 percent of appraised value and use a timber estimator for full market timber value in the Southwestern Proving Ground area.
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Lloyd Spencer
O. A. Graves
W. Kendall Lemley
George Fuller
Real Estate Department
War Department
Washington, D. C
Spencer
Southwestern
Proving Ground
H. B. Grace
Thhe Real-estats
Ares
Tour Reservation
Fuller
Tay
Grace
Graves
Lemley
Relocation Office Opens for Farm Families Near Defense Area
A coordinated Relocation Office is set up in Hope courthouse to assist about 506 farm families displaced for defense needs. The committee coordinates agency aid, positions tents from National Guard, and guides loans for family farms. Applications are filed at the fourth floor Relocation Office with county committee approval expected Monday afternoon.
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Hope
Lloyd Spencer
Talbot Feild
Proving Ground
National Guard
County Relocation Committee
Oliver L. Adams
National ‘Guard
Homer M. Adkins
Oliver Lb. Adams
Chaimin
Wy ML Sparks
Lee Garland
Buford Poe
T. A. Cornelius
Earl King
Mr. Adams
Iehairman
Sloen
State Relocation Corporation
Farm Security Administration
Hempstead
British Planes Raid Naples Killing 14 and Wounding 24
British planes attacked the Italian port of Naples on Monday, killing 14 people and injuring 24 according to the Rome high command. Eight of the dead were anti aircraft militia, the war bulletin said.
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ROM
Naples
Porbate
Haldan
High Command
Rome
Unclear Phrase Describes A Thought Unto Me Grace
A fragmented historical text fragment presents a phrase about grace granted to the unsewerable iohes of Che cEphupiiagn, yielding little readable context or identifiable entities or actions.
Bloody Fighting Reported as Nazis Drive Toward Moscow
The Germans claim to have annihilated a Soviet division near Mogilev on the Dnieper front guarding Moscow, while Soviet reports cite heavy casualties for the Nazis and ongoing battles across the north, central, and south fronts. Moscow reports air raid alarms with no bombs falling, and guerrilla bands harass German lines. Six women have swum the English Channel.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
Mogilev
Dneiper
Berlin
Mogilev Field
DNB
Vitebsk
Suyidt High Comand
Rediy Bank
Smolensk
Stalin
Leningrad
Kiev
Hitler
Cranium Crackers: Questions on Russia Invasion
Questions probe German aims in the attack on Russia the commander who marched to Moscow and was driven out the size of the USSR relative to the United States and the distance from Leningrad to Vladivostok Stalin’s office in the USSR and the three names of Leningrad and its namesake ring page next.
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Russia
Germany
Europe
Moscow
United States
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Leningrad
Vladivostok
Joseph Stalin
Comig
New Plant on Lewisville Road Briefly Opened
A half yard power shovel and gravel plant set up this week on Highway 29 South near the Hope Lewisville line in Lafay ette county. Kent Brown district highway engineer says the plant will supply material for blacktopping the main road south from Hope toward Shreveport and New Orleans. Graders widen and cut back embankments near the underpass at Highway 29 and the Louisiana Arkansas railway. The sub base should be completed between Hope and Lewisville by mid fall, then blacktop work proceeds quickly.
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Acu
Highway 29
Hope
Lewisville
LaFayette County
Kent Brown
Shreveport
New Orleans
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway
Mr. Brown
County to Get Back Taxes From Missouri Pacific Checks
Missouri Pacific railroad will mail checks totaling 936,885.04 to Arkansas counties for unpaid taxes 1938-39 and first quarter 1940. Harvey Combs M D P attorney announced the plan. Hemstead County is listed with 22,700.57 dollars.
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Little Rock
SL. Louly
Missouri Pacific Railroad
County College
Arkansas
Harvey Combs
Hemmstead
Highway 29 Detour Planned by U S 67 Closure
Officials announced Highway 29 would close at the lower end with a detour over U S 67 to the Hope Blevins route. Crews began moving heavy grading equipment as 88 households were ordered to evacuate, and a $15.5 million Hempstead project relocation camp will house 2,000 workers. The Proving Ground plans to move headquarters before school starts, while a relocation committee reports most families have found temporary housing.
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Househol
S! Highway Department
Blevins
Brown
Hope-Blevins
Hope U. S. 67
Hope
Ling
Hope End
Stu Man Ienenigy
Waeter
Proving Ground
Proving Ground Reservation
Hempstead
Hope High School
Plens
Praying Ground
Homer M. Adkins
Elkshi My
Talbot Feild, Jr
Sully Broening
Cecelia Hughes
Powny
Martinez Revival Enters Second Week on Court House Lawn
Evangelist Angel Martinez leads revival meetings on the courthouse lawn drawing growing crowds in week two. Clayton Day conducts music as Rev Martinez urges attendance and notes signs of growth amid townsfolk drawn by faith and community gathering.
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Court House Lawn
Evangelist
Angel Martinez
Clayton Day
Rev. Martinez
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Sen. Spencer
National Defense
New Orleans i
New York
Tada
Hile Hbs
Netherlands
North Sea
RAF Bomber Command
English Channel
Lewisville Road
Missouri Pacific
U.S. 67
Martinez
Johnny
Mary
Juluuty
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