Nazi Bombers Strike Moscow First Time In War
The Associated Press reports Moscow suffered a major air assault with thousands of bombs and fires across the capital. German high command claimed continued operations on the eastern front while a Soviet defense claimed to down most attackers. the raid signals a turning point in the war and prompts implications for global politics and allied strategies.
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Associated Press
Wne
Moscow
Berlin
England
Adolf Hitler
Staut
Bucharest
Romania
Helsinki
Finland
Kremlin
Moskva River
Moskva
Communist Party
Red Army
Angly
Attew
London
Pskov
Leningrad
Smolensk
Japan
Indo-China
Tokio
Senate commerce panel backs Arkansas seven House seats
Washington report notes the senate commerce committee approved a bill to reapportion House seats under the 1940 census method, allowing Arkansas to retain seven seats by an 11 to 6 vote. The measure aims to apply equal proportion methods to the House distribution. An objector club in Reidsville South Carolina elects one member to oppose every proposal to slow rapid adoption.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Arkansas
House
Bailey
Reidsville
S. C
Farm listings aid evacuees as Hempstead County acts
County Relocation Committee with Hope Chamber of Commerce releases first listing of farms for sale or rent for Proving Ground evacuees. 396 farms for sale 37 for rent 32 families needed for labor and sharecropping. Information available at the county agent’s office. Out-of-county listings exceed locals, pushing for broader owner participation. Also notes puffers fish as ballooning when air is sucked in.
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Hope Chamber of Commerce
Proving Ground Reservation
Anderson
Hempstead County
Cranium Crackers Famous Teams Quiz
The puzzle asks for the missing second partners in paired names from a column of teams. The pairs read Rauhel and Abbott, Mason and Lewis, Burns and Gee, Gilbert and Post, Fibber Me and Amos, Gene and , and asks who the second partner is for each. Identify the famous team pairs and fill in the missing names to explain how each pair rose to fame.
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Baineed
Rauhel
Abbott
Burns and Gee
Gilbert and
Post
Fibber
Court Condemns Air Port Land Near Hope
Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley signed an order Tuesday giving the War Department immediate possession of 1 783 acres for the Southwestern Proving Ground near Hope. The land condemnation accompanies plans for a $1 300 000 army airport at the facility announced earlier.
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Texarkana
Harry J. Lemley
War Department
Southwestern Proving Ground
Hope
Proving Ground
Tent Requests Are Accepted By County Relocation Committee
The County Relocation Committee began accepting applications for 45 National Guard tents sent by Governor Adkins to aid families leaving the Southwestern Proving Ground. Volunteers to drive sanitary visitors are sought, with Wells limited to 15 per location and water tests to be conducted by the State Health Department. A Prescott mobile lab will handle local tests for August maneuvers.
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National Guard
Homer M. Adkins
Southwestern Proving Ground
Talbot Feild
Arkansas House of Representatives Defense Committee
First National Bank
State Health Department
Health Department
Prescott
Little Rock
Feild
U. & Public Health Service
Booth Joins Air Corps in Texarkana Cadet Training
Booth Day Booth, son of Mr and Mrs E E Booth of Hope Arkansas, was accepted Monday by the seventh corps area traveling aviation cadet board for training as a flying cadet subject to final approval by the air corps chief. If approved he enters a seven month program with pay of 75 dollars monthly during training and later active duty salary as a second lieutenant. The exam was given as the traveling cadet board held interviews at the Texarkana federal building.
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Texarkana
Dufilie Day Booth
E. E. Booth
Hope, Ark
Seventh Corps Area
Raveling Aviation Cadet Board
Air Corps
Air Corps Reserve
Texarkana Federal Building
A Thought He Desired a Man Without Rich Es
A fragment describes a desire for a man lacking wealth rather than looking for material riches. The text presents a quirky literary line about values over money and hints at a broader stylistic play with wording.
Britain Receives 425 Million RFC Loan
Washington report says the Reconstruction Finance Corporation approved a 425 million dollar loan to Britain to finance war supplies bought in the United States before the lend lease act. The loan, ratified by President Roosevelt and RFC head Jesse Jones, provides dollar exchange without forced sales of British securities.
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Washington
Federal Loan Agency
Great
Britain
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
RFC
Police Raid Seizes Untaxed Liquor in Hope
Hope police report a raid late Monday netted untaxed liquor. The 5 percent gallon quantity was seized at the home of Pat Easter in Hope. Easter was released to county officers for trial. Police also recovered an automobile owned by Glen Calhoun found stripped near Hope on Highway 1a near the Nevada county line.
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Hope
Pat Easter
Hope Negro
Easter
Glen Calhoun
Highway 1A
Nevada
City Court Docket Monday in Hope Municipal Court
Seventeen cases heard by Judge W K Lemley at Hope city hall on Monday include twelve traffic violations. Fines ranged from 1 to 25 dollars with several cash bonds forfeited for offenses such as drunkenness running a traffic light and reckless driving.
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Hope City Hall
W. K. Lemley
Glen Ellis
Paul Bryant Roberts
William Compton
Waliam Paul
Rin
F. E. Rucker
C. S. DeVall
George Riley
Clinton Jackson
LeRoy Maxwell
Edwin Hubeck
Earl Weaver
James McCullough
J. BR. White
Bureau Errors Highlight Virginia Vital Statistics Office
In Richmond Virginia residents joke about the Bureau of Vital Statistics being misnamed as the Bureau of Idle Statistics and the Statue of Biology Saving, reflecting confused letters and playful monikers for the state data office.
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Richmond
Uvpi
Virginia
Bureau of Vital’ Statistics
Bureau of Idle Statistics
Statie of Biology Saving
Star to Begin Photo Story of Proving Ground Exodus
The Star will publish a picture story on the exodus from the Southwestern Proving Ground and the start of the large wartime plant. Families are leaving ahead of the July 24 evacuation deadline while carpenters erect portable sheds near the Blevins highway. Missouri Pacific completes a 1000 car siding on the Hope Washington branch and begins a spur construction from Dalph station into the reservation.
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Star
Southwestern Proving Ground
Blevins Highway
Schooley Farm
Missouri Pacific
Hope-Washington
Dalph Station
Proving Ground Reservation
White House Gets Petition on Hempstead County Proving Ground
More than 1100 residents sign a protest against relocating the Army explosives proving ground from Hempstead county Arkansas to uninhabited lands in Texas or Oklahoma. Representatives say War Department will review complaints about land appraisals and displaced farmers with assistance from Farm Security Administration.
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Washington
White’ House
O ' Hope
Ark
Army
Stephen Early
War Department
Harris
Dem
Farm Security Administration
Proving Ground Area
Hempstead County
Roosevelt
Texas
Dust Bowl
Oklahoma
A. N. Swroud
Legion Would Oust Perkins From National Convention
At its annual convention in Little Rock the Arkansas American Legion urged Roosevelt to issue a full statement on national danger and called for Secretary Perkins to resign to safeguard national unity and defense. The resolution argued a lack of public confidence in Perkins' ability to handle the labor portfolio and emphasized the need for action.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Department of the American Legion
Roosevelt
Perkins
Legion
Mass Meeting At Courthouse Seeks Emergency Farm Help
A county reloca tion conference in Hempstead discussed an emergency fund of 25,000 for farmers forced to move from the Southwestern Praying Ground. Rep Talbot Feild Jr will present the plan in Little Rock. The meeting sought a central aid clearinghouse and reviewed services from agencies.
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Homer M. Adkins
New District Parole Officer Assigned in Arkansas
State parole officer J. S. Pollard announced the transfer of Patrolman Flingst Ball from police work to parole duties. Ball succeeds Carroll Durham, who resigned, in Hempstead, Nevada, Miller, LaFayette, Clark, Pike, Howard, Polk, Sevier, Little River counties. From Germany comes denial that U boats prowl near the U S. the claim won t convince all that everything is above water in the Neu program.
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Little Rock
J. S. Pollard
Ball
Carroll Durham
Hempstead
Nevada
Miller
LaFayette
Clark
Pike, Howard, Polk, Sevier
Little River
Germany
U. S
Suil
Neu
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Odessa
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White County
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Lewis
Amos
Gene
House Defense
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Inez
Hempstead Relocation Committee
Rog Griffith, Jr
Rep. Feild
Wilkerson
Robert W. Griffith
Murry
Edward H, Patterson Tred Mahle
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Eric Caviness
John Mac Smyth
Ernest Maner
Talhut Feild, Jr
Booth
Hope Youth
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Negro
Bureau of Confusion
New Mexico
Innis P. Swift
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Hueco Mis
Proving Ground Exodus
White House
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Lay
Oliver L. Adams
Lee H. Garland
T. A. Cornelius
Sarl King
O. L. Reaves
R. C. Summerville
Riley Lewallen
John Hartsfield
Willy Granton
Herman Stosy
Shirley Stewart
County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs
H. H. Huskey
Jess Yarberry
C. K. Osborn
Home Demonstration Club
Sallie Browning
B. E. McMahon
AAA
Herschel Hardin
FSA
Roy Anderson
Agricultural Committee of Hope Chamber of Commerce
Buford Poe
SCS
R. C. Ellen
CCC
W. M. Sparks
Joe D. Anderson
Wyble
State Defense Council
Mary Claude Fletcher
C. Durham
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