Social Calendar and Personal Notices from Hope
Thursday July 22 Mrs Carter Johnson chairs Surgical Dress ing rooms 9 to 12 and 1 to 4. Friday July 23 Mrs Nick Jewel leads volunteers at Red Cross Surgical Dress ing rooms. C A Rea returns today from Texarkana business trip visiting W H Baker. Miss Sarah Jane Murphy in Arkadelphia with Miss Marcilene Atkins Ouachita College. Miss Mary Lemley and Miss Mary Delia Carrigan depart for Hot Springs to visit Mr and Mrs Richard Butt. After Atlanta visit, Mrs W R Hamilton and daughters return to the city. Mrs Terrell Cornelius visited Texarkana yesterday. Mrs Jim Case travels to Wisconsin July. Dr Emmet Thompson and daughter Toni with Mrs Jess Davis go to Conway. Lucille Ruggles and Rev F E Burgess motor to Waldo yesterday. Mrs Jack Meek of Bradley arrives today, joined by Mr Meek Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Jewell Monts of Quonset Point RI visiting Hope. Miss Louise Arnett returns from Hot Springs. Mrs Billy Arnett and daughter accompany home while Pfc Arnett serves in Dawson Creek BC. Mr and Mrs Clifford Franks and Norma Jean attend Harvey Shepherd funeral. Shepherd is stepfather of Thomas Lavin Hope High School band director. Staff sergeant McKay Mullins leaves for Camp Haan CA after two weeks with Hope relatives. Mullins recently returned from two years in Dutch Harbor. Personal Four University of Arkansas School of Law students make spring honor roll. included William Horace Jewell, 2nd year, Hope, 5.33 average.
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Clifford Franks
Norma Jean
Gordon
Harvey Shepherd
Army Air Field graduate and War Department officer named
Levi C. Martin, son of Mrs Bertha Martin of Hope Route 1, completes aviation mechanic training with the Army Air Forces Technical Command Cleveland. Lt Glen Walker of Hope, a former Officer Candidate School graduate, assigned to the War Department's Cleveland Ordnance District. Walker, an attorney and former legal staffer, is a University of Arkansas alumnus and son of Mrs W E Monroe. American railroads show large equipment declines since 1917. An armored division consumes 78 000 pounds of food daily in action. Argentina’s population is concentrated largely in Buenos Aires.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Amarillo
Texas
Levi C. Martin
Bertha Martin
Hope Route 1
Army Air Forces Technical Command
Cleveland, C
Glen Walker
Hope
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen
Maryland
War Department
Cleveland Ordnance District
Walker
Engineering Corps
University of Arkansas
W. E. Monroe
Arkansas
Lincoln Encounters Yoruba Mystique and Hidden Threats
Lincoln observes Yoruba guards and totems near Lake Chad while fraud and fear shape African politics. He teeth-gnashes at superstition and hints at a brutal plan as he and Zaman Khan plot their route with a crude map.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Lake Tchad
Kraals
Hykmootameez
Lincoln
Africa
Whiteman Promises Swing for Kids and Old College Crowd
The bandleader plans swing for younger audiences while offering sweeter tunes for old college crowds. He defends swing as a performance, not music, criticizing too many jam sessions. Whiteman’s fourth film shows him lighter, married to Margaret Livingston for 14 years, after a diet shed over 100 pounds from a peak of 327. His weight now sits around 217.
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Gershwin
Ferde Grofe
Whiteman
Oliver Hardy
Margaret Livingston
Whiteman and Gershwin Shaped Rhapsody in Blue History
The producer Jesse L. Lasky planned a Gershwin life story years ago, tying the film biography to Rhapsody in Blue. Paul Whiteman, the so called king of jazz, helped launch the piece at Carnegie Hall, shaping a bridge between jazz and symphony and cementing Whiteman as a pivotal figure in early American music.
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Hollywood
Paul Whiteman
George Gershwin
Jesse L. Lasky
Lasky
Whiteman
Gershwin
al Jolson
Carnegie
McClellan Plans Aug 12 Start for Alaska Highway Inspection
Senator John L. McClellan said he would leave Arkansas around August 12 to join a Senate subcommittee on a first congressional inspection of the new Alaska Highway. The group, led by Senator Scrugham, will depart Great Falls about August 15 and spend two to three weeks surveying the route with members Chavez Buck Moore Eastland among those likely to participate.
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Hot Springs
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
Senate Post Office and Post Roads Committee
United States
Alaska
Great Falls
Mont
Scrugham
Nev
Chavez
Buck
Moore
Okla
Eastland
Miss
McClellan
Record Raid by Allied Air Forces
Allied air forces engaged enemy targets across New Guinea Timor and nearby islands. They reported downing 19 aircraft with 11 likely destroyed, while two Allied planes were lost though a pilot survived. Attacks hit bridges, airfields, barges, and coastal jetties, including Gogol bridge in Madang area and targets at Lae Vella Lavella Penfoei and Cape Gloucester.
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Komiatum
Salamaua
Fifth Airforce
Gun
Gogol
Gor
Madang
Madang-Lae
Penfoei
Timor
Rabaul
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Lae
Vella Lavella Island
Bulolo
Chicks Surge in Southern Association Chase
Memphis Chicks climb to third place two and a half games behind the leaders after a 12–win surge in 16 days of the second half. They hoped to gain second with a win over Little Rock as New Orleans split with Birmingham and other results shaped the standings.
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Memphis
Chicks
Little Rock
Doc Prothro
New Orleans Pelicans
Birmingham
Montgomery
Atlanta
Knoxville
Nashville Vols
Travelers
Harry Kelley
Greer
Kelley
Trav
Ralph Pate
Nashville
Alderson
Warhol
Torres
Wilson
Curtis
Todd
New Orleans
Collins
Hope Men Return From Lakeside Fishing Trip
Ralph Bailey Roy Craine and W O Temple of Hope return from a day fishing along the Ouachita river near El Dorado. They report phenomenal success and a fruitful outing with ample catches.
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Ralph Bailey
Roy Craine
W. O. Temple
Hope
Ouachita River
el Dorado
Bid notice for City Hall painting in Hope Arkansas
The Board of Public Affairs of Hope Arkansas invites bids to paint outside wood and metal work on City Hall. Bids due by 10:00 A M July 30 in the Council room. contract awarded if a satisfactory bid is received. Specifications from Mayor Albert Graves. Board may waive informalities or reject all bids.
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Board of Public Affairs
City of Hope
Arkansas
City Hall
Albert Graves
Young Woman Escapes Hongkong Internment Story
Frances Long recounts Gwen Priestwood a nurse interned in Hongkong who escaped Japanese captivity with help from a Chinese boatman and guerrillas. Facing starvation she crawled under barbed wire fled to Chungking then India and the United States to tell her tale.
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Frances Long
Manila
Gwen Priestwood
Hongkong
New York
Gwen
Auxiliary Nurses Service
Chungking
Stanley Prison
Hongkong Island
India
United States
Bluefishes Meet in Silent Ocean Clash
A school of bluefishes plows through a flock of rival fishes as they meet in open water. The encounter unfolds with quick, steady maneuvers and a swirl of bubbles as the two groups collide briefly before resuming their journeys.
Governor Adkins Shifts Emergency Funds For War Effort
Governor Adkins in Little Rock transfers 4800 from the emergency fund to the governor's office citing wartime workload. He also moves 10780 to Booneville sanitorium and the Confederate Home to raise salaries, with consent from a legislature majority.
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Little Rock
Adkins
Booneville
Ancient Ur in Iraq Heralded as World’s Oldest City
Archaeologists proclaim Ur in present day Iraq as the oldest city yet discovered, based on recent excavations and artifacts that push urban beginnings back centuries. Researchers note the site reveals early urban planning, temple complexes, and evidence of organized governance.
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Iraq
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