War labor policy and highway beautification concerns
The piece argues for prioritizing wives of military personnel for vacant jobs to support dependents during extended war. It urges employers to adopt this policy nationally. It also protests damage to elm trees and crepe myrtle along Highway 67 near Hope, urging the state highway department to compensate the city for losses and to provide protection for beautification projects similar to protections elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
The
Star
State Highway Department
City of Hope
Highway 67
No. 67
Hope
Mac
Roy Anderson
City Park Commission
Little Rock
Memphis
Canada War Effort Outstrips U S Critics Says Heath
S Burton Heath argues prewar anti interventionists misjudged Canada and Australia. Canada now has about half a million armed, adding 20,000 monthly, with five billion dollars spent on the war. Canada produces 4,400 planes annually, vastly more than the U S, and has 845,000 new workers in war jobs versus 12.5 million industrial workers in America. The piece notes U S manpower and spending trails Canada as of mid 1940s. Continued on page two.
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Australia
Canada
United States
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Japs Gain New Foothold Near Allied Outpost
General MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia reports Japanese forces made a landing at Gona Mission near Buna on the Papuan coast, 100 miles from Port Moresby. Allied bombing and air strikes damaged the invasion craft, sank the transport, and left Japanese casualties high. Allied fighters claimed two enemy planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Yates McDaniel
MacArthus
Australia
Abcip
Coral Sea Desert
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Gana Mission
Buna
Salamaua
MacArthur
Papua
Wis
Por Moresby
Owen Stanley
Markham
Sallamaua
Lae
New Gamea
Coral Sea
APL Head Denies Withholding APL Records
Arkansas Power and Light President C Hamilton Moses rejects Federal Power Commission charges that records were withheld or destroyed in an inquiry into the original cost of APL properties. He says the company has cooperated fully with both federal and state officials over the past 23 months while providing access to records and books. The FPC ordered an investigation to locate missing records and determine original costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Federal Power Commission
Arkansas Power and Light Company
C. Hamilton Moses
FPC
Moses
The
Arkansas 4 Power and Light Company
Man Who Tried Bruno Hauptman Succumbs
Thomas W. Trenchard, longtime New Jersey supreme court associate justice who presided over Bruno Hauptmann’s trial and death sentence, died at his Trenton home at age 78. Appointed in 1906, he served until retirement in February 1943, with death due to natural causes.
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Trenton
N. J
Thomas W. Trenchard
New Jersey Supreme Cour
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Carpenter
Trenchard
Supreme Court
Indictment Declares Conspiracy Ties to Wartime Effort
A federal grand jury indicted 27 men and one woman for conspiring to weaken military morale and obstruct the war effort. The case, announced by the attorney general, lists 30 publications and 28 organizations used to push the plot, naming figures from Wichita to New York and Los Angeles, including Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling and William Dudley Pelley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Allamey General Biddie
Federal District Court
Elizabeth Dilling
Chicago
Frank Woodruff Johnson
Bund
America First Committee
Ku K
Cherep-Spiridovich
Colamet Bennett
J. G. Francis
New York
Noblesville
Ind
William Dudley Pelley
Prescot Frees Bennett
Charles B. Hudson
Dilling
Oralia
Neb
Elmer J. Garner
James F. Garner
Wichita
David J. Baxter
John Pepper
John H. Rand
Ceiton
San Bernardino
Cal
Hudson de Priest
William Kullgren
Atascadero
I Leon de Aryan
San Diego
Court Asher
Muncie
Eugene Nelson
Now
Morgenthau Urges Bold Boost in War Tax Bill
Secretary Morgenthau pressed for a two and a half billion dollar increase in the war tax bill, urging the Senate Finance Committee to raise the House measure to at least eight point seven billion. He warned the nation must tax more to fund higher war spending and avoid large public borrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgenthau
America
Senate Finance Committee
House
Price Experts Here Friday In City Merchants Meet
Hope Chamber announces two Office of Price Administration officials will visit Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to discuss regulations with merchants and answer questions. The experts are J A Hill and Straud Harlow, sent by acting State Price Officer A C Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Office of Price Administration
J. A. Hill
Straud Harlow
A. C. Jones
Widespread Beef and Pork Shortage Fueled by War
A wartime shortage gripped the U S meat supply with scarce dressed beef and pork across the eastern seaboard and into the Midwest. Akron and Providence areas report no meat for sale while New Jersey officials warn the Trenton district is hit hard. Causes include price ceilings, high demand for armed forces, and slow livestock supply. officials debate quick fixes such as 75 percent of output bought by smaller packers or government support to shift supplies.
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Seaboard
South
Ohio
Akron
Providence
R. 1
Warren W. Oley
New Jersey
Bureau of Markets
Trenton
Une
Joseph Daram
Boston
Nazi Spy Trial Recessed On Request Of Attorneys
Washington July 23 The Nazi spy trial is recessed today at the request of attorneys. The defense has produced testimony from three defendants and possibly five more witnesses. The trial before a panel of seven generals resumes tomorrow. Four prisoners were captured after a U boat landing in Florida and the others after reaching the Long Island coast by submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Florida
Long Island
U S Planes Hit Jap Railways At Kiukiang Port
U S bombers burned docks and warehouses at Kiukiang on the Yangtze River and sank two Japanese ships in a raid announced by Lieut Gen Stilwell’s HQ. Ten fires were started in the arcade area. no American planes were lost. A Chinese spokesman said Japanese forces mass around Kaifeng and Chengchow on the Chei province frontier, signaling a dwindling campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
United States
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Joseph W. Stilwell
Arbor
Hankow
Kaifeng
Hona
Cheigchow
Sunchai
Peiping-Hankow
Chengchow
Chengsi
Scrap Salvage Meeting Planned for July 29 in Hempstead
Hempstead County Salvage Committee announces a Scrap Harvest Campaign meeting at 1 p.m. on Wednesday July 29 at the Hempstead County courthouse. A. Albritton chairs the county group, part of a state campaign to collect 45 000 tons of scrap metal in Arkansas by October 1 with USDA War Board and Extension Service participation and multiple county committees.
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Mainetenance
Hempstead County
A. Albritton
Hempstead
County Salvage Board
Albritton
W. E. Gasdin
State Salvage Board
Usda War Board
Agricultural Extension Service
Farm Implement Dealers
Nhe State Salvage Board
Gasdin
State Man Sentenced on Lottery Charge Seutte
State man Seutte and co defendants were sentenced by the federal court to six months each in the Youd camp at DuPont for conspiring to send lottery tickets through the mail. defendants Glyde GQ Shaw Porthind Charles No Favinger Stockton Brenan Fargo Frank Hagen wilter Port Smith. They pleaded guilty. The railroad through Leningrad winds 925 miles etc.
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Seutte
Powe Gray
Federial Guurt
DuPont
Glyde GQ
Shaw
Porthind
Charles No Favinger
Stockton
Calif. I
Brenan
Fargo
No. c
Frank Hagenwilter
Port Smith
Ark
British Attack on Wide Front Drives Axis Back at Alamein
General Sir Claude Auchinleck reports his Army of the Nile attacked all sectors of the El Alamein front in a coordinated push. British Imperial forces gained ground on Tel El Eisa and El Ruweisat ridge while air support and armor shifts aided the advance. Allied pilots claim several Axis tanks and positions hit as fighting intensifies.
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Africa
Cubra
Claude Auchinleck
Wile
Jan Sit
el Alamein
Auchinleck
FE Ruweisat
Tel el Eisa
el Makh Khad
Meteiriya
London
RAF
Battle
Malta
el Ruweisat
Alamein
of Jesus
Althe
Right of Way Granted for Oil Pipeline in Lincolns County
July proclamation by Governor Adkins grants Gulf Refining Co. right of way easement on four parcels of state land in Lincoln county to build the El Dorado Helena pipeline. The line will carry 100 octane aviation gasoline fuel oil and other petroleum products from Texas Louisiana and Arkansas to the Mississippi River for transfer to barges and tank cars bound for the east coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Adkins
Gulf Refining Co
Lincol County
el Dorado- Helena
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi River
FDR Weighs Inflation Curbs Without New Law
President Roosevelt studied wartime powers and sought counsel from labor and management to assess urgent inflation controls. He held talks with Attorney General Biddle on independent actions under war powers acts, price control laws, and commander in chief authority, amid discussions with business and labor leaders and congressional leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Biddle
United States Chamber of Commercce
National Association of Manufacturers
Labor War Cabinet
AFL
CIO
Japs Resisted by Filipinos
Washington reports continued resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines. A study of broadcasts by the Office of War Information notes a house-to-house search for firearms and radio transmitters in the greater Manila area on July 18. Japanese authorities also banned political societies and assemblies on July 8, while no guerrilla units are shown to have surrendered.
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Washington
Philippines
Office of War Information
Greater
Manila
OWL
Luzon
Mindanao
Double Trouble Tires Theft and Odd Glass Road Incident
A Newark report notes Francis Murphys car missing three tires two wheels and the battery with a drained Baseline tank. A police overtime parking summons attached to the windshield is also mentioned amid scattered crime and oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Francis Murphys
Nazi Advance Threatens Rostov and Caucasus Split
Moscow dispatch reports a major German armored push toward Rostov and Stalingrad as the Red Army fights to stem the invasion tide. Nazi forces press along the Don basin, threaten Novocherkassk and the Volga region, with air raids crippling German reinforcements and disrupting oil supplies.
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Eddie Gilmore
Moscow
Russia
Rostov
Stalingrad
Tower Don
Caucasus
Securi
Red Army
Novocherkassk
Tagarog
Urges Cargo Plane Building in Washington Deadlock
Washington July 23 minded congressmen ask admirals and merchants whether manufacturing cargo planes by the thousands would best beat the marines. Kaiser West Coast builder suggests 5,000 flying boats. Rep Mutt R-Ores calls for Navy views. Vinson urges continuing shipbuilding while planes expand. Kaiser and Martin push rapid production, with shipyards and plane factories to meet schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry 2. Kaiser
West Coast
Rep
Mutt R - Ores
House
Nval
Navy
Aleutians
Bland d V
Mercha Marine Committee
Mott
United Nations
Vinson
Kaiser
Glen Martin
Martin
Pla
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Alex. H. Washburn
By S. Burton Heath
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
APL
U. S. Marine Corps
Bruno Hauptman
Treasury
U.S
Agriculture Department
Aggiculture Department
OPA
Agricultural Marketing Administration
Tinka Muamansk
Leningrad
FDR
Barkely
Kentucky
Congress
Rayburn
Fashion Nota
Glendale
Calif
Saitroad
Wereeklesa Delying
Tadge EC
Gober
Jn Mavne
Chicaxo
Yverne Hatzfield
Vera
Hatzfield
Alsa
Don Basin
Tsimlyansi Tcherkassk
Mexico
Panama
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