Our Daily Bread backs McClellan in Arkansas run-off
Our Daily Bread columnist endorses John L. McClellan in the August 11 run-off for U S senator, arguing his prior service and experience make him the solid choice over three opponents. The piece recalls Arkansas’s historical senate leadership and urges support for McClellan, noting his two earlier terms and campaign context. The article also mentions Maj Gen Levin J Campbell Jr defending U S weaponry and the wartime production emphasis.
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David D. Terry
United States
John L. McClellan
South Arkansas
Little Rock
McClellan
Senate
Arkansas
United States Senate
Joe T. Robinson
Robinson
Thaddeus Caraway
Congress
Howard
Miller
LaPayelle
Nevada
Thempstead
American pilots break up Jap raid over Hengyang in China
Major Join I Allison from Gainesville Florida shot down two of three Japanese bombers in a nine plane raid on Hengyang Hunan province. Capt Albert J Baumer accounted for the third. The fighters broke up the formation before it reached Hengyang airfield, causing only slight damage from bombs. The action follows pilots taking over from the Flying Tigers and visiting Joseph Stalin for war aid talks.
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Chungsing
I. Allison
Harry Hopking
Moscow
Focay
U. S Air Force
China
Hengyoang
Hunan Province
Uader
Gainesville
Plu
Albert J. Baumer
Hengyang
Joseph W Stilwell
Haligon
Flying Tigers
AVG
Hopkins
Joseph Stalin
U. S
Soviet Union
Hengang
Hunan
Kwangst
Canton - Hankow
Orders Probe of APL Books
Federal Power Commission ordered a full inquiry into Arkansas Power and Light to transmit evidence to the attorney general for prosecution of officers and employees alleged to have destroyed books and records. The investigation cited a July 22 Pine Bluff office discovery of files, including papers from Q. Co. Shores and Harvey C. Couch, with audit reports slated for permanent preservation.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
United States
Arkansas Power and Light Company
George T. Cross
FPC
Ecompany
Pine Bluff
Ark
Q. Co. Shores
Cross
Harvey C. Couch
Arkansas
Federal Trade Commission
Wat
FPPC
Coss
Electile Band
Farm Permits Are Refused
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Stimson refused furloughs for farm labor during harvest to keep military preparation efficient. He allowed limited exceptions only in extreme emergencies and when harvest labor is exhausted, with service members used as units, not individuals. Senator Nye argued for reasonable furloughs to aid recruitment, insisting the labor shortage hinders military training and nationwide defense.
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Washington
Stimson
Nye
Two Aerial Disasters Kill 13 Flyers in Minnesota
Minneapolis July 30 Northwest Airlines employes died when a U S Army cargo plane crashed during takeoff. The fire burned several bodies beyond identification. Known dead include co pilot Konneit Olson and Fisher. A Navy firefighting squad tackled the blaze after the crash. The ship carried 270 gallons of gasoline and was ferried under government ownership prior to the Northwest operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
U. S. Army Cargo Vansport
World Chamberlaineld
Konnelit S. Olson
John FP
Pisher
Freemont
Corntlot
Leonard D. Larson
Northwest Airlines Mechania
Leo D. Hinseley
Wilbur
Rose
Paul F. Parlin
Winston A. Luehin
United Airlines
Olson
Fisher
U. S. Navy Air Base
Hortonville
Wis
Wi4t
General Air Transport Company
Wold - Chambers Wainfield
Cleveland
Spy Hearing Is Put Off For Nazi Trial
The military commission hearing eight German submariners who admitted arriving in the United States with explosives postponed to Friday to allow more argument before the Supreme Court on civil court trial rights. Dasch’s status remains unclear though he is linked to the Berlin sabotage unit.
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Washington
America
Supreme Court
High Court
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Frankfurter
Kenneth Royall
District Court
Asepelian
George Joh Dasch
Carl Ristine
Dasch
Henke
Berlin
Suluamic
Dasel
Arkansas Senate Runoff Fight Narrows Between McClellan and Hart
In Arkansas a neck and neck runoff race forms between former Congressman John L. McClellan and Attorney General Jack Hart after a crowded primary. Terry and Ellis concede, Brooks Hays wins in the Fifth District, and Fulbright Greenhaw move to a runoff in the Northwest. Adkins maintains neutrality as Holt asserts victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Renk
WPFK
Arkansas
John L. McClallan
McClellan
Clyde T. Ellis
Bentonville
Associated Press
McClelan
Terry
Tattemount
Winer
Lloyd Spencer
Hope
Brooks Hays
Little Rock
Farm Security Administration
Fifth Central Congressional District
Ross Bailey
Wussellville
A. L. Rosenberry
Great Winn
J. W
Bill) Fulbright
University of Arkansas
Supreme Court
Karl Greenhaw
Fulbright
Greenhaw
Virgil Willis
Harrison
Homer M. Adkins
Fred Keller
Conway
Bill Neill
Little Tovk
Vernor Heath
John 13. Page
Claude A. Rankin
Murfreesboro
Land Office
Page
Otis Page
Rankin
Ira J. Golden
Palmer Taylor
B. D. Woodburn
Ed F. McFaddin
Charles M. Mehaffy
Mehaffy
McFaddin
Leffel Gentry
Holt
Camden
Terry and Ellis
United States Senate
United States
Arkansis
Adkins
Yerry
Senate
Flashes of Life from the AP: scattered happenings
A jagged composite report recounts Cow Creek overflow hurting James Redd who sold washed incident balls. a separate Idaho note cites harvest rites and a Lap Wal chief’s warlike plans. Chicago theft sees George Meister lose 120 dollars after keeping a pistol for protection.
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Associated Press
Bonanza Hutchinson
James Redd
Country Club
Redd
Saarbrucken Target of RAF Mass Air Raids
London reports a major RAF strike on Saarbrucken Germany’s steel center near the French border. Nine planes were lost. it followed seven raids in 10 nights. British bombers also hit Birmingham and other targets in western Germany while mass raids continued along the French coast.
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London
Germany
Saarbruecken
Air Ministry
Britain
Greater
Midlands
East Anglia
Birmingham
Ministries of Air and Home Security
Boulogne
Calais
Channel
Doverstrait
Saar Valley
Berlin
Hamburg
Duisburg
Rhine
Ruhr
Germans Bomb Alexandria and Cairo in Nile delta raids
Axis bomber raids hit Bri tish and American airfields in the Nile delta behind El Alamein. Cairo endured the heaviest anti aircraft barrage, while Suez zone sirens wailed. British forces claimed limited Luftwaffe losses as operations slowed amid dust and storm conditions.
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Cairo
Nile Delta
el Alamein
Suez Zone
Egypt
Alexandria
Chiude Auchinleck
Malu
Unnecessary to Ration Auto Sales in July Region
Washington July 30 The Office of Price Administration said new passenger cars are so slow in delivery in 11 states and the District of Columbia that August rationing quotas are unnecessary. Sufficient cars are on hand in each state with no August quota for at least two months. States listed quotas and deliveries were provided by OPA in a brief statement.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
States
District of Columbia
OPA
Arkutisus
Four Die In Ohio Powder Plant Blast
Four persons were killed in an explosion at the King Powder Company plant near Lebanon Ohio. Sheriff William Hufford said the blast occurred in a powder press and residents of Cincinnati twenty five miles away felt the blast shaking houses and slamming doors. The King Mills ordnance plant was not damaged though debris fell on roofs. The powder plant was privately owned.
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Lebanon
King Powder Company
Here
Willliam Hufford
Hufford
Cincinnati
King Mills
Hitler's Oil Running Low According to Oil Weekly
New York reports the Oil Weekly warns Axis oil reserves are nearly exhausted amid heavy fighting in southern Russia. Germany reportedly has about 2,060,000 tons of fuel oil left for its Russian campaign, with production sharply rising to 240,000 tons weekly, while Russia's Caucasus areas hold much of the remaining output.
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Inea Telemap
United Nations
Rostov
Stalingrad
Russia
Caucasus
New York
Oil Weekly
Trade Journal
Germany
Europe
Russian
Ural Mountains
Aviation Cadet Dies in Crash Near Moscow Bluff
Aviation Cadet Gilbert F. Brendle, 26, of Tiffin Ohio, was killed when a training plane struck a power line and crashed during a practice emergency landing near Moscow 15 miles south of Pine Bluff Fine Bluff. Civilian instructor George B. Goodhead Jr., 27, of Tulsa Oklahoma, was critically injured but regained consciousness and is hospitalized. A board of officers investigates the accident. Brendle had joined the army training school July 4.
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Fine Bluff
Gilbert F. Brendle
Tiffin
Ohio
George BE
Goodhead, Jr
Tulsa
Okla
Moscow
Sooith
Pine Bluff
Goodhead
Brendic
Jacob F. Brendic
Prescott M. Spicer
Tamandare Freighter Sunk by Axis Submarine
The Brazilian freighter Tamandare was sunk by an Axis submarine off Trinedad on July 26, 40 minutes after being torpedoed. Four crew members died and 45 survivors were rescued at Port of Spain, with three injured. The loss adds to Allied and neutral shipping casualties in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor.
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Associated Press
Rio de Janeiro
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Trineidad
Port of Spain
New York
Hay Ue Janeiro
Nazis Advance Near Stalingrad and in Caucasus
Moscow July 30 Nazi forces on the southern front pressed deeper into the Caucasus south of Rostov toward the Don bend within 80 miles of Stalingrad. Pravda urged no retreat as Red Army reserves were moved to the line and Russian troops fought hard at crossing points on the lower Don. Red Star reports said the Volga river traffic continued and timber barges reached Stalingrad amid ongoing heavy fighting in the Don bend and Trans Caucasus area.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Raine
Filand
France
Fedor von Bock
Caucasus
Rostov
Red Army
Don
Stalingrad
Joseph Stalin
Volga
Russia
Napoleon
Communist Party
Pravda
Lower
Semeon Timosnenko
Don Delta
Seidhe
Bataisk
Red Star
Donbend
Tavestiu
Mihai Timocshnko
Tsimlyansk
Trans - Caucasus
Lower Volga
Caspian Sea
Savings Plan to Be Studied in War Bond Debate
Washington reports Secretary Morgenthau discussed Senator George’s induced savings plan proposed to tax high incomes and invest proceeds in government securities for wartime refund with interest after the war. He warned he did not endorse the plan while noting George chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Morgenthau resisted compulsory saving schemes and commented on July war bond sales progress, predicting about 900 million dollars for July. A Brown proposal to divert incomes over 25,000 into bonds was noted as the program moves toward page two.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthal
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Morgenshau
Morgenthau
Brown
D-Mich
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Alex, H. Washburn
By S. Burton Heath
Army
Levin JH. Campbell, Jr
Salisbury
N. C
Campbell
War In
Pacific
Victorville
Calif
Buck McClellan
Mehaffy McFaddin
Sevigs
Idaho
Noz Perge Andigas
Albert Moore
Lap- Wal
Chicago
George Meister
Wimalee
Saarbuecken
RAF
Hitler
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