Tea Dominates World Drinkers Despite Coffee Fame
The piece notes more tea drinkers worldwide than coffee drinkers, citing William Feather. It details tea culture, including New York's Waldorf Astoria afternoon tea, menu varieties, and the three main tea types green, oolong, and black with their fermentation processes. It also mentions British tea customs and American beverage preferences like Coca-Cola.
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William Feather
Imperial Type Metal Magazine
Mr. Feather
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York
Waldorf
Lapsang Souchong
Temple of Heaven
Earl Gray
Gold Angel
Longfellow
Great Britain
Visiting Day Horse Show At Arkansas Experiment Station
The University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station hosts a Horse Show during Visiting Day on Friday June 26. George W. Ware announces an audience from South Arkansas to view horse rovers and carriages with organizers Oliver Adams Errell Cornelius W Emmett Williams Miss Ann Feild and Ed Lavender coordinating. The event has no prizes, just fun, with a 10 am farm tour and a 1 pm speaking program by Dean Merlacher Senator Spencer and Dr. Harding before the horse show. The meeting is open to the public and likely the station’s only event this year due to the tire situation.
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University of Arkansas, Fruit and Truck Branch
George W. Ware
South Arkansas
Oliver Adams
Errell Cornelius
W. Emmett Williams
Ann Feild
W. R. Merlacher
College of Aericulture
Lloyd Spencer
Arkansas
Arthur M. Harding
University of Arkansas
Scrap Rubber Drive Urges County Residents to Contribute
Hempstead filling stations and all dealers report a 5200 pounds scrap rubber collection in the county. Citizens are urged to bring in scrap rubber to any station. Estimates from the United States Rubber Company show old hose, tires, inner tubes and other items can be reclaimed for Army and Navy uses to alleviate shortages.
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Hempstead
Oil Dealers Association of Arkansas
United States Rubber Company
No Rationing of Coffee
Washington dispatch reports rationing of coffee unlikely in the immediate future but grocers must tighten sales. Harold B. Rowe, director of food rationing, says no assurance against further shipping curtailment. War Production Board quotas for July are expected to match the previous two months at 76 percent of deliveries.
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Washington
Juhe
Harold B. Rowe
Indertes
Jade
War Production Board
War’s Total Adjustment A Civilian War Readiness
S Burton Heath II surveys Oliver Lyttelton’s account of Britain’s total war impact. Civilians face universal draft or reassignment, rigid work hours, and age 14 plus youth in wartime labor. Rationing broadens to food clothing fuel. Gasoline cutoff looms after July 1 with high income tax starting at $450 annually.
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Oliver Lyttelton
Atlantic
LytteHon
Donald Nelson
Great Britain
Chinese Assert Japs Massing to Attack Russia
The Associated Press reports Chinese officials claim nearly 1,000,000 Japanese troops are massed in Manchuria with plans to strike Russian Siberia in July. Neutral observers doubt a new assault before Hitler’s Russian offensive, while Moscow and Tokyo warn against violations of their 1941 neutrality pact. Chiang Kai-shek’s forces continue clashes with multiple Japanese invasion columns across eastern and southern China.
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Associated Press
Japan
Manchuria
Russian Siberia
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Tokyo
Chungking
Philippines
Netherlands East Indies
China
Chiang Kai - Shek
Jap Diplomats Enroute Home
Washington reports the Gripsholm with 1,097 Japanese diplomats and nationals sails from New York to neutral territory for exchange with American officials and newspapermen. It will pick up 403 more Japanese in Brazil and Paraguay and head to Laurenca Marques, then the Asama Maru will transport Americans home from Asia. Carolyn C. Jacobs of Kansas City is the soleMissourian on the list. AP reporters and correspondents from Tokyo Shanghai Saigon Mong Kong and Shanghai accompany the repatriation effort.
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Washington
Gripsholm
New York
Western Hemisphere
Asia
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Paraguay
Laurenca Marques
Portuguese East Africa
Joseph C. Grew
United States
Canada
Japan
China
Gripstholm
Carolyn C. Jacobs
Kansas City
J. B. Powell
China Weekly Review
Shanghai
Associated Press
Joseph Dynan
Tokyo
Morris J. Harris
Max Hill
Vaughn I. Meisling
Mong Kong
Belman Morin
Saigon
Indo Chir
Mrs. White
Highway bids open for 14 mile Lake Village to McGehee road
The Arkansas Highway Commission will take bids on July 2 to pave a 14 mile segment of the Lake Village McGehee road, first section of Arkansas highway 19 added to the national strategic road network by WPB. Director W. W. Mitchell says the project costs about 600000 dollars with 450000 provided by the federal government. The 22 foot wide road will have 10 foot gravel shoulders, running from the U S highways 65 and 82 junction at Lake Village north to the junction of 95 with state 35.
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Like
Rock
Arkansas Highway Commission
Lake Village
McGehee
WPB
Greenville - Lake Village
Mississippi River
W. W. Mitchell
British Bombers Hit Paris Rail Junction at Chaulnes Sur Oise
British bombers struck Chaulnes Sur Oise, a key Paris Cambrai railway junction, dropping bombs on switches and a freight yard in German-occupied France. The raid followed a June report from Vichy.
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Vichy
API
Chaulnes Sur Oise
Paris-Cambrai
France
Sevastopol Still Holds as German Offensive Fades
Soviet and Russian sources report Sevastopol remains in Allied hands amid heavy fighting. A military writer noted waning German offensive power as Kharkov front clashes slow due to storms. Soviet air forces sank Axis ships and damaged minesweepers while Russian troops repelled assaults, keeping Sevastopol position unchanged.
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Henry GC
Cassidy
Moscow
Germany
Soviet Information Bureau
Sevastopol
Crimean
Kharkov
Russaan
Kalinin
Information Bureau
Arctic
Black Sea
Nikolai Haravelny
Mascow News
Fedor von Bock
Betory Charkey
Trusty Kills Two Prisoners at Tucker Prison Farm
At Tucker Prison Farm on June 19 an armed trusty guard killed two short term convicts Curtis Carleton Frisby 22 and Ernest Gardner 35 who fled during work by the bayou after commands to halt. Frisby served a four year forgery sentence from Union county dated Feb 6 1941 and Gardner a five year pandering sentence from Yes county dated July 14 1941.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Curtis Carleton Frisby
Ernest Gardner
Ed Dupree
Jefferson County
Lee Hensley
Tucker Farm
Tohem
Frisby
Union County
Gardner
Yes! County
Adkins Urges Early Printing of Ballots in War Year
Governor Adkins asked county central committees and county clerks to print absentee ballots immediately after an attorney general opinion allowed early mailing for Democratic primaries. He also urged commanders to inform stationed Arkansans to write home for ballots, noting military absentee votes could sway this year’s election. Analysts expect turnout under 200,000 due to the War.
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Little Rock
Adkins
Arkansas
Statehouse
Poet Laureate's son killed in action abroad
London reports Lewis Crommelin Masefield, 32, son of Poet Laureate John Masefield, was killed in action far from home in recent fighting. AP reports the family announced the death today.
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London
Lewis Crommelin Masefield
John Masefield
Witness reports U S bombers over Bucharest and claims of strikes
A Bucharest witness says American bombers appeared over the capital at dawn after an alert, with reports that Constanta and Ploesti were hit. He noted heavy anti-aircraft fire, pursuit planes, and excitement among Germans at the Athene Palace hotel as Bucharest’s two hour alert ended.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bucharest
United States
Constanta
Rumania
Black Sea
Ploesti
Ploésti
Rumanian
Athene Palace
Ucharest
Arkansas Boy Wins National Scholarship Contest
Robert G. J. Spitze of Berryville Arkansas wins the $800 first prize scholarship in a nationwide contest sponsored by a National Merchandising Company Sears Rebuck. Spitze, 19, is a sophomore agricultural student at the University of Arkansas and led the nation in composite rating for scholarship leadership and personal qualities.
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Atlanta
Robert G. J. Spitze
Berryville
Ark
Sears, Rebuck
Spitze
University of Arkansas
Baptist Bible School Closes at First Baptist Church
Commencement exercises at 8 Friday night June 19 mark the end of a ten day Vacation Bible School at the First Baptist church. Recognition certificates will be given to fifty seven pupils with perfect attendance. Parents and friends are invited to attend.
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First Baptist Church
Ruth Mitchell Freed From German Prison
Ruth Mitchell sister of the late Brig. Gen. William Mitchell arrived in Lisbon from a German prison camp. She was described as the first foreign woman sworn into the Yugoslav Partisan movement and linked to the revolutionary organization fighting in Yugoslavia.
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Lisbon
Ruth Mitchell
William
Billy) Mitchell
U. S. Army Air Corps
Comitadji Organization
Yugoslavia
Lispon
Nazis Sink 3 Spanish Ships
British admiralty said 12 German dive bombers attacked a Spanish fishing fleet and the 1,120-ton destroyer Wild Swan about 100 miles off the French Atlantic coast. Three Spanish trawlers were sunk, the Wild Swan shot down several bombers, and later the ship and crew were salvaged.
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London
Atlantic
Wild
Swan
Walf
Admiralty
Oklahoma Girl Is Given Life
New York dispatch reports Madeline Webb 28 of Stilly water Olkla sentenced to life for part in the Hotel Sutton murder of wealthy Polish refugee Mrs Susan Flora Reich. Her lover Eli Shanbrun and John D. Cullen were sentenced to die in the electric chair the week of July 17. Webbs’s trial featured a mercy recommendation that was not extended. Cullen and Shanbrun received mandatory death penalties. A probation report labeled Webb shallow and petulant, with a psychiatrist noting an IQ of 90.
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New York
Madeline Webb
Stillywater
Olkla
Susan Flora Reich
Hotel Sutton
Eli Shanbrun
John D. Cullen
General Sessions
Jonah J. Goldstein
Sing Sing
Miss Webb
Cullen
Shanbrun
Marian Reich
Shonbrun
Japs Step Up Air Attacks on Port Moresby Harbor
Allied defense at Port Moresby faced a new Japanese blow as 18 heavy bombers bombarded harbor installations in the 62nd raid on the New Guinea base. Allied fighters, though outnumbered, contested the attack, with one pilot shooting at three Zeros and two enemy planes reported hit. Japanese airmen reportedly introduced two new planes, a lighted Zero and a cannon-bearing medium bomber, but U.S. aircraft like the B 26 and P 30 and P 40 countered their effectiveness.
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Allied
Australia
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Air Force
Pacific
Philippines
United States
Senate House Feud Flare Over War Effort Reports
Washington June 19 AP A feud between Senate and House committees over war effort investigations flared as Senator Brewster charged a House subcommittee rushed its report on dollar a year men to gain a scoop. He said a prior aluminum report followed a similar pattern and that the WPB delays were used to press for a Senate delay. The House issued its finding as War Production Board head Nelson urged the Senate to stall its own report as Brewster noted possible coincidence.
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Washington
Senate
House
Brewster
Rme
O.K
Turman
D-Mo
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Truman
WPB
Churchill May Seek U S Help in Middle East War
London reports Prime Minister Churchill’s Washington visit aims to enlist greater American aid to hold the Middle East against German advances from Libya to Egypt and threats to cut Soviet supply lines, with talks centered on a second European front in 1942.
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Robert Bunnelle
London
Churchill
United States
Middle East
Libya
Egypt
Ukraine
Caucasus
United Nations
Europe
Washington
Hitler
Middle Eastern
Suez
Indies
Russia
Roosevelt
Rommel’s
Crete
Alexandria
Mediterranean
Suex
Tobruk
Britain
Daily Mail
Second Front Council
Iman
Governor Adkins Retains State Racing Commission Office
Governor Adkins stated the State Racing Commission setup would stay in place during the War though he opposes racing meets. He said the office remains provided by statute and would not be discontinued. The West Memphis dog races were canceled recently amid opposition from the governor and army officials. The racing commission secretary has a yearly budget of $15,800 with Secretary Guy Freeling earning $300 monthly.
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Little Rock
Adkins
State Racing Commission
West Memphis
Army
Guy Freeling
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