Social Calendar and Society News Highlights
Social calendar notes a Business and Professional Women’s meeting at Mrs Aline Johnson’s home. The week’s Red Cross sewing report lists women chairing garment production and material issuance. Several society guests and visits are reported, with multiple dinners and lectures noted among Arkansan and regional families.
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Business and Professional Women’s Clit
Aline Johnson
C. D. Lester
Red Grass
Red Cross
Cleve Andres
John Turner
Gus Parker
Leroy Spates
Frank Johnson
T. Bell Jr Arrives Safe and Well at Home
Personal note reports that The T. Bell Jr. has arrived at his home, is in good health, and his hesitation has faded. The family welcomes his return and notes he is doing well.
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T. Bell, Jr
Filton Library Board Meeting Discusses War Time Community Work
The Filton Library Board chaired by Mrs. Herbert Cox met June 9 to discuss improving library services for the community during wartime. The children's story hour continues with titles including Little Town, The Musical Box, Paddle of the Sun, and Time Was enjoyed by the children.
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Filton Library Board
Herbert Cox
Ed Wilson
T. J. Logan
Hader
Leiption
Holling
Woodward
Glider Pilot School Opens In Anvrillo Texas Camp
Glider pilot training begins with precourse flights in light 400 pound clubs powered by 65 horsepower motors. At Plumview Texas and other pre-glider locations 18 to 36 year old enlistees learn basic gliding and dead stick landings before advancing to bigger gliders that carry weapons and equipment. Charles R. Haas, a 19 year old Oakland enlisted man, declines an early opportunity amid the program.
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Anvrillo
Tex
Sam
Middle West
Fatlands
Plumview
War Department
Charles R. Haas
Oakland
Calif
Glider cadets relish rough and ready training fun
A group of cadets recounts their glider training with dead-stick landings, stalls, and slips as essential skills. Lani Robinson, a 24 year old rancher from Portales, wears cowboy boots to pedal control. Herbert Wichtendahl sings while descending, earning a passerby a tale of an angel’s wings.
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Haas
Nying
Lani
Lonnie
Herbert J. Wiehtendah
Orlando
Mayor Bowen Weds Visitor From Arkansas in City Hall Romance
Newton, Musg April 24 AP The 66 year old Mayor Faxon Bowen of North Adams sought a secretary willing to earn 18.77 a week while smart enough to work, prompting a joke that led to a real courtship with Miss Andrea Milner 36 of Dorado Arkansas. She visited friends here and, after a letter of introduction, met Bowen and the romance blossomed into marriage plans.
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Bowen
Lellery
Tele
Gram
Arkansas
North Adams Ration Board
Miss Milner
Mayors' Club of
Massachusetts
Auto Industry Saves Tools From War Drive
Detroit June 20 AP The auto industry has saved its 1942 model passenger car tools and dies from the War Production Board scrap drive. If war continues, tools may be needed for quick re assembly and forging, otherwise passenger cars may not roll for a year or more.
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David J. Wilkie
Wide World Automotive
Detroit
War Production Board
Sporting Blood Chapter X Tumult and Revelations
Hunter Dent is freed on bond and pursues Sally Kiker to learn who fired the shot. Sally recalls a masked man with a pistol and two others nearby as a fatal altercation unfolds. Hunter confronts Red and theorizes a bank messenger scheme while Junior recovers in hospital.
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Sheriff Anderson
Anderson
Hunter
Court House
Judge Elkins
Tudge Elkins
Sally Kiker
Sally
Sam Doolittle
Sam
Squire Doolittle
Hunters Way
Doolittle
Sam Doolitle
Eer
Junior
Red
Hank Temple
Janior
Army Men Promote Fights At Camp Upton Benefit
Major Francis J. Quigley organized seven all service bouts at Camp Upton on Long Island attracting 7,000 fans with 4,600 civilians. Joe Louis headlined a three round exhibition, aiding Army emergency relief with net proceeds over 7,000 dollars. Louis faced a bruised eye from George Nicholson, and a countermanded order to appear came from President Roosevelt.
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Sid Feder Yophawk
Brooklyn
Uncle Sam
Francis J. Quigley
Flatbush
Camp Upton
Joe Louis
Mike Jacobs
Madison Square Garden
Long Island
Upton Stadium
Quigtey
Arthur Wolf
Associated’ Press
Young Kid McCoy
Detroit
California
Jackie Wilson
Louis
Fort Riley
Kansas
Sparmate George Nicholson
George
Joe
Roosevelt
County Fairs Close for War
Washington reports mixed responses to a government push to cancel state and county fairs for the war effort. Officials across many states weighed deferment against continuing fairs, with some canceling and others planning to proceed unless ordered otherwise. The debate centers on the economic and morale role of fairs and whether cancellation is necessary for national defense.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Defense Transportation
Wickard
Eastman
Tennsylvania
Charles Swoyer
New Hampshire
R., W. Smith
Minnesota
Iowa
Wilson
Louisiana
W. M. Badin
State University Livestock Show
New Jersey
George Hamid
State Fair
Connecticut — Association
Indiana
Georgia
Kansas
J. C. Mohler
Colorado
Wyoming
R. J. Hoffman
Kentucky
State Fair Board
Ohio
Army
Army Air Forces Lays Out Wartime Strength and Progress
Washington AP reports the Army Air Forces, from Gen Henry Arnold to division chiefs, outlined a robust wartime program. The service highlights combat planes under fire, a ferrying command expanding self sufficiency, and a record air training effort led by Maj Gen Barton Yount. The narrative notes glider setbacks in Burma and a planned push to recover lost ground, with casualty reports from a crash near Rangoon.
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Bill Bent Washington
Army Air Forces
Henry H. Arnold
Aviation Writers Association
Hyori
AAT
Barton K. Yount
Flying Training Command
Lost American Fliers Safe
An Allied Air Base in India reports that American airmen missing since June 11 behind enemy lines are safe after a daylight raid on Rangoon docks. Captain Frank D. Sharp of Salem Oregon and co pilot Second Lieutenant Herbert E Wunderlich of Garden City Wyoming led the mission, landing their damaged B 17 while the rest of the crew parachuted and evaded patrols to reach British territory.
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Daniel DE. Luce
India
Rangoon
Frank D. Sharp
Salem
Ore
Herbert E. Wunderlich
Garden City
Sharp
Wunderlich
State Fairs Cancelled Across Several States
Arkansas and Tennessee announce cancellations of livestock and mid south fairs. West Virginia and Missouri report statewide and county fair cancellations with officials delaying final decisions amid broader fair disruptions.
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Arkansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Milnois
Missouri
Forrest C. lDonnell
John Hills
General Officers Lead Weed Cutting at Camp Robinson
Camp Robinson reports a front page line about a general, colonel, and major cutting weeds in a military manner. The story highlights General Maxwell, Colonel Frankyn, and Major Brown, noting involvement with civilian workers hired by the utility office to perform the task.
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Camp Robinson
Camp Robinson New YW
Maxwell
Frankyn
Brown
Utility Office
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