Rubber Boots Incident At Ke L Archer Station
Our Daily Bread notes a small boy incident at KE L Archer’s station where seven pounds of scrap rubber were weighed and exchanged for seven cents. The largest boy wore oversized boots, weighing ten pounds, which he wore to town. The piece also mentions Senator Lloyd Spencer's Finance article and national photo features about Civilian Defense and Camp Forrest soldiers from 1941.
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Manu Wn
L. Archer
Staton
Star
Dartnell Corporation
Chicago
Pair Park
Civilian Defense
Hope Boys
Camp Forrest
Tennessee
Chinese forces recapture Kweiki as Japanese push stalls westward
Chinese communiques report Kiangsi armies recaptured Kweiki, pushing back the western claw of the Japanese pincer within 50 miles of the Chekiang Kiangsi railway. They also note a new 15,000-strong Japanese drive toward Gishul in Chekiang, 175 miles south of Hangchow, while Lishui remains the last airport held by Japan.
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Chungking
Kiangsi
Kweiki
Chekiang-Kiangsi
Chekiang
Gishul
Hangchow
Lishui
Chehkiang
Shangiao
Tsinyun
Lishul
United States
Japan
China
J. V. Soong
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stephen Larry
Dr. Soong
Hunan
Chiang Kai - Shei
Hall Named Civ il Defense Leader After Feild Resigns
Hempstead County Civilian Defense Council meeting sees C Hall elected chairman by unanimous vote to replace Talbot Feild Jr who submitted his resignation. In Washington, June 24, AP reports Price Administrator Leon Henderson lifted the price ceiling on government purchases for immediate delivery of any commodity listed as in an emergency need.
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Alu
Hempstead County Civilian Defense Council
Talbot Peild, Jr
Cied
Hall
Feild
Washington
Leon Henderson
Tea Party Threat Recalled By S Burton Heath
S. Burton Heath recalls the Boston Tea Party when colonists disguised as Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor, sparking a confrontation that shaped American history.
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By S. Burton Heath
Boston
Arsenate to Be Available for Farmers Fight
Senator Lloyd Spencer announced in public that calcium arsenate would be available to sweat farmers to combat crop pests. He telegraphed Warner Wallace of the Department of Agriculture's War Board and received word that a million pounds of calcium arsenate will be shipped to Arkansas prior to July 1.
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Lloyd Spencer
Spencer
Fred 5. Wallace
Special War Board
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
Chermical Division Oawr
Arkansas
Stocking Supply in 1942 Is Plentiful
New York June 24 AP Alfred Hoffman first vice president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers said 1942 stockings will be plentiful. about 32,000,000 dozen rayon and cotton stockings to be on the market this year versus 44,000,000 in 1940. Men's hosiery also ample. Shoe production in May was 39,000,000 pairs, down 6.8 percent from May 1941 due to price ceiling uncertainties and limited civilian sole leather.
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New York
Alfred Hoffman
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Hoffman
Roosevelt Signs Large Naval Supply Bill
President Roosevelt signed a supplemental appropriation bill providing 605 million dollars to the Navy for constructing 500000 tons of auxiliary vessels including tenders tankers and service ships in Washington on June 24 according to AP reports
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Washington
Roosevelt
Navy
Rommel May Strike South
Cairo June 24 AP Axis armored forces moved south along the Libyan frontier aiming to wheel east and outflank British defenses in Egypt. German Italian units shelled British lines west of Salum as Rommel plans a flank while British forces prepared decisive resistance north of Heypt.
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Edward Kennedy
Cairo
Egypt
Salum
Erwin Rommel
Argentine Head Resigns as President Ortiz Steps Down
Roberto Ortiz, Argentina's ailing president, signed a resignation today. If Congress accepts, Ramon S. Castillo would assume executive power, matching Ortiz's two years of inactivity since July 3, 1940, amid his irreversible eyesight decline.
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Buenos
William W Bright Promoted Corporal At Columbus Army Flying School
William W Bright 26 son of Thomas O Bright Route 2lope Arkansas promoted from private first class to corporal at Columbus Army Flying School near Columbus Mississippi by Col L Matlary past commandant on squadron commander recommendation He will serve as an airplane mechanic assigned to Columbus Air Base since May 9 1942 Bright is a graduate of Army Air Forces Technical School in air mechanics at Academy of Aeronautics La Guardia Field Long Island NY his enlistment in the Army Air Corps began June 17 1941
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William W. Bright
Thomas O. Bright
Ie Academy of Aeronautics
LaGuardia Field
Long Island
Army Air Corps
Stilwell's Mother Dies in New York
Mrs. Trenc Stillwell, 83, mother of Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek and United Nations commander in the China area, died after a 10 days illness at her Yonkers home. General Stilwell was notified by cable after visiting before sailing for the Orient.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Trenc Stillwell
Joseph W.W. Stilwell
Chiang Kai-Shel
United Nations
China Area
Stilwell
Orient
Axis Artillery Pounds British in Egyptian Push
Axis forces pound British lines in a night bombardment as Rommel’s rumored push toward Egypt intensifies. British reports say strong tank and motorized columns move along the Libyan-Egyptian frontier while observers expect a main assault after reinforcements arrive. In Sevastopol, Russian forces resist under heavy German pressure as the frontline stabilizes amid mounting casualties.
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Mediterranean
Tobruk
Rommel
Egypt
Suez Canal
Sevastopol
Crimea
Fedor von Bocke
Kharkov
Red Army
Great Black Sea
Cupid and Corporal Tufts Date in Camp Love Tale
A camp romance in San Diego describes Corporal Tufts meeting a girl via a stray dog found by a marine, a call to the girl, and a date that ends with her arriving and charming him before he returns to camp. Two marines allegedly flirted with the same girl.
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Associated Press
Cupid
San Diego
Calif—Corp
Orinults
Chicago
Camp
Alan
Corporal Tufts
Special War Meet Called Attended by World Leaders
President Roosevelt calls a special War Council meeting to be attended by Prime Minister Churchill of Britain and Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada. Canada’s Leighton McCarthy typically represents Ottawa. Other members include Australia New Zealand China the Netherlands and the Philippines.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pacific War Council
Churchill
Great Britain
MacKenzie King
Canada
Stephen Early
Council
Leighton McCarthy
United States
Australia
New Zealand
China
Netherlands
Philippines
Prilater
Aleutian
A. Loudon
Eeleo van Kleffens
Ftet
Peter of
Yugoslavia
Ando
White House
Stock Show to Be Limited to Livestock Exhibition
Kansas City June 24 APB Curtailment of the American Royal Livestock and Horse Show to exhibition of only stock on way to market was recommended today by a committee studying whether the show should be held. Entries would be limited to carload fat cattle feeder cattle steers fat lambs and fat hogs. The horse show would be eliminated. Committee headed by R J Kinzer cited war conditions.
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Kansas City
American Royal Livestock and Horse Show
Harry Darby
The
Royal
R. J. Kinzer
Two More Auto Tires Stolen Reported
Police reported today that two tires were stolen yesterday from Max Cox, a local automobile dealer. The theft brings the Kempstead County total to 22 tires stolen in the past three weeks.
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Max Cox
Kempstead County
Argentina protests over submarine sinking incident
Buenos Aires reports Foreign Minister Enrique Guinazy announced Argentina protests to Germany over what is called aggression in the sinking of the Argentine vessel Rio Tercerg. The protest underscores regional tensions following the submarine incident.
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Buenos Aires
Enrique Guinazy
Argentina
Germany
Visiting Day Speakers Highlight Arkansas Station Program
University of Arkansas President Dr. Arthur M. Harding and Senator Lloyd Spencer of Hope will keynote the fourteenth Annual Visiting Day at the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station near Hope on Friday, June 26. A large turnout from South Arkansas is expected for the day of tours through agricultural experiments and a 1 o clock program in the Amphitheater featuring Harding Spencer Horlacher Gates and others.
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Arthur M. Harding
University of Arkansas
Lloyd Spencer
Hope
University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck
C. F. Simmons
Ella Posey
Fred J. Shulley
Warren Barham
Aubrey Enoch
Amos Underwood
Bart J. Allen
Joe Walker
C. A. Vines
College of Agriculture
Senator Spencer
Harding Harding
W. R. Horlacher
Aubrey D. Gates
Agricultural Extension Service
Rubber Drive Disappointing in East and South States
Interior Secretary Ickes reported to President Roosevelt that the scrap rubber drive in the first six days was very disappointing in the most populous states of the East and South, with better results in far western states. Boyd noted Nevada led per capita, Montana, Oregon, and Arizona followed. Pennsylvania lagged. New York and other dense states were near the bottom.
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Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
William R. Boyd, Jr
Petroleum Industries War Council
White House
New York
Favors bill to raise 3rd class mail rates
The House Ways and Means committee backed raising third class postage for periodicals and advertising to cover handling costs. Rep Copper cited a $26 million annual loss in delivery. The panel ordered a report before any second class rate hike and exempted certain photography supplies from increases.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Post Office Department
Rep. Copper
D-Tenn
Singing July 5 at the Christian Camp
A singing program will be held Sunday July 5 at the Christian Camp grounds. The program features the Stamps Melody Boys at Little Rock Dixie quartet the Kalley sisters duet and other noted singers. The public is invited.
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Christian Camp Grounds
Stamps Melody Boys
Little Rock
Dixie Quartet
Kalley Sisters
Germans Claim 21 Allied Ships Sunk
German broadcasts report sinking twenty one Allied merchantmen totaling 102000 tons and one escort vessel in Atlantic convoy attacks and near North and Central American waters. Torpedo hits were also claimed on four additional ships, though timing remains unspecified.
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Berlin
United States
High Command
Bill Signed For Dependants in Wartime Draft Policy
President Roosevelt signed the service men pay allotment and allowance bill, enabling federal payments to supplement dependents of fighting men and preserving the home. The act lets Selective Service defer men with bona fide dependents and envisages separate groups within class three, delaying induction until eligible registrants from higher classes are called.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Selective Service
House Military Affairs Committee
War Waste Probe Aims to End Contractor Honeymoon
A House Military committee chair declares continued investigation into extravagant War Department contracts. He cites a sordid picture of waste, urges eliminating top heavy organization and red tape, tightening accounting, enforcing contract policies, and ending repeated commissions. A minority report is expected, with criticism aimed at its handling rather than the findings.
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Washington
House
War Department
May
D-Ky
Thomason
D-Tex
Mrs G B Ames Dies at 74 in Mineral Springs
Mrs G B Ames, 74, longtime Howard county resident, died at her home near Mineral Springs late Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at Miners Springs Chapel at 4 o clock Wednesday afternoon.
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G. B. Ames
Howard County
Mineral Springs
Miners’ Springs
Russians Admit Wedge Follows Big Tank Assault
Moscow reports on June 24 say the Red Army concedes a wedge in defenses on the Kharkov front after a massed 200-tank onslaught began June 22. At Sevastopol in Crimea, garrison defenses checked a heavy assault as two German divisions and many tanks pressed a 20th day of fighting.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Kharkov
Ukraine
Sevastopol
Crimea
Red Army
Red Star
Crimean
State Loses Revenue Case in Blytheville Court
Blytheville June 24 AP Two local businessmen won the first round in a court fight challenging major enforcement sections of the 1941 gross receipts tax. Chancellor J F Gautney over ruled state motions to dismiss suits to restrain tax collection and to dissolve injunctions. Proceedings continue for final hearing likely in September term. The men Morgan and Harris allege the tax law delegates authority unlawfully via certificates of indebtedness. A similar case against Roy Tomlinson is set for June 30 in El Dorado.
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Blytheville
J. F. Gautney
T. Ward
State Revenue Department
Revenue Department
Chancery Court
Ward
Supreme Court
O. M. Morgan
R. S. Harris
the Revenue Commission
Gauiney
Morgan
Harris
Roy Tomlinson
Union Chancery Court
el Dorado
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Raror Hope
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National Magazine of Money Management
Pacific
Changsha
Nunan
C. Hall
Hamburg
Lt. Stilwell
Europe
Africa
Roger D. Greene
Erwin Rommell
Land of the
Claude Auchinleck
Fort Maddalena
Bir el Shegga
Gambut
Bheyntian
Los Angeles
W. H. Mead
Hugh Robertson
Scatsman
Hugh, Jr
Mississippi
Robertson
Arthur My Harding
Harding and
Bill
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