Hope bus terminal plans mark progressive city development
Announcement by J C Powers and W M Ramsey details a new passenger loading bus terminal to serve at least three of Hope’s four lines, with a possible fourth. Emphasis on improving highway transport, terminal and service facilities, and the need for more bus lines and good roads to reach nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Powers
W. M. Ramsey
Blevins
Lewisville
Camden
Hope
Hope - Lewisville-Louisiana Line
State
Nashville
Gip O Neal Is New Highway Head Here
Arkansas highway changes appoint Gip O Neal district three superintendent in Hope and list ten district superintendents with replacements. The commission also bars adding roads unless traffic warrants maintenance costs, amid rising mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gip O'Neal
Camden
Dan Westall
J. H. Harmon
Russellville
M. F. Hill
R. A. Campbell
Harrison
Mayne
Winfrey
Paragould
P. J. Simms
Guy Cobb
Little Rock
Harold Sadler
Red Cross Fund Nears Four Thousand Mark
Hempstead county's Red Cross War Fund campaign reached 3914.66 dollars toward a county quota of 17500. The drive continued to gather donations and support from local residents and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Hempstead
Hope Auto donation imbalance noted after omission
The Business District committee report shows Hope Auto totals at 100 with individual donations 95 and a $5 donation from Miss Elise Broach omitted by Star. The paper says further omissions will be corrected as reports come in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business District Committee
Hope Auto Company
Star
Elise Broach
Work-or-Else Bill Faces House Fight
House Military Affairs committee members brace for a last ditch struggle over the work-or-else manpower bill. A cross party coalition supports the Senate measure, while May seeks to send the House version to conference. President Roosevelt favors the House bill and a Senate path remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean W. Dittmer
Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Senate
House
Military Affairs Committee
War Manpower Commission
Andrew J. May
May
White House
Roosevelt
Forest A. Harness
Ind
Coalition
Frank Hook
Mich
M E Goss Named State Labor Head Succeeding McCain
Fort Smith inspector M E Goss appointed state labor commissioner replacing W J McCain in Little Rock. Deputy commissioner named S P Dixon to replace D C Shumpert of Pine Bluff. Dixon is Missouri Pacific railroad accountant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
James G. Baker
State Highway Department
R. B. Winfrey
Harrison
M. C. Methvin
J. A. Frances
Northers
North Little Rock
C. C. Thomas
Laney
M. E. Goss
Fort Smith
W. J. MecCain
S. P. Dixon
Missouri Pacific Railroad
D. C. Shumpert
Pine Bluff
Allied Engineers Cite Faulty Fuse In Remagen Bridge Blow
American engineers say a faulty fuse cap kept German explosives from detonating at the Remagen bridge, enabling Lt. Gen. Hodges First Army to seize the Rhine crossing. Sgt. Alexander Drabik led the Remagen bridgehead assault on March 7, creating a vital gateway for future Allied offensives as war prospects brightened though fighting continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Whitehead
The
Rhine
Remagen
Europe
Alexander Drabik
Holland
Ohio
Ludendorff
Drabik
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Germany
Iwo Marines Hold Ground After Seizing Rocks On Iwo Jima
U S Marine divisions on Iwo Jima seized Kama and Kangoku rocks and tightened siege on caves as Nipponese defenses persisted in Kitano point. Reports say 115 caves were sealed, no major front line shift, while a pocket in the Fourth Division area held out. Air operations targeted Chichi Jima and Bonins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern Haugland
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Iwo Jima
Kitano Point
Fleet Head
Kama
Kangoku
Iwo
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Seventh Air Force Liberators
Strategic Air Force
Vast Area Comparisons and Unusual Animal Feats
A 200 pound mountain lion can drag a full grown dead horse. Tropical orchids bloom in the snow rimmed Aniakchak crater on the Alaska peninsula.
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Aniakchak
Alaskan Peninsula
Yalta Meet Waited on U S Campaign
A Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill planning for a Yalta conference followed the Quebec talks. Roosevelt sailed January 22 to the Mediterranean aboard a cruiser with Anna Boettiger aboard. His sixty third birthday aboard ship featured a cake plan with five tiers including a question mark.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Quebec
Yalta
Marshal Stalin
Russia
Mediterranean
Anna
John Boettiger
Boettiger
First Army Near Berlin Front Pushes to Oder Front
Russian forces break through a main German line on the Oder front west of the river near Kuestrin threatening Frankfurt. Berlin defense orders survival to the last bullet as Soviet and German units clash across multiple fronts toward Berlin.
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London
Oder
Berlin
Reuters
Moscow
Reich
East Prussia
Lebus
Frankfurt
Gregory Zhukov
Kuestrin
Stettin
Guben
Forst
Neisse
Ivan Konev
Transocean
Germany
Bruno von Haunschild
Stockholm
Heinz Guderian
Schoerner
von Rundstedt
Walter von Model
Remagen
Zinten
Koenigsberg
Gdynia
Poland
Wejherowo
Chalapau
Hel Peninsula
Danzig Bay
Gydnia
Neukirch
Slovakia
Zvolen
Americans seize Honnef as Rhine bridgehead widens near Remagen
American First Army forces push through heavy German fire about a mile west of the Rhine Rhine highway and capture Honnef five miles north of the Remagen bridge. Additional advances along the eastern bridgehead and massed operations threaten to widen the push into open tank country while Germans report stiff resistance.
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Bruce-W. Mann
Paris
First Army
Rhine- Ruhr-Berlin
Rhine
Honnef
Remagen Bridge
Koenigswinter
Kalenborn
Remagen
Ludendorff
Hoenningen
Courtney H. Hodges
George S. Patton
Third Army
Mosel
Eifel
Lower River
Germany
Saar
Ninth Army
Homberg
Duisburg
Second Army
Berlin
Emmerich
Soldiers stage a makeshift opera as Cologne ruins inspire show
In Cologne, soldiers who seized the opera house converted the ruined venue into a temporary stage. They dressed in remnants from a roomful of costumes and instruments, staging an impromptu production amid bomb damage. Pvt. Jack D. Robertson described admiral to fur trimmed outfits and towering hats completing the whimsical scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Cologne
Hal Boyle
Cologne Opera House
Richard Wagner
Opera
Bowery
Jack D. Robertson
Logan
Romeo
Juliet
Siegfried
Americans Push Through Mindanao Luzon Fronts In Philippines Drive
American forces widen advances in the Philippines as tanks and infantry seize more Mindanao villages north of Zamboanga and drive along Luzon’s east of Manila line. The 41st Division fights in dense hills while units of the 6th and 11th Armies push toward Batangas and Los Baños.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. D. Quigg
Manila
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Luzon
Laguna Bay
Batangas Bay
U. S
Philippines
Sulu
Borneo
Sanga
Zettel
Canelar
Sinonog
Pitogo
Santa Maria
Wolfe
San Roque
U. S. Sixth Division
Mount Maraba
Marakina
First Cavalry Division
Antipolo
Calumpan
Batangas
Mount Macolod
Lake Taal
Cuenca
11Th Airborne Division
Los Banos
Santo Tomas
11Th Division
158Th
Enabling Act Push Tied to Arkansas Work Bill
Arkansas voters who backed the freedom to work amendment may see an enabling act attached to the anti closed shop measure in the 1946 election. The Christian American Association Houston Texas says it will seek public support by submitting an enforcement proposal, with attorney general approval required before petitions can be circulated. Continued on page three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
Christian American Association of Houston
Tex
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Reeds
James Thrasher
Dr. Fu
Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Rohmer
United Nations
India
Department
Wynne
James Hamilton
C. C. White
D. B. Cutler
Frank H. Kirk
Batesville
Cone Murphy
Luther Bearden
J. F. Mayne
Fairy Orewe Baker
Mavis C. Huckabee
Herbert M. Whitehead
Ward
Geo. Sandefur
R. M. Briant
Mary Alice
Elizabeth Murphy
Warren Muldrow
Gertrude Jefferson
F. E. Howson
Martha Wray
C. C. Reed
Robert LaGrone, Jr
Harry Moore
Linda Jewell
John H. Ames
Compton
L. B. Moore
C. G. Coffee
H. Moore
R. R. Gillespie
J. W. Gillan
David Washburn
Harry Hawthorne
A. J. Camp
J. J. Martin
Dorcas
Claude Waddle
Jett B. Graves
Methodist
Graydon Anthony
A. Lewis
Basil York
J. L. Tedder
H. O. Kyler, Jr
H. O. Kyler
James Tate
Raymond Smith
L. J. Cagle
Forrest Love
T. E. Urrey
Bill
U.S
San Francisco
Rgiht
Sol Blumm
Virginia Gildersleeve
Tom Connaly
Sec. of
Edward Stettinius
Harold Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
Charles A. Eaton
Cordell Hull
NEA
Magdeburg
Munster
Essen
Maas
Dortmund
Elbe
Halle
Aachen
Leipzig
Marburg
Poregen
Dresden
Perfurt
Gressen
Coblenz
Trier
BELG
Telemap
Rhine River
NEA Telemap
Chemnitz
New State Labor
McCain
Ludendorff Bridge
Iwo Marines
Italy
Mexico
Berlin-Ruhr Highway
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