SPG dispute prompts Arkansas official action and public response
Hendrix Lackey of the Arkansas Resources and Development Commission withdraws a disposal application for part of Southwestern Proving Ground land near Hope Arkansas citing program costs and uncertainties. The piece praises Governor Laney and Lackey for prompting state protest and contemplates park ideas if SPG land is lost.
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Hendrix Lackey
Arkansas Resources &Velopment Commission
J. M. Huston
Federal Land Bank of St. Louis
St. Louis 2
Huston
Arkansas Resources & Development
Southwestern Proving ‘Gund
Hope
Ark
Uae
Auaeage
Wemselves
Commission Nas
Ainecerely
Arkansas Resources & Development Commrission
Ben Laney
Lackey
Hempstead County
Dormer Southwestern Proving Ground
Resources & Developments Commission
SPG
Alle
Laney
Mr. Lacky
Mr. Lackey
Sedlon
Pelit jurors listed for April term across counties
Twenty years ago today a list of jurors for the April term is published, naming J F Moses Ed Van Sickle y P Stewart J L Light W H Taney J L Rodgers S Wylie C A Hays Josh Laha Monroe Kent Jim McClellan L D Rider C BD Middlebrooks H M Ward Edga Lafferty Hemp Bute B Bryant J City F BP Clay D M Stuart Cobb Ball WH Christiano AG Y Blackwood R Cod G C Smith J S Wilson Sr Ernest Gist J Wattsfield W F Gilbert Glen Crowell Tom Goodwin J J Hyely and others from several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelit
J. F. Moses
Ed van Sickley
P. Stewart
J. L. Light
W. H Taney
J. L. Rodgers
Hope
S. Wylie
C. A. Hays
Guern
Josh Laha
Monroe Kent
Jim McClellan
L. D. Rider
C. BD
Middlebrooks
H. M. Ward
B. Bryant
J. City
F. BP. Clay
D. M. Stuart
B. Ball
Christiano
Blackwood
R. Cod
G. C. Smith
J. S. Wilson
Ernest Gist
Columbus
Wattsfield
DeAnn
W. FY
Gilbert
Washington
Glen Crowell
Tom Goodwin
Bingen
J. J Hyely
McCaskill
Meyers Receives Prison Sentence For Suborning Perjury
Gen Bennett E Meyers was sentenced to 20 months to 5 years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of inducing a former associate to lie to a Senate committee. Judge Hoitztort called the offense grave as Meyers faced punishment amid appeals and wartime associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bennett
Meyers
Senate
Alexander Hoittzort
Ney
Holtzoft
Bond
Holczoft
Robert ‘Jt. Bushnell
Bushnell
Tsay
Benedict Arnold
Bieriit Lamarre
Lamarre
Court House
Islende Wits
Ia Ray Curnett
Widow Refuses Income Tax Paying Only Fraction
Mrs Caroline Fouke Urie, a 94 year old Quaker widow of a long retired Navy officer, writes to President Truman and the Internal Revenue Service stating she will pay only 63.4 percent of her income tax. She says she will refuse due to war expenditures and aims to donate the rest to non profits. she is ready to face jail, and cites her Christian and conscientious objector stance against organized war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellow Springs
Navy
Elittever
Caroline Fouke Urie
Truman
Internal Revenue Department
Gather Cies
Utie
Razorback Boosters Plan Free Football Film Event
Razorback Boosters announce a free feud and football film at We Lions Club hall across from the Post Office Wednesday night at 7 30. Hope's Razorback staff will attend with Parker coach ng staff and a film of the New Year s Day Dixie bowl game between the Parkers and William and Mary College. Sandwiches and soft drinks will be provided by Coca Cola Bottling Co. The public is invited. The peculiar aside mentions an elephant as the largest land mammal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Razorback
We Lions Club
Leg Robins
Navas
Parker
Parkers
William and Mary Colluse
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Bell to Start Construction Today on Highway Mobile Station
Permits have been granted and materials ordered for a highway mobile radiotelephone station to be built here starting March 15. W. B. Warren of Southwestern Bell Telehpone Company lists plans for equipment housed in the central price building with an 18d/Trans mover power. The project aims for completion by May 7 and a customer service date set for early summer. Additional stations are planned at Little Rock Newport and Poplar Bluff as Bell expands mobile service along Highway 61 and through Arkansas and Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
Chicago
Yeterday
United Packinghouse
Swift & Company
Cudahy Aexing Company and Armour Company
Swift and Cudahy
Armon
Asyone
Halpiticisein
Warren
Southwestern Hell Telephone Company
Lisinet
Centra Price
Wit
Wwer
Wlay
Arkansas
Lillie Rock
Newport
Poplar Butt
Missouri
Suluouis
Umecago
Wisconsin
Beng
Highway 61
Bei Systems
Agencies Told to Refuse Information
President Truman orders all executive branch employees to refuse subpoenas for loyalty information. He directs that loyalty reports and related files be preserved in confidence to protect national security and personnel, amid House moves to compel disclosure in the Condon case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Executive
House Unamerican Activitties Committee
F. A. Condon
Bureau of Standards
Secretary of Commerce
W. Averell Harriman
Congress
John MicDowell
H Pa
House
Senate
McDowell
Executive Branch
Lions Plan Anniversary Party and Dance
The Lions Club schedules an anniversary party at the hall opposite the post office starting 8 PM Monday, March 22. Prizes include cigarettes, stepladder, paint, grocery baskets, auto services, gifts, subscriptions, and more. Members to bring gifts. program features games, music, and dancing. Tiny Wadley of Texarkana attended as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae aongwtiverUneneon
Lions Club
Postoffice
Everal
Nean Juncheon iMonday
Ill-Fated Plane Off Course in Alaska Crash
Anchorage March 5 officials said a Northwest Airlines Douglas DU-4 crashed into Lowering Mt Sanford near the 10 208 foot peak after going off course. The 30 victims were believed dead. Investigators eyed terrain to decide on body recovery as wreckage lay shattered on a glacier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anchorage
Alaska
Cru Aergnatives Administration
Mt. Sanford
Airlines
CAA
Walter P. Plett
CSA
Dudley Cox
Northwestern Airlines
Gulkana
House Ready for ERP Bill with Senate-Driven Speed
Washington reports the House Foreign Affairs Committee is poised to fast track the Marshall Plan aid of 5.1 billion dollars to Western Europe. Senate support has cleared quickly, while House leaders weigh scaling back aid and adding military and economic support for Greece, Turkey, and China. Delays loom as strategy sessions and possible March 26 passage loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Europe
House Foreign Affairs
House Passige
Reconstruction Finance Corporason
Marsnall
Italy
Greece
Turkey
China
Plans Exhibit Of Produce in U S Edinburgh
The Scottish Council of Development and Industry plans an exhibition of Scottish goods in the United States. Thomas Jonsson, chairman of the Scottish Tourist Board, reports strong interest from the British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel and many Scottish associations in the U S, all friendly to the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Scottish Council of Development and Industry
United States
Thomas Jonssion
Scottish Tourist Board
U.S
Lord Inverchapel
Paratroopers Remember Slim Jim Gavin at Farewell
Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne gathered in Bragg North Carolina to honor Maj. Gen. James Gavin, the unit’s popular leader, who was promoted to chief of staff for the Fifth Army. Veterans recalled his bold leadership in Sicily Italy France and Holland and pledged lifelong loyalty as they saluted in farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bragg
N. C
Eighty-Second Airborne Division
Europe
Battle of the Bulge
Slim Jim’ Gagin
Fifth Army
Chicago
Jim
Slim Dim
Sliad Jim’ Twico
Army
Gavin
Sicily
Italy
France
Holland
Charles
Pop
Burt
Itlaly
Samuel B. Bowen
Redgate
Cole
Housing shortage drives husband to kill wife in Chicago
Ray Lutzow, a World War II veteran, confessed to strangling his wife Catherine amid disputes over housing. He told police he acted after tensions over living with relatives and the lack of a private apartment, finding her dead in their bed. The incident occurred at their second floor apartment, within a multi-family building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ray Lutzaw
Catherine
Anthony Betlina
Lutzow
Jult
Europe Reduced to 16 Nations Parley Told
Paris reports that the 16 nation European conference was urged to include western Germany in the postwar recovery plan. Bevin proposed full association of Anglo American and French zones in Germany with ongoing European recovery efforts. Bidault warned Europe’s division narrows options and sought united action to speed reconstruction and global aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Georges Bidault
Europe
Bidault
Portugal
Spain
Bevin
Berlin
High Court Upholds Real Estate Rulings in Arkansas
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed Washington County Chancery Court judgments in three real estate cases. It denied Henry Howse a share of an 8 101-acre estate bequest, ruled jointly owned land for Walter Hughes, and rejected claims about a deed to Florence Brow while addressing veteran benefits calculations in workmen compensation contexts. The ruling also touched on a GI Bill stipend case tied to Andrey Cole and upheld a Clay Circuit decision involving construction of a wall for the late Bertha Busch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Stock
Arkansas Supreme Court
Washington County Chancery Court
Henry Howse
W. P. Hutchens
Howe
Hutchens
Walter H. Hughes
Fayetteville
Frank Maxey
Litigants
J. P. Brown
R. T. Brown
Florence Brow
Brown
High Court
Clay Circuit
Andrey H. Cole
Mouloved
Wood Mereunth, Co
Supreme Court
Gayland Chaney Court
Bertha Busch
Miners Rise in Protest Over Pensions in Lewis Strike
More than a third of the nation's 400,000 soft coal miners quit work to back John L. Lewis's demand for 100 monthly pensions. Early tallies show 135,000 idle across eight states including West Virginia Kentucky Pennsylvania and Illinois and widespread idleness at U S Steel and Jones Laughlin pits. Steel company pits report sharp output drops as mines close and independent operators fear spread.
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Plistylergh
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Unio
Alabama
Indiana
Tennessee
U. S. Steel Corp
Western Pennsylvania
Ita
Jones Laughlin Steel Corp
Republic
Steel Corporation
Steel Company
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Scaie Independent
Lewis
We United Mine Workers
Bridgeville
Muse
U S Policy Toward Russia Reverses Since Potsdam Meeting
Washington reports a policy shift toward Russia from near convergence in Potsdam to strengthened US opposition to communism. President Truman faces shaken faith in world peace while backing economic aid, possible military support, and intensified actions to block Soviet expansion in Europe and the Middle East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Russia
Truman
Stalin
Potsdam
United States
State Department
Europe
Secretary of Defense
Air Ennets
Key West
Fla
Dargovan
Legislative Mill
Ibat
Greece
Turkey
Italy
France
Roosevelt
Hull
Victory in Italy ends US aid to Communist Italy
The State Department said Italy’s Communist victory would end US aid under the European Recovery Program. Senator McDermott questioned future AId, noting Senate opposition to aid to Communist-nominated regimes. The Senate passed the 5.3 billion program, with House signals of a broader package. The Foreign Affairs Committee may move a bill including Greece and Turkey provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marten
Department
Italy
United States
Marshall
Pla
Michael’ McDermott
Senate
McDermo
House
Ahd
Militar
Greece
Turkey
Eaton
R-Nj
Orfers
Marshall Asks Continued Aid to Greece
Secretary of State Marshall testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the administration’s request for 275 million dollars in advisory military aid for Greece and Turkey. He warned that halting aid would bring swift and tragic consequences, stressing the stakes behind closed doors and the need for continued U S support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marcher
United States
Greece
Marshall
Senate Foreign Relaions
Turkey
Taj
Ftee
Six Die in Louisville Explosion at Farm Equipment Plant
Six workers died and 20 to 25 more were injured in a blast at the International Harvester Farm Equipment plant in Louisville Kentucky. The explosion damaged a 350 by 75 foot test building where engines were tested and fire followed the blast. Authorities said many employees were changing shifts, complicating casualty counts. Firemen and volunteers battled the flames as windows shattered and doors buckled across the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
International Harvester Farm. Equipment Company
Athau
Peru
Bulding
R. C. Almzren
X - International Harvester
War Assets Administration
Two Hurt In Highway Crash Near Hope Arkansas
Two Waldo men were injured Saturday when a pickup collided with a truck 0 miles west of Hope on Highway 67. State man Milton Mosjer reported the victims, driver from Little Rock and another man from Waldo, were taken to a local hospital. The crash involved dodging obstacles and a rear impact.
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Waldo
Hope
Milton Mosjer
Little Rock
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Slim Jim
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