Government Seizure Clash Opens in Ward case
In Chicago, Attorney General Biddle argues Roosevelt may use broad wartime powers to seize Montgomery Ward assets and run the business, while critics say this aims to control all property and customer lists, threatening basic rights and set against wartime needs and civil liberties. The piece also notes wartime fuel needs and humanitarian calls amid press scrutiny.
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Montgomery Ward & Co
Montgomery Ward
Berlin
Star
Biddle
Chicago
Large Force of U S Bombers Keep Up Raids Europe
Allied air forces persist in a broad daylight and night campaign across France Belgium Italy and Germany with heavy bomber formations including Liberators Thunderbolts and Mustangs striking rail junctions aircraft plants auto works and ports. The hammering continues amid steady Allied advances and strategic sanctions against Axis resources.
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U.S
Europe
Nine More Jap Ships Fall to U S Submarines
Washington reports American submarines hit a Japanese light cruiser and two destroyers in enemy waters. Submersibles also destroyed seven cargo vessels one tanker and a large naval auxiliary, bringing total Japanese losses to 695 vessels sunk damaged or probably sunk, including 544 sunk.
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Washington
Navy
City Prohibits Midnight Saturday Movies In Nampa
After weeks of debate the Nampa city council passed an ordinance banning midnight films on Saturdays. Church and parent teacher groups backed the law arguing children at home Saturday night would be more likely to attend Sunday school. Also noted: Puerto Rican horticulturists study hormone sprays to reduce hand pollination of vanilla vines.
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Nampa
Idaho
Record Rainfall Floods Farm Belt After May Start
Rainfall in Hempstead for the first two days of May totals 5.40 inches, surpassing the entire May 1943 amount. Last night 2.16 inches fell, bringing the year’s total to 29.42 inches and fueling widespread flooding across the state.
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Hempstead
University of Arkansas Experiment Station
Red River
Ouachita
Arkadelphia
Camden
Heavy limes usually have more slice than lighter ones
A concise note states that heavier limes tend to yield more slicing efficiency than lighter limes, implying a relationship between fruit weight and cut quality.
Jap Air KOs Japanese Rush in Burma Stall
Allied air forces shattered a Japanese assault on a road and rail block 65 miles southwest of Mogaung in Northern Burma after a three day battle. Casualties run high with at least 1000 Japanese killed, while Stilwell’s drive toward Mogaung advances with gains east of the Mogaung river.
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Thorburn Wiant
Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
Mogaung
Burma
Mogaung Valley
Joseph W. Stilwell
Myitkyina
Philip Cochrane
Haid
Stilwell
Mogaung River
Wararup
India
Papel
Imphal
Kohima
Palel
Palel Road
Arkan
Mayu Range
Buthedaung
Ravello Remains Untouched Amid War Nearby
Ravello, a historic town near Salerno once visited by Greta Garbo and others, stayed spared as war raged a dozen miles away. Norman towers mark the hills where St Francis of Assisi meditated, and Wagner wrote part of Parsifal in the grottoes.
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Iady
Salerno
St. Francis of Assisi
Wagner
Greta Garbo
Lepoldo Stokowski
American Legion To Meet Thursday
The regular monthly meeting of the American Legion will be held at Legion Hall on Thursday May 4 at 8 p m. Yomes Embree post commander announced. The rest of the text contains unrelated fragments about pigeons and lifespans.
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American Legion
Legion Hall
Yomes Embree
Vistt
Ward Attorneys Fight Federal Seizure Powers in Ward Case
In Chicago Harold Smith for Montgomery Ward argues the Smith Connally Act limits seizures to war related factories and mines. Attorney General Biddle contends Roosevelt’s wartime powers allow broad seizure under the War Labor Disputes Act as a constitutional reserve.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Mammoth Concern
Congress
William H. Holly
Harold Smith
Ward
Holly
Former Pastor Fred Harrison as Kiwanis guest speaker
Fred Harrison formerly pastor of the Methodist Church at Hope and now at Little Rock spoke at the Kiwanis luncheon about the motto We Build. He praised Hope’s Ki-Y club sponsorship and urged youth entertainment while noting world tensions and the need to find exits to safety for the future.
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Methodist Church
Hope
Little Rock
Kiwanis
Charles Tarpley
Pine District
Kiwanis Inter- Bluff
Hope Club
Pine Bluff
Ched Hall
Olin Lewis
Cecil Dennis
Harry Hawthorn
Joe Black
Armed Force
James Jones
Robert Singleton
Roy Stevenson
J. L. McWilliams
Miami, Fla
Ethridge McWilliams
Texarkana
Navy ferry forced landing near Plumerville injures none
Morriston May 2 a navy ferry command plate made a forced landing near Plumerville last night. All five crew members escaped injury and damage to the ship was slight according to Sheriff D E Thomas.
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Morriston
Navy
Plumerville
Allied Naval Raids Hit Truk and Oroluk
United Press reports a U S task force struck Truk and Oroluk in the Caroline Islands damaging ground installations. Concurrent strikes hit northern New Guinea bases, Marshalls, Ponape, and Kuriles as Allied forces press operations in the Pacific.
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Carolines
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Pearl Harbor
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Indian Ocean
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Burma
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North Pacific
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Paramushiro
Blood Bank Mobile Unit to Visit Hope on Thursday
The Arkansas Grand Lodge sponsored Blood Bank unit will arrive in Hope at noon Thursday and operate Thursday night at Julia Chester hospital. Two nurses will assist, with transportation provided by local Masons.Appointments may be made by contacting Roy Anderson's office. local arrangements are by Fred A. Luck, Olin Lewis, and Dr Don Smith.
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Roy Anderson
Olin Lewis
Masonic Lodge
Julia Chester Hospital
Arkansas Grand Lodge of Masonry
Woodlief A. Thomas
Grand Lodge
Anderson
Fred A. Luck
Lewis
Whittfield
Don Smith
Hempstead County Medical Society
Both Sides Blast Targets in Italy Area
Allied and German air operations over Italy continue with raids on roads supply lines and rail junctions. RAF bombers hit Genoa Spezia Livorno and Alessandria while German rail targets faced attacks. on land Allied forces report progress at the Anzio beachhead and along the lower Garigliano River.
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Naples
Italy
Genoa
Spezia
Livorno
Alessandria
Rome
Anzion
Fifth Army
Garighane
Russian Airmen Smash Rail Head in Old Poland
Soviet air forces claim a major strike on Brest-Litovsk in eastern Poland with long range bombers hitting military installations and rail facilities. They report at least 17 fires, a munition dump blown, and one plane lost in a night of heavy raids across northern Estonia to Lwow.
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United Press
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Brest-Litovsk
Warsaw
Brent-Litovsk
Estonia
Lwow
Poland
Red Army
Lublin
Stanislawow
Hope student wins high scholarship honorFour seniors share Arkansas award
Horace Jewell of Hope and three other top seniors received the University of Arkansas highest scholarship keys at the fourth annual honors day convocation in Fayetteville. Recipients Clem entine Ann Dickinson Caroline Claudia Roberts Ross L. Jamison and William Horace Jewell earned top marks with faculty rec om mendations. The key depicts Old Main portals. Separate note reports 253 pounds of dressed game killed by 8,000,000 hunters in 1942 per Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Clementine Ann Dickinson
College of Business Administration
Caroline Claudia Roberts
College of Agriculture
Ross L. Jamison
Little Rock
College of Arts and Sciences
William Horace Jewell
Hope
School of Law
United States Fish A Wildlife Service
Canning Sugar Issuance Schedule For Hempstead County
The Rationing Board announces a schedule for Home Canning Sugar issuance in Hempstead County. Clerks at specified locations will operate 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on designated dates from May 2 to May 11, including Fulton, Saratoga, Columbus, Mordar, Ozan, Bileys, McCaskill, and Bumgen with each site serving on its assigned day.
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Fulton
Saratoga
Columbus
Mordar
Ozan Tuesaday
Bilevins
McCaskill Monde
Bumgen
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