One Million New Selective Service Troops By July 1
Our Daily Bread notes that one million men who turned 21 since the first Selective Service registration will join the pool of potential manpower by July 1, bringing total eligible force to about 17.2 million after excluding the physically unfit. It argues modern warfare relies on production capacity and factory labor, predicting democracies may need to mobilize similar public labor to outproduce opponents like Hitler.
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America
Selective Service Act
Waslington
Hitler
Lsbor
British Bombs Hit Iraq Magazine and Habbaniyah Raid
A RAF Middle East communique reports direct hits on a magazine near Baghdad and airfield targets at Habbaniyah. It notes quiet at Habbanayah and Basra since the May siege, with sporadic shelling, and claims heavy raids on Benghazi area targets and hits on two merchant ships in a Mediterranean convoy. The pursuit includes captures of six guns and over 400 prisoners from Habbanayah-Basra actions.
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Cairo
Hambex
Dhghedad
Warhash
Iraq
Middle East
Habbaniyah
Basra
Habbanyiah
Bengal
Aidromes
Berka
Benny
Derna
RAF
Egypt
Bengasi
Iraq Army
Habbinulah
Habbeniyah
Old Hand at Double Talk in Twin Birth Note
Seattle readers relay a quirky tale about twin births within the Robinson family spanning generations. Mrs. Kevan Robinson explains her family’s deep history of twins, noting multiple relatives who are or have twins, prompting a charm about their shared luck. The clipping also references England’s sports grounds at the outbreak of war, listing numerous golf courses and other facilities.
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Seattle
Wash
Ray
Mal J. Evans
Wreven Robinsons
Holdengvills
Okla
Rebinxin Ik
Robinson
Kevan Robinsons
Myhreat Wat
Hank
Fromptly
England
Cranium Crackers Opera Characters Quiz
Enduring operatic questions explore character names and roles. Identify the clown within a play within a play and names of composers linked to Kirsten Flagstad and Wagner figures. Locate where Mephistopheles Valentin and Marguerite appear and note which opera was revived by the Met this season with Lily Pons in a feature role.
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Kirskey Flagstad
Hope Students on Program Hope Students on Program
Two Hendrix College students will participate in the annual May Day Mother’s Day celebration on campus over the weekend. Activities include an art exhibit, band concert, plantation party pageant honoring May Queen Dorothy McGaughey and her court, dormitory events, a hog supper, and Sunday services at Conway Methodist Church. J T Luck, a Hendrix sophomore, will play with the Hendrix concert hand and provide accompaniments for the pageant.
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iConway Methodist Church
J.T Luck
Hendrix
Foth
Misa Martha Houston
Hendrix Iveshnan
Ehendyis
Home Demonstration Clubs Visit Experiment Station
Home Demonstration program invites Wal County women to the Fruit Truck Branch Experiment Station at Hope on May 14 15 and 16. Committees assigned days to work in stands and proceeds go to the 4 H club house fund at Fayetteville. Topics include pasture management soil conservation vegetable and hull crops home gardens and landscaping for Hempstone county households and their spouses.
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Wal
Frultit
Hope
County Council
Earley McWilligms
Shujver Springs
Fayetteville
Hempstone County
New Hope Mother's Day Program Sunday Night
New Hope will host a Mother's Day program Sunday night May 11 at the church. Several quartets and other singers will perform, and the public is invited to attend.
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New Hope Churel
Rise of Red River Flood Prompts FultonEvacuation Fears
The Red River at Fulton rose sharply reaching 25 27 feet with water about 14 feet in 12 hours and 30 feet forecast by early next week. Flooding threatened 600 miles upstream as towns along the Fulton bottomlands prepared for possible overflow and evacuations.
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Red River
Weather Bureau
Ilver Sinck
Fulton
Denison
Texas
Fulton Bottoms
Favors More Naval Vessels
The House naval committee backed legislation to authorize 54 additional fleet auxiliary vessels at about 350 million dollars. The bill adds 34 ships beyond the Navy’s initial request, with Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson citing rapid developments requiring the extra tonnage and capacity beyond the 20 000 tons originally sought.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
Samuel Robinson
Bureau of Ships
Harold Stark
Naval Operations
Robinson
Blevins Farmer Dies Thursday in Hempstead County
W. E. Austin, 77, a resident farmer near Blevins, died at his home three miles east of Blevins Thursday morning. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Survived by his widow, three daughters Mrs Ed Lavesder of Hope, Mrs L. Honea of Prescott, Mrs Lester Wade of Blevins, brother J A Austin of Blevins, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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W. E. Austin
Hempstead County
Tarmer
Blevins
Ed Lavesder
Hopes
P. Honea
Presnatt
Lester Wade
J. A. Austin
Richards Heads Cotton Group Organizes Improvement Association
Richards was elected president of the Cotton Improvement Association at Piney Grove on Wednesday night. The group aims to standardize production, improve marketing, and provide seed and better handling methods to local growers. Other officers include J. B. Johnson as vice president, J. A. Fawley as secretary and treasurer, Herman Reyenga and Tom Garland as directors. The Rowden 41A variety was chosen, and any cotton grower in Piney Grove wishing to join should contact an officer soon.
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Feed Richards
Finey Grove
J. 8 B. Johnson
J. A. Fawley
Wensurer
Herman Reyenga
Tom Garland
Rowden
Piney Grove
Ates
Eant
Night raids leave city bleeding after dawn air attack
Reports from a northeast town describe destruction from a three hour Luftwaffe bombing with incendiaries and high explosives. Ambulance crews transported blood for transfusions as buildings lay wrecked and casualty figures remained unsettled due to hospital damage and scattered aid stations.
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William Humphreys
Eng
Adolf Hitler
Luftwaffe
Sears
High Command
Hull
Hartlepool
Middlesborough
Dynamite Plot Report At Roosevelt Estate Investigated
State police and Secret Service investigated a report that women planted dynamite on President Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate with intent to detonate if war broke out. Capt Gatney said the case appeared unfounded and no arrests were planned after checks of the grounds. James Maloney of the Secret Service called the whole matter silly.
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Ruineback
N. Y
Ol Gatney
State Police
Secret Service
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Gaftney
James Maloney
New York
Tom Poe Dies at 48 in Little Rock Hospital
Tom Foe, 48, close friend and advisor to Governor Adkins, died in Little Rock hospital at 2 a.m. Thursday after two months illness. An attorney, Poe helped draft the governor’s 137 million dollar bond refunding program. funeral set for 4 p.m. Thursday at Colfer Pires.
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Tittle Rock
uPi
Tom Foe
Adkins
Litle Rock Hospital
Poe
Local Station Study Days at Arkansas Experiment Station
University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station hosts study days on May 14 and 16 with visitors from 20 counties. George W. Ware leads programs on vegetable crops fruit crops and field crops with College of Agriculture specialists guiding sessions on soil conservation landscaping and farm home subjects.
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University of Arkansas, Fruit & Truck Branch
George W. Ware
Vssist
Ware
College of Agriculture
Ear J. Allen
Earl J. Allen
C. R. Pinckley
C. F. Sinunaps
Expect Million Men to Qualify for U S Army
Washington reports that Selective Service officials expect about one million men aged 18 to 20 to be registered by July 1 under new rules. A proclamation by President Roosevelt will fix the date, with many trainees likely to be called soon after classification to begin military training this fall.
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Washington
Army Selective Service
Roosevelt
Aw Lt
Willkie Urges U S Aid at New York Rally
Wendell Willkie urged rapid United States aid to Britain at a packed Madison Square Garden assembly sponsored by the New York chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. He warned against defeatist ideas and said the British and Allied nations can outproduce Hitler's war machine with decisive action and sustained production.
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New York
Wendell Li Wilkkie
S “Freedom
Ma Square Garden
America
Britain
Andy
Adolf Hi
Willkie
United States of America
Comm
U. States
Hitler
Automobile Damaged By Fire Wednesday Near Fort Macon
A 1941 automobile owned by McFaddin was badly damaged by fire around four oclock Wednesday afternoon. The car, parked on the rear rack at Colemans Station on West Third, caught fire and the flames spread before the Beaufort area fire department arrived. Mrs Lott W Humphrey, Fort Macon keeper, was noted as the fortkeeper in this report.
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Lott W. Humphrey
Fort Macon
N.C
Olice Guardian
Beaufort and Morehead City
Burten Contemplates Divine Authority Over Men
A fragment notes a belief that the sea of divine power governs human obedience, reflecting a meditation on supreme powers and human submission. The line invokes mythic restraint and reverence toward higher authority.
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Burten
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