Arkansas highway deaths rise sharply in nine months
Our Daily Bread notes Arkansas deaths climbed 59 percent to 344 through September 1941, far above the national 17 percent rise to 27,860. The piece blames lack of highway safeguards, urges no passing zones, and cites state plans to install double center lines. It also honors Dr. Charles Armstrong with the Sedgwick Medal for research into sleeping sickness and polio, contrasting living honors with Ronald Ross’s forgotten fame.
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Arkansas
America
National Safety Council
Star
State Highway Commission
American Public Health Association
Charles Armstrong
United States Public Health Service
National Institute of Health
Washington
Ronald Ross
Y Ww’s
India
Ross
England
Lord This
Lord That
Buckingham Police
Old Grid Rivals Hope Prescott to Play Friday
Old rivals Hope and Prescott meet Friday at Prescott field in a long standing clash. Bobcats seek their eighth straight win over Prescott while Hope aims for their first win in years amid crowd plans and a queen coronation. Local fans expect a stiff Prescott challenge despite recent defeats.
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Hope
Prescott
Bobcats
Prescoth
Wolves
Fay Hammons
Pregcott
Pane
Gaming
Foy Hammons
Bil Brasher
Blyheville
Arkadelphia
Ganetime
Women See Danger in Installment Curb
Richmond Housewives League urged against limiting installment buying arguing women in defense work need time saving devices like washing machines and vacuum cleaners to free time for home duties. Mrs A Milton Elke presented the resolution noting the increased demand for household labor saving goods during the national effort.
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Richmond
Ue Defernia
Richmond Housewives’ League
A. Milton Elke
Why the Taster Swishes
New York says wine tasters swirl the liquid before sniffing to determine bouquet. Dr A J Liebmann, head of a distillery tech department, explains swirling deposits a light film around the glass edge as the fumes rise.
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New York
A. J. Liebmamm
Cranium Crackers Interesting Islands Quiz
A playful seaside quiz asks which is larger Greenland or Australia and queries the four counties on Borneo and their nations. It also asks how many Monimany islands lie in the Philippines and the Azores, the location and ownership of Madagascar and Sumatra, and a synonym for Pupun with its owning nations. Answers will be on the next page.
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Seven Seas
Greenland
Australia
Borneo
Monimany Islands
Philippines
Azores
Maagascar
Sumatra
Hope Teacher Named Educational Officer
Orville White of Swifton was elected president of a newly organized English group of the Arkansas Educational Association. Sectional officers named include Mary Drake for Modern Language and a ceremonial post.
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Little Rock
Orville White
Swifton
Arkansas Educational Association
Mary Drake
U S Missions Aid British in Iran and Iraq
Ankara reports Britain is steadily expanding military strength in Iran and Iraq with fresh troops, American tanks and planes, and two U S missions in the Middle East aiding transport, organization, and repair. observers note improved routes to Iran via the Persian Gulf though far from ideal amid German moves in the region.
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Ankara
Turkey
Britain
Teen
Russian Caucasus
U. S
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Caucasus
Besid
Bulgaria
Kuibyshey
Legion Plans Feed Monday at Fairpark for Ex-Service Men
Members of the Leslie Hudeston post of the American Legion will entertain several hundred ex service men employed on the Southwestern Proving Ground project with a free feed at the Fairpark Monday night at o'clock. The entertainment committee announced the event and urged SPG employees who are American Legion members to attend.
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Leslie Hudeston
American Legion
Southwestern Proving Ground Project
Fairpark
SPG
Loegal
Deer Season Opens November 11 for Five Days
Hempstead county game warden Lester Wade announced the deer season opens Tuesday, November 11, and runs five days. Residents pay $1.50 for a license. non residents face a higher fee. The text also notes fashionable hats this winter and women’s clowning glory.
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Lester Wade
Hempstead County
Football Friday College Matchups Across Arkansas
A list of Friday football fixtures in Arkansas shows Henderson State Teachers at Russellville facing Arkansas Tech, Arkansas State Teachers at Arkadelphia, Arkansas State at Magnolia, and M. at Jonesboro. Further games include Pine Bluff at Hot Springs, Hope at Prescott, Clarksville at Paris, Stuttgart at Forrest City, Fort Smith at Tulsa, Pocahontas at Hoxie, Hughes at Harrisburg, Beebe at Beebe Meagher, Brinkley at Charenton, Atkins of Morrison, Risay at Dumas, Sheridan at Louoke, De Queen at Texarkana, Qsevola at Parkin, Magnolia at Nashville, Batesville at Walnut Ridge, Alum at Fayetteville, Blytheville at North Little Rock, Little Rock at Camden, and the School for the Deaf at Mena.
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Coltege
Henderson State
Arkansas Tech
Russellville
Arkansas State
Dunehits
Arkadelphia
Magnulia A
Jonesboro
Aligh
Pine Bluff
Hot Springs
Fordycest EL Darade
Hope
Prescott
Clarksville
Paris
Stuttgart
Forrest City
Fort Smith
Tulsa
Oklo
Pocahontas
Hoxie
Hughes
Harrisburg
Beebe
McGehre
Brinkley
Charendan
Atkins
Morrision
Rainfall May Set Record for All Time in 1941 Hope Arkansas
Weather discussion by George W Ware notes Hempstead county and Hope Arkansas as 1941 rainfall nears a record. 1940 was very wet with 51.37 inches annual average. 1892 and 1896 had notable totals. A table shows monthly 1941 rainfall near 62.61 inches total for year, surpassing the 51.37 average.
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Proving Ground
Hempstead
Hope
Ste
Four Mile Leaps Are Easier Queen of Parachute Jumpers
Adelaide Kerr profiles Marie McMillin known as the queen of parachute jumpers. She has made 296 jumps, including a record altitude of 24,800 feet for women, and dreams of organizing a Nurse Parachute Battalion under government supervision. She credits faith, skill, and God for courage and safety.
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Adelaide Kerr
New York
Mariy McMillin
Preachute
Sytchate
God
Mark
Jess
United States Department of Commerce
Marie
Ned
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alma C. Haupt
Health and Medieval Committee
Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services
Jwabus
Ohio
Terrentin
Mavie
Finland Will End War After Threats Eased
Finland's radio circulated a statement saying the war with Russia will end when attacks subside and frontiers are secure, with a future peace conference to determine new boundaries. Officials said no implication of negotiations with Soviet Russia. A Helsinki revision softened the earlier claim. An unrelated note mentions a bat adaptation and the bald eagle's status.
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Belsink
Finland
Russia
Helsinki
Finland Radio
Payroll at Southwestern Proving Ground Tops 190000 Dollars
Payroll disbursement at the Southwestern Proving Ground Friday will run over 190000 dollars as W E Callahan Construction Company, which controls for the Ordnance Plant, pays about 5000 employees for a week’s work. This includes construction company staff but excludes Constructing Quartermaster and the architecture firm Ho ward Needles Tammen and Bergen dorf. These two groups are paid semi monthly, with civilian Constructing Quartermaster personnel numbering just over 360 and paid more than 22000 dollars for the recent semi monthly period.
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South~western Proving Ground
W. E. Callahan Construction Company
Ordnance Plant
Says French Plotters Caught
Paris police announced the arrest of five suspected plotters linked to the assassination of Lt. Col. Point, and a German commander at Nintes. They said they were closing in on a second group behind the Reuters Reimers case in Bordeaux. October 21 reports note 100 French hostages executed at Navies and Bordeaux last month in reprisal, with 100 more held. Police also found terrorist equipment during a house search in Paris.
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Vichy
Nintes
Hve
Han Gottfried Reimers
Germany
Bordeaux
Paris
Utey
Armistice Day Program at Sweet Home Church
Lester Wade announced the Leslie Huddleston Post of the American Legion will hold an armistice day out post program at Sweet Home church at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon. A good program of speaking will be arranged and all legionnaires and the public are invited.
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Leslie Huddleston
American Legion
Sweet Home Church
Lester Wade
Hempstead
Roosevelt weighs pulling U S Marines from China
President Roosevelt said the government was considering withdrawing American marines from Peiping Tientsin and Shanghai but gave no timeline. He noted no talks with Japan on their presence and cited Navy records showing about 1,500 marines in China amid Japanese occupation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Peiping
Mtientyin
Shanghai
China
Japan
U.S
Aar
Navy
Chin
Stalin vows Germany will break under weight of crimes
Premier Stalin in Red Square address on Bolshevik anniversary declares Hitler’s defeat inevitable as Germany strains to sustain the war. He cites Russia’s vast resources, warns of Germany’s collapse within months, and praises Soviet unity and fighters disrupting enemy rear. Reports also note Russian counter offensives northwest of Moscow and efforts to relieve the Leningrad siege.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Russia
Red Army
Red Square
Stalin
Ukraine
Caucasus
Central Asia
Urals
Siberia
Far East
Noday
Europe
Gemany
Jenne
Bolshevik Party
Leningrad
Associated Press
London
Ussr
Volokolamsk
Moscow - Leningrad
Kalinin
Kainin
Sevastopol
Crimea
Deuteronomy 4 3 Verse Reflection for the Lord
A devotional line highlights that the Lord is a vital, unwavering guide who will not forsake or destroy, and will remember the covenant sworn to the fathers as stated in Deuteronomy 4 3.
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United States
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