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The piece rails at the Roosevelt administration for wartime misallocation of labor. Senator Byrd and Arkansas voices urge stronger civilian sacrifice and restraint, warning of excessive civilian employment and weak wartime policy. A local anecdote shows community concern amid war efforts.
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Roosevelt
Byrd
Virginia Democrat
Ory
Oren Harris
Arkansas
Virginia
Mr. Roosevelt
Cass
Poison Eggs Kill Forty Four at Oregon State Hospital
At Oregon State Hospital in Salem Oregon forty four inmates died after consuming potentially poisoned frozen eggs. Over 400 other inmates became seriously ill with vomiting cramps respiratory failure and abdominal pain. Hospital superintendent Dr C Evans and Marion County coroner L Barrick ordered investigations into the shell eggs from a federal surplus program.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon State Hospital
Lave
Wf C. Evans
Hospital Superiintendent
December draft notices go out to 89 County men
Local records show Hempstead county men receiving December draft notices and scheduled for induction on December 1 and 2. The list specifies white men called for December 1st and 2nd with numerous names across several townships.
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Miny
Hempstead
John Keith Gregory
Holman House
Eates Lavine Boyd
van Wilson Derryberry
Thomas Jeffersory Milliun
Orville Herman Hoelsher
Guy Belware Keen
Herbert Lee Bmith
Virgil Lee England
Gradie Clark
Rufis Conway Morgan
Harry Joh Burns
Charles Darwin Jones
Arlis Rudolph Brooks
Jessa
Theodore Cash
William Clyde Capid
Bonnie Couris
John Elijah Minsby
Frank Jasper Mason
Emmet Franklin Sweat
Jim Crider
James Lee Brandon
Charlie Floyd Holt
Cloudy McRae Burke
Melvin Walter Powell
Homer Daniel Stuckey
Samuel Virginius Benson
Homer Watson McChire
Lynn Olin Rogers
James Garfield Halton
Louie Ben Urrey
Curtis Crowder
Dexter Conway Williams
Finis Weldon Johnson
George Willie Biddle
Albert
Carston Morton Jackson
Charlie Milwee
Lawrence Clifford Byers
Wil
Ham Odis Thomason
Isham Stroud Gathright
Miles Frederick Lisenby
Kenneth Eimon Elledge
Paul Clifford Ross
J. P. Martin
Elvis Tilman Frasey
of. Sullivan, Jr
Coy
Howard Clements
Eldon Gene Steadman
Willie David Thomason
Luther Franklin Gulley
Floyd Laveer Chance
Ralph Edward Burke
Robert Lee Campbell
George Curtis Yokem
Altay Claudius Freyburger
Lavan Floyd
Lewis Vernon_Holliday
John Winston Riddle
Elmer
May
Valgene Hair
Julie Clark Mulfield
Ri G. Young
Phillip Wattrey Boba
Rirtus Carroll Rothwell
Weldon Clea Bolten
Hardl Winton Tiffin
Cecil Howard Cox
Dail Francis
Adenck
Roland Marcum
Legion Post Named for Pearl Harbor Hero
In Little Rock on November 19 State headquarters of the American Legion announced St. Joe will host the first World War I veteran named post in the state. Jol Thomas Rainbott Post No. 198 honors a native sailor killed in the Port Harbor attack.
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Little Rock
The
American Legion
St. Joe
Jol Thomas Rainbott
Port Hirbur
Ralbuolt
Laval Granted Life and Death Powers by Petain
London dispatch reports Marshal Petain, at a Tuesday cable net meeting, designated Laval as chief of state and gave him full powers to write laws and decrees. The Vichy announcement praised Laval while observers see the move as a Germany-controlled expansion of his authority.
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Associated Press
London
Germih Layonets
Pierre Laval
Anhappy Prange
Vichy
Marshal Detain
Lie Germanon
Paris
Laval
Marcel Dent
Marshal
Ceal
France
C. A. J. P. Auphan
Navy
Robert Gibrat
Communications
Germans Admit Widespread Red Attacks Across Fronts
German declarations report the Red Army has launched new offensives along the Caucasus, Don region, south of Leningrad, and the Rybachi peninsula, with Berlin claiming repulses but signaling possible winter drives. the report cites Hitler HQ communique via Berlin radio. Brazil's Canal Reverses Itself describes the Crqsquinre canal reversing flow with seasonal shifts between the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
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New York
Red
Caucasus
Don
Leningrad
Rybachi
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Brazil
Orinoco River
Amazon
Amazon River
Orinoco
Bombers Hunt Jap Ships Off New Guinea as Ground Forces Close In
American heavy bombers scoured the New Guinea coast near Buna while ground forces moved within 25 miles of the Buna beachhead. The long range air offensive hit Lae Salamaua and other enemy bases as U S S B 25s and Beaufighters joined in in the broader Southwest Pacific theater.
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Pacific
G. Yates McDaniel
MacArthur
Australia
New Guinea
Buna
Milne Bay
New Jumea
Munobisse
New Britain
Rabaul
Gusmutya
Showdown Vote on Poll Tax Bill Saturday
Southern opponents of a poll tax bill plan a Senate showdown Saturday to try to kill the measure by defeating a debate limit. Senator Bilbo’s filibuster continues while cloakroom talks seek a cloture motion with two thirds needed to end debate.
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Washington
Senate
Bilbo
D-Miss
Barkley
Kentucky
Premature Christmas Night Causes in City Attic
Reading Pa recounts Santa Claus visit to Albert Pfenning five and Skipper Komloch four who vanished and were found in the Pfenning attic playing with toys not to be discovered by the younger child. Fire hazard tale notes a fifty six thousand dollar fire at a five and ten cent store in September caused by spontaneous combustion in baby pants.
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Associated Press
Reading
Santa Claus
Albert Pfenning
Skipper Komloch
Pfenning
Albert
Columbia
S.C
A.M. Marsh
Marsh
German Aristocrats Form Junta to Appeal to Allies
London reports a high level German aristocratic junta forming to isolate Hitler and gain Allied backing in a possible stalemate or defeat. Named leaders include Brauchitsch, Von Bock, Halder, Mannstein, Rundstedt and Blaskowitz, amid dissension over strategy and Nazification of the army.
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Robert Bunnelle
London
Hiller
Walther von Brauchitsch
Hitler
Moscow
Fedor von Bock
Stalingrad
Franz Haider
von Bock
Don
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Johannes Blasawitz
Germany
Russia
Erwin Rommel
Africa
North
Alles
Junker
United States
Britain
von Brauchitsch
Berlin
von Mannetein
Sevastopol
Volga Front
Gen. Halder
Alfred Jodl
von Rundstedt
Dr W M Garner Rosston Physician Dies At 60
Dr W M Garner 60 longtime Hope physician died at his Ragston home after an extended illness. He practiced in Hope 17 years, moved to Rosston Nevada county four years ago. Survived by wife, a daughter Mrs James E Bell of Pompano Florida, and sister A W C Love of Los Angeles. Funeral at Herndon Cornelius Funeral Home Friday at 3 30 in charge of Rev W R Hamilton and Rev O Sten. Active pallbearers named from Hope and Rosston.
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W. M. Garner
Ragston
Hope
Rosston
Nevada County
James E. Bell
Pompano
Florida
W. C. Love
Los Angeles
Herndon-Cornelius
Approves Transfer of Motor Freight Rights in Arkansas
The Corporation Commission approved transfer of motor freight line rights from T. E. Bigham Inc to J. J. Van Freight Lines, both of Fort Smith. The carrier serves Texarkana Fort Smith Dardanelle Russellville Blytheville Conway Marion McGehee Little Rock Hot Springs El Dorado Philadelphia and other points. It also authorized C. L. Burke DeWitt to operate a passenger line to south Arkansas county points while ordering parts of the route closed after a shorter 4 hours Longwise period.
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Little Rock
Corporation Commission
T. E. Bigham, Inc
J. J. van Freight Lines
Fort Smith
Texarkana
Dardanelle
Russellville
Blytheville
Conway
Marion
McGehee
Hot Springs
el Dorado
Arkadelphia
C. L. Burke
DeWitt
Arkansas
Tichnor and Naty
Alaska highway opens linking U S and Canada to Alaska
Whitehorse Yukon Territory reports the Alaska highway is opened with a formal ceremony. An army convoy leads the first vehicles as dignitaries from Canada and Alaska celebrate a 1481 mile route built in seven months and seventeen days. The road connects Fairbanks to Dawson Creek and links with Richardson highway to Valdez and Seward.
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Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
Arctic
Alaska
United States
Canada
Japan
Northwest Service Corps
Novard Corp
Sims, Jr
Alfred Jaluska
Kennedy
Texas
Alaska- Yukon
Fairbanks
Dawson Creek
Alberta
Government
Anchorage
Army
Seward
Whittier
Interior
Valdez
Canadian National
Edmonton
Auto Owners Urged to Sign Up for Gasoline Now
Local rationing board officials urged automobile owners to register for gasoline immediately to avoid last minute rush. About 300 registered on opening day in Hope. Owners seeking extra gasoline should submit supplementary blanks to the rationing board at the Elks building. those who carry blanks to committee members waste time as they lack authority to grant extra fuel.
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Elks
French Driving From Lake Chad to Help Allies
Allied forces push in North Africa as French columns from Lake Chad drive toward Tripolitania amid a four-way squeeze on Axis forces. In Tunisia American and British troops strike deeper, while Rommel’s Africa Corps retreats toward Libya. British forces reach near Bengasi and bomb Bizerte Tunis and other Axis bases as paratroopers seize strategic spots. An Algiers radio cites new Allied advances from Chad toward Tunisia, contrasting Axis propaganda claiming heavy Allied losses.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Lake Chad
Ital
Tunisia
Algeria
Tripolitania
8Th Army
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Africa
Libya
Sth
Bengasi
Cairo
Gulf of Birte
Aghei
Aia Jan
Hyodout Garrigan Rommel
Bernard L
Montgomery
Rommel
Africa Corps
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James H. Doolittle
Bizerte
Tunis
Algiers
Vichy Radio
Gibraltar
Rome
U. S
Casablanca
Gas Rationing Registration Details for City Wards
Auto owners must register for gas rationing on a specified four day period. Registrations run from 8 a.m. to 5 a.m. in Ward 1 at Hope High School with registrar R. J. Jackson and in Ward 2 at Brookwood School with registrar Mrs. Florence Hyatt. Ward 3 uses Paisley school with Mrs. George Green. Ward 4 uses Oglesby schools with Mrs. Crit Stuart. Negro automobile owners register at Yerger School.
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Eam
Main
Elm
Hope High School
R. J. Jackson
Walnut Streel
Brookwood School
Florence Hyatt
Paisley School
George Green
Oglesby Schools
Crit Stuart
Yerger Schol
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