Hope Ark housing plan stalls amid pipeline crisis
In Hope Arkansas fears rise as pipeline workers struggle for homes amid stalled emergency housing plans. City officials pledge effort to house workers, but pessimism grows over missing FHA style construction funds and canceled projects. Many families face displacement and will relocate to neighboring towns as SPG boom era patterns recur.
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Aourt Chamber of Commerce
Kansas Celtics
Southwes
Efm
Arkansas
Hope
Acuerbia
SPG
Dewey Bennett Fight Drives ALP's 1944 Strategy
The American Labor Party press previews its 1944 bid as Dewey Bennett clash draws national note. ALP hopes to test union political strength and independence, noting Lehman’s 1942 Governor vote and ALP’s long role bridging labor with Democrats. The piece notes Greek extraction candidate Dean Allange and broader party ambitions beyond New York.
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Dewey
Bennett
Franklin Dyeu
Herbert Lehmaey
Raose
Eotor
Anber
New York Rre
Dean Allange
American Labor Party
ALP
Lehman
Labor Party
New York
Roosevelt proposes UN war crimes commission for Axis crimes
Washington officials say the United States will back a United Nations inquiry into Axis war crimes. President Roosevelt stated the aim is to establish responsibility and surrender of leaders, with cooperation from Britain and others to investigate crimes across Europe. The plan emphasizes gathering evidence, avoiding mass reprisals, and pursuing trial of those guilty, with continuations noted on the following page.
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Washington
Dent Roosevelt
United States
United Nations
Roosevelt
Whovelt
Mussolini
Stephen
Roose
Hitley
Urtodhy
Cama
Europe
Fis
Nations Commission
David J. Bean Hope Resident Dies at Benton
David J. Bean aged 68, Hope resident, died at Benton after a long illness. Funeral services set for 2 oclock Friday at Herndon-Cornelius funeral home. Survived by two sons E. L. Bean of El Dorado and Jerry Bean of Los Angeles, two daughters Mrs. John Livens of Cincinnati and Miss Eliz Dabeth Bean of Hope, two brothers W. H. Bean of Scottsbluff Nebraska and Joe Bean of Hugo Oklahoma, two sisters Mrs. Tom Woodul of Pine Bluff and Mrs. J W Brunson of Prescott.
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David J. Bean
Hope
Benton
Herndon-Cornelius Funeral Home
E. L. Bean
el Dorado
Jerry Bean
Los Angeles
Calif
John Livens
Cincinnati
Jack Cobb
Eliz
Dabeth Bean
W. H
Scatls Blue Neb
Joe Bean
Hugo, Okla
Aussies Retake Main Gap in New Guinea Range
Australian forces push downslope toward Kokoda from Owen Stanley range as they retake the main gap, moving within two miles of the end of a pass and advancing toward Port Moresby. Reports note the fight on ridges near the Rap, with jungle brigades aiding and air power targeting Japanese bases at Buka and near Bula.
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MacArthur
Duanguarers
Australia
Owen Stanley
Kokoda
Port Moresby
High Y Mare
New Guinea
Austral
Sten
Agi
Abourne Herald Carly
Stanley
Australi
George C. Kenney
Southwest Pacific
Bula
Buka
Solomon Islands
Solomons
Goals for Food Production in U S Increased
Washington reports the Agriculture Department crafted tentative production goals for the 1949 crop season amid wartime demands. Officials say higher targets will be requested despite shortages of labor, machinery, and fertilizer as needs in Russia exceed earlier expectations. The plan includes reducing civilian consumption to curb shortages, with a potential early-1949 meat limit for civilians.
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Ovida
Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Russia
Flashes of Life and Oddities from A P News Briefs
A jumble of short items from the Associated Press covers quirky local scenes. A Los Angeles couple eyeing a used house, a wrecking firm displaying salvaged homes, a driver tipping a parking meter and driving off, a Kentucky tale of car trouble due to hickory nuts, and Alameda detective disguises that backfire as a bartender ID’s the wrong man.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Honey
Reign of Terror in Norway Sees 700 Arrests and 10 Executions
London reports that Nazi commissioner Josef Terboven expanded terror in Trondheim Norway with a state of emergency and a 400 mile coastal ship blockade. Ten prominent Norwegians were executed and about 700 arrested to crush sabotage mentions. Terboven vowed harsher measures and warned against subordination while sabotage targets included a Tanarem power station and the Trondheim Mosjoen railway. Danish volunteers on leave from the Russian front and fears of Danish police control circulated as food stocks were reported strained across occupied regions.
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London
Josef Terboven
Trondheim
Terboven
Terboyen
Armryr
Trondheim + Mosjoen
Aapower
Tanarem
Tlxo
Denmark
Oslo
Copenhagen
Hope Included in Federal Rent Control Areas
Dallas reporting that the federal rent control plan may be invoked in parts of the Dallas region after December while the area is defined. Max McCullough stated the OPA region includes Texas Oklahoma Missouri and Arkansas with 44 designated subareas and rents to be set as soon as administrative action allows. The list includes Fort Smith Pine Bluff Kansas City and other towns as areas slated for control.
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Dallas
Tex
Enti
Max McCullough
Pravn
McCall
Torday
OPA
Yushai
Texas
Jahoma
Missouri
Fisas
Price
Henderson
McCullough
Arkansas
Lane Muntvern
Missouwri
Joplin
St. Loui
Pike County
Camden Hope
Newport-Walau
Studtgy
Louisiana
Ok- Kansas
Senate Votes on Combined Corporation Tax Changes
Senate approved a 40 percent combined normal and surtax rate for corporations with $50,000 or more net income, rejecting a 50 percent rate proposal. A finance committee amendment lowered the dependent tax credit from $400 to $800. LaFollette urged broader corporation taxes and new levies to raise additional revenues, but faced Senate opposition and House uncertainty.
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Orashington
Senate
LaFollette
la Follette
Taft
Ohio
House
LaFallette
Senate Finance Committee
Vandenberg
Hes
Tnt
Rae
Taophales
LaPoilette
LaFoliette
Last Story of Larry Allen Captured in British Raid at Tobruk
Larry Allen, renowned Associated Press and Wide World correspondent with the British Mediterranean Fleet, recounts push through censorship before being captured during a Tobruk raid. He describes 28 months at sea aboard battleships and support vessels, heavy bombardments, and near-death experiences, noting a charmed life claimed by some yet a toll from constant danger and dives by Stukas.
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Larry Alten
Associated Press
Wide World
Rom
New York
Allen
Te Halians
Tobruk
Larry Allen
Britain
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Benny Haywoot
Mediterranean Fleet
Judah
Hope Drive Scrapyard Campaign Reaches 50000 Pounds
Hope High School vocational instructor R. E. Jackson announced at noon that the Hope Campaign has collected more than 50000 pounds of scrap metal. Students loaded curbside scrap onto City of Hope trucks as they toured wards one through four, aided by the Army Relief Society and Temple Oil on the campaign’s focal plan.
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Hope
R. E.ackson
Temple Oil On Eony
Fight Looms As More Japs Land on Guadalcanal
Japanese reinforcements landed on Guadalcanal on Oct 3 and 4, raising total losses in the two month Solomon Islands battle to 230 aircraft and 30 vessels. U S planes hit a Nipponese cruiser and its destroyers at dawn and torpedo planes later damaged it, as American pursuit ships and Marines ready fresh strikes to hold the airbase and halt Japanese efforts to retake the base.
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Associated Press
Guadalcanal
Navy
Solomons
Marine Corps
U.S
la Istead
Avalde
Aqaire
Mrs H L Polk Dies in Pasadena California
Mrs H L Polk sister-in-law of Misses Pearl and Ruth Polk of South Elm Street died in Pasadena California at 12 20 last night. She will be buried in Little Rock with the date of service to be announced. The article notes 820 persons per square mile on the island of Java as a separate fact.
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H. L. Polk
Misses Pearl
Ruth Polk
Elm Street
Pasadena
Calif
Little Rock
Java
44th Day Of Siege Ushers Heavy Fighting Near Stalingrad
Dispatches report intensified combat along the Don and Volga front as German and Soviet forces clash. Red Army efforts defend key positions amid heavy bombardment and night flights, with claims of successes and setbacks on multiple sectors around Stalingrad and in the Caucasus.
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Henry c, Cassidy
Moscow
Ort
Semeon Timoshenko
Don
The
Ingrad
Batlleftor
Stalingrad
Manian Troos
Vilage
Red
Red Army
Dama
An Cyilins
Volga
Red Star
Izvestia
Ar 2Vastia
Staling
Red A
H. I Munique
Novorossisk
Have
Chala
U. S
William, Standley
Saqq
Washington
Stalin
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Sidney Scott
Alameda
Lloyd Wendland
William Bauman
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Bauman
Harse
Srica
Miles
Krasnodar
Euban
NEA Telemap
Axis
Polk
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