Taxes and War Bonds in Hempstead County News
Our Daily Bread warns that Social Security tax could double on January 1 1943 unless the Vandenberg amendment passes in the Senate and House. AFL proposals threaten a 6 percent tax and federal control of unemployment. War bonds and taxes loom large as Hempstead County lags its September War Savings quota. A Hardin note urges immediate auto license registration checks to ensure gasoline rationing eligibility.
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Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
House
American Federation of Labor
Arkansas War Savings Staff
Hempstead
Lke
Joe FE. Hardin
Churchill Says Allies Stronger Nazis Weaker
Churchill declares the Allies stronger and Nazi prospects dim as he asks Edinburgh to remember a new unity. He praises the home fleet visit and asserts no weakness will be shown to Germany while detailing Allied shipping gains and air superiority amid heavy bombing of Germany. Ambassador Winant remarks underscore wartime resolve.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Churchill
United States
Russia
China
Britain
Marying
Hidler
Gav
Germany
British Isles
Europe
Church VII
Kiev
Prim Ministe
John G. Wirrant Churchill
Stolland
Brent
Winant
Food and Nutrition Classes Open to Public in Hope
Mary Claude Pletcher says the food and nutrition classes begin Tuesday night October 12 at 7 00 p m in the basement of the Methodist Church due to an emergency only a night class will be taught the sessions aim for strong attendance and will lead to an advanced 30 hour course plus a canteen program planning to broaden into community canteen training for participants in the Hope area.
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Mary Claude’. Pletcher
Pootl and
Nutrition Consumer Interest Committee
Methodist Church
Local Scout Drive to Start on October 20
Hempstead County Boy Scout Council sets October 20 as opening date for the annual Scout fund drive. The drive notes the cost of providing scouting benefits is about $8 per year with James Embree leading efforts. Scouting is described as outdoor life that builds health strength happiness and practical education through active programs and the Scout oath and law to develop character and citizenship.
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Hempstead County
Blevins Road Contract Bids Planned by Highway Commission
The State Highway Commission will accept bids October 22 for a contract on Highway 29 North around the Southwestern Proving Ground. District Highway Engineer Kent Brown of Hope announced the project to replace the detour route cut by the military reservation and connect near the SPG southern gate to the old 29 north alignment.
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The
State Highway Commission
Southwestern
Proving Ground
Kent Brown
Hope
Blevins
SPG
Military Reservation
Aged Manufacturer of Pine Bluff Dies
Sam Soltz, 64, founder of the Soltz Machinery and Supply Co., died at his daughter’s home in Pine Bluff. A Vilna Russia native who arrived in 1888, he left a wife and six children behind, later reuniting the family in 1900 in St. Louis before moving to Pine Bluff in 1904. Survivors include daughter Mrs. Fannie Davis, another daughter Mrs. Harry Grossman of Texarkana, and son Hyman Soltz. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon.
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Pine Bluff
vFi
Sam Soltz
The
Soltz Machinery and Supply Co
Fannie Davis
Vilna
Russia
United States
St. Louis
Soltz
Fine Bluff
Harry Grossman
Texarkana
Hyman Soltz
Ping Bluff
Rules Liquor Act To Appear On November Ballot
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled four to three that a proposed initiated act to call local option elections on liquor and related items should be placed on the November 3 general election ballot. The court upheld petition sufficiency despite claims of 15,838 of 27,427 signatures being invalid, ruling only signatures in the same handwriting on a sheet could be invalid if proven willful. The measure, backed by the Arkansas Anti-Saloon League, would cut the required electors from 35 to 15 percent and unify liquor laws for a single vote, with a dissent arguing broader invalidation of sheets with multiple similar handwriting signatures.
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Pulaski County
J. S. Holt
Association
Atention
Ransacions
Arkansas Anti-Saloon League
Frank G. Smith
Tom Mchalty
EH. &. MecHaney
FDR to Discuss Second Front and Drafting Youths
President Roosevelt plans a fireside chat tonight focusing on a second front and the drafting of men ages 18 to 19 for the armed forces. He to address manpower, Selective Service, and European war issues, with a 9 p.m. Central War Time start.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNult
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Presidental
Stephen Early
Marly
Early
New York
McNutt
Bill to outlaw poll taxes advances in House voting
Washington reports the House, 251 to 87, discharged the rules committee to consider a bill to outlaw poll taxes. The move, aided by a discharge petition from last year, faces debate and a constitutional amendment effort still pending in the Senate amid southern opposition and parliamentary challenges.
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Washington
House
Geyer
D-Cal
Cox
Congress
Rayburn
Legislaion
Senate
Flashes of Life and Light News Snippets
A Greenville judge suspends a 30 day sentence on a drunkenness conviction if the defendant reports in October and shows he has gathered 500 pounds or more of strap metal or rubber for a community salvage pile. Rin Tin Tin II is home on furlough after wartime wounds, having a brush with a prowler near the army camp. the prowler turned out to be a porcupine. Pvt. Eamund D. Metcalf’s draft notice keeps reappearing after he supposedly tossed it into a trash can in Jefferson Barracks. the trail leads to San Diego. In Chewelah Washington, a 15 year vow of venison ends when a buck wanders into a wife’s garden and a rifle yields venison on the Carter table.
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Greenville
N. C
J. W. H. Roberts
Hollywood
Rin Tin Tin II
Desert
San Diego
Calif
Eamund D. Metcalf
Metcalf
Jefferson Barracks
H_ e
Chewelah
W. B. Catter
Jap Seaplane Tender Hit By U S Bombers in Pacific
General MacArthur announced that medium bombers heavily damaged a 10,000-ton Japanese seaplane tender southeast of Rabaul New Britain after two night assaults. Twelve planes were seen on deck, with the vessel reportedly crippled and motionless. Allied bombers also attacked Japanese overland supply routes in New Guinea, starting fires and machine-gunning barges. No new progress reported in the Owen Stanley Mountains area as Japanese retreat follows the Port Moresby drive.
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General MacArthur
Australia
Rabaul
New Britain
MacArthur
Solomons
New Guinea
R McKnight County Man Takes Own Life
Rufus McKnight 87, longtime Hempstead County resident, shot himself with a 23 caliber rifle late Saturday at his daughter Mrs Carrell Boyce of Hope route four home. Coroner R V Herndon announced. he had poor health for years. Funeral at daughter’s home Sunday. burial Bright Star Cemetery. Survived by son Otis A. McKnight of Washington.
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Rufus McKnight
Hempstead
Carrell Boyce
Hope Route Four
R. V. Herndon
Buerjal
Bright Star
Otis A. McKnight
Washington
Legion Postpones Annual Banquet
The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary banquet scheduled for this week is postponed to the early part of November officials announced today.
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Legion
American Legion and Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary Police to Meet 7 30 Tonight in Hope
Hempstead County Auxiliary Police announce a regular October meeting at 7 30 oclock Tuesday night October 13 in Hope city hall. Secretary Treasurer Corbin Foster informs members.
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Hempstead County
Hope City Hall
Corbin Foster
Negro Nutrition Class To Open Tuesday At Verger High
Negro nutrition classes in Modified Nutrition will begin Tuesday at 8 o clock in Verger High School Economics department. The first Red Cross class for Negroes is led by instructor Mattie R Rainey. Classes meet weekly for six weeks with certificates awarded at course end.
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Verger High School
Red Cross
Mattie R. Rainey
Hunt Spreads for Escaped Touhy Gang
Paw Paw Michigan observers report a carload of Touhy gang members including Roger Touhy threatened a motorist with a tommy gun at 5 a.m. near Paw Paw. State police and sheriff officers set a roadblock as they pursue a possibly damaged car that fled toward Benton Harbor.
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Paw Paw
Mich
Michigan
Roger Touhy
Here
Erving White
White
Illinois
Benton Harbor
Mikel Resigns Senate Seat in Florida Army Duty
Fort Smith reports Lyman I Mikel has resigned from the state senate while serving as a second lieutenant in the Florida-based Army. Elected in a September 1939 special election to replace Fred Armstrong, his term would have run to January 1, 1944. A Governor-called special election will fill the vacancy. The article notes 80 percent of truck trips are under two miles.
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Fort Smith
Lyman I Mikel
State Senate
Mikel
Florida
Fred Armstrong
Court Upholds Petrillo's Ban on Recordings
Federal Judge John P. Barnes denied the government’s bid to restrain James C. Petrillo and the American Federation of Musicians from enforcing a recording ban. The ruling dismissed the petition, noting a labor dispute with tensions between musicians and their masters, manufacturers of records and transcriptions. A memorandum detailing the decision will follow.
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Petrillo
Chicago
John P. Barnes
James C. Petrillo
American Fedration of Musicians
Thurman Arnold
Washlington
Arnold
Barnes
Joseph A. Padway
American Federation of Labor
Arold
Federal District Court
Padway
Jeffers Pushes Rayon Over Cotton in War Tire Debate
Washington October 12 Administrator William M Jeffers urged shifting from cotton to rayon for heavy tire manufacture despite criticism from agriculture leaders. He argued rayon could do a better job while cotton tests continue and warned the government may expand rayon facilities within a year. Senators McKellar Downey Reynolds and Bunker pressed for war effort options and held back on final judgment, noting differing expert opinions on material performance.
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Washington
Oet
William M. Jeffers
Agriculture Committee
Jeffers
Senator McKellar
D-Tenn
WPB
Tony
Senaor Downey
Calif
Senator Reynolds
Dewhey
McKellay
Rebellar
Tennessee
Bunker D - Nev
Chator Stewart
Battle News From Stalingrad and Caucasus Fronts
Report from Moscow dated October 12 notes Soviet forces pressing German lines northwest of Stalingrad and advancing in the Caucasus. Communiqués describe German high command abandoning a full assault on Stalingrad in favor of artillery and air strikes, while Russians claim progress around Novorossisk and in the Mozdok region with street fighting and the destruction of German positions. The article highlights heavy air battles, Allied air superiority, and continued German losses on multiple fronts.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Stalingrad
Caucasu
Iet
Volga
Don
Mididay
Medok
Caucasus
Grozry
Novorossisk
Hitler Reuss
Red Army
Pravda
Mozdok
Ingrad
Associated Press
Russia
Taupse
Black Sea
Novressisk
Hitler Command
Stalgrad
Yoga
Europe
United States
France
Hanover
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Alex. H. Washburn
Blevins Road
FDR
Terrible Touhy
NEA Service
Telephoto
Statesville
Basil Banghart
John Factor
U. S
Wartz
Pacific
R. McKnight
Touhy
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