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ALEX H WASHBURN critiques Arkansas Gazette for opposing poll tax repeal yet backing Initiated Act No 1 on liquor prohibition. He frames totalitarian charges as selective and questions state home rule defense and citizen rights. Prohibitionist likened to policing money and liberty, arguing constitutional rights matter.
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Alex, H. Washburn
Arkansas Gazette
Congress
The
Gazette
Associated Press
Enitentiary
Europe
Protests Grow Over Split Pacific Commands
Washington protests over a divided Pacific command intensify amid calls to unify leadership. MacArthur disavows political aims while Washington debates coordinating the Army and Navy, with changes in command stirring questions of wartime strategy and unity.
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Washington
Far Pacific
MacArthur
Jap Airfield Raid by U S Forces Reported in Burma
A U S Army Air Base dispatch notes B 25 Mitchells from the Ching air task force bombed Lashio Burma, key Burma Road hub, early Tuesday. Planes flew through anti aircraft fire to strike hangars and airport facilities, mirroring Doolittle raid tactics.
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Ay J. Reilly O'Sullivan
China
Lashio
Burma
Burma Road
Ching
Closing of War Plants Feared by Secretary
Secretary Ickes warned that literal enforcement of the WPB curtailment order could force the shutdown of key electric power plants and construction projects essential to war work. He asked WPB to reconsider, seek exceptions, and noted Army and Navy support. The Interior Department had already preemptively halted projects without harming the war effort.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Tekes
WPB
Ickes
Army
Navy
Interior Department
WFE
Furlough for Draftees Reduced to One Week
The War Department ordered inactive status for newly drafted draftees shortened from two weeks to one week, effective November 1. Secretary of War Stimson cited the national need and the deferment of agricultural workers by the War Manpower Commission as the reason for the cutback.
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Washington
War Department
War Manpower Commission
Stimson
Americans Down 4 Nazi Planes in Egypt Battle
United States pilots reported four additional Messerschmitts shot down in Egypt as part of an ongoing air offensive supporting the British Eighth Army against Rommel. Allied aircrews hit supply lines and bases, with nine enemy planes destroyed that day. Bombers struck Rommel’s line and camps, while German fighters avoided engagement on most occasions.
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Don Whitehead
Cairo
United States
Eighth Army
Marshal Rommel
North Africa
Mditiranean
Raumpis
RAF
Crete
Malta
New Nazi Drive in Caucasus Presses Soviet Lines
Soviet dispatches report a large scale German offensive in the central Caucasus targeting the Nalchik plateau with troops tanks artillery and planes as Stalingrad endures the 68th day of siege. Red Star cites heavy German losses while blizzards freeze fighters and Soviet forces employ mobile defense against armor in snowbound mountains.
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Europe
Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Central
Caucasus
Red Army
Nalchik
Mog¢dok
Stalingrad
Red Star
Nalechik
Ordzonitidze
Mozdok
Tuapse
Javestia
Ordzhonikidze
Farm Group Attacks Price Control Law
Washington film on Oct 29 farm state senators mobilized to attack what they call high handed illegal administration of the revised price control law. They criticized an interpretation inserted in the congressional record by Senator Brown of Michigan freezing prices for eggs chickens butter cheese potatoes and flour and opposed a subsidies program Senator Reed of Kansas described as the administration plan.
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Washington
Brown
D-Mich
Reed
Arctic Bomber Lane Story of Arctic Convoy Survival
United States Navy gunners and merchant seamen relay their ordeals delivering arms to Russia via the Arctic Bomber Lane. Survivors recount dive bombing, torpedo attacks, open-boat ordeals, and long cold days in pack‑hunting waters as they press on to Britain and the Soviet hospital circuit.
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William B. King
U. 8
United Kingdom
Russia
Arctic
U. S. Navy
Toiretary
William Harkins
Gloucester
N. J
Albert D. Friday
West Point
Miss
Sanctuary
Britain
Harkins
William Roy Kirby
Coffeyueill
Kas
Hutch
Kirby
Suimeone
Lieut
McClellan to Speak at Hope Bond Rally Friday
Final arrangements set for Hope Victory Rally at city hall auditorium this Friday at 7 20 pm featuring Senator elect John L McClellan as guest speaker Music by Hope High School Band flag ceremonies pledge and community singing Kiwanis Quartet and war bond program directed by George W Ware Edward McFaddin to introduce McClellan Rally billed as first patriot event in Hope since World War I drawing large civic club interest and expected overflow crowd.
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Hope
John L. McClellan
City Hall
George W. Ware
Divice Clubs
Hope High School Band
Bill Wray
Ted Jones
Kiwanis
Albert Graves
War Bond Sound Pictures
Marlin Pool
Edward McFaddin
Sulfanilamide Spray Aimed at Colds and Burns
Howard W. Blakeslee reports a new sulfanilamide spray shown to the American Public Health Association. Trials at several institutions reported favorable early impressions for colds and burns, with no sinus use. The spray uses sulfadine zinc, a safer compound in this class.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
St. Louis
American Public Health Association
Refunding Board Buys $25,707 in B Bonds
Little Rock on Oct 29 the State Refunding Board purchased 25707.69 in value road district RB bonds at an average price around 94.429 completing a 243707.69 cash transaction and saving the state 141357.13. The board had earlier decided to buy all B bonds offered at 95.25 or less.
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Little Rock
Boar
Warns Japan Nazi Taunts Offend Soldiers In War Effort
Rear Admiral C H Woodward U S N ret chief of the Navy incentive division says labeling enemies as the Yellow Jap or the Dumb German endangers soldiers and must stop for the sake of young men. At a Massachusetts conference he urges production with a unity view, warning tools alone do not win wars.
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Boston
Get
C. H. Woodward
U.S.N
Navy
Associated Industries of
Massachusetts
Woodward
Alaskan Highway Opens Ahead of Schedule for War Effort
Secretary Stimson announced the Alaskan highway is fully open to traffic, enabling trucks to move supplies to Alaska garrisons along the 1671 mile route. Thousands of trucks will operate all winter carrying soldiers and equipment, with plans to bring back strategic materials. opening ceremonies planned near the Alaskan Canadian border.
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Washington
Alaskan
War Stimson
North Pacific
Alaska
Stimson
Sidetrack Plan Delays Draft War Workers Action
Washington Oct 19 report says the White House will not propose new compulsory manpower mobilization for some time amid labor and political pressure. Senator Hill urges speedy Senate action on a broad mobilization bill, stressing voluntary compliance with enforcement for resisters. Local draft boards may defer farm workers as part of ongoing manpower adjustments in wartime production.
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Jack Bell
Washington
White House
Hill
D-Ala
Roosevelt
Senate Military Committee
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
Navy
Flashes of Life From Across The Nation
A collection of light news briefs spans towns from Winchester Indiana to Topeka Kansas. An auction yields 1890 dollars in foreign coins, a perishable package prompts quick action, a jail term leads to reflection, a dog spurs coffee rationing talk, and a veteran hunter shows trophies from a long chase.
Land enemy losses mount in Solomons fierce battles
Allied forces in the Solomons fight with mounting enemy losses in men and equipment as land battles on Guadalcanal continue. U S air and ground forces hold the Guadalcanal airbase while MacArthur’s bombers damage two Japanese ships in Rabaul Harbor and strike Buka. Naval observers fear a larger sea clash as enemy formations mass near New Hebrides and Fiji.
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Pacific
Washington
Solomons
United States
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
Turbulen Islands
Enem
New Hebrides
Fiji Islands
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Rabaul
New Britain
Buka
Por Moresby
Soloz
Mong
Navy
Santa Cruz Islands
U.S. Navy
Stimson
Joint
United States Chiefs of Staffs
Machinery to Control Wages to Start Soon
Washington reports a centralized administrative system to regulate most wages and salaries up to 5 000 dollars. The War Labor Board, with Perkins and Byrnes, will use field offices to enforce the executive order and set a 25 000 dollar maximum after taxes and deductions. Treasury officials will set formulas and extend controls to lower-salaried professionals. The text mentions rope making as a known process in primitive societies.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Perkins
Jams J. Byrnes
Treasury
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William H. Halsey
Wasp
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RNY
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Rminn
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R-Il
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