Labor Day 1942 and housing growth in Camden
The piece ties Labor Day 1942 to unity against tyranny and notes Camden as a Defense Housing Area with plans to construct 55 new homes. It cites a government rent ceiling set March 1, 1942, and explains the local housing bottleneck, contrasting with Hope’s earlier designation and urging action to expand construction or lower ceilings to relieve relief needs.
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Camden
Hope
Southwestern Proving Ground
Labor Day Finds Workers Sticking to Wartime Jobs
A wartime Labor Day survey shows thousands staying at work while crowds flock to cities like New York and Chicago. The Army war show drew tens of thousands, traffic deaths were far below last year, and safety officials warned of holiday risks as 177 deaths were linked to the long weekend so far.
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Associated Press
America
Targest
New York
Chicago
Eitte
Anerica
Associated gPress
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Loop
Three Japanese Planes Shot Down Over Guadalcanal
Washington reports that American fighters shot down two Japanese bombers and one fighter during a September 5 attack on American positions at Guadalcanal. The Navy command notes persistent raids with growing enemy losses, surpassing 122 aircraft since the Marine Navy invasion began, while offering few additional attack details.
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Washington
Navy
Amer
Solaman Lands
Guadalcanal
South Pacific
Guadalcanal- Malagi
Marine-Navy
Taft Attacks Roosevelt War Powers Doctrine as Dangerous
Senator Taft says Roosevelt’s wartime doctrine permits the president to override laws and fix wages by executive order, claiming it could abolish Congressional elections and undermine Congress. He urged Congress to grant explicit authority to stabilize living costs before December 1.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Sthal
Roosevelt
Congress
Taf
Sep
Executive
Congre
Melons Bring Hope Publicity at National Events
Hope receives widespread publicity for her wit and melons. The Chamber of Commerce sent one melon to the National Convention of Spanish War Veterans in Cleveland drawing over 1300 delegates. Two more went to the Breakfast Club of NBC in Chicago where they were cut eaten and commented on during last Friday's broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Chamber of Comerce
Cleveland
National Broadcasting Company
Chicago
Willkie Ends Middle East Visit in Egypt
Cairo Egypt Sept 7 Wendell Willkie traveling salesman of the United Nations House in the Middle East finished a free day stop in Egypt shortly after 7am He left from a nearby airfield on the second leg of his trip aiming for Russia and planned to pass through Palestine and other destinations His itinerary remained fluid Willkie met U S tankers airmen and soldiers at the desert front amid recent fighting and Ankira dispatches noted a planned arrival in Turkey today
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Cairo
Egypt
Wendell Willkie
United Nations House
Middle East
Russia
Palestine
Willkie
Desert Front
U. S
Ankira
Willie
Turkey
States to Hold Elections This Week
Nominees for seven Senate seats 55 House and eight governors’ posts will be chosen this week as primaries and conventions unfold in 11 states. Major contests in Washington Connecticut and Georgia garner attention while Minnesota votes shape lieutenant governor and governorship prospects.
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Harold Oliver Washington
Senate
House
Washington
Connecticut
Georgia
Marylland
Vermont
Anthony J. Dice
Congress
Delaware
New Mexico
Bo Ier
Bulow
Doxey
Minnesota
Joseph TH. Ball
Foremer
Ball
Walter K. Mickelson
Shipstead
R-Minn
the Safe
Pearl Maraar
Farmer-Labor Party
Reds Hurl Nazis Back Northwest of Stalingrad
The Red Army repelled German forces northwest of Stalingrad and halted a strong assault southwest of the Volga while Rommel’s push toward Cairo was rolled back in Egypt. Moscow reports say Russians traded blows with Germans as defenders hold the city. The Berlin claim of a Novorossisk capture is echoed by Soviet accounts. fighting continues around the Volga towns and the Caucasus oil frontier.
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Europe
James M. Long
Associated Press
Red Army
Stalingrad
Moscow
Volga
Berlin
Stockholm
Hitler
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Red Feet
Grozny
Caucasus
Rostov-Baku
Muzdol
Scrap drive nets 38000 pounds for W and L Plant
The W and L Plant collected 38000 pounds of scrap metal as Hempstead County joins a regional drive. The Southwest Arkansas Chamber of Commerce mailed 300 notices urging industrial plants in fourteen counties to appoint chairmen to oversee systematic scrap collection and sale.
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Tic Hope Water & Light
Stead Couhly
Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas
Flashes of Life and Short News Snapshots
A collage of brief 1940s items. A 1844 college catalog required students furnish bedding while dorms supplied bedsteads. A Sacramento dormer’s friend in Kansas City informs a classmate’s father that Harry Kaufmann Jr. will earn army air force wings Saturday. A hunter kills a wildcat with a hunting knife after the animal darts onto a highway. Private Robert L. Bolen, from Laurens, Iowa, is cited as a 1940 national H club health champion in the Marine Corps training base report.
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Sacramento
Calif
David Marfin
Sacamento
Kansas City
Harry Kaufmann, Jr
Dormer
University of Kansas City
Young Kaufmann
Martin
Harry
San Diego
Marine Corps
Robert L. Bolen
Laurens
Iowa
Japs Fail to Win Natives
The Office of War Information reports a failed Japanese campaign to win French Indo China natives. Initial tolerance faded as additional troops arrived and natives faced conscription and coercive labor. A Japanese attempt to recruit via incentives backfired amid army maneuvers and a staged crowd event at Hai-Phong. No source disclosed.
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Washington
Office of War Information
O.W.I
OWL
Irench
Hai-Phong
Hanoi
QWI
Only Two Week-End Fatalities in State
Labor day weekend fatality report for Arkansas lists two violent deaths, none from highways. Walter James Horton, 33, was shot to death in Fort Smith. A man named Leslie Scott surrendered to police. The body of Melvin Gilstrup, about 45, was found on Frison Railroad tracks near Van Buren after a freight passed. One victim had come to Little Rock for a Selective Service medical exam. Lumber prices raised as four Arkansas firms allowed to charge seven dollars fifty cents above base prices for a soft texture finish pine.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Walter James Horton
Fort Smith
Leslie Scott
Fred Patton
Melvin Gilstrup
Frison
van Buren
Immediate Axis Threat to Egypt Definitely Halted
Africa Reports from the Egyptian desert indicated Rommel’s immediate threat to the Nile valley and the Suez route appeared dissipated for the moment after a week of renewed desert combat. Allied air and land blows pushed back Rommel’s advance as British and U.S. forces harassed withdrawal. Submarine and naval actions damaged Axis shipping, with seven ships sunk and five more damaged by British submarines off Mediterranean lanes.
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Africa
Associated Press
Rommel
The
Nile
Suez
Eighth Army
Roramel
Cairo
Reuters
Georg von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
Alexandria
Mediterranean
High Command
Ametca
Atlantic
US Cuba military pact amid war efforts announced
Washington reports a bilateral military and naval agreement between the United States and Cuba to coordinate armed forces in the war zone. Details are withheld for security but outline mutual responsibilities and reciprocity, enabling security measures as needed without new negotiations. Signed in Havana by US Ambassador Spralila Braden and Cuban minister of state.
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Washington
Cuba
United States
State Department
Havana
Spralila Braden
Scout Review Board Meets Monday Night
The Board of Review of the Boy Scouts will meet at the Chamber of Commerce office Monday at 7 30 PM. All scouts seeking merit badges or promotions must attend in person. R P Bowen, chairman, announced. The 98 year old U S S Michigan, a pioneer Great Lakes warship, has been scrapped to aid the salvage campaign.
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Board of Review of the
Boy Scouts
Chamber of Commerce
R. P. Bowen
U.S.S. Michigan
Great Lakes
Courage of U S Navy Flier in Solomons Saves His Life
Ensign Gordon Firepaugh of Valparaiso Indiana, 31, a carrier fighter leader, recounts a dramatic escape after bailing from a burning cockpit during an August 8 battle near Guadalcanal. Severely injured, his life jacket damaged, he swam for hours, drifted ashore after a long ordeal, and endured days alone on a small island before rescue. His wife and daughter live in San Diego, his mother in Valparaiso.
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Tom Yarbrough
U.S
Solomon Islands
Gordon Firepaugh
Valpariso
Ind
Firebaugh
Virebaugh
San Diego
Calif
Valparaiso
Guadalcanal Island
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