Republicans soften stance on foreign policy at Mackinac Island
The conference of GOP congressmen and governors debated a shift from isolationism to an alliance approach with other nations. Governor Dewey backed Britain, signaling a major change in party policy, though critics objected to the word qualified and urged a full commitment. In Hope, citizens argued over paved versus gravel streets, a local quarrel that mirrors national tensions.
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Republican Party
Mackinac Island
Michigan
GOP
International Group
Dewey
New York
Great Britain
G.O.P
Schools Open on Sept 13 with Faculty Announced
Hope Public Schools will open Monday September 13 at 9 a m. A general teachers meeting is set for Friday morning September 10 at the home economics cot tune. The negro teachers general meeting will be held Saturday September 11 at 10 a m in Yerger High School Auditorium.
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Hope Public Schools
Home Economics Cottune
Yerger High School
Compulsory School Attendance Law Passed in 1931
Arkansas law requires every parent guardian or person in charge of a child aged seven to fifteen to enroll and send the child to a public private or parochial school within the state, establishing the compulsory schooling requirement.
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State of
Arkansas
School Faculty for 1943 44 Announced by J H Jones
The 1943 44 faculty list from J H Jones superintendent includes Hope Junior Senior High School staff R E Jackson W V Fitts Fey H Hammons Thomas Lavin Mrs Flamilton Hanegan Miss Virginia Atkinson Miss Regina Bayse Mrs Joe Black Mrs R P Bowen Mrs Irma Dean Miss Hilma East Mrs R Jackson Mrs Lawrence Martin Mrs Jank Mason Mrs rents McPherson Miss Mary Drake Miss Sarah Rhiton Helyn Phillips Parker P L Perkins Oglesby School principal Mrs Crit Stuart Howard Byers Vivian Cooper Mabel Ethridge M B Hatch Mamie B Holt Florine Milter Mack Stuart Lookwood School Mrs Flor ie Hyatt principal Miss Jane Allen Mrs James Andrews Miriam Porter continued on Page Six
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Hope
R. E. Jackson
W. V. Fitts
Fey H. Hammons
Thomas Lavin
Flamilton Hanegan
Virginia Atkinson
Regina Bayse
Joe Black
R. P. Bowen
Irma Dean
Oglesby
Crit Stuart
Howard Byers
Vivian Cooper
Mabel Ethridge
M. B Hatch
Mamie B. Holt
Florine Milter
Mack Stuart
Jaisiey
George Ten
S. Bessie Green
S. N. Pilkinton
S. Robert Jewell
S. Henry Tayior
S. Theo P. Wilt
Lookwood School
Florie Hyatt
Jane Allen
James Andrews
Miriam Porter
Keeping Up With Ration Coupons This August
Ration notices outline stamp validity for August 31 and ongoing through early October. Book 2 stamps cover id letters X Y R T W, Book 2 blue stamps, sugar Book 1, shoes Book 1 stamp 18, and oil coupons from last year and season periods.
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Rocky Mountains
Midwest
Southwest
Rocky Plains
Far West
Uet
FDR and Churchill Renew War Planning Talks
Roosevelt and Churchill renewed war planning discussions in Washington on Sept 7 amid signs of a potential peace bid from Italy. Vatican official Galeazzi travels to Washington as radio Rome hints at overtures. Marshall named to lead the European invasion, signaling advanced preparations for a cross-channel drive. High Catholic officials doubt Galeazzi’s mission is church related.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Italy
Radio
Rome
Enrico Galeazzi
Vatican
Atlantic
England
United Nations
George C. Marshall
U.S
Europe
British Isles
Marshall
Galeazzi
Pope Pius
Japanese trap at Lae Salamaua falls to Allied airfield assault
Allied forces cut off about 20,000 Japanese troops in the Lae Salamaua area by seizing an airfield in the Markham valley. American paratroops joined Australian units to land, approach by river, and drive inland, trapping the defenders with air and ground forces. General MacArthur praised the operation as it closed the valley routes and left no Japanese air opposition.
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Vern Haugland
Southwest Pacific
Lae
Salamaua
New Guinea
Markham Valley
Douglas MacArthur
Markham River
Monte Kleban
San Antonio
Tex
Klebans
MacArthur
Markham
General MacArthur
Australia
Oae
Huon Gulf
Arkansan Wounded in North Africa in World War II
Washington report states Pvt. Frederic E. Harris of Route 2 McCrory Arkansas has been wounded in action in the North African area including Sicily. He is the sole Arkansan among 232 U S soldiers listed as wounded in action in various theaters.
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Washington
Frederic E. Harris
Alice N. Harris
McCrory
Sicily
War Department
Pvt
Harris
United States
Train Disaster Kills 65 in Pennsylvanias Congress Limited
A Washington to New York express wreck on a curve at Frankford Junction, Philadelphia, leaves 65 dead and 124 injured among 541 passengers. Rescue teams extract bodies from eight cars as hospitals report many near death and relatives await identifications. The No. 7 coach burned and split, with No. 8 also damaged, amid chaotic scenes as crews search the wreckage.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional Limited
Washington
New York
Newark
N.J
Frankford Junction
Journal
Robert Calvert
Birmingham
Ala
North Africa
Second Train Accident Is Fatal to Three
The eastbound 20th Century Limited derailed near Canastota after the boiler exploded, killing three crewmen in the cab and injuring at least seven others. The wreck scattered parts, derailed the engine to nine passenger cars, and rerouted eastbound trains through Syracuse as investigators probe the cause. Named dead are engineer George Pierce Syracuse. fireman J Christian Larsen Syracuse. traveling fireman Clarence Wicker Albany.
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Robert C. Wilson
Canastota
N. Y
New York
Syracuse
Joseph Endres
George Pierce
J. Christian Larsen
Clarence Wicker
Albany
Wicker
Endres
E. O. Hirsch
Chicago
P. D. Weis
Batavia
Central
The Gal Back Home Gets GI Joe for Life
At Camp Crowder Missouri the “girl back home” theme dominates wartime marriages with Chaplain Frederick G. Nichols noting most brides had known their soldier husbands for years. He married 34 of 36 couples in five and a half months, averaging two and a half years of knowing each other. Tadpoles of the bullfrog reach seven inches, as large as the adult.
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Camp Crowder
Frederick G. Nichols
Central Signal Corps School
Lightning Destroys Barn in Hempstead County Rain Summary
A storm bringing 1.77 inches of rain since September 1 helped drought relief in Hempstead County. Yesterday a barn on Sanford Bonds farm near Blevins was struck by lightning and burned, destroying the barn 100 bushels of corn 70 bushels of cotton seed 100 bales of hay and various farm implements in a loss about 1090 dollars. Rain totals by day included September 1 0.79 inches September 2 0.05 September 4 0.08 September 5 0.21 September 6 0.64.
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Hempstead County
Sanford Bonds
Blevins
Paratrooper Surprise Raid Traps Japs
American paratroops struck west of Lae catching twenty thousand Japanese in Lae and Salamaua strongholds. Don Caswell describes the drop as the largest air fleet yet in the Pacific with Gen. Douglas MacArthur leading a skyborne assault that stunned the enemy.
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Somehwere
New Guinea
Lae
Salamaua
Pacific
United Press
Don Caswell
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest
South Pacific
Invasion Extends 60 Miles Along Calabrian Coast
Allied forces push the Italian front north and inland to Delianuova and Palmi as Montgom ery's Eighth Army expands the coastal arc to about 60 miles. British Canadian units advance on the west coast with substantial road and tunnel demolitions slowing progress.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Eighth Army
Italy
Santo Stefano
Delianuova
Palmi
Melito
Bernard L. Montgomery
Reggio Calabria
Calabria
Berlin
Associated Press
Calabrian
Government Moves to Ease Cotton Seed Meal Shortage
Memphis officials report the government eliminated a $1 per ton price differential on cotton seed meal to relieve a severe southern livestock feed shortage. C. C. Smith of the Commodity Credit Corporation announced the change. The Southern Live stock Producers Association said the differential had pushed feed northward and they plan to study molasses imports from Cuba and Puerto Rico and hay harvesting in the Mississippi Delta using prison labor to boost feed supplies this winter.
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Memphis
C. C. Smith
Commodity Credit Corporation
Southern Livestock Producers Association
Tennessee Line
The
Association
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Mississippi Dela
Auto Fire Near Main and Second Street
An automobile caught fire at Main and Second streets early today damaging the motor but the Fire Department extinguished the blaze before extensive damage occurred.
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Main
Second Street
Fire Ravages Gulf Hotel. 47 Die in Houston Blaze
Houston officials report 47 dead, 32 hospitalized after a fast spreading fire at the Gulf Hotel. Many workers and transients were trapped as flames blocked two fire escapes and a stairway. Authorities say all bodies have been removed from the ruins and identify few so far. The three story brick structure stood at Preston and Louisiana Streets.
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Houston
Tex
Gulf Hotel
W. A. Wheeler
Preston
Louisiana Streets
Allied Planes Hit Continent by Daylight
Four waves of Allied bombers struck Europe in daylight across France Belgium and northern Germany as part of a sixth straight day of attacks. Flying Fortresses Marauders and British bombers hit airfields rail lines and industrial targets while night raids on Munich and other cities continued to disrupt Nazi defenses and transport hubs.
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London
Munich
Germany
Europe
Britain
Continent
Hitler
France
Belgium
Prox
Low Countries
Sicily
Italy
Royal Air Force
Switzerland
Officers promoted in War Department action
Washington September 7 announces temporary promotions in the War Department Gilb ert Leslie Kimball of DeQueen is raised from first lieutenant to captain and Walter Grantham Burke of Little Rock from second lieutenant to first lieutenant.
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Washington
Gilbert Leslie Kimball
DeQueen
Walter Grantham Burke
Little Rock
War Department
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Alex. H. Washburn
J. H. Jones
Informa
Lae-Salamaua
Arkansan
GI Joe
Strait of Messina
Ministry of Information
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Naples
Sinopoli
Melicucca
Solano
Ceramidio
Pellegrina
San Procopio
Aspromonte
Capua
Grazzanise
Stalino
Russia
Donets
Kiev
Ukraine
Konotop
Moscow
Olnovakha
Dnieper River
Slavyansk
Kramatorskaya
Stalino-Slavyansk
Makeevka
Liev
Novye Mlyny
Desna
Seim
Moscow War Bulletin
Bakhmach
White Russia
Bryansk
Bryansk-Kiev
Kremenchug
Dnieper
Red Army
Smolensk
Kharkov
Arkansans
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