The Crisis in Hope Housing A H WASHBURN
Our Daily Bread editor laments Hope Arkansas housing shortage during the Southwestern Proving Ground boom. He warns delay risks workforce displacement as nearby towns gain new homes while Hope lacks vacant houses and demolition targets. The piece calls for urgent action and contrasts Hope's slow growth with other cities.
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Hope
Southwestern
Proving Ground
Front Washington
Special Rubber Committee
Southwestern Proving Ground
SPG
Arkansas
Churchill reviews India crisis and Cripps plan in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill spoke on India amid turbulent events of the last two months and the international war effort. He defended government policy, urged caution toward Congress and Gandhi, and noted India’s wartime enlistment while signaling a possible full debate if a vote were arranged. The review continued on page two.
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Ndan
Churchill
Japan
all-India Congress Party
Cause of Commons
India
United Nations
Jehil
House
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Congress
Aanks
Emanuel Shin
Shurehill
de Kation
Dagmitianis
Safford Cripps
Britain
Cripps
Min- Churchill
Students Face Call to Action Amid War Mobilization
President Stimson announced a broad call to active duty affecting college students and reserve components. He noted many students could be pressed into service as war demands rise, with arrangements to maximize education continuation where possible and reserve forces called to active duty by year end.
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Alene Farm
National Guard
United States
Congress
War Factories Use U.S. Steel
Washington reports that over 75 percent of the nation’s 5.4 million tons of monthly steel goes to direct war use. Four-fifths are delivered on priority ratings. Production exceeds Axis output. current United Nations demand is rising from 6 to 9 million tons monthly.
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Washington
War Production Board
David F. Austin
WPB
Iron and Steel Branch
WPA
United States
Maritime Commission
Europe
United Nations
Heavy Two Day Rain Damages Cotton Around Hempstead
University of Arkansas Experiment Station recorded 3.8 inches of rainfall over two days in Hempstead County. Officials say the downpour significantly damaged local cotton crops and affected farming in the area.
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Hempstead
University of Arkansas Experiment Station
Roosevelt urges strict rubber controls to limit civilian cars
President Roosevelt endorsed a far reaching plan from a special rubber committee to curb civilian motoring and expand synthetic rubber. The report calls for gasoline rationing, tire inspections, and limits on driving to conserve rubber for war needs. The panel warned of military and civilian collapse if actions are delayed and outlined seven synthetic rubber programs to secure supplies through 1944 and beyond.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Thi
Synthetec
Aneannuel
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
James B. Conant
Harvard University
Karl IF. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Commmitittee
Ludz
Conunittes
Japs Move Nearer Port Moresby As Allies Start Drive on Gizo Island
Allied and Japanese forces clash in New Guinea as Japanese troops push toward Port Moresby through Owen Stanley ranges while Australian and American units press advances in the Solomons. U S air forces strike Gizo island as Guadalcanal gains secure, signaling a new phase of Pacific fighting.
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Port Moresby
Gizo Island
MacArthur
Australia
Owen Stanley
New Guinea
Por Moresby
Malaya
Kokoda
Nio
S. F. Rowell
United States
Washington
Solomons Islands
Guadalcahal
Navy Department
Firs
Navy
Salomons
Solomons
Gizo
Pacific Islands
Guadalcanal - Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Kieta
Bougainville Island
Buka
Ginners Must Post Prices Under New Price Controls
Arkansas ginners must file price statements with the Dallas OPA regional office by September 19 to comply with new Washington price controls. Ginners must post ceiling and actual selling prices for ginning, bagging, and jutes at the gin. Reductions in service quality or seed return percentages are treated as price increases and violate the Price Control Act. The OPA regulates cotton ginning separately from general service industries.
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Arkansas
OPA
Dallas
Washington
Dorsey McRae
Hempstead County
McRae
Office of Price Administration
Texas
Oklahoma
Food Stamps Aid Farmers in Hempstead County
J Frank Fravey area supervisor reports the Food Stamp Program aided Hempstead County farmers and underprivileged families. Over 131252.50 in blue stamps issued since the program began. May 1 194E Enrolled 7 21 1942 notes farm markets created by the program and explains increased consumer use to stabilize prices.
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Hempstead
J. Frank Fravey
el Dorado
Ark
Javiautturet Marketing
Mr. Franey
Cleo Grimes Dies Today at Little Rock Hospital
Miss Cleo Grimes daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J Grimes of Prescott route died in a Little Rock hospital early today. She was born near Prescott and had been employed in Little Rock. Survived by her parents two sisters and four brothers. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Dominion of Canada produced $5 078 00 pounds of grapes during
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Cleo Grimes
Flashes of Life From The Associated Press
A jittery montage shows varied life notes from cities including Eiberton Topeka San Jose and Oklahoma City. Reports include a superintendent recalling a near fatal dream about a bicycle, a police arrest for intoxication with whiskey found, a misrouted hearse license issue, and a draft board mix up leading a man to join the Navy after being told he would become an Army private.
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Associated Press
Eiberton
C.H. Joiner
Owshoma City
Williams G. Mackey
Navy
British Start New Drive on Madagascar
British forces began a general offensive on the west coast of Madagascar at dawn attacking Lambanja Majunga and Morondava with 18 warships and air power. Shelling and inland bombing followed as France’s defenders claim unequal conditions, while Washington confirms U S approval of further British operations on the island to prevent Axis penetration and safeguard UN interests.
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Vichy
Madagascar
Lambanja
Majunga
Morondaya
Indian Ocean
Diego Suarez
Morondava
Ambanja
Nnot
Tananarive
de Gaullis
France
U. S
Washington
Great Britain
United States
United Nations
Africa
Shipyards to Employ Women in War Time Drive
Women shipyard workers will be employed immediately at a North Bay yard after the War Manpower Commission backed their role in ship construction. WMC regional director William Hopkins conferred with union leaders amid the AFL International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders resistance to admitting women. The union vowed cooperation and authority to issue work permits while considering a wartime membership policy. the national referendum showed 63 percent in favor but low participation.
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San Francisco
AFL International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Ion Shipbuilders
War Manpower Commission
North Bay
William Hopkins
WMC
Narine
Sauselito
Ed Rainbow
Hopkins
International
Kansas City
Union
J. A. Franklin
Forced Saving Is Needed Says Treasury
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau argued the wartime spending requires forced savings through a spending tax, noting the Senate finance committee rejected it. He warned the government will spend about 40,000,000,000 this fiscal year and would push for similar legislation if not included in the tax bill, else return to Congress next year.
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Washington
the Treasury
Morgenthau
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Surtax Rates Are Changed by Senate Finance Panel
The Senate Finance committee readjusted individual surtax brackets, lowering rates in the lower ranges and raising them in the higher, with Treasury estimating a $39 million annual revenue increase. The plan shifts tax burden toward individuals, raising their total to about $10.46 billion while corporations would pay roughly $9.41 billion under the tentative rates.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Tne House
Senate
House
Reds Keep Up Aerial Raids Across Europe
London reports Soviet air force intensified nuisance raids on eastern Germany and Budapest amid weather gaps in RAF operations. Berlin and Budapest radios cut out during the night as tensions rise from the ongoing Whipsaw air offensive. Berlin claimed raids avoided central Berlin. Hungary faced fires from prior bombardments. No German activity over Britain. authorities say nothing to report.
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London
Europe
Germany
Budanest
Berlin
Greater
DNB
Budapest
Paris
Czecho - Slovakia
Hungary
Britain
Ministries of Air and Home Security
Cold Rains Fall Over Stalingrad Pressure Builds
European front dispatches report heavy rains hampering German assaults on Stalingrad while Soviet defense stiffens and claims 1,095,000 Axis troops broken since May. Front lines describe renewed bayonet fighting, tank casualties, and German efforts to mount a decisive push as Soviet forces hold firm west of the city.
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Europe
Henry CG
Cassidy
Moscow
Stalingrad
Novorossisk
Red Army
Adolf Hitler
Fedor
Re Star
Izvestia
Roger C. Greene
Associated Press
Berlin
Great Volga
Feder von
Bock
Theii
Nazi
Caucasus
Central Caucasus
Stasigrad
Staligrad
Voneck
Stalinsgrad
Oakskirts
Black Sea
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U.S. Steel
Pacific
Dominion of Canada
Topeka
Kas
Dave Hummer
Bill Miller
San Jose
Calif
Santage
Dan’ Grey
GerTman
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