State Tax Breakdowns Highlight Hempstead County Receipts
Our Daily Bread reports from Murray B. McLeod that Arkansas state special taxes brought $36 073 550 52 in the year ending June 30 1943 with a 2.28 percent collection cost. Gasoline tax receipts totaled 11 100 143 27 with 20 566 29 in turnback to Hempstead County for local roads. The gross receipts tax yielded 93 670 62 for Hempstead merchants, funding free textbooks 5 073 72 common school fund 57 070 68 and welfare 14 450 46. Staff Sergeant Rommel Young of Hope notes a Times-Picayune clipping noting a want ad for tight barrel sawyers and a joke about drinks on us.
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Murray B. McLeod
McLeod
State of
Arkansas
Hempstead
Hempstead County
Nazis Expect Invasion From Across Channel
Berlin dispatches say German experts anticipate a new Allied offensive soon with western France as the likely target. Italian resistance persists in Italy as German forces regain Brenner Pass and battles at Trieste and other cities continue. Hungarian talks with Bethlen officials signal pressure to shift away from the Axis amid Balkan instability. Bulgaria faces internal disorders and possible reluctance to aid Germany in Italy.
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Stockholm
Berlin
France
Balkans
Italy
Brenner Pass
Trieste
Bolzano
Verona
Cremona
Barma
Modena
Bologna
Montpe
Reggio Emilia
French Riviera
Adriatic Sea
Alps
Germany
Erwin Rommel
Ialy
Budapest
Nicholas Horthy
Stefan Bethlen
Bulgaria
Handkerchief Finds Cash Tied to Inheritance Law
In Taylorville two women found a handkerchief containing 430 dollars in a used couch at Homer Gilpin's furniture. Circuit Judge James G. Burnside ordered Gilpin to turn the money over to the administrator of the Lillie Chumley estate because the sofa had been purchased from that estate.
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Taylorville
Homer Gilpin
James G. Burnside
Gilpin
Lillie Chumley
Chumley
Keeping Up With Ration Coupons
Ration details headline a wartime update on stamp validity. Meat cheese and processed food stamps update with Book 2 red stamps and blue stamps through specified dates. Sugar and shoes stamps outline five pound canning allowances and October expirations while gasoline stamps cover regional gallon limits.
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Rocky Mountains
Midwest
West
Hempstead County War Bond Sales Reach 179737
On Friday the sale of 29737 dollars of War Bonds pushed Hempstead county's total to 179737, about half of the 381000 quota for the September drive. Postmaster Robert Wilson urged exchanging War Savings Stamps for War Bonds to count toward the county total and start interest accrual.
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Hempstead
C. C. Spragins
Robert Wilson
Gas Leaks After Tractor-Trailer Crash Near Salem Crossroads
In Salem Crossroads South Carolina a truck carrying 3,700 gallons of gasoline overturned in a cornfield. Residents dug through top soil to recover spilled gas and several hundred gallons were saved by collecting fuel in tubs, pots, and pitchers as gasoline drained into clay pits.
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Salem Crossroads
S.C
New Rainbow Group In Army Today
Alexandria Louisiana reports the first trainees at the Army air base forming the rainbow group. The unit includes men from 47 states plus the District of Columbia Hawaii and Canada, aiming to include a bomber man from Nevada to complete all states.
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New Rainbow Group
Army Today
Alexandria
Alexandria Army Air Base
Rainbow Infantry Division
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Canada
Orginal Rainbow Bunch
Union
Nevada
Stanford Lane Deliveries Show All Girl Week Then All Boy Week
In the previous two days at Stanford Lane hospital 19 babies were born and all were girls. In the following two days 22 babies were born and all were boys.
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San Francisco
Stanford Lane
Fall of Lae Falls Close. Allied Forces Press Inland
Allied communique reports the fall of Lae, New Guinea, is imminent as forces from the northeast and northwest close in. Australians push toward Malahang airfield while Americans and Australians advance from Narakapur and surrounding routes, with forward elements within ten miles of the enemy stronghold.
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Southwest Pacific
Lae
New Guinea
Huon Gulf
North Africa
Bus
Malahang
Markham
Owen Stanley Mountains
Narakapur
Some Counties Get More Tax Than Paid
A Revenue Department report shows Arkansas counties received more sales tax back as free textbooks, common schools, and welfare than they paid in during 1942 43. Fulton County paid in 1146 69 and received 29275 10. Washington County: collections 188166 23 turnback 97134 22 and welfare 25367 11. Jefferson County: collections 512725 95 turnback 11109 23 with 9541 95 for textbooks 112269 76 for schools and 44297 52 for welfare.
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Little Rock
Revenue Department
Arkansas
M. B. McLeod
Fulton County
Washington
Jefferson
If You Can't Get Clock Just Get Married
Sydney women stay awake to wake husbands for work amid alarm clock shortage. A NSW jeweler notes 25 000 clocks could sell immediately. his shop gets about 100 inquiries daily. Women rely on babies to cry or other methods to wake, as clock factories shift to war production.
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Sydney
New South Wales
America
Canada
Third War Bond Drive Calls Hempstead County Support
A Hempstead county notice states the Third War Loan quota is 381500 dollars starting September 9. It features a statement from Admiral E J King urging all Americans to buy more War Bonds to fund guns and ammunition for frontline troops.
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Hempstead
E. J. King
U. S
Senator Hattie Caraway Backs Draft of Fathers in War
Washington reports the Arkansas senator and the only woman in the Senate, Mrs. Hattie Caraway, argues that the military should draft fathers if needed. She cites two of her own sons serving and says her Arkansas constituents oppose restricting pre Pearl Harbor father draft.
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Washington
Hattie Caraway
D-Ark
Congress
Army
Navy
U. S. Senate
Arkansas
Capitol Hill Reads Like a College Camp
Washington reports Capitol Hill resembles a college campus as lawmakers return from wartime leave. Renovations include cleaning by young women, refreshed capitol corridors, a renovated Senate building cafe, and reconditioned subway cars for senators. Midwest members voice OPA criticisms and postwar policy concerns.
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Cliff Sandahl
Washington
Capitol Hill
Congress
Capitol
Congressional
Senate
Capitol Building
Senate Chamber
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Reason Enough Dallas Applicant Claims Gasoline
An applicant for supplemental gasoline in Dallas Texas offered the reason that the fuel was needed "To haul my wife to work." The remark was cited as the stated motive for the request.
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Dallas
Tex
Russians Imperil German Defense Front in Ukraine Drive
Soviet forces smashed along a 400 mile front from the Sea of Azov to Bryansk driving back retreating German legions. Mariupol Chaplino and other targets fell as Red Army units, naval forces, and airborne troops pressed advances. Stalin praised commanders Malinovsky Tolbukhin for Stalino gains.
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Moscow
Sea of Azov
Bryansk
Ukraine
Red Army
Dnieper
Crimean
Mariupol
Chaplino
Dniepropetrovsk
Volnovakha
Stalino-Mariupol
Barvenkovo
Stalino
Kharkov
Zaporozhe
Desna River
Novgorod Seversky
Gomel
Kiev
Berlin
Joseph Stalin
Rodiony Malinovsky
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Russians Claim New Work on Lenningrad Front
London reports a German broadcast saying the Red Army launched a large landing at Novorossisk near the Caucasus while fighting continued to wipe out the assault. Mariupol has fallen to the Russians who announce a rapid southern advance. A new northern push may be planned around Leningrad with increased shock troop activity east of the city.
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London
Red Army
Novorossisk
Caucasus
Mariupol
Sea of Azov
Leningrad
Arkansas Sour Gas Production Down
El Dorado reports July sour gas production fell by 2,660,000 cubic feet from June to 123,914,000 cubic feet daily. Oil and condensate output rose slightly, with 42 pools averaging 76,535 barrels per day, while northern Arkansas gas fields produced 10,422,000 cubic feet daily versus 11,410,000 in June.
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el Dorado
Arkansas
Oil and Gas Commission
South Arkansas
North Central Arkansas
Battleships Reach Malta as Italian Navy Sinks One Off Corsica
Allied reports confirm Italian naval units reached Malta including two battleships, 11 cruisers and eight destroyers under Allied guard. A single Italian battleship was sunk in a half hour strike off Corsica by German bombers, while Roma reportedly sought sanctuary at Palma de Mallorca. An RAF observer described dramatic damage and evasive action as the battle unfolded.
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Roma
Palma de Mallorca
Balearics
Corsica
North Africa
Malta
Associated Press
Andrea Doria
Giulio Cesare
Italy
Strait of Bonifacio
H. Law- Wright
South Ash Bowden
Cheshire
Law-Wright
Algiers Spezia
la Spezia
Low Temperature of 52 Degrees Here
Experiment Station records show a low of 52 degrees and a 24 hour high of 86. Cool weather since September 1 followed the driest August in 40 years and two months of sweltering temperatures.
Word sybarite traces to ancient Sybaris empire
The term sybarite derives from the Greek city Sybaris famed around 700 B C for wealth and splendor. The origin highlights how the word evolved to describe luxurious living associated with the ancient Greek culture and prosperity.
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Sybarite
Sybaris
B. C
Italian Leaders Flee to Sicily Amid Rome Fighting
Berlin radio quoted foreign office spokesmen saying King Vittorio Emanuele III and Premier Marshal Badoglio along with Crown Prince Umberto fled to Sicily. A Chiasso dispatch claimed Badoglio was killed on Sep 9. Reports also note Italian fleet units reaching Palma de Mallorca and heavy Allied raids causing hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries in Paris and Boulogne.
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London
Foreign Office
Viorio Emanuele
Piero Badoglio
Umbero
Sicily
Bern
Chiasso
Swizerland
Lugano
Libra Sampa
Rome
Berlin
Paris
Boulogne
Associated Press
Quake in Japan Kills or Injures 1400 at Tottori
Domei news says 1400 people killed or seriously injured in Tottori after Japan’s strongest quake in a decade. Shocks were felt in Kobe Osaka and Hiroshima as rescue parties search collapsed houses in Tottori city, seismic center at Tottori prefecture.
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New York
Domei
Tokyo
Tottori
Japan
London
NBC
Office of War Information
Inaba
Tottori Prefecture
Advance Agent For Blind Workers
Baton Rouge report details John H. McAulay field representative for the U S Office of Education leading blind workers to war production roles. He demonstrates rapid, accurate operation of drill presses lathes and other machines to convince skeptics of blind workers value in plants. He estimates 400 of Louisiana's 800 blind can fill private employment with the rest in sheltered workshops.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
John H. McAulay
McAulay
U. S. Office of Education
Hunters plead guilty to out of season pheasant hunting
U S Game Agent Robert Bach cited two Boise men for illegal hunting after a bird dog produced two dead pheasants. The men admitted guilt to unlawfully shooting pheasants out of season.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S
Robert Bach
Bach
Yanks Enlarge Salerno Bridgehead in Naples Area
Allied forces seized Salerno and pushed back German counterattacks to deepen the Naples wedge. Fifth Army planes bombed reinforcements, naval forces moved battleships to Malta, and a battleship was sunk off Corsica. British and American units reported steady progress as Taranto and Ventotene operations continued.
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Salerno
Italy
Naples
Fifth Army
U. S
Eighth Army
Gulf of Squillace
Gulf of
Sant’ Eufemia
NBC
Merrill Mueller
Taranto
Radio France
Algiers
Ventotene
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Alex. H. Washburn
Rommel Young
Hope
Keesler Field
Mississippi
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Ark
Bulletins
Barcelona
Spain
Baleric Islands
Yanks
Edward Kennedy
U.S
Sorrento
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