Wartime duty over pacifism from judge Rutherford era
A newspaper column argues against pacifist preaching during wartime. It contrasts Witnesses and Quakers, notes Rutherford’s death, and urges citizens to defend the nation, citing Biblical passages and the duty to support war efforts. It frames noncooperation as harmful to national safety and unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Oregon
Judge Rutherford
America
Rutherford
Quakers
Friends
Quaker of Friends
Republic
Higher Parity Prices Sought by Farm Bloc
Washington notes a farm bloc pressing for a higher parity base for agricultural prices as Senate split over a 4.6 percent upward revision. Democratic leaders remain confident they can defeat the measure though some votes may decide the outcome. The House planned general debate with amendments. The bill ties parity to price ceilings and gov ernment loans, with debates over labor cost adjustments and wartime needs influencing the pace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jack Bell
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Roosevelt
Hatch
DNM
Thomas
D-Okla
Senlor Brown
D-Midh
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Overton
D-La
100 Cotton Pickers Seek Championship
Blytheville hosts a national cotton picking contest with 190 entrants from nine states including past champions Moris Ware and Harold Mason. The event offers 2000 dollars in prizes, with favorites Ware of Mississipp i and Mason of Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blytheville
Arkansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Missisippi
Illinois
Alahoma
Alabama
Kentucky
Louisiana
Moris Ware
Ruleville
Miss
Harold Mason
Sensaih
Memphis
Maid of Colton
Camille Anderson
Jap Evacuees Aid Harvest in West States
A Washington dispatch reports that several thousand Japanese evacuees from the Pacific Coast will be moved to relocation camps in Arkansas and temporarily sent to sugar beet fields in Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and Montana to assist harvest. E B Whitaker regional WRA director confirms Transport costs to fields paid by growers and up to 6000 evacuees may work in beets while about 15000 move to Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Reck
Pacific Coast
Arkansas
Washington
Dillon S. Meyer
WRA
Bond Interest Paid on Arkansas Highway Debt
Little Rock September 22 The third interest installment on Arkansas 136,330,000 bonded highway debt was paid Monday by Treasurer Burl Page. The payment was the first payment of municipal will be due next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
Burl Page
Merchant Ships Lost in the Mediterranean
The Navy reports two U S merchant ships were lost in August near Malta during a Mallia bound convoy attack by Axis forces. One vessel was torpedoed by a motor torpedo boat and sank after four days of combat. the other was torpedoed, scuttled by its crew, and had 107 aboard. Survivors were rescued by British warships and returned to the United States via England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
United States
Mediterranean Sea
Eagle
London
England
Gibraltar
Hugle
Ohio
Heraig
Malta
Uja
Maltu
Re-Examining 4-F Registrants Under Liberalized Standards
Little Rock reports selective service boards are continually reclassifying 4-F registrants to potential 1-B status as literacy and other disqualifications are reviewed. About 34,000 of Arkansas's 400,000 registrants are 4-F. Local boards reclassify 1-B at 25 percent monthly. the process aims to finish by December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Selective Service
Arkansas
Wage Ceiling Still Needed Says O Neal
Hempstead County Farm Bureau president T A Cornelius received a telegram from Edward A Neal of the American Farm Bureau urging that new price control bills set wage ceilings at parity with farm prices, raise farm price support to par, and require parity-adjusted labor costs, with immediate telegrams to congressmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Cornelius
Hempstead County
Waldo Prasier
Arkansas Farm Bureau
Five Killed in Crash of Army Medium Bomber
Five men died when an Army medium bomber collided with an Eastern Air Lines freighter at Miami's 30th Street airport. The EAL plane was on the ground and the bomber about to take off when the crash and explosion destroyed both aircraft. One survivor remained in Jackson Memorial hospital in serious condition from burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Wla
30Th Street
Eastern Air Lines
EAL
Rmng
Paul Waterman
First Bomber Command
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Hope Chamber Sends Watermelon to Le Bonheur Show
The Hope Chamber of Commerce sent a 125 pound watermelon to the Le Bonheur Horse Show in Memphis to be auctioned for Army and Navy Relief. It sold for 225 dollars, funds going to relief, then sent to Crippled Children's Hospital. An eye witness from Hope noted the event and remarked on the town’s big spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Memphis
le Bonheur
Army & Navy Relief
Chamber of Commerce
Terrell Cornelius
Andy Devine
Hollywood
Themy & Navy Relief
Crippled Children's Hospital
Herbert Wren
John Watts
Texarkana
Old Hope
Hilburn Graves
Hope High
Hr Graves
Hope Star
Ollows
Hope
LeBonheur Army & Navy Relief Fund
Radio Fame
Andy
Hope High School
Arkansas
Clyde L. Patto
Sam
Dr. Lile
Dig
Knox Sees Japan Likely to Regain Solomon Islands
Secretary Knox said it was a safe assumption that Japan would launch major new efforts to reconquer the Solomon Islands. He warned against overconfidence and noted reports of heavy naval action. Knox spoke after Kansas City Legion meeting and expressed pride in wartime press sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Knox
Solomon Islands
American Legion
Kansas City
Tack Singer
International News Service
Pacific Fleet
Arkansas departments beat savings targets by $750000
State departments that aimed to cut $300000 in spring economies actually reduced expenditures by more than $750000, Comptroller M B McLeod reported. Education and textbook commission led gains, while nine of 45 departments met none of their quotas. Major savings came from Game and Fish Commission Health Department State Police and Welfare Department, with totals ranging into tens of thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
M. B. McLeod
Education Department and Textbook Commission
McLeod
Education Department
Textbook Commission
Library Commission
Negro Boys Industrial School
Game and Fish Commission
Health Department
Military Department
State Police
Revenue Department
Welfare Department
Sugar allotments rise after Oct 1 under OPA order
The Office of Price Administration announces civilians will gain access to sugar in items like soft drinks while industry may shift production to civilian use and army pools. Supplemental military quotas will be issued by exchange officers at army camps with price ceiling changes to be managed by the state office instead of Dallas starting after October 1 as stated by State Director Robert F. Hall to decentralize administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock
Office of Price Administration
Dallas
OPA
Revenue official seeks fertilizer samples fee in Arkansas
Revenue Commissioner Joe Hardin asked the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to submit samples of all fertilizer shipped into Arkansas. He said AAA should pay the 12 12 cents per lea inspection fee and called the tax unfair to some distributors while others go tax free. The Coastal Command of the SAF defended Allied shipping, having flown over 50,000 miles during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AAA
Little Rock
Revenue
Joe Hardin
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Arkansas
Hardin
Lea
SAF
Italy Dissatisfaction Flagged Behind Laval Attack
In Bern and Geneva observers interpret a semi official Italian article in Belatoine Internationale as signaling Italy’s growing discontent with Axis gains and possible limits on rewards from participation. It suggests Laval cooperates with Germany while seeking Allied support, and notes Petain’s aging role and shifts in French authority as tensions rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Laval
Thomas F. Hawkins
Bern
Switzerland
France
Axis
Belatoine Internationale
Ihgush
Haly
Pierre Laval
Hatian
Belatoine
United Nations
Petain
Nice
Corsica
Bouffet
Rouen
Seine
Paris
Amnesia Victim Forges New Bond With Unknown Husband
Hollywood report recalls Glory Weller Miller, once Glory Beck, who woke in a motor hotel with amnesia after four years and learned she was married to Henry Miller. Her first husband H Pierce Weller had died in 1941. Diary entries hint at Las Vegas marriage. Police connected her to Miller. she did not recall him or their union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Binghamton
N. Y
Alost
Glory Weller Miller
Henry Miller
Miller
Las Vegas
Alascadero
Calif
H. Pierce Weller
Motor Hotel
Pearl Harbor
Ierviewers
Mr. Miller
Henry
Lcense
Justice of the Peace
Weller
Glory Beck
Binghamton Press
Mr. Weller
Auto Court
Atacadera Chamber of Commerce
Motor Court
J E Ward Heads Industrial Scrap Drive in Southwest Arkansas
J Edwin Ward named salvage chairman for eight counties Clark Little River Sevier Howard Pike Hempstead Lafayette and Nevada to lead an industrial scrap collection effort. Over 200000 pounds reported with more to come as county chairmen organize monthly plant scrap drives and a Hope meeting set for October to formalize plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas
J. Edwin Ward
Clark
Little River
Sevier
Howard
Pike
Hempstead
Lafayette
Nevada
Ward
Hope
Dierks Man Arrested by Army in Ireland
Two United States soldiers Herbert Jacobs 20 of Waynesburg Kentucky and Embra H Farley 26 of Dierks Arkansas were held under military detention in Northern Ireland pending an investigation into the death of saloonkeeper Edward Clenaghan 80 near Belfast after a disturbance at his saloon. The inquest began today and no charges have been filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Northern Ireland
Herbert Jacobs
Waynesburg
Embra H. Farley
Dierks
Arkansas
Edward Clenaghan
Belfast
Arkansas Boys Get Naval Promotions
Washington announces rapid temporary promotions for 156 naval aviators under President Roosevelt policy. The group includes 138 regular navy officers and 12 reserves, with names such as Glenn M. Cox of Lawrence Kansas, Richard M. Oliver of Van Buren Ark, Bennett W. Wright of Pine Bluff Ark, and James E. Leeper of Dermott Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Glenn M. Cox
Larence
Richard M. Oliver
van Buren
Ark
Bennett W. Wright
Pine Bluff
James E. Leeper
Dermott
Twenty-Five Canadians Drowned in Midland Launch Sinking
In Midland Ontario on Georgian Bay Beausoleil Island the launch carrying 41 Midland Machine and Foundry Company employees sank after a picnic outing. Twenty five men perished with sixteen saved. Bert Corbeau foreman and owner of the boat died in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midland
Beausoleil Island
Georgia
Midland Machine and Foundry Company
Bert Corbeau
Toronto
Georgian Bay
Lake Huron
Stalingrad Battle Rages On Twenty Ninth Day
Moscow dispatch reports stubborn defense by Red Army amid continued German pressure in Stalingrad. Newsreel images show civilians evacuated as fighting concentrates in central districts and near river crossings. Soviet and German sources claim both sides inflicted heavy losses while the Volga city remains fiercely contested and besieged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmon
Wélde World Features
Moscow
Stalingrad
Lef
Volga
Red Stra Re
Russi
Russa
Dng
Red Star
Ba Banks
Red Army
Louis Information Bureau
Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
Russian High Command
Opifense
Serted
Pravda
Peraps
Frankfurter Zeitung
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Alex. H. Washburn
West States
Mediterranean
O'Neal
Big Boy
Ambassador Hotel
Tenu
Solomons
J. E. Ward
Ireland
Berlin
National & Jung
Ankara
Turkey
Rumania
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Priso
Batta
Izvestia
Central Caucasus
Mozdok
Grozny
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