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The Daily World from Helena, Arkansas • 1

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The Daily Worldi
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Helena, Arkansas
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served nr ninth year No 19J 2 i AZ1S CLAIM GATEWAY TO MOSCOW IS OPEN lAIRPORT WORK Moscow Claims Red WILL START A A Cull REDS INSPECT A DOWNED NAZI PLANE IMMEDIATELY VAN DEVERE HERE id OU ARLES PUTS P1 in SAY EX (Continued on Page 3) 3 designed prinelpally defenser nghTh5eri'ah nJ i TO BRITISH BOMB YESTERDAY i METEOROLOGICAL REPORT me eded IM Ws ICO II A I BRITAIN THIS YEAR VE0 EB This Time Girls Yoo Hoo Soldier PRESIDENT IS WORKING ON NEW MESSAGE APL IN OER TO BUILD NEW POWER PLANT Teacher Retirement Secretary Resigns hundreds of Nazi planes have been shot down the fierce fighting on the Eastern front binaries however official German iU German planes 'ed ith nth Insi Eft dta MILITARY OBSERVERS SOVIET WAR GIVES SOME RESPITE ft 3 JuolH del NGl and I at lo' CONTRACT OR BUILDINGS IS LET BY AKRON AIR WAYS INC Russian soldiers inspect wreckage of a German i plane brought down behind the battle lines on Soviet territory Soviet communiques report i ARKANSAS IRM OERS OPERATE GOVERNMENT PLANT units and aircraft and naval units destructively convoys in the Baltic TENTATIVE PROGRAM OR CURTAILING PRODUCTIONREACHED' Washington July 19 (API President Roosevelt dictated to day a tentative draft of his mes sage to Congress recommending that the service period of draf tees national guaidsmen and ffi serves be prolonged'and set aside the entire week end for the completion of the communica tion Congress will receive it on Tuesday or later scarcely 10 days before the August 1 deadline be yond which Gen George Mar shall the army chief Of staff has said enactment of legisla tion could not be postponed with safety Whatr hne of approach the president would take was of course" a closely 'guarded secret but some were disposed to think that Jie might urge the declara tion of a state of national emer gency by Congress as a basis for retaining the men in the army after the year for which they were inducted originally WILL ASK CONGRESS TO TEND SERVICE PERIOD IN ARMY As a result Adolf Hitler prob ably has decided to def er any at tempt to invade Britain next year the foreign informant said It is highly improbable he said that Germany had moved sthe best of her troops to the Eastern front and that the mere problem of reassembling4thenv into "in vasion armies In the west would take amlnimum ofTsix even "under the favorable conditions Portland Oregon July Lt Col A Hawkins 'heard a chorus of feminine yoo hoos while playing golf at the Broadmoor course yesterday The executive of the Oregon Military district was clad shorts Moscow July 20 Great continuing battles in the Polotskneyel and Smo lensk sectors were reported by the Soviet Information Bureau today implying that the Ger man eastward thrust had been held up since these were areas in which fighting had been re ported in progress Saturday Both North and South of this central front zone defending Moscow however fresh activity was announced ighting flames again in the region of Pskov 160 miles south west of Leingrad and at Novo grad Volynski Ukrainian city far to the south which has long been a scene of fighting in the war now entering its fifth week The Sunday communique re ported no important changes on other sectors of the 2000 mile front but said the Soviet air force destroyed German mo torized air and raided sea Recapture of two war torn cities behid the German lines was reported by a Russian mili tary newspaper In the fighting of the central zone where a German vanguard was reported at Smoenlsk tre mendous casualties were noted on both sides a Saturday communique our areas of heavy engage ments were reported by the Soviet Information Bureau in a 260 mile zone of the 2090 mile front ancj fighting in other sec WEST HELENA (ARKANSAS) SUNDAY JULY 20 1941 Memphis Architect Designs Building Bluff City Con struction irm Will Do Work for lying School Operators Ready to Start When Proper ty Available was at fault in the accident against accidents with Edwin L1 Burks Phone or West Little Rock July Gilbert Grant of Dover resigned today as Executive of the Arkansas Teachers Retire ment system a position he has held since Septembe 16 1939 Informed state house sources said Charles Allen a member of the board and former super visor of Little Rock secondary schools was slated for election to succeed Grant ail' ffird James A Burnett Observer "Twenty four hours ending at 7 a Saturday: River gauge 18 1 ft station ary cloudy Rainfall 043 Inch South wind Temperatures: Maximum 92 manent operation after mlnumum 80 It Washington July An Arkansas Power and Light Company official announced to day his firm and cooperatingofficials had offered the Office of Production Management 65 OOO killowatt of power by next April 1 for operation of a 100 000000 pound aluminum plant the government will build Arkansas Lynch executive vice president of the A said offer was contained in a proosal submitted the OPM to furnishWie power and that it supplemented two previous pro osals on the same subject He explained the new plan provid ed: Delivery of 65000 killowatts temporary emergency power to the aluminum plant by April 1 1942 at 75 mills per killowatt hour Installation by the Arkansas Poweri an Light Company of a 50000 killowatt steam electric generating system in the Soutlj Arkansas sour gas field in ad dition to the 30000 killowatt sta tion it already has announced and installation by the Louis iana Power and Light Confpany of a 25000 kilowatt station Designing construction and operation without profit of the kilowatt steam electric istcam generating station plans to build atthe aluminum plant for its per J'1 TWO WOMEN PRODUCTIONO INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT 4 London Jtily 19'(AP) A reli able foreigrf source said tonight that private reports from the 'continent indicated the Ger mans had thrown so much of their air and land power into the Russian campaign that it appear ed unlikely that they could at tempt to invade Britain before next year These reports state that the Germans still have 750000 troops in Western Europe but that only about 200000 are front line fight ing men the remainder 'being gariyson or occupation troops German air strength in was pictured as considerable but Kaycee Council To Meet Monday Night 1 Helena 'jouncil Knights cf Columbus will hold its regu lar semi monthly meeting to morrow night at 7:30 at the Catholic Club All are especially urged to attend This will be the first regular meeting since the new officers on July 7th a Australian Troop Casualties Light HELENA MAN PLANS TO INIT I UTE REERENDUM ON CONSOLIDATION I MISTERS WIB ENT HOME i ArnriATED PRES8 rur UNITED Kftaa tW'K ft S'? 5 it Insure against accidents with Edwin L' Burks' Phone 68 or West 141V IGHTERS ACCOMPANYING BQMBERS DOWN OUR 1 PLANES" London uly 197 (UP)r The air ministry reported tonight Work on construction of Ad ministration buildings ahngars barracks and other necessary buildings at Helena Aero Tech Army pilot training schol here will start as soon as land is available A Van DeVere President of Akron Airways Inc who will operate the school said here yesterday Mr Van DeVere said that Walk Jones Jr of Memphis would be architect for the fly ing school of colonial design The facilities at the local field will be somewhat larger than those at Pine Bluff Mg Van DeVere said but will be similar to those at Pine Bluff Contracts for construction of the buildings have been let to Wesley Construction Company of Memphis the same firm that constructed the Pine Bluff school cannot start work on "foundations for the building until the cotton is cleared off the land and contour surveys made However we are so pressed for time that we will start our work the very minute the land is he said The buildings are expected to cost several 'hundred thousand dollars riday it was announced in Washington that the Recon struction inance Corporation had agreed to participate to the extent of ISOOOO in a $200000 loan to be made by the Union Planters National Bank and Trust Compay of Memphis to Aero Tech Members of the Twin City announced yesterday that Henry Smiley negro: hadsold' his property to the Commission for the Airport Site and1 that a deed was now being prepared A condemna tion had been filed in Circuit Court Thursday asking that the bes condemned and that the courWix a fair price Tor the larid and assess damages to crops now growing on same yesterday after Smiley agreed (Continued on Page 3) New Jap Cabinet Expected To Move i chuEjklriguinriUR" foreign office spokesman said to day that Japanese Premier Prince umimaro Konoye had fornied a bird cabinet The phrase Japanese and means a calm surface concealing grfeat activity underneath' The spokesman said that de gpite the conservative appearance of the new cabinetJapan would be certain to move either north ward or southward Jn'the near future the bld cabinet was attributed to and political chaos Japan caused by four years of war with ScQuts Return if rom Hardy CanipJ Approximately 70S Phillipa County Boy Scouts 5 whot have been attending ream? at Kia Klma near Har dy returned home last night The boys report' one of the most successful camps ever at tended ARKANSA9S ORECAST (Bv the Associated Press) Partly cloudy with widelyscattered thundershowers SunT "daOnd 'Monday' i smashed living attacks ana it tanks set be iv embankment" A ilcr nurpose of the Ger idcr ip military com rs remains the de of largest possible Ivf Russian 'tfrrtiy orce They attached ace to gettihg to p'res than to theoft and mopplng up Red army divisions jble 'i vas enlarged by commentary Am command listed to July 10th at sues 4i6 ooo prisoners 4 Uiri 761J tanks benv declared that on sectors of the Baltic to fca funt German ymlll fryers tr ported the Rus ps last reserved Ltato action ion in Red army rinks' td Nazi ijnd' 8" Quoted as telling of traction of aerialrail hay and wire services the Luftwaffe i)l'int Germans Said veie so uncertain jt oimeir own ana Iprci a thiit one Soviet' started firing onan AUTOS OTHER ITEMSCUT Auto Collides' With Biis Last Night Johnnie Kale '7 West Helena negro was by' police late Tsist' night 4he result of an automoblleibus' whjdl the corner of Perry and Columbia "sST Missouri Pacific' night bus coming into? Helena had stopped oh'Werry? just 'op the westside to'dls charge Aa passenger? officers saidpwhen Columbia Turnedihto Perry and struck the "No one4' was injured "officers j'V Bolivia Am lllvmn a stair nt flow I recl the Gertnan! nilnis leawiK cuuntrv nnTnrn a 10 sur persons eall azl Putsch" 8oveinmBn4i Said ct st teeth 1 0 2 lnk two'actions a declaration WminieA Qalat 106 Mvt'inroj it 9 7 Persona nonnaMb nct mting this iMvh to get jins 1 Against Russian Com innu 11 mc an iin IllllIlK dllUii vzl WELCH WINS Spokane Wash' July (AP)L Wllllam Welch' of HOUS' ton rallied on the final 18 today to win the National Public ILnks Scientists claim' there are at Amateur champioship with a least 10000 earthquakes' a year ad 5 victory over Jack Kern? of one every hour Virtually all Denver? of them are minor disturbance MRS EUGENE BADINELLI AND DAUGHTER HURT SERIOUSLY City Treasurer Mrs' Thigene Badinelll and her daughter Mrs William Erwin' are: in the Helena Hospital from serious injuries sustained in an auto truck collsion on the Hel ena West Helena Highway shortly before 2 yester day afternoon? Mrs Badinelll sustaihed a broken left (leg above the knee and lecerations about the eyes Mrs Erwin "was suffering from a brain concussion and lacera tions Both remained uncon scious for several hours foilox? ing the accident Mrs Badinelll had' regained consciousness last 1 Ger Ijiht that the had the thrust Of a i past Smolensk the advantage 1 at a time to be high bombers hit and mayhave sunk four German ships totalling 22000 tons off the Dutch coast ighters escorting the bomb ers in the Dunkirk 'attack were said 'to have' shot dovyn four German Messerschmitts Three British bombers and two fishters were missing in the attacks ison 1 Dunkirk and the Dutch coast shipping In the attack on shipping one ship was said to have explod ed and the other three were set afire a Hot Springs July John Quarles of Helena for mer State senator said here to day that he other inter ested would ef soon to Initiate a referen dum qp a plan(to consolidate the 76 counties into less than district and to merge or a number of state de partments and agencies Quarles said that the proposed reorganization would the taxpayers from three to four mniioif dollars annually" In sal arles of officials and expenses of thqjr department He sald afglQup of attorneys business men and educators representing every part of the whose names he did not rtrl WAHt' IntrtARlPrl ill the Dianol axs thn 31 UtblUtu Consolidating pounties would: Abolish the state Comptroller office and place Its functions in the State office Repl ape with one board the boards that now supervise state educatiohar tnstttutiotts i Abolish file state Revenue De partment by having one collec tor ineach county collect all taxes state as weU as countyS? Merge ties of Circuit 4 and' Chancellors by consolidat ing districts is at the Army and Navy General Hospital here for a rest? CampjiSn SpigrcQn London? July 20 (Sunday) Minuter Winston Chur chill'today addressed a special countries of Europe nowbeing organized uqder'the bannerol Britain mysterious army The message wa broadcast to thoccunied countries by oneLV4 the British 1009m" who has car tied word the occu pied? regions 'the dly spreading for Victory drive cause will WnrnnAf "will be liberated message said "as long as you continue to refuse all laboration 'twlth "the invader sign Is a symbol of the "unconquerable will of the occupied territories and' ar por tent of" the fate awaiting A1 Sydney Australia July 19 (UP) Army Minister Percy Claude Spender announced today that Australian troops which report edly carried the brunt pf the al lied attack suffered only 1682 casualties in the Syrian cam paign Spender said that until July 16 jl7 officers and 1565 men had kaan Vanaf'nrl WVVAS Acpuiucu tklllUU W17UHUCU that heavyiBritlsh bombers at missing or 'taken prisoner These tacked the "docks' j'at'tDunkifk included 25 officers and 110 men thJs: afternoon and 6 mediumkilled in action and 73 officers and 976jnjen wounded in action knaBSBWodi Complete Dnilv KlhCUKLI a ly Report by Associated Press Over Leased Wire Issued Every Afternoon Except Saturday and Sunday Morning was semi conscious Hbspltal at tendants said condiHons of both were The 'accident occurred on the flat 'stretch of just this side of Midland eights when4heBadinelli automofiile coming east? and7 believed to have" been" driven 4jyMrstBadl rielli riiet a ranklin Ice Conv pany Powells negro' 'J Officers "who" investigated 'the accident said Powell going west pulled around anoter' car and seeing? the Badinellkcar tried avoids a collision making jan attempt pull stijl further ov er0lL the old highway? "ftowell toldypfflcers that the Badinelll car alsoJpuUediOvei to the old road and thtwo met The truck was4 heaVily goaded with which strewn all over the' highway 7 received? only minor injuries4 The was badly damaged Mrs Badinelll Erwin' were nished to rtheHeJenai Hos pital in iv Keeshan Lambert am 2DeBli2SiierifX EdgarHlckey who was0nepf the in said thp negrij admitted to? him' 1 4 in 4 Vi a Washington July lb' (AP) A tentative program cutting production of automobiles me chanical refrigerators and house hold laundry equipment as much as 50 per cent during the next 12 months was announced today by Leon Henderson administrator of prices and civilian supply It calls for cutting automobile output for the next three months 20 per cent under that of the comparable 1940 period and for a 50 per cent'Teduction 'thereafr 7 Household mechanical refrig erator production iwould be cut 50 per cerite 5 'Domestic mechanical and machines would be reduced washing machines would be re cent un der the 'the last 12 months fJ sThe' program! is necessitated by present "of in son Said and was drafted as con of the" affected industries" Production: curtailmentwilibe extended soon to other industries HCndersurrsaid Jle disclosed that conferences were being held with representatives of industries unak ing conditioing' Seating and cooking 'equipment: metal furni ture and" miscellaneous house hold appliances I "Hl 1 fl I I 1 indication that nits which led rn the land Jcre installed he Dvina tind Grand Knight Joe Etoih said 1Proposed anotlp i5everal Important business 'drive eastward matters would be discussed at ne the 230 mlie tonwrrow nights meeling he Russian cap irman orces Are I 1" jw VQnspiiaaiing asjr Berlin Says gji Arrninci C'rirn' Armies Are Still Holding Off Nazis I Recapture of Two Towns Behind Germari I Lines Claimed Bitter ighting Going On I "tl Li 1 vll ll I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 uuuft1 wm I 1'' Wr rW Ji si jL I li 1 1 yas i I i I I ft! 1 1 IB WC lMngMrr fron 1 II IMI II Illi II llllllll IHirn E) S' 1 i 1 Kt 3 hanlK Hl I 1 i'aeA DECLARED WART POSSnSLE a I I I i 1 i I i I I fl BE fSr arg i fl iff' I 7 'u i 1 91 VI i eiua st it Vhk IA Aw uKv'NU'SX MU WS "55 I jv I I HMV 1 1 indB init' 1 Mt 1 II ecumH eS eatK 0K ifiin LUAIM HIT 1 7 1 I.

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