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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1944
Page
1
Alex H. Washburn Montgomery Ward is referenced in relation to Our Daily Bread. No further context is provided in the readable text.
The piece cites armed seizure of Montgomery Ward by soldiers under the President as a political maneuver. It argues Roosevelt aims to destroy private property and politicize business, compares actions to Hitler, and criticizes editors who misstate Elizabeth’s reign. It notes related political dissent and historical quibbles on Queen Anne.
In Chicago the army forcibly removed Sewell L. Avery from his offices after he refused to hand over company books. Officials led by Wayne C. Taylor said the government would operate the Ward plant to avoid disruption as labor board directives and Roosevelt orders drive the intervention.
General MacArthur reports new airfieldsMadang town and airfields Cyclops Sentani near Hollandia captured as conquest of Hollandia airdrome nears. Four air bases seized with minimal ground fighting and limited Japanese losses. In Burma Stilwell’s forces slow Japanese push toward India. Allied air strikes target Truk Ponape and nearby bases. China reports Japanese redeploy divisions to link northern and southern campaigns.
Broken Arrow Oklahoma greets Lt Ernest Childers after his World War II heroics at Anzio including leading an eight man squad and wiping out a German fox hole. The community marks a holiday with parades and a church lunch as Childers plans a farm stay before further War Department assignments.
Allied headquarters in Naples says two small German attacks on the Adriatic front were repulsed as bad weather limited air operations. Eighty Allied sorties were flown with no casualties. Four small enemy ships, three fighters, and a tug were sunk or damaged by U S and Allied forces in the Ligurian Sea. Prisoners were taken. The cocoa tree origin line is unrelated.
H. W. Timberlake of Ozan announces his bid for Hempstead Representative Post No. 1. He vows to represent the people, support economical wartime state government, speedily discharge public business, and oppose further federal encroachment on home rule with state supremacy.
A Japanese prisoner captured by the Chindits in Burma says soldiers are fed up with the war. He describes hunger, poor rations, malaria and dysentery as they are mobilized for a 130 mile front behind Japanese lines.
Moscow reports the battle for Sevastopol is nearing its final phase as Soviet night and day artillery and air strikes pound the port. The Moscow communique notes 77 German vessels sunk or damaged in 15 days, including 36 transports, with 13 000 tons lost on the last five.
Moscow reports from April 27 carry Eddy Gilmore field dispatches detailing frontline moves and combat actions in the Crimean theater as Allied and Axis forces clash.
Hempstead County closes its Democratic slate with four new filings to qualify by midnight. Incumbents and candidates include Fred A. Luck for County Judge, Frank J. Hill Sheriff and Collector, Leo Ray County Clerk, C. Cook Tax Assessor, Joe T. Booker, Mrs. Isabelle Onstead and Mrs. Leon Bundy Treasurer, J. P. Byers Circuit Clerk with Cecil Weaver and F Y Trimble, Gordon Prescott County Surveyor, Arthur C. Anderson, H W Timberlake and W B Nelson for Representative Post 1, and W W Compton with Emory Thompson for Representative Post 2. The preferential primary is scheduled for July with a runoff in August.
Albert Duncan Cobb 17, Hope High School captain of the Bobcats and Ki Ye Club vice president, died in Julia Chester hospital after four days with spinal meningitis. Born near McCaskill, he lived in Hope most of his life and is survived by his parents a sister and a brother. Funeral at family home 4 a.m. private. honorary pallbearers listed.
General Patton sparked new controversy by claiming Americans British and Russians will rule the world prompting swift War Department remarks that his views were personal. Lawmakers urged restraint and questioned foreign policy statements while in London no comment was recorded.
Corporal Clement W. Fairweather of Fort Jackson South Carolina has gathered 30,000 jokes. A Metuchen New Jersey corporal, he earned a doctorate from Princeton University after completing his thesis English Sermon Wit 1550 1660.
Allied air offensive on the 13th day of pre invasion strikes pounds Essen and Schweinfurt with heavy bombers and Fortresses. RAF and U S planes target Paris rail yards, Hamburg, and ports as German defenses report raids on the English coast.
An Aleutian base in Alaska reported the first daylight mission against the Kuriles since September. Eleventh Air Force said raids over the Japanese homeland were undertaken with nighttime bombing and recon activity resumed April 24 and encountered no opposition on land or in the air.
Secretary of War Stimson reported today that U S casualties since the war began total 148 425 through April 15. The tally includes 25 582 killed 60 166 wounded 32 727 missing and 29 950 prisoners of war. Of the wounded 33 077 have returned to duty. Prison camps are chiefly in Japanese territory.
In Greeley Colorado a sailor hitch hiked a ride with Mrs. Philip Forquer and her child. The man begged for bites of the ice cream cone, then revealed himself as Ralph, Seaman First Class, just back from the wars after 17 months away.
Allied reinforcements pour into Kohima as Japanese positions dot the surrounding hills. British tanks circle the town outskirts and shell Kohima village, while long mountains flank the valley ahead. In North Burma, Stilwell’s Chinese seize Manpin in the Mogaung valley.
The Arkansas river flood moved past Tulsa toward the Oklahoma border and backwater threatened Muskogee bottomlands. Despite Tulsa crest the third highest on record, damage appeared small in this industrial area thanks to a new levee and farmer warnings. Jenks Sand Springs and Tulsa faced evacuations and property losses though roads mostly open.
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