Our Daily Bread Our Daily Bread Time to Stiffen
A brief note from the Our Daily Bread column references Alex H. Washburn urging readers to stiffen resolve. The item reflects a period voice urging practical thrift and firm conduct.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1945
Page
1
Traffic Controls in Hope and Peacetime Streets
Editorial notes praise of new stop signs on South Main to curb speeding and hospital bottlenecks at Julia Chester and Josephine streets. Proposes hospital grounds parking or a cut-in zone to widen the street and bans parking on the side away from the hospital. Calls for 15 mph hospital zones and warns lack of notices at local hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noassenger
South Main Street
Julia Chester Hospital
Josephine
Julia Chester
Truman Plans Message on Army and Navy Unification
Washington December 11 President Truman is drafting a message to Congress on unifying the army and navy into a single department. House leaders oppose merger favoring an independent air force, while May and Vinson push joint bills creating an independent air forces department with its own officer school and a joint chiefs of staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Congress
Army
Navy
Charles G. Ross
Capitol Hill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
War Department
Ross
Mr. Truman
House
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
Military
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Naval
May-Vinson
May
Vinson
Air Forces
West Point
Annapolis
Army Air Corps
Army Air Forces
Department of the Air Forces
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Demand Death for Japs Who Slew Fliers
The U S military commission in Cebu City hears the prosecution demand death by hanging for three Japanese officers and notes the maximum penalty could apply to four more defendants. The case concerns the March 1945 killing of two American fliers and five Filipinos. Verdict date not set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
U. S
Cebu City
Isamo Morimoto
Kesatrao Tsuruyama
Seijiro Sakai
Isamo Mori
Takeo Kawai
Cpls
Wada
Navy to release more for Christmas discharge plan
The Navy announced that many men and women who would have been discharged by December 31 under earlier rules may depart immediately to come home for Christmas. Those on ships in U S ports qualify, with only personnel whose skills are essential or whose release would hinder others kept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
U.S
Dr Irvin Reed Named Bacteriologist in A V Laboratory
Dr Irvin Reed of Monticello Arkansas will serve as bacteriologist and pathologist of Arkansas new veterinary research and diagnostic laboratory. A former army major, Reed joins the operation authorized by the 1945 legislature to begin in January to offset veterinarian shortages by giving stock farmers diagnoses of disease conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvin Reed
A. V. Laboratory
Little Rock
Monticello
Ark
Arkansas’ New Veterinary Research and Diagnostic Laboratory
Reed
Army
Pribonte Bes
Brookfield Zoo to Sell Surplus Alligators
Chicago December 10 surplus alligators from Brookfield Zoo offered to other zoos. Each gator listed at three to eight feet long and priced at five dollars per foot, with prospectus noting potential buyers at other institutions and bags made from the hides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Tne
Arkansas Reports Frigid Morning Across State
A morning of 25 degrees ties Monday for the coldest locale, with 12 degrees at Gilbert in Searcy County the season’s low. Little Rock records 26 degrees as several areas report freezing and sub freezing readings amid a forecast of continued cold with rain and sleet tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Gilbert
Searcy County
Navy Search for Airmen Fails to Solve Disappearance
In Miami on December 11 the navy announced the cessation of an extensive Atlantic search for six missing planes and 27 crewmen. Fourteen airmen were aboard five Avenger bombers from Fort Lauderdale and thirteen were aboard a Martin Mariner patrol bomber lost during a hunt for the others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Navy
Atlantic Seaboard
Key West
Jacksonville
Fort Lauderdale
Java Rebels Threaten Poison and War in Dutch Java
Batavia Java Dec 11 Indonesian Premier Sjahrir warned that Indonesian forces will resist any British troop landings to back Dutch rule. Soetomo radio speech urged poisoning to defeat Dutch reinforcements, claiming 70,000,000 behind them. Van Mook left for The Hague as Dempsey and British forces arrive amid secrecy ahead of possible major uprising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern Haugland
Batavia
Java
Sutan Sjahrir
Netherlands
Soerbaja
Soetomo
Netherlands East Indies
H.J. van Mook
Hague
H. 5. Blom
Department of Justice
Anda
Miles Co. Dempsey
Southeast Asia Command
Sjahrir
Arkansas Business Boom Forecast for Eight to Ten Years
Paul W. Milam dean of the University of Arkansas College of Business Administration says the state will see high business activity for eight to ten years, with 1946 and 1947 outlooks labeled very good. He cautions the climb toward urban-job levels may be slow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Paul W. Milam
University of Arkansas’ College of Business Administration
Arkansas
Arkansas Association of Insurance Agents
Milan
Victory Bond sales exceed national goal in December report
Washington reports Victory Loan sales totaling 17.207 billion dollars, 156.4 percent of the 11 billion target. Corporate buyers reach 12.424 billion (177.5 percent), individuals 4.783 billion (119.9 percent), E bonds 1.291 billion (64.5 percent) with 336 million over expectations. War Finance Division director Ted R. Gamble says final year total should meet quota. note also that marigolds grown in pots in England are used as a kitchen herb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
I/P
War Finance Division
Treasury Department
Ted R. Gamble
Chiang Gets Moscow Nod on Manchuria
Central News Agency reports Russia agreed to permit Chinese government troops to fly into Manchuria and assume control of key cities including Mukden Changchun and Harbin after weeks of negotiations. The move enables Central government forces to establish administration there with Russian protection and smooth handover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Russia
Manchuria
Central
China
Changchun
Mukden
Harbin
Centra
Senan
Dairen
Changchung
S4th
North China
92Nd
Chinhsien
Shanhaikwan
Fourth Quarter Income Tax Deadline Extended to January 14
The Internal Revenue Service for Arkansas announced a one month extension for 1945 quarterly income tax filings from December 15 to January 14 1946 in compliance with a congressional mandate. The notice applies to Arkansas taxpayers and final quarterly reports for 1945 income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Internal Revenue Collector
Arkansas
Strike Curb Paves Way to Wage Talk
A CIO UAW plan to curb wildcat strikes in Ford plants moves wage talks forward as Ford shows openness to the proposal. GM ends its contract, seeking union responsibility in any new deal. Army doctors note mustard dissolved in warm baths eases nervous tension. Isoprene linked to synthetic rubber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
General Motors
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Ford
International Union
John S. Bugas
Ford Industrial Relations
Bugas
Richard T. Leonard
Uaw-Cio
Redk Didasio
Vad Agre
C. E. Wilson
Army
Japanese Technicians Run Manchuria Factories Question War's Peace
In Manchuria Japanese technicians shaped the region’s rapid industrialization, expanding rail and textile capacity and reservoirs of expertise. China’s reannexation under Chiang Kai-shek hinges on retaining these skills, while Japanese civilians and troops continue to guard key lines and plants amid ongoing power struggles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle Cavihsien
Manchuria
Manchhuria
China
Japan
Chiang Kai- Shek
Siberia
Tsingtao
Teintsin
Peiping
Port Chinwangtao
Shanghai
Hongkong
Okinawa
Chiang Kai-Shek
North China
Roosevelt Told U. S. Commanders to Let Japs Strike First
General Patton’s condition improves as Mrs. Patton visits Heidelberg hospital. Washington hearing examines Roosevelt wartime guidance to military commanders about awaiting a Japanese overt act and Hawaii alert orders. Marshall recalls receiving direct White House guidance on Pearl Harbor policy and strategic responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
U. S
Jack Bell
Washington
Geo.ge . Marshall
Japan
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Waller
Snert
United States
Snort
Mawaii
Army
Mesalane
Senator Ferguson
R-Mich
Marshall
Hawaii
Herron
Ferguson
Short
Heron
Michigan
Republican Committee
Rep
Keefe
Wis
Honolulu
Charles B. Herron
Army Intelligence
Adjutant General
Herren Ferguson
Adm
Harold R. Starr
Naval Operations
Husband E. Kimmel
Pacific
Japa
Kimmel
Patton Improves Resting Comfortably After Injury
General George S. Patton was reported resting comfortably and fully conscious in Frankfurt after a traffic crash Sunday. An x-ray showed improvement in the spinal vertebrae where he suffered a broken neck, with neurological status slightly improved and reflexes active as his wife came to his bedside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Haeger
Frankfurt
George S. Patton
Patton
Governor studies constitutional convention for Arkansas
Gov Laney said he is studying the possibility of a constitutional convention but has not decided. He named G. Russell Brown Pat Mehaffey and Charles C. Wine to represent him in talks with the Arkansas Bar Association committee studying whether Arkansas should adopt a new constitution to replace the 1874 one. The convention would need legislative authorization and voters would decide adoption or rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Thrasher Joretto
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
Mr. LaGuardia
New York
Gabriel Heatter
Lou Costello
Mary Margaret McBride
LaGuardia
Italy
Joan Sharks
Rui
Little Rock
Ddec
Laney
Arkansas
Arkansas Bar Association
G. Russell Brown
Arkansas Expenditures Council
Pat Mehaffey
Charles C. Wine
State Public Service Committee
Arkansas Municipal League
Expenditures Council
Hempstead E Bond drive nears quota at 85 percent
Hempstead county’s Victory Loan E Bond sales reached 85 percent of the goal after last night’s business. Co chairs C. C. Spragins and Syd McMath reported total sales of 138 795 dollars with 25 000 still needed to reach 163 000. The county surpassed its general quota of 425 000 with 690 315 50 in sales, and must hit the E Bond individual quota to maintain its wartime financing record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
C. C. Spragins
Syd McMath
Atomic bomb tests against ships planned by U S
The United States plans joint atomic bomb tests against naval vessels as custodian of the bomb. The aim is to learn effects on warships while also preparing a forthcoming strategic bombing survey report on Germany and Japan. The first phase of findings is due within three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton C
Fay Washington
United States
Japan
Germany
Reich
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Alex. H. Washburn
Maccines
Tmobile
Surrey
Fruit & Truck Branch Experiment Station
England
Chiang
Moscow
Roy Spruling
Cubs
Argen
Gen. Patton
American Standards Association
U. S. Army
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