Syrian Crisis Raises Fear of War Spreading to Major Powers
The pieces of the Franco-Syrian upheaval reveal how Europe and Mediterranean states remain tinder for catastrophe. Britain and the United States acted swiftly to halt fighting and prepare tripartite talks with France. The episode shows great powers will use force if needed to maintain order, dispelling fears that the Atlantic Charter is inert. Published Jan 18 1929 by Star Publishing Co Hope Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Europe
Mediterranean
Syria
Britain
United States
John Bull
Churchill
de Gaulle
Paris
London
France
Maine
America
Moscow
San Francisco
Fights Last Night By The Associated Press
Fort Hamilton New York and Fall River results show Maurice E Badience outpointing Vince dell Ort o 129 1 2 to 132. Abie Kaufman outpointed Jimmy Mills 141 to 146. George Butler stopped Chuck Ackworth 119 to 123 in Newark Waterbury London Ontario bouts.
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Associated Press
Ft. Hamilton
N. Y
Maurice
Lefty
Ebadiance
Lisbon
Vince dell’Orto
New York
Fall River
Mass
Abie Kaufman
Philadelphia
Jimmy Mills
Newark
George Butler
Waterbury
Chuck Ackworth
London
Ont
Osaka Second Continues Fire Attacks Amid Air War
Reports from Osaka and Tokyo indicate fires ravaged the northwestern industrial area including the Sumitomo plant and Amagasaki. An Osaka army communique claimed 47 Superforts shot down and 83 damaged as returning pilots described ongoing air battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Sumitomo
Amagasaki
Osaka
Submarine crew in Pacific raid earns All America berth
Patrol reports Patrolling Peabody of Harvard, now Syracuse, NY, in a WWII submarine raid. The crew rammed a Japanese schooner, boarded fishermen, captured pilots, and sank a plane with rifle fire, noting one death by self-action for the emperor and Beach firing to sink the craft from the deck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peabody
Harvard
Syracuse
N. Y
Street
GM H. W. Spence
Manchester
Beach
Laney Delays Third Arkansas PSC Appointment
Governor Laney does not plan to appoint a third member of the Arkansas Public Service Commission before July 1. He said Chairman Charles C. Wine and E. Westfall are getting along nicely and expects to announce appointments to the State Game and Fish Commission on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Laney
Arkansas Public Service Commission
Charles C. Wine
E. Westfall
State Game and Fish Commission
Parole Board Set to Review 90 Clemency Applications
The State board of pardons and paroles will meet in Little Rock to consider 90 clemency requests at its monthly session next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parole Board
Little Rock
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Massive B-29 Armada Strikes Tokyo Incendiaries
Reported heavy anti aircraft fire described as meager to moderate. Sgt Frank A Rybik of Greensboro Pa noted flak targeted a neighboring squadron and a B 29 fell into the water off the coast. Lt Luther P Chunn estimated smoke to 27000 feet amid a 10 mph wind. Over 600 bombers and fighters formed the assault hitting Tokyo with 3200 tons of incendiary clusters on Japan's industrial metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Rybik
Greensboro
Fort Worth
Tex
Gayne Underwood
Chaffee
Japan
Tokyo
OPA to crack down on chiseling sugar for home canning
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration launches a four point program to stop falsified home canning sugar applications. Chester Bowles says chiselers falsify forms to obtain sugar not used for canning as the system holds ample supply but may run short if cheating continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Washington
Chester Bowles
Yanks Smash Through Japanese Resistance On Okinawa Front
American forces pressed the Okinawa campaign with the Seventh Division moving south along the east coast two miles from the southeast shore. Carrier planes hit Sakishima airfields and installations as heavy rain and storms disrupted operations. a Japanese report claimed Allied ships damaged by suicide planes between May 11 and 31.
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Que
Kamizato
Naha-Yonabaru
Seventh Division
Okinawa
Sakishima Islands
Casualty List for Arkansas Navy Deaths and Wounded
War Department telegrams govern final authority for discrepancies in casualty notices. Navy dead include John Bruton, Chief radio technician USNR, Imboden. Wounded include Billy J. Burba USMCR, Springdale. Marvin H. Burrus USMCR, Harrisburg. Charles R. Butler Pvt USMCR, assigned to unspecified unit.
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War Department
Navy Department
Navy
John Bruton
USNR
Imboden
Burba
Billy J
USMCR
Springdale
Burrus
Marvin H
Harrisburg
Butler Charles R
Government narrows home canning sugar amid fraud crackdown
Bowles announced a sweeping effort to curb sugar diversion from home canning Rationing cards. Local boards will suspend new certificates in nonproductive areas and slow processing to recalculate quotas while investigators target bootlegging use. The 1945 home canning sugar allotment is capped at 70 percent of last year’s, with a 15 pound individual ceiling still in place.
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Bowles
OPA
Frisco Meet Nearing Conclusion
Franchise of United Nations talks in San Francisco gains momentum as big five powers seek unity on charter amendments veto rules and steps toward a new world security framework. US British Soviet French talks aim to seal agreement on judges, expulsions and a functioning secretary general amid hope for quicker progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
San Francisco
United States
Stettinius
Moscow
Prospect
World Security Council
Birdgt
Truman
Harry Hopkins
Marshal Stalin
Washington
World Politime
Berlin
Austrian
Churchill
Stalin
Levant
Damascus
International Court
League
Venera
Security Council
House Moves Economy Toward Wartime Necessities
A House committee says many wartime domestic controls are foreign to the American way of life and should be eased rapidly as war progress allows, and eventually abolished.
War Casualties and Wounded in Pacific Listed Names
A list of US Marine Corps and Army personnel with hometowns in Arkansas regions such as Hot Springs Scranton Pearcy Bee Branch Magnolia and Read, including ranks Corporal Private Sergeant and Lieutenant, noting wounded and liberated prisoners of war in Germany bases.
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USMCR
Corning
Dugan
James P
USMC
James N. Dugan
Rector
Hot Springs
Zack
Lee H
Pfe
Scranton
Pacific
Franks G. W
William B. Franks
Route 1
Pearcy
Linn Garner
Bee Branch
Germany
Barnett L
Ist
Rudsonia
Beene
Otha G
Magnolia
Adolph B
Readand
Township Standings and War Loan Quotas Listed
Township officers and volunteers are named with large War Loan quotas. The list names committee members and donors including More than a dozen individuals and several towns such as Water Creek and Garland, with amounts ranging from 2,500 to 25,000 dollars for the Seventh War Loan drive.
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B. J. Drake
L. D. Rider
C. P. Jodds D'Arc
J.J. Liebling
T.H. Seymour
J. J. Battle
T. A. Cornelius
Howard Collier
G. A. Linaker
Monroe Samuel
J. M. Arnold Irvin Whatley
Earl Martindale
Hix Dudy
Slornan Goodiett
J. M. Boyd
Ralph Hale
H. H. Huskey
O. R. Green
Paul Dudney
Clarence Gilbert Bert Scott, Sr
J. S. Moses Chester McCaskill
R. C. Stuart
M. M. Bland
W. M. Dillard
J. W. Powell
J. W. Martin
Huron Light
CC Stephens
M. L. Nelson
T. Yarberry
E. A. Thompson
George Wylie
Roy Franks
Fragmented Financial Totals From OCR Readout
Scrambled OCR numbers show multiple monetary figures including 13 and 286 entries with sums like 5990.00 and 4712.50. Related 3 osghs and 05.75 appear amid inconsistent digits, forming an incomplete financial fragment without clear context.
S/Sgt Jas Durham Liberated From Nazi Prison Camp
S/Sgt James O Durham son of Mrs W S Durham Washington was liberated from a German prison camp by Russian forces on May 1 in a letter dated May 10. He had been a prisoner since July 18 1944 when his plane was shot down over Germany. He said in the message he would be home soon awaiting air transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James O. Durham
W. S. Durham
Washington
Germany
Chinese push in Hunan and Indo China corridor advances
Chinese high command reports gains in Hunan and Kwangsi as forces drive to within nine and a half miles of Shaoyang and recapture Suilo and Pingyang while tackling Japanese positions along the coast and toward Chihkiang. Casualties total 28,000 in 50 days through May 28.
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Vison
Siapu
Foochow
Hunan
Kwangsi
Shaoyang
Paoching
Chihkiang
Chukowpu
Pingyang
Yungning
War Agencies Face Major Budget Cuts Across Defense Programs
A wartime funding bill trims many agencies including the Office of Civilian Defense and the War Relocation Authority, with several offices like OPA FEPC and FEPC facing withheld or pending actions. Major cuts affect War Shipping Administration, OSRD, WIB, WAI, and SOS with reductions ranging to tens of millions. Jamaica noted for population comparison to British West Indies.
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National Security
Office of Civilian Defense
War Relocation Authority
Office of Price Administration
The
Foreign Economic Administration
Fair Employment Practice Committee
OPA
FEPC
Congress
FEA
White House
War Shipping and Administration
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of War Information
War Production Board
Office of Strategic Services
Office of Inter-American Affairs
Office of Defense Transportation
National War Labor Board
Selective Service Avers
Cstadian
Office of Economic Stabilization
War Plants Corporation
Grante Petroleum Agus
Office of War Mobilization
Civilians in Reich Tried for Murder
A U S witness testified at the murder trial of three Germans in Ahrweiler Germany that civilians shot and beat an American airman to death after he parachuted into the Reich last August. The defendants Peter Kohn Matthias Gierens and Matthias Drien pleaded not guilty as Maj Theodore Irwin led the case. The court convened in Ahrweiler city hall with German civilians present and the chief witness Nicholas Nespes describing the killing and loading of the body for an unmarked grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McDermott
Ahrweiler
Germany
Reich
Ahreweiler
Peter Kohn
Priest
Matthias Gierens
Matthias Drien
U. S
Nicholas Nespes
Nespes
Coblenz
Peter Back
Back
Gierens
Gierfens
Kohn
Drien
Franz Mehl
Richard T. Brewster
Kansas City
Capt
Henry Dunck
Belleville
Haynesville Dedicates New Oil Plant Today
Haynesville La June 1 Dedication ceremonies were scheduled for a new pressure maintenance and liquid hydrocarbon extraction plant in the Haynesville field. Operators, lease owners and officials from three states were expected to attend. The plant, built by the Haynesville operators committee, aims to maximize oil recovery from the Pettit lime formation across Claiborne parish and into Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynesville
Haynesville
Claiborne Parish
Pettit
Columbia County
Arkansas
Haynesville Fiel
Cotton Valley
Tsinkong Vicinity Update Details Distances
Report notes location near Tsinkong with a measured offset of .25 miles farther from a reference point. Specifics on terrain, paths, or purpose of the measurement are not provided in the readable text.
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Tsinkong
Is Epilepsy Inherited What Causes It
A booklet presenting doctors opinions on epilepsy and its causes will be mailed free to readers who write to Educatione at 535 Fifth Ave New York NY Dept F-121.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Ave
New York
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C. E. Palmer
Alex H. Washburn
Star Building
South Walnut Street
Hope, Ark
E. E. Palmer
Alex. H. Washburn
Hope, Arcae
NEA
Ass'n
Hempstead
Nevada
Howard, Miller and
Lafayette
National Advertising Representative
Arkansas Dailies, Inc
Memphis, Tenn
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Chicago
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New York City
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Mich
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Oklahoma City
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New Orleans
Union St
J. A. Sullivan, Jr
North Main
Roy Anderson & Co
Insurance
Hope, Arkansas
Merle
Normandy
Yokinawa
Nakaquinha Boy
Okinawa Telemap
6Th Marines
Naha
7Th Infantry
7Th
Chinen
1St Marines
Shuri
77Th Infantry
General Clark
Mark Clark
Chicago Municipal
5Th Army
Ann
Maureen O’hara
Hollywood
Redland
DeRoan
Garland
Ozan
Wence the
Nowland
Wallaceburg
Sgt
Jas. Durham
Jamaica
British West Indies
Crescent Drug Store
Frank Douglas
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