Address changes of servicemen and Borneo oil war note
Our Daily Bread discusses address updates in the armed forces and the strain of paper use. It then surveys Borneo oil fields and MacArthur's Brunei advance, framing the war's near end.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1945
Page
1
Building for Fair to Wait Another Year
Thirty men from ten counties met at the Live Stock Show Meeting at the Barlow Hotel. Lloyd Spencer was elected president and W. A. Mudgett secretary treasurer. A June 22 meeting will set a director from each of sixteen counties and permanent officers. State Senator Clyde E. Byrd urged a strong livestock program for Arkansas. No permanent buildings this year due to WPB permit issues. tents planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barlow Hotel
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Uncheon
Terrell Cornelius
Lloyd Spencer
W. A. Mudgett
Clyde E. Byrd
Florado
Arkansas
WPB
London Pole Rejects Bid to Moscow
Julian Zakowski a London Polish leader rejected the Moscow invitation to join a Big Three conference on Poland. The exile government spokesman said Zakowski affirmed allegiance to the London regime as only truly representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Roberts
London
Julian Zakowski
Moscow
Zakowski
Gvernment
United States
Britain
Russia
Tadeusz Arciszewski
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
Socialist Party
Jan Stanczyk
War Production Board weighs bigger newsprint allotments
The War Production Board considered a newspaper industry request for larger July to September newsprint quotas. A WPB spokesman called the proposed increase slight and linked it to reduced federal paper demand, while other sources noted efforts for a modest relaxation of curtailments across all paper sizes, lowering cuts from 4 percent to 3 percent for small papers and from 24 percent to 18 percent for the largest papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
War Production Board Today
WPB
Invasion Lessons From Tarawa and Pacific Landings
AP dispatch recalls dawn invasions at Tarawa Kwajalein Saipan Luzon and Iwo with amphibious fleets landing in waves. Tanks armor and landing craft push inland as naval bombardment and air support pound the shores in the ongoing Pacific campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AP News
Pacific Fleet
Guam
LST
Tarawa
Kwajalein
Saipan
Luzon
Iwo
Pacific
United States
Huge Civilian Rail Travel Cut Planned For War Effort
Washington reports a major civilian rail travel reduction from August to March 1946. Half the Pullman cars and 10 to 12 percent of coaches will be withdrawn for military use as troop movements rise to about 308000 daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. Monroe Johnson
Office of Defense Transportation
Pacific
Johnson
Absolutely No Nazis Left in Germany
Berlin dispatch reports that Germans in Berlin appear to have renounced Nazism, with residents saying Hitler is dead and crowd greetings shifting to peace and liberation. The observer notes a contrast between past mass loyalty and current cautious optimism about Allied victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Yank Plays Dead in Grim Earnest After Jap Ambush
James Hutcheson reports from the Eighth Army in the Philippines on Pvt. Fred P. Romero of Los Angeles who survived a Japanese ambush by lying motionless for 14 hours in a bivouac area. He watched enemies search the area and later escaped to his lines after a perilous river trek with lightning for illumination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hutcheson
Eighth Army
Philippines
Fred P. Romero
Los Angeles
Romero
Jerry Neary
Hollis
N. Y
31St
Mindanao
Neary
Yank Surprise Thrust Hits Okinawa Japs
Guam dispatches report simultaneous dawn attacks on Yaeju plateau by U S Marines and infantrymen cracking the Japanese last line on Okinawa. The assault featured cliff scaling, rope ascents, flamethrower hoses, and heavy cave fighting as Japanese counterattacked with machine guns and satchel charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard O'Malley
Guam
Yaeju
Okinawa
Palteau
U. S
Tokyo
Mikado
Japan
Nippon Times
U. S. 10Th Army
Pacific
Honolulu
George F. Unmacht
Premier Suzuki vows drastic intensification of war effort
San Francisco reports Premier Kantaro Suzuki pledging drastic intensification of Japan's war effort at the 87th Diet session. He says the government will mobilize the nation's total strength using emergency powers as the war enters a critical stage and hints Japan may seek peace on terms short of unconditional surrender while vowing to defend itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Kantaro Suzuki
Japan
Diet
Radio Tokyo
Suzuki
Tokyo
Nippon Times
Date of Big 3 Meet Set but Secret Location Hints
President Truman announced a definite Big Three meeting with Stalin and Churchill, likely away from Washington, to seek a joint Polish settlement in Moscow starting June 15. He praised Hopkins and Davies for progress, warned reporters against leaking details, and said the aim is a unified Polish government within the 40 day window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Vaccaroashington
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Washington
Stalin
United States
Poland
Moscow
Warsaw
Harry Hopkins
Leasant
San Francisco
Hopkins
Joseph E. Davies
London
Davis
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
James F. Byrnes
Davies
Washingon
Russia
Oles
Nephew of Local Man Dies Saving Comrade in War
Mrs. Mattie Maple Ball of Nashville is notified of the death of her husband Minward Rowland Ball who drowned while serving with a landing craft unit in the Southwest Pacific while attempting to save a shipmate. He is reported as a nephew of W. T. Rowland of this city. Seattle, June 13. A stray pasted chunk notes butcher Tony Travelli’s meat shortage and a skeleton lamb in his shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Maple Ball
Nashville
Minward Rowland Ball
Southwest Pacific
Seattle
Tony Travelli
Tony
Japs Torch Borneo Oil Fields as Australian Forces Advance
Japanese troops set fire to oil fields in north Borneo while Australian forces push toward Brunei through jungle roads. Civilians, including Chinese Malays Indians and Japanese, were liberated. a hospital was set up and the Muara and Labuan areas were secured as MacArthur visits the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borneo
MacArthur
Kuching
Sarawak
General MacArthur
Brunei
America
Britain
Don Caswell
Manila
North Borneo
Sultanate
Brooketon
Melbourne
Muara
Brunei Bay
Labuan
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Bagabag
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Hempstead County Nears Seventh War Loan Target
Hempstead County is on the last lap of the Seventh War Loan with 85 percent of its quota subscribed. County Chairman Syd McMath reported sales totaling $531,771.50 against a $624,000 goal, including $257,192.50 in E Bonds, 84 percent of its $305,000 E Bond quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hempstead
Syd McMath
Star
War Labor Board Convenes Over Tri-State Bus Strike
The War Labor Board called management and union leaders to a Dallas meeting to settle a strike by 400 Tri-State Transit drivers and mechanics across eight states. About 250 buses idle. wage dispute sparked the walkout started Saturday night in Jackson Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
War Labor Board
Dallas
Tex
Tri- State Transit Company
Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes
AFL
WLB
Jackson, Miss
Shreveport
Otto de Bate
Deate
Washington
Secretary of Labor
Clifford Potter
J. B. Randall
Mississippi
Louisiana
Albania
Texas
Tennessee
Arkansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Governor Laney to speak at Seventeenth Study Day
Gov. Laney will address the Seventeenth Annual Study Day at the University of Arkansas College of Agriculture Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station in Hope on June 22 at 1 p.m. The full day program includes staff briefings on experimental results and extension specialists assisting Southwest Arkansas farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Laney
University of Arkansas College of Agriculture
Hope
Aubrey Enoch
Southwest Arkansas
R. P. Bartholomew
Joe E. Walker
J. C. Fullertson
Clifford Alston
Arkansas
FEPC Killed Fight on Poll Tax Continues
Washington report says Southern Democrats plan a Senate filibuster to block House approval of poll tax abolition for federal elections. The House voted 251 to 15 to outlaw poll tax payments, prompting Senator Bilbo and others to threaten extended opposition. Seven Southern states still enforce poll taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Bilbo
D-Miss
Spain Hosts Large German Community After War
Spain remains a haven for an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 Germans who arrived during and after World War II. Many travel freely while maintaining low profiles, with passports renewed and authorities advised to stay out of sight. Officials cite 8,000 registered residents as of liberation, but allied chancelleries place the current figure much higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Foltz
Hal Boyle
Madrid
Spain
Sigismud von Bibras
France
Reich
State Rivers Once More Are Falling
Rain swollen Arkansas rivers were falling, with Ouachita and White rivers rising downstream. The Weather Bureau forecast crests for the White at Augusta and Georgetown and for the Arkansas at Little Rock and Pine Bluff, while engineers said the worst had passed barring more heavy rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
Ouachita
U. S. Weather Bureau
Camden
Augusta
Georgetown
Des Arc
Clarendon
U. S
Dardanelle
Weather Bureau
Morrilton
Pine Bluff
Stettinius to Remain Secretary of State Says Truman
President Truman told his news conference there would be no change in the State Department post held by Edward R. Stettinius Jr. He humorously urged persistent questions and reaffirmed that Stettinius’ status has not been changed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
State Department
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Stettinius
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alex. H. Washburn
Army
Navy
Oil of
Army Mail Service
James Thrasher
Hitler
Europe
Pole
Crimea
Associated Press
Eddy Gilmore
Gilmore
War Production Board
ODT
Oklahoma
Henry Shapiro
Berlin
Hitler Kaput
Heil Hitler
Weimar Republic
Unter den Linden
Yank
31St Division
John C. Carrier
Providence
R. I
Formosa
Kweilin
U.S
Liuchow
Ishan
Caobang
Indo- China
Pingsiang
Hong Kong
Cantor
Tengyum
NEA Telemap
Gov
Laney
FEPC
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