Propaganda Debate and The Uncommon Man Voice
An attack on OWI head Elmer Davis by the Constitutional Educational League questions government funded propaganda. James Thrasher notes Yale dean William C. de Vane urging focus on the uncommon man for democracy.
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Elmer Davis
Cline of War Information
American Propaganda Service
Constitutional Educational League Inc
New Tavern
Conn
Moison
Wis
New York City
Davis
American Labor Party
CIO
Communist Movement
New York
Communist Party
Constitutional Educational League
OWI
Hitler
Goebbels
Germany
OWL
Congress
Executive
Legislative
Washington
America
Free Press
James Thrasher
Liscommon
William C. de Vane
Yale College
de Vane
Court Upholds Jail Term For Rhodes In Immorality Case
Arkansas Supreme Court affirms Pulaski Circuit Court sentence of three months and a $250 fine for Billie Rhodes Little Rock tourist cabin operator convicted under the 1943 immoral acts law after a soldier and a girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a cabin. Court rules letting premises for illicit intercourse constitutes violation whether or not there is commercialized vice.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Billie Rhodes
Rhodes
Harold W.evers
Camp Robinson
Wilma Jean Hannah
High Court
North Little Rock
Spider to Add Punch to Bond Drive in Hempstead Co
With Hempstead county at 94 percent of its Seventh War Loan quota, Hardy Rowland and Pvt Thea Chafin will present God Is My Co Pilot at the New Theater on Wednesday June 20. Features start at 7 and 9 15 p.m. Admission by War Bond purchase. county has sold 590 652 75 of the 624 000 quota including 280 573 75 in E Bonds representing 92 percent of its 305 000 E Bond allotment. Newland township has exceeded its 5 000 quota with 5 062 50 in sales. Civic club standings listed: Rotary 30 606 25, SB 1B 25 625 00, Kiwanis 19 931 50, American Legion 7 668 75.
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Hempstead County
Hardy
Spider) Rowland
Arkansas Gazette
Mr. Rowland
Army Transport Command
Pvt
Thea Chafin
Fort Smith
Syd McMath
Newland Township
Emmet
McMath
Hope
Rotary
Kiwanis
American Legion
B-29s Mine Japanese Waters Far North of Tokyo
United Press report from Guam notes B-29s mined waters off Niigata 160 miles north of Tokyo in a deep strike. Ten other B-29s mined Honshu near Kanmon Strait and Suwa Sea while another broadcast claimed 800 B-29s based in the Marianas, signaling intensified raids on mainland Japan.
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Guam
Niigata
Tokyo
Japan
Niigata Les
Honshu
Saipan
Radio Tokyo
Sagami Bay
Kanmon Strait
Kyushu
Suwa Sea
Marianas
Okinawa
Postoffice Robbery Reported in Arkadelphia
Arkadelphia postoffice was robbed Saturday night with stamps and money taken. Police found rifled letters in a hotel room used by a hotel guest on the robbery night as officers seek the suspect.
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Postoffice
Arkadelphia
Clark County
Town Gives New Home to Vet's Widow
Blytheville notes moving day as Mrs J C Privett widow of an infantryman killed in Europe moves with eight children into a donated 10 room home built by a global sympathy effort. Community fundraisers, Stars and Stripes publicity and local merchants supplied cash, materials, and furnishings totaling seven thousand dollars plus two thousand in labor. Neighbors also planted a victory garden and provided a chicken run and birds to complete the home.
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Blythevile
J. C. Privett
Europe
Privetts
Jodie Nabers
Nabers
Privett
Luxembourg
Army
Stars and Stripes
Youth Hailed Hearse Across U S From Boston Funeral Home
Hazen June 18 (P) A 19 year old Robert W Stoddard was arrested here after admitting taking a hearse from a Boston funeral home for a cross country ride. Patrolman Bernard Young said Stoddard had four month probation for a similar theft while employed by another funeral director. He claimed intoxication on both occasions. He described purchases of oil gasoline and a new tire and said he was delivering the hearse to a Camden Ark funeral home.
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Young Stoddard
Aiceotas
Young
Arkansas
Camden, Ark
Masonic Lodge to Elect Officers Tuesday Night
Whitfield Lodge No. 239 of the Masons will hold its annual officer election Tuesday night June 19. Worshipful Master Normal Seals and Secretary Evan Wray announced the event.
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Masonic Lodge
Whitfield Lodge No
Masons
Evan Wray
Okinawa Isolated As Last Japanese Holdouts Near End
Allied forces press across Okinawa with the 10th Army and a second Marine division driving the last 3,000 Japanese into a seven square mile pocket. U S troops have tallied 80,459 killed and 1,680 captured of 85,000 garrison in 77 days as Tokyo warns of further invasion.
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William F. Tryee
Guam
Tenth Army
Okinawa
Oroku Peninsula
Tokyo Radio
China
Tokyo
Yaeju-Dake
Daniel A. Nolan
Los Angeles
96Th Division
96Th Division’s 381St
House Report Signals Peacetime Draft Push
The Woodrum committee is likely to back universal training as postwar policy, but enactment remains uncertain. After hearing over 100 witnesses, a large majority favors compulsory peacetime training, yet Senate action and politics could block the measure ahead of elections.
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William F. Arbogastashington
Woodrum Committee
United States
House
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Yanks pursue last Japs on North Luzon in fast advance
American mechanized columns of the 37th and Sixth Divisions moved along Cagayan Valley and highway five toward Cauayan Osceari Cabatuan and Bagabag as Japanese forces retreated inland Two enemy divisions remained in Luzon with no major opposition reported Total Philippine campaign casualties reached 402363 with 1037 prisoners taken and 103 killed 522 wounded for the week Meanwhile in Borneo American naval units pounded oil field fronts at Seria and Miri and the Japanese torched at least 20 wells A Nazi swastika flag was found with a Japanese blanket among captured items
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Don Caswell
Manila
Luzon
Seria
Miri
North
Borneo
Philippines
Southwest Pacific
Cagayan Valley
37Th
Highway Five
Cauayan
Echague
Osceariz
Cabatuan
Santiago
Cabayan
Bagabag
Douglas MacArthur
Fleet Air Wing 18. a group of angry hornets hunting Jap boats
Fleet Air Wing 18 operates solo or in pairs from Tinian and the Marianas, attacking Japanese picket boats and coastal vessels. Since September 1944 the wing, under Rear Adm. C. S., has sunk and damaged numerous small craft, cargo ships, and rail facilities, expanding from Okinawa to a broader theater.
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Fleet Air Wing 18
Robin Coons Tinian
Marinas
Japan
Honshu
Okinawa
D. F. Ketcham
Adm. C. 5
Women to Outnumber Men in Postwar America
Census estimates show a growing female lead in the U S population due to higher male death rates in war and the war's toll on young men. By 1980 the female majority may be under a million, with marriage and birth trends shaping future demographics amid extended military service and immigration patterns.
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Alexander R. George Washington
United States
White River Rising Fast After Rains
White River swelled rapidly after heavy weekend rains prompting flood warnings. Forecasts predict crests of 34 to 35 feet at Newport Calico Rock Batesville and August next Sunday, with train service disrupted by a washed out track near Batesville.
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Little Rock
White River
Weather Bureau
Calico Rock
Batesville
Twin Creek
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Memphis
Newport Genes
St. Francis
Paragould
Eight Mile Creek
Montgomery's Birds Travel Tie to Italian Campaign
During the Italian campaign General Bernard Montgomery reportedly carried a cage of canaries and love birds as he moved, a small personal detail amid the broader operations.
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Bernard Montgomery
Fourteen Poles Plead Guilty at Soviet Trial
Fifteen of sixteen Polish underground leaders charged with terroristic acts against the Red Army pleaded guilty in a Soviet military tribunal. Gen Bronislaw Okulicki, leader of the Polish Home Army, was among those who admitted all charges. one defendant claimed innocence. The group faced counts of organizing armed bands in White Russia and western Ukraine and operating clandestine radio stations.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
Red Army
Bronislaw Okulicki
Ome
Zgibniew Stypulkowski
White
Russia
Ukraine
Okulicki
Sloboda
Germany
Britain
Europe
Afanasiev
Jan Jankowski
London
Nobles Club
Pegler Column Unreceived Omitted Today
Transmission delays prevent Westbrook Pegler's Fair Enough column from appearing in today's Star. The column will be published tomorrow if time and space permit and may be doubled with Pegler's piece.
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Westbrook Pegler
Today
Star
Pegler
Eisenhower Urges Peace Effort Amid War Recall
General Eisenhower told Congress and the Supreme Court that soldiers believe peace problems can be met with the same resolve that won World War II. He praised Churchill Roosevelt and Allied unity, mourned battlefield losses, and described the Pentagon welcome as tens of thousands cheered him ashore with Secretary Stimson present.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Supreme Court
Europe
Eisenhower
Churchill
Roosevelt
Red Army
Germany
Pentagon Building
Memorial Bridge
Potomac
Lincoln Memorial
Constitution Avenue
Constitution
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
John Sheldon Eisenhower
Marshall
Army
Pentagon
War Department
Stimson
Pvt
Patrick Carioggia
Syracuse
N. Y
Carioggia
Farm Machinery Production Totals Jump Between 1844 and 1929
The total U S production of farm machinery in 1844 exceeded 1 08 billion dollars, compared with 552 million dollars in 1929.
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U. S
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