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Newspaper

Hope Star

Location

Hope, Arkansas, United States of America

Date

Jun 22, 1945

Page

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Our Daily Bread Alex

Our Daily Bread notes washburn cigarettes as a yes item in a brief column.

Next War Sketches With Jet Bombs And V-Bombs

A column discusses predictions for future warfare from Sven Lindequist and Nazi claims of long-range rocket bombs. It connects past V-bomb experiences to a possible next war featuring precision, silent strikes from hidden underground factories and distant launch sites, with Allied intelligence weighing the ideas.

James Thrasher Jules Verne Sven Lindequist Lindequist The S. Army Ordnance Department New York Peenemaende

Gas Ration Increase Goes Into Effect Nationwide

The 950 percent rise in basic A gasoline rations takes effect. Motorists receive six gallons with A-16 coupons, lasting three months through Sept 21, totaling 36 gallons. The boost follows reduced military needs after Europe's victory, and B rations increase to 50 miles of driving per month beginning June 11.

Washington Europe

Visiting Day Showcases AR Farm Station Progress

About 400 visitors from 20 southwestern Arkansas counties toured the University of Arkansas Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station during an annual study day. Speakers highlighted pasture improvements, fertilizer trials, peach tree nutrition, brown rot control, hybrid corn and cotton yields, and a 4 year crop rotation boosting corn yields while Governor Ben Laney delivered the afternoon address.

Arkansas University of Arkansas College of Agriculture Aubrey Enoch R. P. Bartholomew College of Agriculture Bartholomew Earl J. Allen Allen Charles Lincoln Joe E. Walker Marianna Stoneville Delatpine Rowden Acala Coker Tildon Easley Extension Agronomist Ben Laney A. M. Harding Laney Earle K. Rambo W. S. Pollard Lincoln Ella Posey J. E. Fullerton Dr. Bartholomew Clifford Austin Rambo

Sinatra Receives Audience With Pope in Vatican City

Frank Sinatra, after arriving in Italy, was received by Pope Pius XII who asked if he was a tenor or a baritone. Sinatra said he was amazed the Pope knew of him and praised the man’s humanity. Accompanied by Phil Silvers and Fay MacKenzie, Sinatra began a U S tour of Italy with a concert for troops in Rome. Scrub forests cover over a third of Paraguay’s Chaco region west of the Paraguay River.

Vatican City Pope Pius XII Frank Sinatra Sinatra Vatican Phil Silvers Fay MacKenzie Italy Rome Chaco Region Paraguay River

Among Strangest Battle Injuries Aphasia in Soldiers

Lt Bernard Foster of Ann Arbor and Miss Vivian Mowat of Adrian head the aphasic school at Percy Jones Hospital in Battle Creek Michigan. The program trains veterans to regain speech reading and writing after brain injuries from battle. Aphasia often follows accidents strokes or head injuries and previously many cases went untreated.

Kathry Numphrey Battle Creek, Mich Percy Jones Hospital Bernard Foster Ann Arbor Vivian Mowat Adrian Percy Jones Foster

War Department bill seeks swift victory over Japan

Washington reports a 36.5 billion War Department supply bill moves to the House floor with generals Marshall and Arnold urging relentless air and ground power. They forecast 1,000 B-29s daily and 2.7 million tons of bombs in the new fiscal year, while urging disciplined expectations to avoid premature peace.

Washington War Department Japan Appropriations Committee George C. Marshall H H. Arnold Pacific Tokyo Marshall

Senate to get full report on Frisco UN conference

Two U S senators from the American delegation plan to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the San Francisco conference charter. Connally and Vandenberg will travel to Washington after President Truman’s closing address to present reports and position on ratification.

John M. Hightower Associated Press San Francisco United States Senate United Nations Truman Washington Connally Senate Vandenberg International League United States Russia Britain China France League of Nations

Japs Last Navy Arsenal is Blasted

Four hundred fifty B-29s attacked Japan's last large naval arsenal and five big aircraft plants with 3,000 tons of bombs in a precision raid. Osaka and Hiro Arsenal damage was noted earlier. Kure plant hit, plus Kagamigahara Nagoya area targets, Himeji and Akashi plants, and Tamashima factory. Japanese claim of 26 bombers shot down. total area destroyed tallied across Osaka, Amagasaki, Shizuoka, Yokkaichi, Toyohashi, and other sites.

Leif Erickson Guam Japan Osaka Hiro Kure Mitsubishi Kawasaki Aircraft Kagamigahara Nagoya Kawaishi Aircraft Himeji Kawsaki Aircraft Akashi Kobe Mitsubishi-Nishima Aircraft Tamashima Amagasaki Sumitomo Kansaki Mitsubishi Copper Fukuda Light Airplane Co Miraguchi Gear Works Furukawa Electric Co Shizuoka Yokkaichi Toyohashi Hamamatsu Tokyo

Laney Urges United Front for Arkansas

Governor Ben Laney of Camden spoke at the Hope Rotary Club urging a united front to push Arkansas progress after addressing the Visiting day program at the Fruit and Truck Branch Experiment Station. The event also marked the Third District Fair organization meeting with many local guests and Rotarians in attendance.

East Arkansas Ben Laney Camden Hope Rotary Club Barlow Fruit & Truck Branch Albert Graves Guy E. Basye W. G. Cobb Charles A. Armitage Southwestern Proving Ground Hope Route Two Farm Bureau H. J. Vineyard Hope Clyde E. Byrd el Dorado Arkansas Livestock Show Paul Dudney Washington L. F. Higgason William Schooley M. S. Bates T. A. Cornelius L. Baker Little Rock J. C. Brier Pfc Phil Brier Rex Trobridge Camp _ Hood Thompson Evans, Jr

Truman on holiday from duty again in Washington

President Truman, with no official duties until Monday, toured with Gov. Mon Wallgren and an official party to Mount Rainier after salmon fishing. Press secretary Ross said no news would come for a while, while Truman denied Cabinet shakeup plans and indicated a price and food control scheme could be coordinated.

Ernest B. Vaccaro Olympia Wash Truman Mount Rainier Mon C. Wallgren Department Executive Mansion Charles G. Ross Harold L. Ickes

Group of U S Specialists Is Assigned Job of Questioning Military Political Suspects

A mobile field interrogation team approach assigns highly specialized U S Army officers to question prisoners as they fall into Allied hands. Goering first faced air and political interrogations, while other captures like Brigadier Ferdinand Flury and General Fritz Bayerlein received specialized questioning on poisons and armored warfare. Bayerlein recalled Rommel’s tactic of closing before enemy fire, noting Allied and Desert War lessons.

U.S George Tucker Hal Boyle Wiesbaden Germany United States Army Goering Luftwaffe Hitler Ferdinand Flury Allied Board of Chemical Warfare Flury Wartenburg University German Chemical Warfare Board Fritz Bayerlein Ruhr Bayerlein Rommel Alamein

Draft boards reclassify strikers as strike grows

In Shreveport Louisiana on June 22 United Press reports local boards in a nine state area reclassifying striking Tri-State Transit drivers and mechanics and ordering pre induction physicals as twenty one strikers are summoned for examinations. The AFL union offers to drive veterans home free if the company provides buses. The strike prompts back to work orders from regional and national war labor boards, both ignored, with possible government seizure discussed.

Shreveport Tri-State Transit Company AFL Tri-State Truman Regional National War Labor Board

Luck Named President of District Fair

Hempstead County Judge Fred A. Luck was elected president of the permanent organization of the Third District Fair covering 14 southwest Arkansas counties in Hope. Glenn Wallace became first vice president with Emmet Williams and C. A. Overstreet as other vice presidents. W. A. Mudgett was chosen district fair secretary as the group set a tentative October date pending confirmation by the Office of Defense Transportation.

Hempstead Fred A. Luck Arkansas Hope City Hall Office of Defense Transportation Glenn Wallace Nashville Emmet Williams Garland City C. A. Overstreet Magnolia

Chinese Begin Storming of Liuchow

Chinese forces attacked Liuchow pressing from five columns toward the city. Liuchow’s southern air field, abandoned seven months ago, was attacked with heavy casualties reported. The Japanese garrison reportedly withdrew northeast toward Kweilin, leaving 1 000 to 2 000 defenders behind. Liuchow was said to be near full occupation within hours as fighting continued.

Chungking Liuchow Spencer Moosa Robert B. McClhure Kunming McClure Ishan Tatang

Visitors schedule tour of Huricane Creek alumina plant

Representatives from the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and civic directors of the State Resources and Development Commission were to tour the Hurricane Creek alumina plant near Bauxite this afternoon. Commission Chairman Hendrix Lackey said the tour aimed to explore postwar industry opportunities.

Little Rock

Ramsey and Cash Lost on Japanese Prison Ship

Two local families learn their sons Lt. Percy Ramsey and Pvt. Douglas C. Cash died October 24, 1944 when a Japanese prison ship was torpedoed off the China coast by an American submarine. The War Department notes exchange of letters ceased with the disaster.

Percy Ramsey W. M. Ramsey West Fifth Street Douglas C. Cash Charles E. Cash West Eighth Street China Coast War Department Lt. Ramsey Hope High School Bataan Cash Ramsey Texas Frank Chester Hope International Red Cross Philippine Islands Pvt Coast Artillery Corps Manila South China Sea J. A. Also the Army

Hempstead County Finishes 7th War Loan Drive 110 Percent

County completes 7th War Loan campaign by exceeding total and E Bond quotas. Final tallies show $688,664 in total sales, 110 percent of general quota, with E Bond sales at $311,585 or 102 percent of its quota. Township results appear in today’s Star.

Hempstead Syd McMatty Star

Master Nazi leaders to face single tribunal this summer

UPI reports Justice Robert Jackson said Nazi war criminals including Goering Ribbentrop Hess and others will be tried in a single master tribunal by a mixed Anglo American panel this summer. The plan allows defendants to pick defense counsel and witnesses with possible sentences varying by role and guilt.

Edward V. Roberts London UPI Supreme Court Robert Jackson Hermann Goering Joachim von Ribbentrop Rudolf Hess Jackson Britain France Russia United States Goering Turkey Franz von Papen Gestapo

Invasion jitters grip Japan as Okinawa drive nears end

Reports from Guam state Japan fears invasion as Okinawa's campaign uses final mopup. Premier Suzuki informs cabinet dictatorial powers enable rapid action for crisis, with emergency decree to take effect. Tokyo tracks American task forces near southern Ryukyus and possible landings on Amami and Kyushu.

William F. Tyree Guam Tokyo Okinawa Kantaro Suzuki Diet Japan Radio Tokyo Ryukyus Sakashima Islands Sakashimas Amami Kyushu Kuichiro Tezuka

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