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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1945
Page
1
Our Daily Bread notes washburn cigarettes as a yes item in a brief column.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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