Our Daily Bread Form No Place to Retire Prices Rise
A 1940s column warns that farm real estate has climbed since the war due to demand and speculative buying. Editor William Feather shares practical cautions about rural life, cash needs, and essential costs from tools to livestock care, noting that even eggs can fund gasoline. A light note about Victory Gardens and a county official’s fishing mishap rounds out the piece.
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Iauite
William Feather
Imperial Type Metal Magazine
Mr. Feather
Italian Press Warns People of An Invasion
Italian press and military writers warned Italians of the prospect of a invasion while noting the difficulties. Berlin radio quoted Italian correspondents saying the Mediterranean is narrow and vulnerable to aerial attack, and shipping problems persist. Fasci writer Gayda and ex Propaganda Minister Pavolini rejected Allied hopes to break morale. La Stampa warned Italy could resist only with long campaigns across a broad front.
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Associated Press
Mullan
Berlin
Popele D
Milan
Mediterranean
Virginio Gayda
Rome
Gayda
Alessandro Pavolini
Il Messaggero
Italy
la Stampa
Turin
Germany
Japan
Gas Plant Start Planned July 1 At Two Arkansas Sites
Director John M. Bransford of the Arkansas Agricultural and Industrial Commission says production will start about July 1 at two gas cleaning plants under construction in southwest Arkansas. The projects cost about 2.6 million dollars, with the McKamie Gas Cleaning Company plant near Magnolia expected to yield 20 to 24 million cubic feet of cleansed gas daily, and the Arkansas Fuel Oil Company plant to produce 61 million cubic feet daily from the Darcheat and Macedonia fields.
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Little Rock
John M. Bransford
Arkansas Agricultural and Industrial Commission
Arkanas
McKamie
Magnolia
McKaimie
Akansas Fuel Oil Company
Darcheat
Macedonia
Ration Book Bond Accepted by Oklahoma Police
A man hauled before police for a minor offense offered his dollar and his ration book as bond. Officers accepted, noting the small cash amount and the ration book provided security. The article also notes the Nazi party organizing in November 1820 and mentions ginger root cultivation by Puerto Rican farmers.
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Paneun
Okla
Poor But Honest Bootlegger Denied Support Reduction
In Knoxville Tennessee Circuit Judge Taylor Cox refused to reduce court ordered support for a wife and two children. The petitioner claimed ill health and bootlegging as his limited livelihood due to police enforcement, but the judge found no justification to lower the payments.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Knox County
Taylor Cox
Churchill Addresses U.S. Congress Pledges British War Entry
Prime Minister Churchill spoke before a joint session of Congress pledging British participation in the war against Japan. He and President Roosevelt anticipate meeting Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek soon and warned of the grave submarine threat. He said Japan’s cities and war industries must be destroyed before peace returns, and he foresaw heavier work ahead across Europe and in the Pacific and Indian theaters.
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Associated Press
Churchill
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Japan
Roosevelt
Stalin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Europe
Pacific
Churchill pledges aid to China and Pacific war effort
Prime Minister Churchill told Congress Britain will wage war in the Pacific side by side with the United States. He urged immediate and effective aid to China as a top common task, recalling losses in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and the fall of Singapore. He noted shared Pacific interests and called his invitation to Congress a high mark in his life.
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Washington
Churchill
Congress
Britain
Pacific
China
Senate
Japan
Hitler
Mussolini
Europe
Dutch East Indies
Malayan
Singapore
United States
Rayburn
D-Tex
Five WWII prisoners recaptured near Fidelity Missouri
Supt. M. Stanley Ginn of the state highway patrol said five Italian POWs who escaped from Camp Clark in Macon County were captured near Fidelity in southwest Missouri. Two patrolmen spotted them hiding in a barn a mile north of Fidelity.
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Jefferson City
M. Stanley Ginn
State Highway Patrol
Camp Clark
Mac
Fidelity
Missouri
Ginn
Japanese Send Heavy Force to Bomb Wan
Japanese forces launch a major air and ground attack on Wan with 102 planes, including bombers, while 64 Japanese strike allied positions near Rodbdubi close to Siflaniaua. MacArthur’s air units sweep seven Japanese bases across Widespread fronts from Rabaul to New Britain and New Guinea, as RAF attacks disrupt transport along the Bay of Bengal coast and inland targets. Japanese vanguards press toward the Burma India frontier within about 10 miles of the line as monsoon rains loom.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Wan
Rodbdubi
Siflaniaua
MacArthur
Rabaul
Gasimaja
Araw
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Lae
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Lorengau
Admiralty Islands
Burma
RAF
Bay of Wengal
Mayu Rver
Sundoway
India
Burma-India
324000 Men Lost to Axis in Africa War
Allied headquarters announce 324000 Axis losses in the Tunisian campaign from Mareth to Cap Bon with about 287000 captured and 30000 killed or seriously wounded. The report notes a major Panettaria raid by U S Air Forces and heavy bombing of Trapani Sicily docks and airfields. Dried egg production in 1942 numbered 139 billion pounds.
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Noland Norgard
North Africa
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Tunisia
U. S
Trapani
Sicily
Messerschmitts
Focke - Wulfs
United States
Tunis
Bizerte
Jurgen von Arnim
Floods Devastate Ruhr Valley as RAF Mines Break Dams
London reports Allied aerial actions over the Channel continue as floods from Mohne and Jäer reservoirs breach German dams. The Ruhr and Weser industrial regions suffer widespread devastation while RAF bombers target rail and water transport, with trains hit and floodwaters advancing toward Duisburg and Kassel.
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London
English Channel
RAF
Straits
Boulogne
Crp Gris Nez
Mohne
Jéder
Germany
Ruhr and Weser
NBC
Don Hollenbeck
Ministry
St. Fengers
Port Frat
S#umur
Angers
Nantes
Les Andelys
Seine
Ruhr
Duisburg
Kassel
Weser
Coastline of Dutch Hard to Fortify
A Dutch veteran recalls the coast defense challenges facing Germany as World War II fighters seek to fortify a long sand and clay coast. He details pill boxes built on sand, granite ground plates, and 3.6 centimeter guns, noting how wind and bombs easily disrupt foundations along about 250 miles of coast from the Hague to vulnerable stretches.
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Max Hill
New York
Nielland
United Nations
Newey
Holland
Molland
Hague
Allies Brace for Expected Jap Offensive
American forces brace for a Japanese counter stroke as Attu battle nears. United States Army troops have landed on both northern and southern approaches of Attu Island while Navy communiqués indicate Allied forces closing in on main Japanese positions at Holtz Bay.
Nazi Airpower Hard Hit by Red Airforce
Moscow May 19 Soviet airmen struck German bases over three weeks, Red Star reports Germans shifted air forces from Crimean airfields to reinforce exhausted units. Russians said they destroyed 370 planes May 9 to 15 and claimed 25 German planes downed in three days. Blooded battles continued at Kuban and Lishniansk with losses on both sides as Russians captured trenches near Donets and leveled pill boxes while German counterattacks sought to hold a new bridgehead.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Star
Army
Crimean
Svesk
Kuban
Lishhansk
Novorossisk
Kerch
Lishchansk
Donets
Kharkov
Seysk
Berlin
London
Izyum
Last Ditch Stan Washington May 19 ican pincers close on Japanese positions
Navy communique reports U S forces at Attu advance and hold high ground near Holtz Bay while Madre Bay troops push northward. Japanese positions along Holtz Bay and Chi Harbor appear untenable with retreat possible to Chicago or Massacre Bay area as US units tighten surround. Three inch anti aircraft guns captured and repurposed by American troops.
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Washington
Navy
Namb
North Pacific
Holtz Bay
Attu
Madre Bay
Macre Bay
Nena
Santa Isabeli Island
End
Chicago
Chi Harbor
Massacre Bay
Greyhound Wins Permit For New Little Rock Line
The Arkansas Public Service Commission grants Greyhound a temporary one year authority to operate three round trips daily between Little Rock and Fordyce via El Dorado. The ruling allows through service between El Dorado and Little Rock and follows a court order canceling the El Dorado to Little Rock permit while Eagle Transportation loses its Dorado to Fordyce route.
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Little Rock
Corporation Commission
Southwestern Greyho Lmes, Inc
Auth
Li Rock
Bordyce
Greyhound
el Doada
Fordyce
el Dorado
Litt Rock
Eagle Transportation
Dorado
Bae Preme
Hagle
Former Spring Hill Man Dies Tuesday
John Yucum of Kilgore Texas formerly of Spring Hill died Tuesday morning in a New Orleans hospital. Funeral services will be held at the Spring Hill Baptist Church Thursday at 3 p.m. with interment at Huckabee cemetery.
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John Yucum
Kilgore
Texas
Spring Hill
New Orleans
Spring Hill Baptist Church
Huckabee
Missouri Pacific Depot Refurnishment Underway
Missouri Pacific Railroad completes redecorating and refurnishing at Hope depot. Waiting room flooring to be recovered and new tarnis installed throughout. All rooms to be finished including new floors.
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Hope
Missouri Pacific Railroad
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France
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Tete Virres “Alghero
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Munch Switz
Snales
Algeria
Tans
Vanitustri
England
Attu Island
Tokyo
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Aitu
Alu
Missouri Pacific
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