Spelling debates and censorship in postwar letters
The piece discusses town spellings like Spring Hill Arkansas and Springhill Louisiana, notes newspaper corrections, and mentions war’s censorship lingering into Europe. It cites Victor Beinstock on censor authority, and James Thrashers thoughts on Russia relations and Browder's response to Duclos in a literary quarrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Hill
Ark
Springhill
Louisiana
Arkansas
Emmet O
Southwestern Proving Ground Busses
James Thrasher
Russia
Europe
Moscow
Pagues Duclos
Cahiers du Communisme
Earl Browder
American Communist Political Association
Daily Worker
M. Duclos
Mr. Browder
Duclos
Chinese Attack on Wide Front Advances Reported
Spencer Moosa reports that Chinese forces strike along a 900 mile front from the Yellow River to French Indo China, regaining positions May 16 lines and pushing toward Shanhsien and the Lunghai rail line. Chinese claim new inroads west of the enemy corridor as Japanese retreat from several outposts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Ishan
Liuchow
Yellow River
Fukien
Ningteh
Foochow
Siapu
Henan Province
Shanhsien
Lunghai
Hunan-Shensi
Hunan
Shoyang
Tankow
Shaoyang
Teinho
Locheng
Changan
Luichow
Desperate Battle Between Block Island Escort and German Sub
In a dramatic clash off the Atlantic the U S S Buckley battled and defeated a Nazi U-boat after close-quarters fighting. Lt Comdr Brent M Abel led a crew that repelled boarders with coffee mugs and shell casings, sinking the submarine with direct gunfire and hand grenades as the ship closed in.
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Boston
U. S
Atlantic
Buckley
Brent M. Abel
New York
Block Island
Abel
Major Frank B Robison Promoted Veteran Aerial Spy
Frank B Robison of Hope Arkansas Route 4 recently received a promotion to major while serving with the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Germany. The 25 year old P 51 Mustang pilot commands his squadron and holds the Air Medal with 15 oak leaf clusters, with a recommendation for the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is noted for Arty R missions directing artillery fire from high speed Mustangs over targets, including a February strike near Euskirchen that disabled a trainload of vehicles nine miles from the guns. His record includes two Luftwaffe kills and a Buzz Bomb engagement on a return from reconnaissance over Belgium.
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Ninth Air Force
Germany
Frank B. Robison
Hope
Arkansas
67Th Tactical Reconnaissance
Robison
Euskirehen
Rhine
Bulge
Belgium
Siegfried Line
Rhine Wal
French bombard Damascus as Middle East crisis widens
Damascus came under renewed French bombardment as Syria and Lebanon condemned Paris demands. British mediation halted a night of shelling while fighting spread from Aleppo to Homs and reached near the Transjordan frontier. Syrian and Lebanese ministers in London warned against new French demands amid ongoing clashes and casualties.
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London
Damascus
Syria
France
Lebanon
Syrian Youth Movement
Beyrouth
Legation
Aleppo
Hama
Homs
Deraa
Hamdanieh
Kawakeh
Jamil Mardam Bey
Paris
Far East
Mosul
Georges Bidault
Middle East
Girl Meets Soldier Dad Kills Her in Kansas City
Lula Mae Davis, 21, met her soldier boyfriend after two years when gunfire killed her soon after a father Ray E. Davis, 42, fired. Lt. Welch said Davis fled as Pvt. David Harold Sharp had warned the father previously. Family witnesses described the dramatic confrontation and the mother's rush home as the tragedy unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Lula Mae Davis
Charles Welch
Homicide Bureau
Ray E. Davis
Davis
David Harold Sharp
Welch
Lula Mae
Sharp
Mildred
Wanda
Wilda Davis
Mrs. Davis
Mrs Elsie Shields Given Suspended Sentence In Bath Case
Mrs Elsie Shields aged 24 received a suspended three year sentence for neglecting her four year old daughter. She was ordered to attend a Salvation Army motherhood course as part of the judgment issued in Bath England. The report adds a caution about using spoiled milk in cooking paralleling a note on souring dairy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
England
Elsie Shields
Salvation Army
War Loan Message from Admiral Ingram Appeals to Home Front
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, commander in chief of the U S Atlantic Fleet, urges Americans to tighten belts, boost production, and buy war bonds. He says victory depends on home front support and the tough final push ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jonas H. Ingram
U. S. Atlantic Fleet
Spring Hill Second Township Exceeds War Loan Quota
Spring Hill is the second township in Hempstead county to surpass its Seventh War Loan quota, reporting $3,825 in sales against a $2,500 target. The drive totals show 40 percent of the county’s $624,000 goal. Bodcaw was first to exceed its quota. EE Bond sales reach $164,629.50 toward $305,000. In civic standings the B and P W club leads Rotary Kiwanis American Legion with graded amounts.
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Spring Hill
Hempstead County
Syd McMeth
Bodcaw Township
Hope Civic Club
Business & Professional Women's Club
B. & P.W. Club
Rotary
Kiwanis
American Legion Dake
Two Divisions Open Drive on North Luzon
Manila dispatch reports the 25th and 32nd US divisions linking up along the Villa Verde trail to strike into the Cagayan valley, aiming to crush the last major Japanese garrison in the Philippines as 30,000 Japanese remain east of the valley. Also noted is the securing of Wawa Dam by the 38th Division, after a month of hard fighting that left heavy officer casualties and dwindling ranks.
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H. D. Quigg
Manila
Cagayan Valley
Luzon
Philippines
Villa Verde
Lingayen
Douglas MacArthur
Philihes
Wawa
Strict Economy Urged for State in June
Governor Laney urged state department heads to practice strict economy and pursue further personnel reductions during June, the final month of the fiscal year, to save as much as possible rather than exhaust appropriations. The Saar in Germany has been a coal mining area since the Middle Ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Laney
Saar
Germany
60 000 Homes Burned in Yokohama War Raid
American B 29s wrecked Yokohama destroying 60 000 houses and leaving 250 000 homeless in a raid that also damaged Kawasaki and parts of metropolitan Tokyo. Radio Tokyo reported disrupted communications and estimated 46 percent of Yokohama’s built up area in ruins. Japanese officials awaited fuller casualty figures as transportation slowly recovered.
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Richard W. Johnston
Guam
Yokohama
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Tokyo
21St Bomber Command
Bomber Command
Emperor Hirohito
Imperial Palace
Hirhito
Curtis E. LeMay
21St Command
Tadahiko Okada
Okada
Kawasaki
Art
Okyo
Fall of Shuri Speeds Capture of All Okinawa
American Marines pierced Shuri Castle as part of the Okinawa offensive. Company C of the Fifth Regiment entered the 16th century fortification after a daring moat crossing, with Col. Griebel reporting the first battalion reached the castle. Other sectors advanced while Sixth Division Marines closed in on Naha, facing stiff resistance among tombstones and ridge lines as Seventh Division patrols isolated Yonabaru and moved toward the southern shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton W. Faron
Guam
Shuri Castle
Okinawa
Associated Press
Lief Erickson
Fifth Regiment
Shuri
John H. Griebel
Hartford
Naha
Naha Canal
Fortress Shuri
Vern Haugland
First Marine Division
Wana Ridge
Haugland
Seventh Infantry
Yonabaru
Karadera
Seventh Division
Sashiki
Baten Bay
Khineng
Seventh Divison
Chan
Jackson Gillis
Archibald V. Arnold
Gillis
New York
Hollywood
Claims Filed Year After Contract Are Invalid
Attorney General Guy E. Williams ruled that no claim against a state agency can be paid from a later fiscal year appropriation than the contract. He invalidated two $71 claims by the Arkansas Geological Survey for advertising contracts with R L Polk and Company, in the 1944 fiscal year, now under the Resources and Development Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Guy E. Williams
Hendrix Lackey
State Resources and Development Commission
Illiams
Commission
Arkansas Geological Survey
R.L. Polk and Company
St. Louis
Seeing Montgomery in Paris recalls Tripoli campaign
George Tucker recalls Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as he stood under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and remembers the January 1943 Tripoli assault when Montgomery first rose to prominence. He frames the Arc de Triomphe moment against the earlier desert battles and the ebb and flow of Wavell Auchinleck and Rommel.
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Montgomery
Paris
Tripoli
George Tucker
Hal Boyle
Bernard L. Montgomery
Arica
Highland Division
Italy
Western Desert
Eighth Army
Viscount Wavell
Henry Maitland Wilson
Claude Auchinleck
Wavell
Greece
Wrwin Rommel
Monty
Rommel
Memorial Day Observances Across The Nation And Europe
Memorial Day observed with parades and services nationwide as veterans and civilians honor fallen soldiers. Wreaths placed at Arlington and Hyde Park graves. flag ceremonies in Chicago, New York, Boston, and Oakland. in Europe ceremonies at 54 cemeteries with 117000 American dead buried in France and Germany. wreaths on the Unknown Soldier tomb in Paris and at Heidelberg flagpole. Taps, salutes, and religious services accompany the commemorations.
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Associated Press
Europe
Pacific Islands
Japan
Gettysburg
Flandersfield
Armandy Beaches
Iwo Jima
Italy
Okinawa
Mark W. Clark
San Francisco Bay Area
Oakland
New England
Boston
Boston Common
Kansas City
Phil M. Donnelly
Liberty Memorial
Marine Corps League
New York
Riverside Drive
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Hyde Park
Frank C. Walker
Roosevelt Memorial Committee
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Arlington Memorial Cemetery
Potomac_ river
Washington
Battleground National Cemetery
Walter Reed Hospital
Paris
United Nations
United States
Germany
Sixth Army Group
Jacob L. Devers
Heidelberg University
Devers
U. S
Jeferson Caffery
Saint Pierre de Charlot
Normandy
Mediterranean
France
Belgium
Charles Sawyer
Henri Chappel
Liege
Pedro Garcia
Elmhurst
Queens
N. Y
Ninth Army
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Alex. H. Washburn
Victor M. Beinstock
Overseas News Agency
Editor & Publisher Magazine
Beinstock
Eua
Trieste
New York World-Telegram
Brow
Browder
Moses
Machido
Hodogoya
Sagami
Korea
Tusan
Konesaki
Tokyo Boy
Kyushu
Miles
Kobe
Shikoku
Pacific
Kanazawa
Honshu
Otora
Niigata
Yokoham
Hokkaido
Sapporo
Hirosaki
Telemap
San Francisco
John M. Hightower
Britain
China
Security Council
Canada
Council
General Assembly
South Africa
Egypt
Mexico
Colombia
Iran
Australia
Assembly
Hope Rt. 4
Soldier
Dad
Yonobory
Nobogusuru
Intaroshiku
Chinen Peninsula
NEA
North
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