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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1944
Page
1
A brief notice lists Our Daily Bread as a product by Alex H Washburn Coeser Petrillo. The fragment cites names and a small pass‑through reference to the bakery or publication. No clear event or location is described in full.
In New York CBS NBC and RCA agreed to pay into the union treasury recording fees totaling about 4 million dollars annually after a two year dispute led by James Caesar Petrillo. The settlement ends a heated battle over payment from recording to musicians.
Stars and Stripes editorial laments low blood donations back home for the European theater blood bank. It notes a five pint per GI quota but only two pints stored per man in action and urges Americans to donate, praising British donors and calling for continued support during favorable war news.
County Chairman Syd McMath announced Hempstead County’s Sixth War Loan quota totaling 525000 dollars with Hope receiving 417500 and each community assigned specific chairmen and pledges. The plan emphasizes person to person and house to house campaigns and credits bank or post office sales to the proper community.
A letter from Thomas T. Asimos of Texarkana thanks Hope residents for clothing for Greece. He notes 6000 garments shipped to the Greek War Relief Association in New York and a new shipment to be sent in January after Greece’s liberation.
Chief of Police John Turner announced the arrest of two Hope men and the recovery of 12 tires stolen from Arch Wylie filling station at East Third and Walnut streets. Neill Elder confessed and six tires were found in Bob Cornelius’ East Third street store and six more sold to taxi firms Brown and Urrey. Elder admitted selling them.
Federal rent control will start December 1 in Garland county and Hot Springs where the army has taken over leading hotels as rest centers for servicemen. Rent control will also be restored in Hot Spring county and the city of Malvern on the same date per the Office of Price Administration announcement.
London reports intensified rumors that Adolf Hitler is dead or incapacitated as a strange broadcast attributed to Heinrich Himmler aired a last ditch appeal. British officials suspect the message was ghost written by Himmler and Goebbels to curb German rumors while Hitler neared illness or death.
Paris November 13 Churchill told a French gathering that Britain wants a strong united France under General de Gaulle. He said Germans could be defeated in six months and urged all French army units to join final battles. Churchill praised de Gaulle and urged unity to deter future German aggression.
New York reports that major record firms RCA Victor Columbia Recording Columbia and NBC transcription division signed three year contracts with the AFM. Royalty payments are set from a quarter to two cents per record, totaling an estimated 4 million dollars annually. Decca and several smaller companies had signed earlier. The AFM convention will decide how funds are used. Immediate resumption of record making follows.
Arkadelphia on November 13 reports former state legislator TN Wilson died Saturday after a long illness at age 75.
About 200 farm buildings are destroyed by fires daily across the United States and Canada. The steady pace raises concerns for agricultural safety and economic losses.
A Senate committee urges a hard peace to dismantle Germanys big steel and chemical industries to prevent rearmament and curb German control of international cartels. The Kilgore subcommittee calls for dismantling indirect munitions sectors and removing key industries to deprive Germany of economic and political leverage.
Veteran actress Miss Ethel Barrymore, 65, was admitted to Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York with pneumonia and a cardiac condition. She canceled her Friday night engagement in Embezzled Heaven after an influenza attack, marking her first NY absence in nearly half a century. Her condition worsened to pulmonary congestion with high fever and rapid pulse, though the heart condition was described as fair by Dr. Louis Rene Kaufman.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower cables Americans to back the sixth war loan. He calls for renewed and intensified effort at home, urging citizens to contact local war finance committees and join as volunteer bond workers to vastly oversubscribe the issue for victory.
American forces widened the Moselle bridgehead north of Metz and pushed toward Thionville as Patton’s Seventh Army drove from the south. German retreats appeared along the Metz sector while rail links to the Saar tightened under Allied pressure.
Durham report says outfielder Walter Michie who hit .286 for Williamsport last season in the East League was claimed in the class A-1 draft by Birmingham of the Southern Association. W G Bramham said Michie was the only contracted player claimed.
The State War Manpower Commission approved 735 war prisoners for 22 Arkansas cotton compresses to ease a labor shortage. The Federal Compress and Warehouse Co requested 685 prisoners for 20 of its plants.
Prescott reports Jesse Smith aged 14 died Saturday from a shotgun discharge while hunting with a companion. Accident investigators described the incident as an accidental shooting that claimed the life of a young hunter.
Private John Hilderbrand of Oakmont Pennsylvania joined German forces during a night patrol beyond the Siegfried Line but hid his gear when the American line counterattacked. He quietly returned to U S lines after the engagement and was commended by his company.
The Red Army presses toward Budapest with Monor falling and advances up to 30 miles east. Mezosovesd and Ujszasz area gains secure a 25 mile rail corridor while German and Hungarian counterattacks fail to dislodge Soviet spearheads in the southern suburbs. A Moscow communique reports 700 enemy captured and 30 localities seized.
Mrs. R. V. Herndon of 400 South Main street was burned on face and arms when the oven of her gas range exploded as she lit it this morning. Clothing did not catch fire. Dr. L. M. Lile attended her and she is at home.
Instructions for subscribing servicemen to The Star at half-rate and for notifying address changes. Overseas mail requires a written request from the service member, with postal regulations noted. Subscribers should track expiration dates, as overseas issues aren’t automatically alerted.
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