Our Daily Bread Alex H Washburn Rent Control
A brief note about Our Daily Bread in relation to rent control featuring Alex H Washburn. The item notes historical stance or reference to rent regulation within the publication.
17 Nov 1944
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1944
Page
1
A brief note about Our Daily Bread in relation to rent control featuring Alex H Washburn. The item notes historical stance or reference to rent regulation within the publication.
A collage of wartime items notes rent control discussions in Hope Arkansas, Homecoming for Hope Bobcats, and reflections on cigarettes and local politics. It then shifts to Prime Minister Churchill on German V-2 rockets, their accuracy, trajectory, and impact, and ends with a look at the American Legion’s role in postwar rehabilitation and the GI Bill.
Hempstead County mobilizes over 100 canvassers for the Sixth War Loan Drive opening Monday November 20. All workers gather at 7 30 pm in Hope city hall council room for an address by O A Graves and assignment of duties to reach a $525000 quota including 185000 in E Bonds.
J K Paasikivi named prime minister of Finland in a cabinet reshuffle. Ten new ministers named in an 18 member cabinet including one Communist Y Leino. C J A Enckell remains foreign minister. Paasikivi previously Finnish minister to Moscow.
London reports say German submarines may be fitted with launch devices to direct flying bombs against American cities. Walter Farr of the London Daily Mail cited Stockholm sources as current the past day, noting both surface and underwater vessels along the Norwegian coast as robot bomb launchers.
James Marlow reports on a push for younger leaders in U S government. Roosevelt’s cabinet averages 62, with several members aged 70 or more, and key posts in Congress show similar age patterns.
Washington Nov 17 The plan to resume civilian goods production may be held back until a German collapse is assured as Byrnes warns of possible drastic actions. He links shortages to war delays and urges labor force expansion to avert prolonging the war. WPB studies conversion timing and may keep V E Day plans secret for psychological reasons.
A local report notes Fulton donates 308 dollars to the National War Fund. The contribution highlights civic support and wartime fundraising efforts in the community.
American forces on Leyte pressed forward through rain and rugged terrain within firing range of the Ormoc road. MacArthur reported the 26 mile corridor remained open to Japanese observation, with Easley wounded as US units tighten the frontline.
Four residents perished when a two story building housing a furniture store and upstairs apartments burned in Memphis. Fire Marshal Nunnery named Whit McCaughn owner of a fire company and Roland Lahmar his wife Mary plus a Mr Clark, father of Mrs Lohmar, as the dead. Firemen initially feared more victims but were later told none others remained.
Dayton and Toledo operators walked out in a sudden protest against outside personnel. About 50 percent of Columbus long distance operators were absent at 8 30 a m central war time. Dayton presence affected roughly 600 operators. Picket lines formed outside Ohio Bell offices while others went through lines amid jeers.
Six Allied armies press into Germany in the anticipated final western front clash. U S First and Ninth Armies breach the Siegfried Line advancing toward the Rhine while British and other forces reach and cross near the Maas and Roermond. Patton's Third Army nears Metz as Seventh Army seizes villages in the Vosges and braces for further action.
Russian forces pierced the main defense east of Budapest capturing Gyomro rail station and pressed toward Godollo and Hatvan. Malinovsky's army moved within five miles of Miskolc, crossed the Budapest Miskolc line near Vamosgyork, and advanced toward Hatvan. Soviet air and ground operations expanded the bridgehead, threatening central Slovakia and Vienna routes as German naval assets face Baltic dangers.
An Allied naval statement reports a small commando landing on the Nazi-occupied island of Melos, 70 miles north of Crete, on Tuesday. Casualties occurred and prisoners were taken before the raiders withdrew.
Lt. Philip Guba and Capt. Ted Speirs describe a night mission at a Belgium air base when their twin-engined fighter intercepted a buzz bomb at 1000 feet. The blast damaged the aircraft but they survived the explosion. Lefty Eleutherion commended Ted for firing and avoided fatal consequences.
More than 3,500 bombers blasted the Rhine approaches in a five hour opening attack. About 2,400 American and British heavy bombers dropped 11,000 tons of fragmentation bombs northeast of Aachen. Escorts strafed targets in Frankfurt and Giesen regions, destroying locomotives and railway cars as Luftwaffe offered no challenge.
Admiral Nimitz announced revised figures for the November 12 Manila raid by Third Fleet carrier planes. A cruiser and 11 cargo vessels and oil tankers were sunk, four destroyers destroyed, two merchantmen destroyed or set ablaze, with a light cruiser confirmed sunk. Additional strikes hit Palau and surrounding islands with ground installations attacked by Liberators.
Eight Army troops occupied Modigliana nine miles south of the Bologna Rimini highway, the Allies announced. British and Indian forces found the town mined and booby trapped after a rapid German retreat. Eighth Army advanced toward the Montone river, clearing Coccolia and probing toward San Pancrazio. In the Adriatic sector the Germans flooded lands near Peese 16, hindering maneuvers.
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