Our Daily Bread Turnback Lows
Our Daily Bread reports a market pause as turnback lows appear in trading. Analysts note dampened demand and cautious investor sentiment shaping short term price movement.
26 Oct 1944
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
1
Our Daily Bread reports a market pause as turnback lows appear in trading. Analysts note dampened demand and cautious investor sentiment shaping short term price movement.
Arkansas faces ongoing road funding battles as turnback laws divert state gasoline tax revenue to cities and counties. The State Highway Commission shifts to support the house version of a McClellan amendment aligned bill, raising concerns about delays in full federal aid and statewide road construction.
Finance directors H L McAlister and Sam J Watkins defend the Arkansas Democratic campaign on the “One Thousand Club” and say they distributed letters inviting $1 000 contributors to gain “special privileges and prestige.” They argue Dewey misinterprets the phrase and relate benefits under the Democratic administration to party supporters.
Russian and Polish forces push a six mile deep bridgehead across the Vistula north of Warsaw threatening encirclement. Rokossovsky and the First Polish Army reach Laski and Dabrowka while German defenses face renewed pressure in East Prussia and Transylvania advances continue with Romanian aid.
AP war correspondent Asa Hel Ace Bush, 31, from Salem Oregon, was killed by a Japanese bomb as Tacloban, Leyte island, was raided during the Philippine invasion. C Yates MacDaniel, AP Philippine desk chief, reported Bush died in line of duty becoming the tenth civilian newsman killed in the Pacific.
Little Rock reports that a PRA ruling disqualifying Arkansas under the McClellan amendment halted federal aid for highways. The Arkansas Highway Commission switched support to the House bill after Rep. Oren Harris said diversions of highway funds to cities and counties under gasoline turnback laws prevented qualification. The McClellan amendment would have allowed aid without state matching.
The U S Navy allows AP reporters to document the Missouri and Iowa during shakedown tests. Elton C Fay and Charles Mercer describe 880 foot hulls, 45 000 ton displacement, 16 inch guns and speeds near 30 knots as these 100 million dollar ships prove their power and seakeeping before active war.
Hope’s Boy Scouts, led by county chairman Lyman Armstrong, will begin at 5 30 pm and sweep the town for scrap paper. The drive replaces the former monthly collection by the city, with funds raised by selling bulk scrap and covering shipping costs. Please have paper ready for pickup to ensure full coverage tonight.
Washington reports Secretary Stimson describes the American Philippines landing as a psychological and military disaster for Japan. He notes Leyte landings suffered light casualties while Japanese losses were far higher and warns of potential renewed enemy reinforcements.
A claim states the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics covers one sixth of the earth and that an Australian ranger is the sole animal with green fur. No corroborating details are provided to support these assertions.
The National War Fund total for Hempstead county rose to 2694.50 today in the third report from James H. Jones and Roy Anderson. This is about 31.87 percent of the county quota of 8163, which must be met before the campaign ends. A spokesman noted some Hempstead residents have reached 100 percent.
U S forces drive into Leyte valley capturing Burauen and San Pablo as northern front seizes Leyte and Samar shores. Carrier planes beat off a Japanese daylight raid. 53 Nipponese planes shot down and AA downed three. The operation aims to trap Japanese forces with severed supply lines.
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports that more than 26 Japanese warships were sunk or heavily damaged in a three‑pronged Philippine battle. Nimitz and MacArthur tally shows carriers and battleships sunk or damaged with many more vessels damaged, signaling a decisive, possibly war-shortening victory for the U S. Navy in the Pacific theater.
In Aachen Germany 1944 Captain Gilbert TH Fuller 26 from Ludlow Virginia earns the unofficial title mayor as he directs heavy fire from attics and basements to pin German defenders. His mortars and machine guns keep advancing doughboys safe and the city in Fourth of July mood. His mortarman sergeant Louis Chase of Springfield Vermont is praised as the best with two mortars and 20 men. Chase’s unit has been cited for past battles and Fuller awarded Silver Star.
Canadian troops closed in on the last major German guns blocking Antwerp while Berlin announced Allied landings on Walcheren island near the port. Montgomery’s forces pushed through the Holland deltas toward Breda and Hertogenbosch as the front from the Schelde estuary to the Swiss border remained quiet elsewhere.
Parents and relatives of servicemen are urged to attend the American Legion district conference at 1 PM Sunday October 29 in the Hope Legion hall to learn about the GI Bill of Rights. Commander J Pat Duffie says representatives from government departments will discuss all assistance for ex servicemen and women.
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