Our Daily Bread Sliced Thin by The Editor
Archie the Mouse is highlighted in a short Our Daily Bread piece by editor Alex H. Washburn. The column notes a playful moment and offers a concluding reflection.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1944
Page
1
Definitions and Archie the Front Offices Mouse
A lighthearted office vignette mixes Archie the cautious Front Offices Mouse with a satirical set of old definitions. The piece describes Archies wanderings from his home under the typewriter to desks at advertising and business and notes his periodic disappearances for meals. It ends with a mock glossary entry for CO-ORDINATOR CONFERENCE and CONSULTANT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie
Sharp County Probe Finds Vote Fraud In Arkansas Senate Primary
Senate investigators report extensive irregularities in Sharp county during the Arkansas Democratic senatorial primaries. About 1,500 duplicate and original ballots were found jammed in 13 precincts, with unsigned ballots and indistinguishable precinct numbers hindering review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Sharp County
Aransas
Senate
George J. Shillito
Vais
Crittenden County
Poinsett
Garland
Newton
Hot Spring
J. W. Fulbright
East Indian Troops Move on Bologna in WW II advance
Allied reports say Indian Eighth Army troops bridged the Roneo river near Meidola seven miles south of Forli and secured a foothold extending half a mile. Polish forces, after capturing Predappio, met German defenses at Caminato as fighting continued. On the Adriatic front, Bra zil ia occupied Calomini and Eighth Army met light opposition while German lines shifted north toward Ravenna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Eighth Army
Forli
Rimini-Bologna
Roneo
Meidola
Predappio
Caminato
Brazilia
Calomini
Massa
Adriatic
Ravenna
Bombing of Cologne by Allied Air Forces Described
London reports that over 1,000 British and Canadian planes dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Cologne, the Reich’s most heavily bombed city. Mosquito and RCAF Lancasters took part, two planes were lost, and fires and smoke rose as air fields across Germany were attacked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cologne
Benin
Sanrday
Germany
Rhineland
First Army
Reich
Hamburg
Stilwell Ouster and Pressure on Chiang Revealed
New Delhi report details Stilwell removal as China Burma theater commander amid American demands for cabinet reform and a unified anti Japanese front. Hurley and Nelson pressed Chiang for decisive changes and an American-led command, with disclosures of internal Chinese politics and telegrams from Hopkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Grover
New Delhi
Joseph W. Stilwell
Chungking
Patrick Hurley
Donald M. Nelson
China
America
Associated Press
Chiang
Stilwell
CBS
Burma
Roosevelt
H. H. Kung
United States
Kung
Harry Hopkins
Japs Claim Big Loss in U S Ships
The Japanese high command said Nipponese planes sunk or damaged 19 American warships east of the Philippines since last Wednesday, including nine carriers. Five American ships were sunk, among them three carriers, with Kamikaze attacks continuing in the Gulf of Leyte and Lamon Bay near Luzon. In other notes, about 2,200 Americans died from accidental gas poisoning in 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Japan
High Command
Philippines
U. S
Federal Communications Commission
Imperial Navy
Gulf of Leyte
Lamon Bay
Luzon
Main
Republicans and Democrats in looming election split
Republicans expect to gain the House while Democrats aim to hold a slim majority in the current political landscape. Forecasters predict a Democratic Senate and Republican House with ballots set for next Tuesday in a high-stakes election across 35 Senate and 432 House seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
D. Harold Oliver Washington
Senate
Main
House
George
D-Ga
Rep
Halleck
Indiana
Drewry
Virginia
Rayburn
Solid South
la Follette
Churchill warns war may last into 1946 and urges coalition
London October 31 Prime Minister Churchill told Commons the war against Germany could run into next summer and the war against Japan into the end of 1946. He urged keeping Britain’s nine year Parliament and a war born coalition until Nazism is defeated. Labor leader Greenwood supported extending Parliament but said the coalition should not be prolonged until Japan is defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex H. Singleton
London
Churchill
Commons
Germany
Japan
Britain
Arthur Greenwood
Labor Party
Greenwood
Labor
Hungary's 4th Largest City Falls to Reds
Berlin radio said Russian troops broke into Kecskemet, Hungary's fourth largest city about 50 miles southeast of Budapest, in a drive toward the capital. The Germans claimed a counterattack drove the Russians out. nine Russian and three Romanian divisions were reported with German tank support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Keeskemet
Budapest
Berlin
Danube
Tisza
DNE
Kecskemet
Hungary
Warsaw
Ast
Prussia
Narew River
Plish River
Pultusk
National War Fund Closing Date Set for November 10
Local War Fund totals show Hempstead county at 46 percent of its $8 163 quota with $3 752 raised. County officials James H Jones and Roy Anderson announced an extension to November 10 and noted Hope Basket company contributions totaling $706 85 from Ward Two plant. A lengthy donor list follows, ending with a historical note on pigeon messengers dating to 3500 B C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National War Fund
James H. Jones
Roy Anderson
Anderson
Hempstead
Hope Basket Company
Walter Verhalen
Ted Cooper
Claude Tillery
Fliner Haynes
Marcelete Clark
Dorothy Dodds
Clovis Wardlow
Curtis Urrey
D. A. Bow
Myrtie Vaughn
Parnell Whitt
Minnie C. West
Alice Walker
Hugh West
Charles W. Andrew
Earl Bowden
Charles Cash
Albert Caudle
Berlin Ray Evans
Luther Fllis
George Hathcoat
Gilbert Hazzard
Owen P. McNeal
Vernon Percell
Hillery Taylor
William M Tomlin
Terel Wright
Dee Bee Wright
G. E. Anderson
Thomas Barber
Wilma Boswell
Cecil Clayton
Willie Downs
Billy Edge
J. W. Evans
Alice Evans
Charles Holt
Effie Hatton
Alene Hair
James Harden
Alene F. Hill
Selma Jones
Lois B. Lafferty
Doris Mullins
Earnest Neal
Magdalene Neal
Wilbur Oller
Edith Reyenga
Homer Stephens
Mildred Bonner
Geneva Boyd
Hazel Booth
Ruth Bowden
Wilma D. Bennett
Jewell W. Bohanon
Faye Clingan
Lula W. Cooley
Bernice Cumbie
Dorothy Cooley
Louise Cornelius
Mavis Cornelius
Dorris Cash
Dora Mae Downs
Ernie Dougen
Brooksie L. Foster
Glen Fincher
Ruth Givens
Hazel Hopson
Fern Hosey
Marvin E. Gist
Rosa Lee Hedger
Pauline Key
Elva M. Key
Janie Lewis
Jim McKamie
Dorothy Mayo
Alene Mullins
Geneva Murphy
Edna Mayo
Annetta McIver
Lucy P. Plumer
Earnest Perry
Jewell Pettit
Annie Singard
Mary Shirley
Wanda Faye Stone
Arvel Lee Tullis
Ethel Thomas
Ola Taylor
Alton Webb
Eunice Whitten
Leona Cornelius
Jake Cook
Robert Lee Franks
Luther Lee Hightower
Harold Hunt
Roy Hunt
Fred Johnson
John B. Johnson
J. S. Lewis
Cleveland McFadden
Dickey Murphey
Virgil Oller
Thornton Perry
Lawrence Powell
Alvin Prater
Roy Taylor
J.T. Taylor
Woodrow Tomlin
Davie Lee Wheelington
Berry IL. Wright
J.S. Mayo
John R. Purcell
Luther Cornelius
Germans Pour Across Meuse River in Rout
British and Canadian forces drive Germans toward the Maas and Hollandsch Diep as Antwerp harbor approaches. Allied troops reach Geertruidenberg and Raamsdonk while Walcheren and South Beveland remain in Allied hands. Up to 26,000 Germans possibly retreat below the Maas as pursuit tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Frye
London
Holland
Maas
Geertrudinberg
Tilburg
Antwerp
Miles C. Dempsey
Moerdijk
Willemstad
Geertruidenberg
Schelde
Germany
Eindhoven
Supreme Headquarters
Beveland
Walcheren
North Sea
Hollandsch Diep
Breda
Oosterhout
Raamsdonk
Roosendaal
Oud’ Gastel
Bergen Opper
Steenbergen
German Medic's Return From Front Lines With Twelve Prisoners
Lt. Col. Glover Johns recalls Fritz a blond German medic who chose to return to German lines to tend the wounded. After a fierce chase Fritz led twelve captured Germans back to American lines, asking to visit the United States. Johns, from Corpus Christi, Texas, earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
Germany
Glover
Johns, Jr
Fritz
Johns
Corpus Christi
Tex
America
Amerika
Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce
Yanks Press Last of Japs Left on Leyte
American infantrymen press toward Leyte's northwest coast as 24th Division nears Carigera Bay after taking Jaro. MacArthur reports Japanese casualties total 24 000 to 3 221 Americans as 4 000 to 6 000 Japanese retreat toward the bay amid typhoon winds and heavy bombardments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Yates McDaniel
MacArthur
Philippines
Leyte Valley
1St Cavalry
Carigera Bay
Jaro
Douglas MacArthur
Leyte
Samar
Cebu
Ormoc
Carigara Bay
Frntline Dispatch
Dagami
Leyte-Samar
German Escapes From Grady Prison Camp
Lorenz Rett a 23 year old German prisoner of war escaped from the prison compound at Grady Arkansas last night his absence was found at roll call this morning according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Little Rock Ark on October 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Lorenz Rett
Grady
Ark
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Roll Call
Editorial on Arkansas ballot propositions November 7
The Star weighs in on proposed acts and amendments for the general election. It urges voting against the repealer of betting on races and the Hollingsworth Hospital Bill, but for the county library amendment, the four year term proposal is rejected, and other amendments favor or oppose based on labor, military voting, and governance timing. It frames positions on 2, 3, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38 with clear verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Arkansas
Hollingsworth Hospital
Fish & Game Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alex. H. Washburn
Archie the Mouse
Bologna
Richard K. Sutherland
U.S
Tacloban
Leyte Island
General MacArthur
Phillipines
NEA
ASE
Breskens
Netherlands
Rhine
Belgium
Bergen Op Zoom
Bereland
Flushing
Isles
Reds
Meuse
Europe
Grady, Ark
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