Jefferson City Post Tribune Postal Rates Section
Jefferson City Post Tribune lists weekly issues and subscription rates for various regions. It details carrier delivery prices for daily and Sunday editions, and annual and semiannual rates for Cole and adjoining counties, other Missouri counties, and outside Missouri.
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Tribune Printing Company
Robert Gosholn
Associated Press
Jefferson City
Bro
Cole
Missouri
Noise Abatement Call For Jefferson City Action
A reader urges Jefferson City to adopt strict noise control to curb loud country horns cutouts and screeching alarms across High Street. The letter cites traffic lights, taxis and railroads as contributors and notes other cities enforce anti noise ordinances, urging local departments to act.
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Jefferson City
State Departments
High Street
Broadway
Missouri Pacific
Senate
Score Confusion In Wartime Food Transport
Reports from the southwest describe full grain elevators and wheat dumped due to transport gaps. The Office of Defense Transportation notes railroads move more grain than last year, but confusion persists. The impending merger of Secretary of Agriculture and War Food Administrator Clinton Anderson is to improve coordination and flow of food from fields to wartime tables.
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Southwest
Miller
Office of Defense Transportation
Clinton Anderson
Anderson
Inroads Against Press Freedom Raise Alarm Across World
The statement condemns ongoing limitations on press freedom, warns that success would empower totalitarians, and highlights gradual, multi‑jurisdictional efforts to curb reporting. It frames the issue as a global, years‑long trend that threatens democratic ideals.
Ribbentrop Claims Mission From the Dead Fuehrer
Reports quote Joachim von Ribbentrop saying he was on a mission from the dead Fuehrer. The piece suggests expediting his reunion with Hitler, noting uncertainty over stories of Hitler’s demise.
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Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Hitler
WPB Urges July Fourth Work Push for Labor Day
The WPB asked workers in rush production industries to remain on the job July 4 and defer vacations until after Labor Day. In effect, July 4 would function as a real labor day with extended work during peak production.
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WPB
Modern girl questioned by arrest over swimsuit ad line
An obscure remark from a bathing suit advertisement prompts headlines about a modern girl facing arrest due to provocative phrasing. The incident reflects tensions between advertising copy and social norms of the era.
Pork shortage shifts hogs away from chicken dreams
Worry over restricted eating reduces some reducers. With pork scarcities fewer hogs grow to become chicken. salad.
Alcohol shipments to Soviet Union spark wartime speculation
Washington reports that the War Production Board will resume made in America industrial alcohol exports to the Soviet Union. The move coincides with Hopkin's Moscow trip and signals potential Soviet neutrality offers to Japan. Analysts warn Okinawa losses hint at fierce battles ahead for the United Nations. The article notes alcohol's use in explosives and industrial processes amid Japan invasion planning.
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Washington
Ray Tucker
Russia
Japan
War Production Board
Konoye
Kremlin
U.S.S.R
Manchuria
North China
Korea
Germany
Midwest
WPB
United States
Okinawa
United Nations
Tokyo
Nippon
Europe
Clothing Shortage Predicted For Fall War Era Wardrobe
The piece warns of likely clothing shortages in fall and cites government and industry sources. Textiles remain in acute short supply, with cottons and worsteds hardest hit. Milit ary cutbacks will delay civilian supply. mills operate fewer shifts and prices may rise.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
New York
New England
John D. Small
War Production Board
Trade Association
War Labor Board
OPA
Chester Bowles
WPB
New Flame Thrower Aids Invasion Cavern Assaults
Describes granite mountains with porous bases and extensive caves in Japan’s inner hills. Notes Japanese caverns for food and weapons, to resist siege, requiring dug out, burned out, or buried attacks. Mentions a long list of novel arms and a flame thrower reaching five hundred feet being developed by Ordnance and Chemical Warfare Service.
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Okinawa
Hirorito
Ordnance
Chemical Warfare Service
Labor chiefs respond to Schwellenbach appointment
John L. Schwellenbach remains largely unpraised by prominent labor leaders while Green Hillman and Murray push public praise. Oscar L. Chapman asked Schwellenbach for his view. he replied the appointment could not be better from the administration’s view.
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Schwellenbach
John L. Lewis
Truman
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
White House
William Green
Sidney Hillman
Phillip Murray
United Mine Workers
Oscar L. Chapman
Interior
John L
Cicero and Elviry Weaver Sell Old Homestead
Springfield report states Cicero and Elviry Weaver, noted for film and vaudeville, sold their old homestead to Ray D. Kelly, a local coal broker, for 35000 dollars. The Weavers plan to relocate to a country home nearby.
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Cicero and
Elviry Weaver
Old Homestead
Springfield
Cicero
Elviry” Weaver
Ray D. Kelly
King Leopold Reaffirms Constitutional Rule After Abdication Demand
In Salzburg on June 19, King Leopold of Belgium rejected abdication demands and announced he would return to Belgium to resume full constitutional prerogatives after five years in German hands. The government resignation followed his return decision, though timing for his return remained unclear.
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Salzburg
Austria
Leopold
Gatlen
du Parc
Belgium
15Th Corps
U.S.S
Achille von “Acker
Brussels
MacArthur creates Pacific supply command in Western Pacific
General Douglas MacArthur established a new Armed Forces of the Western Pacific to manage non combat logistics. Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D Styer will lead with Maj. Gen. Edmond H Leavey as deputy, overseeing ammunition equipment food and personnel for the coming assault on Japan. Madame Curie note.
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Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Wilhelm D. Styer
Japan
Armed Forces of the
Western Pacific
MacArthur
Styer
Breham B. Somervell
Somervell
Casablanca
Quebec
Roosevelt
Picardy
Chateau Thierry
Panama Canal
Styers
War Reporter's Notebook honors Nisei plan to relocate Army men
A 442nd Infantry replacement program helps Nisei soldiers return home by linking them with contacts in their desired locales and professions. Lt William Wolf Lt Edward R Williams and Capt California Ushiro spearhead the effort, with letters of reference from commanders. Sagie Nishioka of Hood River receives aid after injuries on the Ligurian coast. The Hood River post restored his name to the honor roll amid family hardship from wartime relocation.
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William Wolf
Evanston
Ill
Edward.r. Williams
Chicago
California
Cable
Pacific Coast
Sagie Nishioka
Hood
River
Ore
Sagie
Wyoming
Hood River
Hood ‘River
The
America
Legion
Nishi
Nishioka
Order of the Legion
442Nd
Pearl Haror
US troops to occupy Germany with famed divisions
Paris June 19 AP The 82nd Airborne and several armored and infantry divisions that fought from North Africa to the Reich will form the occupying army in Germany. The 82nd, now at Neufchateau, launches for Berlin within 36 hours, joining the First and Fourth Armored and the First, Third, Ninth, 29th and 36th Infantry divisions. The Fighting First Infantry, famed since Tunisia and Kasserine, leads memories of hard campaigns into the new postwar role.
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Paris
U. S
North Africa
Reich
Germany
Army of Occupation
82Nd Airborne
82Nd
Neufchateau
France
Berlin
First
Tunisia
Rommel
Kasserine Pass
Cape Bon
Souvenir Spree After Okinawa Destruction
U S S Zellars destroyer survivors in Wilmington California recall fishing for trophies from the battle off Okinawa on April 12 with a crewman claiming a captured machine gun as his prize. The article also oddly includes a recipe for stuffed fruit with apricots and cheese.
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Wilmington
Calif
U.S.S
Japanese Fighters Rank With U S Planes in War Warburton Says
Pacific Newest Jap Fighter Planes Rank With Those of U S. Col Ernest K Warburton test pilot for captured Nippon aircraft says the two new imperial Navy fighters called the George and the Jack display maneuverability and efficiency based on German design. He notes Japan sacrifices mechanical safety for speed and notes factory workers limit production. Maj Gen Ennis P Swift recalls Japanese fear of fire affecting battlefield behavior as B 29s strike Tokyo and other Nippon cities.
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Fifth Air Force
Luzon
Ernest K. Warburton
United States
Husky
Westboro
Mass
Nippon
Warburton
Japan
Australians Land on Brunei Bay in North Borneo
Manila reports Australian troops driving through jungles of North Borneo toward Beaufort after an unopposed landing on Brunei Bay. American forces in northern Luzon push through the Cagayan Valley, with 37th Division columns joining at Cauayan and nearing Naguillan, while the 6th Division moves to secure communications. Far East Air Force resumes heavy bombing of Formosa with Liberators striking Keelung Takao and Taito despite anti aircraft fire.
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Manila
North Borneo
Beaufort
Brunei Bay
Luzon
Cagayan Valley
Weston
37Th
Cauayan
Naguillan
Balabag
6Th
Far Eastern
Formosa
Keelung
Takao
Taito
Robbers thwarted by clerk during West Side hold up
In Chicago AP report Mrs Minnie Danish the drug store clerk fought back by kicking robbers in the shins. The assailants removed her shoes, claimed 100 dollars from the register, and limped away.
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Chicago
West Side
Minnie Danish
Britain roots largest underground factory in secret mine
London AP reports Britain's largest underground factory, built to evade bombing, lies in a disused coal mine spanning 80 acres with its location kept secret. The note adds that canned foods endure less cooking to preserve value and flavor.
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London
Britain
Truman Enroute To West Coast And Conference
President Truman leaves at 7 20 a m Central war time for a West Coast visit to attend the San Francisco United Nations security conference. He will fly non stop to Olympia Washington to meet Gov Mon C W Wallgren then go to San Francisco for the conference closing session. Eisenhower greets him as Sunflower supports the return hero’s flight.
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Truman
San Francisco
Olympia
Wash
Mon.c.wallgren
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America
New York
Army Air Transport
Joseph’ C. Grew
the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Kansas City
White House
Hisenhower
Eisenhower
Matthew J. Connelly
Charles G. Ross
Leonard Reinsch
Secret Service
Vaughan
Cleveland
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Billings
Helena
Mont
Spokane
Wenatchee
Godspeed
Senate
Stalin
Churchill
Independence
Rescue mission eyed to free Shangri-La survivors
In Manila on June 19 AP reports the Far Eastern Air Forces plan to air lift three Shangri La survivors by C-47 glider from New Guinea's hidden valley. Maj William Samuels of Oakland will pilot the operation, with the glider likely landed and awaiting extraction after a month in the valley.
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Manila
New Guinea
Shangri-La
Far
William. J
WAC
Hollandia
Corporations Buy 3 Billions in War Bonds
Washington reports corporations have invested over 3.0 billion dollars in U.S. securities through the war loan drive. Ted Gamble, National War Finance director, says early figures show corporate sales may reach the pace set by individual buyers. Total drive sales reach 8.903 billion, 63.6 percent of the 14.9 billion quota.
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Washington
U.S
Nationa War
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