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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1945
Page
5
A fragmentary notice shows a Terma IE poster with an offer for beds at 33 arth nd St. in town. No clear dates or complete details due to damaged text. Local readers are invited to inquire for full terms and availability.
Mexico presses a proposal to permanently bar Franco Spain from UN membership by citing regimes that gained power via military force. Luis Quintanilla plans to formalize the move at a public UN conference session as the world charter nears completion. The outcome hinges on Russia accepting limits on amending the assembly’s subject scope.
Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler reports on a 1939 loan of 200000 to Elliott Roosevelt by John Hartford. Justice Department actions and a 1941 settlement for about four thousand dollars are discussed. The piece questions Elliott Roosevelt’s silence and calls for testimony to test the late president’s honor and integrity.
In San Francisco June 19 Japanese propagandists insisted Tokyo will not surrender unconditionally. Sadao Saguchi, spokesman for the Japanese board of information, said Japan has never proposed peace negotiations with the United States and Britain. Domei News Agency and Nippon Angyo Keizai described preparations to repel invasion and total fortification as prerequisites for a future offensive, while radio Tokyo broadcasts urged sacrifice and national effort.
Twelve contracts on the power plant improvement program are under way to stall a new generator with six thousand kilovolt amperes capacity. The project adds a boiler and accessories to boost output from the present four boilers and aims to finish by next March. Delta Air Lines buys seven million in Seventh War Loan bonds for allocation across nineteen cities.
President Truman wires Congress urging a new law to place the speaker of the House next in line if he cannot serve, arguing for an elective successor and a fixed interim period until new president and vice president are elected. The current order would place the secretary of state as next in line if needed.
Crowds packed New York streets on June 19 as General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived and appeared at city hall. Police estimated about 6 million people lined curbs and windows during the two hours of the welcoming procession amid cheers and whistles.
Allied naval and air forces have bombarded Balikpapan in western Borneo for days with reports of a Japanese fleet approaching the area. MacArthur says US forces advance in Luzon’s Cagayan valley as Japanese withdrawals struggle under Fifth Air Force and artillery pressure.
Eight battle hardened U S divisions selected for permanent duty in the American zone of occupied Germany. The 82nd airborne and the First, Fourth armored divisions along with the First, Third, Ninth, 29th and 36th infantry divisions will compose the occupation army. The 82nd, based in Neufchateau, France, heads to Berlin within 36 hours.
The Here's Your Infantry program at Northeast Junior College stadium begins 7:50 p.m. with a military band, flags at 7:35 p.m. and phase one at 8:00 p.m. Colonel Corbin will present citations to Selman Field officers and enlisted men, followed by E bond sellers from Ouachita parish. The second phase features a true to life attack on a Jap pillbox with Sgt Paul Nola participating. Ample parking and 4000 seats available as the community supports the Mighty Seventh War Loan Drive.
United States submarines have sunk eleven more Japanese ships in Far Eastern waters. The latest tally includes two light combatant vessels and several noncombatant ships, raising total Japanese losses to 1,153 vessels, with 133 combatant and 1,020 noncombatant sunk by U S submarines.
Polish journalist Stanislaw Kuyavinski testified in the fifth column trial that the underground propaganda chief ordered that the Red Army in occupied Poland be treated as enemy. He described a May 15 1945 directive linking propaganda to an anti Soviet line and said eastern Poland was to be considered occupied by the enemy.
The destroyer Emmons escorting President Roosevelt to the Vehran Big Three conference was sunk off Okinawa after being struck by five kamikazes. The ship suffered 59 killed, 78 wounded and two missing with 12 hours to sink after the attack. Formerly a destroyer escort ship, she joined the Pacific fleet last January.
U S Tenth army presses toward final victory on Okinawa after Lt Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr was mortally wounded. The Second Marine Division joins the battle sweeping enemy from the west flank as Buckner is buried near Hagushi Beach. Nimitz notes Buckner died as Okinawa nears fall with some 10,000 Japanese still to be killed.
President Truman flies from Washington to Olympia to visit Gov. Wallgren then to San Francisco to close the United Nations security conference. Eisenhower accompanies the president, with Grew Morgenthau and other aides aboard, as the group heads toward the west coast.
Lt Gen. Sunon Bolivar Buckner Jr was killed by enemy shell while at an observation post in Okinawa. His aide Maj Frank Ro Hubbard described Buckner as smiling in death. Buckner’s funeral was held with military honors as colors, rifles, and officers saluted at the Seventh Division cemetery after the shelling that ended his life.
Chinese high command reports new thrusts along the Kweichow railway with forces capturing Samehakia and advancing toward Liuchow from the west while another unit moves from Tatang toward the city. Some claims about Tetung remain uncertain as Japanese defenses hold.
Pfc. Lesley Peter Malone age 20, U S Marine Corps Reserve Sixth Division, was killed in action on Okinawa June 3, 1945. He attended Calhoun High School, worked for GE Johnson Lumber, enlisted May 1944, trained in San Diego, and had a brief furlough before deployment. Survived by wife Eunice Tanner Malone, a son Thomas Ford Malone, parents Ford and Mrs Malone, Downsville, sister Elizabeth Malone, and brother Albert Malone. Also noted death sentence for Marcel Deat by a Vichy court in absentia.
Ben Arelius Peters Jr. dies when his plane crashes three miles from Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City. His death is reported by Mrs Ophelia France. Funeral plans will be announced later at Monroe First Baptist Church. He was born May 8 1923 in Benton Louisiana and resided in Monroe. He leaves a large family including his father Ben A Peters Sr and his mother Mrs Nancy G Gresham.
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