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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1945
Page
6
Fragmentary city and county notices mention prison, post office and subscription details. Missing data prevents a clear event but references include VADA STONE subscription prices for one year at two dollars and six months in the county area near the Post Office and Congress.
The Houston Post frames Wallace's bid for Commerce Secretary as a one vote Senate setback with long term implications. It argues the George bill's passage could strip power from the department, leaving Wallace politically constrained and facing potential congressional rebuke while Mr Jones gains leverage. The piece underscores a test of Congress's adherence to representative government over sweeping executive measures.
When they're homeward bound, citizens are urged to save now to fund civilian production and create jobs for returning servicemen. The message emphasizes prosperity after war and the role of War Bonds as the best investment to support a rapid transition to peacetime industries.
A reflection on a G I Joe returning from war with plans for a safer future. The piece notes a boyhood earned money, school activities, army service, and a hopeful path to employment, home, and family. It urges readers to help him and others pursue opportunity after conflict and sacrifice.
A noted book dealer offers to sell your library by the yard at space rates claiming decorative and cultural value. The piece critiques the ploy, noting readers may have shelves filled by textbooks, club selections, detective stories, and gift volumes, and ponders cultural status.
The piece lauds two American POWs who cried God Bless America and wept at the flag’s sight, arguing war rekindled reverence for patriotism beyond prior cynicism. It cautions against chauvinism yet urges decency and national unity guiding revived patriotism.
Private Lillian Higashi, a Japanese American in the WAC, serves as assistant to Fort Knox post chaplain Emil J. Helseth. She drives the chaplain’s car, counsels men, projects films, and is a stenographer while studying English French and Spanish at the University of Wyoming.
A fragmented dialogue scene on a number 3 streetcar blends crude humor with suggestive banter. A passenger requests standing, a soldier offers his seat, and the tenor shifts to risqué punchlines about irons hot and a chair. The tone mirrors old-time humor with coded innuendo and streetcar setting.
Pvt recounts a near miss after mistaking movement for an intruder. He fired, only to discover his helmet remained on, causing a harmless scare and a narrow escape from injury.
A sweet potato that closely resembles a small dog in shape was found recently by Mrs. D. Holm of Richmond Virginia.
In Bucharest a tombstone bearing the name Adolf Hittler, a Jewish hostel porter who died in 1902, is noted. The inscription mixes Romanian and Hebrew: Love thy neighbor as thyself. The misspelling Hit Idler appears. A compact local notice records the unusual epitaph.
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