Alpine Avalanche Local News and Notices
Alpine Avalanche reports local and state news for Alpine and the Davis Big Bend area with society notes and correspondents from Fort Davis Marathon and beyond. Subscription prices listed and notices charged. second class mail matter as Alpine Texas.
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Rewster County
Alpine
Davis Big Bend
Som Bennett
Aftor
C.D. Wood
Society
AN. Alkire
Fort Davis
Vada Chambers Marathon
Burschiption Price
Uteide
Texas
Postwar Security Plan for Returning Soldiers
Discusses need for immediate postwar social security and employment for returning soldiers. Calls for job support, self sufficiency, and orderly readjustment to civilian life. References President Roosevelt and the urgency of addressing veterans' security before peace terms are signed.
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Joe
Aimer
Jor
Roosevelt
Households and rationing face fairness in wartime canning
Henry Van Dyke argues defense workers should accept ration rules while farmers stockpile vegetables for the war effort. Canners contribute to lend-lease by preserving five hundred quarts, reducing civilian need and supporting the armed services. The piece praises farm producers and urges constructive criticism aligned with national food needs.
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Defense
Palmer
Farmer
Afabe
Totalitarianism In America A defense of liberty and democracy
The article argues Americans uphold rights through informed citizenry and press transparency. It contrasts domestic democratic resilience with rising autocratic threats abroad, citing Jefferson and Lincoln as wary guides and asserting the U S government rests on liberty and justice.
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Free
United States
America
Jeffersons
Abraham Lincolns
All Out Effort For National Communication of German Determination
U.S. listening posts report German broadcasts on universal service. The decree includes men and women aged 16 to 45, with older men up to 65. Headlines from Propaganda Minister Goebbels emphasize total mobilization and a swift path to victory.
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Hitler
U.S. Stening
Werman
Sauckel
Fuchter
Black market meat crisis cited in Washington
A critique argues that black market meat thrives despite OPA ceilings due to preemptive rationing plans and consumer indifference. It blames policy haste, weak enforcement, and too many Washington experts, stating vaccines against profiteering require diagnosis before cures.
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DPA
Washington
OPA
Fragmented overheard dialogue on a shipwreck tale
A garbled dialogue scene depicts a doctor, husband and telephoner discussing diet and a missing woman last Thursday. A wrecked sailor pacifies others with a cheer about approaching civilization as bombers fly away.
Early Morning Call Sparks Confusion in Quiet Town
A man in a gay and carefree mood phoned a friend at two a m claiming he did not disturb them. He spoke in a rambling style about answering the telephone regardless of the hour, leaving the friend puzzled by the late night conversation.
Bugler Talk and Hat Whistle Tale From Train Window
Two negro sprayers debate bugle sounds comparing them to the Boston Symphony and Snowball Jones. A separate tale recalls a man on a railway excursion who whisked a boy's hat away then whistled it back, and the boy later tossed it out the window shouting for the whistle to return.
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Boston Symphony
Snowball Jones
Lunch Delay Turns Into Missing Funds Case
A garage employee left a note saying he went to lunch. The boss waited for his return and reports $60 missing from the till. No further details on suspects or resolution are provided in the readable text.
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Answers Found Elsewhere in this Issue 1
A list of quiz or trivia items presents multiple statements awaiting verification. It includes historical figures such as John Carver who died in 1621, geopolitical predictions about a hypothetical war, notes on bat biology, chemistry elements, country mentions Liberia and Eire, and a saffron-based condiment description from crocus sativus.
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John Carver
U. S
Germany
Mexico
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Liberia
Cuzco
Peru
Brown
Gaul
Eire
Livestock Market Firm With Some Hog Decline Amid Regulation
March report shows generally firm cattle and sheep prices with hogs softening after reaching $16.75 earlier in March due to new CPA pork wholesale pricing rules. Arizona fed steers reached $17 per cwt in Los Angeles while other steer types sold from $13 to $16.60. Cows mainly $10.50 to $12, with food cows up to $13. canners down to $7.50. bulls $11.25 to $12.50. native weaners $14 to $17. slaughter calves $12 to $15. Wool lambs mostly $15.25 to $16, good $8 to $8.50.
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CPA
Los Angeles
Arizona Thunderbird Field Serves Double Purpose
At Thunderbird Field in Arizona twenty film stars and nearly 300 Chinese recruits from 20th Century-Fox production Thunder Birds Soldiers of the Air study English and learn American speech. The trainees, already combat veterans, train eight months though some finish in five. No training casualties reported among the air raiders to date.
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Ting
Gene ‘Tierney
Thunder Birds
the Air
William A. Wellman
Lamar Tretti
John Gunther
Granada
China
Thunderbird Field
Arizona
20Th Century-Fox
Technicolor
Thunder Bird
Soldiers of the Air
Preston Foster
John Sutton
Japan
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Henry van Dyke
Labor Saver
Damaris
Ota
Maine
Tooting the Tooter
AFS
Arizona Thunderbird
Ritchey Brothers
Marathon
Woop Foods AT
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Dealers Service
Casner Motor Company
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