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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1944
Page
6
Fragmentary Alpine Avalanche text appears in the remnant notice section. It includes garbled references to notices, cards of thanks, and reading notices with stray names and placeholders for rates and positions. The legible bits mention Fort Davie, Dorothey, and Dor Pome with unclear context or dates.
Fighters in the front lines pursue finishing the war and returning home not for hero worship but for families and small shops. The postwar program urged by Legion commissions aims to foster employment and national welfare with veterans guidance.
A living memorials theme urges planting trees and creating playgrounds rather than stone monuments. The piece argues Americans seek postwar jobs with private investment and government incentives, including removal of wartime controls, fair taxes, and a national labor policy to balance employer and employee interests.
The Berlin Rome Tokyo broadcast quotes explain Nazi writers predicting peace terms if free access to resources is not assured and warning of renewed hostilities. It argues Europe cannot bow to Moscow, predicts US Russia power battles in the Chinese sphere, and warns against Nas i propaganda in English readers.
Brooklyn stevedore Joseph Lapadura intercepted a War Department telegram declaring his son Frederick J. Paporano missing in action in Italy. He kept silent to spare his wife distress as she prepared for a neighbor gathering, then a second telegram arrived: the son had been found safe and returned to his unit. The piece urges faith and calm, citing Jeremiah to encourage hopeful parents facing wartime anxieties.
A Christian Science Monitor note highlights a soldier in Italy urging Bible delivery. It cites War Department and Navy actions, with 48,193 Bibles and 1,820,733 Testaments supplied to armed forces last year, underscoring demand from Allied prisoners and deployed crews. Camp welfare groups, Red Cross, and the American Bible Society are praised for supporting this need.
A lively fragment describes a church service where Parson Johnson and Deacon Ketcham lead a humorous sermon about salvation being free yet the choir and hat pass raise funds. The scene highlights tensions over donations and communal expectations in a casual, dialect voice.
From August top quotes for choice veals and heavy calves firm, others down with medium and good grades falling more. Government raises beef set aside to 50 percent of inspected slaughter for army use, up 5 percent from two weeks prior and 18 percent from July. Rumor of pork cut set aside orders mentioned, no official WA confirmation. Cattle supply mostly short fed and grassers with many cows. stockers and feeders slow. sheep and lambs steady with light receipts.
Police investigated a report of four men rolling on a lawn. They found four figures on hands and knees, then a lost tooth remained unfound. A celebrated comedian retired late and faced repeated knocks in the hotel corridor, mistaking rooms amid intoxicated visitors.
T R Fowler aged 84 of Colors Springs with 82 descendants is described as the country’s champion grandfather until W P Enns aged 79 of Pelika Florida announced nine children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. They give their lives you can lend your money buy war bonds and stamps.
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