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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1945
Page
7
Welch, evangelist from Temple, will lead gospel series at the Church of Christ starting tonight at 8:30 p.m. with his father H. C. Welch of Belton assisting. services run nightly and 10 a.m. Sunday.
Paris reports a supreme headquarters statement says the French First Army blocks the southeast Allied push by remaining in Stuttgart, despite Sixth Army orders to move. The French council of ministers opposes the request, arguing Big Three actions are lacking on postwar occupation plans for southwest Germany.
Albuquerque memorial plans for famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle appear set for May 13 at 3 p.m. in the Carlisle gymnasium on the University of New Mexico campus. The program will include tributes by local friends and neighbors and his favorite songs.
Lubbock High School plans its annual senior banquet Tuesday at 8 pm in the Lubbock hotel. Joe Arrington will welcome. Joe Ann Bailey will respond. Milton Butler and Margene Fry read the class will. Margene and Mari jane Grace helped write it. A sextet, musical imitations, and a quartet perform with listed students and performers coordinating arrangements under Roberta Niblack and Jane Lawson.
John W. Broome senior underwent major surgery Friday morning in a West Texas hospital and was recovering nicely Saturday afternoon. At Lubbock Army Airfield three officers were promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant, all pilots and instructors: Vandl rag 4 dry of Hollywood California, Thomas E. Broughton of Waterville Minnesota, and Carroll E. Neser Jr. F. C. Boyd was fined 150 dollars Saturday in county court for liquor law violations. Marshal Semeon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Suvorov in Moscow on April 28 for coordinating front army activity. Buy A Wes Bead TODAY.
Lubbock residents are urged to donate usable discarded clothing at one of the collection depots before Tuesday. If handed in after Monday, take it to 910 Texas Avenue headquarters. Packing and sorting continue, with shipping to begin around May 15 as the drive aims to boost total clothing contributed.
Dean Carl W. Ackerman of Columbia School of Journalism urged Japanese newspaper publishers to tell the truth about the war. He spoke on a radio program and asked the Japanese to face the fact that truthful reporting is the journalist’s most changrable course.
An American recovery story from Regensburg Germany notes one American prisoner freed by U S forces after a combat period near April. The report mentions Billy Lancaster of Loggview who had been shot down and is identified among the wounded and captured.
Students at Texas Tech will elect officers of the Student Council and AWS for 1945 46 by secret ballot Tuesday. Voting runs 8:30 a m to 4 30 p m in administration home economics engineering and agriculture buildings. Nominations were made at a convocation in the college gymnasium with several contested races for president secretary and treasurer among arts sciences home economics and engineering students.
Dewey H. Freeman of Handley Texas was arraigned on a fugitive warrant from Muskogee Oklahoma alleging unlawful conspiracy with Edward Freeman to transport thirty three thousand dollars stolen or obtained by fraud from Durant Oklahoma to Vernon ex He was held on a fifty thousand dollar bond set by U S Commissioner John Davis Freeman was arrested the day before at Handley His brother Edward Thomas Freeman was arrested in Oklahoma City this week on a similar complaint
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