Our Air Supremacy Requires Constant Readiness
The piece warns that aircraft numbers alone won t guarantee security. It stresses that rapid demobilization, lag in design to mass produce, and slow research threaten air superiority. It cites Pearl Harbor lessons and urges ongoing aeronautics research as a national insurance policy against becoming a second rate air power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Poland
Japan
Pearl Harbor
United States
America
Britain
Army Air Forces
Europe
England
Lubbock Morning Avalanche Ledger 1945 masthead and pledge
The fragment shows the Lubbock Morning Avalanche Ledger masthead dated December 19, 1945. It lists staff roles including editor publisher Parker and Prouty general manager, and a postal location at 919 15 Texas Avenue Lubbock. The page contains standard I pledge allegiance text and local newspaper branding.
Marshall's War Report on Burma and China Logistics
General Marshall describes Allied advance in Burma with British decryption of routes and the fall of Rangoon. He praises U S port battalions in Calcutta and Bengal Assam rail capacity, the Ledo Road effort, and the crucial Hump airlift supporting China. The China theater sees Japanese counteroffensives slowed by American and Chinese forces, with reorganization under Stratemeyer and Chennault continuing to pressure Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
Tiddim
Chindwin
Arakan
Kaladan
Akyab
Ramree Island
MacArthur
Philippines
China Sea
Irrawaddy
Pagan
Meiktila
Mandalay
Rangoon
Thailand
Moulmein
United States Service
United States
Calcutta
Bengal-Assam
Brahmaputra Valley
Ledo Road
Himalayan
China
Japan
Chennault
Fourteenth Air Force
Tung Ting Lake
Hunan
Canton
Kweilin
Chihkiang
Pacific Islands
Asia
Wedemeyer
War Department
Wehrmacht
Truscott
Fifth Army
Italy
Simpson
Ninth Army
10Th Air Force
India
14Th
Stratemeyer
Looking At Life in the Social Register And War News Recap
The column questions the Social Register’s relevance and notes Elliott Roosevelt’s omission over marriage. It praises merit over lineage and criticizes European aristocracy. The piece then covers WWII shifts including General Stilwell’s relief, Stone’s succession, and Wedemeyer’s support to Chinese divisions in Yunnan with unyielding Allied pressure as Japan nears defeat.
Social Register Vision Praised and Questioned by Mind You
Mind you comments celebrate worthy social contributors while criticizing the hypocrisy of social elites. The author muses about publishing a personal social register listing nurses doctors scientists teachers and the humble street cleaner who raised five children including two who died in battle, arguing such recognition would move humanity from lethargy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Roosevelt
St. Peter
Chinese Red Leader Demands End to Civil War and Cease-Fire
China No. 2 Communist Chou En-Lai travels to discuss peace and seeks a cease-fire before the all party consultative council's session. He vows to press for a truce if a full cessation cannot be agreed. Reports say fighting rages in Shantung with Communist forces claiming Tenghsien. Chiang Kai-Shek convenes a national assembly for May 5, while Communists denounce it as packed with KMT delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
China
Chou En-Lai
All-Party
Political Consultative Council
Shantung Province
Tenghsien
Tientsin-Pukow
Nanking
Tientsin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
Kuomintang
George C. Marshall
Hirohito
Tokyo
Eleanor Roosevelt
White House
Mme
Chiang Kaishek
Patrick J. Hurley
Chiang
Douglas MacArthur
General MacArthur
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Washington
MacArthur
Marshall
Mac
Sugar's Case Critical in Sugar Shortage Debate
The article argues Cuban producers demand a permanent 50 percent import share to ensure sugar supply, warning of famine and price spirals if U S policy fails. It notes Cuba supplied over half wartime needs, Philippines and Hawaii reduced postwar, with broader economic and geopolitical implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roy Tucker
Department of Agriculture
U. S
Cuba
Philippines
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Japan
Te Carribbean
United States
Congress
Havana
Rex Tugwell
China
Far East
Texas Undulant Fever Rises With Raw Milk Use
Texas health officials report undulant fever cases rising due to limited pasteurized milk supply and continued raw milk use. From 1938 to 1944 cases climbed from 238 to 470 with 518 more through October this year. deaths fluctuated with year, and several counties report higher case counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Gordon Shearer
Astin
Malta
State Health Department
Brewster
Donley
Hidalgo
Hockley
Kaufman
Liberty
Madison
Potter
Victoria
Liberty and the right to work debate in Congress
In Washington the House faced sharp contention over a full employment bill and government job guarantees. Rep. Will Whittington argues Liberty and the right to work clash, while Rep. Kefauver frames freedom as tied to earning a living. The exchange links historic liberty to modern job security amid industrial change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Stokes
Washington
Will Whittington
Miss
Whittington
Will
Mississippi Delta
Mr. Whittington
Rep
Kefauver
Chattanooga
Tenn
England
Old World
Recess Approved In Deadlocked Parley
The national shipbuilders conference on wage stabilization recessed today at the White House request and will reconvene January 1 in Washington. Labor, management and government representatives will meet with Stabilization Administrator Cassie Collet after telegrams from John R. Steelman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clorado Springs
White House
National Shipbuilders Conference
Washington
Cassie Collet
John R. Steelman
Truman
Giant Douglas Fir Gift for Truman Home at Independence
A 16 foot Douglas fir from Pike National Forest will greet President Truman on Christmas Day at his Independence Missouri home. The tree was donated by David and Marian Wallace of Denver, grandchildren of the President and Mrs. Truman. Buy A Victory Bond TODAY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Pike National Forest
Truman
Independence
David
Marian
David Wallace
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Lubbock Morning Avalanche
Chas A Quy
Parker &. Prouty
GCHAR
Ratliff
Manasine Edite
Gulere Es Gerony
Lubbock Texes
United States of America
Lubbock, Tex
Robert Ripley
ST Johns Prep
Tommy Mattimore
Brooklyn Prep
Wicked
Sailor Henry Ole Olsen
New York
Me Mai WO
AL Ghaza
Lez
Marianas
Pacific
Social Register
Park Avenue
Florida
California
Brandeis
Flying Tigers
14Th Air Force
Charles B. Stone
Stilwell
Yunnan
By Erich Brandeis
Sugar
Galbraith
NEA
Solons
Patrick Henry
Trumans
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