Showdown On Soldier Voting Delayed By Senate Recess
The Senate recessed on a Saturday due to lack of a quorum delaying a showdown on service vote legislation. Only 43 senators answered the roll, with 49 needed. The House had approved a states rights measure urging absentee ballots for service personnel while the administration backed a federal ballot.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
House
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Senate House
White House
Congress
Taft Ur-Ohio
Fifty-Four At SPAAF Promoted In Enlisted Ranks
Fifty four SPAAF enlisted personnel receive promotions across multiple sections. Texans promoted include staff sergeants John H. Strother and Raymond L. Suttle from Lubbock, and sergeants Scott D. Miller Abernathy John R. Baird Castro county, Jewell L. Bagley Ropesville, and WAC member Alice F. E. Hott Brownfield. Other Texans promoted span master sergeant to corporal among names from Aversto Kaan Verato Fort Griffin Lynn Junea, with several WAEs at SPAAF. Additional promoted list includes personnel from Missouri Ohio Wisconsin New York and New Jersey, with WACs Ida R. Espen Philadelphia and Georgina V Flaherty Idamay among sergeants. The last entries list WACs and enlisted from various states including Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and New York.
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South Plains Army Airfield
Lubbock
South Plains
John H. Strother
Raymond L. Suttle
Scott D. Miller
Abernathy
John R. Baird
Castro County
Jewell L. Bagley
Ropesville
Woman's Army Corps
Spaaf
Alice FE. Hott
Brownfield
Bilie Corbell
Lynn
Enos T Jones
Aversto
Marcus Haire
Kaan
James C. Ballard
Verato
Frank H. Wilhelm
Fort Griffin
Wanda J. Williams
Junesporo
WAC
Key West
Fin
Norman F Selke
Milroy
Minn
Emil J. DeFour, Jr
Detroit
Mich
Ida R. Eps‘en
Philadelphia
Georgina V Flaharty
Idamay
W. Va
Alvaro R. Mcé
Lung, Jr
Scarbra
Morris W. Brown
Olyn C. Howser, Jr
Ardmore
Oklo
Armin W. Possin
Mankato
Leroy F Hedtke
Waconia
Bennie Sandoval
Price
Liah
Earl Rosermisse
Grafton
Wis
Mertle M. Benedict
Washington
Boo
Measles Reports Rise Across Texas
Texas health officials said 340 measles cases were reported this week, pushing the state toward near-epidemic levels. Influenza remained mild and thinning, pneumonia prevalence was high early in the year, and typhus totals declined.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
State Health Department
Nearly 50 Percent More Repaid Than Loaned by FSA
The Farm Security Administration region repaid $5,049,339 on $3,517,422 in loans last fiscal year, signaling strong repayment amid district meetings in Amarillo. Regional and district officials from Lubbock County and 16 surrounding counties attended, highlighting progress in aiding small farmers and farm ownership through variable payments. Six borrowers fully paid off their loans this year from farm earnings.
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Farm Security Administration
William H. Tinney
FSA
Lubbock County
Ray E. Davis
Amarillo
T. Fuel Liner
Horace D. Gilmore
Martha G. Brent
New Mexico
Oklahoma Panhandle
Texas
Tinney
Davis
Four Alarm Fire Destroys Venice Art Company
A four alarm fire in Dallas on Feb 5 nearly destroyed the Venetian Art company. Fire Marshal W G Burns estimated building damage at 10000 dollars and contents loss at about 12000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Venetian Art Company
W. G. Burns
Lamb County REA Holds Annual Meeting at Palace Theater
The Lamb County Rural Electric Co-op will hold its annual meeting in Littlefield Monday at 10 a.m. Directors urge member attendance. Entertainment is planned and county home demonstration clubs will provide a free dinner to attendees.
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Littlefield
Lamb County Rural Electric Co- Operative Association
Palace Theater
Brewster Soldier Invents Trigger Squeeze Device At SPAAF
Cpl. John A. Owens of Brewster New York, an instructor at SPAAF small arms school, developed a trigger squeeze indicator using a thermometer mechanism. The device helps soldiers learn smooth trigger action and has boosted qualification rates to 190 percent in initial use. He is also working on a Browning machine gun instrument and previously perfected an aircraft vent pipe at Randolph Field.
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John A. Owens
Brewster
N. Y
South Plains Army Airfield
Cpl. Owens
SPAAF
AAF
Brewster Boy
Cpl
Owens
Forrest R. Sanders
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Armed Services
Randolph Field
Earthquakes in Turkey Reported by Nazi Dispatch
A German dispatch forwarded by the Nazi propaganda agency to Balkan newspapers via FCC says 36 new tremors struck Turkey in the last 24 hours and the earthquake death toll has risen to 1,395.
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Turkey
New York
FCC
Aviator Inventor Timed Mag Netos For Planes
A 33 year old AAF member who joined in 1942 crafted a timing device for magnetos on airplanes, a personal fix that could greatly speed line work. In civilian life he worked with Utah Construction, doing sandhog rivet and iron work on aqueducts, New York skyscrapers, and the George Washington Bridge.
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Qwens
Utah Construction Company
New York
George Washington Bridge
AAF
Farm Outlook Bright Says Wickard
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard said American farmers need only average weather to break production records this year. He noted food consumption up seven percent from 1935 and that inflationary tendencies are absent. Wickard urged a strong postwar conservation program and cited high industrial activity as vital to farming prosperity.
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Kokomo
Ind
Secretary of
Claude R. Wickard
Wickard
Funeral for Mrs. J A Lumsden Held in Ropesville
Funeral services were held in Ropesville on Saturday afternoon for Mrs. J. A. Lumsden 25 who died in Virginia Beach Virginia. Burial followed at Lubbock Cemetery under Plains Funeral Home direction.
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Ropesville
J. A. Lumsden
Virginia Beach
Lubbock Cemetery
Plains Funeral Home
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Wallis H. Goldsmith
Milton M Kuirts
la Cygne
Kan
Gerald I Pleury
Boston
Mass
Cari Fo Cameron
Berwick
Robert M. Race
Mt Vernon
Ohio
Walter A. Smathers
Buehte
Edward Townsent
Var Deke Mich
Varda Neunberger
Broek
Yn N.Y
Bo Ritter
Milwaukee Wis
Jeah Petrez
Tong Island
WACS
Nro Rath
Raven Gabardine
Ontdoniers
Dia
Lamb County
Cpl. J. A. Owens
Cook’s
Cook’s Paints
Paul Graham
Mgr
Dial
Sec. Wickard
E. D. Thompson
BroAdwAy
Southwestern Public Service Company
EL Paso & the
West Coast
Carlsbad
el Paso
Oklahoma
Union Bus Terminal
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