Use Of Air Power Experiment Rapidly Approaching Climax
The Allied air war nears a climax as bombing targets Germany and Italy, with Churchill urging the effort while planning a western Europe invasion. Air power aims to cripple Nazi production and exhaust pilots, preparing ground invasion to finish Hitler.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Churchill
Senate
House
Washington
Germany
Italy
Western
Europe
England
Luftwaffe
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Britain
High School Concert Promises Semi Classical Numbers Tuesday
Lubbock High School auditorium hosts a Victory concert by the high school orchestra and Westerner Concert Band at 8 15 Tuesday night. The event supports bond sales for a North American Mustang P 51 plane with $17 705 still needed of the $75 000 quota.
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Lubbock High School
Charles Eskridge
Roger Hall
George Zournas
Rayburn Jones
FBI Ends Washington Dinner Party by Two Army Men
FBI details a Washington hotel dinner party hosted by two men posing as Army officers. The men A. W. O. L. from Fort Knox fled after cashing bogus checks across Ohio, then traveled to Cincinnati and Dayton before arriving in Washington. The FBI identified the pair as Douglas Ray Allred and Edward Richard Malone Jr, both former inmates with falsified ranks.
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Washington
Army
FBI
Allen Ward
J. E. Daley
Douglas Ray Allred
Portland, Ore
Edward Richard Malone, Jr
Brooklyn
Fort Knox
Cincinnati
Dayton
Ohio
Littlefield Fat Stock Show Planned For Spring
The Littlefield Chamber of Commerce directors voted to sponsor a fat stock show this spring on Saturday March 25. The Fifth Annual event will be at the Higginbotham Bartlett building, same as last year, with Raymond L. King, vocational agriculture instructor, invited to again manage the show.
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Littlefield
Senior Play To Be Given Friday At Lubbock High
The senior class of Lubbock High presents a patriotic comedy Thumb s Up by Ron Patterson at 8 15 Friday night in the high school auditorium. Tickets 50 cents from the principal s office until Thursday 4 pm. Director is Mrs Delia Stone and the cast includes Mary Ann Dykes Dorothy Stevenson Shirley Blair Pauline Lokey and others with Bob Hassell as property committee chair.
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Ron Patterson
Lubbock High School
Delia Stone
Mary Ann Dykes
Phyllis Dugan
Dorothy Stevenson
Shirley Blair
Pauline Lokey
Mrs. Winkle
Wanda Barker
Ida
Doris Mae Burdett
Lucy Parsons
Jo Cobb
Emma Lowrey
Pat McCall
Betty Barker
Jack Cooper
Mr. Smith
Louis Willeford
Cal
Betty McDonald
Gene Carolyn Harvey
Eleanor Ferguson
Nelva Joyce Halbert
Barbara Leonard
Corinne Payne
Ruth Parkhill
Mary Beth Dupree
Frances Grace
Charlotte Carter
Betty Bomar
Jean Martin
Bob Hassell
Geraldine Pool
Clyde Neville
Nelle Womack
Peggy Johnson
Betty White
Gordon Stalcup
Earnestine Snider
Mary Lou Spence
Margaret Pierce
Annaleta Moore
Nurse earns Oak Leaf cluster for Bougainville land record
First Lt. Margaret A. Richey of the Army Nurse Corps becomes the first white woman to land on Bougainville. Her mother, Mrs. H. W. Richey of Georgetown, was officially notified today.
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Georgetown
Margaret A. Richey
Army Nurse Corps
Bougainville Island
H. W. Richey
Jones Foresees Two Sorghum Types On South Plains
Editor notes Texas Experiments Station head Don Al Jones weighs the future of sorghum cultivation amid war driven demand and labor costs. He discusses whether combine sorghums will dominate and the potential shift to sweet sorghums for roughage, with implications for cattle and hog feed. Safety pins were first devised by Walter Hunt in 1849.
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Jones
South Plains
Don AL. Jones
Texas Experiment S
West Texas
Walter Hunt
Fourth Army Headquarters Moved To Fort Sam Houston Texas
Headquarters of the Fourth Army shift from Monterrey California to Fort Sam Houston Texas with Lt General William H Simpson in command. The unit covers southern states from Mississippi to Arizona and will focus on training for possible overseas combat duty. General Simpson, 55, from Weatherford Texas, has long served in troop leadership roles and recently led the crops at Fort Jackson. Buy A War Bond TODAY.
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San Antonio
Fourth Army
Monterrey
Calif
Fort Sam Houston
Williamh. Simpson
Simpson
Mississippi
Arizona
Weatherford
Tex
Fort Jackson
Enlisted Man Foils Phony Lieutenant in Houston
An enlisted man spotted a counterfeit officer on a downtown street and saluted. He detained the man and turned him over to police. The costume included gold bars hat and blouse. all were recovered and traced to an Ellington Field Air Corps officer.
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Houston
Eliington Field Air Corps
Berlin Claims Sinking Of 15 Allied Ships
The Berlin radio claimed German U boats sunk seven freighters totaling 35 185 tons and eight sailing vessels in the Atlantic Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. No Allied confirmation of the sinkings was reported.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Indian Ocean
Actor's Agent Held As Draft Dodger
Irving Salkow a prominent Hollywood actors agent surrendered to federal authorities on a grand jury indictment accusing him of violating the selective service act. He allegedly claimed defense work and ran a Hollywood theatrical agency in spare time, then released on his own recognizance.
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Hollywood
Irving Salkow
Salkow
U. S. Marshal’s Office
Grand Jury
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