MacArthur Making Progress In Bringing Democracy To Japan
New York Jan 5 U P reports General MacArthur’s occupation of Japan is driving rapid political and social reforms. Baillie notes cabinet purge of militarists and the Emperor’s denial of divinity as key steps, while demobilization and press freedom advance. Florida lists 1197 miles of coastline, the most of any state.
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MacArthur
Japan
New York
Douglas MacArthur
Hugh Baillie
The
United Press
University Club
Baillie
Hirohito Baillie
Orient
Florida
California
Louisiana
Texas
City Briefs Report Local Thefts and Public Notices
Fines of 25 dollars each were levied in city court on Odell Holt and Ubarty Reed after police arrests for theft under five dollars in local food stores. A car radio valued at 55 dollars was stolen from a downtown parking lot. a 50 dollar reward was offered. Mike Branham was hospitalized after collapsing in the 1800 block of Avenue E. Texas Tech officials W L Stangel and W M Whyburn feature in state commission duties. Lawyers Lindsey Smith Brock form a new firm in the Lubbock National Building. Oscar Emerald Nelson Jr. paid 50 dollars fine for drunk driving. N G Powell returns to Lubbock Senior High staff Jan 18 after military service.
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Odell Holt
Ubarty Reed
R. P. Coats
Oscar Emerald Nelson, Jr
Walter Davies
Nelson
Tech Receives Surplus War Goods Shipment
Texas Tech announced a surplus war goods shipment from the Douglas Aircraft Co Inc of Oklahoma City valued above 30000 dollars. The 72 items include woodworking and metalworking machinery, printing and welding equipment, a 9000 pound spot welder, a ferroscope, large sewing machines, battery chains and other valuable items. Previous surplus shipments to Tech total 55000 dollars and some property is being allocated to colleges under a state program. Final exams for the far semester run January 21 to 26.
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Texas Tech
Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc
Oklahoma City
Tech
Week In Washington: No House For The Housing Czar
Press staff writer Frederick C. Othman surveys a worrisome Washington week with jokes about President Truman television plans housing czar Wilson Wyatt and a host of capital misadventures. He notes federal agency frictions unions strikes and oddities from Patuxent mishaps to UN house hunters.
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Frederick C.othman
Washington
Truman
Congress
Lon Chaney
Patuxent
Union Station
WAC
Federal Cafetrias
OPA
Potomac
Pearl Harbor
Senate
United Nations Organization
London
Boston
New York
Bronx
Boosters’ Club
Supreme Court
Tech Spring Term Opens January 30 For Texas Tech
Registration for the spring semester at Texas Tech runs January 30 and 31 with classes beginning February. Late registration fees apply after February 22 and February 6 is the final day a student may rez.
High School Exams Begin Following Dead Week
Lubbock senior high announces exams set for Thursday Friday and Saturday after a dead week. First semester ends Monday with short periods 9 a.m. to noon, then teachers available 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for makeup. New term starts Tuesday January 15 as activities pause for exams.
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Lubbock
Drop Of 20 Cents In Egg Prices Foreseen
Washington Jan 5 The Office of Price Administration announced retail prices on the best eggs will fall about 20 cents a dozen by early March Retail ceilings on top grade eggs were cut two cents a dozen on Dec 27 and again on Jan 3 The declines follow a weekly rate of at least one cent a dozen for the next weeks under OPA season schedule Prices rise in October to December when production is low and fall in late winter and early spring as supply grows
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Texas Killer Gordon Dies in El Campo Garage Standoff
Williford S. Gordon, serving 99 years for killing a Houston salesman in 1943, was killed during a raid after escaping from Clements prison farm. Deputies and state officers closed in as he clashed in a garage using tear gas, machine gun fire, and a safe attack in driving rain.
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Williford S. Gordon
Houston
T. L. Allen
Clements
el Campo
Gillie McClure
McClure
Gordon
T. H. Buckshot Lane
Wharton
Hair Density Facts Reported in Scalp Study
The report states the human scalp has about 100 hairs per square inch. The average head holds roughly 110000 hairs. It notes women have higher averages than men while redheads average about 90000 hairs.
Communism Claimed To Be Unpopular In Germany
Leo Cherne, head of the Research Institute of America, said in Cleveland that a free public election in present German territories would overwhelmingly defeat Communism. He toured Germany, France and England and warned of a contest between what Communists call Democracy and Western Democracy. He predicted Social Democrats would win if elections were held.
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Cleveland
U.P
Germany
Young Negro Admits Slaying In Missouri
A 16 year old Philadelphia Negro confessed to San Antonio officers that he slugged an elderly Kansas City woman and shot her. He fled the scene after entering the house to use a telephone and was arrested at the Bexar county home he had been sent to after a prior break in. A telegram from Kansas City sheriff’s office confirms he is wanted for murder in connection with the woman’s death last November.
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San Antonio
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Bexar County
Jack Brice
Sheriff's Office
Wyoming Irrigation Policy and Civil War Era Project
Cherne argues that lack of a middle class philosophy leaves free enterprise without choice. The discussion notes Wyoming’s first irrigation project dates to the Civil War period, highlighting early public works and economic aims in the region.
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Wyoming
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Block Ave. E
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Texas Technological College
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Victor H. Lindsey
J. Orville Smith
Ralph Brock
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Brock
N. G. Powell
Lubbock Senior High School
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Federal
Arris Ellsworth
Ore
Senate Chamber
Lincoln
West Texas Oxygen CO
AVE. H
Dodge Truck Parts
Eaton
Motar
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Lubbock, Texas
DEDGE
Plymouth
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1413 Avenue
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T. Secretary
Ming
Geo. E. Benson
Citizens National Bank
Durwood H. Bradley
Homer D. Grant
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