Texas Faces Dual Political Headaches in 1944
Texas starts 1944 with two major political headaches as national issues loom. A possible Supreme Court ruling on Negro voter rights could open Democratic primaries, while a soldier voting contention may force a special session if Congress lets states govern soldier ballots. Texas will elect 150 House members and 16 state senators, with key races including Sam Rayburn vs Grover Morris and Lyndon Johnson facing Buck Taylor.
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Pave Cheavens
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Democratic Executive Committee
Congress
Marietta McGregor Payne
John Payne
United Nations
Cairo
House of
National Congress
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Grover C. Morris
Greenville
Gerald Mann
Stevenson
Mann
John Lee Smith
Beauford Jester
Bascom Giles
Land Office
Grover Sellers
National House
Leutenant
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Mrs. Biggs Dies At Home In Walnut Street
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Biggs 88 died at her residence 2518 Walnut Street at 10 Saturday morning after a brief illness. Survived by stepson J. R. Biggs and granddaughter Mrs. R. O. Morgan with two great grandchildren Eva Mae and Doris Dean Morgan. Funeral at 9 this afternoon in Bryan McDonald Son chapel with Rev. Jeff Welch officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Sarah Elizabeth Biggs
Walnut Street
J. R. Biggs
Comanche
Tex
R. O. Morgan
Eva Mae
Doris Dean Morgan
Bryan McDonald & Son
Jeff Welch
Central Baptist Church
Buria
Memorial Park Cemetery
Secret pamphlet prompts fake illnesses in German army
Stockholm dispatch reports a covert eight page pamphlet teaching how to feign sickness among German troops. Instructions hide inside counterfeit lottery envelopes and describe methods from throat inflammation to paralysis and tuberculosis to trigger infections while forging prescriptions. Authorities hunt the source as Gestapo seizes copies.
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Stockholm
Germany
Eastern Front
Gestapo
Texas reports sharp rise in nine diseases in 1943
Austin with U P cites Texas health department morbidity data showing influenza with 57 160 cases in 1943 up from 34 995 in 1942 and other diseases rising: dysentery malaria meningitis pneumonia poliomyelitis tuberculosis typhus fever and whooping cough. Four diseases declined: diphtheria measles small pox and typhoid fever.
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Austin
U.P
State Health Department
Funeral for Bizzell Child Held at Whiteface
Funeral services for five year old Charles Oscar Bizzell will be at 3 p m today at the Whiteface Methodist church with Rev A O Graydon officiating He died in a West Texas hospital Friday night of pneumonia Survivors include his parents two brothers Carlton and Clifton three sisters Marcella Margaret Ann and Geraldine maternal grandparents and Mrs O M Bizzell Interment will be in Whiteface per Bryan McDonald & Son Funeral Home of Lubbock
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Methodist
Whiteface
Charles Oscar Bizzell
A. O. Graydon
Young Bizzell
Oscar W. Bizzell
West Texas Hospital
Carlton
Clifton
Marcella
Margaret Ann
Geraldine
B. H. Webb
O. M. Bizzell
Bryan McDonald & Son Funeral Home
Lubbock
Dutch musician Wouter Hutschenruyer dies in The Hague
Wouter Hutschenruyer, famed Dutch conductor of the Utrecht municipal orchestra for 25 years, died in The Hague at age 84, Aneta reports.
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Dies Londin
Jan
Wouter Hutschenruyer
Utrecht
the Hague
Aneta
Rumania Begins Moving Plants Amid Frontline Threats
A Budapest dispatch reports Rumania is dismantling factories in Cernauti Chisinau and surrounding Bucovina and Bessarabia as Soviet advances threaten the frontier. Machinery is moved inland behind mountains while peasants flee with carts and cattle. Panic selling spreads among wealthier Rumanians abroad and in Romania as frontiers tighten and guards flee from Yugoslav partisans.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rumania
Cernauti
Chisinau
Bucovina
Bessarabia
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten
Basler Nacchichten
Basler Nachrichten Tn
Acros
Yugoslavia
Vesuvius Erupts with Lava Streams Near Naples
British radio correspondent Frank Gillard reports Vesuvius erupting near Naples with two lava streams pouring down northern slopes. CBS broadcast the account today.
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New York
Rad
Frank Gillard
Naples
CBS
Lightning Safe In Steel Topped Automobiles Says Research
Scientists report being inside a steel topped automobile shields people from lightning. The study indicates the car’s metal shell conducts the current around occupants, reducing injury risk during a storm.
Versatility Shines In SPAAF Band, South Plains Unit
The SPAAF band emphasizes versatility with daily rehearsals from morning to night, a graduation ceremony at 10, and a 5 pm retreat. Director Dunham, a Hillnorms alumnus, has led the unit since its 1942 activation, drawing cross-country praise from other fields. The roster features veteran professional horn players and Tech attendees, including Walker, Donaldson, and Kligman, plus many others from Lubbock and nearby towns.
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South Plains Army
SPAAF
Dunham
Harry M. Dunham
Dana
Hillnors State Normal University
Felix Walker, Jr
19Th Street
Anson Weeks
al Kavelin
Buddy Fisher
Jimmy Joy
Lubbock High School
Texas Tech
Sat
Bryce DD. McFall
Everett Hoarland
Eddie Donaldson
Weeks
Fisher
Spt
Noble Roy
Hal Grayson
Garwood van Pie
Kenneth C. Birnbaum
Carl Ravazza
Donaldson
Tecan
Tech
Walker
Phillip Kligman
1802 Seventh Street
Archie Floyd Keys
Plainview
Pfc
C. B. Thompson
Lubbock
Seventh Street
John W. Grabber
Slaton
Sgt
Karry K. Born
21St Street
Norman H. Heath, Jr
Tenth Street
Paul M. Branom
Branom
Levelland
Grand Falls
Loraine
Monahans
Alfred R. Erban
New Braunfels
Pfe
Cecil A. Gregg
Ave. P
Charles Sylvester
Roger N. Eaton
Brownwood
Henry B. Jordan
Abilene
Edgar F. Witt
la Grange
Alexander J. Kardo
Barberton
Andrew J. Skender
Detroi
Lewis Steelzing
Wellington
Kan
Lee A. Leonard
Cincinnati
G. Lallas
Denver
Arene C. Uncer
Rochester
N. Y
Clyde E. Heller
Shippersburg
Pas
Harry Mundt
San Francisco
George A. Smith
Charleroi
James P. Griffin
Philadelphia
Carmel Price
Chicago
Basil N. Cua
Syracuse
N.Y
Carl FE. Euler
Lawrenceville
Tih
Robert A. Jackson
Stratford
Okla
Henry C. Rushing
el Dorado
Ark
Pleo Delmen FE
Swindler
Warren
Robert A. Tabor
Portland
Ore
Sherley R. Simon
Pittsburgh
Fred H. Martini
George E. Watkinson
Bridge
Abernathy Pilot Call Home From New York Air Mission
First Lt. Billy J. Hooker of Abernathy spoke to his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Hooker on route 2 about having lunch with them. He flies a U S Army Air Forces bomber and has led eleven missions over Europe with his crew before their craft was badly damaged on the twelfth mission and forced to land.
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Billy J. Hooker
M. E. Hooker
Route 2
Abernathy
New York City
Hooker
U. S. Army Air Forces
European
Naziland
Heart Disease Fatal To South Texas Minister
The Rev Harry Hunter Dare, 43, pastor of Snettles Memorial Methodist Church in Austin, died of heart disease. He formerly led churches in San Antonio Donna and Goldthwaite. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow with burial in Robstown Monday.
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Austin
Harry Hunter Dare
South Texas
Dare
Snettles Memorial Methodist Church
San Antonio
Donna
Goldthwaite
Robstown
Houston Detective To Question 3 Fugitives
Houston detective W. P. Biiner left for Jackson Mississippi to question three San Quentin escapees linked to armed robberies at the Willam Penn hotel a storage garage and a family possessions. He will seek authority for their return to Houston to pursue charges of robbery by firearms filed in Justice court yesterday.
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Houston
W. P. Biiner
Jackson
Miss
San Quentin
Willam Penn
Mississippi
Justice Court
Germans Guess About Invasion
London reports that the Soviet yearlong offensive and Tehran Allied unification keep Germans guessing on a western invasion. Speculation centers on late spring to early summer, with April or May as likely but weather and Russian momentum could shift plans. Nazi commentators note possible attacks from Norway to southern France regardless of timing.
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London
Tehran
Red Army
Paris
Berlin
Kurt Dittmar
Ludwig Scritorius
Norway
France
Stalin
Troop Rotation Policy Adopted
The War department adopted a troop rotation plan aiming by mid 1944 to bring home all soldiers in Alaska and the Caribbean with two years overseas service. North Africa would rotate some troops monthly. in the South Pacific and the Southwest difficulties are expected to ease by spring 1944. Europe has no rotation plan yet, conditions may change. Senator Reynolds notes progress and forthcoming systems.
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Washington
Jan
War Department
Alaska
Caribbean
United States
Reynolds
D-Sc
Senate Military Affairs Committee
North Africa
South
Southwest Pacific
Joe Pierce Funeral Held in Lamesa
Joe H. Pierce, 59, died Wednesday at his residence from a cerebral hemorrhage. A funeral service was conducted at Lamesa Methodist Church with Rev. E. D. Landrum and Rev. F. Cole officiating. Pierce had lived in Lamesa 21 years and in Dawson County 30, operated a dry goods business, and at death ran a beauty shop with his wife. He was a Methodist, a Mason, and Rotary charter member. Burial followed in Lamesa Cemetery.
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Lamesa
Lamesa Methodist Church
Joe H. Pierce
E. D. Landrum
F. Cole
Baptist Church
Pierce
Dawson County
Methodist Church
Rotary Club
Lamesa Cemetery
German fears of weakening West defense highlighted
The article notes German caution about risking reductions in western defenses to address urgent needs on the Russian front, reflecting strategic priorities and potential vulnerability in the west.
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