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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1944
Page
16
RAF bombers raid Brunswick as Allied air forces report a new saturation mark against German wartime targets. The Associated Press notes heavy bombing while RAF forces press ongoing strategic daylight attacks.
Special correspondent Raymond Clapper describes General Douglas MacArthur as photogenic yet reserved, living a quiet family life and seldom seen in public. The piece contrasts public perception with his private demeanor and notes his routine at Australian and New Guinea headquarters. It also includes bulletins on RAF raids on Brunswick and French targets, detailing massive bomber operations, scores of planes, and German defenses.
Yugoslav partisans led by Marshal Tito push south toward the German held port of Fiume as German columns swing toward Sarajevo within 45 miles. Reports cite recent partisan gains including Bijeljina Janja and Ivanjica while Germans seize three towns in central and western Bosnia.
London dispatches relay claims of German troop concentrations along the Bulgarian Turkish frontier. Reports, said to originate from Sofia and filtered through Stockholm, follow a familiar pattern seen in recent Bulgarian-origin stories.
Petroleum administrator for war has certified Texas oil production for February at 2 018 000 barrels daily. Railroad Commission chairman Beauford Jester announced the unchanged figure today in Austin.
Lonzo Jared of the U S Forest Service estimates 24 hour survey shows damage to old and new stands in Angelina National Forest and Zavalla area may reach five million dollars. Slash pine planted in 1936 37 hardest hit with 20 000 acres damaged. Thaw could leave brush covering the forest creating a major fire hazard. Lufkin reports telephone and telegraph outages isolating the area.
Washington, Jan 15. Secretary Hull announced a far reaching reorganization of the State department to ready it for wartime tasks and a secure peace. Top officers will shed some administrative duties to focus on world affairs as new divisions handle postwar policy and foreign relations.
Unconfirmed reports say a quake hit cities across Argentina and Chile destroying much of San Juan in Mendoza province. Fire crews rushed to San Juan as windows broke and telephones failed. Communications were severed and many homes damaged or destroyed while Buenos Aires felt the tremor but reported no damage.
Don L. Jones of the Texas Experiment Station east of Lubbock warns South Plains farmers not to begin seed-bed preparation early. He notes December and January rains moisten soil 24 inches deep, reducing wind erosion and says January prep yields do not surpass late March.
Northwest Texas plans the largest military parade in its history to launch the Fourth War Loan drive. Lubbock event starts next Saturday at 3 pm with postparade activities and aKFYO radio broadcast at 7 18 pm. The county quota is 3597000, below last fall’s 4616900, yet aimed to exceed.
Texas Railroad Commission members Beauford H. Jester E. O. Thompson and Olin Culberson say keeping crude oil prices down harms competition and favors big companies. They urge the Disney bill and cite Bureau of Labor Statistics data from June 1941 to justify the proposed 35 percent increase.
Peruvian government detained several conspirators including Germans and Japanese accused of planning anti Jewish outbreaks to cloak a pro Nazi coup. Persons involved face deportation or orders to leave the country.
Ossining N Y dates Jan 15 Robert J Kirby 55 warden of Sing Sing prison died tonight after eight days of pneumonia illness.
The seventh victim of a Santa Fe wreck near NOVICE Texas was identified as Mrs. J L Poston of Antlers Oklahoma. A Cole man funeral home confirmed positive ID after the body was taken from the crash scene. Previously, J D Poston at Camp Harkeley said his wife and four year old son were killed. Earlier, the child and five other victims were identified. About 80 people were injured when a four car extra train hit the rear of a 12 car westbound train during a snowstorm.
Berlin radio quoted by Britain reports that the Japanese press published a demand for conscripting women into war industry. The broadcast notes the plea appears in the Japanese press and is carried by the German radio.
Allied headquarters report French forces pushing into the German defenses near Cassino Italy. Acquafondata and three high points captured. American troops within four miles of Cassino as the 15th Army Group bypasses Villetuso.
One third of all Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots are being trained in the United States by the U S Navy. The aim is future joint fleet operations against Japan. Some American trained airmen have already seen brief action with German forces in the North Sea.
George P. Husumisel aged 45, chief of the U S weather bureau in Galveston for nine years, died at John Sealy hospital after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Allied forces press the Sio mission push on the Huon peninsula as Australian troops threaten the last Japanese base in northeast New Guinea. Simultaneously Marines assault Hill 660 at Cape Gloucester, facing heavy resistance and fortifications as they seek control of Borgen Bay defenses.
Seventh Army airforce bombers sank a medium cargo ship at Wotje during a low level attack. Two other enemy ships near Wotje were possibly damaged. Earlier raids on Wotje, Namur, Itai, and Mili set fires and damaged ground facilities and planes. All American planes returned.
OWI reports 20 per 1000 cadets killed in training but says Army Air Forces keep accident and fatality rates down. Eighty fatal accidents cause 194 deaths per 1,000,000 flight hours. combat training deaths surge to 621 per million hours. Fighters most dangerous. primary trainer safest. 48 percent of accidents due to personnel error.
Soviet mobile units moved toward the old Polish border from southern White Russia as Red Army forces in the Ukraine reported heavy counterattacks that killed 2,000 Germans. Moscow said Russian drives near Leningrad and other northern sectors continued with Rokossovsky’s troops advancing from Kalinkovichi and Mozyr through the Pripet marshes toward Pinsk, while airmen claimed an armored train destruction. Far south, Vatutin’s left wing repelled German assaults aiming to block the Odessa Lwow railway, east of Vinnitsa and north of Uman, as fighting persisted into the day.
AMERSHAM England Jan 18 Air Vice-Marshal R H M Saundby deputy chief of the RAF Bomber command said German submarines have nearly given up molesting Atlantic convoys. Coastal command and escort carriers with Azores bases cover the Atlantic making submarine attacks difficult. If they try to return we shall be ready. Germans have lost air control and cannot increase overall airpower. at best they may achieve a defensive success.
In Sydney Australia on January 15 the engagement of Cpl Enis Power son of Mrs A Power of Spur Texas to Hota Richardson of Sydney was announced.
Partly cloudy conditions and a slight drop in temperatures across Panhandle and South Plains Sunday into Monday. Central New Mexico sees generally fair skies with higher afternoon highs east of the Rio Grande and near the Pecos river.
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