Yanks In Europe Urgently Need Proper Winter Gear
Paris dispatch notes doughboys fighting in the Ardennes facing trench foot and frostbite as boots and jackets fail to keep out cold. Col Brander Purdue of the 120th Regiment supplied hundreds of GI blankets and felt shoes from a Belgian factory, reducing trench foot in his unit. Captain Joseph E. Brown recalls survival thanks to the felt footwear despite severe frostbite.
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U.P
Ardennes
Brander P. Purdue
120Th Regiment
Quartermaster Corps
Joseph E. Brown
Swansea
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79 Names On Honor Roll At Lub bock High School
Seventy nine students at Lubbock Senior High School appear on the second honor roll for the year. Honor students must keep no grade below a B and at least one A. The list includes multiple A counts with names such as Ruth Cowart Ken Hancock Mary Findley Mary Frances Payne and Mary Belle Richards.
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Lubbock Senior High School
Ruth Cowart
Ken Hancock
Mary Findley
Mary Frances, Payne
Mary Belle Richards
Gilles Carter
Rose Mary Dawkins
Gerry Hope
Alice Sweet
Marthe Bucy
Nelda Chapman
Herbert Hawkins
Bill Blagle
Billy Adair
Ramona Douglas
Jeanette Hamilton
Frank Kerr
Margaret Hawkins
Gene Malone
Glenne Walden
Jim Lowrey
Jimmy Allen
Nell Anthony
Elizabeth Crais
Gerald Hastings
Billie Hutchings
Paul Keele
Jewell Alice Pharr
Leslie Stone
Joe Arrington
Dorothy Barnett
Eliza Fix
Laura Beth Hall
Daisy Kilpatrick
Olive Matthews
Deane Pierce
Marian Pendley
Janet Ragland
Lloyd Rector
Jacquelyn Reynolds
Viola Irene Ward
Jane Ater
Jack Alderson
Joyce Yocum
Marcella Wilson
Betty Sue Tippet
Mary Prances Settle
Gloria Novak
Roberta Niblack
Jackie Lee le Jowan Clatchy
Loreta Maner
Eugenia Luker
Rayburn Jones
Teresa Henson Danibeon
Alton Resell
Bertha Neil Adair
Muriel Arker
Dorothy Black
Marcya Lee
Russell Logan
Barbera Jackson
Hythen Moore
Ray O'Neil
Lynn Merie Ryan
Anette Seay
Pegey Strickland
Jack Walter
Joe Ram Ralley
Electors Hand Out Diplomas in Washington Ball
In Washington on January 20 the electoral college held a post election celebration at the Mayflower hotel with about a hundred attendees including Roosevelt and Truman supporters. Generals Marshall and King, Mrs. Roosevelt, Supreme Court justices, cabinet members, and Edward G. Robinson attended as luminaries and speakers noted wartime and postwar peace issues. The event symbolized Roosevelts fourth term amid a global conflict, as political and cultural figures mingled in a shindig atmosphere. A separate Habana note mentions La Fuerza fort dating to roughly 1538.
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Washington
Electoral College
College
Mayflower Hotel
Dewey
Roosevelt
Connally
Senate Relations Committee
J G Mathis Funeral Scheduled In Grassland
Funeral services for J G Mathis 49 of Grassland Lynn county who died of a heart attack en route to a Lubbock hospital Friday will be at 2 30 this afternoon at Grassland Lubbock relatives said The body is at Harris Funeral home at Tohoka Survivors include wife Myrtle Mathis brother Kary Mathis principal of Bean school and four sisters A M Hawtorne Monroe B Dean Sundown J R Wood Southland J P Pierson Amarillo Mathis had been a farmer in Lynn county since 1916.
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J. G. Mathis
Grassland
Lynn County
Lubbock
Harris Funeral
Tohoka
Myrtle Mathis
Kary Mathis
Bean School
A. M. Hawtorne
Monroe
8. B. Dean
Sundown
J. R. Wood
Southland
J. P. Pierson
Amarillo
Mathis
Russians Begin Winter Offensive Across Poland
Three Russian winter offensives opened with Marshal Konev's First Ukraine Army advancing in southern Poland. The First and Second White Russian Armies joined the drive in central and northern Poland beginning January 14. The report notes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has more streets than any other city.
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London
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Poland
Pittsburgh
Mother's Friend Skin Lubricant Promoted for Pregnancy Comfort
Expecting mothers are urged to use Mother's Friend a skin lubricant sold by druggists. The ad claims quick absorption and relief from back muscles and cramp like pains during pregnancy and notes it has been trusted for more than 70 years.
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Destore
Corner Tost Na Oa
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Hanna-Pope & Co
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Peter Lennox
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