Negro Makes Bond On Assault Charge
Fannie Jordan, 43, pledges $1,000 bond on an assault with attempt to murder charge connected to a Friday night fracas in Carver Heights. Ella Carroll, 48, and DeWitt Patterson were wounded. Carroll recovering after knife wound, Patterson shot in the leg. Laura Jean Jackson and Doshia Mae Okra, daughters of Carroll and Jordan, were also injured at Crockersack Inn, 2100 block Ave B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Jordan
Liberty
Carver Heights
Ella Carroll
J. A. Chatman
Chatman’s Hospital
DeWitt Patterson
Patterson
Chatman
Laura Jean Jackson
Doshia Mae Okra
Carrol and
Jordan
Crockersack Inn
Block Ave. B
Big Three Meeting In Potsdam Dominates July Weekend
News analysis notes Churchill Stalin and Truman converge in conquered Germany to discuss postwar Europe and plans for Japan. The discussions could shape the peace and conditions after surrender, with no official confirmation yet. The piece recalls 1943 Cairo-Tehran-Plot and hints at Russia’s stake in Formosa Manchuria and Korea. Local incidents: hospital treatment, a child struck by a car, stolen cars, thefts, and upcoming Methodist meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkel. Simpson
Associated Press
Churchill
Britain
Stalin
London
Washington
Truman
Japan
Potsdam
Churchrill
Roosevelt
Ao Chaing Kai-Shek
Germany
Cairo
China
Formosa
Manchuria
Pescadores Islands
Korea
Russia
Sahalin
Moscow
Soong
Assaults On Japs Continues with Naval Air Strikes
Nimitz said operations continue in strength with heavy surface units and fleet aircraft engaged. Carrier strikes destroyed 24 grounded planes and damaged 62, sank 15 ships, including two train ferries and a destroyer, and damaged 24 more ships. Local damage hit Hakodate’s dock facilities as 27 locomotives were destroyed.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Hokkaido
Hakodate
Nimitz
Okinawa
Matsushima
Matsudo
Misawa
Honshu
Japan
Kamaishi
OPA Seeks to Interrogate Renter Meat Possession
The OPA outlines procedures for interviewing renters with large meat stocks. Investigators will request statements, and those with illegal meat face red point surrender or sale at ceiling prices. Farms or custom slaughtered meat may avoid penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Yank Headquarters Move to Berlin
The United States section of the Allied control commission for Germany shifts its forward headquarters to Berlin from Frankfurt on the Main. Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay, Eisenhower's deputy, will have a permanent office in Berlin, while Frankfurt remains the headquarters for US Army forces in the European theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yank
Berlin
United States
Allied Control Commission For Ceremany
Frankfurt
Main
Eisenhower
Control Commission
Lucius Clay
United States Army
European
French Purge Continues as Trials Proceed in Paris
More than 20,000 have stood trial in nine months of the purge with 30,000 still awaiting judgment. Courts have issued 994 death verdicts and numerous hard labor and imprisonment sentences. 3,315 acquittals are recorded. The pace draws fire from resistance groups while the final giant trial nears for Marshal Philippe Petain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belman Morin
Ted Press
Paris
Ministry of Justice
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Abel Bonnard
Marsel Dent
Georges Claude
Supreme Court
Gestapo
Marshal Philippe Petain
Strikers Warned To Report Or Be Dismissed In New York
The Publishers Association of New York City sent telegrams to striking News paper and Mail Deliveries union members warning them to report to work or face dismissal. The move comes as the 14 day strike disrupts 14 New York dailies and three racing publications and affects paper distribution citywide. Union leaders were not immediately available for comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Publishers Association of
New York City
Great Chinese Mass Migration Surpasses Europe to America Drift
The article notes that 50 million Chinese were forced to flee inland due to Japanese advances, a population movement larger by 20 million than the 1776 1860 European to American trek long viewed as the era s greatest migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Europe
America
Rationing Ends Soon for New 1942 Automobiles
Washington reports all remaining 1942 passenger cars about 6 000 will be released from wartime rationing to clear the way for new models. The CPA plans to lift restrictions in a few days, with similar steps for upcoming models. Rationing may last until early 1946 after first appearing on the market. Fort Worth OPA confirms new models released Wednesday with no certificates until quotas allow. Outstanding 1942 purchase certificates become void. Eligibility remains limited to eight class applicants including police firemen health officers physicians and nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CPA
Fort Worth
OPA
Hit Run Kills Soldier and Girl Near Longview
County police sought a green 37 Ford with a smashed grille after a hit and run on Highway one mile west of Longview killed a soldier Rudolfo Mendez and his girl companion Othea Lille. Lille died instantly. Mendez died in hospital. No witnesses reported.
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Longview
Here
Othea Lille
Clute
Tex
Rudolfo Mendez
Harmon General Hospital
Fraternization Ban Sparks Mixed Reactions Among Doughboys
Soldiers along the Rhine react to the non fraternization order with humor and dissent. S/Sgt Edward Detjen of St. Louis predicts changes as men and women mingle more while some say enforcement was never workable. Others worry the rule infringes duty and patriotism amid postwar social life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Detjen
St. Louis
Roy H. Wells
Washington, D. C
Rhine
Search for Bodies of Two Continues at Rio Grande
A Rio Grande search for two missing boys continued today after a skiff overturned near Lopeno. One identified youth is Manuel Gonzales Jr. about 18, the other is unnamed son of Louis Ochoa about 12. Seven other boys were rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lopeno
Tex
Rio Grande River
Manuel Gonzales, Jr
Louis Ochoa
Loot of Nazi plunder piled high in Frankfurt bank
In the Reichsbank vaults of Frankfurt a vast cache of gold silver pearls gems and jewelry looted by Nazi occupiers was cataloged by U S Treasury and Bank of England officials. The collection includes gold and silver fillings from camp victims thousands of rings and barrels of watches and jewelry with an estimated value impossible to determine.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Europe
Reichsmark Bank of
United States Treasury
Bank of England
Bernard Bernstein
U. S
Group Control Council
Third Army
Merkers
Heinrich Himmler
Greece
Poland
Bernstein
U.S
Leland Howard
Bureau of the Mint
Washington
John D. Jamieson
Denver Mint
Theodore Schiercke
New York
Abernathy Man Dies After Stroke at 63
Abernathy resident Andrew Thomas Johnston 63, manager of People Ice Co., died at 7:15 pm after a stroke this afternoon. Survived by wife, five daughters including Mrs. Watts of Abernathy and Miss Ann Johnston of Long Beach, a son in San Francisco, and a daughter in Charleston. Body remains at Sanders Funeral Home in Lubbock. Rites not yet arranged.
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Abernathy
Andrew Thomas Johnston
People Ice Company
Sanders Funeral
Lubbock
Johnston
Thomas Johnston
San Francisco
Calif
Ted Watts
Wright Williams
Charleston
D. C
Howard Brown
Levelland
Don Bradley
Ann Johnston
Long Beach
Anderson ends grain use in beverage alcohol after July
Secretary Clinton P. Anderson announced that after the July liquor holiday no feed grains should be used in making beverage alcohol. In a letter to War Production Board chair J A Krug he indicated no extension of the liquor holiday. He also urged limits on grains for industrial alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clinton P. Anderson
War Production Board
J A. Krug
Anderson
Births Note List from Local Families
Sgt and Mrs R Cunningham of route 5 Lipper welcome a daughter at St Marys hospital weighing 10 pounds 6:05 p m Friday. Mr and Mrs Pope Jr 310 Nett on birth of a son Saturday at Porter-Seana clinic. James F Ross route 6 Lubbock welcome a daughter weighing 8 pounds ? ounces at 1 50 p m Saturday at St Marys hospital. R L Williams route 4 Tahoka welcome a daughter weighing 6 pounds 24% ounces at 12 15 p m Saturday at West Texas hospital. Flinn Dunn Abernathy welcome a daughter weighing 5 pounds 5 ounces at 5 55 p m Saturday. J G Harper Jr Slaton welcome a daughter weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces at 2 56 p m Saturday at Lubbock General hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Peters
W. M. Peters
West Texas Hospital
R. Cunningham
Route 5
Lipper
St. Mary's Hospital
J. B. ‘Pope, Jr
Netnon
Seana
James F. Ross
Lubbock
R. L. Williams
Route 4
Tahoka
Flinn Dunn
Abernathy
J. G. Harper, Jr
Slaton
Lubbock General Hospital
Ordnance Plant Fire Damages in Texas at $100,000
AMARILLO July 14. Fire at the Cactus ordnance plant in Dumas Texas caused an estimated 100000 in damage. The loss includes a building with work set to resume in two weeks. Two workers were injured, William Snapp released from hospital and L L Hick admitted to Cactus hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Cactus Ordnance Plant
Dumas
Téx
Robert Juer
J. G. Bejarano
William Snapp
L. L. Hick
Cactus Hospital
U S Seeks End To British Restrictions
Washington July 14 Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton pledged a speedy postwar end to British exchange controls that block American trade with sterling bloc nations. He said trade channels with India should be opened and that wartime British controls should end as soon as practicable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Will Clayton
United States
Emanuel Cellar
State Department
India
Clayton
Britain
War Board Prohibits Herringbone Twill Purchases
The Army quartermaster corps will halt buying herring bone twill for three months to free about 36 million yards of fabric for men’s work clothing. WPB expects no noticeable rise in work clothing until roughly six weeks from now. Buy A War Bond Today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
War Production Board
Army Quartermaster Corps
WPB
Partial paralysis case history details recovery
A lady with facial and limb tingling and numbness underwent assessment and began treatment. She reports improvement and feels she has avoided further suffering due to the care provided.
Rationing Changes In G Coupon Use In Six-State Region
Fort Worth reports that effective October 1 C gasoline coupons will be discontinued and all supplemental mileage will be issued as B coupons. OPA officials T. K. Tindale and Don Leach toured the six state region, saying the change preserves mileage but alters coupon type. A nationwide survey of C coupon issuance will begin Monday to check adherence to wartime gallonage, with a possible future reduction of A coupon value as a last resort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Washington
OPA
T. K. Tindale
Don Leach
The
Petroleum Administration
CPA
Leach
Crop and land damage in county tops half a million
Torrential rains and lightning struck the area this morning causing crop and land damage estimated at 500000 dollars by L H Thomas county AAA chairman. Traffic on the Texas and Pacific railroad resumed after crews repaired a washed out bridge and dump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Thomas
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Fire consumes downtown Houston tough blaze injures crew
A four alarm fire raged over two hours in downtown Houston near Main Fannin Rusk and Walker causing about 300000 dollars in damage. Twenty one city firemen and a Navy seaman were injured. 200 guests evacuated from the Cotton hotel and Bond's clothing store was the hardest hit with about 100000 dollars in losses. The Aragon ballroom roof collapsed causing prior landmark damage. None of the injured are in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Houston Merrymakers
Aragon
McMillians
Bond
Wade W. Beckman
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Italy Declares War on Japan Ahead of Potsdam Conference
The foreign ministry said Italy declares war on Japan effective tomorrow as a show of resolve against aggression and militarist imperialism. Italy will aid the Pacific war with courage and sacrifice, despite Far East noninvolvement, continuing after its surrender to the Allies. A stray line about loose car bolts follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Foreign Ministry
Japan
Far East
Pacific
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