New Tech President May Emerge From Fort Worth Board Meeting
Texas Technological College directors meet in Fort Worth on Tuesday to consider a president to succeed Dr. Clifford B. Jones who resigned on April 15 for health reasons. Jones remains president emeritus as a four-man committee reviews four potential appointees.
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Texas Technological College
Fort Worth
Clifford B. Jones
Colorado City
Thompson
C. E. Weymouth
Amarillo
A. G. Mavse
Paris
Mark McGee
Fort Worth Club
Jones and
W. T. Gaston
Five Injured In Railway Crash Near Cypress
A Houston bound Southern Pacific freight train collided with a two and a half ton truck carrying 16 barrels of pipeline tar two miles east of Cypress. Five men were injured four Houston crew members and the driver of the truck with two in critical condition. A Marine bystander helped extinguish the blaze and uncoupled the engine and burning box car before moving them clear. The truck driver Frank Bohhanan, 34, of Town Park is in critical condition with severe burns.
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Houston
Southern Pacific
Cypress
the Marine
Michael Boam
A. and
M. College
Ogden
Utah
Frank Bohhanan
Town Park
J. C. Huckaby
Cherbourg Natives Plan Yank Party Ahead of Troops
A Cherbourg merchant told reporters that 5 000 civilians remain in the city and have cached wine and champagne to greet American forces. He says Germans mined approaches and prepared house to house defenses, but doubts the enemy can man all positions.
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Cherbourg
Germans Threaten Massive Retaliation Over Normandy Executions
London reports Nazi high command says prisoners in Cherbourg area were murdered and vows to shoot ten US prisoners for every German if true. The threat followed Eden's remarks about British RAF officers shot attempting to escape and reports of lynching U S airmen in Germany.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Normandy
United States
High
DNB
Cherbourg
Anthony Eden
U. S
Germany
Corporation Charged With OPA Violations
The Equitable Trading Corp. and its president Hyman Karlin are co defendants in a 50 count federal information charging violation of OPA price ceilings. The firm, operating nationwide, allegedly diverted liquor to roadhouses and restaurants in Ohio Georgia and Texas with sales over 250000 and prices 80000 to 90000 above ceilings. If convicted the corporation faces up to 250000 fine and Karlin up to 50 years in prison with a similar fine.
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New York
Equitable Trading Corp
Hyman Karlin
OPA
Kerlin
U.S
James B. M. McNally
Enormous RAF raid sinks eighty ships at Le Havre Boulogne
London reports eighty enemy vessels were sunk by the RAF in day and night attacks on June 14 and 15 in the ports of Le Havre and Boulogne. The loss includes 22 E and Ro boats, torpedo boats, corvette, M class minesweepers and tenders, six tank landing craft, naval auxiliaries, and other vessels.
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London
RAF
le Havre
Boulogne
Air Ministry
Texas oil wells completed rise in week
82 wells completed in Texas during the week raise the total to 1,728 for the year, compared with 976 for the same period last year per the state Railroad Commission. During the same week 138 drilling applications were filed and 31 wells were plugged.
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Austin
Texas
State Railroad Commisson
Births Reported in Lubbock Area
A series of birth notices from West Texas hospital and local stations lists new arrivals. Names include Mullinex Barbara Ann plus multiple families in Lubbock and nearby, with weights ranging from 6 pounds 1 ounce to 8 pounds 4 ounces and times on a recent Friday or Saturday. Father occupations include oil field worker, carpenter, and military service.
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J. A. Mullinex
Morton
West Texas Hospital
Paul Willard Smith
Thirty-fourth Street
Barbara Ann
Tubbock Army Air Field Station
Charles D. Conley
Thirteenth Street
South Plains Army Airfield
Clyde Fuller
Route 1
Lubbock
Committee Warns On Light Newsprint
A committee of ten newspaper executives after talks with Canadian producers urged the United States to abandon 30 pound lightweight newsprint. They asked War Production Board official Arthur R. Treaner to press Canada to restore shipments of 200000 tons of 32 pound newsprint monthly. If not, Canadian output would shrink and US publishers face further quota cuts.
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Washington
Montreal
Arthur R. Treaner
War Production Board
Dominion
WPB
Publishers
U. S
Grand Jury To Air O Donnell Slaying
Lamesa June 24 Special A 106th district court grand jury will meet Monday to examine the murder charge against L A Bud Pugh a 44 year old O Donnell vard operator in the death of Lynn County Deputy Sheriff Don Burns. Burns was shot on O Donnell s main street. Pugh has been jailed since Burns death. McCord said no examining trial is requested and the panel will also look into several minor matters.
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Lamesa
106Th District Court
L. A
Bud? Pugh
O'Donnell
Lynn County
Don Burns
Burns
Pugh
Rollin McCord
McCord
One Man Killed Two Hurt In Highway 66 Collision
AMARILLO June 24 One man was killed and two injured, one seriously, when a car collided with a truck on highway 66 about 35 miles east of Amarillo. Tech Cpl Edward A. Ramey of Lawrence Massachusetts was killed. Don Hartwell Shaw of Tula Texas is badly injured and Robin David Blair of Albuquerque New Mexico sust ai ned minor injuries. Shaw and Blair, Navy V-12 trainees at Pittsburgh Kansas, were taken to an Amarillo hospital. The truck occupants were uninjured.
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Amarillo
Here
Tech
Edward A. Ramey
Lawrence
Mass
Don Hartwell Shaw
Tula
Tex
Robin David Blair
Albuquerque
N. M
Shaw
Blair
Pittsburgh
Kans
Farmer trades spuds for war bond in Brownwood
In Brownwood on June 24 Pi T Bryan of Sidney offered 500 sacks of potatoes for a $1000 war bond. After discussions with Chairman Joel Weatherby and Camp Bowie officials, Bryan contacted Capt. Robert F Bradley and today bought the bond with a U S treasury check.
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Brownwood
T. J. Bryan
Sidney
Brown County
Joel Weatherby
Bowie
Bryan
Robert F. Bradley
Weatherby
United States Treasury
Rhinehart breaks family tradition to join Navy
Dallas officer Paul-Carter Lee Rhinehart nephew of Col Rhinehart departs from a long Army family. He switches to the Navy amid a family of 38 in the Army, signaling a notable career move within a historic military lineage.
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Dallas
June
Carter Lee Rhinehart
San Antones
CK. Rhinehart
Navy
Army
New Bishop Named by Southeastern Methodist Conference
Atlanta June 24 47 The Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church elected two bishops to the college of bishops Dr Paul No Garber dean of the school of religion at Duke University and Dr Costen J Hartrell of Nashville Penn
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Atlanta
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference
The
Methodist Church
College of Bishops
Paul No Garber
Re Eion
Duke Univerity
Costen J. Hartrell
Nashville
Penn
Fight On Federal Encroachment Proposed At State Convention
Arkansas Governor Hamer called for a national constitutional convention after the war to halt federal encroachment on state sovereignty. He spoke at the Arkansas Press association meeting in Hot Springs and urged other governors to join the effort. Adkins supported delaying the convention until after legality and outcomes are clearer.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Arkansas
Hamer
Adkins
Arkansas Press Association
Alma
Partisans Harassing Nazis in Northern Italy
Reports from the Italian border describe street fighting in Bologna and Milan, strikes in Genoa and Turin, and a weakening German Fascist grip. Partisans, led by an Italian general in the Turin sector, attack electrical works and barracks while Italian towns and naval bases show rising resistance.
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Bern
Switzerland
Bologna
Milan
Genoa
Turin
Italy
Swiss Telegraphic
la Suisse
Pavolini
Mussolini
Jan Suisse
la Spezia
Sienna
Arezzo
Florence
Denmark's Armament Factory Is Wrecked
Swedish radio reported 70 to 80 armed men destroyed Denmark's Copenhagen harbor armament plant of the Dank Rekyvl syndicate in German-occupied territory. Disguised in work clothes the attackers arrived in three trucks, seized weapons, forced workers to safety, planted about 15 bombs, and detonated explosions that set fires through the factory. Two convicts escaped from Ramsey prison farm, with inmates Manuel Villagren and Robert Smith named in a press dispatch.
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New York
Denmark
Copenhagen
Dank Rekyvl
Federal Communications Commission
Bricker Denounces Subversive Drive for Roosevelt Re-Election
In Chicago on June 24 Gov John W Bricker declared radical groups including the communists and CIO PAC seek to re elect Franklin D Roosevelt and warned against a world government or foreign command of U S forces while rallying supporters at the Stevens hotel ballroom.
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Chicago
John W. Bricker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ohio
CIO
Tariff For Livestock Protection Urged By Reed
Chicago June 24 Republican tariff support urged to shield American livestock industry. Rep Daniel A Reed of New York, a Ways and Means member, prepared statement for party resolutions committee, citing 1894 and 1913 tariffs and warning against foreign imports ruining beef wool and mohair producers.
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Chicago
Republican Party
Ods
Daniel A Reed
New York
House Wars and Means
Rees Ming
Partes Resolutions Committee
Reed
Texas
New Mexico
Mrs Holman, 92, Dies at Home in Sweetwater
Mrs Mary Susan Holman aged 92 died Saturday afternoon at her home on Avenue Fo in Sweetwater. She is survived by two sons WO Holman of Sweetwater and Katey Thalmann of Frederick Ohio, and one daughter Mrs Jessie Johnson of Lubbock. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Baptist Mission church in Sweetwater, with burial at Saveetsarer cemetery. Sanders Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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Mary Susan Holman
Avenue
WO Bo Holman
Sweetwater
Katey Thalmann
Frederick, Oki
Jessie Johnson
Lubbock
Baptist Mission Church
Saveetsarer
Sanders Funeral Home
Deaths Of High Jap Officers Announced
A wireless Domei dispatch via the Federal Communications Commission reports the deaths of Japanese officers: Vice Admiral Yoshimasa Nakahara died from illness while at the front, and two lieutenant generals Motmura and Yokoyama died in action on the China front. General Nara died of illness in Manchuria.
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United Press
Domei Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Yoshimasa Nakahara
Navy General Staff
Navy Ministry
Motmura
Yokoyama
China
Nara
Manchuria
Sales to Individuals Reach 1.545 Billion in Early War Loan Drive
Washington reports that in the first eleven days of the $16 billion Fifth War Loan drive, sales to individuals totaled 1.545 billion dollars through yesterday. The daily increase was sizable and the overall goal is 6.6 billion dollars in individual sales.
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Washington
General Visits Normandy Again
General Dwight D. Eisenhower made a four hour visit to the Normandy beachhead returning to confer with Lt. Gen Omar N. Bradley and greet GIs. He was accompanied only by his aide and toured with infantrymen planners and tank crews.
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Edward V. Roberts
U. SS
Presa
Associated Press
Allied Advance Command
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Ernest R. Lee
Combined Press
Eisenhower
Bradley
U. S
Service Veteran Charlie Basa Visits Parents in Lubbock
Pvt Charlie Basa recently returned from a year in the Mediterranean theater with Army engineers and visited his parents Mr and Mrs C H Bass Route 1 Lubbock. He now receives medical care at Brooks General Hospital Brooks Field San Antonio.
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Pvt
Charlie Basa
Army Engineers
C. H. Bass
Route 1
Lubbock
Bass
States
Brooks General Hospital
Brooks Field
San Antonio
Dallas Federal Reserve names Dr. James C. Dolley research director
The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank announced the appointment of Dr. James C. Dolley of the University of Texas as director of research and statistics. Morgan H. Rice, longtime bank staffer and former head of the research statistics division, becomes assistant vice president. Dolley will take a one year leave of absence from his university professorship.
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Dallas
James C. Dolley
University of Texas
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
R. R. Gilbert
Gilbert
Morgan H. Rice
Dolley
Normandy visit tests new units with probing questions
A reporter notes a three-jeep caravan in the American sector during a first post June 12 visit. The observer observed MPs startled by the sight and saw the visitor with a wary expression. He engaged recently arrived units, asking questions to judge their readiness for an attack.
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Normandy
France
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Pfe
A. J. Strader
St Mary's Hospital
Foray Belcher
St Mary’s Hospital
Grand Jury
North
Huntsville
Ramsey Prison Farm
Manuel Villagren
Fi Paso
Robert Smith
Gilles Pue Cetyret
Bricker
FDR
Woman's Army Service Pilots
WASP
Lubbock Aero Service
Woman's Army Service
Hilton Hotel
Don Schomburg
Lubbock Aero Field
Emmett Morris
Brock
Lubbock Ws
Gail Borden
Borden's
Borden Folks
Stephen F. Austin
Wiley Martin
Randall Jones
William Pettus
Borden Company
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