Final Showdown With Hitler Near Says Leaders
AP war analyst Dewitt Mackenzie reports Churchill tells American paratroops they will soon land in Nazi held Europe. Montgomery calls it the biggest tug of war, as air forces surge to pre invasion readiness. Nazis tighten defenses as fronts shift and Balkans tighten around Hungary Romania and Bulgaria.
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Associated Press
Hitler
Churchill
England
Europe
Britain
General Montgomery
London
America
Stockholm
East Prussian
Baltic
Leningrad
Poland
Balkans
Fuehrer
Hungary
Rumania
Bulgaria
Austria
Italy
POWs to work on farms, Donovan says in Dallas
Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan reports at a Dallas conference that prisoners of war can fill farm labor needs amid manpower shortages. He cites a 50 percent increase over 1943 and potential 30 000 additional POWs, noting restrictions under the Geneva convention and widespread posting to posts camps and hospitals in Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and nearby areas.
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Dallas
Richard Donovan
Fighth Service Command
Donovan
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas Crops To Be About Same In 1944
Texas farmers plan to plant about the same acreage in 1944 as in 1943 for all spring sowed crops excluding cotton and fall sown hay. Increases occur in sorghums and oats while corn, peanuts and tame hay decline. The shift favors machineable crops as noted by the Crop Reporting Board during a Texas-New Mexico conference.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
U.S. Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Board
Marine recruiting officer to visit Lubbock for female enlistment info
Lt. Clare A. Frederick USMC WR, assistant to the officer in charge of the Fl Paso Marine Corps procurement district, will interview applicants in Lubbock from Tuesday noon to Thursday afternoon. She will base at the Marine recruiting office in the post office building and advise women ages 20 to 36 about enlisting in the women’s reserve. This visit offers the first hand briefing from one of the early women commissioned as Marine officers.
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Clare A. Frederick
USMC
Marine Corps Procurement District
Fl Paso
Taibbock
Marine Corps
Frederick
Marine Recruiting Office
Post Office
Women's Reserve
Marine Corps Procurement Office
Lubbock
Kwajalein Island Transformed By American Rebuilding
Kwajalein Island, after heavy fighting, has become an American-built base site. The ruins of Japanese buildings yield to a modern airport, roads, prefabricated structures, and ongoing reconstruction. Workers move food, ammo, and supplies as bulldozers replace shattered defenses. Buy A War Bond TODAY.
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William L. Worden
Associated Press
Kwajalein Island
Kwajalein
D.rt
Cooperation In Census Asked In Lubbock Schools
A. C. Jackson urged citizens to cooperate with the annual scholastic census for Lubbock independent school district. Enumerators report door answering difficulties and badge wearing census workers. The complete count affects state per capita funding and must include every child aged six to seventeen on September 1.
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Lubbock Independent School District
A. C. Jackson
Jackson
Lubbock
Body Of Woman To Be Sent To Los Angeles
Mrs. Valerie M. Hannaford 23 wife of T Sgt G J Hannaford of South Plains Army Air Field died Friday night in Lubbock General Hospital after an appendectomy. Funeral home sent her body Saturday to Los Angeles for burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs Fred M Hill of Los Angeles and brother Seaman Martin M Hill at sea. Hannafords lived in Lubbock about ten months.
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Valerie M. Hannaford
G. J. Hannaford
South Plains Army Airfield
Plains Funeral Home
Los Angeles
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Hannaford
Lubbock General Hospital
Hannafords
Lubbock
Lonergan Murder Trial To Resume Monday Confession Evidence
Wayne Lonergan's murder trial in New York resumes Monday as Judge James G. Wallace rules on admitting or excluding a confessed statement he allegedly gave to the district attorney's office regarding the death of his wife Patricia.
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New York
U.P
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
James G. Wallace
District Attorney’s
Local Census Plan Expands to Include Young Children
The district will count children who reach six but not yet 18 by September 1. About 5,000 of the 8,400 scholastics are estimated already counted, with last year’s census at 8,349 and a small rise expected this year.
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