Yanks Plan March Into Berlin Soon
An Allied force of British and American troops is being prepared to move on Berlin once arrangements with the Russians are completed. A public relations officer said a sizable group of American and British correspondents will accompany the action, with Supreme Allied HQ selecting the reporters. The American contingent will come from the Ninth Army.
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Supreme Allied Headquarters
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Alton Brazell Wins Swift High School Essay Prize
Alton Brazell, 16, a Lubbock High School vocational agriculture student and Future Farmers of America member, earned a $10 prize in the Swift company high school essay contest for "Methods Employed by the Meat Packing Industry." He is among the top 30 of 8,000 contestants. top prizes totaled $100, $60, several $50 and $25 awards, with additional $5 prizes. Prince Umberto warning reported from Rome follows.
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Swift Company
Henry Elder
Lubbock High School
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Route 3
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State Closing Hour Laws Unchanged
The state liquor administrator Bert Ford said the federal wartime curfew lift does not alter state closing hour laws. No hard liquor may be sold 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. or at any time on Sundays. Beer and wine cannot be sold on weekdays before 7 a.m. nor on Sundays from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Bert Ford
Smith to Speak in Houston at I am an American Day
Lieut. Gov. John Lee Smith will headline the annual I am an American day in Houston on May 20. Certificates of citizenship will be presented to 90 aliens who have qualified, officials announced today.
Commencement Exercises Set for 15 At Club House
Shallowater prepares for graduation with 15 seniors. Dr. R E Garlin of Texas Tech will give the principal address at 9 p m Thursday May 17. Rev C E Hereford will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at 9:30 p m tomorrow night at the Club house. Mary Margaret Johnson is valedictorian and Virginia Sue Giles salutatorian. Billie Joe Evans has the highest scholastic average and Eleanor Leftwich, now at Texas Tech, graduated mid term.
Kennedy Defends Filing Of Surrender Story
New York dispatch quotes Edward Kennedy saying he fulfilled obligations by informing SHAEF of his intent to file the Reims surrender story. Editor & Publisher blasts the handling as political censorship and faults secrecy delaying a major news release.
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Paris
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Associated Press
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Supreme Headquarters
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SHAEF
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Stockholm
Truman
Churchill
Stalin
Honored Yet Injured In V-E Celebration
King George VI awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross at Buckingham Palace as a young RAF officer, with a plastered arm, joked that his wound came from Trafalgar Square on V-E night. The moment mixed ceremony with a lighthearted reminder of the war’s end triumph.
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George VI
Buckingham Palace
King George
Trafalgar Square
Fraternization Rules Endorsed by Allied Army Broadcast
American troops in Germany were told by Brussels radio that anti fraternization rules stay in force. The broadcast urged honoring fallen comrades and forbade entering German homes or forming intimate relations with Germans. Lt Gen James H Doolittle received Honorary Knight Commander of the Bath from King George VI at Buckingham Palace.
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Germany
Brussels Radio Today
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England
James H. Doolittle
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Eighth Air Force
George VI
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Eighth Airorce
Slavs Claim Istria Trieste Zone in Peace Talks
Foreign Minister Ivan Subasic asserted Yugoslavia will press claims to Italian Istria including Trieste and a slice of Austrian territory at the peace conference. He cited a 700,000 Yugoslavs estimate as part of the demand. In SHAEF, four German generals ten officers and 43 soldiers arrived as liaison personnel to aid shipping and materiel efforts. names not disclosed.
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Ivan Subasic
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AEF
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