Canteen Serves Flyers at South Plains AAF
Opened April 25 at South Plains Army Airfield canteen serves lunch to flyers and has served 372 meals by May 11. Col Rankin and Maj Arnold arranged building and equipment. Canteen operates daily 10 30 a m to 5 p m except Sundays with Red Cross trained workers and listed volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains Army Airfield
Red Cross
Q. Rankin
Maj
L. E. Arnold
S. C. Parnell
L. L. Miller
Thurman White
A. L. Woodfin
Carl Shaffer
Potts Tops Freshman Livestock Judging Contest
J B Potts of Lubbock led the field at Texas Tech as the top freshman livestock judge in the nineteenth annual freshman judging contest. Winners include Potts and 9 others across dairy cattle swine and horses with district placements and division honors noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Potts
Southwest of Lubbock
Texas Technological College
Potts
William Davis
Hearne
Mack Cunningham
Eliasville
Carl Dwyer
McLean
Judd Morrow
Rising Star
Charles Plunkett
Fluvanna
James Gimmel
Littlefield
James Simpson
Roby
Sam Hunnicutt
Okinawa Battle Update Targets Naha as Takamotji Street Fight Rages
After 42 days of ground fighting on Okinawa the Marines push toward Naha with Takamotoji scenes of street fighting. The 77th division uses flame throwing tanks though mopping up bypassed Japanese remains difficult. Allied air and naval forces claim heavy Japanese aircraft losses across Amami and Ryukyu areas with ships' guns aiding carrier pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okinawa
Tori
Minami Daito
Takamotoji
Naha
Paremie
77Th
77Th Division
Marc A Mitcher
Amami Group
Ryukyus
Amami
Nimitz
Navy
Korea
Kataoka Harbor
Shimushu Island
Kuriles
Minami Cape
Kashiwadara
Paramushiro
Truk
Yap
Carolines
Kake
Palaus
Births listed for local families in Texas area
Congratulations to Beaman 2/c and Mrs. Robert Dennis on a daughter born at St Marys hospital weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces at 10 40 p m Sea gaan Dennis stationed in Connecticut also to Mrs Fritz Loflin on a son born at 2 36 p m at Lubbock General weighing pounds 12 ounces to Pvt and Mrs Danny Williams on a son born at Wait Texas hospital Camp Hood
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaman
Robert Dennis
1611 Ave. L
St. Mary's Hospital
Seagaan Dennis
Connecticut
Fritz Loflin
Wales
Danny Williams
Texas Hospital
Prams
Camp
Hood
Cpl James Spencer to Speak at Asbury Church Tonight
Cpl James C Spencer 31 a 1936 Texas Tech graduate and former Athens state representative will address Asbury Methodist Church at 8 pm on Sunday May 18 1648. He recalls his POW ordeal in Philippines Bataan Corregidor and Cabanatuan before liberation by Rangers in February 1945. He will be in Lubbock about a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
James C. Spencer
Texas Technological College
Athens
Asbury Methodist Church
Bataan
Cpl. Spencer
Philippines
de- Spencer Fenders
Corregidor
Cabanatuan
Bilibid
Rangers
Charles C. Spencer
Twentythird
C. A. Spencer
Lubbock
World Conference debates security council pattern at Dumbarton Oaks
Big Five meet to refine a proposed world security council. Nations discuss regional powers and veto risks while preserving U S control over vital Pacific bases and trusteeship issues. Eden hints at broader regional authority as Truman signals support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
France
Russia
Britain
United States
Anthony Eden
Middle East
London
Washington
Eden
Truman
New League
Security Council
Council
Pacific
Dumbarton Oaks
Lend-Lease with Russia Expiring Soon Amid Embargo Debate
The article notes Russia’s embargo exposure and the year long lend-lease with Moscow, retroactive to July 1, 1944, expiring June 30 this year unless renewed. Crowley’s cryptic statement avoids naming Russia and discusses diplomatic questions including Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Japan
Russia
Marshal Tito
Moscow
Crowley
State Department
White House
Market roundup shows mixed stocks and commodities rally
New York on May 12 reports higher stocks as peace issues linger and bonds improve with railroad liens extending gains. Cotton and grains firm on good demand. hogs and cattle steady. mill buying and short covering lift wheat corn rye prices in Chicago trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Livestock Market Reports From Kansas City and Fort Worth
Kansas City and Fort Worth market summaries show cattle and hog prices mostly steady to weak, with calves and slaughter cattle fluctuating. Grain prices and commodity futures across Chicago also edged higher after early declines, with wheat corn oats and rye pushing mixed results in futures trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Fort Worth
Wall Street recovers after Europe week downturn
U S stocks close higher on May 12 with notable gains in rail and Peace-rated industries. WPB production cut aids sentiment while reconversion doubts ease. 560,000 shares traded versus 930,000 last session. AP index up 0.6 to 64.6. 428 issues rose, 122 fell, 203 unchanged. Reorganization rail bonds rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Europe
WPB
Banta Fe
Southern Pacific
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Goodyear
American Telephone
Standard Ol
Cotton futures rally to new seasonal highs in New York
New York May 12. Cotton futures rose on strong demand from trade and commission houses and short covering. Scarcity of offerings and tight spot markets supported gains with unfavorable crop news aiding sentiment. Some July buying by spot firms followed Spanish cotton purchases. Prices closed 10 cents per bale higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ceeeead
New Orleans
Perenne
New Orleans Cotton Prices Hit New Seasonal High
On May 12 the average price of middling 18-16ths inch cotton at ten Southern markets rose to 22.59 cents per pound, up 5 cents a bale from yesterday and a new seasonal high. The 30 day average is 22.30 cents. Middling 1stth inch averaged 21.31 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aviat Corp
Balt & Ohio
Radio Atone
North Pac
Pan Am Airw
Atch
T & SF
Avia Corp — Oaes
Beth Steel Aos
Curtiss Winaace
Freeport
Tity Ma Mont Ward
Ohio
Aby Packard
Pen Am Air
U & Steel
West UN
CURB
Ark Nat Gas
Eb Pig
City Berv
Ei Bond & Sh
Humble Oilson
Lone Star Gear
New Orleans
Kansas City Refrot Kansas City May 12
Kansas City refort report lists butter and eggs market tones with prices and percentages. Butter contracts show AA 41 percent and Eusa extras 3 3-10 to 361-0. Standards recorded at 343-10 with current receipts 38 percent. dirties and checka at 31 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eusa
Official Records. Marriage Licenses And Court Actions
Marriage licenses issued for R C Mason and Nannie Standard. Ellwood Taylor and Winnie Pearsie Spencer. Willie Smith and Georgia Mae Mays. Billy Jones and Evelyn Weat. OTH DISTRICT court with Judge G V Pardue presiding. Minnie Mince and others against W Brotts in damages. Betty Hendryx sues Happy Mendrys for divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Mason
Lubbock
Nannie Standard
Abilene
Ellwood Don Taylor
Winnie Pearsie Spencer
Willie B. Smith
Georgia Mae Mays
Littlefield
Billy Jeff Jones
Evelyn Weat
G. V
Philippines Area Base Destroyed in Saigon and Pacific Losses
Reported Japanese shipping losses in aerial sweeps include two freighters afire off Formosa a 1000 ton freighter and four river boats set afire plus damaged vessels off the Lesser Sundas and China Subterranean water from the Danube is noted as feeding a Rhine tributary Australian forces accelerate the Wewak drive with 6th division units landing east of the city aided by Royal Australian Navy and U S Army Air Corps planes aiming to seize Wewak and its airstrips
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formosa
China
Lesser
Sundas
Wewak
New Guinea
6Th Division
MacArthur
Royal Australian Navy
Heart Attack Fatal To A. and M. Curator
Curtis J. Hesse 39 curator of the Texas A and M museum died in Bryan hospital from a heart ailment after being stricken May 3. He never fully recovered and died today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Bay
Curtis J. Hesse
Texas A. and M. Museum
Bryan Hospital
Hesse
Wolves beat A and M 8 1 in six innings at Waco
The Waco Army Air Field Wolves pounded out 16 hits to defeat Texas A and M 8 to 1 in a fast game. It was the Wolves seventh straight win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Waco Army Airfield
Nelson resigns White House post. Locke named to China
Donald M. Nelson resigns as White House representative to other governments effective May 15. President Truman appoints Edwin A. Locke Jr. to carry on Nelsons China duties. Locke previously served as Nelsons executive assistant on missions to China, Russia, England and Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
White House
Truman
Edwin A. Locke, Jr
China
Locke
Nelson
Russia
England
Australia
Sears Roebuck
War Production Board
Roosevelt
One Survives Sinking Of Japanese Relief Vessel Awa Maru
The State Department said only one person survived the sinking of a Japanese ship believed to be the Awa Maru. Kantaro Shimoda, 45, a steward, described the ship returning to Japan after delivering supplies to Allied prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Japan
Kantaro Shimoda
Navy
Sub Zxx surrendered subs in Atlantic reported
British ports have seen at least ten German submarines surrender with five more ready to be cocoated advices from London said. Some subs near the American shores could head to the United States and Canada. Halifax dispatch noted one U boat due to surrender at Shelburne Nova Scotia Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Atlantic
North Sea
United States
Canada
Shelburne
N. S
London Star
Release Of Britons To Begin June 18
Morning newspapers report the first releases of men in the British armed services will begin June 18 with full demobilization not until the end of the war. The Daily Mail says 500,000, many married, will be in civilian clothes by Christmas. The initial group includes all men over 41 who served before mid 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Mail
Japs Nickname U S Bombers Bee Ko and Bumblebee
Japanese fighter pilots nicknamed American bombers in a Tokyo radio report monitored by the FCC. The B-29s were called Bee Ko or Mister Bee while other planes received nicknames such as Dried Sardine for the P-38 and Bumblebee for Grumman fighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japs Lee
U. S
San Francisco
Bee Ko
Mister Bee
Radio Tokyo
Federal Communications Commission
Grumman
Burglary at Lubbock Auction Co. Cafe Invasion Reported
Brief notes describe a Friday night break in at the cafe inside the Lubbock Auction and Commission Co. building. The intruder ate food, scatters items, and stole a box of cigars before fleeing. Police later arrest a 42 year old man on drunken driving charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock Auction and Commission Co
Lubbock
Tenth
Texas
War Production Surges as U S Plants Lead War Effort
The article traces U S industrial mobilization from 1940 onward, detailing goals set by FDR to arm democracy. It notes Pearl Harbor spurred ramped production to unprecedented levels, with millions employed in war work, vast shipyards, and massive output of planes, tanks, ships, and ammunition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. White
Associated Press
Germany
America
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
North Carolina
Washington
Maritime Commission
Gulf
Britain
Russia
Japan
United States
Navy
Air Medal Awarded To Plainview Flier
The Eighth Naval district public relations office said Paul Caldwell Campbell aviation radioman first class USNR was awarded the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in aerial flight as radioman gunner in a dive bomber on strikes against the enemy from March 29 to October 21, 1944. He is husband of Mrs. Edwina Campbell of Plainview at 602 Nassau Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Eighth Naval District Public Relations Office
Paul Caldwell Campbell
USNR
Edwina Campbell
Nassau St
Plainview
Enon
Texas Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard manpower listed
The Eighth Naval district reports Texas has 176,452 personnel in the U S Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Navy 147,479 Marine Corps 21,879 Coast Guard 7,094.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Naval Service
New Orleans
U. S. Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Eighth Naval District
Navy Department
Navy
Reims Honors Gen Eisenhower with City Honor
Reims conferred honorary citizenship on General Eisenhower and presented him with the golden keys of the city. He accepted on behalf of the Allied armies that won the victory in the historic surrender of German forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reims
Ike Reims
Eisenhower
War Casualties Report Two Bradford Brothers
Mindoro April 10 death of Pfc. Troy Bradford 25 son of Mrs J Bradford route 3 Lubbock after gunshot wound. Overseas 18 months two years service. Brothers S1c Grady Bradford on 30 day leave and AM2c Eugene Bradford at Kingsville. Also two sisters and two brothers listed. Pfc Leonard Henley 23 of Corcoran Calif wounded Luzon April 12 inducted Oct 1942 overseas since 1943.
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Pic
Troy W. Bradford
J. Bradford
Route 3
Luddock
Mindoro Island
Pfc
Bradford
Grady Bradford
Pacific
AMM
Eugene Bradford
Kingsville
Jack
Jimmy Bradford
Lubbock
E. B. Quiette
Lorenzo
W. L. Jordan
Leonard Henley
Parish Ave
Lela Henley
Corcoran
Calif
Luzon
Pfc. Henley
W. YD. Florence
Ortecis
Henley Wash
California
Infantry Show Coming to Texas Tech Stadium in May
The Here Is Your Infantry show arrives May 30 at Texas Tech stadium to boost Seventh War Loan bond sales. Forty veterans perform a simulated battle with real gear and a Japanese pill box target, revealing battlefield risks to rally donors in Lubbock and surrounding counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Hamilton
Texas Tech Stadium
Texas
Lubbock County
Bruce Craig
County War Finance
Neil H. Wright
South Plains
Pacific
Plane Crashes Into River Near Fairfax Airport
A twin engine Army training plane from Midland Texas crashed at the edge of the Missouri River near Fairfax airport during takeoff. Six men aboard escaped unharmed and waded ashore through waist high water after the crash at Fairfax field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Army Air Base
Midland
Texas
Missouri River
Fairfax Airport
Fairfax Field
Garges Pow Return to Europe Linked to U.S. Labor Needs
May 12 Senator Wiley of Wisconsin said the War Department informed him that the return of prisoners of war to Europe will be governed by the need of labor in the United States. The remark ties POW repatriation to domestic labor requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garges
Washington
Wiley
Wis
War Department
Europe
United States
Waste paper in high demand for Pacific transfer work
Allen G. Pike state manager of the conservation and salvage division said waste paper will be needed more than ever due to the large effort to transfer material to the Pacific area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Pacific Area
Allen G. Pike
Goering Luncheon Sparks Texans Divide Over Ceremony
Dallas reports detail Air Marshal Goering dining with 36th division officers like a VIP after capture. Texas leaders clash in the Senate over Dahlquist and Stack, while newspapers split on the propriety and symbolism of the event and its reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Hermann Goering
36Th
Texas
Texas 36Th Division
Goering
John E. Dahlquist
Robert Stack
John Lee Smith
Dahlquist
Texas Senate
Greenville
Tex) Herald
Waco Times-Herald
Galveston News
San Antonio Express
Lone Star
Express
Luftwaffe
J. Watt Page
Selective Service
Arthur B. Knickerbocker
James E. Taylor
Kerens
Italy
London News Chronicle
London
Officials Set Safety Meetings Over State on May 12
State level traffic court safety meetings will be held in May and June by the Supreme Court, attorney general, and public safety departments. Chief Justice James P Alexander will participate, noting offenders often face curt handling. Scheduled locations include Wichita Falls June 19, Childress June 20, Amarillo June 21, Lubbock June 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Attorney General's Department
Department of Public Safety
Texas
Texas Safety Association
James P. Alexander
Wichita Falls
Childress
Amarillo
Lubbock
Himmler Reported In Allied Hands
CBS from Paris reports Reichsführer Himmler is in allied custody. He is thought to have been held under house arrest in Flensburg by Admiral Doenitz and later turned over to British forces in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Himmler
New York
CBS
Paris
Heinrich Himmler
Admiral Doenitz
Flensburg
Doenitz
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Cairas
Avalas
SPAAF
James Spencer
World Organization
U. S. Army
United Kingdom
James P. Ford
Medical Corps
First Army
Mildred Ford
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Daily Market Report
Wall Street
Official Records
Saigon
Danube
Rhine
Waaf Beate Aggies
Donald Nelson
Brownfield
Chester C. Hinsley
Avenue F
San Antonio
Main
A. W. McKee
L. N. Lipscomb
The
Methodist Church
Floydada High School
Alls Methodist Church
U.S
Plainview Flier
Wassen Gin Rye
A. N. MeeVicer, Menger
Allied Finance Co
Amicable Life Ins
Arkansas Western Gas
Baker Hotel Co
Dallas National Bank
Dallas Power & Light
Dallas Railway & Terminal
Dr. Pepper Employers Casualty Co
Fidelity Union Life Ins
First National Bank
Galveston-Houston Co
Great Southern Life Ins
Gulf Insurance A. Harris & Co
Longhorn Portland Cement
Mercantile Natl. Bank
Neiman-Marcus Co
North Texas Co
Mercentile Bank Bldg
Dallas 1
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