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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1944
Page
2
A fragmented morning page notes an Avalanche item and mentions the publishing company and staff titles. It includes a pledge of allegiance and references to associates press wire service, with minimal readable details about dates and bylines.
A wartime editorial argues that showing anti-Japan films at Army Air Fields and clubs would mobilize American resolve. It portrays Japan as pursuing a long, near-century campaign for world power and urges total national effort to defeat and permanently curb Japan, emphasizing toughness and unity.
The London Daily Mail reports a surge in divorce petitions since the war began with more than thousands of cases routed through the Divorce Department. A special process aims to speed petitions to allow servicemen to return to London for stays as they are flown back to support war efforts.
Berlin correspondent describes Hitler's ascent from spy to demagogue using flattery and manipulation. The piece traces the early Munich scene, Roehm's Black Reichswehr funds, and the "als ob" tactic as Hitler courts the German Workers' Party and its leaders to forge a future power structure.
The text describes Hitler using a vast secret army and a political machine as promised by his Workers' Party ally to recruit new members. Captain Boehm ordered soldiers and officers to join the Party and side with Hitler, initially welcomed by Party leaders before realizing the threat.
When commercial motor vehicle operators renew rations they must now apply to the county War Price and Rationing board instead of the Office of Defense Transportation. The change affects operators with certificates of war necessity including buses trucks taxicabs and rental cars. Temporary truck gas allotment recommendations remain with county farm transportation committees but will go to the OPA local board for action.
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts urged urgent expansion of the medical corps to care for wounded service members. She warned she would seek congressional action on return to the United States unless the increase reached 5000.
Looking At Life criticizes Mississippi’s new 10 percent gross tax on black market sales arguing it invites evasion and privacy secrecy. The piece contrasts state action with federal tax aims and asserts government ethics must mirror individual ethics. It ends by warning other states to avoid similar legal traps and calls the policy a felony.
Washington dispatch by Ray Tucker surveys Massachusetts attitudes toward Dewey and Roosevelt amid war worries. Polls show Dewey leading in Connecticut and New England, with shifting support among Irish and Polish communities and mothers of soldiers. The piece notes McCarran inquiry impacts and concerns over New England wartime plants postwar.
In Aris on Oct 13 Robert La Coste France’s Minister of Industrial Production outlines a plan for total state direction of the economy. He calls for nationalizing key sectors, controlling raw materials credit and prices and directing labor to industry to revive France’s war devastated industry. He warns of coal and power shortages and stresses rebuilding machinery and energy networks to restore a strong, independent French industrial base.
Saturday lineup from KFYO features morning news and programs including Smilin Ed McConnell Breakfast Club United Press News Jimmy Dorsey and Merle Pitts orchestras and a noon news edition Regional sports and Arizona football roundup plus a science note about Earth’s atmosphere moderating sun rays and day night balance.
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