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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1944
Page
5
In a South of France camp a pile of letters arrives as war reporters from AP, Tribune, Herald Tribune, Time, and more battle mail delays. Notable births from Texas readers punctuate the scene as correspondents react to the morale boost of home letters amid a drenching rainstorm.
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet forces pushing toward the Turkish frontier as Russians attack in the Kro sno Debica region southeast of Krakow. Soviet guns breach Axis defenses east of Warsaw while advancing units move toward East Prussia amid heavy fighting.
The plan outlined by Byrnes advances steps from War to peace, including restoring the 40 hour week with reduced take home pay, ending manpower controls, keeping price ceilings, removing foods from rations as possible, easing civilian gasoline limits, and funding farm price supports. It also calls for dropping the excess profits tax after Japan, depreciating new machinery, releasing federal workers, and boosting unemployment benefits with state reserves.
Japanese forces moved 95 miles from Hengyang and captured Lingling air base. They aim to take Kweilin, a major Allied base with hilltop hangars, risking South China defense. Chinese advance secures Sungshan on the Burma road. two Japanese pockets remain before the Salween line is breached.
American forces drive deep into the Alps around Briancon near the Italian frontier while German efforts to keep open the St Genevre route falter. Allied air cover destroys locomotives and roop carrying cars as Belfort trains suffer damage.
Argentina withdraws its delegate from the emergency committee for inter American political defense meeting in Montevideo. The move follows a committee resolution noting incompatibility between Argentina and other American nations under the Rio conference framework.
President Roosevelt gathers advice from Hull Stimson and Morgenthau as he plots postwar Europe and the German occupation. Officials expect talks with Churchill without Stalin to shape plans for Europe and Japan in coming weeks.
Allied reports describe heavy fighting as German forces push toward the Saar while Patton's Third Army drives from Luxembourg toward Metz. US bombers pound Ruhr targets. 700+ prisoners taken in brief clashes as Seventh Army nears Belfort gap and Aachen’s approaches.
A 10-year-old boy Willie Ray Lee was charged with aggravated assault after an altercation in Carver Heights in which he whipped his brother and threatened his mother with a knife. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment and is held on 100 dollar bond. A 44-year-old man was fined 25 dollars and costs and one day in jail for shoplifting. Grave side services for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs J O Sikes of Hobbs New Mexico died after living three days and were conducted by Rev Jeff Welch. Larry Watson 14, son of C M Watson route 4 Lubbock, was improving after an accident at Ave N and 24th and now has a chance for recovery. The father is in the Army stationed at Louisville Kentucky. Rix Funeral home handled arrangements.
John Franklin Tiner, 65, former Cleburne resident, died at 9:57 last night at his home, 1702 Avenue M. Survivors include two sons Geo. F. of Lubbock and Lewis J. of Fort Worth, a daughter Mrs. J. B. Snelling of Lubbock, a grandson, and three sisters. Funeral plans awaited relatives and Plains Funeral Home said services likely Monday.
A 2nd Lt. J. W. Stevenson of Ottumwa Iowa station Will Rogers field Oklahoma City parachuted from a P-38, landed in a tree six miles northeast of Meeker and nearly choked before help arrived. The twin engine plane crashed and burned after one motor failed at 12 000 to 14 000 feet.
William Harmon Simmons of Houston tops 1,289 candidates to win the Elijah Watt Sells medal for best performance in national CPA examinations. Dean J. A. Fitzgerald of the University of Texas notes Simmons is the first Texas honoree to receive the top national award.
General Eisenhower presented a plaque bearing the flaming sword of liberation at the Arc de Triomphe to the city of Paris. He stood with officers including Tedder Bradley Ramsay Harris Spaatz and Leigh-Mallory as Parisians gathered on the Etoile and Champs Elysees.
LUGANO Switzerland Sept 9 Benito Mussolini once formidable Italian dictator now frail and ill is said to have sent for a priest to hear his confession. The former leader reportedly refuses further medical care and uses hypodermic injections to meet people.
The War Food Administration announced the release of 65 582 boxes of prunes and 11 249 cases of orange juice from government stocks for imminent appearance on grocery shelves across the region.
Young King Mihai clashed with his enemies and sped to a rendezvous with secret followers as Romania broke from Nazi Germany on August 23 and joined the Allies. German ambassador von Killinger killed himself after Russian troops moved into Bucharest. The palace scene featured Baron Ian Mocsonyi-Styrcea and royal figures in a dramatic retelling of the night’s events.
College Station Sept 9 urgent call for tractor drivers as harvest of a dumper grain sorghum crop progresses. D A Adam of Texas A and M extension division says 557 workers could be placed today. Deaf Smith Randall Armstrong Lamb Collingsworth Hockley Lubbock Terry Brown counties face critical shortages. all territory counties need drivers. calls also for 318 combine operators and 219 truck drivers.
Civilians from Berryton Kansas outmuscled ten Topeka Army Airfield soldiers in a fairground tug of war. The soldiers faced a 1200 pound horse as part of the contest, ending with the farmers pulling ahead at the finish line.
Charles Kolb, delegate of the International Red Cross, said in Bucharest that about 1,200 to 1,400 Allied air men, mostly Americans, are prisoners in Hungary and another 400 to 600 are in Bulgaria.
Chairman Connally of the Senate foreign relations committee praised Governor Thomas E. Dewey for his foreign policy speech. He said advocates of an international peace organization welcome Dewey's nonpartisan stance and stressed that world peace transcends party politics and America's safety. He warned against another world war and the heavy costs it would incur.
Japanese foreign minister Mororu Shigemitsu told the diet that Japan and the Soviet Union should remain neutral. Tokyo radio quoted him saying Japan intends to keep friendly terms with Russia.
Allied forces report including the death of Maj. Gen. Schmidt by American machinegun fire on Sept. 6 and the capture of Brig. Gen. Paul von Felbert, raising the southern France tally to eight eliminated German generals in the past three days.
War workers and their families in Texas have been provided with more than 66,000 new housing units of various types. John B. Blanford Jr national housing agency administrator said today.
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