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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1946
Page
4
Washington dispatch notes Democrats hold a substantial pre election edge with 60 seats in play and 67 Democrats assured of election against Republicans. Republicans aim to flip up to 50 Democratic seats, needing 26 to swing control as the 80th Congress opens.
William Elbert Carey, 21, an ex infantryman from Post, became the first West Texas veteran to get a government supplied automobile for amputees. The Oldsmobile club sedan with hydramatic helps his study at Texas Tech while he pursues agriculture. Carey lost a leg in Italy's Arno campaign and now uses an artificial leg. Forty-nine other VA applications await approval in the regional office.
The list names Republicans assured of election in several states: California J Leroy Johnson Richard J Welch Jack Z Anderson Gordon L McDonough. Kentucky John M Robsion. Tennessee Dayton Phillips and John Jennings Jr. Virginia Patrick H Drewry and O C Fisher also noted.
Dispatches report 21 passengers and four crewmen dead after a DC-3 wreck near Auto Rio Doce in Minas Gerais. The plane, likely Panair a Pan American subsidiary, split in two and may have been struck by lightning. The flight left Belo Horizonte at 4 pm and was due in Rio de Janeiro at 5 30 pm.
Gerald L. K. Smith announces his senatorial and congressional endorsements at a closed West Coast Christian Nationalist meeting. He backs Democrats and Republicans including Bilbo Brewster Bricker Byrd Cain Connally Cooper Dworshak Ecton Hurley Jenner Knowland Langer and others with about 150 Nationalists claiming victory. In the House he backs Texas candidates Milton West and O C Tisher.
In Frankfurt on September 28 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared there is no possibility he will hold political office. He dismissed rumors he might become Britain’s ambassador and offered no further comment when asked about succeeding Ambassador Harriman. He praised the occupation army’s achievements in Germany. The Eisenhowers arrived at Eschborn airport with their son Capt. John Eisenhower after a flight from England.
Russian czar Ivan IV allegedly sent a proposal to Queen Elizabeth I of England, but the offer was declined. The report reflects early dynastic diplomacy and English sovereign's cautious stance amid shifting alliances.
The American Magazine notes flowers preserved in clear plastic create jewelry. Separately, estimates place the Amazon drainage at about 2,720,000 square miles, roughly two-fifths of South America.
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