How polite are the Japanese in wartime reflections
James D. White surveys four cases showing politeness as reflex action mask treachery defense or sincerity among Japanese actors in occupied China and in wartime contexts. The piece contrasts bowing by a shrine deer to a Chinese arrestee, a gendarme’s gentleness turned assault, a businessman's deception, and post Pearl Harbor sincerity.
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James D. White
Associated Press
San Francisco
Nara
Kojima San
Bill
Shanghai
Nagasaki
China Sea
Pearl Harbor
China
Black Eyed Peas Prove Cash Crop For Dawson Farmer
Special to The Avalanche Journal from Lamesa Texas details how black eyed peas are a profitable cash crop for Sam Middleton and nearby farmers. Cannery buys at about 3.25 to 3.5 cents per pound. Middleton harvests 200000 pounds in days, yielding about 1000 pounds per acre and $30 per acre. Fields also promise dry pea harvests, soil nitrogen benefits as a legume, and $1.50 per acre soil conservation payments.
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Avalanche-Journal
Lamesa
Dawson
East Texas
Sam Middleton
Stokely Foods, Inc
Pittsburg, Tex
Dorman Canning Company
Tyler
Middleton
Black-Eyed Peas
Dawson County
M. P. Tamberlain
Cannery
Bill Britt
Britt
Tomberlain
Army Offers 15 Service Branches Theater Choices and Tech Schools
West Texas Recruiting District in Lub- ock announced men may enlist or reenlist choosing from 15 branches such as air forces and infantry. Theaters include mid Pacific and European regions with technical schools for radio, aircraft, and admin work. Maj. Robert G. Gibbons commands district with sub stations in Amarillo Big Spring San Angelo and Abilene.
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West Texas
Lub- Ock
Air Forces
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Medical Corps
Armored
Guardian of Victory
Robert G. Gibbons
Federal Building
Amarillo
Big Spring
San Angelo
Abilene
Striking Chilean coal workers end southern strike
The government says 10,000 coal miners in southern Chile have settled their dispute and returned to work after a stoppage that halted production.
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Santiago
Chile
Texan Sailor Wilburn Coffman Discharged After Pacific Service
Wilburn P. Coffman 23, shipfitter 2/c USNR, discharged at naval separation center. He served on USS Honolulu through battles of Kula Gulf, Lunga Point, Leyte Gulf, Palau, New Georgia, Bougainville, and aided an LCI seaworthy after a near Guam blast. His ship was torpedoed twice, with 65 killed at Leyte Gulf. Coffman plans ministry study. his family resides in Lubbock.
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W. P. Coffman
Pacific
New Orleans
Guam
Wilburn P. Coffman
shipfitter 2/c
USNR
Avenue N
Lubbock
Naval Personnel Separation Center
Ainsworth
Kula Gulf
Lunga’ Point
Leyte Gulf
Palau
New Georgia
Bougainville
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
United States
Coffman
T. Eldon Coffman
District Lions plans outlined at Hilton meeting
District 2 T Lions International outlined plans for the 1945 46 year at a Saturday afternoon session in the Hilton hotel. In attendance were Chas H Navy and Wilburn who served overseas for 28 months.
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Navy
Pacific
Wilburn
Cabinet officers and local figures meet at literary shrine
Dean of Plainview Curtis Cryer Borger Lon Edwards Amarillo Dr Marshall Harvey Lubbock Frank Jordan Brownfield Frank Stubbeman Midland T A Pollan Fabens cabinet members present included H B Earthman Plainview club secretary and Dr A K Knott Cany on zone chairman The home of James Whitcomb Riley at 528 Lockerbie Street Indianapolis is described as a literary shrine.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Lockerbie Street
Inedianapolis
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Daisy Willbanks
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Rix Funeral Home
Turner Adams
Air Corps
Adams
Twenty-fourth
A. G. Knapp
Optician
Oregon, Ill
Dewey L. Flanagan
Dorothy L. Flanagan
D. L. Flanagan
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Fort
Brooke Convalescent Hospital
Flanagan
Italy
362Nd Infantry
Power River
Eto
Billy J. Klein
Billy Mike
John
W. E. Klein
Louisville
Klein
Michael Hellman
Tucson
Ariz
Army Air Forces
Atlantic
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
London
Henry Electric Shop
Woods Bros., Sons
Dr. L. B. Woods
21St St
James H. Woods
South Pacific
Sweetbriar Shoe
Kinney Shoe Store
Armed Forces
R. G. Henry
South Plains
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City
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Dawson Man
Britt Trucking Company
M. P. Tomberlain
Stokely Foods
Bondex
Cook Paint & Varnish CO
Lubbock Sash & Door CO
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Sansom
Paint and Paper CO
3Th and
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Cook's
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Effrees
Reregee
Harry Arguette
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E. R. Friedman
Zale
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