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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1944
Page
2
John F. Chester paints Cairo as a city of sharp contrasts where luxury goods are plentiful yet wages remain meager. He notes unrationed groceries and high prices for everyday items, with a fellaheen worker earning about 20 cents a day after a recent raise.
County wide 4 H on Room 104 courthouse 145 o clock Story hour for children Amarillo Public Library 4 o clock Dante 21 Plus Club and service men over 30 Downtown USC 845 o clock Recital pupils of Miss Nellie D Erhard Myers Music Mart 1322 Tyler Street 815 o clock Ruthy Payne reporter Mrs Grace Ashcraft historian and Mrs Har riett Christian chaplain Refreshments were served to Mesdames H C Wisner W E Hancock L J Vogel D A Ken nedy Charles Seiwell J M Stone Baker Marvin MccCuan J H Flow ers C M Goodnight H J Wheeler Homer Tuttle Christian W M Rippey Ashcraft F W Mize E C Singleton R N Huckabee J L Payne A F Keirsey H G Dixon and the hostesses The club will meet July 13 in the home of Mrs Helen McCuan 1515 Taylor Street Mesdames Rubey Seiwell and Loraine Stone will be assistant hostesses.
The article notes erratic winds, choppy seas, and mist delaying supplies and paratroops during the invasion. It praises the elaborate SHAEF weather forecasting system but recalls the June 5 1944 D Day postponement. It ends by joking that Old Tack might have helped better than modern instruments.
Bernard Baruch praised six men at a Churchman's dinner, naming William Jeffers Robert Patterson James Forrestal Herbert Bayard Swope Ferdinand Eberstadt and Jimmy Byrnes. Dorothy Parker read Edmund Wilson on her book and quipped I am not dead yet. Jane Pickens caused a stir at the Dutch Treat Club 39th anniversary as a woman attendee. The Sports Dept reports on a long distance phone gag from Joe Frisco to Roy Bediey.
Supreme Headquarters reports Omar N. Bradley commands American forces moving into France. The Missouri born general, famed for North Africa and Sicily victories, is described as a cautious, disciplined leader who trains officers at Fort Benning and keeps losses low while pressing to the front.
Queen Esther Club elected officers for the coming year at a Thursday meeting held at 2114 Taylor Street. New officers include Pauline Baker as president and Daisey Bumpus as vice president, with Sadie Bumpus secretary and Bertha Vogel treasurer.
In a vivid Stars and Stripes told yarn from the Italian front PFC Frankie Buonicore a Bronx cabbie turned infantry driver and trucker traps 51 Germans in one sortie near Terracina. After ambush and a cave encounter Frankie and fellow doughboys march the captives to a POW cage as Lt Kosowsky signals a retreat. The tale blends bravado with comic reminiscence from the field.
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