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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1944
Page
1
Readers from Mrs. W T Brothers to PFC Carl Faherty share quirky eye wash remedies and offbeat responses to a question about eye opening experiences. Local Pulses participants submit varied tastes from grapefruit to tomato juice and tabasco plus coffee and more. One dollar per question used.
British naval air strike on the German battleship Tirpitz in Alten Fjord Norway produced several bomb hits the admiralty said. The attack follows past midget submarine damage and may keep Tirpitz out of action for a long period.
Water sprayed 35 feet high after a main break near Panhandle Laundry at 201 Pierce Street. Fire and water department crews attempted to cut off the line but the cut-off failed as the geyser surged over Second Avenue and third street underpasses. Workers shut valves and began street repairs.
Less than 100 of 400 tickets remain unreserved for the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce banquet on April 10 in the Crown Hotel crystal ballroom. Phil ps Petroleum president K. S. Adams will speak on the Panhandle postwar role and tickets are sold at Chamber offices.
Police report Cracker Safe yeggs opened the Rex theater safe at 3015 West Sixth Avenue and stole about $100. A second attempt at Gulf bulk station at 218 Monroe Street failed as the knob was knocked but the lock would not yield. Burglars also entered Jerry's Cleaners at 114 East Fourth Avenue through a wall from an adjoining vacant building and took nothing. A prowler at Virgie Honeycutt’s home 3208 Taylor Street took a purse gloves an identification badge scarf and a pencil before escaping through an unlocked door.
Major Gen. Nathan F. Twining leads the 15th Air Force from Italy in a two day raid against Budapest with rail yards and an aircraft plant hit. Steyr in Austria also bombed, marking a record heavy bomber assault with about 500 planes and multiple German fighter losses.
The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that negroes have the right to vote in a Texas Democratic primary for Congress. Justice Reed delivered the opinion joined by the majority, stating the 15th Amendment guarantees the right to vote without state racial discrimination. Justice Roberts dissented.
War Production Board officials report March output at 9 118 aircraft surpassing prior weights by nine percent and marking over 100 million pounds in airframe weight. Wilson notes April schedules will drop, and March rate implies a temporary surge rather than a new normal.
Claude Arnot, 64, brother of John Arnot of 1409 Lincoln Street, reports a recent raid killed eight and wounded 17 near his farm. The concussion shattered glass and shook his London suburb home as he slept under the stairs for safety during bombing. London factories face possible production cuts due to coal shortages from strikes.
Jackson city police investigate a 16 year old led group calling themselves the state. The boys reportedly wipe feet on the flag and stab the Bible as part of a ritual. Crude pamphlets attack minorities and capitalism. Police found weapons, badges, and a Chicago linked sabotage plan.
Fair to night and Tuesday with warmer temperatures. West Texas and New Mexico expect fair skies, warmer tonight and Tuesday. 24 hour figures show highs near 52, lows around 33, with noon at 56. Advertisement notes include Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance and Joan Maynard Lumber Co. offerings.
Washington reports that American aid to the Soviet Union has included 8,800 planes, 2,600,000 tons of food, and hundreds of thousands of vehicles, with total lend-lease tonnage since October 1941 at 9,500,000 tons plus 4,000 aircraft ferried. Crowley notes shipments outpace 1944 schedules as seed and food aid reach Ukraine.
Navy Undersecretary James V. Forrestal urges a big stick policy to maintain peace. He backs a giant post Pearl Harbor fleet, compulsory training, and full exploration of iron and petroleum, and notes plans to build 28 000 planes and 581 combat vessels this year. British curfew lifted in Jerusalem Tel Aviv and Haifa after deadly disorders.
Moscow reports mobile Russian forces crossed into Romania along a 65 mile front with spearheads advancing near the Prut river. V. Molotov stated the Red Army is under orders to pursue and rout the enemy. British radio cites an Axis declared siege in Bucharest transmitted by Moscow.
Soviet forces step up drive on the southern front using enemy disarray to push toward Romania. Ukraine leading units slash toward Dumen near Cernauti and Prut crossings threaten Tasi rail hub. Hungarian regiments surrender near the frontier while SS detachments move into Balkans. National broadcasts report Red Army HQs in Romania and Prut ferry links established.
Henry Jones a Sears Roebuck porter won first prize five dollars for a tip about becoming father to his eighth set of twins. Georgia Ervin won three dollars for a tip about milk bottle caps removed by a dog. Omega Palmer won two dollars for a tip about a driverless bus crashing into an underpass. Additional contributors named.
Allied reports say German flame throwers led an assault on the left flank of the beachhead below Rome. About 150 German infantrymen attacked after dusk, but troops were dead or routed by midnight. Italians seized Point 1344 and Castelnuovo near Cassino without opposition as divisions tightened control.
Allied forces report roads around Imphal cut by Japanese patrols while New Delhi says garrison safety remains assured. Air drops to Imphal unlikely. crisis to be overcome. Japanese attacked Arkan frontier but Burma front largely quiet. Allied air strikes hit Rabaul and Truk. Bougainville hills captured near Empress Augusta Bay as MacArthur advances toward Bogadjim.
E. J. Sowder, a Santa Fe right of way inspector, encountered his son Marine Elmer Sowder Jr. marching with a Marine group near a station during a work trip. The father paused, surprised to spot his son among the movement to a new Walker filing cabinets at Russell Stationery Co.
Allied headquarters announced French warships destroyed an enemy convoy and its escort in the Adriatic. Both freighters and warships were sunk with no French casualties. Details were not released, but the attack appears to continue efforts to cut German Balkan communications.
Tito states Yugoslav Partisans push into central Serbia while other units stop Axis forces in Montenegro Slovenia and Moslavina. He notes heavy enemy casualties and growing pressure on rail lines as a major battle unfolds near Prijepolje south of Sarajevo.
Weather forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Tuesday with temperatures rising to the mid fifties. At Amarillo Field Civil Service officials report immediate openings for auto mechanics laundry workers laborers and professional and administrative roles. Navy Mothers Club now admits daughters of WAVES following the national convention in Dallas.
In Pueblo Colorado a new flare of juvenile gang warfare broke out with police reporting shots fired at youths. Mexican youths told officers they were shot at after two cars raced over Vindnet just after midnight. An outbreak last Friday led to arrests as students were beaten by gangs described by victims as Mexican.
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