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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1945
Page
2
The piece analyzes potential vice presidential picks for Roosevelt and the 1940 election. It recalls Marvin Jones of Texas, Jimmy Byrnes, Truman, and Wallace as debated candidates, notes Roosevelts health, and discusses shifting party loyalties, the impact on Wallace supporters, and possible new political realignments.
The American Third Army seized Germanys complete roster of prisoners of war listing captives from all Allied countries since the war began. It includes latest whereabouts, dates of capture, deaths and wounded among prisoners.
Spruille Braden of New York, serving as ambassador to Cuba, was nominated by President Truman to be ambassador to Argentina. If confirmed, he would succeed Norman Armour, recalled in 1944 during diplomatic ties suspension. Braden, 51, a native of Elkhorn Montana, currently ambassador to Spain.
A reader recalls eerie rumors about Franklin D Roosevelt driven by claims of paralysis and illness, noting stark contrast between public health reports and unsettling photographs. The writer ponders whether photography betrays hidden illness and whether such images prefigure a death omen.
A reader urges reviewing house magazines for Roosevelt photos seen since last spring. Questions if the impressions are real or imagined and invites others to compare their own clippings for confirmation.
A German soldier signaling surrender waved to Red Cross clubmobile workers Lucille Cox and Georgia Mott as Pvt. Peter Skokas halted their car. The MP team arrived, took custody, and Skokas received a receipt for his prisoner, who was escorted to the rear.
Stocks show modest gains with industrials up 0.14 and a Dow Jones 30 at 163.97 while rails and other sectors drift. Kansas City livestock prices move and hogs steady to higher as beef demand remains varied.
Hogs 12 000, active and steady with good and choice barrows at 14.75 ceiling. sows at 14.00. Cattle 4 500, calves 800, market steady. steers mostly 14.75-16.75 with top 1760, weighty offerings at premium. Sheep 11 500, active and steady. wooled western lambs 17.00-17.25, wheat pastured 15.25, clipped lambs above 16.00, wooled ewes 9.50.
W E Smith and wife and C E McCall appear in court records for warranty deeds. The filings outline transfers of real estate properties evidenced by formal deed documents.
A fragmented record lists multiple land parcels with owners including Lloyd Bivins L E Hoarel P M Robertson Roberta Steele Earl Nipper J E Pitts Harvey Dew and Fred Cornelius along with tract descriptions and sections such as 165x180 of 12 acres out Sec 157 Aik 2 ABAM.
H G Conkwright of Hereford dies in an Amarillo hospital. Funeral services set for tomorrow at First Baptist Church Hereford conducted by Rev R H Cagle. Burial in West Park Cemetery Hereford. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs J R Allison and Mrs Charles Hays three brothers one nephew Colby Conkwright. He was a cattleman and president of First State Bank Hereford and a 20 year Baptist deacon.
Unfavorable weather forced the postponement of the Texas Interscholastic League Regional Meet at Canyon from Saturday to Tuesday. Director W W Nicklaus announced the revised schedule with all literary and track events on Tuesday and tennis held Monday and Tuesday. water on the Buffalo stadium track raised doubts about dry conditions for the rescheduled date.
Madrid reports the government will immediately suspend all German air service to Spain. German planes landing in Spain are to be directed to depart with occupants labeled undesirables, following U S assurances for transit of Spanish diplomatic personnel through Switzerland.
Tokyo reports say 100 or more B 29 bombers bombed Kyushu for a third day. The raid lasted about two hours and targeted six air bases used by Japanese planes aiming at American ships off Okinawa, 330 miles southwest.
American GIs entered Czechoslovakia on April 19 and moved toward the border amid cautious crowds. Local civilians waved timidly from windows, fearing reprisals from Nazi or Sudeten neighbors, while celebrations resembled earlier Allied advances in France and Belgium.
President Truman told four leading Democrats in Washington that he will pursue the general program of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The visitors included Senate Majority Leader Barkley, Speaker Rayburn, Senator McKellar, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and House Majority Leader McCormack.
Independence Missouri April 19 Allied explosive experts will uncover concealed ammunition in German cities up to Berlin Lt Col A H Gardner Jr at Lake City Ordnance Plant said Aachen led the way after six weeks of work in shattered cities finding huge stores of German munitions in cellars backyards and public buildings Troops bet that any unexamined house will contain at least one piece of ammunition.
Army camps and posts across the Southwest were alerted to locate a paratrooper bitten April 11 at the replacement and school command in Birmingham Alabama by a mad dog. He did not know the dog was rabid and will receive immediate medical attention.
LARCHMONT N Y April 19 U P Edward Grant Barrow former president of the New York Yankees said he had been asked to become commissioner of baseball but refused due to illness He noted President Will Harridge of the American League approached him yesterday and that he is out of the running Major league owners plan to meet in Cleveland Tuesday to name a successor to the late Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis who died in 1944
An Amarillo restaurant owner introduced a new service today marked by a woman's black glove found on the premises and thumb-tacked to the wall with a card reading This glove has lost its owner. The odd display suggests a bold customer experience for patrons.
East Midwestern grain state representatives demand at least 2500 empty box cars returned daily from the East. They call the 1400 to 1900 increase announced by Director J Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation a step in the right direction but insufficient.
London reports the British blackout will be lifted on Monday except for a five mile coastal belt. Home Secretary Herbert Morrison announces the change as part of wartime measures. The policy shift emphasizes heightened protection along exposed shorelines.
A notice from MRS. MARY BREECE seeking a caregiver for children both day and night. Describes a fenced lawn for play and asks interested persons to call 744 North Williams near Grey court on North East Eighth.
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