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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1943
Page
2
A reader criticizes a column claim that being respectable and honest isn’t natural to many, arguing instead the area boasts thousands of honest households. The exchange with E R T defends community integrity, cites incidents of dishonesty, and asserts about 90 percent of people are honest while urging vigilance against corruption.
The Moscow radio reported 6000 German naval personnel, mostly officers, have arrived in Naples and Brindisi for assignments aboard Italian war ships. The amaro district court term in Amarillo is set for May 17 with Pantex land condemnation cases likely to lead the docket. Criminal cases are expected early in June including violations of rent control regulations.
Will G Harris of Friona Texas reports a 1937 black Ford pickup with license 132 777 and two gas barrels stolen by a young, dark complexioned man named Clarence Smith who claimed work at garages. Harris sought FBI sheriff help and warned neighbors to spread word.
Hollywood column recalls Grace McDonald once paralyzed by infantile paralysis at 14 who fought to dance. Her brother Ray trained with MGM while Grace practiced tap, gradually walked again and became a dancing star with deep passion for the art.
Mrs. B W Hayden seeks help locating a lost size 11 Easter shoe after a dog carried off the pair and a second shoe remains missing. A 17 cent stamp was paid. church attendance looming. Information requested from readers at 1400 Hayden Street.
Itching relief claimed in one application for eczema rash ringworm tinea scabies and toe itch with possible money back if the first jar fails to relieve symptoms. The ad urges repeat use as needed and promotes trying it today.
Stocks at 1 P M show gains across indices while commodity quotes list hogs cattle and sheep market activity in Kansas City and Chicago. A lighthearted item follows about Jinx Falkenburg inspiring youth and Jane Wyatt reporting a peanut patch sabotage by a neighbor's goat in a garden tale.
A letter from Phillips Texas questions a reported fight on a train between a draft aged man and a lieutenant amid a group of soldiers and civilians. Readers debate authenticity and whether the man acted bravely or rashly, noting deferments and wartime duties.
A Marine technical sergeant at Camp Lejeune writes to praise The Jeep weekly. He details his morale boost from the paper while serving as a school instructor in New River North Carolina. He jokes about chalk dust and his role as a propagandist and expresses hope for a medal.
The House passed the Senate approved bill extending two years the President's authority over a 2 billion dollar stabilization fund with an amendment to limit use for a proposed 5 billion dollar international banking fund. The measure also curbs the President's power to devalue the dollar. Plus market notes show cattle and sheep pricing and a financial fund liquidation of 1.7093 with offer of 187.
The army announced that two crew members of Lt. Thomas D. Harmon’s plane died in the South American jungle crash on April 8. Staff Sgt. James F. Goodwin and Sgt. Leonard D. Gunnells were identified as the deceased. Goodwin’s Texas father and Gunnells’s Alabama mother were listed as next of kin. Harmon and three others remain missing or safe, with Harmon recovering at a Dutch Guinea base after four days.
Jury deliberations began at 12 15 P M in Albany Colorado in the first degree murder trial of Robert EF Lee Folkes over the Lower 13 knife slaying of Mrs Martha Virginia James. Other dispatches note a Houston clerk charged with fraud for dependency checks and a Paris Paris Paris dispatch on Belgian fascist movements. Major General Lloyd H Fredenhall to lead Second Army as Ben Lear retires. A Tea House conference committee backs per student apportionment increases from 22 50 to 25 a year with ceiling set at 25 to 27 50 by chamber vote.
Texans observe San Jacinto Day with patriotic sentiment and memory of the 1836 battle as historians regard it as a pivotal conflict while descendants of Sam Houston’s forces reflect on its enduring legacy in wartime times.
Lt. Saltzman of Wilmington, Delaware, while serving as a communications officer in the Pacific, shot down an enemy bomber with a Springfield rifle. The plane crashed and the pilot was killed. Saltzman earned the Silver Star for the feat.
The body of Lt. Robert L. Floyd killed in an April 13 airplane crash at Daniel Field Augusta Ga arrived in McLean for burial. Funeral services and full military rites will be held Friday at 2 p.m. The fallen officer was the nephew of Andrew Floyd and Mr and Mrs A L Jordan of Louisiana Street McLean.
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