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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1945
Page
2
A kaleidoscope of notes ranges from U S Russian talks on war strategy to a Texas engineer offering to study a Panhandle plastic plant. Anecdotes include a Chicago baby rescued from a coin box, fashion trends, marriage views, and social observations reflecting era sentiment.
The Better Business Bureau outlines a war savings protection program led by Gordon Morrison with Virgil P. Patterson chairing a committee including Howard Paul Charles Ware H O Starks Walter Blackburn and Clay Thornton. The effort targets postwar swindlers as 135 billion dollars saved by the public and 38 million in Amarillo are cited. FBI activity already begins to combat the anticipated fraud wave.
Lt. Col. J. D. Alger, New York City, says German mistreatment of Allied prisoners occurred as 1,200 Americans and Britons were forced to march about 300 miles from Szubin, Poland, to Brandenburg in 32 days. At least 25 died. Texans Lt. W. H. Crane of San Antonio and Pfc. G. O. Laurel of Laredo were among the liberated.
Maj. Gen. Fred L. Walker, former 36th Division commander in Italy, invited by the Senate to participate in ceremonies marking the presentation of oil paintings of the general to Texas. The paintings will be presented by artist Corporal Dorcus Rosenfeld, WAC.
A 14 passenger commercial aircraft overshot a Washington National Airport runway and crashed into a ravine. Police report 12 bodies recovered from the wreckage with two more believed inside the plane. Fire raged as salvage crews searched the site.
The Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission authorized exec secretary Will Tucker to negotiate with A M College for a school for game wardens. The panel also ordered that shell dredging permits be issued only after live oyster bed checks and for 90 days at a time. No action on Corpus Christi funds for the coastal division.
Potter County War Finance Committee member Howard Paul urges support for the Seventh War Loan. He warns the Japan campaign will be long and costly, citing supply delays and the need to fund millions of troops while Amarillo’s servicemen have set an example of sacrifice.
U S forces report near surrounding Regensburg after capturing Kesselring's private train at Cham near the Czechoslovak frontier. Lt Col William J Scott's force secures 50 Messerschmitts at Cham airport and encounters grim German atrocities along the Austrian advance.
Amarillo citizens donated 33 100 pounds of clothing shoes and bedding to the United National Clothing Collection. A freight car was packed to capacity and will depart for Oklahoma City ahead of the May 10 deadline marking Amarillo as a local pioneer. The nationwide drive ran April 1 to 30 but Amarillo completed its effort in two weeks.
A fragment reflects on Texas scale from the Old West and New Mexico to the Old South Louisiana, noting enduring themes of loss and longing for blood restoration and memory across vast spaces.
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, former Washington senator and federal district judge, met President Truman for breakfast in Washington. He said no position was discussed but would be "around for a few days." Reported options include attorney general or labor secretary.
Soviet forces press toward Berlin’s southwest with fierce house to house combat in the city’s ruins. Berlin remains under heavy pressure as troops push toward Prenzlau while Russian flanks threaten Gruenwalde and Stettin approaches.
An aerial German attempt to reinforce the Hamburg garrison from the sea was broken up late yesterday by rocket fire. The action disrupted enemy ships and limited German offshore supply efforts near Hamburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford McMurtry of 1216 West Twelfth claim their son Lt Raymond McMurtry a reconnaissance officer with the 69th Division helped in the historic junction of Marshal Konev s First Ukraine Army and General Hodges First American Army at Torgau on the Elbe River.
Mac R. Johnson as war correspondent aboard the invasion flagship reports only slight damage near Okinawa. A few enemy planes approached and one was shot down. American carrier planes continued attacks on Sakishima air fields while navy planes strafed and sank fishing craft a small boat and a torpedo boat east of Kyushu.
As dusk fell, Nazi barges pushed into the port and began unloading. A reconnaissance pilot sighted the activity, two attacks followed and several barges were sunk. Explosions suggested ammunition aboard. Kiel naval base marked Mosquito raids for the seventh time in six months with further sweeps over northern Germany.
Since D-Day U S Army ordnance personnel repaired more tanks armored cars half tracks trucks and trailers than U S battle losses across all forces.
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