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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1943
Page
11
The county welfare board announces canning sugar certificates for the first season will be issued May 6 and 7 in Room 111 of the county courthouse. Limit set at six pounds per person, with one pound for home canning. Family groups register together. bring No 1 ration books. Non highways and trucks to use different office.
President directs immediate investigation into alleged violations of price regulations as cost of living rises in mining areas. Connally of Texas pushes Congress to consider whether a certain individual should be allowed to exercise constitutional authority, signaling ongoing political debate.
Corporation court fines reported at city hall totaled 141 dollars with 26 dollars paid by 11 motorists on various traffic charges.
In Tunisia heavy fighting rages west of Jenna and Bald Hill near Bizerte as Allied and Axis forces clash. Montgomery advances along the coast toward Bou Ficha with Allied air power striking Axis targets. Axis troops on the front are now German dominated, while Allied and French gains appear in the north and Pont du Fahs region.
President Roosevelt issued an executive order transferring the Civil Air Patrol from the Office of Civilian Defense to the War Department. About 60,000 civilian-owned planes operat e under OCD director James M. Landis. Patrols included submarine and area patrols, forest-fire guarding, and emergency transport for the Army and other agencies. Transfer takes effect immediately.
Camp Lee Virginia reports Private Samuel Epstein and his Philadelphia family have purchased large war bond amounts. After Christmas they raised 37000 in Epstein checks to buy 50000 in bonds, following Nazi actions in Narvogorod. The family, emigrants from Poland in 1921, runs a clothing business and plans more bond purchases.
Texas independent retailers posted a 3 percent sales rise in March over February and 22 percent above March 1942. Amarillo retailers led with an 80 percent jump from March 1942, while Waco reported a 46 percent gain.
Bern dispatch reports Pierre Laval French chief of government meeting Adolf Hitler. The talks follow a series of Axis conferences with Mussolini and satellite leaders and concern further French manpower to work for Germany begun mid April.
The federal suit seeks an injunction against Mrs. W. B. Hibler operator of the Plains Hotel to prevent violations of rent control regulations. It is a civil case with no criminal charges.
North western Ohio school administrators and industrial leaders argue at a Bowing Green meeting that high school habits cause rising absenteeism in war plants. They say bad working and thinking habits and social attitudes formed in high school hurt future industrial efficiency.
A physician endorsed laxative promotes olive tablets by Dr Edwards to stimulate bile flow and ease constipation. The ad claims improved digestion and gentle bowel movements with no griping, urging readers to follow label directions and purchase at drugstores.
London reports indicate the United States and British ambassadors in Moscow are pressing the Soviet Union to restore diplomatic ties with the Polish exile government. The Poles have dropped an international Red Cross probe into Nazi charges of mass executions near Smolensk and seek restoration of Eastern Poland territories after the war.
Amarillo Army Air Field soldier Richard Carr was found dead in a local hotel room after hanging himself with a necktie. Justice of the Peace Cazzeil certified death as self-inflicted. no specific motive reported. Carr's home is Gerry, New Mexico. His wife and her aunt found the body after bidding farewell to friends at the Santa Fe station. The body remains at Blackburn-Shaw memorial chapel.
Amarillo police officers debut new spring uniforms funded by the benefit ball. The ensemble features light tan shirts blue trousers and blue caps as part of a refreshed department look.
Lonnie Hutton a dishwasher was arrested by Amarillo police in a box car with a 9 year old boy and is held in the county jail on a perversion charge Bond was set at 1000 dollars Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
Claude reports the death of 83 year old Claren don pioneer R H Cline. Survivors include two sons T and W B Cline and a daughter Mrs A L Jones, all of Amarillo. Services will be held at Clarendon. Cline moved from Kentucky to Clarendon 51 years ago and was long connected with the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad.
A compilation of wartime quips and oddities notes humor about buying bonds to hurt the Japs, a playful misstatement on newborn height, and the summer sign keep off the grass. The items reflect home front morale and skepticism through light sarcasm.
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