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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
2
A noisy mix of August weather observations and local civics. The column covers rain cycles, club plans, a debate on women’s roles, letters from readers, and a Texas bristle trade note from China.
In the Texas Capitol a mysterious figure dubbed the unknown senator attracted crowds as a portrait hung in the Senate chamber. The display showed Gov. Beauford H. Jester and Lt. Gov Allan Shivers, with the next highest image for Sen. Ti. A. Weinert of Seguin. Observers doubted the identity and speculated the man resembled a member of the so called third house, but none could recognize him.
A Dallas Morning News report says Lyndon Johnson may run for the U S Senate in 1948. Friends believe he has weighed the race, while Johnson declines to state his decision publicly. O'Daniel's term ends next year and several candidates are named.
BEAUMONT August 14 Texas delegates to the national American Legion convention in New York insist on riding horseback in the August 30 parade. Mayor William O Dwyer and Police Commissioner Grover Whalen struggle to supply enough horses amid notes that Beaumont Mayor Otto Plummer received no letter about the issue.
Chicago livestock market totals show 4 300 cattle and calve figures with varying weights and prices. Reports indicate mixed demand with weights from lighter to heavy cattle and hogs trading at different price points.
Aug 2 MBRNGERG Twenty-one officials of the Farben chemical combine faced an American military tribunal pleading not guilty to war crimes charges. The defendants, Farben board members, are accused of helping plan aggressive war and plundering conquered counties. They allegedly mistreated slave labor and directed Farben operations for world intelligence gathering under business guise. Also notes a Saturday deadline to transfer voting precincts for Apr 23 hospital bond and state constitutional amendment elections.
Market notes show cattle and sheep weighing 1 300 pounds to 1 500 pounds selling up to 24 25 per hundredweight. Steers and heifers bring premiums with yearlings around 31 75, lambs across 24 25 to 24 75, and hogs and other stock quoted broadly. Also listed are beef cows and slaughter lamb values amid general market strength.
The United States agrees to cancel about one billion dollars in debts to Italy, waiving roughly 523 million for civilian supplies, 205 million for occupation costs, and about 178 million in miscellaneous claims. The pact follows three months of negotiations with an Italian financial mission to ease treaty clauses.
Funeral services for Mrs. Clem Simpson who died Tuesday at Fort Supply Oklahoma will be held Friday afternoon at 2 oclock in Pryor Be Chapel. Rev J D Horton will officiate with pallbearers named Vester Bray Edward Summers William Summers Melvin Summers Curis Woodall and Raymond Stallings. Mrs Simpson 89 was a Baptist member and is survived by four daughters J F Summers Erick Sir Jule Summers Woodbury Tenn and Linda Alexander Woodbury Tenn and a son Laughton Simpson Burial will be in Dreamland Cemetery at Canyon
The ARMA passenger coach California Limited was ripped open when sideswiped by a freight car near Barstow California. Ten persons were reported hurt as the train, behind schedule, was making up time at Lynwood about a few miles west of Barstow.
A Dachau military court sentenced 22 former Buchenwald officials to death by hanging. Others, including Ose Koch and Dr. Hans Eisele, received life terms or 10 to 20 year prison sentences. The court also handed prison terms to several more defendants.
Dan Higgins of Amarillo Jaycees is designated Man of the Month by the state organization for leading the effort to reopen Thompson swimming pool. Frank Butler Jr of Temple, president of Texas Jaycees, praises his work as an inspiration to Jaycees statewide. A full page story will appear in the Lone Star Jaycee.
Mrs. F. A. Sauer of 1119 Beverley and Mrs. Estelle Scott of 120a-A West Leventh returned home this week after a week at the Baptist encampment at Ridgecrest North Carolina for Home Mission Week.
The West Texas State College term will start September 15 with other campus openings planned for the first week of September. Price College and St Marys Academy have no set start date yet. The Northwest Texas Hospital of Nursing begins a new nursing class today and St Anthonys School of Nursing starts a class soon.
The Weather Bureau indicated a slight change in the hurricane’s course in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The center likely lay about 200 miles southeast of Tampico, Mexico, with further reports awaited to confirm the exact direction.
The report details Soviet objections to Western moves over Greece and its Balkan neighbors Albania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Gromyko denounces the Greek maneuver while Western powers push for General Assembly action opening September 16 amid a veto prone Security Council.
The Civil Service Commission announced ten additional State Department workers were discharged for loyalty reasons, all linked to Communism. The removals occurred between July 1, 1946, and March 31, 1947, bringing the total in this wave to twenty.
Secretary of State George Marshall arrives in Rio de Janeiro for the Inter American Conference on Continental Defense opening tomorrow. He is joined by Senator Arthur Vardenberg and Warren Austin United Nations Security Council representative. An airplane maker assists homemakers with a seamless muffin pan from a single aluminum sheet.
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