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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
2
The column reports cooler spells and incoming moisture with potential rain and a mild wheat crop outlook. It urges hunting safety, condemns reckless shooters after a girl was injured, and includes a plea for gun safety measures. A local reward offers for lost money and coins near Walgreen’s, with contact details for the owner.
A mix of light social notes on relationships and hair color stereotypes, plus two humorous dispatches: a Madison USO dog with its own taxicab routine and Salt Lake City's dog tethering fine. Also brief livestock market figures from Kansas City and Chicago with price ranges.
Light showers brought brief relief from record heat with .20 inch of rain and temperatures dropping to 65 degrees. Clarendon and Claude reported the best totals of 0.83 and 0.61 inches, while Hereford Lubbock Panhandle Pampa Follett Shamrock and Dalhart saw scattered showers. The Weather Bureau forecasts more scattered activity and a cooler spell for several days.
Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler reportedly created a new secret service to file daily reports on all major German civil officials. The elite unit, formed after the aborted assassination attempt on Hitler, reportedly numbers about 2000 operatives in Berlin.
At a noon Rotary Club luncheon plans were completed for a barbecue and an indoor Western hospitality program if rain arrives. The Fellowship Committee led by Norris Ewing will run the event with about 400 attendees from Amarillo and Panhandle clubs, while noting the P-38 Lightning as a fast yet heavy fighter with 360 mph speed and 1000 mile range.
Mrs. Fannie E. Roberts aged 65 of Amarillo died at Northwest Texas Hospital. Longtime hospital office manager for 17 years and member of First Baptist Church, she is survived by husband Marion Roberts, a son in Des Moines Iowa, two daughters in Palestine and Amarillo, two brothers, four granddaughters and three grandsons. Funeral arrangements pending.
Three people were hospitalized after an early morning automobile crash east of St. Francis. Wade Farr of Borger and Lt Ruth Rule, an Army nurse, were treated at Northwest Texas Hospital with Rule in severe but non critical condition. Lt Charles B Galvin of Pampa Army Air Field was moved to his base hospital with minor injuries. Farr sustained only slight injuries.
American heavy bombers based in Italy struck the great Romanian oil center of Ploesti today. Visiting his parents at 1519 Taylor Street for 14 days is Pvt. Jess Harp, transferred from Camp Barkeley to the West Coast.
John Edward Mitchell 45 a carpenter died after a jail cell fight in Northwest Texas Hospital. Clinton Blackwell is held in county jail in connection with the fatal confrontation. Mitchell’s body lies at Boxwell Brothers chapel as arrangements loom.
Infant James Rochelle Maloney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Maloney, died in a local hospital. The family home is 4011 Neches Street. Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. He is survived by his parents, a sister Jewell, and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Gray and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Maloney, all of Amarillo.
Allied forces close in on the Caen region with the trapped Seventh Army under heavy pressure. Canadian infantry break into Falaise and push 1,000 yards further, while American and British troops tighten the noose and prepare for a decisive move.
Allied tanks and armored cars split into the German center driving from the west and south to push the German defense into a narrow corner north of Argentan and southwest of Falaise. A United Press dispatch quoted that large scale enemy movement was closed off and suggested Germans may fight to the last, with no major eastward move evident.
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