Change proposals set for two Am arillo bus routes
G F Nussbaum of the Amarillo Bus Company asks the city commission to alter the Washington route to run north on Hayden and shorten stops on Nineteenth Sixteenth Travis and Lipscomb. West Tenth line would extend routes and add a culvert at Travis Wolflin to handle mud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Bus Company
G. F. Nussbaum
City Commission
Washington
Hayden
Sixteenth
Nineteenth
Lipscomb
Travis
West Tenth
Fifteenth
Crockett
Wolflin
Bonham and
Julian
Rusk
Tenth
Bonham
Armed Robbers Target Sundown Grocery in Panhandle
Police hunt two white men in green coveralls who stole 3623 in cash and 1255 in checks from a Sundown grocery yesterday afternoon. The checks were mostly for field workers. Officers report no known method of getaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
Sundown
Lubbock
Amarillo
Quick Thinking Saves $700
In Hempstead on December 3 two robbers burst into a business office demanding the receipts. Edward Monahan stalled them by saying James Collery had gone to the bank to make a night deposit. After the robbers left, Collery retrieved $1,400 from a hiding place and went to the bank.
General MacArthur Orders 59 More Japanese Arrested
In Tokyo on December 3 General MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to arrest 59 additional war crime suspects. Among them is Field Marshal Prince Morimasa Nashimoto, 71, a supreme war councillor and guardian of national shrines, plus two former premiers and several top militarists and industrialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Prince Morimasa Nashimoto
Amarillo School District Sues for Condemnation to Expand Playground
The Amarillo School District filed a condemnation suit in county court against J. C. Ridge and others to acquire lot 4 block 37 Humphy Highlands Addition for enlarging the Humphrey Highlands school playground and building facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
J. C. Ridge
Humphrey Highlands
President outlines plan for fast fact finding in labor disputes
Truman urges General Motors to press production and proposes a three member to five member fact finding board to resolve strikes at GM and United States Steel. The plan would certify disputes, pause strikes for 20 days, and require a report to the President with non binding findings but public disclosure of facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Motors
United States Steel Corp
United Steel Workers
CSO
Secretary of Labor
Mary Beard Wins Texas Poetry Contest
Mary Miller Beard of 1322 Tyler won first in the Texas division of the National Thanksgiving Association poetry contest. Second and third places went to Lubbock writers. The awards notification came today from Joseph Willis English of Truscott, the state Texas chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Miller Beard
Tyler
Texas
National Thanksgiving Association
Lubbock
Joseph Willis English
Truscott
Cat in Tree Prompted Police Call in Spokane
In Spokane on December 3, Mr and Mrs Earl Peterson noticed a large bobcat in their front yard tree. They alerted authorities and Motor Patrolman Elmo Springer shot the animal four times, bringing it down. the cat weighed about 35 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Earl Peterson
Elmo Springer
Former Recruiter Visiting Miss Zimmer Here
WAVE recruiter here for a year, Miss Rubye A. Weldon of Wichita Falls, revisited Amarillo Navy Recruiting Station as a civilian today. She was discharged Nov. 2 at New Orleans and had worked as recruiting specialist out of Eighth Naval District Headquarters since leaving Amarillo in November 1944. For the next week she will be a guest of Miss Williewell Zimmer at 414 West Fourteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubye A. Weldon
Wichita Falls
Amarillo Navy
Miss Weldon
New Orleans
Eighth Naval District
Amarillo
Williewell Zimmer
West Fourteenth
Commandant of Nazi Prison Sentenced in Britain
Col. Erich Killinger 52, prison camp commandant, was sentenced by a British military court to five years. Two aides also received terms for mistreatment of airmen in a sweat box camp at Wuppertal Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wuppertal
Germany
Erich Killinger
Chaplins Expecting Second Child in March
Hollywood reports Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill expect their second child next March. Their first daughter was born in August 1944, and the couple's marriage links Chaplin to playwright Eugene O'Neill's family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollwood
Chaplins
Chaplin
Oona O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Shanghai Officials Ask Opium Smokers To Take Pledge
Shanghai city government aims to stamp out opium smoking by June 1946 and today urged addicts to register within two months and pledge to cure their evil habits through a self awakening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Tommy Manville Names Georgina Campbell His Eighth Wife
New Rochelle New York December 3 Tommy Manville the asbestos heir confirmed he will marry Georgina Campbell a 27 year old English born columnist as his eighth wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Rochelle
N. Y
Tommy Manville
Georgina Campbell
Army V mail handled 1.25 billion letters overseas
The Army disclosed that in 3 1/2 years it handled 1.25 billion V mail letters to and from GIs overseas. More than 140 tons of air cargo space carried the dehydrated notes, which would have required about 14,000 tons if kept in standard size and weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Multiple Drug Stores Listed in City Directory
A compilation shows several drug stores and retailers including Atkinson Drug Co Bush Drug Co Cretney Drug Store Fox Drug Company Mark Galloway Drug Store Jack Phillips Drug Pool Drug Stores Ratliff Drug Store Seiwell Drug Store I M Drug Co Walgreen Drug Store Wilson Drug Store in the local business roster.
Music Sobs Like Night In a Foxhole
In a crowded Shanghai night club a Czech pianist Herbert and his accordionist father play for soldiers and White Russians. A wounded soldier hears a moving, unnamed music that speaks of brothers and home, linking the war to a shared memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Herbert
Prague
Paris
Belgium
Elbe
Germany
Dallas Hospital Receives Ill Deputy Collector R L McKnight
R L McKnight III deputy collector at the local Office of Internal Revenue is seriously ill in a Dallas hospital after being taken Friday from the Amarillo Veterans Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. McKnight
Office of Internal Revenue
Dallas
Amarillo Veterans’ Hospital
Burglars Hit Amarillo Welding Shop Take 700 Pound Safe
Burglars broke into the Amarillo Welding and Machine Works at 217 North Polk and loaded a 700 pound safe using a chain hoist. The safe contained cash checks and valuable records, with owner C. W. Johnson calling the records the most valuable loss. Entry was via a broken window and exit through an unlocked door. A second break in at Lane Ice Cream Co. on 1201 West Seventh yielded no apparent theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Lane Ice Cream Company
West Seventh
Mrs Clodfelter Taken by Death in Amarillo
Mary Francis Clodfelter aged 84 died at her daughter Hattie Clodfelter’s home 611 Harrison. An Amarillo resident since 1926 she was a First Baptist Church member. Survived by five daughters Hattie, Mrs M M Pruitt, Mrs Willie Riggs, Mrs Bertie Cook, Jessie Plunket. eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. Body at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home with rites pending arrival of relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Francis Clodfelter
Hattie Clodfelter
Harrison
Amarillo
First Baptist Church
M. M. Pruitt
North Lincoln
Willie Riggs
Rusk
Bertie Cook
Jessie Plunket
Dalhart
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
CAA Conducting Hearing Here
The Civil Aeronautics Administration holds a federal hearing to decide if James B. Woffard a Dim mitt commercial pilot violated regulations on August 4 and 5 at Groom. Examiner A D Lamb CAA counsel James Constantine and Wade Potter represent parties with F W Carier of the local CAA office at the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Woffard
Dimmitt
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Groom
Woffard
Administrator of
Civil Aeronautics
Aeronautics Board
A. D. Lamb
Washington
D. C
James Constantine
CAA
Wofford
Wade Potter
Littlefield
F. W. Carier
Colonels Inspect Amarillo Army Recruiting Station
Lt Col Charles R. Smith and Lt Col Robert L. Hardy conducted a formal inspection of the Amarillo Army Recruiting Station. They planned to visit Amarillo Field this afternoon and depart tomorrow to tour other stations in the West Texas Recruiting District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Army
Charles R. Smith
Eighth Service Command
Robert L. Hardy
West Texas
Amarillo Field
American War Dads Plan Meeting Tonight
American War Dads will meet at 7 30 tonight in the Veterans Information Center to outline next year s activities. P L Case president of the organization urges all War Dads and prospective members to be present at the last meeting of this year. The local organization has more than 350 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Information Center
P. L. Case
Engineers To Elect Officers For Panhandle Chapter
The Panhandle Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers will elect new officers at a 7 p.m. dinner and dance at the Amarillo Country Club. Retiring officials include Sam Davis as president T. K. Reading as vice president J. L. Adams as secretary treasurer and Morris Browning and J. P. Webring on the board. Holdover directors are C. S. Lambie and C. A. Edmonds. Senator Grady Hazlewood of Amarillo will be principal speaker with over 100 engineers from 20 Panhandle counties invited or expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
Amarillo Country Club
Sam Davis
T. K. Reading
J. L. Adams
Morris Browning
J. P. Webring
C. S. Lambie
C. A. Edmonds
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Thief Steals Dealer’s Last Car In Friday Night Theft
Bill Dunn of 500 West Tenth reports his 1941 black Ford coach stolen Friday night. Dunn, a used car dealer, usually has many cars but this was his final vehicle. he pleads with police to recover the missing automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Dunn
West Tenth
Dunn
Oklahoma City Acting Manager for Western Union Points
The text notes she lived in Oklahoma City and served as acting manager for outlying Western Union points, indicating a supervisor role with regional responsibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Western Union
Post Office Official Undergoes Emergency Appendectomy
D. V. Baker, superintendent of postal finance at the Amarillo Post Office, was rushed to Northwest Texas Hospital last night for an emergency appendectomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. V. Baker
Amarillo
Northwest Texas Hospital
Itching First Application Promises Quick Relief
Agonizing itching from eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples scabies or toe itch is claimed to be eased by one application of Blue Star Ointment. Repeat uses may help healing and a money back guarantee is offered if the first jar fails to satisfy.
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Ben Smith
MacArthur
Truman
Mary Beard
Willienell Zimmer
Willard
Floyd V. Studer
American United Life Insurance Company
Amarillo, Texas
By Angelo
Chicago Sun Syndicate
Berry Boulevard
St. Joseph Aspirin
Enna St. Joseph Aspirin
St.Joseph Aspirin
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Taylor
Southwestern Bell Telephone CO
Engineers
Miami
Fla
University of Miami Hurricanes
Holy Cross
Gladys M. Mickey
City Department
Kenneth Mickey
Bonita
el Paso
Southern Pacific Railroad
Mc Kanone
Ust
Atkinson Drug Store
Polk St
Steve
Fam
Ily
Blackburn Shaur Funeral Directors
Pierce
W. M. McDonald
Amarillo Cement
Gospel Meeting
Church of Christ
N. Johnson St
Evangelist Curtis Camp
Cecil K. Wheeler
Christ Jesus
Curtis
Co. K. Wheeler
Amarillo Retail Druggists Association
Amarillo Retail Druggists Assn
Beery's Prescription & Vitamin Shop
Polk Street
Brooks’ Drug Store
Campbell Drug
Taylor St
Cretney
Oliver Eakle
Dickson Drug Store
FOX Drug Store
4Th and
Pierce Streets
H and Y Drug Store
West
16Th St
Herbert Drug Store
Herring Hotel
Herring
Hollingsworth Pharmacy
6Th St
Kendall Drug Store
East 10Th
Lincoln Drug Store
East
Mark Galloway Drug
Polk
Maxor Drug Store
Nelson Drug Store
West 10Th
Jack Phillips Drug Store
Pool Drug Stores
Santa Fe
Lide
Post Office Drug Store
Taylor Street
Prescription Laboratory
East 10Th Street
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