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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
2
The body of Max Shrodeck, 55, who died of a heart attack aboard a plane that landed at English Field, was sent today. The item lists numerous warranty deeds and district court actions with divorces and marriages, including transfers in Amarillo and Wolflin Park, and notes a newspaper distribution/production cost line.
Potter County Tuberculosis Association urges the public to locate and return over 5 000 unsold Christmas Seals now valued high by the drive. Total receipts reach 9 441 82 with hopes to exceed needed funds for another year. The article traces tuberculosis history from Koch to Roentgen noting prevention and cure rely on public support and seal purchases.
Sharleen Barker leads in the Black Mask production Pals at the High School Auditorium. Dr. R. P. Parcells directs and appears, with Howard Scott as her love interest. Proceeds support the Sandie squad banquet. tickets from football players, cheerleaders, and Sandie Mothers Club. Curtain 8:20 PM.
J Lind say Nunn and son Gilmore acquire WMOB Mobile from S B Quigley for 250000 raising the Nunn radio group to five stations. Existing properties include KFDA Amarillo WLAP Lexington WBIR Knoxville and WCMI Ashland Huntington with Lexington as headquarters. Gilmore Nunn resumes active management after military service.
W. H. Walser, sought on a New Mexico fugitive theft complaint, was arrested in Amarillo by city police and jailed on a $1,500 bond set by Justice of the Peace C. W. Carder. Albuquerque authorities provided the warrant and details, with items identified from several tourist camps found in the suspect’s residence and other locations.
The article explains two approaches to housing costs: price ceilings may not apply to existing homes and current bills may cap future prices if passed. It proposes a materials priority plan to boost lower-cost housing, with 50 percent of building materials reserved for homes under £10 000, while the rest remain market driven. Citizens may resist high prices, and government urges restraint in payments.
The Gulf region delivered light snow that spread north into the Panhandle. Early this week Kerrville and Austin reported snow while Houston Galveston San Antonio and Corpus Christi saw freezing rain. The Valley has recorded two freezes this year.
United Press reports two to four inches of snow in Iowa Wisconsin and Michigan with Chicago forecast to receive six to eight inches by tomorrow. West Yellowstone Montana recorded 14 degrees below zero as coldest spot. Miami reached 78 degrees. Fight deaths in Cleveland are blamed on the first winter snow storm with elderly victims succumbing to heart attacks after shoveling or pushing stalled cars.
General Marshall told a Senate committee there was no Army report explaining why Japanese bombers caught U S bombers on the ground in the Philippines. He added American bombers would have been justified in sinking Japanese warships near Hawaii before the war, an overt act if such vessels appeared.
Kansas City reports cattle salable 1 200 total 16 000 with good beef steers above 16 dollars struggling to move while young stock price ranges span 14 50 to 15 50 for better loads hogs 700 salable 4 200 steady near ceiling 14 55 for 170 plus weights sheep 6 000 salable 7 000 demand moderate lambs above 14 25 cows 12 25 12 50 and vealers 11 50 14 50. Chicago hogs 24 000 very active steady at 1485 ceiling for 180 330 lb barrows gilts sow prices 14 10 ceiling cattle 5 000 calves 1 000 demand narrow time 25 50 cents lower on many grades medium to strictly good steers 14 00 16 50. Sheep 9 000 opening slow weak to a shade lower with good and choice lambs around 14 60 for Western fed woolies and No 1 skins.
Three of seven Japanese defendants were convicted by a U S military commission in Manila and sentenced to death by hanging for the March 1945 killings of two American fliers and five Filipinos on Cebu Island. The other defendants received prison terms or were found innocent.
Two automobiles were reported stolen in Amarillo last night. One car, a 1939 brown Ford coupe, was not recovered and belonged to Don Wood of 1700 Jackson, while the other car recovered hours later belonged to Capt. L. Treadway at 801 West Fourteenth. The recovered vehicle was being driven by his wife when police located it.
A special venire is summoned for jury service on January 14 in the 47th District Court for the trial of Varnell White alias Parnell White, a negro, by order of Judge Henry S. Bishop. White is indicted by a Potter County grand jury for murder in the shooting of Crutcher Hawkins, a negro man, last month.
Enlistment of three men for peacetime Army duty was completed at Amarillo Army Recruiting Station. Carl L. Goodwin of 309 Florida signed for three years in infantry. Alfred F. Caviness of Pampa joined the Air Forces for three years. Oscar Lee Johnson of Slaton entered for 19 months unassigned.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Benz and daughter Ann visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. George A. Benz in Kansas City at 1200 Van Buren. They earlier visited brothers George A. Benz and Phil Benz in Bartlesville Oklahoma and plan to return to Amarillo for Christmas. Mr. Benz, recently discharged from the service, will work for Phillips Petroleum after the new year.
Mrs Minnie May Pruitt of 402 North Lincoln died at midnight after a two week illness in a local hospital. Her death followed nine days after her mother Mary Frances Clodfelter’s passing on December 3. Survived by daughter Thelma Thomson and granddaughter Juanita Williams of Amarillo, and four sisters Bertie Cook Hattie Clodfelter Jessie Plunket and Willie Riggs. Funeral arrangements pending at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.
Amateur stamp collectors will hold their weekly meeting at 7 30 o clock tomorrow night in the Auditorium USO. C H Annett will direct the program.
Amarillo Llano Estacado Council Boy Scouts of America holds a Court of Honor at 8 tonight in the First Christian Church with John 8. Mc Knight as chairman.
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