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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1944
Page
2
Readers discuss perfume bottle tops loosening causing loss of expensive scents and urge perfumers to seal tops. A reader notes mistaken suspicions about sisters, questions widows rings, and jokes about bachelors, marriage ages, and mail-order weddings. The column ends with a mock warning to dress shops about rear view mirrors.
A breezy Christmas week forecast promises mild days with no snow while shoppers cope with crowded downtown parking and a bustling holiday economy. A Washington insider shares farm anecdotes and light humor about hens eating eggs, hot topics like black eye peas, and family questions about parental answers.
Four Coast Guard cutters operated in ice packed Arctic waters defeating a Nazi effort to establish bases in Greenland. A German armed trawler was sunk another captured and a third abandoned. Sixty prisoners were taken and a radio station captured and destroyed. The action lasted July through October with Eastwind and Southwind capturing the ternisteine on Oct 16 after heavy shell fire.
Mrs. Frank Riordan, an English Royal Air Force veteran 21, visits Amarillo and Lubbock with her Texas husband Captain Riordan. She recalls wartime rationing, tours local stores, and notes British beauty limits while awaiting his Eighth Air Force posting. couple wed at Lincoln Cathedral and lived in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The Amarillo Globe notes Roosevelt won 53.72 percent of the national vote to Dewey's 46.28 with an 81.35 percent electoral share. Kansas gave Dewey 60.60 percent while South Carolina favored Roosevelt at 95.03 percent. Minor protest parties suffered as the New Deal appeal grew, and even Norman Thomas contemplates defeat for the Socialist ticket.
The Electoral College will convene Monday around noon to elect Franklin D Roosevelt to a fourth term by 432 votes to 99 for Gov. Thomas Dewey. Complete returns show Roosevelt would have won with 269 electoral votes if 14 Southern and border states had been ignored, underscoring a non solid South in this election.
17 year old Robert Ferrell of Charleston West Virginia was charged in district court with theft of an automobile. He was returned to Amarillo from Tucumcari New Mexico after being arrested while possession of a stolen car belonging to Sgt Adolph Smith. Ferrell is also wanted in Oklahoma for two auto thefts and may be turned over to federal authorities on a Dyer Act charge.
Bryant Baker of New York created a marble bust of Cordell Hull for the Tennessee State Capitol Library. He found Hull difficult to animate during sittings until State Department staff attended a session at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and conversations about state affairs unlocked expression.
Mrs Matilda Coyle wife of O D Coyle died in a local hospital at 2 30 this morning She was 58 a long time Amarillo resident The family home is Pleasant Valley Surviving five sons four in service: Wallace in France R W in China John in Holland Albert in Miami Lacy in Amarillo one daughter Sadie of Amarillo a sister Mrs T C Daley and a brother Walter McClanahan of Compton Cal Funeral arrangements by N B Griggs and Sons
Allied reports cite Tokyo radio claiming two heavy cruisers were set afire by kamikaze planes. The claim, broadcast via FCC monitoring, places the ships in Mindanao Sea north of Mindanao and on routes between east Leyte and Ormoc port in west Leyte.
American Business Club members will elect officers for the coming year at the regular noon luncheon in the Capitol Hotel. Johnny Ekelund, retiring president, calls for full attendance. New officers will be installed at a banquet early next month.
Sr Burton freight traffic manager for the Santa Fe is dangerously ill in a Topeka hospital after a recent heart attack. He was stationed here years ago and was active in civic and church affairs.
V. Wyatt opposes a fourth term as Townsend Club president and announces a meeting at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon in the county courthouse to elect a new leader. He urges all members to attend.
State patrolmen investigated a Panhandle wreck this morning. No injuries reported as two cars were badly damaged and the scene remained under police attention this afternoon.
U S Marshal and Mrs Bill Lampe attend a niece s wedding in Fort Worth while Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is noted for military training in Japan in the same era.
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