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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1946
Page
2
A New Yorker recounts urban scenes from Texas visitors and transplanted tales in New York. Jokes about dog sitters and Wall Street views mix with anecdotes of famous homes the Morgan Vanderbilt and a Waldorf Astoria necklace find. The piece paints crowded streets, theater shortages, and postwar mood.
Pianist Jose T Iturbi will not perform in Amarillo on March 14 after a Dallas Pair Association booking was canceled because seating could not yield profits. Jerry JordanInspected seating and Charley Meeker promoted the engagement. Mr Shaw said seating around the artist would be required, which Iturbi dislikes.
Police seek Burrel C Joslin missing since January 22. Son of Mr and Mrs C Joslin, 311 Belleview, left Seattle for Amarillo and has not been heard from. 23 years old, 5 feet 11 inches, 169 pounds, blond hair, gray eyes. Clothing and belongings arrived. recently discharged from the Army.
Funeral services for John W. Stewart 78 retired Santa Fe construction and location engineer who died Wednesday night in an Amarillo hospital will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at the First Presbyterian Church. Dr Francis W Pritchard pastor will conduct the rites burial will be in Llano Cemetery beside his wife who died Jan 1945 Pallbearers named J B Briscoe G L Mercer C D Cheim J B Raymond EF J Sowder J W Walter Arrangements by N S Griggs & Sons.
The writer requests diapers blankets shirts and little dresses for a newborn. The husband has just been discharged after four years of military service and is described as the sole provider in the family.
Amarillo High School students enjoyed a puppet show by Frank Paris in the school auditorium this morning. Paris, once an Amarillo kid, travels with his mother Emma S&S Paris and plans engagements in New York Rio Janeiro and France over six weeks to a year. He builds dolls from clay to plastic wood, with about 300 puppets valued at 250 to 500 each.
Washington reports reveal a secret December 5 1941 Navy chart placed an American patrol vessel in the Hawaii attack area two days before the raid. Rep Murphy and Rep Gearhart pressed for the vessel name and movements and questioned radio silence controls on fleet alert status. Vice Admiral Smith noted the chart vanished from the December 6 ship location chart as inquiries continued.
Federal Housing Authority order by Marshall W. Amis at Fort Worth restricts vacancies in publicly converted war housing for veterans families. Pantex Village houses 810 units with 150 to be moved soon for veteran students. Furniture shortages noted as veterans return.
In San Francisco a domestic gas bill is lower than Texas but California producers earn twice Texas rates. UT professor George Fancher told the Federal Power Commission that field price must cover handling costs and a fair profit to curb waste. He cited California’s low venting and Texas’s higher venting. He urged conservation tied to adequate field price to keep gas affordable and questioned Texas export only on economic grounds.
Burglars struck twice last night stealing over 2900 dollars in cash and goods. At Amarillo Cash Wholesale Grocery on 608 Johnson they took 170 to 200 dollars from a safe, 10 cases of unstamped cigarettes, and 22 cases of canned chili after forcing the front door. the stolen safe was later recovered half a mile east of Llano Cemetery. In the Blue Moon Cafe a rear window was broken to gain entry and the automatic music machine was robbed.
Amarillo High School selects favorite students across sophomores juniors and seniors in a school election today. Results remain secret until the Popularity Ball on Saturday night February 9 when the master of ceremonies announces them.
Jesse Woodard a 47 year old Amarillo area mechanic died of a heart attack while at work at Hedgecoke Motor Company at 9 30 this morning. The body is at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home with funeral services pending. Survivors include widow Opal Woodard two daughters Emita and Laura Ellen and a son Talmadge all of White Deer. Also surviving are his mother Mrs L W Woodard Colbert Okla two sisters Mrs Monroe Coleman Colbert and Mrs Roy Wright Shamrock and three brothers Paul Jack both of Amarillo and Cratus Greenville. The family had lived in Amarillo three years but spent time in White Deer where the wife and children reside. The note says the record contains unrelated text about a musicians union dispute but no further details are given.
The Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra announces a Tuesday concert on February 5 with works including Beethoven Overture to Egmont Prokofieff Classical Symphony Grainger County Derry Lindow The Musical Snuff Box Liszt Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major Wagner Lohengrin Introduction to Act 3 performed by guest artist Wendene Wilson Shoupe Single admission tickets go on sale at Southwestern Public Service Company from 9 to 5 the concert starts at 8 30 pm.
The passage describes Caesar’s stance on piping a 95 piece symphony orchestra over FM waves and the resulting broadcaster shutdowns. Chairman Clarence Lea launches an investigation, inviting Caesar to testify as Congress weighs rules for broadcast music and union staffing.
The House voted 258 to 114 to railroad the Case measure for immediate action. Backers expect few major changes, while some minority leaders say the bill is too stringent but support rapid action to curb industrial strife. The plan creates a national labor management board to settle disputes in the public interest. It bans violent picketing, allows civil suits against violators of labor contracts, and restricts unions open to injunctions, with supervisory unions excluded.
Survey notes place in historical context by likening Mr. Truman’s early presidency to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s initial days in office. Analysts weigh leadership challenges and public expectations during transition periods.
The passage outlines Roosevelt's falling and recovering national popularity from 1933 to 1936. It notes a sharp post honeymoon drop as Republicans opposed his program, a 12 point slide from 69 to 57 between February and June 1934, and renewed decline in 1935 amid fights over unemployment relief and the N R A abrogation. Despite this, he regained support and won the 1936 election by a large margin.
The report notes claims of people wounded and hundreds injured behind unspecified charges, with few concrete details available. The fragment references a broader incident but lacks identifiable names, places, or dates.
The article notes Greece as a longtime sore spot between Britain and Russia. It describes Greece as a borderland between eastern and western Europe, a key flank for Britain's Mediterranean lifeline and a critical control point in the eastern Mediterranean.
Steele attacked the Veterans Administration for not using staffed beds in Army and Navy hospitals and for delaying disability and hospitalization claims. He urged immediate emergency hospitalization, rapid hospital construction, and elimination of processing delays affecting about a half million disability applications and over 7,000 hospitalization claims.
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