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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1943
Page
2
The Office of Price Administration announced a wartime rationing plan for March 1, limiting canned fruits and vegetables and some frozen, dried, and canned goods. Rationing will be by 48 points per person for March, with home canning encouraged and babies treated the same as adults for point allotments.
Mayor Joe Jenkins agrees to use municipal trucks to move bulk Victory Book collections to libraries. PPA co-chair Franklin P. Adams calls for leveraging regular truck routes to deliver books for armed forces. Campaign sponsors include the American Library Association the Red Cross and the USO. Armies need scrap metal too.
The United States produced record war materials in December with a 14 percent rise from November and five times November's pre Pearl Harbor level. The War Production Board chief Donald Nelson reported a 20 percent increase in warplanes and 25 percent in tanks and ordnance, with 5,489 planes delivered to the armed services and allies, 667 more than November. He cited year end cleanup efforts and warned future monthly gains will be harder to obtain.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that reconciliation between divergent French groups has begun and conditions in French Africa are being readjusted. He said Britain and the United States share the same policy focus, stressing French responsibility for territories while ensuring maximum Allied military effort. Both nations aim to restore freedom in French Africa and France without distracting from war aims.
Stockholders of the Consumers Cooperative Associated will meet in Amarillo on February 16 for their annual gathering. Treasurer and general manager Leonard F. Cowden touts a year of strong results with full compliance from government agencies. President R. B. Gist notes expected record attendance and announces a 13 week radio program series titled Here Is Tomorrow starting February 14 on KGNC at 5 30 PM. Secretary W. W. Kurfee of Plainview is listed.
A. K. Baracat returned from a two week market and pleasure trip with a wide variety of imported linens and exclusive infant and children's merchandise for his shop.
Recipe outlines no sugar muffins using Kellogg's All-Bran with corn syrup shortening and milk. Includes mixing steps soaking bran, then adding flour, filling muffin pans two thirds, baking at 400 F for about 30 minutes yielding eight large or twelve small muffins.
A detailed list of weekday and Thursday radio programs across NBC NBC Blue and Mutual networks. Includes Fred Waring, Tommy Dorsey, Kay Kyser, Mr District Attorney, musicals, soap operas, news, and sports coverage with times from dawn to late night, plus local station IDs and ad segments.
Members of the Navy Mother's Club held an all-day meeting at 2008 Monroe Street to name committee chairmen and plan an active year. Officers met in the morning and bridge followed the business session.
Court records list warranty deeds at dates from 1932 to 1943 for multiple properties in Mirror and Wolflin areas with values from 10 to 3213.11 dollars and stamps noted. District Court shows divorces Kimmie Lee Hutton v Ralph J Hutton and Myrtle B Hibler v A F Hibler, plus several marriage licenses including Walter Harvey Cowser with Edythe Reeves and others.
A booklet containing opinions of famous doctors on an interesting subject will be sent free while supplies last to readers who write to the Educational Division at 535 Fifth Ave New York NY Dept B-1278.
Seven Panhandle women were sworn into the WAACs in Lubbock over the weekend and await travel orders. The group includes Mrs. Jett Terrell and Miss Loretta Dunn of Amarillo, Mrs. Grace Tower, Miss May O Mitchell, Miss Vena Bertha Atkinson of Wheeler, Mrs. Imogene E Skinner of Miami, and Miss Marcella C Birkenfield of She. An Army booth will operate in Amarillo at J C Penney to inform eligible women about WAAC service.
A Texas Senate committee approved a bill authorizing injunctions against habitual loan sharks after a yesterday hearing. The committee vote stood eight in favor and four against.
Victory Command unit Company B will attend a service men’s dance at 8 o’clock tonight in the Auditorium USO. The event invites servicemen and is part of morale activities.
The FBI arrested Gott fried Karl Hein a 39 year old San Francisco band leader and friend of Hitler on an evasion of the selective service act charge. Augusta Katherine Clauss 31 is charged with violating the enemy alien act. They had used aliases Fred and Lydia Chaine while living together.
Hein was arrested at a rooming house and Miss Clauss was seized as she tried to board a San Francisco bound bus. Hein was indicted last Nov 4 in San Francisco and has been sought since. The indictment charges felonious failure to report for a physical examination and failure to notify his draft board of a change of address.
Washington report notes tin can and rubber ring shortages push the agriculture department to consider preserving vegetables for civilian use by brining and fermentation. Officials say experiments show several vegetables can be preserved by this method.
In Orangeburg South Carolina fox hunting fades as planes sweep the sky at night drawing dogs off, causing hunts to fail and hunters to lose the quarry.
Discussion on laxatives notes that not all are herbal and lists types such as saline and emollient. Black-Draught is described as purely herbal, gentle yet thorough when directions are followed, marketed as the friendly laxative sold across the West. It costs 25¢ for 40 doses and comes in powder form with label directions.
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