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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1944
Page
1
The weather forecast warns of a severe blizzard, with heavy snow, gale winds, and below freezing temperatures. A columnist links the danger to federal feed shortages, noting cows and calves facing starvation as Washington politics disrupted supply, risking long term livestock losses.
The article contends Texas Panhandle cowmen faced eighty percent less feed than last year while other regions and imports from Canada and Argentina boosted feed for favored producers. It criticizes Marvin Jones and Grover Hill for policy failures and calls for accountability, noting ongoing distress and a push for investigation.
Hollywood from Jimmie Fidler reports Bing Crosby and Bob Hope on the Road to Utopia set with Dorothy Lamour. Their ad lib humor fuels box office bonanzas while claudette Colbert Betty Hutton and others share playful chatter about lunch and acting quirks.
A blaze at La Rose Courts 317 North East Eighth Avenue endangers three cabins as heavy snow and wind hinder firefighters. Occupants escape with belongings as smoke fills the area after a 12 39 p m alarm.
The small white dog Buttons, famed for meeting the 9 o'clock bus for Postman Pete Easley, has been missing for two days. Neighbors and Mr and Mrs Floyd Roberts search 2110 Lincoln Street as owners report no trace amid cold weather and no bus visit.
Roy Pollard of the Monroe Calculating company will devote almost his full time during the Fourth War Bond Drive to handling sales to national firms. Cal Farley, Potter County war bond chairman, says this new focus will build heavy sales credits from large firms with branches and offices across the country as the drive begins January 18.
Funeral services for Mrs. Evan Gaut a former Amarillo resident will be held Monday in Stockton California where she died yesterday after a brief illness. She was 26 and the former Angeline Lawrence. Surviving relatives include her parents of Stockton.
R G Mills and companions in insurance work will supervise the payroll deduction part of the Fourth War Bond drive starting January 18, Potter County Chairman Cal Farley announced. Mills will head a large committee drawing on nearly all city insurance men, noted for payroll deduction expertise.
San Jacinto Kiwanians postponed the benefit show Never A Dull Moment at the Paramount due to the storm. The event now moves to midnight January 15. Tickets are sold by club members to raise funds for a nurse's Harvard medical school Kenny method course for infantile paralysis treatment.
Lt. Jack Pittman Jr Marine Corps ace sails for home from the Southwest Pacific and San Diego He wired his parents Mr and Mrs Jack Pittman of 1008 West Twelfth Avenue that his leave starts today He plans to depart San Diego today by plane for Amarillo and hopes to be home by Sunday He has a 30 day leave
Allied air forces attacked the Port of Rhodes in the Nazi held Eastern Mediterranean on Jan. 5-6. RAF and American long range fighters sank several loaded sailing ships used to supply the Aegean Islands, while two vessels were sunk and three more set afire or left sinking. Continued bad weather hindered detection of enemy shipping.
February 1893 and April 1937 cold snaps cited as severe weather. The Panhandle faced massive snow drifts up to seven feet, slick highways and blocked underpasses. Cattle feed shortages persisted while Pantex queued convoys and kept workers at bay to prevent stranding.
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