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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1945
Page
8
Masonic lodge notes for week ending January 13 include FC and Masters Degree nights. A flood of lost items and personal notices from Amarillo area residents lists watches purses pens wallets and a stray dog with rewards offered. Protracted ads include professional services and companionship solicitations from various local entities.
New York stocks retreated as investors awaited President Roosevelt's state of the union message. Rail shares led losses while utilities remained near closing levels. several industrials gained modestly amid a cautious tone. Chicago reports note quiet potato and butter markets with mixed commodity activity and irregular stocks and futures.
Good fed steers and yearlings quoted $13.75 to $14.50 with many price bands for medium and common grades. Hogs active across weights with top $14.55 for good and choice 180 180s, 150 to 175 Ibs at $13.25 to $14.50, sows $13.50 to $13.80, barrows and gilts higher by 25 to 30c for lighter weights. Compared with last week butcher hogs up about 75c. lighter weights steady to 15c higher.
Grain futures stay firm with wheat up lightly and rye and barley rising at times. Buying momentum continues with light offerings except on bulges, rye strength spurring purchases near close. Wheat finishes mixed, corn and oats higher, rye up, barley nudge higher as traders await the President's message and next week's budget reveal.
Chicago cash grain quotes show wheat No 2 red at 1.757, corn No 4 yellow 1.06 to 1.08, oats unavailable, barley malting 1.18 to 1.37, field seeds listed. Kansas City shows mixed changes with wheat bids around 1.60 to 1.76 and corn around 1.26 to 1.28 for white. Fort Worth notes steady to weak prices with No 1 hard wheat at 1.71 and sorghums around 1.82 to 1.84 per cwt. receipts estimated 8 wheat 3 corn 9 sorghum.
Kansas City reports slaughter steers and heifers higher while hogs stay near steady. Chicago notes light hog receipts with cattle gains including top steers around 17.65 and heifers up to 15.75 as stockers hold firm. Fort Worth tallies steady beef steers near 15 and killing calves at 13.75 with scarce good stockers.
Aggressive mill and spot buying dominated the cotton futures market with active trading and some price fixing linked to the C C C purchase for France. Distant months rose earlier in the week but closed mostly unchanged to modest gains, while Galveston spot prices held steady amid quiet sales.
London reports a mighty RAF bomber fleet, following the U S Eighth Air Force daylight raid, attacking Hanau near Frankfurt and targeting rail and industrial facilities. RAF tonnage in six days totals about 14 000 tons. US aircraft drop 3 000 tons on Rhine bridges and bottlenecks. 55th Mustang group led by Lt Col Elwin Righetti engages uncharted airfield between Stuttgart and Wurzburg. 13 JU-88s destroyed. Righetti bags three.
A 2:30 PM prayer service dedicates the Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church colored to celebrate clearing all church debt with mortgage burning. Rev A B Lee leads opening remarks as choirs from local negro churches perform, with talks by pastors and Dr A D Foreman Jr. A solo by Lorene Shorten and a white visitors reserve section accompany an old fashioned dinner at 1100 Northwest Eighteenth.
The Potter County grand jury returned five indictments yesterday. Two are against the same person. two indictments for murder without malice against James Woodruff were reduced to negligent homicide in the traffic deaths of Mrs. R. R. Childers and Catherine last September. Co O Whitey Myers was indicted in a $2,700 strong-arm robbery and was arrested Thursday. Two indictments for forgery and child desertion were also returned. The grand jury will meet again Wednesday.
Average price of middling 15 16ths inch cotton at 10 Southern spot markets on January 6 rose to 21.84 cents, up .03.
Navy and Marine forces pummeled Iwo Jima and Formosa as carrier and fleet air operations continued. Reports cite 111 enemy planes destroyed and 220 damaged, with 17 American planes and 83 Japanese ships sunk or damaged, plus extensive bombardment of Iwo airstrips and coastal defenses.
Frank Graves charged with the knife slaying of Dorothy Snelson faces trial in Potter County court next term beginning January 15. Amarillo attorney J W Sanders represents him. Judge Henry S Bishop presides. District Attorney Jim Lumpkin expects proceedings to start mid February. Snelson was killed last summer as she walked from a dance.
The Crippled Children's Council of Amarillo treated about 65 patients, polio victims and deformities, through clinics funded by civic clubs. An orthopedic surgeon from Fort Worth visits for each clinic, assisted by volunteers. One child may need no further treatment while a 17 year old waits for successive operations. other cases require ongoing care, shoes, and physiotherapy.
Khiva's annual stated meeting for officer elections will be at 7:30 Wednesday at the temple building. Reports cover the year's activities and the election of an Oriental Guide and Divan member. potentate selection to follow. Voting limited to 1945 membership cards. Past Potentate Dr. L. V. Cradit leads.
Bobby Weavers and Eugene Jones both 17 from Catoosa Oklahoma were injured in a motorcycle truck crash Friday. They were reported in fair condition at Amarillo Field Hospital after being in critical condition Friday night and improving by yesterday morning, hospital attendants said.
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