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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1944
Page
2
The Weather Office warns of limited lines and rising demand for forecasts with an upbeat note on near term warming. A stream of humor and local color follows, including tales of Panhandle resilience, Ear muffs in snow, a London lend lease tale, and social musings on fashion and marriage, ending with a stray political nod to Henry Wallace.
Jimmie Fidler reflects on political fate and death rate trends, noting few vice presidents became president. The column covers Berlin’s White Christmas sales, Chicago hotel checkouts, wartime labor recalls, and Hollywood notes on Jeanette MacDonald’s concert success and industry optimism amid a flu epidemic.
Stockholm dispatches describe German retreat as almost chaotic. Berlin spokesmen admit their armies are fleeing in a desperate battle. The Odessa Warsaw railway remains the main escape line for German troops in southern Russia as Russians advance from Zhorni Shche. The meeting at Brest Litovsk coordinates rail links 130 miles west.
Fred Gordon, brother of C A Gordon of 1923 Harrison Street, died early this morning after a long illness. He was a deacon at the First Baptist Church in Hico. Funeral services are set for Tuesday afternoon with burial in Hico. DYNAMITE FOR ORCHARDS: small charges of dynamite buried below clay soil could hasten orchard fruiting by loosening the ground, DuPont technicians say.
Rex Baxter and the Chamber of Commerce manager have been ill at home on Lipscomb Street since Friday. The Glendale Globe News report notes his condition and mentions a present illness.
Mrs P L Reppert was re-elected president of the Y W C A for 1944 at the board of directors meeting held at 10 o'clock this morning at Y W C A headquarters. E Cecil Seaman as vice president and Key Farr as secretary were also re-elected, with C Deat to serve as treasurer. Committees for 1944 were named and the board approved applying for national YWCA membership. monthly meetings set for the second Monday at 10 o'clock.
London reports that Count Galeazzo Ciano Mussolini’s son in law was condemned to death for high treason by an Axis tribunal. Sources say he was shot and killed while attempting to escape his captors.
A Mrs C A Herrington reports losing a British tan kid glove last Sunday evening in Canyon near the post office or Canyon and Happy Road intersection. She asks the finder to notify her or leave the glove at Cleland Grocery Store located at 310 Alabama Street.
A reader asks a woman who picked up gloves by mistake at the First National Bank to return them. The incident occurred Monday.
In Potter County commissioners court a proposal to raise six high bracket officials from 4250 to 4750 faces opposition from Commissioner Browning while Judge Northcutt and others back the increase. The vote was postponed for one week as officials study federal anti inflation rules and the county’s strong finances. Public sentiment in the precinct voiced by Browning shows broad local resistance to higher pay.
Bond team lineups list players and captains across teams six eight and nine with names such as Bill Utterback Oran E Todd Oscar Hargett Sam Morris Lee Hunter Tex Muncy Dick Bivins Matt Hudson and more under captaincies, reflecting a public roster snapshot.
Reservations for the Potter County Taxpayers Association annual meeting close today. The noon luncheon will be at the Capitol Hotel, with Mack D Nobles serving as association president.
The Eckert Fair Construction Company wins the contract to build a crash truck station at Amarillo Air Field for 8820 dollars. The U S Engineer's Office in Denison issues the award notice.
Amarillo veteran returns his old bayonet to Maverick Club to be forged into a jungle knife for a service member overseas. It marks the clubs 23rd knife. organizers urge others with bayonets to donate. Call 5289 to contribute. Tarawa boom de ay concludes with Marines singing on a Pacific island.
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