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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1943
Page
4
A brutal double murder in Tulsa reveals an intruder breaking in by window, beating two women with an axe or hatchet, raping them, then eating breakfast beside their bloodied beds. Victims are Mrs. Luzzia Stewart and her daughter Mrs. Georgia Green.
Miss Billie Swafford becomes local Army recruiting station aide replacing Miss Lucy Shore who joins the Naval Women's Reserve. Swafford worked at the Lubbock Headquarters last year while Shore helped Amarillo recruiting for two years as an early WAVES member and part of the Texas Bluebonnet squadron.
The American Red Cross took over nursing recruitment for the Army and Navy with the local unit as the regional hub for 60 Texas counties. Mrs Olga Moffett chairs the local committee with several assistants and student nurse reserves organized at St Anthony's and Northwest Texas Hospitals. Applicants may contact the Red Cross Chapter House at 125 West Tenth Avenue or call 26643 for blanks and help.
Hollywood report says Ginger Rogers, famed Independence Missouri actress, is engaged to marry U S Marine private Jack Briggs. Briggs, previously an actor at the same studio, met Rogers about three months ago and they have seen each other infrequently.
Texas' new legislature was in adjournment awaiting the naming of standing committees by the presiding officers of the House and Senate. The adjournment prepares for organizational activity next week paving the way for major lawmaking processes.
Publication of a voluminous report on Axis-front activities in the United States is being held up by the Dies committee due to disagreement over an administration reference in the foreword. Representative Voorhis criticized the delay on the House floor, and the committee plans to seek another year of life with a $60,000 budget. Petrillo delay noted as senatorial inquiry into the union ban on recorded music paused to allow settlement talks with radio broadcasters and record makers.
Fort Worth January 15 federal charges charge Flavis Godfrey Gilbert and Talbert Jackson Laymen with robbing the First National Bank of Hale Center of 9626. United States District Attorney Clyde C. Kastus said a federal grand jury returned the indictment yesterday. Gilbert is in Tallahassee and Layman in Los Angeles. Oil plastics and soap are among products now produced from peanuts.
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