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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1942
Page
13
Amarillo's phono graph record drive slows as John F. Mitchell, acting center head, warns the quota remains 7,125. Daily contributions show 2,000 Tuesday, 1,000 Wednesday, and 500 yesterday, with 12,875 total so far. Mitchell says Legionnaires could boost effort. records are reprocessed for new recordings and sent to armed forces.
W G Banister head of the Oklahoma City FBI named Thomas Nathan Norris the Southwest's public enemy No 1 and said a relentless manhunt is under way. His mother Agnes Norris sister Mrs Mary Norris and brother Wayne Norris face charges for harboring him. Another brother Jene Paul Norris is jailed in Arkansas on robbery with firearms charges after being captured July 13 at Sulphur, Oklahoma.
Seventeen thousand Frenchmen have offered to work in German factories since Premier Laval appealed for volunteers six weeks ago, with at least 3,000 being metallurgical specialists. Germans offer to release French prisoners proportional to skilled workers taking German industry jobs.
Mass meeting continues with builders ready to proceed as materials exist. Construction crews arrive daily while the scramble for living quarters grows harder. A war worker advertises a $10 reward for leads to suitable housing. The chamber of commerce homes registration bureau has been overwhelmed, with staff quitting in exhaustion.
A Tokyo radio report from Kiska Island in the Aleutians says U S bombers hit Japanese forces two to three times daily through fog. The correspondent notes bitter cold approaching in September, isolation, and new Narukami name for the island with roads being built across treeless hills.
Kansas City stockyards report slow hog and calf bids with prices down from Thursday. Hogs salable 1,000 total 1,000, cattle 1,200, calves 250, with loads of medium quality steers at 12.25 to 13.25 and cows around 10.50. Sheep and lambs salable 2,000. spring lambs steady to 25 cents lower, top native spring lambs at 13.50. odd lots of slaughter cattle at 5.50 per hundredweight. Chicago hog opening sales around 240 pounds or less down 10-15 cents, market closing softer.
Senator Clem Fain of Livingston campaigned here for the unexpired railroad commission term. In a radio talk he urged harmony to aid the war effort and suggested abolishing the trio’s current form in favor of a special oil and gas regulator. He cautioned that any victor should not seek immediate appointment amid the unsettled situation following Jerry Sadler’s resignation. He planned to vote in Livingston tomorrow before heading to Abilene.
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone said on July 24 that he did not intend to accept an independent inquiry into the rubber situation. He was visiting Sugar Hill New Hampshire and dismissed published stories that President Roosevelt asked him to undertake such a task.
Chinese high command reports heavy Japanese casualties across three provinces as Chinese forces recapture two air base points near Lishui. Kweiki on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway is retaken amid fierce fighting. In Trinidad, base work advances as staff reductions begin under Lt. Col. Gustav Ring.
Axis air raids strike four towns in southwestern Jugoslavia near Sarajevo as Italian forces punish villagers aiding guerilla fighters. Prozor is reported destroyed with hundreds killed. raids extend from Mostar to Montenegro with Hungarian occupiers and Russian communiques noting intensified fighting and liberated areas.
After the October session, Charles Hoppin will head the Forty or Eight in Amarillo as chef de gate, elected to succeed Dave Peters. Roy Beard is reappointed correspondent. Delegates to the department convention on August 18 in Mineral Wells include Sam Page, Roy Beard, George Broome, A L Biggs, Dutch Kaufhold, Guy Miller, Roy Chase and Buck Holman.
CHUNGKING July 24 Temperatures climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for a third straight day as a fierce heat wave continued. Sporadic showers offered brief relief even after prayers for rain during Dragon King ceremonies. ANOTHER PARACHUTE SCORE BALTIMORE July 24 The Third Service Command said investigations of reported parachute landings at six local sites yielded no substantiation.
Randall County residents in Amarillo will cast ballots tomorrow at the Alice Landergin School with Henry Beverley serving as election judge.
Cattle around 25¢ lower for bulk good and choice 180 240 lb cattle, sows 13.35 to 13.70, calves 400 priced, fed steers and yearlings firm. Heifers meet strong demand, cows slow but higher week over week, vealers 14.00 to 15.00, steers top at 15.00, strictly choice heifers 14.35, bulls 12.15, lambs 18 25¢ lower with some $14.90 14.35 for good, California spring lambs 13.85. Financial funds liquidating 1.27 offering 1.39.
Austin reports the highway department announced low bids by counties Potter and Carson for grading culverts flexible base and double asphalt surface on a military road from State 126 to U S 60 and spur to St Francis Bell and Braden Amarillo totaling 115 320 subject to highway commission approval before contracts. No bids were received for Orange and Dallas County plans. The Orange County project covered grading structures and a concrete pavement on Highway 87 from Park Street to the north city limits of Orange.
The sheriff notes the growing duties in Potter County limit sight of all voters and asserts preference for the sheriff to stay on the job. He expresses appreciation for support and cooperation from constituents.
Plans for a new war chest replacing the regular Community Chest drive will be discussed tonight by representatives of the Community Chest Amarillo Credit Association the Junior and Senior Chambers of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau. The meeting will be at the Amarillo Hotel at 8 o'clock. One fire fighting train in England has six locomotive tenders holding 15 000 gallons of water and several powerful gasoline motor pumps capable of forcing water to great heights.
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