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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
2
An Amarillo column blends weather lore, public notices, and community thoughts. It covers a weather forecaster Tack, a humorous prize speech, remarks on Amarillo growth, nostalgia for pioneer women, and political chatter about a congressional candidate in Pampa, with local figures like W H Davis and H A Nobles noted.
The article details the execution of Nazi figures after the war. Karl Gebhardt, 50, former president of the German Red Cross and personal physician to Hitler. Joachim Murgowsky, 42, Elite Guard hygienist. Wolfram Sievers, SS colonel and Military Research Institute director. Victor Brack, SS colonel and chief. A speaker named Brandt faced the scaffold, proclaiming no shame in dying for the fatherland.
The report covers Chicago Livestock market prices with cattle and sheep values and market conditions, noting steers, yearlings, and cows with specific price ranges. It also summarizes House Appropriations actions on the Navy and Army Air Force budgets for 1949, including cuts to civilian personnel, total available funds, and projected force strengths.
Unions urge swift action on a package including a 20 percent pension boost for about 200,000 retired rail workers, reduced unemployment fund taxes from 3 percent to 1 percent, and survivor protection ensuring full pension credits. Senator Taft and Rep. Wolverton introduced bills to implement the agreement.
Charles F. Brannan assumed the role of Secretary of Agriculture and stated that farmers must help build world peace and prosperity. He emphasized preserving a strong, productive agriculture as the department’s primary responsibility to aid farmers in achieving that goal.
Market activity shows industrials up sharply while several blue chips drift. Grain and livestock quotes fill the page with corn oats and Kansas City futures and cattle and hog prices. supply conditions and weekly market tone are outlined across sectors.
The article notes heated US and UN mediated talks to decide cease fire timing in Palestine with Jewish and Arab leaders trading positions. It reports Egyptian troops near Tel Aviv and fighting around Negba and Jaffa while both sides seek to enforce a cease fire and monitor immigration issues.
The committee learned Russia has at least 250 submarines and a large wartime force. Testimony indicated the Army plans overseas losses of 272,000 personnel and 518,000 domestically. The United States mobile striking force would include multiple divisions, cavalry regiments, regimental combat teams, artillery, anti air units, chemical mortar battalions, and supporting forces. The combined manpower goal for Army and Air Force is 1,234,500, about 302,500 more than expected in uniform by month’s end, underscoring draft priorities amid Republican leadership.
In Washington on June 27 more than 3000 opponents from New York and elsewhere gathered to denounce the Mundt Nixon anti Communist bill. Former Rep. Jerry J O Connell of Montana praised them as patriots defending liberty. Police kept order at Union Station as the demonstration organized by a committee to defeat the measure followed the Senate Judiciary Committee halting public hearings.
Denver attorney Ren. B. Laska, convicted in 1935 of taking part in the Urschel kidnaping ransom, was found dead at his home. Detective Sgt. Roush said six notes were left. Laska had served a 10 year sentence and received a parole in 1941. a later Truman pardon in 1987 is noted.
Joe Lutcher and his seven piece orchestra perform a one night engagement at the Nat Bee in Marinentte with doors at eight. Lutcher, famed saxophonist and Nellie Lutcher's brother, has cuts with Capitol and Specialty and recent hit selections. Also notes a bee incident in a car and a Berlin transport strike affecting millions.
Moisture reported across the Panhandle along with New Mexico and Oklahoma pockets as showers moved through yesterday and last night. Amarillo saw only a trace while Claude, Adrian, Dimmitt, Dumas, Hereford, Lubbock, Muleshoe, Panhandle, and Stratford logged small totals from .04 to .25 inches.
Pope Pius XII urged just and necessary social reforms to solve problems from worldly ruin and upheaval. He asked for earnestness loyalty energy and fairness from all men of right principles to address the urgent need to provide the poorer classes with bread and work.
Coralee Wills, mother of Milby High School student, struck English teacher Katie Boxley with an umbrella after a dispute over an unsatisfactory grade. Dozens of Milby teachers sign petition seeking restraint and protection for the educator.
Dear Tack offers hourly to weekly child care with good oversight. Contact 3 2651 for details. A Reader at 300 North Lamar advertises clothing for sale including ladies' garments in very good condition.
Air Force chief S. Vandenberg urged the creation of an off base training school at Dolph Field in Texas, modeled after West Point and Annapolis. He said the project would cost about 90 million dollars and could be cheaper than enlarging existing academies. He testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee.
A fragmented ad style note touts an internal medicine claimed to relieve asthma coughs sneezing and choking. It asserts the remedy works with guaranteed results unless the user is "completely walleted" and emphasizes consistency and effect in repeated use.
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