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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1944
Page
2
Livestock markets across Kansas City and Chicago show active trading March 27. Hogs, cattle, and sheep moved with varying strength. top hogs at 14.20 to 14.30, cattle widely steady to higher, fed steers up to 16.90, lambs around 16.40. Slaughter and shopping market details noted for midweek trading.
Jim Cannon of Amarillo, a Navy Armed Guard gunner, recounts combat experiences in the Pacific theater. He credits his crew with seven enemy fighters damaged while scoring his first air kill with a 20 mm anti aircraft gun. Cannon survived two ship sinkings and later joined missions around Guadalcanal and the Solomons. He describes shooting Jap fighters as the greatest thrill and tells his father about naval service details and ration concerns.
Washington March 27 Rep Martin Dies Texas tied to critique of Walter Winchell on a Blue Network program sponsor Jergens Co enabled Dies to rebut alleged false statements. Dies accused Winchell of smearing Congress as a step toward an all powerful central executive. In Hollywood a column notes misdated reissues of old films and calls for industry action against misleading titles.
The Dallas Office of Defense Transportation launches a training school for repair workers and recappers in Dallas with twelve students in the first class. Expectation of large enrollments in day and night shifts as students remain employed by their firms and receive regular wages. The program aims to keep trucks buses and cars moving to support war needs and to aid draft deferments for key industry personnel.
Albany March 27 The New York State Traveling Library reports prison inmates prefer travel literature.
Gov. John Bricker of Ohio, a Republican presidential candidate, told a radio audience that taxes should be reduced after the war to encourage business growth. The remarks were made during a broadcast from Oklahoma City on March 27.
Washington Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the wartime rent control program under the 1942 Wartime Stabilization Act.
German High Command said a 15 man American force landed northwest of Spezia in Italy. Two American officers and 13 men were killed in fighting, according to a German communique not yet confirmed by other sources. Spezia hosts a major naval base on the Ligurian coast southeast of Genoa.
The District Maintenance Advisory Committee of Dallas urges employers in transportation to request draft deferments for essential workers. Steps require attempts to replace the drafted worker via the U S Employment Service, and if needed obtain a service letter, notify the draft board with full particulars, and secure permission for the employee to appear before the board.
Stilwell reports Japanese main army moving south from Jambu Bum pass within five miles of Shaduzup, as Gurkha levies advance toward Myitkyina. British Indian troops hold zones against the Imphal push. Mountbatten notes airborne force landed where enemy not waiting. Yugoslav Partisans, with Allied air and sea support, seize Adriatic island Hvar near Split.
Letter from Mrs. Leona Lowe of 333 Pantex Village urges Amarillo residents to host service members and offer spare rooms. She highlights loneliness at air field and USO dances, asks for mothers to chaperon and for available rooms at reasonable prices to comfort soldiers and their families.
The Boys Ranch at Old Tascosa is showcased in the current Saturday Evening Post with a natural color photo layout. Neil M. Clark, Albuquerque writer, authored the piece, while Harry Pennington Jr. supplied the photos. The spread marks the ranch’s biggest national publicity to date, detailing founder Cal Farley and donors like the late Julian Bivins, and noting the ranch’s dairy and Hereford beef herd.
Mrs Iva Houseman of Pleasant Valley succeeds Mrs Clark Jinks as assistant county auditor. Appointed by District Judge W E Gee and Henry Bishop, Jinks resigned to join her Seabee husband in California. Mrs Wendell Cannon also resigned to follow her husband in the service. Mrs Kathryn G Martin succeeded her today.
Instruction emphasizes using Penetro Nose Drops only as directed to relieve nasal congestion. The note warns against improper use and urges caution for safe, directed administration to ease breathing when needed.
In the display window of Southwestern Public Service downtown, a Red Cross War Bond campaign showcases a Prisoner of War package. Contents include cigarettes, preserves, oleo, dairy items, canned meat, soap, coffee, sugar, biscuits, and tropical chocolate. A second item notes a Bowen Motor Coaches hearing to buy the Woodlief line over Highway 287 to Denver, with witnesses recalled to the Capitol hotel for the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing.
Grover Sellers, Texas attorney general, will be the main speaker at the Amarillo Bar Association luncheon Saturday noon at the Amarillo Hotel. Panhandle Bar Association members and guests are invited to hear the jurist. Sellers, known as Judge Sellers in Sulphur Springs, was appointed attorney general after Gerald C. Manns resignation accepted by Gov. Stevenson. He had served as first assistant attorney general since 1940.
The Amarillo Elks Club schedules a 7 30 p m supper with hot dogs and dancing for the young and games for the old. Exalted ruler Pede Powell announces the party as his last monthly lodge event in Amarillo. Elks and their ladies, candidates and their ladies are invited to attend as the lodge, with about 915 members, remains the second largest in Texas and will initiate more candidates tonight.
Manager Jack King announced the film A Guy Named Joe will close Tuesday but be held over through Wednesday at the Paramount Theater. The Spencer Tracy Irene Dunne feature shows heroism of airmen with showtimes 1, 3:19, 5:38, 7:57 and 10:16.
London reports 500 to 750 American heavy bombers bombed southwest and central France by daylight. The raid followed the Essen Krupp attack with 2,800 tons of explosives by RAP night forces. Spaatz shifted focus to German air bases as Eighth and Ninth Air Forces provided heavy fighter escort in the mission.
Funeral services for James Harbert Brown infant son of Mr and Mrs H C Brown were held this afternoon at Matador with Rev E R Turrentine officiating. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home arranged the services following the infant's death Sunday in a local hospital.
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