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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1945
Page
2
The column notes typical May weather warnings from Weather Doctor Mr Tack as April freezes ruined fruit and foreshadow potential wheat failures. It recounts personal anecdotes, a dog injury, a Hitler death prize guessing, Irish British wartime tensions, Hitler’s demise viewed cautiously, and a rural rat painting idea for Bull Ranch with requests for reports.
A public plea urges a nationwide Rat Week to combat a rat infestation threatening farms. The speaker then pivots to a harsh call for executions of many Germans, blaming Hitler but demanding thousands of lesser Hitlers be hunted and killed or Germany enslaved or destroyed.
Allied Headquarters announced the unconditional surrender of almost 1,000,000 troops under German Army Group C after fighting ceased west of the Isonzo. Gen Heinrich Von Vietinghoff Scheel's representatives signed the agreement. Maj. Gen. Charles S. Bolte received the 75th German Army Corps surrender in northwestern Italy at 7:15 P.M., the corps totaling about 40,000 men.
The War Department notified Homer D. Kirk that his brother, Cpl. Leslie H. Kirk, was killed in action on April 12 in Germany. He served in the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army and had recently returned to the front after earning a Purple Heart in December. His wife Mrs. Virgie Kirk resides in Houston and his father J. E. Kirk in Hamilton.
A San Antonio report relays a liberated Philippine major tells of Charley Underwood former Globe News advertising man POW since Corregidor. The major says Underwood was with him in the same prison house and shared work details captured on the rice farm before moving to Tokyo in February 1944.
John Trolinger, a pioneer resident and former city commissioner, is described as slightly improved today at Northwest Texas Hospital after suffering a heart attack on April 20.
Cpl Bill Day stationed at Marianna Florida visits his parents Mr and Mrs Lester Day at 1806 Fillmore.
Funeral services for Logan Wilhite brother of Mrs Bertha Hoff man Colonial Apartments 413 Pierce will be held tomorrow in Wichita Kan where the death occurred Tuesday night. Wilhite a retired printer had been in failing health for several years. Mrs Hoffman who is in Wichita for the funeral is a proofreader for The Globe and plans to visit a sister in Alva Okla before returning to Amarillo.
President Truman vetoed a bill granting virtually blanket draft deferment for farm workers. He argued it was the country’s paramount obligation to serve in war and that Congress did not intend blanket deferments for agricultural workers.
Yesterday’s storm clouds brought no moisture here and sent temperatures down to 36 degrees. Panhandle reports include Lubbock with .21 inch of rain and Hereford with .03. Tonight will be warmer, and the Weather Bureau predicts a high near 80 tomorrow with fair conditions.
The Old Pioneer Club of Negro Settlers will hold its annual meeting at 8 oclock Saturday night in the rear of the Church of God in Christ at 213 Madison. Refreshments will be served, said Sam James, president.
Pictures from the Birmingham Alabama camera club will be shown to members of the Amarillo Photographic Society at their 8 o clock meeting in the Municipal Auditorium. After viewing the exhibit the group will go to Brights Studio to study model picture taking.
The first injury of the Boys' Softball League occurred when Shep Shepard, president of the American League and coach of the Margaret Wills team, turned his ankle while attempting to catch a fly ball. Examination showed no bones broken and he returned to coaching duties.
Captain Buman Newby Jr a Panama Pan American Airways pilot who came from Guatemala with his family to spend a vacation is hospitalized in Northwest Texas Hospital with a strep throat. He previously served as a ferry command captain during the early war years.
Mrs Theo Armstrong, 1166 West Twentieth, named to the city engineering department replacing Mrs A G Gibson who had served eight months and left last week with her husband to return to El Paso, their former home.
James F. Dobbs, regional fiscal inspector for the Soil Conservation Service in Fort Worth, spends a week examining Panhandle lake concessionaires. He currently reviews Buffalo Lake with lakes projects supervisor Jimmy Caserta and will depart Amarillo Friday.
R. D. Wells and Carl Jacobs visited Mrs. Anne McCaslin at 1109 Polk en route to Vernon and Borger. Both have returned from eleven months overseas completing forty missions. After fur loughs they will attend the Naval School at Norman Oklahoma.
After visiting her parents Rev and Mrs E C Tobey in Eugene Oregon Mrs Lee Rhiddlehoover of 612 Polk has returned home.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce reports 150 tickets sold for its annual banquet. With 350 total tickets available and May 7 deadline, the event is set for May 8 at 8 PM in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel. Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma will be the principal speaker.
Amarillo AmVets will hold an 8 o'clock meeting in the county courtroom to receive a full report on the state executive meeting in Dallas last week. Beforehand the post's executive committee will meet at the Herring Hotel with Dr. R A Hill and W W Mills presenting the report.
Amarillo Chapter of the American Cancer Society seeks civic club support to raise 11000 for cancer research. Willard W. Phillips, chairman, will meet the Civic Council at 6:30 tonight in the Capitol Hotel to enlist both men and women's clubs in Amarillo. Date for the campaign is not set.
Customers praise the shop for thorough garment cleaning and quick turnaround, urging friends to try the service. The message emphasizes reliable results and word of mouth referrals.
Leonard Gunderson is named vice chairman of the campaign and Charles A Fisk is appointed treasurer Garford Wilkinson serves as publicity director. Frank Redder Jr and son Jerry of Duncan Okla returned home after visiting Mrs Redder's parents Ott Eckert 1608 Jackson
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