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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
5
Cornelius Jack Cooper, 25, listed as Negro, of 209 Jackson Street, is jailed on burglary charges after being caught burglarizing the Play House cafe at 514 East Tenth Avenue. He claimed to be a janitor of a downtown building and was turned over to county authorities.
Tire dealers and recappers from the Panhandle and eastern New Mexico gather at the Amarillo Hotel at 7 30 pm Friday to discuss rubber rationing. Attending are Bob Logan from the Rubber Director’s office and Tom Hendricks and John Gray from the OPA district office in Lubbock.
Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes said further restrictions on motorists are likely needed before the East Coast gasoline crisis ends. He spoke in Washington on May 20 amid ongoing shortages and rationing concerns.
About 4,000 employees at Chrysler Jefferson and Kercheval plants walked out in a well organized strike. Detroit reports say the stoppage began today as negotiations with management continued.
London May 20 General Henri Giraud the French commander in North Africa is understood to have submitted to the Fighting French under General Charles De Gaulle a proposal for unity of all Frenchmen fighting the Axis under a new committee in Algiers.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said in Washington on May 20 that the United States already has enough prisoner camps to hold all Axis prisoners captured in North Africa that will be brought to this country.
CAIRO reports in April near an air base in Southern Tunisia Tommy receives a Christmas box from his Ark aunt. The men, hot and dusty, guess cookies or chocolates while opening an inner box revealed as a tie rack. A stray line notes that many sheep calves and colts are killed by porcupines.
President Roosevelt called a meeting of the Pacific War Council at the White House and invited Prime Minister Churchill to attend. Churchill was to meet later with British Dominions representatives and his chiefs of staff in Washington.
Pennsylvania State College dairy experts Franks J. Dean and Joseph G. Leeder work on a method to freeze milk without fat separation. If successful, frozen milk could reconstitute with taste and appearance close to fresh whole milk.
Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets report slow to steady trading across hogs cattle calves and sheep. Hogs top 14.50 with various weight classes quoted. cattle and calves show modest strength in fat steers and heifers while cows and bulls range 11.00 to 16.00. Sheep market remains active with fed lambs and springers steady to higher, No. 1 skins around 14.25. Financial note includes Liquidating fund offering 1.94 per share.
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, arrived in TAHERAN from Cairo and is en route to Moscow for consultations with the Soviet chief. The Iran trip occurred on May 19 with delayed filing.
A lively collage of film gossip and reviews notes Fidler segmenting from page two with Henry Fonda and Mary Beth Hughes, plus industry jabs at Gildersleeve’s Bad Day and Terror House. It highlights stars, quotes, beauty trends, and bouquets while recalling seven years ago in Hollywood and notable legal dustups.
The report notes the Japanese garrison at Attu is doomed and Washington expects a sustained air offensive against Japan after expelling them from the Aleutians. From bases in the 1,200 mile archipelago, U S bombers may strike Tokyo this summer, with shorter range planes supporting the raid.
Wade Brymer and Amarillo officials push extending the Alcan Highway through Amarillo as part of a New Mexico movement to route the northern path toward Cape Horn. Brymer, a Chamber of Commerce highway committee chair, cites Amarillo’s strategic transcontinental placement with intersecting Highways 66 60 87 and 287.
Lt Roy C Hill Jr is home on leave for the first time in 15 months of active duty. He is stationed at Eagle Pass as an instructor in an advanced flying school. His parents reside at 808 North Taylor Street.
Churchill and Roosevelt aim to meet Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek to discuss Russia hosting air bases for bombing Japan. MacArthur's forces hit Koepang in Dutch New Guinea as U S 10th Air Force bombs rail depots in the Irrawaddy Valley between Mandalay and Rangoon. British headquarters report no change on the Arakan front as Tokyo proclaims plans to “liberate” India.
Floodswere opened wide at the giant Bagnell Dam on the Lake of the Ozarks spilling thousands of cubic feet per second into the swollen Osage river threatening a hydro electric plant at Bagnell. Army engineers forecast the Missouri river valley would be inundated by rising waters.
Floodwaters from the Osage converge with the Missouri in central Missouri while the Kaskaskia in Vandalia Illinois hits record highs. Oklahoma dam gates release 280000 cubic feet per second, evacuating 60000 residents across multiple towns and threatening the Chouteau ordnance plant. Mines close as water fills shafts and ruptures fissures. Neo sho and Verdigris flood stages isolate Crawford Cherokee Neosho counties. Arkansas river overflows affecting Little Rock Pine Bluff.
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