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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1944
Page
2
Markets note quiet trade across cattle hogs and sheep in Kansas City and Chicago. Cattle mostly steady with broad price ranges, hogs steady to firm and sheep opening slow with bids weak to steady. Prices include cattle from 8.50 to 14.50 per hundredweight and hog bids from 13.60 to 14.35, with lambs above 14.65 in Chicago reports.
Paris report says Britain and France favor a regional bloc with Belgium and the Netherlands as initial signatories and possibly Norway Sweden and Denmark later. Weekend talks between Churchill and de Gaulle are summarized as supportive of the approach to keep Germany in check during peacetime.
Fragmented columns note a killing frost expected tonight and a transition in wartime talk to late 1945. Washington chatter covers Roosevelt’s possible fourth term, Dewey’s nomination odds, Bricker Stassen and Wallace prospects, plus Hollywood censorship and Joe Louis security fronts.
A columnist surveys changing work habits among farmers noting machinery softness and longer lifespans. They preview January public meetings for a state game commission with Tom Main films. The piece also riffs on feminine advice in marriage and questions about women parking cars in tight spaces.
Congress reassembles in Washington for a six week session but will wait a few days before starting work. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan offers a bill to freeze Social Security payroll taxes for another year at one percent for both employers and employees.
Dallas News reports a strong sentiment in the Texas legislature to abolish runoff primaries. State Representative Blankenship of Dallas says elimination of the runoff could be pursued at the January session.
General Eisenhower’s forces are losing 500 tanks and 900 trucks each month. Under secretary of War Patterson says Eisenhower is in imperative need of more artillery ammunition, stating he should have 3,600 tons daily for adequate support.
The first Norwegian detachment to return home has landed in Norway and operates with Russian forces against Germany on the Arctic front. They sailed from a British port. The exiled government sent a military mission and announced that Norway’s police units trained in Sweden will arrive later this week in liberated territory.
The Gestapo arrested the managing directors of Germany's two great banks triggering a panic in German financial circles greater than the 1931 crash. Swedish newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen, cited by OWI, said the arrests came for refusing short-term German treasury notes and signaling doubt in a German victory.
Ward C. Rogers of Chicago slept through a cold and heavy breathing causing a phone to fall. Police were alerted by a central operator who heard moans and sighs. two squad cars arrived to confront the scene. Rogers, head of five telephone message centers, explained there were no noises aside from snoring.
A captured German document reveals orders for German soldiers to execute comrades or officers instantly like a dog at the slightest morale decline, issued with the U S 2nd Armored Division on the Western Front as of November 14.
The Civil Air Patrol said 500 Texas towns will have names painted on the roofs of prominent buildings with War Department approval and technical aid from the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The project aims to assist navigation and recognition during wartime.
Paris reports the French government ordered the arrest of the Count of Paris, pretender to a non existent throne, after he was said wounded at Perpignan near the Spanish border. The action enforces a long standing law against pretenders residing in France.
London reports German forces in northern Norway are burning and destroying towns as they retreat southward. Vadsoe and Vardoe have been wiped out and residents fled, while Hammerfest and Honinsfjord suffer fire damage. Thousands of Norwegians in Finnmark are left homeless.
Pfc. Harry Yandell Benedict son of Mrs H Y Benedict and late UT president is missing in action in Germany. His mother received War Department notice that Benedict was reported missing on Oct 24.
RAF fliers said their final attack on the Tirpitz was launched from a secret refueling base at Archangel Russia. The 46 000 ton battleship reportedly sank after four direct hits and six near misses from 12 000 pound earthquake bombs, despite firing salvos from 15 inch guns before sinking.
Leyte Philippines November 14 Lt General Walter Krueger Sixth Army commander missed breakfast and survived a strafing attack as a Japanese Zero fired on his tent. Three bullets hit the tent near where his head would have been. Separately in Pittsburgh four people died and 36 were injured when two street cars collided in fog.
Australian correspondent Reg Harris reports that a newborn girl in Columbus Ohio triggered a fierce mortar bombardment of Japanese positions near Breakneck Ridge on Leyte Island. Lt. James Crosswell, after reading two letters, shouted, prompting his mortar crew to unleash one of the campaign’s heaviest salvos.
Longview Texas November 14 anti New Deal forces in Texas will continue to oppose the New Deal Judge Merritt H Gibson general election campaign chairman for the Texas Regulars said yesterday The regulars executive committee meeting here authorized Judge E E Townes of Houston to appoint two seven man committees to investigate legislation defining powers of political parties in the state and to lay plans for future anti New Deal opposition
Miss Kathryn Vogel daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Vogel 1223 Fannin Street has returned home after extended visit with friends and relatives in Dallas Houston Oklahoma City and other points in the Southwest.
President Roosevelt announced James F. Byrnes will continue as director of War Mobilization and Reconversion until Germany is defeated. Domestic policy remains guided by Byrnes during wartime transition.
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