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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1944
Page
12
London suffers a five year wartime blackout ends as lights return in Fleet Street and Piccadilly. Crowds gather on Oxford Street as shops reopen and sing to celebrate. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
A large force of B-29s, possibly 80 strong, attacked Nagasaki and Omura on Kyushu for a second time this month. Tokyo reported fierce air duels with Japanese fighters and claimed several bombers were shot down or set afire. Other Allied strikes hit Manila and Borneo as part of a broad Pacific air offensive.
Washington expects action to reverse price rises described as small but disturbing. Price Administrator Chester Bowles plans to tighten controls on textiles and apparel and set stricter standards for extraordinary price increases. The move comes amid a broader push to hold to the Little Steel wage formula until Germany yields, with CIO wage demands possibly answered by a modest 10 cent per hour adjustment for night work.
Plan to discuss Amarillo becoming a police radio hub with 50 mile coverage at the quarterly FBI peace officers conference in Auditorium USO. December 12 starts 1 30 pm with 27 Panhandle county reps. Topics include wartime postwar problems and talks by L E Kingman Dean Morley W E Naylor Earl Clarke and a film Battle for Britain.
Hanson Post 54 of the American Legion outlined plans at a Capitol Hotel meeting to distribute Christmas joy to Amarillo’s less fortunate children and to bring cheer to servicemen in hospitals during Yuletide.
W T Knight told soldiers at a War Bond rally he would buy a 25 war bond for each GI who paid one for himself. He had 68 takers making the cost of gifts 1275 in war bonds.
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