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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1945
Page
3
Six pairs of jumbo Louisiana frogs have been shipped to an island base to stock a pond for GIs who are hungry for frogs legs. Dr. James N. Gowanlock, chief biologist of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said that security prohibited disclosure of the base.
An American Army warehouse was broken into by hungry Japanese laborers at Sendai. Two hundred workers, including women, ransacked food and items. Sendai police arrested 180 people, 94 of them women, amid wartime shortages and Allied actions.
In Dallas on November 23 a girl named Jacq Bachman joined a carnival dare. She stepped up to a whip act and had lipstick snapped off as the whip cracked. Bachman said she enjoys dares and has had other interesting experiences.
Reports indicate several fires have erupted near warehouses with American stores nearby. Similar outbreaks have occurred in recent weeks on Hokkaido, but none involve American outlets. Sendai lies within 200 miles of Tokyo on Honshu.
A man named Homer Vivian eludes authorities by posing as multiple Vivians in Denver and elsewhere. He sought photostatic copies of county records for a judge, sent pictures to his Florida-based father, and claimed European and oil company ties while courting a Denver bride who says they married two weeks earlier. He used cardboard license plates and planned trips to Portland San Francisco and Java.
Defense counsel presses to exonerate Yama shita as trial proceeds with court session in progress. In Court Room No 2, seven Japanese defendants face charges of killing two American fliers and five Filipinos in Cebu City. Hendrix accuses General MacArthur of acting beyond constitutional authority.
Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce urges support from Sen. Tom Connally and Rep. Gene Worley to make Great Falls Montana an international gateway linking the Southwest with Alaska and foreign destinations. West Coast and Twin Cities oppose, preferring Seattle and Minneapolis–St Paul for routing. Baxter proposes traffic move Amarillo to Denver then Great Falls for international exit.
In Amarillo last week Vivian was arrested after taking all his possessions including their marriage certificate. He told multiple people he planned to meet his wife a brunette nurse in the next few days in Oklahoma City.
The defense of General Tomoyuki Yamashita pleads that General MacArthur violated law by trying him. They ask the Philippines Supreme Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus to free Yamashita, arguing the trial is illegal. Advocate Lt Col Walter C leads the application at the court’s first session in Manila.
Laramie businessman Tom Wells holds a partial stake in a skunk that invaded his home but he says he cares little for any collection. The skunk investigated the house and became trapped by a glass jar on its head before escaping through a doorway.
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