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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1944
Page
9
Santa Fe System reports 23 243 carloadings for the week ending November 25 1944, up from 22 243 in 1943. Connections received 15 332 cars versus 12 610 a year earlier. Total cars moved 8 575, down from 34 853 in 1943. The preceding week saw 41 769 Santa Fe cars handled. Globe-News Want Ads Get Results.
An Allied and neutral shipping losses tally from the war start to 1943 lists 5,758 vessels totaling 22,161,000 gross tons. Journalist Karl R. Bauman reports in Washington that U.S. losses amount to 753 ships in the period.
The Office of War Information released a year by year losses table for Britain and allies including the United States. The War Shipping Administration put US losses at 753 vessels totaling 3,311,000 gross tons, while US shipbuilding reached about 30,000,000 dead weight tons. Losses rose in 1942 and fell in 1943 as production surged, with 19,238,626 deadweight tons built in 1943 to offset earlier losses.
Abundant sharks in the Atlantic off Mar Del Plata drive rising demand for shark liver oil. Argentina rises to second behind the United States in Vitamin A oil production.
In West Southport Maine Alvin Edwards keeps his shop tidy by placing a broom at the counter prompting customers to sweep the store themselves about ten times daily.
Heavy snow and sleet slowed combat around Budapest as German and Hungarian defenses held a 26 mile arc from the city to Aszad. Soviet reports claim advances in northern Slovakia and near Satoraljaujhely, with mention of Batina and Apatin across the Danube in Yugoslavia.
Agricultural workers returning to the Pantex Ordnance Plant assist in easing the manpower gap. About 50 seasonal workers have joined in two weeks, with potential for up to 200 more for constructing a new ammunition line. Wells notes the project will last months and workers can shift back to farming as needed. Domestic steel capacity has risen from 81 million to 94 million tons since the war began.
A mother guides a snow suited child to drop a Santa letter in the post office slot after earlier attempts at the waste basket. Recipients named include Ann, Dahlia, Kathy, Bonnie Jean, Janice, Johnny, Charles, Frank, Gene Jo, Jim, Pat and others from Amarillo Lefors and Ong Street. The letters reveal toy desires from dolls to a desk, teddy bears, a nurse kit, and even a coded missive from a young child. The piece ends noting the Continental Congress dates the first official American flag with 13 stars and stripes.
The State Museum at the University of Alabama houses in its geology section twenty thousand specimens of the ores and minerals of the state.
At Nine U. S. Air Force Ma Rauder base in France stacks of Mae West life vests sit unused. Once used on early flights from Britain to continental bases they are now unnecessary as missions over land continue. Supply officers refuse to ship them home.
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