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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1943
Page
2
Amarillo’s parking meters, installed in 1942, produced $61 227.52 for the year ending Sept 30. The current budget projects $52 800 in receipts with $7 640 in expenses for the year ending Sept 30 next year.
Amarillo and Clovis police along with New Mexico authorities searched last night for Pvt Buddy a 15 month old screwtail bulldog owned by Lt Scott Edwards son of Mr and Mrs F Lee Edwards of 826 Florida Street. The dog disappeared before the air forces pilot could take him on a bomber assignment with oxygen mask and parachute prepared.
Stockholm reports Sweden has offered refuge to about 1 100 Danish Jews who escaped deportation and Nazi patrols by crossing the Oresund. The refugees used small boats to reach southern Sweden as Berlin ignored Sweden’s offer to shelter 8 000 of Denmark’s 10 000 Jews.
Radios Vichy report that Russian officers have arrived in the Balkans to organize guerrillas and partisans fighting Germany. The Associated Yugoslav Journalists in London dispute Yugoslav Forces, creditting Tito’s People’s Liberation Army and alleging Mihailovic’s detachments collabored with the Nazis. The piece notes no link between the two outfits. Jolting Charleston jeep chase ends with a horse recaptured by army jeeps.
In Naples the discovery of a 1700 pound German booby trap in a hotel likely saved Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark and other senior officers. Engineers removed the trap and reported no explosions yet as Fifth Army units advance. The hotel, largely intact, was poised to serve as headquarters but the danger was defused.
Amarillo civic and military leaders joined Chamber members and Amarillo Army Air Field officers to finalize advance sale plans for the premiere showing of This Is The Army at the Paramount Theater on Oct. 14. Prices for Amarillo audiences range from 27.50 to 1.10 dollars.
General Motors dealers from the Panhandle area arrive for a conference at the Herring Hotel with officials from Pontiac Michigan. T B Cockerly Jr and J A Mc Daniel lead discussions featuring truck conservation and maintenance plans.
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