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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1946
Page
1
Exclusive copyright notice indicates 1946 protections claimed by the American Institute of Public Opinion with all rights reserved.
Washington reports a government order to lift wage controls swiftly while considering removing price ceilings on all remaining food items. The reconversion board and officials foresee broad decontrol, with meat ceilings already scrapped and expectations of more price relief on bread coffee cereals flour and fruit products within days.
West Texas State College will have Gus Miller in charge of the football team while a final coaching decision is worked out. Dr. J. A. Hill announced Miller, previously a basketball coach and wartime football mentor, will lead the squad as the athletic committee seeks a lasting solution amid ongoing controversy over personalities and playing methods. The team faces Texas Mines in El Paso this Saturday in a Border Conference game.
Livestock traders push cattle to a record $35.25 per hundredweight in Chicago with hogs at $27.50 and lambs near $26 as demand exceeds supply. Nationwide receipts rise while weights fall, signaling a brief spike likely not to last, with higher markets also seen in Amarillo as the week opens.
House Speaker Rayburn of Texas predicted his party will retain control of the Senate and House. He said Democrats should hold a safe margin of 25 to 50 votes in the House and noted heavier voter registration than usual.
London reports Lady Ludlow died in 1945 and her two pear shaped diamonds, each 17 carats, were sold today for 100000 to an unidentified buyer. Auction results noted under a real estate and loans surplus property copyholders listing at Rus eel Stationery, 611 Taylor Street.
Washington October 16. The Office of Price Administration has 2000 meat enforcement agents idle with little to do as meat controls are lifted. They are tidying books, clearing price violation cases, and handling mail. Some will be reassigned to other campaigns or receive pink slips.
General Eisenhower toured American Army outposts along the Morgan Line in Venezia Giulia near the Yugoslav and American British zones. He traveled by train from Austria, avoided Trieste, and cited it as being in the British sector of occupation zone A.
More than 1,000 textile converter plant workers walked out in a strike aimed at halting shipments to the New York metropolitan area. Picket lines were planned in Manhattan's garment district and at dye plants in Paterson Pas saic and Lodi New Jersey to tie up operations.
The United States AAF reports slightly over 3,000 very heavy bombers today, up from 2,865 at war end in August 1945. Most are B-29s or B-29 modifications, with only part of the fleet active while reserves and spares compose the rest. Deliveries of B-29 types continue, with two experimental aircraft among the fleet.
Soviet Finance Minister A G Zverev urged the Supreme Soviet to cut 588800000 rubles from the defense budget for the next year, proposing 72 billion rubles for defense. He tied the main expenditures to the first five year plan and urged 5 billion rubles for science to boost economic and military strength. Last year defense outlay was 2 billion rubles.
The U S S Army B 29 Pacusan Dreamboat departed Orly Field at 9 38 A M for Westover Field Chicopee Mass aiming to set a new speed record to New York The pilot Col C S Irvine said he would not push the attempt Get season tickets at Cretneys for JayCees Broadway Hits
Greek leaders claim an undeclared war from Yugoslavia targets western Macedonia near Kozane. A deputy governor and a frontier army official report regular Yugoslav troops attacked two Greek border posts in the past two days.
Chicago October 16 attorneys filed a petition before Chief Justice Harold G. Ward asking release for Roger The Terrible Touhy from Stateville penitentiary where he serves a 99 year sentence for the kidnapping of John Jake the Barber Factor. The petition contends Touhy was convicted on perjured testimony.
Neville George Clevely Heath, a former RAF pilot, was executed at Pentonville Prison for the murder of Margery Gardner. About 500 onlookers gathered outside as news of the sentence was posted, ending a case that shocked Britain.
The Army photographer assigned to document the executions of 11 Nazi leaders took only photos of the corpses after removal from the gallows. The images, labeled top secret, were sent to Berlin for archival purposes. The Allied coordinating committee will meet tomorrow to decide on release.
Amarillo manufacturers announce a city wide retail price rise to 1.05 per pound effective tomorrow, a seven cent increase from 0.97, with reports of 1.15 in Albuquerque. The move aims to curb butterfat outflow to higher paying regions and secure enough supply locally.
The forecast shows clearing this afternoon with cooler tonight. Partly cloudy Thursday with slight warmth. In West Texas and New Mexico, isolated showers or snow flurries are possible in the west. Temperatures around 76 high and 48 low, trace precipitation noted. Ducks Bak for leaky roofs. Phone 4466.
NUERNBERG Oct 16 Goering died by potassium cyanide in his jail cell less than two hours before hanging. An anonymous board led by a US officer investigates how he obtained the poison while under constant guard and searches. The case raises questions about access to cyanide and possible accomplices.
Master Sgt. John C. Woods of San Antonio, Nazi executioner in Europe, presided over the executions at Nurnberg. He has now tallied 323 hangs, including 28 Dachau guards, with 15 minutes or less for death, and he notes his work began after D-Day at Omaha Beach. Col Gen Alfred Jodl proved his toughest Nazi quarry.
New York report says Emmy Goering sobbed when told Hermann Goering evaded the gallows by swallowing poison. She denied smuggling the deadly capsule to him during her last prison visit, according to NBC broadcaster Ed Haaker in Nuernberg.
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