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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1944
Page
2
TeXan Weather predicts continued Indian summer days and crisp nights with no change seen. A mother shares a joke about boys and girls, and Straw votes report Roosevelt trailing in a secret office poll. Ernest Thompson touts gas land value rises, Texas oil output climbs, and local items note stray rewards, pet poodles Maisie and Beauty, and a missing trombone music sheet reward.
Readers are urged to vote with heart and judge the next President by whom they deem best to wind up the war. Public mood appears largely set weeks before election day. A boy asks for a printed joke while a kindergarten coat resists unfastening. The period’s biggest shortage is bacon.
Amarillo attorney Herman Pipkin was named to a Texas Exes committee representing ex-students in the rift between University of Texas President Homer Rainey and the board of regents. Fellow appointees include W H Francis of Dallas Judge Joe Hutcheson of Houston and Robert Lee Bobbitt of San Antonio.
The weather bureau reports fair and continued mild conditions tonight and Tuesday with no strong signs of snow. High yesterday reached 72 degrees and the low last night was 48 as a look back notes last season's early snow on Oct 30 with 30 snows.
G. W. Mills chair Am arillo Life Underwriters War Bond Committee and Co L Coneland of Amarillo attended a Dallas meeting of the national War Bond Flying Squadron. The group, representing over 50 000 life insurance men, travels eight thousand miles through 38 states to spur support for the Sixth War Loan starting November 20.
City employees in the personnel department prepare a mimeographed monthly publication titled City Employes Magazine. First issue anticipated in early November but press problems may delay print. A repairs-requiring typewriter stands by to stencil pages as city departments contribute reports.
Switzerland's twenty two cantons were unified under a federal constitution approved in 1874, creating a centralized framework while preserving cantonal autonomy and setting the stage for modern Swiss federalism.
The Associated Press received a disputed Chungking dispatch noting Stilwell took formal leave of Chiang. An American censor cut out 388 words and a Chinese censor 104 words, leaving only the excerpt of one sentence.
Two sailors on a 15 day furlough traveled from the Pacific to Amarillo then to Spur and on to Lubbock aided by motorists who stopped to give rides. They had just come off an aircraft carrier and planned five days home five days back to the West Coast.
Three Amarillo students are among seventeen West Texas State College members chosen for Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities. Sharline Burch leads in student leadership and aviation, while Peggy Williamson and Evelyn Jeanne McCarty contribute through English, the Prairie Staff, and yearbook work.
Captain Jones son of Maj. Gen. Albert M. Jones arrives at MacArthur's Leyte headquarters in the first land based bomber drop to Leyte. Jones, veteran of 39 combat missions, hails from Waco Texas and fights for a father who commanded in the early Philippines campaign.
A World War II letter from SGT D M Bonney asks Amarillo residents to locate 127 film for his camera after months of island hops. He offers a Jap souvenir and pictures in return and promises a chicken dinner upon return. He provides his APO address and salutes the Jeep logistics.
Washington officials estimate the 1944 presidential election will draw about 44.1 to 44.6 million voters, lower than the 49.8 million in 1940 due to wartime dislocations, despite heavy registrations in big cities. The estimate includes 3.39 million service members.
Travel feature profiles Mr. West of Ely-Walker Company at 810 LaSalle Street in Chicago. His hobby is flowers with a focus on dahlias and he notes the dahlia thrives in the Southwest region with a late fall bloom. gardeners can achieve strong results with proper attention.
A morning fire at 3810 Taylor Street caused slight damage to a residence. Firefighters from Central Fire Station extinguished the flames, tracing the cause to a faulty hot water heater vent.
Oklahoma City October 30 The Oklahoma City Symphony opened with conductor Victor Alessandro using small baton circles as he explained his new suit hadn’t arrived and full fortissimo gestures might risk a wardrobe mishap.
New Mexico bus drivers urge legislation to replace gates with cattleguards to improve routes. The state transportation director notes one driver must open and close 22 gates on a single route daily. Fire alarms in Amarillo prompted three overnight responses including a motor and a truck.
Today's radio speeches list presenters Gloria Swanson Gretta Palmer Marian Martin Mrs Viola Preble and others airing across New York and Chicago time zones. The note adds a fact that Lake Superior is the world's largest inland body of fresh water.
The Associated Press lists distances to Berlin across fronts. Western front 301 miles from west of Duren, Russian front 304 miles from Vistula north of Warsaw, Italian front 558 miles from south of Bologna.
J. H. Nall bought out partner L. W. Thornton to acquire full ownership of the firm once known as Thornton and Nall Real Estate. The business will operate as Nall Realty at the 306 Oliver-Eakle Building.
Mr and Mrs A H Brown received a telegram from their son Sgt Frank F Brown a waist gunner on a Liberator who had been in England on bombing missions. His group completed 100 sorties in 140 days and he telegraphed from Fort Worth that he would be home today or tomorrow. The Browns reside at 1120 West Fifteenth Avenue.
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