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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1941
Page
8
United Press reports the Red Army destroyed 538 Nazi tanks and caused over 80 000 German casualties in a central front counteroffensive. Odessa defense claims halving the Romanian army during the siege as German forces retreat under heavy losses.
Gov. Stevenson’s road bill faces sharp opposition in the Texas Senate and House amid quick committee action. Senators Joe Hill Henderson and John Lee Smith scorn party theatrics while Amarillo civic leaders press for a $10,000,000 bombardment base site. Col. Blackburn and army officers coordinate site data and funding with local officials as the project nears Washington review and potential two month construction.
A short column notes that a person with ideas often has money and encourages sending ideas to YOUR IDEAS EDITOR at Globe News for a chance to earn one dollar. It emphasizes taking action on ideas to turn them into money.
The Amarillo Boy Scouts started distributing 1,500 cash register cards in the take your change in defense stamps campaign. Over 100 boys will hand out cards to merchants and business houses while several hundred Amarillo merchants are expected to support the campaign to boost defense stamp sales.
An Indiana intruder marked a home visit by drinking soda and scattering clothes while Mrs. Kenneth Cox was away. He left a cryptic note advising better care of valuables signed THE LONE WOLF. The incident involved local merchants Russell Stationery and Neely Greenhill Lownes Insurance.
Fort Ord California factory orders 1,500 more 32 ounce bottles to fashion Molotov cocktails designed to halt enemy tanks. Earlier deliveries of non shatterable duraglas bottles failed as tests showed they bounced off tank surfaces.
In North Milton Delaware a hen on George A Marshall’s farm has four legs and weighs about five pounds. The odd fowl appeared in a flock purchased last January, with the family noting it as a normal yet unusual poultry specimen. Meanwhile in Vatican City Myron C Taylor Roosevelt’s emissary met Pope Pius XII within a day of returning from the United States.
J E Hanchett complained the bulb he installed at a railroad switch tower gave a dim light in 1904. He kept it in use until it burned out yesterday, requiring replacement. Newby s John Mansville Roofing.
Police recover five thousand dollars worth of loot from seven cities piled at a Flats apartment. A clad, unclothed woman escaped during a raid on the premises while Leon Simms alias Leon Flagg, an ex convict, is held. Merchants identify items from Amarillo Tulsa Oklahoma City Hollywood Los Angeles Colorado Springs and Dallas.
Three survivors from the American freighter Sessa told Navy officers of a midnight torpedo hit about 300 miles from Reykjavik Iceland. The vessel sank within two minutes after the first torpedo. 24 crew and officers perished. The ship, Panamanian registry but operated by Marine Transport Lines New York, was en route from New York to Reykjavik. President Roosevelt planned top foreign policy talks with Hull Stimson and Knox and extended his national address time to 25 minutes to address latest international developments.
Officials warn of a shift in the war danger from Pacific to Atlantic with talk of unrestricted warfare at sea. Hull says no new word on American Japanese diplomacy. Jones warns Britain rationing may rise. Amarillo forecast calls for warm days cool nights. Governor Stevenson cites legislature costs at about four thousand dollars per day as House leaders plan White House talks with Roosevelt amid looming policy moves. See SHIP Page 7.
Amarillo's 750000 better housing project is held in abeyance by USHA awaiting final action in Washington on extra appropriation. Senate approval now awaits House action while local officials report fund shortages and first consideration for the Amarillo application. The project followed a city survey and was advocated by USHA regional adviser Walter W. Cook.
Rehearsal for the Shrine Minstrel tonight at 8 o clock in the Municipal Auditorium features a cast of over 75 with Homer Rice as interlocutor. The show includes the Blackburn Shaw quartet and a Shrine orchestra led by Swede Tolzien. parade Friday at 4 30 p m with Range Riders cast and Myers Cadet Band. Tickets 20 cents for children 40 cents for adults.
Police answered an anonymous call to a lower east side tenement and found four emaciated children in rags sobbing from hunger. Twenty liquor bottles and a sack were on the floor. the youngest is 2, the oldest 10, and police are seeking the parents.
Berlin reports authorized sources confirm Soviet defenders still have a Lake Ladoga outlet and remain connected to Russia. German fronts retreat with tanks and trucks as Russians strike along a 175 mile Gomel to Smolensk arc in efforts to relieve Leningrad and Odessa. Tzvestia notes Soviet withdrawal leaves a minefield, including 10 000 mines in Schluesselburg.
A five day battle destroyed about 300 tanks of a crack German unit and recaptured villages as Soviet forces under Timoshenko attacked causing a retreat by the 10th German infantry and 4th tank divisions. Fighting rages day and night as Red Army drives toward Smolensk from the southeast.
Branford Conn September 10 Robert C Deming assistant state defense administrator quoted British sources saying the German battleship Bismarck sunk May 27 carried two planes intended to bomb Quebec and Montreal Each plane carried 1200 thermite bombs and planned to land in the United States to seek internment after a Canadian raid
Berlin dispatch describes a German newsreel showing a giant long range cannon said to bombard Leningrad. The weapon is partly hidden in trees with no disclosed location or technical details. Meanwhile Texas weather records note cooling with a 1 degree warmer night and scattered rainfall in Laredo and Austin after a special legislative session.
Washington announced plans to produce 30 million pounds of aluminum and 112 million pounds of magnesium funded by the defense plant corporation. A $3.9 million aluminum plant will be built at Tacoma Washington for Olin Corporation. Two magnesium plants are planned near Freeport Texas for Dow Chemical and at Painesville Ohio for Diamond Alkali Corporation with capacities of 72 million and 36 million pounds respectively.
Colorado Springs reports William Johnson of Corinth Mississippi offered 100 dollars to clear the snow from Pike's Peak so he could reach the summit. No crew answered the unusual bid. In Kansas City Dr. Herold Hunt urged teachers to balance work with rest religion and recreation as the new school year begins.
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