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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1945
Page
2
Washington reports a delay in proclaiming the war ended which extends farm price supports. If ended before January 1, 1947, support covers 1946 and 1947. if delayed, it runs to January 1, 1949. Truman said time has not arrived to end the war. Economists estimate postwar support costs exceed one million dollars annually.
The Navy reported the Okinawa campaign cost the United States 30 warships sunk and 223 damaged, with 12 damaged ships hit by friendly fire. Japanese planes destroyed numbered 3,836, while Navy losses totaled 7,583 killed and missing and 17,389 wounded.
Dow Jones averages listed with industrials rails and recent changes. Names Lyne Pierce noted with scores and runs. The report reflects closing or intraday figures, including up and down movements for specified groups.
Prisoners from Yawata Meji and Kawasaki camps, including Van Taylor and O W Whittington, returned with rescue teams from the U S Fifth Air Force. They report poor conditions, incompetence of Japanese non coms, and camps turned over to Allied prisoners. Most were captured at Hong Kong Wake Island Corregidor or Bataan and moved between camps for over three years. Some were captured by Germans in South Atlantic actions.
In Japan near Atsugi airfield 18 miles south of Tokyo, released American prisoners of war helped Japanese victims of a train wreck. The act followed their own starvation and suffering in a camp, despite earlier mistreatment by Japanese guards.
Sgt Jacob DeShazer, a Doolittle raid survivor who endured 41 months of captivity, writes to his mother from Salem Ore expressing a wish to return there as a missionary. The story combines his conciliatory note with a note on early anti friction roller bearings used in artillery wagons by the French in the 18th century.
Livestock prices and trading: Kansas City receipts about 12 000 cattle and 1 300 hogs with steers and heifers steady to slightly higher on good grain fed cattle. Chicago market shows slack demand with slaughter steers and yearlings weak to 25 cents lower, hogs steady to firm, lambs held higher. Included prices for choice and good grades, loads and weights, and notable loads at specific weights.
Bob Howren of 800 Florida Street is safe after being liberated from Japanese captivity. A machinist in Clark Field’s aeronautical division, he may have been moved to Mindanao. His family had received cards, letters, and broadcasts confirming he was alive. He has served since 1939 and was last at Dispatch Camp No. 5 near Tokyo.
Golden Sandie director Clyde Rowe told Band Parents that 28 to 30 students lack uniforms. Existing outfits are five years old, patched and torn. Uniforms cost about 50 dollars each, according to association members. Graham T. Hart presides.
The Salvation Army building at 503 Van Buren will be closed this afternoon and all day tomorrow for fumigation. It will reopen Thursday. For matters during closure call 2 3123. Major F J Cherb announced the plan this morning.
Financial notes show a liquidating fund of 2.2312 with offers at 2.44. Deeds list J A S Bandy to J L Bandy on lots 3 and 4 in Holland. Miles Realty to Emmett Co Smith on lot 4 and N% of lot 33 in Bivins. District Court entries include several divorces and marriage licenses with multiple names and couples.
In Tokyo on September 11 Lt. Gen. Jo Imura announced the Kempei Tai would be disbanded by October 15 and pledged no secret underground movements would be allowed. He and Lt. Gen. Otogoro Ishida said their aim is peace under imperial will and to maintain order during the American occupation.
A Kansas City inventor offers a 30 day trial of a new no belt truss for reducible rupture. Readers may receive a $3.50 truss at no cost and may keep the truss if not fully satisfied, by writing Physician's Appliance Co. at 1421 Koch Building, 2906 Main St.
A jury panel was reported and another petit jury is called for 108th District Monday at 10 AM to consider civil suits including a $75,000 damage action Lt Ruth Rule versus Wade Farr and Furr Food Stores. Depositions were read as Eva Rule's attorney notes Lieutenant Rule cannot appear. the accident near St Francis involved a car driven by Rule's companion and a car allegedly driven by Mr Parr. Lt Rule, an Army nurse at Pampa field, was critically injured.
Washington sept 11 the OPA removed all varieties of cheese from rationing effective at 12 01 oclock Wednesday morning after the agriculture department lifted cheese controls following army notice that military cheddar stocks may be used for foreign claimants. The department also ended a 40 percent cheddar set aside for September and canceled a rule restricting foreign typed cheese manufacture to permit greater cheddar production.
Grand jurors convened this morning as nine new complaints were filed by the district attorney since their last meeting.
Polk Ivy, captain in charge of the Amarillo district Texas Highway Patrol, attends a highway patrol meeting in Liberal Kansas today and will appear on the program.
General MacArthur orders Ex-Prime Minister Hideki Tojo taken into American military custody. Arrests of key Japanese officials and industrial leaders anticipated as war crimes trials extend from Tokyo to Manila and beyond.
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