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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1946
Page
2
DOW JONES shows gains at 1 P M with industrials up 1.04. Kansas City reports cattle hogs and sheep in varied lots with steady to higher calf and steer prices. Chicago cattle and hogs mostly steady to higher, lambs strong, with beef cows weaker and stockers firm. Finances show liquidating fund at 2.0264 and offer at 2.22.
The narrator visits Mr. Frank Humphrey at 17 Wall Street and, after a lunch at the Wall Street Club, learns the club’s top dessert is bread pudding. Humphrey, a Canadian-born director of Shamrock Oil & Gas, arranges introductions and shares his Canadian connections.
A reader shares a recipe for bread pudding with custard layers and details a long interview with Mr. Humphrey, a Canadian American Wall Street figure. The piece blends culinary notes, personal history from Eastern Canada to New York, and reflections on democracy, national identity, and the American way of life.
The Amarillo Water Board reports the city will receive airport facilities from the Army Air Forces including four hangars two class buildings runways and lights. A license grants the city authority to operate and maintain Amarillo Army Air Field with final papers expected soon. Lt Col Cowley will sign for the Army and Mayor Jenkins for the city. The license becomes effective Sept 12 and continues until revoked.
Austin notes a second solo session opened with no attendees including the sergeant at arms. Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith anticipated few if any senators would attend. The Supreme Court ruled January's extraordinary session invalid, which had rejected Gov. Stevenson Crozier’s nomination as chairman of the State Unemployment Compensation Commission.
Joseph Luther Hixon 33 of Electra Texas received a 35000 bond and was sent to Wichita County jail after arraignment on charges of robbing the Walters Oklahoma bank on August 8 He waived preliminary hearing and authorities search for his younger brother James A Hixon also charged in the same robbery in which 33000 was taken.
In Mukden Manchuria Capt Jiochi Kuwashima chief medical officer of the prison camp housing General Wainwright was found guilty of war crimes by a four man American tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging Col Genji Matsuda camp commandant received seven years imprisonment at hard labor.
A reader asks for help locating Cocoa a light brown cocker spaniel that belongs to a young girl. The note requests information on the dog’s whereabouts and mentions continued coverage on page 3.
A summary of recorded deeds including B W Deering to Loraine Bruce and W P Blake to Amarillo Coca-Cola Bot Co, with prices and lot details. Also multiple divorces and marriage licenses listed, plus a district court case Jewell Buchanan vs T C Buchanan and several other divorce filings.
OPA grants mediate tail ceiling price increases averaging about six percent for Ford Mercury and Lincoln automobiles. The higher Ford built car price will stay in effect only until March 15 1947 unless extended or changed.
San Antonio faced a halted sanitation service as 150 garbage workers and helpers walked off, demanding a $1 daily raise. They gathered at city yards, locked the gates, and left. The union rejected a 50 cent offer and declined a three day delay for federal conciliator help.
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