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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1945
Page
2
President Truman stated there will be no padding in the armed forces and no one will be kept in service longer than necessary. He noted Gen MacArthur revised troop estimates for Japan and Korea and outlined rapid demobilization plans through 1945 and beyond.
A sequence of warranty deeds records transfers of numerous lots and parcels among multiple parties including A L Jones, Bertie L Puntney, Alfred M Hitch, J Johnson, T Ware, R L Moore, Altus Mills, John E Hill, Elzeda Brown, Ort Eckert, and B H Savage, followed by a list of marriage licenses for couples such as J W Price Jr with Ruby Barton and Raymond Foster with Jimmie Williamson. A note reports 438000 chicks hatched in Wyoming in the first six months of 1945, down 12000 from the prior year.
The John B. Golding Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will open its office in the VFW building at Seventh and Taylor at 6 o'clock tonight to receive applications from men returning from overseas. Regular post and auxiliary meeting are set for 8 o'clock tonight.
The House expenditures committee approved a measure giving President Truman authority to group coordinate and consolidate nearly 100 federal agencies and functions to reorganize the government.
A reader reports a missing blue billfold containing over 300 and photos near 516 East Twelfth. Mrs Beverly Keacher offers a reward for return. Also a request for a rag carpet weaving room and a part time morning houseworker sought by readers with contact numbers.
A man who ran a Ama rillo grocer shop left an Eversharp pencil at Sorenson Leghorn Farm while obtaining fryers months ago. He is asked to contact at 2 4031. reward offered. Also: lost bracelet Aug 20 between 1700 Lincoln and Birch Hollow with initials A M J. call 8792.
A boy’s identification bracelet engraved with the initials W. G. J. is missing. The owner Charlotte Condren offers a five dollar reward for its return and provides a contact number 5016 at 2400 Northwest Thirteenth.
Transcontinental and Western Air plans a 36 plane fleet of Lockheed Constellations to offer a 14 hour New York to Europe and a 10 hour coast to coast service. The move will cut nine to eleven hours off transatlantic trips and four to seven hours off continental flights with first European runs and later daily transcontinental flights. First twelve planes due in two months and fares to be announced.
Lt Ruth Ruyle army nurse of Omaha Nebraska files a $75 000 damages suit over an August 1944 auto crash near St Francis. Defendant is A E Kimbrow of Amarillo. Court action follows a prior verdict in Wade Purr case. Ruyle injured severely and missed last hearing.
Betty Belle Stone an 18 year old from Denver was moved from Potter County jail to Denver to face federal parole violation charges and a suspended sentence for forging a name and cashing government bonds. Major Cameron U S deputy marshal from Pueblo will transport her to Colorado.
Bill Richey suffered a painful burn on the palm of his hand this morning when a new package of paper matches caught fire as he lit a cigarette. He said the first batch ignited and stuck to his hand.
A Nash Kelvinator spokesman said an unauthorized CIO Automobile Workers strike has closed the Nash Motors division plant in Kenosha Wisconsin. The action halted production and disrupted operations.
Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal told the House Naval Committee that postwar control of the seas requires a fleet capable of delivering atomic bomb attacks. He urged a peacetime Navy of about 300 major combatants, including 11 battleships, 15 aircraft carriers, 21 escort carriers, 20 heavy cruisers, 29 light cruisers, 176 destroyers, 40 destroyer escorts, and 90 submarines with supporting craft.
The first great grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. E. Lowndes, Amarillo pioneers, was born yesterday in Los Angeles to R. L. Keirsey Jr. The infant is the first grandchild of Keirsey Sr. and is linked as a nephew to Capt. C. J. E. Lowndes Jr. and to James Lowndes Keirsey.
Sgt. James F. Cobb of Amarillo arrives home with a discharge after 44 months service. He served in England Africa and Italy with the 941st Engineering Squadron Air Forces and wears the Bronze Star and four battle stars. His brother Morris G. Cobb is a seaman second class finishing training and headed to Stanford University. Miss Edna Beard of Corpus Christi visits the Cobb home.
In Tokyo on September 19, officials revealed the Black Dragon Society, long suspected to be disbanded, still maintains headquarters where former members confer with the chief secretary Yoshisa Kuzuu in a bid to speak as individuals while avoiding names that could implicate members to American authorities.
Bert A. Barnhill an ex convict aged about 30 was arrested by Deputy U S marshals yesterday. He escaped confinement at Fort Missoula Montana while under a five year military sentence and was taken into custody at Amarillo Texas. He is jailed in Potter County awaiting military transfer. Barnhill has an FBI record of burglary and theft and has served time in the Texas State penitentiary.
First meeting for student musicians from grade schools with no band instruction. At 10 a.m., band students meet in the senior high band room and orchestra students in Elizabeth Nixon Junior High. Any student in any grade can try out. beginners and advanced eligible. Louise Dickens will conduct the orchestra. Clyde Rowe will conduct the bands.
Early today a car driven by F. M. Griffin of 3410 Grand collided with a railroad cattle car at a crossing near The Texas Company refinery east of Amarillo on Grand. Griffin was blinded by headlights from another vehicle but no serious injuries occurred. The crash caused substantial damage to Griffin’s car.
Pfc. Robert C. Howren, a Bataan survivor, sent word to his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Howren of 800 Florida that he is safe in Manila and on the way home. He noted he had just received their message from a few days earlier.
A city trash truck caught fire near 210 Buchanan just before 11 this morning. Firefighters arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze before any damage spread.
Capitol Hill praised Robert P. Patterson as Secretary of War and predicted swift Senate confirmation. Patterson, 54, had served as undersecretary of war since June 1940 and was named by President Truman to succeed Henry L. Stimson. The nomination signals a two party cabinet through reconversion and demobilization. Elbert Thomas said the Military Affairs Committee would review next Tuesday and expect rapid approval.
Chinese government spokesman P H Chang announced that the United States was invited to send troops to Shanghai Nanking Peiping and Tientsin to assist in disarming the Japanese. He stressed the invitation is not seen as a temporary measure.
Floyd H. Brown of New York announces Elks War Commission pivots to peace time. The program focuses on Veterans Administration hospitals with entertainment, magazines, books, games, and workshop tools for bedridden and convalescent patients. Amarillo’s Frank Heath named committee chair as the effort runs in 37 states.
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