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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1944
Page
2
An Amarillo writer reflects on a coming unsettled spell with rain likely over the high plains and predicts strong fall crops and higher calf prices. He notes local farmers, a tumbleweed race proposed with a Kansas rival, and the News-Globe building sale as real estate shifts impact rents.
Amarillo hosts the Sears 4-H Club hog show with exhibitors from 20 Panhandle and South Plains counties. A noon lunch precedes judging by Homer Brumley of Hereford. First place hogs receive 20 Jersey heifers. district gifts are from county contests and overseen by the Texas Extension Service with Sears Foundation as sponsor.
Allied briefing reports a strong German counterattack on Monte La Fine Hill Mass south of Bologna drove American units back. Eighth Army widened bridgeheads at Rubicon and moved toward Bellaria near Rimini as Kesselring shifts divisions to counter the Apennines advance. Heavy artillery, including 170 and 280 mm guns, pounded the American lines.
A billfold containing valuable papers bearing the name Virginia Mills Rust was found at the City Cab Company. The owner may call 4444 to identify and claim it.
Lt and Mrs Frank K Borden announce the birth of a son this morning in Birmingham Alabama The mother before marriage was Marie Griggs a clerk in the water department of the city The birth notice records the family's line and ties to local civic work.
Tickets for the fall season opener of the Knife and Fork Club lecture at the Country Club are available at Maxor Drug Store and Amarillo Hotel news stand. Henry M. Hedges, a Chicago construction engineer and Navy Seabees veteran, will speak at 8 PM about his adventures in the Southwest Pacific rather than a standard war report.
A gasoline truck from Lubbock skidded on wet pavement and wedged in the Bushland underpass on U S 66 west of Amarillo, blocking traffic for nearly two hours. The empty vehicle sustained cab damage. four buses were also involved temporarily. Wrecking crews freed the truck and traffic resumed with no injuries reported.
United Press reports Radio Tokyo broadcast that American troops landed Monday morning on the eastern shore of Peleliu, coming ashore from vessels penetrating the Graduoruko breakwater. The ships belonged to a naval unit seen in Kosusoru Strait north of the Palau Islands, with earlier Tokyo notes noting a large task force sighting north of Peleliu followed by surveillance.
Walter Rogers the GOP state campaign director notified Miss Ruthelle Bacon acting chairman for the thirty first district that Gov Thomas E Deweys Oklahoma City address would be rebroadcast over Mutual network beginning at 9 oclock tonight.
London faces a potential influenza surge this winter unless housing is found for thousands of bombed out residents. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin warned that the epidemic could cause devastation rivaling the war’s impact.
The first Canadian troops arrived in Melbourne welcomed by Canadian High Commissioner Judge David who said they were the vanguard of a Canadian Pacific army. He predicted action for the Canadian navy in the Pacific and that Canada’s air force would be deployed against Japan.
A dozen Japanese medium bombers raided the U S Superfortress base in West China last night in retaliation for yesterday's Ashan Manchuria attack. The alert lasted two and a half hours and caused pilots to dive into muddy foxholes. No B 29s were destroyed and no runway was hit.
Officials announced an additional tire allocation for small West Texas trucks to ease crop transport shortages. Dallas region received 250 tires for four states while Amarillo area got 18 truck tires and 10 passenger tires. Lubbock office requested 1,000 truck tires and 1,000 passenger tires for the 71 county region.
Jimmy Daley once rejected by the AAF joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and flew over 100 missions. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross from the King and the American DFC. Returning home in 1942 he married in Amarillo before later serving as deputy commander and earning a lieutenant colonelcy. Daley, born November 30, 1919, in Canadian, grew up in Amarillo and attended local schools before a decorated wartime career ended by battle wounds. He is survived by his widow, mother, sister, and father W. J. Daley.
Nearly 2,000 American bombers and fighters struck key German targets in the Rhineland and western Germany. Heavy bombers hit Kassel Opau Ludwigshafen Cologne Mainz and Goch while RAF medium bombers pressed the frontier town raid as British forces shifted night attacks toward Rhine land depots Karlsruhe and Frankfurt after a broader Calais operation.
The passage promotes laxatives for listless or coated tongue when due to constipation. It cites Black-Draught as a favorite four generations in the Southwest because it is herbal and usually effective when directions are followed. It adds the price of 26¢ for 25 to 40 doses and notes a granulated form, with caution to use as directed.
Markets show Dow Jones mixed as industrials stay near 146.52 while utilities rise to 24.84 and rails hold around 40. Livestock markets in Chicago and Kansas City run active with hogs steady to higher, cattle mostly steady to firm, and sheep opening steady with varied prices for native and whiteface grades. Prices list hogs 14,000 head, cattle 10,500, calves 1,000, with top steers near 18.35 and heifers around 16.75 while cows and bulls show slight declines alongside weaker canners and cutters.
In Dallas on September 27, E B Germany leader of the Regulars dismissed reports of a merger with the GOP and a presidential elector withdrawal. He said Republicans would not back out and that the Regulars expect to carry Texas for Harry Byrd. Walter Rogers of the Dewey Bricker ticket said discussions occurred but no progress.
Miss Meurisse recalls tending wounded from a German 40 coach train that halted at Brussels. Nurses and ambulances worked through cries and death as soldiers told of expected invasion and bombardment in the Channel.
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