25 Mar 1943
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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1943
Page
1
US forces smash 30C charging tanks as shell torn Mareth sees heavy fighting. Eric A. Johnston warns of totalitarian drift at Columbia University, urging vigilance over government power and support for world peace.
Dorothy Frisbie testified she killed 16 month old Johnnie Scott with rat poison on Feb 8 and poisoned his sister Glenda as well. She claimed she did it to be with Homer Scott, said she planned to die, and admitted to poisoning after a written statement was entered. The defense sought to depict Frisbie as misled by a man while the state noted multiple affairs. The case moved toward a jury verdict as witnesses recounted relationships and the night before events.
An ammunition explosion at the government Portage Ordnance Depot in Ravenna Ohio killed three workers with two bodies recovered and up to ten believed dead Col Raymond A Brown reports. The blast shook Youngstown 30 miles away and produced a huge smoke cloud with dirt particles falling as spectators watched.
The House approved a bill amending the 1942 price control act to bar deducting government benefit payments when calculating parity and farm ceiling prices. The measure advances to the Senate for consideration.
The OPA limits restaurants and institutional eating places to 75 percent or less of December levels for meat butter cheese and similar products starting next Monday. Stores will use a point system based on December consumption or usage last December, with two calculations to determine monthly allotments. Initial allotments cover March and April. future allotments will be every two months. Stockholm forms two postwar transatlantic air traffic companies linking Sweden with the United States via Great Britain.
The House approved by 297 to 46 the Senate version nullifying Roosevelt's 25000 after tax wage cap for wartime pay and replacing it with a ceiling tied to pre set 1942 levels. The measure heads to the Senate and then the White House as a rider on debt legislation.
Amarillo and Panhandle officers searched for Jerry Stanfield a 9 year old son of Mrs J T Gilson and step son of J T Gilson a soldier at Amarillo Army Air Field. He left Price Memorial College after noon wearing a blue suit blue coat and brown shoes. He had been placed at the college by Red Cross while his mother was treated in St Anthony’s Hospital. His sister attended St Mary’s Academy. A Red Cross Motor Corps member alerted police when the boy was found missing and the father was contacted. The pair drove the city for over an hour without success.
The Office of Price Administration warned residents after two men posing as OPA inspectors checked Mrs. C. N. Wickizer’s cupboards in Tulsa. They claimed two extra cans and took them after charging their cost, presenting fake credentials to verify their authority.
The Globe News urges readers to join a Victory Garden program by listing vacant plots and hopeful planters. Readers may mail coupons to match owners with growers, enabling cooperative gardens. Participants provide lot location, garden interest, name, and address for publication.
Axis counterattacks blunt British frontal assaults on Mareth Line while U S troops push forward threatening Rommel from the rear. Red Army gains more Navi points toward Smolensk as Allied air forces hit railway targets in France and the Luftwaffe answers with scattered raids on England.
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