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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1944
Page
3
Amid a city mood of wartime urgency, Amarillo shoppers seek scarce cleaning tissues. The piece notes onions and garlic as risky mouth bacteria killers, cites Republican leaders urging restraint at Chicago convention, and jokes about elephants in politics and circus symbols.
Dorothy Thompson argues that war and peace depend on social issues, not just policy. She compares Britain’s postwar plan for public housing and a planned economy, De Gaulle’s semi socialist France, and Italy’s push for land reform, noting broad convergence on social welfare over private interests and the limits of Bolshevik or prewar capitalist models.
Ernie Pyle describes American infantrymen of the 179th Infantry on a Fifth Army beach head in Italy taking a breathing rest after a front‑line stint. A calm contrast exists between distant bombardment and troops relaxing three miles behind the perimeter, with planes overhead and occasional shellfire nearby. One soldier adapts by tying a rope to a tree to sleep standing up in cold water.
The district mails estimated tax forms to 150000 taxpayers with two worksheets though only one is needed to reduce confusion. Collector W A Thomas of Dallas notes the extra sheet serves to prove mistakes in the instruction sheets.
A South Texas friend died, judged a man whose sole aim was never to be wrong. The narrative shifts to battlefield life in Italy, describing trench foot, soaking rain, trapped troops, and the stubborn mindset that kept soldiers alive despite brutal conditions.
A mixed list of numbered across and down clues with partial entries and hints like Indian hom and Hawaiian farmers wreath, including several abbreviations and foreign terms for a word puzzle grid. The text appears to mix puzzle instructions with scattered clue fragments and partial answers.
Robert Brennan ladles a warning about staying out of conflict while urging firm neutrality in the face of foreign pressure. Chief Justice George W. Maxey asserts the U S presidency should resist being controlled by any organization or individual.
A fragmentary reflective verse echoing contemplation of life and longing for departure. The speaker contrasts love of nature and art with the inevitability of mortality and divine justice guiding the right to prevail.
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