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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 08, 1942

Page

12

Fragmented OCR Note Reveals Incomplete Local Update

The readable fragments show garbled text and missing context about a local event. Names, places, or dates are unclear, preventing a full summary of actions or outcomes from the fragment.

Swinging star lineup tops first All American dance band

Fourteen famous swing musicians were named to the first popularity chosen All American dance band in a nationwide poll by the Saturday Evening Post and RKO Radio for the film Syncopation. The lineup includes Goodman James Krupa Duchin Dorsey Miller and more. The program notes also promote upcoming Paramount and State Theatre films and a Red Cross campaign linked to on screen dialogue slips.

Saturday Evening Post RKO Radio Shanghai Gene Tierney Walter Huston Victor Mature William Holden Brenda Marshall Daily Press Burma Road Rangoon China Paramount Laraine Day Barry Nelson Skinnay Ennis Judy Canova American Red Cross Hollywood Richard Arlen Arline Judge Red Cross Humphrey Bogart

Underground in Europe shows brave wartime presses

Wide World Features writer Paul J. C. Friedlander reports on Nazi occupied Europe where underground newspapers printed in attics and cellars defy Gestapo. Yugoslav patriots financed efforts with a 20 million dinar bond issued through ads, then the bond sold out. La Libre Belgique resurges in Belgium as anti Nazi press endures.

Paul J. C. Friedlander New York America United Nations Land Czecho-Slovakia Belgium Denmark la Libre Belgique Kaiser Wilhelm Free Belgium Gestapo Low Countries

Underground editors resist Nazi crackdown across Europe

Reports from the Inter Allied Information Center describe editors and staff in occupied lands facing execution but continuing. Subversive presses in Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, and Czechoslovakia publish bold content and smuggle micro films to consulates abroad. The Polish underground publishes comics like Lipa and Szpilka, with a 1940 note about laughing over graves.

Inter-Allied Formation Center Josef Skalda Boj Inter-Allied London New York Polish Information Center Lipa Szpilka

Muddy Feet Highlight Desperate Journey Set Woes

U P dispatch details Errol Flynn struggling in mud on the Warner Bros. Desperate Journey set. Flynn and co stars Alan Hale and Ronald Reagan slog through a swampy stage under Raoul Walsh's direction as crew battle the three week old mud.

Ernest Foster U. P Hollywood U.P Errol Flynn Studio Street Flynn Phooey Alan Hale Ronald Reagan Elizabeth Essex Warner Bros Raoul Walsh Walsh

Environment surpasses heredity in longevity study

Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians find that living parents influence life span not as heredity, but through environment. Those with both parents living at policy apply show longer lives, yet the differences among three groups do not align with hereditary expectations, emphasizing upbringing and care over genes.

Howard W. Blakeslee Wide World Science New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Tire bootlegging in wartime New York sparks calls for harsher penalties

In a wartime piece from New York a writer argues rubber shortages fuel tire bootlegging. He cites high prices, cross state reports, and urges the government to impose severe, clear penalties to deter buyers and sellers and curb the market.

Manners Quiz Answers From Classic Social Etiquette

A historical etiquette snippet lists five scenarios with preferred answers: use the guest focused greeting by naming the James residence, avoid abbreviating a state, refrain from silly nicknames for a husband, allow a dog in presence of guests, and choose to discipline noisy children by removing them from the room. It ends with two quoted proverbs about guidance and light.

James Lowell Mass

Snowdrifts and azaleas color Amarillo weekend

Amarilloans report a split weekend with heavy snowfall at the Singleton cabin in South Fork Colorado while others chase azaleas in New Orleans. Local births, birthdays, and visits fill the community page with names and street addresses across Amarillo.

Novene Lane Shirley Lane Polk Street Ann Lackey West Eighteenth Avenue Amarillo New Orleans

Ernie Pyle Desert Dispatches From California to Phoenix

Ernie Pyle moves from Palm Springs to Phoenix as California braces for potential bombardment. He describes hotel shortages, desert business thriving, soldiers traveling east, and odd army checks at state lines while revisiting Hollywood notes and Gene Autry draft talk.

Phoenix Aziz Palm Springs California Hollywood Desert Yuma Westward Ho Tucson Gene Autry Gene

War Quiz Answers on Editorial Page 1

Answers to three items: the insignia shows the officer attached to the Bureau of Insular Affairs. The Sea Otters are a cargo ship design to be built quickly and cheaply powered by gasoline engines with a vertical shaft drive propeller midship. McNaughton is the commanding officer of Canadian troops in Britain.

Bureau of Insular Affairs McNaughton Britain

War era quotes on education and profits surface in remarks

Lamar Johnson of Stephens College criticizes focus on luxury college prep courses as costly. Paul V. McNutt warns against reforms, while Albert A. Gore cites war plant executives’ inflated bonuses and salaries as signs of improper profits and tax evasion.

Albert A. Gore Tennessee

Matchless Tomato and the Power of a Challenge

Dale Carnegie W Atlee Burpee learned a lesson about human nature from a catapulted publicity stunt. Burpee faced a larger than life tomato on a catalogue cover and, to maintain honesty, issued a challenge claiming no one could grow such a fruit. Growers worldwide rose to the challenge sending larger tomatoes, proving that setting a difficult goal motivates action.

W Atlee Burpee Burpee America Mr. Burpee

Housewives Say They Need About Half a Pound Sugar Weekly

Gallup poll of housewives nationwide finds average minimum sugar needed per person weekly is 94 ounces or about 6 pounds per month for rationing. Registration for family sugar rationing set for May 4 5 6 and 7 with ration books issued Where Americans compare international sugar allowances and see Britain 8 ounces Canada 12 ounces Germany 8 Belgium 8 Czech Slovakia 10 Norway 7 Poland 4 Italy Japan data unavailable.

New York Europe Washington Florida Miami Jacksonville California Hebrides Gallup George Gallup American Institute of Public Opinion Princeton N. J United Nations Great Britain Canada Germany Belgium Czechslovakia Norway Poland Italy Japan

Profile of John Curtin Australian prime minister and labor leader

John Curtin, 56, Australian prime minister and Labor figure, rose from printing and pottery work to union leadership in Victoria and Western Australia. He edited the West Australia Worker from 1917 to 1928, won Fremantle in 1931, led the party in 1935 by a one vote margin, and gained a reputation for austere dignity and sharp conversation amid global labor movements.

John Curtin Australia Creswick Victoria Victorian Timber Workers’ Union Tasmania Western State West Australia Worker Freemantle Scullin Labor Forde Curtin International Labor Conference League of Nations

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