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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1941
Page
5
Bee learns Huntington's store controls many lives as Miss Ryan faints in a busy day. Beatrice helps her to the infirmary and uncovers a secret pregnancy while colleagues debate sick leave and store welfare. Anthony proposes a plan to improve shop life amid personal tensions.
Readers propose ideas from playgrounds and clothing store innovations to improve community benefit and shopping experiences. Submissions include turning vacant lots into playgrounds, donating old clothes, encouraging reading, adding neighborhood sidewalks, and coordinating accessories with dresses to boost sales.
The Amarillo Globe editorially contrasts Holy Week with Nazi aggression as Yugoslavia and Greece are invaded. It frames the events as a test of life versus death and condemns wartime deception while urging faith in victory of life over death. The piece links religious reflection to contemporary world events and calls for resilience.
Two German propaganda outlets in Mexico shut down within a week as U.S. firm withdrawals from German agencies reduce German community funds. Diario de la Guerra suspended, Colegio Aleman closed. no evident Mexican government pressure seen. US discouragement of German business likely caused the squeeze.
Chester C. Davis of the National Defense Advisory Commission argues that the Petain government is helpless because about two million French people are prisoners of Germany for food. He notes French bargaining leverage and decries the grubby nature of exchanges while underscoring France’s lack of true independence.
A quotation by Thomas Hart Benton on murals and material reality contrasts with references to Greco Roman and Mayan art. The second quote from Marriner S Eccles stresses accountability and the price of everything.
Six of eleven college students at Oglethorpe University complete four-year arts degrees in under 20 months led by Fred Goss. President Thornhill Jacobs notes high averages around 92 percent with no distractions and scheduled study, meals, sleep, recreation, and mandatory church attendance. Five dropouts reduce the original brain team to six, who aim for masters by next fall and doctorates by 1945 while teaching as well as studying.
Condensed from Katharine Brush feature in Good Housekeeping. Lists quirks of men and women, noting gossips among men, hairdos, hostesses, and everyday misunderstandings. Includes political jab about a Democrat’s stance on the New Deal.
Louis A. Neveleff of Dallas once earning ten thousand a year as a millinery executive now serves as a private at Camp Bowie Texas drawing twenty one dollars a month. His claim of a 1905 birth year was overturned by a corrected record showing his 37th birthday. Officials hedge, unofficially suggesting he will remain in service despite being over draft age but not over military age. If sympathy is warranted this week it should fall on Selectee Neveleff.
At 97, the famed upstate NY confidence man Steve Dutton stood in a Manhattan lineup charged with burglary. Dutton, who eluded Hetty Green's wealth grab in the 1890s, once served three sentences for forgery and grand larceny and was among early Bertillon system felons. He protested bail denial and quipped about his past.
A survey of mapmaking history from Eratosthenes and Ptolemy through Mercator and Delis d Anville, noting the rise of scientific cartography, the role of explorers, and the 1928 world map proposal using a modified Polyconic plan to reduce distortion. The piece highlights projections, color usage, and major mapmakers shaping geographic knowledge.
Haiti's Citadel, a mountain fortress built by Henri Christophe, rises over 3 000 feet with 16 foot walls and barracks for 10 000, depicted on stamps. Christophe, born a slave on St. Kitts, led Haiti's fight for independence, later ruling and promoting public works until his death amid revolt rumors.
A quiz asks for the sources and authors of Grapes of Wrath and For Whom the Bell Tolls. It names Gertrude Stein James Hilton and Upton Sinclair as authors of new works and asks for titles. It also inquires which British author is writing from a Nazi camp and who authored North Passage and his latest bestseller.
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