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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1942
Page
5
The Globe News prints Dr. E. C. Rosenow's claim that 25 years of research prove streptococcus germs cause infantile paralysis rather than a virus. An antiserum and skin tests aim at early detection and mortality reduction, based on 200 patients treated with noted success.
In Washington, debates among Henderson and Eccles and Morgenthau clash over how far Roosevelt’s inflation freezing should go. Proposals mix price controls with compulsory savings and a revised tax plan to recapture “excess savings.” Critics warn price fixing may curb inflation more effectively than sweeping savings levies amid varied income gains and wartime shifts. A new Dreher book warns of postwar planning that resembles Soviet style centralized control, prompting fear of labor-dominated committees and top-down production quotas.
Allan Steele posing as a photographer pursues Dr. Sargent and daughter who vanished in Mexico’s peninsula while a man named Harry Bishop lies injured in a hospital. Asia Minor, a Eurasian beauty, hints at a cannery and bomber base as Steele’s wary mission unfolds with Col. Escobar and Sun Su in a tense, sunlit hotel milieu.
Allan observes a possible tail on Colonel Escobar and reports it to him. Asia steals a telegram intended for Allan, hinting at espionage as Allan plans a shore road drive for photographs and further surveillance.
A Your Life Magazine piece on air raid psychology outlines two types of responses Stay-Home-in-Bed and Rush-to-a-Shelter based on income education and personality The New Yorker theater note reviews a Chinese theater in New York reporting on audience behavior and a violet clad storyteller at the New Canton Theater with a Six-piece orchestra and a crowd of readers and hawkers nearby
A theater unit led by Sid Sin Wing performs Lu Ying Hung in Shantung plot with a warlord and heroine. The cast includes Lee Chung Ball and Wong Shu Mui. Sid notes the company tours to Vancouver and Toronto and that actors and musicians are not Equity members. Wong Mui hopes China can beat the Japs and asks the audience to hurry up.
Twenty five years ago and on the 142nd anniversary of the battle of Lexington the Mongolia fired a single gun at a German U boat off the English coast. Lieutenant Bruce R Ware Jr led the gunners who named their big gun Theodore Roosevelt. Naval observers note parallel events with today as global war pressures rise.
Popular Science Monthly excerpt notes mechanized warfare will yield amazing new fuels and materials. It cites four and six wheel drives for army use, urges industry to gain experience, and warns engines waste fuel with only about ten percent efficiency. It also highlights marriage as a health protection finding from Your Life Magazine.
This item presents three quiz questions about military insignia and wartime agriculture. It asks who wears a leaf-like badge resembling forestry or botany duties, defines an apple-knocker in Army slang, and notes guayule as a substitute for a deprived raw material, prompting readers to seek the next page for answers.
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