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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1942
Page
6
The Amarillo school principal will meet tomorrow afternoon at the high school to finalize plans for Sugar Rationing registrations. The Versailles Palace of Mine Pompariour has opened as a restaurant for the poor in France, offering meals about five cents each.
Congress awaits President Roosevelt's inflation message as Sen Thomas proposes a voluntary wage ceiling in war industries with a general board to review wages every eight months. Pepper and Byrd press for broader controls and action on war profits and management pay while Brewster plant seizures focus on labor issues and alien staffing concerns.
Mrs William D Leahy wife of the U S ambassador to Vichy died at Rosary Clinic at 9 A M after a serious operation ten days earlier An embolism caused death within minutes as Ambassador Leahy who had been recalled to the United States arrived at her bedside The embassy gave no exact date for his departure for the United States
The piece argues that conflicting claims about the raid mislead Washington and the public. It says raiders benefit from mystery by masking bases and methods, enabling safe retreats and reusable tactics, while Japan faces wartime jitters as warplanes and ships are diverted for home defense.
Wide World War Analyst DeWitt MacKenzie notes the Jap panic after a daylight raid on major Japanese cities. He says the origin of the attacking planes remains unclear to Nippon and even to many Allied observers.
The North American diamond corporation of Indianapolis will launch a $1,000,000 development program to reopen the Arkansas diamond mines near Murfressboro. Governor Homer Adkins announced the plan after leasing the properties last summer. The field, discovered in 1907, yielded about 10,000 diamonds valued at $150,000 in a Smithsonian report from 1923.
J. T. Crawford pioneer Panhandle resident and Gray County’s first sheriff died yesterday afternoon at Pampa after months of illness. He lived in the Panhandle for half a century. Surviving brothers are J. H. Crawford W. H. Crawford both of Amarillo and William A Crawford U S Army. sisters Mrs W K Vincent Mrs Wiley Bunting of Pampa and Mrs C S Riley of Amarillo. Funeral services set for tomorrow afternoon at Pampa.
A reader notes reports of bombers seen over Duluth this winter and suggests Alaska bases are likely involved in future operations against Japan. The writer sees no reason to doubt the idea that Alaska will be central in a forthcoming grand offensive, a point the Japanese already fear after Saturday’s raid.
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