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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1941
Page
2
The piece argues the regulation barring dating between trained army nurses and enlisted men may be misapplied. Nurses are treated as officers and restricted socially, but privates, parents, and friends say soldiers are socially equal to officers and that dates with nurses predated the draft. The author notes nurses are viewed as the same as civilian nurses.
Showers will be widely spaced around the city as observers report a cool noon temperature of 92 at the Globe-News station. A drilling mishap near Amarillo halted R and J Drilling Pavillard No 1 leading to a recovery delay. depth was 3871 feet. Washington rumor notes impending tough days for President Roosevelt as European peace terms allegedly shift with Hitler’s advances and a proposed redrawing of Europe under a restored Germany.
Editorial notes show Americans split on entering the war with England needing aid but opposing full involvement. Churchill favors fighting to a finish and U S participation if England continues the fight. Public mood favors aiding Britain short of war, while isolationist sentiment grows in the Midwest and rural areas.
A reader seeks a job offer as a widow with one daughter plans to raise chickens or care for a country home while others are in town. She asks for a place to stay with free rent perhaps month’s, and invites contact via Box 431, Naples, Tex.
In San Antonio and Ellington Field officials dispute U S plane production levels. Lovett says 1,500 aircraft monthly is not enough and will never meet ideal output. Arnold Brant and officers praise aircraft but cite slow production. U S planes perform well against adversaries.
A person seeks one month free rent in exchange for caring for their place during a vacation. They request contact at 6751 nights or early mornings or Sundays.
A white faced heifer yearling has been found. The owner may contact H. P. Canode at 303 Blackburn Building in Amarillo for recovery.
Married 28 year old with a 9 month old baby seeks farm or ranch work. No drinking problem and dependable. Can provide references. Address 2502 North West First Avenue.
A six month old male dog, half shepherd and half Spitz, needs a home. He would suit a family with a child. Call 8980 or visit 732 N Garfield Street to inquire.
A widow, unencumbered and able to furnish references, seeks permanent placement in a good home or a motherless household. She requests housework, child care, and cooking duties and provides contact as Mrs. C. W. Jett Route 390 Cheyenne Oklahoma.
A collection of help wanted messages seeks farm work housekeeping and caregiving roles. Individuals include a practical nurse seeking farm or year round labor. a Black woman seeking evening work and references. Alma Nash offering housework for board. a high school girl seeking light duties. Maybelle Koester seeking glasses. a requester needing care for a baby and light housework. Various addresses and contact numbers provided.
A 39 year old single man, experienced in general farm work and handling farm machinery, seeks steady wage employment after losing most of his wheat crop to rain and plans to leave farming.
Berneta Bivins, from a Plains ranch family, earned a private pilot license in recent weeks and can fly passengers anywhere in the United States in her Stinson monoplane. She began lessons over a year and a half ago, soloed early this year, and praised by instructor Fred Smith for careful, capable flying while she handles plane upkeep and polishing at English Field.
Mayor Joe Jenkins awaits a gift arriving with TWA Flight No 1 at English Airport at 7:28 PM, souvenir parcels from Reading mayor Harry Menges celebrate TWA service launch. The presents, sample products from Reading, mark a goodwill tour for each stop on the continental flight.
Soviet reports say Germany deployed radio loud speakers to amplify a single machine gun into a roar of hundreds. Russian scouts found and destroyed a nest, after which the sector fell silent. Loud speakers were hidden behind bushes reproducing a rapid gunfire sound.
A mix of short notices includes a Filipino prisoner letter to an official in Spokane, a Roosevelt travel plan and pay offer in Washington, job inquiries from two girls, a dog for adoption in Amarillo, lost items in Grand Silver area, and a lost article callout for Mrs Dixon in Spokane.
Representative Vinson proposed taxing the assets of labor unions exempt under current law as the House debated a 3.53 billion tax increase bill. He cited 150 large AFL and CIO unions with assets totaling 42 million as of April 1, 1941, arguing the 11 percent income rise stems from the emergency.
District Judge W L Thornton said he had found the county s No 1 problem child a 14 year old boy who led a Sunday serials club called a patr iotic organization he founded calls were made to President Roosevelt Governor O Daniel and Tyrone Power and a $60 courthouse purse was stolen from an employee The boy President of the club also drew address by local jurists and asked church funds under the charge this is a compact summary of the case reported by United Press.
Senator Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina turns 77 but says he feels like a 16 year old. The long serving Democrat, in the Senate since 1908, plans to work and visit the cave of the winds on his birthday.
Robert Montgomery, motion picture actor, started duty as an assistant naval attaché at the U.S. embassy in London, holding the rank of lieutenant after arriving from the United States. In New York, editors voting in a poll of 1,878 papers found over two to one against immediate U.S. involvement in the war, with 871 responding.
A speaker notes rising need for vacancies before the school opens. He cites Mrs Anthony’s duplex at 1901 Buchanan, rented on the first day, describing a nice three-room setup with garage and floor furnace.
New York dispatch reports Hamburg damage from British raids and high German casualties on the Russian front. West Point carries Axis officials to Lisbon with 388 passengers including consular staff and families. return voyage reveals German city wreckage, wounded influx to Dresden, and wartime hardship.
Sailors described Axis officials departing the United States in a mood of dejection while many returning Americans spoke of hardships under war conditions. Consul comments in Rome and Oslo highlighted food shortages and political tensions, with some individuals recalling arrests and solitary confinement during the German advance.
Canadian army's third division joined the Canadian corps in Britain after a swift Atlantic crossing. The force landed in a British port and formed one of the empire's strongest divisions, coming through the North Atlantic danger zone without incident in this convoy.
Dale Smiley of the First National Bank says Amarilloans will soon have tax anticipation bonds. The bonds are issued for income taxpayers to buy before their first payments due in mid March of next year.
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