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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1942
Page
4
Founded February 20 1924 and entered as second class matter at Amarillo Texas under the 1879 act. Published evenings except weekends in connection with The Amarillo Daily News on Sundays. Gene Howe president and publisher John McCarty associate publisher. Telephones for news and business circulation department 6262.
The essay questions parachutist scares and questions the practicality of airborne drops in the northeast, arguing civilians could reach any landing points by ordinary travel. It notes General Marshall as a likely UN commander and cites other leaders and figures on war strategy and finance.
In a tense thriller, Ward Allen hides crimes as he plots to protect Delia Stewart and himself. Fenner confronts deception, a fatal shot ends a killer’s scheme, and Joyce faces the fallout with Murdock and Thorndike among the stakes.
Gallup analyzes why Democrats hold advantages in this campaign noting President Roosevelt's wartime popularity with 79 percent approval and the belief the Democrats handle the war effort better. It argues Republicans lack a unifying, widely appealing issue to sway independents, leaving the in power party advantaged.
Dorothy Thompson argues Gandhi chose rebellion over revolution and warns his nonviolence stance invites global conflict. She contrasts Gandhi with Lenin, India's fate, and the risk to world democracies, urging a broader alliance approach rather than single minded opposition to Britain.
The piece links Stalin’s name with Stalingrad and Soviet power while noting the city’s industrial strength on the Volga. It shifts to Capitol Records debuting disk production without shellac under George H. Clark, with Buddy De Sylva and Johnny Mercer driving a rapid nationwide rollout via Nat Cohn and Glenn Wallichs.
Time recounts a sad-faced British colonel seized in desert fighting and shown to Field Marshal Rommel. Rommel, polite, lends field glasses and permits a farewell speech to his Indian troops in Urdu before about 70 men flee, briefly evading German brigades along the desert road.
In a collage of wartime chatter and cinema lore, Collier’s notes shifts from Atlanta politics to the War Production Board limits on phonograph records, and then tours Hollywood slang. Terms like twitterpated and gams appear beside references to Gene Talmadge and Mrs Roosevelt.
A Washington visitor in New York forgets toothpaste and encounters new rules on old tube turn ins. He buys cold cream, empties it on a napkin, then dutifully turns in the used container, deeming the act legal and satisfying the system. He feels he contributed, albeit vaguely, to the effort.
The beacon atop the Colgate-Palmolive Building in Chicago emits 2 billion candlepower, so strong that airline passengers report reading a newspaper by its light from 25 to 30 miles away. At one yard from the source the light is about 20,000 times brighter than neon sunlight at Earth’s surface.
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