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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1941
Page
11
News items report Willkie seeks a public debate with Roosevelt while German threats to U S ships arise and British American bases discussions proceed. Other notes cover society weddings and showers, theater previews, radio offers, and local civic decisions like Potter County hospital bonds.
Workmen dig sand and grave for Friant dam in California. Postmaster W D DeGrassi elected Texas Chapter president of the National Association of Postmasters. Patsy Hill of Dallas hosts breakfast at Amarillo Country Club. The Shopworn Angel with Sullavan and Stewart screens at the State. First Amarillo Council officers named. Marion Kelly honored before leaving for Chicago. Supper club scene and social notes follow with dances, tours, and engagements. Army to pay higher food prices reflected in regional notices. Amarillo hosts Will Rogers Memorial Celebration. golf results in local club. Rhythm On The Range at Paramount and Duke Vance Orchestra at Crown Bar. Musical selections and entertainment line the column.
The piece argues public confusion over Roosevelt’s nerve diplomacy in the Far East, noting a lack of clarity on shipping restrictions to Japan and how funds and licenses are handled. It highlights Treasury and State Dept secrecy, embargoed aviation fuels, frozen Japanese funds, and a secret process governing exports. It also covers price legislation fights and looming tax burdens on Congress.
Roosevelt Churchill talks prompt a rethinking of U S war needs with Lord Beaverbrook outlining a vast upgrade of armaments and food. Officials expect a $10 billion or more program to expand factories and speed deliveries to Britain and aid to Russia.
A puzzle page lists numerous cryptic style clues across horizontal and vertical entries. Readers attempt to solve poets, animals, notes, verbs, prepositions, and common abbreviations mapped to grid positions with hints like sun god and city names.
Dorothy Thompson argues the eight points shared by Britain and the United States form a revolutionary world peace program. She notes the plan enshrines national self government, economic cooperation, and disarmament safeguards within an English speaking alliance. The future of freedom hinges on America embracing and sustaining this creed.
Ernie Pyle visits the Little Brown Church in Nashua Iowa a historic Congregational church dating to 1864. It attracts about 600 visitors weekly with free admission and funds its operations primarily from weddings earning about five dollars per ceremony plus tips. The church memory hall features portraits of Dr William Savage Pitts and Rev John Keep Nutting and souvenir sales support the church through a commission to Mrs Ruben Van Corder.
New findings reported by Denis L. Fox and Lloyd J. Anderson show green and pink pigments in mud cores from the ocean floor. Green pigments resemble plant coloring matter but are not chlorophyll, while pink carotenoids relate to vitamin A production in animals. Some layers in the Gulf of Mexico are dated 6 000 to 7 000 years old.
In September 1938 A M Lackey of Dallas sought a position with East Texas firms. He mailed 61 self written letters requesting personal interviews. The letters yielded five job offers, six interview promises, 33 congratulatory notes, and several appointment requests.
Dr. Kunihiko Hashida, former principal of Tokyo’s First Higher School, becomes education minister in Konoye’s cabinet. A physician by training, he studied abroad, led major schools, and is noted for his Zen Buddhist beliefs and a hobby playing the shakuhachi flute. He and his wife adopted two daughters.
John Faulkner's Men Working portrays a Mississippi sharecropper family facing WPA towns and rising costs. The piece compares Hub and Buddy to Ma Joad figures, notes Virginia's marriage, and praises Faulkner's realism while predicting literary interest from Steinbeckians. It also reviews The Case of the Kippered Corpse and Fishermen at War with brief notes on other warsea volumes and Bartimeus on naval history.
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