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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1944
Page
10
Historical note lists The Amarillo Globe launched February 20 1924 with second class matter entry February 20 1934. Publishing details show Globe News Publishing Co Amarillo Texas with GENE HOWE president and publisher and John McCarty assistant publisher Wesley Izzard editor in chief and daily and Sunday connections.
History notes reveal Panama hats largely come from the Far East and Leghorn straw from areas near Florence as Allies advance in Italy. Hat Life advocates long view with aim at Japan and East Asia after the war, promising broader supply of Panama and Bangkok hats.
Paul Mallon analyzes how Hull and Dewey dominate headlines on world peace. Dewey’s stance disrupts Roosevelt campaign rhetoric, with Dulles shaping a postwar peace program and Dewey pressing for internationalization of the Ruhr as a test of leadership and policy.
A wounded British pilot is tended by an aid crew after the plane is damaged. A medical captain and three aid men arrive through a hedge, the doctor assessing the scene and requesting morphine as the pilot cooperates with care.
A retrospective collage from August 25 1929 to August 26 1939 highlights global events and local notes. It mentions Krupp converting German steel for domestic use, stolen jewels recovered in Morocco, and a mix of political, economic, and war scare headlines plus a long World War II era rescue scene describing a pilot’s extraction under severe injury.
A first person vignette warns that endless craving for what others have poisons happiness and friendships. The narrator recalls a carpenter’s tale about envy leading to bitterness, spanning from present to far future, with a 1944 hint on human nature.
The notice recalls Captain Groom’s World War II service from late 1943 to early 1944. He flew on strafing and bombing missions on Bougainville and New Britain and helped protect Allied bombers by shooting down a Japanese plane over Rabaul on December 25. The article notes his leadership and devotion, and identifies him as the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Groom of 808 West Sixteenth Avenue. It also mentions Lt. Charles Cleveland Jones of the U S Naval Reserve completing training and reporting to the Armed Guard Center in New Orleans for duty aboard a merchant ship.
Sgt Maurice W Brock 25, husband of Mrs Adean H Brock, 112 N W Twelfth Ave, serves at a subdepot bomber repair base in England as foreman of the instrument shop. He is a son of Mr and Mrs John A Brock of South Bend Indiana, a former carpenter who joined the Army in January 1940. He trained at Sheppard Field Amarillo and Chanute Field Illinois and has been in the British Isles eight months.
Crossword puzzle clues and answers compiled in a grid, listing horizontal and vertical entries such as Sloth, Indian army insignia, sodium symbol, companion, Greek letters, and various other terms with abbreviations and partials for a historical page segment.
A wounded pilot, tightly bound by injury for eight days, endures a tense extraction from the plane. A soldier provides a board, the doctor lifts and steadies, and the pilot finally sinks into relief as the curtain of pain eases. Alencon is noted as the southern Normandy town.
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