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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1944
Page
8
Fragment from The Globe News columns detailing wartime remarks from Polk Street Professor and others. It mixes a grim call for discipline with humorous anecdotes about a pilot’s heroism near Cherbourg and office gossip among editors and locals. It mentions readers’ reactions and small-town humor, reflecting community wartime spirit.
Ernie Pyle recounts how a British pilot survived eight days trapped in a wrecked plane. A bullet wounded his hand while a handkerchief kept bleeding, trapping the cloth to his fingers during extraction. Militon Van Sickel and William Schnike rescued him, and a surgeon treated his clothing removals. The pilot, naked except for a blue shirt, bore a healed calf wound and a gas burn along his back with developing gangrene from prolonged pressure.
The piece notes Pullman workers paid 180 dollars for thoughts on better car design, with 96 545 suggestions and 14 089 adopted. It also cites plans for a noiseless coupling and walkie talkie access for upper berth passengers. Wartime commentaries reference German retreats and calls for civic discipline. It ends with methane as a highway fuel claim and a chemist’s remark.
Economists warn of a lingering postwar slump as demobilization unfolds slowly. Estimates suggest 200,000 to 250,000 service members may depart monthly after Europe, with navy cuts delayed until Japan ends. The War Labor Board faces criticism over vacation pay for discharged thieves, implying broad political contention over postwar policy and air industry control.
A substantial majority of business and professional people nationwide favor Thomas E. Dewey. Anti-Roosevelt sentiment among these groups is smaller now than in 1940, showing Roosevelt retains greater support despite the fourth term issue.
A mixed snapshot of 1929 and 1934 events notes shipyards preparing a record Antarctic whaling expedition, Sandino hiding in Yucatan, Kellogg urging public opinion for peace, Texas prison centralization, Amarillo gas talks, Schuschnigg’s proof on Dollfuss murder, Hitler’s winter prep and conscription talk, hog prices at 7.75, Panhandle civic drive, and polls on Governor O Daniel. It comments on war readiness, diplomacy, and shifting public opinion amid looming global conflict.
A compact grid of crossword clues lists many entries across horizontal and vertical lines. The readable items include definitions for words such as finish pictured and various abbreviations, with entries like Indian tribe and oil terms hinted within.
The excerpt quotes Gen. Charles de Gaulle stressing France faces its greatest sacrifices as the war enters a supreme phase. It notes that withdrawal from current positions is punishable by death and that an empowerment or authority is implied.
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