29 Dec 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1942
Page
1
A reader seeks a good home for a four week old Maltese kitten and its mother who is strong at mouser duties. The notice requests a kind home and mentions contact details for arranging adoption.
A set of short notes from a local page asks for a pen pal at 55 or older a housekeeper for children and lists several lost items including a midnight blue coat a black apron a diamond ring and a white chiffon scarf with candy stripes. Contact details and dates are provided for each request or loss.
Allied bombers and fighters pounded Axis held ports and inland transport across Tunisia, destroying docks in Sousse and warehouses in Sousse Sfax and Gabes. Forward area patrols reported casualties and prisoners taken on the Merdjez el Bab Tebourba road as French and British forces push south and east.
The Fund for the Barnes Children publishes a donor list totaling 1289.50 dollars for relatives of a family killed in a gas poisoning tragedy. The list includes Gene Snodgrass, Blackburn-Shaw, J. Ray, Mrs. W. B. Gunn, C. J. Wires, Tom Bowles, A. E. Stephens, Mrs. Sid Braunig, Jack Ellis, Tom Wingate, Vernon Hancock, Elmo Blackburn, C. V. Moore, Mrs. Stella Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beckwith, Miss Beatrice Ellis, Mrs. Thelma Brown, Jessica M. Young, Mrs. Mildred Reeves, Rudy Greene, Hugo Joeks, Jimmie Campbell, Kathryn Jones, and many others. Total donations reach $1,289.50.
Hollywood column notes Charlie Chaplin fans clash with Pegler over Chaplin's wartime stance and personal ego. It praises Pegler's digging but faults neglect of show-world bootlickers who inflate celebrities into authorities. Other items include reviews and brief entertainment updates.
A light column notes that new steel pennies may affect parking meters in Amarillo as meters were adjusted for new nickels and the penny design draws interest. It also mentions a traffic officer's lack of interest in a proposed three cent coin and provides a jelly recipe tip replacing sugar with honey or corn syrup. It ends with a forecast that Spain's 1940-41 orange crop will fill 10,000,000 boxes.
A year ago Katharine Aldridge refused a Fox contract offer over pay and scripts. now she sends a Christmas ham to the studio chief as payback. The column rounds up quips about celebrities including John Payne Betty Grable Veronica Lake and Joan Bennett with light sarcasm and gossip.
The Amarillo Elks announce an open house starting at 3 PM on New Year’s Day with invites extended to members’ wives and sweethearts. Florence Nightingale was born May 15, 1820.
J. Edgar Hoover details the Joliet prison break gang led by Touhy and others, including Lanthorn and McInerney, captured after a nationwide manhunt. He notes Touhy dyed hair, the gang’s resistance, and broken draft evasion history tied to a $100,000 Charlotte mail robbery case.
Mrs. Prek Thurman reported water gushing from a kitchen pipe at 10 Georgia Street flooding her home after a freeze. Another house at 1110 Rosemont Street suffered flooding from frozen pipes while the owners visited downstate.
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