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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1943
Page
5
A vivid 1930s dispatch from Ari, Italy describes Bari street children boxing for candy and pennies with sharp wit. Young hustlers, both boys and girls, operate like a bootlegger's crew, marking zones and targeting soldiers as they pass.
Radio Istanbul reports Hungary plans general mobilization starting with the new year. An official decree bans Hungarian subjects aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country as a precautionary measure amid rising tensions.
Rinse glasses each morning with soap and hot water. Dry thoroughly using tissue paper or a soft clean absorbent cloth to reduce daytime cleaning needs.
Wounded veterans report the M-1 helmet and liner serve beyond protection. It holds water or coffee, acts as a pillow, and can be used as a stove or seat. One soldier credits the helmet with saving his life by deflecting a machine gun bullet. Special gasoline rations for convalescing service members are announced. A German dispatch claims Churchill traveled from Cairo to Aswan for health reasons.
In a year end note Chester Bowles, OPA chief, forecasts possible termination of some wartime controls in 1944 and urges Americans to treat price control as a personal responsibility. Dutch settlers in early New York cultivated oysters in cellars using sea sand beds and river water. British air-sea rescue experts unveil a parachute dropped lifeboat with power to carry 11 men up to 100 miles.
German communique says five to six British destroyers torpedoed and sunk by U boats in the Bay of Biscay. German ships damaged British cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise, with one fire. One German destroyer and two torpedo boats reportedly sunk. some crews saved. British Admiralty counters with different losses. Berlin also claims U boats sank five Allied merchant vessels totaling 35,000 tons.
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones wraps up a holiday visit to Amarillo and Denton to see his sister Mrs. W. C. Moss and heads to Washington. Judge Jones said farmers will supply essentials and government will strive to provide needed provisions.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS reports Texas cavalrymen opened the invasion of New Britain on foot. U S Sixth Army forces landed at Arawe after a bombardment as part of a diversion to draw Japanese attention from Cape Gloucester.
In Knoxville Tennessee yesterday Mrs George Ess linger gave birth to a son weighing 18 pounds 10 ounces. Dr Ed A Schumann notes the Ess linger baby is the fifth heaviest on record with largest at 25 pounds. The 26 year old mother, wife of a war plant worker, is reported doing nicely. the baby is normal and 21 inches long with a 15 4 inch head.
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