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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1943
Page
2
A Panhandle writer recalls past army camp debates and notes today’s calls for local encampments amid Valley Fever concerns. He also satirizes Washington life, politics, and labor policy while naming Marvin Jones and Amon Carter as figures in the era’s power dynamics.
A Miami newspaper ran a daily roll of dishonor naming drivers who used gasoline for pleasure trips to the track and a scroll of infamy listing autoists who drove to the dog races. The notes reflect public concern over wasting fuel during the season at Tropical Park Florida.
WAAC headquarters open today and tomorrow in the Sweet Briar Shop across from the Paramount Theater. Sgt T K Morris, Army recruiter, urges women ages 21 to 45 to visit the booth for WAAC information and service options. Lieut Rose Smothers arrives tomorrow afternoon to interview applicants through Friday and conduct aptitude tests Wednesday night. Smothers will speak at the Business and Professional Women's Club dinner tomorrow night on Army recruiting for women volunteers. The recruiter says thousands of women are needed for specialized WAAC training to free soldiers for combat duty.
Loretta Stocker, a Chicago Servicemen's Center secretary, slipped while chasing a bus. A passerby shouted to hold the bus and urged her to rise quickly, performing a helpful gesture.
Question and answer promoting Black-Draught laxative. It says any laxative helps listlessness if caused by constipation. It praises Black-Draught as herbal, gentle, effective when directions are followed, and affordable at 25 cents for 25 to 40 doses. It notes a granulated form and urges following label directions.
Budget Director Harold D. Smith urged Treasury and Congress to act immediately on pay-as-you-go tax legislation so the plan can start April 1. Rutledge confirmed as associate justice to replace Byrnes as economic stabilization director.
Jimmie Fidler muses on the Judy Garland and Dave Rose split after a little over a year of marriage. He cites career versus marriage as a fault lines theme in Hollywood romances and reflects on the town’s emotional balance.
Sol Levine announces a Wednesday stag party for soldiers at the Tri-State Fair Grounds. The event promises plenty of entertainment with no speeches and lots of excitement. USO Legion volunteers provide music, with Claude High School and Borger High School orchestras scheduled for upcoming Saturday dances.
In Amarillo a soldier talent show at the Auditorium USO featured Private Foster from the local field who cut a burning paper from his wife Mrs. Charles Foster's mouth with a bull whip. The couple once lived in Hot Springs Arkansas. Private Evan Crandall performed a solo singing On the Road to Mandalay.
Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce cites J. K. Ostrander saying a large grain alcohol plant for the synthetic rubber program would need a waterway along the Missouri or Mississippi to handle sewage from a city of 600000. Ostrander notes private interest in locating near 90000 pounds of stand by steam, traveling from Philadelphia to Abilene at WPB request after a petition on grain sorghum.
Warplanes struck rail communications in Southern Sicily and shot down an enemy transport. Fighter-bombers dispersed armored cars in the central sector as Gen Montgomery's Eighth Army advances toward the Tunisian junction. Spanish dispatches report only about 30 percent of Axis supplies reach their destinations with fuel flown in. Eighth Army troops along the coast west of Tripoli contact enemy forces near the Tunisian border 12 miles inside Libya.
North African dispatches report Allied units eight miles from Mareth defense and mass advance as highways are cleared of German mines. Reinforcements arrive on the Tunisian front while defenders hold near Djebel Mansour Hill 648 with French patrol activity and a German thrust repulsed east of Pichon.
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