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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
5
The Amarillo Globe, published evenings except weekends, operates with The Amarillo Daily News on Sundays. GENE HOWE serves as President and Publisher with JOHN McCARTY as Assistant Publisher and WESLEY IZZARD as Editor in Chief.
Wartime labor debate centers on OG Matthew Smith of the Mechanics Educational Society of America who may face strict action for halting strikes in 44 plants. Critics compare his tactics to John L. Lewis and warn the government could invoke wartime strike laws. Separate notes praise air force upgrades and warn of German pilots.
The piece argues that Charles Bedaux evaded treason trials to protect France and international fascist networks. It stresses that restoring French constitutional authority requires trials of Bedaux and allied figures, warning that failing to do so harms democratic morale and France’s postwar stability.
War dispatch by Ernie Pyle from Italy describes a night march in a cold olive grove. The company uses pig sheds as shelter, spent hours waiting for orders, and endures damp blankets and distant artillery as they prepare to move at midnight.
Walter Lippmann argues the Marshall and Truk campaigns prove American naval supremacy and discipline, ending a national crisis of confidence. He credits Admiral King and the Navy Department for integrating arms, asserting sea power secures the United States as an island nation amid world war pressures.
The narrator recounts a dentist visit filled with fear and humor as a gold filling is replaced. He distracts her with literature from Alexander Woollcott and Town Crier items while she endures tools, cotton, and a wary bite to his thumb.
A short humor item recalls eight year old Seth Carlin who laughs at a deer chapter asking how deer open cereal boxes. Other vignettes include a Folsom prison guard reporting a radio theft, Ferrendi claiming 500 yard running speed, and a joke about Berlin spelling after Allied bombing.
A Tokyo radio commentary notes that despite reports of imperial navy gains in separate battles the Japanese navy does not have the war situation fully under control. A separate unrelated quote from Henry Abbott, a 94 year old New Jersey manufacturer, humorously describes a finger hole in water.
A fragmented note laments changing slang and nicknames. It contrasts old phrases like snowball in Hades with modern quips about a red moustache nicknamed the biscuit duster. The writer humorously critiques stereotypes and jokes about traveling salesmen and country girls.
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