06 Jan 1943
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1943
Page
1
A collection of weather outlooks and home front observations from the Panhandle and West Texas. Notes on colder nights, a historically dry period, and expectations for wetter years postwar. Bits about soldiers, bonds, food, and frontier life with local names and places referenced.
A West Texas column blends wartime planning talk with social jests from readers and anecdotes. It muses on regimentation, cake stockpiling for winter, housekeeper epitaphs, Texas girls and heart bracelets, dog shows, June brides, Mein Kampf queries, air force breath tests, beauty parlors, and tax book sales amid the war effort.
Hollywood gossip explodes with wartime shifts as stars divorce abroad and army air corps mess halls replace lounges. Ann Sheridan plans Mexico divorce from George Brent while Rita Hayworth’s suitors surface. George Raft and Betty Grable’s withheld marriage glosses the romance.
An on set boast reveals a star’s heat treatment plan while filming a holiday scene. He jokes about being broke and comfortable under studio lamps as Veronica Lake tends him, hinting at the glossy, chaotic life behind the camera.
Several readers seek help and services while sharing lost items and employment needs. A reader asks for return of a lost billfold containing documents. others offer or seek live-in help, child care, house chores, or work driving trucks. Calls list phone numbers and contact details.
Professor J L Duflot of West Texas State College Canyon will speak tonight at 8 o clock in the Auditorium USC on race prejudice. An educational film will be shown before the lecture. Duflot is chairman of the college sociology department.
J A Griffin aged 74 died at his Oklahoma City home yesterday. He was the father of Mrs Bernice Arterburn of 1108 Polk Street who is ill at her home here and may miss the funeral. Funeral time in Oklahoma City not yet set pending word from relatives.
Advertises Blue Star Ointment promising immediate relief from itching due to eczema ringworm pimples and toe itch with one application. Claims money back if the first jar fails to satisfy and urges trying it today.
G R Cook a resident at 1302 Fast Eleventh Avenue went deer hunting within Amarillo city limits early this morning. He wrestled a small doe near the Santa Fe yard office on Nineteenth Avenue and lost the encounter. He notified police and game warden Jim Maggard was called. the deer reportedly wandered off with yard workers unsure if it was captured.
In Bern Switzerland Jan 6 two physicists at the Radium Institute of Bern Dr Walter Minder and Dr Alice Leigh Smith announced a method to isolate chemical element 85 the last of the 92 primary components of matter to be identified They named the material Anglo Helvetium in honor of their countries Minder director and Smith pupil of Marie Curie have isolated enough to photograph and study further The element had been postulated by other scientists including in the United States where it was named Alabamine Minder previously said he obtained infinitesimal amounts of element 85 from radium in 1940
Forecasts for a short Texas legislative session are supported by early arrivals predicting a few days under the 120 day limit. Signs include fewer controversial topics proposed in advance, early house organization, and Gov. Coke Stevenson planning a concise general message.
Oklahoma Governor Leon C. Phillips urged wartime suspension of the state income tax in his final address to the 19th Legislature. He forecast a $10 million surplus in the general revenue fund this year and suggested using surplus funds to retire $5.466 million in state bonds before he hands over to rival Robert S. Kerr next Monday.
Commander Herbert E Schonland received the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for directing damage control on the cruiser San Francisco during the Savo Island action. He told Lt. Commander Bruce McCandless to assume command as he fought fires and flooding after heavy Japanese assault.
In London on January 6 7 Gen Charles de Gaulle may delay political aims to discuss military issues with Gen Henri Giraud as both sides aim for Allied cooperation against the Axis. A Christmas Day proposal to meet on French soil drew interest in Algiers though no reply time was announced. Officials say a unified regime faces hurdles tied to Vichy associations and governance.
C. S. Moss, 78, longtime Curry County resident, died at 9 last night in Memorial Hospital Clovis. He is survived by his widow, four daughters and three sons, including sons T. H. Moss, W. B. Moss and L. F. Moss, and daughters Pearl Young of Dumas Orley Rusk of Tucumcari James Fryar of San Diego and Charlie Wood of Bellview New Mexico.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz awarded the Silver Star to his 27 year old son Lieut. Chester W. Nimitz Jr aboard a submarine and the Navy Cross to Capt Ernest G. Small of New Haven Conn commanding officer of the cruiser Salt Lake City. It was the first time the Pacific fleet commander had seen his son in three and a half years.
John Paul Jones sought to keep his fighting name during Navy service. After color blindness barred him at Great Lakes, a Cleveland recruiting office appeal succeeded as physical standards eased. He now serves for the duration and is quoted that he has “just begun to fight.”
Joe DiMaggio tells the Examiner by long distance from Reno that spring training won’t concern him this year and that he isn’t saying readers can draw their own conclusions when asked if he is quitting baseball.
President Roosevelt declared Americans fight for the right of men to live together as one family, promising to extend brotherhood earthwide. He spoke to the National Conference of Christians and Jews during Brotherhood Week 1928. Hollywood to suspend glamor to aid bond drive and produce austerity themed shorts for Australia campaign.
An old advertisement touts a home hair dye using bay rum gly cerine Barbo Compound mixed with water. It claims gray hair turns a soft lustrous color that lasts, won’t wash off or affect permanents, and costs little.
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