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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1942
Page
11
A Globe News Publishing Co. feature blends wartime editorial urging united Allied action with a serialized story about Stephen Curt and his wife Diana. Diana confronts Adela and Richard Thorpe over a plot as Stephen faces a government assignment linking romance, loyalty, and wartime duty.
Diana agrees to stay and manage Stephen Curt's household as he leaves for a month long journey. He entrusts her with control, money, and duties while Adela and Eva complicate their strained arrangements. The couple confront suspicions, promises, and personal loyalties as the trip looms. He plans travel via Pan American Clipper to Cristobal then a Sikorsky amphibian along Ecuador and Colombia coasts.
The National Industrial Conference Board cites unemployment near 1.6 million as the irreducible minimum, while a wartime expansion of the Army and Navy suggests a looming labor shortage. More women in industry and older men returning to work are expected, with millions more men needed for the war effort.
Indignation in Moscow over the ruin of Tolstoy’s birthplace near Tula, the Yasnaya Polyana house likely reduced to a blackened ruin. The writer’s War and Peace endures beyond destruction, translated worldwide and housed in millions of copies.
The Census Bureau cites 28 factories producing portable chemical fire extinguishers valued at 9 228 000 dollars. The 1940 Census notes watermelons grown in the United States could form a patch 10 miles wide and 43 miles long.
A Brazilian stamp issued in 1937 honors the second South American Radio Conference. The piece portrays Rio de Janeiro with ships docking at Avenida Rio Branco near the harbor, and notes war orders and city institutions such as the national library and University of Rio de Janeiro.
NBC uses a stable of foreign language announcers to relay Roosevelt speeches with ad libs and pauses, while Miss Nathalia Danesi voices for Italians. The Bellows Fellowship raises funds in Latin America to buy RAF Hurricanes, with chapters from Mexico City to Buenos Aires sending windfalls to the British Ministry of Aircraft Production.
A reader puzzle asks about word meanings as Japan gears toward war. Clarke Kawakami, a Japanese American newspaperman, announces his intention to enlist and fight for the U. S. A. after Tojo becomes premier.
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