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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1942
Page
5
A vintage ad touts Phillips 66 Poly Gas high test as a powerful starter for cold motors. It promotes Phillips as the world’s largest producer of natural high test gasoline and invites readers to try a tankful to verify faster starting performance.
The Senate Small Business Committee heard Price Administrator Leon Henderson and auto industry reps on mitigating the hurt from the new car sales freeze. L. Clare Cargile urged government action to aid about 44,000 dealers and a half million workers, proposing eight relief steps.
Rome reports a second British battleship damaged after earlier claim of a Valiant class vessel hit in attacks on Alexandria December 17. The new claim targets a Berham type 31,100 ton battleship with 15 inch guns.
Rock Hill South Carolina on January 9 reports the Red Cross quota of seven thousand dollars. Publisher A W Huckle proposed raising the money in seven hours on January 7 and the slogan in 7 on the 7th guided the effort. The campaign surpassed the goal in five hours without house to house canvassing.
Community notice lists Betty Floyd at 2704 Polk Street seeking a finder to call 7457 and offers for Mrs Lewis and Mrs Bills seeking housing or work. A reader requests return of a lost billfold containing receipts and ten dollars lost at the post office on January 4.
Atlanta residents debate women in slacks as Red Cross trainees report in downtown, with Miss May McCauley defending practical work attire amid whistles and remarks. She cites war effort demands and calls for respect for working women. The piece blends anecdote, public opinion, and help-wanted notices tucked in.
The notice reports a total of $12 968 10 spent yesterday toward defense dollar drives with $1 420 60 in stamps. It urges daily effort including Sundays to meet the state administrator of defense quota and asks for help locating workers and pets in multiple classified ads. It lists job seekers, a lost dog Clover near Friona, and rewards for recovered items along with personal notices from Amarillo and nearby towns.
Two United Press correspondents describe the first two weeks of Japanese occupation in Shanghai Tienshan Western Chekiang Province Jan 7. Rice riots, epidemics and terror accompany occupation as food shortages deepen and foreigners face banking and travel restrictions.
Pattern 9930 may be ordered only in children sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Size 6 dress requires 12 yards 35 inch fabric and 3 4 yards contrast smock 13 4 yards 35 inch fabric slacks and pockets 15 8 yards contrast. Send FIFTEEN CENTS to The Amarillo News Pattern Dept 232 West 18th Street New York NY. An additional TEN CENTS buys the Spring Pattern Book.
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