Local Amarillo paper founded February 20 1924
Founded February 20 1924 entered as second class matter at the Amarillo Texas post office under the act of March 3 1870 published evenings except Saturdays and Sundays with The Amarillo Daily News on Sundays by The Globe-News Publishing Co Sixth and Fillmore Gene Howe president and publisher John McCarty associate publisher telephones news and business circulation departments
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Amarillo
Texas
Glnbe-News Publishing Co
Sixth and
Fillmore
Germans in Batavia plotted to seize Dutch holdings
A report notes a local German plot in Batavia and Surabaya to seize assets as Hitler invaded the Low Countries. Dutch authorities intercepted the network by coded telegram and rounded up armed Germans into concentration camps. The piece contrasts German moves elsewhere with this counterexample.
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H. A. Peterson
Batavia
Java
Peterson
Netherlands East Indies
Hitler
Low Countries
Surabaya
Holland
Poland
Norway
Denmark
Strangling Culture: New European Order Actions in Czechoslovakia
John F. Norman of the Latin American Economic Institute notes sweeping German measures in Czechoslovakia. Czech schools close, universities German dominated, Prague library books censored, and Sokol societies dissolved as part of the perceived new day under German control.
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Europe
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Sokol
South America
John F. Normano
Latin American Economic Institute
Airpower and the coming age of total war
A veteran analyst discusses aviation rivalry between the Army and Navy, dive bombing, and the need for a separate air force. He notes German air strategy, the value of trained air personnel, and how civilian targets shape future warfare strategy including strategic bombing and infrastructure targets.
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AS Williams
Navy
General Marshall
Army
Marshall
Bureau of Aeronautics
Naval Air Arm
Air Corps
United States
London
RAF
Berlin
McLemore on General Lear as wartime hero
Henry McLemore casts General Ben Lear as a unifying wartime hero. He praises Lear for stopping soldiers from flirting with Memphis girls and orders a night at the airport as punishment, while imagining future statues honoring the commander.
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Henry McLemore
United States
Ben Lear
Dor
Second Army
Destiny
Memphis
Pacific
Rocky Mountain
General Lear
America
Tennessee
110Th Motor Transport
Sherman
Arkansas
Adam
Eve
Garden of Eden
Caliban and Adoreen Kidnapping Leads to Hidden Long Island Hunt
Angus MacPhillips traces Castaloni after Adoreen Margate is kidnapped from a Manhattan apartment. Inspector Callahan suspects the missing woman is inside the Castaloni gang’s Connecticut base, guiding Angus toward a night trek to a Long Island hideout under floodlights.
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Hormon
Angus
Manhattan
Castaloni
Adoreen
Long Island
Hennessy
Spike
Butch
Trigger Tim
Callahan
Adoreen Margate
Miss Mickletwidge
MacPhillips
New York
Inspector Callahan
Addie
Connecticut
East River
Queensboro Bridge
Adoreen Implicated as Shootout Explodes Outside House
Angus and Spike race from a tense standoff as bullets crack near the Broccoli King’s house. Adoreen’s terrified voice and Castaloni’s marksmanship drive a chaotic escape toward the truck while gunfire shatters the night.
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Angus
Madison Square Garden
Adoreen
Spike
Butch
Trigger Tim
Castaloni
At the Crossroad of Interstate Travel A Reporter Walks
Evelyn Jeanne McCarty describes a bustling Sixth Avenue and Fillmore Street intersection seen from the Globe News office. The scene shows Americans from many states in cars, bicycles, and wagons. flags, regalia, humor, and everyday lives mix as time seems to blur across highways.
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Evelyn Jeanne McCarty
Sixth Avenue
Fillmore Street
Montana
the Globe News
Dalhart
XIT
Tennessee
Illinois
Amarillo
Missouri
Ohio
Maine
California
Colorado
Virginia
Frank Galbrath
The
Globe News
Indiana
Frying Pan Ranch
Tack
Weather Bureau
Mary Ann Hall
Alice Mayne
Red Cross
Oklahoma
Shaemus Leaves a Suburban World of Quiet Charm
A memoir recalls Shaemus the itinerant worker who lived with a family for four weeks in a leafy suburb. His simple dignity, broad experiences, and practical crafts filled the home with warmth until he vanished with a foot ailment and a longing to defend his country.
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Shaemus
Suzie
Shure
Prince of Wales
Ould
Kayzer
Queen Victoria
This Above All Opens With The War In Spring
Excerpt from Eric Knight’s This Above All describes a town on the Esplanade watching gunfire begin as spring ends and soldiers expect decisive news. Citizens feel relief though distant artillery signals a broader conflict across the Channel.
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Channel Hotel
Esplanade
Dunkirk
Eric Knight
Harper
DUNKING By CHARLES R MOORE HOLLYWOOD
Olivia de Havilland’s secluded beach dunking for Hold Back the Dawn drew a crowd of about 100 as director Mitchell Leisen staged a secret scene near Oxnard California. A silk flesh colored bathing suit created the illusion of nudity while cameras rolled and footprints vanished after rehearsals and safety checks.
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Charles R. Moore
Hollywood
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia
Holywood
Mitchell Leisen
Oxnard
Calif
Charles Boyer
Boyer
Miss de Havilland
Leisen
Star
Miss di Havilland
Olivi
Hedy LaMarr
Cracker’s Screenland Visit Teases Hollywood Gossip Tour
A Screenland feature describes a Hollywood town tour with a guide revealing gossip about film folk. It promises answers to five questions about a famous comedy trio breakup, engagements, a singing star in The Bowery Nightingale, a silent star returning in Father Takes a Wife, and a comic duo rising in Army and Navy adventures.
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Screenland
Hollywood
Iff
Silent Pictures
Army
Navy
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Gene Howe
John McCarty
Telephones, News and Business Department
Circulation Department
England
Willkie
Russia
Middle East
Caucasus
McLemore-Colored
Camp Forrest
Camp Robinson
Lear
Lincoln
Ethan Allen
Commodore Perry
Stonewall Jackson
William T. Sherman
Vermont
Cupid
Romeo and Juliet
Dante
Beatrice
Brenda
Caliban
Caleb
Central Park
Tim
By Norman Kahl
British Isles
Massachusetts
Mary Ann Castleberry
West
Eleventh Avenue
Brunett
Christian Science Monitor
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