29 Jun 1943
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1943
Page
1
A Panhandle weather report describes an unexpected rain burst and forecasts more heat next week. The piece surveys inflation since Pearl Harbor with a dollar’s buying power decline from 1.00 to about 1.20, 1.45 after 1945, and potentially 1.80 to 1.85 later. It also mentions grocery prices and a victory garden story and a theft case in Amarillo.
Mrs Burns asks for a baby buggy in Amarillo, available until mid August. She will not provide care and lists contact 26857 or 1410 Lincoln St for pickup.
A stream of letters and anecdotes covers crime, missing dogs, farm labor, and social musings. notes include a theft alert for a cocker spaniel, a reward offer, war work comments, and humorous observations on gender roles and daily routines.
A North Carolina fable about a king who ignores a farmer’s jackass weather signal. The king hires a false prophet, faces a rainstorm, and learns to hire the farmer who truly reads the signs. The tale ends with a joke about jackasses doing weather prognostication.
Stockholm reports Reichsbank Essener Zeitung details Allied use of aircraft carriers to guard convoys, forcing German U boat tactics to shift. It notes a claimed 31 million tons sunk prior to June, though not independently confirmed, and mentions U.S. Navy Secretary Knox citing many new auxiliary carriers in use and more planned by year end.
Yugoslav guerrilla forces in Herzegovia and Montenegro repelled a 40 day German offensive and launched a counterattack that pushed the Germans back. Government-in-exile sources report railway sabotage between Simbolcic and the Drina River bridge and German retreat in Herzegovina and Eastern Bosnia.
Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell is in Chungking for a series of major conferences with top Chinese leaders. Observers say the discussions could signal Stilwell later heading an Allied effort to drive the Japanese from Burma.
The Senate moved to meet the appropriation deadline by passing a 1.238 billion dollar labor federal security bill and restoring 47.8 million for the National Youth Administration in fiscal 1944. In other dispatches, Hangchow has been recaptured, fighting rages on the eastern front, and Erwin Harry Despretter admits guilt in a wartime espionage case in Brooklyn.
A Tri-State Rodeo parade will march on Polk Street at 11 Saturday morning as part of events leading to four rodeo shows Friday Saturday and July 4. George Autry leads parade planning for the Range Riders. All horse owners are invited. Cecil Cornish will ride a Brahma bull named Danger. The march forms on Eleventh Avenue between Polk and Taylor then proceeds to Third Avenue and the Herring Hotel.
London report cites Belgian government in exile quoting underground paper Linsoumis. It says more than 7,500 Belgians have been shot since the occupation, and notes the killing of Flemish National Socialist Henry Labre by patriots at Schaerbeek Brussels.
Jimmie Fidler notes worries over Harvest Moon costumes resembling zoot suits while Wally Brown's duo adds a second passenger for October. Ingrid Bergman skips the NY premiere opting for San Francisco with Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Betty Grable, Harry James romance questioned for a Lohengrin ending amid married-status tensions. Hamiltons seek name changes to dodge autograph seekers and paparazzi. Hollywood star privacy and public obsession draw sharp commentary on fame’s price.
Charles M. Elkington of the Office of Price Administration says Congress is to blame for the meat shortage and proposes price controls from farm to table to end the shortage. He calls for measures spanning producers to consumers.
Rex Baxter says Amarillo area to return the fast survey of wartime plant needs by Monday. The Smaller War Plants Corporation expands in the Southwest to map civilian and war contracts while Amarillo hosts a noon luncheon at the Amarillo Hotel.
The Navy reports a bombing attack on a small convoy of light Japanese ships in the central Solomons and continued aerial strikes against Kiska in the Aleutians. American fliers hit enemy positions in the Kiska area eight more times, six on Sunday. Monday operations targeted Kiska and Little Kiska with hits on houses noted for the first time.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed six Chicagoans’ treason convictions and sent the cases back for a second trial. Hans Haupt Otto Wering and Walter Froehling and their wives Fran, Kate and Lucille had been sentenced to death or 25 years. They were accused of harboring Herbert Haupt, son of the Haupts, an alleged Nazi saboteur brought to the U S last spring. The reversal was unanimous.
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