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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1947
Page
10
The Amarillo Globe News announces its publishing staff and offices with rates for daily and Sunday subscriptions, carrier options, and combined Globe and News plans. Pricing includes 900 yearly full Amarillo delivery, 450 half year, and 2.25 for three months, plus various other options.
A spoof list from The Globe outlines 13 humorous platform planks for Amarillo including city charter revisions, a coliseum claim, a new city hall, traffic control improvements, downtown area cleanup, sports facilities, park expansion, water supply, hospital facilities, a terminal, support for small industries, cultural activities, and expanded school facilities with teachers' salaries. The editor invites readers to submit a 500 word letter for a $10 prize.
A New York newspaperman exposes that Charles Lucky Luciano gave no useful information to the U.S. government. He was deported after a decade in prison as an undesirable alien to save taxpayers the cost of his confinement.
The 1946 strikes are described as symptoms of fundamental flaws in national labor relations policy, according to a statement attributed to Senator Joseph R. Levy of Minnesota.
Dorothy Thompson argues American isolationism risks from dwindling assets and waning alliances. She warns the USSR seeks relief and credits, critiques Polish, Italian, and British positions, and calls for stronger economic cooperation with the U.S. while avoiding political entanglements.
George E Sokolsky analyzes Herbert Hoovers critique of the Morgenthau Plan and Potsdam Protocol. He argues the plan moral wrongs would burden taxpayers and hinder European order, urging early German economic revival and export capacity to avoid endless feeding of occupied Germany. He cites Hoover on fishery policy and postwar cost allocations.
Billy Rose recalls interviewing about a hundred fortune tellers for Casa Manana in 1938. He describes vivid characters from a Merlin descendant to a gypsy king, with some admitting disbelief while others claim accuracy. The tale ends as a palm reader named Lady Elizabeth recalls a predictive horoscope.
A story recounts a fortune teller who declares a man born on June 5 1895 a Gemini with a troubled temper. The client later splits from a fiancé, believed foretold by planetary positions. The tale blends astrology with social intrigue, featuring a woman in sable and a past marriage.
A comic column notes a neighbor Ellis buys an automatic washer and a Polk Street professor frets over space, money, and domestic plans. The wife argues the device saves time and money, while the professor doubts its fit and wonders if she will install it in his room built last summer. The piece ends with a tongue in cheek challenge to readers about marital insight.
A mixed set of horizontal and vertical crossword clues lists many entries across themes. Clues include notable figures, common terms, abbreviations, and wordplay such as Pictured US statesman and Adhesive material along with many literary and linguistic hints.
Fire at a three story rooming house in Chicago killed four people. Warren Crockett aged 70 jumped from his room as flames trapped others. A woman died on impact and Michael Kristo viesch aged 47 died later at County Hospital from a fractured skull. The fourth victim was burned to death inside his room.
In The Long Night Henry Fonda is begged by 450 townspeople and 50 police to face a murder charge but stays inside his room until Barbara Bel Geddes persuades him. Fonda later praises feminine logic. Separately, South Africa tops world gold production.
In Champaign Urbana on March 4 Martin Kamerer drove home in his new car from a parking lot. Mrs Kamerer arrived in a nearly identical car minutes later and police alerted Ray Eliot the University of Illinois football coach. Eliot had reported his gift car missing after Illinois Rose Bowl win over UCLA. Mrs Kamerer found and returned his car.
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