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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1941
Page
6
Ruth Ayers notes The Globe News as an independent democratic paper in Amarillo. The article reflects on Italy’s empire in Somaliland Libya and Ethiopia, noting heavy losses and questioning the cost of empire. It ends with a quip about an income tax return showing no tax.
April Burnett schemes to stand in for Ann on a home leave for Kent Carter who is blinded by war wounds. She stages a steak fry road trip with Hal Parks as distraction while racing to a windmill farm, but guilt and risk mount as she arrives at the Carter home. The chapter ends with a tense cliffhanger.
United Press reporters Morris and Wilson chronicle a three day transatlantic sprint aboard the Yankee Clipper. From Lisbon to New York they describe cramped berths, hurried meals, Refugees and officials packed aboard as Europe burns, Africa glows and the Amazon nears.
Washington puzzle asks five questions about national leadership and governance. It queries who runs democracy's arsenal, the roles Arch ald MacLeish and W A Julian hold, which three Supreme Court justices are former cabinet members, how Vice President Wallace helps senators stay fit, and who the new ambassadors to the U S from Britain and Japan are.
Letters from Horace Mann School parents call for a traffic signal on North East Eighth Avenue to protect 1,500 students crossing to school. Other contributors urge parking meters, stronger stop signs, and public education literature in tourist areas to welcome visitors and curb drunk driving with tougher penalties.
Broken arrows show British air and sea forces attacking Italy from Bengali in a potential London plan. Malta and other bases would be used, while a solid black arrow marks the spearhead threatening Tripoli.
The Netherlands famed tulips are crushed by the German invasion with bulbs diverted to coffee substitutes and cattle fodder. Hyacinths become feed, narcissus starch, and an ersatz flour from bulbs. Before the war, tulip acreage was cut by defense efforts. exports to the United States remain a major trade item.
A published remark cites Timothy N. Pfeiffer of the National Probation Association describing inmates as a total loss to society and themselves while Bishop Henry St. George Tucker offers a contrasting view that God intends people to use all possibilities in the world.
Col. Lindbergh argues the distance and logistics make a purely air invasion of America unlikely now or ever. He notes no air invasion has succeeded without ground and naval support and dismisses northern routes via Greenland and Alaska as unsafe. He outlines the huge preparatory arms, bases, and sea transport required for a hypothetical Africa to Brazil to United States air raid and concludes American aviation and geography provide impregnable defense.
The article notes the elimination and segregation of Jews as fixed measures of Hitler's new order. It cites that about 2.5 million of Europe’s 9 million Jews fell under German control since 1938, with 850,000 Jews in seven occupied countries in 1939 per the American Jewish Committee estimates.
Reports from Associated Press describe wide-ranging anti Jewish measures as Nazi control spreads. In Poland, Vienna, and Paris Jews are barred from professions, public office, and many trades, forced into ghettos or segregated zones, with thousands deported or confined and new laws restricting daily life.
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