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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1944
Page
5
The Am arillo Globe News appears with founding date February 20 1924 and publication notes. It lists Amarillo Texas as filing location and legal status under the 1879 act, with editors and publishers named including Gene Howe John McCarty and Wesley Izzard.
The piece touts nearly 2 million 4-H youths aiding WW II efforts with draft deferments for farm work. Last year they produced 30 million bushels of vegetables, 11 million chickens, 7 million livestock heads, canned 25 million jars, logged 13 million hours, gathered scrap, and helped fund war bonds. It also honors ground crews and cites remarks by Frederick C. Crawford and Air Force Captain Richard I. Bong.
Dorothy Thompson argues that state by state voting for soldiers is obsolete in modern war. She contends economic and social life push toward centralized national systems, with federal authority needing integration rather than sectional power.
Ernie Pyle recalls his LST voyage to Anzio near Naples aboard Captain Joseph Kahrs of Newark New Jersey. He describes loading, crew, and a crowded dock scene with Italian children, beggars, and a poignant giveaway of crackers to a starving elderly woman amid wartime hunger.
A scrambled crossword puzzle lists clues and answers across horizontal and vertical entries. The grid includes chemical symbols, nationalities and common terms, with several misspellings and garbled letters reflecting OCR errors.
Kentucky Republicans favor Thomas E. Dewey for the 1944 presidential nomination, with 26 percent in a current survey. Willkie holds 31 percent from December, while MacArthur has 20 percent and Taft 13 percent. Bricker 8 percent and Warren 1 percent. In Oklahoma, Dewey leads with 36 percent, MacArthur 27 percent, and Willkie 22 percent.
A lively exhortation urges men to value their wives beyond gifts and appearances. It mocks strike talk and April Fool mood, urging honest affection, compliments, and small gestures like candy and a kiss to show love.
A collection of brief quotations from military leaders politicians and scholars. Nimitz Hoover Wilson Winston Morrison Bricker Andrews Montgomery Wyckoff Willkie and others comment on war supply lines education patronage postwar prosperity and the transition to peace.
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