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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1941
Page
14
The Amarillo Safety Council plans a contest to create safety slogans with a substantial cash prize. Details will be announced tomorrow. Canadians expect to export Christmas trees to the United States this year to help establish foreign exchange for war material purchases.
March of Time depicts Australia as Britain's wartime supply depot for wool meat and munitions while showing self sufficiency and industrial efficiency. It highlights Anzacs reinforcing Singapore and Australia's readiness against possible Japanese invasion with Pacific island allies.
In Toledo Ohio union press dispatch, 37 year old S P Dean was an innocent bystander during a family quarrel when a husband fired a shot. The bullet hit Dean but stopped in a book of club dance tickets he had bought, sparing him serious injury.
Dr James Robinson Bailey, 73, renowned organic chemist and University of Texas professor, died after a paralytic stroke. Born in Houston, he studied at UT, Munster Berlin, Leipzig, and London, and joined UT as a student assistant in 1891. He helped develop novacain formulas and several chemical discoveries. Funeral services are planned with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
An old ad states Adlerika with three laxatives and five carminatives helps gas and constipation. The testimonial notes use by a family of five with twenty years of on hand supply. Available at Fox Drug Co Cretney Drug and City Drug Store.
Thousands of Easter Seals letters were mailed to Amarillo residents supporting the Crippled Children's Council and local programs. The Texas Association for Crippled Children sponsors the annual drive with school involvement and seal packets sold in schools to aid crippled children in Amarillo and the Panhandle. The council conducted six clinics last year, and the third clinic for 1941 will be held Saturday April 5 at St Anthony's Hospital. Headquarters are in Room 3232, Amarillo Building.
Ralph Peticolas woke to a blaring horn and found his car on fire in the garage. The horn short circuited, sounding an alarm that woke him and saved the car and garage from total destruction.
The text notes a potential source of pharmaceutical intermediates akin to quinine, morphine, and cocaine. It also describes typical Japanese soldiers rations including rice balls dried meat rice wine and chestnuts.
Berlin reported long range German bombers attacked a convoy in the North Atlantic and sunk a 10,000 ton merchant ship. A second vessel of about 3,000 tons was heavily damaged west of the Hebrides as German planes observed it sinking. The raid involved five destroyers and other escorts, with additional losses noted in English waters.
Syracuse University women and a local male rifle team met in an informal competition. The result was a tie signaling strong performance by the women amid national defense program interest.
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