28 Mar 1941
Page 14
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1941
Page
14
Hollywood reports warn wartime needs strain cosmetics as materials shift to munitions. Max Factor Jr notes lipstick tubes repurposed for shells and red pigments redirected to defense paint. He cautions blondes may darken and nails, powders, and permanent waves face shortages as supplies dwindle.
Reports from Belgrade and Berlin describe Jugoslavia signaling neutrality amid German ultimatums after a pro-Nazi government ouster. King Peter II leads jubilant processions as Britain advances in East Africa, with Addis Ababa–Djibouti rail traffic and Dire Dawa contested amid Italian surrender signals.
KGNC in Amarillo moves from 1410 to 1440 kilocycles and begins 5000 watt daytime power with a new RCA transmitter. The change, part of Havana Treaty adjustments affecting about 800 of 900 U S stations, comes with six weeks of installation and test, promising clearer daytime reception and improved evening performance.
Robert Cannon lost his pocketbook in the New Julian coal mine east of Vincennes. A fireman on a Baltimore and Ohio locomotive near Flora recovered it weeks later from a coal shovelful, after the item rode out on a conveyor and passed through a coaling station. Cannon retrieved the pocketbook at Newhys.
Harold Kennedy, tied to Orson Welles’s 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, recalls the dull rehearsal that turned into mass panic as listeners believed Martian invaders. He describes frantic switchboards, public fright, and mistaken sightings across the nation. Kennedy is in Amarillo for the world premiere showing at the Paramount tomorrow night.
Texas Railroad Commission sets April oil allowables at 1,373,359 barrels daily, up 20,870 from March, with Panhandle district ordered four shutdown days on April 6 13 26 and 30 while East Texas and rest of state face nine and ten shutdowns. The plan aligns with federal demand outlook, and Hamman and Ocean Fields remain under litigation and testing.
The daily dollar prize for the best idea printed in YOUR IDEAS on page 11 goes to Jimmy Miller of 835 Carolina Street. He proposes employing city prisoners to clean vacant lots and beautify the town, with the YOUR IDEAS EDITOR paying a dollar daily for top ideas.
U. S. Weather Bureau forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for partly cloudy to fair skies tonight with a low near 36 degrees and a warmer Saturday. Midwest and southwest regions show increasing clouds with scattered showers possible and higher temps. Temperature extremes over the past 24 hours ranged from a minimum 33 to a maximum 62 with noon reading 38.
The University of Athens confers an honorary doctor of laws degree on President Roosevelt. Build Now. John Maynard Lbr. Co.
About 10,000 residents in Marseille joined a spontaneous rally at Place de la Bourse to honor King Alexander and protest the anti Axis Yugoslav government formation. Flowers were laid at Alexander’s assassination site and at Peter I’s monument as police managed growing crowds.
The Texas Senate voted as a war measure to relax sweet natural gas restrictions for carbon black production. Base on Panhandle gas, it allows limited use only if at least five pounds of carbon black are produced per 1,000 cubic feet. Safeguards send the bill back to the House for concurrence.
John V. Riffe said SWOC members would vote to accept a settlement that returns strikers to their jobs with seniority intact and allows continued bargaining with the company and SWOC as the bargaining agent. The ERP dispute and related walkouts were noted at Bethlehem Cambria in Johnstown, Richmond, Gary, and Milwaukee as defense orders loomed and security measures increased.
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