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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1942
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe announces its publication details and editorial leadership. It lists the newspaper as a second class matter, published evenings with Sunday morning distribution in conjunction with The Amarillo Daily News.
Stephanie Merrill meets her refined neighbors the Millers from Yokohama at a formal reception. Mr. Miller, a former Belgian consul attaché, and wife host a lavish gathering to welcome American friends and showcase their renovated home and garden.
A pair of neighbors Miller and family spark distrust in a street in Sonoma as Japanese attack news from Pearl Harbor jolts the city. Stephanie helps at Pearl Harbor mobilization while her father suspects outsiders and difficulties deepen amid wartime strain.
Stephanie Merrill and Henri face a citywide blackout and looming air raid from the harbor as sirens wail and searchlights scan the sky. A Miller attic skylight glows, drawing Stephanie toward possible danger while Henri urges restraint amid growing wartime tension.
A Tulsa World excerpt recounts a comic encounter over the song Rose O Day ending in a black eye after a juke box dispute. It notes a New Yorker piece on Helen Hayes and a Digest excerpt praising Chinese wartime airbase engineering near Chunking with hand laid stone runways resisting floods and bombs.
A mixed set of wartime questions and reports describes a nonwarally symbolic green yellow ribbon badge for soldiers, Norways teachers arrested and mistreated by German forces, and the war raft on Hanoi. The account notes the harsh journeys to Joerstadmoen camp, forced labor, starvation, and eventual transfers to Grini and Skjerstad, with fears of Kirkenes.
A New Yorker vignette describes a economics professor who orders a bicycle parts from Sears Roebuck just before a freezing order. He receives a headlight then a taillight with a note that bicycle sales are forbidden. He suspects Sears intends the lights to be worn.
Dorothy Thompson argues that Germany and Italy seek peace as a strategic pause to rearm. She warns that a peace deal would empower fascist Europe and urges Britain, America, and Russia to resist blackmail. The piece calls for exposing Nazi tactics and building an orderly postwar world.
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