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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1943
Page
2
The weather note links fog to sudden warmth and clearing by tomorrow as reader letters reflect wartime anxiety, consumer zeal, and social observation. Messages discuss postwar spending, peculiarly moral judgments on fashion, and a mix of personal anecdotes, jokes, and civic worries.
The manufacture of prefabricated houses for war housing projects hinges on standardized components, efficient assembly lines, and supply chains. These factories coordinate framing, insulation, and finishing in modular stages to speed up construction for defense housing programs.
Prime Minister Churchill announced he and his military experts met with President Roosevelt to plan ahead as armies move swiftly forward. He indicated general offensive plans are under consideration.
The Navy released the first prisoner list showing crew from the cruiser Houston the destroyer Pope and the submarine Perch as captives of Japan. Officials had no official word on their fates since the Java Sea battle and subsequent disappearance.
An anonymous poem cast as a cowboy prayer asks God to grant a simple open life under blue skies. The speaker seeks honest, expansive freedom like plains wind and a hawk in the breeze, asking for guidance along a long trail toward the Great Divide.
A rustic poem recounts a farmer's year from dawn chores to milking, feeding, and barn work. He trusts hard labor despite low pay, noting cyclical seasons and the joke that nonfarmers cannot judge farming life. The verse ends with resolve for another year of work.
A pair of gold-rimmed glasses found near the Golden Light Coffee Company have been turned in to the Globe News and may be claimed there by the owner. Contact Globe News. CAT AND KITTENS for homes. Persian kittens, part Persian, good mouser. Call 25446. Mrs. Mar tim.
London reports that the entire Warsaw Ghetto housing about 40 000 Jews was liqui dated after a ten day fight with German forces. Rabbi Irving Miller cited Polish sources describing tanks leveling stores and homes as defenders fought their final stand and saying every survivor was killed or moved elsewhere.
Donald M. Nelson war production chief warned Congress that clothing and textile rationing in the United States is imminent unless industry uses its best brains and all facilities to maximize output. He testified before the House Appropriations Committee on a deficiency bill and said rationing could be avoided, though many disagree.
Mrs. Vijaya Laxmi and Mrs. Indira Gandhi were released from Naini Jail in Allahabad. They had been detained since last summer amid disorders that also led to the internment of Nehru and Mohandas K. Gandhi. An order confined them to the family estate at Amora.
The War Production Board reported that its 850 dollar a year men cost government about 3600 dollars per year each. Budget official Francis R. Cawley told the House appropriations committee that the cost mainly covered per diem in lieu of subsistence.
A German controlled Paris radio claimed American troops had landed on Saint Lucia, about 25 miles south of Martinique. There was no Allied confirmation of the report.
Marine Pvt. Vern J. Ingrin, home after five months on Guadalcanal, recalls a 1000 pound bomb landing 25 feet from his foxhole. He says it sounded like a Model T motor and looked like red velvet with blue flecks, and he battled to breathe as air seemed to be sucked from his chest.
Chinese forces launched a bold raid on Kingman Island near Amoy, reportedly Sunday night, resulting in several Japanese deaths and the capture of two Japanese officers. Amoy lies on the Chinese coast across the strait from Formosa.
Allied dispatches report Gen. Henri Giraud was informed that his daughter and four grandchildren were removed from Tunis to Axis Europe as hostages before Allied troops reached the city.
The House appropriations committee approved a subcommittee recommendation that Robert Morse Lovett, secretary of the Virgin Islands, is unfit to hold a government office.
The first contingent of 760 Mexican non agricultural unskilled workers left Mexico City for the United States to relieve a railroad labor shortage under a new international agreement. The group will work for North American railroads and depart May 14.
Jimmie Fidler recalls early public misperceptions of Joan Crawford and her wish for children, noting how writers mocked her then later acknowledged her truth after her adoptions. The column recounts other Hollywood incidents, from Mary Pickford to Luise Rainer, presenting a portrait of fame, excess, and shifting judgments.
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