10 Nov 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1942
Page
1
A compilation of local observations and anecdotes from Amarillo during wartime. Magpies in the Panhandle, humor, farm life challenges, and civilian morale alongside Army and Navy reflections. Mentions of rationing talk, home irons, Christmas greetings, and community requests for discarded 32 and 432 volt equipment.
Nov 10 Hollywood column lists Al Jolson marriage plans, Carole Landis Bert Wheeler TV projects, Oona O Neill testing, Gracie Fields charity deals, war bond tours, and hit parade items. Mentions Lew Ayres OT S, Arthur Murray biopic, and Frank Hatch endorsement. Includes humorous quotes and local opinions on coffee, politics, and peace predictions.
A Houston area mother writes of living in one cramped room since September 21, 1942, with her husband and two children. She pleads for decent war housing near a good school and bus line, noting their need for a three-room furnished apartment and monthly rent of 35 to 40 dollars. She criticizes landlords who deny families with children and argues for housing as part of the war effort.
A note asks anyone with information to call 2 1467 or visit 1615 Jackson Street about a lost yellow and white kitten that strayed Friday night.
General Thomas Holcomb reported that US Marines on Guadalcanal hold the line as reinforcements to the Solomons face mounting difficulty for arrival. Allied forces encircle Henderson airfield and push east of the Koli Point beachhead while heavy air and ground action continues near Oivi and Buna New Guinea.
U S efforts in North Africa seek to build a French organization around Gen. Henri Giraud to rally anti Axis Frenchmen. Eisenhower says Giraud arrived in Algiers to organize the French army. Laval breaks relations. Hull and Roosevelt pledge support for true France and a possible Algerian based government in exile.
Amarillo hosts Imperial Potentate Albert H. Fiebach of the Mystic Shrine at a banquet by Khiva Temple at 312 East Fifth Avenue. The visit includes a reception and the distinction of Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children funded by a million dollars yearly. He travels next to Ballut Abyad Temple in Albuquerque.
Funeral services for Mrs. Bertie Hughes wife of J P Cowboy Hughes who died Sunday at Rock Island Illinois will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o clock from the Blackburn Shaw Chapel Rev H A Hall pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene will officiate Pallbearers will be Cordon Yates William Schofield Drafus Benton Edwin Simmons Red Casstevens and H A Shaw Besides her husband she is survived by five children Pauline Estelle Billy Louise Carol Ann and an infant daughter her parents Bert Harlow of Amarillo and Mrs Bert Harlow of Rock Island two brothers and three sisters The body will arrive tonight on the 12 15 o clock Rock Island train Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
A burglar entered Mrs. Betty Reid's home in Albuquerque, brewed and drank a cup of coffee, then left without taking anything. The report notes the perpetrator, M. Laval, as acting with a mindset echoing Adolf Hitler, while the text also includes a separate anti-Lerner stance praising France and vowing continued aid to its people.
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