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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1941
Page
8
Excerpt from a foreign correspondent's journal spanning wartime observations in Belgium and France. Describes camouflage hangars at Ghent airfields, German expansion of airfields near towns, Belgian cooperation under occupation, coastal trench systems near Calais Dunkirk, and wary notes on potential Allied actions amid World War II tensions.
William L Shirer chronicles a tense coastal tour from Dunkirk through Cap Gris-Nez and Brussels. He notes scarce wrecks along the beach, daily German air activity, and anxious inhabitants praying for British bombers while skeptically weighing invasion threats amid aerial battles and shifting RAF resistance.
United Press profile of Rear Admiral John H Towers, once turned down by Annapolis, who became the navy’s top aviation leader. The piece notes his standing as head of the Bureau of Aeronautics, his habit of flying in lieu of desk work, a near fatal 1912 seaplane flight, a 1919 Atlantic seaplane flight, and a World record Curtiss flight in 1912. It also mentions his family, hobbies, and belief in team aviation.
Maudie O Connor and Mary O Connor puzzle a Paradise Lake murder while Jeanie Morris confesses to a tense confrontation with Herbert Cord. The tale follows romantic triangles, alibis, and police scrutiny as tensions rise among local residents and outsiders.
A year after Italy entered the war Premier Mussolini proclaimed that he cannot be stopped. London and Washington agreed on defense base sites in Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica Antigua St Lucia and British Guiana. Greek forces hit Italian positions near Koritza as Sofia reports Boris and Hitler met in Berlin amid shifting war dynamics. University of Wyoming ex-president Crane blamed the lack of a winning football team.
Shanghai faces a looming winter of hunger for Chinese and foreigners due to Japanese blockade and rationing. Ex port control tarifs have driven living costs up by about 40 percent for foreigners since August, with 900 percent price spikes for Chinese since the war’s start. Berlin notes worsen in German tobacco supply and food, predicting fewer eggs and higher cigarette use as scarcity deepens.
University of Texas scholars publish a 34 page monograph Will Bowen with Mark Twain letters that link elements of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to Twain’s boyhood. The letters address Will Bowen, a Hannibal, Missouri friend and early river pilot, revealing instances such as a near drowning episode that inspired Twain’s fiction and reflections on youth.
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