25 Nov 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1942
Page
1
A lively reminiscence blends old Florida supper lore with wartime notes. The piece recounts hush puppies fried in fish grease and adds a scattered mix of weather, war forecasts, local updates, and light anecdotes about people, places, and cultural tidbits from across the era.
Jimmie Fidler notes William Bendix rose from a harsh start to fame after Wake Island but faces a fixed earning cap of 25000 dollars due to tax law. The piece contrasts seven years of turmoil with sudden opportunity and contains a collage of contemporary celebrity notes and quips.
A Cleveland based guerrilla training program converts factory workers and sportsmen into a budding battalion. Fred D. Orzen organizes the courses with army approval, teaching jujitsu, marksmanship, rifle and pistol use, camouflage, tactics, and disruption of enemy communications for men in 3-A draft status.
William Q. Boyce, an Amarillo attorney from a pioneer family, enlisted after war began. He trained at Sheppard Field, completed officer training in Miami Beach, and was assigned overseas to compile crew mission reports. He is married to Tha Moe Boyce with a son Quincy. his mother Mrs. William Boyce resides at 1118 Tyler Street.
A basement oil seeped from a well in the Wilshire district home of Ralph B. Lioyd, a multimillionaire oilman. The feature produced about two barrels daily of good crude, seeping through the basement wall as Lioyd sought a way to stop the flow.
The Amarillo Country Club announces its annual Thanksgiving Dance for members and guests, free of charge, starting at 9 p.m. tomorrow. Manager Dan Smith says members may bring unlimited guests.
Mrs N C Tarrington seeks a middle aged woman for housework and care of two children, one in school and one 11 months old. Offer room and board and wages, with option to sleep home nights and one day weekly. Also a lost car keys reward notice from Ida V Allen, call 2 3473.
Monterey California based Father John P. Boyle, visiting Italy from 1939 to recently, reports Italians see the war as a squeeze play with no clear winner. He notes widespread grumbling, food shortages blamed on Germans, and that Italy’s people fear harsher times regardless of Nazi or Allied victory. Boyle is with the Monterey Fresno diocese.
Four German prisoners of war from Rommel's Afrika Corps jumped from a slow moving train at Altamont Pass California and escaped briefly before recapture. A brakeman spotted a prisoner feigning death beside the track and the group was later recaptured near Livermore. Sergeant Hans Kirbert, 21, led the escape and was seized at the Livermore air base riding on a workman’s car.
A French Academy of Medicine member told a Paris rat extermination meeting that rats could boost meat rations, calling rat meat of high quality and better than pork or rabbit. The remark urged public acceptance to aid rat extermination efforts. A separate report noted that a 10 percent cut in U S fuel oil use could save enough to equal 566 ocean going tankers in capacity.
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