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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1944
Page
6
An extract from the Amarillo Globe includes personal wartime reminiscences of dive bombing near Sidibou and Zid battle, plus editorials urging city pavement and highway route improvements, traffic safety, and designations for truck routes amid ongoing war and postwar planning.
In a March 1943 dispatch from Tunisia, Ernie Pyle details a mid raid moment near his jeep hide, describing dive bombers, chaotic skies, tracer fire, and the confusion of bombs and planes as he and others scramble for cover in a cactus patch. He notes the difficulty of recalling exact numbers of aircraft and munitions after the attack.
In a reflective column a Polk Street professor muses on war's dive bombing not killing many but haunting minds. He likens life to a daily stage with actors who oversell roles, notes how some miscast themselves, and urges choosing easuer parts true to inner selves. Miss Susie Looney returns home from Meridian, Mississippi.
Mrs. Mary Batson left Friday to visit Aviation Cadet Bill Batson at Curtis Field. Miss Inez Skinner from Clarendon is with her sister Mrs. John Heppe at 1004 Taylor Street, Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital where she is a patient.
Washington discusses a Dewey tax plan described as a political synthesis of new tax ideas. It envisions a large national income with a low permanent tax structure, cuts on lower brackets, and the elimination of the victory tax while avoiding a general sales tax. The plan, supported by CEO figures, targets 55.6 million jobs and $140 billion in income, with about $21 billion in taxes to fund debt and government expenses.
George Gallup reports Dewey improves in Illinois Wisconsin Kansas South Dakota and Iowa while Ohio Indiana Minnesota Missouri hold steady and Roosevelt gains in Michigan Nebraska and North Dakota. In 11 of 12 states Dewey leads, with Missouri evenly divided.
A historical summary notes events across decades. It cites Britain’s 1929 pension for retired coal miners, tariff bill edits, Texas cotton forecasts, 1934 Madrid terrorism probes, Roosevelt’s gold policy openness, Texas legislative sessions, 1939 Britain Russia trade, Krivitsky testimony, and early Dewey FDR polling data with caveats about margins and timing.
A dense list of crossword horizontal and vertical clues is presented with numerous abbr. and partial terms. The items include chemical symbols languages and common crossword directives, mixing naval insignia notes and general vocabulary across subjects without a unifying theme.
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