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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1943
Page
2
Weather: warmer and breezy with a north wind midweek and possible moisture. A memorial piece honors Nellie Donald Nannie of Amarillo, beloved matriarch and Mother of the Mother In Law observance. Reflection on sorrow, family ties, and local connections.
A reader letter laments unequal recognition for mothers of servicemen, noting many have lost loved ones or are prisoners while few receive public tribute. The piece also includes varied wartime snippings on taxes, Pluto time, gasoline filters, gender work preferences, and other odds and ends.
Dear Tack lists a missing black male Cocker Spaniel with Lockhart Rabies Tag No 58333. Reward offered for return. contact T SGT R R Boland at 3003 Hayden St or call 2 3723. Also notes a gold band ring lost between two local landmarks and asks finder to return it.
USO invites all volunteers to an evening training session at the USO Auditorium at 7 30. Speakers include Elconan Saulson regional executive for northern Texas and Miss Lucille O Reilly regional supervisor for Texas and Louisiana. After talks, groups will meet to plan information service travelers aid program leaders snack work and other volunteer duties. Refreshments will be served.
Optimist Week is being observed as the Amarillo Optimist Club joins clubs in the United States Canada and Puerto Rico to urge public interest in youth issues and promote friendliness confidence and cooperation. Maj. Frank E. Hangs of tubbock a professor of military science and tactics will speak at the Amarillo club meeting Thursday noon. J. E. Proper is club president.
The OWI reports a cannon armed light bomber in production ahead of current classes, a highly versatile single engine fighter, and a super long range heavy bomber due to enter combat by spring 1944. Existing US warplanes are described as superior to enemy aircraft and undergoing upgrades to boost potency.
General Atkinson stopped in Amarillo this morning while en route to his Dalhart home. He arrived on a TWA plane and departed shortly in a Flying Fortress from the Dalhart Army Air Base. His wife, barred from the Fortress, rode by automobile. The general, overseas 13 months, has led bombing attacks from England and North Africa and will visit his mother and two sisters in Dalhart.
Women guards at the Pantex Ordnance Works train intensively with rifle and pistol ranges and police duty study. Officials say the pistol packing mammas are doing a magnificent job and about a quarter of the force is now armed with pistols.
Registration for Book 4 ration begins Thursday at elementary and rural schools with hours 1 to 5 p m Thursday and 9 a m to 5 p m Friday and Saturday. The new ration book may be valid for certain commodities by November 1. People should register at the nearest elementary or high school or at Sam Houston and Central Junior High schools. School teachers will conduct registrations. London report notes French naval operations in eastern Mediterranean aiding Dodecanese islands held by British.
Agonizing itching from eczema rash and ringworm is claimed relieved by a single application of Blue Star Ointment. Money back if the first jar fails to satisfy. try it today.
A reflective October piece by Mrs. Eugenia Caldwell weaves personal notes about seven as a lucky motif with vivid seasonal imagery. It contrasts harvest across farms and cities to a broader American autumn, urging readers to cherish and defend the season’s work and heritage.
In a Brown Derby chat, Jimmie Fidler debunks fan myths about Mae West and other stars. He lists real personalities behind publicity, praising underappreciated actors like Mady Christians and Miriam Hopkins, and notes shifts in Hollywood fortunes and public perception.
A health note promotes a gentle daily routine of drinking the juice of one Sunkist Lemon in a glass of water on an empty stomach to stimulate regular bowel action. It also touts lemons as vitamin rich boosting vitamin C and digestion while claiming fatigue resistance and infection defense.
Lester Allen, famed for The Great Gabbo, draws laughs as a short romantic lead in Tropicana. In a Brown Derby encounter a stranger quipped about him being a jockey, prompting Allen to quip he once rode mice in New Orleans.
General Arnold says Germany will use many small ball bearing plants and that German scientists are developing new methods for the war. He doubts Schweinfurt raids will be repeated soon and questions whether Germans had advance warning, noting their initial single engine fighters followed by twin engine rocket craft in a synchronized attack.
Schenectady October 18 The General Electric Company completed the world’s most powerful motor. It can hoist a destroyer out of water to the height of a 15 story building in a minute. The million pound motor heads to the defense plant at New Geneva Utah to cut 200 foot long 20 000 pound steel slabs.
Reports from Front notes American officers heard two versions of German killings of Italian civilians near Caiazzo north of the Volturno. One account says Germans executed dozens in reprisal after three soldiers were killed and one wounded, as they withdrew and dynamited a farmer's house. The other claims post-evacuation shootings after a farmer indicated enemies in another direction. An official inquiry has been opened.
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