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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1943
Page
2
War Shipping Administration warns that in the coming year at least 175000 merchant seamen are needed, up from 115000 now. About 60000 more must be trained, with many recruited from shore jobs as the shipping crisis is not yet resolved.
The text contrasts a soldier’s longing for home during North Africa and Europe with a modern transatlantic flight and wartime progress. It notes airmen fighting four times more hours than a year ago and bomb tonnage to Japan tripled, per Lieut Gen George C Kenney.
Rear Admiral Howard L. Vicery asserts the United States will remain a maritime power through cooperation with Britain or alone if needed. He contrasts this with criticism of Japanese pilots, noting their Zero pilots show poor quality while Japanese bomber pilots attack openly, as Marine flyer Col. Christian F. Schilt is cited.
Rep Robert L Doughton of North Carolina chairman of the Ways and Means Committee tells treasury tax experts that Americans must live with the people back home. He stresses fiscal realities and political considerations shaping policy.
Washington headlines urge Congress to quit early and reconvene to cut waste in wartime spending. The piece highlights Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach as an example of overspending on a hospital project and calls for daily committee action to curb billions in unnecessary costs before January appropriations.
In Horse Prairie Jones sneaks up on Potter on the porch and demands who hired him to kill Tubac. The exchange escalates as Jones threats turn to interrogation about Hi Grab Haines or Lot Deckerman and Potter’s loyalties. The reveal hints at deeper plotting and pursuit.
Potters accuses Lot Deckerman of a scheme as Jones Tubac and Snaggle-Tooth Potter threaten with a knife. Potter collapses in fear while Tubac sharpens the blade, vowing to mail ears as a ransom. To Be Continued.
Dorothy Thompson discusses the postwar pledge before the Senate, the limits of executive power in treaty making, and how international cooperation depends on domestic support. The piece argues for a broad, sovereign-based approach, a two thirds Senate backing, and wary caution about overreaching commitments.
James Reston reports on Winston Churchill's cigar use, noting he chews and smokes about eight Havanas daily. The piece sketches public fascination with Churchill's habits, anecdotes from aides and pilots, and war-relief auction bids for Churchill cigar boxes.
A collection of wartime remarks and stories including Adm Halsey on advancing in the South Pacific and Roosevelt pledging a Philippines republic, Maj Kelly recalling sharks at sea, Eric Johnston on global communications, a Marine officer’s Arctic rescue, a pilot’s Sicilian capture, and Captain Shea on Japanese suicide tactics.
Ernie Pyle recalls Bud & Luke's in Toledo, a busy eatery run by brothers Eugene and Glenn Fowler where staff theatrically abuse customers as policy. He describes the chaotic dining room, pranks, and constant bedlam, noting chosen workers like Charlie Shook and the weekly exit of a customer, with the establishment built on insult as entertainment.
A compact listing of numbered horizontal and vertical crossword clues with many entries including dates, abbreviations, and common terms. Clues span animals, colors, numbers, languages, and various wordplay prompts, some referencing phrases and entities such as TDARWIN and inflation hints.
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