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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1942
Page
3
A collage of 1924 editorials and notices discusses farm labor relief, wartime RAF and WAAF questions, Gerald L. K. Smith’s anti democracy campaign, and Michigan U S Senate campaign financing. It notes U N food needs and OWI director Elmer Davis framing current political discourse.
Washington reports Brigadier General Brehon Somervell’s friction with War Production Director Donald Nelson and Paul McNutt over war materials distribution and manpower draft policy. McNutt signals independence, while Roosevelt’s eventual stance could sidelined both figures. Also notes Japanese propaganda on Doolittle raid prisoners and mixed forecasts for Republican gains in Congress amid low primary turnout.
Penny Kellogg, posing as a waitress, witnesses a brutal fight in Kirktown after five well dressed men confront a local steel worker gang. Jim Vickers, editor of the Kirk town Courier, intervenes as Penny considers a deeper undercover plan while Bill Scott vows revenge against the Castro gang.
Gloria Kaye Penny and Jim explore a steel mills drive along a bridge in a Kirk town setting. Penny admires the panorama and hints at her Paris society life while Jim speaks of local people and the mills. Penny reveals she has not lived in a mill town or the distant Kansas home Jim recalls.
Dorothy Thompson argues that while military and production efforts of the United Nations are improving, political tensions risk fracturing the coalition. She critiques Willkie's speech as vague and politically motivated, warning that British Empire critiques could destabilize Allied unity and threaten the war and peace.
The piece notes how Japanese troops use loud chants as a counter to military silence and explains their tactics in deception. It then shifts to Fort Monmouth and Camp Crowder, highlighting Signal Corps training, roles, and the vast scale of equipment and staffing, culminating in the growth and history of the Signal Corps from its Civil War origins to 1942.
E J Ballantine, a New York stage actor, makes his screen debut as the quisling George Corell in The Moon Is Down. Producer Nunnally Johnson says Corell is the lowest type of villain, worse than Colonel Lanser, and Ballantine already played the role on stage.
A year ago United Press reports a German advance to within 90 miles of Moscow amid a massive Axis air raid on the city. Russian sources confirm a breakthrough at Parakhop Isthmus toward the Crimea as the U S Government takes a strike bound Air Associates plant.
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