16 Sep 1943
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
1
In a wartime column the writer assails German claims of annihilating the Fifth Army, praising Panhandle and American troops now pressing the retreating foe. The piece notes Albert Combs’ $50,000 gift to Pampa, celebrates local trees and climate, and shares letters from readers while reflecting on patriotism and daily life on the Texas Plains.
Jimmie Fidler reports a shift to supernatural thrillers with studios racing into ghoul and horror projects. Paramount in production on The Uninvited while others push Dracula, Dorian Gray, and Werewolf themed films with gossip on stars Gail Russell John Carradine Bing Crosby and Bela Lugosi and on set anecdotes from Jean Fontaine and Ray Milland.
Pvt Don Lewis of Elkhart Indiana relates a near miss during the capture of VanGunu Island in the Solomon Islands. Marines say five Japanese soldiers hid in a dugout under a fallen tree. Lewis narrowly escaped when a Japanese gunner suddenly moved.
Pvt Lewis A Ayres at Camp Barkeley proposes a new wartime messenger method using hypnosis to program a runner who will deliver a secret coded message without waking until the code word releases him. Ayres claims hypnosis can be learned in five minutes. A note mentions Ralph De Palma using sprung wheels on a race car in 1910.
Mrs Pare a former kindergarten teacher with a day nursery offers in home childcare for working mothers. She promises the best care and invites interested mothers to contact her at the Jackson Street address.
A reader reports a lost navy blue jersey glove in the Polk Street shopping district and asks the finder to call 9763.
Dear Tack requests a home for a female Pekingese and a registered male. Mrs Bill Richardson seeks a building custodian with good references for a public building offering a good salary. A Triplett seeks to exchange girls dresses for quilting. A finder may claim a lost $20 bill to recover tuition funds. Aerialists Alfons and Franz Hustrel receive U.S. citizenship papers. note on infant incubator history.
Professor Paul Dunn of Oregon State College reports progress in turning waste wood into plaster substitutes plastics for tabletops and wall board cork with 85 percent Spanish cork content for linoleum and a laminated wood suitable for aircraft. The lab also makes charcoal at nine dollars per ton as Northwest forests face wartime cut pressures.
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