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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1941
Page
6
The Alpine Avalanche announces official city and county focus for Alpine and the Davis Mountains. It lists editors Bennett and Mrs. C D Wood with correspondents L. Scobee and Marie Simpson, rates, policy on corrections, and postal status under the 1870 act.
Andrew Mellon's beneficence funds a grand building and a 50 million painting and sculpture collection. H. Kress donates Malian art valued at 25 million. Widener’s 50 million denied. The gallery will be free to the public daily except Christmas and New Year’s, 10 to 5 on weekdays and 2 to 5 on Sundays.
A fragmentary passage discusses general failings of notable men and women, noting that public opinion shifts when judging historic figures. It suggests many led reprehensible lives by today’s standards, yet questions how their overall service affects their permanent place in memory.
Louisiana State University selected Major General Campbell B Hodges to lead after turmoil under Interney Long. Hodges, a West Point graduate and World War I Distinguished Service storied officer, will retire from the Army and take the presidency effective July 1.
A movement advocates moving celebrations to Mondays to create three day weekends. Proponents argue no holiday loses meaning if observed near its date, noting calendar imprecision and that Easter varies yearly. The proposal is supported by commercial groups seeking travel and economic benefits.
Aviation experts predict planes may reach 1000 miles per hour, making non stop flights possible. Travelers could circumnavigate daylight westward while racing the sun eastward twice in 24 hours. If faster than sun’s movement, sunset could occur after sunrise, complicating timekeeping aboard.
The Maryland legislature faces opposition as advocates seek repeal of the flogging statute. Law remains enforced for a range of offenses with five lashes common, but many groups argue jail sentences are equally effective and less degrading. Opponents and supporters clash over the law’s deterrent value and humane impact, with broader national debate on corporal punishment.
A collage of punchy vignettes and snippets from jokes and mishearings. It includes a sun dial gag about time, a widow’s riddle about marrying a millionaire actor preacher and undertaker in a peculiar order, a bayonet drill mishap, a coroner’s inquiry about a shooting eyewitness, an anxious patient in a dentist chair, a Scotsman by a bridge, Norwegians and Hitler Nobel peace prize note, and stray echoes from laughter and bar banter.
A Scotsman planned to sell his Highlands estate but a buyer demanded an echo. He arranged with a local boy to provide the echo, and they set off to complete the unusual agreement, though the snippet ends before the deal unfolds.
AL de BESSIERES notes escalating moves toward war, with isolationists joining prowar factions. Britain faces risks in Africa and the Mediterranean as German air attacks intensify while civilians suffer. Debate grows over government control of industry and steel price freezes as Roosevelt asserts constitutional rights to trade with nonbelligerents.
A Greensboro Herald Journal opinion emphasizes judging a person by deeds over wealth or status, urging readers to value character rather than material wealth.
The famed pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, aged 80, departs Europe seeking a fresh start in America, saying love remains the guiding force of his life as he relocates to the United States.
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