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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
3
Weekly News Analysis reports on Hitler aiming to halt Mussolini's interventions in Greece amid fighting with Greek forces. The piece also notes a farm group requesting new parity loans and reports the death of Lord Lothian, Britain's ambassador to the United States.
Reports from Europe show peace talk amid ongoing fighting. In England a motion by Independent Labourites for negotiated peace failed. Italy reorganizes forces as Greece resists, while Britain seeks U S aid and the U S Navy reports rapid ship production.
Lord Lothian British ambassador to the United States died in Washington D C from a uremic infection at age 58. He had canceled a Farm Bureau speech the night before but delivered a prepared address through Neville Butler urging more US aid to Britain. His loss is described as a severe blow to British interests in Washington.
The American Farm Bureau federation meeting in Baltimore urged a government loan driven farm program to lift major crop prices above market quotes. The plan, backed by parity- based loans at 85 percent, would need congressional action and impose marketing quotas with heavy penalties for over quotas.
A new concave screen enters the market for movie theaters offering a three dimensional effect. In Atlanta, residents forgot election day as liquor stores opened and voting was neglected. The piece notes municipal general elections and primaries as the crucial contests.
Rumors say Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice James McReynolds will resign soon after the new president’s inauguration. Possible replacements include Stone or Douglas for the chief justice seat, with Minton, Henderson, and Jackson among others linked to the other vacancies. Jackson’s appointment could propel Francis Biddle to cabinet rank.
The report lists incidents involving Elizabeth Deegan in Paris, Ruth Bryan Owen’s 1935 marriage to Capt. George Gohde, a Lewisburg oath of allegiance by a former royal guard, Diego Rivera’s marriage, and Roosevelt’s Caribbean tour. It also mentions Col. Donovan’s secretive travel, drownings of Jewish refugees near Istanbul, a Mainliner crash in Chicago killing ten, and a Tennessean revealed as E. L. Sapp on the run for murder.
On New Year’s Eve, Margie awaits Joe who has just finished a year on probation after prison. He returns pleading innocence and hides from pursuing officers. A misdirected shift reveals he is a detective who helped a burglary ring bust, confirming their bond as they plan a fresh start in Denver.
Jonathan Edwards outlines a set of solemn resolutions on how to live with purpose and integrity never seeking revenge or desiring mean thoughts toward others and committing to act without fear even in the last hour of life echoing colonial era moral reflection.
A short verse-prayer asking God to guide the speaker through the new year with a cheerful heart. It urges starting each day with duty, wearing a smile, banishing distractions, and ending with prayer, seeking divine aid to keep the writer on the right path.
The article explains how ancient rites mark the New Year in China city parades and simple home ceremonies. It notes a pre new year feast with sticky candies, the belief that sweets please the gods, and storage of water on the last year day to avoid bad luck in the first days of the new moon. Firecrackers incense and candles welcome the god back and doors are briefly opened then closed to trap good luck.
The New Year will arrive on January 1 in the isolated Chatham Islands 414 miles southwest of New Zealand. About 200 shepherds and fishermen will ring the bell at Hanson Island’s small church as New York clocks strike 12:01 a.m. December 31, marking the birthplace of the new year. The Chathams are nearest land to the international dateline along the 180th meridian, which lies over ocean.
A traditional rite guides maidens to learn marriage fate on New Year’s Day. Turn the pillow at midnight on December 31 to dream of the future spouse, or place a marked hymn beneath the pillow after blowing out the lamp and sleeping. Morning reading reveals fate.
A biographical sketch highlights Edward F. McGrady, labor conciliator and Army aide, noting his rise from Boston newsboy to director of labor relations at RCA and his stance as a hard-hitting advocate for workers and owners. It also profiles Portuguese Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, detailing his austere rule, economic reforms, and peculiar hostelry decree for fleas, portraying him as cautious yet effective in preserving solvency and peace.
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