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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1939
Page
5
Mary Agnes Butterfield a 22 year old Dodge City Kansas clerk wins a contest granting her the right to host Errol Flynn for a weekend starting April 12. A measles quarantine in her home threatens the arrangement and may delay Flynn’s visit.
General Rudolph Gajda is proclaimed Fuehrer of the Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia as eastern Czechoslovakia is dismembered. General von Gablenz, a commander in the invasion, is named military governor of Prague.
AmBoy society page records Maren Ronald Rabenold visiting John Frame and Donald Bean staying with Dale Richards. Will Dea family hosts and returns from Emmetsburg funeral. Franklin Dea weekends with Will Dea. Ottumwa visitors include Louie Beumer family and Will Dea and Elizabeth. John Adama joins Will McConnell and Neil McConnell at Ralph Morris home near Columbus Junction.
Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland becomes archbishop while his diocese remains a bishopric. The prelate will celebrate the 90th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in June. Several local visits and gatherings are noted: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pearson visited the Stirling home, Mrs. Dan Griffiths with Mrs. Everelle Roberts, and other neighbors hosted guests including the Roberts and Mouser families. Kenneth Beenblossom stayed with Carl Roberta, Connie White visited grandparents, and Lacey Hinton of Olds called at Glen Owens’ home.
Mr and Mrs Glen Owens and girls attend a pot luck at Bruce Hanna home Thursday night. Mrs and Mrs Homer Coppock and baby and Girard Megehelwn spend the weekend at Holasee Nebraska. Conn Whiteson enjoys spring vacation with parents. Roy White man and others host guests. Rathmell family visits L A Foss home. Clarence Owens attends a mineral employees banquet. Mrs Clarence Onecie builds a chicken house with Washington men doing the work.
Poles fear annexation as Chancellor Hitler pushes to seize the Polish Corridor and the free city of Danzig and spread German influence to major Baltic port areas. Local reports describe growing anxiety over potential seizure of key ports and access routes.
A Roosevelt nominee William O. Douglas is shown with his family in Washington. Billy Jr. at six pitches well wide of the plate while Mildred at nine swings wildly and Mrs Douglas appears unlikely to be a bush league catcher.
The piece notes that many small creatures with limited senses fear shadows due to reduced light and defense gaps. It cites the Better Vision Institute explaining that being afraid of one’s own shadow symbolizes a peak of fear in the animal world.
A romance between Marguerite Lawyler a nurse and Yeshwant the Maharajah of Indore India began in a Los Angeles hospital and led to marriage. In 1928 the maharajah's deposed father Tukoji Rao Holkar wed Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle Washington.
Italy's Mussolini pushes to annex Tunisia, the French colony in Africa. French colonial troops maneuver in Tunisia while natives hold a pro-French mass meeting in Tunis signaling reluctance to abandon their allegiance.
Actress Hedy Lamarr and producer husband Gene Markey pose at their isolated Hollywood hilltop home with a Great Dane gift from Markey. The couple eloped to Mexicali, Mexico. Edelweiss grows at 10,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, a rare white variety found there.
June Brody a 22 year old cafe waitress from Dodge City Kansas spent 25 dollars on a raffle to host Errol Flynn as a weekend house guest. Mary Agnes Butterfield a 22 year old 10 cent store clerk also won but could not host Flynn because her one year old brother had measles and the home was quarantined.
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