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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1941
Page
4
Readers are reminded of editorials from The Alabama Labor Advocate on national defense, the right to strike versus public safety, and distrust of leaders. The piece surveys treaties, labor views, and public sentiment, interlaced with anecdotes on corn cob pipes, dictators, religion, and a pair of 1881-era newspaper incidents.
Gene Packer of the Air Corps Training Detachment reports si cadets now at the Corsicana camp with 100 percent expected by month’s start. Barracks administration building mess hall and recreation hall are ready to accommodate up to 500 students. Both Gen and Jerry Carris, the Washington boys, have soloed.
In Lineville Riverside a father named Donald Duneals of Chillicothe Missouri rescued his 3-year-old son Billy Ray Duncals from drowning after he fell through a rotted board into a 10 foot deep well. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon as the boy played with his 5-year-old brother Robert in a vacant lot nearby. The father reached the child after Billy Ray went under twice during the struggle.
Calais in northern France was occupied by the English after 1347, becoming a strategic stronghold for 211 years under English rule before the town and its governance shifted as conflicts reshaped control in the late medieval period.
The 21-gun salute is reserved for the President, former Presidents, heads of state, and reigning royalty. It specifies the highest level of official recognition by the United States Army and government.
A collection of aphorisms on fame effort happiness and habit contrasts with a brief quip about a bargain hunter visiting a junk shop and a dealer replying to his wife about an old barrel. The tone resembles a light feature of humor or social commentary with HB initials for attribution.
Hollywood designer states that attraction hinges on contour and content, not clothes or colors. The Arkansas Gazette notes emphasis on personal style shaping public appeal in portraiture and fashion.
A classroom joke about indirect taxation shows a pupil claiming a dog does not pay a tax and the teacher asking why it is indirect. The exchange illustrates a simple tax concept in a playful way.
The Balinese women, despite allowed bare midriffs by local dress rules, are shocked by American modesty norms requiring legs to be visible. A Balinese woman adapts by wearing a long ankle sweeping skirt fastened at the waist to cover her legs.
Mrs. Raymond Lorack and family and others visited Mrs. Mary Dvorak. The Mincer household hosted Sunday evening visits from Frances Cole and family and Frank J. Mincer group. Ronald Heck stayed with grandparents Wednesday night. Washington visits by Rath and Harold, Swailes, and others. Wood sawing by Henry Prymek and Frankie Mincer. Moberly brothers busy with fence work. Various callers at Frank Mincer and Kron homes. Gary Gene Mincer says Oak Grove school is OK. Terisa Lear helps with house cleaning this week.
Mrs Cole Douglas Honored at Dinner in Harvey Bishop Home. Birthday dinner for Douglas Cole held April 22 with family in Pleasant Hill. Also notes deaths, funerals, and various Sunday visits across Pleasant Hill Wellman Washington and nearby farms.
WEST UNION The defendant Paul Gehrke pleaded guilty before District Judge H E Taylor to participating in an oil station holdup in Oelwein last Feb 26. He asked to serve a ten year sentence at Fort Madison prison rather than Anamosa reformatory, citing better machinist training facilities at Fort Madison. Judge Taylor granted the request. Gehrke, 20, was employed at a tractor factory in Waterloo at the time of arrest.
The Motion Picture Trial of Mary Dugan runs at the State Theatre in Washington Sunday through Tuesday. A dramatic courtroom dialogue unfolds as Mrs Wayne confronts her husband Edgar Wayne’s alleged infidelity and a fatal stabbing, recalling past confrontations and a lineage of murderous rage.
Mary Dugan recounts a complex love triangle involving her employer Wayne and his wife Mrs Wayne. Wayne planned a divorce to marry Mary, threatened divorce terms with a co respondent, then returned to Mary where he was killed by a knife wound after a sudden incident in his apartment. Police and district attorney questioning followed.
In a tense afternoon session Judge Nash presided as Jimmie unveils a tension filled trial. He questions witnesses, introduces identical kitchenware and a matching knife, then hurls a final accusation about left handedness tied to West and a dramatic confrontation in the Chateau Marie.
Mary Dugan escapes a reform school and becomes Mary Andrews, then Wayne’s secretary and Jimmie Blake’s love interest. Blake leaves for Chili, but returns to witness Mary’s murder trial as her fate unfolds with a failing defense and a dramatic courtroom turn.
Mary Dugan’s trial resumes as her friend Jimmie Blake questions her about her father’s drunkenness theft to pay bail and escape from reform school. She testifies she loved Edgar Wayne and another man, noting she lied to Wayne and withheld truths, while recounting intimate encounters and dinners with her employer.
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