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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1941
Page
5
The animal keeper notes the polar bear appears restless amid the winter storms in the east and begins attempting to pry free from its enclosure. A nearby file, if available, might speed the escape. The remark hints at a craving for home in the Arctic.
A. L. Tipton, 16, is jailed in Texarkana Ark after police say he confessed killing 15 year old John Dale Hillard during a fight with a bottle. Tipton had been paroled last year for a fatal shooting when he was twelve years old.
French government at Vichy issues a stamp honoring war casualties. Uncensored U S reports place total French war dead at about 505000 with figures cited in wartime dispatches.
Norman Thomas testifies before the senate foreign relations committee against the lend-lease bill warning it would eventually lead to sending American soldiers to Europe Asia and Africa. He emphasizes part of his statement in the accompanying photo.
Possible successors emerge including Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin Jim Crowley of Fordham and Dr Eddie Anderson of Iowa as Layden leaves Notre Dame to lead national professional football efforts.
Mrs Rose Mc Mullin of Washington DC is named America’s bravest woman of 1940 by the American Legion honor society. Capt Herbert A Arronet presents the medal as Mc Mullin, a famed blood donor, receives recognition for donating blood across the United States to victims of staphylococcus aureus.
Paul Werner, a Greenland native who speaks Danish and few English words, passed a driver's license test administered by Examiner R. W. Warner. He recently arrived to visit his brother Axel, proprietor of the Air Port Inn, who translated and taught him road signs and rules.
Pat, injured by a minor wound, is sent by his employer to a hospital for examination. The doctor notes the abrasion is not visible and downgrades concerns about skin scarring. Pat expresses relief, joking that the doctor echoed his own words.
The text surveys Yursatan now part of modern Mexico where the Mayan civilization thrived in great cities. It describes pyramid temples, palaces, plazas, and monuments. markets, terraces, and causeways abound in vast numbers. It notes Chichenitza as the surviving capital site for explorations of ruins.
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