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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1941
Page
5
In Glendale California a dramatic police station confrontation depicts widow of Clinton Thompson, killed by R L Hawkins in an unwritten law case. Hawkins allegedly shot Thompson after discovering his wife with the boarder. Mrs Thompson is pregnant.
Dr Otto Klemperer renowned conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was found missing from a private sanatorium in Rye New York and later located in a Morristown New Jersey hotel prison cell. He formerly led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Natural History Magazine traces today’s circus elephant to one of two Ancient mammal groups that emerged at the start of the Great Ice Age. The piece notes how brute strength yielded to intelligence, shaping which race now dominates the world of circuses and circus men.
C I O strike at Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna plant in Buffalo New York halts production while three Pennsylvania Bethlehem mills continue. Mediation failed and picket lines formed. S W C regional director Van A Bittner says strike was forced by company actions. No strike at Bethlehem Pa or Johnstown plants. Union seeks 25 percent wage rise recognition of SWOC and reinstatement of 600 suspended workers.
James Stewart received his Oscar for The Philadelphia Story and Ginger Rogers earned her award for Kitty Foyle at the Academy dinner in Hollywood. Rogers posed with her mother, Mrs Bogers, as the event honored best motion picture performances for 1940.
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