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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1941
Page
3
Ann Cooper Hewitt heiress to $10,000,000, aged 26, has found true love in her third marriage and is honeymooning in Tonopah Nevada with 50-year-old gold miner Jack Whitaker.
E's answer describes cartomancy as the art of telling fortunes using playing cards and interpretation of their symbols.
Secretary of State Hull dismissed as a patent absurdity claims that Britain would seek peace if the United States did not enter the war quickly. He criticized the statement as unfounded, noting he would not speak for Lord Beaverbrook on what he called an obvious absurdity.
Manila dispatch reports the Japanese high command plans to place about 180000 troops in French Indo China, mainly in west Cambodia near Thailand. Observers believe entry into Thai land could come once organized to counter British forces along the Thai Burma Malaya border. Japan now fully controls Indo China and the government lacks administrative powers.
Baltimore August 12 All trains reported moving normally between Baltimore and Washington on the Pennsylvania Railroad electrified line after a break near Odenton last night delayed about 15 passenger and nine freight trains. Normal service resumed about 1 a.m. today as crews assessed the undetermined cause.
The article praises DeWitt Mackenzie for interpreting foreign news in AP papers. It notes his daily column via Special News Service clarifies official communiques and anticipates events. It highlights over 25 years on major world scenes and his deep knowledge of forces and personalities shaping history.
The article profiles Edna Gladney of Fort Worth who over thirty years placed over three thousand orphans, with Greer Garson as Mrs Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust. It notes wartime poverty and new film attention to her work, produced by Mervyn LeRoy in Technicolor with a cast including Felix Bressart and Samuel Hinds.
Senate Finance Committee members heard business spokesmen push for changes to the 3.236 billion tax bill. Proposals included delaying or removing levies on tires and rubber goods and endorsing a broad sales tax. Chairman George said exemptions may fall to 750 for singles and 1500 for married couples with rate readjustments ahead.
The sculptor spent twenty years on the Portal of Hell, a bronze door crafted for the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, a centerpiece of his The Gates of Hell project.
In German occupied France at Versailles on August 11 a violent summer storm toppled the Pershing statue in LaFayette Park shattering it into hundreds of pieces. The LaFayette statue facing Pershing on the opposite side of the highway survived. The statues honor the World War era LaFayette Escadrille.
The Honorable Harold Ickes is identified as Presbyterian. The question and answer note the Secretary of the Interior as a Presbyterian.
Military sources report 117 additional Serbs executed over two days in German occupied Yugoslavia amid revolt. In Zagreb 87 were shot, plus 102 earlier. Sarajevo saw 30 executions after bombings. A 9 p.m. curfew was reported in Croatia due to Zagreb bombings.
In an operation above the Dover Strait at five thousand feet, Royal Air Force bombers moved toward the continent in formation. Watchers on the English shore saw no opposition as some aircraft returned in formation while fresh units began their attack.
In Washington a Japanese spokesman said Tokyo hopes for pacific outcomes and asks the U S to limit ammunition shipments. He stated there is no difference if Soviet war supplies travel on U S or Russian freighters and noted the Asama Maru turned back to Japan with Americans aboard. Mention was made of asset reciprocity and Indo China military questions, while a Kentucky Missouri Tennessee border quirk was described as a 10 square mile isolated area.
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