The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster
I had planned to go with Arnold to Dallas for today is Mr. and Mrs. Carsey’s 50th Wedding Anniversary!! Mrs. C sent me an invitation – But we decided it would be financially unwise to take the car and it was best as it was. I got a letter from Arnold from Dallas written yesterday saying the rain was falling and ’twas warm! Maybe he will come over this week-end! Ojala!

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The Battle of Taiyuan ended in a Japanese victory.
The Japanese captured Shanghai
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Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler in Munich
Joe “Ducky-Wucky” Medwick, St. Louis Cardinals slugging outfielder, won the award of the most valuable player of the National League.
Mrs. Robert, sales representative from the Gwinn Aircar Co. of Buffalo, New York, is shown
demonstrating one of the Companies Aircars in Boston Mass

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Mums at the University of Michigan Botanical Gardens



Named tank T-28 “Andrei Zhdanov.” Moscow

Berlin – Rome – Tokyo Axis formation When Italy joined Germany and Japan in the 




Hossbach Memorandum
Three men were executed by decapitation in Nazi Germany for high treason and espionage, including the former Communist deputy 



A deadly air attack on Lleida (Lerida), Spain by the 

Anna Marie Hahn




