The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Mary Jo and I fooled around in Juarez. Went to church, where service was going on, and to the market. She got a gift or two! That night we all saw “College Holiday“- Fair. Very good Christmas Day!
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
The Xi’an Incident ended when Chiang Kai-shek was released.
The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.
Went to El Paso with the family. Mary Jo had gotten in Sunday night – Saw “A Woman Rebels” with K. Hepburn. Had Christmas Eve as Christmas because Jaime had to work at 7 the next morning. The baby is precious! Such beautiful delicate coloring! Dit n Harold gave me a Mexican hand-carved wooden monk that I love!
Pope Pius XI delivered his annual Christmas message from his sickbed. The pope called the Spanish Civil War “a new menace more threatening than ever before for the whole world and principally for Europe and Christian civilization.”
A Spanish coast guard cutter seized the German merchant ship Palos on suspicion of carrying contraband material