…To my Mother

For all she did…and does

MARCH 26, 1934

This is the date that was…

Monday’s Child is fair of faceTuesday’s Child is full of grace

Wednesday’s Child is full of woeThursday’s Child has far to go

Friday’s Child is loving and givingSaturday’s Child works for a living

But the child that’s born on the Sabbath DayIs fair and kind and good and gay.

In the news for March 26, 1934

Great Britain begins administering drivers’ tests as a national solution to

increasing accidents, the massive increase in cars over other forms of transportation and concerns over qualifications to

operate the vehicles. In the U.S., the city of Chicago was the first to issue such tests in 1908. It spread across the country until

South Dakota became the last state to require testing in 1959.

In Local News…

4.19 inches of rain fell in Conway between 1

p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday. Meanwhile, a

number of Arkansas rivers were reaching

flood stages.

The state Civil Works Administration enters its last week of existence, preparing to disband the following Saturday.

The state Supreme Court upholds an award of over $38,000 to the St. Francis Levee District to recover its funds that were lost when the Bank of Osceola closed back in 1931.

The Conway Theatre announces an evening of ‘Musical Moments’ and ‘Minstrel Memories’ to coincide with the

screening of the film ‘Four Frightened People’.

A management home for home economics majors is set to open at Arkansas State Teachers College in April. The new building occupies the site formerly held by the Caddo Club, which was torn down the previous fall.

In Local News…

A CCC worker at the Crystal Springs camp, Cephus Hellums, is charged with stealing a Ford V-8 from a house on Caldwell St. Sheriff Neel Webb spotted Hellums wearing a hat belonging to the car’s owner, W. A. Diffee, while trying to get the car out of the mud on a side road between Gleason and Cedar Park.

The 46-member Hendrix choristers perform Charles Gounard’s ‘Messe Solenelle’ at the First Methodist Church in Little Rock. It’s reported all Methodist services in the Little Rock area discontinued services to attend the concert.

Other March, 1934 headlines:

March 1 – The Chinese region of Manchuria is officiallyrenamed Manchukuo following an invasion by the Japanesearmy.

March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from theCrown Point, IN jail using a piece of woodshaped like a gun and painted black with shoe polish.

March 8 – Swedish Prince Sigvard loses titles and his claim to the throne when he marries a commoner, Erica Marie Patzek. They divorced in 1943.

Other March, 1934 headlines:

March 13 – He didn’t stay hidden for long…John Dillinger and Lester Gillis (alias Baby Face Nelson) rob the First National Bank in Mason City, IA.

March 20 – All police forces in Germany areplaced under the supervision of former

chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler.

March 20 – A massive fire destroys theJapanese city of Hakodate, killing over 2,100 people.

March 24 – The U.S. ratifies the constitution for theCommonwealth of the Philippines.

Elsewhere in 1934…

April 1 – Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow shot and killed twohighway patrolmen near Grapevine, TX. On April 6, a Miami, OK constable would also be killed by the Barrow Gang. But the law would finally catch up on May 23, killing the pair in anambush near Sailes, LA.

May 9 – a ‘black blizzard’ of dust blew acrossthree quarters of the U.S. and covered NewYork, Chicago and Atlanta. The windstorm carried about three tons of dust for every living American and spanned about 1,800 miles.

Also born March 26, 1934

Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin(Best Supporting Actor, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, 2006)

NFL Hall of Fame placekicker Gino Cappaletti

James E. ‘Gravy’ Patterson, winningest baseball coachin Louisiana history

Also born in March, 1934

March 1 – U.S. actress Joan Hackett

March 4 – U.S. actressAnne Haney

March 4 – U.S. actress Barbara McNair

March 5 – English actor NicholasSmith

March 7 – U.S. weathermanWillard Scott

Also born in March, 1934

March 9 – Russian cosmonaut(first man in space) Yuri Gagarin

March 9 – U.S. actress Joyce Van Patten

March 11 – U.S. journalist Sam Donaldson

March 25 – U.S. author Gloria Steinem

March 31 – U.S. actor Richard Chamberlain

March 31 – U.S. actress/singer Shirley Jones

Born on March 26th:

1031 – King Malcolm III of Scotland

1874 – U.S. poet Robert Frost

1911 – U.S. author Tennessee Williams

1916 – U.S. actor Sterling Hayden

Born on March 26th:

1919 – U.S. actor Strother Martin

1923 – U.S. comedian Bob Elliott (r. with hat)

1930 – U.S. jurist Sandra Day O’Connor

1931 – U.S. actor Leonard Nimoy

Born on March 26th:

1940 – U.S. actor James Caan

1940 – U.S. politician Nancy Pelosi

1943 – U.S. journalist/author Bob Woodward

1942 – U.S. author Erica Jong

Born on March 26th:

1944 – U.S. singer/actress Diana Ross

1948 – U.S. singer Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

1949 – U.S. actress/singer Vicki Lawrence

1950 – Canadian actor Martin Short

Born on March 26th:

1950 – U.S. singer Teddy Pendergrass

1950 – U.S. composer Alan Silvestri

1957 – U.S. TV host Leeza Gibbons

1960 – U.S. NFL great Marcus Allen

1960 – U.S. actress Jennifer Grey

1968 – U.S. singer Kenny Chesney

March 26 – This Day in History:

1484 – English printer William Caxton publishes ‘Aesop’s Fables’.

590 – Byzantine Emperor Maurice declares his son, Theodosius, as Co-Emperor.

1812 – Caracas, Venezuela, is leveled by an earthquake,killing between 15,000 – 20,000 people.

March 26 – This Day in History:

1830 – ‘The Book of Mormon’ is first published in Palmyra, NY.

1812 – A cartoon editorial in the Boston Gazette first coinsThe term ‘gerrymander’.

1917 – World War I: The British are beatenback by the Turks in the first Battle of Gaza.

1885 – The first commercial moving-picture film isproduced in Rochester, NY.

March 26 – This Day in History:

1939 – The Nationalists begin their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War. They will eventually push out the loyalist Republicans and rule for the next 36 years under Francisco Franco.

1958 – The U.S. launches Explorer III, which will confirm the existence of the Van Allen Radiation Belt around the earth.

1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence and becomes the new nation of Bangladesh.

March 26 – This Day in History:

1979 – Jimmy Carter, Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem BeginSign the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.

1982 – Ground is broken for the Vietnam Memorial.

1997 – 39 people commit ritual suicide as part of the Heaven’s Gate cult, including cult founder MarshallApplewhite.

1999 – A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of 2nd

Degree murder for giving lethal drugs to a terminally-ill man.

New home - $5, 970.00

1934 Price Index

Average Annual Income - $1,600

1 Gallon of Gas – 10 cents

Average home rental - $20/mo.

1 loaf of bread – 8 cents1 pound of hamburger – 12 cents

Men’s Arrow brand shirt - $2.50

Your Patron Saint for March 26:

St. Margaret ClitherowThe Pearl of York

Born of Protestant parents in 1555 in Middlesex, England, Margaret Middleton married a butcher, John Clitherow and then converted to the Catholic faith. She became the mother of three children, all of whom later served in the Church. Because of anti-Catholic sentiment during the reign of Elizabeth I, Margaret sent her children to Europe and worshipped in secret, often hiding priests in a secret room in the attic of her home. She was found out, arrested and, because she refused to enter a plea (which would force her children to testify against her), was sentence to death. This was carried out on Good Friday, 1586.Beatified 1929

Canonized 1970

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ARIES

You were born in the Chinese Year of the

Dog

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The 1934 Academy Awards

Best Actor – Charles Laughton. ‘The Private LifeOf Henry VIII’Best Actress – Katherine Hepburn, ‘Morning Glory’Best Director – Frank Lloyd, ‘Cavalcade’

Best Picture:

What was the Most Popular Song in the U.S. on March 26, 1934?

‘The Carioca’Music by Gus Kahn and

Edward EliscuLyrics by Vincent Youmans

Performed by Enric Madriguera

1934 – The Year In Sports

Stanley Cup – Chicago Black Hawks

World Series – St. Louis Cardinals

NFL Champions – Chicago Bears

NCAA Football – University ofMinnesota

1934 – The Year In Sports

Kentucky Derby – CavalcadePreakness – High Quest

Belmont Stakes – Peace Chance

Boxing Heavyweight Champion – Max Baer

Indy 500 – Bill Cummings

PGA Champ – Paul Runyan

Associated Press Man and Woman of the Year

1934 – The Year In Sports

Jay Hanna ‘Dizzy’ Dean

Virginia Van Wie

On the Magazine Rack – March, 1934

Finally, a monument to people who ‘am what they

am’.

The ‘Popeye’ statue, Erected in the ‘SpinachCapitol of the world’,Cristal City, TXMarch 26, 1927.

The End