August 8: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Briefly

WASHINGTON - Miss Alice Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Wilson of Baltimore and niece of President Wilson, and the Rev. I. S. McElroy Jr. of Columbus, Ga., were married last evening at the White House. It was the fifteenth wedding to take place at the Executive Mansion and the third during the present Administration.
Long Island is a long way off from Arizona, but there has been no lack of contentment for the two cunning brown bear cubs which were born in the mountain fastnesses of that far State, captured alive by Assemblyman and Mrs. Trubee Davison a few weeks ago, and installed at the Davison place at Peacock Point.
Japan will be defeated by air power and the atomic bomb 'exclusively' without an invasion, according to Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. The World War I ace declared today that bombings should demoralize the enemy in the near future and 'make them cry quits.' 'This is strictly an air power show in the Pacific' he said.
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