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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1932
Page
2
N C Farley argues English may evolve into a hybrid of British and American forms within two centuries. He cites Planettes lecturer A Lloyd James and notes American speech varies by region, raising questions about a single true American English and the fate of English worldwide.
Rance reportedly defaults on the December war debt interest of 19 201 432 to the United States as the French chamber votes 402 to 187 against pay ment while the government resigns. A deferment motion passes 250 to 57 as radical Socialists abandon the coalition, and Premier Herriot transmits the decision to Washington with reports of a potential interior portfolio offer to Senator Hiram Johnson.
Following rapid exchange with Washington, London pays 894.59 million dollars in principal and interest. Stimson declines to accept a payment tied to repudiation concepts. Belgium, Finland, and others also respond to debt terms with varied outcomes while Belgium’s cabinet resigns.
Resident elect Roosevelt denounced a London Express cable that misrepresented his stance on war debts. The wire claimed he would make a March statement and hinted at waiving interest with conditions. He called the report false and refused to discuss debts or issue a world message.
Remier Errigt of France accepted the agreement reconciling Germany equality demands with France security needs, prompting Germany to return to the disarmament conference. Britain France Italy and Germany pledged not to use arms to settle disputes and to cooperate for genuine disarmament, hailed in Berlin as a victory for Chancellor von Schleicher and Foreign Minister von Neurath.
Representative Charles Dantzell Garrett of Eloyston Texas died in his Washington apartment after months of illness. The report details his long service, his influence in the Democratic party, and his re election in November. It also covers wartime beer debates, Prohibition era policies, and congressional hearings on taxation and tariffs as the House Ways and Means Committee considers fiscal measures and repeal or modification of the Eighteenth Amendment.
In a radio talk Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt argues that modern American girls face early exposure to hard liquor and compares today with her youth when wine at home was common and carrying a flask to parties was rare. She cites the need to control consumption and contrasts past and present drinking habits.
A humorous sketch about a talkative woman who misinterprets writing and speech as she tries to stretch a night letter to fifty words. The piece reflects wit and social observation typical of Nina Wilcox Utnam’s humor prose from the period.
An elderly can of corn aged seventy eight years was found on an unused shelf in a Portland, Maine store. Investigators traced the can to a clone by Nathan T. Winston in 1852.
A ceremony on the Potomac River dedicates the wooded island to the nation as Theodore Roosevelt Island. Distinguished attendees include Mrs. Cleaver, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Secretary Stimpson, and General Pershing.
John Eliot Thayer transfers his vast private bird collection to Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The gift includes 20 000 skins plus nests and eggs, with extinction era specimens such as Labrador duck passenger pigeon Eskimo curlew and ten specimens of the great auk. California condor remains rare with only a few birds observed in recent years.
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