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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1932
Page
2
Salty British sailors jeer at the Neva, a Soviet ship arriving with Black Sea butter, for its helm controlled by electric buttons. They mock a vessel built in former imperial yards, noting steering is done by a series of controls rather than a wheel.
The Commerce Department reports average air fare per mile for government travel is 6.20 cents, down 7 percent from 1932 and about half the rate of 1930. Based on 50,000 miles of routes, air travel is now allowed for official business instead of rail.
In New York Jacob Lieberman, 87, regained sight after two decades of blindness. Surgeons at the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind undid his bands and he marveled at faces, trees, traffic, and buildings. He praised life, declaring he is richer than Rockefeller.
Superior Judge Franklin T. Hammond upheld Captain Dewalden Lebaron Brown eighty three, owner of a land bound ship stranded on Dorchester mud flats for twenty five years, against a realty company bid to evict him.
A Hindu religious committee report led by Shankaracharya Kurtakott concludes Indian Hindus spend about 1.05 billion dollars annually on rituals and life ceremonies. It estimates 200 million Hindus, 40 million families, and 16 ceremonies per lifetime driving high costs and calls for reducing ritual expenditures.
Gardner Cowles Jr publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune succeeds Charles G Dawes who resigned from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board of directors.
Italian shops in Rome exhibit two types of gas masks in window displays opposite Mussolini's office. The sales push urges the public to buy and store masks for future need while Geneva talks press disarmament and dismantling of toxic gas factories.
A new French law published in the Journal Officiel imposes prison terms from six months to two years and fines up to 500 francs for divorce frauds or fraudulent declarations. It targets entering and serving notices of divorce with deceptive acts or tricks.
A humorous column about Little Eva who worships luck tokens and superstitions. It recounts her rabbit foot and four leaf clover beliefs, a cat's omen and a Halil island practice, plus jokes about broom misfortune and police broom use. The piece ends with Eva's unwavering faith in charms despite misadventures.
Sichem stood in a narrow pass between Mounts Garizim and Ebal, blocking the route from the Jordan valley to the coast and defending the coastal region from eastern nomads. Its walls stack in horizontal bands within an elliptic plan, reinforced by Garizim and Wiral, embodying formidable strength once viewed by biblical inhabitants. The builders, the Hittites, inhabited Sichem as early as Jacob’s era around 1500 BCE.
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