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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
4
U S Senator George Wilson proposes cutting the federal payroll, trimming unnecessary appropriations, and a national sales tax earmarked for debt reduction. He warns against using the tax for general revenue and notes the atomic bomb reshapes warfare, but a future biological war could threaten civilization if not restrained.
In Winona Minnesota Elmer Henderson and Leonard Gaulke each received five year terms for assault and robbery totaling $11. Abraham Monahan got three months. A fourth person later found Henderson's billfold hidden in Garvin Heights and sheriff Fort recovered a $10 bill social security card and ID papers from it.
At the Paris peace conference Polish delegate Josef Winiewicz charged that some delegates were preparing for atomic war rather than peace. He criticized Australian reparations proposals and urged a shift toward peace as the Big Four prepared to meet on east west tensions after Italy France frontier talks.
A federal suit filed in Peoria seeks 663,514 in treble damages against Colonial Feed Dealers Cooperative Association of La Rose Indiana for over ceiling prices in seed and grain sales. Named officers include William J. Hershberger president Omaha, F I Collins vice president Varna and Hugh B. Lott Mason City as general manager. The complaint lists overcharges totaling 167,608 on processed grain 10,465 on whole grain 4,172 on mixed seed and 38,925 on 346 cases of processed grain.
The State theatre shows Para account's comedy Our Hearts Were Growing Up through Saturday. Gail Russell and Dolores Lynn star as two would be sophisticates chasing romance and misadventure with bootleggers in Greenwich Village. Brian Donlevy co stars with the trio as a bootlegger. Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, James Brown and Bill Edwards also appear.
An official army report lists 38 American soldiers killed and 127 wounded by premature explosions of defective 4.2 inch mortar shells during World War II. The Senate War Investigating Committee released the document amid its probe into wartime profits at Garsson munitions, noting 165 casualties from six percent of premature detonations. Veterans writings to the committee describe battlefield and training deaths caused by faulty explosives.
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