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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1931
Page
11
Berlin reports mass meetings prohibited through Jan 8 as Germany enforces emergency decrees. Chancellor Bruening cites three aims to stabilize the budget, reduce costs, and protect currency while warning fascists and communists against undermining constitutional order.
Mrs Prudence Smith dies at Washington county hospital after illness. Principal turned superintendent roots of Crawfordsville schools noted since 1924. Locals report boys and girls basketball wins over Wayland 25 22 and 29 1. Ladies Aid Christmas meeting at Methodist church. Willing Workers quilt blocks and carpet rags project. Activities include visits, travel, and a knee operation for Wilma Wooley in Iowa City.
Hollywood stars and foreign guests celebrate unique Christmas rites in California and abroad. Clive Brook hosts a Noel Eve buffet with English friends as eight singers perform carols, while Paul Lukas and Maurice Chevalier stage festive meals and open houses. Conchita Montenegro observes a Spanish mass and delayed gifts, with Ramon Navarro and Hersholt hosting dinners. Nils Asther and Marlene Dietrich add Nordic and German flair with traditions and mixed menus.
Parliament adopted the bill for a referendum on prohibition on second reading by 97 to 83 with opposition mainly Laborites and Agrarians. The measure reintroduces beer and light wines as an alternative under threat of cabinet resignation. The committee version offered total prohibition or total repeal as the options.
Washington December 10. Representative Robert F Rich proposes a ten percent cut in federal employee salaries. Rich, a Pennsylvania Republican and business director, argues government workers have been a favored class unable to share in current downsizing.
A regional committee interviewed 12 candidates from Nebraska Kansas Missouri South Dakota Iowa Minnesota. Each state committee chose two candidates and no appointments are made locally. Awards will be announced later by the Rhodes Trust in Philadelphia and state chairmen. Rhodes awards fund study for American college students in English universities.
Ames, Dec. 16. The Iowa highway commission awarded contracts to low bidders whose figures were submitted to yesterday's road setting meeting.
Mrs Mae West of St Louis Missouri claims she shed twenty pounds in four weeks after using Kruschen Salts one half teaspoonful daily in hot water. She reports increased energy and no hunger and notes a five cent bottle lasts four weeks with a money back satisfaction guarantee.
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