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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1932
Page
1
Secretary Mills told the House Ways and Means Committee a two percent general tax on a $30 billion base could yield $600 million annually. The base excludes necessities of life, and Mills urged temporary measures aligned with economic conditions to guide Congress.
The Washington Week celebration in Washington Iowa is recognized by the Washington Bicentennial commission. Sol Bloom praises the event as ideal recognition of a great cause and locals celebrate the 200th anniversary with practical programs and active stores. The week closes Saturday, with national bicentennial activities continuing through the year.
The town clock, under repairs by FE Carris and sons, ran for about twelve hours in a test of a rebuilt spring. Officials say permanent service awaits arrival of an electric motor, with reopening expected later this week. Miss Alta Wrose, deputy clerk of court, returns from Wayland weekend visit.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa urged a sweeping inquiry into all branches of the motion picture business. He claimed a thorough investigation would rival the Stanley steel probe and Teapot Dome reveals in public importance and sensational scope, attacking Hays and the American Motion Picture Producers and Distributors.
Monsignor Donohue honors George Washington at a Knights of Columbus bicentennial event in the K C hall. About 200 attendees heard a scholarly address on Washington's leadership and place in American history. The program featured remarks by Grand Knight J M Kelly and visiting priests, plus St James choir and instrumental solos.
First dividend payments are prepared by examiner Frank N. Murdock for closed banks in Ainsworth and Cotter. Checks at Ainsworth Savings Bank total 71,000 with 25 percent dividend after 2,500 preferred claims. 28,000 for Cotter and 43,000 for Ainsworth. Liquidations progress, with further distributions pending as liquidations occur.
Chapel Hill UNC lists nine track events for 1932 including intersectional meets with Navy and Penn State and participation in State and Southern championships and in Tech and Penn relays.
Fire damaged the Seeley Memorial High School in Mount Pleasant Iowa destroying the building and most equipment with losses over 150000. The fire was spotted around three o clock when a Kansas City Chicago mail plane diverted to warn residents. Records from the superintendent's office were saved. Classes will continue with arrangements made to relocate. The 1906 building was once a Y M C A facility and became a high school in 1920.
Wellman Feb 28 Funeral services for Rev Henry Chase Millice will be at 2 pm Wednesday at Pleasant Hill church north of Wellman with burial in Pleasant Hill cemetery. The Rev was born Oct 2 1855 in Warsaw Indiana and died Sunday evening from injuries from a February 16 ice fall. He served as a Methodist minister in multiple towns, retired in 1921, and left a large family including children Henry Millice and Bess Robinson plus four grandchildren.
Miss Abbie Ingalls, 20, of Surry Maine, earns local renown as Jill of all trades. She runs barber shop tasks, repairs boots and shoes, works as an automobile mechanic, drives motor trucks, sews, and handles housework, gaining notice as a versatile soloist.
Vancouver aviator Charles Doyle and other first arrivals recount eye witness horrors from Shanghai during the Japanese invasion. They describe bombing at Chapei, panicked streets, a mother and child with severed arm, near misses from snipers, and a station master who twice escaped firing squads.
Two Washington high school debate teams meet Fairfield in separate rooms at 4:15 this afternoon. The topic is unemployment insurance and will be the same for Thursday’s third round at Washington.
Tryouts for instrumental soloists and small ensembles take place in the high school auditorium on Wednesday the 24th at ten minutes after four. Top performers will represent Washington in music contests. multiple entrants for an event will have the best player chosen. Public may attend free. I. B. Rabenoid of near Haskins shopped here today.
James Shultz lists members of the Washington teams in a debate lineup with Affirmative Maurice Mayo and Eugene Thomas against Negative Helen Jung bluth and Milan Thompson.
In Chelsea Oklahoma a speaker jokes about an anti hoarding commission picking a commission slate led by Rogers with Wickersham as a member and chairman. The narrator recalls a Saturday at Rogers Ranch Ologah and a milk stool punishment for a cow. A Claremore Jewish farmer named Morris Haas lost $500 to a cow and recovered only $18.
Rotary club members enjoyed a luncheon program presented by the Fortnightly club titled A China Cup of Tea. The 18th century drama, set at the Wynne home in Virginia on October 20 1781, followed colonial tea party intrigue and the looming Yorktown victory, ending with Jane Wynne’s romance with a colonial captain.
Eight year old Janes Lashomb of Winthrop New York fell through an ice covered stream while skating. He clung to the ice and saved himself from drowning though he lost his skates in the frigid water.
Mrs J H Peets parents Mr and Mrs Romans of Springville Iowa are visiting at her home this week and spending time with family.
The Japanese government plans to dispatch two more infantry divisions to Shanghai doubling forces in the area. In Soochow an American airman, Robert M. Short of Los Angeles, was killed in an aerial duel with several Japanese planes. Chinese forces claim to have crossed Woosung creek and occupied earlier Japanese lines as artillery bombardments continue near the international settlement.
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