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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1934
Page
1
About 850 people visited the Washington Y M C A yesterday for the New Year open house. The event featured a Little Symphony concert, gym exhibitions, ping pong and checkers tournaments, volleyball, and a Washington Y team loss to Wapello 54 to 33.
The Formose New Era announces a new editor, a Hale family member and grandson of Joe Hale, after elder Hale retires and passes management to him. The paper has been run by the Hale family for 30 years.
Houston resident Nick Jacks dozes in a car and wakes to find his shoes stolen from his feet. Police report the strange incident occurred in Houston, prompting inquiry into the theft.
About 250 to 500 people attended the inaugural Washington post of the VFW boxing and wrestling event with net proceeds split between the post and the emergency kitchen fund. Promoter Matchmaker Job Rush of the State University of Iowa praised the crowd while detailing bouts and announcing January 25 as the next show. The card featured local and out of town boxers and a rough but popular wrestling bout won by Jimmy Bear of Cedar Rapids.
A fragment from Santa Monica notes the old year ended with little mourning and suggests 1933 may be remembered as the turning point from economic trouble to improvement as professors shift from economists to historians predicting a better era ahead.
United Presbyterian church officers were elected at the annual meeting, with six elders chosen to new terms. Dr C W McLaughlin M C C DeLong and Clarence Logan were named elders, replacing others, and officers including Richard McCleery Roger Sherman Nellie Tripp Fort Sherman and Neil Trottman were re elected. John Black donated 23 chickens for the congregational dinner.
Public address system owned by Sherman funeral home was used for the YMCA Happy Hour program last Sunday evening, the Journal was informed today, correcting Monday’s report.
Funeral services were conducted at Lehrmann's funeral home by Dr. F F Witvigman with solos by Miss Elma Rice. Burial followed in Wayland Cemetery. Pallbearers included Er nest Atchison Harland Mead T K Phillips Edwin Griffith sr Clarence Logan and Vernon Crull. Kallio of Davenport winning the wrestling match after a sequence of falls. Bear returned to win the second fall and third with a body slam airplane spin and decisive finish.
Des Moines Jan 24 State banks applying for FDIC participation to insure deposits up to 2500 reportedly all qualified Carl Trout FDIC examiner said absent contrary word about to the 376 banks in the state 92 had applied for participation been examined and apparently qualified All Iowa banks in the Federal Reserve system are now under the Glass Steagall act deposit guarantee effective today.
In Washington 97 of 100 Americans with bank accounts are insured in full as the federal government activates its guarantee program. FDIC chairman Walter J. Cummings told President Roosevelt that 12,423 banks are covered, representing over 90 percent of the 42 billion dollars on deposit nationwide.
Des Moines story notes the Iowa legislature in its ninth week of a special session. The House liquor control plan proposes a state monopoly with a Hinman board to oversee wholesale and retail distribution of liquor above 105 percent alcohol by weight. Local option is not recommended.
County farm bureau awaits Washington input to mail corn hog program letters to Washington County farmers. A state meeting at Ames will set county training and township sign up, with training on farm mapping and program basics. County officials outline sign up process, township chair duties, and county allotment committee roles.
The Washington city council devoted most of its first year meeting to routine items and general planning for improvements in the coming months. Officials expect spring start on West Madison Street surfacing several unpaved streets with crushed rock and a sewer extension but progress remains in discussion stages.
M T Coon of Highland township assumed a three year term as the new member of the Washington County Board replacing the late Ed Kos’s successor Hoyd Foster. Fostering a strong record as chairman the board opened the year with Brown elected chairman for 19%4 and began filling appointive county offices including appointing Will Sickles as courthouse janitor.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration undertook a major reorganization today eliminating eight sections. New leadership aligned with the New Deal for agriculture replaced Peek appointees with figures sympathetic to Secretary Henry A. Wallace and Rexford Tugwell. Chester G. Davis was named the new administrator as Peek, removed by President Roosevelt, was reassigned to foreign trade study duties. Smith W. Brookhart may join Peek in foreign trade work.
Charles Risor departed yesterday morning for his home in Falk bury Nebraska following a visit with his grandmother Mrs Harry J Bedell in town.
Los Angeles and suburbs begin cleanup after the worst storm in memory. Death toll at least forty with many missing and massive property loss estimated at five million nine hundred thousand dollars. Heavy rains for hours flood foothills and coastal plains, destroying homes and wiping out areas in Culver Venice and south Los Angeles.
Four men Floyd Dayton David Lowry Howard Disney and Paul McGraw were arrested Saturday night on liquor selling charges. They waived preliminary hearing before Justice J. K. Bovee and were held to the district court. McGraw posted $500 bond under an information filed by County Attorney George F. Morrison. The charges allege selling and keeping alcohol safe by themselves or agents.
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