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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1945
Page
3
A reflective note cites a biblical verse from Romans 9 26 during a period of persecution discussions. It warns that those once rejected as not God’s people will later be called the people of God in the same place.
A special Congressional investigation reveals widespread waste at the Norfolk Navy Yard with workers idle for long periods, delayed tasks, and misused materials. Reports describe loitering, inflated job durations, and rampant inefficiency amid a wartime manpower crunch.
In a London restaurant near Piccadilly Circus an American soldier complains about overcooked meat and lukewarm potatoes. He quips that the food may win the war, while a waiter exclaims about wasting food. The piece ends with a quip about who will get the cheese to eat there. A separate note mentions a nervous woman debuting a ship and asking how hard to hit it to launch.
A jumble of quotes and jokes from a South African native tale to shipboard humor and social commentary. The text mixes anecdotes about colonial welfare, a Eskimo complaint, and naval humor, with stray captions and misspelled captions from scattered pages.
A shipman, ordering full speed astern, struggles as his vessel lurches and strikes a moored boat. In the confusion he shouts to a quartermaster asking how to shift the tining into neutral.
During the Civil War Captain John Mosby raided Fairfax Court House Virginia and surprised Union general E H Stoughton who was asleep in bed. Mosby woke him with a slap and the general asked if he knew of Mosby. The captain replied no then declared Mosby had him.
A colonel pilots an AT-6 trainer with his wife aboard. As he descends the warning horn sounds for wheels up, prompting his wife to shout into the mike, Pull over, Johan, someone's trying to ass us.
The Fox Theatre debuts Universal's Gypsy Wildcat starring Maria Montez Jon Hall and Peter Coe in a lavish Technicolor adventure romance. The film centers on a gypsy girl torn between love and betrayal as Douglass Dumbrille schemes to force her into marriage or ruin her lovers.
Universal Pictures brings Aloon light and Cactus to town featuring Nigel Bruce Leo Carrillo Gale Sondergaard Curt Bois and the Andrews Sisters. Co stars Elyse Knox Tom Seidel Eddie Quillan Shemp Howard Tom Kennedy Mitch Ayres and His Orchestra provide a musical backdrop with eight new tunes written for the picture. Keddie Cline directs this lively production.
Warner's new film The Very Thought of You opens Sunday at the State Theatre. Dennis Morgan Eleanor Parker Dane Clark lead a strong cast with Faye Emerson Henry Travers and Beulah Bondi in a postwar comedy about soldiers and civilians and the clash of war and home life.
The Jackson and Washington townships Farm Bureau women's committee held a get-together in the Community room of the Y Thursday evening with about 100 attendees. Mrs. Cloyce C. Stewart as program chair introduced Mrs. Homer Jarrard who gave a splendid synopsis of the book No Life for a Lady.
Ruth Foster presided at a round table on Points of Business for Farm Families with S. A. Ossian Jenny Miller George Horn and W. C. Richards among participants. A playlet Sirup So Sweet depicted a family learning farm business steps after an auto accident left a widow with a crippled niece and the Joneses facing a will.
Mrs. Ray Bell, Mrs. Hora, and Elsie Stout are listed in a local notice paying tribute or marking a social event. The short entry names three individuals connected to the community, reflecting a collective acknowledgment or remembrance.
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