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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1931
Page
6
Mrs. A. E. Atchison and daughters Mary Elizabeth and Jean, with Miss Katherine Marshall of Los Angeles, are visiting Morning Sun. Mr. and Mrs. James Yansky of Riverside called here yesterday.
The First National Bank of Buchanan Michigan was held up at noon by a bandit about 29 who walked in during lunch, threatened cashier George Rowe with a gun, took vault cash totaling 1200, and escaped in a car parked outside. No shots were fired.
The Christian Church that was bought from the Methodists and remodeled will be open for services next Sunday. Hog prices top eight dollars and forty cents. Weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and cooler in extreme areas.
Governor Dan W. Turner authorized action as the Iowa executive council joined with the farm bureau Ames College experts and highway officials to provide cost poison bran to farmers and to scatter poison along river banks roads and waste land. The first operations will begin in Monona and Harrison counties along the western border using 50000 from the crop pest fund. Kansas reports rapid grasshopper multiplication raising concerns about spread and possible extermination measures across the plains.
John Allen displays a proud smile as Robert Leonard Allen is born at Galesburg yesterday at three o clock weighing six and a half pounds. Notices include Eagle Stamps discontinuation after August 1 and local family updates from Fairfield to Keota.
E E Cline traveled to Davenport for business while Glenn Mace headed to Des Moines on a short trip. Maxwell Kenneth Raymond and Herbert Warren Judevine began a St. Louis vacation plan. Oral Sweet returned from Chicago, and Ed Schmidt plus family were in Davenport on road project business. A string of locals visited Iowa City and nearby, with social and travel updates throughout the area.
David Lloyd George, 68, wartime prime minister and Liberal leader, was critically ill and underwent a severe operation for kidney trouble at his Addison Road home. Doctor Lord Dawson of Penn assisted the surgery for King George.
Seven persons were arrested in St Louis in a series of raids by police and federal agents. More than $15,000 in counterfeit ten dollar bills were seized along with plates and printing equipment. Secret service men described the operation as breaking up a long suspected counterfeiting ring.
Texarkana Ark July 29 Heavily armed posses swept thickets in a raid on a rural still nine miles out of Texarkana for the moonshiner who killed Sheriff Walter Harris. Joe Watson, 19, Texarkana negro, said a white man with a criminal record fired the fatal shots. Watson, who was wounded, claimed he had nothing to do with the raid and stopped for a bottle of beer.
Denver July 29. Attorney General Clarence L. Ireland ordered the release of about 500 felons who had become trusties at the overcrowded Colorado penitentiary. The ruling moves to turn convicts loose under the plan designed to ease prison crowding.
The Washington county health unit schedules free infant and preschool health examinations for six months to two years during the first week of August in Brighton West Chester and Wellman. Appointments are arranged with local chairmen and committees.
George Gallup resigns as head of Drake University's journalism department. He will run a newspaper research bureau in Chicago and teach part time at Northwestern University. Gallup, known in Washington, is married to the daughter of late editor Alex Miller of the Washington Democrat.
London records the 17th anniversary of the July 29 1914 event that began the great war. In the 13 years since its end in 1918, nations pursued peace through the League of Nations and arms limitation conferences. A new effort seeks a global arms agreement at a Geneva arms parley next February.
In Burlington Iowa Judge A B Lovejoy heard final arguments in the Naumann ouster case over 17 years as county supervisor E L Naumann faced charges of unlawful mileage claims and misappropriation of county funds. Testimony concluded with potential delay in decision. Families from Crawfordsville West Middlesex and Wash ington observers were present.
New York police head Edward Rooney orders 50 detectives to find Vincent Coll after a Harlem shooting left one child dead and four others wounded or shot. Mob boss Coll linked to a liquor ring and Harlem beer racket. Victim Michael Venali died, others in critical condition.
Des Moines reports an anticipated 2,000 attendees for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment set for September 13 to 17. George Hamilton says veteran deaths in five years will reduce turnout by about 75 percent from the 8,090 who attended five years ago. The total gathering including allied groups may reach 12,000 to 15,000, down from 30,000 previously.
WEO reports a week of visits including Mr and Mrs At Elmore of Sigourney at the George Ash home. Dave E Miller Gladys and Gwendolyn traveled to Burnington with Mrs Dave Myers and daughter Ethel. Lena Roth of Wayland aids Miller girls with sewing as they visit. Busy Bee club met with Mrs Maude Harken. eleven members attended. Next meeting August 13 with Mrs Mabel Hawthorn, roll call on an embarrassing moment. Carl Daering family and Gowey home guests, Jones group camped near Monroe and toured Ames. Lucille Gowey returned home with her parents Friday from Ames. Loren Oertel of Fairfield visited E A Hosler. Earl Bitting and Harold visited Virgil Pardon near Keota. Mrs Bittings mother of Wellman has spent some time there.
Mrs W W Soule arrived yesterday from Whitten Iowa to visit her son Leigh. They plan to depart for Ohio the last of the week. Also noted were visits by Miss Elinor Douglas Des Moines and a friend from Iowa City and a report Phil Little was ill at the Thompson meat market. A Pontiac crash near Wellman left Dwight Hazen with a forearm injury Clarence Berkhoff with a stitched hand and Ivan Stransky a sprained wrist.
The text lists multiple local visits and gatherings. Mrs Pardon spends time with her daughter before returning home at Wellman. Families including Brays Goweys Kane and Elmore participate in Sunday visits. The Farmer's Union meets at Jere Elmore. Emrys and Miller families host relatives. Mildred stays to help with threshers. Karl Harken departs for Chicago with a load of heifers.
Mr and Mrs Frank McFarlane and children Marjorie and Robert visited the Amanas yesterday. Attendees at a Sigourney tr iage funeral included Mrs Owen McGovern Mrs Walter Conner Mrs R J Tanner Mrs Frank Kurtz Mrs H W Russell and Mrs Fred Stewart. J C Allens of Wayland was in Washington this morning.
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